silence.....
"Uhh.... I can grant you powers you know" And that's all the being could say.
"Uh yeah but you sound as fishy as hell" Elijah was only having bad feeling of the guy in front of him. He couldn't shake off the caution that came from deep within him.
"Oh... is the great King of Night, Alucard is afraid??.. " The being said in a formal but sarcastic tone.
"You.. what.. how do you know. " Elijah jerked up and got tense. How could he know.. Even he himself didn't knew much about himself.
"As I said I'm someone who watches interesting people, And I have been watching you from long time... From your birth till you became king of Night and till your death... I have watched it all... I have watched every Massacre of yours, Your every struggle... I am sole witness of your Inexhaustible Madness.. And now I Am honoured to be in front of you Lord Alucard" The void being said with some pride?
"I'm not him though, I'm Elijah and that Alucard you speak is long dead" Elijah declared
"hmm... of course your not him... you got reborn after your death like every soul... but your existence is same right? you should know it better than most.. no matter what you become, what personality you end up having, And no matter how many times one dies 'they' remain themselves. "
".... " Elijah had nothing to refute. Even though he doesn't really remember his past life and seemed irrelevant to him, He knew the truth.. Ones Existence remained same and so did it's nature. In absolute simple words the man he was his in his past life was one version of him and now he was living other version of himself but he was essentially the same person.
".. so what do you want" Elijah didn't want to continue the previous conversation so he asked what was on his mind from the beginning.
"... Nothing.. I only want to see more of you... I'm curious you see... You 'had' the chance for what you always wished... but you rejected it with all your existence and here you are... I want to know what could had changed your mind, what made you to end your own life? Were you tired? Too much tortured? But all that could have ended if you had accepted? why? I can't understand you like other humans..."
"Though Yes... your not human... your A freak of the world... a monster in flesh.. At least I want to know what Was your intention? " The void being said in exasperation.
"I-I don't know.. " Elijah could only answer dumbly as he didn't know what the man was rambling about? though he had some idea.
"Well I expected that much, I only want to see what will you do in future.. and hence here I am, I am willing to give you a peek into the void, whatever you gain will be yours.. and all you have to do is complete one task "
"What will I have to do? " Though Elijah didn't trust the person in front of him, even though he didn't know much about this void... but something in him was desiring it to almost craving it. So he thought if someone is willing to give him power then why not? 'though I hope I'm not digging my own grave' Elijah mumbled in his mind.
"Yes, as much I would like to give for free I can't. you have to earn it like anyone else.. A chance to grasp the essence of darkness "
"It's simple actually, all you have to do is kill all your enemies in three days of time. In short you have to end the life of the gang you belonged and if you shall fail, you will die and this time with no return..., simple right" The being smiled subtly.
"Uhh... you are being serious, there are nearly 150 armed people and you want me to kill them?? in three days ?? and if I fail I die ?"
'You got to be kidding me man' Elijah was screaming inside hearing him make almost impossible demand and a penalty of death to boot if he accepted them.
"Yes of course, as long as you accept I will grant your wish right now, and even without that can't you finish them all without my help" he looked around the room, Elijah's hideout was for him to study transmutation circles and practice. And Elijah was proud that he was well versed in it.
On the walls strange diagrams could be seen drawn from black ink. If one looked around they would be spooked as all the walls were full of it and the whole room had papers lying on the ground on which transmutation circles were drawn for practice.
"You never bothered with this and all in your previous life as all your powers came from blood alone, but it seems it will different this time around" The void being commented looking at the pictures on the walls.
Elijah was a ordinary boy, he wasn't born with supernatural abilities nor special blood just because he was a terrifying man in his past life. But his parents were not ordinary, Elijah didn't knew much about his parents background but he knew they were strong. His father was a mage, he taught him transmutation circles and left him plenty of books to refer before he and mom Disappeared.
And Elijah has been studying it very thoroughly and created his own, constantly experimenting and making breakthroughs. It could be said he was pretty good at it.
He didn't reveal that he could do transmutation circles, as he knew he would just be exploited by the mafia since he was already part of them. He kept it secret and thought one day he will leave the city to become a hunter.
After all for one to awaken powers one must either join the government or the hunter's. As he could no longer join the military he would had to become a hunter and having knowledge about things as mysterious and complex as transmutation circle was surely going to help him.
"Ok I accept" Elijah need not think any more, though the task was challenging it was not impossible for him atleast. An opportunity as this might not come again after all.