《Reborn as a nine-tailed fox [Rewrite]》


 Prologue: death

    In a abandoned apartment building, a squad of heavily armed man are rushing up the stairs. All of them were armed with assault rifles with holosight on the top rail, laser sight and tactical flashlight on the two side rails and a grip on the bottom rail. They are wearing casual clothes with a bulletproof vests, knee and elbow protection and tactical glasses put on them.

    The man keep going up the stairs until the reach the top floor and move towards the door at the end of the corridor. The wooden floor keeps creaking with each of their step and the pain on the walls, has mostly peeled off and now is decorated with graffiti.

    They reach the door and on both side of the walls, five man are aiming at the door, while behind them, another man comes, who wears a riot suit and is holding a sledge hammer in his hands.

    He too gets to the door and takes in the position to destroy the lock. The leader of the group starts the countdown with his finger and when all of his fingers are down, the sledgehammer is swinged and the lock of the door destroyed.

    "Go! Go! Go!"the leader yells to the man, who rush into the room, with their guns up. They spread around the apartment and starts checking through the rooms.

    "Bathroom clear!"

    "Kitchen clear!"

    "Living room clear!"

    Is yelled by the man one-by-one and now only the bedroom, has not been cleared. They get to the bedroom door, which is immediately kicked in by them and immediately yell"Freeze! Put your hands up!"

    All of the sights are on a man, who is facing them with his back and has his hands up in the years.

    "Turn around!"is yelled, but the man doesn''t move.

    "I said turn aro-"before he could finish his sentence, the entire place was blown up and a loud explosion could be heard even a few blocks away.

    Away from the apartment building, a young man is standing on top of the building, with a detonator in his hands.

    "That was a close one."he says to himself and throws the detonator onto the roof of the building.

    "Yeah pretty nice. But you have to move Snow!"is said by a man, over the radio.

    "Yeah. No civilian casualties. Remember that."Snow tells the man back and starts to move himself.

    "Sure. Just move."he replies back.

    Snow runs on top of the roof tops and keeps jumping from one to another, until he finally climbs down one of the buildings and drops onto a crowded street. He pulls his hood up and blends into the crowd, to hide from his pursuers.

    A long distance away from him, a man is looking at his head through the scope and then looks at the five man, who are struggling through the crowd.

    "Snow. You have five Agents on your ass. Shall I shoot?"he asks Snow and he replies"No. The bullet will penetrate through them and hit civilians."

    "Well then get them away. Because I just spotted a dozen more around you."he tells snow as he is holding his finger over the trigger, ready to pull.

    "Fucking hell. Okay. I''ll make them run."Snow replies and pulls out his Glock 17 and shoots into the air three times.

    Immediately people start to scream and run away because of the gunshots, leaving only Snow and his pursuers onto the street.

    "Shoot to kill."Snow says and starts shooting at the Agents.

    "Finally."replies the sniper and takes aim, before shooting out a 50. Cal out of the sniper rifle. The gun kicks back a little and ejects the Shell out of the gun, reloading a new round in. As for the bullet, it hits the men upper body and rips of his arm of completely, goes through the body and exits from the other side. The body itself goes flying with blood flying everywhere.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.

    "Oh I''m so loving this gun."he mutters and keeps shooting at the man, while Snow is currently having a fist fight with another man.

    They exchange a few punches, before he pulls out a knife and immediately has his hand shot off by the sniper. The man screams out in pain, as he looks at what remains of his arm.

    "Stop playing around."he tells Snow, before blowing the head off too.

    "Sure. I''ll stop immediately when I get a gun too."Snow replies, while running away from the scene.

    "Climb the red building. You''ll get an AR from there."the sniper says and shoots the man on top of the red building.

    "Fine."Snow replies and starts quickly climbing up to the roof, where he finds a dead body with a head ripped off from his body and a AR-15 next to his body.

    "Thanks."Snow says to the sniper, who replies"Yeah sure....Wait."

    "What is it?"Snow immediately asks with a serious voice, when he hears him.

    "Fucking hell. Attack helicopter. Run!"he screams into Snows ear, who immediately starts running, while hearing a helicopter closing in from a far.

    "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. They fucking brought a chopper."Snow says to no one as he keeps running.

    As for the sniper, he keeps looking around the place, before hearing the door creaking behind, so he immediately turns around and shoots at the man Agent behind him.

    "Fuck. Snow. They found me."he tells Snow, who replies"Get out of there. Meet at the Safehouse."

    "Roger."the sniper replies and covers his face with the scarf. He leave the gun behind and runs towards the ledge of the building, with a cable attached to him. He steps onto the ledge and jumps of the building, while shouting"Fuuuuccck!" As he is swings back towards the glass buildings.

    As he nears the window, he holds his hand on the realise and as he swings through the window, he releases the cable. He flies into the office floor, while rolling around the ground.

    After finally stopping, he could hear screams from the workers in this place and a lot eyes are on him.

    "Fucking hell. Never doing that again."he tells himself, as he gets up from the ground while groaning.

    "Snow. Location."He asks over the radio and is replied"the Mall."

    "I thought you didn''t want civilian casualties?"he asks him and Snow replies"Didn''t have a fucking choice. The chopper won''t attack me here. They could never cover this up If they would."

    "Okay. You''re the boss. I''m taking a lift. See you there."he says and walks towards the lift, with a few people inside.

    He draws his m1911 and yells.

    "Everyone fucking out now!"

    And with a few womanly screams from man, they leave the lift and he enters and presses the first floor button. While he is listening to the elevator music, Snow is running through the mall, when he finally exits the place and runs towards the safe house.

    After ten minutes, the sniper reaches the safehouse, only to see a dead body.

    "Oh fuck no.he says and walks over to the body and turns him over and sees the handsome face of Snow, with a bullet through his forehead.

    "Well shit."the sniper mutters and gets up. He takes of his hat and scarf, revealing his long ashen blond hair.

    "Fucking hell."he says to himself, before leaving.

    ''The safe house isn''t so fucking safe. Time to leave the country.''he thinks to himself.

    As for Snow, he opens his eyes and yells"Where the fuck am I?"

    Hr looks around and only sees white. Everywhere he looks he sees white. Everything is fucking white. The furniture, the walls, the ceiling and the fuck floor too.

    He decides to sit up and immediately remembers what had happened to him. He had reached the safehouse and saw that he was the first one to arrive. So when he heard footsteps, he thought it was his partner, who helped him and so had his guard down. Put when he saw who it was, it was too late and the last thing he remembered was the gun shot.

    "So I am dead. Hehe. Three fucking years of running and now I die because I accidentally let my guard down. Fuck my luck."he tells himself, while holding his right hand on his face, which is looking down.

    When he finally decides to look up, he still sees white, but this time there is a door too. So he gets up from the bed, which he was lying and walks towards the door.

    He holds the door handle and after a little hesitation, he opens it and immediately sees a beautiful garden. There are a lot of beautiful and colourful roses around the garden and from the distance, he sees a woman wearing a white dress, taking care of the flowers.

    Having no other choice, he walks towards her and as he gets closer to her, she says"So you have woken up, Alexander Snow."

    She gets up and turns around her body. She has a beautiful face and her eyes are crystal blue and her hair golden blond. She is tall and has a hourglass figure with big breasts to make it all better. Her skin is darker shade of bee? and very smooth.

    He could only look at her and do nothing else, because she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen in his short life.

    "Are you mesmerized by my beauty mortal. Well you wouldn''t be first."she says in her smooth voice.

    Snow shakes his head a few times, before saying"Yes you are beautiful, but that isn''t important now. Where am I and who are you?"

    "Remember my name well, boy. I am the Goddess of Life and Light, Sola and you are currently in my home. Heaven is what you mortals call this place.

    "So I did die. Also why I am in heaven. I was an assassin. I should be in hell then."Snow tells her and after a small giggle, she replies"You should, but I didn''t let you go there. Also you seem pretty calm for someone, who realising that he has died."

    "People are different Sola."he continues"So why I am here, naked?"

    She glances at his body for a few seconds and then looks at him"Well because you will be reincarnated in 10. 9."

    "Wait what?"he says in a confused voice, but Sola doesn''t reply and keeps counting.

    "Sola. What the he-"he is cut off, as she finished counting "0"

    And he was now just gone. She looked at the spot, before realising"Darn. I forgot to erase his memories. Oh well."

 Baby in the forest

    After Snow had disappeared from ''Heavan'', he found himself being surrounded by a warm, slimy substance.

    ''Wait. Where am I? What is this liquid and why can''t I control my body. Hmm. Sola said something about reincarnation....Shit. That means that I am in my mothers womb. Just great. Now I have to stay here for a few months''he thinks to himself, but then he feels something pushing him out.

    ''Or not.''

    He feels his body being pushed out of the body and then he feels that he is being held by somebody. He slowly opens his eyes and sees that everything is kinda blurred. He sees a figure of a person, but can''t really tell more. He also hears something that sounds like talking, but it is hard to hear exactly what they are saying.

    "It''s a boy, Dear."the human looking woman, tells the other human woman on the bed.

    "A boy. That is rare. Could you please clean him up and give it to me, mother."the woman on the bed asks her, who nods and starts cleaning the baby boy.

    Once he is completely cleaned, she could see his beautiful snow white furry fox ears and his nine tails, which were moving on his lower back. She kept looking at him and then he opened his eyes again, only to stare at her with his ice blue eyes.

    "My grandson is already staring at me."she tells herself as she is wrapping him into a cloth. And without a lot of effort, he gets wrapped and is then picked up, to be passed to his mother.

    The mother takes him into her hands and looks at him, before her face goes serious and she says"We have to get rid of him immediately. His a cursed kitsune."

    "What do you mean ''Cursed kitsune.'' he can''t be one. There hasn''t been one for centuries"she replies back to her daughter with a slightly confused tone.

    "His pupils are slitted. Didn''t you see it?"she tells her mother, who then says back"Oh dear. Then we have to get rid of him, but we can''t kill him or we will anger Her. And we really don''t need that to happen now."

    "Then dump him somewhere. Just get rid of this cursed being. We can''t have him around!"she yells back and quickly gives him back to her mother, who takes him into her hands and immediately leaves the room.

    As for Snow, he has no idea what is going on. He was cleaned, given to her mother and then back. And now the woman, who is holding her, has left the house and brought a newborn into a cold weather. If could have understood the two womans conversation, he could have realised his fate, but he didn''t understand anything and had no idea his current fate.

    As for the woman, she walks through the snowy forest, which is covered in a thick layer of snow, which makes moving here a lot harder. Alexander didn''t know what else he could do and so he starts to cry, in hope to get her attention.

    Even with his crying, the woman ignores it and keeps on walking. Finally, she reached the end of the treeline and told herself"That should be far enough. We shouldn''t be in trouble now. I hope he at least will die quickly."

    She takes a one last look at the child, who looks like he is begging her not to do that, but she doesn''t care, because of her icy heart and just puts him into the snow and walks back the way she came from. Alexander tries to cry again as a last attempt, but the woman ignores it and keeps on going back to her house.

    Alexander was now officially abandoned by his mother and grandmother, who left him into the cold forest.

    As for the woman, she gets back home and goes to her daughters room, to tell her"I dropped the cursed kitsune into the forest. So he''ll be either eaten or starve to death."

    "Thanks mom."she continues with an angry look on her face and anger in her voice"Dammit. Finally got a kitsune, only to see that I gave birth to a cursed kitsune, that will only bring bad fortune to me."

    "I guess so dear. I guess we now have to look for another kitsune and try again."she tells her daughter and lets out a sigh.

    "I guess so too mom. Lets find another slave, after I recover fully."she tells her and lies down completely now.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

    "Rest well dear."she tells her daughter, before leaving the room. The mother walks to her own room and sits down on the edge of the bed, to think about.

    The chances of a kitsune to be born between a kitsune and non-kitsune are extremely low. Only way to give birth to a kitsune with a 100% chance is when two kitsunes mate. But If it is between a kitsune and any other race, then the child will just be born as a fox beastkin, who is slightly stronger then the others. So her daughter was extremely lucky to get a kitsune baby, but unfortunately it was a cursed kitsune, which could have brought great calamity to them, as it has happened in the past. But they could consider them lucky, as his eyes were slitted from birth, unlike some others kitsunes, whos eyes would turn slitted years later after birth.

    She sighs again and lets her upper body to fall onto the bed. She stares at the ceiling and mutters"Five years of searching to find a father finally and get my daughter pregnant. Now that he finally was born, he was cursed. What a terrible luck."

    As for Alexander, he is looking at the sky and has already accepted his another death.

    ''Hypothermia, starvation or being eaten alive. Which will get me.''goes through his head, while looking at the sky, covered with dark clouds, that don''t let the sun shine through.

    What else he can do, other then to wait: his a newborn who can''t move and only thing he can do is cry. But who will he cry to. His in a forest. Also he has noticed, that even though he is laid into a snow, he doesn''t feel cold at all. So maybe hypothermia won''t kill him first.

    As he is looking at the sky, because he can''t move his head and could only watch straight, he hears footsteps from a far away and it sounds humans.

    He himself doesn''t know how he could hear from so far, but he doesn''t care currently and spa he starts to cry, to attract the person to him.

    From some distance away from him, a woman is walking through the snow, with a sword on her waist and a spear in her hand. She is wearing white winter clothes and her face is covered with a scarf and a hood, so only her hazel eyes could be seen under the clothing.

    As she is walking, she hears crying coming from a distance and seems to belong to a baby. So out of curiosity, she strays of her path and starts walking towards the source of the cry. As she gets closer, she notices something wrapped in a red cloth, in which the crying seems to come.

    So she walks closer, until she is right next to the baby and is looking at him. She saw a pair of white fox ears on the babies head, which she found incredibly adorable and cute. She stuck the spear into the ground and gently picked up the baby. As for him, he stops his crying, when he sees her.

    "Are you alone here cutey? Who dared to abandon you?"she asks the baby, even though she knows that she will not get an answer. But instead she gets a smile from the baby, which makes her a little happy.

    But then she notices his slitted pupils, which surprises her"A cursed kitsune....So that''s why you were abandoned by your parents. You poor child...But don''t worry. Alice is going to take care of you from now on. Do you like that idea?"she asks him jokingly and he obviously wouldn''t say anything, but he does smile and tries to reach his tiny hands towards her face. Seeing this makes her happy and hugs him.

    "I''ll take it as a yes. Sis will probably be mad...But Veronica should be happy. She likes cute things too."she says to herself and takes the spear from the ground and holds it in her left hand, while holding the baby in her right hand.

    ''She seems like a nice girl. I hope that she doesn''t abandon me, like the woman, who did it a few hours ago and who I refuse to refer as a mother. Also I am hungry''Snow thinks, as he watches the girl, who is carrying him with his blue eyes.

    "Don''t worry Little one. You''ll be safe with me."she comforts him, while going back to her path to home.

    While she is walking, she starts humming, which somehow has a relaxing effect on Snow and makes him sleepy. Slowly it starts to be harder for him to keep his eyes open and a few minutes later, his small eyes close and he falls asleep.

    As for the woman, she stops in front of the gate and says"Were home Little Fox."

    In front of her, is two giant doors made out of giant blocks of thick Ice and each doors weights about a ton or so. The Ice doors are an entrance to a fortress, which walls are made out of the same thick and strong Ice as the doors. As for the city and the citadel behind the walls, they are made out of normal materials and only thing made out of the Ice inside of these walls, are the citadel walls. This place is called the Ice Fort and is the only populated place in a thousand kilometer radius. Also for the outsiders, this place is really hard to find and they usually go back or die before reaching here. Those outsiders, who do have reaches this place, have found this place by accident. Well according to them. People who live here, aren''t hostile to people, who have come here with good intentions. But if someone were to come with bad intention, they will be killed before they could realize.

    As to what makes this place special are not the Ice walls, but the people inside of the citadel. That place in the Ice Fort is the most important place in it. There they teach people every kind of way to kill someone and how to stay hidden. A lot of people want to get in that place, but only a few talented can join that place. That place has two groups of people there. First are the soldiers, who guard the entire Fortress. Second are the Assassins, whos job is to assassinate their targets and bring home the reward, which is used to keep this place alive. So basically most of this city''s income is assassination. There are also merchants, but they don''t bring in so much money.

    The woman who is holding Snow, belongs to the Assassin group and was returning from a successful mission. Right now she looked down at him and now notices that he is sleeping"Ooh. Sorry."she apologizes to the sleeping Snow.

 The baby in the Citadel

    The woman has pushed the giant Ice door open and now has entered the city part of the Ice Fort. The road here is made out of cobblestone and isn''t meant for carriages to travel on this road. On both side of the road, there are rows of buildings in different sizes and shapes. Because it is early morning currently, there aren''t a lot of people moving around the place. As for the Ice door, it has been closed by one of the Guards behind her. The Guards never open the door, but close it because if you can''t open the door, you don''t deserve to leave or enter this place. That is the rule in this place and everybody respects it.

    As for her, she is walking towards the citadel, her home. To get there, she needs to walk over a kilometer and up a small rising, until she reaches another set of doors. Same size like the last Ice doors, but one of these door weigh five tons and have the same rule as the previous one. If you can''t open it, you don''t deserve to enter or leave.

    As for her, she pushes the door open with ease and enters the citadel. In front of her, she sees a giant castle like building, but it definitely isn''t a castle.

    "Welcome back, Alice."the two guards say st the same time and she greets them back"Good morning." Before moving on. She walks into the building which has it''s doors open currently.

    While she is walking towards one of the rooms, she runs into another woman"Aah Alice. You''re back with....a baby. When did you give birth? Who did you have an affair with? Does Veronica know?"

    She wants to shake Alice, but can''t because of the baby in Alices hand.

    "Calm down Maria. I found the Little Fox in the forest, abandoned. Also I would never have an affair."Alice replies to her and then continues"Could you hold him for a second. It kinda is getting hot."

    "Aaa yeah. Sure."Maria replies to Alice and then the baby is handed to her to hold. While Alice is taking off clothing, Maria is looking at the kitsune and says"It''s so you to take cute things with you. But a baby is a new one. Last time it was a wolf."

    "But Rex had a such a soft fur."Alice tells her and takes of her coat and puts it on top of the spear, which was stuck into the ground by Alice before. Now she pulls of her scarf and her beautiful face is revealed. She has snow white hair and hazel eyes. Her ears are long and pointy. Her skin is smooth and pale. As for her race, it is a Snow Elf, a variation of a high-elf. Snow elves prefer to live in cold environment and are good at [Ice Magic]. Also they are resistant to cold to an extend, but still require clothes in cold places.

    "Okay. Give him back here."Alice says, after she has takes of some of her clothes. Now she is wearing a pair of white pants, a pair of white boots and a light gray shirt. Around her waist is the sword, which has been with her for years. Now that she has less clothing, her figure is easier to say. Her body is well trained and her breasts are b-cup.

    "Sure."Maria replies and gives the baby back to Alice, takes him into his hands and asks Maria"Could you take my clothes back to my room? I need to deliver the spear to sis and explain about him."

    "Hmm. Yeah sure."Maria replies and takes her clothes off from the spear, which Alice then pulls out of the ground.

    "Thanks Maria."Alice thanks her and moves on, while Maris goes the other way, to take Alice''s clothes to her room. To get there, she has to walk up the stairs to the fourth floor, where she has to walks about fifty meters, before reaching to a brown wooden door. She knocks on the door and woman inside of the room asks"Who is it?"

    "Maria. Alice asked me to bring her clothes here."Maria replies to her.

    "Come in."the woman tells her and so Maria, who has gotten a permission to enter, enters. She opens the door and sees a big bed in the corner of the room, a big closet in another corner and a woman dressing, in front of the closet. Currently she is facing with her back to Maria, who walks over to chair in the room and puts the clothes down onto the chair.

    "Thanks Maria."she says and Maria replies"No need to thank for such an easy thing Veronica."

    "So you''re gonna go see Alice now? It has been two months now."Maria asks her friend, who replies"A little later. I have my training and she has her report to do."

    Veronica turns around after finishing dressing up and now her beautiful face could be seen. Her eyes are red and so is her short hair. Her ears are pointy, but not long. She is wearing the same type of clothes, as Alice, but hers is all black.

    "I see. She also managed to bring another cute one back home."Maria tells her.

    "Another wolf?"Veronica asks curiously."

    "You''ll have to see it yourself. But I can say he has cute fox ears."Maria replies and continues"Well I have to go too."

    Maria leaves the room, leaving Veronica there alone, wondering"Cute fox ears. Ooh I hope she didn''t bring what I''m thinking."

    She shakes her head slightly while thinking what she could have brought back this time, while leaving the room.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.

    As for Alice, she is in a room, standing in front of another snow elf, who is sitting behind a wide table and staring at her.

    "So Alice. Would you like to explain?"she asks her sister, who awkwardly replies"Well sis. You see...I was returning home and on the way, I found him in the Snow Forest, abandoned by his parents. He was crying and because of that, I couldn''t leave him there."

    Hearing her older sister, makes her sigh and then she replies"Okay. Do you want add anything?"

    Hearing her question, Alice''s eyes wander to the right and when she sees that, she asks with a serious tone"Alice. What more is there?"

    "He.....Might be a cursed kitsune."she replies awkwardly.

    "You brought a cursed kitsune here! How stupid are you?!"she yells out, waking up Snow from his sleep. He doesn''t start crying, but he does look at Alice with her blue eyes.

    "Please don''t be so loud. You woke him up and you might scare him."Alice tells her sister, who still has an angry look on her face.

    "So what. He''s a cursed kitsune. He will only bring destruction to this place."she tells her younger sister with a firm voice.

    "He won''t. I will raise him to be a good man. He won''t end like the other cursed kitsunes."she continues"He won''t be like the other ones."

    "How can you be so sure? What makes you sure that he won''t change and go on a rampage?"she asks her, who stays silent.

    "Thought so. Either you get rid of him or I will."

    "No!"Alice yells at her sister.

    "I won''t let you harm him. He won''t be like the others, because I will take care of him and raise him not be evil. Unlike the others, he will be raised lovingly. If-if he ever does change, I will deal with it."Alice tells in a firm voice and won''t back down on what she just said.

    "Okay. I won''t fight you. But his training is up to you and no one else won''t do it. He will become one of us and If the time comes, it''s your job to kill him. Is that clear?"she asks her in a serious tone

    "Yes. And here''s your spear."she replies to her sister and slams it into the stone floor, before leaving the room.

    She looks at the door closing and once it is completely closed, she lets out a sigh and asks herself"What are you doing Anna? Why did I let her have her way?"

    She leans back on her chair.

    "Was it because she showed seriousness for once or because I have faith in her?....Haaah I hope she is right. A kitsune could be useful member with his foxfire."

    As for Alice, she was looking at the kitsune in the hallway and he was looking back at her with his blue eyes.

    "You must be hungry. But what could I feed you? No one isn''t or has been pregnant recently, so no breast milk. Hmm."she thinks, while looking at him and walking to her and Veronicas room.

    Once she gets to her room, she puts him on the bed and sits down next to him. She looks at him and mutters"Maybe with mana. You kitsune are told to be able to feed on mana. Okay. Lets try it."

    She focuses the flow of mana into her right index finger and moves it closer to the kitsunes face. Snow, who couldn''t control himself, bites her finger out of his kitsune instincts and seems to suck on it.

    ''This is so weird and embarrassing, but my body won''t stop. Also i feel that I am not hungry anymore.''Snow thinks to himself, as he keeps ''feeding''

    "So cute."Alice says, while looking at the little kitsune sucking on her finger. What she hasn''t realized is that her mana pool is draining fast, but she doesn''t notice it, because she is busy staring at him.

    When her mana pool drops below 10%, he stops and she takes her finger out of his mouth.

    "He sucked me almost dry."she mutters to herself, as she stares at her finger. "Also...That came out wrong."

    While Alice was busy with the kitsune, Veronica was training at the Field. The Field is a place in the Citadel, where everyone trains as a group or individually. Here they have: archery range, a small arena for combat and a giant place, where dozen or so rookies are learning the basic moves and after they have finished basic training, they can choose their preferred style. Some choose close quarters combat. Other a range way to take out their target like bows and crossbows. A couple of assassins use throwing knives. Then there are those, who don''t use direct methods to kill their targets: few specialize in poison or traps. But those are the hardest way to kill sometimes and require the most planning.

    But because someone chooses one style, doesn''t mean he/she can''t learn another one later. Like Anna, who has mastered all of the styles or her sister Alice, who can use any weapon and is good in both melee and ranged combat. As for Veronica, she has mastered poison and ranged.

    But currently she was doing some basic exercises, because she doesn''t want to lose her current form. So while doing sit-ups, she hears a conversation between two guys.

    "Have you seen Alice today?"

    "No. Why do you ask?"

    "Well because I heard she had returned with a foxkin baby in her hands."

    "Foxkin? Isn''t she an elf and her lover a vampire. Did s-...Oh shit. Lets go. She noticed."he tells his friend, when he notices a glaring Veronica.

    They get up and walk away, but are stopped, when Veronica appears in front of them.

    "Go on. Finish what you wanted to say?"she tells in a calm voice.

    "Well...I wanted so that maybe she is fucking someone else, but elves are pregnant for 18 months, so the child couldn''t be hers."he replies in a nervous voice.

    "I see. Move on."Veronica tells them and they leave the place quickly.

    As for her, she puts her hand on her forehead and mutters"What did you do this time Alice?"

    *Achoo*

    Alice sneezes suddenly and mutters"Someone talking behind my back."

    Back to Veronica, she has finished her exercise and now is going back to her room. When she gets there, she opens the door and sees Alice playing with a kitsune baby.

    "Alice. Who''s child did you steal?"Veronica asks her suddenly, which surprises her.

    "No ones. I found this little fox in the forest, abandoned. So I decided to adopt him."she replies back to her.

    "I see. So you find a baby and adopt him... Without talking to your wife first."Veronica tells her, as she changes into more comfortable clothes.

    "Sorry."Alice apologizes and her elf ears drop down, along with her head

    "Too late to apologize now, as you have gotten to attached to him."Veronica tells her and sits down next to her.

    She looks at the baby and says"A cursed kitsune. Huh."

    "You seem calm."Alice tells her, as she sees how calm she seems.

    "I''m a vampire. Like him, I''m associated with the Dark Goddess. So I really don''t care about his slitted eyes."she answers her in a calm down.

    "I guess so. So what are we going to name him?"

    "We. His yours."Veronica replies back.

    "Ours."Alice corrects her.

    "Hmm. I don''t."

    "Nevada...I found him when it was snowing, so Nevada."

    "Nevada huh. I guess it works."

    "Did you hear that. Your name will be Nevada. Do you like it?"Alice asks him, white rubbing his nose.

 One year later

    A year passed quickly for Nevada and now he was one year old. They didn''t celebrate it or anything. Nevada was just counting the days and when he got to 366th day, he assumed that he now is probably one year old, but he isn''t completely sure about that and it is hard to tell the time of the year from seasons, if it always looks like winter and the sky is cloudy most of the time.

    He himself has grown a little and is now about 77cm tall and he already has his full set of baby teeth. Nevada himself thinks that he has all of his baby teeth so early, is because of him being a kitsune. The first time he saw his tails and ears, he was pretty surprised and also curious about them. So he played around with his tails and ears and that was basically his Entertainment for a few days.

    He also has noticed that his mentality is mix between his age on this world and his old world. For example he finds things fun, that would only entertain small childs, but he also finds things interesting, that would only interest adults. So one moment he could play with his tails and at the other moment, he could admire swords. Or something like that.

    As for his foster mothers, he is happy with them. They are nice and take care of him like he is their own. Apparently he doesn''t need to eat and could feed off from their mana. At least that what he has understand from their conversation, from which he understands about half of their talk and he being always fed with mana. The language sounded weird at first to him, but now he has gotten used to it and understand it to an extend.

    As for the parents themselves, he is sure that Alice, the one who picked him up is an elf and Veronica, her wife is a vampire. He found out that she is a vampire, when he saw Veronica sucking Alice''s blood from her neck. It was weird to watch. More awkward were the times, when Alice would give him to Maria for a night and then take him back the next day. It was pretty clear that they were having sex. But Nevada didn''t mind the constant "Giving Nevada to Maria, so we could have sex" thing that they did. Reason for it was simple: Marias breasts are huge. Like f-cup or something like that and he always slept on her bed with her. The bonus was that she was very clingy. She seems to like hugging him and he likes it too. So a win-win situation. He isn''t a pervert, he just enjoys it like any other straight man would. Not in a sexual way. He is too young for that..In his current body.

    Walking. He learned it when he was, according to his calculation, ten months old. Obviously his mothers were very delighted to see that and even Maria. Currently he can walk without a problem for short distances, but for longer walks, he needs a little support and so usually one of the woman is holding his hand during that. But he rarely goes for the long walks, because everyone always stares at him and he finds it annoying. Reason for it is his slitted eyes and him being a cursed kitsune. Thats all he has understood from conversation. He doesn''t know what exactly is a cursed kitsune.

    So currently he was again in Marias room, a place which he has started to visit more often lately. He didn''t mind at all. So right now he was sitting on her bed and was watching her writing something, with her only light source being the candle. Nevada himself could see clearly in the darkness and so he was just looking at her, with his blue eyes.

    Finally she stops and puts the pen down. She extinguished the candle with her fingers and walks over to bed, where he is sitting.

    "So your still up. Come on. Lets go to sleep or your moms are gonna be angry."she tells him in her clear and smooth voice. He just watches her and sees her black as night hair. Her yellow eyes could be seen through the darkness and Nevada could clearly see her black wolf ears and tails. Like him, she also was a beastkin. A wolfkin to be exact.

    She lays down on the bed and so does he now. He immediately is pulled into her embrace and so the two slowly fall asleep, while sleeping on their side, because of their tails.

    While the two are peacefully sleeping in one room, the other two woman are doing something completely else. They are having sex again, with Alice being the submissive and Veronica the dominant one in the bed.

    "Veronica...Nnnn. You have been more active..Nnn.lately."Alice says while moaning, because of her wife.

    "I guess so."she replies and continues to move up to her neck."Do you hate it?"she asks her.

    "No."she replies in a weak voice, before Veronica sinks her teeth into her neck, bringing Alice great pleasure.

    After a few seconds, Veronica removes her teeth from her neck and looks at Alice, while sitting on her stomach. There is a few drops of blood, on Veronicas lips, which she licks off.

    "Alice. Alice. Alice. Look how you have changed. Our roles used to be switched."Veronica tells her wife and follows with a small kiss onto her lips.

    Alice, who is under her, tells her in a weak voice"Don''t tease your seniors."Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.

    "You''re only hundred years older."Veronica replies back, before moving her body back and starting to tease Alice''s pussy.

    "Vero. What did I sat about teasing?"Alice cries out to Veronica, who without answering, starts to lick her pussy, making Alice moan.

    Alice thought Veronica everything that she currently knows about sex and now her knowledge is used against her. And she enjoyed it.

    As for Nevada, he could hear his mothers moans, even though he was on the third floor and the ceiling is a meter thick. He could hear all of this because of his sensitive ears and apparently Maria could too, because she seemed awake too.

    ''huuh. I guess I have to wait for them to finish, because I can''t fall asleep with the constant moaning''he thinks to himself.

    Next morning, Nevada looked tired and so did Maria, who was holding his hand. She was bringing him back and when she looked at the tired Nevada, she jokingly asked"You heard it too?"

    Nevada unconsciously just nods and keeps walking, when Maria suddenly stops with a surprised face and asks"Wait. Did you actually understand me?"

    He looks at her and nods again. He won''t reply to him by talking, because he still hasn''t said his first word.

    "Okay. So am I your mom?"she asks him and he shakes his head.

    "I guess you understand something. Lets go to your parents."she tells him and the two continue walking to Alice''s and Veronica''s room. When they get there, they enter without knocking and find the two woman sleeping on the bed, while embracing each other.

    Maria just rolls her eyes, when she sees the two and just sits down on the couch, with Nevada on her lap.

    "Ahem!"Maria lets it out loudly, to wake the two woman up.

    "Ahem!"she does it again, seeing as the women don''t wake up. But this time, Veronica seemed to slowly wake up and when she did, she kissed Alice in front of her son and friend.

    "Ooh. Don''t mind us. We''ll just wait here and watch."Maria tells her in a sarcastic voice.

    "Ooh. Maria. You look tired."Veronica tells her while sitting up on the bed.

    "Because of you two. I could hear you going at it from my room and so did your son. Look at him. Look how tired he looks."Maria tells Veronica, who looks at Nevada and sees, that indeed he looks tired.

    "It seems so."Veronica replies and wakes up Alice, who is peacefully sleeping next to her"Oii. Alice. Wake up!"she gently shakes her body, until she finally wakes up and mutters"I''m up. I''m up."

