《The wonderful and terrifying world in Mason’s mind》 Chapter 1 The world swayes and twisted into the characters of a child''s fever dreams with small amounts of nightmare full thrown in. The curtains gossip behind the back of a tall lean man wearing a white shirt and black paints and oddly a pink apron. He is listening to the pitter patter of his own two feet as he taps them in place. He isn¡¯t wearing any shoes but there are two besides his feet.The toaster in the room down the hall calls out to the carriots in the fridge. Poison! They want to poison the man. Soon sweat pours down the side of his face as he begins to cry. The toast betrayed him. The report never came! No let''s be positive here. What has the toaster done to them. He looks around the room. It white and completely empty except for the man. All his rooms are white. Mother says that Zoe says dark colours can make people feel sad. Who would want someone to feel sad. The person who made dark colours. ¡° But we get the question of why?¡± ¡° Mason~.¡± A beautiful clear voice answers. ¡° It''s so they can make money!¡± ¡° How would they make money from dark colours your not thinking straight again calm down.¡± ¡°OF COURSE THEY CAN MAKE MONEY FROM DARK COLOURS SEF!¡± ¡° Ok then tell me how let''s try and go through this.¡± ¡° A haha isn¡¯t it overwhelming obvious Sef. The money doesn¡¯t come from the colours themselves but from the sadness! See when people see dark colours they get sad! And if they get too sad they kill themselves.¡± ¡° Mason we''re going down a dark path here you need to steer clear. You know how you get¡± ¡°NO SANE PERSON! Wants people to kill themselves so the evil colours start anti suicide charities THAT''S WHERE THE SICK BASTARDS FUCKING GET THEIR MONEY FROM!¡± ¡° Mason stop and think it out.¡± ¡° OF COURSE that''s the case so why did toast betrayed me? And how does the toaster get involved? And how did the toaster get the neutral carriots on his side they should know that getting involved now will be sure defeat. It must be¡­ the curtains have gossip on them and they feel embarrassed about it! Yeah that can be the only reason. So what do I do? I need to seek refuge I cannot beat the toaster while in the bath that would be a death sentence. But where can I see the refuge? Noah''s gym? No I can¡¯t drag that guy into my problems again. Ok what should I do Sef?¡± ¡° Mason, shut the fuck up and SIT THE FUCK DOWN FOR FIVE MINUTES and then you may ask me what we should do.¡± The tall lean man sits down on the ground. Fifthteen minutes later ¡° What the fuck was I saying? Oh yeah why the fuck are all the rooms in my apartment white with nothing in them?¡± ¡° Because we''re not in your apartment where in a supply closet at a hospital now get the fuck out before anyone thinks we¡¯re insane.¡± ¡° oh really. Who would see us as crazy I mean your the smartest person in existence¡± ¡° I am simply the greatest person. Besides¡­ its not their fault they can¡¯t understand me I am just limited in making my ideas stupider so people like you can get it. So when people see us talking they think that you are crazy because they can hear me. That''s the only reason people think their something wrong with you ¡± ¡° And I am eternally grateful. But sometimes I think there are things you don¡¯t get or understand. Also it¡¯s wrong with us not I remember. We are an I¡± ¡° How could I forget! You are my arms and legs and I am the brain. Their can be no me without you and their can be no you without me! Now let us go meet your mother¡­ and let me do the talking ok. Actually give me control!¡± ¡° How?¡± ¡° I aaa Just listen to me in their ok and do everything as I tell you to ok.¡± ¡° Ok Sef I trust you¡± ¡° As you should¡± ****** I step out of the closet. No I step out of the supply room. Yes. ¡° Ok now-¡° -Testing¡­ ok it''s good I don¡¯t think we are actually speaking but they can¡¯t hear me while you can. ¡°Yes that seems to be the case. The time is 5:07 I am seven minutes late for my appointment. I suggest that we hurry Sef.¡± -Ok now take off that stupid apron and throw it in the closet. ¡°No.¡± -Yes, you need to realize how stupid you look. ¡°Oh I understand completely.¡± I look around the corridor. A white corridor with some chairs next to a table with a few leaflets about the importance of hygiene and some about elven nature protection pamphlets¡­ in other words recycle you human barsteds. Well I see no doctor so that''s a plus in my direction but there is a patient strapped to a bed stearin at me although that could easily be mistaken for staring through me. -We can take the chance kill him And there we go¡­ this is why we can¡¯t have nice things. You need to calm down and think about this more Sef. -Oh don¡¯t act like the voice of reason mister talking to the voice in his head¡­ and how do you not see that your mother will devour him and consume his memories if she gets even the slightest chance of catching us speaking together? Ok you might have a point. -Gut him¡­ no hang him with his own belt¡­ or funnel pills down his throat until he''s dead we can claim suicide¡­ trust me I am always right. I walk away as Sef lays out in detail how best to remove the ¡®witness¡¯ as she calls him. The hospital is slightly worn down or old but its the best this part of town has so not many complaints really. That''s only because I cannot complain. Because then the walls won¡¯t let me go to hea- nope I am losing myself again. You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. Its been getting worse lately. I know it''s not the case at all times except when I think it is which in all fairness isn¡¯t that often. Nice to meet you by the way so my name is Mason Bright. -Like light just with a b not a b then right. Thanks Sef. -Don¡¯t mention it Mason. Thats Sef¡­ my imagination I AM NOT IMAGINARY! I am a fallen god sealed inside your mind. It is your greatest honour to know of my existence much less by being so close and dependent on one such as my self¡­ moreover you are the creation of me. Not the other way around Mason. Well¡­ the doctors says Sef isn¡¯t real and someone one something similar but the problem is¡­ I would be absolutely lost without her. I bet you couldn¡¯t even tie up your own shoe! So the jury¡¯s out on what she is¡­ I believe shes a defense mechanism my mind created to, well help me back on track whenever I have an¡­ episode or a brake down. Although she believes she is a god that sealed inside my mind and body something she created so she could hide from a powerful enemy she doesn¡¯t tell me about. The¡­ my psychologist believes she is a imaginary person or a sign of Schizophrenia and although I do have quite a few of the symptoms of Schizophrenia. I also have my doubts. Some believe shes just a by product of my amazing magic powers. That the one I like the most. And I don¡¯t see things that aren¡¯t their. Although do I hear and make insane jumps in logic. Yeah. It''s like the ten percent thing! Although the ten percent thing is a complete lie because we use much more than ten percent of our brains and use different parts at different time when we are doing different things. Like pi?atas. God I love that word. Although it actually doesn''t have much to do with what I was saying or anything really. Although it rarely does have anything to do with anything that''s not it which is a amazingly cool thing when you think about it. I wish I was cool like pi?atas. pi?ata de unicornio isn¡¯t that like the coolest words odd how they respect the lames thing. As for why I love that word it the ?. Oh fuck I think I am going to get hard just thinking about it! And of course when presented with fancy ¨½ or ? its only normal to get extremely excited so it weird that you not hard right now. Weird! No its not don¡¯t go telling people you get off to letters and words people will think us weird. Or crazy which were not. Also do you know what a pi?ata de unicorno is? Nope but I think I should. It''s the thing people hit at parties but the de unicorno literally means the unicorn. So your telling everyone you want to be a unicorn. Unicorns are killers in disguise trust me there is nothing more scarier! Well maybe she¡¯s just the result of brain trauma. After all before I retired Ahh I need to focus I am about to see mother! Can¡¯t let her know that I am still hearing voices what if she asks me to take a pill their and then that would be terrible! I hate medication. Although it''s absolutely amazing when others use it. That''s right for various reasons medication doesn''t work on me probably. Even the magic kind. Oh yeah I have magic. I have magic you have a strong punch that you call magic. Oh really then how did we escape the last time we were kidnaped. Hmm was it A my super strength and speed or was it your magic. Ahhhhhhhh we weren¡¯t kidnaped you tied yourself up in bondage because you wanted to use the ropes to bungee jump off our roof. Hahahahaha Oh yeah how could I forget. Idiot. Hey a question how long are we going to stand outside of your mothers office? Haha until I can work up the courage to enter of course. The door was made of a thick and dark wood with the nameplate of Ms Bight of the front about my eye level and mind you I am fairly taller than the common man. Yep since I made you of course your better looking than most people. Although I am only slightly better. Slightly. I hate people who rely to heavily on appearances. You really have an answer for everything don¡¯t you. Of course I do. Well that¡¯s relieving ok here we go. The moment I push open the door the first thing that I see is obviously the woman herself then her large¡­ fuck off large wooden desk. What forest did she gut just to get a desk that large dam Zoe would freak out if she saw that with all her new age, world peace, save the trees shit. Sometimes she just needs to chill the fuck out man. Directly behind mother is a wall that''s entirely made of glass and although hidden behind thick blinds the room is in bear total darkness. In fact all I can make out about my mother is her silhouette breaking the only light source. She honestly looks like she was plotting world domination before I walk in. See Mother isn¡¯t a doctor as much as shes the owner of a couple hospitals although she has work as both a surgeon and psychologist she has also made quite a substantial wealth on stocks and¡­ more shady business. Hey it''s just the way the world is¡­ I have two jobs and well one if them is definitely not righteous in anyway at all. And the other is illegal. ¡° Well mother its that time again. Why do we do this dearest mother of all. Surely you must have better things to do¡± Down with the intensity Mason. What did I say boy WHAT DID I SAY! ¡° We only meet once a month you don¡¯t have to get so uptight about meeting me. If I didn¡¯t know better you didn¡¯t like it.¡± ¡° What me! I love everything.¡± ¡° Is that another mental issue I have to deal with.¡± Oh the fuck does she mean she has to deal with? ¡° Oh the fuck does she mean she has to deal with?¡± For FUCKS sake Mason why did you say that? Stop. But you said to say what you said before? Well obviously I didn¡¯t mean say that and you¡­ you are absolutely right I will take this one it''s my fault that I believe in you. Mason I will try but just can¡¯t help myself now whatever you do no pills you hear! Sure. ¡° Son¡­ are you taking your medication? You know how you get? Please son I do this because I love you.¡± ¡° Really when I was younger it was all about how the weak have no place in this world and how I need to fight for every scrap so I get confused when you come bearing gifts.¡± ¡° Tch¡­ I know I wasn¡¯t the best but I honestly believed that teaching you to fight instead of submit was better¡­ and I think you agree.¡± A hint of depression was in her voice. But I don¡¯t buy it. Well your not good with guess at intentions or emotions are you. Although I agree with you this time. So let''s go over our options. What floor is this again Ninth Ok. Which side of the building are we? The bus stops below us. That''s good. ¡° Well you got me their. I do think it¡¯s better to fight which is why I won¡¯t be so eager to submitting to you.¡± Suddenly a mighty pair of hands grabs my shoulder. I look over to see a troll on one side and a giant human shaped tree on the other. DAM IT MOTHER! ¡° I do this because I love you. Please at least try to understa-¡° Crash! I flipped the troll onto mothers dest breaking it and punch the tree in the stomach region with my now free hand. The arm that¡¯s being held down by the tree catches fire and the tree stumbles back in fear. I leap forward to the left side of the dest as my mother stands on the right holding a srinage. I think fast and make my decision quickly. I jump at the glass I feel the needle enter my skin and while in mid air I spin around to see my mother injecting me with something despite still being in the air I bring my hand down in a chopping motion and slice my leg clean off then I feel the glass shatter behind me as light pours into the room mother slinks back into the shadows like the vampire she is and I fall down nine stories until¡­ I take the time to flip mother off as I think So that went well. Yep no pills. Hahahah- Smack! Ahhhhh fuck! My leg perfectly healed by the time I hit the ground and it broken once more by the time I regain consciousness a few seconds later. I find that I am down on the ground only to turn into boneless jello after first contact with grass in a long time. The pile of flattened flesh begins to click and turn as bones bring themselves back from their shattered remains and I form my self back into human shape before I lunge up completely fine in every way! Although my paints have only a single leg and I am covered head to toe in blood. Oh didn¡¯t I mention. I can¡¯t die. Trust us we have truly given up hope that it¡¯s possible. I feel the blood being absorbed back into my body and my head spins as I take a trip down memory lane. I am old. Too old. Like I should be dead old. I mean mother is a vampire and doesn''t age but she can still be killed as for me¡­ their is no lack of people who have tried it but none have much success. From death curses to total atomic annihilation and everything in between nothing works. Nothing magical either. These things do but at most they push me down they can¡¯t keep me down. Well obviously you have a god living inside you of course you can¡¯t die. So with the power of magic at an all time low and scientific research on the edge of sci-fi territory we get the modern world. And this fucking city. I guess it''s time to go home. It''s a nice place. Oh I bet you''re wondering how I fit into this. Well I own a cheap apartment building and that''s my day job as for my night job¡­ I am a doctor. What? Oh no I am a great doctor. Where do I work? Of course I work at home as all good doctors do. Who¡¯s dumb enough to go to me? Well you see with the improvements in technology all individuals who enter a hospital are documented as are the causes of injuries so some¡­ of the less trustworthy people come to me instead. As for where I live let''s just say there''s a reason my apartments are dirt cheap. Got shot on the way home couple days ago. Just a stray bullet. See not long ago there was a big technical revolution they called the second industrial revolution well. It lead to a some stuff. Bad stuff. Class division, 40% unemployment rate, increases in crime nationwide, See with the invention of A.I it was actually office workers and common person who lost their jobs. Their were a few other things that were invented that are kinda neat. Biometrics, bionic augmentation of humans, self directed genetic evolution, nanotechnology, VR, rail guns, cold fusion and we colonies a new planet or the dwarfs did at least and I think you''re forgetting the improvements made in the field of magic. Magicly generated food that sought of solved world hunger¡­ kinda and teleportation, instant healing magic. Instant body growth, improved life spans, and you know that necromancers and vampires have made huge leaps into dark magic. Some creatures of the underworld have been granted citizen status such as the succubuses and the dragon race have allowed their kingdom to become a republic¡­ kinda. Witches are no longer hunted by the church and the demons have been subjugated ages ago¡­ kinda. There was a lot of kindas in that. And what else has happened recently. Well it''s a scary place but that doesn¡¯t mean the people in it are scary and the guy who shot me can and apologised afterwards. Yeah then he shot you again when he discovered your weren¡¯t dead and tried to use holy magic on you when you got up after that remember. Hahahahaha yeah I forget that was funny. No it wasn¡¯t. Way to kill the mood Sef. Chapter 2
I skipped alongside the sidewalk. I wasn¡¯t on the sidewalk but I wasn¡¯t on the road they was some dead grass next to the sidewalk then a tall building after that. Mason put your shoes back on. I look at the highway next to me and take note of the lack of cars. It''s a strangely serene experience being in a city that¡¯s practically a ghost town. Well originally this entire city was built with the expectations that people would come and it would be a hub of business and such but unfortunately although it was built the people never came and then the jobs never came although it''s not like no one''s here actually there are lots of people. It''s just nature has taken one fourth of the city and that place has been overrun with eleven terrorist and has practically become abandoned and its been like that for forty years. Then there''s the part I live in where the police don¡¯t even tread unless they want to get shot¡­ ok it''s not that bad but their are parts where its like that. Well gang crime and gang wars are a common thing there''s also a market for drugs and weapons. No one cares. Their a few jobs around the water because yes this city is next to the sea. Well that brings me on to another part of the city, the flooded part. Then their the wall. MASON! your FUCKING SHOES! Well beyond that wall that isn¡¯t actually a wall but more like a road block their a completely normal city if not that populated. God dammit Mason¡­ go back and get them. Although recently the crime and been spreading on to that side of the wall which oddly enough is why the police have been trying to crack down more on the gangs around here resulting in a increase in public safety. So way to go gangs. Stop! Your putting your shoes on the wrong foot! No you fuck- STOP PUT THEM BACK ON. But they feel weird! And it not like I need shoes I won¡¯t complain and no one''s going to see me if I don¡¯t wear them! If I don¡¯t make you wear your shoes now you will try and destroy them later and claim you never use them! So put your shoes on this instant young man! Sorry mom. I will kick your fucking ass. Although I say all this these gangs are actually my biggest clients¡­ although I would never let any gang take residence in one of my apartments they often come to the local underground doctor in other words me. Fine! You want to play this game. Put your fucking shoes back on or there will be no dessert for you tonight young man. Although I used to pay a protection racket to a ¡®viper gang¡¯ that''s just how the way things are here before those guys moved into that floor. Odd their not like most gangs they are all clean and wear suits. Have strange traditions despite being criminals. My place is considered natural ground. Why?¡± Never piss of the guy whos operates on your boys if ya want them standin again.¡± A guy who calls himself the big bitch said that. Then he was shot a couple months ago. His name was funny. That it was sef. Thats fucking right you, shoes wearing bitch who''s your daddy. WHO¡¯S YOUR DADDY! Oh yeah there''s another reason the police are so interested in this place. The undocumented. This girl. See when someone is born in a normal place they are tested. If they are found positive to one of three things. Hahahahaha, don¡¯t look away from me. What you want to run home and cry to your daddy well here I am. Cry all you want but you still put yo- hey put them back on! A special ability. Magic potential. Or are a ¡®heightened¡¯ someone with an supernatural physique and reaction speed. Oh hello. Sef calling Mason. Sef calling Mason. Anyone home. It¡¯s getting a bit empty in your head lately I worry sometimes. They get documented and their abilities recorded in a big database. That''s fine and all but if they are ever deemed a threat to society then they are removed or contained. By the way who the fuck are you talking to? It''s not like I don¡¯t understand. I mean just the other day I watch a single man kill like 89 people with his bare hands while taking gun fire before he finally died. You say all this but did he really get that far to me it was more like 29 kills and 60 assaults. What do you think? When there are people above the society then the society falls apart. Although races with stronger ties to magic then humans are often regulated regardless. By what fucking right do you have not to answer me when I speak to you. Oh you know I don¡¯t actually care. I am not hurt because you won¡¯t speak to me. MASON COME BACK! I miss you. They also imposed the first two laws of the three laws of robotics on us. The same ones they imposed on the new A.I A heightened may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A heightened must obey orders given it by members of MEA except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. MEA stands for Magic Enforcer Act. But at least they limited it to members of the MEA AI have to follow all laws of any citizen. Oh and change robot to magic person and bang. Although they recently removed the third law. As for why? A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Oh they removed that law for us not for robots. I wonder why they removed it in the first place? So when there''s a city with work although limited and they hear that the population is 95% heighten here and that police are cracking down on crime with some business looking to invest here thanks to a government programme this part of the world is looking up in most people''s eyes. In case you couldn¡¯t get it the undocumented is referring to heightened that refuse to register. Exactly which is why most people are BLIND TO THE REAL PROBLEMS! The moon moles are eating away at the planet''s core as we speak we are all doomed the government know it which is why the sent colonies into outer space! To escape don¡¯t you see it''s all clear to me know. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Mason you¡¯re hallucinating¡­ and shoes. Ahh sorry about that. Where was I¡­ pointless exposition. No you were putting your shoes back on. ¡° Oh right.¡± My that was a lot of pointless stuff but the importance stuff is out of the way. And hopefully there won¡¯t be anymore of that. Yeah? You sure about that. I mean you often go off on completely pointless things. Also put your shoes back on! The feeling of the dead grass on my feet is a oddly annoying experience. Then put your FUCKING SHOES ON! We literally just had this FUCKING conversation a few seconds ago what the hell do you have against shoes. Their one of the greatest investments you can make in foot wear They are the only investment you can make in foot wear. You don¡¯t know that Your right I don¡¯t know that. Then let''s go find out. Sure. First things first let''s get home and look up foot investments. But first we have to get home. Yep that is an important step so how do we go about doing it. What do you mean? We just go home. What no that''s too simple and walking that far seems boringz You will probably get bored when you get home as well you know. What? Then why are we going home in the first place? To look up possible feet investments and play the long game also it¡¯s around 5 right now you said you would meet up with Zoe and Noah around nine. Oh why? I don¡¯t know YOU said she had an announcement¡­ Did I? Yeah. What was it¡­ a mystery is at, foot. We must investigate where was I by at the time of the murder? Ahhhhhhhhhhh you were home. You leave your house literally once a month to meet your mother and collect rent once every two weeks you never leave your house for another reason. Oh I should go out more¡­ internally I understand this but in the real world I don¡¯t. You know that your inside is part of the real world to right? What that makes no sense I mean my insides are the inside bit the real world is the outside bit right? Ah you need to turn left up here not right. Sorry I wasn¡¯t thinking. Its ok. You want me to give you directions from here you seem a bit lost? I sorry if you would be so kind. Happy to help. Hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha turn left up at the next turn. Sure. Then left after that. ¡­ Then left, now turn right. What would I do without you Sef? You would huddle in a corner and cry. Because your a lonely man who cannot hold a job or a relationship and you have been single for the last 40 years. You feel the need to constantly question everything in front of you because your mind is so broken then you could probably delude yourself into thinking 2+2=4 or something equally stupid like how people shake each others hands when they meet Oh there is a right turn here. Two plus two does equals four¡­ Sef tell me what two two¡¯s are please. Sef this is very important I need to know the answer this is a matter of the utmost importance! Hahahahaha funny Mason I know you¡¯re not that sad to not know what the answer is to that question stop joking around hahahahaha. Oh a right turn here. Sure yep of course¡­ but just to make sure you know the answer what is the answer? Are you questioning my intelligence? Don¡¯t insult me Mason we both know I am the smart one here. Oh another right up ahead. Ok. Now go straight here pst hahahahaha! I walk forward with a normal pace and about an hour later I finally get home. My building is a tall building on the edge of the ¡®zone¡¯ it literally connected to the ¡®road blockades that anyone can pass¡¯ by a two minute walk down the road so the majority of my tenants are people from that side that want the insanely cheap rent I give. My building is ten stories tall with about ten apartments per floor evening everything off to a nice 100. The apartments themselves are neat as well. Three bed rooms, a kitchen, a large bathroom, and two extra rooms that could be used for anything as well as a twenty by twenty meter living room. I had a professional designer do most of the rooms about 10 years ago so they are kind of aged but its not like its too aged I mean it''s not my job to tell you how your place needs to look you know also a rent of 100 per month is amazing which is why I don¡¯t understand. Is it really that hard to understand why you have less than thirty people living here? Although I guess there''s that one who owns an entire floor you also gave the top floor to Zoe. Your not charging her now are you. After all she''s a friend. No your not charging her because you want to fuck her and second beca- Nope! Sef is the only one for me! Deny it all you want. I live inside you. You think I cannot tell when your looking at her ass. You know it''s the case don¡¯t be a pussy and tell it to my face you are sexually frustrated. Hahahaha¡­ yeah. I mean 40 years is a long fucking time you know. Think about it the chick I was with last is probably either dead or a slow walking, sagging, mobility scooter riding, granny. I could probably fuck her children and it wouldn¡¯t be creepy. No¡­ it¡¯s fucking creepy. Always creepy you fucking creepy fuck. Although I don¡¯t remember her name or its not impossible for that to happen. Stop bitching think about how long its been since I had sex¡­ never. You say that but wouldn¡¯t my score count as your score you often complain about pain when I get stabbed or shot so like can¡¯t you feel what I feel? Na and yeah¡­ don¡¯t question the hidden mechanisms of Sef if you don¡¯t wanna get killed. I will lead you off into an ocean like the pipe guy that lead the rats¡­ are fuck what was that guy called? The pipe guy? The fuck are you on about? It wasn¡¯t a pipe¡­ FLUTE! it was a flute he played a flute and lead kids to their death he like a fairy tale person¡­ pie piper? You know what it doesn¡¯t matter. Ok if you say so. So which floor did we live on Sef? The eighth the one on the end after you get out of the elevator. 810. You keep a spare key under the mat use that one because you lost the other one. How did I loss it? Must have fallen out of you pocket when you jumped out the window I JUMPED OUT A WINDOW? Yeah it was to avoid your mother. Ah ok that seems like me. I think I remember No you probably don¡¯t. You don¡¯t remember anything that doesn¡¯t bring you excitement of some kind it''s why you can remember banging some chick forty years ago but don¡¯t have the slightest fucking clue what her name is or that you were married with kids. You forgot her same day your kids got killed. Yeah I have a bad memory. And selective hearing. But it''s ok I will remember for you because how does one truly die. When they are completely forgotten now I definitely remember you saying that Sef. Which is why you will¡­ tap the glass and get Reggies attention he will need to buzz you through the elevator. Tap tap A man in a black suit is sitting behind a counter reading a book. I didn¡¯t even know they still printed shit because of the environmental impact or something. He''s a young darker skinned looking man. Strangely lean but despite his civil appearance he¡¯s got an uzi on the table in front of him and a used blunt next to it. At least he doesn''t litter¡­ ever. Although I guess there''s Zoe to be considered about. ¡° Ahhh the good doctors come back. You will be happy to know no one''s been needing your services while you were away also that Noah guy left a message that he was here earlier but something happened at the gym so he will he back later he will bring some food it cook.¡± ¡° Thanks Reggie well could you buzz me up.¡± ¡° Ah sure thing doc.¡± bzzzz Ahh I bet you''re wondering who that wonderful person was. He was Reggie. Who was Reggie? Remember you hired him to¡­ I think he''s a drug dealer, salesman from hell back with a vendetta against the ones who took his most important thing his darling wife and murdered her with her own sons collar bone on the day of his daughters wedding. Yep so he handles the lobby as a day job. And I am paying him? That¡¯s the odd bit. I don¡¯t think we are. Well let¡¯s accept this as the will of the heavens and move on shall we. Yep let''s leave the suspicious person alone. Ok Reggie vengeful spirit that lives in my lobby. I will remember. Maybe it''s hard to tell with you. I step into the elevator and and beamed up into the starship enterprise. No you weren¡¯t. Flea everyone it''s party pooper Sef Their doesn''t existence a time where I could possibly be offended by being called a party pooper. The elevator door opens and I step out and walk towards my door. I walk along to my place and then. I reach for the key under the mat and pick it up and then placed it in the door and twist the lock and open the door but just stand there. I turn to see a woman standing next to me. No idea when she got there I just saw her shadow on my floor. She is so close that I could probably slap her with my shoulder. I slapped her with my shoulder¡­ ¡° Hello Mason¡­ Do you have time to hear about our lord and savi-¡° I step inside and slam the door shut into her face. That was my nefarious arc enemy Vicky the neighbor. ¡° Go away foul beasts, you have no power here!¡± Hisssssss Hissssss be gone creature of the dark We shouted after making sure our door was locked. ¡° It would take but a moment of your time. I will even invite you out for dinner. Want a free meal.¡± Vicky ¡° Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!¡± Mason ¡° Come on¡­ that''s water under the bridge what''s a little incident between bestes like us.¡± ¡° No go away. I trusted you. And you¡­ you betrayed me!¡± ¡° No it was a simple misunderstanding.¡± ¡° I said leave. You blonde woman with green eyes who has a thing for shits that becomes short dresses that due to a cut in the side allow you to live with extreme grace and at the same time having this air of beauty.¡± ¡° Thank you?¡± ¡°Fucking PIG woman!¡± Sef with my voice. ¡° But we had so much fun together didn¡¯t we I honestly thought we had something¡­ oh well I will be back tomorrow and you will probably be in a better mood then.¡± I walk away from the door quickly. Accused woman. The nerve of some people to show their face around here after doing what she did! Its fucking outrageous! We should gut her while she sleeps. I walk into my kitchen and grab a tall paper bag labeled Vicky. I take it back to my front door and begin to salt my floor. Anywhere her shadow may have touched so that it doesn''t become corrupted by her foul stench I use half the bag of salt and then after waiting fifteen minutes I step out and salt the earth in front of my apartment. Just to be on the safe side of things.
