"Burn it all!!burn the demon's nest down !"
"Use Holy Ignition to cleanse their souls with fire "
"Show no mercy they are all demon servants !"
"Don't let a single one of them get away,there shall be no survivors! "
The Holy Knights screamed as they charged with their shinning armour and shining silver swords that reflected the sun's light ever so perfectly.
"It is by order of the king and Central Heavenly Church that thee false God Shaka be punished for the following crimes dirtying the Goddess name, practicing demonic arts and proclaiming to be a God "
One of the Holy Priests from the Cent noral Heavenly Church of the Goddess faith read out loud the massage inscribed on a western style scroll . Reading out as the village burnt down to ashes the stench of blood and ash filled the air and amidst all the chaos unharmed was the lad known to the villagers as the Saint ,the healer of the sick their God Shaka the fire was not harming him one bit ,on his knees he had no strength to lift even a finger.
The Holy Priests and the Holy Knights were left astonished by the total immunity to the flames, "He truly is a demon " one of the Priests said . "Hurry ,Use cleansing spells ,they are best suited for fighting demons " the commander of the Holy Knights shouted at his men pointing at the kneeling individual .
"Who?...who ? .. who gave you permission to take their lives ?huh? Who gave you permission to give them such an unjust end ? They where my friends, innocent women and children, loving fathers and brothers all they wanted was a better life and I promised it to them so, why ?" Amidst their destruction and chaos they failed to hear the words spoken by Shaka .
"The Gods betrayed me , drained of all my Grace I found myself in this human body until one of the villagers found me,she healed my wounds and gave me food and shelter they showed me kindness the kindness I had originally thought of when I created all of you .... A demon ,me? A false God you say ? Don't make me laugh ."
With his words a great amount of Grace energy gathered through his left arm as in slowly started to change colours from the tip of his fingers and slowly up his arm and finally pitch black up to his shoulder the darkness spread to his right hand in a form of a single thin line that wrapped itself around the right arm in a clear visible line that ended up a the palm but only his finger tips and palm had darkened with a zig zag design,his light brown eyes now glowed blue.
The ground around the lad began to rumble the burning buildings collapsing even faster ,the Holy Knights began to laugh at the lad . "How amusing a demon showing signs of sympathy, don't make me laugh cleanse th-"
"You fools !! Run !! Run away this very instant if you value your lives !!" One of the Holy Priests screamed as two of them dropped to the ground out of pure terror clinging tightly onto their crosses and began to chant the words to a teleportation spell .
"Our duty is to cleanse this world of all evil and that demon is one of them ,do not fear man ,FIRE ! " The commander of the Holy Knight spoke with clear confidence and his declaration was met with a great response from his underlings as they roared and each began to fire a Holy Ignition spell the combination of the spells created a tidal wave of flame .
"You fools can't you see that is no ordinary demon ,his grace and aura are on whole different level we nee-" the priest was about to say they needed to withdraw but he lost his ability to speak after witnessing all the flames including the ones that had burnt the houses and villagers all flames had disappeared absorbed into the lads left hand without him having to even move a finger .The teleportation spell also began to crumble shattering with its fragments headed in the direction of the lad only to also be absorbed by his left hand.
"What's happening!?" One of the Holy Priests shouted out of panic and confusion,the whole brigade of Holy Knights stood there struck by fear and shock of what just unfolded out humiliation and fear the commander went on to say ," Use spiritual Grace to reinforce your martial,attack with physical strikes no magic allowed ,let's end this charge! " With a battle the commander's body was covered with pure white aura so was the rest of the brigade their blade shined imbued with spiritual Grace .
Each one of them charged to with the intent to kill having to surround Shaka insuring that he had no room to escape,but little did they know they were charging to their doom ,this was clear when the spiritual Grace opened their divine sense , allowing them to feel and witness what the Holy Priests were experiencing,but it was already to late.
"Holy Ignition"
The words escaped the lads lips as hundreds of the fire balls covered a 25 meters range this brought the whole brigade to a halt . " Multi-casting and wide range-casting at the sametime ,no way " the Holy knights spoke as they began to tremble , trying to escape some of the Holy Knights tried to use their boosted physical abilities to escape but it was already to late as they suffered multiple strikes of Holy Ignition that saw them incinerated to ashes each and every last one of them including the Holy Priests.
After the massacre Shaka went on to sit at the porch of the burnt mayor's office looking over the flames and the pile of bodies taking it in all for the last time ,just as he was about to leave he felt it ,it was faint but there was a survivor amongst the villagers ,Shaka rushed to see who was the survivor and how he could help them.
Only to find that the survivor was a ten year old child named Elizabeth,Shaka was not familiar with the girl but she village was small and the two knew each other the girl was burnt Hal he face and most of he body gaining consciousness was both a blessing and a curse ,she was now able to feel all the pain she hadn't when she was unconscious and all she could so cry.
With his right hand placed over the girls chest Shaka poured out large amounts of spiritual Grace into the girls primordial Grace pool to boost her body's natural healing capabilities with the extreme amount of Grace poured into her body Elizabeth was able to heal in an instant but the large amount of Grace was too much for the body to bare as such her body grew 5 years early to compensate for the abnormal amount of Grace .
"No way,my wounds ,the pain I'm all better now ,but how " the girl spoke with pure curious intent looking around and lying next to her was the scorched corpse of her mother she couldn't help but break into tears and all Shaka could do was give her a hug ,after burying the villagers standing over their graves giving them their last respects.
"I'm going to kill the Apostles of the Gods and reclaim my powers and bring back all the villagers back to life I promise" Shaka spoke watching the sun set
"I saw what you did back there ,and how you healed me ,and now you claim you can thing back my mother and the rest of the villagers back to life if you had that kind of power why didn't you help us from the beginning? why did you let them die ? I know I should be grateful you saved my life but why ? why didn't?" Elizabeth asked as tears filled her beautiful eyes .
" I have that kind of power ,but not at my current state ,I couldn't help but watch I had only enough Grace to sustain this human body I managed to absorbs the surrounding grace from the atmosphere because they had already used magic without my celestial form and I was conflicted by my own morals "
"wait what celestial form what are you talking about " after listening to Shaka's speech she couldn't help but be confused but all shaka did was walk away and with half answers she followed only because of the faith and hope that she would see her mother again.
meanwhile below the Central Heavenly Church a meeting was held by 12 shadowed figures,the only luminous provided was from twelve flickering candles infront of every one of the members present. "Report ." The voice of a woman pierced through the darkness the words were directed to the burnt and faintly grasping to life the only thing that kept him alive was his own will ,his own desire for vengeance.
the one I've been talking about my fear reader was the commander who lead his brigade to death fighting against Shaka ,he held great resentment towards Shaka,His little raid of Jasper village lead to the death of his son who was brutally toasted to ashes like all the men he lead through the village gates .My dear reader all the pieces were falling to places Shaka was on the move and the gods in panic .
" We must finish what we started ,Make sure his dead this time " a deeper voice pierce through the shadows also to reach the gathered , " we must strike now, while his still weak if he can absorb Grace like the commander Stated , it'll be no time until he has enough to enter his celestial state " another deeper voice spoke .
"we are all fully aware of that ,but his body is still mortal ,there has to be a limit to how much he can absorb "
"Honestly count me out ,I don't want any of this ,if he can absorb Grace your all good as dead ,so see ya,I wouldn't wanna be ya " one of the individuals moved from the table and went on to the exit.