    She also sits up, while rubbing her eyes and looking around. She stops her sight on the two, sitting on the couch and says"Ah. Maria. You''re already here. You look tired."

    "Yeah. Because of your moaning."Maria replies back to her friend, who says"I may have been a little loud yesterday."

    "A little? Even Nevada could hear you."Maria tells her and realises that she is basically having the same conversation with Alice, like she had before with Veronica.

    "I see. Sorry Little Fox."Alice apologizes to him, who just nods.

    "Veronica. Did Little Fox just understand me?"Alice asks her wife, after seeing how he seemed to agree just now.

    "That''s the other thing I wanted to tell you. Nevada here seems to understand us."Maria says, while still holding him on her lap.

    "Really? I want to see that."Alice says and jumps out of bed. She puts on a pair of pants and shirt and walks over to the couch.

    "I''ll take him now."Alice tells Maria, before taking him from Marias lap and putting him onto her lap, while facing her.

    "Okay. Little Fox. Am I your mom?"she asks with a happy voice from Nevada, who decides to nod. Alice immediately hugs him after he nods and says"He thinks that I am his mother. I am so happy."

    "Okay. But can you say ''Mom''?"Alice asks her with a happy tone and so he decides to tell her, what she wants to hear. So he says his first word"Mom."

    Alice hearing her Little Fox calling her mom for the first time, is overjoyed and tightens hugs him even more tightly then before. Nevada starts to struggle, but Alice doesn''t seem to notice it because of her happiness.

    "Alice. Let go of Nevada."Maria tells her friend, who looks at the struggling Nevada and immediately stops hugging him.

    "Sorry Little Fox. I was just too happy."she apologizes to him and Maria takes him back to her lap and tells her"I''ll hold him for now. You may accidentally kill him with your love."

    Maria puts him to her lap and holds him, while looking at Alice, who asks"Veronica. How long are you gonna stay in bed."

    "As long as when I get my clothes back, which you put on."she replies to her, while looking at her. Alice looks at the clothes she is wearing and notices that she is wearing Veronicas clothing.

    "You can stay there for now."Alice says and Veronica replies"Okay."

    "So anyway. Do you need something or I can go?"Maria asks Alice, who thinks for a while and replies then"You can go. Thanks for looking after him."

    "No problem. His a good kid."Maria replies to Alice and puts Nevada onto the couch. She herself gets up and leaves the room. After she has left, Alice picks up Nevada and brings him to their bed and puts him next to Veronica.

    "Play with him, while I change."Alice tells Veronica, who just nods and then looks at the sitting Nevada. He looks at her back and says"Mama."

    "What did you call me?"Veronica asks with a surprised voice and so he repeats himself"Mama."

    "Huh. Did Little Fox call you Mama, Veronica?"Alice asks with a surprised tone, while taking off her clothes.

    "Umm. Yeah. I don''t know what to do next. I''ve never been good with kids."Veronica replies to Alice.

    "You really don''t have to do anything. If you want, you can pat him or something."Alice replies to her wife. Alice knows very well, that Veronica isn''t good with kids. She is especially sure now, that they have had Nevada for a year now and Veronica rarely does something with him. It''s always either Alice or Maria.

    Right now Veronica looks at him with a slightly happy face and just pats his head, which he seems to like it."Umm. Good Nevada."she says awkwardly.

    "No need to be so awkward around him Veronica. His your child too."Alice tells her, after she has finished putting on her clothes. She walks up to the two and kisses Nevadas forehead and Veronicas lips. She then says"I have a mission to do. So you two spend the next month or so together. Get along then. Love you too. Bye"

    She waves at them and they wave back.

    "Goodbye."Veronica says, as the door is closed.

    She now looks at Nevada and asks"So what am I gonna do with you?"

 Veronica and Nevada

    In a bedroom, on top of a bed, Nevada and Veronica were staring at each other and none of them knew what to do. Do they just looked at each other, until she asked"Are you hungry?"to which he answered by nodding.

    "Okay. So how does Alice feed you?"she asks herself, when suddenly she feels something biting into her wrist. She looks at him and sees Nevada has started to directly suck the mana out of her, along with her blood. Nevada himself doesn''t know why he just bit her. He just did it. Like out of instincts it something. But he isn''t entirely sure, because he himself doesn''t know much about his race.

    "Wait what? Why''s he doing this?"Veronica wonders, while looking at him, with his teeth in her wrist. After a while, he stops and removes his teeth from her wrist and her wrist starts to heal quickly. She looks at her wrist and then at Nevada, before saying"Come here." And dragging him to her.

    She opens his mouth and looks at his teeth, for a few seconds and then saying"You''re not a vampire... So why would you suck blood too?"

    "Hmm....Lets find out something about you."she tells him and gets up from the bed, to get dressed. Once she is dressed, he puts Nevada on his feed onto the floor and says"Lets go."

    She starts walking, but not Nevada, who can''t walk a long distance without help. Seeing that he wasn''t next to him, she looks back at him and mutters"Right. You can''t walk without help currently."she tells him"Come here at least."

    Hearing her, he walks up to him and hold her her hand, making Veronica feel a little awkward. She seriously is bad with kids, unlike her wife or Maria. Even the cold hearted Anna is better at dealing with her son, then Veronica is with hers.

    The two leave the room, while holding hands and walks in the pretty dull corridor without any decoration on the well, beside the torch holders. Everything was made out of the same gray stone.

    They continue walking, until they reach in front of a double door made out of dark coloured wood. She opens the door with her empty hand and the two enter the room. In the room, they see a dozens of shelves filled with books. Beside the books, there is also a table, where a sixty year old human man is sitting and reading a book.

    But when he heard the door close, he looked up and saw the two there standing.

    "Aah. Veronica. What brings you here?"he asks her and then looks at what she is holding and sees the kitsune.

    "So this is the cursed kitsune."he mutters to himself, before looking back at Veronica, who says"Do you still have the Status Orb?"

    He thinks to himself for a few minutes, before replying"Yes. Is it for him?"

    "Yep. I want to see his status."Veronica replies to the librarian, who then gets up from his chair and walks to the back room.

    While he is looking for the Status Orb, Nevada is looking around the place and is a little amazed by the amount of books, there is here. He keeps looking around, while Veronica is watching him and finds it amusing to watch him.

    As for the librarian, he has come back from the back room and now was carrying a white transparent glass orb about the size of a football. He reaches it out to Veronica, who to receive it, lets go of Nevadas hand. While holding the orb, she looks at it and then tells him"Could you find me some books about kitsunes."

    "Yeah sure."he replies and goes looking. She actually didn''t need the book, because Alice already had one, but she didn''t want him around, when checking Nevadas status. So she crouched down near him and faces him.

    "Put your hand on it."she tells him, but because Nevada didn''t understand one of the words, he starts to think, until he figured out the meaning from context. So he puts his little hand onto the orb and it shines brightly. From the orb, both of them could see his status.

    Name: Nevada Xeo

    Age: 1

    Race: Kitsune

    Titles: Cursed Kitsune

    Job: None

    Skills:

    Ice Magic lvl 4.

    Bow Mastery lvl 6.

    Sword Mastery lvl 5.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.

    Knife Mastery lvl 6.

    Martial Arts lvl 7.

    Mana Manipulation lvl 1.

    "Okay. What the fuck is up with status."Veronica mutters after seeing his status. Everything beside the [Mana Manipulation] is pretty high for a one year old. So from his current status, she could already say that he will be a strong man one day.

    As for the other skills, they were definitely high level then most of his age would have. The previous highest level was lvl 3. And that too was only on one skill. But his are much higher. She is glad, that she send the librarian away for a moment.

    As how the skills work in world, is simpler to explain then it was a few thousand years ago. Basically everyone is born with at least one skill and there is no maximum number of skills one can born with or obtain in his/her life time. The skills are obtained by either being born with them or learning about it. For example: for [Sword Mastery], you need to train with a sword for a while, until you get a skill. From there, you need to practice and fight with a sword, to level it up. The higher your skill level, the more moves or spells(If it is a magic skill) you will know and it will be easier for you to learn me moves or spells too. Maximum level is ten.

    So according to that basic knowledge, Nevada should be able to easily learn a couple of styles if he wanted, before he becomes a full time member of this group of assassins. It will be easier to teach him magic too, once he gets five years olds.

    But for now, Veronica took the orb away and got up at the same time, as the librarian came back without a book.

    "Sorry to say, but I didn''t find anything about kitsunes, but I do know a few things about them myself."he says the last part with a proud voice.

    "Here."Veronica tells him and hands the orb over to him, who takes it and holds it in his hands.

    "Hmm. I have one question."Veronica tells him after thinking for a few seconds.

    "Ask."he replies and so she asks"Kitsunes of mana. Right?" He nods and she continues"So why did he bite me before, when I tried to feed him."

    "Has he done it before?"he asks her and she replies"It''s usually Alice, who feeds him, but I haven''t notice any bite marks from him on her body."

    "Hmm. Maybe he is just copying you. Have you sucked Alice''s blood in front of him?"

    "Yeah."she replies.

    "So he has probably seen that and now thinks that maybe this is a better way to get mana, which it is. You do it too with your Blood Partner."he tells her.

    "So your saying, he bit me, because I have bit Alice and so he is copying me?"

    "Thats the only believable reason. Kitsunes don''t suck blood out of instincts. So he either copies you or it has something to do with him being a cursed kitsune. Maybe he has some vampiric nature in him. But I don''t know. He is the first live cursed kitsune I have ever seen."he tells her and walks away to take the orb back.

    As for her, she looks down at her adoptive son and lets out a sigh.

    "What am I gonna tell Alice?"she asks herself, while looking at Nevada, who smiles to her and she could clearly see his fangs.

    "Huh. Come now Nevada. I need to exercise, so come with me."she tells her and takes his hand, before leaving the library together.

    At the training area, Nevada is sitting on one of the stair steps and looks at her mother exercising. Also quite a lot of people are looking at him, the cursed kitsune with different emotion on their faces. Some look disgusted, some don''t seem to care a lot and a few who look at him with a loving face. Like they want to hug him or something like that.

    Nevada himself is looking at the other people train with weapons and practicing their magic. She then sees Veronica practicing with a sword, even though she doesn''t use it very often. But she still is pretty good with a sword, but her preferred assassination ways is the ones, where she just has to watch them die, without lifting a finger during that. Usually she sets up traps and waits nearby, to confirm the kill. Sometimes she uses poisons too and so she usually dresses up as one of the maids and servers the target a poisoned food. By the time the target dies, she is long gone.

    While Nevada is looking at Veronica, he then looks at another boy, who seems to be about five or six years old. He looks at Veronica and then the boy. Veronica then the boy. And after doing that for a while, Veronica finally asks"What is it?"

    "Wrong."he says and points at the boy. So Veronica looks at the boy, who is Annas son and after looking for a few seconds, she notices that his stance is wrong.

    She rolls her eyes and tells Nevada"Wait here. I''ll go correct him."

    "Okay Mama."he replies in his cute childs voice.

    Veronica walks over the boy, while muttering"Why is no one watching over him. A rookie can''t practice on his own. Also why has no one bothered to correct him. Even a one year old could notice his wrong stance." She just shakes her head and gets to him.

    "Kevin. Your stance is wrong."Veronica tells the boy, who stops and says"It can''t be. Mommy taught me like this."

    "I don''t think that Anna would teach you wrongly, so don''t deny it."Veronica tells him.

    "How do you know? You don''t even use a sword. Mommy told me."he says back in and arrogant tone.

    Veronica won''t even bother with him anymore. If he wants to learn wrongly, then let him do it. She has better things to do.

    "Do what you want."Veronica replies to him and walks away.

    "Arrogant little shit."she mutters, while walking away. She doesn''t have to worry about him hearing that, because she is married to Alice, who is a second-in-command in this place and so nothing could be done to her If she insults the Young Master of this place. Master being Anna.

    When she gets back to Nevada, she finds him being held by two succubuses.

    "What a cute boy? Right sis?"one of the succubuses asks from the other.

    "Yes he is Sis. I can''t wait for him to grow up and enjoy-"she stops, as she sees Veronica in front of them.

    "His yours?"she asks her in a weak voice and Veronica only nods.

    Both of them go pale from fear and with a wry laugh, they give him to Veronica, who takes him into her hands.

    ""Sorry.""they say at the same time and leave immediately.

    "Those fucking sex demons."she mutters and then looks at Nevada and asks"Did they do something to you?"

    "No Mama."he replies.

    "Good."she continues"I guess I can''t leave you alone for a minute or you will be surrounded by those kinds of people.

    "Sluts?"he asks her in a childish and when she hears him cursing, she mutters"Oh fuck."

 Dont curse Nevada!

    "Maria. I need your help."Veronica asks her friend, while they were sitting in Veronica''s and Alice''s room.

    Maria, who is sitting on the couch, takes a sip of her tea and asks"What kind of help."

    "Well.... I think I accidentally taught Nevada a few bad words."Veronica answers awkwardly.

    Hearing her, she puts her tea down and looks at Veronica and then Nevada, who is sitting on her lap. With a calm voice, she asks"What kind of words?"

    "Fuck."Nevada just says and Marias eyes grow big from surprise. She stares at Veronica and then says"Well. Now you done it. Interesting how angry will Alice be?"

    "Maria. You gotta help me. Alice will be angry, that I taught him to curse."Veronica cries out and Maria looks at her. Her face slowly turns sadistic and says"Hoooo. Veronica, the emotionless woman, who never needed help from anybody...Now needs my help...Why should I help you?"

    "Come on Maria. You still owe me from that time."Veronica reminds to Maria, whos face goes red after she remembers that time. With a now defeated look, she says"Okay. I''ll help you."

    "Thanks."Veronica thanks her and ask"So how do we stop him from cursing?"

    "Hmm. Maybe make him understand, that it''s a bad word."she suggest and Veronica replies after thinking about it for a few seconds"Well..It''s start, so lets try again."

    Veronica puts Nevada onto the bed and tells him"Nevada. You can''t say that word. It''s a very bad word."

    "Fuck."Nevada says and Veronica tells him again "No Nevada. You can''t say that word. Only adults can?"

    "Why the fuck?"he asks in a childish voice and Veronica mutters"It''s worse."

    "Let me try."Maria tells her and sits down onto the bed."Okay. Nevada. If you say that word and mom hears it, she will be very sad. Do you want sad mom?"

    "No."he replies weakly.

    "So you promise not to say that word?"She asks Nevada, who nods. Seeing that he agreed, she pats his head, which he likes and it could be clearly be seen from his satisfied face. Nevada has planned to keep repeating "fuck" for a while, but he doesn''t want to see Veronica get in trouble with Alice because of him, so he decided to stop.

    "Well at least this got solved. Thanks Maria."Veronica thanks her and she replies"Yeah. No problem. But I find it funny how I am better at dealing with him then you."

    Veronica lets out a sigh and then covers Nevada''s ears, so he wouldn''t hear her. Nevada turns his head to look at her for a few seconds with a curious face, but sees that she isn''t looking at her. So she looks in front of him and decides to be quiet.

    "You know very well that I don''t like little kids. They are so loud, annoying and the list goes on and on. Beside you, no one knows that. Not even Alice."Veronica tells her friend, who replies"I know. But the kid, whos ears you are holding currently, is different. Isn''t he?"

    "I guess so. He doesn''t cry and behaves pretty. Well most of the times."Veronica says and hearing her, Maria says"Yeah. I know. Because I babysit him a lot and have probably done more stuff with him then you."A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.

    "I guess so. I just don''t know what to do with him. His too young currently, to have something in common with. I never knew my parents and lived alone in a cell for ten years."Veronica says with a sad voice the last part. She also forgets to hold his ears and from now, he could hear the two womans talk.

    "I''ve heard some of the story, but never the full story. Why don''t you tell me?"Maria asks and takes Nevada onto her lap.

    "Not much to talk about."Veronica continues"Born as a Vampire Princess, I was thrown into a cell for ten year and never even met my parents. I was rescued by Alice, who took me here. She was the first kind person to me and so I fell in love with her quickly. So after training for ten years and getting my Mask, I decided to confess to her. She accepted it and like you could see, we ended up married soon. This was all before you and your brother got here."

    "I see. Before me and Carl...got here."Maria says in a sad tone and when Veronica sees her condition, she apologizes"Sorry Maria. I brought him up."

    Maria sniffs a few times and replies"Yeah. It''s fine. It''s fine."

    As for Nevada, when he hears Marias change of tone, after her brother was mentioned, he understands that he is a sensitive topic to her and judging from her tone, he most likely has died.

    And so Nevada hugs Maria, in attempt to cheer her up. He looks at her face, while looking up and says in a childish tone"Wolfy."

    Veronica sniggers and says"Wolfy."

    "Veronica."Maria yells her name and she just laughs. The mood immediately changed in the room and this means that Nevada was successful.

    "Wolfy."he repeats again and this time Maria hugs him gently and lovingly.

    Veronica seeing this, smiles and says"How sweet. If you want, I can give him to you after he gets his Mask."

    "What do you mean ''Give him to me''?"Maris asks her and Veronica only smiles to her. After a few seconds, she realises what she meant and immediately blushes.

    "Veronica. W-what are you t-talking about?"Maria stutters on few words and Veronica, who noticed that, decides to tease her even more"Ooh. You stuttered. So you actually like that idea. Don''t worry. You have my blessing and Alice would probably give hers too."

    "Veronica."Maria says in a loud voice and Veronica just keeps laughing. While doing that, Veronica looks at Nevada and asks"Nevada. Do you want Wolfy?"

    Hearing her question, he immediately nods and hugs her even tighter. Veronica points at him and says"See. Even he wants you. So it''s decided."

    "Oii. Don''t decide anything."Maria snaps back at her.

    "But are you going to make Nevada sad and reject him now?"Veronica asks in a fake sad tone.

    "His only one. He doesn''t even know what a couples are or even do."Maria says and Nevada on her lap, says"Sex."

    Both of them look at him, after hearing him and just stares quietly.

    "Veronica!"Maria yells.

    "Sorry!"she apologizes immediately.

    One month has passed and today, Alice was coming home from her successful mission. So right now, she was in the Citadel and walking back to her room, from her sisters office, where he had to give a report.

    As for Veronica, the past few days have been horrible. Nevada started to repeat all the curse words, that he had heard Veronica ever says. So she knew she was in so much trouble and Maria was away too, so she couldn''t help her either. So she was in a serious trouble, If Alice heard him.

    "Nevada. Please don''t says that word."Veronica begs her son, who replies"Fucking asshole."

    "Haaaaah. I seriously need to stop cursing."she cries out. She knows that Alice has returned, because she could feel her blood partner coming a long time ago.

    "Please don''t say it?"Veronica begs Nevada.

    "Say what?"Alice, who had finally reached her room, asks.

    "Um nothing."Veronica replies awkwardly and for Nevada, he reaches his hands towards Alice.

    "Little Fox missed me. Come here."she says and picks her up into her arms. While holding him, she asks"So did mama teach you anything new?"

    "Yes."he replies to her.

    ''Fuck. Please Nevada don''t tell her, that you accidentally learned curse words from me. Please Nevada.''Veronica was thinking, while looking at the two.

    "Could you tell me what she thought?"Alice asks her and a long silence follows. No one says a word and Veronica is hoping that he doesn''t curse. Nevada opens his mouth and says"I love mom."

    "Little Fox."Alice says in a happy voice and even slightly starts to cry happy tears. She hugs him and just starts to walk around the room from happiness, while Veronica is looking. While she looks at him, she sees him....smirking.

    ''Did he. Did he just really? You Fox.''

 Three years old

    Two more years have passed and Nevada is now three years old. He has grown a little and now is 90cm tall. He also is able to speak and read perfectly and understands everything people speak on this place, as long as it is in that language. The language itself is called Cold Language and is mostly only spoken here, in this fortress. As for the letters of this language, they are the same as the ones in Human Language. According to Alice.

    He also can walk without a help, but because he is always watched by at least on of the three woman, he can''t just go and walk around when ever he wants.

    He also has learned the general info about this world. This worlds name is Terra and the land here is divided into seven areas. The areas are called: Deryus, Alseer, Ymor, Eriguv, Fer��ie, Oherda. As for the seventh one, it is called "Death Land" by the people, because whoever goes there, never returns. And with time, it got its name. As for the Fortress location, it supposedly is located at northern area of Ymor, where it is always cold.

    As for the gods, there are two of them: Goddess of Light and Life Sola and Goddess of Dark and Death. The other ones name is forbidden to mention, because saying her name, brings calamity. As Snow, he never believed in god and now, he knows that they exist, because he met one, but he will never pray.

    As for the races, there are six of them. The six races are: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Beastkins, Demons and Dragons.

    Humans have the largest population out of all the races. The average lifespan is 80 years. Humans live on the Alseer area of the world. They are ruled by a king or a queen in some places. They also have started a lot of wars.

    Elves have the fifth largest population because of the low birth rate.Elves have pointy ears and their average lifespan is unknown because no elf has died of old age. So it is believed they can live forever. The elf race divides into two: High-Elves and Dark-Elves. There are also a few variations of High-Elves: Snow elf, Wood Elf, Blood Elf and a few more. As for the relationship with the other races, it has worsened with everyone after the last war. They live in Deryus.

    Beastkins have the third biggest population nd they mostly human but instead of human ears they have animal ears and a tail. Their lifespan is between 100-400 depending on the kin. The four big in number kins are: dog, cat, fox and wolf. With dozens of smaller kins. A kitsune is considered a stronger variation of a foxkin and not a lot is known about them, as they tend to keep things between their kind. Their area is Ymor.

    Dwarves have the fourth biggest population and they live in Eriguv area. They are shorter and stubbier version of human. They live up to 300 years. They are known for their amazing smithing skills and inventions.

    Demons, the race with the second largest population. They live in Oherda area. Because there are so many different species of demons, there isn''t any specific trait that only they. Some demons have horns, other tails. Few look like humans but with a weird eye colour. Their age also varies with race and it is believed that the youngest demon dies when he is about 150 years. As for the oldest, it''s about 3000 years, but no one knows exactly.

    As for dragons, not much is known about them beside that they live in Fer��ie area which itself is separated with an ocean. They are believed to be able to live forever and some say that, there are dragons, who Are millions of years old. But no one knows exactly, as the last dragon was sighted a hundred years ago.

    There is also magic in this world and it divides into two types: Elemental and Non-elemental. Elemental magics are fire, water, wind, earth, dark, light, lighting, nature, ice, void and space. Non-elemental magic spells are so many, that no one knows an exact amount of spells.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

    As for how the calendar and time works in this world, is almost the same as on Earth. The day is divided into 24 hours and hours into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds. The calendar is divided into twelve months, with thirty days in each month. Five weeks in a month and six days in a week. Months don''t have names and are just called: 1st, 2nd 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. There are also no names for seasons.

    As for the current date, it is 21st day of 4th month year 10429 of New Age. Reason why it is called New Age, is unknown. No one knows exactly why. They just call it like this and thats it.

    As for Nevada, he is sitting on top of the bed in Marias room, because both Alice and Veronica have gone on a mission. He also has noticed that Maria is always in the Fortress and hasn''t left the place for the past three years. He knows it, because he sees her at least thrice a week and she always seem available.

    But currently, he is just looking at her, because he woke up a few minutes ago and has nothing else to do. So after staring at her, she asks"How long will you stare?"

    "Wolfy."he calls her and hugs her after saying that. She just puts her arm around him and asks"Why are you up so early?"

    "No sleep."he replies to her in a childish voice.

    "Okay."she replies and slowly sits up on the bed, completely naked. Nevada could see her smooth pale skin and big breasts for the first time. She was also shaved down there.

    Nevada just stared at her body and so Maria told him"It''s not nice to stare Nevada."

    "Okay."he replies and continues"Wolfy is beautiful."

    "Thanks for the compliment, but it still doesn''t excuse you."she replies and pulls the blanket over her front.

    "Sorry."he apologizes to her, who just pats his head and gets up from the bed, to put on her clothes.

    Once she was dressed, she helped him to change clothes too and after they had finished dressing, they were sitting on the couch and she asked"Are you hungry?"

    "Yes."he replied to her and so she pulled the sleeve up from her wrist and pointed it towards him. On the wrist, you could see the previous bite marks, made by Nevada.

    So Nevada looked at her wrist, before biting into it and starting to suck her blood, along with the mana. After he was done, he had a few bloodstains around his face.

    "Seriously. Why are you like Veronica?"she asks him and he replies"Like Mama?"

    "Yes. Like Mama. I understand why she needs to suck blood, but I don''t get why you need to."Maria tells him, while holding her hand on the bite mark.

    "Did mama teach you to do that?"she asks him and he replies"No. I copy her."

    "Why. You don''t need to. Skin contact is enough to transfer mana to you."She asks him and he replies"Blood tasty."

    "Ooh great."she puts and holds her hand over hear forehead, while muttering"A kitsune, who has gotten a taste of blood. Great. Just great."

    She moves her hand away from her head and sees Nevada looking at him with a sad look on his face"Does Wolfy hate me?"

    Seeing that she was talking out loud too much, she immediately pats his head and answers"Of course not. Nevada isn''t at fault here."

    ''I blame Veronica''she thinks to herself.

    "So don''t worry. I don''t hate you."she continued.

    "Then Wolfy love me?"he asks her in a childish voice and she replies"Yes. I love you."

    "Yay!"he yells out and jumps at her, to hug her. And within a second, he was hugging her and rubbing his head against her body.

    ''Seriously. You are too attached to me.''she thinks to herself

    After a few minutes, she tells him"Okay. Lets go. I need to eat too."

    "Okay."he replies to her and they leave her room together.

    They walk down the stone stairs and reach onto the first floor. They walk through a hallway and reach a double door, made out of dark coloured wood. She opens the doors and walks over to one of the empty tables with him and sit down together. He doesn''t eat anything and just looks around, while she is eating her breakfast.

    As she is eating her food, two guys walk up to the table and asks with an arrogant voice"Oii. Wolf bitch. Why did you bring that ''thing'' here?"

    She just ignores them and continues eating.

    "Bitch. You look at us, when we are talking to you!"he yells and slams the table. Now everyone is looking at this table and Nevada himself is looking at Maria with a troubled look on his face.

    "Wolf bitch. Why is that little shit here. Huh. Do you hear me bitch?!"he yells at her and finally she looks up with a calm face and after she blinks, the two guys are just completely disappeared without a trace, that they were here just now.

    "Heh. What were we looking again?"

    "Did we watch anything?"

    And other lines of confused questions could be heard around the dining hall, before they continued eating.

    Nevada looks up to her and asks"What did Wolfy do?"

    "Erased them."she replies with a smile on her face.

 Training with Mom, Mama and Wolfy

    4th day of 3rd month year 10431.

    Nevada was now five years old and that meant that he can now start with his training. But he won''t be taught together with the others of his age, because Anna has forbidden him doing that. So instead he will be taught by Alice, Veronica and Maria. Alice will teach him how to use a sword, a spear, a knife, a crossbow and a bow. Veronica will be teaching him about poisons and traps. And Marias job will be teaching him magic. She also will substitute Alice''s or/and Veronicas lessons, when they are away.

    Apparently Maria used to be an assassin too, but after her brother died, she stopped. And that was a century ago. He hasn''t gotten her exact age, but has calculates it to be about 210 years old. His calculation were based on her mothers ages. Alice is 356 years old and Veronica 247 years old. According to Veronica, she was 46 years old, when Maria was brought here with her brother. She looked to be about 10 years old at the time.

    As for her rank in this place, it is unknown to many. Alice knows what it is, but won''t tell, like Maria. Veronica herself doesn''t know and hasn''t bother asking her.

    Currently Nevada was with Alice in one of the training room. He was sitting on a small mat and looking at Alice, who was explaining him about this place.

    "Okay Nevada. Listen closely and remember everything I tell you. It is very important. Do you understand?"

    "Yes mom."he replies to her.

    "Good."she continues"First of all, we are called the Ice Fort Assassins, because this place is called Ice Fort and we are living here. Each trainee can take a trial to become one of us. As for the Assassin''s, we are divided into ten rank, with the first being the lowest and the tenth the highest rank. First ranks are the new assassins who just have passed the trial. Tenth rank are those who are ridiculously strong, like Anna. As for me, I''m ninth rank and Veronica eighth rank."

    She looks at Nevada and from his face, she can guess what he wants to ask.

    "No Nevada. I won''t say Marias rank. If you want to know, ask the person herself."she tells him and he just nods slowly back at her.

    "Don''t worry. If you are a good boy, she might tell you."she tries to cheer him up and it works a little. Seeing that he is a little happier, she starts talking again

    "Okay. Continuing on my explanation."she continues"Anyways. When someone becomes a member, they are given a white mask, like this."

    She takes a mask from her back waist and shoes him a white mask, with two holes for eyes. The mask is decorated with nine blue lines.

    "Like you could see, I have nine lines on my mask. You can draw one new line, with each of your rank ups. So If you pass the trial and become a member, you can draw your first line."

    "Why draw lines?"he asks his mom, who replies"It is to show our rank here and to make each mask unique to his or her owner."

    "Okay."he replies back in a childish voice and so she continues."To rank up, you need to successfully complete assassinations. The higher the rank, the higher the pay and obviously the difficulty. If you reach the eighth rank, the Master will give you your targets personally and you don''t have to choose one from the Wall. Any questions?"

    "What''s a trial?"

    "A trial is when you have to do a task, given by the Master. The trials are pretty random and you will only now about your task, the moment it begins. So you can''t ever prepare for it."

    "When can I take a trial?"

    "When I say you are ready for it. Until then you will be a trainee. So get good and then you can take it."she tells her and he replies"Okay mom."

    "Good to hear. Now start by running around the room for a little."she tells him and so he starts running. His stamina is naturally better then a humans, so he could run for five minutes. Which is pretty good for his first actual physical exercise.

    He stops, after she allows him. He is sweating, but he isn''t very tired.

    "Pretty good Little Fox. So now we go onto a sword training."she says and gives him a short wood sword. She herself draws her sword from the sheath on her belt. The sword is a two-handed sword with a silver coloured blade and with a black hilt and a straight guard.

    "Lets start with a stance"she tells him and puts her left hand onto the sword hilt.

    "Okay. First you hold your sword with both of your hands. Then move your left leg behind your right."she tells him, while showing the movements at the same time.

    Nevada follows her movements perfectly and when she sees that, while looking at him, she says"Correct. That was pretty fast and good for a first time."

    "Thanks. I''m copying mama."he tells her and she says"Veronica. When have you seen her practicing?"

    "When mom is away."he replies to her and she asks"And she took you out to the training grounds, when she had to look after you?"

    "Yes."he replies and then asks"Is mama in trouble?"

    "No no."she assures him and continues"It''s just that she never told me. What else she has done to you?"

    "Nothing."he answers to her and asks then"Can we go back to training?"

    "Yeah right."she remembers and then starts to explain again"Okay. Because you have copied Veronica, then want to show me what you have copied."

    "Okay."he replies and starts to do all the swings, slashes, thrusts and other moves that he has seen Veronica do. After he finishes, he is breathing heavily and is sweating a lot. He looks at his mother and sees her with a surprised face.

    "Mom."he calls her after seeing her doing nothing, but stare at him with a surprised face. But when she hears her son calling for her, she shakes her head a few times and replies"You copied Veronica perfectly. How?"

    "Copying."he replies to her, without knowing anything more about how he did it.

    "Could you show me your status. Say [Status Show]."she tells him and so he says"[Show Status]."

    Name: Nevada Xeo

    Age: 5

    Race: Kitsune

    Titles: Cursed Kitsune

    Job: None

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    Ice Magic lvl 4.

    Bow Mastery lvl 6.

    Sword Mastery lvl 5.

    Knife Mastery lvl 6.

    Martial Arts lvl 7.

    Mana Manipulation lvl 1.

    Physical Copying lvl 3.

    "What the hell? How are you stats so high?"she yells out. She didn''t know about his status before, because Veronica forgot to mention it.

    He just thinks about his status and them says"Say [Show: Physical Copying] and read it out loud."

    "Okay. [Show: Physical Copying]."he says and then starts to read out loud"Individual with this skill, can copy any physical movements, that the individual can see. The higher the skill level, the faster the individual can copy the movements."

    After hearing his son reading the skills information out loud, she stays quiet to think about that. ''Hmm. So my Little Fox can copy anything physical he sees. That explains how he could execute Veronicas style without being taught. So does that mean, he knows more styles? Him having such a high [Sword Mastery] skill, makes teaching him easier.''

    "Little Fox."she calls his name and continues"Have you copied anything else from Veronica or someone else?"

    "Biting."he replies to her and she says"Yeah. I know and have seen that. I mean something I don''t know."

    "Hmmm. I have watched staff training."he tells her after thinking and she asks him"Who was training with it?"

    "A tall man with red skin and only wears pants."he answers her in his childish voice and she thinks for a moment, before realising who he means.