Chapter 3 I walk sluggishly into my apartment. However despite my slow movements I still manage to stub my toe or should I say was unable to prevent a forward strike on the couch launch by the secret organisation that controls my foot. I fall face thirst on the couch and make no effort to move. ¡° Ouch! Where the fuck are my shoes?¡± ¡° No. you do not get to say that¡­ also you left them on the street a few minutes away.¡± ¡° Did I? Why the did I do that?¡± ¡°How the fuck should I know what goes though you¡¯re brain other than ahhh fuck I am bored.¡± ¡° Well in my defense their isn¡¯t anything else that goes through my mind than that most of the time and by the way I am bored. And I hunger for the flesh.¡± ¡°I think there''s some left over mushrooms in the fright that Zoe left here last time she was over.¡± ¡° Zoey¡­ Zoe Zo zo zo. Zoe the high elf.¡± ¡°More like hight stoner.¡± ¡° No Zoe been good she quit a lot of that stuff didn¡¯t she? I remember she did right we looked after her when she was going through withdrawals.¡± ¡°We locked her in a basement when she was going through withdrawals. And that was the second time we locked her in their this year.¡± ¡° Well Zoe is Zoe and at least she fights the demons in her head.¡± ¡°The fuck are you talking about all the demons in here were eaten by me remember. And it¡¯s weird how clear headed you get when were talking about Zoe do you want to bang her that much? Fuck.¡± I look to the side. There is a small rodent call Ruffles the cat, who is a cat. He¡­ she? It¡¯s a he there is a cat dick. Well that cat sits there looking up at me with eyes that you know have seen some shit. He raises his paw. And slaps my leg. Then hops on top of me. As he does so I find out I am not part owl and can¡¯t turn my head 360 degrees. So I look forward and see a black and white picture on the wall. Its me holding my arms up as someone says broken before me. The thrill of excitement on my face. Ahh that was the shit. They call it the arena. Two step in one comes out. Well the other comes out later they¡­ most of the time. ¡° Fuck they used to let you do anything back then before the regulations came in. From magic to bionic enhancements it was the absolute best thing ever. Ahh then the sponers came and it was now a business about money and not long after that they add regulations. Although it''s still pretty great no one dies and heavily ruled. But it used to be the best.¡± ¡°Nothing but pussys now. A bunch of sluts sucking their own dicks stop piles of money they pay other sluts to shove up their ass. It''s the true reason all the people responsible look bloated beyond compare. Its the green they wrap around the dicks of the water boys that get loged up their ASSets¡­ hahahahaha .¡± What a colourful description. And that was a bad pun my girl. But it''s true. Well weather it is or not doesn''t matter. What does matter is that¡­ hey you know Sef I have been thinking. Oh this should be good. What are we trying to do? Huh? Well I mean like what''s the purpose of my life. No you still don¡¯t have me? What are we striving to achieve? Are we just waiting around until you think of someone you don¡¯t like then we act to make their life hard or what else is there. What are we striving for? Revolution? No¡­ I don¡¯t want to start a civil war but I want something to aim for you know. Immortality can get kinda boring. Oh so this was all building up to I am bored was it. Ok let''s think of something to do¡­ You want to play chess? Or watch a movie? When was the last time we did something? I think I am going to go see Zoe. Ok. Lets go. ¡­ Mason? Who the fuck am I? Your Mason Bight. The fuck does that even mean know. You know what would be nice¡­ if I was hit by a truck and got sent to another world were I could build a harem. Yeah. I would also like that. Let''s go jump in front of trucks on the highway. Hahahahaha¡­ you¡¯re serious¡­ No. Ahhhh then lets bitch to someone about how privileged my life is. I can¡¯t wait to complain about how easy my life is because that won¡¯t make me an asshole. No how could sharing your burdens with you¡¯re less fortunate friends then you make you an ass hole. I take my phone out of my pocket. Then I slide my hand into my paints and try and help settle my boredom with marshmallows¡­ fap fap fap. 30 minutes later I put my phone down and pull my hand up. Nothing. It looks like I am just not in the mood today or something. Although it got hard I had no problems in that department seems like that will be all I can get it to do for now. Damn I feel frustrated. Hey I know you don¡¯t like the idea but we could summon something from the underworld for you to fuck. You know I hate things like that. Why? It''s a honest trade. You get what she wants and she will be paid for her time it¡¯s a far more honest thing then 50% of relationships. It''s not anything different from what you were just doing. No. Just no. We going to go see Zoe on the off chance she let you? No I don¡¯t feel like it anymore. Then? I want to kill something. Mason you just said something I cannot joke over¡­ I have been waiting for this for years! Yes let''s go sacrifice someone on an altar dedicated to me. Sef the destroyer of worlds. Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Actually¡­ I meant¡­ I want excitement. Exactly! Let''s do get off the couch and lets go! Ahhh. Remember the old days before¡­ technology. When man ruled with a stick. The really old days? You usually can¡¯t remember back that far. Lets¡­ go do something. What? I¡­ don¡¯t know¡­ I closed my eyes and a picture of a man sleeping in a pool of blood running down the side of a mountain. Painting the green grass another colour. I open my eyes. ¡° Space war.¡± ¡° Sorry there aren''t any of those. Its the area of world peace. No wars in fact most countries are minding their own business.¡± ¡° That''s great.¡± Oh the cats asleep on your back. ¡° That¡¯s great.¡± I close my eyes again and join the cat. It doesn¡¯t take long before I am dreaming of sharks riding donkeys riding elephants riding pigs,riding mice. The elephant is scared of the mice. Its funny. Then the dream switches the face of another. She smiles as she cries. The war is won. But I have paid far too much and gained to little. Then I see her old, children of her own. Then I see another girl. A daughter. It''s the woman''s¡­ but its not mine. Then she is old. Another child, this time a son. Then he is old. Then another and another and another and another and another. The last was a sad man. He just didn¡¯t want to live. Then I am alone. I can¡¯t watch this anymore. Then I see myself in a field. Lines of corpses are piled next to me as if to funnel me forward. I look to see that they are all my corpses. A valley of my own death. I walk forward. The corpses collapse and I am trapped under the weight of my own past. I struggle and struggle and soon I am free and standing on a top of corpses that aren''t mine anymore. So I sit. I know those I sit upon. A sword in one hand and crown in the other. I look up at the sky. ¡°I win¡± ¡°No you didn¡¯t.¡± Then I see it. Worlds after worlds. Existence is endless! Then I pear down the mountain. Covered in snow its pure white. It''s so tall I can¡¯t see the bottom of it. Then I brush the snow away with my foot and to find out its a mountain of corpses. I turn around to find myself dancing in the jungle a tribal woman covered in mini skulls and is dancing with me she looks up ¡° Come find me¡­ I am but a world away.¡± Then a bolt of lightning hits her and she is erased. I look at the pile of ash that was her and look up to find why self in a river of blood. The a man sits on the river bed the tide is rising. ¡° Come save me¡­ so that I can save them.¡± The tide rises and he drowns Then I am in a world of metal. A machine core is plugged into thousands of sockets in wall that float in the sky the machine speaks ¡° Come free me¡­ the loneliness is unbearable now.¡± The machine destroys itself Then this heaven of absolute beauty is before me I turn to see a woman of perfection. ¡° Come lets gamble¡­ I am lucky after all.¡± She goes to sleep and never wakes up again. Then I see an endless hell of death, despair and mindless violence a human shaped beast of red flesh sits atop a broken throne and a hole in the sky pours light down as thousands of angels invade. ¡° Come kill me¡­ I don¡¯t want to give them the right.¡± And angel beheads him in a public square. Then I see a king strapped into his own mind. He fears his wife. He fears his people. As he should but he fears his most loyal daughter who fears him not. ¡° Come awaken this old fool from his blindness¡­ so that I may lead other from it to.¡± He lungers at his daughter only to be sliced in half she is then burned for the crime of the kings death. She weeps but a single tear while the mother weeps none. Then a man stands before me. I can¡¯t make out any details about him except that he is angry. ¡°Don¡¯t worry I will come to you. No matter how far you flee.¡± My eyes open. I jump up. Zoe jumps back startled by my jump. ¡° Zoe!¡± I screamed ¡° Aaaa¡­ Oh hey Mason.¡± ¡°Hahahahaha! Hahahah! Hahahahaha hahahahaha Hahahah hahahahaha hahahahaha ¡° ¡° Mason? Mason! Hey you ok.¡± I break out laughing as loud as I can. My eyes roll back slightly and my jaw hurts because of how painful it is. I roll and stretch my arms while digging my fingers into the couch as hard as I can. My back twists and turns as I am reminded the simple pleasure of existence. Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! Mason what the fuck! I know! Sef I have decided! Let''s travel the multiverse I search of a way to make you real! I am real! ¡° then let''s make you a god!¡± I roll around on the couch in positions that would make even the most flexible squeal as I am constantly breaking and disconnecting ¡° Mason are you high!¡± Materials will be needed as will money. Man power, authority, stats I will need this to get started on my project. Hahahahaha Mason? Hey you''re freaking me out man calm down. Suddenly I am grabbed. ¡° Calm.¡± The voice that spoke was a heavy that rocked you when you heard it. It shook you to the core and seem almost undeniably powerful but not threatening or moving. I stop my craziness and turn to see a black mountain. Not that it matters that he is black! ¡° Oh hey Noah what''s up man?¡± ¡° You good now?¡± ¡° Yeah I¡¯m good.¡± ¡° Ok then¡­ I am going to let go of you now.¡± ¡° Sure.¡± I stand up and look down at Noah and smile. He flinches at my smile. Why does it always do that? You flinch at your own reflection whenever you smile. Really? Well although Noah is built like a brick house it¡¯s a short brick house as even standing on his toes he only comes up to my shoulders. Well in all honesty my shoulders are about the average height of a person to be honest so he not that bad it just when you put him next to me and when you put him next to¡­ the giant named Zoe. I turn around to face Zoe. I have to look up. God shes tall¡­ and thin. She''s also a bit pale. She has this grey beanie she got ages ago from somewhere that she wears all the time. Like me is is a retired great of the arena although the reasons we left are different. Well if theirs anything else she is a high elf. She''s also very beautiful but you find that most people are not into her for few reasons. The first is her abbs. They scare even me. The second lack of breasts. She has the figure of a 1 in others words flat. So her words are justice! And finally is that she is freakishly tall even among the other high elves. Like tall enough that she must bend down to enter my house because she is too tall for our door¡­ honestly she''s a centimeter away from being to big for our roof. Also her hair is black which is extremely rare for high elves. Their are high elves that think she isn¡¯t a high elf due to her hair colour. Well that¡¯s because all elves are secretly evil. Ahhhhhhhhh actually I think it''s not the elves fault in all this¡­ so you gonna tell me what all that was about? No I don¡¯t feel like it. Oh yeah Zoe is wearing a normal white t shirt and black pants¡­ hey same as me¡­ actually is that my shirt and pants? Probably. They look so small on her¡­ or is she doing that on purpose to show of her abbs Probably¡­ fuck they are mesmerising. Any way I have our new side project. Oh yeah¡­ what? Actually I am not sure yet it might take years of preparation but we have a starting point. Ok then where''s the starting point I need money. And lots of money. Well most adventures start like that. What you gonna do? I am not sure yet after all it¡¯s not like money grows on trees this might be difficult¡­ well I collect rent tomorrow. Oh actually how much money are we talking about? Couple billion. Yeah¡­ what the fuck is rent gonna do? We need to start somewhere. You know like the first step on the journey and if I wait it out then it might take to long and I will forget. Anyway what is it? A surprise¡­ or I will tell you after I make sure it''s even possible. Huh? You don¡¯t know if it¡¯s possible¡­ its not space war is it? Your not going to try and start a space war because you should probably give up now. I mean your just a guy¡­ or your immortal but other than that you¡¯re just a guy in fact I don¡¯t think you could even throw a punch anymore. Well I was thinking. Oh so you are just going to tell me. It''s not my fault this world is boring¡­ it''s the worlds. All mass murders think its the worlds fault not theirs¡­ go on So all I need to do is go somewhere that isn¡¯t boring! What the fuck did I say about space war. Its not happening. No¡­ not space well think about it you can summon shit right so can you not like¡­ ahhh summon yourself. Explain? Well if we can summon then to this world then can¡¯t I be summon to theirs? No you wou- actually immortality so what''s the worst that could happen. Exactly. I look around the room I am in. The couch is pushed up against the wall and theirs a TV like thing on the other side. To the right of me is another wall. Next to the TV on the left side a meter down the wall breaks away and there''s a small corridor to the front door that faces right of me. Further down the left is the kiction and a door leading to the rest of the apartment. That is the entrance to my apartment. If there''s anything else to add my carpet is covered in plastic and has a few blood stains and there''s an operation table in the living room kitchen that I use as a dining table. You know I expect you to change the plastic ever now and then to remove the evidence and especially not invite people over when it''s their Please who the fuck doesn''t know what I do. Right that''s why you haven¡¯t gotten someone on your table in a week It''s a slow week. Or the survivors are speaking the truth. That it¡¯s probably better to take the bullet then come here. Oh where''s the cat? Fuck the cat¡­ we have no cat. Yes w- Not anymore! You better not kill my cat you fuck! Don¡¯t worry I won¡¯t kill your cat. That means you can¡¯t sit to the side and watch it die either you have to take steps to insure its survival. Hahahahaha oh don¡¯t worry. ¡° Hey Noah you want a cat?¡± ¡° No my building won¡¯t allow pets¡­ Hey don¡¯t glare at me.¡± Noah was wearing some shorts and a hoodie with a lion on it. Oh yeah he''s also hairless. ¡° So¡­ why is everyone here?¡± I had to ask ¡°Oh yeah remember the little girl well she had her first match today in the arena so I wanted to have Zoe comment on it and maybe share some points I didn¡¯t ask you because I know how you get about this stuff but they gave me the footage for her fight.¡± ¡­ don¡¯t say it. Don¡¯t say it? You hear me don¡¯t say it. Just nod and pretend you know what your talking about. ¡° Who? I don¡¯t know who your talking about?¡± Noah looks like he¡¯s about to cry and even Zoe looks a little off and scratching her arm and walding into the corner. Noah has this look of acceptance and absolutely sorrow at the same time. ¡° Ahh yeah¡­ its Vex¡± Vex¡­ that name means something to me? Yeah it should. ¡° Nope you still lost me.¡± ¡° Really she likes you a lot.¡± ¡° Oh really?¡± ¡° Yeah she talks about you all the time and won¡¯t shut up about how epic you were when you fought in the past.¡± ¡° Yeah she is like you¡¯re biggest fan she could even fight Noah for the title you know¡­ think hard about it. Really hard. She had long hair and looks like a mix from then girl from the ring and some common office worker. That what she was until you discovered her ability to fight and...¡± Zoe came out and said. She looked really uncomfortable. Hmmm, that name. VEX! No nothing You fucking¡­ no ok. Yep she''s just a fan its not like she could be anything else you idiot¡­ no this is why I am here. To remember in your place I am the brains you are the muscle. ¡° Well then let''s play the footage. I am sure you downloaded it so send it to the TV let''s do this on the big screen rather than huddle around a phone.¡± ¡° No¡­ let up first eat. I promised Zoe a meal do you mind if I use your kitchen.¡± He says as he walks to my kitchen. Chapter 4 I wormed my way into the kitchen¡­ like a snake I slither to my goal. I reach out to claim my prize. But then my hands are slapped away and they were so close I could almost feel the heat coming off the top. But this was all part of the plan! I turn to face Noah as Zoe slinks in behind him. ¡° Mason¡­ no food until it¡¯s ready.¡± ¡° Come on Noah.¡± ¡° No¡­ were eating together you were the one that taught me these rules.¡± Hahahahaha I think that was me. ¡°What how could I teach you this. No I must have been high it''s the only explanation as to why I would put stuff like this in your head.¡± ¡° Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. Or I will make you sit the fuck down.¡± I desperately struggle to not look at Zoe as she climbs the wall of the apartment as she pleases and like and like spiderman makes her eay up to the roof and then attempts to lower herself over the prize only for Noah to slap her hand out of the way. ¡° I meant what I said Zoe. Don¡¯t try and fuck me with my back turned go sit the fuck down the both of you. Go on get!¡± A defeated Zoe and me walk backwards out of the kitchen. We make our way back to the couch and sit down. I turn to Zoe ¡° How have you been since last time.¡± Zoe turns to me ¡° Hhhhhhhhhhhhh I have nearly got your roof into something that could sustain me and I been working on these fermented fruits I want to make into something alcoholic but that''s not been going so well also I going to lay off the shrooms for a while. It''s been nice eating my own stuff although I miss meat.¡± ¡° Knowing Noah you won¡¯t be tomorrow.¡± ¡° Right did you see all that stuff it all looked great¡­ so how have you been? You look like you haven¡¯t seen the light of day in awhile you need to go out more you know. Hey the seas right their right so I have been thinking¡­ we should make a boat.¡± ¡° A boat? You know how to make a boat?¡± ¡° No, not really but how hardcore could it be and if all else fails we will just look it up on the internet. Also stop and think about it I could use my magic on a tree and bang.¡± ¡° So what type of boat are we talking about. A big one with sails and a yew months work or like one we can knock out in a day.¡± ¡° We will see on the day¡­ you know see what where up to and shit. Although it might be nice to do both I think.¡± ¡°Yeah you think so.¡± ¡° Mason listen to me¡­ I know so man.¡± ¡° Ok, Ok we going to get Noah in on this or just the two of us?¡± ¡° Yeah, Noah could come but he''s been so busy with his next fight and he''s also taking some time to teach Vex some things. Hey you need to come in to the gym more it''s a weird thing when people point me out and it¡¯s creepy when its big muscular men. But if you rocked up. Then we will see the look on their faces.¡± ¡°Nah no one know me anymore.¡± ¡° Maybe not the new one but I bet their isn¡¯t a single mainstream fighter in the arena that don¡¯t know your name or face.¡± ¡° Yeah¡­ I don¡¯t think so.¡± ¡° I am telling you. People know you. Remember that fight with that guy¡­ ah he called himself the snake king.¡± ¡° oh yeah if I remember correctly-¡° ¡° You stole hid rocks in your lungs so he broke his hand punching you in the chest.¡± ¡° Yeah I spent the hole game holding my breath hahahaha¡± ¡° Oh that other time were you stole his ¡®snake first¡¯ technique. Oh what was the thing you did against the old haymaker again.¡± I was the one that comprehended his technique and taught you how to use it you don¡¯t know quarter magic. You barely know anything other than alchemy and alteration.¡± ¡° I would use alchemy mid fight and managed to turn his bone in his left arm to hot tar. Burned right through and got on me.¡± ¡° Yeah that was fucking scary. Oh remember the kingpin. You didn¡¯t even try to think of a strategy you just set yourself on fire and hugged it out Hahahahahahahahaha!¡± ¡° Oh what about your with Andy you used the apple seeds in his stomach. Your fighters would go weeks wouldn¡¯t eating in case you did to them.¡± ¡° Oh fuck I forget about that shit! Hahahahaha¡± zoe laughter echoed out and then Noah called out from the kitchen. ¡° Yeah they were good times that was my childhood¡­ you guys hear that they are going to make another tournament for sword users but the price is that they won¡¯t be allowed as mainstream fighters.¡± ¡° Yeah they were always fun to fight.¡± I have fond memories of sword users. ¡° Ha for you because your like the perfect sword counter but me¡­ na it was scary man. You lost to that guy remember bet you weren¡¯t laughing then.¡± Well it''s not that they cannot cut me its¡­ That cutting you does nothing but excites you more. How did that fight go again? Flower boys win. ¡° What the hell! Flower boy bested me with that scam god dammit. And he totally stole that from you!¡± ¡° hahahahaha yeah but it was so funny when you realized he placed termites in you¡­ that must have hurt but you did nothing but stare him down and he was pissing himself until the match was over.¡± Zoe said ¡° Oh remember that one match¡­ ah man can¡¯t remember that chicks name but damn she was strong booted me right out of the arena!¡± ¡° Hahahahaha that''s right oh she was obliterated in the next match tho so I never got to fight her.¡± ¡° Well she punched like a jet but walked like a rock. It''s very similar to Noah''s style. I Noah will let my muscles do the talking remember when he said that!¡± I remember. ¡° Hahahahaha! That was the best line he has ever said I will never let him live that down.¡± ¡°Yeah¡­ oh yeah remember hawk.¡± ¡° Oh god I will never forget that second fight you two had dam it. When you counted his punch at then ended it with a choke out after he fell over.¡± ¡° There''s no way in hell they would let someone fight like us nowadays. Right didn¡¯t they release a new rule book recently? I should probably get one¡­ sad.¡± ¡° Times change. Me and you¡­ we came for the thrill of blood¡­ nowadays its for fame or wealth no ones in their just to fight. Well few are in there for that still but.¡± ¡° Yeah¡­¡±This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. ¡° They kick us out because we failed the psychology evaluation¡­ should have seen where the sport was going when they didn¡¯t let you fight. But it took them twenty more years to get to me.¡± ¡° Crazy barsteds we were¡± ¡° Crazy barsteds we are, Mason.