"Was I seriously not told about it? You guys initiated the ritual and opened the inheritance ground, and I didn't get to choose anything."
"Calm Down. Do you want me to leak your secret so bad?"
"Hmph. Let's see what you can do. I will sever your head as soon as a word comes out of it."
"Calm down. We are sorry, 'Mara.'"
"Yo- You too? How are you guys getting such guts from? It looks like you all want to die. Then I will gladly fulfil your desire."
Black Light formed around Mara's hand as he performed an attack. Rays of black light attacked all the people present there. The Rays didn't deal any physical damage, but psychological and spiritual damage to the target.
But today, the Black Light didn't work. Golden rays came from within the peoples present, and the black rays were repelled.
Pupils of Mara Shrank as he shouted, "You… You? Impossible! I thought I completely destroyed you. How are you here?"
Mara retreated as fast as he could, but while escaping, he dropped a thing that he brought.
The one from whom Mara escaped from picked up the mask, and said with a worry in his voice,
"How come there is a scent of Celestial on this mask?"
Hundred Thousand Years Ago, the land of Celestial Immortals was opened, and thousands upon thousands of people entered the grounds of the Celestial Immortals. But unlike what they thought, the Celestial Immortals were still alive and killed off the majority of the people that came into their land.
But there were some people that the Celestials couldn't kill. They slaughtered most of the Celestial Race, only some of the Celestials managed to survive.
Celestials were researching something in a book. The book was made of unknown material, and there were some foreign languages written on it with some drawings. When asked, the Celestial about the book, they told that it was the book of the Immortal.
The peoples that slaughtered the Celestials stole all the data that the Celestials had gathered and took the book with them too.
After thousands of years, they developed something that resembled the thing shown in the book, but it went out of their control into somewhere far away. It kept moving and moving, swallowing worlds like a black hole, gathering many things inside it.
One fateful day, thousands of years after, a group of 7 people found the thing, but 3 of them died inside it. Only fours survived to take rewards from it, that is the ritual that gave Mizar, and other people system.
…
"Where did you find that boy?" Mara asked the man and the girl that found Clement.
"Teacher, we travelled far and wide, behind the horizon, behind the curtain of this world…"
"This isn't the time to be fooling around. Tell me where you found him. It's urgent!"
"The place is very far, teacher. At our full speed, it took us nine hundred and eight days for us to reach that remote planet. It will take you a minimum of five hundred days for you to travel." The girl handed over a jade piece as he said,
"This contains the shortest route to the planet."
Mara took the jade piece and flew at a rapid state.
"One I get close, I should be able to get a scent of that Celestial."
A flash of memory appeared in his head as he shook his head and murmured,
"Any kind of Celestial is too dangerous to be kept alive."
…
"Huh?! Leader! Why did you protect this brat? He disrespected you, let me kill him."
"Stand down, Arnold. He can help us in our mission."
He turned to Mizar as he once again put his invitation forward. It was more of a deal now.
"Do you wanna die here or join the Black Tears?" Kisado stretched his hand towards Mizar.
Throwing a turbid breath out of his mouth, Mizar held the hand of Kisado as Kisado pulled him up.
"Let's go meet your comrades."
"Well, let me first repair my house. I will come after I have done that."
'Okay! I will send one of my guys after two hours at your place." He turned towards Arnold and said,
"Let's go."
Arnold didn't want to leave Mizar alive, but he couldn't deny the order of his leader.
"Okay. Let's go."
When they got far away from the scene, Arnold started to complain,
"Leader, why did you stop me? That guy! That guy gives the same vibes as that Man, he can't b-"
"That is exactly why I want to recruit him to our faction." He eyes focused far away as he said,
"If we want to get revenge from that guy, we need someone who is like that too. During his test, I saw something similar to that guy. Like that guy, he also seemed to be able to increase his level just by killing someone. If he is willing to cooperate, we can get our revenge."
'What if he doesn't want to? What will we do then?"
"ShiShiShi... Then we will force him to cooperate. SImple."
...
"Come on you guys, Let's go."
The three guys following Mizar were stunned after watching the fight. They were flabbergasted at the sight of an Intermediate Level Mage fighting an Infant Monarch Mage.
"Looks like we will surely miss some, but I can let it slide for once."
The protection ward fixing guy said as he followed Mizar. The two other guys also nodded
their heads as they followed.
...
"Let's go. I was hoping to recruit him, but it looks like we won't be able to do it today." The factions watching from the dark also went away.
"But boss, what if we couldn't recruit him, we can still kill him and decrease the strength of the Black Tears." One of the guys suggested.
"Yeah, Boss. Let's kill him."
Other people also started getting excited.
"Stop it, you fools. Don't you know why the Black Tears is still able to grow among all these Super Factions?"
"Do you mean…?"
"Yes, ShadowBlade Boke is protecting that kid. We can't even touch his hairs while Boke is present."