"Are you going all in for the main target or you going to scout and kill the main target ?" Rux asked.
"Where is the box ?" Mike asked as he looked at rux.
"No idea...it has to be near him since he is ordered to deliver it even with his life."
"Even with his life huh...? Let's see if that is true or not." Mike said as he swinged his daggers in a manner that all the blood on them immediately wiped away by the high pressure of wind, that was produced when mike swinged them.
"Let's go " mike said as he immediately vanished into shadows.
Mike immediately appeared near the main tent of the camp and sneaked inside slowly while rux scouted the camp for him.
As soon as Mike entered inside the camp he noticed a familiar smell coming from it.
"Humming Straw's aroma." Mike said in a low tone.
Humming Straw is a type of flower that is used to make perfume for noble women and it's smell is very rare at a place like this.
But a noble woman at a place like this.
Mike immediately understood that something is wrong with this tent.
As soon as he realised that, he started taking his steps back to the exit of the tent.
"Huhuhu... Don't leave yet mr.assassin. Won't you complete the task that's assigned to you ?" Suddenly the tent was filled with bloodlust.
Mike immediately pulled his daggers out even though he knew that he won't win against this enemy.
His legs started shaking but suddenly he used another skill....
[Calmed Concentration] [D-Rank]
[With this skill, a warm nature's blessing will cover your body and all the bloodlust Directed at you will be deflected making your mind work two times faster than before.]
[100mana/minute]
"Who are you ?" Mike asked.
"I can be your death but first i have go find out what house sent you." The man answered as he revealed himself from the blanket.
Black hair, black eyes, fair and handsome face. His six pack abs shined under the moonlight as he stepped out of the bed.
"Looking at your eyes, you are a blood assassin not a newbie someone trusted to be sent on a mission like this and from your standing position and that martial artist's defensive elbow style tells me one thing that your age is around 27 to 30 years because you don't know anything about martial arts but still-"
"Shut up bitch." Mike said as he immediately jumped at the man with his dagger pair.
"Still so amature....i was hoping something better. Invulnerable Body." The man said as he used a skill.
[Invulnerable Body]
[Turns your Body into a solid form of invincibility. You may not be able to walk away from your position but every attack launched at you will deal zero damage in a time span of 3 seconds.]
[1000mana/use.]
[Daily use 1/3]
Mike noticed that the man wasn't taking any defensive stance and Letting his body open to his attack.
Thinking that his reaction speed is low mike increased his speed using another skill...
[Haste of the Darkness][B-Rank]
[Those who wander in the darkness, travels with haste. Increases your attack speed by 90% while reducing your defence by 50% for 5 seconds.]
[3000 mana/use]
"Die you bastard." Mike said as his speed increased by leaps and bounds.
He immediately aimed for the man's collar bone to stab.
*Clang*
*Ting*
But as soon as mike's daggers touched that man's skin they broke down into several pieces as if he just striked at a diamond with a plastic toy.
Watching this mike immediately backed off from the man's attack range and holded his previous position again.
"Are you finished?" The man asked.
This fucker...he used a fucking defensive skill before i even attacked.
Seeing that it was his turn to engage mike immediately casted his best defensive skill on himself.
[Guardian Of the Shadow][A-Rank]
[If you give yourself to the shadows the shadows will protect you too. Creates a shield in front you that can absorb upto 10000 damage at once for 10 seconds, if the shield doesn't break in 3 seconds your movement speed will be increased by 35%.]
[5000 mana/use]
[Cooldown: 1minute 30 seconds]
Suddenly the shadows on the ground started moving and a big shield of pitch black matter was formed in front of mike.
"Well well.... let's see if this can save you."
The man made a normal punch and striked at the guardian wall of shadows.
6000 damage received.
As soon as the punch hitted the wall an enormous damage number was reflected at the top of the wall.
"What the ?"
'This man....is he even human ?' mike thought as he prayed for the skill to last for two more seconds so he can escape with a 35% agility boost.
But that man didn't appeared to stop as he made another punch and striked the shield.
7000 damage received....shield is broken.
As soon as the shadow fragments went back to the ground mike felt like a trapped bird inside that tent.
It's like the man in front of him had no weaknesses at all. He was a total monster.
At this point mike immediately aborted this mission and started escaping.
"Shadow's path..."
As mike's body started to disappear a hand immediately grabbed his throat.