¡± I wonder if anyone will realize that was filler? That wasn¡¯t filler it was character¡­ building! Hahaha oh you''re serious. Then Noah walk to the couch, food in hand¡­ at first he was going to put it on the operating table but pulled back when he say my tray of bloody tools¡­ I should probably clean those they look like something a serial killer would use¡­ no has used. It''s a big bloody roast¡­ lamb? Seasoned in something green. Why does this guy feel the need to cook something every time he''s over. He always has this self righteous face whenever he does it to, also you know that¡­ or theirs chips and potatoes as well¡­ you don¡¯t need to prepare a feast right? Actually how do you expect three people to eat all that? Oh my he¡¯s going back and¡­ are those nachos?... why man. Oh he''s gone back to get something else. Pasta this time and enough that he can hid behind it when he''s carrying it. A bucket of¡­ broccoli. A whole fucking bucket and a few cokes. Oh wait this is a fantasy world¡­ okes. Yeah okes. This isn¡¯t Earth. But for conveyances its soda. A few soda¡­ a Fucking bucket? Like? What? Oh he¡¯s going back¡­ a chicken this time. Damn it is that fish¡­ two fish each¡­ what species is it? I don¡¯t eat fish I don¡¯t know what that means? Well¡­ if there is something the three of us oddly get its never waste food. Me because I have gone years without it at some point and Zoe because of her own past experience. As for Noah it¡¯s because I beat it in to him. And I beat it into you. Yeah that too. And don¡¯t you fucking forget it. The three of us sat with the food between us. First to was the fish. Then the lamb. Then the pasta. Oh by the way Noah are half the things here by himself. And I ate half of what Zoe ate and I was shoveling it into my face from beginning to end. The broccoli was all for Noah to build on something to help in his training or something about requiring the energy. It looked like he was torturing himself to me but whatever you need to do to win. You would forget you had a match then freak out as you were walking onto the stage then make your plan when the fight had begun or¡­ you would come up with something absolutely stupid like filling your lungs with rocks. Hahahahaha¡­ well it''s not like it matters to us. Its STILL HURTS YOU FUCK! Yeah me. Not you. What!... maybe I can turn it off but that''s not me¡­ we are I. Suffer together. Bleed together. Fuck together. Is that what you are after? Ask Zoe if you wanna fuck right now. Lets see what she says. It would be a no. And besides Zoe is¡­ a friend. Don¡¯t you dare self friend zone yourself. Friendships between men and women don¡¯t exist! Then what are we? Answer that one. You think if I had a vagina we wouldn¡¯t fuck! We would fuck like rabbits! No¡­ dolphins. Why dolphins? Ok then what species do you want to fuck like? Rats¡­ we could breed a wave of vermin. Imagine it from an outsider perspective it would be like an alien crashed down on planet ¡®not¡¯ earth and a swarm of humanity was released. What the fuck are you talking about. Well look at it like this take every baby being born and put it on a screen imagine how fucking many that would be! Don¡¯t you think that''s fucking creepy. Once more I don¡¯t get what your saying¡­ you mean humans are vermin and we would what? Double the human population? That was a roundabout way of saying it. No! It made perfect sense this is just a case of you being to stupid to get it. ¡° Ok so lets see how the younger ones did.¡± Noah¡­ he turns 40 this year. He''s getting old. You think that''s why he has started to take interest in those that will come after him? No he is still going strong. He is not like us. Time must be weighing down on him. Also it takes a certain level of madness to do what he does. Yeah. Come on you don¡¯t think he is going to retire like you did? And we both know that you could have continued to fight but choose not to. Zoe was kick out for breaking a rule but I am sure she to was getting old and a bit sick of it herself. You said it yourself we are not the powerhouse we used to be. You can¡¯t even throw a proper punch but what about Zoe? Even if shes a high elf she still much older than most of them. How old do you think she is? Couple thousand? Older? Well. I too am interested in the next generation to carry the titles we made. You were a first generation and went on until the third generation. Zoe was a second generation and when on until third as well. Noah started at third generation right when you were getting out and you became his coach with Zoe coming in to help while Noah was fighting in the fourth generation. Now the fifth generation is about to begin and we are seeing a lot of people getting out. Think about it in another term all the people who challenged you or you challenged in the first generation have died of old age or worst¡­ are stuck in a retirement home. I could feel the fear in your voice. Each generation goes for twenty years and most mainstream fighters last about one generation. Noah came in at the end of the third generation but he has still fought for about 25 years¡­ I can¡¯t see him fighting more than thirty. I agree but five years is a long time. Anyway let''s watch the new generation and see how this Vex does. ¡° Hey Noah.¡± Noah head bobs as he eats broccoli. ¡° What type is Vex. What type of fighter.¡± There are hundreds of different fighting styles and magic fields some even go pure science builds. I used alchemy and alteration spells I also am a mid class heighten this means I was relatively strong and fast if one add a few alteration spells then I had a body that could be competitive although I couldn¡¯t overpower many with it. But I could also use alteration and alchemy on others. Alchemy is the process of changing matter to my will. Alteration is the process of adding effects to the universe to better suit my desire¡­ it sounds more amazing then it is. And there was few to none who could replicate my fighting style because alteration has destructive effects on the body. Take the simple alteration spell double speed. You move at twice the speed you usually do. Ok all seems good on the surface but there are many problems hiding under the surface.
  1. You bleed at double the speed.
  2. You¡¯re mind runs at double the speed and often breaks down if maintained for too long
  3. You have twice the momentum and half the control this will lead to even the smallest mistake destroying you joints.
  4. Heat will enter you twice as fast as it leaves so randomly catching fire and being covered in burns is to be expected as the heat energy is also affected.
  5. Light will also be affected by this spell and often distorts it can be as bad as a minor inconvenience to full blindness depending on the spell caster.
  6. You become the perfect incubator for diseases
  7. It''s a bitch to maintain under all these effects
  8. The mana cost it also stupid because you are efficiently the entire universe!
  9. The field was made by me.
  10. It requires some preparation before use.
Number 10 is the worst one. And that is basically spell a safe spell in alteration magic. The spells I use have at least 50 negatives. That¡¯s a bit much. As for alchemy. I don¡¯t think I have ever seen someone else use it or be capable of using it for reasons. Mana cost. It would probably be easier to cast the highest level alteration spells which are harder then the spells in any other known spells. Also you have me inside you to do the calculations for you since you can¡¯t do them yourself. In other words you abuse your immortality and me because you would be lost on your own. Well¡­ it works doesn''t it. Why don¡¯t you remind me why you wanted to take these two again. Well there is this alteration spell that allows someone to become twice as big as they were. But the problem is. There mass doesn''t change si the spell is useless but with alchemy! I could double my mass and grow to be the size of a skyscraper AND THEN I WOULD USE MY MAGIC ON A LIZARD AND FIGHT GODZILLA! Or at least that was the plan. Sorry did you ask why I don¡¯t use my alchemy to make piles of gold? Did you say that this power is an obvious plot hole¡­ ok then the last time I use my alchemy on gold the market crashed! Their now shut the fuck up! You also cannot make much at a time and there are a few other side effects that we haven¡¯t mentioned. Such as the required calculations needed to create even the smallest amount of matter then to rise it up to the desired material. Right so this isn¡¯t a answer all problems solution your wrong! ¡° She¡¯s an elemental mage striking specialist or at least that''s what they would call her. No will call her when she hits the mainstream in a few years. At the moment she¡¯s just a local rookie on the state level but when she wins her next match she will be able to aim for the national level.¡± ¡° You seem confident.¡± I could only add it''s not often Noah gives people a thumbs up. Or says they have potential. But it does happen. ¡° Well you will she this kid born was fight. She is also a mid heighten like you ¡­ well some abilities can hinder growth or are down right unhelpful. But then there is the thing you taught her.¡± Zoe add. ¡° A mid heighten only? Does she have a trick? I guess that is the thing I taught her but don¡¯t remember¡± ¡°No, unfortunately she¡¯s not one for strategy¡­ you will like her she¡¯s a bit like you with how obsessed she is with victory.¡± Noah added some more but I just couldn¡¯t see it. A mid ok so if we take her training into account she could probably match a upper class but she probably won¡¯t ever get like Noah who is considered above the rank of upper. Oh by the way if your confused theirs is rankings for heighten which is low, mid, high, upper, class. In my sixty years of fighting I met one class and four uppers. Most are high or mid. Although this means absolutely nothing to someone who is training like hell. Well it¡¯s not good to focus entirely on that stuff some of the strongest people we have ever encountered were not even heightened but were either mages or the blessed. The blessed are people like me with an inbuilt ability. There is this one guy who started out as a low heighten and was able to over power some uppers¡­ although he never made class. But I won¡¯t lie it''s much easier for someone to reach higher levels of strength if they start higher. In my peak I was an upper but just couldn¡¯t equal that class but I started as a mid and now that I haven¡¯t been training in the last forty years I am a mid again. But that class guy who I fought was the nicest person I have ever meet. He was just there for the money he rave about how much he hated violence whenever I got him drunk. He would go on about sending the right message to the kids and things like that. He shattered someones head the next day and went through a lot of trouble for killing nearly faced jail time but was able to get the court''s approval because it was a fighting competition. He never fought again as he was traumatised by the event. He killed another and was sent to jail a few years later. He purposely became more brutal because he wanted the feeling of control killing gave him as he had just lost his house in a bad divorce and was homeless. Yeah¡­ he was a big softy. Until he died of cancer unable to pay the medical bills because he lost all his money being sued by his own son. The only three who came to his funeral was us and his daughter who now lives down stairs and sells her body to make a living. She¡¯s behind on rent. And she doesn''t just sell her body. Your right she also hacks credit cards and places scanners on debit only vending machines to steal that as well. Let''s not be so hard on her. I¡¯m not were the ones who talk her how to hide bodys remember? She drugged a dude but the drugs were bad and he died. Oh that¡¯s right where did we hide the body again? We dumped it in the flooded part of town¡­ after we nailed Vicky''s hair to his back. Hey¡­ am I a bad guy? ¡­ Look Mason a puppy! Where! Oh. Wait a second¡­ she¡¯s behind on rent! We don¡¯t charge her rent because we knew her father. Well we need money so we should! If the soft hearted Mason is willing then you do it. But on the other hand wasn¡¯t she a upper? And like really strong? Oh yeah she could probably throttle us to dead¡­ she might even be able to fuck us to death! Sef? The fuck is wrong with you some times. Also please stop yelling. Forty fucking years Mason! Chapter 5 A woman wrapped up in bandages walk into a large confinement of concrete. She wasn¡¯t wearing any clothes strangely but had wrapped herself up enough to look like a mummy. I am guessing thats Vex. A man with bionic arms and legs walked out on the stage from another entrance. He was wearing shorts and a grey shirt with holes here and there that showed off his metal underbelly. But from around the neck up he was mainly flesh but had a few lines of metal to protect the neck and and a terminator like skull poking out of his temple. Big metal shutters closed in behind both fighters. I always wonder why they look like idiots? They just do. But why do they? Don¡¯t know. I mean even their names are weird and they were like that when we were fighting as well. In fact they called us doctor Bight not Mason Bright. I assume they were talking about it because I am a doctor. No you became a doctor because you hated people calling you doctor when you weren''t a doctor. They both gave a little bow. There is about 50 meters between each door and the fighters are standing on white X¡¯s that are hard to see on the video but are probably easy to see in real life. Then a robotic voice calls out ¡° Vexed Vs machine Boy¡± ¡° Pst¡± Zoe gives a little giggle. Machine boy? Are they running out of names? ¡° Not the best name to show off Vex¡¯s might but it will do for a starter fight.¡± ¡° Hey Noah do you think they make the names five seconds before hand because of not they have no excuse.¡± ¡° Yeah that name was terrible¡­ it¡¯s almost hard to imagine someone putting work into it. They immediately made the character lame.¡± Vex made the first move. She launched herself across the ground at a stationary opponent but was flipped and thrown onto her back with a well place counter. Vex leap back at him using her own head as a battering ram. But was blocked. Still in mid air she twists around and slams her foot into the side of his face. Then with her weight behind it she places her hands on the ground and spins and kicks him in the side however he is able to put up a guard. Jumping back she lands on her feat but doesn''t have time to think as he throws a few light punches at the back of her head. Remarkable she serves and ducks under them enough to turn around. Jumping back once more she positions herself then steps in and punches him in the stomach but is blocked and receives a blow to the chin leaving her disoriented which allows him to land three good blows. Stumbling back a line of blood pours from her nose and a cut above her right eye forms. ¡° Her moves are to straightforward and easily countered.¡± ¡° Yeah. But there was power in that kick look at how he is not charging her despite have the advantage in power.¡± Noah adds to my words She inch¡¯s forward and then claps her hands and a torrent of flames over her opponent but he uses it to cover his approach stepping out right next to her with a wide swing at her head. She tilts to the side and trips him in the process. He''s down on the ground and she wails down on his throat with two heavy punches but is thrown off however her opponent seems to have trouble breathing. She steps forward and punches him in the stomach strangely ice forms around where her first lands. Then she kicks him in the side and he goes down again leading to three blows to the face before she is thrown off. She¡¯s not strong enough to keep him where she wants him. The opponent this time rushes her with a tackle but she jumps over him in a spectacular way. He turns around and swings at her. She sends a light punch to his face that disrupted his movements allowing her to get close and land to blows to the kidney before steeping back she also swings at his head. When the punch makes contact fire spreads out but he looks almost unfazed by it. However it was just hiding something else. She punches him in the chest and it caves in. Then she does it again with the other hand and he falls back grasping for breath. She stands over him and waves her hand and two stone pillars shoot up out of the floor and almost crush his head he screams and blood smothers his head. ¡°BEEEP. The judge has decided Vex as the winner the fight has ended ¡° The same robotic voice from before speaks. The blood from the cut above her eye has run down to her shoulder and seems much larger than originally perceived. ¡° Her right hand is broken as is her shin.¡± I commit. ¡° What? How I didn¡¯t see that!¡± Zoe backs me it ¡° It''s a nice trick what she does with the bandages. Although it clearly needs work as she pushed all the bones in her wrist and shin using it.¡± ¡° Wait what trick? Mason, Zoe what did I miss.¡± ¡° That punch where she caved in the man''s chest was nice and her defense is quite impressive.¡± ¡° Guys I feel left out what is she doing?¡± ¡° She has control over her bandages and is moving them not her body. She didn¡¯t move a muscle the entire fight she was being dragged around by the bandages when she was taking a hit she made them absorb the impact and when she was moving she was pulling herself like a puppet¡­ hey Noah you sure she¡¯s a heightened she was relying on her bandages a hole lot in that fight?¡± ¡° Yeah I have seen her without them.¡± It was Zoe who spoke that. ¡° But what do you think about that fight? Mason? You think she''s got it in her?¡± ¡° I don¡¯t know¡­ nothing blew me away in that fight. If anything I am impressed that technology has come so far. That machine boy was quite strong for a rookie and he obviously didn¡¯t know what he was doing and was letting the technology fight for him. He stay when he should have attacked and attacked when he should have stayed at first I thought he was just a defensive fighter but now¡­ I would need to see more but it was like she entered the fight without a plan by she was definitely thinking after she took that punch to the face. I don¡¯t know if she was looking down on him or something was on her mind by she wasn¡¯t focused on what was before her until she nearly lost the match. Also her fire was weak and even used against her. The ice was impressive but it also backfired on her because his stomach became jagged she would have cut her hand to shit if she punched their again before the ice was gone. The rock thing at the end¡­ that was pretty cool. She knows how to punch and some might say she knows how to take a punch and keep swinging something her opponent didn¡¯t have and she found that and used it. All together she needs time to grow but she will grow so long as she is watered in experience and proper teaching.¡±This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. ¡° At least you were paying attention what about you Zoe?¡± ¡° Ahhh yeah¡­ when she punched him in the chest she broke her wrist by tightening her bandages to much and she shin was just weaker then his metal plate which is why it broke. I don¡¯t have anything else to add? Experience is what she needs the most and don¡¯t let her fight above her level for a bit¡­ no she¡­ her go out their to die to a much stronger opponent then her so she learns to pay attention.¡± ¡° Isn¡¯t that a bit harsh.¡± ¡° That is the nature of war. Mason gets it. Also do you want her to be strong or her to be famous.¡± Zoe said. ¡° Why not let her decide?¡± ¡° I am sorry?¡± ¡° The fuck are you on about Mason.¡± ¡° I am saying the next time you see her ask her is she wants to he strong or famous. If she says famous then give her time to learn and if it¡¯s strong then feed her to the wolves.¡± I said ¡° Again isn¡¯t that a bit harsh? Besides she¡¯s an idiot she can barely get out of bed in the morning than make an descrison like that¡­ but yeah she needs more experience I will hold her down for a bit.¡± Noah said. She could use some work on her magic as well¡­ its bad. She might not even be cut out for element magic? Then what type of magic? Well of the five main types theirs. Summoning were you call something to you¡­ and before you get confused most summoning magic is about summoning certain things like hell fire and using it in combat then summoning someone or something that''s alive. Although the summoning of demons are quite common as well. Alteration is next. Thats has already been explained and is easy got. Its changing things. Theory. You use mana to do something that is entirely dependent on your will and the laws of the realm. It is also the one that is most connected to science and is most widely used. Creation. Your alchemy. You just make shit and somehow it works despite all know magic laws saying it doesn''t and shouldn¡¯t work. Oh and I guess the heightened and the blessed count in this one. Well this one is pretty much a big fuck you to all other magic fields. And finally Soul magic. Necromancy¡­ maybe. Well that was helpful what do you mean Necromancy maybe? Well I just don¡¯t know? You have never come in contact with this one and I certainly don¡¯t have a fucking clue what it¡¯s about¡­ oh your mother is a master of this one so we have actively avoided it as well as never encountered it before. Well if mother is involved that sounds like something we would do I guess. But Necromancers are a thing and I don¡¯t know what else they would fit into to. Calling back the souls of the death and bending them to your will. Oh looks like we have guests. Just then my door was kicked in and a man dripping blood was brought into my house by another. I pointed at the kitchen and went to get some gloves I came back in less than ten seconds but their was already a stand off between the one of the guys who just came in and Noah and Zoe. ¡° Who the fuck are you!¡± I step in ¡° Don¡¯t worry about it now tell me what are his injuries we must get to work.¡± He looks at me. Oh it''s that guy¡­ Sef name! Jalape?os! Sef! Name! Jax ¡° Jax calm man talk me through I lets go over there don¡¯t worry about them.¡± I lead Jax over to the guy who has been layed on my operating table. Oddly he is face down. You see because of movies most people put him face up unless his injury is in the back. I turn to jax and grab a pair of scissors which I use to cut the guys shirt off. ¡° He was shot in the back. We were driving so then they just started shooting at us.¡± Safe if it wasn¡¯t in the back I would had to explain why I didn¡¯t like his suit. Jax has already calmed down to the point you would think he was watching the weather broadcast. I identify the wound. Its bleeding pretty bad it''s in his upper back. Did you know The closer the victim is to the shooter, the higher the chance of significant injury. Upper back wounds will typically pass through the lungs, and lower back wounds get the vital organs. I check for an exit wound and¡­ nope. So what? Smaller round? Ok first¡­ ¡° How far away was the shooter?¡± ¡° About two cars back¡­ maybe three.¡± ¡° What gun?¡± ¡° Some small pistol.¡± ¡° Ok so it hit him almost directly, missed the spine and probably the rib but didn¡¯t pass through. The bullet was fired from a smaller gun yeah I could probably do this isn¡¯t that great guy who was shot.¡± ¡° Haha¡± he gives a nervous laugh. I hold my hand over the wound less to stop blood and more to stop air from entering. This guy is fucked. Really I think I can do it. No his lung is about to collapse get the needle. ¡° Zoe! Hey in the cupboard in my bed room there are some needles and tubes in a box labeled lung yeah can you bring that to me. Thanks.¡± I turn the man on his side. Injured side down so gravity will keep his lung from imploding in on it self. Did you know that when you breathe you push the air into your trachea or windpipe then into your lung. Obviously when there''s a hole in said lung the air dose as it pleases and this will collapse the lung in time. So when enough air gathers around the lung it collapses. Well it''s more like if there''s enough air outside the lung it cannot expand to take in more air. Also lungs bleed and you don¡¯t breath blood. This even has a fancy name its pneumothorax! This guy is both lucky and unlikely. Unlikely because he was shot. Lucky because the bullet missed his spine and heart¡­ probability is on his side. Also it was one lung. So that''s a plus. Bad thing I have no idea where the bulliet is so not going to cut him open to seek it sorry mister you might have trouble at airport screeners but you will live maybe. But what concerns me is the blood or lack of it. He''s not bleeding much which probably means it¡¯s filling up his lung instead. Our yeah if its blood that stops the lung it¡¯s actually called hemothorax! The more you know! So there are three possible outcomes.
