I was sitting in my expensive mystery mansions expensive front garden under an expensive umbrella drinking expensive tea...... I thing i like this expensive intro.
"My lady, may i ask where is mr inglis?. It would have been nice if he could also join us in this afternoon tea"
Hilde is like those mother who wants everyone to gather in the dinner table
"He went Friyena on a mission" (sipping on tea)
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That day in the morning
"Master, we have obtained the information about the whereabout" (inglis bowing from a side)
"Oh then exterminate it tonight, easy" (rolling the eyes on inglis)
"Well then i'll take my leave to the friyena right away" (with another bow he vanished)
FRIYENA - a small city in gaurddegon. Every citizen living their leads a pretty normal life. An average middle class life. The city itself is not so large compared to any other city. But compared to the land the population is super dense . And becoz of that there are a lot of buildings. A lot of thin streets for which makes a lot of HIDEOUTS.
In a dense city with a lot of hideout, small crimes is like an everyday routine.
But behind those small crimes takes place some crime that is beyound this world. Yeah when i say 'beyond this world' i meant it. ' A CULT' has established in friyena that reaches to the one who is beyond this world, to the hell. Well after all this explanation you probably have already figured out that this cult is just a sub cult which means a Branch.
But of course we have to eliminate it. Why! Coz i have nothing better to do. (Shrugging shoulders)
Well, i don't have any family nor any friends other than my subordinates to take care of. Im not lacking in anything either that i would try to make up for. So that's why i just put my nose around in other peoples dirty matter.
Inglis has his own subordinates they are his own secret shadows. He put them to bring information from different places. He has a wide range of information collecting network. How does he do it! What is this network! Don’t aske me (shaking head as a 'no') i was never even good with a computer. I suck with technology (this network isn’t actually those kind of network. But Who's gonna tell her anyway!)
This time inglis found out friyena built a sub cult. So he sent his subordinate to get more accurate information. They scouted them for some time in friyena and got to know that that night in a underground hideout of a building they all gonna gather from all over the friyena to perform a special ritual. So of course that night we were gonna strike.
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That day in the night
We were all in our respective rooms sleeping soundly. My room is in the second floor. Going a little further right through the corridor. There are more rooms on the second floor. Downstairs there three rooms in each side of the stairs Tonight . oh when i say 'tonight' i meant 'tonight'.
This mansion is mine, so i give it the look however i prefer Whenever i prefer. You see it's the thrill my maids will never know where their rooms door Will open next time. It's the thrill (chuckling as if she does a wonderful job).
Just when i was about to fall asleep after counting 300 sheeps, inglis connected his thought to mine
"Master, im home. Do you want the report now? Or should i present it tomorrow?"
You already disturbed my sleep but i wont give up on my sleep tonight
"In the morning" that's all i said. (Inglis's throat dried out as he figured by the short speech that his master got disturbed by him and now is mad)
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Next morning
Atori always comes to wake me up in the morning. Helps me dress up, do my hair,and redo my bed.
No no don't think im such a spoiled baby, nope. It's her wish. She said it’s her duty as a maid to do this chores. So i just granted her wish. At first i was a bit uncomfortable but now i'm used to it. In fact now it's my habit. After that, we went to the dining room. That day the dining room was connected to the hall room, behind the couch and beside the kitchen. Hilde was in the kitchen sending the dishes to the table by the other maids. The maids and atori was serving us. On the dining table it was inglis, mr ota and nagisa. I came last, well i always come late.
The moment i entered the room they all stranded up and bowed me. Though i always tell them not to do this but they won't stop. Everyone sat back except inglis.
"Good morning master,should i start reporting? ”
They didn’t started the breakfast yet waiting for me. I sometimes feel guilty. Anyways becoz no one started eating i told inglis to report first and quickly.
" after leaving your side i went straight to the friyena market where i was waiting for the night to come. My subordinates were keeping an eye on them. They were supposed to start the ritual at around 11. So what they did. We surrounded them 5 minute later when the ritual started. Of course we did it deliberately in order to make sure they are all concentrating in ritual and everyone of them is there. After 10 minute when we were trying to close our distance in order to get them from around the building, something unexpected happened "
My eyes shifted to him after hearing him without looking all this time
"Unexpected you say!"
"Yes master, they planned more than just one sacrifice. There were 13 young boys and none of them were older then 13. And they all were decided sacrifices for that ritual"
If 13 people is sacrificed for a sub cult's ritual in a small city of friyena, then how much would have been needed for main cults or bigger branches.
(Disgust was filling her eyes)
Inglis continued his report
"Now going for a all out fight or even assassinating them one by one would have been a proven threat to the childrens lives. So i tried to connect with master to ask about what would you want me to do. But my thought transmission wasn’t connecting at all" ( giving his master a side eye)
Oops! I closed it for a moment in order to have a relaxed bath. Not that i can say it out loud (not like inglis isn’t well aware about his masters childish irresponsible behaviours)
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(With a sigh inglis continued) "in order to prevent severe consequences i myself took the decision and made a detour from our original plan.set the garage of that building on fire so everyone in that building was evacuating and hearing the fire alarm they stoped the ritual for a moment and half of the guard went out to check the situation. Taking the advantage of the situation we disposed off the guards who came out to check. When they were not going back and announcement started about fire in the building, more guards came out and we again disposed of them. At this point most of the guards were out of the board so they would probably gonna doubt and try to escape so we barged in and a fight started. We made two separate team, one to rescue the children and the other to stay in defence and offence. At the end the whole building caught on fire. Seeing this they gave up the children and tried to run away with their life. We saved all the children and got rid of all the cult members except one. When we were nearly done evacuating the children the building fall off on us. Two children were yet to get out and they got injured pretty badly even though we tried to save them by being meat shield. The cult members all got crushed beneath the building. They could've escaped with some injury but when the ceiling was falling on us i pushed them toward the members. But unfortunately one of them also knew magic, dark magic. And he saved himself pretty good."