    "That pervert."she mutters and then says"Okay. You can copy his staff skills, but never get caught while watching him?"

    "Why? Is he bad?"he asks her and she replies."His just gay and has a thing for beastkin."

    Nevadas face goes pale and he immediately crouched down onto the floor.

    "Won''t watch. Won''t watch. Won''t watch."he keeps repeating and Alice seeing her sons condition, mutters"Oh dear. I scared him.....Also how does he know what gay means?"

    After a minute, she sees that her son is still st the same state. She lets out a sigh and walks up to him"Little Fox. Don''t be scared. He won''t do anything to you. As long as you have mama or me along with you. Maria can''t help you with him. She''s a beastkin too."

    "Really?"he asks her and looking up to her with his blue slitted eyes.

    "Yes. He won''t do anything to you. I promise that."she assures him and he replies"Okay mom."

    "Good Little Fox."she tells him and then says"Lets go to mama now. I don''t want to exhaust you."

    "Okay."he replies to her and gets up.

    They leave the room and then go to the place, where Veronica usually spends her time making traps and poisons.

    So when they get to her lab, Alice knocks on the door and Veronica says"Enter."

    So she opens the door and walks in with Nevada. At the same time, Veronica looks at the two and asks"Finished so early?"

    "Yep."she continues with a proud voice"It appears that Little Fox has perfectly copied your sword style."

    "Really? Thats pretty amazing."she says and looks at Nevada, who still has a slightly pale face.

    "Umm. Is it me or Nevada looks pale?"she asks her wife, who replies"It''s not you. I told him about Xert."

    Veronica just looks at Alice, before saying"Alice. Are you trying to scare him?"

    "Not entirely my fault. Nevada said that he was observing him to copy his style. So I kinda just told him about him."Alice tells Veronica, who just sighs and says"Okay. Whatever. Anyways you can go now. It''s my turn to teach."

    She gets up and pushes Alice out of the room. But before she could close the door, Alice gives her a little kiss and then walks out of the room.

    She turns around to look at Nevada and says"Okay Nevada. Come with me."

    "Okay mama."he replies to her and follows her into another room, where they behind the table. She sits down first and puts Nevada onto her lap.

    "Okay. First thing you must know is that, you have to get and mix your poisons yourself. Same with the traps: you have to get the parts and assemble it by yourself. Second is that both of those require more practice and time to master."

    "To use traps or poison in a mission is very hard and requires more time to prepare. So the best kind of missions for me would be those without a time limit."

    "Okay mama."he replies to her, after hearing her short explanation."

    "Okay."she continues"So before we can go anywhere with learning poisons or traps, you must learn about them. So right now, start reading this book and once have memorize it, we can start with practical."

    She puts a thick book onto the table and opens the first page, where he has to starts reading.

    "Mama. Isn''t it too much?"he asks her in a childish voice and she replies"It is, but there is no other way. You have to read it."

    "Okay mama."he replies and starts to read, while sitting on Veronicas lap. As for Veronica, she looks at her adoptive son reading and smile a little.

    ''He is a good kid. Mostly.''she thinks, as she looks at him. He pats his head, which he seems to like and continues to watch him.

    After a few hours, Nevada has only finished two chapter and there is over thirty chapters. So he knew, that reading through that book, is gonna take time.

    As for now, he has magic lesson with Maria. So he walks to her room alone and enters the room, to see Maria drinking tea on the couch. She looks at Nevada and says"So you''re finally here. We''ll start when I have finished my tea."

    "Okay Wolfy."he replies and sits down next to her. So as she is drinking her tea, he just stares at her and doesn''t say a word.

    When she finally puts her cup back onto the table, Nevadas face brightness up.

    "Okay. Lets start."she says and touches his forehead.

    The next moment, they find themselves in a dark place and the place slowly turns into a land covered with snow.

    "Eeeeh."he lets out a surprised voice and Maria smiles, when she sees that and says"This is a world created by magic. Anything we do here, won''t have effect on the real world. So no need to worry about anything here."

    Nevada still looks around in amazement, which Maria finds amusing.

    "Okay Nevada. Lets start."she tells him and he replies after a few seconds"Okay."

    He runs to her and both of them sit onto the ground. Even though it''s covered in snow, it isn''t cold at all. Maybe because it is a magic world or Nevada is just used to the cold.

    "Okay Nevada."she continues"First we will learn about the mana. Mana is a source of energy, that is all around us. Every living thing can collect and contain mana in itself. How they collect, is different. For example: Alice collects her mana into her body passively, unlike Veronica and you, who have to drain it from others and then contain it in your bodies. And you mostly use mana to ''feed'' your body, because food won''t do it. So you have to always contain mana in your body."

    "Okay."he replies to her.

    "Because you are a kitsune, a being who feeds off from mana, you have a great control over your mana and don''t need to bother finding your mana pool."she now asks him"So what magic you have?"

    "[Ice Magic]."he replies to her. She thinks and says"Okay. So first try to focus your mana into your right arm. Don''t try to over think anything. Just let it happen naturally. You have that bonus as a kitsune."

    "Okay Wolfy."he replies to her and just tries to do it. While he tries, she tells him in a quiet and calming voice"Clear your mind and don''t give up."

    After a few minutes, he gets a hang of it and starts to move the mana into his right hand. She notices it and says"Good. Now imagine a shard of ice. Keep imagining it."

    He does so and keeps imagining of a shard of ice. Slowly, it starts to form in his hands and after a minute, it is completed. He now has a small shard of ice in his right hand.

    "Good Nevada. You may open your eyes."she tells him in a calming voice. So he opens her eyes and sees it in his hands.

    He lets out an amazed voice, as he looks at it. Maria smiles, seeing that Nevada has succeeded.

    "Good boy Nevada. Now try to keep it as long as you can. The longer you can hold it, the better you will get at creating it."she tells him and he nods.

    So after half an hour, he finally gets tired and the shard shatters in his hands. His head slowly falls onto her lap and he says in a childish voice"Hungry."

    "I guess you are."she tells him and presents him her wrist, in which he sinks his teeth into. He keeps draining her mana for a while and after five minutes, she says"Okay Nevada. You have had enough."

    "Okay."he replies after taking his teeth out and cleaning his mouth.

    "For today, we are finished. You can to your mom and mama now."she tells him and he replies"I want to be with Wolfy."

    "Sorry Nevada. I have other things to do today. So next time."she tells him and he replies with a sad voice"Okay."

    Seeing his sad face, she pats his head and says"Don''t be sad. I''ll take a bath with you the next time."

    "Okay."he replies now in a more cheerful voice.

    "Good. So bye for now."she tells him and the next moment he finds himself in his room, with Alice sitting on the couch.

    "Little Fox. Did Maria teleport you here?"she asks him, while walking up to him.

    "Yes mom."he replies to her.

    "Why did Maria do that?"Alice asks herself.

    As for Maria, she is now outside of the fortress, near a cliff. She currently is walking towards the cliff, while thinking''Damn. He drained most of my mana so quickly. My mana hasn''t been this low for a century.''

    She keeps walking, until she reaches at the edge of the narrow cliff. At the end of it, there is a sword stucked into the ground. She stops near the sword and looks at the sword.

    "Hey brother. It''s been a year again....I''ve been good like the other hundred years. Hehe...As for Nevada, he seems to be a promising one....That little rascal drained me almost empty..."

    Tears start to run down her cheek sa she continues"It''s now been exactly 105 years....And I still blame my self."

    She puts her hand on the guard of the sword and continues"I just hope you are happy now. And maybe one day I will find my happiness too."

    She takes her hand off from the guard and says the final words"Until next year. Goodbye."

    She turns around and walks away into the forest, to be alone.

 Eight years old

    25th day of 7th month year 10434.

    Nevada was now over eight ears old and has improved a lot the last three years.

    His physical skills are now a lot better, then it was in his past life. He has copied five sword styles and he knows four other styles from his past life. So in total of nine sword styles. Because he already knew everything about knives in his past life, he didn''t have to copy a lot of styles and just used the ones, he knew. The staff was copied too. He also has copied other kinds of physical movements, beside the ones that involve fighting. Like he has copied the way the assassins can climb and other cool trick.

    As for the poison and traps, he has read about ten very thick books in total and knows a lot for his age. His knowledge on traps span from a simple rope trap to a trip wired explosive trap. And yes. There are explosive powders in this world. But most of his focus is on poison, because in his past life, he used it too and had built up immunity to it, like the other members. The same was for the Mercenary program, that his only person who he could call a friend was from.

    And finally about his magic. Well it has progressed pretty well and he can create projectiles made out of ice pretty quickly. The speed depends on the size. He also has learned a few non-elemental magics from Maria.

    Here is his current status.

    Name: Nevada Xeo

    Age: 8

    Race: Kitsune

    Titles: Cursed Kitsune

    Job: None

    Skills:

    Ice Magic lvl 7.

    Bow Mastery lvl 6.

    Sword Mastery lvl 6.

    Knife Mastery lvl 7.

    Martial Arts lvl 7.

    Mana Manipulation lvl 4.

    Physical Copying lvl 5.

    Disguise lvl 3.

    Body Reinforcement lvl 3.

    Camouflage lvl 5.

    [Disguise] lets him change his appearance and other features about his body. The higher the skill level, the better the disguise.

    [Body Reinforcement] makes your body stronger and consumes mana while the skill is active. The higher the level, the stronger your body will be.

    [Camouflage] Lets you go invisible, but you can still be smelled and heard while the skill is active. The higher the level, the better the invisibility will be. On the max level, it''s impossible to see you normally. You could still be seen If someone has special eyes it something like that.

    Currently Nevada was walking near the training area, because he wanted to shoot with the bow. So while walking and staring around, he stops. He now looks in front of him and sees a group of five children, who are older then him, in front of him. There is a Snow Elf boy, two humans: one male, the other female, a female dark-elf and a male dogkin. Their names in order are: Kevin, Marcus, Ellie, Serya and Rex.

    "What?"Nevada asks, while looking at them.

    "Just want to know, why a cursed kitsune is still alive and here. Your kind should be killed immediately after birth. A disgusting breed."Kevin says with an arrogant voice.

    "Seriously? Thats all? Thats the best insult you got?"Nevada asks him, after hearing him.

    "You little shit."he says and picks him up from the ground and holds him in the air.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.

    "Wow. A twelve year old bullying a eight year old and has his four friends with him. How brave."Nevada says the last part sarcastically.

    "You seriously want to die I see."He tells Nevada, who replies"Nope. But you will If you don''t put me down."

    The next moment, a dagger made out of ice is on Kevins throat and has cut a little into his throat.

    "Come on fucker. You have five seconds, before I slit your fucking throat and watch you need to death."Nevada says in a cold voice and start to count"One."

    "You fucki-."

    "What the fuck is going on!"is yelled by Maria, who just arrived here.

    "Nothing."Kevin says and drops Nevada, who lands onto his feet. He turns around and says"You got lucky."

    He starts to walk away and Nevada looks at them, before throwing the dagger at Kevin. The dagger flies towards him, but before it could reach him, it disappears without a trace.

    "Why did you do that, Maria?"he asks her.

    "Because now is not a time."she answers and walks up to him"Do what you want to him, when there is an actual reason, Nevada."

    "Fine."He replies to her and walks to the archery range. Because of Kevin and his group, his mood was now bad.

    As he walks away, Maria looks at him and just sighs. She herself, walks back to inside and goes to the fourth floor, to Alice''s and Veronicas room. She knocks on the door and after she is allowed to enter, she enters. She closes the door behind her and sits down on the couch.

    "So Maria. Why the sudden visit?"Alice asks her, as she cleans her sword behind the table.

    "Because of your son."Maria replies and Alice asks"What did he do?"

    "Well he was bullied by Kevin and his friends again. So when Kevin lifted him and threatened Nevada, Nevada created a dagger and put it against his throat, threatening Kevin."Maria says.

    "Okay. So what is different this time?"Alice asks her and Maria after a short silence, replies"This time he threw the dagger at Kevin."

    When Alice hears Maria, she stops cleaning and puts the sword back onto the table and gets up from the chair. She turns around to look at Maria and asks"And what happened next?"

    "Obviously I erased the dagger. If he kills now, he will be executed by Anna."Maria replies to her.

    "I see. Thank you I guess."Alice replies and sits down onto the bed. She puts her hands onto her forehead, to think.

    "*Sigh*. Where did I go wrong with him already. He has changed too much."Alice mutters to herself.

    "You didn''t go wrong nowhere. This is who he truly is."Maria replies to her.

    "But he changed so quickly. Almost overnight. One day he just asks for his own room and well obviously I allowed it. Now I only see him during practice or outside on the training grounds. Same for Veronica and you too."

    "Yep. He comes to practice magic and then drains mana for the next day. He even now calls me by my name and not ''Wolfy", like he used to."Maria says.

    "I know. He calls me mother or by name too. Same for Veronica. He isn''t the same Little Fox, like before."Alice says in a sad tone.

    "Yes. But there is nothing we can do about it. We just have to support him and thats all."Maria tells Alice who replies"I know. It''s just that he is a completely different person now. Maybe I shouldn''t have started to train him."

    "You didn''t have choice, because of Anna."Maria tells Alice, who just nods to that.

    A long silence passes for a while, until Alice says"Hey Maria."

    "What?"

    "If he gets fourteen, then could you do it?"Alice asks from Maria, whos face turns to a confused look because of the sudden question.

    "You mean that?"

    "Yep. I can see what you feel, so do that. I know what you feel and I know you can help him. You may not be able to change him, but you can at least help him."Alice says in a serious.

    "Your pretty serious....I''ll think about it."Maria replies to her.

    "Thank you."Alice thanks her.

    As for Nevada, he is back in his room and standing in front of a mirror. He looks at the mirror and on his face, he sees a white tribal styles mark on the right side of his face.

    As he keeps staring into the mirror, his face changes into one, that belongs to the Goddess: Sola.

    "So how do you like it?"She asks him and he replies with an angry voice"Fucking hate it. Remove it."

    "Now now. Thats no way to talk to a lady."she tells him and he just shows her a middle finger. She proceeds to smile and then feels a burning pain on the right side of the face. He manages to keep his voice back, but the pain makes it hard to think straight.

    "Watch your attitude."she tells him"There is a reason I left you your memories. And you know why." Actually she forgot, but she acts like she left it on purpose.

    "Yeah yeah. You want me to kill the Despond."he replies in an angry voice, after."Also I have this attitude, because you did this to me. I didn''t want it."

    "Well I don''t care or how you russians say: mne pohui. So kill Despond and then I''ll remove my mark. Also the mark will be seen by everyone, when you get ten. Bye."she says the last two parts quickly, so he couldn''t say anything back.

    The reflection on the mirror turns back to normal and he sees that the mark has spread even more. Before it was a small mark at the end of his right eyes, but now it has spread around the right eye and has spread up to his hairline and down to his lip.

    He stares at himself in the mirror, before punching the mirror, shattering it.

    "Fuck!"he yells out.

    He wanted to have a better life, but now he is forced by a goddess to kill Despond or Alice, Veronica and Maria would be killed by her. This means he has to do it or lose his family.

    It all started three years ago, when he found himself in the same white room, when he died the first time. He exited through the same door and saw the same woman. She told him, that he has to kill Despond, because she doesn''t like him. She threatened him and without a choice, he had to accept it. Now he is a fucking assassin for a bitch of a goddess, who he wants to kill, but know that it will be impossible. At least for now.

    He hates it from the bottom of his heart. He hates that he is forced to work for someone else again.

 Ten years old

    4th day of 3rd month year 10436.

    Today was Nevadas 10th birthday. It''s supposed to be a good day for him, but it isn''t really. The reason for it is simple: the mark that Sola put on his face can now be sewn by the others and that will create unnecessary problems to him. So he wasn''t in a great mood today.

    The relationship with his mothers and Maria have become a little more distant. All because of Sola changing his attitude to his past self one before he escaped. He hates it, because deep down he doesn''t want to act like that, but he still does because of her. It''s obvious that he hates her deep down and wants to kill her, but he doesn''t know how.

    But currently, Nevada is in front of the window and looking at the white marking on his face, which he has become despise. He has a theory how to get rid of it, but he won''t try it for two reasons one-it will hurt like hell. Two- she may put the mark back in his body, making the action to remove it, pointless.

    So yeah. He has to live with it for now.

    As he keeps looking at the mirror, the figure of Sola appears in it and says with an annoying voice"You still haven''t done my mission."

    "Because I''m ten. What to you expect? I won''t do anything, until I''m stronger and older. So wait until then."Nevada replies in an annoyed voice.

    "Don''t drag it out boy. I still can kill your parents."she tells him, before disappearing from the mirror.

    "Bitch."he mutters and walks away from the mirror to his room, where he puts on his clothes. After that, he sits down onto the couch, to think.

    His now ten years old, which means his puberty will soon begin. Unlike humans, whos start at twelve, beastkin one starts at ten years old and lasts for four years. So by the age of fourteen, he will look like eighteen, which is nice. There is also the mating season thing, that will happen to him, when his puberty ends.

    As he keeps thinking, he hears a knock on his door.

    "Enter."he says, while staring out of the window.

    One to enter is Maria, who closes the door behind her and says"Nevada. Why are you still sitting in your room. It''s your birthday, so lets go celebrate."

    Seeing no reaction from him, she gets in front of him and sees the mark, which she didn''t see before, because his hand was covering it from his side. She looks at it and then looks at Nevadas eyes, which are staring at her.

    "Nevada...Is that..."

    "Mark of Sola?"he finishes her sentence and then continues"The answer is yes. That bitch did it."

    "Nevada. You can''t say that about a goddess."Maria immediately tells her, to which Nevada replies"I don''t care. I call her what I want. And right now, it''s Bitch."

    Maria could immediately understand, that Nevada hated Sola, but now she was wondering another thing.

    "How could you have it in the first place? You''re race is associated with her sister. So why would she mark you. If it were her sister, then it would be more understandable. But for the Goddess of Light and Life to mark a cursed kitsune is.."

    "Weird."Nevada once again finishes her sentence.

    "Yes."she says.

    After a shirt silence, she takes his hand off of his face, to see the mark more clearly. While observing the mark, she asks"When did it appear?"

    "Exactly four years ago."he replies to her, while looking at her arm, which was touching his face.

    "Four years."she repeats it to herself and then realizes"Thats when you changed...Is this the reason for your change?"Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.

    He just nods.

    Her face turns sad, after getting the answer, which she hoped she won''t get.

    "Nevada."she says in a sad tone, while holding his cheek. She then sits next to him and pulls him into a hug. She starts patting his head, while holding him.

    "Could you tell me what she wanted you to do?"she asks him with a concerned voice.

    "Kill Despond."he replies to her.

    She stops patting him, when she hears the name. She immediately grabs his shoulder after that and puts him to face her.

    "Did you says Despond?"she asks him with a very serious tone, to which he answers"Yes."

    "Nevada. Never. And I mean never fight with Despond!"she tells him in a very serious tone.

    This the first time, he has seen Maria like this and this makes him curious about who Despond is. So he asks her"Who is Despond?"

    "Despond is a dangerous man that appeared about eighty years ago. His true strength is unknown, but it is known, that the Demon Lords respect him a lot. He is also favoured by The Dark Goddess. As for appearance, it is said that his hair is gray, like his right eye. He wears a black cloth as an eyepatch over his left eye, which also covers the Dark Goddesses mark. There are a lot of stories about who he is and where he came from..But one thing is for sure. It''s that he isn''t a human. So listen to me. You must never attack him. Never. Do you understand Nevada?"

    "Yes, but I still have to do it."he tells her.

    "Why? Because Sola told you to do so? Why do you have to follows her orders?"she asks him oma serious tone, but gets no answer for him. He just turns his head to the right.

    "Why Nevada?"she asks him again, but still no answer.

    "Why?!"she half-yells, scaring Nevada a little. He lets out a sigh and turns his head to face her.

    "If I don''t, then she will kill you, Alice and Veronica. She will kill all of the people I care about."Nevada answers to her and lowers his head.

    "Only one who will get killed, is you Nevada. Despond is much stronger then the other demon lords and even I can''t kill a demon lord. I tried and failed when I was in my peak condition. So don''t fight Despond."She tells him in a very serious tone.

    "I don''t have a choice. I can only drag it out, but in the end, I have to do it."he tells her in a serious tone too.

    "Nevada. Don''t fight him. If you do, you will die and both Alice and Veronica will suffer from it. Do you want that?"

    "No. But I have no choice."he tells her.

    She looks at him and knows that he can''t change his mind.

    "Fine. I see you won''t change your mind. *Sigh*. If you want to have a chance, you need to find one of twelve god slaying weapons, hidden in this world. Then you may have a chance with my help."

    When he hears her sudden change, he is surprised, but he understands that she understands that she can''t stop him. So he asks her"What''s a god slaying weapon."

    "Exactly what it sounds like. There are twelve hidden weapons in this world, that can give the boost to a person, to kill a god. But finding one is incredibly difficult. Nearly impossible. And even if you find one, there is no telling that it will accept you, as the weapon chooses his owner and not the other way around. Right now, there are eleven weapons out there. The twelfth one has a owner already."she tells him.

    "Who has the weapon already?"

    "I can''t say."she answers to him.

    He can see, she knows who has it, but she probably isn''t allowed to reveal the persons identity.

    "I understand."he tells her.

    "Good. So find a god slaying weapon and kill Despond. After that, kill the bitch who made you do it."

    "Thats the plan."he replies to her, with a wry smile.

    "Good to hear it."she continues"Also..Never mention Despond to your mothers for obvious reasons. If they ask why Sola marked you, then answer, that she wants you to change the opinion of people about cursed kitsunes. They won''t doubt it."Maria tells her and Nevada replies with a yes.

    "Good. Now lets go celebrate."she tells him and smiles to him.

    ''What a quick change of mood.''Nevada thinks to himself.

    In "Heaven", Sola was in her garden and working on her flowers, when she stopped her action and said"Why are you here Nox?"

    She got up and turned to look at her younger twin sister. She sees a beautiful woman with jet black hair and deep purple hair. Her skin is smooth and light beige. She is wearing a black long dress, which shows her cleavage.

    "I''m here because I learned that you had ordered one of your marked people to kill my husband. And you can guess I am angry."Nox tells her sister, who crosses her hands and replies"So what? You''re gonna kill me?"

    "Nope. You Are my sister, so I won''t kill you. But I will be happy when you die."Nox replies to her in a calm voice.

    "I won''t be dying any time soon."she replies to her.

    "You will. I am a Goddess of Death, so I will know when someone will die. And your clock has started to tick."Nox says and turns around"Also... If you break another rule, I will tell father. He won''t be happy to hear about it."

    "Did you just threaten me?"Sola asks her in an angry voice.

    "No. I warned you. Your death has been set to stone and is unavoidable. The person you threatened will bring your end, Sola Dark."

    "Leave now and never appear here again, Nox Dark."Sola says with an angry voice, while trying to hold back his anger as much as possible.

    "Next time I will return here, there will be a new god here."Nix tells Sola and before she disappears, says"I''ll enjoy watching your death. Until then."

    And she is gone now, without leaving any trace.

    "Bitch."Sola mutters.

 Gift

    "What happened to your face?!"

    Alice yells, as he sees Nevada entering her and Veronicas room with Maria. She grabs his face and starts staring at the mark.

    "Who did it? I will kill the bastard who ruined my Little Fox''s face."Alice says, while holding his face.

    "Alice. Please calm down."Veronica tells her wife, while holding her shoulders.

    "But but. Little Fox''s face."she says in a childish tone, while looking back at Veronica.

    "I know. But calm down. We won''t learn anything like this."Veronica tries to calm down Alice and it seems to work, as she lets go of Nevadas face.

    "Good."Veronica continues"Now Nevada. Do you know how you got it?"

    "Yes."he replies to Veronica, who is holding her wife.

    "Good. Now tell us."Veronica says.

    They all sit down and Nevada says"It was Sola, who put the mark."

    "Sola..As in the Goddess Sola?"Alice asks Nevada, now that she has calmed down.

    "Yes."he replies to her.

    "Why would she do it. I would understand If it was the Dark Goddess. It''s hard to believe that Sola did it."Veronica says, while observing the mark.

    "I agree with Veronica. Why did she even mark you?"she asks Nevada.

    "Because she wanted me to change the opinion of the people about the cursed kitsunes."Nevada answers exactly, like Maria had told him to answer.

    The two mothers don''t say anything and just sit there, thinking about what their son just had said. The Goddess wants their precious son to change something, that is pretty much impossible at this point. The fear of cursed kitsunes is so deeply rooted, that it will take centuries even millennia to change peoples opinions of his kind. But kitsunes are believed to live forever, so technically he could do it, If he wouldn''t be killed before. But now they don''t understand why him? Is it because he is more special then the other cursed kitsunes or maybe is it because his eyes have been slitted from birth. Or maybe he is the only one left currently, as the cursed kitsunes are usually killed immediately. It could be one of those options or all of those options. There could be other options too. ''What could it be?''they kept wondering.

    Nevada seeing that his mothers aren''t saying anything, decides to say"Mom."

    Alice immediately snaps out of her thoughts, when she hears his son calling her ''Mom'' for the first time in four years. She is happy to hear it.

    She looks at Nevada and asks"Yes. What is it Little Fox?"

    "You haven''t said anything for ten minutes. I was worried."Nevada tells his mom, who the realizes that she really was lost in her thought.

    "Sorry Nevada"she apologizes"It''s just it was such a surprise, so I didn''t know how to react. Sorry about that Little Fox."Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.

    "It''s fine."Nevada replies.

    "Huh what?"Veronica mutters, as she finally snaps out of her thought too.

    "Nothing Veronica."Alice tells her.

    "Okay. I don''t like the mood in this room. It''s Nevadas birthday, so lets change into a birthday mood."Maria finally says, after being quiet for the past ten minutes.

    "Lets do that."Alice says and gets up. She walks over to her closet and takes something out of there. She walks over to Nevada with his gift and gives it to him. She then hugs him and says"Happy birthday. My Little Fox."

    After that, Veronica hugs him too and says"Happy birthday Nevada."

    "I hope you like our present."Veronica says, after she sits back down next to Alice. They look at Nevada, who unsheats the sword, that Alice gave her before. It''s a longsword with a 95cm mithril blade and 25cm hilt. So the total length of the sword is 120cm. The blade itself is smooth and clean with a single narrow fuller. The grip is covered with white leather, the pommel is silver coloured and has a sharp end. The cross-guard is bent up a little towards the blade and is also silver coloured. The sheath itself is white.

    "Do you like it?"Alice asks and Nevada replies"I love it."

    "Good to hear it."Alice tells him, while he is observing the sword. He then sheaths it back and puts it onto his lap.

    "Now then, lets eat."Veronica says and brings out a cake. The cake seems to be a chocolate cake, but he isn''t so sure.

    As for Veronica, she cuts the cake and puts it on the plates. After that, everyone starts to eat and Nevada now confirmed that it was a chocolate cake. A very tasty chocolate cake.

    At the evening, Nevada is going back to his room with Maria, because she wanted to talk about something.

    So when they are in his room, Nevada puts his new sword against the bed and then sits down next to Maria.

    "Nevada. Remember that you must not attack Despond, before I say it''s okay."Maria reminds him and he replies"I know Wolfy."

    "Wolfy? So you start to call me like this again. Aren''t you too old for such a childish nicknames. What will others think about you, when they hear you calling me Wolfy?"Maria asks her.

    "Don''t worry. I will only call you Wolfy, when we are alone."Nevada replies and smiles at her, with his fangs showing.

    Maria smiles back, with her fangs showing too and them says"Aren''t you too young to flirt, Nevada?"

    "Nope."he replies to her.

    Maria laughs a little and then presses the back of his ear with her finger, making Nevada bite at her out of reflex.

    "Nevada. You are too young for that. Try again in four years."Maria says and then does something, that he never expected.

    She had grabbed his head and pulled it into a kiss. After a while, she lets go off his head, licks her lip and says"In four years."

    She touches his forehead and then disappears from his room.

    Nevada touches his lips, with a confused look on his face and thinks''Did she really just kiss me? Yes she did.''

    He lays down on the couch and mutters"So does that mean she has feelings for me...Must be....But why?....Is it a beastkin instincts?"

    Beastkin instincts is a instinct that only female beastkins have. The instincts basically makes them want a person who is or will be very strong. This instinct also makes them very loyal to that man or woman and will follow them. Beastkins love is different from humans love. So basically, If she just acted out of her beastkin instincts, then she will be his from now on. She also said four years, before disappearing.

    So with that, Nevada has come to a conclusion, that Maria and he will be together, when he gets fourteen. Also the age, when he will go to heat.

    ''Huh. That will be.''he thinks, as he goes to his bed, to go to sleep. He lays down and closes his eyes.

    But after an hour, he doesn''t fall asleep, because he can''t get the memory of the kiss out of his mind.

    ''Why am I remembering that like a virgin. I mean I have had sex before. Well in my old life..But still. My body is virgin, but not my mind. So why the fuck to i keep remembering it?''he wonders in his head.

    Meanwhile, Maria is in her room, while looking at the ceiling and thinking''I kissed Nevada. I kissed him...I kissed a ten year old....Oh god why....he was too young for that...I hope that it won''t ruin his mind....Oh god why did the instincts kick in then?''

    She buries her face into her pillow and then thinks''Ooh. I hope Alice and Veronica won''t find out. They will kill me for kissing their young child.''

    Both Maria and Nevada couldn''t get any sleep.

 Arrow to the knee

    19th day of 8th month year 10437.

    In a bedroom, a man with ashen-blond hair was sitting on a chair, while cleaning his sword with a black blade. The bedrooms only light source was the moon, that shined through the window, dimly lighting the room.

    As for the man, he could see perfectly in the dark and so, he wasn''t bothered by the lack of light.

    After cleaning the blade, he sheaths and says"You''re back Nox."

    "Yes my love."she replies and sits onto his lap. She kisses him and then looks at the giant bed, behind him. She sees a dozen beautiful woman lying on the bed and sleeping peacefully.

    "You have another lover?"she asks him and he replies"Yep. She''s a succubus and her name is Lyza. Get along with her."

    "Thats obvious."she continues"But I didn''t come here to see my new sister. I came here with news."

    "Tell me."he tells her.

    "Sola has sent another servant after you."Nox tells him.

    "So. I''ll kill him, like I killed the other twenty."he tells her, while rubbing her back.

    "I don''t think it will so easy this time."Nox gives him her opinion.

    "Why''s that?"he asks curiously.

    "Because he is your friend."Nox tells him.

    Echos face turns serious and he replies"My only friend died almost ninety years ago."

    "Well it seems that he has reincarnated and is forced to kill you."she tells him

    "We''ll see about that."he says and gets up, while Nox disappears and appears on the other chair. After Echos change, he feels even less emotions now and only cares about his women and no one else. And because of that, he seemed pretty calm, even though he just learned that his friend is alive.

    "Will you kill your friend?"She asks him and he replies"If it is the only way, then yes." He doesn''t want to, but he will, If Alexander were to seriously try to kill him. He hopes that it won''t come to this.

    He sighs and puts the sword onto his belt. He then puts the other weapons on him too. While he is getting ready, Nox asks"Where are you going?"

    "Located another weapon. Going after that."he replies to her and kisses her cheek.

    "Bye Nox."

    "Bye Echo."

    In Nevada''s bedroom, Nevada wakes up early in the morning. After opening his eyes, he gets out of the bed and puts on his training clothes. He looks at himself in the mirror and sees the same mark of Sola, that he hates so much. As for his body, he was 155cm tall. He looked about 13 years old, even though he is eleven. And it''s all thanks to the beastkin puberty.

    As for its face, it probably be a handsome one in the future, when he gets rid of the damn mark on his face. He touches the mark, before leaving his room, to train.

    He walks down the stairs and goes to the archery range to shoot with a bow. So when he gets to the training ground, he walks over to the archery range and takes one of recurve bows there and a quiver full of arrows.

    He draws the bow string with the arrow on it and aims at the target thirty meters away from him. He breaths in and lets go of the string, which launches the arrow into the air. The arrow flies through the air and hits the second inner circle.

    He then draws and shoots another arrow and so on and on, until the quiver is empty and the target is decorated by the arrows. Out of the twenty arrows, only two hit the bullseye.

    "Better then yesterday."Nevada tells himself, as he walks over to the target, to collect the arrows. He starts to pull out the arrows carefully, so he won''t damage them.

    So once the final arrow is collected, he walks back with the seventeen good arrows. The other three broke.

    He gets back to the shooting spot and when is about to draw the arrow, he hears the annoying voice on his right.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.

    "Well, well, well. If it isn''t the cursed little shit."Is said by Kevin, who has his usual group behind him.

