The number of people I need to save and the number of people I need to kill are more or less equal. There are so many that I need to repay, too. Even though I have returned in time, I still need to hurry as based on my calctions the time I have is still limited.


    Exactly 3 years before the first Cataclysm. I need to hurry up before it happens…


    There are going to be 3 Cataclysms in the future.


    The first one will destroy half of this, bringing all the hidden races in the light in the name of survival. At that time, there won''t be any human v/s human anymore. It will be an interracial war for ruling Vermillion and all the races will subside their inner disputes ande forward as one.


    The second Cataclysm will bring in the intergctic parasites to this. That will force all the races to join as one. Though by the time they join forces, more than 90 percent of the poption will have already died. The survivors will be… barely surviving and parasites would have already taken over more than 95% of the except one city where the strongest of the strongest resided.


    As for the third Cataclysm… I would rather not talk about it.


    ...


    Zero observes Professor Alber''s whitened face as he looks at him without any hint of mercy. Perhaps memories of the past had already been refreshed in Zero''s mind, so much that he forgot about everything else and only focused on how he was going to torture Professor Alber.


    In the previous timeline, Professor Alber performed experiments without anaesthesia on Zero.


    He did experiments to no end, all the more especially when it came to Zero. There was no more torture method left in this time that Professor Alber hadn''t put him through in the name of experimenting. The fact that Zero was still alive by the end of all of it was a miracle in itself.


    Coming back to the present, Zero first moved closer to Professor Richard and took out that piece of paralysing bread that he had in his hand.


    Before Professor Alber could realise what was going to happen, Zero stuffed the piece of bread inside Alber''s mouth and force fed him. Eating the bread, the Professor slowly lost control of his body as it froze.


    -Thud


    Zero fell down on his knees as he put his hand on his eyes and tried tofort it. He had already been using charm magic, overexerting himself with this body that hasn''t received any sort of training. Using it for so long, he had already hurt himself enough in this ordeal.


    Professor Alber gained back his natural state and his fear was more or less gone, but by this time the paralysing drug in the bread had already taken effect and there was nothing more that he could do about it.


    He then slowly got up as he tried to look at the Professor but his vision was blurred at this point, so he closed his eyes. Being a master of shadows in his previous life of hiding and survival, he had enough experience in dealing with situations where he couldn''t use his eyes.


    He then moved closer to the Professor and then took out a knife he found in professor Mark''s space pouch. His smile widened with every move he was making. Perhaps it was his years of expertise, or was it professor Alber''s experiments? He already knew which points would hurt the most and from that point outwards…


    A few minutester,


    "AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" Despite being paralysed, Professor Alber ended up shouting out of reflex. Though that was the only sound he could make. He already had cuts at specific vital points on his body. His skin was carved out and his spine was visible outside with his muscles widely spread apart. His fingers were missing and there were no eyes in his eye sockets, the fact that he was alive and twitching in pain would make anyone vomit out blood if they saw this scene, but Zero was unfazed as he stood there without batting an eye. He then sighed as he turned around and muttered," I would have seen you through to the end, but consider yourself lucky that I don''t have much time left."


    Zero began moving towards the screen like a ce near the machines that were ced in thisboratory. With his eyes a bit more healed than before, he looked at it for a few moments and then ced both his hands, broken and unbroken, on the screen and began analysing the facility''s system. After a few moments of analysis, he began typing a fewmands and started taking over the facility without much difficulty.


    ''It''s much easierpared to taking over the Violet Pirates'' Ship,'' Zero thought as he finally took over the whole system in the next 30 minutes.


    He sighed as he looked at the cameras that were assigned to his room. He had already destroyed all the cameras present in this room, so there was no footage of what he had done after killing Richard. As for anything prior to that, he had already deleted everything rted to him.


    He then looked through the list of people held captive here and what he found both sent a relief and a shock to him.


    It was a relief that ir was still alive in this facility and not dead as in the previous timeline, but what was more shocking was… the list of prisoners held captive here. The list by no means was an ordinary list. It held one of the most ''lost'' and influential people of Vermillion, who had been thought to have disappeared or died in various events.


    Zero couldn''t help but clench his fist as he ran his eyes across the list. The more he looked, the more his eyes narrowed and the glint of hatred towards the owner of this facility grew.


    ''If only they would have been present through the three Cataclysms, humanity… or perhaps Vermillion''s citizens would have won with much more ease. If only these bastards… sigh… I guess it''s true that humanity has caused its own downfall all through the ages. I guess this adds to the list of things I need to finish,'' Zero thought as he began making calctions.


    He then turned on the mike to connect to all the rooms present in the facility as he spoke,"Hello mike testing mike testing. So… I have taken over this facility''s programmed auto structure. In simple terms, I have hacked into this facility''s system. For convenience'' sake, call me Zero. I shall be helping all of you get out of this facility. This is not a test drill exercise but a real time situation. I repeat this not a test drill exercise but a real time situation. Since weck time… let''s begin "Protocol: I want to get out of this facility", shall we?"