District 42-Chapter 294: Final attack

After what happened to him, Rurik needed to learn how to live with his new self. He needed to learn how to accept that emptiness inside him.

He could very well try to kill himself, but he couldn’t. All the times when he tried to take his artificial life, he would fail. The Indigo Energy inside him prevented him to do so. Also, the scientists and healers that worked on Project Draugr didn’t let him go any further on that suicidal thing.

No matter how many different ways that Rurik used to try to die again, he couldn’t do it. He filled his body with gunshots, drunk poison, set fire on himself, and even reduced his body to dust with a certain weapon, but it would always recover from the most impossible wounds and diseases.

He never got sick, even though many times he exposed himself intentionally to make it happen. He could starve, run out of oxygen, and even get his brain and heart separated from his body.

The means didn’t matter. The potency, intensity, or duration didn’t matter as well. Rurik was now an empty puppet forced to live. He was the ultimate warrior; the one that didn’t need to worry about his life, nor any other harm that was caused on his body.

After feeling the sweet taste of death and how free he felt, Rurik didn’t want to be alive anymore. He wanted to get his cycle complete, he was willing to rest for eternity, so he could make that constant exhaustion of his hard work vanish completely.

He was just a human, after all. A human that wanted to let behind that life filled with suffering and sadness. Rurik was tired of the incessant search for happiness. He just wanted to end it all again.

After the experimentation was done, and all the research in his body got finished, Rurik was finally able to leave the laboratory. He was considered a normal human and had the chance to continue his life the way he wanted.

No information about Project Draugr was shared with the folk, and just a few people among the scientific community knew about it. The Royal Family saw the effect that the project had on Rurik, so they gave the funds for the laboratories to keep going with the experiments and tests in people, also as cooperating with all the resources that they needed.

Rurik got depressed. His mind was now just a hurricane of bad thoughts and feelings. His mind wasn’t able to deal with what happened just yet. For months, the future Aesir stayed at his house and didn’t let that place once.

He officially left the scientific community of the Castle, and all the bounds he had with anyone in there. The same happened with part of the healer’s community. He continued treating people, but he never came back to a laboratory again, nor did any research to contribute with them. He would operate in the shadows and don’t stand out too much.

His days weren’t exciting and had no value anymore. He knew that he wouldn’t die, he knew that he had plenty of time to do anything, and the fact that he didn’t have any regrets made him get nothing to do in his second unwanted chance. That’s why Rurik got every day more depressed once he lost the will even to go out of his home to work.

His existence reached the ears of the Aesirs, which convinced him to use his new power to do something good for humanity again. Willing or not, they gave him a reason to keep going. It was the district’s fault that he needed to live with such an eternal curse, but at least he would have the opportunity to continue doing what he always liked to do: save other people.

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Rurik didn’t know why he began to remember his story all of a sudden. However, those memories always came in the most inconvenient ways. He wanted to get rid of his past and just focus on what he has done now, but he couldn’t bring himself to forget it.

Actually, he couldn’t forget anything about his life there. Rurik lived to see the past generation of Aesirs die one by one. Since at that time the Frelsi still didn’t appear and the global war ended, they didn’t have too many dangerous things to do. The Aesirs at that time were strong, but just for show. All of them, except one, died of old age.

Rurik lived enough to see even Amelia dying and witness her daughter with her same name raise to become one of the best nurses of the district, and now the director of the New Third lab.

None of the Aesirs, except one, knew about it, though. For them, Rurik was the 5th Aesir to arrive in the group, and he didn’t pretend to reveal anything to them.

Brushing off those thoughts, his focus switched to Leo again.

The Aesir had somewhat pity of that man. They were similar, after all. Both of them had fake vital energy flowing inside their veins, even though it was for different purposes. While Rurik needed it to be alive, the man used it to be stronger.

The sad thing was that Rurik noticed that he was someone too absorbed in his goals to notice the harm that he was making on himself by his own greed. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

While the Aesir was just standing there, the Vanir was reasoning about what to do next. He was out of options there. He got too tired because of his two consecutive assaults. And even after all of that, Rurik remained unharmed in the end. His regeneration was just too quick. Any kind of damage was permanent.

"Don’t worry, Vanir," Rurik said, raising both his hands and closing them into tight fists. His gloves began to shine red once again. "You don’t need to think about the next attack, this much damage absorbed is enough for now." His voice sounded like someone who was just going to a funeral.

Rurik stomped the ground, advancing toward the giant man. In the blink of an eye, he was already in front of him, at reach to attack.

With a swift rotation of his hips, he launched his fist in the direction of Leo’s stomach.

Once it landed, an explosion of a blinding red light affected a wide range around them, like a potent flashbang was thrown there.

Nothing was heard, nor felt, nor seen. It was a silent, nearly invisible, final attack.