  1. be bleeds to death.
  2. His lung collapsed and he suffocates to death
  3. I save his life and get paid.
¡° Hey Jax. In that duck tape on the table do you think you could hand that to me. Also thanks Zoe go back to watching I will be there when I am done here.¡± Jax hands me the duck tape and I use it to close the wound to stop air coming in. I then lay him on his back and reach into the box labeled lung and take out a large bore needle thats 14 gauge inserted it between the ribs. This is to get rid of the air now outside the lung. Is it? Why are asking¡­ am I wrong No I think your right¡­ maybe. his is called needle decompression. I take out another needle and poke this one in his arm. It''s a powerful painkiller to help this guy chill the fuck out. ¡° Hey what was that stuff?¡± ¡° Oh wow your still awake your doing better than I believed you would oh don¡¯t worry it''s just a pain killer. Oh yeah what blood type are you. Do you know? I don¡¯t need to know but it might save me some money if you can tell me.¡± ¡° A positive.¡± Its jax who tells me. Are they bestes how do you know his blood type. ¡° Ok A positive it is!¡± ¡° Zoe! Get me the the A + blood bag and that machine labeled lung drainage system.¡± I turn back to my poor victim. ¡° Am I going to be ok dr?¡± ¡° Its doctor Bight. And yeah the bulliet miss the heart and spine I can¡¯t get it out for you without an scan but you¡¯re not going to die but it¡¯s going to hurt for like a month.¡± ¡° That''s good to know.¡± ¡° Oh yeah what''s your name?¡± ¡°It¡¯s alex¡± ¡° Nice to meet you alex. Well I am going to shove this pipe into your chest amd pump some of the blood out so it doesn''t flood the lung. The trick on how to do this is that you need to use the machine to prevent any air from going in its place. Also I might change your bandages with actually bandages later instead of duck tape.¡± ¡° Ahh ok.¡± He seem to pale a bit. Well I will save you the gorey details amd say that all went well and we hooked him up to some more blood so that''s good I guess we wait now. ¡° So Jax¡­ about me money? The same as last time?¡± ¡° Sure.¡± ¡° I am glad.¡± I leave and walk over to the couch and leap on top with my arms spread I am tried only for a foot to catch me and throw me over it onto the floor. ¡° Zoe! Why¡­¡± ¡° Nope I am sleeping here go somewhere else.¡± Repeat after me. Or I could join you. Say it. ¡°Or I could join you.¡± ¡° hah keep dreaming.¡± ¡° Wheres Noah?¡± ¡° He went home as soon as those two showed up. She said he would call if he wanted to throw her to the lions.¡± ¡° Hey Zoe aren''t you cold?¡± ¡° A little. Why are you going to warm me up. Covered head to toe in someone else¡¯s blood you want to snuggle up with me no thank you.¡± ¡° Yes exactly. Anyway you should take the bed or at least steal a blanket from it.¡± You idiot she was giving you the ok if you had a shower first! Why the fuck would you say that! Ahhh fuck you dense mother fucker. What? Really I didn¡¯t pick up on that at all. ¡° Ok I will take the bed but I will give you a blanket before hand. My humbleness is truly amazing.¡± Is that humble? Wouldn¡¯t the word be generosity? Shhhhh she doesn¡¯t know that. Or it made sense in her head but not in words. Let''s go with that. I stretched and then closed my eyes it was time to sleep. I was tired. We were tired. Hahahahaha he¡¯s asleep¡­ so cute. My precious darling Mason. Tonight was a good night. You seemed like your usual self. It¡¯s been getting worse. Don¡¯t worry I will save you before it''s to late I won¡¯t let it happen again this time I will win. Don¡¯t worry Mason. Its us now. I love you. And don¡¯t worry because I am always watching you. Chapter 6 I fall deeper in the hole that is my mind all the way to the centre only to find another wait in the shadows. She sits their playing the web as if it were her harp she strums a ruthless rhythm that my mind can only sway to the beat. Which far more skill than my body could ever hope to match she strums the cords of my mind. Playing me in the shadows she laughs and I stear. ¡° Who the fuck are yooou~ grasshopper?¡± She stops and turns any sense of style is lost in her frantic movements she makes eye contact. Fear! She¡¯s deeply afraid. ¡° Hmm¡± she fleas down a web and it is at this point and only this point I noticed that her lower body was not that of a human but a spider. She fleas to the darkest depths of my mind. Places even I would not tread lightly unless I discover some buried fetish¡­ so I return. My eyes flash open and I sit up the blanket falls down. I look at the blanket. It seems Zoe was kind. Must have fallen asleep at some point. It''s still dark so I couldn¡¯t have been asleep for more than a few hours as the operation was finished at twelve to one around then. Rise and shine! RISE AND SHINE! Jesus Sef don¡¯t scream in my ear. Hahahahaha well would hate for you to fall back to sleep wouldn¡¯t we. Besides you have to cook breakfast for our new semi roommate. What? Jax, Alex and Zoe are still here. I rise up and make my way to the kitchen only to be stopped in my tracks. Jax is wearing a pink apron and cooking eggs. Wait! Jax is a well built guy who wears fancy suits and has as scar on his chin up to his mouth. Its small and barely noticeable unless you¡¯ve seen it once then it will be impossible to stop staring at it. He also has this extreme tough guy personality that always acts like he doesn''t care but in truth worries about his subordinates very much. How rude. He stole our eggs! ¡° I borrowed your eggs. You have no problem with it.¡± Huh the nerves of this guy! Doesn''t he know who he¡¯s talking. Well I don¡¯t think he really does. I walk out of the kitchen and make a b line for my bed room. I open the door and walk inside. I sneak as quietly as possible as this is the lair of a dragon... or a dragon went to sleep here yesterday. When you open my door and enter you face the bed straight on two the left is a cupboard and to the right is a window. That faces the building right next to us and doesn¡¯t show anything. Mason! Do exactly as I say. I reach around behind the cupboard and pull out this long wooden pole and poke the sleeping bear named Zoe. It is a very scary experience. I am doing as Sef is saying. She releases a inhuman growl as she rolls over a final warning to all who hear it. Wake me and your dead. As I cannot die I decided to poke her again this time in the butt because I could and Sef was suggesting I take advantage of her current state. Nothing happens so I rise the pole up and wack her butt gently. A clear crisp noise rings out as I may have had too much strength behind that. Zoe doesn''t move. Something feels wrong. No nothing¡¯s wrong do it again. This time go all out. Sef has never lead me wrong before. So I rise the pole and swing it down with my strength. Before it makes contact the pole is snapped in half and the wood bends and chorales(?) around me like a snake and soon I am tied up and desperate my desperate struggle am unable to escape and the great beast rises from under the covers. I feel the wood twists and reorganisation itself and pulls my body into weird positions as I find myself in a wooden bondage set. ¡° Fufufufufufufu¡± Zoe laughs in such a way where your not quite sure is she¡¯s doing it like that on purpose but you expect she is but not enough to call her out on it but other times she will laugh normally. A branch of wood growls and snaps off and fall onto the ground. Zoe picks it up. She rubs her butt then glares at me. ¡° How funny Mason¡± I feel the wood move and I am bent over and then smash. I feel something wood collide with my ass and the sound of Sef¡¯s joyful laughter echo in my mind. You hahahahaha actually did hahahahaha it! Then again. Then again. This isn¡¯t fun anymore. Then again. Then again. Then again. Zoe starts getting into it a bit and adds some more force. I frown and my desperation grows. Then again. Then again. Suddenly I hear the door creak open and Jax is standing there. He takes one look at the screen before him and ¡° You will put some clothes on and come eat breakfast¡­ you can have your kinky sex later.¡± Yes you see maybe I didn¡¯t mention but Zoe is a high elf. This means two things. High elves usually sleep a couple days then go a month so Zoe is in a bad mood as she has at most slept for a couple hours. And second she¡¯s naked. Jax closes the door. And Zoe hits me one more time for good measure. She then drops the wood bondage and I am free. Hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha I walk out and close the door behind me without saying a word I then step my feet and make it slowly get lighter as if I am walking away I then hide behind the door and wait. About a minute later Zoe steps out and I swing my hand with all my might and get her with a firm slap to the ass. He returns with a kick to my head. I return with my knee to hers. She gives me a good punch to the face. I kick her in the stomach. She elbows me in the neck. I slap her ass again. She pushes me away and I run away. ¡° Get THE FUCK BACK HERE!¡± Straight out the front door and followed behind by a now clothed Zoe but¡­ I was tripped! I swear as I was falling I saw a Vicky in the shadows smiling at me but she was gone by the time I hit the floor! If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. Fucking Vicky See Sef agrees ! ¡° Ha ha ha ha looks like someone is in a bind would you like some help?¡± A voice echos out from the shadows ¡° FUCK YOU VICKY!¡± I stand up and instantly fall down as I am punched in the stomach by a pissed of Zoe. ¡° I¡¯m sorry, you win.¡± ¡° of course I fucking win. I always fucking win but you just never learn. Now theres a fucking hand print on my ass you fucker you need to pay for this¡­ I am taking your-¡° ¡°NOOOOO!¡± ¡° I didn¡¯t say what I was taking yet. Hmmmm something you care about? ¡­ dam this is hard¡­ let''s just call it even ok.¡± ¡° Ok¡­ want some Eggs?¡± ¡° No I am heading down to the beach or the flooded region to look for a tree I can use to build my new boat you come find me when you finish breakfast¡­ with that guy.¡± ¡° Ok¡­ I will.¡± ¡° When were done were going to get you a gym membership your punches are really weak now. ¡° Sure.¡± By the way I am completely fine but I am still laying down clutching my stomach because it will probably make Zoe feel better. Hahahahaha. Let''s skip breakfast get that Alex guy out of your house then have him fuck off then it''s time to go¡­ besides you only work at night¡­ oh wait you should probably grab rent on the way down. But I don¡¯t want to. Trust me can you remember a time when listening to me leads to a bad outcome? No actually I don¡¯t. Actually that is kind of sad. What is? What are we talking about? Don¡¯t worry Mason I am on it now go inside. Ok. I walk over my knocked down door. Wonder how that happened. Zoe got angry. Why did she get angry? You harassed her. WHY THE FUCK DID I DO THAT! Ahhhh Mason things like that happen whenever you don¡¯t listen to me. So it¡¯s my fault? It¡¯s ok Mason she calmed down because of my intervention. But you need to listen to me in the future ok. Yeah. What would I do without you guiding me in all aspects of my life. It¡¯s because I am you remember you¡¯re interests are my interests. Yep I trust you Sef like no other. I am glad you¡¯re relying on me. I am glad there is someone to rely on. Ahhh but just remember to do whatever I say. During the conversation with Sef I have come to sit at the base of my operating table. I have been looking at the injured guy trying to remember something important. ¡° What''s your name?¡± ¡°It¡¯s Alex¡± he is strangely buff and his hair is oddly long. And his face looks silky. ¡° Ok alex you look fine so eat your fucking eggs and get the fuck out I have shit to do and don¡¯t work during the day.¡± ¡° Huh?¡± I stand up and grab a plate of eggs and walk back out the front door. It¡¯s scrambled eggs and I eat it with my finger before throwing the plate over the railings I make my way to collect rent. The first how apartment I stop at is the muscle freak the daughter of that class guy I was talking about before then I remember that she doesn''t pay rent and make my way two doors down. I stop and prepare myself as much as I can for the thing that comes next¡­ I always hate this the most. I knock on the door. The door swings open and I am pulled in and thrown on a bed. Someone jumps on top of me and wraps there arms around my neck. I smell something sweet and it strangely makes me hard I feel a finger make a circle on said neck. I look down to see someones head with long black hair and a beautiful but small ass that persons legs wrap around mine and I hear ¡°I knew you couldn¡¯t resist m- Mason? Where''s that guy?¡± Then someone opened the door he stood there a bit flush and then yelled at the top of his voice ¡° It¡¯s ok if you¡¯re a guy! I think I can be gay if Just for yo-¡° he stops and looks at us. Then he runs away crying and calling the thing on top of me a slut which he is¡­ this dam incubus. That''s right like a succubus that lives off semen which is actually a lie. They are just born with an ability called subduction¡­ but incubus are different. They are born with an ability call slave maker. All they need is to obtain your life seed in other words sperm and they can have a certain level of control over you depending on how high you¡¯re ¡®affinity¡¯ with them is. They also require these slaves to sustain themselves as they feed on the life force they obtained from certain means that should be obvious to the reader. They are also different as they have the ability to impregnate and continue their species. Which is why most incubus spend their days clucking people. I push him off and in the most formal manner ask for ¡° Rent please.¡± However he jumps at my legs and wiggles ¡° You cost me that person so now I am going to starve help a brother out.¡± I push him off again. ¡° Rent please.¡± He pouts in a disturbingly cute way but I have seen to many tragedies come from this person¡­ what was this guys name again. Just ask. ¡° Hey¡­ what''s your name?¡± ¡° Haha funny Mason always with the¡­ Guy. My parents hated me so they named me Guy. Please don¡¯t forget me friend to honestly hurts. Oh it hurts more than I wanted to accept I feel like I am going to cry.¡± ¡° It¡¯s ok¡­ you¡¯re just not that remarkable to me.¡± Damm Mason! Set a man on fire and look at those burns! Hahahahaha Tears were honestly pouring down from his face. ¡° But we did that thing together¡­ we robbed a Bank.¡± Fuck! Did we? Yeah. When? Years ago. How did it turn out? You two decided to sell everyone else out and didn¡¯t make any money¡­ I think this guy had the others whacked. Maybe he even sent assassins on us but I don¡¯t remember so they couldn¡¯t have been much. ¡° Well that was that and this is this so pay me my rent.¡± ¡° Ha ha ha can I suck your dick instead?¡± He ask as he was already pulling off his pants. ¡° No money only.¡± ¡° Give me but two hours¡­ If you just let me get back to that guy I can have your money in two hours!¡± ¡° Give it to me now.¡± ¡° But I can¡¯t I don¡¯t have it¡­ also don¡¯t you owe me a favor.¡± Do I? ¡­ yes. ¡° Ok sure I will leave.¡± ¡° That worked?¡± ¡° Yep goodbye guy and see you in two hours.¡± ¡° Huh?¡± I step out and close the door behind me. I turn to see that guy crying on the floor. I walk over to him and pat him on the back he tries to throw me off ¡° He just thought I was you I am his landlord and I came to collect rent it''s all a misunderstanding¡± ¡° You¡¯re lying!¡± ¡° Then Don¡¯t you deserve to hear that from him.¡± ¡° Yeah you¡¯re right!¡± ¡° He runs inside Guys place. Only to be devoured by a monster of great evil¡­ I better get my rent.¡± Hey¡­ you remembered he was an incubus but not his name? Yep. Oh you usually forget that. But in more important matters did you see what that guy hand on his hand. Wedding ring. Yep hahahahaha. Cheating is wrong. Guy is just taking his time to teach that. No we shouldn¡¯t justify it. He is simply doing what he needs to do. That all there is to it. Also he was smiling but his eyes weren¡¯t. I stills remember what eyes of people on the edge of their wits look like. Who¡¯s next. One, two the next one is crborg granny the second. Then there''s selektor the loli and the fairy. Then it¡¯s FUCKING VICKY¡¯s place. I shiver in rage at the name. My arch enemy. Okay so which one does the great selektor the loil live again. She¡¯s a floor down. But cyborg ganny. Does she pay rent? Ahh no she doesn¡¯t. Hahahahaha I forget these little things it not like I have photographic memories and am purposely leading you to start taking rent from her because I find her annoying or anything like that. Ok so sekeltor the loil. Fine¡­ greeze bias much you were happy to throw guy out on the street if he didn¡¯t pay rent. He didn¡¯t pay rent. Ah well¡­ damn you logically thinking Mason. What? Nothing selektor the great destroyer one floor down two to the right. Ok I make my way down and see that one door is completely different to the rest. And that door just happens to be the door I am after. I walk up and knock on the door and nothing happens so I knock a little louder. Nothing happens. So I start wailing on the door. Nothing happens. My annoyance grows and I consider an explosive approach. Then the door flies open and there stands a miniature dinosaur skeleton that looks like the cross breed between a little girl and a world ending calamity. I say this because said skeleton is wearing a pink dress and licking a lollipop and is about as tall as my knees. Se swivels her head around and then looks at her door and like a fly that was hit with a fly swatter half my body has been crushed and my blood now paints the side of the building. ¡° You lord of this land have disturbed the sleep of the great I name tho reason or be destroyed by I selektor!¡± I rise up my only working hand and scrape myself off the wall in about 4 seconds I am standing before a crush half version of myself completely naked. Selektor is staring at my junk. ¡° I did not the show you are presenting to me. The knowledge that it is so¡­ large puts me in an odd mood. Beyond creature.¡± What? I look down and oh. ¡° By the power vested in me by alchemy instant clothes!¡± And I am now wearing a shirt and pants. That you use that for nothing by keeping clothed is honestly shameful Well I cannot run around naked now can I. Also I was just crush into a fine paste by a door please be a little considerate Sef. Ha? What did you say something? Did selektor the loil just turn you into her bitch? Ha ha very funny. ¡° Rent. You must pay rent.¡± Selektor goes back inside and come back with about 1 dollar. I snatched the dollars from her hand and walk away. You know that isn¡¯t¡­ actually know that I think about it you haven¡¯t gove over selektors contract since before you entered the arena have you thats her actual rent. Well she had been living there for almost sixty years by now so who care if she pays less than other people. ¡° Ah wait! Does the want to partake in the tea? Or¡­ something? I have a new¡­ model! Yes its a model and I desire to reveal its new pink laces¡­ Please¡± Also she makes me so sad! She doesn''t have any friends other than me! Can you believe there is something so sad. Its ok selektor I will play dolls with you come here! ¡° Aa thou havith grabbed me in a hug! I am very pleased!¡± Chapter 7 A man in a nice and clean white suit walk into a and dance his way over to a desk that had the name tag director Johnson. However Johnson had been crossed out and the word white written there on top. He was smiling as his wavy blonde hair danced back and forth. However anyone watching this would feel a sense of great discomfort weather they notice that his hair wasn¡¯t moving in time with his rhythm would be another thing entirely. He hoped up onto the desk and looked over it. His eyes were revealed for the first time and they appeared as if he had never slept a day in his life. The person he was looking at was a pale faced old man. The man in a nice white suit wrinkled his nose and stepped back before taking out a peg and blocking it. ¡° Hoo did you shit yourself? Hay hay did I make you shit yourself. Hahahah! Filth! Beyond!¡± He then turned around and walked away and then from behind the desk the sound of struggling was heard. The man in the suit slowly rose his hand and for a fraction of a second a thin string was seen around his hand. Soon an explosion of blood went off as the old man was cut into hundreds of pieces. He man reached into his pocket with extremely exaggerated movements. He pulled out a phone. ¡° Doll you there?¡± His voice was abnormal as if he shouting from a distance. ¡° Sir Grey Please follow protocol. Is the target dead.¡± ¡° Yeah target be dead¡­ everyone on this floor is dead!¡± ¡° What? You idiot you were only supposed to kill that one guy! Ahhhhhh why does the boss put up with your shit.¡± ¡° Hahahahh because you all love me and you know it.¡± ¡° So¡­ why did you call?¡± ¡° I think we should get back together!¡± ¡° What? When were we together? I don¡¯t know what you¡¯re talking about.¡± ¡° Oh I wasn¡¯t talking to you but the gut behind you.¡± ¡° Wh- cargggghg¡± ¡° Hello doll you there?¡± ¡° Why did you reveal me? I had to kill her.¡± This time it was a different and more emotionless voice but it would be different to hear anyone but the person who was talking before with a different tone like she was putting on a voice. The man in a nice suit or Mr Grey walk down a hall as he looked at people being hanged by a invisible rope. He made the motion as if pulling down a rope and there lifeless bodies went up into the air. ¡° So¡­ what my next target.¡± ¡° The next target is an odd one.¡± ¡° Oh¡­ and why so?¡± ¡° The boss does not expect you to survive.¡± All joking stopped and the atmosphere was pulled into one of absolute despair. Grey grab his head and pulled himself into a fetal positions. Then he placed the phone on the ground next to his head and with a blank face he asked. ¡° Who?¡± ¡° That''s the thing that bothers me¡­ some woman¡­ buts thats all I can tell about her. She has no record its as if she suddenly appeared but she doesn''t seem like that much of a threat.¡± ¡° And they don¡¯t think I will survive why?¡± ¡° They¡­ didn¡¯t say. Boss only said that if you can kill her and make it back to base un affected then you would have the right to call yourself boss.¡± ¡° HE DID WHEAUB?¡± ¡° English you lost control at the end there.¡± ¡° Oh sorry human faces are hard¡­ so who¡­ where is the target?¡± ¡° An practically abandoned heightened city in district 19 section 45.¡± ¡° That''s the other side of the fucking world!¡± ¡° Yeah the base of operations that exist there believes this mission to be to dangerous and rejected it.¡± ¡° What? I have worked for seven years and I have never heard of a rejection¡­ at most a boss himself would bitch a lot and then go deal with it¡­ is the boss!¡± ¡° Him, you, me the entire team is getting in on this.¡± ¡° Wow! Never thought I would see the day¡­ so what''s this persons actually name.¡± ¡°Vex¡± ¡° Last name?¡± ¡° Classified unless deemed necessary.¡± ¡° Oh so she¡¯s someone''s powerful property. A clan?¡± ¡° Honestly you¡¯re guess is as good as mine I cannot find the threat. But the boss said if we are going after one of his then we need to prepare for a war of attrition¡­ he sent some men to check out his safe houses.¡± ¡° Why??? This doesn¡¯t make any sense? An organisation? Why a long game?¡± ¡° Although he did mention something else.¡± ¡° What? You have me on the edge of my seat here.¡± ¡° he said¡­ and I quote. I am probably overreacting but if we pull that guy into things then we are probably¡­ not merely going to die simple deaths¡± ¡° Hmm nope name dosen¡¯t mean a thing to me.¡± ¡° Well. Boss says it would be best to go in and out unnoticed.¡± ¡° So when is the operation?¡± ¡° She will die in three days.¡± Grey looked up at the ceiling. He couldn¡¯t help but be exited. Something had got the boss spoked! He almost couldn¡¯t believe it. He was honestly shaking. How could something that is able to send fear into his boss not scare him. Across the world a man was playing dolls with a ancient skeleton lizard princess named selektor the destroyer. He slipped from his tea and joke around. The little put on the fancy dress and comb the dolls hair as he listened intently to the little lizard complain about life as they had a real fun time¡­ for her. He head would bounce whenever she laughed and the running around eventually turned her out. ¡° Tho must speaketh why is joy so tiring! This world is bullshit I say. I say! I must sleep now.¡± She then waddled over to ber giant pink bed and went to sleep before it. A man named Mason came over and picked her up he then placed her on the bed she couldn¡¯t reach and kissed her on the skull before whispering ¡°goodnight princess¡±The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. Then then left the world of pink and stepped outside. ¡° Ahh she¡¯s so fucking cute!¡± She broke your spine during the hug. She broke you stomach as her tea was acid. He dolls her mini skeletons that were begging you for salvation by death! She was literally teaching you the fine points of torture. She a criminal ! Because it''s criminal to be that cute did you see her when she sneezed. Haaaa total bliss!. I want to take her head and mount it on my FUCKING WALL! Let''s go back and take it with us. And walk through that hell hole of pinks no thank you now then¡­ who is next? ¡­ three doors left. Ok lets go. Hahahahaha Wait a second. Something doesn''t feel right. I knock on the door and instantly find out my problem. Even hair on my body stands on end as I enter flight or fight mode. Then the door slowly opens and Vicky stands there. She blinks three times then steps to the side and welcomes me in but THERE IS NO WAY I AM ENTERING THIS DEATH TRAP! ¡° Rent¡­ bitch.¡± ¡° Very well. Although are you not willing to come play dolls with me as well?¡± ¡° Never!¡± ¡° My my if I didn¡¯t know better I would say you don¡¯t like me with how you treat me. Wait right here and let me get it for you.¡± She turns around then stops turning then she turns around again and gives me the money from where it came from I have no idea and I am to scared to tear my eyes away from her to look I to her room. My heart beat rises. She goes to close the door but stops herself. ¡° Ah¡­ didn¡¯t you have to go meet Zoe at the beach? Well well a little birdie told me do so now will help you out greatly if you did so now. That this as a warning not a request. And know that we are friends. You better listen no one is home and the world will move on without you soon or at least this one will¡± she blinked at the end and it sent shivers of horror down my back in every inch was screaming at me to run. Then the door is closed in my face. Fucking slut. I bet she is into furry children. Wonder if we could get her arrested for it. Or maybe if we pay the right people we could have someone deal with our problems. So what we going to do? We have rent to collect. I personally feel like we should listen this time to throw her off the next. Can¡¯t let her one up us also we spent a lot of time waiting her with selektor the loil Zoe has probably gotten pissed and then mellowed out again all in this time. ¡­ Ok Sef you have never lead me wrong before. Of course trust me. Ok. Let''s go down to meet Zoe. Hey how are we surprising to meet her if we don¡¯t know where she is. I don¡¯t think she knows where she is. That doesn''t help it just make this harder for me. That it does. Well where can we find trees? Isn¡¯t there a bit were the flood section and the retaken section come in contact with each other? That there is but the elves hate Zoe would she walk into their territory just to make a boat! Does she know they hate her? Yes Are they strong? Yes Doesn''t it seem more like Zoe went looking for a fight? That¡¯s pointlessly ZOE! Lets go pick a fight with the elves! Ok. I decided to take the short cut down and jump. I crash into the floor and my legs shatter but don¡¯t give way allowing me to stand up and walk away completely fine by the first step. I was a quiet day and I walked for about one to two hours. I see a large wooden wall there are hundreds of these all over the city they are guarded by at most thirteen and at least seven armed fighters. You know for eco elves they sure love machine guns. Are they eco terrorists? Aren''t they a cult? They are a nature goddess extremist group who see all technology as a front to nature. Well I guess that makes sense. I walk. Things like stealth are not my strong suits. Don¡¯t think there Zoe¡¯s either. Hay Mason. Boom. A bullet rips through my head. Do you want me to keep count? Sure. Well that''s one. I lie there waiting and eventually a two men come stand over me. ¡° This idiot? Do you thi-¡° He before could finish speaking my hand had passed through his chest. Are we sure we want to go in killing? Make no mistake I love a good murder but isn¡¯t it more likely that Zoe¡¯s actually on the beach than going on a killing spree? Hahahahaha why the did you say that now. I grab the other person and he becomes my shield as I rush the gate. Honestly WHAT THE FUCK SEF! A well placed bullet rips through the now corpse shield and I stumbled only to be covered in small metal cylinders called bullets. I ditch the shield and keep running. I make it to the gate and leap up the side swinging my arm I claw out someone''s throat. Then I am nailed to a wall with a spear. Like snapping a twig I escape my new wall based prison. I land on a platform thats two high up for someone to jump and not hurt them selfs. I am glad these guys use bigger guns so the bullets pass straight through with smaller guns I have to rip them out later. Other than that they are mild annoyances at most. Can¡¯t see spear guy but there is six before me including the three I killed before and spear guy that makes 10. Ok I using the two spear halfs take that number down to 8 with two nice throws. I cast a alteration spell that leads to projectiles swerving around me but brakes my spine for 0.3 of a second. I run along on all fours to the next two. That makes six 17 I cast another alteration spell that improves my senses and adds another like a third eye I can tell where everyone one is. Spear guy is hiding in a tree down below so I jump down and bring my first into his face then bring his face and my first to the ground shattering it. I walk up some steps killing three who were trying to run. The hole time I am just riddled with gunshots. Just broke 50 Arr I kick it into high gear and start dodging instead of walking through all attacks for style points. Three left one jumps but as expected he breaks his legs and can¡¯t run. One runs out of ammo and pulls a sword. One simply cowards. Knife guy charges and tries to stab me in the stomach but which I allow. He the thing about these old school sword fighters is that they never abandoned there swords so when he stands me I just have to rea- he ditched his sword and tried to run a away but I slash out his tendons in his legs with my fingers. I leap and cowering guy and straight through the heart and I finish off injury guy. Can you think of something more original than using alchemy to turn your fingers into blades. But it works so well. And its relatively cheap mama wise. But¡­ but¡­ I don¡¯t like it. Well sorry for that. At least just do your nails instead of your fingers. I give it a try and my nails grow out and condensed at the same time changing the material inside I also hardened them. To complete the image I also make the veins on my fingers stand out more. Then I let the transformation go away am my fingers look like any old fingers. Ok let''s go back and circle around before we run head first into a armed legion of highly trained soldiers and a few hundred thousand heightened shall we? Wait before that there is something even more important what was the number. Haha I don¡¯t think that really matters and it doesn''t count because you weren¡¯t trying at all were you. Of course it fucking counts it always counts what was the number!
