Others Summon Dragons, I Summon Legendary Knights novel Chapter 524

Chapter 524: Helpless Animal

Glimmer exploded.

Adonis staggered backwards, his face slick with sweat as the twelve-foot-tall Obsidian laughed.

"How does it feel?" Torment chuckled.

Adonis squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them again, desperately trying to shut something off. He couldn’t. That night refused to leave his mind; His family. Their deaths. Again and again.

Soon, he could barely see the battlefield anymore. Everywhere he looked, their stone corpses surrounded him.

Torment raised his sword. Rage, another Obsidian dressed in rags and carrying a bone cleaver, leapt towards Snow and brought the weapon down. Obsession fired two arrows.

All three Monarchs came for his life.

Snow released a ring of silver glimmer. It detonated. Flames swept outwards with a deafening roar, hurling Rage backwards. Torment charged straight through the fire and swung.

This time, he caught Adonis as the blade kissed his neck. Torment cackled. "Is that all?"

"It wasn’t a fair fight," Adonis replied.

"When was a fight ever meant to be fair?" Torment’s gaze dropped to the ball of silver glimmer glowing within Adonis’ palm. "I want to show you something."

The world changed. Adonis felt as though his eyes had finally been opened to reality.

His little sister stood upon a plain of utter desolation.

She was barely more than skin stretched across bone. Her feet had been torn open countless times, and scars covered her body where stones carried by the wind had sliced through her flesh again and again.

Her eyes were gone. The stones had taken those too.

His parents suffered the same torment. His mother lay some distance away, being whipped for collapsing beneath the pain.

"ARGH!" A scream of rage tore from Adonis. He wanted to rip Jon apart.

He wanted Jon crying, begging, screaming for help. He wanted—

An arrow tore through his back. Adonis staggered forward. Another pierced him. Golden blood splattered across the ground as he dropped to his knees.

"You don’t know what you did to me!" Jon’s voice bled through Torment’s. "I treated you like the brother I never had. I nurtured you. I chose you to become the King of Manhattan!"

Torment strode towards him.

"But you caused me pain. You took Godfrey’s side. You killed Isolde."

He kicked Adonis. The impact hurled him a dozen feet through the air.

"We’ve only just begun." Torment spread his arms. "I know you can heal yourself. That black glimmer lets you manipulate reality, doesn’t it?"

His voice twisted with excitement. "Do it. And show me your pain! Let me see how angry you are."

Adonis coughed and pushed himself to his feet.

Torment tilted his head. There was pain in Adonis’ eyes but no madness. Only sadness, pain and pity.

"I hate you, Jon." Adonis looked at him. "But I hate myself more because I abandoned them." Black glimmer crawled across his wounds and they vanished.

Blood disappeared. Torn flesh restored itself. Even his damaged clothes became whole again.

"And you..." Adonis continued. "You never grew."

Torment went still.

"It’s a pity. Because you could have." Adonis looked at him with tired eyes. "You had everything, Jon. And you threw it away. Like a fool."

A bitter smile touched his lips. "Like me." Then his expression hardened. "But I would never have killed my family."

Within Torment, Jon’s eyes widened. "W-what?" His voice cracked. "What did you just say?!"

Green and black glimmer spread across the battlefield. An image formed within it. Jon’s house.

His family lay inside. Murdered. Blood covered the walls and floor. Jon stared. He had done it so they wouldn’t suffer inside his summon’s domain.

It had been mercy. It was mercy.

His eyes trembled.

"Goodbye, Jon," Adonis said.

"You’re not going anywhere!" Torment screamed and lunged forward.

Adonis’ hair suddenly blazed with resplendent white light. His eyes became pure white. His clothes shifted into a pristine white suit. Then, almost casually, he adjusted his necktie.

"Surprised?" Snow smiled.

Jon stopped. . 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Snow’s smirk widened.

"I had to step aside for a moment so you could speak to him. The others think they’ve been talking to him. I did this for you so don’t tell anyone."

Disbelief washed through Jon. All this time, he had thought Adonis was running from him. But he hadn’t been running. Whatever spoke to him had been investigating him.

"I hear things, Jon." Snow flexed his arms. "My line of work makes sure information is always flowing my way." His smile disappeared. "And trust me..."

Coldness settled across his face. "I’m not as forgiving as Adonis has become."

Snow stared directly into Torment’s eyes. "I’ll avenge his family."

Jon’s entire body tightened. "Bring the coward out!"

He snapped towards Snow, rage boiling through him.

’Jon!’

His mother’s scream exploded inside his head. Jon stopped. For an instant, he could almost see it again. Himself, cursing and blaming them as he killed them.

His eyes began to glisten.

’I told you. I will be waiting.’

Jon saw his old self standing on a distant rooftop, his body stained with the blood of his family. The figure was far away, yet his voice reached Jon as clearly as though he stood beside him, whispering directly into his ear.

Jon charged towards Snow and swung his sword with all his might. He wanted to kill him. God, he wanted to kill this bastard.

Rage followed closely behind while Obsession fired arrow after arrow.

Snow unleashed a fog of silver glimmer that expanded rapidly before erupting in a catastrophic explosion. Rage emerged from the blast covered in burns, but the pain only fed his fury and strengthened him further. Torment was largely unfazed apart from a few scorched wounds, while Obsession had been far enough away to avoid the explosion itself; the resulting gale merely threw him off balance.

"If this fight stretches out, I’ll lose. I know that." Snow loosened his tie while keeping his eyes on the three summons. "But there’s no possibility of you winning either."

He twisted aside just as an arrow struck the ground in front of him.

Green and black glimmer gathered into a ball between Snow’s hands as he rushed towards Rage. The Obsidian brought its cleaver down with enough force to tear the street apart, opening a deep ravine through the earth while the surrounding buildings, already weakened by the battle, collapsed beneath the impact.

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