: "sure…. Well I saw like gigantic being made of cosmic stars or that's what I think and they were... fighting, I think…. But the weird thing was that…. I saw you fighting with them." I said as death stared up in the sky and tighten his grip on his scythe and it seems that he is angry at something i said….. I hope not.
: "I SEE...…. THEN I GUESS IT'S TIME YOU KNOW" death said to me but I'm still confused at what he meant.
: "for me to know what?" I asked him as his eyes glowed red and so was his scythe as the aura around him became... more powerful. It truly felt like being in the present of a god…. No something even stronger than that.
: "EVERYTHING" he said as I was still confused by this.
: "do you mean" I said as I might understand a little bit of what he was saying, then death turned to me with a dominating glare and presence that filled the air.
: "TELL ME DANTE…. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE…pRiMOrdiAl"
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: "no…. I have never heard of them, even father Alfred has never told me anything like monarch or anything related to that" I said.
: "but what are they anyway, are they executioners" I asked but death didn't even bother of turning to me, as all his attention was direct to the sky.
: "NO THERE NOT, INFACT THIS BEING IS EVEN STRONGER THAN EXECUTIONERS BY FAR... SINCE IT WAS A MONARCH THAT CREATED THE VERY EXECUTIONERS THEMSELVES." Death said with a very serious tone.
: "w-what! How's is that even possible!" I said in both awe and shock.
: "BELIEVE IT OR NOT BRAT. IT WAS THIS MONARCH THAT CONTROLLED THE EXECUTIONERS.... IT STARTED 400 YEARS AGO, AT THAT TIME, THE CHURCH WAS PULLED INTO ORDER BY A POWER MUCH HIGHER THEN ANY REGULAR KING IN EXISTENCE, WHEN PEOPLE HAD STARTED TO GIVE IN TO THEIR INNER SINS AND INTERIOR MOTIVE THAT WILL BENEFIT THEM AND ONLY THEM ALONE, IN WHICH THEN LED THEM TO BE OPEN TO EVIL SPIRTS THAT CORRUPTS THEIR MANA ESSENCE THAT FLOWS THROUGH THEM AND ALL BEINGS IN GENERAL BUT WHEN THESE INDIVIDUALS ACCEPTS THE SPIRIT THEY INSTANTLY GET CORRUPTED BY THIS AND WILL CAUSE A WIDE RANGE OF DESTRUCTION WITH NO REGRET OR WHAT SO EVER….. SO THE CHURCH WAS KNOWN FOR ELIMINATING THOSE WHO ARE CORRUPTED BY THE EVIL SPIRIT AND THEREFORE FREEING THEM FROM THEIR ENTERNAL TORMENT." Death said with disgust.
: "then that good….. Isn't it, they are saving people." I said in confusion.
: "YES YOU CAN SAY THAT…. BUT TIMES HAVE CHANGE….. WHEN HE CAME TO ORDER, YOU SEE AS TIME WENT BY, THE CHURCH HAD DECIDED TO BE RULE UNDER SOMEONE LEAD SINCE THIS WAS THE ORDER FROM HIM AND THAT WAS THEN THE MONARCH OF HUMANITY HAD ARISE, THE ONE WHO IS SAID TO BE THE MOST STRONGEST BEING IN HUMANITY, HIS HOLINESS….. THE HOLY MONARCH….. POPE." Death said.
'Wait a minute, I had heard of that name before…. In the dream scape, he was the one who was with father Alfred… talking about the arch bishop chronicle that father Alfred used in fighting that execution' I thought
: "YOU SEE UNDER HIS RULE THINGS HAVE CHANGE, THEY WERE MORE CORRUPTION, MORE PROBLEMS, AS HE WAS OUT TO ENFORCE THE RULES THAT 'HE' MADE AND THEN USED THE EXECUTIONERS TO CARRY THIS OUT…. FOR HE KNEW THE EXECUTIONERS WOULD MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS DONE. BUT NOW HE HAS ANOTHER MOTIVE IN MIND, ONE THAT COULD SPELL THE END OF THE COSMOS IF ALLOWED TO SUCCEED." Death said.
: "and what is this plan or motive he has in mind?" I asked in a very serious tone.
: "HE PLANS TO SPREAD THE RULE OF 'HIM' ACROSS ALL WORLDS... BY UNLEASHING THE EXECUTIONERS TO DO SO. YOU SEE I KNEW ABOUT HIS EVIL MOTIVE AND HE KNEW THAT I WOULD TRY TO STOP IT….. BUT 'HE' WAS ONE STEP AHEAD BY ORDERING THE POPE TO SEND THE EXECUTIONERS TO SEAL ME AWAY…. FOR GOOD, SO I HAD TO FIGHT THE EXECUTIONERS IN LIMBO WITH MY FULL POWER YET I COULD ONLY KILL 7 OF THEM AND THEN ASURA TELEPORTED ME TO THE HUMANITY REALM, WHERE THE SEAL WAS ALREADY TO SEAL ME AWAY. BUT THEN IT TURNED OUT THAT I WAS SEALED IN YOU AT THE END OF THE DAY AND THE EXECUTIONERS THOUGHT THAT I WILL BE LONG GONE, SO THEY DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER OF HARMING YOU. THOUGH THEY WERE SURPRISED THAT YOU DIDN'T DIE WHEN YOU ABSORDED ME..... AND THAT WAS BECAUSE I WANTED TO SEE …..IF YOU WERE WORTHY OF MY VERY ESSENCE…. IF YOU WERE WORTHY TO BECOME DEATH…." Death said, as I was star struck by this.