    ''Wow. That was one the most clich�� bully line there is.''Nevada thinks, after hearing Kevin.

    "What do you want?"Nevada asks with an annoyed voice and then shot the arrow at the target. He didn''t even bother to look at him.

    "Is that how do you speak to ones, who are superior to you?!"Kevin says in a loud voice.

    "You''re a trainee too, so you are at the same rank as me."Nevada replies in a calm voice ''Also... Kevin and his friends are a weird bunch. Like I only hear Kevin speaking, while the other four are completely useless and just stand there. So clich�� bullies.''

    "Not after tomorrow. I have my trial then and become a member after I complete it."Kevin says in a proud voice.

    "Sure.."Nevada says sarcastically."You only have to finish the trial, that has a 25% mortality rate. So lets hope you are part of the 25%."

    "You fucking little shit."Kevin says and starts walking towards Nevada, only to fall onto the ground immediately after, with an arrow sticking out of his knee.

    "Oops. My fingers slipped."Nevada says, while holding the bow in his hand.

    "Uuu you motherfucker."Kevin groans out, as he holds his knee, which hurts like a bitch.

    As for his friends, they are staring at Kevin with stupid face.

    "What are you staring....Go get him."Kevin orders them, who then look at Nevada and see him holding his bow, with two arrows draw on the string.

    "Fuck off or you end like him."Nevada threatens the group, who look at Nevada and then Kevin, who yells at them"What are you waiting for. Beat the bastard."

    "Oh fuck this."Serya, the dark-elf says and runs away, with the other three soon following.

    "You fucking pussies."Kevin yells after them.

    Now only Nevada and Kevin were st the training grounds, because this place is almost always empty at this time of day. Nevada looks at Kevin and an evil smiles forms on his face.

    In the other part of the citadel, Anna and Maria are walking together and talking for the first time in years. Even though they live at the same place, they rarely run into each other and when they do, they usually pass each other without a word.

    "So Maria. How is your teaching progressing?"Anna asks her and he replies"I finished it a year ago. I have nothing else to teach him. So currently he is learning whatever he wants by himself and later shows it to me. Same is for your sister. She finished her teaching two-three years ago."

    "That I know."Anna replies to the last answer.

    "Maria. Have you th-."

    Her sentence is cut off with a loud bang, that could be heard Inside If the citadel

    Marias ears twitch a little, before she says"The training grounds."

    They jog there and see two boys there. One on the ground and shaking, the other is standing over him, with his right arm next to the boys head.

    "Dammit Nevada."Maria mutters and walks over the scene.

    "Kevin."Anna mutters and runs there too.

    Once the two woman get there, they see Kevin on the ground, with an arrow sticking out of his knee and shaking, while looking at the arm of Nevada, that was next to him.

    "Nevada."Maria yells to him, who turns his head to look at her. He sighs and pulls his hand out of the ground, revealing long sharp nails on his fingers. It almost looks like he has claws. He looks at Maria nad retracts his nails to a normal size and says"He started it."

    An hour later, Nevada was sitting in the Masters office, with Alice sitting next to her. Veronica wasn''t here, because she was on a mission.

    Alice herself looked obviously pretty and and was staring at Nevada, who didn''t seem to care at all about his current situation. He was just calmly sitting on the couch.

    After a while, Anna entered the office and immediately looked at Alice.

    "Leave Alice. We need to talk privately."Anna told Alice, who immediately got up and left the office. Alice knew that Annas word was absolute and she almost never changes her thought, once she has said something. So there wasn''t really no point of trying to start arguing If she could stay.

    Anna herself sat down onto her chair and looked at Nevada, who was looking back at her.

    "So tell...Why did you attack Kevin?!"She ordered him to talk and so he did"Because he was bullying me for the past few years. Most of the times, somebody interfered, before any harm could be done. So today, no body interfered and so I decided to teach him a lesson."

    "And what lesson would that be?"she asked him.

    "Lesson about who not to fuck with and what happens if you do. And seeing his reaction, while he was trembling on the ground out of the fear, was.... Satisfying."

    ''What the hell is wrong with this brat.''Anna thought, after hearing him.

    "Okay. Let me get this right. You shot an arrow into his knee and then punched the ground next to his face."

    "Actually I thrusted my hand. My hand was completely straight and not in a fist. But basically yes."Nevada corrects her.

    "Not important right now."she continues"So can you say, where his usual four friends were during that?"

    "They ran away, after I shot Kevin into the knee and was threatening them."Nevada answers.

    "I see."Anna replies and starts to think.''I can''t really punish him, as he hasn''t done anything wrong. Kevin started it, so Nevadas actions could be considered extremely self defensive. But he probably taught my idiot son a lesson, which he won''t ever forget....But I can''t just let him go unpunished too. It would seem I was too soft on him.''

    "I have made my decision. You will clean and repair the training ground, which you destroyed."Anna tells him.

    "Reasonable."Nevada replies and gets up. He touches the door knob, but before he turns it, he says"Anna....I will say it now. Kevin and his friends aren''t ready to take the test. Kevin almost pissed his pants from fear and his friends abandoned him too easily. All of the five are cowards and not ready to become members. But that''s just my thought."

    He turns the know and leaves the room, leaving Anna behind.

    "Smartass."Anna mutters, as he looks at the door.

    As for Nevada, he is walking together with Alice, who asks him"So what did big sister do to you?"

    "Nothing much. I just have to fix the damage I did."Nevada replies to Alice.

    "Well...good luck with that Little Fox."

 1st and 2nd trial

    9th day of 1st month year 10439.

    Nevada was now twelve years old and will be thirteen in two months. During the bast sixteen month, he has grown and now was 181cm tall handsome man with a trained body. He loves how he looks like sixteen, but is almost thirteen.

    As for today, it''s a special day to him and a few other trainees. Today is their trial, where they decide, If you are ready. The trial itself consists of three parts, with the third part being a mission together with your senior, If you pass the first two trials. What the first two trials are, he doesn''t know, as they are told right before they start.

    So now, Nevada and few other trainees had gathered on the training grounds, where a few other members had come to watch their children, students or both. As for Anna, she was in front of them and started to speak.

    "Welcome trainees! Today you will take part of a trial to become a member of The Ice Fort Assassin. Good Luck."

    ''Short and simple, but gets the point through. I like it.''Nevada thinks, after hearing Annas speech.

    The trainees then go to the side and wait for them to be called for a trial. As they are waiting, a man wearing ragged clothing is brought with both of his hands and legs chained. He is forced onto his knees.

    "First trial is to kill the prisoner. Choose whatever method you want."Anna simply says and calls out a name"Haz."

    A short demon then walks out of the crowd and towards the prisoner. He looks at the prisoner, who is begging for his life, before touching the mans right side of the face with a palm of his hand. The next moment, the prisoner starts to shake violently and a after a few seconds, he gets completely fried. He was electrocuted by the demon.

    "Efficient, but stinky. Leave."Anna says and Haz the demon leaves.

    "Nevada."Anna calls out his name and so he walks up to a new prisoner, who was brought out here.

    "Please don''t do it. I have a wife and three ki-"he is killed before he could finish his sentence, by Nevada, who with a quick movement, broke his neck completely. No the head just hangs by the skin and muscles, as the neck joints are completely separated.

    "Quick and clean. Leave."Anna says and so Nevada walks back to where he was standing before. Behind him, the corpse is removed and a new prisoner is brought out

    "Erica."Anna calls out and so a human woman about fifteen years old walks out. She stands near the new begging prisoner with a dagger in her hand. She tries to keep her calm, but it could be clearly be seen, how her hand is shaking with the dagger in her hand.

    ''First kill is always the hardest. Right now she is hesitating and is afraid to kill. It''s something I have never felt, but have seen too many times.''Nevada thought, while looking at her.

    As for her, she grabs the mans head with his free hand, while the man keeps begging. She puts the tip of the dagger near his jaw, while her hand is still shaking. Her breath turns more violent and she closes her eyes. Then she finally stabs the dagger through the under jaw. Blood flows from the wound, down to her hand. She lets go of the dagger, while her hand is violently shaking. She slowly returns, without waiting for Anna to tell her or pulling the dagger out.

    ''We may have been trained how to kill, but still...First kill is always the hardest.''

    After that, male High Elf named Cryas, was called out, who killed the prisoner, by making him drink the poison, he had poured to his mouth. The prisoner started to twitch violently, before dropping dead onto the ground, while white foam was coming out of his mouth.

    "Good kill, bad method for execution. Leave."Anna tells him

    And finally, there was a female catkin called Mia, was called out. She walked to him with her short body and then just kicked him in the head so strong, that she twisted his neck, breaking it and killing him.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

    "Too easy."she says and walks back to her spot.

    "Clean, but loud. Leave."Anna comments.

    ''A little arrogant, but she will lose it soon.''Nevada thought, when hearing her.

    "Now that the first trial is done, it is time for the second trial. In the second one, you will be cuffed with anti-magic cuffs and your job is to kill an armed man."Anna says and claps her hands.

    The point of the first trial was to see, if we hesitate, before executing or not. Four out of five, didn''t.

    As for the second trial, it''s purpose is to see, If we could kill without weapons, magic and while being restraint. It''s basically to see how we would fight, If we were ever to be captured. And with the mortality rate being 25%, one of them is probably going to die. Nevada know that it won''t be him and in his opinion, it''s probably Erica, as she hesitated a lot during the first trial.

    "Haz."Anna says and so Haz steps out. He is then handcuffed by one of the members and then pushed at the small arena, in the middle of the training grounds.

    Then, a man wearing an full body armor without a helmet is brought out. He draws his sword and says"Nothing personal."

    Haz doesn''t say anything and then just waits there. He isn''t waiting for Anna to tell them to start, as she won''t. But he waits for the guard to attack him.

    As for the guard, he tightens his grip and runs towards Haz, who stands and stares at him. The guards gets near Haz and swings his sword at Haz, who tries to block it with the chain which is attached to his cuffs. He widens his hands, near his head, before the swing hits.

    *Splat*

    Blood flies everywhere, as the sword hits the top of the head, killing Haz. The guard pulls the sword out and celebrates"Yeeesss!"

    ''Fucking hell. He didn''t consider, that the enemy might be strong enough, to push his arms back, when he hits the chain. Damn...This is a little surprising.''

    Nevada looks around and sees a few people holding their heads. So when he sees them, he concluded, that they are Haz''s teachers.

    "Nevada. You''re up."Anna says, after Haz''s body is removed from the field.

    Nevada walks to the arena and his hands are cuffed by the heavy metal cuffs, with a chain attached to them. He feels that he can''t control his mana at all. He then looks at the man in the armor and slowly starts walking towards the man.

    The man himself looks at Nevada, before charging at him. When Nevada is about to get hit, he does something so quickly, that most of the people couldn''t exactly see what happened.

    But the next moment, they saw Nevada completely fine, with the chain on his handcuffs broken and he was holding something in his hand. It was red and moving a little, before it stopped completely. It was the mans heart, which he was holding. As for the man, he had collapsed onto the ground, dead, with a big hole through his chest.

    Nevada looks at the heart, before throwing it over his shoulder. The heart itself falls next to the corpse and splashes some blood on impact.

    "Impressive. You can go."Anna tells Nevada, who then walks away. He walks next to Maria, who is leaning against one of the columns with her right side, while her hands are crossed.

    "So how did you do it?"Maria asks Nevada, who was standing next to her.

    "Skill."Nevada replies and Maria says"I want to know step-by-step."

    "Fine."Nevada replies"I noticed that I could still extend my nails, so basically before he could stab me, I broke the chain by hitting it with my knee, then I thrusted my hand into his chest and pulled his heart out. And after that, you saw."

    "You broke the chain. Not bad."Maria compliments him and then snaps her fingers, erasing the cuffs from his hands.

    The now focus back to the trial and see that Erica was just killed by the new man.

    ''Shame.''Nevada thought.

    After Erica, it was Cryas''s turn. As for him, he immediately ran towards the man, when he was cuffed. He jumped over the man and managed to get the chain around the mans neck. He then proceeded to choke him to death.

    Once the man was dead, Anna was pleased and allowed Cryas to leave.

    Now it was Mia''s turn. She too was cuffed and looked at the another new man. When she was looking at him, she smiled, before dashing at him very fast. Before the man could react, Mia was already in front of him. She kicked him at his kneecap, breaking hit. This made him to kneel down onto that knee, while groaning out from pain. And the man was killed by a kick in the head, which caved in his skull.

    "Good job Mia. You can leave."Anna tells her.

    Mia nods and goes back, after breaking the chain, by kicking it with her knee.

    As for Anna, she gets up and says"And with that, the second trial is over. Tomorrow, you will take part of the third trial to become members of the Ice Fort Assassin. Until then."

    After she finished talking, everyone left, while talking with each other. Alice and Veronica walked over to Nevada.

    "Good job Little Fox. Mommy is proud."Alice congratulated her son and hugged him.

    "Impressive Nevada."Veronica tells him.

    "Thanks."Nevada replies"Also..Could you stop calling me Little Fox? I''m too big for that."

    "No. You will always be my Little Fox."Alice replies.

    "Well at least drop Little."Nevada tells her and she answers"Nope."

    "Okay...Alice."Nevada says.

    "Okay...Cute Fox."Alice says.

    "Huuuh. Fine call me like you have."Nevada give sup immediately, knowing he won''t win against his mom.

    "Thats what I thought."Alice says jokingly.

 3rd trial

    10th day of 1st month year 10439.

    It was now the next day and the time for the third trial. All of the three people, who lived through the trial, have given a target and have been paired up with their senior. The person, who accompanies the trainee, is always his it her teacher. If the teacher is his or hers parent, then the parent isn''t allowed to be paired with him or her. And because both Alice and Veronica are counted as his parents, the one to accompany Nevada is Maria. Even though Maria has been inactive for a century, she is the only one who can accompany him. So she has no other choice, but to accompany him.

    Currently, the two had already left the Fortress and were walking through the snowy road. His bow was on his back and his quiver on his waist. Next to the bow, his sword was placed. He also had a knife in both of his boots, hidden away. As for Maria, she didn''t have any weapons on her nor did she have her mask anywhere to be seen.

    "Wolfy...Could you tell me about yourself?"Nevada asks her, while they are walking on the road.

    "Why do you ask?"she asks him back. He thinks for a few seconds and answers"Because I want to know more about the woman I like."

    "What did I say about flirting?"Maria asks him, who only smiles at her, after hearing her question.

    "Whatever...I guess I can tell you something, until we reach the city."Maria says and starts talking.

    "When I was ten, me and my brother Carl, who was seven at the time, had been lost in this region for a few days, because our parents had abandoned us. Luckily, we wound the Fortress, where we were taken in by Anna, who personally trained us. I was born lucky, having two of the rarest magic elements and a very strong affinity with the both. As for Carl, he wasn''t so lucky like me. He only could use fire magic and his affinity with it was pretty average. But still, we learned hard and soon we got out masks.

    Because assassins rarely work together, we started to progress through the ranks at the different pace. Because I was the strong one, I got pretty high rank fast, while my brother was still fourth rank.

    Years passed and soon after he came 8th rank assassin, I passed him a job, that I really didn''t want to do. He obviously accepted and went to do the job. But something must have gone wrong and he ended up dead.

    I was devastated when I learned about his death and I blamed myself. I still too even If over a century has passed already. After his death, I hung up the mask and haven''t touch it since then."

    She finishes talking, with a few drops of tears in her eyes. When Nevada noticed that, he stopped and pulled her into a hug. She didn''t struggle at all and just accepted his hug.

    "Sorry that I made you bring that up."He apologizes to her, who replies"It''s not your fault. I decided to talk about it."

    They stay like that for a minute, before continuing their walk.

    It was early in the evening, when the two arrived near the city of Ilum, where his target was. Ss for Nevada, he changed his appearance to that of a regular foxkin, because his nine tails would make him too easily recognizable and there are also his slitted eyes, that he has to hide for obvious reasons. Only thing he noticed, that he can''t cover up, is the Mark of Sola, which no matter how hard he tried to use disguise it.

    As they approached the gate, they were stopped by the guards guarding the gate. They were wearing full metal armor with a warm cloak over the armor, to keep them warm. Both of them had a one-handed sword sheathed on their waist and they were holding a spear.

    "Halt you two."one of the guards says and so they stop.

    "State your identity and business for entering."he tells them and so Nevada says"We''re hunters and we were hoping to rest for a night in this city."

    "Hmm. What are you hunting?"the guard asks and this time, Maria replied"Snow birds."

    "Snow birds huh....We have too many of them around here, so it would be good to get rid of some them."he mutters"You may enter."

    "Thank you."Nevada replies and enters the city with Maria by his side.

    "First lets find an inn to stay a night and tomorrow you can start planning, while I watch."Maria tells him, as they walk on the snow road.

    "Okay "he replies.

    During the third trial, the seniors don''t help the trainee, unless it''s really needed. Usually they just stand near you and observe you, without guiding you. So If you complete your mission successfully, you get mask. You fail your mission, well you will be probably captured or killed by your target. The senior will be gone by the time, they want to come after him or her.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.

    After ten minutes, the two find an inn to stay. They enter the place and immediately feel the strong smell of alcohol in the air. They look around and see bunch of people drinking and eating, while sitting behind a round table. As for them, they walk up to the counter, where a fifty it so year old woman is standing.

    "So how can I help you?"she asks them.

    "One room with a double bed."Nevada tells her.

    "Okay. How long?"

    "Two nights."he replies to her.

    "Okay. That''ll be twenty silver with food included."she tells him.

    "Understood."he replies and takes twenty silver coins out of his pouch and places them onto the counter, from where she picks them up and gives them a key. On the key, there is their room number: 17.

    "Here you go. Enjoy your stay."she tells him and gives a small wink at him.

    "Thank you."he replies and takes the key from the counter.

    He and Maria get to their room and immediately she says"Nevada. What the hell are you thinking?"

    "What. Did I do something wrong?"He asks her, while taking off his equipment.

    "Because how you acted, you hinted that we are a couple."Maria complains.

    "So.. Aren''t we a couple already?"Nevada asks her back, while sitting on the edge of the bed.

    "No...Where did you get that idea?"she replies and walks closer to him.

    "Probably when you kissed me when I was ten. And I must say, that wasn''t a innocent kiss either. So passionet."

    Hearing him, Maria goes a little red and says"T-that was nothing. Don''t get the wrong idea."

    She walks closer to him and holds a finger near his forehead"That was just a.. kyaa!"

    She lets out a small scream, as Nevada pulled her towards him and then pushed her down onto the bed. He holds her hands down, while looking at her blushing face.

    "What are you doing?"she asks in a weak voice.

    ''Oooh. She actually can lose her cool look, when pushed down.''

    "Exactly what it looks like Maria."Nevada answers."I love you Maria and want to be with you. I know you feel the same way too...so why do you deny it, even though you promised me."

    She doesn''t say anything and just turns her head onto the side, so she wouldn''t face him.

    "Maria... Don''t start acting like this now. You Are supposed to be the mature one here, so why do you act like such a young virgin?"

    She mumbels something so quietly, that even Nevada couldn''t hear with his great hearing.

    "I couldn''t hear you."he tells her.

    "Because I am."she says in a loud voice this time, catching Nevada off guard. So once he regains himself, he looks at the completely red face of Maria and says"You haven''t done it?"

    "No...I''ve never been in a romantic relationship."she tell him in an embarrassed tone.

    "I thought...That you surely have."he mutters to himself"Does that mean, that you act this way, because you don''t know how to act?"

    "Yes."she answers in a weak voice.

    "I see."Nevada replies and lets go of her. He sits back down onto the bed and stares at the floor, while resting his hands on his legs.

    "Maria...Do you actually love me or was it your instincts?"he asks her in a serious tone.

    "When I kissed you, it was from instinct...But now I have actually fallen in love...Huh. a twelve year old and a 219 year old fell in love with each other. The age gap is ridiculous."she says, while laying on the bed.

    "I don''t care about the age. I only care about what you feel."he tells her.

    "I feel like this."she says and kisses his cheek, before getting off the bed. The sudden kiss surprises him and he looks at her, who tells him"For now, it will be all. Until you grow up, we won''t be in a relationship...So grow up fast."

    The next morning, the two were sitting downstairs and eating their breakfast. Nevadas equipment was laid next to him, on the floor. The two didn''t really talk much after yesterday and so, they were currently eating their food quietly.

    Nevada felt a little sore, as he slept on the chair, while she was sleeping on the bed. It was his mistake to hope that he and Maria will sleep together on one bed. Because of that, Maria got the bed and he got the chair, because of his small mistake.

    After they finished their breakfast, they left the inn, as Nevada was putting on his weapons. Now outside, Nevada started to look around, with Maria observing him, as part of her duties.

    Nevadas target was a mercenary by the name of Grak. He was a male demon with white skin and no horns. Easiest way to identify him, was by looking at his face. On his face, one could see a huge claw mark scar across his face. The reason, he is wanted dead, is because apparently he had raped a wrong mans daughter and now he wants him dead. There is a bonus, If brought alive. Even though this is part of a trial, the mission itself is very real. So he needs to be careful.

    He starts, by asking around the stall owners at the market place. It takes him over an hour to question them all and the only answer he gets is a No.

    So he moved onto the blacksmith store in the town. Because Grak is a mercenary, he probably needs to at least get his blade sharpened.

    So when they got to the blacksmith store, Maria herself disappeared. Even though she couldn''t be seen anywhere near, he still knew she was watching him.

    Nevada opened the door to the store and entered the store. The place was decorated with swords on the two walls. Behind a counter, a grumpy looking human male was looking at Nevada and immediately yelled.

    "Get the fuck out of my store you filthy animal."

    "Not happening."Nevada replied and at the next moment, he was in front of him, with a knife on the mans throat.

    "Answer my question and you will live."he tells him"Has a demon with white skin and a claw mark scar came into your shop."

    "Y-Yes."he says with a great effort."He will soon come back for his sword."

    "Good. You will act normal when he comes by and give him his sword. If you even slightly mention me, you die. Do you get it?"

    "Y-Yes "he replies.

    "Good."Nevada says and the next second, he is out of the store and standing on top of the stores roof, with [Camouflage] active. He keeps staring at the humans who walk on the street and when he notices a guy, with his face hidden by a cloak enter the store, Nevadas face turns serious. After Five minutes, the man exits the store with a sword on his belt.

    "That must be him, but I must be sure."Nevada mutters and gets down to the street, with his [Camouflage] still active. Once he touches the ground, he deactivates it, as he blends into the ground.

    In the crowd, he gets in front of the cloaked man and sees that it is Grak. So he starts to walks towards him and when he is right next to him, Nevada creates a dagger out of the Ice and stabs Grak into the heart. He disappears into the crowd again.

    Later that day, Nevada and Maria are back at the inn. Maria is sitting on the chair and says"That was good for your first time....You pass."

 Oh my

    3rd day of 2nd month year 10440

    In a dark night, the sky was covered with dark clouds and a cold wind was blowing. There were small signs of rain.

    On top of the Church of Sola bell tower, a man about 1,9m tall was standing there with a longbow on his left hand. The man was wearing white winter clothing and had his hood up, with his pair of white fox ears with blue tips, sticking out of the holes in the hood, made for that. On his face, he was wearing a white mask, with two diamond shaped eye holes. Above his right eye hole, there was a blue stripes starting from the tip of the eye hole, then going along the hole and then the line was drawn until the end of the mask. On his back, he had his quiver, full of long arrows. Under the quiver, his nine white fox tails with blue tips were slowly moving around. On his back waist, his longsword is sheathed and is currently placed horizontally.

    He then took ond of the arrows from his quiver and places it on the longbow. He proceeds to pull the string with the arrow on it and then starts to aim.

    "Target..250m away...Wind speed 4m/s to east."he calculates his shot, as he holds his sight on the man. He adjusts the shot and then releases the arrow, sending it flying. A second later, the arrow flies through the glass and into the mans heart, from the left side.

    Seeing, that his target is dead, he puts his bow onto his back and leaves the tower. Inside of the mansion, where the man was just killed, there is a complete panic, as they try to find the assassin. The guards have been dispatched to find and kill the assassin.

    In an another mansion, a man is drinking wine in front of his fireplace. Above the fireplace, there is a painting, which the man is observing with great interest.

    "It''s done."the assassin says behind the man, who is slightly surprised by the sudden appearance.

    "Do all the Ice Fort members sneak behind their clients?"the man asks, while turning around, to look at the kitsune assassin.

    "The payment."he says, as he doesn''t have time for small talk.

    "Sebastian!"he yells and a man, wearing a butler uniform enters the room.

    "You called, Sir."Sebastian says, while holding his hands behind his back.

    "Bring the money."he orders Sebastian, who bows and goes to bring the money.

    As for the client, he sits down onto the sofa and asks"So tell me...How does it feel to kill for living? I have always wondered that."

    The kitsune doesn''t answer and just keeps standing there, with his hands crossed on his chest.

    "A quiet type."he says"I get that."

    He gets up from his couch and walks over to the painting.

    "Tell me....What does this painting look like to you? For me, it looks like a mushroom"he asks him, but still nothing from the kitsune. Finally, Sebastian returns with a pouch in his hands. He hands it over to the kitsunes, who takes it and puts it under his coat.

    "The painting is a picture of a dick. It''s hanged upside-down."the kitsune says, before disappearing from the room, without the man noticing it, as he is too busy looking at the painting.

    He takes the picture of the wall gently and turns it around a d puts it back onto the wall. He looks at it and the mutters"God fucking dammit. It''s a dick. It''s 100 gold dick painting."

    "Sebastian. Burn this thing."the man says, as he leaves the room, disappointed in himself.

    As for the kitsune, he has already left the city of Hertdh and was walking back home. The trip to home was about five hundred kilometers, so it''s gonna take some time to get back home.

    This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

    6th day of 2nd month year 10440

    Nevada is sleeping under the tree, while a small bond fire is burning in front of him. He also is holding his sword in his grasp, as he sleeps.

    Suddenly, his ears twitch, as he hears footsteps approaching.

    ''One set of legs, heavy steps, stench of alcohol...A person...No five people.''Nevada thinks to himself, as he pretends to still sleep. He hears them getting closer and when they get near, he starts to hear their conversation.

    "There''s the fire and it seems that he is travelling alone."

    "Shame that it''s a male. But we can at least sell him. Kitsunes do fetch a great price."

    "His sword is pretty expensive looking too."

    ''Great. Time to kill.''he thinks, while hearing them close in.

    When they get to where Nevada is, they are about to hit him in the head, with a stick. But before it could hit him, Nevada had opened his eyes, drawn his sword and killed the attacker before, he could realize what happened.

    "Holy sh-."his sentence is cut short, as his head was decapitated.

    Next one is stabbed through the heart, the second is kicked into the fire, where he starts to burn alive, because his easily burning clothes.

    The last man tries to run away, seeing that their plan went to shit real fast. As he runs away, he trips over a rock and hits the ground face first. He then starts to crawl away, only to be killed with a sword through the head.

    Nevada then walks over to the man, who is burning alive and kills him, before his screaming attracts too much attention from the wild life.

    Because his sleep has been already ruined, he decides to continue walking. He picks up his stuff and walks away.

    10th day of 2nd month year 10440

    Nevada has finally reached back home. He already has entered through the fortress gate and home is very close now.

    So after walking through the crowded street, he has arrived at the Citadel gate, which he pushes open. He enters the citadel and the gate behind him is closed.

    He wants to go take a bath and a nap, but before he could do that, he has to report it to the Assigner. So he walks into one of the bigger rooms in the citadel.

    The room is about five meters high, twenty meters long and ten meters wide. In the room, there is a board, with bunch of missions attached to the board for assassins to take. Each mission is different and require different approach. There is no rank for the missions.

    Nevada walks to the counter, where the Assigner is sitting and working on stuff. He stops in front of it and drops the coin pouch on the counter, which makes the Assigner to look up.

    "Aah. I see you have completed your mission. Good job."she says"With this mission, you earned four points and with that, you have ranked up. You are now a second rank assassin. Congratulations. You can now draw the second line."

    Now to explain, how the rank up works. To rank up, you need points and to get points, you need to successfully complete missions. Each mission has it written how many points it will give. The harder the mission, the more points you will get. To reach the second rank, you need 100 points. With each rank up, the amount of points needed to reach a new rank, doubles. So from second to third rank, it''s 200 points. From third to fourth 400 points. And so on, until you need 25600 points. Yep. That''s a shit load of points and that''s why, there are only two tenth rank assassins. Because the total amount of points to get from first to tenth rank is 51100 points. And the max amount of points, one can get with the most hardest missions is 50 points.

    The Assigner counts over the coin and then throws the pouch back on the counter.

    "Your share."she tells him and he answers"Thanks."

    He takes the pouch and walks away from the room. He walks through a couple of hallways and up the stairs, before finally reaching his room.

    He opens the door to his room and enters the room, closing the door behind him. First, he takes of his equipment and puts them back, where they belong. He then takes of his coat and hangs it into his closet. After that, he takes off rest of his clothes and puts them over the chairs back.

    Now that he is naked, his muscular body could be seen with a few scars on it. One of the scars was made by Veronica, when they were practicing and it got out of hand. The others are from his jobs, that didn''t go so smooth.

    He walks into the bathroom, where he fills the bath with warm water and then gets into it. He soaks there for half an hour, before getting out of it. He then wipes his body dry and puts the towel onto his shoulders, as he walks out.

    When he gets back to his room, the door to his room is opened.

    "Nevada. I heard that you got ranked up cong-ratu-lations....Oh my."Veronica stares Nevada, who looks at her and follows her gaze.

    "Pervert."he says and covers himself with one of his tails.

    "I''m not....It''s just.."Veronica stutters and Nevada, who doesn''t want to talk about it, says"Never mind. I''m too sleepy to deal with it, so lets talk later Veronica."

    He says, as he gets into the bed and pulls the blanket over his body.

    "Sleep well Nevada."Veronica says, before leaving the room. She still feels weird about the thing, she said to him. And because she is thinking about that, he pumps into a wall.

    "Ouch."she mutters, as she rubs her right hand.

    "What wrong Veronica?"Maria asks her, as she walks up to her.

    "Ooh nothing. Just thinking about what happened."Veronica replies.

    "What happened?"Maria asks curiously.

    "Well I heard Nevada returned and ranked up, so I wanted to congratulate him. So I went to his room and I walked in, when he was just out of the bath and completely naked."

    "Okay..Soo?"

    "Well I may have said something, when I saw his hmh."Veronica doesn''t say out the word.

    "What did you say?"Maria asks and puts her hands on her hips.

    "Oh my."Veronica answers.

    There is a ten second silence, before Maria yells"Veronica!"

    "I''m sorry!"

 Going to Town

    13th day of 5th month year 10440

    Right now, Nevada was in his favourite place at the training ground, the archery range. Why? Because archery was his most favourite thing in this world and with magic following it. Why did he like it? Because he likes to take out targets from a far, without him being ever seen and the best way to do it, was with a bow and an arrow. He could use magic, to kill from afar, but using magic, will leave behind a magic trail, which powerful mages could track. And because of that, he prefers the bow.

    So currently, he was shooting with his bow, when Mia, the catkin. Her body is about 1,6m tall, with a petite figure. Both of breasts and butt are on the small side. As for her hair, it''s light brown like her cat ears and tails. Her eyes are yellow with slitted pupils like Nevada. But unlike Nevada, she wasn''t considered cursed, as all of the catkin have slitted pupils.

    "Hey Fox. I''m going to town. Wanna join?"she asks him, while having her arms crossed in front of her chest.

    Nevada thinks for a minute, before replying"Yeah sure. I need to buy stuff there anyways. Anyone else coming?"

    "Nope. Just you and me."she answers.

    "Okay."he says and lets go of his final arrow"Lets go then."

    He puts his bow away and leaves the Citadel with her.

    Outside of the Fortress, a man wearing a black cloak is front of the Fortress gate, which he then pushes open with ease. He enters the Fortress and the gate is shut behind him. He looks around a little, before removing his black hood, revealing his ashen-blond hair and his gray right eye, with the other one being covered with a black piece of cloth.

    "The Ice Fort, home for Ice Fort assassin. What a cold fucking place."he tells himself and then starts walking on the street.

    As he walks on the street, he passes a kitsune and a catkin pair, but he ignores them, like all of the other people.

    But unlike him, whos eye wasn''t caught by the kitsune, Nevadas eyes were caught by him. Nevada looks at the man for a few seconds and thinks ''He seems familiar....Where have I seen him before?''

    "Fox?!"Mia yells for him, causing him to come out of his thoughts. He looks at her and she says"Lets move on, Fox."

    "Yeah yeah, Cat."he replies to her and they move on.

    Back in Citadel, Maria is walking around the place, looking for Nevada, but doesn''t find him anywhere. So she goes to Veronica, who is working in her lab.