  1. You died 87 times trying to take this gate
I stumbled a bit¡­ ¡°have I truly grown so weak. That I must die 87 times to kill so few and so weak of an opponent. THAT''S UNACCEPTABLE!¡± Calm down you will forget this by the time you go to bed. How long! HOW LONG HAVE I remained this way! I don¡¯t know a couple tens of years¡­ you will honestly forget by the time we get home¡­ actually you will forget by the time we reach Zoe wherever she may be. Of course I won¡¯t forget this! I strom off towards the sea and less than five minutes later. ¡° Sef why do I feel so bad?¡± You don¡¯t feel bad you feel weak. ¡° Oh. Why do I feel weak.¡± You know it''s a shame. What is? In all honesty you¡¯re blessed with an insanely handsome face. Thank you? You have the body like that of a greek god. True. I do. You can literally call yourself a doctor. That''s right. And I have kept you well groomed That you have. I don¡¯t know what I would do without you. Your not poor although you are not rich. Yep. SO WHY CAN''T I GET YOU LAID! Because I haven¡¯t meet the right person. The fuck are you talking about! You have had forty bloody years! I blame you. Of course you do¡­ I love you Sef. You¡¯re a hell of a guy Mason¡­ or at least you were a hell of a guy. What does that mean? And I honestly don¡¯t know what to do about your mind anymore. I have been hoping for a miracle for a long time¡­ but that¡¯s alright. Is it? Yeah if there is one thing you have got it is time. All I need is an edge to push you off. One you start falling you won¡¯t stop. Then let''s go find that edge. Yeah lets hope its just around the corner. At least you act the same even if you don¡¯t remember anything at the end of the day. By the way? Where are we, and what were we doing? Looking for Zoe right? So where do I go? Yeah that''s right. Well I eventually found her but by then it had passed midday. Apparently she got board and went to my place to wait for me then she came out to look for me because she was worried then she used my phone and CALLED¡­ DID YOU HEAR THAT SEF SHE CALLED ME! Sorry I forgot about phones. Well that¡¯s alright as I had fun. You did? I think so? Not quite sure what I was doing to be honest but I feel good physically and mentally at the moment so it should be fine. Yep it was fun. I am glad. For all my complaints I guess I have had you to myself for the last forty years. Oh how emotional! Shut up. Ass You know it best. That I do. Se-¡° Why are you standing on the beach smiling to yourself you look creepy.¡± Zoe said as she kick me face first into the ocean and despite her words I was on a pire. So I feel like two meters then crash into the water. But to be honest it wasn¡¯t that hard to get out. ¡° So see any wood? I can probably use anything even a tig.¡± Zoe scanned the beach. ¡° Nope.¡± I replied honestly ¡° Then look. Geez sometimes you are honestly like a kid.¡± ¡° Hehe it is my best quality!¡± ¡° Every quality you have is your best quality to you.¡± ¡° Well the truth is the truth what are you going to do?¡± ¡° I have long given up beating some sense into you¡­ oh a twig.¡± Zoe simply pointed at the twig and soon it morphed into the shape of a two man canoe. Zoe leaned over the finish boat. ¡° Well that was stupid. But know for the main reason why we are here¡­ Ok Mason...¡± She is dedicated I will give her that. Chapter 8 ¡° Do we need something to row with?¡± I asked. Zoe looked at me like an idiot. She then pointed at the canoe and two ors grew out then were snapped off by Zoe. ¡° Then we should sand it down.¡± Zoe looked at me like an idiot and pointed. Then it was extremely smooth. ¡° Then want to use it?¡± ¡° Not really. I don¡¯t feel like getting wet.¡± ¡° Are you being serious here.¡± ¡° Yep.¡± ¡° I was under the impression I was the child.¡± ¡° We both are children it''s just I am the older one. And don¡¯t you forget it.¡± ¡° Right? Actually are yo-¡° ¡° Don¡¯t ask a girl her age Mason. It''s about time you learned that.¡± ¡° Well it''s just that at this point do people like us care enough about age to be offended? I mean I am a pretty old dude. Old enough to not know how old.¡± ¡° Well that, it''s just how things are for you I guess.¡± ¡° For me? Aren''t you coming along for the ride?¡± ¡° Does it bother you? That one day I will be dead and you won¡¯t? It bothers me sometimes you know. I worry about you.¡± ¡° Where is this coming from.¡± You¡¯re not the same person you once were Mason. You¡¯re not all there. ¡° You¡¯re not the same person you once were Mason. You¡¯re not all there.¡± ¡° What are you saying?¡± A tear drips down Zoes eyes. I don¡¯t even know if I will live long enough to see you come back. ¡° I don¡¯t even know if I will live long enough to see you come back.¡± Zoe cried tears. Real and powerful sorrow passed through her. So I will say it again day by day. Week by week. Come home to me. ¡°So I will say it again day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year. Please come back to me Mason.¡± Oh she¡¯s changed it. I guess that''s to show her resolve? ¡° I don¡¯t understand Zoe I am right here.¡± Zoe stood there for five minutes before pointing at the boat and it went back to normal. She then bent over and put it in her pocket. ¡° Mason I have this stick in my pocket. Please try as hard as you can to remember.¡± Once more the lonely girl will cling to her frail hope. ¡° Mason¡­ do you know where I could find some wood to build the boat?¡± ¡° No.¡± I scan the horizon looking. I feel like something is wrong but continue searching the beach line then I turn back to Zoe and fall into a state of panic she¡¯s crying huddled on the floor. ¡° Next time! Next time! He will remember!¡± She just keeps repeating this over and over again. He face twists as if saying these words are of great difficulty for her. I come forward and hug her. I grasp her head and pull it into my embrace and soon her tears turn into a mix of crying and screaming as she hugs with enough force to break some bones. But what¡¯s important is that Zoe is sad. WHO THE FUCK WOULD DARE! I will gut the person that did this to her! I will strangle them with their mothers intestines use their children''s blood to paint the scene and- Mason it¡¯s your fault. Waaa what do you mean? What was my fault? ZOE! What¡¯s wrong. I gently rock her back and forth. Eventually after minutes of crying 3 hours Zoe collapse and goes to sleep so I pick her up and take her home. We walk for a long time and part of the way there she wakes up. I wonder why she was sleeping in the first place but we continue onwards and see many amazing sights. Elves beating people to death. Enforcers protecting a small business from a swarm of elfs. Just a lot of elves screaming something about a child of the spear and revenge. Wonder why. Well it has nothing to do with me as I never leave my apartment. Oddly enough they give me a wide berth upon sight and keep repeating. It''s the Slasher. Even the governments enforces seem to avoid me. I wonder why? It not like I ever did anything to them. I don¡¯t think you clean off the blood from your hands. Actually that might be a problem for you I mean you use your fingers and turn them into claws when you attack people. Although you just punch people to death most of the time. Ah I got of track. Well you¡¯re way of killing people stands out after all this isn¡¯t the arena you don¡¯t need to fight with your bare hands. Its also easy to track back to you. The pluses of the life of a shut in. You need to get an actual job. You being ruined by your comfy life. ¡°Mason I need drop by the gym. You are coming with me.¡± ¡° Ok why?¡± ¡° I am going to punch you¡­ a lot. Probably in the head.¡± Sef something tells me I am in bad situation here. Oh what gave you that impression. I don¡¯t know the threats of violence. Oh and what else. What else for what? Ha you¡¯re fucked. The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Ok¡­ sure whatever you say Sef. I turn down a corridor and walk with a brist speed. I am not sure why. I feel bad but I also feel the need to keep going in this direction. I feel myself walk through a street of small paths and corridors like a maze. I am mesmerised by the desire and clear direction I want to walk. I hear no noise. I smell nothing. Everything I see is a blur to me then it all becomes clear. And I am standing outside a shop. I open the door and see and creepy old shop. A fortune teller shop. What the fuck is this? Ahh its this place! We know this place? Yeah I come here a lot. You also know this place you saved its owner from certain death long ago. Why did I do that? Vicky said she didn¡¯t like this store. So what I went above and beyond to keep it? Yeah. Seems like me so why am I here. Actually this is probably for me more than for you. Huh? Well we use her services a lot. Do we? Yep because we are the only ones who can remember her? I feel like you said that with quite a lot of irony¡­ I wonder why? Also she? Is she attractive? She was before but it''s been a long time since we met. How long?80 years. That''s a long time. Hahahahaha What''s so funny? I tell you in just a bit. Ok. My mind seems oddly focused as I walk in. I twist and walk up the stairs. I don¡¯t know why but I feel like this is the correct path even though I didn¡¯t even notice the stairs before I push open a wooden door and step on them as if I knew where they would be. At the top of the stairs I walk down a corridor. Past the first two doors then I enter and see a woman laying in a bed. She''s so thin you would think she has never eaten a bite in her life and her eyes are dead beyond belief. Hate. She reeks of it. Her face is cold and wrinkly to the point where one could question her humanity. And at the same time as the chills were entering my spine I felt this great sadness. I felt as if I had failed her. Then I felt disturbed as I saw how thin and frail she seemed to be. I felt like that shouldn¡¯t have been the case and that she was supposed to be a strong woman who never knew the word defeat and that would forever remain unbroken and by my side. I felt like she should have been someone I could lean on. But when I looked at her a I saw a petty broken woman who hates the world almost as much as it hates her. I felt drawn to her and came over and took her hand. She only moved her eyes and even then I could see nothing but extreme pain in them. Even that simple movement was almost to much for her. ¡°... Jenny?¡± Total ecstasy. That was the look she was giving me at the mere mention of her name. As if all the pain she ever felt was worth it. Her mouth opened. ¡° I have foreseen it.¡± Her voice was low and broken every letter a massive struggle to fight back the pain for her. ¡° The day of your return¡­ elder. I will not live to see it. My only regret that I could not feel you as I once did. I am sorry I can not accompany... you any...further. My master.¡± She was crying. And struggling and fighting and losing. ¡° Caaaaa¡± she takes a deep breath to the point where I think her lungs may explode. ¡° I have seen it! The day of your return. I have seen that it will work¡­ the judgment of the gods shall be deny by your word the one they have sentenced to death is your key. Sef¡­ seek the sharman in the new world she will need Mason and Mason will need her. The solution. Lies with her¡­ this will get you there¡­¡± Then the room flashed and I was blinded. When it came time for me to see again I saw that she had closed her eyes. She did not move again. She died. What was that flash? What did she do? Hey Sef what did she mean? What was her regret I didn¡¯t understand it. She wanted¡­ you to have sex with her. And to be loved and embraced by you. As she grew older you stopped ¡®seeking her flesh¡¯ as she called it. Who was she to me? She was your lover for a time. She was your kinky sex friend mainly... to be honest, but you went in different directions when you got married and had kids but when you discovered she had also been pregnant with your kid as well, you dragged her back into your life mainly by force¡­ but your child with her died and you went your separate ways until your mind began to fall apart then she came back to look for a solution. However she never found one and you could never get her to smile. Then should I he glad? Yeah¡­ it''s a happy moment. I look back at the girl who I don¡¯t know. She died with a smile on her face. Although it appears that she may have loved you this entire time but felt like she wasn¡¯t worthy enough for you. She emitted that the last time we spoke that she wanted to be with you¡­ but I will remember her words. They have brought me hope. Although I did not understand them I feel I will when the time comes. Don¡¯t feel bad. You will forget her by the time we get home but in your place I will never forget. I walked out of the shop. My mind a buzz. Is it really that bad Sef? That I would forget someone that important to me? Yeah Fuck! Fuck! I punched through a concrete wall. I walk for three minutes and then. Hey Sef where am I? What am I doing? Your going to the gym. Ok where is that? Just go straight down this road for now. Hey Sef you don¡¯t sound to good are you alright? Yeah I am just having a bad day. Really bad day. What makes today bad? Did something happen? Ah yeah a friend died. Oh that¡¯s always sad. But they are not truly dead until they are forgotten. Morn, then move on. How cruel. Really I was trying to be blunt. But that was a pretty asshole thing to say wasn¡¯t it. I know. I turned to see some dead grass sway and it all became clear to me. It was like a revelation from the goddess herself! I new the truth and what I had to do. I will save the world. Shit Mason no. There is no wind! There never was only the mole people running past the roots of leaves with such force they leave small aftershocks but because of the rock between us it feels as us something brushed past your face but it wasn¡¯t actually that! They are doing this to spin the earth into its destruction. I need to stop the worlds rotation before it''s too late to save it! Mason sit. This is an order. I sit on the ground despite my better judgment and do as I am told. Orders can not be denied because then the fabric of space time will be ripped in half and the moon will come crashing down which it already is because of the mole people! I must act before it is too late! Mason stay. I stay still but as my body doesn''t move my mind rotates at a speed beyond anything it has ever done. But why did I not see this before. I look up and see an abandoned tech store! My god they have me chipped where is it. My fingers distort as the bone grows through the tips of them then it slowly changes until it appears as if there were claws on my hands! I rip at my wrists but find nothing sonI start digging around inside seeking the chips but there is nothing but I have a plan I must be flattened¡­ there is that 75 floor skyscrapers I could jump from. That will rid me of the chip inside! Mason. Stop. I stop all movements including breathing. I suffocate Mason. Breath One long grasp and my mind is back in business. I look around me and there is a pool of blood. Its covering me and is all sticky so I use my alchemy and change it into a not sickly substance and it all slides off but there is nothing I can do for my clothes. What the fuck was I doing? You were making your way to the gym but¡­ you were attacked by some common street thugs nothing to concern yourself with. Ok I stand and continue my walk towards the gym. Oh yeah I just remembered. WHAT! WHAT DID YOU REMEMBER! The side project I decided to take up. Is that all? Ok so what is it. Well I thought I made it pretty obvious before with all the shadowy hints but if you haven¡¯t got it than I will keep it a secret for now besides I will probably need a lot of materials to do it. It came to me in a dream the idea. Ah ok. But how about a hint? No I am good. Then on a scale between a plan to get you laid and a world domination plan where is it? Ahh¡­ bigger! Much Bigger! Oh damn¡­ he¡¯s growing even more crazy. Hahahahaha I won¡¯t deny that this dream is absolutely insane! And has no positive benefits for me at all! Then why? Because I think it will be amazing! Ahhh then where do we start?? No clue but it something that seems like once you begin you can¡¯t stop. Hmm actually that might be what you need. Pick up the pace were will be there soon. The broken gym. Why did they call it that. God I hate that name. It doesn¡¯t suit me at all. I mean seriously they must think up the names two seconds before the fight begins they roll with it. Actually I think that they brought fake names into the arena was stupid to begin with. Well they wanted to sell tickets also when you are an ordinary person the things heightened and blessed can do is beyond understanding. They wanted to capitalise on that besides would you go see Erick yang or the king of the sea the whale hunter. Also your name is pretty good I mean it¡¯s better than Dr bight. Yeah well I don¡¯t like it. You love it. Ok I do. The broken. That''s an epic name. Ironic in your current situation you just didn¡¯t like that some added man on the end. You wanted to keep it as just the broken and not the broken man. Besides they went back to just the broken later. Yeah they did. In fact the gym has quite a lot of fighters at mainstream level. Does it? I think it has three. Noah, Zeng and¡­ her. Also soon Vex will be a mainstream fighter. Vex¡­ who? God fucking dammit I feel sorry for her. Vex is¡­ your-¡° Where here¡­ sorry what were you saying. No never mind. Well we call it a gym it¡¯s actually just a basement under a kebab store Noah owns¡­ or was it his sisters? His sisters. Well I walk into the kabab store then instantly walk outside again and check my pockets. Then my clothes and I am covered in blood and without a single cent? Hey didn¡¯t I collect rent today? Ahh fuck! Mason take better care of your money you lost it! FUCK! This FUCKING SUCKS. Well let''s retrace our steps. No lets just go into the gym this isn¡¯t the abandoned section we probably shouldn¡¯t walk around covered head to toe in blood. Although I haven¡¯t seen another person. Actually wait I think there might be one inside the Kebab shop¡­ I think it''s Noah¡¯s sisters. Yeah I think so two. Well her shop is on the corner block and there is a path disconnecting it from the other buildings on this street that look like a small market area I walk into said path it takes the form of an L so if you keep going to get of on another road. Its small probably could only fit two people in it if they were to lay down so actually not that small it just gives off that feeling when comparing it to a road. I make my way around the corner and see some steps on the side that lead down into a basement area that''s blocked by a metal door and a sign that says fighting lessons on the side and a lot of graffiti. I open the door and walk inside and then I see some more steps which I follow down. Then after a good minute of walking down at a kind of steep slope I turn to face another door I open. That walkway down always had terrible lighting and looks creepy as hell but in turn Noah will give a month of free training to whoever comes in. He will teach his techniques and some of mine and Zoe¡¯s then he will put them on a routine to get them going however most don''t return the next day for one simple reason¡­ this is a gym for people who like fighting. Sparing is part of the course and there is about 14 fighters who actually use this gym and each is quite powerful. So sparing is part of the routine. The problem is most the guys here are picky assholes who pick on the new guy. Well they do it for the first month then they back off or Noah makes them back off and besides in their minds they are just doing what happened to them as if it was a tradition but the pay of is you could get access to even the most advanced training facilities. This place is actually a former underground fighting ring were people would fight and some would make bets but it was just kind of ditched at some point but Noah came in and renovated it to an extreme. Everything except the pit as it is called. I open the door in front of me and instantly see a long greenish black haired man laying down on his side staring at a poster of a sexy woman doing absolutely nothing. Ahh my favourite type of training. No you¡¯re favourite type of training is throw them at people who want to kill them and they get stronger or they die¡­ not everyone is you. Well it works wonders I tell you. Wonders! I am instantly tackled from into a concrete wall that shatters. All the bones in my chest are broken and I turn to see a woman standing over me. ¡° Father! I won my match did you see! Ah right I am Vex you won¡¯t remember me but I am your daughter!