"Where are you going...? I am not done playing yet." The man said as he cancelled mike's one and only escaping skill.
"Null Area." The man said as the tent shined with a blue light.
[Null Area][B-Rank]
[No Magic or magical spells works inside this area. Can only be used at a target that is weaker than you.]
[1000 mana/5 meter radius around you.]
"Now, what do you plan to do huh..?" The man asked.
Mike immediately unsheathed a dagger from his left leg and furiously moved it towards his own neck.
As he was trained as a blood assassin....he was taught to immediately kill himself when captured by a stronger enemy.
But before the dagger can even reach near mike's neck it shattered into a million pieces.
When mike looked at the dagger he tried to understand what just happened.
At this moment when mike tried to kill himself with the dagger that man moved his hand so fast that was almost invisible to naked eyes and flicked his finger at the dagger resulting in it's destruction.
Mike understood it after a moment.
"Don't try...you shall live for the king." The man said as he tied mike up with a thick rope and left him inside the null area so he couldn't use any of his magic skills.
The man left the tent for a moment and came back in with rux's body hanging in one of his big hands.
"Ruxxxxxxx...." Mike shouted.
"Hey, shut up or he will wake up."
"You bastard, what did you do to my friend ?" Mike asked.
"Ah, i haven't done anything until now but...*crack* *puch*" the man siad as he smashed rux's skull and made a mess out of his brain.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO....YOU FUCKIIIIING SICKKKK BASTARD." Mike shouted loudly as he saw his friend's head being popped up like a peanut shell.
"Oh, was he your friend...you should've told me that before...well once done...it can't be reversed back....hahaha." The man said as he laughed like a lunatic.
Suddenly he closed his distance towards mike's face and spoke.
"Tell me...who sent you..?"
*Thoo*
Mike spitted on his face.
"Hohoho....still that attitude huh....?"
"FUCK-OFF, YOU SICK FUCK." Mike said as his eyes shined red in bloodlust.
"Well...since you are not going to tell me the easy way. I will have to try something else." That man said as he smiled towards mike with a crazy smile.
"I will not tell you shit, do whatever you want, torture me or kill me."
"Kill huh..? Death is not a cheap thing man. Not everyone gets it. I will make you beg for death but i will not give you death until you tell me your family's name...that sent you. My name is Marco... remember it because this name will haunt you for the rest of your life."
Mike didn't replied, but he didn't knew what was going to happen to him from now on.
Mike was tortured for 4 days straight...
*Splash*
"Oi wake up. It's time for you eat your food." A man said as he splashed a bucket of water on mike's face and slipped in a bread at him that was covered with a thick layer of fungus and dust.
In the morning this was given to him as food....after this he was beated to death like a training dummy.
His hands are binded with iron shackles that are engraved with mana devouring spell.
No matter what spell he uses his mana was never enough to initiate it, as his mana was stuck on 1 and the mana recovery has stopped due to the shackles.
His lips are dried to death but instead of water he was offered with piss of the camp soldiers.
"Alisa, Jenna....."
"How many days has it been...? 7...? No, eight." A low voice was heard inside a big wooden box.
*Knock-knock*
"You still alive ?" Macro said as he knocked on the wooden box from the outside.
Mike didn't replied...his lips are dry due to not consuming blood for 8 days straight.
"Well look what I've bought for you." Macro said as he showed mike a bottle filled with red liquid.
As soon as mike saw the bottle through the gaps of wood planks his eyes immediately turned red.
"B-Blood...." He said in a low voice.
"Here." Macro said as he throwed the bottle of blood towards mike.
Mike caught it at once and immediately opened it up as he drank it in one go.
*Gulp*
"It's time for you to face your judgement Mikelson." Macro said with a laugh.
"How do you know my name ?" Mike asked.
"Your little wife has made and pasted your flyers all over the town that says you are missing....hahaha."
"Jenna..." Mike said as he looked at himself in disappointment.
"I wonder if the Stonelake house's members will live inside the 7th ring for long."
At this point mike felt utterly helpless as his 8 days of torture were wasted and his enemy still knew the name of the house he was working for.
"Fuckk..." Mike shouted as he punched the wooden box but nothing happened to the wooden box, instead mike's hand started bleeding.
After this mike was directly taken to the king's court.
A blonde man sat on the throne and his eyes shined blue, his body was old, and a golden crown covered his head, a red coat was covering around his body, he holded a gem jaded cane in his left hand.
