A jolt of pain flashed through my brain as a current of information tore into my mind. Images, scenes, and events flash before my eyes. Like a whole other life that I lived.
My palms clasped my head as I growled out in pain while my knees buckled beneath me. The scenes kept pouring in mixing up yet arranged understandably.
I could see everything, from a life once lived on earth. To my death. Truck Kun as usual. My soul's ascension to the hosts of the heavens and then my posting to this world as an angel with a Blessed tier and Elite rank.
By the time I leveled up to the corresponding Angel tier and Legendary rank, the war broke out. There were no memories of the why. I wasn't high up enough to know. All I remembered was the war itself. A gruesome spectacle that made me tremble even more. Then I saw a scene flash by in my mind.
An angel by my side fighting. His armor was torn in several spots his smile contagious even as he bled. His laugh rang in my head as he took a bolt of an arrow to his chest.
'Buddy'.
The scene skipped to him crumpled up in a mess of bones and skin. A reminder of what he must have undergone. Yet my memory showed me holding onto not a demon or dark being but an Archangel.
A silver-haired beauty who looked at me with such coldness it was a wonder I hadn't frozen.
The cause for whatever was going on was blurred as the next scene took over. I was dead watching her feet as she departed the rest of the army fighting savagely around us with none a bother to what had transpired. Then an explosion of light from the castle caught my eyes the sundering red flames spilling out from within like a dragon's breath.
The scene ended with a flash of another winged being, male this time smashing through the walls of the castle and heading for the castle keep.
A familiar angel. One I had seen before. His sword even in my memory exudes the cutting effect. It was the same one who had dealt the last blow to the devil. He whose sword lay on the floor of the keep.
The pain abated and my senses returned.
I squatted there gasping for air a bit before turning slowly to look at the male. It was obvious what the voice wanted.
Whatever had transpired within the castle that day had affected many things. While I didn't understand what it had to do with mine and buddy's gruesome death at the hands of an Archangel I was certain it was all connected.
Why kill two angels without reason? I doubted it was because of something as stupid as insulting her. That would have lowered morale. Which meant whatever reason buddy and I died for was enough to risk the army's morale and opinion.
"What did the light faction hide by killing us? What did we know?" I mumbled. Since I was still looking at the boy he felt the question was for him. Confused he raised a brow as he began thinking.
'What do you want me to do exactly? ' i asked mentally. It was obvious already that the voice could communicate and if wanted something it had better speak up rather than have me splash about in confusion.
To my delight, the familiar gleam of runes reappeared little by little but no voice.
- CONQUER -
- RULE -
The runes flickered for a bit then vanished before a new row of words appeared. Going through it I made a grumble in annoyance as one word appeared in my mind.
', Impossible'.
[QUEST]
[RANK - SSS]
[DURATION - 3 YEARS]
[RISE OF A KINGDOM]
The Deadlands is an accursed but fitting name for your new territory and home. Yet, nothing like a place for a being of your standing. Develop your new home to become one befitting of the Dark Faction and you.
REWARDS - ?????
FAILURE - ?????
[QUEST]
[RANK - A]
[DURATION - 1 MONTH]
[DRAKNAR HOOVES]
A lord without an army is no lord. Get your first 1,000 legendary ranked soldiers.
REWARDS - TECH BLUEPRINT x2, DUNGEON CORE x1
FAILURE - X TO FEATHERS.
[QUEST]
[RANK - SS]
[DURATION - 1 YEAR]
[Men in arms]
No lord should be at the forefront of everything. Delegation is a sweet thing to do. Trust me. Get at least 10 heroes before the year runs out.
REWARDS - Altar of souls.
FAILURE - NONE
(You could always ignore this. Your choice)
The voice was obviously playing with me. While it hadn't said a word I was certain it was behind all this.y fists shook for a moment before I sighed and exhaled to calm down.
'Even though I dislike this. Looking like this there's no way I'll be able to do as I please in this world. But.. I can always grow stronger if I complete all this. Maybe then I can do as I want. ' I reasoned.
'And there's buddy's death. That archangel needs to answer.'
Turning to the male I asked, "What is your name?".
His eyes were narrowed as he answered his body rigid.
"Crimson Zes Caztula the III".
Eyeing him for a bit yet more runes showed up. I was honestly getting tired of them.
- NAME - Crimson Zes Caztula the III
- CLASS - Undead Butler
- RANK - BODYCELESTIAL
- TIER - SHATTERED III
"Well Crimson. As my butler, you're gonna help me to fix a lot of things. First things first. How do I see my status information?
Once he told me I said the word wondering whose insane idea it was to make the name of the planet the active word.
Regardless I was still stunned when my stats popped up. Looking at it for quite a while I frowned for a long time before looking at Crimson.
"What's the highest rank and tier in this world? I'm certain I know I'm just curious, again."
" Its Soul Divine and Shattered V. Why?". I stared at him for a long while before looking back to my runes. I still stared at it dumbly for yet another while before speaking in almost a whisper.
"What the hell is a Nadir then?".