    She gets to her door and knocks on it two times. After a few seconds, she gets a reply"Enter."

    Maria enters the room, after being allowed. In the room, she sees Veronica working on a poison and while still having her focus on the poison, she asks"What is it, Maria?"

    "I''m looking for Nevada, but can''t find him in the Citadel. Do you know where he is?"Maria asks Veronica, who drops some kind of green liquid into the bottle, before answering"I think I saw him go into town with....Huuuh. What was her name.....Mio?..No....Mia. Yes Mia. Nevada went to down with Mia."

    After hearing her answer, Marias ears drop a little and she says"Ooh. Okay."

    As for Veronica, who hears her tone, turns around to face her and with a grin on her face, she asks"Maria....Could it be...That you are ... jealous?"

    "What?!"she says in a loud tone"Of course I''m not....W-why should I?... I-i-it''s not like we are going out or something."

    Veronica, who sees her stuttering, grins even more and says"If you are not jealous, why do you suddenly act like a tsundere?"

    Tsundere is a word, that was added to this world dictionary by one of the past heroes that was summoned to this world.

    "I''m not!"

    "Don''t deny it Maria."Veronica tells her"We have been friends almost two decades now and I can clearly see through you. You fell in love with my son, didn''t you?"

    Maria, knowing that she has been defeated, drops her ears and says with a slightly red face"Yes. I love Nevada."You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

    "So you finally admitted. Good."Veronica says, with a happy tone"Well you have my blessing, so love and fuck him all you want."

    Maria, who doesn''t know how to reply, just quietly leaves the room, leaving Veronica behind, to grin.

    "So old, but so innocent."she mutters, before getting back to her work.

    In the town, Nevada and Mia are sitting in a small restaurant and eating their food. Nevada is eating some kind of animal meat with potatoes, while Mia is enjoying cake. Nevada himself is drinking wine, while Mia, milk.

    "So whats the next place we will go to?"Nevada asks her, who is chewing her food. After swallowing it, she replies"Blacksmith place. I need new leg guards. The previous one have become pretty worn out."

    "Blacksmith huh. Well I need to get a few things there myself."Nevada says.

    There is a few minute silence, before Mia asks"Hey Fox...How does it even feel to have nine tails?"

    "Hmm. It''s hard to answer. It''s like-"Nevada stops mid-sentence, when he sees a group of eleven people approaching their table.

    "Do you have your mask with you?"he asks her and she shakes her head.

    "Damn. I left it in my room too."he says.

    "Hey Kitten. Why don''t you leave that brat and join us."one of the man say, while putting his hands over her shoulder.

    "Seven out of eleven."Nevada says.

    "Eight out of eleven."Mia says

    Both of them grin, after making their bet, on how many they can take down.

    Mia starts by grabbing the mans hand, whos hand was on her shoulder and breaks it, before getting up and throwing the man onto the ground.

    "What the fuck?" Half of them mutter, before Nevada grabs two of the guys by their collars and slams them onto the ground, breaking some of their bones.

    One of them tries to draw his knife, but before he could, his leg was broken, with bone sticking through the flesh and out in the open, for everyone to see. She then proceeds to kick him in the side, sending him flying against the wall.

    Nevada dodges the sword and then grabs the mans arm, to pull him up close, before kneeing the man in the nuts, destroying his manhood with it. The man himself lets out a horrible scream, before falling unconscious from the immense pain.

    Mia grabs two guys head and slams them together, knocking them out. Nevada himself just elbowed a man in the back, breaking his spine.

    Now only three guys are left and two of them get takes out by a Sparta kick from both of them. Now only one man was left and he was completely covered with sweat from fear. His entire body was trembling and couldn''t move at all, as he looked at the two people approaching him, Nevada sending out a punch and Mia a kick. He feels the hit and then everything goes to dark.

    A minute later, they both leave the restaurant, with eleven completely beaten up man, laying on the floor back there. Some of them might be cripples, If they don''t get healed by a mage.

    "It was my win..I got the sixth one."Nevada says and Mia argues back"No. It was definitely my kick that finished him."

    "Nope. It was my punch."he argues back.

    "My kick."

    "My punch."

    Both of them stop and stare at each other, while showing their fangs.

    "It''s a tie."

    "It''s a tie."

    After agreeing, they continue walking towards the blacksmith place.

    After they get in front of a shop, with a sign hanging above the door. On the sign, there is a picture of an anvil and a hammer, hitting the anvil. A very clich�� looking sign.

    The enter the shop and see dozens of weapons on both sides of the walls and sets of armors at the corners of the room. Behind a counter, a man in his fifties is leaning on the counter, with his hands on it.

    "Welcome. How can I help you?"

    "Hi. I need a new set of leg guards made out of black steel."

    "Sure. And how about you boy?"

    "I need a recurve bow made out of Panridain with a blade attached to the handle."Nevada says.

    "Panridain? I don''t have enough here, but I could order more...But it would take some time. Are you sure you want it wait two months?"

    "Yes."Nevada replies with a clear voice.

    "Okay. Anything else?"

    "Nope."Mia replies and Nevada shakes his head.

    "Okay. I''ll then need half of the pay now and half when it''s done. For the leg guards, it''s two golds in total, so one gold coins for now. For the bow, it''s ten gold coins in total, so five now."

    "Hey Nevada. Could you pay for me?"Mia asks her, while whispering.

    "No. Pay it for yourself."he answers and puts five golf coins on the counter, with Mia following with her one gold coin.

    "Thank you. The guards will be ready in five days and for the bow, come check back after forty days. I can only then say a more precise answer."

    "Thank you. Until then."Nevada says and leaves with Mia, who just says"Bye."

    As for the metals, that they wanted their equipment made out of: black steel is basically just like steel, but black steel is found and not made. It''s also coloured black. As for Panridain, it''s a very strong metal, which, If done correctly, can be made to bend, without the fear of it breaking. That''s why, it is one of the best materials for making a bow out of metal.

    It is evening, when the two finally reach back to the citadel. Mia was going to the library, while Nevada was going back to his room. On the way there, he ran into Veronica.

    "Hey Nevada. You''re finally back. How was your date?"she asks teasingly, hoping to get a cute reaction, but instead she gets an emotionless reaction from Nevada"It wasn''t a date. We just went to town, because we both needed to get stuff from there."

    "Hmm. I can''t say If you are dense or just don''t care."she thinks out loud"But that doesn''t matter. You should go see Maria. She seems jealous because you went out on a date."

    Nevada sighs and says"I guess I will go see her and also..It wasn''t a date. Bye for now."

    "Bye."Veronica says and goes her way, while Nevada his.

    He goes up the stairs and through a hallway, to get to Marias room. He enters the room, to see her sitting behind a table, writing something.

    "Ooh Nevada. You have return."she says in a sad tone and not in her usual tone.

    "Yeah. I heard from Veronica, that you were jealous. Is it true?"

    Maria stops writing and gets up from the chair. She turns around, to look at him.

    "I''m not jealous of that cat."She says.

    "Oooh. Really?"Nevada asks, while closing in.

    "Y-Yes."Maria says

    "Well believe what you want, but just now that I love you and can''t wait for you to film your promise."Nevada says with a smooth voice, making Maria blush.

    "P-pervert."

 Heat

    2nd day of 6th month year 10440

    It was currently late afternoon and Nevada had just finished his training. So right now, he was walking towards his room, to take a bath and then eat something. Like he does every day.

    But today, he has been feeling strange ever since he woke up today. His entire body feels, like its slightly burning and that feels very weird. So the entire day, he had had a hard time to concentration.

    While walking back to his room, he ran into Veronica, who also had finished her training.

    "Nevada. You look a little different today. Why''s that?"She asks him with a slightly worried voice.

    "I don''t know."he answers"Ever since I woke up today, I have been feeling weird. There''s this burning sensation in my body. But beside that, I am fine."

    "Hmm I see."she says"Well I think you should just go to sleep and see If it is gone tomorrow."

    "I guess I''ll try that."Nevada says and goes his way, while Veronica hers.

    Nevada soon gets to his room and undressed himself, to take a bath. He first takes of his boots, then his shirt and pants. After that, his socks and underwear. Now that he is naked, he goes to bath. He submerged to water, so only his head now sticks out of the water, while the rest of his body is laying on the tub.

    While he is enjoying his bath, Veronica had went to Marias room, to talk. And right now, both of them were sitting on the couch and Veronica was telling"Maria. Nevada seemed a little weird right now."

    "Weird in what way?"Maria asks her friend.

    "He seemed a little pale and he said that he was feeling a burning sensation in his body."Veronica explains to her and hearing Veronica, Maria starts to think, before figuring it out. Veronica seeing, that Maria figured it out, she asks"What is it. You seem to know?"

    "To put it simply, he is in heat."she answers"He is old enough, for that to happen."

    "In heat huh."Veronica mutters. Then she gets up and says"Well then. I will leave it to you."

    And before Maria could say anything, Veronica was already gone from her room, leaving Maria alone there.

    She looks at the door and sighs.

    "I did make a promise to him."she mutters and gets up, to leave her room. She walks down the stairs and towards his room. He gets behind Nevada''s door and knocks on it.

    A few seconds later, it is opened and on the other side, Maria sees Nevada, with only a towel wrapped around his waist.

    "Hi Wolfy. Need something?"He asks her, who is blushing, while looking at him.

    "Wolfy?"he calls out her name, seeing that she isn''t answering.

    "Ah yes."she comes back."Could I come in."

    Nevada doesn''t answer and just steps out of the way and shows her to enter with his hand. So, she walks in and Nevada closes the door behind

    Maria sits down onto the couch and Nevada sits right next to her.

    "Nevada."she starts"Umm...."

    She doesn''t know what to say exactly and just goes quiet.

    "Yes."He says and moves his face closer to her, making her blush. He himself feels a little weird tol and he feels, how his body is getting hotter.

    They both look at each other, before Nevada grabs her head and pulls her into a deep kiss. He couldn''t hold himself back anymore and just went ahead and did, what he had wanted to do for years now: make out with Maria.

    As for Maria, she was surprised at first and her eyes grew big. He didn''t fight back at all and after a few seconds, she let her instincts do the rest. She closed her eyes and wrapped her hands around Nevada, who did the same.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

    While they were kissing, Nevada managed to push her down on the couch, but they weren''t bother by it. They just kept invading each others mouth with their tongues.

    They only stopped for a few seconds to catch their breath, but then went on. They didn''t stops and soon the fell onto the coffee table in front of the couch and breaking it. But that still didn''t stop. They just pulled the small wood pieces out of their body and Nevada lifted her up. She wrapped her feet around his waist, while her hands were around his neck. His hands were on her butt and holding her.

    They moved onto a table, where he placed her down there and they stopped, to look at each other. Both of them were red and breathing heavily.

    "Make me yours."Maria told him through heavy breaths and Nevada didn''t bother to reply, but just tore of her shirt and threw it into the ground. This revealed Marias beautiful upper body and she was also wearing a sexy black bra, which was immediately un-hooked by him. Now, he could see Marias beautiful big and perky breasts. He looks at them, before grabbing them and then starting to play with them.

    "Nnn. Foxy."she moaned out, as he was playing with her breasts. So when Nevada heard her moan, he knew immediately, that her breasts are really sensitive and this made him even more eager to play with them.

    Meanwhile in Alice and Veronicas room, the two woman were changing their clothes, when Veronica suddenly stopped, because she heard something. She remained still for a while and Alice seeing this, asked"Veron-"

    "Ssh."Veronica sushed him, so Alice stayed quiet for a minute.

    "Ooh."Veronica lets out a amused sound.

    "What is it?"Alice asks her.

    "I hear sounds coming from Nevadas room."Veronica replies and Alice asks"What kind of sounds."

    "Furniture breaking and Marias moans. A lot of moaning."Veronica replies to her wife.

    "So Nevada and Maria are.."

    "Fucking. Yes. And they really are at it."Veronica tells her"Shit. I got into a mood now too."

    She turns around, to look at Alice with eyes, that seem to have found their pray. Alice knowing, that she can''t stop Veronica, let her ravage her.

    Back to Maria and Nevada, Maria was laying on the bed, while Nevada was above her and holding down both of her hands, above her head. With his free hand, he ripped off her pants and saw her black and sexy panties.

    "Such a sexy underwear you are wearing today. Did you perhaps planned it?"he says and doesn''t let her answer, because he leaned in for a kiss. While he did that, his free hand was moving towards her pussy. He rubbed his hand over it and then, he inserted one of his finger and immediately felt, how drenched she was down there.

    He stopped kissing and looked at her. She looked back at him and said"Don''t be gentle. Just fuck me already Foxy. I can take the pain."

    Nevada hearing her, smiled, before pushing his dick into her. He felt a little resistance, before he reached her cervix, meaning that he just broke her hymen. Maria made a little painful face, but that too was only for a few seconds.

    They looked at each other once again and then bit each others shoulders, marking each other. While they were biting, Nevada started to move thrust his penis in her pussy faster and faster, until he stopped at one pace.

    Maria obviously felt great pleasure from it and started to scratch hai back with her shape nails. This was a painful, but Nevada ignored it and just kept fucking her without a stop.

    Soon, both of them came and Nevada ejaculates inside of her without a second thought. They didn''t have to worry about her getting pregnant, because only a man and a woman from the same race could get the woman pregnant. He couldn''t get her pregnant without magic, because they aren''t the same race. Yes. They both are beastkin, but he is a kitsune and she, a wolfkin. So they didn''t have to worry about that.

    "Come one Foxy. Thats not enough."Maria tells him, who then tell her to get on all fours, which she does. He then grabs her waist and starts thrusting from behind.

    As he keeps pistoning his dick inside of her, she was holding the bed sheets with all her strength and moaning out pretty loudly.

    He soon again, let out his load inside of her, but hey hadn''t finished yet.

    They kept going for hours and hours.

    Next day, Veronica was going to Nevadas room, because she wanted to see the aftermath. She also dragged Alice with her.

    When they were at his door, Alice said"We shouldn''t disturb them Veronica. It was their first time, so let them enjoy the morning after, alone."

    "I guess I should, but I want to see their reactions."Veronica says and opens the door. Her eyes grow big, as she looks around, to see broken furniture everywhere. Three legs of the couch are broken and the couch cushions have beed shred a little. The coffee table is completely destroyed and the other table is broken in half in the middle. And then there is the bed: all of the frame legs have been broken and the frame itself is in a pretty bad shape. The mattress has a few cuts in it and on the bed, what''s left of it, the two are sleeping. Nevada is holding her breasts with his right hand, while his left arm is being used as a pillow by Maria. Both of them are sleeping peacefully with a satisfied face. Only thing covering them, was what was left from the blanket and that too, was only covering their private parts.

    "And you said I was rough."Veronica tells Alice, who then accidentally yells"Veronica!"

    This sudden yell, obviously woke up the two beastkins, who have a sharp hearing. First to notice the two mothers, is Maria, whos eyes grow big and her face turns red.

    Nevada himself is still half-asleep and is playing with her breast, while lifting his head to look at see....his mothers. He stops moving and looks at the two. Veronica is grinning and Alice seems to be feeling embarrassed.

    They two groups of lovers look at each other, while staying silent and not moving.

    "Well...This is fucking awkward."Nevada says.

 The morning after

    "Well...This is fucking awkward."

    Nevada says and drops his head back onto the pillow....well what''s left of it now. Even though his mothers are in the room, he doesn''t let go of Maria and just hides his face behind her, while Maria can''t hide behind anyone or anything. And so, her embarrassed face could be seen.

    "Okay. Let them be Veronica. Come now."Alice says and literally drags Veronica after her, out of the room. Before she closes the door, she tells the two, to come to her room, once they are ready.

    The door is closed with a loud bang and both Nevada and Maria let out a sigh after that. Now Maria finally realises where Nevada hand is and so she asks shily"Um. Nevada... could you let go of my breast?"

    "I could, but I won''t"Nevada answers to her and not letting go of her breast.

    "Seriously Nevada."She says in a slightly angry tone"Let go, before I get mad!"

    "You say that, but why then do I feel your tail wagging happily against me? You actually like it, don''t you? Pervert Wolfy."Nevada whispers the last part into her ear.

    This makes Maria a little mad and so she elbows him into the side of his waist, making him let go of his grip on her breast. She then quickly gets up, before Nevada could grab her.

    As for Nevada, he coughs a little, because the hit hurt him actually pretty badly.

    "Fucking hell. That hurt. *Cough*. Domestic violence already."he says the last part jokingly, even though he is hurt pretty badly.

    He slowly gets up and looks at Maria, who looks around the room, still naked.

    "If you''re looking for your clothes, they were ripped yesterday, so you probably can''t wear them."Nevada says, while sitting on the edge of what''s left of the bed, while looking around the destroyed room.

    He then looks at Maria, who is looking at him, while covering her private parts with her hands. Her right arm is over her breasts and covers her nipples, while her left is covering her vagina. She looks at Nevada with a red face, while Nevada looks back at her.

    "Why are you covering yourself. I have seen you naked since I was only a few months old. We even did it yesterday, so why do you still cover yourself?"Nevada asks Maria, who replies.

    "Because it''s embarrassing to be seen naked."

    "And when I was younger, it wasn''t?"

    "Obviously. You were just a baby."Maria replies back.

    "Well whatever. I guess you have to get used to be seen naked by me. We are mates now on."He says and points at the bite mark on her shoulder and then the one on his.

    Maria doesn''t say anything and starts to search for something, while Nevada is watching her. He then looks down at his feet and finds something, she was probably looking for.

    "Looking for this?"he asks Maria, while holding her black panties, with his index finger.

    Maria looks back at him and says"Give it here."

    "Ask nicely Wolfy."Nevada tells her, in an attempt to tease her a little. But it fails, as in the next instance, Maria is holding her panties and putting them on, while Nevada is looking at his finger, to see his shirt over it.

    "Space magic? Really?"He asks her"You''re no fun."

    "I''m not fun, Nevada."Maria tells him.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.

    Nevada himself just shakes his head and gets up, so he could get dressed too. He quickly puts on his shirt and pants, with boots put on after that.

    Now that he is done dressing up, he looks at Maria, who has her underwear on, but no other clothes. Seeing her in her underwear is good, but they need to go to Alices and Veronicas room, so he can''t really have her go like this. So he takes on of his shirts and throws it to her and says"Put it on."

    And so she does, because she has nothing else to put on. She then puts on the pants, that Nevada threw to her also. As she looks around for her shoes, she is grabbed from behind, by Nevada, who wraps his hands around her waist and rests his head on her her head.

    "Nevada. We don''t have time for this. Your mothers are waiting for us."Maria tells him, who replies"I know. It''s just that you act like, nothing happened. I want to know why."

    She sighs and knowing that he won''t stop, before she answers, she says"Because I feel so embarrassed, when I think about last night, so I try to act, like it didn''t happen."

    "But it did and there''s proof all around the room. Especially on the sheets."he says and both of them look at the sheets, with small bloodstains on it.

    "It may be embarrassing, but you can''t act, like it didn''t happen. We mated and fucked a lot. By beastkin traditions, we can be considered married. Also you were the one, who started this relationship Maria, so take responsibility and don''t act, like nothing happened."Nevada tells her, who is being held by him, while her face is burning up. Almost hundred years of training, she loses her cool so easily.

    And so, with a shy voice, she says"You are the one who should take responsibility. You attacked me."

    "And you accepted me. Also who was the one, who kissed me on my tenth birthday?"he says to her.

    He spins her to face her and says"I guess we both have to take responsibility."And before she could reply anything, he kisses her and after their kiss, he adds"Now then..Lets go."

    Few minutes later, they are in Nevada''s mothers room, where Nevada and Maria are sitting on a couch, while Veronica and Alice are sitting on the chairs. Maria is looking away from the two woman and Nevada is also avoiding eye contact.

    "So when did it all start?"Alice asks the two and Nevada is the one to answer"Over four years ago."

    "O-...over four years ago?!"Alice asks with a loud surprised voice."You were only a kid then."

    She looks at Maria and then says"I didn''t think Maria likes small boys."

    "I don''t!"she immediately says back and she continues with a shy voice"It was just a kiss, out of instinct."

    "And thats kiss lead to this moment."Alice says and the two don''t answer anything.

    Veronica, who has been silent the whole time, now says"Also. What kind of play do you like. The entire room was fucking destroyed."

    "No comment."Nevada answers her. He himself doesn''t know either, why they were so rough yesterday, that they basically destroyed his room.

    "Well whatever. What you two do in your rooms, is your problem...but you should get bed frame made out of metal into your this rooms floor, now that you are lovers and all. Maybe made out of mithril, to be sure?"the lasts part she asks quietly from herself.

    Nevada just smiles wryly, when he hears her and doesn''t say anything back to her.

    Veronica now leans towards Maria and asks"So...how was your first time?"

    "Veronica!"Alice immediately yells out her name.

    "Sorry sorry."she apologizes to her"I was just curious.

    Alice knowing, that Veronica will do anything, to create embarrassing situation for the new couple, she pulls her back and says"You two new room is 427. You can move in today. I will deal with her, so you two can go now."

    The two nod and leave the room, leaving behind Alice, who is holding Veronicas mouth shut with her hand.

    "Ve-ro-ni-ca. You will get your punishment tonight."Alice says with a sadistic voice, which makes Veronicas eyes grow big and starting to struggle a little more.

    The last time, she heard Alice with a sadistic voice, she was sore for a week, from what Alice did to her.

    As for Nevada and Maria, they got to their couples room on the fourth floor and looked around the room. It twice as large as his old room. The bed is king queen sized, the closet is a lot longer. There are two night stands on each side of the bed. The couch and chairs are still the same. And the bath is much bigger, having enough room for two people. This entire room is designed for couples, loen every other room in this floor.

    As for how the floors are even divided here, is simple to explain: the second floor is male living quarters. Third is female and fourth is for couples. Also the fourth floors walls are a lot thicker, so the others wouldn''t have to listen for to others love making. Well as long as you don''t have sharp ears. Like beastkins it a certain perverted vampire.

    So now, Nevada is holding his right arm over her shoulder and on her shoulder. Both of them are looking at the bed and Nevada says"We have to break in the bed tonight, Wolfy."

    She doesn''t reply and only blushes. Nevada seeing her face, finds it cute and so kisses her cheek.

    Later that night, Nevada and Maria had a gentle sex, while the one Alice and Veronica had, was completely opposite. Completely.

    In an another part of the land, the ground was also covered with snow, but suddenly, the ground started to grumble and crack. The ground split into two and a giant claw came out of the split, with a deafening screech following it.

 Mission-Travel

    21st day of 8th month year 10440

    It was so early in the morning, that the sun hadn''t even started to rise from the horizon. And so, it was still dark outside, when Nevada woke up and the first thing he saw, was Marias wolf ears. He looked at the cute wolf ears before looking at Marias face, which was snuggleing against his chest. Her hands were wrapped around his body and so were his around her body.

    He rubbed her back a little, before carefully taking her hands off and then getting out of the bed. Immediately her face showed dissatisfaction, but it disappeared after a few seconds.

    Now that he was out of the bed, he started to put on his clothes. He started with his underwear and then his white pants. He then took and put on a gray shirt. He then took his white winter coat and put it on, before sitting down on the edge of the bed, to put on his black boots.

    As he was tying his laces, he welt a gentle touch on one his tails. So he looked back and saw Maria touching his tail, while looking at him.

    "Why are you up so early?"Maria asks Nevada, who answers her"I need to get to Urte town before the sun sets and so I need to start moving, so wouldn''t have stay behind the gate."

    "Urte huh... Stay at the Relia inn there. The food is the most decent one in the town."Maria recommends to him, who replies"Thanks Wolfy."

    He finishes tying his boots and then looks at Maria, who is slowly raising, to sit up on the bed. They look at each other, before gently kissing for a few seconds. Their lips depart from each other and he says"I gotta go now."

    "I know."Maria replies.

    Nevada gets up from the bed and puts his sword on his back and his quiver, horizontally, on his back waist. He then takes his new bow and puts it on his back, right next to his sword.

    The bow itself is 150cm long and is made out of Panridain, like he ordered. The draw weight of this bow is by Nevadas calculation about 300-350lbs. On Earth, a recurve bow with such draw weight, didn''t exist. And even longbow didn''t have a such a huge weight. But because this is another world and made out of special metal, this bow has such a draw weight. And because he is pretty strong, he can pull the string back without a problem. As for the look, the bow is white and the blade, which is attached to the upper part of the handle. The blade itself is about 22cm long and its purpose is to use it, when someone gets a drop on him, when he is using his bow and he doesn''t have a time to draw his blade.

    Now that he is ready, he check over If everything is nicely on and then he takes his mask, with a new second line starts where the first one did and goes along the lower eye hole and ends where the first one did too.

    He looks at the mask, before putting it into his coats inner pocket. He turns around to look at Maria and says"Bye Wolfy."

    "Be safe Foxy."she says her goodbyes and watches him leave the room. The door closes behind him and Maria lets out a sad sigh after that. She drops her body back onto the bed and looks at the ceiling, while pulling the blanket onto her.

    A few hours later, she is sitting on the couch of her nad Nevadas room, with Veronica. Both of them are drinking tea and while doing that, Veronica asks"So how''s your life with Nevada?"

    "It''s pretty great. We get along nicely."Maria gives her a short answer.

    "Ooh. Is that it?"she asks with a curious tone"So how are the night activities? Do you enjoy it or maybe addicted to it?"

    "I won''t answer that Veronica."Maria replies to her with a serious tone.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

    "Why?"Veronica asks her.

    "Because you Are indirectly asking how''s your son in bed."Maria tells her"I don''t want to say that."

    "If you put it that way, it does sound kind a weird."Veronica remarks"But I''m just curious how good he is that he managed to tame a such a wild wolf."

    "Veronica."she calls out her name.

    "Sorry. You don''t want to remember those days."she apologizes to her friend, for accidentally bringing up the wrong thing.

    "It''s fine....just don''t mention it again."Maria tells her in a sad tone.

    Veronica looks at her and says"You have seem to be feeling down from morning. Why is that?"

    "It''s Nevada. I am worried about him, when he is on a mission. I know how dangerous they could turn out."Maria answers her honestly.

    "There is no need to worry about him. He was trained by us and especially you. You taught him the most. He knows what you know, so he will be fine."

    "I know that, but he doesn''t have my abilities or the weapons that I have."Maria argues back.

    "Maria. Just stay calm and don''t over think it. Find something to do and the time will fly by. This is what I do, when Alice is away or the other way around. Just believe that Nevada is good enough."

    The sun was setting now and in about an hour, it would disappear behind the horizon. Nevada himself had entered the town of Urte. The town itself is a small town with a population of 5000 thousand people with a city lord being the boss here. The towns main focus is lodging, as a lot of people pass through this town, so they could stay a night. The food supposedly here isn''t that good, as it is hard to deliver ingredients here, because of the snow. So the food is probably un seasoned.

    As for Nevada, he had changed his appearance to that of a normal foxkin and was covering his Mark of Sola with his hair.

    Nevada was now looking for the Relia inn. The one, that Maria had told him about. Luckily, he found it pretty quickly and so he entered the inn. There he rented a room, to where he immediately went.

    In the room, he took of his sword and bow along with his quiver. He puts them all on the table and then he himself went down to eat dinner. He doesn''t need to eat, because kitsunes feed off from mana and the only reason he eats at all, is because he enjoys eating from time-to-time. As for his main source of mana, it''s Maria, who has a ridiculously large mana pool.

    So right now, he was sitting at one of the tables in the inn and was waiting for his. While waiting, he watched around the inn and studied the people here. About half of the people in here, were hunters or mercenaries. The other half, seemed to be just some random people, who have come here to eat and drink with friends. But there was one person, who stuck out. The persons gender couldn''t be identified, as the person was wearing a cloak, that covered both of his)her face and body. The person looked around, while holding onto the mug with both of his hands.

    ''Definitely suspicious.''Nevada thought, while watching the person.

    A few minutes later, his food finally arrived and so, he started to eat. On the plate, there was a piece of grilled meat and some vegetables aside. On the side of the food, he was drinking some alcohol,

    As he was eating, he felt a pair of eyes on him, put instead of looking towards the person, who was staring at him, he decided to act, like he hasn''t notice, so he wouldn''t alarm that person.

    After Five minutes, he takes the last bite of his bland steak and his last sip of his drink, before getting up from the chair, to go to his room. He walks up the stairs and walks through the hallway, to his door, which he then opens and enters his room, closing the door behind him after that.

    He looks at the bed and decides to go to sleep, so he could start moving early tomorrow. So he takes of his clothes and only leaves on his underwear. After that, he lays down on the bed and cancels the disguise magic, he had on for the past few hours. He pulls the blanket over his body and falls asleep quickly.

    After midnight, the door to Nevadas inn room is slowly being opened and into the room, steps the figure with a cloak over his body. With quiet steps, the person walks over to the table, where Nevadas equipment is. As he is stepping there, he looks at Nevada and sees, that he is peacefully sleeping.

    ''Good.''the person thinks, when seeing his state.

    He gets to the table and looks at the equipment there. A sword, a bow, two daggers, a dozen or so throwing dagger and a white mask.

    "Oh shit."the figure says with a manly voice, confirming him to be a man. The reason he said that, was because he recognized, that the mask belongs to the Ice Fort assassin, which means, he better get the fuck out of this room.

    But when he turned around, he saw Nevada standing in front of him, while having his arms crossed. The man smiled wryly under the hood, which Nevada could see. Nevada smiled back, but his smile was completely cold.

    "Wai-"

    He couldn''t finish his sentence, before his neck was twisted 180�� and now was facing the other side. The body falls down onto the ground and Nevada looks at it, before putting on his clothes and his equipment on. He takes his mask and puts it back, where it was before.

    He then walks out of the room, leaving the body there. He doesn''t have the time to deal with it right now and he rather not run into the guards in this town.

    And so, he leaves the inn and disappears into the night.

 Mission-Information

    4th day of 9th month year 10440

    Nevada could finally see the Kingdom of Asuy. Here, about a million people live and work here. Thousands of people pass through here daily to rest or other reasons. The King here is named Arthur Helix III.

    Nevadas target here, was a noble, who was known for his cruelty towards beastkin. He would treat them like objects and not as a living being. His actions pissed of Adriana, who is a very rich dogkin and so, she had put out a mission, which Nevada has come to fulfill.

    Before he reaches the town, he changes his appearance to that, of a human. His ears and tails disappear and a pair of human ears grow instead. He can''t go with his beastkin appearance, as he would be treated worse, then a human.

    Humans are pretty racist almost everywhere. They see every race, beside elves, inferior to them, but in reality, they are inferior to every race in their own way. Dwarves are better blacksmith, beastkins are stronger and faster, demons are more skilled and elves are better in magic. Every way, they are more inferior. Only thing, humans are good at, is fucking and reproducing.

    As Nevada walked, his hair turned slowly to blue and his eyes even deeper shade of blue. He changed his face structure a little, until he had changed himself beyond recognizable. He now looked more like he did look in his past life. Beside the hair colour, he looked like Alexander.

    As he approached the gate, he was stopped by the guards and asked for his identification, which he obviously didn''t have. So he obviously had thought about a way to get into the kingdom.

    He pulled of his hood and revealed his face, with the white Mark of Sola around his right eye.

    With a clear voice, he told the guards"I am a Servant of Sola and my travels, have brought me to this beautiful city. Through my travels to spread Solas faith, I had lost my identification. If, thy, were good enough, to let the loyal servant, I shall pray to Sola, to bless your kind heart."

    The guards look at each other and then one of them says"Of course you may pass Loyal Servant. Bless Sola."

    "Bless Sola."Nevada says and puts his hands in a prayer position.

    The guards then step out of his way and let him enter the kingdom.

    Nevada knew that every soldier in this kingdom is part of Solas faith and thats why, he knew, that he could get inside by showing the Mark. If he has to live it the white mark on his face, he might as well abuse the power it can give over the Church of Solas members and her believers.

    Once he is inside there, he thinks''Ooh how I wanna puke right now. I feel disgusted by my words.''

    He shutters a little and starts walking towards the slums, as there is a useful person there. As he walks through the worst part of the kingdom, he sees old, broken down houses, that barely seem to be able to stay together. On the sides of the houses, there are beggars, starving children hookers.

    But none of those doesn''t concern him and so, he keeps walking through the smelly and horrible streets, to get to his destination.

    Minutes later, he finally reaches in front of a metal door and knocks hard on it two times.

    *Bang Bang"

    Few seconds pass and then the small hatch on the door is opened and the person behind the door, asks"What to you want?"

    "I''m looking for Broker."Nevada replies and puts a silver coin on the edge of the hatch. The pair of blue eyes stare at him, before the coin is taken by him and then the hatch closed. Immediately after, from the other side, he could hear the door being opened and then it was opened.

