"What?" a woman in a moon-light gown said, as she hears the disturbing news being said to her by an old companion, a man in gleaming armor with 2 pairs of wings resting behind him...
"I'm telling you sister! The scroll containing the prophecy of doom has begun to unseal! What did I tell you about having a chi-"
A gunshot fires off, the man backs off slightly, but the other armed men with him didn't take it too lightly. "Foolish wings..." She said bitterly as she fired off another...
The result wasn't so satisfactory as the 6 men that tried attacking her died to one fatal shot, which is the result you would naturally get if 6 angels lined up to try and apprehend you. The blood dripped and poured quietly from their lifeless bodies, and smoothly crawled and slid across the sleek, smooth slate of stone that made the pavillion's floor. The man shivered in fear, he knows that despite being a descendant of the goddess of the moon, he wasn't a god. But she was, and she wasn't very happy with what he had said...
"If it weren't for that bastard's lustrous flattery towards creator, maybe this would have all been avoided! All because of that stupid scroll he printed out!" Her eyes began tearing lightly, as she loaded another round into the gun she had held against the very thing she swore to destroy, demons...
Only to fall in love with one in the end...
"Look, sister, know well that what I did for you shouldn't benefit only me and the rest of the Arch angels, but as well as your husband and child. Perhaps maybe if at least 300 years had passed silently, the scroll would've dissipated and you would've been able to have them back. But now something has prompt it to unsealed and activate, and I have my suspicions!" He calmly said toward the woman. She looks at him with a dead pan expression as she began raising her gun. He sighs and calmly approaches her, as she pointed the barrel towards his heart.
"You gonna cry to your friends, brother..." She jeered him, but he didn't flinch, his expression was about as serious as his decision. "Luna, please, believe in me..." She cocked the gun, as she locked her eyes onto her brother's face. "Give me one good reason not to..." She threatens him as she gave him a wry smile, he calmly sighs once more, and said: "Because that's what you said to me before..."
She took a minute to understand what he meant, and pull the trigger...
The gun silently ticked...
"Fuck off..." She said as she turned the other direction, trying to wipe away the tears that lightly dropped off her face. Her brother approached her and silently hugged her from behind, She didn't resist, because she knew better of him...
The man released her from the embrace, and she turns back towards him. He then said: "What was it that your husband said when we were on top the rift seal?" he asked with a warm smile, She looks at the moon that was shining over her open pavillion, and then towards a ripped black scarf that hung from a rack close to her table...
"...you look a bit cold..."
...
The hall was filled with murmurs, as Stella and The princess decide what must be done about the menacing presence in the room. "Mother, as what all rogue candidates brought before, he must be destroyed..." Stella couldn't find argument, which meant she agreed to my imminent demise. Although the thought discomforts me, I wasn't afraid much of what might happen to me, I'm more afraid of what might happen to them...
And from Cynthia's sudden flinch at the thought of my death, She must've seen memories of that as well...
"No! you cannot-, shouldn't kill master!" She tried to argue, but it was no use. Because everyone just began muttering hurtful insults such as 'dumb bitch' and 'annoying nuisance', but I smiled devilishly, knowing that even in my death, I could at least kamikaze everyone along with me. But of course, that too was prevented by Angela's: "Wait! She's got a point..."
Everyone was surprised by what Angela said, and begna to whisper amongst one another about her objection, "...And could you perhaps give us a proper explaination on why we should spare a potential traitor to humanity?" Angela walked closer towards the princess and then said to her: "Almost all the heroes here have some sort of special ability right?"
"Yes, all of you have a unique ability, tied to your nature..." She spoke to Angela without hesitation, and devoid of any emotion...
"...And along with that ability comes side-effects, right?" Angela asked once more, in which the princess replied "Yes..."
"...Sora's ability, as we know, has the ability to drain the life of others to heal his own, right?" Angela said, the princess was annoyed by her constant use of the word right, but asnwered back none the less "...And so what of it?"
Stella interrupts Angela and says: "Angela might be saying that killing the person who heals his wounds from harming others might not be such a good plan..."
The princess scowled at the decision "Nonesense! He is a monster to the eyes of the church, and all of humanity! And yet you want him to live based on your theories?! Preposterous!" She then points at soldier close to me
"You! Kill that man at once!" Everyone was shocked by the sudden decision, but the queen nodded her head, and the soldier closest to me didn't hesitate and pulled out a dagger from his sheath, 2 others close by grabbed Cynthia by the arms as she attempted to protect me, but it was already late by the time she got them off her...
