The hall room was smoky charred.Att every edge of the place you could see ashes on the ground and some smoked up body parts which once belonged to the mutant werewolves.There were only 2 individuals standing in this room and one of them was the infamous witch doctor "Caine".

(Tak tik tak tik)

Footsteps could be heard throughout the big hall as caine made his way to another individual that was in the room surprisingly that individual wasn't harmed at all from the previous sea of flames that erupted in this room.It wore a black robe with a big hood hiding its face,its back was crooked and the statue looked very small its hands were almost branch like as if they would break at any moment but deceiving to the eyes they were strong and held onto a big staff that had a giant crystal on top of it.

-21th century and not one demon ever learned how to knock a door i am astound demon.

Caine said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.

-Be quiet lizard your fate has been sealed i have been ordered to kill you and i will do so

Caine gritted his teeth for a second you could see anger in his eyes and his tattoos also started to radiate a strange power...he was infusing them with something.

-We will see who will die first.And also i don't think you are getting home this time around.

He gripped his sword tighter which was radiating the most killing intent i had ever seen in my entire life for a minute i thought the sword was alive...

The strange individual raised its staff and without a word dark powers started to engulf its surroundings and at that very moment something kicked inside of me and i knew what to do.

I learned from my mistakes and letting him finish on what he was doing didn't really seem to be a good idea at that moment i just stopped time and started approaching the strange individual..

The dark smoky clouds that were protecting him was just simple smoke to me as i shoved them apart and drew the plasma sword making one clean swing i cut its neck off stepping back a couple meters and so i started time again.

-..!?

Caine was surprised by my appearance it was probably because he didn't feel my presence when i stepped inside but i knew he had noticed as at the entrance because at the time i caught him glancing at us.

The strange individual was also shocked and turned to me i couldn't see its face because of the hood i was also not interested by it and just did it fast the dark smoke like power that once covered him evaporated in a instant.

And so with a tak sound his staff also fell down the 7 seconds delay was already over but his neck wasn't dropping on the ground i got a bit anxious and thought i should try again.

-Don't worry its already dead look at its feet

Caine told me and so i did.To my surprise the bottom of the individual started to disappear into black fragments but its movements were still there as it watched me intently for a minute i was glad i didn't look into its hood and before he disappeared he said.

-You will pay for this...

The feeling was really ominous and didn't make me feel good at all.

Ones he was gone i could hear a lot of thumping noises coming from the roof they were probably the mutant werewolves he controlled and now without their master to control their strings they were no more then ordinary husks.

-Well thank you i should say ?

I turned my attention back to caine who had a really forced smile on his face.The other 3 were also coming into the room realizing the danger was no more present.

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-HAHA you came here to take a request !

Caine said as he drank his bottle of whisky that he was holding in his right hand we already moved from the main hall and got inside a room that looked like a bar caine was sitting on top of a couch he looked a bit dirty and i could see his skin a bit charred here and there...was this caused by his own fire ?

Anyways while we were on the move i explained caine the reason i was here but on the way he would always cut me off with another question he had like my name or how old i was or how many girls i had banged which was another unknown term to me tanya,alissa and rupert seem to know about this term but they didn't want to explain it to me.He put some snide comments here and there and judged me with those dragon eyes but in the end he didn't seem to mean any harm over all caine was a very strange guy eccentric should i say and an alcoholic in which alissa didn't seem to be wrong about.

-So what do you want me to do ? As you can see i have nothing better to do can you even afford it pretty boy ?

I felt the sarcasm in his voice thinking about all the corpses and destroyed buildings in our area...but at the same time he was pushing fun onto me trying to test me it seems.

I just smiled and said.

-I have heard your services are quite nice...

He interrupted me once again and smiled and said.

-They come in all sizes if you know what i mean

I could hear tanya and alissa snort at his comment rupert on the other hand seemed amused by it and laughed for a bit until tanya slapped him behind the head..Me ? Not so much.I pulled out the golden pocket watch from my breast pocket the faint golden light it radiated made the other 3 behind me gasp for a second as they stared at the bizarre item even caine seemed to be interested by it.

I showed him the watch and said.

-I need you to find the person this watch belongs to i was told you may be able to find that person you don't need to search for yourself i just need you to show me a direction.

He looked at the pocket watch a bit dazed his expression changed from amusement into seriousness very suddenly as i gave him the watch...

-This item...

He narrowed his eyes..could it be he knows where it comes from ?

