"Welcome to Elysium!"
Raion says playfully in perfect Japanese.
Kurayami jumped up cautiously and reached for the katana strapped to his back. With his hands wrapped around the hilt of the Katana, Kurayami yelled furiously in Japanese.
"Who are you people, are you walking with the Shiro clan?" It seemed that Shiro was the surname of the clan who he was trying to get revenge on.
"Slow down with the questions and look around you for a second,"
Raion says with an amiable smile on his face. Kurayami was weirded out but still did so. In doing so, his eyes bulged with astonishment. He took a proper look at Raions odd outfit, crow feathered top hat and all.
He saw Hou with his monkey tail, Huxian with the odd fox mask, a weird cat with golden eyes. Every single one of them was dressed weirdly. But eventually, he overcame the shock and asked seriously.
"Tell me the truth, are you guys cosplayers? Damn, the special effects are too freaking much, used plastic surgery for the monkey tail, got a weird mask thing, and even put golden contacts on a black cat! Wow, this is my first time seeing cosplayers as serious as you lot, if you need donations, I'd be happy to help."
Raion felt his eyebrows twitch, and he gradually reverted back to the foul-mouthed form.
"Your daddy is a cosplayer, your whole family are cosplayers!"
The generals of the Deadman Unit were left speechless, couldn't this Lord of theirs be more dignified! Kurayami however had a different expression on his face.
"Wahhh, what are you, Demon, Oni, Angel,?"
"Nope, I am the one and only Blightcaller, Ancient of Ancients and the Almighty Sourcestealer. I have a lot of other names but it's not really convenient to use them in a situation like this."
"Uhh, ok I'll just ignore whatever the fuck you said,"
"You should, but for now you need to sleep, the others have yet to come, it wouldn't look very cool if you're the only one awake wouldn't it?"
"Wha-?"
Just before Kurayami could continue though, he fell to the ground and fainted with a heavy sigh. Raion looked at this coldly from his throne of flesh and looked towards the remaining nine silver screens. Before he called them, he would have to check up on their situations first. He had already checked up on Banzan and Shi Juexin; it was time for the remaining seven seedlings to be peered at.
He looked at a random screen and saw one of the seedlings he had chosen, his one was selected from Nepal, where he only chose one person; A chaotic-good kind of person. He was a practitioner of a rising martial arts known as Bajra. He was good and ready to go, one thought from Raion would bring him to the top of Everest. He was nation-famous to martial art practitioners and others in his country. They called him the living incarnation of the Hindu God Brahma.
There was also someone similar in India, they didn't call him a living incarnation; they referred to him as the real deal. The supremest Hindu God who is known as Brahman.
The sixth candidate who Raion picked was a Russian known as Anastasia; she was surprisingly a girl. She practiced a martial art known as SAMBO which stood for SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya.
The last four people were gathered from North Korea, South Korea and Japan. Two were from North Korea and the last two were from South Korea and Japan, respectively.
Surprisingly, one of the people who Raion picked from North Korea couldn't fight well in the slightest. It wasn't that he couldn't fight well, he couldn't fight at all! But he was a good doctor, so much so that his patients pay him twice the amount he is supposed to receive. Don't tell anyone but he was also the one who found a cure for cancer in its later stages, but of course, he was still bartering the price of this with the government. He was a popular no-name doctor; Ghost Doctor.
The other was a practitioner of Taekwondo and a victim of Kurayami, yes he was a victim of Kurayami. Kurayami once killed his parents and from that moment on he swore to get his revenge on Kurayami (yes I know, cliche, but as long as this guy isn't the MC, I'm OK with it).
The guy from South Korea practiced an ancient form of martial arts known as Gungdo. This martial art was performed on horseback using a bow, a master of this technique was said to be able to catch five and more flies using a composite bow and arrow.
The last was a special case; he was a Yamabushi living in god-knows-where, outside the prying eyes of the mortal world. The so-called Yamabushi or ascetic is a person endowed with supernatural powers. But Raion obviously knew where these supernatural powers came from; Ancient Ones and Seraphim. In this case, the mountain hermit inherited his power from an Ancient One.
Raion smiled coldly as he looked into these nine mirrors, he smiled smugly and yelled.
"Hahaha, the time has come!"
"Come, Seedlings!"
With that call, those people no matter what they were doing, shot forward and headed for Mount Everest at thousands of miles per second.
. . .
In the facility Banzan stayed, blazing red lights flashed everywhere and loud alarms Blared everywhere on the island facility.
"What's going on?!"
"B-Banzan, Banzan, h-he just disappeared out of nowhere! The whole diamond wall is busted open, inform the higher-ups!"
"What! I shall inform them right away!"
. . .
"Grandmaster! Shi Juexin disappeared while we were praying to Lord Buddha!"
Shi Daoan, Shi Juexin's friend panted heavily as he ran just to meet the grandmaster. Currently, the Grandmaster was in a meeting with two national leaders, but he just disregarded that and went into his abode.
"Sigh, Disciple Daoan, do not worry of such, this was bound to happen soon, I felt a presence hovering over Juexin several times, since that presence took him away, surely he has the means to take care of him, go back to pray, no harm will come to Shi Juexin."
"Yes, Grandmaster Shi."
The Grandmaster's voice was like a calming incense stick, Shi Daoan immediately calmed down after listening to it. So he went back to pray.
. . .
In a martial arts dojo with a man-shaped hole in one of its walls several people talked
"Am I seeing things or did Brahma just disappear??"
"Holy fuck! Could he be the real deal?!"
"Maybe he came to observe from the standpoint of a mortal, we mortals cannot understand the thoughts of a god,"
. . .
Brahman's disappearance didn't alert anyone but his relatives who were talking to him. Immediately after he disappeared -though the wall crumbled, they just thought it was an exertion of his divine power- all the people talking to him immediately went to pray to Lord Brahman.
. . .
And so this was how it went, all the candidates arrived in the space above Mount Everest, and the moment after, they all - Kurayami inclusive - stood up rapidly and at their surroundings.
"Welcome, my seedlings,"
Raion smiled warmly as he looked down at them on his throne of flesh. This was who they would serve in the nearest future; this Prince of Desolation!