Prelude to the Assault

The next moment his heavy lidded eyes opened as though he was asleep for a long time with the morning light pouring into the scope of his eyes. What laid before him was a room written all over by the word of poverty that he almost doubted whether he was still dreaming or not but his brain did not register that as he wonder if he was still a boy or not, whether he was still a human or just a lump of flesh sitting around in a bed.

"Nh?"

He looks under the sheets and sees small unhealthy legs with everything still there, beside his bed was a mirror which he hastenly takes into his petite hand and looks into. What he sees from the inside was a young boy about to enter puberty with rugged and messy hair so white it seemed it was like the colour of snow, his eyes were of a deep crimson colour that they were practically shining in the darkness checking whether his skin was pale white like an albino's he realises its slightly tanned by sun and sighs as he puts the mirror back at the side of his bed. He peeks back outside viewing the twin moons laping over each other giving an enchanting mood all over.

"Interesting............yawn"

His eyes begin to feel heavy once more as he yawns, pulling the blanket sheets over himself ,he falls asleep once more.

"GOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOOORNIIING ONIIIIIIII-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!"

A high pitched lolita voice came from somewhere but he did not know where as all he felt afterwards was the pain of a high kick striking his stomach abruptly waking up with a pierceful glare in his eyes seeing a young girl with long crimson hair wearing a dirty black one piece with frills in his head a certain name popped up.

"Elaine..........."

"Onii-chan can speak now?!"

Elaine was fairly shocked it had a massive panic button on her as she ran out of his room disappearing into the confines of this house, this was his little sister that was all he could remember and bits and pieces of knowledge he knew wasn't of this world but for now he focused on trying to figure out who and where he was. After a couple of minutes Elaine came back with a slender elegant black haired girl who styled her hair into a ponytail wearing a white dress and looked like the image of the girls he knew from the scraps of his memroy.

"Shizuka-neesama Alastor-oniichan can talk now"

"Really?That is wonderful"

"Yes see he is awake now"

"Alastor is it true that you can talk?"

"Of course I can, its not like I couldn't speak for a long time could it?"

"Actually you couldn't you were born a mute"

"?!"(Holy crap what type of confidence did I just show off from just now)

"Nevermind I am glad you can finally talk"

"Yeah"

"My,my Ala-kun can speak now, I am so happy"

Another voice this one was somewhat sweet and motherly as well as gentle came from the door with a kind woman with a soft and kind appearence showed up, having light pink hair with long and lustrous rabbit ears wearing an apron over her blue dress with many other children peeking out of the door to see him making Alastor a bit uncomfortable.

"Alastor do you still remember me?"

"Memphis-okaasan?"

"Oh yes good you do remember!!But I highly doubt whether you still know where we are"

Alastor and Elaine were siblings who were abandoned by their parents long ago at the orphanage, and had been living here ever since. Shizuka was his childhood friend who grew up with him in the last 12 years that he was here but one day whilst gathering kobol fruits Kobolds came out of nowhere and attacked them telling her to run away whilst he fights them through sign language. He fought them with the magic spells that Memphis taught him and defeated them all after experiencing a heavy mana intoxication thus his hair and eye colour changed as a result.

"Oh I see"

Accepting the situation as it is he nods and resolves himself for the next days.

"So you really think you can beat me Alastor?"

"Of course I can"

The two stood at opposite sides from each other this was a test to know whether Alastor could still use magic or not so Memphis allowed it giving the both of them wooden staffs to test their abilities.

"You can start"

Shizuka came like a storm after him as she ran over the distance closing it with ease as she sprinted at top speed however Alastor was calm he studied her every moment upon the swing of her staff he lifted his staff slightly to the right thus blocking it pushing her back with ease. His red eyes were shining as if trying to invoke fear in Shizuka but she did not feel any.

[To the right a downward swipe]

Something like a voice entered his ears as he dodges the swipe she does not giving him enough time to say a single chant for a spell Shizuka kicks him in the stomach making him drift backwards with a curl of a smile on his face as Alastor lets go of his staff running towards Shizuka activating his special skills.

"Ice Dance"

Several ice daggers appear in tthe air and fly towards her but she knocks them all out with her staff with Alastor now near her he pours mana into his right hand thrusting it forward at Shizuka who counters this by turning to her left and knocking away his hand seeing a somewhat confident look in his gaze Shizuka stare behind herself and finds more ice daggers which fly about to stab her but she waves her staff in a semicircular swing.

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"Half Moon!!"

They are all brought down by her in one swing but from behind the swing of Alastor's swing is seen as he puts so much force her own staff almost breaks but reinforces it with her own mana and pushes him back thrusting him backwards diving in to knock him out however he breaks his thrust speed by stabbing the staff into the ground and running towards Shizuka.