"Mikelson, you are found guilty of kingdom treason and stealing from the king himself." One of the king's minister announced.
"If you find any of these charges to be wrong or not true, you may say No." He continued.
"It's tru-"
"All of these charges are true, my king." Before mike could've said anything a voice came from the gate of the court.
As everyone turned and looked at the source of this voice...a man in his early 30's appeared....this man was none other than Robert Stonelake himself.
"Robert ?" King said as he looked at robert in confusion.
"I greet the all mighty and the ruler of the human race, your grace " Robert greeted as he bowed a bit.
"Are you here to defend him, sir robert ?" A minister asked.
"Of course, he is here to save his slave so he could use him again to steal things from the king." Another minister taunted.
"You idiots, didn't you hear what i said a moment ago ?" Robert said as a threatening aura was released from his body.
*Clang* the king moved his cane from his left hand to right hand and crossed his legs over each other.
Suddenly a far bigger threatening aura was released from the king's body.
King's aura overpowered robert's aura as everyone went silent.
This showed that the king was still far more powerful than robert.
Two prince who were standing on the left and right side of the king laughed as they watched this.
"I-I am sorry, your grace. I shall not repeat the same mistake ever again." Robert said as he stopped his aura from spreading further.
Everyone went silent and only one voice was heard after the silence.
"What do you want, Robert ?" King asked in a heavy voice.
"My lord...Every charge on this man is correct and I've already killed his wife and daughter in order to punish him for his crimes." Robert said.
As soon as these words fell in Mike's ears his mind went blank.
"He was a very good servent for our family but exactly 10 days ago he went rouge and betrayed our family as he planned to steal something very precious from my king with his friend Rux." Robert continued.
On the other side mike was listening to the fake charges that he was getting charged with even though he didn't do any of them.
"J-Jenna....A-Alisa...are.....DEAD." suddenly a very threatening aura was released from mike's body that broke the shackles that were absorbing his mana.
"Y-You killed my wife and my daughter ?" Mike said as he looked at Robert like bloodthirsty beast.
Raising his right hand towards robert mike started chanting a spell.
" O Lord Of The Shadows, I Offer You The Sacrifice Of Blood. Grant Me Your Power.
[Last Sacrifice][Rank: Forbidden Grade]
[It is said that who lives in shadows will perish from the light but before light comes everyone has to face the shadows. With this skill the user will offer his life to the 'Lord of the shadows'. He who resides in the depths of hell will wake up to the user's call and will be summoned to the real world. He will grant the user's last wish and collect his body and soul in exchange.]
[Your Life For the summoning]
A black aura rose up from the ground as it continued to grow bigger with time and consumed mike's body in it's dark aura.
'What do you want, Mortal ?' A black figure asked mike.
"Kill everyone inside this hall and drag their souls to the depths of hell."
'HAHAHA...YOUR WISH SHALL BE GRANTED, MORTAL.' The black figure laughed.
Suddenly a malicious black aura started spreading all over mike's body as it took over him.
Mike's body was turned into a demon's body.
Only two golden shining eyes were visible on his head, leaving them aside....every part of mike's body was covered with shadows.
"Shhhhhhh....Haaaaa....Mortal World's air still has the same sweetness in it. Just like old times." The shadow covering mike's body spoke as it took a long breathe inside and let out a black vapour from it's mouth.
"A Forbidden Skill." Someone spoke out loud.
"What a forbidden skill...?"
"Yes, That's a very rare forbidden skill...only those who've achieved a certain class in shadow assassin race can use it."
"What the hell is that thing ?" A minister asked.
"I don't know it looks like a demon." Another minister replied.
"Lord Of The shadows." A young minister with green hair and blue eyes stood up from his place as he shouted.
The black figure immediately looked at the young minister and smiled in a evil way.
"What ? Lord of the shadows ? You mean that Lord of the shadows who had a contract with the 3rd general of the demon king ?"
"Yes, The counsellor."
The whole court immediately went silent.
"Well, mortals it's time that you all die."
"Guards, kill him." A minister spoke.
The knights were afraid of the black figure but it was a order from the minister they had to accomplish it.
As commanded 12 guards came running towards the black shadow but as soon as they stepped in a 5 meter radius of him all of them died instantly.
Only black vapours came out of their metal armours.
"How dare you, mortals ?" The black figure spoke in anger.
