“Master, where are we going?”
Ezraele was a talkative sort, she’s been blabbering nonstop about her ordeal these past 3000 years….it was tiring. But I enjoyed her care free naive attitude. It took the tension away from the matter at hand. That being that I’m trapped on this world for now.
First thing first though. Toothless told me that the demon continent has the strongest one of the strongest magical beasts around, and frankly, judging from toothless’s expression, well,…let’s just say that I should leave this continent
I haven’t been slacking these past days either. I’ve been learning more about manna from Ezraele. Toothless’s was grumbling the whole time about how she was taking all the fun away…
According to her, manna behaves much like a gas in that, under regular atmospheric pressures it’s a gas, while under greater density and pressure, it becomes a liquid. She really didn’t use such technical terms but that’s just how I interpreted her explanation. She said that when manna is dense, it is a liquid, When it’s not dense, its air.
“So If I condense air, I can make a super cold liquid?” I asked
“Ohh,…I don’t know about that……Why would air turn into a cold liquid..?
“Well,…where to start. Everything in the universe is made of atoms. Atoms form molecules and the molecular density dictates whether that molecule becomes a solid, liquid or a gas. While heat causes things to expand, cold, causes it to contract. So a gas that became a liquid must be really cold. In addition……”
I continued my explanation. Soon she began to space out as some steam started to rise from her head.
Well, I guess I should stop..
When Ezra finally recovered from information overload, she finally said “I don’t really understand…But just as I though, you really are amazing!” she said with eyes sparkling like a kid.
“You have to understand that weather and geological activity is centered specific frequencies throughout the world.” Toothles suddenly butted in
“I sort of figured that already.” I said.
"Let me guess. Certain frequencies produce certain element. When wind and water collide, they produce ice. When fire and earth collides, they produce huge lava lakes and volcanoes. When there is abundant wind element, they collide, creating lightning in the process.” Then I could take lightning. Heat and air should also create plasma though ionization…”
“Could you stop talking about it already…you’re making my brain hurt….” I chuckled at Toothless' response
We talked about Elementals before we moved to something else.
"But they are relatively friendly…So you shouldn’t be too concerned with them. Beings that you might be more concerned about are called Fades, unlike the elementals, they cannot die” Toothless continued
“Cannot die? Figuratively like, it will later come back, or literally like, it’s indestructible.” Asura was expecting it to be figuratively as he didn't believe anything to be indestructible.
"The latter." Toothless' answer startled Asura "
Fades are born from people. The stronger they were in their life, the stronger they will be as a fade. Fades are thought of men long dead. Your mind operates by using brainwaves, apparently, when your body dies, these waves linger for a while before they balance out. If they are mentally strong enough, they try to take in as much manna as they can. When they finally absorbed enough, they become self-sustaining. “ Toothless then chuckled
“You know humans are too funny. They think that those Fades are the true gods. It got so funny that even Fades themselves began to think that. Heheh:”
Thoothless chuckled as he whipped a tear from his eyes.
“Well besides their power level, and experience; all of them are the same. Right now, there are two major faction. On one side you have fades who died with a righteous heart. On the other side you have those who died with a vile, evil heart. This is truly a good vs evil battle…heh” You could tell that Toothless was trying not to laugh.
“But get this…pft..” Toothless was holding back his laughter as he put his tiny dragon paw over his mouth. He looked quite cute like that
Those humans are so self-righteous, more often than not, they end up on the side of evil..Hahahahaa” Toothless burst into laughter, unable to contain it anymore. “They who die their ‘righteous death’ and linger, only find themselves being born as demons. “hahahahhahhahah”
Hmm I didn’t really get Toothless’ joke.
I guess toothless isn’t too different from his sister…
“Hm?”
I see some smoke in the distance. It must be a river side village. I’ve been following the river for few day now. I was tired and dirty, I longed for a bed.
As I got closer I saw the village, or its walls at least. The walls where all built out of towering logs that stuck out of the ground with sharpened tops. The walls themselves were drawn out wide into a rectangular shape. On the corners, 3 watch towers stuck out.
*****
Gerald was a man like any other. He grew up dreaming of becoming an adventurer. Looking at it now, he missed those days. His carless laughter, his mother’s warm smile. Thinking of his innocence, made Gerald frown. He looked at his hand as if they were covered in blood.
“How can I face my mother now..” he whispered to himself.
He wanted to become an adventurer, but growing up sheltered, he lacked the experience. So when the mercenary guild called the Red Hand passed through his village, he decided not to miss this opportunity and join them. He was 15 at the time.
When he was 18, he was allowed to go on subjugation quests. He was rising star and people around him called him a genius….It was fun.
Fun until the new band leader took on a job from a noble merchant.