""HEAVEN'S GATE!!""

They both knock themselves out it had ended in a miserable draw however for the ones watching it was obvious these two had the potential to become excellent adventurers. Memphis truly felt this in her heart she raised wonderful children.

"Alastor is somewhat unpredictable and very calculating which is the basics of being a swordsman however uses all means to win meaning he can adapt, Shizuka is rigid and very strong as well as stubborn her techinques are too straight forward she might end up an excellent knight, Elaine is sort of wild and fiesty like a fire"

"Excuse me ma'am I am the father of Shizuka"

"?!"

She turned around to see a man with similar features to Shizuka like her black eyes and hair.

"So your father finally came?"

"Yes and he explained to me everything that happened"

"Are we ever gonna meet again?"

"Yes and if we don't recognise each other, you wear this"

"A ring?"

"Yes I bought it with my own money so accept it Alastor"

"Ain't this like getting married?"

"Yeah it is"

She laughs as she blushes to what he says.

"Then let us meet again Shizuka"

"Yes Alastor"

He could see her crying face as she was taken away by her noble father with tears and determination to see her not leave.

"I shall see you again Shizu"

4 years later

After a long night of studying Alastor went to sleep with his mind focused on becoming the new adventurer's guild receptionist. He wakes up early in the morning it was said that the guild opened up at 10 o'clock on the magic clock installed so he got up and cleaned the orphanage all by himself.

"Morning Onii-chan"

Elaine was awake now he turned his head to check on her, she was now a beauty that made her brother proud. Having crimson long twintails and sparkling blue eyes wearing a black leather dress she bought in the market the other day with a huge smile on her face.

"Morning Elaine how was your sleep"

"It was good but now I am so hungry, with so muuuch to doo"

"I know that feeling of being the farmer's hand and all so how about I make miso soup for everyone with black root bread"

"Excellent Onii-chan!!"

Elaine's eyes shined as she heard that with small steps running down the stairs, the children were now awake and probably hungry.

"Ala-niichan!!!!Morning!!"

Most of them had animal ears and pointed ears like Memphis and Elaine so they all ate happily. Memphis still hadn't come back from the border but he was sure she was gonna be fine.

"Elaine I am going to work now"

"Kaaay come back soon Onii-chan"

Alastor walks out of the orphanage and began to think of days of old.

(These past years I have grown considerably stronger although I do not do either sword or magic training my stamina is a bit too much. I don't get sick from most things and got resistances from most stuff I heard of, all well I wonder how Shizu is doing in the capital?Is she okay?Well I might get lucky and get sent to the capital's royal knights)

Whilst thinking of these things Alastor arrives at the adventurer's guild exactly at 10:30 upon entering it he sees a slender man at the reception.

"Hello I am the receptionist in training Alastor Steppenwolf"

"Oh?Please put your hand on this stone"

"Okay"

Alastor knew what stone this was ,it was a status reading stone which showed one's status to everyone. It showed up after a frw minutes had passed.

Alastor Steppenwolf

Lv:10

Job:None(Maou hidden from status)

Race: HALF ELF(Demon hidden from status)

Skills: Swordsmanship Lv1, Calcultive Mind Lv6, Archery Lv5

Hidden Skills: Mana & Magic Mastery Lv 10, Demon Swordsmanship Lv10,Status Nullifying Resistence Lv 10, Summon Monsters(Low~Mid~HighTier)Lv10, Summon Demons(Low~Mid~HighTier)Lv10,Ancient Wisdom Lv10,Other World Knowledge Lv100, Infinite Strength Lv18(Locked,Infinite Mana lv18(Locked

To him it seemed as if there was two statuses in front of him he could not understand what the word Maou mean however the receptionist scowled his face.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk man seriously?"

"What is it?"

"Brother I hugely advice you to sell yourself as a slave here at the adventurer's guild"

"Why?"

"Brother you seriously don't know its better to sell yourself now before you get forced"

"I do not know what you are talking about!If you don't want me to register here I will register somewhere else"

Alastor walked out of the guild and headed for the orphanage but his heart was not at all in place as he sees something like a arm of small child peeking out of the corner of his street. He runs out to see the corpses of all the children of the orphanage lying on the street slaim by swords,spears,arrows,and horse shoes , the orphanage is burning in a huge flame making Alastor jump into the door as he sees the face of Memphis on the top floor running though the burning building with ease avoiding the collapsing logs and reaches the room she is in with bruises all over her body and huge stab wound right into her chest.

"Memphis-okaasan what happened?"