"You fiend, on the name of the lord return back to the depts of hell from where you came from." A man wearing white gown and holding beads in his hands stood up from his seat and shouted as he throwed holy water towards the black figure.
*Shhhhh*
The holy water turned into steam as soon as it touched the black shadow's body.
"Ha...Haha...Hahahhahahahahah....you think i am some lowly demon don't you ? You think you can just shoo me away with that drinking water of yours huh...?" The black shadow said as it laughed out loudly.
The man's expression who throwed the holy water on the vlack shadow immediately turned grim.
"This...is impossible." The man spoke as his beads turned into a big snake and killed him instantly by biting at his neck.
"Aaaahhhhhhhhhh..." After watching his death everyone inside the hall started to panic as they started running towards the exit door.
"No...You are not going anywhere." The black shadow spoke as it raised it's index finger and pointed towards the exit gate.
*Thud*
Both gates immediately closed off as a black covering covered them.
"No...let me out." A woman shouted as she tried to open the door forcefully.
*Chck*
Suddenly the black layer covering the door turned into two big hands and cracked her neck as they went back to normal.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... someone save me."
"Noooooo....he is going to kill us all."
"Save us....lord."
Everyone started panicking as they started running here and there.
"Ah...this smell of fear." The black figure said as it laughed like maniac.
"Oi, stop laughing i don't like bitches like you." A man said as he stepped out of the mister's section.
He was none other than Denver house's representative Drake Denver, who was also a minister in the king's court.
His hair were blonde, eyes were Green, glasses on his eyes and a locket in his hands that was made out of silver in the shape of a star.
"Hmm...? A holy blessed soul ?" The black figure said as it looked at drake.
"It's time for you to return back to hell." Drake said as he made a punch and jumped towards the lord of the shadows.
"Futile." Lord of the shadow said as he flicked his hand and drake exploded into a million pieces of meat.
"So...what were you saying again...? I didn't heard it clearly." The dark figure laughed as it kicked the pieces of meat on the floor.
"Hah...and i thought it will be a peaceful day." King finally said as he stood up from the royal throne.
"Hmm....? Who might you be ?" The figure asked as it looked at the king.
"I will give you only one warning...return back now or you will regret even coming here." King warned the lord of shadows in a very threatening tone.
"What if i don't go ? What will you do then ? Kill me and send me to hell ? But i am already dead." The black figure spoke.
"Don't blame me now, I've already warned you." The king said as he picked up his cane and it started to glow bright golden as it turned into a white sword.
Suddenly the smile on the black shadow's face faded away and a serious expression replaced it.
"Great Holy sword, Narjia. If i am not wrong, Am i ?" The lord of shadows asked.
"Get ready to die...you unholy demon." King said as he disappeared from his place and appeared behind the demonic figure.
King immediately swinged the sword on the black figure's back but suddenly a shield of shadows covered him.
*Screeech*
The holy sword cutted through the shield but gave him the time to dodge the attack.
The black figure immediately jumped from that place.
"Fuck...how do you even have that sword...? It was broken during the war with the demon lord." Lord of shadows asked as his expressions turned somewhat tense.
"My ancestors gave me this to kill the likes of you." King said as he leaped forward to stab the black figure.
"This is stupid." The black figure dodged this attack too but a part near his hand got in touch with the holy sword that resulted in leaving an incurable wound that shined with golden light.
"You...i may be returning this time, but i will be back again and at that time you will be killed first." The black figure said as it started leaving mike's body.
'MORTAL, I HAVE FAILED TO GRANT YOUR WISH AND THE DEAL IS OFF, YOUR SOUL WILL NOT GO WITH ME TODAY.' lord of the shadows explained to mike.
The black figure immediately faded away into the ground and the black aura covering the whole court also faded away.
"The king killed him."
"Yes, the king has saved us."
"Hail the king."
Everyone immediately went down on their knees as they showed their respects to the king. Even the Princes went down on their knees.
"Stand up, everyone. I am very sorry for your loss, inform the royal commander about your loss...i will try to fullfill it with the best of my abilities and the cause of this... Mikelson shall be ripped off of his royal status and all of his possessions. His magic core will be sealed for the rest of his life and he will be degraded to a slave. This court meeting is over for today." King announced as he went to his room.
That's how Mike's status was reduced to a slave.
Back to present.
Mike has reached Robert's house.
