What Would You Do For Revenge?
Chapter 8-Gonna Need A Painkiller
"Guu, gaa, ahhh!" I lay on the floor, bleeding out with a first sized hole in my chest, I keep spitting out incomprehensible gibberish. I can't die yet, Cristina, Veronica, and can't leave you yet, I need to honor Cynthia's final wishes. I was thinking this and a man walks down the stairs in a black robe and has a scythe, I can't see his face.
"Hahaha, that was funny, I've been waiting for this moment forever. Now, let's just get your soul and we'll be done here." He said and he reached into me and pulled out a blue orb. It was painful and he was about to rip it completely out, when I grabbed his hand. Looking at his face, it was just a skull, this must be the God of Death huh. Sucks for you, but I'm not ready to die yet. I willed the blue thing to come back to me, like it was a part of me and it started shaking.
"What? You're still alive? How can you still be this powerful when I ripped out your soul? Shit, stop, I need this, you can't keep it from me. IT'S YOUR TIME TO DIE! GIVE UP ALREADY! He yelled and I didn't care, I was focused on that orb, entranced by it.
The orb shook more and started coming back into me, it felt nice and soothing, meanwhile, the God of Death was freaking out.
"How can this be possible? You're ripping the soul from my hands? But I'm the God of Death, you can't cheat death, it comes for everything." He said and started pulling the orb back, but I wasn't ready to give up yet and I used the last of my energy and one final pull, pulled it into me. The God of Death looked pissed and shocked, as much as he can be anyways.
"To actually take your soul back from me, your willpower is nothing to scoff at, fine, keep it, but I am greatly interested in you, I will give you my blessing. Have fun living, hahaha!" He said and the space around him warped until he disappeared.
I looked around, yup, still dying, I use blood magic to stop the bleeding and soak up the nearby blood to increase my own, I use 'Augmentation' and earth magic to get myself up and start walking up the stairs, leaning on the walls and occasionally falling over, coughing up more blood and soak it back up.
I finally made it up the stairs and a man saw me, it's already daytime? I was down there for awhile and he panicked. He rushed over to me, seeing a hole in my chest, and paled. He knew how bad this was, it's a miracle how I'm even alive right now. He set me down on the floor and started using healing magic on me, it felt nice and warm, but it hurt like hell, destroying and recreating cells and organs. In was writhing in pain, he had people who saw me, hold me down and cover my mouth so I can quiet down and they did just that, holding down my limbs and covered my mouth, muffling my screams.
It was finally over and I fainted. I opened my eyes and I was in a white space, and there was a man that was all white and only had a mouth, he was wearing a black suit with a monocle and cane. I was startled and looked around, the man walked up to me and smiled.
"I've been waiting for you, you weren't supposed to go down in the basement. Your whole life is out of my hands now, not even my omnipotence can see your future. I can see you're confused, let me tell you who I am, I am all, I am one, I am nothing, yet I am everything, which means, I am also, you. This is your inner world, this is who you are, this is, in essence, you. This pure whiteness, is you, your lovingness and kind nature, you don't see much of these inner worlds anymore, greed corrupts and turns them black." He said and I was still confused, and looked around, I noticed a patch of black on the floor, and I looked at him confused.
"That is your corruption, your thirst for revenge for your wife and child still linger in your mind, down to the very core, it stays there, waiting, waiting for you to lose control and take over your mind, spreading like a plague, I am here to prevent that from happening. The God of Death saw the corruption in your soul, and asked me to stay in your psyche to stop your corruption. He is greatly interested in you and would hate to see you die you see, you have attracted the attention of dangerous beings that want your soul, your fate is stronger than anyone else's I have ever seen before. They will come for your soul and consume it, getting stronger, these beings eat souls with strong fate and get more powerful." He said and I was starting to panic, if I'm in danger than the two girls are in danger too, shit, Cynthia, this is going all kinds of wrong.
"Your fate has been warped ever since you went into that temple, you were supposed to leave the forest and go to Sryinx to live a happy life, everything was going to work out in the end, that temple, was meant for someone else, and the world was going to be plunged into darkness, such was the fate of this world, but you were the one who took the orb and now, the world might live to see another day." He said and the floor started shaking. He started flickering and was about to disappear, when he said something.
"We are running out of time, listen, you must get stronger, these beings are coming for you, I can't keep you in here any longer. You must take your family to Oryi and look for a man named Felix, he can help you, you must never give up." He said and a black mist started leaking in here.
"Hehehe, I found you, you were quite slippery, your soul looks so tasty~" A being surrounded in black mist said. The man in black turned around and looked at me.
"I will hold him off, you must leave here, now." He said and pulled a sword from his cane like a badass, and the black mist formed a sword as well.
