The cursed chains around Viktor's body were so hot, it was making Viktor feel suffocated, making him unable to break out of it.
It was more like these chains were sapping his strength away and making him feel weak. Otherwise, he was sure these kind of chains wouldn't hold him.
"How does it feel to be chained like a dog, General? Do you remember when you chained me in my own room while you fucked my wives and daughters before me? And if that wasn't enough, you skinned me alive, cut off my limbs and eyes before burning me to death. Do you REMEMBER?!" Borin asked as his expression twisted and became even darker, unable to contain the overflowing resentment he was brimming with.
Viktor scoffed and said while suppressing the pain he was feeling, "Is it worth remembering fucking women before a pig like you?"
Viktor was thinking of a way to get the cursed chains off his body and decided to buy time by enraging Borin even more.
"YOU!!" Borin became enraged, seeing how all the suffering and pain he had endured seemed nothing to the one who caused it in the first place.
His expression became jubilant all of a sudden as he said, "Good...good. But do you have any idea how long I tortured your people's souls for all these years? Look at them! I purposefully made physical bodies for them so that they can endure the pain I felt on your behalf, hahaha!"
Viktor looked at those cages, especially the one where his parents were, who looked like they couldn't even have peace after death.
Remembering again how they were silently suffering without his knowledge made his heart heavy again, thinking how he failed them as their son.
Borin became ecstatic seeing Viktor's sudden woeful expression and said, "Do you feel the pain now, General? How does it feel to see that you have failed your people for tens of centuries? While you were enjoying your life out there, all of them here, including your dead parents, were wishing for their souls to get extinguished to not feel the pain anymore. Tsk, tsk...how pitiful and sad…" Borin sarcastically said, his smile becoming more frenzied the more he saw Viktor's expression brimming with guilt and pain.
Nyissa wrinkled her brows in disgust, seeing how Borin was not at all the man she had learned about in the history records or the one her clan literally worshipped as their benefactor.
She couldn't believe how she even respected him in her mind for all these years and felt that all her beliefs, including the ones about her grandfather, were being broken by witnessing things for herself.
She never thought that the things she believed in steadfastly would be broken so easily, making her also feel even more guilty for thinking Viktor was lying before.
Borin didn't feel like he wanted to kill Viktor quickly but wanted to make the process slow yet as painful as possible, both mentally and physically.
He wanted to first break him mentally and then torture him to death, just like how Viktor did the same to him when he was alive.
"Oben, get rid of this cage so that I can crush his head to a pulp after skinning him alive," Borin said as his lips curved into a crooked smile while resting his heavy hammer on his shoulder.
"You won't get the chance!" A girl's voice sounded from thin air as a flash of brilliant white light manifested before the cage, startling everyone.
"Little Ghost?" Viktor mumbled with a worried expression, seeing her putting herself in danger.
"I will buy you some time. Use that to think of a way to defeat them," Little Ghost whispered in his mind, making Viktor feel moved, seeing how she was willing to risk getting trapped in this hellhole again after somehow escaping the first time.
But he was too distracted to notice the tautness of her voice.
Oben clenched his fists, seeing Little Ghost, though the mask made one unable to guess what he was thinking.
Borin didn't seem to be surprised by her appearance as his expression instead turned into one of delight as he said, "Oh, look at this little birdy. Now is this what we call a fateful encounter, especially when one of them comes forward to rescue the lover they tried to once kill?"
"Wha…" Viktor's expression flickered, wondering whether he heard Borin right while Little Ghost seemed frozen on the spot as she dipped her head down.
Borin's smile became even wider as he looked at Viktor and said, "Don't you recognize your own wife, General? Or did you forget her because you hated her to the depths of your bones?"
"Little Ghost....Is...he telling the truth? Are you...really Sae?" Viktor asked as he pressed his lips together, his thoughts becoming even more chaotic.
Little Ghost slightly turned her head towards him and let out a heavy sigh as her figure began to transform into a taller figure.
Viktor's eyes slowly widened as within a few moments, an angelic beauty was standing before him with long silky black hair, her face no longer blurry but a face that pulled at Viktor's heartstrings.
She had crescent-shaped eyebrows with pearl shaped brown eyes that could bewitch a man's soul by just a simple fluttering of her long eyelashes; her small velvety rosy lips seemed as tender and soft as her milk-like skin, a sight that men could stare at for eternity while not feeling the passage of time.
She fully turned her head towards him with an apologetic expression as she said with trembling lips, "Viktor...I-I am sorry...I didn't want you to find out...Not like this…"
Viktor's eyes became glazed as his mind suddenly became blank, unable to make sense of the complicated emotions he was feeling in his heart.
Still, he couldn't help but move his lips as he mumbled in a low voice, "Sae…"
