In a secluded area behind the school, a wooden house stood in a wide open space. It gave off a feeling of simplicity even though there was a training area just in front of it.
Inside the building, Micheal was standing with his hands crossed as he looked at the six teenagers in front of him, the teenagers comprised of four boys and two girls.
Raven and Zhang Que were among the boys while the other boys and the girls were unfamiliar, they didn't even seem to be from class S.
Micheal asked them to introduce themselves and the path they took, to which the two boys introduced themselves as Damian and Derek, both follow the same path, Battlemage.
The girls introduced themselves as Freya and Bai Yuan, Freya took the Healer path while Raiser took the warrior path, but they looked quite different from the paths they took. Bai Yuan looked really frail, like she would fall at any moment, while Freya looked a little bit muscular.
"Raven, Zhang Que, Damian, Derek, Freya and Bai Yuan, congratulatios on making it to the Flood dragon" Micheal congratulated the teenagers and his face suddenly became serious as he stared at them.
"The academy life is based on survival of the fittest, you'll be awarded 20, 000 points, since you won't be leaving the academy grounds except you are on missions. Aside from food that would be given to you in the cafeteria, every other thing would be done with points, and to increase your points you'll need to complete missions or tasks that might given to you by society leaders or your seniors"
"Remember that, it is survival of the fittest, aside from missions and tasks, you can get points by any means possible"
"Like when you mean any means possible, you mean....", Derek said and Micheal nodded which caused a wide grin to form on Derek's face.
"At least he's being honest" Raven thought with a smile.
"If I have any more information to pass across, I'll send them to you through my assistant, Nora" Micheal said as he pointed towards Raven who rose an eyebrow causing everyone to stare at his direction.
A translucent figure hugged him from behind as it solidified into a busty woman who had an erotic face as she romanced Raven's body, seeing thus Michael's eyes twitched.
"So...so.. this.. is the body of ...of ..his descendant, huh, not bad, not bad, he..hehe..hehe " Nora stuttered in euphoria.
"Image, you damn woman!!" Micheal said lowly and Nora immediately stood upright behind Raven who jumped away from her and stared at her warily.
"I didn't even feel her appear", he thought as he stared at Nora who looked at him and gave him a sweet smile.
"Nora is a senior in her fourth year, she's an assassin" Micheal introduced her, to which Nora gave a curt nod, after the others had heard she was an assassin, they gulped.
"Anyway, that's all, dismissed!" Micheal said and turned around, " Raven, come with me" he suddenly added.
Nora's face changed and she rushed towards Micheal while the evetine except Raven left, Zhang Que winked at him and left with the others.
He turned around and saw Micheal looking at him apologetically while Nora was trying to burn holes into Michael's head. "Come with me"
Michael turned around and Raven followed while Nora just disappeared, whether she left or not, nobody knows. Raven followed after Micheal as they turned through several places before they got to a huge building, which caused Raven to raise an eyebrow because he could smell disinfectants and antibiotics.
"Hospital?" He asked and he just received a chuckle from Micheal.
"It's a hospital and is also not a hospital" Micheal said which confused Raven so he opened the door so they both walked in and the door closed behind them as they walked down a dim lit hallway before coming into a huge area where there several coffins with people in it, and there were some people with masks attending to the people in the coffins.
"What happened to this people?" Raven had to ask and Micheal just looked at him and turned towards through the coffins as he greeted the people working and they returned his greeting.
"These people had their system extracted from them, so they have been left in suspended animation, so we don't know whether they are dead or not, all we know is that their body functions are still operating" Micheal said as they stopped in front one of the coffins. When Raven looked into who was in the coffins, his face suddenly changed. Looking at the body suspending in the coffin, Raven clenched his fists as his gaze became dark, seeing him like this, Micheal sighed.
"He's not dead, and we don't know whether he is alive... He was brought in just this morning and there was a note in his hand" Micheal passed a piece of crumpled paper to Raven, who collected it, when he unfolded it, his gaze sharpened. 'FOCKER!!!'
"Who's responsible for this?"
"It's an organization called Devil's Syndicate, they have been in existence across worlds, their only goal is cause Chaos across worlds, their locations are not easily traceable,...."
"Is there any mission regarding them?" Raven suddenly asked.
Micheal sighed, "Yes, there's not only one, but several... Just check the mission hall at the northwest axis"
"Thank you.." Raven said before he looked at the body in the coffin, "...Danny, whoever did this to you, would regret being born"
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A pillar stood firm as it's height stretched far into the sky, around it was a large expanse of land, and around the land were mountains of different forms and sizes. Several people in black and red cloaks came out and went in from the pillar. The cloaks had a skull insignia on them and a number of stars around.
This area is one of the branch of the Devil's Syndicate, the number of stars determine the ranks of their members, ranging from 10 stars to 1 star, black cloaks are used to identify the outer syndicate members, e.g. recruits and adepts while the red cloaks were used for inner, core and elite members. Inner members wore a lighter red, core members wore a deeper red while elites wore a darker red with black lines.
Inside the pillar was vast compared to its thin frame outside, it was huge and it seems to have about 30 floors and each floor is assessed based on merits.
On the 13th floor, a red cloaked figure followed behind another red cloaked figure as they walked along the hallway, when some saw the leading red cloaked figure, they retreated in fear and reverence as they allowed the figure to pass. The leading figure smiled in appreciation, as it's gray eyes glimmered under the hood. He suddenly stopped and looked at the cloaked person behind him. "Did they get the body?"
The cloaked figure shook before responding in a quivering voice, "Yes... Yes, sir!!"
"Good, good... I wonder if he will like my present" the leading cloaked figure said as he suddenly pulled his head back and laughed causing the hood to fall off, revealing Focker's face.