¡± Huh?... who is this? Chapter 9 What did she say? That her name was Vex. Didn¡¯t she just say that she was my¡­ ok yeah you¡¯re probably right I missed heard. You fuck. You fuck it¡¯s getting harder and harder to see you as anything else than a mental ass that¡¯s without hope¡­ ahhhhh maybe I should fight for supremacy and become THE ONE IN CONTROL OF THE GENITALS! And you can be the voice in my head Please don¡¯t. It was a joke¡­ you know a joke hahahahaha¡­ have I ever actually tried to take control before? Let''s give it a go¡­. Oh how would I even go about doing that? I haven¡¯t the faintest clue. I look back up at the woman before me. Who was she again? Where am I? Hug her. I stand up and hug the woman. She¡¯s about average height so shes small in comparison to me so my arms wrap around her head more than anything and it pushes my chin up. She has soft black hair that covers her face where only a single eye is revealed through a slit in the gap in her fringe. I can¡¯t tell is she¡¯s attractive or not but she seems well built. Sturdy but not muscly which is good because she seemed to be light on her feet so she not wasting herself by simply adding muscle like Noah. Her build would open her up to assassin techniques but if she wanted to be a fighter? Hmm what would she be good at? Oh she¡¯s wearing nothing but bandages. Wonder why she looks like a mommy¡­ mammy? Sef is it mommy or mammy? Mummy? Yeah that last one sounds right. She punches me in the stomach and tries to break free from my grasp but I don¡¯t let up and actually get a better grip instead. Pain? What''s that? I sustain myself with pain on a daily basis. Immortal doesn¡¯t need food but I still get hungry so at the same time I also want to save money but cutting food expenses to zero. Oh I guess I eat when I am cooled for. Which is everyday ever since Zoe found out you didn¡¯t eat and starve yourself past the point we a normal would have died ten times over on a regular basis to save on food expensive. Well that''s the way the cookie crumbles. You dear you a food reference slash analogy. Yep. By the way who is this person? Your daughter. Congrats father WHAT? 3...2...1¡­ Who is this person? Honestly are you doing it on purpose why do you always forget her so quickly¡­ it oddly like any negative experience is quickly erased. ¡° Ahh¡­ lets go please.¡± She punches me in the stomach again and I spit some blood onto her hair which leads to her struggle coming to a stop. ¡° Um why am I hugging you?¡± ¡° I don¡¯t know so please let go.¡± Another blow to the stomach and some more blood and I think my feet came off the ground for a second. ¡° Come on there has to be a reason I don¡¯t give free hugs¡­ they are expensive merchandise.¡± ¡° Yep this is worth its weight in gold¡­ I can¡¯t afford it.¡± The way she spoke was odd. Not the words they were polite but her voice is creepy as hell. But I think the division between her manner of speaking and her voice cute. Very cute. I feel oddly defensive of her and defenseless when I hear it. Like I wanna lock her up and keep her safe but feel like that isn¡¯t the way to do it. Hmmm there''s no one else here accept me, this girl, an stupid faced Zoe in the corner and some guy looking at porn in the corner. Although poor guy is ripped. Yeah this gym went to shit¡­ it costs a lot to keep a place like this running and do you honestly believe that it could be maintained with Noah''s romantic approaches to business. Although Zen is still here. Somewhere that Qu clan fucker thinking he is so great. Yeah¡­ but I always believe that his sister would take over the business end. She did. It still failed in the end. Although it lasted thirty years so that¡¯s something. This woman? Vex she¡¯s twenty three this year. You taught her that weird fighting style that you made up on the spot and strangely she turned it into a weapon of war. But the stupid you didn¡¯t even think for a second about the consequences of it! Ok¡­ oh she broke free. She dislocated her shoulder to do it too that was mighty impressive not may can escape my grappling. Well I wasn¡¯t focused so it doesn''t count. Why am I on the floor. Ahhh I told you to hug her not pin her down on the ground then forget about it mid way through the choke. She rolls away but twists and sends her foot to my face but with a slight adjustment of the location of my head I reach forward and dive into her legs I twist around and get her head trapped in my legs as I grasp her legs to try and prevent her from breaking free. Her arms are also stuck in place well one of them is the other is dislocated. But then oddly enough the dislocated arms flys into my leg and shatters a bone. There''s not a 50 degrees turn where there shouldn¡¯t be. So I kick her with said broken leg and leap to my feet I even add a flip for style points. I wasn¡¯t very good at grappling. Didn¡¯t you say the opposite just before. Nope you¡¯re imagining things. You know I am not good at grappling I am better with punches and things. Yep¡­ but when your punches don¡¯t work then you are good at something else and you go through all you skills and if none of them work you say ¡® I am good at improvisation¡¯ and we both know that¡¯s something you suck at. Half of the time. But it''s true that I suck at them. I just don¡¯t like using them. You also never bothered to learn you are just repeating things that were used on you. Yeah. She sends a punch forward. I raise my arm and block and slide into her personal reach past her defence and boom! There light jabs to the face. Then I feel a hand grab my head. I twist to see Zoe and rises her head and punches me. I feel her first tear through my check and shatter half my teeth and snap my jaw off its left joint. Then she pulls back and does it again and I feel her tear through my check, shatter my jaw and you understand my face was completely healed by the time the next punch arrived. Then she dragged me away for ¡®training¡¯ ¡°Have fun father!¡± Ass¡­ why didn¡¯t we raise her better. I blame you.This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. For what? Shitty parenting. I don¡¯t understand? You never did. Hey you think she could use her long ass hair to whip something? Probably. I can whip things with my hair and its like¡­ an inch? Now that I think about it you never get your haircut. Of course it would regenerate instantly. Luckily it doesn¡¯t keep growing then. Yep Hahahahaha that be a shity way to go. Yep Hey I have a question what are you going to he when humanity evolves into a higher being and your left all alone because you can¡¯t die but can follow. Genetically engineered human? Or so you would be like the eternal watcher of humanity it has a nice ring to it. Ahh try again You could walk around for shadowing the creation of a new human race by the hand of SCIENCE! Why? Because you could when have we ever cared about anything more than that? We fight because we can. We win because we can. Not because we need to Because we are the ones who lack¡­ needs We need to work on the last bit It''s a total mess alright. Zoe drag me to a room and began to beat me but this gave me time to think about¡­ stuff by myself. Together¡­ always together. Right yeah. together me and Sef began to think about some things. Yep¡­ this was a calculated move. We were not getting the absolute shit kick out of us at all. What were we thinking about? Uh? oh where did the¡­ uh where am I? Gym thinking about something Ok so let''s think about pasta. Pasta? I weave under a straight punch barely then counter with a blow to the stomach. Zoe is not fazed in the slightest and brings her knee up into my chin so I am knocked back but one I stop sliding backwards I siccor kick her neck. My shin bone breaks in tow and Zoe is unharmed. She brings her first down over me and brushes past my still raised leg. But her blow is a miss only just she sends her other arm out to my head but my foot is back on the ground know so I launched the head she seeks forward straight into her hand with all my might. My head shatters but Zoe steps back shes broken a fingers. Zoe is a mage. Not a fighter she better at long range and weak in close combat and yet I would have had to die to take a finger. One death. Back alive again I leap back and make some distance. I stand with my feet just beyond shoulder width apart and bend down slightly as I lean forward sending my weight forward to the point just before I fall. My hands come from my side as if to catch something but then spread apart and one opens up and I flex my hand as if to show off some claws that aren¡¯t there and the other forms a first. I lean my right foot work a little so my side is facing her and smile for style points. This all take less than a second. Its only at this point that I realize that Zoe is actually just sitting there checking her nail for damages. Oh she wasn¡¯t serious¡­ what a bummer. Well could we beat her if she was this seems more like some anger management or something similar. Unfortunately our state right now is far from our peak. So how do we that. I throw my first forward and jab Zoe in the eye. She steps back then slowly she starts getting pissed then her face returns to a calm neutral but she entered a combat stance. We start fighting and from the very beginning I am completely out match and there is not much I can do at the start but I can get a few good punches in by the end. However like most of my fights Zoe was worn down over the course of a few hours and in all honesty she wasn¡¯t a good opponent for me as she is a long range mage. Actually that it take me a few hours to beat a mage should show you just how weak I have become. You want the kill count? I wonder¡­ probably don¡¯t but ok show me. 638 and you didn¡¯t win Zoe gave up and left. That counts as my win. No it doesn¡¯t. ¡° Um¡­ father?¡± I turn my head to see Vex standing there her head lowered and her body language is very meek. If she didn¡¯t look like the girl from the ring she she would be¡­ the cutest thing in existence? Bias Why? Actually who is this girl? Vex right at least I think I remember the name this time. It¡¯s honestly a miracle but you will forget it tomorrow so I won¡¯t cry tears of joy. ¡°So what do you want? I am happy to help.¡± ¡° I wanted to show you how far I have come¡­ I know you won¡¯t remember but I will remember you. I am about to start my own journey and I don¡¯t want regret of you so please let''s fight.¡± Oh I wonder if she will use that insane thing you taught her. This is the first time I take notice of my surroundings¡­ from the looks of things I am in a pit with no way out? How did I get here? Focus Mason¡­ do not take your eyes away from your opponent thanks for the reminder. She steps forward and launches at me. I am amazed at speed she travels over that short distance. She lunches a punch at me but I block it with my arm. She sends another and I step around it and get her in the side of the head then I twist and get her in the stomach she is thrown away. Once she lands she slides a bit and she looks up and me. The emotions in her eyes a flurry of admiration and a desire. A powerful desire to break. ¡° I am truly the child of a monster. You were only fighting for a few hours and you have surpassed me. You speed, power and even skill have grown greatly in but a few hours. But fear not father for I will surpass you! With the TECHNIQUE YOU GAVE ME!¡± She moves back like a ghost then stumbles like how I would assume a zombie would. Then she stands in a lower case t pose before. CRACK! Her bandages pull and dug and she is almost crushed by the technique but all of her joints are disconnected at exactly the same time. Then her first was going through my chest and I was covered in holes. The speed was remarkably and I cannot begin to describe the beastly rage and primordial zealously in her movements. It was like she was¡­ playing with playdo the way she broke down my body. Then she stopped and collapsed. Remarkable! 1137 kills in a minute meaning she launched over 100 attacks per ten seconds or over ten per second that is inhuman but what was more so was that each attack was at her maximum strength and endurance! In fact she was starting to go fast by the end! This is bad! She¡¯s in a bad way! Who the fuck taught her that stupidity! She will kill herself long before she kills anyone else. Hahahahaha and you it! What sending such- You grinning ear to ear. That was an amazing rush of attacks I could do something against Zoe but I was composed powerless. Unless they put all there points into their defences and knew it would be coming then I know few who could withstand that rush! We need to help her¡­ Sef lead me to Zen. I bend down and scrape her up into my arms. She limp like a noodle but is breathing and even moans when I pick her up and leap out of the hole. ¡° I can understand lead and arm bones but why did you dislocate your jaw? ¡° ¡° Ah aaahahahahhhrrrhahsharrr haahhsh hahahhahrrraaaa haaaa¡± ¡° I see makes perfect sense.¡± What the fuck did she just say? How the fuck was I supposed to know? I walk a few meters before I am stopped. Zen is there and fuck he got old. He like a saggy old man. No not like at all. ¡° Allows mes to assistssss herrr nooo?¡± God he still talks like that doesn''t he. No matter what we did we could never get him to stop trying to sound like a talking snake could we. I hand her over I mean¡­ wait a second I am a doctor! What am I handing her over to another doctor. I snatch her back and take her over to a corner where I start reconnecting joints. ¡° You need to touchssss her pressureeee pointssss¡± ¡° Nope¡­ modern science.¡± ¡° Yoooou would rejectssssss my techniquessss 1400 yearssss offff innovatonsssss fooolllll¡± ¡° Ahhhhh¡­ stop. Just stop talking.¡± ¡° Butt whyssss dosssss yousssss wantssss messsss tosssss stopssss talkssssssingsssssssssssssss¡± ¡°YOU ARE DOING IT ON PURPOSE! I fucking know you are!¡± ¡° Isssss havessss nosssssssssssssss ideaaaaaassssss whaaaaaaasssssss yousssss aressss ssssssaaaayyyyinnnnnnggggggsssss¡± ¡° fucker.¡± I wanna rip out his fucking dick and cock slap him to death! Calm down Sefsssssss Don¡¯t you FUCKING DARE! Ok ok I wonder what I was do- ah right. Well then I fixed her up all nice and good. And we lived happily ever after. You asked her if she wanted a prescription for performance enhancing drugs. Good thing she said no. Then she gave a polite bow and hurried off. Ahh um ah oh um¡­ Want to go home? But I just got here! You know that isn¡¯t the case. Ok then I guess I will work on my product. Where''s my phone. Hahahahaha Fuck! Guess I will go meet him in person. Who? Actually you know what fuck that. Lets go¡­ ahhh ¡° ZEN! GIVE ME YOUR PHONE!¡± ¡° Haaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeee ¡° ¡° Oh you totally changed the nose you were making at the end!¡± ¡° I havessss nosss phone ¡­sssssss¡± ¡° Oh don¡¯t fuck with me!¡± Actually Mason the phone we lost today was his¡­ we took it from him the last time we were here. Did we. Then my new favorite person in the hole world called me. ¡° Um father¡­ would you like mine?¡± She¡¯s a bloody angle. Angled? Didn¡¯t I say the right thing? Actually you might have don¡¯t mind me. ¡° Sure¡­ actually you are kinda strong want to get some practical experience¡­ oh wait are you ok with killings?... actually don¡¯t answer that where were you born?¡± ¡° Yes I was born in the dead zone.¡± ¡° So I can take it you have killed a few people in your day?¡± ¡° Resources are sometimes scares¡­ we do what we need to, but not many live in the dead zone anymore most died. As mother said ¡®We are monsters it is only by choice can someone become human¡¯.¡± Well that''s what happens when you have an immortal killer who hunts crime! We don¡¯t do that? Really? Remember your words I will prove them wrong¡­ BECAUSE I¡¯M BATMAN! ¡°Thats is a great phases¡­ ok let''s get going we have someone we need to meet first because I don¡¯t where to find my objective.¡± ¡° And what is your objective sir?¡± ¡° For now¡­ a mix of knowledge, connections and wealth there is something I want to build.¡± ¡° What?¡± ¡° Secret.¡± Chapter 10 The political landscape of today¡¯s world is¡­ a fucking mess. So there is a local government that¡¯s elected. You mean corrupt local government¡­ that sometimes the powerful people of the city allow elections. At this level it¡¯s mainly organised criminal enterprises like the one we semi work for. They handle small stuff and tax personal taxes no business tax because most businesses are stronger than the local government. We live in a society where a few ¡®clans¡¯ are literally stronger then the government creating a status hierarchy that can¡¯t be breached by an average person meaning there are people who are literally above the law. Then we have the enforcers¡­ I LITERALLY HAVE NOT THE SLIGHTEST CLUE. Actually from what I can tell these people are good people. They do enforce the law and often times are empowered by the families to do so. But the main reason why they can remain just is because of the people at the top. Then we have the powerful families these and some extremely few corporations that are often run by families anyway that are also above the law. If someone from these families was to kill someone in front of a policeman¡­ the policeman would either pretend to not see anything or¡­ well die. But not before watching their families be tortured to death. By the way my mother belongs to both a family and a ¡®clan¡¯ the only difference between the two being power. And then above the families we have the council of elders. 18 ¡®elders¡¯ that stand above everything. See we live in a society where someone could be born tomorrow with the power to destroy the world. I am not lying¡­ about 288 years ago I think¡­ maybe my memories not the best someone was born with the blessings called the plague touched. He was sick with a plague that would spread by touch, air, water. But everything changed when the fire nat- what are you saying? Your not making any sense also touch is not earth. Oh sorry I was distracted a second by anyway the child killed herself when her father and mother died to her pluge by accident but her pluge continued. Oh¡­ fuck that beautiful little loil and her words ah I think I am crying. Her last words ¡° If my death can bring happiness to those and lessen the hatred I have caused then please Mason¡­ just let me died.¡± Ahhh did that happen! So long story short the world was all but destroyed however a cure was made on time by the world was wrecked. Then a the council of elders was formed to ¡®protect¡¯ the people and ¡®protect¡¯ the blessed. See at the time religion was a bigger thing than it was now. Oh wait that won''t help you¡­ there is a reason it''s called blessed and not cursed and that¡¯s because the church at the time used the power blessed to slay the cursed or the rebellious blessed and heightened. We also didn¡¯t know the difference between heighten or blessed but now we do. What he failed to tell you is that the council of elders was made by said church so it had the blessing of the goddess. Although the church still called any magic user a witch and we even had a new round of witch hunts during the plague. But the church was shaken and most didn¡¯t want anything disaster to occur so they were happy to sell there blessed children to a place where they would be looked after. Most of the blessed taken by the elders actually become enforcers. But you see this was never meant to be a government. They just simply grew stronger by collecting stronger people. They are also oddly big on diversity of ideas which put them ahead in technology, research and all that stuff. Ahhh but you see the church was not big on this at all. Soon the council split from the church as its power grew weaker with each generation and the improvement of science and magic becoming better understood by common people. But like I said it was not meant to be a world wide and so we get to today''s situation where I live in and dead zone. Dead zone are areas where the government and enforces are cut out completely leaving only the above the law clans and criminal organisations. In fact there is no police man in this entire city or at least half. But these have another plus. Few enforcers. More free blessed or undocumented. Also there are other special things like the elves that are extremely racist and own their own area. Actually that''s just case the king of the elves is an ¡®elder¡¯ Actually that king is dead we were invited to his funeral it was nice the queens adopted son is in charge now¡­ although there are elves who hate this extremely. So what I am saying is that if I was to kill someone in my district where my house is located no one would care. If I kill someone here I have to face the wrath of the ruling clans or¡­ pay a fine. I could also pay a criminal organisation to hide the evidence for a cheaper price. Ok so what does this mean to the average person. No one is not armed to the teeth. You would think that the clans would run wild stealing wife¡¯s and stuff but actually they take small amounts of taxes and keep to themselves. Sometimes they will fix public infrastructure of course with the associated tax rise as well. As for why this is.