"It's time for you to pay back for what you did to my family, Robert." Mike said as he pulled out two green coloured and slightly curved daggers from his inventory.
Mike made his way towards the stonelake mansion, he didn't even tried to hide his presence from the main door guards.
One of the guards looked at mike incoming towards the mansion and stopped him by slightly putting his hand on mike's chest.
"State your purpose..."
Mike first looked at the guard's hand and than looked at him.
"Do you have a family ?" Mike asked.
"What ? Hell no...who wants a family and don't try to change the subj-" before the guard could've completed his sentence his body was suddenly chopped up into 32 pieces of mean.
As soon as the parts of his body hits the ground, the other guard starts running towards the main entrance of the house to call for back up and inform the house master about this, but before he could've reached the main gate his body was also chopped up into exactly 32 pieces and fell down on the ground.
Mike killed two Elite Vampire Soldiers within 3 seconds of the first contact.
"If you try to interfere with my revenge, you will be dead, sooner than later." Mike said as he walked up to the entrance and opened the main gate to the house.
As soon as he opened the gate he was welcomed with 30 soldiers, properly geared to kill him at once.
Vampires can smell blood from 5-6 km away, so when mike killed the first guard, it was a signal of intruder entering the premises.
These 30 soldiers are the Second grade soldiers, they are trained to Kill or die...they don't have the option to run.
There are 4 grades of these suicidal Soldiers and the more the grade rises the more loyal they are to their duties.
"Leave if you have a family...or you will not return to them after tonight." Mike said as he released a very threatening aura from his body.
This time Every single vampire inside the building felt it even robert.
Robert stood up from his chair and ran towards the main hall and so did his 5 sons and their partners.
"This aura... I've felt it before. Don't tell me, it's him. It can't be." Robert said as all of his calm expressions turned into stressed once.
Meanwhile another man has entered the stonelake mansion. This man was none other than...Frank himself.
"What the hell is happening outside...I-" before he could've uttered another word he noticed Mike standing in the front gate and in front him a force of 30 vampire guards.
"S-Sir, Mike...?" Frank said as his face turned White from the aura mike was releasing.
"I repeat...you can leave alive from this place if you care for your wife or children...but if you stayed i can assure you that you will not leave this place in one place." Mike said as he prepared his dagger pair.
"Soldiers, attack." Their general orderd.
"As you wish. <32 Death's Sleep Slash> X 30." Mike said as his eyes shined bright red.
Mike's body suddenly disappeard and reappeared on it's place within the fraction of a second.nπΈπ£π-πΏπ―.In
Robert entered the main hall and saw a face in front of him that he was never expecting to see again in his life.
"Kill him, you stupid-" Robert tried to order the soldiers but before he could've said anything the 30 guards in front of him turned into a pile of dead corpses.
"Absurd. His powers are increased." Robert said as he started running back inside the house.
"Robert, no matter where you run today...you can not be saved by anyone. Not even the king himself can save you." Mike shouted and these words echoed through the house like a death warning.
Without wasting any time more guards started coming out to stop mike but his magic knew no bounds today.
"
*Booom*
[Aurora Beam] [S-Rank]
[Collects mana from the atmosphere around you and transforms it into a destructive energy, concentrating the collected energy at one point and compressing it to a very complex level will result in a sudden brust of powerful beam towards the pointed direction destroying the target at molecular level.]
[10000 mana/ use.]
Aurora Beam evaporated many soldiers and turned many into dust... seeing this other soldiers became afraid to death but they had to follow the commands of their master.
More soldiers kept coming and mike effortlessly killed them like ants.
On the other side Frank looked at this scene and he was also afraid to death as he acknowledged mike's anger on his father.
"What did my father do to him, for him to be this angry ?" Mike murmured in a low voice.
"I should stop him." A voice said.
"Can you kill father ?" Another voice answered.
"No but if-"
"No 'Ifs', He can kill father and your work will be a piece of butter after that...i have it all planned out for you to sit on the throne, that belongs to the leader of the stonelake family."
"But this is betrayal-"
"Everything is fair in love and war just sleep..."
Inside another room two brothers of the stonelake family are preparing for something else as they are packing their clothes.
"Are you sure this is right, Sebastian ?" Cassius asked.
"Brother this is right time...i am escaping with sable, if you want to come you can but don't waste my time by asking useless questions." Sebastian replied in anger.