Monarch of Gluttony: System of Sin

"The noise should attract the other beasts to that place as well! We should be able to leave the city as he keeps them distracted!"

Most of the people in the group cared only about their lives as they ran. Only the daughter of the middle-aged man was worried for her father. She wanted to stay back and help him, but throughout the years, her father had trained her not to disobey his commands. She was also told not to look back.

Tears kept falling from her eyes as she ran, leaving her father behind. Her father was the only family member she had, and now she was going to lose him as well.

She knew her father could keep the beasts busy, but there was no way for him to come out of that situation alive! As the leader, he had sacrificed his life so she and the others could clinch like from the jaws of death and reach the tower.

Before long, the sound of gunshots and explosions stopped. Everything turned completely silent.

The young man in the lead checked his clock. "What the heck? He died only in five minutes? He couldn't even get us a ten minutes head start?!"

"Mind your language! My father sacrificed his life for everyone!" The young lady raged in response.

"What good did it achieve if he could only give us a five-minute head start? This was nothing! The beasts will start the search for us now! Run faster?"

The young man didn't seem grateful at all. Instead, he was complaining about the middle-aged man even though he gave his life for them without being asked.

"Fine! Next time the beast catches up to us, you stay behind and give us a longer head start!" The woman retorted.

"Me? I'm too useful to this group. Only people like you deserve to be bait! Next time the beasts catch up to us, I'm throwing you to them to get some time!" The man snorted in response.

"You!" The dark-haired woman couldn't control her anger any more! This bastard was too ungrateful!

Even though she knew she shouldn't do it, she couldn't take it anymore. She raised her gun and aimed it at the back of the head of the man who was running.

Bang~

She pulled the triggers. The bullet left the gun, traveling through the silencer before penetrating the skull of the young man, who still had a smug smile on his face.

The man's eyes opened wide as he was shot. His legs buckled, and he dropped to the ground, dead.

Even though one of them had died, the ground didn't stop running. They didn't have time to stop and argue about what had just happened just now. Their lives were on the line. Moreover, most of them believed he deserved it for being such an ungrateful a*s.

Unfortunately, there was one person who was too upset! The friend of the young man who had just died.

The young man slowed down. He wasn't going to let this arrogant girl live either. He wanted her to have a taste of her own medicine! She thought she could shoot people from behind just because she was a girl? He was going to do the same!

The young woman also noticed the man slowing down. She understood what he was planning to do.

She stopped mid-way and turned to the young man, aiming her gun at him before the man could even raise his gun.

"What are you doing? You killed him, and now you want to kill me too?" The man cried foul.

"Don't pretend to be innocent. I know what you were going to do. You'll run in the lead, or I'll kill you this instant!"

Finally, the group was forced to stop. "Come on guys; this isn't the time for infighting! We only have a few minutes of lead!"

"Jason, you run in the lead. Don't make things worse." Another man from the group chimed in. "You two can settle scores after we are inside the tower, but this isn't the place to fight!"

The young man took a deep breath. "Fine. I'll take the lead."

The man took the lead, and the group again started running.

The group had only managed to run a few minutes when everyone came to an abrupt half as they noticed a body in the distance! The body that was lying in the middle of the street belonged to none other than the middle-aged man who had stayed behind to distract the beasts.

For his body to be here, they all understood that the beasts must be here as well.

Everyone raised their guns and got into a battle formation, covering all directions.

"I can't see anyone. Can you?" Someone in the group asked.

"I can't either. Are the beasts hiding? This doesn't sound like them?"

"This seems to be some kind of trap!"

"Maybe you should look up?" Came a calm voice from above.

Everyone raised their heads to find a young man in the sky! The man was literally floating in the air somehow!

Right before their eyes, the young man landed on the ground.

Everyone kept their guns aimed at the young man, who appeared to be in his late twenties. The man had a slender face and long dark hair.

The strangest part about him was the two white wings behind his back.

"You aren't a human, are you?" The young woman asked.

The man only smiled in response. "Do I look like you weaklings?"

"A beast who can take human form?" One of the men exclaimed in surprise. "Is that even possible?"

"Beasts? You know, I really hate the name you humans have given us. That's not how it should be. I really don't appreciate it." The winged man glared at the young man who had just spoken.

The young man grabbed his throat, feeling like he was being choked. He couldn't breathe for some reason. Before long, his neck twisted on its own.

The man's body dropped to the ground. He had died.

"That's better, so, where were we? Yeah, you were trying to get to that damned tower." The man gazed back at the Tower of Sin in the distance.

He let out a deep sigh. "The Tower..."

For some reason, as the man gazed at the Tower, rage flashed through his eyes as if he hated that place.

"That Tower might keep you safe for now, but even it won't protect you forever…."