Jon decided to stay in the Blackwood mansion for the time being, by placing all the Blackwood family members and servants under house arrest. Which turned out to be a good thing too as Jon found the book of 'Demonic Curse Of Wrath' in Francis Bolton's room along with his personal stuff which he ignored to take with him while doing his cool exit by breaking off all ties with the Blackwood family.
'What a dumbass!' Jon thought looking at the book in his hands.
The Demonic Curse of Wrath represent the wickedest of evil magic skill. To start practicing it a person must first sacrifice all his immediate family members in a demonic ritual to create the 'Abomination'. The Abomination has a characteristics called 'Despised By All' that will make surrounding people turn hostile, and despise the person with this characteristic involuntarily. The negative feelings towards the practitioner of the Demonic Curse Of Wrath is turned into Cursed energy by the Abomination. This curse energy is used to perform curse magic techniques. When a person reaches 6 Star initial stage in the Demonic Curse of Wrath the person will be able control the 'Despised By All' characteristic and will also be able to curse someone with the same characteristic.
'It's a good thing that I stopped him from reaching 6 star initial stage or else he would have just cast the curse of Despised By All characteristic instead of planting the Abomination on me, then I would have been in deep trouble. I don't know whether the system would have been able to simulate the Demonic Curse Of Wrath, with only the Despised By All characteristic, without the Abomination. No one Should perform such evil rituals.' Jon thought destroying the pages that contained all the information about the sacrificial ritual to create Abomination.
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The second day after Ashura left the Blackwood family.
"Mr. Ashura, the Carlo family is going to mess with the Blackwood family today." One of Ashura's servant reported to him.
"Should I follow up on their movements?" The same servant asked bowing respectfully in front of Ashura.
"The Blackwood family means nothing to me. Why do you make such a big deal out of it? I don't care about them. Since the Carlo family want to mess with them, let them do as they wish." Ashura responded dismissively sipping on his drink.
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Jon's temporary residence, Blackwood family mansion.
Jon just completed reading the book of Demonic Curse Of Wrath, when he heard a commotion inside the mansion, as someone broke the main door to the mansion and entered forcefully. As Jon went to investigate he saw a man wearing a black suit and gold rings with diamond, sitting on an armchair smoking cigar, with three bodyguards to his either side and Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood kneeling before him.
"Where's the 10,000 Gold coins you loaned from us, the Carlo family?" Asked the man on the armchair.
"Mr. Carlo… What are you talking about?" asked lord Blackwood confused.
"You said we didn't have to pay you back." Mrs. Blackwood aske for clarification in a small voice.
"Mr. Ashura was your matrilocal son in law back then, so of course you didn't have to. But now…" He answered in an accusing tone of voice.
"Please give us some time. We can't take out that amount of money all of a sudden." Mr. Blackwood pleaded for time.
"Ha! If only you had treated him well before." Mr. Carlo mocked.
"What's happening here? Who told you that you could have guests over?" Jon asked walking down the stairs.
'Who the hell is this bastard?' thought Mr. Carlo in unexpected anger.
'Why does my head hurt when ever I see him?' Mrs. Blackwood thought with uncontrollable anger.
'Why the hell did this bastard come out?' Thought Mr. Blackwood angry at seeing Jon.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (HENRY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (ROSE BLACKWOOD)
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
…
…
…
'Damn! Abomination is taunting everyone here. Now I'm the most hated person in the room.' Jon thought receiving source points from all the people present in the room.
"If you can listen to me and teach this brat a lesson, maybe we can work on the loan." Mr. Carlo told the Blackwood's.
"Really? It must be his luck to have you lecture him, Mr. Carlo" Mr. Blackwood said trying to kiss his ass.
"Go kneel before Mr. Carlo, you brat!" Mr. Blackwood commanded Jon in an angry voice.
"Who do you think you're, ordering me around? You seem to forget that I'm not one of your servants. It's more like you are my servants under the current circumstances." Jon responded narrowing his eyes and walking up to them in a domineering manner.
"You can do whatever you want with him Mr. Carlo we won't interfere." Mrs. Blackwood offered.
"In that case… Boys break all his limbs! But don't kill him though." Mr. Carlo ordered his men.
"Yes, sir!" all six of them responded going to attack Jon.
They where no match for Jon, who was a master of the Interception Fist with magically enhanced physique. They where unable land even one solid punch on Jon.
"You wanted to break my limbs, right?! I will show the same courtesy to you." Jon said breaking all their limbs.
"You dare hurt members of the Carlo family?!" Jon Carlo shouted at Jon, dropping his cigar and standing up from the armchair.
"What the hell are you doing?" Henry Blackwood shouted in Jon's face.
"Are you planning to drag the Blackwood family down with you?!" Rose Blackwood shouted, raising her arms to slap Jon.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (HENRY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (ROSE BLACKWOOD)
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (HENRY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (ROSE BLACKWOOD)
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
Jon put both Blackwood's on the ground with a simple slap.
"I have shown you real strength! Show me a normal reaction!" Jon said getting really frustrated with the Abomination.
"You asked for this!" Said Jon Carlo, pulling out a revolver and pointing it at Jon.
"You messed with Jon Carlo, the head of Carlo family!" Jon Carlo satiated, pulling the trigger.
~bang~
The bullet just bounced off of Jon.
"What…?!" Jon Carlo was shocked. After the initial shock he pulled the trigger repeatedly.
~bang~
~bang~
~bang~
~bang~
~bang~
~click~
~click~
~click~
All the bullet like the first one just bounced off of Jon.