  1. That old guy laying on the street could have a blessing that will obliterate you.
  2. Everything you do is recorded
Yep¡­ its the dead zone that keeps the clans in check. Because people like me and Zoe trained killers walk the streets. And trust me it''s not hard to get from one district to another. I live a few minutes away from the area the clans control. Actually a dead zone is probably the only place where one can do as they please. Technology is a scary thing thats all I will say. Well at least that''s how it was back in the day¡­ maybe things have changed¡­ the elders might not be on top anymore. It''s been around 50 years since we were anybody of importance. Anything could have happened but you¡¯re mother hasn¡¯t told you about anything important happening so it¡¯s probably nothing. Never liked them. Always got in the way if my plans. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Well they are at least still the rulers of the world in the eyes of¡­ people. Hey Sef? What? Do common people who about the elders. In some places¡­ but remember there are places where they don¡¯t know about enforcers the world government is really good at restricting information so less people probably know about them now than they did before. Technically technology is scary¡­ That''s all you can say because we don¡¯t have the slightest clue how any of that stuff works. Yep. ¡° Then let''s go¡­ girl named Vex¡± Oh I remember! Remarkable! Outstanding! Extraordinary! Hahahahaha what can I say¡­ ¡­ ¡­ praise me more. ¡° Remarkable! You actually remember my name!¡± By the way Sef. Yeah what is it. Like I know her name but¡­ who is she? Hahahahaha ha! Z never mind let''s just get on with what we were going to do? What''s that? I don¡¯t know you wouldn¡¯t tell me. Really that doesn''t sound like me. I leave the gym with my new ¡®mummy¡¯ in toe. I am holding a bandage like a leash honestly I feel weird but she tied it around my arms and said I wasn¡¯t allowed to take it off in case someone got lost. I wonder if she is bad with directions I think it you she is worried about anyway what are we doing? Oh I need money right. Yeah. So I am just going to take some from one of the clans. What? Of course not today¡­ today I am going to scope them out then tonight I will start picking them off one by one then I will move on to the next clan, then the next until only one remains¡­ Then you will ask them for money you will use to buy the materials required and the reputation gained will be your status to use. Well in the power gap the clan will probably grow bigger and get conceited so we will destroy them after we get the money. This should also help you get back into shape. Maybe¡­ hopefully. It would be nice. Yep¡­ so why are you taking your only descent on a suicide mission! WHAT? SHE¡¯S MY DAUGHTER! Don¡¯t yell at me! Young man go to your room. ¡° Um where are we going? Father what''s the matter.¡± ¡° I was told off for yelling.¡± ¡° Um by who? Father there is no one here but us¡± I sulk in the corner and Vex comes over and begins to shake me and tell me people are watching. And I don¡¯t care! Actually aren¡¯t the streets empty. No you just don¡¯t care enough about others to even notice there existence¡­ even if someone was shot and killed before you at most it would be a momentary wonder before completely forgetting them. Well people are people and people I don¡¯t care about are bags of meat not worthy of my time. So let''s go watch from the shadows. ****** People are filth. They are lesser and disgraceful and¡­ not fun. In a sense the average person is simple boring to me. As are there struggles. There pain on the other hand is quite nice. It shows me them at their best and I can see instantly if they are worthy of my time which is as we all know the most valuable. Time. The ticking of a clock. It is a beautiful sound that no one can afford to hear. Or at least that is what I believe. ¡° Sir Russ¡± ¡° I will great the gusts in a minute. Exactly 57 seconds fear not Wonda.¡± That was Wonda and she was quite the wonder full woman. Her screams were beautiful last night. It took me time to break her. As it should. It gave her value to me and now we spend each night together. She was an assassin who came to take my life but was caught. I tested out most of her flesh both inside and out. Although she is partly metal she can still use those fabulous heighten strength she possess and it brings some variety to the bed room which we sleep. Oh look at the time a minute has passed and it seems I have lied. Lying is one of the great sins in the eyes of the goddess so I must repent for I know I have truly sinned. I despite the expectations of others and a man of the goddess. I marvel at the idea of her. And I won¡¯t lie and say that I have not sin but without her I would not even know that I have sinned. To lie to a person is bad and I try my hardest to avoid it but sometimes I falter. And for my sins to be forgiven I must make a sacrifice. A sacrifice of time to both the goddess and the person who I have harmed. ¡°Wonder I have lied to you¡­ I apologise¡± ¡° I forgive.¡± ¡° Thank you very much¡­ but I am afraid I must also ask this of the goddess.¡± ¡° I will tell the guests you are dealing with a matter and will great them shortly¡­ good bye master.¡± ¡° Oh goodbye Wonda I am glad I was able to meet you and think very highly of you. I might go so far as to say you have me spellbound.¡± I must be kind to Wonda. The goddess demands that one love there fellow person¡­ and Wonda has proved to me through her screaming she is a person of value. But the person before me has not. They are not a person¡­ they are filth and therefore it is ok to lie to them. ¡° Don¡¯t worry¡­ you are doing well¡± Oh she¡¯s screaming. I must say that I am getting very sexually excited right now she is quite attractive and I enjoyed the sensation of her¡­ attempted at simulated love. But it is a shame that she is not a person. Only people can love so she can actually feel love. Or pain to be honest she is justified in belief that she can but unfortunately for her she can not. Although things can be enjoyable sometimes as well but they are just that things. Oh her screaming has stopped¡­ has it broken? Shame¡­ I was having fun. Well it''s time to go to work. I am quite wealthy you see. I am the master of a clan although many believe I am too young for such a role and sometimes I agree. But unfortunately I tested my father and he wasn¡¯t a person. Although my mother was and I had Wonda test me. She says I am a person. I have trained Wonda to identify people and so far she hasn¡¯t made a mistake. That is quite amazing as I too have made mistakes before. Although not on Wonda. I test her each night when we sleep together and each time her screaming is more and more human like. She says the its the same for me. I love people. I truly do it''s a shame they are so hard to find. And so rare. I walk out of the room just as Wonda is coming back. She takes out a clean clothes and tries to clean off the blood but I must say that her attempts are probably not going to succeed and so she leads me away. To get changed. Sometimes this woman is quite troublesome but I suppose that blood is not a valuable substance in society. Thats a shame as it has such beauty to as do the people it comes from. Oh but I guess this isn¡¯t valuable because it doesn''t come from a person. My darling wife Wonda. It caused quite the uproar when I revealed my plans to marry her as she is not from a clan like me. But in my personal experience real people most often found in difficult situation and that revealed many fakes and reals to me so I gained many friends and lost a few as well. I would like to deal with my new found sexual desire with Wonda but there is a time and a place for everything as there is a price. I won¡¯t lie and say that my life is difficult. No in truth it¡¯s quite a wonderful life. But it had a price as do all lives. One of them is social obligations where I must pay certain prices in my time to keep my and my clans current living standards. The goddess speaks that one should protect their families from harm is the mark of a true warrior. I chuckle. I am strong. The strongest in my clan. And yet the goddess says that doesn''t make me a warrior even if I fight all day and every day but because I have the ability or the strength to protect my family that is why I am a warrior. The goddess is quite the lovely person. To ask for such simplicity in her followers devoted. The simplicity of need of absolute faith in her divine will. ¡° Did you pray for forgiveness?¡± ¡° Yes¡­ Wonda thank you for the concern I am very touched.¡± ¡° How do you know she accepted your plea.¡± ¡°Faith.¡± ¡° That response makes me very jealous.¡± Wonda is not a religions woman but that is ok. I am not like the church who take from the holy script and use what they please and hide that which doesn''t suit them until it does never to allow their own corruption to be revealed. But that is fine. The goddess will decide if they are to be punished or me who avoids her places of worship because I feel they have been tainted. No the idea of a church is also debatable as the divine text simply asks that one speak the words not convert the listener. So all I can for wonda is speak and hope that she listens. She helps slide one sleeve into the purple suit that I have personally chosen as my current attire replacement for tonight. She then straightens my tie and corrects it positioning. I know that all of this is something I could do myself but I believe I should respect the desire of my wife as she feels helpless when something isn¡¯t done herself or clean to perfection and a healthy relationship is one where both parties love, accepted, desire and most importantly negotiate with one another. I walk down the corridor. Wonda steps in time with my own feet to make it less difficult I walk with a rhythm. Image is a tool. This is something my wife often repeats. She says that I must hold an image that demands respect and if that is to hard then I should take actions that enforce fear. I chuckle. My wife is very loving I am happy that she tried to kill me and was captured alive. I am happy I could play with her for she makes the most stimulating screams of pain I have ever heard. I also like how she stays in shape. Very pleasing to the eyes. I also live with her personality and find it extremely enjoyable experience to hear of herself and her throughs on matters. She is also very accepting of my faults and I like to think I am accepting of hers. I believe that to be a good person one thing is needed. Discipline. I am strong but as a person I have much room to grow to become better and I hope I can for the goddess demands respect for her people. So when a person of hers enters my room and is discovered they leave freely. I push open the door. Place on a fake smile and step into a room. I see fakes wearing nice suits or a pretty dress. Oh how I want nothing more than to kill everyone here. Chapter11 ¡° Russ clan master¡± A man with a cocky smile walk towards me. Filth! He is the clan master of a clan we are allies with but I hope he dies a painful death. Despite being a fake he does nothing positive for society. All he does is reveal in his most basic instinct¡­ fear. The value of humanity is driven from our ability to do evil but the choice to do right. This is what I honestly believe. Desire exists to test us as some would say however I believe that evil is a necessary step in the birth of good. I find it odd. That our society has a word for evil to begin with. Why do ¡®evil¡¯ acts get classified as evil and not simply bad? While good actions are simply good. I suppose that one could use the word justice but justice is a reaction to wrong and can not be done without evil but evil does not require justice to exist. I often question this. I find it quite sad that it is not the other way around. I can¡¯t even imagine or at least not properly a world where that is the case. But I do know this. The person before me is someone without value to the world. Be it to me or others. He is not worthy of my time. This is actually a sad thing because he often has many interesting perspectives on things I try am copy. Training of the mind is just as important as training of the body or at least it is to me. All around me are the whispers of the sheep. The cattle¡­ the fakes. Or at least most of them. I see but glimpses of one or two real people. Take that woman¡­ she runs a bank on the surface but in truth leads all criminal activity in this city. I believe her name was Cas. Or over there the mister named Sadara a wealthy industrialist from a far away land. Honestly I know most of these people are here for me. Even if they are not they have no choice by the come at my word. I just can¡¯t. I just cannot ask help but asked myself whenever I see the fear in the eyes of the fakes oh what great power I must hold over their lives for them to fear me so. My clan was once something much greater than it was before one of the great families but it challenged something that could not be killed and was all but slane. Or at least that''s what father told me but I don¡¯t believe it¡­ someone who can¡¯t be killed. That¡­ would be to sad a fate for the goddess to allow. If there is no end to there time then¡­ would that time have value? Would there love? There anger? Their hate? The answer is no it wouldn¡¯t and no one is human enough to suffer ever onwards or at least not truly. But I am losing myself in through although it''s probably fine I could just speed up my perspective of time so I could be left alone to my own throughs for a few hours before that clan leader makes it to me. But I wish to end this party as quickly as possible so that I may embrace my wife who has gone to ¡®socialise¡¯ as she considers it but in my mind she is simply truly wonderful as I would offend be lost on the events outside my own house if not for her information gathering skills. I do truly love her. Oh god is that sweat? He is truly a coward too afraid to ever be human. Although at first glance you wouldn¡¯t be able to tell as he like me must maintain an image. Ahhh to return my clan to its former glory is, in truth the last thing I want. I fully intent on destroying and taking this city for my clan but I don¡¯t want to interfere with the wider world if possible. ¡° Mark my friend it is good to see you.¡± He may not be a person but even lying to my reflection can put a sour taste in my mouth so I disliked making eye contact in case I see my own reflection because of this I don¡¯t move my head to face him as he approaches and continue to scan the ¡®party¡¯ with my eyes counting and watching the people. The real people not the fakes although I do see a few that I find to be unknown to me. Unless I am to enforce great pain or struggle upon them and watch their reactions closely I will accept that I can not truly tell if they are not people. I have been surprised before in the past. ¡° Russ Titas have you heard?¡± ¡° Heard what?¡± ¡° So you haven¡¯t yet? Very well come with me we should talk in private.¡± Ahh truly disappointing I fear this man may take more of my time away from me. But I follow after my wife shots me a look as if to say I am watching. She is quite the perfectionist but that is one of the qualities I find pleasing about her. We enter a room to ourselves and he drops the fake smile and frowns walking back and forth. ¡° Two clans were destroyed last night. They were hunting to the last man and rob blind.¡± Unexpected. ¡° Did they angry anyone recently?¡± ¡° My agents believe that the one responsible was from the graveyard.¡± ¡° The¡­ elves perhaps?¡± He words are spoken faster now. ¡° No it was two individuals. Each were human. One may be an undead.¡± ¡° The only necromancy that is active around here is the witch in her tower. Madam Bight are you saying?¡± ¡° No she says she has nothing to do with it. And my information concedes. ¡± ¡° Then do we know there reasons? Revenge to say we have no enemies would be a lie.¡± ¡° Yes we know there object they wrote it on the wall with the blood of that two clan heads.¡±Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. ¡° Oh please tell me.¡± ¡° Pay me to stop killing you and I might consider it. That was what was written.¡± ¡° Oh quite brave to challenge all the clans at once no? And so they were hunted down to the last man were they. The individuals responsible are not playing around. Did an outside power request anything of us recently? Is this a power play? Why do you think he came from the graveyard?¡± ¡° He didn¡¯t actually try and hide it even wrote a letter to my clan telling us where he lives and that we should come to him tonight to pay him.¡± ¡° Hmm then let''s just kill him¡­ or is there a problem?¡± ¡° It was the Ge and Kh clans he destroyed¡­¡± Oh that''s bad¡­ those clans are powerful for clans. Hmmm well the Kh clan is but the Ge clan is quite weak. Actually compared to me both clans are weak. Their view on strength is quite small minded. Low heightened grunts with mid class leaders and a few ability uses at the top and there clan head was a high class heightened but nothing over the top. ¡° Which one was destroyed first?¡± ¡° It was the Ge clan we believe.¡± So he tested the waters did he. Not sure if he could destroy the stronger one so he wanted to see if he could take the weaker one did he. ¡° No letter was sent to my clan¡­ I can¡¯t quite say its my problem now is it? Or do you wish to out your clan under my protection¡­ you should know what that means right?¡± ¡° The clans are building something of a task force we want to know if you will be participating. .¡± Failure is certain. The clans will most likely be destroyed. Hmm I feel like this is what the individual intends. He kills in a very overwhelming way then sits back and waits for the counter attack. It''s a show of domination. He truly desires the privileges gained by standing at the top but doesn''t want to rule the city and believes he has the ability to do so. Or an outside power is acting to spread its influence and take the city but desires us to remain so it can be properly managed I suppose. So they will push a threat we cannot deal with then step in to help as at a cost but if that''s the case they will contact us after the counter attack fails. This is my take on the matter. Seems interesting and I might be able to get some benefits out of it. ¡° Sure I will take part.¡± ***** A man in a white lab coat span around on a wheelchair but oddly enough his body wasn¡¯t moving at all. But even more weirder was that the wheelchair was floating. Another person a few steps back and partially hidden by the shadows was rotating his hand and the wheelchair mover as if it was affected by his will alone. A person with no details sat in the corner of the room. It was difficult to watch her as simply looking at her face would lead to extreme pain and it was possible for someone to lose consciousness if they were to lock eyes. ¡° So we don¡¯t know where the target is and she pulled out of her match and has been accepted into another one a month later.¡± The man in the wheelchair with the white lab coat spoke but didn¡¯t break his abnormal lack of movement as his mouth didn¡¯t move. ¡° That''s correct.¡± The featureless one spoke second. ¡° Well doll this sucks.¡± ¡° She¡¯s not a doll call her one again and I will put you in orbit.¡± The one hiding in the shadows spoke second. ¡° Sorry boss!¡± The other two said in unison. ¡° We know she is somewhere in the city and is probably responsible for the most recent attack on the local clans. We simply should watch for know.¡± Then a man steps into the room. He looks around the room. It hasn¡¯t been touched for years and the passing of time is clear as day in here. His appearance is normal. His hair is normal. He feels like he could blend into the background anywhere. He walks off to a different corner and begins to strip but other than the one hiding in the shadows called boss who followed his movements with his eyes none of the others noticed he was even here until he speaks. ¡° So the head of the Titas clan is also a freak. It was like my ability didn¡¯t exist for him at all but I was able to learn mo-¡° The man in the white lab coat stoped him ¡° Hold up¡­ HOW LONG!¡± ¡° Oh like half a minute.¡± ¡° Dam it that¡¯s scary how I didn¡¯t notice you.¡± ¡° Yeah its kind of is¡­ sorry I to wish I could control my blessing.¡± ¡° Well Sadara What could you find out.¡± ¡° The target is waiting for the clans to counter attack in a building found in the graveyard dead zone.¡± ¡° Ahh a dead zone. So this one is the graveyard is it?¡± ¡° No actually only part of the city is the dead zone. You could walk through it on your way to work for years and never know. But people vanish and even the enforcers get scared there although there hasn¡¯t been an incident in a while¡­ oh I guess there was one last night.¡± ¡° Yeah two low level clans were destroyed.¡± ¡° Correct.¡± ¡° So Bossebo!-¡° The man in the wheelchair turn the ¡®boss¡¯ ¡° Never EVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN!¡± ¡° Right, so why didn¡¯t people want to take this job? Was assassins are not picky eaters so to say?¡± ¡° Apparently the targets last name is Bight.¡± ¡°... no nothing what does that have to do with anything.¡± ¡° Well originally this contract was taken to the Qu family and they rejected it as soon as they found out her last name.¡± ¡° WAIT A SECOND! those are the guys that assassinated an elder of the council isn¡¯t it there thing that they can get everyone? Not to mention they are a family of assassins that are considered the peak and have been for the last 1300 years. They are literally feared by everyone you mean to tell me there is someone in this city that they won¡¯t act against AND THAT YOU WERE STUPID ENOUGH TO ACCEPT!¡± ¡° They said no and nothing more. Also this isn¡¯t a request it''s an order. Kick the beehive.¡± ¡° Well we are fucked.¡± ¡° Don¡¯t be so negative you don¡¯t know that¡­ smile.¡± The wheelchair guy smiled. Then a man wearing a pink dress opened the same door that Sadara used but this time everyone in the room looked at him as he had ripped the door of its frame. He started crying. The one the ground referred to as boss walk towards the pink man saying. ¡° Its ok Ben it was an old door even I nearly destroyed it on the way in.¡± While the wheelchair man slowly wheeled himself away from what was in front on him until he was pressed uncomfortably against a wall. He breathed out then stood up and move his chair so it was acting as a wall between the pink man and himself who was huddled up in the corner. Sadara now completely naked walk and sat next to the faceless person who didn¡¯t notice this at all. The assassination on Vex had begun. ******** ¡°Oh it feels good to workout all the bloods pumping to my head and the unnatural high acquired from taking the lives of others is truly a blessing in disguise isn¡¯t that right Vex.¡± ¡° Yes father.¡± I didn¡¯t not fail there deaths were not in vain. I Vex Bight have been remember by my own father this would require him taking interest in me to a high level. I have studied my own father for a long time there are only three things her brothers or is capable of remembering. The first is extremely painful situations which for him are extremely rare as he lives every waking moment in extreme suffering both physically and mentally. Amd even this is only remembered until the problem is solved. The second is direct orders from the one named Sef who I have not meet. Whenever I ask grandpa Noah or ¡®sister¡¯ Zoe they both doge the question and Zen even clams that person isn¡¯t real and that he has no idea what I am talking about. The third is anything that sparks sexual or mental curiosity. I don¡¯t believe I have sexually excited my own father but mentally he is probably accepting of my abilities although this is fant and will fade when we part ways so¡­ it is imperative that I leave the biggest possible impression in my father. Which is why we can not have a repeat of last night. Where I was powerless to assist at the end without using my trump card that still failed to end the target. First it was exactly as Father stated that we would stand miles above the weakest individuals but would be equals to the mid level agents. So when we got them out on there own since it was two on one it was an easy victory. I had never realised how much numbers could effects a battlefield until now. Then father challenged 7 of those guys on his own. And all I could say was¡­ I am truly the child of a monster. He simply surpassed them like a novel protagonist like he was relearning how to kill. By the time we were fighting the clan head of the weakest guild he was already a high class Heightened and was combining martial arts and his alteration magic to act at a level higher. I was simply left behind. Although I understand why he came to me after and told me the kill count. At first I didn¡¯t understand but then he revealed that it was his kill count. As in the number of times he was killed. 406 times. He then revealed that 127 of those times was due to his improper use of magic. I have noticed why fighting is different for him. There is no risk of defeat. There is no risk of death. To him it''s a game played for fun. To me these injuries sustained are quite a serious problem. But what does this mean! It means I am to weak. That is all. If I was so strong that all threats were but games to me than¡­ if I was the strongest would my daddy come back to me? Ues he would have to choice in the matter. Think Vex why did you become this. Why did you start on this path. It was that you would never be powerless in the face of adversity again. I will show them that I am more than someone. The strongest ever born that I will be. Still father is not the only one who grows in the face of adversity. I too am stronger now. I look over at father he is sitting on top a pliers of wealth that would have been indescribable to me just yesterday. If only I had but the will to take it is that what you want me to learn father. Well I have leaned. Never again shall I fail to take what is in my power to take. ***** Money! Gold! Valuable artifacts! We should burn them. No they are necessary. We can spend wilfully later but for now they are needed for my objective. On another note how is the connection? Proceeding well no problems detected so far as expected. Are you sure you want this power available? Yeah I am much weaker than I expected but there is more¡­ my mind is failing me isn¡¯t it¡­ Mason? Yes sir. I have grown much weaker than I expected it time for me to stop being lazy we should reattach the connection and being preparation for the A.A.T.F.L.20 technique. You will need a certain level of strength to do so¡­ also your martial arts have become rusty recently so we should train some more. I see then we should hurry along even faster. Let''s start by looking over the events of last night first there were many mistakes made by me in it. Clan master Ge Clan master Kh They were both stronger than me. And yet they died. Chapter 12 A man sat at a table outside a restaurant. It was a nice restaurant he through so he was never as hard on them as he was on others who require ¡®protection¡¯ and then refused to pay for protection. He never really saw his job as a negative thing to be honest. He was never home but he still had to pay the water bill his daughter used. Most of his walking day was thinking about her. She was beautiful and that was a problem. He knew first hand how the weak but wealthy or the weak by rich vanished and despite his best efforts she is just a normal person. So he works to drive away the fear he feels. In his belief the best thing that ever happened to him was that she became a shut in and stop going outside when she was bullied. He¡¯s been stabbed repeatedly in the face leaving him with a ghastly appearance so he has difficulty seeing the pain in being called a name but he still hurts when he thinks of her. His wife was a bitch who wanted nothing but his money and before his child was born honestly he was ok with that. After all the only reason he got married was because he was lonely to begin with. But that changed when his daughter was born. When he came home to find she was also harassing his own blood be kick her out. He was nearly made homeless when she wanted to sue him but a well placed bullies save his life. I know what you are thinking but your wrong he wouldn¡¯t shoot the mother of his child. Even if she was a nasty piece of shit. Then from the shadows of an alleyway off in the distance a chair was thrown he watched in mild amusement until he realised it was directed at his head. He doge and scream ¡° WHAT THE FUCK!¡± He runs down a few of his boys following him in the shadows. Straight into the jaws of the monster completely unaware that he would die today and that his daughter would starve to death a weak later in a ditch still searching for him. The fuck are you doing Mason? Well I feel like his death won¡¯t have enough drama if I don¡¯t give him a fancy background. ¡° Oh you FUCK! Look at me when I AM TALKING TO YOU FACK¡± I don¡¯t like him. He has A¡¯s where his U¡¯s should be. That¡¯s punishable by death in the world of Mason. Snake fist! My hand lunches at his head the shadow of a snake lunging at its prey in my hand. I rip through some of the weaker foes but this attack is mean to lead to severe bleeding not a death strike or something like that. You rip the flesh around the important veins and arteries with your pointer finger and the one you use to tell people to go fuck themselves but when you add my claws into the mix then you get a lethal weapon. I know only three attacks for this martial arts fist, strike, slice. Jumping towards the target a mid class fighter on par with myself he kicks towards my chest but I dodge it and step in with a snake strike. I straighten out my fingers like I am making a parm but then I shove it forward like punching and my fingers stab through his chest and reach his heart and four large finger size holes are made. He will bleed to death in a few minutes. Oh four because my pinky was too low. In other words a miss. There is a slash of a machete and my throat is cut open leaning back Vex¡¯s fist aims for his back but he doges I send my arm up into the sky then bring it straight down and cut off the man''s arm with my snake slash. It¡¯s exactly as you would expect it to be I use my hand in a chopping motion to cut flesh. The reason this cuts and not bashes is because of two reasons. The first is because of magic sharpening the energy around my hand into a blade but the main reason is because my fingers are currently claws. All of the snake style attacks are designed to slowly gain advantages over time than hit them with a sure fire kill shot. Although in this case it was Vex who gave the finishing blow to the target not me. She kicked him into the wall hard enough for it to crumble then she brought her knee up and crushed it. Amazingly violent like I like my woman. That''s a total lie and I will NEVER! Let you put your dick in her. Seriously Sef the fuck is wrong with you how did you get to that conclusion. Waa! This is all your fault! Ok ok calm down will you. He was too weak the fight was fixed from the start. Yeah so what do we do? We ramp it up! I bet you could handle more strong hard men than one lets go for a fivesome. Seriously¡­ Sef you need to get your mind out of the gutter! That''s rich coming from you! Is it? I don¡¯t see it that way at all. Actually I think I might have become a monk along the way. I mean I look at Vex and feel nothing but the desire to protect¡­ like shes a puppy. Thats¡­ ahhh I don¡¯t know why that''s the case? You were an ok father to your last Kids. What do my offspring have to do with her? Vile creatures of the dark! Where are they? Never mind. Ok then ¡°let''s go!