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"Those who know despair once knew hope. Those who know loss once knew love. "
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Dimly, he regained his strength to continue his life yet no one care about him.
In the anguish of anger, he filled his heart with revenge yet, his withered Gorgon demanded mercy.
Deep down inside his heart, he screamed in pain.
I'll kill those bastards, give me more power!!! Even if they will reborn I'll never forgive them! And I ... will ...
then he fell unconscious.
After several hours, he woke up.
His body was tied with thorny vines and hung up on the tree. Lucca saw a rusty crown ... broken jewel ... and a creature which he never saw before. If he resisted being tied up by the vines, that thing became stronger than before.
「Grasping Vine」
A voice out of somewhere said.
"You won't able to go anywhere unless you tell what just happened."
An overwhelming flower sprouted out from the ground and there came a girl.
That girl had the same height as him.
Green iris with red eyelashes around her eyes and a flowery outfit that she had was really strange.
"Hey, answer my question!"
Lucca couldn't say a thing because he was running out of energy.
Unexpected, she moved her pointed finger backward and the vines which held Lucca moved toward her.
「Manifestation: Healing Ward」!
She summoned a flower which floating on the air and tried to recover Lucca.
"Now, tell me, no excuse!" As she moved her eyes cynically.
Then for several moments, Lucca explained what happened to him and his mother and also the village.
The judgments were over.
The girl did not fully accept his reason but she agreed with the situation.
"I'm a druid. Britta."
"These tree spirits call me and when I came dozen of people were cursed into stones. Is that you?"
Lucca nodded his head with a stare of anger he answered druid's question.
"Ok then, let him go."
Then the vines disappeared and Lucca fell down to the ground. He looked at the rusty crown and the jewel. Desperately, he begged to the druid about what was happened to those things.
"It has been there with you before but let me use my ability ..."
「Foresight」!
She was able to see what happened to him.
It was cruel but she realized in their world the strongest will survive. Calmly, she told that the crown became rusty when he couldn't able to control his power so did the ruby, shattered into pieces. She also added that actually, the crown indicated the strongest power in Lucca's race yet he lost the crown, maybe he lost his power too.
I can't use one of my abilities.
Trembling with fear, he was afraid of becoming powerless.
Because he had to avenge his mother's death.
He believed there should be someone who ordered those bandits to hunt his small family.
The druid wanted to help because she had problems with human too.
"I'll use my secret spell to recover your power. In exchange, you should sacrifice something to fulfill my creature's desire. If you fail when making a contract you will lose what you have offered and get nothing."
Without a doubt, Lucca agreed and in a sudden, the druid made a contract with Lucca and also with her summoning.
「Oath of Vengeance」!
The earth was shaking really hard. After a crack, there plants in form of hands was holding a scroll which the Oath.
"It's only five seconds!"
"Now tell him what you offer and what you want!"
Lucca wanted his power back but in exchange, he gave his Gorgon form away.
"3 seconds left! Give him more!"
Her summon didn't satisfy enough with the offer.
Drown in confusion, he couldn't think straight but he should finish the contract or he will get nothing.
ONE!!!
Accidently, Lucca shouted ...
Emotion!
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...
Granted.
「Oath of Vengeance was created successfully」!
Rattling sounds came from the ground and slowly disappeared.
Two roots appeared, injected a bluish shiny thing and the other took away a red light on his left and right palms.
At the same time he realized, he just lost his only mother ... now he just made a contract with an unknown druid to regain his power even if he had to exchange with something precious.
His life was doomed from the beginning.
The root injected too much energy and he couldn't stand for it.
He screamed and screamed.
H ... e ... lp!
He asked the druid but she was gone.
Damn, I shouldn't have trusted her.
He truly suffered and when the dose of the power came to the limits of the overall creatures, he collapsed.
What happened was pretty fast.
The fog of revenge close his eyes tightly then he threw away something for power.
Farewell ...