A while before the Afo's confrontation.
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Lady seraph was just entering her Laboratory to finish with her experiment while still thinking of her conversation with Afo.
She was the head alchemist that had started the experiment on the supersoldiers using Afo. She joined the experiment knowing that Afo was a summoned hero, she had felt that Afo would turn out to be the perfect test subject since he would possess more tolerance and a more advanced body with a higher level control of ether energy.
She felt no guilt about using Afo using the excuse that he was exiled for the murder of a fellow summoned hero. Seraph's only regret at the time of the experiment was that she found it a waste to subdue someone with an intelligent mind such as him, not just extremely intelligent but a complete handsome and talented young man who was completely her type.
At the time of the experiment she found Afo most bizarre because he had helped in finding answers to the experiment which was yielding success at a time. She couldn't understand why Afo was helping her out just for him to end up a pet for the organization, that is until after a year Afo used her to create some equipments to assist him to break out of captivity which was almost a success.
Of course Afo wasn't a good Samaritan or a Jesus who would give his life for the organizations own good, the second time he offered to assist her in her experiment she wanted to refuse but she knew too well how intelligent and how much help he was even though he could trick her again and..
Once more she agreed telling herself she would be careful this time but what was the outcome? He basically tried another break out three months later and this time almost succeeded killing alot if the organizations elite in the process.
After that she refused his help and continued on her own if course that resulted in failure and the abandoning of the experiment not because she wasn't intelligent enough but because just like Afo she understood that the experiment would never succeed, why?
That's easy because they both found out that the necessities they were working with was as if they possessed a mind of their own that kills any test subject that was used for the experiment.
Seraph gently shook her head to bring herself out of her thinking, she had found Afo on the river bank that day by accident, and she dared to approach him because of her curious personality, although Afo still carried the intimidating aura, she still didn't understand where his power source was coming from.
Of course she had thought about the experiment but she knew the whole thing didn't succeed, and there was no way those sham for alchemist after her even succeeded. She had wanted to ask Afo as well but she was scared that he she might touch a sore wound which might bring her life to an end, she was an angel yes but she basically had zero combat experience.
Although she wasn't a pacifist but she was just too entranced in her studies to care about training for combat or anything, she had inherited this obsession with the experiment she failed on from her grandfather who also couldn't succeed with it all his life time. Her father was a well known veteran fighter so was her elder brother and younger sister.
She took her gaze and fixed it on her table that was placed just by the wall in front of her, the room wasn't that big but she neatly stacked all her experiments here, with books arranged in a shelf by the wall on her left, the books were neatly stacked like books from a library, the table in front of her had various Laboratory equipments reminiscent to the ones on earth.
There were various conical flasks, beakers filled with various colored chemicals as well as pipettes and a Bunsen burner hich was currently on, she walked gracefully towards the table and gently equipped her googles, then a pair of glover before grabbing a dripper and a watch glass to drip the contents into it.
It was at that moment she felt a huge energy fluctuation in the atmosphere, the direction of this energy was coming from the forest and the exact direction Afo had went to on a stroll.
She was an angel and her race were really sensitive to the energy around them and she could feel the fluctuation at the moment, she immediately dropped the items she was holding and turned of the Bunsen burner and reached her hand under her table and pulled a futuristic gun out.
The gun had a nice design to it with blue lines streaking all over it, yes she was no fighter but that doesn't mean she couldn't shoot a gun. She had prepared this gun just in case Afo got pissed of at her or he hated her for using him as an experiment, on her way she also grabbed a blue orb about the size of a fist and placed it in her lab coat pocket, It was a teleportation stone that she also used the day she went to find out what possessed the scary presence and found Afo by the river bank, so yes she was very careful with her life.
She dashed out of her house and started heading for the direction where the fluctuation was coming from, on her way she couldn't sense a single plague nearby not even the insects that crawled on the ground.
She ran towards her destination non the less and when she arrived she was shocked and was left with both her eyes and her mouth wild open reminiscing of a cute gold fish.she could see the Vila who was exchanging punch with.... Sorry the Vila throwing punches at Afo and Afo swatting her fists around.
She was confused, the event occuring in front of her made her wonder if the assailants were stupid of just weren't very observant. Of course she knew that basically Afo possessed zero aether energy in him at the moment...
But also at the same moment Afo also possessed powers which she couldn't understand were the poweres came from, albeit she hasn't seen the powers in action but she could already guess they were insanely strong abilities.
Yes seraph was worried about why the assailants weren't running away but she knew deep inside her scientist self filled with curiosity wouldn't mind if they died in the process of letting him reveal his powers.
