In an inconspicuous conference room, a man sat at the very end of an oval table, with several robotic stands with a wide screen attached, all staring at him.
They were the World Leaders, Prime Ministers and Presidents all seriously assessing the situation, "On our side, a teenaged boy has stopped our soldiers from advancing, not only that he has also appeared in medical areas and even our Navy and Marines weren't excluded. They all have one thing in common, they are associated to the military and to an extension the government." Charles Anderson; President of Carmeia stated simply with a hint of concern in his voice.
Gerhard von Lange; King of Prussia coughed, breaking the silence, "The situation with the armed forces has gone haywire, and I feel that our only portions are to capture or at least eliminate that boy of unknown origins. I fear that he is a menace to our society." His unmasked hostility unnerved the other leaders, furtive glances flitting across the room.
The only person whose expression hasn't changed since the beginning was Jessica Mauve, Prime Minister of Jusirté.
The Prine Minister switched off the mute option in her screen and spoke assertively, "Your Highness, while I do agree with you somewhat, I think that we should wait and see how it turns out as this childlike entity does not seem to harbor any ill intentions, and even if he did what could we do? We've all seen what he can do and quite frankly I'm afraid of what more he could do if we were to attack him directly."
Seeing that her peers were starting to contemplate the consequences she continued, "Furthermore, it seems that we are in the wrong from the intel we bought back from my own military. He says that the continents we live on are part of his body, and that we are ruining it. If what he says is true then that means that he is a God or something similar to that of a God."
Muffled gasps could be heard through their screens, they all tried to hide their shock. Whatever happened next was proportional to handling the fate of the entire world!
Do we risk the chances of our fears about his true nature being real and capture him? Or do we stand still and do nothing whilst we watch from the sidelines? Was the question the leaders asked themselves.
On one hand they knew that the boy was a possible threat to their government and even humanity as a whole! On the other hand, if they decided to go with the latter who knew what the boy would do? Would he destroy humanity first? Or the government and the industries that wrecked his body?
In any case they no longer had a say in the matter, only time would tell. The leaders took some time to compose themselves and was about to disconnect, but before they could an unusual and troubling change occurred.
In Charles Anderson's conference room, right behind the President was a black cloaked boy, "Charles! Look behind you!" A friend of the President responded quickly, yelling as fast as he could to warn him.
Charles heard the frantic yells and swiftly looked to the back uneasily, and there he saw it. The teenaged boy, no taller than 5 feet gazed at him with cold, dead eyes which seemed contradictory as he had warm brown eyes.
He wore a plain white t-shirt, grey hoodie and a black overcoat fluttering as he jumped through space.
Matching with his theme he wore dark grey trousers, adorned grey socks as well as worn out black sports shoes.
A mischievous smile curved on his light brown skin, a feature Charles associated with the Devil. Charles closely inspected him and saw that he was no different from a Middle Eastern man down the Pileran Islands .
Sun-kissed skin, and a lanky figure. Glossy black hair with acne all over his face, there were no differences between him and a normal teenager! Only that he had supernatural abilities.
The boy bowed courteously, causing the leaders to be baffled by his actions. But unbeknownst to them all, Niko had the System grant him some temporary powers for his 'show.'
"Why hello there, I believe we haven't met yet Mr Anderson. Or should I say Charles Anderson 'né' Thomas. Not sure why you changed your name but I guess you had your reasons." Hearing his former name nonchalantly being spoken of made Charles stagger.
He had thought that no one would ever remember that dark stain in his life. A repressed memory dredged from his subconscious replayed in his mind endlessly.
He was quivering violently, voices were distorted and he instantly went mad. Clutching his head he wished for all of it to go away, a chilling sensation encapsulated his body.
Fear rose from the depths of his heart causing him to sweat heavily, crying to himself as he recited in fear; "Go away, Go away, Go away! Go away! Go Away! Don't Do It! Please!... Papa!!" In an instant he was out cold, his mind broken down by the harrowing stress.
The leaders were mortified about what had just occurred, despite all the screaming and the traumatic experience the boy stood firm.
Moreover he was even displaying annoyance towards the leader of one of the most powerful countries on Areia, which caused the others to furiously berate him silently. Their quiet disposition showed just how fearful and they were of him.
"Well that was dramatic, I thought that he would be a strong person if he could blab endlessly about trying to save his country. I mean that takes some serious guts saying stuff like that. After all you politicians never try to make ends meet on your promises, well most of you." Niko observed the unconscious body and scrutinized him from head to toe, disappointed with his measly willpower.