"Cough cough the Holy Church of Martin decided to enslave demihumans or kill them if useless, I was unable to protect the children"

"Why?"

"That is what the human nations have decided to do with us demihumans,take......Elaine and my item box which has special gifts for you.........Ala.....stor.....run......awa......"

"Okaasan!!!!"

He looks across the room and sees a long sword with a star shaped hilt and a small cube box which he both takes running down the burning orphaanage as it collapses to rubble heading to the northern gate where a group of knights stand discussing something he almost passes them till something prompts him to turn around. It had tuffs of crimson hair remaining burnt to a crisp and hanged with mounts of leather sticking to its skin.

"Onnii------cha"

"Elaine...................."

Alastor falls to his knees as he stares at a dying little sister, the knights turn around and begin to laugh. One of them with a gaze fillled with self-righteousness claps his hands.

"Such is the death of you filthy demihumans!!!You exist to be trampled by us humans rejoice at your measly existence!!"

"Elaine......ELAINE!!!!!!"

Alastor cuts the rope that was hanging Elaine over the town wall and catches her body weeping at the corpse of his sister.

"That one was fun to torture she kept on crying her brother was gonna come well its rater too late and dude your sister was sooooo delicious"

"........tard...."

"Huh?What was that?"

"BASTARDS!!!!"

For a moment Alastor had vanished and swung the sword which was orginally on hs back down on the holy knight who was talking trash about his little sister pushing him back with such a force the others became immediatately flustered however to the knight he was completely calm blocking the sword with his gauntlet.

"Is that it?How pathetic, now see a true sword swing [Divine Slash]"

His body flew a great distance backwards with the knight slamming his body to the ground with a smirk on his face he kicks Alastor in the stomach with his metal boot making him cough out blood.

"That is right this is your position as scum demihumans elves,dwarves,beastmen all of you deserve to be treated like this just like how I killed those beastmen and elf children tortured that rabbit beastlady her expression was so nice to look at, and you know what she actually begged me to stop but I wasn't gonna do that hahahahahaha"

"?!"

From within Alastor rage gathers up and bursts out pushing the arrogant knight away from him. He begins to stand up with the whites of his eyes going black and his entire body covered in crimson energy. with a pressure that exceeds that of dragons, his pupil goes straight as everything slows down for a bit he picks up his sword and runs towards them. The knights try to cut him down but he stabs through the first knight with ease through the chest and slices the next knights into clean halves. Arriving towards the new knights like a fresh storm Alastor swings his sword to left creating an ice burst that freezes three knights in a row making him swiftly block the slashs that the knights throw on him pushing them off to the spells the holy priest mages were citing on Alastor.

"What in the name of Saintess Goldria has he transformed into?"

"........."

"........"

The mage at the back sends out a spear of fire but Alastor catches and throw it back at him turning it into a spear of fire instead which separates itself into twelve stabbing into his body exploding upon contact. Moving like a swift gale Alastor closes the distance on the other knights dashing them down with ease performing a sword dance of legend as he cuts into the gaps of the knights that try to cut him down but to no luck do they land a single hit or injury on him, some directly stab him but their swords break in half as if hitting dragon scales making him hack them into pieces as he moves in on the one who tortured his little sister. The others begin to panick as they see this with Alastor walking towards them ,to them it seemed his image changed to a horrific demonic knight in armour with horns curling from his head reverting back to the boy they are looking at. They rush in to attack him all at once with swords and spears and lances at hand carrying their hearts in their mouths they all release the most powerful magic spells they know.

"Time Stop"

With a click of finger time turns black and white as Alastor waves his sword around with slow and almost fake movements before sheathing his sword on his back.

"Time Release"

All shocked at how he reached behind them all, the holy knights turn around but feel something wrong as all of them but one collapse as diced corpses.

"?!Hiiiiiiiiiii!!What did you do to my men!!!"

"What is your name"

"Alexandra Delward of the Holy Church of Martin and I shall slay you here!!!"

"Its too late for that"

"?!"

All of his tendons are immediately cut off with Alex collapsing like a puppet with its strings cut off, before he falls down to the ground Alastor ties him up with the lasso he used to hang his sister.

"W-what are you going to do?"

"I am going to torture you,Seal of Undead"

A sickly green aura clings to his body and vanishes then a black cloud came it wasn't a cloud made out. of water but birds all types of carvinous birds: crows,ravens,vultures,eagles,buzzards too many to count and describe they all swooped down and perked at his flesh which kept on regenerating as soon as it got perked out screaming a howl as though he was in hell. But this did not stop as Alastor with corpse of his sister went into the forest on a horse with him tied last to a cave where the knights of the holy order found a multilated corpse.