She was immediately brought out of her state of thinking as she saw Afo solid ice frozen then beheaded, she couldn't help but think 'thats it?' I mean she was already going through all that hype, until she felt another energy fluctuation from Afo.
He watched them Pierce his heart but still his body did not only break out but sliced of one of the assailants hand, she could hear a lady a few meters beside her mumble the man that just had his hand severed name in surprise.
Or so she guessed, but the horror movie in front of her didn't stop her from seeing a memory of her distant self.
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"Hey grandpa why this experiment"
" It's an experiment to grant on the powers belonging to our distant relatives who are dead"
"Why would we need their powers"
"So as to Ω♦ΩΩ"
"But wh?" She asked.
"Ask me when you are older" he chuckled and ruffled her hair.
"Then what are these powers" she inquired with glistening eyes filled with sparks of expectations.
"You're very inquisitive aren't you? Okay first...."
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"One becomes immortal" she muttered to herself as she saw an Afo headless reattached his head. She didn't want to believe the other scientist succeeded without him, then that means Afo must have used them to succeed in the experiment before breaking out, this was the only logical explanation she could give herself. Still this wasn't enough to prove it succeeded, she was sad and happy at the moment if it really did succeed.
First because she wasn't the one that succeed and happy because she got to see the effects of this powers with her own eyes but was immediately snapped back to reality when Afo's first ranged attack which missed her by a hairs breath and literally took some of her hair strands along, she gently turned her head to the side to see the huge path created from the blast, her heart was racing threatening to jump out of her chest and her knees soon gave up on her as she fell to the ground.
"He would possess flames greater than a dragon.." she muttered to herself despite in shock, she had just slipped passed the door of death, she couldn't tell if Afo missed his mark on purpose and not killed her in the process.
She turned back to look at Afo and saw a sight that confirmed her doubts after seeing his horrific hand devour a high grade plague, she thought she had seen horror but not until afor murdered a pregnant woman and spoke to Led as if nothing had happened. She saw true power despite knowing that this power was just in the beginning phase when she saw Afo incinerate half of the hill she was living in.
She could no longer understand why her grandfather wanted a person to wield this kind of power, wait she knew but couldn't help but feel like it had fallen into the wrong hands. She was confused but cocked her head to the side when she saw this man that just incense rated half of the hill streslessly shed tears with a face that had no remorse or whatsoever.
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(POV change)
Afo had his hand still stretched out as tears ran down his chicks, he stood upright and touched the tear streaming in a straight line down his face. Why was he crying when he possessed almost zero emotions? Ah, he just realized he went against his conviction, he had killed an innocent child for the sins of the parents but his face remained as indifferent as ever. The tamer saw his face but instead of confusion she boiled in hatred and helplessness.
Hatred because the hero she had believed in all her life to one day save her from the organization had just murdered her fiance not even leaving bones to burry and helplessness knowing she couldn't fight back. Afo turned around and saw the tamer muttering Led's name over and over, he didn't care about her but the child in her womb.
He knew how hard it was on single parents and how painful it can be to grow up without one of your parents but he had just made a child fatherless and one never to be born.
He took a few steps towards the tamer who knelt on the floor with tears in her eyes and snot in her nose. He looked at the dead Vila next to her and finally lady seraph seated a few meters away. The tamer lady had wanted to speak but Afo immediately shot into the sky which surprised her. She turned back and saw Afo in the air and couldn't help but scoff.
Afo had just killed her lover and he was still not done fighting, Afo had seen a humanoid phantom in the distance and immediately went at him. Seeing this the phantom jumped into a portal to escape but Afo grabbed him by his throat, he immediately closed the portal to escape but Afo grabbed the portal as if grabbing a door and forced it open.
The man in the other side of the portal was surprised but to Afo this was right up his alley, why? Well because he could manipulate space and despite his lack of strength now this much is nothing compared to him trying to open a door way to earth from Afria, Afo swiftly pulled the man out and tossed him to the ground causing the man to bounce off the ground and rolling over.
The man groaned in pain but his pain was far from over, not too long before he regained his composure he saw Afo gently descending with both arms crossed over his chest like an angel swagging down from heaven.
"You are a dog from the organization as well" Afo asked but his voice could tell that he really didn't care.
"...." The man was quiet.
"Dou you have a slave collar on as well?" Afo asked again but the man was still quiet which proved he was like Edgar who did this job on their own volition, Afo let out a sigh and not long after the man finally spoke.
"You monster you hid you--" Afo immediately grabbed the man by his face shutting his mouth and poked his forehead with his finger causing the vains in the man's body to buldge allover glowing blue, the man struggled on the floor in pain. His blood was literally flowing in reversal and he could feel a strong headache in his brain.