Dark magic or so called black magic are the exact opposite of the light magic. And of course a forbidden magic. (Who doesn’t know it!)
But that doesn’t mean everyone who worshipes the being from hell can use dark magic. There are stages of faith in light magic and stages of sacrifice in dark magic. But say, have you ever saw a light magic user in this world?!. But you will find dark magic user in everywhere. Coz THERE ISN’T ANY LIGHT MAGIC.
From the pre ancient time or maybe even before then dark magic users always existed. They worshipped the beings from hell. And sacrificed many different things. When that wasn’t enough they started to sacrifice other people. And the more thing you will secrifice the more power you will get.
Lets devide the dark magic in three stage -
1. Making deal_ making a deal with it. One deal that ruins their whole life. Like save my wife i'll give this/that or anything you want. But will it really be satisfied with the one time offering?!
2. Crafting magic_ many people think crafting is neutral. But originally crafting magic uses evil spirits and though sometimes the crafter themselves directly doesn’t worship the beings from hell but the spirits they use and call to help them, directly worships the beings from hell. And that is why in some places it is directly called dark magic not as crafting.
3. The devotees _ it is the stage where one give away everything. Even if in those two stages one might still have some emotion and guilt, but in this stage they are the true devotees. They give away their soul, purpose, emotion everything. Whatever they does is in order of the being. In this stage they don't seek help from the being but they themselves help the being to dominate in everything. And in exchange they don't get just one wish come true or those doll crafting abilities but the real magic, real attributive magic.
Well, who doesn’t know about attributive magic. Through comic, anime, game you’ll know this. But this attributive magic has two characteristics in THIS world. Chanting, and circle.
(Circle magic! What is circle magic?!)
Oh my, even the narrator doesn’t know what circle magic is!?. Fine i'll briefly explain -
Chanting_ well as usual you chant and cast the magic. [Note: there isn’t any light magic in either this world or in your world. So of course its darkmagic users who prays to the bieng and cast a magic. Thats what chant is]
Circle_ here you don't chant the magic but according to your magic capacity and your talent on magic you think of diffrent kind of magic circle in your mind and it appears wherever you points. You really don't have to point to cast circle but it just helps to concentrat. Now, you may ask what kind of circle you can make! How many can you make! Well it's like math once you know 2+2=4, you can keep additioning like this as big as you want.
Though attributed magic users are rare, but among them circle magic users are even rarer. It takes a loooot of magic capacity to be able to use circle magic.
(Umm, mhhhm! And what is this Magic Capacity?!)
Hehehe, so you don't know about this too. And you taunted me for not knowing about network!
(HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FICTION WORLD YOU BUILT?!!!💢)
A ah!. Well magic capacity is actually how much magic you’ve got. It can also refer to how much magic you can actually have. By so far you have probably understood that if someone has a magic capacity as large as two litres, doesn’t mean they have the two litres full of magic. Well this litres thing is just an example though. Capacity doesn’t really have any unit .
Well now that we have a rough idea about magic, that means you know what it means that one of the cult members could use darkmagic. Yes that means he was a devotee.
"So did you sent anyone to follow him?"
"No, we all got caught up in the mess. The building we were in wasn’t the only one that broke down. It literally brought destruction to many other building around it. Due to dense population, construction there is dense too. Buildings are too close to each other and most of the building are more then at least some decades older.so a lot of people around it was caught in that destruction and some of them even died" (his voice started to sound guilty and he looked down with sorrowful eyes,It's not because of the death but because of not being able to fulfill his master’s order properly about less casualties)
"Why did you made a reckless decision like that?.if you knew that the building are that old and so close to eachother then wasn’t it already clear that putting a fire for too long and fighting into that building would make this casualties?!"
"Im deeply sorry master. I won't give you any excuse. However just to make sure of a proper report, i want to add that when we put that fire on it wasn’t supposed to spread this wild. Because by our calculation we got rid off all the guards for sure and all the members were also inside and of course my subordinate would never do something out of the plan. So official employees of that building were supposed to get down to put the fire off as it was a office building. Cause the siren started the moment the fire started and it would take at least 15 minutes for fire to spread on its own and no one came to check the fire in those 15 minutes?!" (inglis gave a concern look to jane)
"That certainly is concerning, so what you mean that your plan wasn’t reckless but their was a third party who made sure the fire spread!" (turned to face inglis while stroking her chin in a deep thought)
I gazed my eyes upon everyone around the table to see their reaction. I saw hilde was also there and everyone was wearing a thoughtful reaction except nagisa. He had a stern look as if saying 'not my problem ' well i could be wrong too.
After letting out a sigh i said
"Well theres no point in holding off breakfast to think about this right?! So start eating for now we can think about it later"
And just when i was about to forget this matter i remember something
"Oh inglis, you didn’t forget to compensate the injured and dead did you!”
"don't worry my master. I have hand outed accommodation to all the family who got caught up, in a way so they wont doubt about us"
We all started our breakfast. After serving us all atori and hilde also joined us in breakfast. And the other maid took on the serving.
After finishing the breakfast i was swinging on the swing in the backyard then atori came to report me my today's schedule
"Jane sama you have some meetings today. Should i report it in detail?"
"Go on" (she doesn’t want to work, it's clearly showing in her face)
"-After an hour at 9:00 am you have a meeting with producer joe
-at 11:30 you have a shooting for paris magazine
-at 2:00 you have a lunch meeting with director sed in luncheon log hall" ( her cheerful way to present the report would make others think she is explaining a fun tour of amusement park)
(With a already tired face she left out a sigh)
"Fine Let's go get ready"