"Ah that's right, Adam thank you for helping me." Snapping his fingers three figures stood behind Niko, Apostle Fausto and two others.
Among the temporary powers authorized by the System were the abilities to refract, reflect and deflect light which allowed him to make others invisible and teleportation which was how he had gotten into the conference hall discreetly.
But what Niko did not know was that he could have just asked the System to take him there rather than taking a long time for authorizing temporary powers, but that's for another time.
The trio had witnessed the whole scene and was surprised by their Lordship's cruel side. They now feared him as well as revered him for taking the arrogant President down a notch.
Adam Johnson, was most especially impressed. His ability allowed one to amplify emotions within 50 meters of himself, the amplified emotions will then cause a random memory the target relates to the affected emotion and indirectly causes them to go raving mad.
At first he initially had no idea how to utilize this ability but through His Excellency's* teachings, he gained an insight on his newfound power.
"Anything for Your Excellency. You are so wise and merciful for only using this lowly ones' gift as a means to warn them." Adam was respectful when addressing Niko, even creating his own salute for him which involved having to close both fists and crossing them over his chest.
Which to Niko resembled the position whenever vampires in movies slept, but he could not say that as he was very pleased with how he acted.
"Hm, you flatter me. Do not sell yourself short, your gift is much more useful than you think. You three are the ones I find great potential in and can be considered as the envy of all your peers. So, raise your head and be proud of yourself." Niko spoke no lies, he found great potential in their abilities and wished for them to grow.
An the idea of a group of super-powered acolytes helping in his missions sounded spectacular in his view.
His eyes then glanced at the three deviously, he closed in and whispered to his followers, "They're all watching us, I believe a demonstration is in order, ay?" He winked at the trio, causing them to become agitated.
They wished to observe how their God Proslos would solve this. "Please excuse me for having you experience such an unfortunate situation. However I assure you he is alive." Some breathed a sigh of relief, while others were silent, and only one blew a fuse.
"Damn it! I don't give a f*ck if he's alive right now! You can't just waltz in here like it's your house! That place is reserved for the President of Carmeia and his guests! You're trespassing on government property!" The Prime Minister of Gorled; Jack Borough screamed wildly, rashly voicing out his opinions.
And that was his mistake. "Don't. Interrupt. Me." Three words, one wave was all it took. A blurred figure appeared right behind him as he shouted back, seeing this the audience, except for Niko's group, closed their eyes to the brutal death of their peer.
In a few seconds the screen blacked out and glitched before stabilizing. Currently, on the screen were red specks of blood and chunks of brain matter that flew off after his head exploded, fragments of bone cracking the screen.
The room was in disarray, the window behind him had completely disintegrated, spider web-like cracks spread through the walls speaking volumes of the destruction the assailant caused.
Right behind the Prime Minister was the third of Niko's followers; Hunter Chastain, his ability was to create a 'twisting' force from his hands causing all matter he comes into contact with to explode.
Hunter scowled as he showed disdain for the man, not caring that he killed him at all. Black smoke enveloped Hunter and soon he was right behind Niko, trying to clean off the blood on his clothes and hands.
"If you ever interrupt me again I will not show mercy." He tried his best to intimidate the remaining leaders, which worked well seeing as the most outspoken of all the leaders had his head blown apart.
After seeing that, who would every try to interrupt you? This is fear-mongering! Their thoughts were all similar and even felt that the boy was too cruel to his fellow humans, then they recalled the fact that he may not even be human at all.
They wanted to shout out; You are an absolute psychopath! But they couldn't in fear that he would snap again.
"Well then since we've got that all sorted out let me introduce myself." His words stunned them all, he seems so calm for a person who just killed a man, a few of them thought.
"Greetings, I am Proslos. Which is not my real name but is what your military, Navy, Marines and a few others call me. I believe I owe you an explanation on why I attacked your armed forces is due to my task of having to either stop the war or kill you all directly." Hearing the latter part the trio's expression changed from fear to admiration as they realized that he felt pity for them.
"Of course I chose the former as I felt pity for them all, (that and I'm too weak to destroy this world), in addition I felt jealous of my other peers having Churches and Shrines erected in their favor, so I decided to create my own religion!" His true goal today was to have the World Leaders popularize and disseminate the information about the situation and of his appearance.
With their help, it'll be so much easier than having an entire army of intimidating soldiers do so, Niko thought to himself.
"So will you help me or face the consequences?" Niko gave them a deal they could not resist at all due to the fear of being killed, after all nobody wanted to die.