"Have you ever head of Migraine??" Afo asked as they all watched the man wriggling in pain, the man felt nausea, he began to vomit and he could only which for death but he could see in Afo's eyes that Afo wouldn't kill him so easily but he still begged.
"...Kill me... Please" he began to shed tears, he could feel the pain in his heart, his brain and the blood vessels in his body, he really wanted death but he was struck silent by Afo's words.
"Don't worry, I've made sure the process is slow and enough to last an hour... No matter how much healing potions you take, no one can heal you" the man shrieked in pain but couldn't move a muscle to at least punch this hateful man in front of him. Seraph and the tamer lady were struck with fear, they didn't know Afo's next move.
Afo turned and looked at the tamer and finally spoke.
"I suppose you still have some plagues, summon them" the tamer couldn't believe her ears, he didn't even plan on letting her live after killing Led.
She didn't care anymore,
"I guess this is why they say never meet your heroes in real life" she said, she summoned her courage and stood on her feets still shaking. She would die today but not insulted by the hero she had worshipped since he was summoned, she had been a slave all her life and from the rumors she heard, this hero in front of her was the one who fought to stop slavery.
She did a few hand movements before a few magic circles appeared behind her and plaguelings began to emerge from the circles, first was two wolves about 3 cm tall, they both had lightening bolts snaking all over their body with a rank of at least Saint(mid) rank.
"Kill him!" She screamed her order and they charged at Afo. Seraph and Afo could sense the sadness in her voice, seraph felt pity because she could tell from Afo's gaze that no matter how sorrowful she looked the man standing there didn't care one bit. Afo stretched out both hands out.
("Ignite persona 'Blood trinket') Afo ordered.
["Are you sure you already hit your limit a while back, we all know what you are thinking but you might enter forced slumber due to your actions"] blood trinket inquired concerned.
("Please do what I asked") Afo replied in his stoic voice.
["Okay, it's your life, enjoy!◉‿◉"] trinket replied cheerfully.
Afo's hands morphed into the previous scary state but this time tye mouth in his palm opened wide revealing an endless void that sent cold sweat to trickle down the tamer's back but she stood her ground regardless. Afo's hand began to spin and like a vacuum begin to siphon the beast into it like a tonardo pulling in nearby objects.
She saw this hopeless scene and didn't stop and continued summoning and watched Afo streslessly vacuum them like nothing, after she had unleashed about 17 plagues she ran out of plagues to use and even aether energy, she barely had enough energy to even keep herself standing. She stood waiting for her death as Afo approached her, Afo returned his hand back to normal, and when Afo was only a step from her she closed her eyes waiting a painful death.
She waited, she waited.. she waited but nothing happened, she gently opened her eyes thinking Afo must have ended her life so fast she didn't even feel the pain.
("*Sigh* I guess this is what they call a quick painless death")
she thought and opened her eyes only to meet the same scene that was there before she closed her eyes only this time Afo was beside her, she tilted her head to the side to see what Afo was doing. She found Afo standing over the dead body of Vila and was confused. Afo stretched out his hand over Vila and cut a small wound on his index finger tip letting the blood drop on her dead, disheveled body.
She opened her mouth and eyes in shock, not just her but seraph and the man groaning in pain, of course he could barely see anymore but he had an idea of what was happening there. The blood that Afo dropped began to boi in her body as more blood left Afo's body live a stream. The blood began to gently out together the scattered body of Vila piece by piece until she was whole.
Completely nude but she was brand new like God just created her, no scars no blemishes, no trace of even being wounded, her face looked like she had make up on. Vila gently opened her eyes to see she was floating horizontally, she turned and saw Afo standing next to her with his hand holding her waist with her body straightened like a board and light like a feather, she was about to speak when Afo interrupted her.
"Do not make a mistake, this is for the sake of the child you Carry, now sleep" at the mention of the word sleep she immediately felt drowsy and slept like a child, Afo used the reaming blood to form a huge spere made out of thick red blood to seal her. The tamer was about to ask but Afo interrupted her as well.
"No I can't do the same for Led, there's no trace of his original matter left" Afo turned to her as her almost lifted spirit went back crashing and continued.
"Do you loathe me??"
She didn't know how to reply to the question, of course she hated him for killing her lover who wouldn't, but she couldn't speak out of tiredness.
"I wouldn't have saved him even if I could, ulike you he did this job on his own volition" she understood what Afo was saying but still couldn't forgive him, she was about to break down in tears once more when Afo fell on one knee with the veins in his body turned green with his body bringing out steam like a kettle with water in fire.
His blood vessels popped and blood sipped out from the side of his mouth and from some part of his skin, he had disconnected his connection from pain in his body and used it passed his limit and the blood he just consumed from the plagues was just used to resurrect Vila so now he was suffering the backlash.