    Nevada entered the place and immediately could smell alcohol and blood in the air. The place itself screamed Shady. The room was dimly litted, the furniture showed signs of aging. There was blood on the brick walls and everyone here looked shady. Hood and/or masks covering their faces.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

    He looked around, until he spot the man, who looked like a pimp with his big fur coat. That was the Broker, he came here for. So he walks up to him and asks"Are you the Broker?"

    The man looks at Nevada and asks back"Depends on whos asking?"

    "Ice Fort."he replies and shows his mask, which the Broker looks at and then says"Follow me. We shall talk in my office."

    They walk through a dark hallway and during that, Nevada keeps his eye out for any company. Luckily, he didn''t see or sense anyone and the toe reached the office.

    There, he was told to sit down, but he refused and said"I prefer to stand."

    "Suit yourself."the Broker replied and sat down onto his chair and looked at Nevada, who had his arms crossed.

    "Okay. So what info you need?"he asks Nevada, who replies.

    "Everything about Robert Hyel Wilhelm. From his age to his house plans."Nevada answers him and immediately, the Broker gets up and starts to search through his room.

    He goes through closets and picks up a few rolls of papers and puts them onto the table. He then puts a sheet of paper onto the rolls.

    "Here''s the info and the plans. Fifty silver."He tells Nevada, who then throws a small coin pouch onto the table and takes the papers into his hands.

    "Nice doing business with you. Come again."The Broker says after Nevadas, who is leaving the room.

    Now that he had papers, he needed to find an inn.

    A few hours later, he is sitting on a chair, in the inn and looking at three sheets of rolled out papers, with the layout of targets mansion on it. He looks over all of the drawings of the layout and sees, that he has no way to take him out with a bow. Because the mansion has been built in such a location, where all of the shots Are obstructed by other houses and there is also a pretty tall and thick treeline around the fence.

    "Up close and personal it is then... Hmm...I could sneak into the house during a night and kill him in his bed."

    He looks at the plans, to see, If it would be possible and after a few minutes of observing, he mutters"Not happening. The windows have a defense mechanism and it seem, that there are no balconies either, which makes getting rid of the mechanism impossible."

    He wonders for a few minutes, while looking out of the window.

    "What to do. What to...do..."

    An idea strucks him, when he saw his reflection on the window. So he quickly starts to search through the book, he had with him and stops, when he reaches the page, with his target information on it.

    Mission target #27

    Name: Robert Hyel Wilhelm

    Race: Human

    Sex: Male

    Age: 38

    Social rank: Earl

    Family: None

    Faith: Sola

    Likes: Raping and torturing beastkin, women, money, Church of Sola

    Dislikes: Beastkin, women who don''t submit to him.

    After reading through it, he closes the book and puts it back onto the table. He leans back on his chair and an evil smile forms on his face, as he thinks about the plan.

    An hour later, Nevada is looks out of the window and sees, that it is getting dark already. So he gets up from the chair and stretches his body, before changing his appearance to that of a human and leaving the room.

    He goes through the corridor and down the stairs, where he sits down on one of the tables. He rests his hands on the table, while resting his head on his right hand. He scans through the crown with his eyes and sees, that there is no one suspicious here and hopefully, there won''t be any trouble.

    As he was looking, a waiter came up to his table and he told her to bring the tastiest thing they had here, without caring to look at the menu. Reason for it, was because Nevada had a habit to eat only, what he liked and not really try out anything new. So now was the perfect chance, to try something new.

    While waiting for his food to arrive, he was enjoying some alcohol they had here. It was pretty good.

    Then out of nowhere, a random woman sits down at his table and starts"Hey handsome. Why are you alone in such a place."

    "Okay stop there."Nevada stops her"First thing: I''m married. Second: I''m not interested in escorts."

    "Fuck you dickhead!"she immediately yells back and throws the wine in her chalice into Nevadas face.

    The wine went onto his clothes and more is dripping onto them from his face. Nevada tasted the wine, before throwing his drink at her face and throwing the mug immediately after.

    A small clank sound follows and the woman is knocked out, as Nevada didn''t hold back. He looks at her with an angry look, before looking at his clothes.

    "Fucking hell. Shit."he mutters and gets up from the table.

    "Bring my order to my room."Nevada tells the waiter, as he walks away, while looking at his clothes.

    In his room, Nevada walks out If the bathroom, with his upper body naked and a towel hanging over his neck. The shirt was completely ruined and so, he threw it away. Luckily, he had a spare and was going to put it on tomorrow.

    As he was walking towards the bed, he heard a knock on his door and so walked over the door. He opened the door and saw the twenty or so year old waiter there.

    "I-i brought your food."she says, while looking at Nevada. Her cheeks go slightly red, as she hands over the food to him, which he takes and says"Thank you." Before closing the door.

    He puts the plate on the table and looks at the food on it: It''s pizza.

    ''Did some kind of person, who loved to cook, brought Earth''s food to Terra. Wow. I''m not even mad. I get to eat pizza after fourteen years. Lets hope it doesn''t taste horrible.''

    He takes a slice and takes a bite out of it. He chews it and tries to enjoy the taste. He then swallows the food and says.

    "Meh."

 Mission-Kill

    It was the next day now and Nevada woke up, when the sun was risen from the horizon.

    He got out of the bed and put on his clothes, starting with his underwear, then his shirt and pants. Finishing off with his socks and boots. He then takes his coat and changes his appearance, that of a human and leaves the room. He closes and locks the door behind.

    He walks down the stairs, while putting on his white coat, and once he is down the stairs, he leaves the inn. He leaves his coat open and sets foot towards the Church of Sola, without his equipment, as he can''t just casually enter a church with a sword on his back and knives on his waist. If something goes to shit, he can make weapons out of Ice, which are good enough, to kill and steal his enemies weapon.

    Nevada walks through the busy streets of Asuy kingdom. The stores are already open and the merchants are selling their products at their stands. The people, who aren''t working, are walking towards their work. And obviously, Nevada caught a lot of pair of eyes, because of his Mark of Sola. Those, who do know it meanings, look at him with respect. And for those, who don''t, they just look at him, like an idiot, who got a white face tattoo.

    His walk ends in front of a big cathedral, which is completely white with gold linings. There is a tall tower in the middle and four short with one in each of the four corners of the building.

    He looks at the Cathedral and thinks''I want to burn this shithole down and every other thing, related to Sola.''

    He looks at the door and mutters"I hope I won''t puke from the disgusting words I''m gonna speak."

    He pushes open the two heavy wooden door, which open, while making a loud creaking sound. Once the doors are pushed open, he could see rows of benches with a decorated altar at the end of the room. In front the altar, a man in white robes was praying.

    Nevada looked at the sight in front of him and sighed a little, as he shook his head. He goes through the doorway and closes the doors behind him.

    Nevada moves towards the man in front of the altar, while passing the rows of wooden benches on both sides.

    When he vest closer to the man, he gets up and turns around, to reveal a face of a man in his fifties with long gray hair. He looks at Nevada for a few seconds, before seeing his mark and immediately kneeling in front of him.

    "Servant of Sola. It''s a honour to be in your presents. How may this humble believer help you?"the man says with a voice full of respect.

    "Please get up. We are both loyal servants of the great Goddess Sola. So there is no need to kneel."Nevada tells the man in front of him, who looks up to him. While holding his hands together in a prayer, he says"So humble. Thank you."

    He gets onto his feet and hides his hands in his sleeves.

    "No. Thank you for such a warm welcome."Nevada replies"Could we talk somewhere."

    "Of course. Yes. Please follow me."he says with an exited voice and starts to walk away, with Nevada following him.Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.

    They soon enter an office, with a small statue of Sola on his desk.

    "Please. Sit down."he tells Nevada and points his hand towards the white couch, on which Nevada sits down, with the man sitting down next to him.

    "May I ask, why have you come to visit us?"he asks Nevada, who immediately replies"Yes. My travels of spreading out Goddess'' faith have brought me here."

    "What is so special about our humble church?"he asks Nevada, who immediately thinks''Humble?. This is humble? Hah.''

    "There is a particular man, who I have heard of. He supposedly is a generous man, who donates money to the Church often."

    "Aah yes. You must mean Earl Robert Hyel Wilhelm."

    "Yes. He is the one."Nevada replies to him.

    "Thats good to hear. Have you come to see him personally?"he asks Nevada, who nods and answers"Yes. I have come here personally, to see him and pray towards Sola, to bless him for his kindness."

    "Thats and amazing news. I shall arrange the meeting for tomorrow. I don''t want to slow your travels down too much now."

    "Thank you for your help. I shall return here tomorrow, but in the meanwhile, I will enjoy the beauty of this city."Nevada replies and they both get up.

    "Bless Sola."

    "Bless Sola."

    An hour later, Nevada is sitting on the edge of the bed and thinks''That was so horrible.''

    The next day, Nevada had followed the priest to Roberts mansion and both of them, had now, entered the building. They were guided through a decorated hallway, by the butler.

    "Sir Wilhelm is waiting for you here."The butler says and opens a door.

    "Stay here please. I would like to talk privately."Nevada tells the priest.

    "Of course."he replies and stays behind the door, with the butler. The door is closed behind Nevada and now, he looks at the ugly fat bastard in front of him.

    "Thank you for coming to visit me."he says, without even bothering to get up.

    "No. Thank you for seeing me."Nevada replies and without dragging anything out, he takes the mask from his inner pocket and puts it one.

    In the next moment, he is in front of the fat man, holding a knife at his throat and the other hand on his mouth.

    "Adriana sends her regards, fatass."Nevada then slices his throat and grabs ring from the mans middle finger, as a proof.

    Nevadas job was now done and he camouflaged himself, seemingly disappearing from the room. He silently waits in the corner of the room for half an hour, before the butler opens the door.

    "Sir. Is everything....."he stops, as he sees his Master dead, with his throat slit.

    "Sir!"he screams and runs over to the body, with the church man following him.

    "Who did it? Wait...He is gone!"the butler yells.

    "Your servant is gone. The assassin must have took him."the butler yells at the man, who immediately says.

    "We must find him now. Gather your man."he tells the butler and the two run out of the room, with Nevada silently following them.

    He sneaks through the hallways and in five minutes, he is out of the house. He now runs towards his inn, on the roofs, while keeping his camouflage on. After ten minutes of running and jumping, he gets to his inn and sneaks in through the window.

    Nevada then puts on all of his equipment and in two minute, he is gone without a trace.

    11th day of 9th month year 10440

    A young female dogkin was enjoying her tea outside, in her garden, as she looked at the beautiful view. As he was enjoying the view a d the drink, her ears suddenly twitches and so, she watched in a direction, where sh thought, she heard the noise.

    Her face showed a little surprise, when he saw the tall kitsune figure in front his eyes, wearing a white mask.

    "Are you the assassin, who accepted my mission?"she asks him, who throws a ring at her, which she catches and looks at.

    "The jobs done."he tells the woman, who replies"Good. Now for your pay."

    As she says that, a maid suddenly appears, with a coin pouch on the metal tray, she is holding up with her hands. Nevada takes the payment and puts it onto his belt.

    "Before you go, may ask you as a beastkin to beastkin. Did killing made you feel at ease, knowing there is one less bastard alive?"she asks him, with a curious voice.

    "As an assassin, I have to say it was just a job. But as a beastkin to beastkin, it felt good killing the fat bastard. Killed by the thing he hated the most. Ironic."Nevada says and the next moment, he is disappeared.

    "I like that one."she mutters and then yells"Ela. From now on, I want him to do my missions that I give to Ice Fort."

    "Of course Mistress."The maid replies to her.

    Adriana looks at the beautiful rose field and mutters"One down. Nine to go."

 Beast vs Beast

    20th day of 9th month year 10440

    After Nevada had been on the road for days and only sleeping all together twenty hours, he was finally a day away from his home. The scenery had changed from the green lands, to a cold land, where it is often snowing.

    He was walking through the snow, with heavy steps, as the snow was almost up to his knees. For the past month, he has been away, it has snowed pretty heavily here. Everything was covered with a thick layer of snow and only guide for him was the sun and his senses. But the biggest thing, that was helping him, was Maria, to whom, he could feel getting closer. It was a mate thing, where the two mates could feel each other from the distance.

    Nevada looked at the sky and saw how the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Knowing, that moving in dark is dangerous, especially in this weather, he decided to make a camp for the night.

    So, he looked for a big tree and found one pretty quickly. Very slowly, he ran towards the tree and once he got up to it, he started to climb it. His nails dug into the tree, as he climbed.

    And with a last final push, he got on top of a large branch. He wipes the snow away and sat down on the branch and leaned his body forward, placing his head on the branch. He let his limbs hang in the air and now he truly looked like an animal, sleeping on top of a branch.

    Next morning, Nevada woke up, when the first sun rays hit him in the eye. He opened his eyes and looked around, before dropping himself from the branch and landing into the soft snow. He got onto his feet and wiped of the snow, before continuing his walk towards home.

    As he walks, he hears a loud and deafening screech, definitely belonging to a bird.

    "SHHHRRRRIIIIEEEEEEKK!!!"

    "Aaah fuck!"Nevada yells out, as he covers his fox ears, which are obviously sensitive to sounds.

    After a few seconds, he lets go of his ears and looks up the sky. His eyes grow big and then says"What the fuck!"

    He immediately starts running, as the bird is approaching. He looks behind, only to see it dive bombing towards him, while letting out it''s screech.

    The next moment, the bird hits the ground, destroying the ground around it and creating a craters. Nevada was also send flying with the ground, when the bird crashed into the ground.

    He flies through the air, completely vulnerable there, as he can''t do nothing. He flies and a few seconds later, he crashes into the snow, rolling there.

    He slowly gets up and bursts out from under the snow. He looks at the bird and calculates the distance between them.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.

    "Two fucking hundred meters. Holy shit."he mix in curses, as he doesn''t control his speech that much now

    Nevada stares at the giant bird, who looks to be about twenty meters high from head to toes. The birds wingspan seemed to be at least hundred and fifty meters wide. The body is about fifty meters long. The birds claws are sharp, with three at front and one at back on both feet. The birds feathers are mostly white, with blue mixed into it. The eyes are completely black.

    ''Okay. What the fuck is that thing? It isn''t a dragon, so why is this chicken so big here. The largest bird I know, was ten times then this bird. So what is it?''

    The bird sets it''s black eyes on Nevada and stares at him, with Nevada staring at him.

    "Aaah. Fuck this. I can''t fight it, so fuck this."he mutters, before turning around and trying to run away from the bird as fast as possible.

    As he runs away from the monstrous bird, he can hear and feel the bird running after him.

    ''Fuck fuck fuck.''is the only thing, going through Nevadas mind.

    He keeps running and running, as he feels the bird approaching. Suddenly, he finds himself in the air. He looks down onto the ground, only to see the bird there, holding it giant peak open, over him.

    With no other choice, he quickly creates a giant chunk of ice and just lets it drop on to the bird. The chunk crashes into the birds face, making it close It''s mouth and turn it''s head away. As for Nevada, he lands onto the birds head, then rolls down it and lands into the snow once again.

    Nevada looks up from the ground and says"Ooh fuck my life."

    He looks up, only to see that birds eye staring at him. Before he could do anything, he is thrown away by the bird again and he is send flying through a tree and crashes into the second on. He tries to push himself up, but feels weak and his left arm feels limp and tanglely.

    He grabs onto the tree with his right hand and starts to pull himself up with his hand. After a hard effort, he finally gets onto his feet and while leaning on the tree, he looks at the bird, who stares at Nevada.

    This bird is seriously pissing off Nevada and he could feel himself getting angrier and angrier. His sense of reason is gone and he starts to walk towards the bird. He realized, that he can''t outrun it, so he decides to fight it.

    As he steps towards the bird, he feels strange and his left hand is starting to heal.

    "You fucking bird piss me off!"he yells at it and while yelling, it is clearly see able, how his teeth are turning sharper and his face structure is starting to change.

    His hands start to grow long white hair and his nails turn black and sharp.

    He can feel his body change. With each second, he grows and turns more and more, to an appearance, of an animal.

    And ten seconds later, instead of a person, there is giant fox, with nine tails. He is about ten meters tall and thirty meters long. His fur is white, with the tips of his ears and tails, being ice blue.

    He looks at the bird with his blue splitted eyes and growls towards it, showing his sharp white teeth. He bites the air a few times, before dashing towards the bird, with great speed. The bird doesn''t go into the air, as it should, but instead starts running towards him too.

    The two massive beast collide, creating a shockwave, which clears the ground from snow with fifty meter radius.

    He bites into the bird with its sharp teeth, as the bird is attacking him with its razor sharp claws.

    While they are drawings each others blood, the bird decided to take flight and with its massive wings, it takes off from the ground, with the kitsune.

    He tries his hardest not to let go, but the shaky flight and his injuries, finally get to him and he lets go of the bird with his teeth and falls down, towards the earth.

    The bird hovers in the air, as he watches the fox falling and crashing into the ground, from one kilometer up in the sky.

    As for the fox, the impact with the ground hurt, but he didn''t get any serious injuries and so, he got onto his feet fast. Underneath him, he could hear ice cracking, but before he could get away, the bird dive bombed into Nevada.

    The Ice gave up and both of them, fell into the deep hole, underneath. As the two massive beasts fell, they disappeared into darkness. Only their screams were heard for a few seconds, but they do, disappeared soon.

    End of Arc 1.

 Glimpse of Her Power

    22th day of 9th month year 10440

    In Nevadas and Marias room in Ice Fort, Maria was sitting on the chair made out of dark wood and behind the table. He was resting his right hand on the table and her head on that hand. She looked out of the window and let out a long sigh.

    It had been about a month and Nevada still wasn''t back. She knew that he went pretty far, but still she was worried. Two days ago, she could feel Nevada closing in, but yesterday, she couldn''t anymore. She isn''t worried that he is dead, because she could feel it, if Nevada were to die. She was more worried that he has been severely injured or even something worse.

    She suddenly slaps her cheeks, to get that horrible thought out of her head.

    "I won''t get anything done like this."she mutters and gets up from the chair and puts on her travel clothes.

    She is now wearing a black long coat with a black fur hood, a pair of black pants and a pair of black warm boots. She pulls the hood up and the next moment, she has disappeared from the room.

    She then appears in a snowy clearing, where she looks around for a while, until she spots something from the distance. So she teleports there and looks at the thing. It''s a giant white bird feather, which she picks up and looks at it. The feather is about two meters long.

    "It isn''t a giant hawk feather, it''s too big for it."she mutters, as she observes the feather. She observes it closer and then remembers the drawings of this kind of feather. The colour is different, but the pattern is the same.

    "The Phoenix Queen."she mutters, with a terrified voice.

    There are two reasons for that. First is that the Phoenix Queen is one of the strongest monsters alive. Well was, which brings to the second reasons. All of the phoenixes were killed to an extinction five thousand years ago. They were hunted and killed off. Their eggs were crushed, before they could reborn.

    "Could the Queen have lived through the Hunt?"she asks herself, as she looks at the feather. There was another question too"Why is the feather white and why is it here. Phoenix feathers are fiery colours and they hate cold."

    She takes the last glance st the feather, before it disappears into thin air in her hand.

    She sniffs around a little, before she could smell Nevadas smell. She walks towards the location, where she could smell it, but when she got there, she was afraid.

    There was a broken tree on the ground and a pretty big chunk missing from the other tree, where she found Nevadas blood on it. She touched the blood and immediately felt, that it was frozen. She then looked at the ground, to a see a dagger on the ground.

    She picked it up and immediately recognized it.

    "It''s Nevadas."she mutters and puts it away.

    She observes the place and concludes''Nevada probably ran into the Phoenix and as there was no way to escape, he decided to fight. But it seems, it didn''t go well. He was thrown and flew that tree and stopped, after crashing into this one. He must have dropped the dagger after the impact, but I don''t see anything else here. The blood must have come from a small injury, If it were a big one, there would be more blood. But what is this?"

    She asks herself and walks over to place, where a thing is sticking out of the snow. She didn''t see it before, because it was hidden under the snow, but the wind must have cleared it now. So she walks up to it and wipes the snow off of it, revealing a bow with a blade attached to it.

    She obviously recognized immediately, that it is her Nevadas bow, as he is the only one, who would order a bow with a blade attached to it. She quickly looks over the bow and only see a few scratches on it, but beside that, it is completely fine. She puts the bow behind her back and moves on.

    If only there wasn''t a big snow storm there, she would have seen the aftermath of the two Beats fighting there. But now, the snow had covered the land again and she couldn''t see it.

    She walked hours, until from a distance, he noticed a person. It wasn''t Echo, as he didn''t have any beastkin traits. And so, she approached him carefully and ready to fight. As she closed in on the person, she saw him clearly.

    He had a black cloth as a eyepatch and purple marks sticking out under it. His right eye was gray and his hair ashen-blond. That guy was Despond. The man, who Nevada is forced to kill.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.

    ''Nevada missing and him being here, can''t be a coincidence.''is what Maria thought.

    Her expression turned immediately to a very angry on and she chanted.

    "[Void Ray]"

    Next moment, a ray of black energy was send out of her hand and towards Despond. The energy was so dark, that it didn''t reflect any light and so, it looked very unnatural.

    As for Despond, he turned his head and saw the ray coming towards him.

    "What the fu-."he couldn''t finish his sentence, before the ray hit him and his body, disappeared into the darkness. As for the ray, it went on and erasing everything in its path. For kilometers, everything that was in the way of the ray, was erased. It was only stopped, when Maria stopped it by herself.

    She looked at the spot and then muttering"I should have thought that it won''t be easy."

    In front of her, a dark thing started to grow and quickly, it took a form of a human. In ten seconds, Despond was completely healed and his clothes had changed into a shirt, pants, a pair of armored boots, a trench coat and a scarf, all of it being black. In his back waist, he had a black sword and on his right thigh, he had a black hand cannon in the holster.

    "What the fuck bitch!"Despond yells at her, but for his answer, he doesn''t get words, but another ray. This time ten times stronger.

    "Fucking hell."he mutters, before blocking the ray with his sword and sending it back towards her. It disappears before it could hit her.

    "[Come Forth the Great Book of Void, Ether]."She chants and into her left hand, completely pitch black book appears, with both the cover and the pages being black. On the cover, there runes written in dark purple colour.

    "One of twelve divine artifacts."Despond mutters, as he hears the chant and then seeing the book.

    If it were a God Slaying weapon, he wouldn''t have a problem, but a Divine Artifact is one. Artifacts are much stronger and can be in any non-weapon shape object. It can be a ring or in her case, a book.

    Another ray is send towards him once again, but this one is too strong to block. So before it hits him, he throws a card in the air and teleports to it. In the air, he draws his gun and shoots at her.

    The black bullet flies through the air, breaking the sound barrier, before hitting Maria and tearing her right arm off. She looks at her arm, without making a noise and sees, how from her wound, a black substance starts to form in a shape of a arm. Then it turns into her skin colour and she opens and closes her hand a few times, before chanting.

    Despond, who lands on the ground, looks at her and seeing, how she is still okay eben after the shot, he is impressed for the first time in fifty years.

    "[Void Queen.]"

    Her entire body is covered by a black substance, which slowly is being absorbed into her. Once the substance is gone, Marias new looking is revealed. Her skin turned into a very light shade of purple. Her hair is black and flowing in the air. Her eyes are completely black, without any seeable pupils or anything. As for her attire, it is now a black skin tight clothing looking thing.

    As for Despond, who sees that, he mutters"Well this is fucking ridiculous." Before he is grabbed by his neck and with a cold and hateful tone, she asks"Where is Nevada, Despond?"

    "Nevada?"he asks"I don''t know. I haven''t seen him."

    "Don''t lie to me Despond!"she shouts, making his body shiver a little.

    "I''m not. I''m not dumb enough to do that right now."he explains to her"I tell you. I haven''t seen him. I was just looking for a weapon, which supposedly is supposed to be around here. I need this weapon, If Nevada wants Sola dead."

    Hearing that, he lets go off him and Despond, who is smart enough, doesn''t try to run. Because void is the most powerful and dangerous magic in the existence and If she is the Queen of it, it means that he has no chance.

    So he gets onto his feet and starts talking"Nox already told me about Sola, her sisters plans. How he marked and wanted to send Nevada after me. Most cases, I would kill him-."

    He stops, as he receives an angry face.

    "-But because Nevada was a friend, I obviously want to avoid that. Sola wants me dead, because he doesn''t like me being with her sister. So, her, being a whiny bitch she is, has marked hundreds of strong fighters for the past eighty years. All of them were told to go after me and all of them died, except for one, who turned against Sola, after she got some "action". But to get to point. I need four God Slaying weapons to kill Sola, as she is getting too annoying, and right now, I am one weapon short. So would you please be kind enough and let me search on?"

    She doesn''t say anything and just closes her book, turning back to her beastkin form.

    "How do you know Nevada?"she asks him.

    "I helped him in the past."Despond tells him.

    "How did you help him?"

    "You have to ask that himself. It isn''t my place to say that."he replies to her and continues"If you do find him, tell him to go to Great Mountain of Ymor. On top of there, he can improve his kitsune powers. You don''t have to believe me, but just tell him the location and tell him, that Echo Zain said that. He will decide then."

    "You Are telling the truth. Now disappear, before I kill you."Maria tells him.

    "Soon after I fi-."He couldn''t finish his sentence again, as he was kicked by Maria so strongly, that he accelerated to so fast, that he just flew across the lands, sa his bones were crushed by the speed. He flew through a mountain, before crashing into another one and rolling down the mountain in great speed.

    Finally, he crashed into the ground, making a small crater there. After a minute of healing, he got up onto his feet. He looked around and about two kilometers away, he noticed a mansion.

    "Is that my fucking house?"he asks himself, before running there in a minute and stopping in front of it.

    "It is my fucking house."he mutters."I just flew ten thousand kilometers in thirty seconds. How fast did I went?"

    As for Maria, she has now calmed down and says"The weapon will go to Nevada and to no one else."

    She teleports away from the place and back in her room, she takes off her clothes quickly, before collapsing from mana exhaustion. The Queen form drains a lot from her and in her rage, she used it. So right now, she is already asleep on the bed, dreaming about her Foxy.

 Waking up

    In complete darkness, there was a body laying on the ice floor and a puttle of blood under the body. He had white fox ears with mix of blue in it. Same colours were his nine tails. His clothes were also blood and he didn''t have any seeable weapons on his body.

    After hours, he slowly opened his eyes and immediatly was greeted with a shat pain on the left side of his stomach. He presses his teeth together because of the pain and through great pain and effort, he lifts his head a little, to see a long icycle going through his body and covered with his red blood.

    "I have to remove it."he mutters and makes his nails long and sharp, before cutting off half of the icycle, leaving only leaving left the part inside of his body.

    So, slowly, he turns onto his right and looks at it, pulls up the coat, before grabbing the tip of it and staring to pull it out.

    "Haa!"he lets out a small scream from pain, as he pulls it out of his body with almost unbearable pain. Slowly, he starts to see more and more of the blood covered ice, until it is completly out of his body. He then quickly touches the wound and freezes it together with ice magic quickly on both sides.

    It hurts like a bitch, but it''s better then bleeding out here, which he somehow hasn''t done yet. He stays on his side for a few minutes, before starting to slowly get up onto his feet.

    He pushes his body up with hands, then gets into his knees and the starts to get onto his feet. All of this proved to be hard, because of the ice, but he managed to do it in a minute.

    Now that he is on his feet, he could look around more in this dark place with his eyes, that can see in dark. As he turns his head around, he notices that there is only ice here. He then looks up and Even with his eyes, he doesn''t see the top of it.

    "How the hell did I get here?"he asks himself, as he doesn''t remember it.

    ''I was fighting with that bird and it thres me into the tree....after that I remember only anger and thats it. I can''t remember what happened after that.''

    He tries to remember, but can''t do it no matter how hard he tries.

    ''I''m in a cave, with a lot of many, which I can collect. I have mana for about five days and only thing here is ice, which I probably can use as a water source If needed. I have no weapons on me too....just great."

    He shakes his head and just starts to walk through the ice ''corridors'' here. But because of his wound, his speed is pretty slow and he needs to support his body with the wall. As the weakend Nevada walks there, he notices something from the distance. So he starts moving towards it, while leaning against the wall.

    As he gets closer by walking, he sees, that it''s his sword, seemingly stuck in the ice. In these kinds of situations, the person would probably fasten his pace, but Nevada doesn''t see a pointi of doing that and so continues to walk towards it with the same speed.

    When near the sword, he pushes himself off the wall and stumbles to his sword, which he grabs. He tries to pull the sword with its sheath, but without effort. It is too stuck in the ice. So he decided to leave the sheath and just grabs the hilt of the sword and pulls it, only to say"Great. Just fucking great."

    He says it, because when he pulled it out, he only bulled out some of the blade, because the blade had been broken and now, he had a weapon with a longsword hilt and a thirty centimeter grip.

    He lets out a sigh and feels a little sad for breaking the sword, that his parents gave him. Because this is the end of the corridor, he turns around, while spinning the blade into a reverse grip and continues to walk, while leaning on the wall.

    As he walks, he starts to remember bits and pieces of the fight after his overhelming anger. He remembers biting the bird and then... flying.... falling and it divebombing.....then he remembers, how both of them fell down here, to this ice hell.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

    And for the first time in his life, he actually felt, that he was freezing. Even when he was left to the forest when he was born, he didn''t feel this cold. The tempeture in this place was at least -50�� If not more.

    Suddenly, his fox ears stood up, as he heard some kind of noise, belonging to a person. So this time, he fastens his pace and he almost jogs there.

    When he gets nearer, he sees a woman about twenty meters away. Her skin is pale, almost white. Her eyes are beautiful big and black. Her hair is long and mix between white and blue. She herself is wearing a dress with white feathers as decoration.

    ''I fell down with the bird, but I don''t see it here. She has the same colours as the bird and her dress is decorated with feathers. If the bird had a human form, then it would look like her. And I seriously doubt, that she just happened to be here.''

    As he thinks, he notices, that she noticed him and so, Nevada immediatly rushed towards her, ignoring the pain. Before she could react, she was slammed into the wall and a balde was presses against the throat.

    "So you stupid bird fell down here too."he says and presses the blade more clsoer to her neck.

    "Let me go you damn fox."she says and with great strength, pushes him away from her. He flies into the wall and slides down onto the floor. Immediatly, he vomits out some blood and follows it with a few bloody coughs.

    He seriously can''t take a hit right now with his current condition. So, Nevada looks at the bird, who looks at him, while leaning against the wall, and he throws the blade in his hands, towards her head, which she managed to dodge the last moment. The blade gets stuck in the ice and the two look at each other.

    "You damn kitsunes are always so violent."she says and starts to walk closer to him.

    "Shut up bird."he says and creates ice spike, which he shoots towards her, only tl have then destroyed by a blue flame.

    "I, Eleanor the Great Phoenix Queen, will now kill you."she declares and before she could strike him down, he says"Phoenix Queen? Don''t joke here. Phoenixes have been extind for five thousand years. There are none left."

    "Huh."she says with a stupifid voice"What do you mean?"

    She grabs him by a collar, pulls him up and presses him against the wall.

    "Like you heard. Phoenix race is extinct."Nevada tells her and puts his hand near her neck, with his sharp nails out.

    ''He can''t kill her yet, as she might be useful for getting out of here. And If needed, she will be his mana source.''

    "You are telling the truth..."she says in a saddened voice and lets go of him. She takes a few steps back and drops onto the ground, while leaning against the fall. She covers her face with her hands and a small crying could be heard soon after that.

    As for Nevada, he slowly slides down onto the ground and looks at the phoenix, while lying against the wall.

    ''By her reaction, she has probably been in some kind of deep slumber or something like that and only recently, has she woken up. And now, she is crying, because she just found out, that she is the only surviving member of her race.... speaking of race, I haven''t seen any kitsunes anywhere. I really would like to meet another one of my kind, as it feels slightly lonely, being the only kitsune in the Ice Fort. I have Maria to ease my lonliness, but still. I want to meet other kitsunes.''

    Nevada lets out a sighs and leans his head back, staring at the darkness above him.

    At the Ice Fort, Maria has woken up and lying on her bed, while looking at the ceiling. She lets out a long sigh and thinks about yesterday.

    ''I actually had to release my true form...But why did I left Despond alive. I could have killed him and Nevada would have been free. We could have finally started thinking about expanding the family, but now, it won''t happen so soon. He refuses to talk about it and says, that only then, when he has gotten rid of the mark, will he talk about it with me. But seriously, what kept me ending all of it. Yesterday, he was telling only truth, so does that mean, that Nevada had made some kind of deal with Despond, to take down a common enemy. And he didn''t tell me or did it recently and hasn''t told me, because he hasn''t gotten back here yet. And the part about being friends was also true...''