"Well well, what are you doing here? No matter, after I take his soul, not even you can stop me anymore." The being said and lunged at the man in black. They clashed swords and they were at a stalemate.
"How do I leave?" I said and the man in black looked back at me.
"You must want to leave, want to be in the real world, want to wake up, wake up! Wait, I need to tell you something, I have your wife's sou-" He said and everything started turning black.
*Hissssss~* "Damn you, dieeee!" The thing yelled and threw his sword at me and everything turned black, then I opened my eyes, looking around and noticed I was back at my room at the inn, with the two girls next to me. They woke up to my rustling and then started crying, hugging and hitting me.
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"I thought you were dead daddy, you looked really bad, I woke up and saw you were gone, so Veronica and I started looking everywhere for you and saw a bunch of people in the library. We went in and saw you on the floor with a huge hole in your chest. *hic* Please don't ever die, promise me." Cristina said and Veronica nodded. I patted them on the head and promised. It looks like I slept for an entire day.
I got up and there was a man in black coat walking into the door. He walked over me and sat down in a chair, he pulled out a notepad and pulled out a pen. Another man walked in and sat next to him, pulling out a sketched and a pen. They must detectives.
"Alright, I'm gonna ask some questions, is that alright?" He said and I nodded.
"Okay, first question, who are you?"
"Xearos Aveeno."
"Second question, how did you get that wound on your chest?"
"I was in the libraries basement and someone came down and punched a hole through my chest."
"Why were you in the basement?"
"I felt something ominous down there when I was reading a book there once, but I dismissed it. Then I came back after a year and decided to investigate it."
"Where were you for that year?"
"I am a teacher at Rork Academy."
"Third question, who was in the basement with you?"
"A member of the Hoshino clan. They were looking for a book that was in the basement."
"What book in the basement?"
"When I went downstairs, there was only a pedestal and a black book on the pedestal. I was going to touch it, when it started secreting a black mist, so when I was going to go back upstairs, I heard someone coming down, so I jumped on the ceiling. The person grabbed the book and started screaming, after awhile they grabbed the book and left. Soon after, I fell from the ceiling and the person came back and hit me in the chest. I played it off, saying I was a demon sealed in the book, and when she asked me what clan I belonged to, I said Hoshino." The man was surprised at this but kept his calm face.
"She then asked me what my name was, but the made up name I used happened to be her father's so she knew I was lying and thrusted her hand through my chest and left. I used water magic to keep my blood from spilling out and used augmentation to climb up the stairs and then the man saw me and I fainted." I finished my story and the man finished writing.
"Okay, what did this person look like?"
"Black skin, black hair that went to her waist, red eyes, a black lizard tail, and two black horns sticking out of her head, female." I said and the man with the sketch pad finished and showed me the picture. It was really well done.
"Yes, that's her."
"Alright, let's go." The man said and left.
I looked at my chest and saw a bloody bandage around it. I got up and took it off, my chest looked good as new but my entire body is extremely sore. I think I'm going to take it easy today. Cristina and Veronica were excited, they were telling each other how now they can finally take care of me. Are they supposed to be this excited? Meh.
The rest of the day, Cristina and Veronica brought me food and cleaned me, I was so sore, I couldn't move. I was so embarrassed, I felt like a newborn baby, luckily, they didn't try to breast feed me. At night, they slept with me again and I was reviewing what happened today, I wonder if that man is okay. Current objectives:
Get better
Get stronger
Go to Oryi
Meet a man named Felix
Get his help
Check back with man in black
I got a pretty solid list here, hopefully I can complete the last one. Okay, I will rest and practice magic first and then we'll go to Oryi. When we woke up, they cleaned themselves, cleaned me, fed themselves, fed me, and I asked them to get me all the spell books they can. They nodded and left, they soon came back with a mountain of books and a few people carrying them for the girls, how sweet.
The men put the books down and left, I picked up a book and started reading, the girls did their own thing and helped me with things. It took me three days to get better and I read all the books too. Most of them were just a spell and what it does, in had to figure out how to use them on my own. It was quite easy when you know what it does, so you can just will that into existence. The only problem was mana, I had a lot, but not an infinite amount. Most people have a rock sized ball of mana inside them, but I have a boulder sized mana ball. It says that if you have too much mana, you can literally go insane. Scary.
I took the girls to the baths and cleaned them, they can clean themselves, but they never object to having me do it, no, they would force me to, weird. I got them some food, got them dressed and I used wind magic to pick up the books and I carried them to the library. I deposited the books and I got back to the inn. I made sure they were ready and we started making our way to Oryi, I put them on my shoulders and augmented my legs, and with that, we left the city.