Doomsday Pillars

"Where is my son, Adam? What did you do to him?" Rico frantically asked, as he violently grabbed Anas's collar, bringing the man's face near him.

When Anas saw the president's emotional reaction, the fear that had previously appeared on his face because of Alex's action, quickly turned into a calm expression. Upon seeing the calm visage on the man's face, President Rico turned even more agitated.

Alex, who saw all this happening, placed his hand on the president's shoulder to calm him down. He also sent all the people away, especially his wife and daughters. Only a few of his fighters and some of the nation leaders who wish to know more about this heavenly Gate sect stay and listen. 

Glancing towards the tied man, Alex saw Anas flashing a faint smirk, as if the man already won the battle. He then immediately swung his sword again, into Anas's other shoulder.

Slash! *Thud*

"ARRGHHHH!" Anas fell to the ground and screamed in pain as Alex detached his other arm from his body.

Staring at Alex with a gaze full of hatred, Anas said, "Damn you, devil!!! Don't you care about the president's son?"

"Actually, I'm more fascinated by this ability of yours. In a short time, your legs have started to grow… Oh, and your shoulders that I cut the first time too. I want to see if your right shoulder and leg will heal at the same time." said Alex with a faint smile while examining Anas's body as if he was a lab rat.

Anas's entire body shuddered when he heard Alex's next words, ""Which part of your body should I cut off this time? I wonder…"

"Y-You..! You! Damn you! You crazy bastard!" Anas screamed loudly.

Alex slowly crouched down until his face was at the same level with the screaming man. He then looked directly into Anas's eyes with the same faint smile Alex used when he scanned him earlier. Receiving Alex's gaze together with the faint yet dangerous smile, Anas couldn't help but shudder.

"Well, well, well. That's not exactly how a captive talks to his captor, is it?" said Alex with a small voice, which made Anas's body shudder even more. Seeing that, Alex continued, "But yeah, I do want to know what you know about the president's son. Therefore, I'll give you an opportunity to do so. And if I like what I hear, I promise I will do my experiments on someone other than you."

Upon hearing that, Anas tried his best to calm his shuddering body. He then looked at Alex and said, "Huh?! After you hear what I have, I'm sure you will set me free!"

"ARGH!"

This time, Alex stabbed the sword into Anas's thigh. "Let me be the one to judge that.." said Alex while letting the blade stick there. He then continued his words, "Now speak. And don't you dare lie. The person beside me here can tell if you are lying, so think carefully before you speak, otherwise this sword of mine will move and cut another part of your body."

When Anas heard Alex's clear threat, he gulped and spoke very carefully, lest he said the wrong thing.

According to the story, 9 months ago Hafiz and the professor himself were surprised, when one day the result of his failed experiment suddenly came back to their headquarters, like a sheep entering the wolf's den. It turned out the young man came to look for a serum to prolong his life. Obviously, the naive young man was immediately captured by the Heavenly Gate people and because of that, the professor was able to continue his experiments.

"To tell you the truth, the only reason that we managed to have this kind of freakish regenerative ability was because of that stupid young man. Thanks to him, we managed to upgrade our formula and enhanced the strength of all of our fighters. Hahaha!" said Anas, while laughing maniacally.

The man's loud laughter made President Rico emotional again. However, he tried his best to restrain himself. He then asked Anas, "What's he like now?"

Stopping his laugh, Anas smirked and said, "Release me and I will tell you."

Slash!

Blood splattered as the head flew through the air while the sword Alex was holding was covered in blood. Anas was shocked and panicked to see that the colleague next to him had become a headless corpse. Anas immediately turned to Alex only to be greeted with his cold murderous gaze.

"The next one will be yours if you keep doing this and don't speak." Alex coldly said as he swept the sword, removing the blood of his dead comrade.

In Alex's previous life, the Heavenly Gate made so much chaos in the world as well as Indonesia. Their brainwashing made humans fight each other, ignoring the real threat to the world, all because of their so-called God's will.

Alex saw for himself that Heavenly Gate's actions and interference, there were many battles between comrade, friends and even families. Therefore, Alex felt this time he didn't need to hold back against people like them, otherwise he would end up being the one who got hit by the stone.

"A-Alright… Okay! I will talk!" said Anas, stuttering. "Just please don't kill me! I have a lot of valuable information that I'm sure can help you. Information that other people don't have. You can kill them, but not me" Anas quickly continued, it seemed watching death in the eyes had broken him.

Anas's body was shuddering while he muttered something in fear. Apparently, behind the figure of a sect leader who could easily kill people without batting an eye, actually stood a coward, who was afraid of death itself.

"Now speak!" Alex snapped.

"Alright! He is still alive! He is still alive… he is currently one of our members."

Hearing the last word spoken by Anas, Rico shouted, "Don't you dare to lie! My son is in your organization?!!"

Alex ignored Rico's sudden outburst and looked at Theo, looking for an answer. Seeing Alex's gaze at him, Theo nodded signing that what Anas said was true.

"How is that possible?" asked Alex while putting the sword on Anas's neck.

Feeling the cold blade of the sword threatening to take his life, Anas panicked for a while before he said, "Aaa… I know this. It's because of a girl. He kept saying this girl's name… what is it? Uhm… Daisy. Yeah, Daisy!"

Daisy, who was watching behind the crowd, began to shed tears. Rico, who also heard that, asked Anas again with bloodshot eyes, "Why didn't he go back if he is alive?!"

"He...he.. I-I don't know."

Alex once again turned to Theo and saw him shaking his head. Alex looked at Anas like he was a dead man, while Anas was smart enough to know what that gesture meant.

"STOP!!! Stop!! Wait! We are experimenting on him, alright! He is not himself. But.. I can help you!! I can help you! Take me back and I will help you."

After that, Anas began to tell the state and situation of their headquarters and the development of Heavenly Gate Sect. Currently, they have under control almost the entire Middle East and its population. After becoming a Sky realm Magus, their leader Hafiz's mental abilities were even more extraordinary. The more powerful the Heavenly Gate became, the easier it was for him to spread fear and made his skills more effective.

That afternoon, Alex immediately discussed with the representatives from Egypt and Israel to confirm this information. Receiving their confirmation about this matter, Alex had a brief internal meeting to discuss what responses they should adopt.

"We can't let this happen any longer. We have to destroy them." President Rico firmly said.

Hearing that, Alex frowned his eyebrows. "With what? You want to send ten thousand troops and wage a war with them? What about the tribulation?" asked Alex, while it was Rico's turn to frown. He then added, "As much as I hate them, I'm not prepared to wage a war between us right now, at least not at the moment."

In the end, after a lot of argument, Alex agreed to send a small elite squad to save Adam and assassinate Hafiz. If the man died, Alex believed the Heavenly Gate's influence would be greatly reduced.

For this, Jurgen from Israel and Ardeth were willing to help in this mission. They then proceeded to prepare a plan for this mission. President Rico repeatedly reminded Alex how important this mission was. He himself wanted to be involved in this matter, but of course he knew he couldn't and could only hope for Alex's support.

However, before the covert operation could be carried out, Alex had to finish his plans for Indonesia and the representatives from various countries first.

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