Taskar chose to flee. He could've chosen to stop Ning's water from drowning him in his lungs, but the water was already in there. Stopping him from making more would still drown him with what had already appeared.
So, getting away and saving himself was the proper way.
Thus, he crawled forward and jumped into the portal. When he appeared on the other side, he started coughing violently, even using Aether to force out the water in his lungs.
He coughed and coughed and coughed. Finally, after almost all the water in his lungs was gone, he opened his eyes, and saw a pair of shoes completely sprayed with his coughed out water.
The right foot moved and before he could prepare himself, it struck his face, sending him hurling away.
Taskar felt his face burn with pain and he splashed in some water. He had appeared on the riverbank of one of the locations he had been to during the last 3 days and remembered it well enough to come here.
Now, he was drowning in that same river.
Ning looked with a serious face and saw a section of the river sink a little before jumping back to level, and even spraying a bit of water.
He knew Taskar had opened a portal to another location. With a single thought sent to his system, Ning teleported again.
When he reappeared, he stepped on wet carpet, likely water from the river that Taskar had pulled through the river.
When he looked in front of him, he could see his horrified look of Taskar. When Ning saw this, he understood.
This man was a coward. He was someone who used his strength to fight the weak, and whenever anyone remote strong showed up, he ran away.
That was why he had no experience in fighting at all. Ning shook his head and his eyes shifted from Taskar to the other people in the white room.
Ning saw almost a dozen different men and women standing around what looked like a meeting of some sort.
He was curious now. Where exactly was he?
<You are close to the edge of Ordania and Xandria>
"Who are you?" someone shouted.
"Are you okay, brother Taskar?"
"How did this man appear out of nowhere?"
The men and women in the room immediately started speaking and shouting. Some of them pulled out guns in defense, while some were getting their Aether ready.
Ning was sure that had he worn the battle force uniform, they would have mowed him down right now.
"What are you waiting for? Kill him!" Taskar said.
'System, is anyone here possibly innoce—'
Before Ning could finish asking questions, attacks of many kinds appeared from the men and women who were in a circle.
Some used guns, while some threw fire at him. Some tried to spear him through the heart with a metal rod, while some tried to create gravity to rip his body apart.
Ning's body, which was protected with Enchantment, a layer of Aether, and finally reverse gravity working like a force field, could not be touched by any attacks at all.
<Not a single person here can be considered innocent>
Ning gave an angry chuckle. "I figured."
He put out his hands in front of him as everyone continued attacking, and looked towards Taskar with what he assumed was an evil grin and snapped.
POP!
Like a balloon filled to the brim with water and could not hold itself anymore, one of the men amongst the dozen or so popped into a haze of bloody gore.
Chunks of meat and sprays of blood landed on everyone around them who looked at the dead men with a horrified look.
They didn't have to work too hard to look at him for he was everywhere.
In the white room that was bloody, only Ning stood with not a single drop of blood on him.
Then, he snapped again.
POP! POP! POP!
One after another, men and women alike burst like balloons leaving sprays of red around the room.
By the time Ning was done, not a single hint of white remained in the originally colorless room.
Taskar, who was completely drenched in blood looked with nothing but shock at Ning. He had come here to ask for help from his fellow brother and sisters who he had worked with.
But now, he realized he had only brought death to them.
Trembling hands tried to help him move back, but the slipperiness of the hot blood made it impossible.
"It's your turn now, I guess," Ning said and walked forward. As he stepped, the blood and bones parted themselves to reveal the white marble that was originally there.
Even then, he didn't completely step on the ground and hovered slightly on top with his reverse gravity.
"Don't kill me!" Taskar started shouting.
Ning simply shook his head. "If you know you are going to die, just shut up and let me be done with it," he said.
His single hand moved forward, and Taskar feared a snap, but Ning wasn't going to give him such an easy death.
No, instead, water accumulated around Taskar, slowly picking him up. Taskar tried to move out of the bubble of water, but Ning's Aether forced him there.
Even when he tried to use his own Aether, Ning's usage of it was far better and managed to keep Taskar there with no chance of escape.
Then came the torture.
Taskar was already having trouble breathing, but then he felt the temperature of the water increase.
With fear in his eyes, he tried to open a portal, but with a single gesture, Ning canceled the portal.
Taskar put his hands on his mouth to not let himself breathe in the water, but the water was getting so hot that it became uncomfortable.
At some point, the water started boiling, and Taskar enforced his body to survive it.
For minutes on end, Ning kept Taskar floating in a ball of boiling water until he was forced to swallow the boiling water and burn his body from the inside out.
Ning only let the man drop to the ground once he was dead.