"Serves you right, demon..." The soldier said as he ran the dagger through my chest, causing it to bleed out in a not so beautiful manner. Micah screamed out "No!" as she also attempted to run over to heal me, only to be stopped by Leon and Shiro, Yuuki looked me dead in the eye, one last time as I slowly bled to death. The shivering cold of death embrace slowly came to take me away...
Only for a warm spark to suddenly overflow and take me back to life, as I suddenly gained again my field of vision. Every was shocked as the 3 armed soldiers closest to me and Cynthia slowly began to moved in an uncomfortable manner, they all spoke about having heart pains, as their eyes slowly lost their pupils and corneas, they all staggered onto the ground, as they slowly coughed up blood and stripped themselves free from their breastplates and cotton shirts. Cynthia realized immediately what has happened before I did, because it took me long enough to realize that my skill has upgraded, when a window popped-up in front of me...
*[Soul Taker]'s Secondary ability, [Sturdy] has permanently been activated, for meeting the activation's pre-requisites:
- Being hit with a fatal physical attack to a core area and surviving
*[Soul Taker]'s Hidden ability, [Undying] has permanently been activated, for meeting the activation's pre-requisites:
- Being hit with a fatal attack and surviving if the owner had the ability [Soul Taker] before [Undying]
'Sturdy and Undying?' I immediately thought, and then my left hand began twitching, as a reddish gas exuded from the guards, and began being vacuumed into my left palm. The stab wound near my chest began slowly disappearing, as I felt my flesh stitch itself back together in the most uncomfortable feeling, and fashion. The blood on the ground slowly began crawling in an uncomfortable manner, like a slime crawling in the most gruesome clutter of rock, and metal leftovers. As it climbed on my legs and began slowly sinking into my chest.
Let me tell you that the feeling of a blob of blood entering your body was enough for me to regurgitate literally everything my entire digestive tract had.
Everyone in the room aside from Cynthia was horrified at the gruesome sight. Micah and the rest of the class was extremely disgusted at the sight of it, even some of the soldiers decided to draw away from the chair I was strapped onto. But then all of a sudden, I gained another notification.
*Congratulations! you have completed one blood art. You have access to the 1st tier library of blood arts and can use the active abilities, [Bloody rend] and [Blood shot].
I immediately grinned at the sight of the notifications, and when that happened, Angela must've seen them as well and yelled out: "He's got 4 new skills?!" The entire classroom stared at me in shock. Yuuki even said: "Impossible! Gaining another skill point to use on another skill takes weeks of grinding, but to get 4 instantly?!" The queen then said "Humans..."
The heroes were confused at what she had said, and so was the princess. "Umm, what do you mean by that, your ladyship?" Leon asked, and she promptly replied.
"Humans. Even though we are weak, we are part of the great magic system. Unlike dungeon creatures, who aren't. If a creature that belongs to said system was slain, they are eligible in learning skills..."
It took everyone a while, but Yuuki understood it almost completely after a full minute. While that happened I read the ability [Bloody rend], and it's full description.
[Bloody claws]
Skill Grade: E+, Damage type: Physical Slashing, CD: 3 seconds, Duration: 3 minutes, Range: 5 ft.
Somatic, and requires materials
Active: The user's claws bleed with their life force, the user's attack ignores any physical limitation and has increased knockback and damage.
[Bloody shot]
Skill grade: E+, Damage type: Physical Piercing, CD: 10 seconds, Duration: Instantaneous, Range: 30 ft.
Somatic and requires materials
Active: The user gather a portion of his life force into a sphere of desired size, and launches it towards a forward, any enemies caught by the sphere will be damaged.
Immediately I began casting [Bloody slash] before Angela could see me, and cut myself free from the constraints of the chair. My hands were covered in light red blood. I then walk over to Cynthia and cut her free, she was wondering what I was doing and when she looked me in the eyes, she began concentrating...
And her hands began bleeding light red too...
We were unprepared for a duel between the heroes soon, but we were soon interrupted again by the same woman in black who managed to capture us, everyone in the room panicked and backed away, but this time me and Cynthia were prepared.
A horrible idea in my mind was about to take place...