I knew with all my heart that slavery was bad. But they are demons, so maybe not if it’s them? I’ve read great tales of Demon Lord and their viciousness. They were like the boogieman. There was this really strong one called Aron. He was known as Lord of Terror. I’ve read that he drink human infant’s blood as if it were his wine and feast on the bodies of children while they were still alive.
But the more and more slaves the Red Hand capture, the more and guiltier his consciousness felt. They have been at this base for more than 4 years now, and in few days day will head back to the human continent. This base was once a fortified river town called Rivia. Being secluded and on the river which could be reached by the ocean made this a prime staging point.
Despite his genius, he was reprimanded and made fun of for still being a kid. They raped nearly all girls despite the age. One day he heard something that baffled him.
He heard Josh and Markus taking from behind a door early in the morning
“They younger the better.” Gerald heard Josh as he walked past the door. This caused Gerald to stop in his tracks
“Nothing as good as a supper tight cunt around my cock to wake me up in the morning. This is the best gig yet”
“Right? We fuck and breed these demons for 5 years and in exchange we will get 100,000 gold crowns? What a win! As long as we bring enough young slaves in.”
“Who cares! The younger the tighter!..guhuh..The tighter the better!”
The sounds and the conversation coming from behind the door made his stomach turn, he just walked away what could a single person do? Besides I didn’t do nothing wrong. I cannot be punished by other’s evil deeds
Such were Gerald’s thoughts until 2 more years. That was when they began to scrap the bodies of the ones that were too used up. No use in keeping slaves that even if they survived longer, could never survive the voyage. The children were fed their parent’s flesh…because it was more cost effective.
They then used their bones as a fertilizer for a farm that fed the band.
The men of the village were made to fight one another in coliseum like competitions with other beasts. I only seen this once and I enjoyed it. Until I watching it here. Many died for simple entertainment.
The town hall became a breeding center. There were other buildings one was where the infants were kept. Some really sick pervs went there often looking relieved every time. It sickens me to think what the babies were probably fed…
After a while, that trend caught on among the regular slaves. They would beg to eat and drink their filth…Anything was better than eating their own kind…So they would often compete and fought among each other to get better shares. The band members would laugh and make fun of them about them being disgusting and such.
Gerald didn’t wanted any part in it and started to avoid everyone. Throughout the years, He became secluded and thus assigned watch duty daily. He couldn’t wait to get back home.
From the 3rd watch tower, He spotted something approaching by the main road in the distance…Slowly the speck got gradually larger.
“What is that….” Josh asked after he went over to his junior.
“I can’t tell yet, it’s still too far…” Answered Gerald
As the figure got gradually closer the more his heart sunk
“N-no…It can’t be!” Gerald yelled frantically.
What is before him was a being he remembered from his childhood memories which seemed like a century away…A beings that oozed ink like darkness…they were the Fallen
Fallen were the foolish mortals who ate Essence of the Lord of the Land in the hopes to gain immortality and great power. They got both. They could be dumb and behave like a forces of nature, ravaging anything that got in their path as they mindlessly roam the world. It became too costly for the empires to hope to defeat them, so their best hope was to repel them. Other who’s self-remained and survive the mutation become corrupted intelligent beings. No one has ever seen one.
As the figure got closer, Josh too noticed. But unlike me, he didn’t know what he was looking at. Then suddenly
“E-ENEMY ATTACK!!!”
As if snapping back into reality after a 30 second gap, he finally yelled out the enemy approaching.
“Madness, madness….We cannot hope to fight that..” Gerald spoke as he looked at the approaching figure. His eyes were filled with panic
“I cannot die here…..not after…not after this! I cannot die here after I have seen all of this! I must..get…away..”
In the panic of the sudden alarm, Gerald made his escape
*****
“Don’t let him get any closer!” one mercenary yelled
“Throw another volley at him!” another called out
“M-monster!”
“Men! Get a hold of yourselves! I will whip you into shape when this is done!” The leader cried out.
“He can’t possibly breach the gate on his own. Secure the goods and kill any slave that cant make the voyage. We don’t have room for all of them, so make sure you kill enough. We will just have to leave today!” The leader roared to raise moral. “Even if he found a way to breach the gate, we will be long gone.”
As men left, soon cries and yells of countless deaths followed.
“Sir” Someone called as he approached the band leader.
“What? Make it quick”
“W-we’ve run out of arrows”
“J-just call everyone up on the walls down, and have them reinforce the barricade. It’s obvious were just wasting our energy on him”
“Y-yes sir!”
*****
Repelling the incoming barrage of arrows magic and spears was an easy task for Asura, who had mastery of nature.
With his new found knowledge of how magic works, he extinguished the magic way before that magic even got close to him. A round, thin revolving wall of air repelled or shredded any incoming arrows or spears.