    "Huuuuuh."she groans loudly and turns around onto her stomach. She looks to her side and streches out her right arm. She stares at her arm and suddenly, dozen white pieces with blue lines on it appear hovering over her hand.

    Each piece is part of her old mask, which she starts to reform, using her magic and once the mask is fixed, she lets it drop onto her hand to catch it.

    She looks at the mask, with five horizontal lines in a 30�� angle go up her mask. And this is on both sides. Her mask has ten blue lines. This means, she is the second tenth rank assassin in Ice Fort and the strongest one here.

    "I really have gone soft."she says to herself and puts the mask on the table. She won''t start to work again, as she promised to herself after her brothers death. But she will start to fight again.

    She then gets up from the bed and goes to the bathroom to wash her body.

    After the bath, she looks at herself in the mirror and with her magic, she changes her look to how she used to be. Her normal body build turns into a more muscular one with six pack and defined muzzles. But it isn''t that musclular body. It''s more very well trained one, with almost no fat one.

    "I kinda missed this look."she mutters to herself and leave the bathroom.

 The Room

    In the Ice corridor, Nevada was sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall and looking at Eleanor, who was hugging her knees. She raises her eyes and asks"Why are you still here?"

    "Because I can''t move yet."he replies to her.

    "Wh-....Ooh I see."she mutters, when she notices the red bloodstains on his white coat and the circular hole in the middle of the stain.

    "Let me guess... You can''t use [Light Magic] to heal yourself?"she asks him, while looking at him.

    "Yep."he replies and looks at her with his blue eyes.

    "And can''t you just fly away?"he asks her after that.

    "I was in my phoenix form for too long, so now I''m stuck in my human form for at least the next forty hours or so."she answers him. Understanding her, he makes a slight nod and the two look at each other.

    Somehow, the hate between the that they had before was seemingly gone and they just sat there and basically did nothing. As the time passed, they still didn''t move.

    Eleanor was thinking anf Nevada was trying to heal what he could by circulating his mana around the wound. He had no idea If it would work and so, he just did it while hoping it would work.

    "Why were you away for over five thousand years?"Nevada asks her, trying to start a conversation, as the silence is getting annoying a little.

    She looks at him with her eyes so black, that it is very difficult tell apart from the iris and the pupil. She lets out a sigh and says"I was put here and made to guard some kind of object sealed in this place."

    "Who forced you?"he asks her.

    "I don''t know exactly. He calls himself Lucifer and appearantly he sealed something of his here. I don''t know what it is, as I can''t get into the room, where it is sealed."she tells him.

    "Huuh."he lets out and leaned his head back. After a minute, he looks back at her and asks her"Want to find out what it is?"

    "Sure."she replies"But what makes you think you can enter the room?"

    "Honestly... Nothing. But it''s better, then sitting here on our asses."Nevada tells him and she thinks for a few seconds, before replying"Sure. Might as well try. I want to see the thing so importand, that I had to guard even after everyone I knew was killed."Stolen novel; please report.

    She pushes herself up and walks over to Nevada. She streches out her pale slender arm and Nevada grabs it. Immediatly, he is pulled up, with him making a slightly painful face, and he is being pulled up.

    Now that he is on his feet, he says"Lead the way."

    "Then follow."she replies and starts walking, with Nevada following after her. But before that, he grabs the sword from the wall.

    As they were walking, he asks"Also. Why did you attack me?"

    "Kitsunes and Phoenixes are natural enemies. Our races have always been at war. Neither side even remembers why they were fighting."she explains to him.

    "And out situation now? We are friends or what?"he asks her and puts his hand over the wound.

    "Right now, we are just people. My race is extinct and I am the only surviour. You are a cursed kitsune, who probably is looked with hateful eyes by many. And our current situation is shit too. So I seriously don''t want to fight. I want to get out of here and see, what has changed after I was put here. If possible, find all of the bastards, who slaughtered my people and are still alive."

    "But as for what we are....I don''t know. Two people, who just talk...I guesss?"she tells him, what she thinks.

    "Well your plan sounds bloody...But I guess we are just people, who just talk...For now."the last part is said silenlty.

    As they walk through the Icy corridor, they reach in front of a huge set of Ice doors. They look at it and Eleanor says"Here it is. Try If you want?"

    "Okay."he replies and puts his right hand on the door. Immediatly, darker shade of blue lines start coming out under his hand and they start to spread out on the door. The lines form a complex pattern, before hearing a unlocking of a lock sound.

    Nevada takes off his hand and says"It''s open."

    "I guess you were the one, who is worthy to unlock it."she mutters and watches, how he pushes the two doors open, revealing the darkness inside of the room.

    "Ooh well."he mutters and steps into the room, but before Eleanor could enter, the doors slammed shut. Nevada looks at the door and knowing the clich�� event, he won''t even try to open the doors.

    ''They won''t open, until I complete some trial or shit.''He think, as he barely could see in the darkness.

    After unknown time, he has walked so long, that he can''t tell anymore how long he has been walking.

    After a few more steps, everything lits up and now, he can see the room made out of ice, with an altar made out of Ice in the center of the room. He turns around and sees the door, he entered through, there.

    "Oooh fuck you."he curses, as he sees the door.

    He then turns around and stares at the altar. On it, he sees a katana in a white scabbard. The hilt of the sword has a white diamond patters and a white guard. Under the sword, he sees a necklace with a black string and a small piece of ice blue crystal attached to it.

    As Nevada looks at it, he feels how it drags him towards it and telling him to take the sword. With each step, while he can''t control himself, he gets closer to the altar.

    His hand is pulled towards the sword and the moment he touches it, he can feel cold running through his body and he feels, how something is changing. He feels how his body is broken and rebuild over and over again.

    All of the breaking, causes a pain so immense, that he drops onto his knees and is trying his hardest not to fall any lower. With all of his strength, he supports his body with his hands, as he feels his body freezing.

    ''the pain is too much.''is his last thought, before collapsing on the floor. Even though he is unconcious, the change doesn''t stop for a while. And when it is done, Nevada had changed.

 Nevada and... Nevada?

    When Nevada opened his eyes, he saw, that he was in a bedroom. He got onto his feet and looked at the bed. As he looked more around the room, he felt, that it was very familiar.

    Then, he looked at the bed again, and saw one woman laying on the bed with her legs spread open. The other woman was in front of her and repeating"Breath and push. Breath and push."

    "I know how to do it."she snapped back at the mother.

    But the scene itself wasn''t strange. What was strange, was that the woman on the bed, didn''t seem to see him, even though she was staring towards him.

    ''Can''t they see me?''Nevada wondered, as he got closer to the woman.

    The woman gave the last push and out of her, a baby with white fox ears and nine-tails came out.

    ''This...this is me?....and those two...must be my birthmother and her mother....this is a memory from the third person perspective.....''

    As he realised that, everything started to fast forward. He saw how grandmother cleaned him, gave him to his mother and then her giving him back. She then left the house with him. And he was dragged along with her.

    Nevada then appeared in the place, where he was left. He looked at his sleeping body, but couldn''t do anything. He wanted to touch him, but his hand went through his baby self.

    The time once again started to fast forward and he saw, how Alice came and picked him.

    Time started to move faster and faster as he saw himself coming older. The memory when he was sleeping on the same bed with Maria, when he was Marked, when he killed the first time and when he made love with Maria for the first time.

    The memories stop after that and everything goes white around him. Nevada looks around the white space, seemingly without an end. He can''t see anything beside whiteness, but then, out of the thin air, a figure appears.

    Nevada looks at the man sees that he has black hair with red streaks. Same with his fox ears and nine fox tails. His eyes were blood red and on his face, he had a black mark. His skin was tanned. He was wearing a black coat with blue stain on it.

    He looked exactly like Nevada himself, but with different colours.

    "You are me?"Nevada asks the other Nevada, who looks back at him and says"Yes and no."

    "I am you, but not you at the same time."

    ''Great. A clich�� moment.''Nevada thinks to himself and the other guy says"Yes it is."

    "And you can read my mind. Great."he says sarcastically.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.

    The other him walks closer to him, before putting his hand on his shoulder and saying"Ask Maria about the Void."

    And before Nevada could ask anything, the other Nevada disappeared and everything went dark.

    The next moment, Nevada opened his eyes again and saw after looking around, that he is in the room with the altar. He slowly gets up from the ice floor and looks around the place.

    The memory trip and seeing his other self, has made his thinking pretty confusing and so, he takes a few minutes to recover.

    After his recovery, he looks at his hand, to see blue lines on it and going under his coat. So he immediately took it of and saw, how the lines decorated his entire right arm and went inder his shirt. He didn''t really want to take off his shirt right now, so he decided to look at it another time.

    He puts his coat back on and looks at the altar and sees the sword there, but not the necklace. Seeing that, he just shrugs his shoulders and grabs the sword with his left hand and walks away with it.

    When he gets to the door, he simply pushes them open and exits the room. The first thing he sees, is Eleanor sitting in front of the door, against the door and right now, she seems to be sleeping.

    Seeing her there like that, makes Nevada shake his head and then walking over to her. He gently slaps her cheek a couple of times, waking her up soon after. She looks around with a confused face, before stopping to look at Nevada and asking"Did you get the item?"

    "Yes."he replies and shows her the katana"It''s a sword."

    "A weapon huh."she mutters and then, she starts to glow blue.

    "What is happening?"Nevada asks, with a panicking voice. He puts his hand on her shoulder and she puts hers on his hand.

    "Sorry for using you."she apologizes"I don''t want to be the only member of my species and remember that pain, so for me to finally pass on, I needed you to get the objects. I''m so sorry. I don''t want to...."

    She couldn''t finish saying her last words, before the light turns so bright, that it momentarily blinds Nevada, who reflexively covers his blue eyes.

    When the lights fade away, Nevada opens his eyes and sees a white egg with blue lines on it.

    "When phoenix dies, he or she turns into an egg, so he or she could be reborn again from the fire. But when he or she reborns, it is without their previous memories. And this endless cycle continues."Nevada mutters the line from the book, he read once.

    Nevada looks at the football sized white egg with blue lines on it, before taking it in his hands and walking away from the place.

    Somehow, he has now the entire layout of this place in his mind and also with a way out of here. So, he traces back his steps for hours and only thing guiding him, is his sharp nose with which he sniffs out the location, where he woke up the first time. From there, there should be a way out of here.

    After hours of walking, he is back where he first woke up. He knows that this is a right place, as he can see the icicle with his blood on it still near the place.

    He then looks up towards the darkness and chants"[Ice Platform]"

    Immediately, 1x1 platform rises from the ground with him on it and starts to go up, leading him into the darkness.

    On a snowy field, Maria is walking around, when suddenly, her ears perk up. They twitch a few times and as the sound is getting closer, she can feel in her heart, how Nevada is getting closer. Following her instincts, she starts running in a direction.

    As she is running, she sees a figure of Nevada flying in the sky and following him with her eyes, she sees how he crashes into the ground.

    "Nevada."she says his name and the next moment teleports to him. She sees him lying on his back, while breathing heavily. He looks at her with her eyes and says"Ooh Hi Wolfy!", Before he passes out from exhaustion.

    "Hi Foxy."she says with a smile on her face, but then, she notices the blue lines on his hand and immediately grabs that hand. She looks at those lines and mutters.

    "Oh No."

 Back home

    It was in the morning, when Nevada woke up on his bed. He looked around a little with slightly confused expression. Slowly, he started to remember what happened and immediately raised his upper body and looked around the room.

    He then looked down, to see the necklace with a I e blue crystal attached to it. He lifts it with his hand and looks at it, before letting it go. His eyes then move to his right, where he sees a blue tattoo on his right arm and the right side of his upper body. The entire thing seems to be a more detailed tribal tattoo.

    As he stares at his arm, he feels a pair of arms wrapping around his body. Looking at the hands, he says"Morning Wolfy."

    "Morning."she replies and presses her breasts against his back. She then looks at his arm and says"So you wound a weapon and an artifact."

    "It seems so. Wanna explain it to me?"he asks her in a calm tone.

    "What you found is The Katana of Ice and The Necklace of the Ice Emperor. By having the God Slaying Weapon and the Divine Artifact of the same element, you have become the king of it..or in your case, an Emperor. Congratulations I guess."she says, in a voice, that showed that she was in a bad mood.

    "You don''t seem happy. Why is that?"he asks her and she replies"Because you have become something, I never wanted you to be..."

    "A ruler of an element? Like you, The Void Queen."he asks her and turns around, to look at her. He sees, how her eyes have hints of purple and the ends of her hair, tail and ears have turned into purple.

    "Why do you know that?"she asks him in a surprised tone.

    "I was told."he tells her. In reality, after he woke up again, his head was overflowing with information, that he only now, could understand.

    "And my biggest secret is out."she mutters and looks at Nevada with her purple eyes. He looks back at her and puts his hand on her shoulder, asking"Why didn''t you want me to become a Element Ruler?"

    "Because it''s a miserable eternal life that only ends, when this world ends. As long as the Ice exists, you will live on. But the Void, never ends. For eternity, I have to live. I just don''t want to lose you and live with it for eternity."she says, tears coming from her eyes.

    He looks at her, before pulling her into a hug and whispering"I won''t die Wolfy. I promise that and I keep them. Like the one, I promised once."

    "Do you mean?"she asks her, while looking at him with now happy tears in her eyes.

    "Yes...I want to start a family."he says and pushes her down on the bed.

    "So lets start."he says and as he is about to learn in, the door is opened and Veronica walks in. She stops, to look at them and the two look back at her.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.

    They don''t say anything and Veronica just starts to slowly walk backwards and once she is out of the room, she says"Enjoy yourselves."before closing the door.

    They stare at the door for a few seconds, before Nevada just drop himself onto Maria and says"And the mood is gone."

    "Yes it is."Maria replies and pats his head, which is resting on her breasts. While he is resting, he started to move his hands over her body and he felt, how her body didn''t feel as soft as before.

    "Your body feels different."he comments, while feeling it.

    "I changed it to my old self... perhaps you hate it?"she asks in a worried tone.

    "No no."he assures her that he actually likes it"K love it." His hands move down her body and down to her butt, which he grabs with his hands and commented"Especially this place here."

    "Pervert."Maria immediately calls him that. Nevada just smiles at her and keeps lying on her body, while she keeps patting him.

    "Nevada...There is one other thing I must tell you."Maria tells Nevada, who looks up to her with her blue eyes and asks"What is it?"

    "When I was searching you, I ran into... Despond and fought him."she tells him.

    "Didn''t you say, that he is too strong?"he asks her and she answers"I said so, but when I fought him, he seemed a lot weaker then he should be. Meaning, he held back."

    "Okay. So why didn''t you kill him?"he asks her. He doesn''t have to be the one to kill him, so why didn''t she.

    "Because he said he helped you in the past and you two knew each other. He said his name was Echo Zain."she tells him.

    "Echo."he mutters his name, trying to remember it and then he remembers.

    ''The Mercenary....so he is here too....damn.''he thinks and Maria seeing how Nevada had gone quiet, calls out his name"Nevada."

    "Nevada."she calls out again, after not getting a response.

    "Huh?"he says in a confused voice and looks at her.

    "Are you okay?"she asks him, with him replying"Yeah. I''m fine."

    "So, do you know him?"she asks him and he answers"If what he said was true, then yes."

    "I see."she answers. She isn''t that interested how exactly do they know each other and so, she doesn''t bother asking. And obviously, Nevada is relieved that she didn''t ask, as it would be very difficult to explain it to her.

    As for Veronica, she went back to her room and Alice seeing her surprised face, says"Please don''t tell me you just walked into their room again."

    "Sorry."Veronica immediately apologizes.

    "Veronica!"she yells out her name and then asking"Why did you do that?"

    "I don''t know. I just..."she doesn''t know herself what to exactly say.

    Seeing her like that, makes Alice sigh and then saying"Veronica. Stop interrupting our sons love life. How would you like If he just walked in when we are having sex?"

    "Uuum. I guess I wouldn''t care really."Veronica replies and looks at Alice, who looks at Veronica like a piece of trash.

    "Pervert."Alice mutters.

    "I''m not!"she yells back.

    Back to Nevada and Maria, Nevada had fallen asleep once again, as the last few days had been too tiring and he had completely forgotten about his wound too. Obviously, Maria hadn''t forgotten and so, she was patching him up, while he was in a deep sleep.

    "Seriously Nevada...you make so much trouble."she mutters, after finishing patching him up. She puts her hand on his cheek and mutters"But I still love you, you little trouble maker."

    She kisses his forehead and lays down next to him. She pulls his face onto her breasts, which he loves so much and hugs him, so he wouldn''t move. Nevada in his sleep, rubs his head against her breasts and makes a satisfied face. Maria seeing this smiles and closes her eyes too.

    On top of a hill, a woman with orange fox ears with white tips and nine orange fox tails, also with white tips, is sitting in a lotus position, when she suddenly opens her yellow eyes and mutters in a soft voice.

    "The King has finally appeared."

 Leaving Home to Train

    15th day of 10th month year 10440.

    A few weeks had past since Nevada got back home. For those past weeks, he has healed completly and now, was able to go back on the field. Maria obviously didn''t like that thought, because of what had happened and she also wanted him to be with him for some time.

    Currently, both Nevada and Maria are covered with sweat and both of them are laying on their bed, while snuggleing up to each other. Marias breath is a little heavy, but not too much. Reason for their condition is, that they just finished having sex and now they were resting.

    "Nevada."she calls out his name

    "What?"he asks her and looks at her with his blue eyes.

    "Do you really have to go to Great Mountain of Ymor. I mean it could be just a lie."she tells him her opinion.

    Nevada thinks and then answers"Yes Wolfy. If there is a chance to get stronger, I have to do it. And also...You wouldn''t have told me about it, If you thought it was a lie."

    "Yeah."she says and then looking at him with her purple eyes, she says in a sad tone"You would be gone for a long time again. And I would miss you."

    "Then come with me."he tells her, after looking at her expression."It''s not like you can''t come and nothing here really doesn''t keep you chained here."

    "I can''t Nevada."she tells him, which makes him ask"Why?"

    "It''s not that I don''t want to come with you, but I just don''t want to go near the Great Mountain.... Because my brother died near the Great Mountain....and If I were to go near that place...."she doesn''t finish her sentence, as it seems to be too hard for her to talk about.

    So he just hugs her and tells her"I get it Wolfy....But I still need to go...So I guess I have to do it alone."

    "I understand."she says in a saddened voice and looks down, while her ears drop. Seeing her like this, makes Nevada sad. So he lifts her head with her finger and makes her look at him.

    "Wolfy. You don''t need to worry about me. I promise I will be back as soon as I can. When I return, we will take down Sola and have a family. That I promise."he tells her in a voice full of confidence and sincerity.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

    "Really?"she asks him and immediatly, her black wolf ears perk up.

    "Yes. So wait for me."he tells her and immediatly, he is kissed by her. He can feel how she is invading his mouth with her tounge.

    She continues for a minute, until she takes her lips off from his and says"Nevada....If you find a woman of your kind there and you like her....I want you to make her your lover."

    "Huh?"he lets out with a stupifid tone.

    "I''m saying If you find an another kitsune and you two start to like each other, make her your lover."she tells him.

    "I get what you are saying, but why Are you saying it so suddenly?"he asks her, while staring at her.

    "Because I know you some times feel lonely being the only kitsune here. So..if you find another kitsune, I won''t mind If you take her as your second lover."she tells him in a serious voice. For the past few years, she has seen how he would like to meet and talk with another kitsune. He is the only one from his kind on this Area. Unlike everyone else here who has some other people from their kind, he is the only kitsune. So, she decided, If he were to Ever meet another kitsune and If she happened to be a girl, Maria wouldn''t mind, If Nevada took her in.

    "So you want me to get a harem?"he asks bluntly from her and immediatly gets a small hit in the stomach.

    "No stupid. I won''t allow any woman. And maximum will be four woman. Try to get a fifth and I will castrade you."she warns him and actually scares Nevada a little.

    "Okay. No more them four. Got it."he tells her and assures her, that he understands.

    "Good Foxy."she tells him and pushes him on his back"If you are going to leave soon, I should enjoy out time together."she tells him and puts her hands on his chest. Nevada looks at her and sees burning lust from her eyes.

    So without saying anything, Maria started to fuck Nevada without caring If he wanted to or not. She has to make sure, that she is the main lover and no matter who the other three could be, she will always be on the top.

    ''Maria seems pretty weird today, but I won''t mind.''Nevada thinks, while looking at her shaking breasts, before putting his hands on her waist.

    Two days later, Nevada has put on his new set of clothes. A pair of black compat boots, a pair light gray pants, white t-shirt and a dark brown leather vest with high collar, without sleevles and left open from the front. Around his waist, a gray sash was tied around and was holding onto his katana, which was on his back waist, with the hilt facing right. On his hands, he had a pair of brown fingerless gloves with them going up to his elbows. On left tigh, he had a black hand crossbow, with its limps collapsed. And this was hold by a holster made out of black leather and attached to his thigh with two leather straps.

    Right now, he finished putting his quiver full of arrows on his back and he put his bow next to it. He then took the remaining part of his old sword and put it on the left side of his sash, as a back up weapon.

    He then streched out his hands and asked Maria, who was laying on the bed, naked and looking at him.

    "What do you think?"

    "It doesn''t really suit your race, but what ever."she gives her honest opinion. She then gets up and walks over to Nevada.

    She give him a hug and the two share a passionate kiss, before their lips seperate and she says.

    "Be back soon."

    "I will."he replies and the next moment, he is teleported away by Maria.

    She sits down on the bed and mutters"I already miss him."

 Ymor

    Nevada appeared out of the thin air, near the Wall of the Ymor Kingdom, Erzoy. Behind him, there was a ten meters tall wall. In front of him, a green landscape. So he looked around the place, while muttering"Where is the Great Mountain of..... Found it."

    He says and looks at the giant mountain on front of him. It goes through the white clouds in the sky and Nevada can''t see the tip of the mountain at all.

    Now that he has seen the mountain, he knows he will need some supplies and so, he has to go to the city. Luckily, beastkins aren''t religious and so, they don''t know about Sola or her mark. Which means, he doesn''t need a stupid backstory and act nice. But he does have to change his eyes, because he still is a cursed kitsune and his kind isn''t liked anywhere. Only reason that some of the other members tolerate him, is because of the backing he has. A seventh and eighth rank assassin. Plus a ex-tenth rank assassin, who is a ruler of a Void. Basically, the strongest person in The Ice Fort, will always choose him and so, the others don''t dare to say anything about me being a cursed kitsune.

    Now that Nevada had changed his eyes into Ice white, he started to walk towards the gate, to get to the city through there. So, when he got to the gate, he lined up in the line, to enter the city. Obviously, he attracted a lot of attention, because him being a kitsune and all. This was part of his plan. He thought, that If a word goes around, that there is a kitsune here, it will attract other kitsunes maybe. As his kind is rare, they probably want to keep close to members of his kind.

    After an hour at standing in line, it was finally his turn. So he walks up dogkin guards and one of them asks him"Show your identification."

    "Here."Nevada says and hands over a metal card, where his fake information is on, like all of his identification cards. All of them are fake and because of that, he doesn''t have a real one with his actual info on it. It''s an assassin thing.

    "Okay. It''s checks out."he says and gives it back to Nevada, who takes it, to put it away to his pocket.

    "It''s very rare to see a kitsune around here. I hope you enjoy your stay."the other guard comments and Nevada replies to that"I hope so too. Good day."

    He walks pass the guards and enters the Kingdom of Erzoy.

    Kingdom of Erzoy, built in year 5975, by the Oroty foxkin family and because of that, Oroty became the Royal family in Erzoy. And from then on, only they have ruled here. Currently, the Kingdom is ruled by the deceased king Henry''s wife, Hely. Hely didn''t give birth to any man, only girls and because of that, there is no heir to the throne.

    Nevada looked around the city, as he walked on the busy street. Merchants were selling on the side of the roads. Children were running around. And members of multiple builds were leaving the city.

    Everywhere he looked, he saw only beastkins from all of the different races. But Nevada still hadn''t sadly seen any other kitsune in the crowd.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.

    After wandering around for a while, he had stopped at a shop, where he bought supplies for the trip and because there is still six hours of daylight left, he decided to start his walk today. So he walked back towards the gate, through it and towards the mountain. To get there, he had to first walk on a road and that was a pretty long road.

    Even after and hour, he still wasn''t near the mountain and it seemed only slightly bigger, meaning that the Mountain is ridiculously tall and he has a lot of travelling to do.

    Hours later, the sun had set and Nevada had finally reached the mountain. Now, that he was near the mountain, he truly understood how big this thing is.

    Currently, he was camping twenty meters away from the narrow road, leading up the mountain and eating the blue fruit called Nu?. It''s a very sweet and juicy fruit and it only grows in Ymor and no where else. Because of that, he prices can get high, as they are the only ones growing it and so, they control it''s market outside of Ymor. Reason why it isn''t grown elsewhere, is because the soil isn''t fitting for it.

    Nevada ate the fruit, while staring at the campfire. As he stared at it, he got a flashback from his previous life.

    In an abandoned apartment building, a man with ashen-blond hair and gray eyes was running, while a another man with black hair and green eyes following him. The have been rushing through the floors for the past few minutes, but both of them don''t look tired at all.

    ''Who the hell is that guy.''the black haired Alexander thinks, as he keeps chasing him.

    They once again run up the stairs, but this time, it was the last set of stairs and so, the chased man needed a new route. So he started to dash through the corridor, going so fast, that Alexander had to go full speed also.

    As they ran, Alexander noticed a window in front of the two and he then realised, what that guy decided to do. So he tried to go even faster and capture him before he could jump, but he didn''t manage.

    The ashen-blond man jumped through the window, shattering it with Alexander following him after. Both of them didn''t know what was under them, but their training told them not to care.

    Flying through the air, they fall four meters down at the roof of an another building. The ashen-blond is first fall and he fails to land, causing him to roll on the roof, as for Alexander, hr manages to land and follow it with a roll from which he gets onto his feet quickly.

    He rushes towards the man, who himself has gotten up. He was tired of running and decided to fight. So as he sees Alexander running towards him, he readies a kick and sends it at him, when he gets close enough, only to have it dodged.

    Alexander tries to punch him from the side, only to have it blocked with the mans right arm. His sleeve rolls down, revealing a letter and a number combination.

    "E-7."Alexander reads it out and then immediately steps back.

    "Are you part of the Programm, E-7?"he asks him in a serious tone in english.

    "I''m guessing that you are part of it too, as you are too young not to be one."E-7 says back and looks at Alexander, who pulls up his right sleeve, revealing his letter and number combination"X-9"

    "X group. Never heard of them."E-7 comments and Alexander replies"Same for me. Never heard of E group."

    "E-s are extreme weather and dangerous nature soldier group."he tells Alexander, who tells his group"X-s are assassins."

    "Doubled bone and muscle density, accelerated healing, poison resistance. All firearm knowledge."

    "Able to control heart rate. Enhanced reflexes and speed. Eyes that can see half a kilometer. All weapon knowledge, including improvised weapons."

    The two try to brag about their enhancement, but realise that both of them are pretty strong for their meant job.

    "Names Echo, a mercenary."

    "Alexander, an assassin."

    The two introduce each other and the reason for the chase before was now magically gone.

    In "heaven", Sola was biting her nails, as she watched the orb in front of her. She was seriously pissed and the reason for it, was because Nevada had obtained something, that was a threat to her. So she was thinking for plan, to weaken him or someone he cared about.

    As she thought, something hit her and an evil smile formed on her face.

    "Lets see how much help are you gonna get?"she muttered, as she started to work on her plan.

 The Monastery

    The next morning, Nevada slowly opened his eyes, after he felt sun rays hitting them. He rubbed his eyes and then he looked around his surrounding, before getting up and packing everything up. He took his weapons and put them on.

    Once everything was ready, he walked back to the road and towards the Great Mountain. The road leading up to there was narrow and gentle.

    He walked for hours, until he found a small cave entrance and decided to rest at the mouth of the cave. So he sat down on the ground, took out his foot and just started to eat, while watching the beautiful view in front of him. He saw a beautiful scenery of nature: waterfalls, beautiful and green trees, animals walking around and birds flying in the sky.

    As he was eating peacefully, his ears suddenly perked up, as he heard something running towards him. So he immediately got up and looked at the cave, from where he heard sound, but before he could even draw his weapon, a beast jumped at him. The moments before he reached him, Nevada thought he was dead for sure this time, but then, the beast flew through him.

    ''What.''he thought, as it flew through him and down the mountain it went. He couldn''t understand how it could go through him, but then he looked his body and saw it wasn''t there. Instead, there was only snow where he was.

    ''The fuck.''he tries to say, but nothing can be heard.

    ''Okay....calm down...Just think about turning back.''he thought and did just that. The next moment, his body was back to the normal kitsune one.

    "Can''t believe that actually worked."he muttered and observed his body. He had so many questions right now, but he didn''t have the time to think about it here, as another beast may jump out of the cave.

    So he immediately continued his journey, while wondering over the fact that he just turned into snow.

    As the walk went on he concluded, that it must be his Ice Emperor powers. He doesn''t really know anything about them and the only thing Maria told him about the Rulers of Elements, is that they have to find out their own powers, without anyone''s help. So now, Nevada also has to learn and master his powers, before getting rid of Sola, permanently.

    On top of the mountain itself, there was a monastery, thousands of years old, but it didn''t show it to be that old. In the Monastery, there was a nine-tailed fox with orange hair, ears and tails. She wore a red kimono which was hold together by a black sash. As she was meditating, the door to the room was slide open and a younger looking version of her walked in and said:A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.

    "Mother. Claw has spotted an unknown kitsune travelling towards the monastery. What should we do?"

    "Nothing. All kitsunes are welcome here, as long as they don''t come with bad intentions."the woman answers her daughter without even opening her eyes and look at her.

    "But this one is a cursed kitsune."

    When she hears her daughters words, she opens her eyes immediately and asks in a serious tone"What did he look like?"

    "White hair with blue streaks, same with his ears and tails with blue tips. His eyes were blue and splitted. His skin pretty pale. He was carrying a katana, a broken sword and a bow. He didn''t seem to be wearing armor or anything like that."she describes him to her mother, who asks"Anything else?"

    "Yes actually. A white Mark of Sola on his face and a blue tattoo on his right arm."

    "Mark of Sola on a kitsune? Don''t be funny here. Sola hates beastkins and thats a fact. So why would she mark the most hated race of beastkins. Maybe Claw starts to see badly."

    "I''m telling you what Claw saw. You can see him yourself when he gets here tomorrow."

    "I guess we shall see then, my dear Elane."

    "I guess so, Yre."

    Elane then steps out of the room and slide the door shut.

    Yre, sensing that her daughter has walked away, mutters"The description Elane gave me almost match Arthurs look. Could he be his son?"

    As for Nevada, he had continued his walk up the mountain for hours and once again, the sun had almost set and Nevada had made another camp for the night. By his estimation, he was about five kilometers away from the ground. And because he was so high, it got harder for him to breath, but it was still manageable.

    Currently, he was leaning against a tree and decided to go to sleep, but before he could, he muttered"I would prefer to be with Maria right now."

    As for Maria, she was sitting on the couch and looking at the big white egg on the table in front of her. This was with Nevada, when he brought back and according to him, it''s the egg of the phoenix, that attacked him. She obviously wanted to immediately destroy it, for hurting her Nevada, but she was stopped by him. He said that a phoenix can be a very useful ally.

    As she kept staring at it, she muttered"You just want a phoenix lover."

    She was okay, If he had a few more woman, but any woman won''t do and she will be the head of them. She will never let any other woman steal him away and she will make sure of it. She watched him grow up and so, cares about him a lot. He was her little and young fox. And the proof of their love, was now inside of her.

    On the afternoon of the next day, Nevada had finally reached to the top and saw a stone monastery about fifty meters away from him. The place didn''t have any decoration or anything. It was pretty plain looking building in his opinions.

    As he approached the place, he saw a nine-tailed fox at the gate of the Monastery, seemingly waiting for him to arrive. Seeing her, made him happy, as she was the first other kitsune he had seen in his life.

    So when he got to the gate and saw her, she looked at him without saying a word. He didn''t know If he should or should not talk, so he just stand there and watched her. She then put her hand on his cheek and slide it down his face.

    Tears of joy appeared in her eyes and she said"Grandson." Before hugging him.

 The Lost Grandson

    After she called him as her grandson, she basically dragged him with him to a room, where she told him to sit down, while she went to do something.

    So now, Nevada was sitting in a seiza position, in front of the low table. Next to him, his weapons were laid out onto the ground.

    As he waited, he thought about what had just happened''I came here to learn and then suddenly, I find a woman, who believes me to be her grandson. She then proceeds to drag me here and then leave me here alone. Huuh. I have no idea If she is told the truth or not. But I guess I have to find out.''

