Chapter 79: Operation Skybreak, part 4/11 [Bonus]


    The time seemed to slow down as Tia looked at the trio before her, her eyes slightly dting. Her hands trembled, a cocktail of emotions surging through her as she faced the man, her own uncle, who betrayed her for nothing but personal profit.


    Seeing her anger, the two people nking the man retreated back without any care for him. Tia briefly suppressed her anger and smiled at the tinum-haired cousin brimming with youth who was waving at her.


    <em>''At least she is as kind as she used to be.''</em>


    Her eyes briefly paused at a young, dark-haired man sharing the same crooked nose and squinty eyes as the older man, her second cousin.


    <em>''He should be the coborator the Empire wanted to inherit thepany by killing the rest of my family. You almost caused the death of my sweet cousin, but I still need you.''</em> After her parents'' deaths and her imprisonment, the entirepany was split between her two uncles and her aunt, splitting the shares evenly.


    She thought her anger had subsided over the years, but she was wrong, and the moment her eyesnded on one of the perpetrators of her suffering, it erupted like a volcano.


    "Uncle, look at me now. I''m not that naive, vulnerable child you manipted anymore," Tia dered, her frozen smile unfaltering as she advanced, a step reverberating with her newfound power.


    "How dare you side with the Empire, abandoning the principles of freedom!" The words struck her like a burning hot knife, the irony of someone who helped strip her of her own freedom calling her an enemy of freedom making her burst intoughter.


    "Uncle, please die in pain."


    Tia vented her furyher outstretched hand unleashing a wave of telekic force that mmed into her uncle. His body contorted painfully under the pressure, falling to the ground with agonized screams reverberating in the spacehis arms, legs, fingers, and ribs all twisted and warped, bones sticking out with blood pooling beneath him.


    "I still remember what you said in court! You have called me sick, deranged, and a monster." It hurt her as if it happened only yesterday, as she was a young child, yet they took everything from her without any mercy.


    The painful memories,pounded by the abrupt abandonment and betrayal by her family following her parents'' deaths, fueled the inferno of rage within her.


    A deep resentment for the family that discarded her, robbed her of her inheritance and left her life in ruins. The only bright spot in those dark times had been the support of her favored cousin until even those visits were forcibly halted.


    With a flicker of concentration, mes erupted around her uncle, his figure consumed by fire, twisting and rolling in agony. The harsh, nauseating odor of burning flesh filled the air.


    "Monster..." She heard whispers from aroundthe workers staring at the show paled, some even vomiting at the sight.


    She took a step forward, and her heart pounded with exhration, a rush of vindication flooding her as she embraced the dark satisfaction of revenge.


    A yell washed over her like cold water, settling down the mes of anger burning within her heart: "Die, imperial whore!"


    An office worker in a ck suit rushed at her, scissors gleaming in his hand, his eyes burning with blind fanaticism. In her sight, he moved slowly and pathetically, not even evoking any sensation of threat.


    A pulse of purple energy shot past her, severing the man''s head from his body in a split second.


    The headless corpse fell to the ground, stillness overtaking the room as the imperial soldier behind her lowered his weapon, the terrifying visor of his helmet sweeping over the petrified employees, forcing some to their knees in sheer terror.


    [+1 kill]


    It wasughably pathetic, and the naivet of the attacker''s faith in a corrupt system nudged her into a wildughter that reverberated ominously in the tense atmosphere.


    "Haha, truly? Who else wants to die for the so-perfect Federation?" Her amused re made the still-conscious employees avert their eyes.


    In an attempt to maintain some semnce of order, Tia raised her voice, offering a lifeline to the terrified onlookers. "I told you, remain on your spot, and you will survive," she dered, knowing fully well that hysteria could easily engulf the room andplicate her mission.


    The soldier''s report on the inte jerked her back to reality, recing her frenzied joy with a sharp, urgent focus. "Mam, the military and''s guard drones and dropships are quickly approaching; we are opening fire."


    Ignoring her suffering uncle on the ground, she waved at her two cousins, "My sweet cousin, and the other one I don''t care about, I need your cooperation."