Chapter 20: Coins
Jake walked to Lily and bent down beside her. He picked her from the group and held her close, making sure her eyes were covered. He didn’t want her to see what would happen next.
The men saw Crypt kick their boss. They all pulled out their weapons and charged at him. Crypt stood in place. He lifted his foot and kicked the spear—it spun in his hands and immediately, he stabbed it into the ground, causing an explosive burst of wind that slammed into all the men and sent them flying into the walls.
Then he moved. His body became a blur, and what followed were their heads flying in the darkness, their torches falling to the ground the same way their heads fell.
In less than five seconds, the only one left was the boss. And when he saw Crypt walking toward him, his heart rate increased. He began sweating as if a bucket of water had been doused on him.
He tried to crawl back, but he was backed against a wall. "Stay back, stay back, you can have her, please just let me leave!" he yelled. He scratched around for anything to throw or use but got nothing.
Crypt stood in front of him, staring down with his glowing eyes like the harbinger of death. He grabbed the man and tossed him all the way over to Jake.
The man slammed on the ground so hard that he broke a few bones.
Jake looked at the man. "You broke a little girl, harassed her, beat her up—all for some money, right?" Jake asked, looking at the man.
"I’ll give you all the money you could possibly want," Jake said. He got up and brought out the silver coins he had gotten as change after he ate and paid for the inn. There were at least a hundred pieces of them.
"Crypt, make sure you feed all of them to him. After that, you can kill him," Jake said and walked away while carrying Lily.
Crypt immediately walked up to the man, grabbed him by the throat, and lifted him off the ground. He took all the coins and immediately started force-feeding them to the man.