"Thank goodness for Lenny’s underwear!" Beanie yelled, immediately flinching afterward.
"Okay, I admit that came out wrong."
Leon and the others shook their heads, with the others jumping back to the battle.
Hubert though paused and looked at Leon worriedly. "What about that escaped guy?" he asked, only to realize the latter had the huge-ass aether letter out.
His eyebrows rose.
Oh?
…
"Oof!"
Gron looked at the wall and the forests surrounding him and laughed. Success! He was outside the territory!
He had never been so glad to be punished and blacklisted!!
Immediately he ran in West, to the nearest territory. Maybe he could get to a town with a Post Office and he’d report everything that had been happening in this damned place!
However, before he could even get a hundred yards away from the walls, he felt his steps getting heavier and he realized the soil had softened. His eyebrows furrowed and he walked faster, almost running, but then he stepped on something liquid and hot.
And it was so hot that it burned through his shoes!
"AHHHHH!" he yelled, falling down, only to find that the place he landed on was also filled with liquid fire. "GYAHHHH!"
He screamed, feeling the liquid fire crawl on his skin, burning through. It felt horrible and he wondered if this was how those men and women felt when he threw them alive in a fire.
He suffered like this for what felt like forever, and even after the earth cooled a bit, he felt the insane stinging sensation in his bones.
By the time it completely cooled, his face was filled with tears and snot. His skin remained in extreme stinging pain and he struggled, realizing he couldn’t even get out of the ’trap’ at all!
It was here that he heard footsteps approaching him and he struggled to see who it was.
He looked up and saw several powerful-looking men looking down on him. In the forefront was a handsome man with shoulder-length black hair and pale skin.
He knew they were enemies and pushed himself up, only to realize the ground was once again filled with molten earth that burned through his skin!
"AHHHHH!!!"
The next thing he knew, he was lifted up, already without any strength to struggle. Slowly, he felt his consciousness blackening from the pain. However, he was woken up by a burning hand on his face.
"GYAHHHHHHHH!!!" He screamed like a pig and continued to whimper even when the fire stopped.
"Don’t die so fast," the man said. "You still have a lot of uses."
…
Using it, he tied down the feet of the particularly troublesome enemies, letting the team take care of them with more ease. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
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