The arrows and spears were all made of wood, so it was quite easy
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Some lighting also came my way. So I weaved various earth elements together to form 2 meter, sharp rods made of pure silver. Why silver? Because it’s the best conductor of electricity. I had to make sure that the roods were also well above my head for obvious reasons. They rose from the ground few feet from me here and there as I continued to walk forward.
I didn’t extinguish their magic with sheer force. Instead, I used the laws of nature. Coming at me was a combination of different magic. Water, fire, earthen spikes. Well just this much shouldn’t be a problem
I altered the earthen spike’s structure from being made or rock to being made of dry soil. Remember I had control of all manna
I then injected water element into the spikes which caused them to sog and flatten out as it start to fall to the ground in puddles of mud. I fed surrounding air into the incoming fire balls which caused them to grow bigger and bigger until they burned out.
It was a pretty spectacular scene, lightning was raining all around me, but never once touching me. Instead they are drawn to silver spikes that continued so sprout out of the ground as I walked.
My surrounding spaces where filled with bright flashes of fire balls burning out as mud rained from the sky. None of it ever touched me.
The barrage of magic stopped as I approached the gate. It was a large wooden gate fitted with armor plating.
The door looked imposing but Asura just shrugged
“Now they won’t open the door…Oh well minus well if I’ve already gotten this far.” Asura said as he stretched his hand in front of him.
Like fingers sinking into puddy, his fingers sunk through the armor plating and into the 20ft high wooden gate. With great ease, he pulled the gated forward towards himself. This caused parts of the walls that were connected to the gate to collapse outward. After easily forcing the gate out of its hinges he just threw the massive gate behind him as if it were a mere twig.
Asura was met with a silence as he looked to the men in front of him. All of them were struck speechless with their mouths open.
“Monster..” I heard someone whisper
I walked little forward and soon another cried out “No! Get away! Stay back!”
“Why are you attacking me?” I calmly asked. They just looked at me stupid
I Then I finally noticed my form
“Ohh.....that’s why..”
I notice my body was still in the elemental form from that I was in from absorbing my armor…which was a part of toothless….if not toothless himself…….It gave me an uneasy feeling.
Slowly the ink like darkness condense and I formed my new armor that was not so scary….*I need to make friends now….* Asura thought to himself. Though it was a little too late for that.
There was a silver ring appeared on his chest. Darkness from that silver ring sprouted out and formed a dark breastplate that didn’t extend beyond his abdomen. 2 Wide black leather straps covered in black scales sprouted from beneath the breastplate and crisscrossed his abdomen in a single cross.
The straps across his abdomen extend back up his back where dark scale like plating ran up the spine in a bone like structure. It extend up and covered his shoulder blades in an intricate plate design. Small rib like plates sprouted out of the spine like structure to form a gradual larger ribs that hugged his sides.
It started short and stump-like on his mid-back and as it extended up to the shoulder blades, the ribs got progressively longer and wider until they melded with the plates on his shoulder blades.
Those plates flow up and over my shoulders to form wicked pouldrons
As the straps went across the arms, it formed sleeves that wrapped his fingers and extended just past his knuckles. Above his knuckles formed an armor plating and spread across his fingers and forearms to form sick gauntlets. The tips of his fingers were now as sharp as any knife.
As it extended down to his legs, it formed into his greaves. The remaining darkness wrapped his waste and drooped behind him like a robe that looked more like an artwork drawn in gold. As a final touch, dark lengthy fur sprouted from the breastplates, around the neck and small slivers of gold sprouted forward out of the silver ring and created intricate embroidery all across my plated armor while the leather portion remained untouched.
My skin was light grey hue and my hair flowed in endless blackness.
“Pardon me” I said as I walked forward
“Huh? Some of them were dumbfounded of my question
They all parted and let me pass without uttering a single word.
As I walked further in I started hearing creams of people dying and begging for their lives. My face stiffed as I dashed forward.
It was a blood bath. One of the soldiers was pulling a women’s blood soaked hair forward while she was sitting down. As he pulled her hair forward, he stabbed at her back, killing her. Another one was swinging his sword at a beaten little girl covered in filth. There were 15 dead bodies in the town center with over 50 huddled together with lifeless eyes, waiting for their demise.
“STOP!!!” Asura roared. And as if responding to his will, time itself stopped.
Toothles…If you don’t tell me who is responsible For..THIS! We will part ways here. I will not ally myself with anyone who promotes this…for ANY REASON…
“That one of the reason why I want to leave this place..” Toothless sounded sad.
“But I can’t just commit complete genocide. Even if I do, creatures here just go through the same cycle. The races that are left form groups and the people on top will find other races to discriminate against to elevate their position.” It will just repeat…But if you want to know then just read their memories.”