-I see you aren't someone so simple are you ? no i shouldn't ask that i don't wanna get hit by lightning after all.Alright i do it.

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His comment made the others who were standing behind a bit curious on why caine answered like that,and so they stared holes at me,but i didn't answer them.

Caine watched the pocket watch he was holding and sighed for a bit i wasn't sure what he was doing but i could see something like strands appearing on his palm as it engulfed the whole watch he was holding and after another few seconds the strands that engulfed the pocket watch disappeared in a small particle effect.The edges of the watch had now a slight purple light to it but you wouldn't notice if you didn't look closer...is this one of his witch doctor skills ?

-its finished

That fast ?

-So where is that person ?

I asked but instead of answering me caine presented me the watch.

-You tell me,the moment you touch the watch again you will see the location of the person you are searching for but before you do that.

He gave me the whisky bottle i was a bit confused why he gave it to me.

-Drink its to ease your mind for a bit i can tell you had previous problems regarding magical portals or visions this won't be any different from those times i have to warn you...

His voice held a edge to it i already knew i didn't have any affinity towards magic making me really weak to it...

I blinked for a second and looked at the whisky bottle that i was holding in my hand......yeah i really wanted to avoid a sea sickness.

I quickly took one gulp from the bottle this was the very first time i drank alcohol and the sensation was very hot to my throat it was going through my body giving me a nice warm sensation...yeah i can see what he meant by easing your mind.

-Well here you go

I hesitated for a bit but in the end i touched the watch and all of a sudden......everything was black...

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The place i was in was dark i looked around a bit panicked but over all fine and after another few seconds pictures started to appear before me names,places,people and then everything stopped there was only one picture and it showed me the appearance of a little girl...

-...

I looked at the picture a bit shocked the girl was really small and looked like a corpse and i meant it her eyes were hollow and she had numerous bruises on her body even scars and other nasty things she had very long white hair and golden eyes just like mine she was sitting in a metal cage too small for her to properly stand up.She was instead sitting in a ball snuggled in her knees her attire was also something meager it seemed to be a potato bag made into a one piece dress...i gulped for a bit...as more picture started appear before....

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And like that i was back...I was panting really hard i could feel sweat dripping from my head i was a bit light headed but okey it seems the alcohol really helped somewhat huh...I now had the needed information and i knew where to go now i only needed a way to do so...

I coughed a couple of times rupert who was next to me helped me to stand up caine in the mean time just drank his alcohol and looked at me indifferent.

-So do you know where to go ?

I nodded at him and was about to summon the bag of money i had stored in the clavicula until he waved his hand at me.

-Don't......take this favor as a payment for the help you gave me back there honestly saying i wasn't sure if i could have killed that lich but you sure did so easily.Don't misunderstand i don't like owing people.

Me neither.I thought.The worries before i had met caine were now all blown away caines character was really straight forward he was also very powerful especially that japanese sword he had from before it was also a really potent weapon but now it was nowhere to be seen.The charred places on his body were also a mystery to me i didn't understand how a dragon could burn himself...But for now i needed something to get to my destination.

-Before i leave do you know where the central is ? i think its a place called Colosseum....

This was actually the only thing i could remember clearly from all of these picture i got ,that and the appearance of the girl i was searching for...

For a second caine stopped his drinking and looked at me with a really strange gaze the others were equally weirded out for bit.

-what ?

I asked.

Caine laughed for a bit because of my cluelessness and said.

-The central is a marketing place in the overworld the collosseum your talking about is a arena for slaves it is said that people who go there are usually nasty individuals cruel and sly even the murder rate in that place sky rocks too out of all the places in the overworld not even i would want to go there intentionally because you can get easily killed there.

Okey that just made my task a lot more harder i guess...

-How do i get there ?

Caine froze for a bit and looked at me with a strange glare.

-Boy do you have death wish ?What did you not understand when i said the murder rate is really high ? its over 76% percent you know ?

Its not like i had a choice did i ? I would die regardless if i don't complete my task.I gave my look back to caine and when he saw it he just heaved a sigh and quickly got up and told me to follow him regarding the other 3 i could see this was going to be a goodbye its not like i expected them to follow me so i just followed caine.

-Don't die jackass

Tanya said i could hear her stutter when she said that i smiled momentarily and told her.

-I won't scary face

She didn't say anything for a follow up so i just continued to follow caine until we soon reached a basement where a giant transportation gate was drawn on the ground...you know what i didn't like about this place ? It was a basement.

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