"What are you? Are you mage?!" Asked a shocked Jon Carlo.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (SURPRISED): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
"Ding, ding, ding… And we have a winner!" Jon mocked Jon Carlo, walking up to him.
"Lucky for you, I'm good natured or I would have buried you alive." Jon told Carlo picking him up by the throat.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
"Cough… F**k you!" Jon Carlo cursed at Jon, even when Jon could end his life easily.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
'I thought I brock him out of the influence of Abomination! No problem let's try again.' Jon thought dropping Carlo on the ground and started kicking him…
…
After nearly an hour of abuse.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (FEAR): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
'Finally! A normal reaction. Let's have a talk before you are influenced by the Abomination again.' Jon stops beating him.
"Now then… Why don't we have a talk?" Jon asked Carlo.
"Okay…" Jon Carlo whimpered from the ground.
"So, tell who are you? And what are you doing here in the Blackwood family mansion?" Jon began his interrogation.
"I am the current head of Carlo family the biggest mafia family in Windgaze city. Let me go and I'll never give the Blackwood family a hard time again." Jon Carlo said in the best authoritative voice he could muster.
~slap~
Jon slapped him in the face
"Is this your way of begging for mercy? You don't seem to understand your place. Answer everything I ask you, and do whatever I tell you to do. You are the one who needs to buy his life from me, so drop that rich-lord attitude. And always remember I can kill you whenever I want to!" Jon satiated picking him up by his throat.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (FEAR): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (FEAR): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
"Got it!" Jon asked tightening his fist.
"Yes… Please… let go! I… got it!" Jon Carlo begged struggling to breathe.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (FEAR): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
"That's more like it!" Jon said dropping Carlo.
"Cough… Huff… Huff…" Jon Carlo was trying to catch his breath.
"Now then tell me why you're here. Did Francis Bolton tell you to do this?" Jon asked again.
"It was my idea. Now that Mr. Ashura has made his identity public, everyone here wants to please him, and the Blackwood family is the easiest way to do that. I reported this to Mr. Ashura's sidekick before coming here. He told me that Mr. Ashura said he'd save the Blackwood family for tormenting them slowly, just for fun…" Jon Carlo answered without hiding anything.
'This is good. He doesn't know that I am hiding out in the Blackwood mansion. I can only run away if he rushes here and look for lodging elsewhere. With his current attitude towards the Blackwood's, I'll have enough time to upgrade…' Jon thought happy with the information.
"It was either me or someone else. I'm just a vanguard. Please be the bigger man and forgive me, Mr. …!" Jon Carlo begged on his knees.
"You can call me Mr. Dayne for now. As for forgiving you and sparing your life… Compared to what Francis Bolton aka Ashura has planned for you, it would be a thousand times better to just die now by my hands!" Jon said in an ominous tone.
"What?" The pointed words and ominous tone seems to have shaken Mr. Carlo.
'He took the bait!' Jon thought happily.
"Do you know how he gained his demonic curse magic and what happened to the rest of the Bolton family?!" Jon asked Carlo, judging by his reaction he seems to have a rough idea.
"That's right he sacrificed his entire family members in a demonic ritual to cultivate the Demonic Curse Of Wrath, a truly wretched and evil ritual. Coming from me a member of a dark guild my self, you might get an idea of how wretched it is for me to ca it wretched and evil. He was using a curse to slowly drain all the life force from the Blackwood family to further his progress. That's when I came along a put a stop to it, for that he cursed me with a characteristic curse which makes people hate me unconditionally to stop me from warning you people about him. The next step in his cultivation is to kill all the people in Windgaze city whether it be friends, allies or people who got nothing to do with him, in a mass sacrificial curse ritual to advance into a celestial stage mage." Jon told Carlo a cooked up story mixed with truth about the Bolton family and Blackwood family and bullshitting about the part where he plans to kill everyone to achieve celestial realm. To turn make Jon Carlo against Ashura.
"What?!" Jon Carlo had hard time processing what he just heard.
"If you don't trust me here is the magic book from where he got his magic powers from. You can be the judge after you finish reading it." Jon said by presenting the book of Demonic Curse Of Wrath. Jon was gambling that he would be too afraid and superstitious to even read a book which he described as wretched and pure evil.
Jon's gamble was safe when Mr. Carlo jumped two step back from the book and shouted " Keep that thing away from me!"
'Thank goodness, my lie would have been exposed if he had decided to read it.' Jon thought relieved.
"Please, save us Mr. Dayne!" Jon Carlo begged Jon on his knees.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (GRATITUDE): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
'Hook, line, and sinker!' Jon thought in delight after seeing the gratitude source point.
"Fine! But I need you to monitor everything Francis does back to me."
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (GRATITUDE): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (APPRECIATION): 0.01 POINTS (JON CARLO) ]
"Okay, Mr. Dayne! I will try my best to monitor Ashura's every move." Jon Carlo said bowing to Jon in a show of appreciation.
"Act like you his the Blackwood family hard, and don't tell anyone about me! I will also leave dealing with the other vanguards to you Mr. Carlo. Try to stay clear of any suspicion from Francis. And try to satisfy Francis by fulfilling his commands, for now." Jon instructed Carlo.
"Also, leave all your bodyguards here. We can't risk any leaks!" Jon said looking at the unconscious bodyguards.
'Abomination will only take effect when people see me in person. As long as Jon Carlo doesn't see me, no stupid dramas should happen in a short time. I should also have a study supply of source points with all the people here combined with the Abomination. I should try to reach the required 2000 source points as soon as possible to stimulate the Demonic Curse Of Wrath skill.' Jon thought making his immediate future plans.
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