Meredy was a happy girl.
She was living in an orphanage. She might not have parents nor family, but she had a lot of friends around her and the people who managed the orphanage were also very nice to her. She felt that it would be wonderful to stay with everyone forever.
"Meredy, can you help me to buy bread in the market?"
"Yes, leave it to me!"
Meredy saluted then went to the market quickly since she had been entrusted in this big mission. She held the money in her hands tightly so she wouldn't lose it and she also looked around carefully since she had heard that there were a lot of thieves in the town lately.
Meredy knew that thieves were bad guys and she needed to protect the money from them.
Usually, it would take 10 minutes for someone to go from the orphanage to the market, but Meredy needed twice of that since she needed to be careful from the thieves.
However when Meredy arrived, she quickly forgot everything and looked around the city curiously. She was an orphan so she didn't have that much money or rather she didn't have money. She looked at the beautiful teddy bear outside of the shop with a longing expression.
Everyone ignored Meredy since it wasn't uncommon to see an orphan in the city.
The world was hard and with their income, it was impossible to take care of children so sending them to the orphanage was the common thing that someone did in this world.
Even so, humans wouldn't stop copulating since it felt good.
Meredy kept watching the teddy bear for 20 minutes until she remembered that she needed to buy bread. She ran quickly to the breadshop, and wanted to buy bread, but...
"Sorry, you're a little late, little girl..."
"Huh?"
"If you want to buy bread then you should check the next store."
Meredy became sad since she couldn't buy the bread, but she nodded and quickly went to another shop, but at this moment suddenly...
"ARGGG!!!!"
"M, MAGICIAN!!!"
"RUN!!!!"
Meredy didn't know what had happened and only stood in place. She only saw a large number of people running in her direction. She didn't know what to do until she was being pushed.
"Huh?"
Before long someone stepped onto her and she couldn't do anything.
"Stop! It hurts! Stop!"
Meredy cried and protected her head, but no one seemed to hear her since everyone was in panic when everything had just happened so suddenly. She wanted to stand up, but her head was being kicked and she passed out on the ground.
---
Zancrow and Kain Hikaru looked at the large town in front of them.
Both of them walked together along with their subordinates toward this town to rob money, food, and various other things.
Why did everyone love to become a dark magician?
Because they didn't need to work hard and they could rob everything.
"Stop! Stop! Don't get closer!"
"If you move closer, we'll catch all of you!"
The guards of the town screamed toward Zancrow and Kain Hikaru.
"Huh? Stop? Why do I have to do that? Do I have to listen to the order of trash? Or rather who the fuck do you think you are!"
Zancrow showed his cruel expression and a ball of black flames appeared on his palm.
"Fire God's Explosive Flame!"
Zancrow made a punch-like motion and threw the ball at black flames.
"Huh?"
Everyone was startled and no one was able to react since it happened so suddenly.
The ball of black flames suddenly became bigger and then....
*BOOOOOOMMMM!!!*
A large explosion appeared right in front of everyone and destroyed everything.
"Help me!"
"M, my body!"
"ARGGG, I'M BURNT!!!"
The gate of the town was destroyed and the people inside the town could see what had happened in front of them.
The guards and the people who were hit by Zancrow's magic were burnt and they died in agony being burnt by a fire. Some people who weren't hit by the magic were hit by the debris from the gate of the town, creating large wounds on their bodies and the worse one even lost part of their limbs.
Everyone was looking at Zancrow and they were trembling in fear. They wanted to run away, but their legs were weak and couldn't move. They wanted to shout, but a word stuck in their mouth. The only thing which they could do was only stand there frozen because of fear
"Uhahahaha! That's right! That's fear! When faced with an absolute being right before their very eyes, people fear, shudder, and can do nothing but freeze!"
Zancrow laughed happily.
Zancrow's men were also in fear, but at the same time, there was a hint of excitement in their eyes since they knew that after this, they would have a big party.
"Uhahaha! Let's kill all the people here!"
"OHHHH!!!!!"
Kain only nodded and took out his straw doll. His expression was a bit idiotic, but his eyes were full of confidence.
"I'm strong!"
Kain was also going to destroy this town!
---
Bourne had sent Erza to the train station and he was on his way to Shiraito Falls.
Unlike the Blue Lagoon Pools located in the remote village, the location of Shiraito Falls was located in a famous city in the Fiore Kingdom.
Even if Fiore Kingdom wasn't the biggest kingdom on Earthland, it had considerable size on its own.
Bourne thought that this kingdom was at least the size of Spain in his previous world or smaller, but well, because of that the security in this kingdom wasn't perfect.
The power of the royalty was limited and they could only place the army within the richest town within the kingdom and ignored the rest of the people who were living on in this land.
It was also the reason why there were a lot of dark magicians, slave traffickers, etc.
At the same time, it was also the reason why guild was very prosperous in this world.
No one would think that the soldiers would protect them nor they would solve their problem so in the end, they could only pay money to the guild to solve their trouble.
However, at the same time, Bourne also understood the mind of the royalty since the people who were living on the countryside didn't pay a tax or rather even if they paid the number wasn't much. It was better to ignore them since sending out an army was very expensive.
Unlike his previous life, the status of royalty and nobles were very high. It didn't mean that the status of royalty or nobles in his previous life wasn't high, but compared to this world, the difference was very high.
Just by sitting on their seats, there would be a lot of people who came to kiss their asses and even if they spent all of their time playing around or buying something luxurious, it didn't really matter since they had very large land and they could get a lot of money from the tax of everyone who lived in that place.
In his mind, the life of the nobles and royalty in this world was similar to the life of nobles and royalty in 1800s in his previous life.
It meant that their status would fall soon and the one who stood on the top was the bourgeois people.
It was also the reason why he decided to make a lot of money since he needed to think of his descendant after all.
On his way to Shiraito Falls, Bourne thought to stop to the nearby town to buy food, but he frowned when he saw that something had happened within that town.