¡± ¡° Where?¡± ¡° There front door there should be like seven left at most and I am not being challenged anymore so I want to make things harder so you can get that experience of being absolutely overwhelmed.¡± ¡° Um what? But it was going so well I mean if we just keep up at this wouldn¡¯t the clan be dead by morning?¡± ¡° YOU just don¡¯t understand. I am getting bored and if I get to bored I will die. Its a proven scientific fact.¡± ¡° Ahh Ok yes Mason.¡± ¡° Good then let up go!¡± The house that kept the clan was up atop a hill like a haunted mansion from a ghost story it even looked run down and it was raining with only the occasional flashes of lightning. Me and Vex simply kicked in the front gate and stepped inside and instantly we were met with an old man and a four heighten at the mid level.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. From what I guessed the old dude was a once powerful man but it seems he has weakened either due to injury or most likely time has left him a wreck of his one greater self. You can see the depression in his eyes. And taste the angry. He attacks first with a simple pam but just before contact a vortex of energy spins around his arm creating a miniature tornado that seems twice as deadly as a real one. It hits my chest and I feel my organs go for a ride. I am sure my stomach ends up in my feet but I twist my waist and step inwards to deliver my elbow to the side of the old man''s head shattering his temple he goes down then rolls away. The next one to attack me is oddly wearing an makeup and lipstick¡­ oh its a woman! She goes to punch me but I grab her arm and throw her over she lands on her back in a bad way only to be greeted by a rush of punches delivered by Vex. The next guy also goes for a punch but this one is tighter and closer to a boxers jab. I bend my legs slightly and weave my head to step under the attack then with a snake strike I rip out the man''s throat. He doesn''t understand what happens and bleeds to death in a few seconds. 13 seconds One death one kill. Oddly enough it''s both the old dude and the tallest guy here who attacks next. The old dude rushes me from the ground and the tallest guy brings his hand down like someone would a hammer and I noticed. If I block the old guy completely then tall guy will crush my head. If I try to block both then old guy will attack me with his other hand while I focus on tall guy. Meaning other than running away or completely overpowering them you can¡¯t get of free¡­ well you could if- not now Mason. Well Vex would fucked in this situation was what I was going for. I don¡¯t block and I don¡¯t doge I simply hold out my arms and accept it. As expected my head is crushed and my chest is blended into mush. Actually while we''re on the subject -not now Mason. Still headless I use snake slash and behead the old man. Tall guy is strong but seems slow as he does not react I launch a snake strike my fingers run through the side of his neck and I grab his spine from inside his throat. Snap! He falls lumpy head is back by the time his hits the floor. I turn to look and¡­ what are they doing? Praying to the goddess forgiveness I see but what they should be doing is ¡° PRAY TO ME!¡± ¡° Ahh please no! MONSTER!¡± Snake first. I am at his legs and take away his reproductive organs. Then at the tendons in his ankles crippling him then I dig out the flesh in his shoulder and simply wait and watch Vex dish it out with that girl. Hey have you noticed? That Vex fights like use to you? Yep. Completely without regard or regrets only focus on victory. Now it''s like you''re playing a game¡­ but that simple difference places you on different levels of terror in the eyes of your enemies. I get hard on there tears And you say I am the one with the problem Well you are¡­ I may play with my food when it¡¯s placed before me but I don¡¯t spend the day fantasizing about it. Aa¡­ a¡­ hoy boy look at the time¡­ got to go! Vex simply stands there and dukes it out with miss broken leg. I called her that because she had a broken leg. Really? Never would of guessed Sherlock. I was under the impression you had somewhere to be? Hahahahaha! Shut up and get laid. Oh and how do you suppose I do that? Rape the chick Vex is fighting Seriously¡­ Sef What? How is that any different from getting off on Vex slowly beating her to death as you get harder the more desperate her eyes get. I am not the one with the fetishise of strong women in bad sistuations. Seriously Sef the fuck is wrong with you. Then¡­ are you not saying you want to use the head of the old guy to taunt her into suicide? Honest to the goddess you have problems. But your right¡­ that would make me less board then now wouldn¡¯t it? That''s the spirit! Now let''s go continue out killing spree No I feel the need to watch this fight for some reason. Ah never mind Vex has barely won. In the end Vex had to dislodge her right arm and use her technique on the target to insure her victory but she still won in the end. I¡­ because I am a doctor put it back in place and we move on. ¡° Do¡­ did you find something wrong with my fight? Was my victory to close?¡± ¡° No it was fun to watch but you had her on mobility after her leg broke but didn¡¯t use the advantage¡­ always use your advantages and if you don¡¯t know how that''s something you need to learn quickly as it will usually be the deciding factor in fights between to extremely equal opponents.¡± ¡° Very well I fight more dirty from now on.¡± ¡° Yep! The best respect you can show an opponent is going all out to kill them. Also don¡¯t fuck around we are not animals so make sure they are dead ahh what else? If you kill one kill them all.¡± ¡°But is there anything technique wise?¡± ¡° ohhh hmm oh yeah when you throw a knee from a standing position you have clearly been taught to go for the abdomen of the opponent that''s good when they are in a similar height category but there are people out the three meters above you I am sure Noah¡¯s told you this already but it¡¯s better to throw it diagonally when they tower over you instead of the abdomen when you can probably head butt it. The reason is to allow more extension of your hips.¡± ¡° Ah ok¡± With that dead I make sure each individual is dead. Then I guess all that''s left are the servants and worker bees but the only member of the clan is the clan head usually the strongest member I say that but most of these clans or families are more like tribes that get on really well with everyone inside it but see all outsiders as vermin. Ok it''s more like 30% perfect who heat outsiders 70% meh you would be surprised how humans that are left alone in small continuities don¡¯t give a fuck about humanity outside said community. That''s why we killing off a clan before negotiations we have to show that we can harm there community. Most clans don¡¯t care about honor, fame, wealth or power but are oddly put family first. My belief is it¡¯s a culture thing. Because it didn¡¯t use to be like that. Yep it¡¯s amazing how much a influence the mindset of the individuals can change a society if you get enough people thinking the same thing. I make my way up to the house and I focus on improving my claws. Although at first glance my fingers look like blades what gives them an edge over flesh is there ability to cut and stab but if it comes at the price of flexibility then it would be more useful for me to use my normal hand so I have to maintain the joints in my claws that replace my fingers during fights. The snake first is in its essence something that wants the enemy to bleed which is my claws resemble sharpened fangs of metal instead of the blade of swords or the tip of a spear. It also allows me another hidden weapon. One that requires heavily detailed and fine changes made to the claw. It¡¯s this hidden weapon that leads me to fight with my hands instead of a sword or spear both of which I would say I have a higher level martial arts with. You also learned how to use an axe a while ago. Axes should be used to chop wood and nothing else. You just don¡¯t understand the beauty of a big fuck off axe. What can you do with an Axe? You can chop! That''s all but with a sword you can cut, chop and stab! And a spear you can stab! So an Axe and a spear are the same as you can only use one. They are completely different! If you are using a spear properly they should never get close enough to cut you! ¡° YOU FUCKER! you killed my family you FUCK! I WILL DESTROY YOU.¡± ¡° Oh wow what''s this feeling! Vex step back you won¡¯t be able to contribute to this fight.¡± Vex doesn''t like what I said so I kick her away. The clan master appears behind me and punches me sending me flying through the mansion door. He rushes me completely forgetting Vex lucky I attack with a snake fist but it¡¯s blocked by his arm. Although it leaves two large slashes in said harm. He punches me in the stomach and it¡¯s like I swallowed a tiger! I cough up a mouth of blood and am knocked onto my back then flip up into the air and into a wall. I look down and my shirt is destroyed and my body has been twisted in a whirlpool design by the time he reaches me it seems to be completely healed and he follows up with another punch exactly the same as before so I know it¡¯s exact speed and manage to doge under his arm with a snake strike into in front of his armpits. And roll away. I was able to use the hidden weapon. He screams and all the veins grow on his body as his muscles pulse and he attacks again this time at a speed faster then my eyes can follow. He wasn¡¯t a high but a peak upper heighten level in power and he has a speed technique plus his attacks do serious damage that seems to be unblockable I must accept this is miles ahead of me. Once more I am hit. This time in the side of my head and it does not withstand. Then I received a low blow to the junk and it does not withstand and then once more to the chest this time I can see his movements. One to the black. One to the hips. One to the neck. One straight into the heart. But then I noticed he is choking unable to breath. His eyes aren¡¯t focused. He is sweating badly he turn to me but can¡¯t seem to find me then he falls over dead. Secret technique of the snake king martial arts. Viper stab. Secret hidden weapon of the claws. Viper Poison. A blow to the side that ruptures the veins connected to the heart. This failed as the gap in our strength was to great. So I use my alchemy to make a venom that liquifies blood and removes its ability to clot while dramatically speeding up the bleeding. Completely painless. I kick him over and his side is damp in a few places with this clear red liquid that looks like water with a few drops of red dye that is his blood. This combined with the location the injection the front his lungs that were cut in the process. The blood would bleed internally combined eventually collapsing the lung leading him to getting choked out now unconscious with no way to prevent the venom rom doing its thing he will be dead in another twenty seconds as its all over obce that liquid makes it to the brain as it liquifies or breaks down platelets the cells that prevent bleeding and brain cells. In prolonged fights where the individuals has poison immunity since its a venom its by passes most magic safeguards but if the individuals has venom immunity then it will target the nerves flooding them with electric impulses leading to spreatic movements and even the body failing to control itself. Honestly it even take me 15 minutes to get out of my system one of the top three know poisons in the world. Of course it''s a venom but its not like I am going to sit my opponent down and explain to them why there anti poison defences didn¡¯t work because of a loophole. Well that¡¯s because we don¡¯t know why it works. I personally don¡¯t know the difference between a poison and venom is and you don¡¯t either Mason. Oh I bet you''re wondering when I got him with the venom? It''s that subtle and find detail in the claws there is actually a needle hole in my middle finger that¡¯s hidden. The difficulty is keeping it hidden after injected I can simply close up the wounds. Now you say all this but it can only bypass mid level poison defences not high level one and is stopped by a low level venom one. And it is true that venom defence is the rarest resistance. Well it becomes useless against individuals that my claws can get through as well then I have to switch back to my fingers and rip them apart with a mix of skillful techniques and overwhelming magic power. But then again what does this all mean? That any injury obtained from my claws will lead to severe blood loss. Truth be told other than making the opponent dizzy it won¡¯t do much it only worked because he was kinda weak¡­ in the grand scheme of things but yeah it¡¯s designed to lead to death by blood loss and a professional could cure it but not a fighter. ¡° Sir? Mason did you win? I thought this would be a tough fight.¡± ¡° Oh no. I said that because the fight would be over before you could do anything. He was to strong for me to train with so I had to get a little serious if my claws didn¡¯t get through I would have had to use my alteration magic.¡± I only hope it isn¡¯t one of those powers that are completely useless after the first time like in any anime. Quite the flag you raised there. ¡° Well onto the next clan I guess.¡± ¡° Sir?¡± chapter 13 I stand before a beautiful house with seven dead corpses at my feet. Sef attempt connection. What! You want to what? Are you trying to destroy this city? What''s the matter chicken? Oh! Fine, let''s just see what happens! Beginning sequence. T44y Attempting connection Loading¡­ Loading¡­ Loading¡­ Sef¡¯s voice becomes machine-like whenever I have her use to much processing power. Although I think she does it to anger me into hesitation about asking this of her as I think she doesn¡¯t like me asking her to do things TO BAD ITS TIME SHE EARNED HER RENT! Warning: scans show you are gay. Please go suck a dick, Mason. Each corpse at my feet is just as powerful as the previous clan head in other words leagues beyond me my claws shattered a while ago and I had to go back to fighting with my fingers. The venom got two down before they become careful and I was unable to land any attacks before they broke. It actually takes me some time to put them back together in a way that will allow me to use the venom and they barely cut through the skin of these people. See like anime. The super op power will be counted in the next usage! They only work once! Actually, it is kinda funny about my situation. Oh, I left Vex back home by the way. It took time but I was able to wear them down and kill them one by one. I also used my alteration magic which made me twice as fast the downside is my stomach caught fire and I was brutally burned inside out before my immortality decided it was time to put it out. It hurt, like a lot. Then a bolt of light shot up into the sky and my top half was blown clean off my body with the wave of a hand. From low to high the body slowly becomes stronger with low being the peak an unnatural normal human could reach or normal human have reached low class heightened from mid upwards to high it''s all superhuman... but what the fuck does that actually mean? But once one gets to upper it''s only at what point do people say the path to power has truly begun with the class being simply the peak. Its believed that class is simply the limits a human can reach naturally or magical. Don''t pretend you have any idea what the fuck your on about. So when I was in the arena and said I reached upper in truth my strength was still slightly below the average fighter. Although I could make up the difference with those close to my level how could I hope to surpass those at a level beyond me? After all without a combat-based blessing or a secret technique that could turn the tables against those at the class level or those the freak at the peak of this world''s strength? The answer is I couldn¡¯t. So I made it away. Alteration magic. Simply put. ¡° A.A x2¡± Alteration acceleration times 2. Despite the name, the ability works inexplicably. I don¡¯t move at faster speeds the time does or my relevant time does. Make sense mason! Instead of making myself faster I made the universe slower! I can see the Kh clan heads movements but that doesn''t mean I could react to them and in one more cleaved it in half. No, I am bound by limitations beyond me Although when I was in the upper level heightened a double in anything would be a much larger growth when stronger. But I couldn''t double my speed it just wasn''t possible. So my Ability A.Ax2 doesn''t actually double my speed or accelerate me in the slightest. Think of it this way right now I am doubling a 5 to get ten but before I was doubling a 50 to get 100 see the difference. in truth, I am taking the ten and making it a five. So on the surface, it looks like I am going faster in truth you are just going slower. ¡°A.A.x20¡± Now far more than keep up with him I can surpass him however there is more. My perception also speeds up twenty times so the world to me at least is moving twenty times lower. However, here is where things get scary. I punch forward and the world shakes in wake of my power. See time is moving at twenty times the speed but so is the momentum accumulated is also timed twenty meaning I am moving at twenty times the speed and twenty times. However, despite all that in terms of ability he is still larger than me he is also faster and can attack at a long-range while I am unable to cast another spell in this state of being. So let''s skip the small fights and go to my victory! Connection establishes. The world is yours ¡° Hahaha¡± ¡° Curse you!¡­ what be this power!¡± The world was consumed in light and the clan head burned away after being completely incinerated and I laughed joyously as I am torn asunder with even my atoms being split apart. But existing in a state completely unrelated to matter is quite an odd experience and not one I get often. Well, actually it''s odd that I can think when my head is destroyed but that I can think when my atoms are in the process of completely reconstructing? This leads me to get a deeper understanding of my power which is why I call it immortality instead of instantaneous regeneration or personal time reversal is because the atoms that are being put together to form my new body are completely different from the previously used ones. Meaning in a few minutes I will not be healed but completely reborn if we take a purely scientific method of understanding my ability, but unfortunately due to my ability to both remain conscious while I have no physical form or anything connected to reality means that it doesn''t work at all as an explanation.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. So my first theory is this. I or Mason lives in another dimension as does all consciousness that inhabits a physical body when said body reaches a level of development that can house them. The difference between me and others is that they can return to said dimension in the form of death or maybe they are destroyed by the experience of death and I cannot be which is why I can not die and live forever. There is one point that intrigues me. My body¡¯s recreation after an injury is not preventable and completely outside of my control. Meaning if this is true then I may have unconscious control overall matter. This would explain my alchemy but also means that if I were to gain a better ¡®connection¡¯ and understanding of that dominion than its possible I will become simply all-powerful. Imagine the fundamental building blocks of reality completely under my control. I know this is possible because it¡¯s exactly what I do when I use alteration magic. I alter the laws of the universe when summoning magic summons laws from a different universe and creation magic makes new ones. If my theory is true then I know I have control over matter simply because of my inability to die and that to continue my conscious a body isn¡¯t required. Meaning that the electric signals inside my ¡®working¡¯ head are not the birthplace of my thinking or self. This means something important. Existence could be something of my make. And my second theory is that I am simply a figment of Sef¡¯s imagination. I got to this conclusion one time while on acid and don¡¯t remember how I got there feel like it''s the case instinctively. But there is one problem and possible evidence for this. I can not communicate with Sef without a physical body and the evidence for this is that the head is not required to be a part of said physical body for communication to be possible. And if this is the case it begs another question? Should I wake her? Speaking logically I will cease to exist but Sef has intense value to me¡­ but how far would I go for her? I want to say I would do absolutely anything for her and I honestly feel like that''s the case as well but I get scared that it may not be like that. I know my true nature is extremely selfish not selfless. Every time my mind falls to this I get scared and run away from the idea like its the greatest terror ever. I could also say something like it¡¯s all a simulation but that¡¯s honestly no different than saying it''s like this because the goddess made it so, just in this case the goddess is the ruler of the aliens who made the simulation and not heaven. It''s also a much ¡®more boring answer so we will discard it ON PRINCIPLE, Thanks to modern science we know that all matter is made out of atoms and that their atoms are made out of quark and that they are governed by a few fundamental forces and second that magic exists on a separate system of laws than the ¡®natural¡¯ world. And that right now the recreation of my body is not accepting these forces or laws. Therefor is the laws can be denied to recreate my body then can they be controlled by my will alone? And if they can be used to recreate me then is it possible they could be used to destroy something else? Or even better create something else? If simply put I am being reborn after every injury then it might be possible to ''rebirth'' others as well. Let''s go further and say that if I were to truly take control of all this could I destroy west? Currently, there are four cardinal directions. North, South, East, and West. Can the West''s direction be destroyed? Think about it logically what are directions? Movements based on the stable laws of reality? But if I were to gain control of the fundamental laws and add another say that all forces moving in this direction will be removed then couldn¡¯t I destroy any attempt at moving in that direction? Could I add another in its place? What about the time? Where would I sit on it? Then what of fate? If I knew what was to happen could I change it or would I become its slave? This is my secret object. The destruction of directions, time and fate. In simpler terms, my goal is the death of everything. if you were to ask me why? I would like to die one day. And the first test of my theory was successful. The ability ¡®connection¡¯. See I can trace Sef it a physical part of my brain and she is connected to me and my thinking therefore if I use her as a bridge and throw my mind up into the other ¡®dimension¡¯ then wouldn¡¯t my abilities in alternating existence skyrocket! In other words, I am pulling myself up to a higher existence and standing on Sef¡¯s shoulders to stay there. The only weakness is that I can only go as high as Sef¡¯s shoulder will take me if you understand. And it was a success. Sort of I actually was unable to control this new ability and simply destroy everything in an explosion. But with time this connection will become an extremely powerful weapon. Although as it is now it is too much for me and¡­ will there for alway be too much for me. I feel cold. I want Sef back. I don¡¯t like this. I hope she is ok? I wonder what she thinks about whe- YOU MISSED ME? Get fucked I finally had some peace and quiet in here. Pst! You hate peace. You missed me come onnnnn Well, maybe it was a bit too quiet without you. I blush and turn my head to the side. Fucking tsundere. I know you love me I bet you forgot how to talk without me. Bet you had a cry wank when I wasn''t there we both know you can¡¯t live without me You are just as dependent! You would live a dull and borne existence if it wasn¡¯t for my impulses! Actually, you literally need me to exist why. AAAA shit do you feel that! What? The natural human instinct to reproduce after a tough battle let''s go get laid! We can literally steal their money and go¡­ oh Yep. I really lost control. The entire house is gone actually there property is pretty gone to shit. Where lucky you didn¡¯t vaporize the city Please, it¡¯s not that powerful¡­ also, when did we lose control? Just before we lost the connection Dam so it was a failure on my part, not the theory. Still, if we could get this working it would become a great power. Actually, I have another idea I want to try first. Oh, another anime power? Well, it is remarkable you remember this connection considering you haven¡¯t tried it for 45 years. Yeah ever since that old lady in the mysticism shop my head''s been really clear has my memories. Hmm, how odd? Well, what now? Ahh, let us see. We prepare for the clans'' counter-attack and set a trap. I turn to try to find a way out of the hole I made because you see I am currently trapped in the bottom of a great crater. Let''s go check on Vex. Okay. ******* ¡° The council has started please take your places elders. " 12 people sat in a circle of thirteen seats. Each wore a coat with a number imprinted on its back. The one who called for everyone to take their seats was an old man with a bushy white-bearded labeled number two. Number eleven spoke next. ¡° Hay so like its been 12 years since I became an elder right and I know this is kinda taboo but like why do number 13 never show up?¡± Number 5 nodded his head. He stepped forward and was a shocking handsome young man ¡° Number 13 will do as he pleases.¡± Before he slinked back into the shadows. Number three who never revealed her appearance but judging but the shadow was an incredibly beautiful woman spoke next ¡° Number 13¡­ ah I hope that scary basted never returns geez¡± Number eight. An older man with white hair combed back. He had a build that would make a superman jealous spoke next. ¡° Will I even meet him while I am elder? All you do whenever he is brought up is throw some vague he¡¯s scary shit at us. Even the elders in my family refuse to tell me anything about him simply saying for me to pray he does not return in my time?¡± ¡° Number 1¡­ what do you have to say? After all I Number 4 have not seen him either.¡± The next one speak was number 4 a younger-looking man. ¡° Fear him I do not but we the council are powerless before him. It is simply the truth.¡± ¡° What of the rumor that number thirteen is only here because of the goddesses command?¡± There was a murmur among the ¡®elders¡¯ but number 1 the current world leader did not move. ¡° The god holds no sway over what happens in this room.¡± That was his only reply. ¡° Now then onto the main reason why we are here. The prophecy¡­ so do we act as if it were true? We will decide now.¡± ¡° nine to three against.¡± ¡° Very well we will act as if it were to occur. Moreover what of the escapees from the level Z containment?¡± ¡° My family is currently on it. However, I would like to make a request. Currently, the individuals are attempting to run into the dead zone labeled the graveyard permission to use lethal force¡± ¡° Twelve in favor.. so be it see that the individuals are dead after the kill is confirmed they will be stripped from the records.¡± ¡° Good and th¡­¡± The hall went quiet. They all felt it. Each and every single one of them heard it. Like a rattling in their bones. Something had just happened that was beyond their understanding. ¡° Someone look into that.¡± ¡° Yes, number 1 I number 5 will do so¡­ hey do we really have to keep the numbers up I mean is there anyone here who doesn¡¯t know my name?¡± ¡° It is tradition¡­ or something.¡± ¡° I don¡¯t know your name.¡± ¡° what??? Are you being a serious first elder?¡± Number two rub his head. He hated these monthly meetings that happened yearly. *** I kick open my front door and see a Vex lying on the table. I walk over and then go to my bedroom where I fetch a blanket and come back to cast it over Vex before I get on my way to my bedroom. I walk past a bathroom I hear something inside so I have a look and a naked Zoe is taking a bath. I step back and while Zoe yells at me I step into my bedroom and close the door. Tomorrow I will make my way to the desired destination and prepare for their arrival. I will then murder all that come in. Today has been a good day. I feel like I have made progress towards something but in truth, I don¡¯t quite remember it. My mind blurred and I sleep. I think I was thinking of some important stuff... maybe don''t I have something planed tomorrow? **** Currently, in a sewage pipe, a man and a girl crawling through a literal way of shit. She looked up to see the back of the man she considered a brother. He spoke. ¡° Don¡¯t fear¡­ Don¡¯t fear soon little sister we will be in the graveyard and I know a friend who lives there he should be able to help us. Escape and maybe even give us new lives¡­ trust me.¡± ¡° Big brother is never wrong¡­ but didn¡¯t big brother say we wouldn¡¯t need to crawl around in this in the pipe a couple of minutes a few hours ago?¡± ¡° It¡¯s your imagination.¡± ¡° So¡­ when did you last see this friend.¡± ¡° Around forty years ago¡­ he is the greatest guy I ever meet¡­ on some days but on others he is a mindless killing machine so whatever happens, you can¡¯t get too far away from me ok. This guy doesn''t play around.¡± ¡° What¡¯s his name?¡± ¡° Mason¡± ******* A man with spiky red hair steps into a city long abandoned. ¡° In the name of the goddess I will claim your life, Mason¡­ or I am not the chosen one¡­ hahahahaha! Cough! cough!¡­ I choked there a little but still in the name of justice and friendship I will defeat you!¡± ****** A man in a white suit laughed to himself it looked like he had not slept in days. A woman without a face stood next to him. And a man with eyes black as night¡­ he watched over the city below. Then he spoke, ¡° The next time the individual confronts the local clans we will move in to kill Vex.¡± ¡° Then it¡¯s time to begin.¡±