I went over to the woman who was stopped in time as she was stabbed in her back right below her neck. I reached out and touched her head. A flood of memories flooded my mind. They were happy memories. This woman’s name was Merriegol. She grew up in her village called Rivia.
This was a prosperous and strong village that made their livelihood by hunting beats in the surrounding lands. That was also why the giant wall was erected. It was because some of the beast travel in packs and were quite strong.
She lived her happy life and was about to merry a charming boy. Her parents were still quite close and she even ended up having a cute 6 year old sister.
But then one night, humans came by water. They enslaved everyone. Raped her little sister and humiliated her in front of her and her parents. They just shoed their thing down her throat to shut her up. She couldn’t do anything as she watched her sister begging us to save her before she gagged on the man’s thing and died from lack of air. She and those around her experienced unimaginable degradation and horrors for the next 4 and a half years.
“I- I don’t want your suffering..!” Tears flooded Asuras eyes
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"heh...haha....hahahahaha!" Asura erupted into laughter after a long wait "I finally understand your joke....Toothless."
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After a long silence he finally said. “Ezra….when they die……..make sure they suffer until the end of time." Asura said with great pain in his heart.
I want them to suffer…” It was a faint whisper but the message was clear as she nodded her head
Then the attacking soldiers splattered. Since the time was still stopped, they looked like water balloons filled with blood that were just burst open. They remained like that.
“Ezra…I know you are tied with the souls of this world and can manipulate them…Please..” Asura looked at her with pleading eyes. Please wash the surge from them. ”I don’t care what you have to do...I don't care what I have to do…… Just...please save them!”
Ezra showed an affectionate smiled and quietly whispered to herself
“You really are amazing” From the bottom of her heart she was glad Chaos had a compassionate heart.
As the other soldiers that I left at the gate made their way to me after regaining their senses, they slowly and ever so cautiously encircled me.
*Right..Ezra only stopped time in this portion of space..* Asura recalled
Then their leader stepped forward. He unsheathed his sword and pointed it at me.
“I don’t know who you are. But you will not get away with this..Do you even know who you are Messing WITH!? We ar-
“I don’t care” Asura simply cut him off. This infuriated the leader
“I do not wish to hear word uttered by trash like you….You will all die here.” Asura continued
“You brat!” Their leader roared as he charged at Asura. His bizarre speed caught him off guard.
Then, just like that, his body was slammed with such force that it created a small earth quake.
I looked at Ezra who was now fuming
Actually, now that Aura looked around, he noticed everyone was forced down to their bellies as if prostrating themselves. The surrounding air quivered and it was like the whole world about to end.
“H-how DARE YOU!” A loud boom seemed to shake the world
The once cute Ezra with her oversized robes and scythe was now a menacing being. She was like the grim reaper, in a soul harvest.
*Wait, Is that even her?*
“You..Insolent WORMS! I shall bathe in your blood and feast on your souls. I shall make you experience the worse pain imaginable as you slowly wither and die. Only then will your torment begin! I shall make you all regret ever being born for trying to lay a hand on my Master!” She roared as the pressure continued to increase. Some cracking of bones where heard here and there, coupled with muffled screams.
“Kill everyone except this one this one….” I said motioning to the leader who was prostrating himself at my feet "He still has many things to say.."
Just like that, Ever soldier were swallowed by what seemed to be a mini black hole and warped out. “I will save them for later” Ezra said as a matter of fact.
I went over and touched his head and I saw his life display before me.. “What a vile being...He poisoned the previous leader, even after being saved and sheltered by him..” I said to myself as I searched his memories.
*There! Chancellor Valgar…is it? There was another one?” As I finished my scan, I was made known of another man who seemed to escape….*
“Gerald….” I said that name aloud as if to remember
"I know what to do with you...." Asura said in a menacing tone. "Ezra, make this one into a weapon. I want his soul to scream in unimaginable pain every-time he is taken out of his sheathe."
Immediately, his body began to twist in odd angle as gut wrenching sounds of countless bones breaking could be heard and he crumpled onto himself to formed a sword that lay in the pool of blood that was once the leader....What was his name again? Who cares...
I Slowly walked over to him and picked him up "Your torment has only just began" Asura said softly as he unsheathed the blade.
"Skhaaaaaaa" An ear piercing sound of a tormented souls instantly met Asura's ears. He slowly destroyed the sheathe before he tossed the sword as far as he could in the distance as though it was garbage. The sword wailed the whole way.
As if satisfied he turned around to face death and the mighty dragon as he weaved fire all around him.
“Toothless, warp everyone to the human continent. I shall strike down all who allowed this to happen...” He softly growled with dried tears as fire engulfed every structure of the village
Toothless just sighed and said “Fine, but this is your only freebie….”
Then my scenery changed as we all warped out of the impeding inferno.
"It would be best if nothing remained."