The two women somewhat understood what was happening to him, the thought it was due to resurrecting Vila which wasn't too far off. Afo staggered towards Seraph and grabbed her by her shoulder, she was surprised but didn't resist him, Afo brought his face close to seraph's neck.
She could feel his heated breath on her neck and she knew what was about to happen and she was somewhat addicted to the feeling despite having felt it just once.
Afo licker her neck and it sent a weird sensation into seaph. He sank his teeth into her neck and there was the feeling she couldn't resist, the euphoric feeling that felt like she was in heaven, the ecstasy was unending.
She was using all her strength to stop her hand from reaching into her crotch and eased the pleasure she was feeling. She didn't want to look lecherous, she wasn't but this feeling was forcing her to think of nothing else.
The tamer and the man in excruciating pain looked at this scene in surprise, the face seraph was making was definitely that of a complete pervert and the man next to her drinking her blood was an even bigger pervert for drinking someone else's blood. They both had the same thought in their head.
'what the hell, is this?'
The tamer was even more surprised when she looked in-between seraph's legs and realized she basically just reached orgasm. She didn't know what to think anymore. She was about to speak when Afo rose up and without looking at the reddened face of seraph and spoke.
"I'll leave the lady in the blood bubble in your care... The tamer as well, you don't leave her care untill I return" she ordered both seraph and the tamer.
"Shoot the man over, there with that gun after thirty minutes" seraph quickly hid the gun but Afo had already seen it. It was one of the things Afo had made her unknowingly bring the parts and he assembled the gun to escape on his second attempt.
"Don't bother, you can keep it,looks like you made a little adjustment.." he turned to look at seraph as lightening snaked through his skin. That once again shocked everyone.
"I'll be back soon to pay my debt" he shot into the sky with a huge thunderclap and a light bang enough to make someone who wasn't epileptic epileptic by force, it didn't have much of an effect on the two women but it gravely increased the pain of the man wriggling in pain. Seraph walked up to the blood bubble an touched it realizing how light it was before letting out a sigh.
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Afo landed in a forest in an open space that looked as if a battle had occured there, every step reminded him of when Edgar came to capture him a few years back, the memories were suppose to be sorrowful but he felt nothing. He levitated slowly to a cave about 800 meters away from where he landed.
He stepped on the entrance and an arrow shot at him that immediately bounced off like rubber ball, he continued walking and Various traps were activated which he walked through like nothing was happening.
After a while of walking he reached a dark end which he opened by placing his palm on a scanner that did it's job and opened the metal wall in front of Afo, as the wall gave way a huge room was revealed with light blue crystals glowing at the top of the room giving the room light, the room was filled with various technological device ranging from computers to tv screens and various guns but what stood out most was the huge almost circular metal device that stood over 10 cm tall, there were blue lines snaking through the matals connected to one another with space in-between.
It was Afo's most cherished invention, his only way home at that time, 'THE GATE' as he called it. He took a step forward into the room and what greeted him was flames enough to a volcano eruption to shame and make it look like a lit match stick, but Afo didn't avoid rather he smiled.
"Is that how you greet your master forenzo?" Afo asked and immediately the flames ceased.
"Today we are trapped here?" Forenzo asked awaiting his master's response.
"But tomorrow we will return home" Afo responded.
"Command code accepted, scan complete, welcome master" forenzo greeted as he went on one knee. Forenzo was a robot about 2cm tall Afo built using the design from the second Thor movie, from the guardian that was meant to guard the stone.
"Why didn't you come to find me forenzo?" The now naked Afo asked as he went to metal closet, opened it and began to get dressed.
"Your signature vanished and I lost track of you after keeping them safe" forenzo answered still kneeling.
"Is that so?" Forenzo didn't answer as Afo went to the ground and tapped it twice revealing a hatch that automatically opened revealing a huge pile of gold and rare gems of different colors, Afo turned leaving the pile of gold visible he went to 'THE GATE' and gently caressed it before heading to lie down on a bed as he grabbed his headphone before giving a final order.
"Forenzo... Go hunt me any plage in sight at least at saint(high) level.."
"How many master?"
"As much as you can, I'll be sleeping"
"At your word master" forenzo rose and exited the room as Afo wore his head phone and began to sleep like a tired child, immediately a memory of the past began to play in his head.
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Afo opened his eyes in an unfamiliar room, he looked carefully and realized there was a tube connect to a drip on his left hand, he turned to the right and saw a young beautiful angel in glasses sleeping with her head rest on the bed he was on, he couldn't help but smile seeing IJ. She was in her uniform which was normally a white long sleeve top and a brown too suit worn over it.
"Look at how innocent you are".