: "if I was worthy?" I said again in confusion, as to what he was saying.
: "YES DANTE. I WANTED TO KNOW IF YOU WERE WORTHY… AND IT SEEMS THAT YOU ARE, FOR YOU WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND TRUE DESPAIR…. YOU COULD BEAR IT ALONE…. YOU COULD HANDLE IT WITHOUT GETTING CORRUPTED, EVEN AFTER LOSING SO MUCH... YOU WANTED TO CHANGE IT…. YOU WANTED ANOTHER CHANCE…. AND I RECOMMEND YOU FOR THAT DANTE, THOUGH IT SEEMS THAT MY POWER LIES IN THE DEEPEST PART OF YOUR DESPAIR…. WHICH MAY LEAD TO YOU HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL UNSTABILITY. SO YOU NEED TO PASS THE LAST TRAIL, THE VERY TRAIL THAT WILL SPELL YOUR VERY FATE." Death said, as I am already overwhelmed with so much revelation that I can't even find the right word but I was still confused at one thing.
: "wait but why did I see the pope talking to father Alfred in one of the memories I saw even though I was not there... and they were talking about the arch bishop chronicle that he had so was father Alfred part of the pope plans too." I asked death. Who now turned his attention to me?
: "YES…. BUT HE WAS FAR FROM EVIL, INFACT THERE WAS A REASON WHY THEY CALLED HIM 'THE TRUE SAINT' NORMALLY A SAINT IS CHOSEN WHEN DEAD AND HIS SOUL IS RELEASED FROM SIN BUT HE WAS THE DEFINITION OF HOLINESS TO THE POINT THAT HE WAS GRANTED THE ARCH BISHOP CHRONICLE WHICH IS 4TH IN THE MOST STRONGEST CHRONICLES IN EXISTENCE.... BUT YOU SEE, THAT CHRONICLE CAN BE ABLE TO REVIVE THE FALLEN EXECUTIONERS WHEN ACCOMPANIED WITH 11 OF THE BISHOPS CHRONICLE." Death said, as I couldn't believe what he said.
: "but how come an executioner had come for us if they needed his chronicle to revive all twelve of them." I said in an angered tone.
: "YOU SEE THAT EXECUTIONER ACTUALLY WAS RESSURECTED BEFORE I WAS TELEPORTED TO THE HUMANITY WORLD BY ASURA. SO HE WAS RESSURECTED BY ANOTHER MEAN THAT I DON'T KNOW OFF AND WAS PROBABLY SENT TO KILL ALFRED AND YOU TOO, THOUGH I THINK HIM DESTROYING THE CITY WERE TO MAKE SURE THAT NONE OF YOU WOULD HAVE ESCAPED….. AND FOR THEM TO GET A HOLD OF ALFRED CRONICLE THEY HAD TO-." Death was about to complete the sentence but was caught off.
: "kill him huh." I said in despair.
: "YES, FOR THE ONLY WAY TO OBTAIN A CHRONICLE IN SOMEONE ELSE GRASP….. YOU MUST DESTROY HIS SOUL…. THEN, WILL YOU BE ABLE TO DO SO." Death said
: "I see…" I said, still angry about this information death has given to me.
: "but I don't still understand why my soul, along with rin and trinity's, were not destroyed along with his. Since we were also kill by the blast." I asked death.
: "YOU SEE BRAT, AS I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE, THAT CHRONICLE THAT ALFRED HAD WAS NO ORDINARY ONE BECAUSE IF YOU MUST KNOW, IT'S CAPABILITIES ARE ABLE TO REPULSE THE EFFECT OF THE EXECUTIONER'S EXISTENCE ERASER MAGIC. SO AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, HIS CHRONICLE IS ONE OF A KIND." Death said in annoyance.
: "okay, I understand…..
: "THE LAST TRIAL IS…. ONE THAT IS EVERY DIFFICULT FOR IT DEALS WITH THE MIND… FOR THIS TEST WILL DETERMINE IF YOU ARE TRULY WORTHY OF THIS POWER AND REMEMBER. WHEN IT SEES THAT YOU ARE WORTHY, EVERY BEING IN THIS COSMOS WILL KNOW OF YOUR REBORN, BRINGING SO MUCH DANGER AND PROBLEMS TO YOU…. SO TELL SAGE ARE YOU READY FOR THIS TRIAL." Death said to me in a very serious tone.
'Huh so I have reached sage level at this short amount of time… meaning that thanks to that 1st trial the 100000 demon onslaught. I was able to recreate at least a 10000 spells…. Good' I thought, as this could really give me an advantage when I get reincarnated and to fight the monarch.
: "of course I am, the faster I prove that I am worthy, the faster I get to being reincarnated." I said in a stoic tone.
: "HAHAHA DON'T BE TOO CORKY BRAT. THOUGH I ADMIRE YOUR CONFIDENCE HAHAHAHA REMINDS ME OF ME. SO LET THE TRIAL…. BEGIN!" death shout, as I started to get surrounded by a black smoke with some strips of red.
: "bring it."