    So, he just keeps sitting there a s waiting with his hands on his knees. The door was then suddenly opened and Yre stepped into the room, with tray in her hand. She put it down on the table and poured tea into the cups. She gave one to him and the other to herself. She then sat down into a seiza position and looked at Nevada.

    Both of them didn''t know what to say, as they just met and had no idea how to start a conversation. So, to ease the awkwardness, Nevada took a sip of the and before swallowing it, tried to taste every ingredients in the tea just in case.

    "I didn''t poison it, If you are thinking that. I despise such methods."Yre says, after seeing what he was doing.

    "A habit. Nothing I can do with it."Nevada replies and puts the cup down on the table.

    "I''m Nevada by the way."he introduced himself and she follows"Yre Flamefox."

    There is a small silence between the two, before she says"Lets just get to the topic. This is getting painful."

    "Agreed."he replies and so, she starts"You probably are thinking: If I am your grandmother, then why haven''t you heard about me from your father."

    "I...I don''t have a father."Nevada tells her and Yres expression turns from a friendly to a serious one.

    "What do you mean....my Arthur would never leave you. Even If you were a cursed one? Is he dead?"she asks him and Nevada, who doesn''t know himself, says so"I don''t know...my mother abandoned me in the forest and I was found there by my foster mother."

    "Do you perhaps know who your real mother is?"Yre asks him and he just shakes his head. Yres shoulders drop, as she now stares at the half-empty cup in her hands. Her son has been gone for half a century and has gotten a child, who he probably doesn''t even know about. So today, when Nevada showed up, she hoped to learn a little about her son, but nothing. The kus doesn''t even know his father and his mother abandoned him.

    Nevada doesn''t say anything, as he can understand, that she has a lot it think about right now. So he just quietly sits there and looks around, to kill time until she finishes thinking.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.

    An hour passes, before she comes back from her thinking and looks around with a slightly confused look. She stops to look at Nevada and realising, that she had made him wait, she apologizes"Sorry Nevada. It''s just..."

    "I get it."he replies"No need to worry about. As long as everything is okay, we can continue."

    "We can."she tells him"So tell me why have you come here?"

    "To learn."he replies to her.

    "And exactly what?"

    "Everything."he tells her in a serious voice.

    "Why do you want to learn?"she asks him and takes a sip from her cup.

    "So I would get to know more about my race. There is very little, I know about kitsunes."

    "And the other reason?"she asks him.

    "To kill the person, who marked me."he tells her and points at the Mark of Sola.

    "You want to kill a goddess...With what do you plan to do that?"

    "With this."he says and puts his katana on the table. She stares at it with an amazed look and while reaching out to it, she says"This is...the Sword of Ice...you have a Godslaying Weapon."

    The moment she touches the sword, she pulls her hands back and looks at them. See sees, that by touching the sword for a moment, she already got frostbite on her fingers.

    "Touching this sword can freeze a person to death...a very dangerous sword indeed."she mutters, after she concluded that.

    She thought for a few seconds and then said"Your training will start tomorrow. For now, rest. You surely must be tired."

    "Thank you."he said.

    "No need. You are my grandson. It''s the least I can do."she says and the yells out a name"Elane!"

    Immediately, the door is slid open and behind it, Elane is standing and asks"Yes?"

    "Take Nevada here to his room. He will be joining us from today."she tells her and Elane replies"Understood. Come now."

    Walking in the corridor, Elane is walking in front of Nevada, who is following her. Also currently, he is carrying his weapons on his hands, as he doesn''t want to waste time by putting them back on.

    They finally stop in front of the door, after a few minutes of walking in silence.

    "This is your room. Enjoy your stay."Elane says and walks away, as her job is done.

    As for Nevada, he walks into the room and looks around it. It looked like a Japanese room, with the tatami mats and all. He just put his weapons on the table and looked around the room. Beside the bed and the table, it was pretty empty.

    As for Yre, she was talking to her daughter.

    "Mother. Why did you let him join so quickly?"

    "Because he is my grandson."

    "How can you be so sure. Just because he looks like brother, doesn''t mean that he is his son."

    "Elane....my word is final. So from now on, you will try to get along with your nephew. He''s a good kid at heart."

    "His an assassin mother. His job is to kill."

    "What he does for living, does not concern me as long as it doesn''t threaten this place."

    "But still mom..."

    "Elane...Stop whining."Yre says in a serious tone and continues"That kid is the King. The closed existence to our ancestor, Akseh��. And I want him to learn about his powers and master them. What kitsune doesn''t even have his flame lit by that age."

    "Okay."Elane replies simply and leaves the room.

    Nevada himself, just stared at the wall for hours, until he decided to go to bed. So, he started to take off his clothes and soon, all of the were off. He then went to bed and fell asleep quickly, as the last few days, his bed was a tree and it was very uncomfortable.

    Hours passes and he continued to sleep. But as he was sleeping, the door to his room was slide open and a shadowy figure of a kitsune could be seen entering.

 Training part-1

    In the morning, Nevada slowly woke up and saw an unfamiliar roof. It took him a few seconds, before he understood where he is. He looked around a little, before getting off the bed and putting on his clothes. He then walked towards his weapons and as he went through them, he noticed that one of his knives were missing.

    "Did I drop it?"he asks himself, but then mutters"No way. I saw it yesterday, which means someone stole it during the night....bit a great impression to give me about the people here.

    Outside of the Monastery''s innergarden, Yre was working on her flowers, when she stopped and turned around, to look at the kitsune behind her. She was about 1.55m tall and had a slightly childish figure. Her face was round and cute. Her hair was up to her shoulders and had a small braid on the right side. Her ears and tails were also black and had a shiny look on it.

    "Aah Tania..what is it?"she asks her, who walks up to her and stretches out her hands, on which, a knife is on.

    Yre looks at it and then takes it into her hand and mutters"It''s an Ice Fort standard assassin dagger....which means...huh."she sighs and looks at Tania.

    "Tania."she calls out her name and shoes the knife"Take it back to its owner. I don''t want him to have a bad impression."

    Tania looks down and her ears drop, while she nods her head, showing her understanding.

    "Just take it back and maybe he won''t be mad."Yre says and gives it to Tania, who takes it and walks jogs away.

    Soon she disappears into the building and Yre shakes her head, before going back to working on flowers.

    Back to Nevada, he walks in the corridor, when he suddenly feels his shirt being tucked. So he turns around to look at who is doing that and sees Tania there.

    ''How did she get so close to me without me hearing?''Nevada asks himself, as even he couldn''t hear her coming with his sharp ears.

    She just looks down and not facing him, so he asks"What is it?"in a kind tone, but she doesn''t answer.

    She just keeps looking at her feet, so he crouches down and asks again"What is it?"

    For a second, she looks at him with her red eyes, but then immediately looks down again. Suddenly, she moves her hands and he feels her giving him something. So he looks at his hand, to see his knife there and when he looks up, he sees, that the girl is already gone.

    Nevada looks at the knife on more time, before putting it into his right boot and getting up. He looked around, before he started to explore this place, without realising that Tania was staring at him, while peeking around the corner.

    Nevada wondered around a little, before he found a double door, which probably meant that it leads somewhere more important. So he slid the doors open and stepped out of the corridor and into the innergarden. There, he saw Yre working on flowers, when she suddenly got up and turned around to look at him.

    "Aaaah Nevada...you''re awake."Yre says and gets up onto her feet"Did Tania give you your knife back?"This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.

    "So her name is Tania"He mutters, before answering"Yeah I got it back, but she ran away, before I could ask why she did that?"

    "Don''t know. She won''t tell me or to be precise, she doesn''t say anything."Yre says.

    "Is she mute?"Nevada asks her.

    She shakes her head and answers"No. As a child, she was cursed by something and now, she can''t make any sound at all. For example: she can stomp her feet as much as she wants, but no one would hear it, even if they are right next to her."

    "So basically, her body nullifies any sound?"

    "I guess so...it''s hard to understand how the curse exactly works."Yre answers.

    "I see. It''s sounds like a good thing, If it didn''t make you a mute."Nevada comments.

    "Especially for your profession."Yre adds.

    "How do you know about it. I haven''t mention it?"

    "Your aunt Elane told me. I don''t know how she knew it, but I guess she was right. Also, your knife told me."

    "Right... Standard issue."Nevada mutters after hearing her."I should design one on my own."he mutters.

    "But anyways, lets get on with your training. Follow me."Yre says and starts walking away with Nevada following after her. They only walk a few meters, before the reach a patch of grass.

    "Okay. First of all, get into lotus position."Yre tells Nevada. So he gets into a lotus position on the ground and Yre continues"Put your hands on your knees and close your eyes."

    He does so again and Yre starts teaching"Now. Clear your head and focus on a blue flame. Only thing you should think about is a blue flame. Imagine it. Don''t stop until you find it."

    Nevada does, what she told him and tries to focus only on a blue flame.

    Yre looks at him and thinks''Well Arthur found it in three days. So lets find out if his son is better."

    Yre looks at him, before she leaves to attend her other duties. She doesn''t have to stay next to him, because If she said more, she would make the whole progress pointless. The entire point of it, is to do it yourself with little help.

    Inside of the Monastery, Elane looks out of the window, at Nevada, who is currently looking for his flames. Her expression is grim, as she looks at him.

    ''Immediatly when he shows up, mom changes immediately. Just because he is the King, she doesn''t question him at all. He may be Arthurs brat, but that doesn''t mean that he should be accepted so easily. He may be family, but he is still an assassin. I seriously don''t understand how mom could accept him. How does she know that he won''t turn out like the last assassin she taught. There is no need for another kitsune Demon Lord. The last one needed dozen members to take him down. I guess I have to monitor him.''

    "Elane. What are you doing?"is asked by a man, who walks up to her. Like everyone else, he too is a kitsune. He has blond short hair and crystal blue eyes. His face is very handsome and his smile beautiful. Obviously, his ears and tails are blond too.

    "H-hey."she stutter a little while slightly blushing. She goughs a little and regains her face"Just looking at the new kid."she says, while trying not so sound like a teenage girl in love.

    He looks at Nevada too and asks"Who''s he?"

    "Arthurs brat."Elane answers.

    "So your nephew."he adds"You don''t seem too happy about it either."

    "Obviously."Elane answers and then asks him"So Eric, wanna spar?"

    "Hmm. Yeah sure."Eric answers and the too walk away from the window.

    As for Maria, she once again is staring at the egg, as she doesn''t have anything else to do. As she stares, the door is opened and Alice enters the room. She sits down next to Maria and asks"What are you looking at?"

    "An egg."Maria replies, without bothering to look at Alice

    "Which animal?"Alice asks her.

    "Apparently a phoenix. According to Foxy."Maria mutters and then realises what he said.

    "Foxy?...Oooh. what a cute name. Foxy amd Wolfy."Alice says teasingly, making Maria blush a little.

    "Don''t start Alice."She tells her and mutters"At least you weren''t Veronica...I would never hear the end of it."

    "Okay okay."Alice says"I came here to ask If you are okay."

    "Yeah I''m fine. Why do you ask?"she asks Alice, who replies.

    "Well you seem to be a little different for the past few days.

    "Well you see..."Maria says and looks at Alice"It seems, I''m pregnant."

    "Really?"Alice asks her and Maria nods.

    "Ooh I''m so happy for you."Alice says and hugs her friend. She then asks"Does Nevada know?"

    "No."Maria answers.

    "And he recently left too. He may not be here for the time of birth."

    "I''m afraid so. But I don''t want to interrupt his training either. I won''t tell him about it."

    "So you gonna surprise him with a kid, when he gets back home?"

    "Yep."

 Training part-2

    In a complete darkness of his mind, Nevada wondered around, searching for the blue fire. He doesn''t know how long has it passed since he appeared here, but he knows it has been a long time. The entire time he has searched for it, but without any lead where he should go.

    So he just sits down to think what to do, until he is hit with an idea. It may be pointless, but so is just wandering around. And so, Nevada gets into a lotus position and starts to meditate again. His idea is to go deeper into his mind to find it, like in that one movie where the group went deeper into dreams. He remembers liking that movie, but he has forgotten what exactly it was called.

    So he starts to meditate again while trying to imagine a blue flame.

    After a while, he opens his eyes and sees himself in a completely gray space, with still no seeable flame in his sight.

    ''Hmm. Maybe I need to go on until the space is white?''He thinks and starts to meditate once again.

    He opens his eyes and sees a lighter shade of gray space and so, he starts again. This goes on for five times, before he opens his eyes and sees the space around him is so white that it seems that he is existing in nothingness.

    So he slowly gets onto his feet and looks around the place, until his eyes stop and a slight smile forms on his face. In the distance, he sees something blue and bright.

    "It must be the flame."he mutters and starts moving towards it. He walks and walks and the flame gets closer and closer, until he reaches in front of it.

    The blue ball of fire is burning in front of him and without hesitation, he grabs it and everything goes dark in front of him.

    Nevada groans and slowly opens his eyes, only to see a pair of emerald green eyes staring at him. He looks closer at her and sees, that this is Tania, who is staring at her. She looks at him for a few more seconds, before running off into the building.

    He looks at her running away until she disappears from his sight. He lets out a sigh and then groans, as he tries to move his body. His bones crack, as he gets onto his feet and stretches his body. He looks up in the sky and sees that the sun is raising in the sky and is lower, when he started. This means, that he stayed the entire night here.

    "Aah fuck."he groans as he stretches his back.

    He shakes his head a little and then sees Yre coming out of the building, with Tania hiding behind her.

    "Ooh Nevada. Did you find it?"she asks him and he replies"Yeah. How long was I out?"

    "Almost two days."Yre answers.

    "So long. Wow."Nevada mutters, but Yre corrects him immediately"This is a very short time. I have seen kitsunes meditate weeks straight to find their flame, but you right now beat your fathers record, which makes you now the fastest kitsune to find their flames."

    "Huh."he says, not knowing what else to say.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.

    "Okay Nevada. Because you just found your flame, we can go to step two of your training: Learning to control it."Yre says and then demonstrates. "Like this."she says and immediately a blue ball of flame appears above her open hand.

    "This is the Blue Flame, that only Kitsunes can use. So it''s our exclusive magic. The Blue Flame is the hottest one that a person could create with magic."

    She them takes out a knife and puts it into the flame for two seconds, before taking it out of it, revealing a knife with a missing blade.

    "The flame is only hot in touch. As long as it doesn''t touch anything physical, it can''t affect anything. Normally with this got flame, the heat it would emit would be ridiculous, but the Blue Flame doesn''t do that."she says and holds what''s left of the knife over the flame, but nothing doesn''t happen to it. She puts it in and takes it out, to reveal more of the knife burned up.

    She then closes her hands, making the flame disappear. She looks at Nevada and says"And now, you will try to create your own Blue Flame. Until you get it done, you can''t leave. Just think about the flame and create it."

    Yre says and leaves, leaving Tania behind, who stares at Nevada.

    "What?"he asks, but immediately remembers that she is a mute, so she say anything.

    She looks at him and then her mouth moves in an attempt to say something to him, but no sound come out. He only understands few letters of her word"Us" before she ran of with unhearable steps.

    ''It was longer then two letters, which means that she couldn''t mean "Us" as a word. But something longer that contains these two letters. Huuh. Whatever for now. Lets try to make the flame.''He thinks and starts concentrating on creating a flame on his hands.

    It doesn''t take long for him to create the Blue Flame iver his hand. As he looks at the hovering flame over his palm, he takes out his knife from his boot and puts it into the flame, to test it out. It goes on for a few seconds, before being pulled out. Nevada looks at the knife with a confused face, because instead of melting, like it was supposed to, it had completely frozen and had a layer of ice on the blade.

    "The hell?"Nevada mutters and closes his palm, extinguishing the flame with it. He gets onto his feet and walks to the Monastery to look for Yre, to consult about it.

    As he walks around in search for Yre, he suddenly feels a threat approaching him. So out of relfex, he grabs the attackers hand and throws him over his shoulder, slamming him into the floor. With his nails out, he holds them against the attackers face.

    "Easy easy. I was kits testing."the blond-haired blue-eyed kitsune tells him, while holding up his hands. Feeling no more bad intentions coming from him, he retracts his nails and moves his hand away from his face.

    The kitsune himself gets up onto his feet, while rubbing his back and groaning as he does that. He stretches, before reaching out his hand and introducing himself"Names Eric." Nevada reaches out his hand and says"Nevada."

    They both shake their hands, as both of them starts to squeeze the others hand much harder, while staring at each other. This goes on for thirty seconds, before Eric lets go, making Nevada the winner of the Ego battle they just had.

    "You win this time."Eric says jokingly and then just walks of, like nothing ever happened. Nevada looks at him with a slightly confused face, before getting back to looking for Yre.

    "So something like that can happen."Yre commented as she saw what Nevada did in front of her eyes. He found her five minutes ago and immediately told her that they need to talk.

    "Any idea why it is happening?"Nevada asks and closes his palm which extinguished the flame.

    "Hmm. I have theory that it may be something to do with you being the Ice Emperor and the controller of the Ice Element. Maybe your body was changed after that and so instead of creating warm flames, you create cold ones instead. So there is a chance that all of your Elemental magics now can have a cold effect or something like that."Yre says what she thinks why exactly it is like that and Nevada after thinking about it, comments

    "Yeah. It makes sense. But I wouldn''t have know about it, as the only Elemental Magic I have ever know is Ice"

    "Well I guess you have to think outside of the box with your Frozen Flame."Yre says.

    "Did you just name it Frozen Flame?"Nevada asks her.

    "Well then. Lets get to onto step three of your training."

    "Don''t ignore my question."Nevada says, only to have him fall deaf to Yres ears, who walks away from the room.

 Six months passed

    7th day of 4th month year 10441.

    A few months had passed since Nevada came to the Monastery on top of the Great Mountain of Ymor. For months, he had trained hard and all of it had paid of well up to now. He now has more understanding on his race and what exactly the cursed kitsunes are.

    So according to Yre, cursed kitsunes are kitsunes that are more closer to our ancestors, who originally were giant nine-tailed foxes and few of them could take a human form. In that form, they mated with regular foxkins and centuries later, kitsune race formed. As for the ancestors themselves, they were hunted into extinction after the same was done to phoenix race. This is one of the reason, why neither giant nine-tailed foxes nor giant flaming birds aren''t seen in wild. Only those, who are millennials old, may have seen them.

    As for how kitsunes with slitted pupils became called cursed kitsunes, is because after the ancestors were all killed, the people who killed them were afraid of the ones with splitted pupils, so they told a simple lie: "Kitsunes born with splitted pupils are evil from birth and will bring calamity." This made people scared of them and so, all the kitsunes with splitted eyes, were killed immediately, when spotted. Luckily, not everyone eyes were like that from birth and only would appear later in life, where they could defend themselves.

    But it just didn''t stop with the slitted pupils ones. Soon regular ones started to being hunted. Basically the naivety of people almost made the kitsune race extinct. According to Yre, the Kitsune numbers are currently in middle four digit numbers. But she herself isn''t that sure either about it.

    Beside learning about that, he also has been teaching Tania sign language, which he luckily happened to know because one of his past targets was a deaf or a mute. He can''t remember which, as it has been about seventeen years since then. So obviously his memories of the old world would start to get hazy.

    Luckily for him, Tania was a quick learner and now, they could actually hold a normal conversation. Obviously, he can''t teach her the more complex words, as they are hazy memories now.

    Tania herself is apparently thirteen years old and in these see months, her growth spurt has really been seeable. She now is 1.7m tall and her figure has turned from the slender girl figure into a beautiful woman figure with hourglass figure and medium sized breasts. Her black wavy hair is now up to her shoulders and she never ties it.

    In the morning, Nevada woke up because of the sun hitting his eyes. So with a slight groan, he opened his eyes and the first thing he saw, was Tania sitting on his stomach, holding her hands on his chest and staring at her face. The only thing separating them right now was the blanket, under which he was.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.

    "What is it Tania?"he asks her and she immediately starts telling.

    "I. Came. To. Wake. You. Up."Nevada repeats what she says, so to be sure they understood each other.

    Tania nods, after hearing him repeating what she wanted to stay.

    "Okay. So why are you on top of me?"Nevada asks and she replies.

    "Reasons."

    "Okay. So wanna tell me those reasons?"he asks her and she just shakes her head, meaning no. This makes Nevada sigh, before he tells her"Okay. So could you get off of me then. I have stuff to do."

    She just nods and gets off from his stomach and sits down on the floor while staring at him. Seeing her like this, makes Nevada sighs again and he then proceeds to get up from the bed to get dressed while thinking:

    ''I seriously can''t understand Tania. When ever she does something like that, she says she does it for reasons without giving one. And when I asked Yre, she said she herself doesn''t know what her exact reasons. But actually, she knows, as I could feel some lies being told when we talked about this topic. So there is a high Chance that she knows something and just doesn''t tell me about it. Obviously, Tania is part of it too.''

    Nevada then lets out a small sigh and finishes putting on his clothes. He then looks at the door, before walking over there to leave.

    As for Tania, she has gone over to Yre, who herself is busy cleaning her room. So when Yre feels Tania entering, she stops sweeping and looks at her.

    "What is it, Tania?"she asks her. Tania starts using sign language and this makes Yre say"Tania. I don''t understand that language what Nevada taught you. Write it down If you want to say it."

    Tania sighs and takes a piece of paper and a pen from her pocket. Immediately, fast writing on the paper follows and in a minute, she gives Yre a piece of paper with one side written full. On it, Tania has written.

    ''When is it time to tell him? This secret has gone on for too long. You know how I hate secrets. Especially ones that involve my personal life. Will you tell him about the King and the Queen already. If you don''t, I will tell him without your consent. He has finished his training, so he is ready to know. He needs to know, because I don''t want to be alone any longer.''

    She reads it through and starts to answer"The time is when I say so and I will tell him. Be patient Tania. He won''t go anywhere and you will bond with him. You two have done it for millennials and will continue doing it. So don''t worry and do what you want to him to deepen your relationship."

    Tanias ears drop a little, showing sadness as she nods. She then turns around and leaves the room.

    In the Ice Fort, Maria is sitting on the bed and in her hands, she is holding a baby wolf beastkin girl. A month ago, her five month beastkin pregnancy ended after giving birth to the little wolf in her arms.

    The girl looks at her mother and smiles towards her, while letting out a cute laugh. This scene makes Maria giggle a little, as she starts to scratch her with her finger.

    "Your just the cutest Ria."Maria says and smiles, while looking at her daughter playing with her finger. Ria''s white wolf ears twitch from happiness and she looks at her mother with her black right and blue left eye. Maria could feel Ria''s tail wagging through the cloth, in which Ria was wrapped in.

    She happily plays with Marias finger for an hour and falls asleep with it in her mouth. Maria doesn''t dare to pull it out of her mouth, as she may wake her up. So she lets it stay there, while looking out of the window.

    "Nevada....please come back already."

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 King and Queen

    "Nevada. Could we talk?"Yre asks her grandson, who himself is sitting in a lotus position on the ground.

    "Yeah sure."Nevada replies, while looking at her and then getting onto his feet.

    "Lets go to my room then."Yre says and starts walking away with Nevada following after her. The enter the Monastery and then walk towards her room. They soon get there and Yre then slides the door open. Both of them enter the room and there, Nevada sees Tania already sitting there.

    She turns her head to look at him and when she sees him, she smiles, before turning her head back.

    "Sit down."Yre tells him and he does it. Sitting down next to Tania, Yre looks at both of them. She then lets out a sigh and starts"Nevada. Do you remember when I told you about the Cursed Kitsunes."

    "Yeah I do."he replies.

    "Well I left out a few details when I told you that. You see, only two so called cursed kitsunes exist at the same time. Until one of the two dies, no other kitsune will be born with splitted pupils. As for the two, they always follow the same pattern when they are born. First, one is always male and the other, a female. Second: the male is always a ruthless man and the female, a gentle woman. The final and third: the two will always meet at some point of life and will fall in love. No matter the circumstances. As for how they are called by kitsune, is simple. The kitsunes call them The King and The Queen."

    She looks at Nevada and continues"Now you Are wondering: Why Are they called so? Well the reason is, because they are the strongest of their race and so, they are the obvious rules."

    Yre stops for a minute to let Nevada think through all of the information she just dumped on him.

    "So...you are telling me I am a King of Kitsunes?"Nevada asks her.

    "Yes."she replies.

    "And where is the Queen?"he asks her.

    "Right next to you."Yre says and turns her eyes on Tania alongside with Nevada.

    "But how? She doesn''t have splitted pupils.

    "Hers will appear after mating...with you."Yre says and looks at her grandson.

    "Wait. So you are telling me, that me and Tania are destined to fall in love and basically mate after that."

    "Pretty much Nevada and Tania here has already fell in love with you. It''s up to you now to fall in love and mate. Or you can mate and then fall in love with her. Doesn''t matter. The love will happen. It has happened for thousands of years and shall happen thousands of more years."Yre tells him.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

    "I..I just need to think through some stuff now. I will take my leave."Nevada says and gets up, before leaving the room. Immediately, Tanias expression turns sad and with wet eyes, she looks at Yre.

    "Don''t worry Tania. He doesn''t hate you or anything. Just let him think through stuff and visit him before he goes to bed. Okay?"

    Tania just nods and tries her eyes.

    "Good girl. Now go prepare If you want to or stay here. Your choice."Yre says and gets her answer immediately, when Tania herself gets up abd then leaves the room.

    "Aaah. I hope he will take her."Yre mutters and looks out of the window.

    Hours later, Nevada is still in his room, lying on his bed and staring at the ceiling with a blank look.

    ''So me and Tania will fall in love because of destiny...It won''t be a bad thing in no way. She is cute and gentle girl and I also have Marias approval to get a few more girls...but still... polygamy is still a little weird for me. I''m not like that guy, who grew up in countries with polygamy allowed. For me, it was one woman and thats all. But I guess If both of the woman are fine, I can accept Tania. Two is better then one.''

    As he was thinking through all of the stuff, he suddenly felt something sit on his stomach. So he looked up and saw Tania there. She was wearing a black nightgown that showed skin under it. Her hands were placed on his chest and she stared at him with her green eyes, that show hints of lust. Seeing her like this and the fact he hasn''t done it for half a year, his reasoning shatters

    "Aah what the hell."he mutters and pulls her into a deep kiss suddenly. With his hand on her head, she can''t escape from his lips and she doesn''t want to anyway. She herself immediately tries to copy Nevada and starts invading his mouth with her tonge.

    As they are kissing, Nevada managed to pull down her panties, making her stop and look at him with a slightly red face.

    "Don''t worry. I will be gentle."he says and switches places with her. Now she is laying on the bed with Nevada between her open legs. He smiles at her and quickly, undressed himself, revealing his trained body with a slightly tanned skin. Seeing him naked, makes Tania blush Even more and she quickly covers her face with her hands.

    Nevada just smiles seeing that and then moves his right hand near her pussy, into which he puts his index finger. The finger slips into her easily because of how wet she is.

    "Next part is probably gonna hurt."he says and then, he enters his dick into her. He slowly starts to move his dick further into her pussy. The entire time, Tania is making slightly painful expressions while holding onto his hands. Reaching her cervix, he stops moving and leans forward towards her.

    Tania then immediately wraps her hands around his neck and kisses him with him kissing back. As they are making out, Nevada starts to move his dick inside her tight pussy. At first, her expression is a little painful, but then it turns into face full of pleasure.

    As he moves his dick inside of her, he feels how she already came. Looking at her face, he could read out that it felt amazing for her.

    "We aren''t finished Tania."Nevada says and starts to move faster now. As he keeps fucking her, he feels how Tania is digging her fingers into his back and he then feels his skin being pierced by her nails. But he ignores it all and just keeps going.

    Soon, he also cums inside of her with her following immediately after. Tanias grip on Nevada loosens and her hands fall in the bed. She had collapsed from pleasure and now, was sleeping in his bed.

    Nevada just looks at her, before laying next to her and falling asleep himself.

 The prisoner

    It was a cold and dark corridor, into which a woman wearing a blood-red dress entered. The dress was very revealing, barely covering her private parts. The heels coloured like her dress, made the sound of her steps loud and could be <u>heard</u> throughout the entire place. She looked around and pushed the door shut behind her. She then proceeded to breath in the blood in the air, and this, caused a wicked smile form on her face.

    With slow steps, she moved through the corridor without a need of a torch, as she was already too familiar with this place. For dozens of meters, there were nothing but empty stone walls.

    But soon, she stopped in front a rusted cell door and looked into the cell, in which he saw a pair of skinny arms chained to the wall. The arms were so skinny, that she could see the bones under the skin.

    "It has been fifteen years now and still....you haven''t broken."she said with a cold tone and the put both of her slender arms on the iron bars"I seriously admire your determination. We have broken everything that is possible to break, but still...you keep your sly mouth shut."

    She looks at the outline of the figure and smiles, before continuing"But now, we have finally found something that might make you break."

    Behind the bars, she didn''t feel any movements after saying it, which slightly disappointed her. She had hoped that she would get even a slightest reaction, but she was wrong. So to satisfy her need to get him react, she proceeded to talk some more.

    "The training you received on the Mountain is pretty impressive If I say so myself. It must be, for you to keep shut about it for so long. So lets make a deal...You tell me how to get through the barrier and we will kill you."

    Still, no reaction like she thought. This meant it was time to lay out the trump card.

    "Killing your mistresses didn''t break you. Torturing your wife and daughter in front of you... didn''t work.....But maybe.... Torturing your son....your king in front of you finally..."

    She slams her hands against the bars and yells in a angered tone"Break you, you fucking kitsune bastard?!"

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    She makes a "Hmph." Sound and then turns around. As she is about to walk away, she hears the chains moving and a voice following it.

    "You seriously think I would tell you now? After everything I have suffered through? If so, you slut and your group of retards must be truly desperate. What you said right now, may have been all through, which also means...you fucking cunts are so fucked now. The Royalties are ready and can''t be stopped now. The dagger will surface and it will pierce your heart, slut."

    Suddenly, a loud clank echos throughout the place and the mans figure could be finally seen. A skinny figure of a man covered with scars. His hair has been damaged and turned white, while his eyes have dulled. On top of his head, only one white fox ears sticks out and what''s left of the other, is a scar where it used to be. Out of his nine tails, only one four are left and those four have been cut of half-way.

    "So you finally decided to talk."the woman says and turns around to face him.

    "Your attempt to scare me is quite cute I must say. The timing and the talk....it almost makes this situation serious."she mocks his attempt and puts her hands back to the bar. The both stare into each others eyes, before the man says"Hyzerxiav." And then backs into the darkness.

    As for the woman, her grip tightens around the bars, squeezing them together with shaking hands. Her face trembled as she looks into the cell.

    "You are afraid."he says in a low voice and then follows it up with a small laugh. As for her, she gives him an angry glare, before turning around and leaving without saying a word.

    The echo of her footsteps grows weaker with each of her step, until to the point, where he hears her leaving through the door.

    "Thanks for the info."he mutters to himself, before getting onto his feet and looking at his hands, or what''s left of them. His missing his thumb, ring finger and index finger on his right hand and on his left, the pinky, middle finger and index finger have been cut off. His eyes go lower to look at his wrists, around which, his shackles have been cutting off the bloodflow to his hands.

    "It has to be done."he mutters and then, just by slamming his wrists against the wall, he breaks his bones with ease. There is a hint of pain on his face, but that quickly disappears too.

    "And onto the gross part."he says to himself and what happens next, is just disgusting. He bites into his own flesh and starts eating it. Not just ripping it off and spitting it out, but eating it. He chews both the skin and whatever left under it with disgust on his face.

    "Haaaaah!!!"he yells out in pain, as he rips his hand from his arm, leaving it to hang inside the shackle. He does the same to his other hand and like the first, leaves it to hang there.

    "It had to be done."he tells himself, while backing away from the wall, leaving a bloodtrail doing so.

    He lifts up his arm or what''s left of them and mutters"It was the only choice. They were dead already."

    He lowers his hands and takes in a deep breath, before closing his eyes and starting to focus on a location in his mind. He pictures an image of a Monastery on top of the Mountain. His home.

    "[Teleport]"he chants in a weak voice and then, simply disappears, only leaving behind a pool of red blood.

 Arthur

    Through the small gap between the curtains, a beam of sunlight shined through the window and into the room. And that very same beam, happened to hit Nevedas head, who himself was <u>peacefully</u> sleeping. It didn''t take a long time for him to start shutting his tightly together, but it didn''t work out that well for him and so, he opened his eyes and looked around the room. Hid eyes automatically moved to the curtains and was blinded by the light. This caused him groan a little and turn his head away from the window.

    On that side, he saw Tanias sleeping face in front of him. Her arms were tightly holding his body and her legs on top of his. Her face itself looked cute, innocent and so defenceless, meaning she truly felt safe with him here. This scenery right now truly felt romantic, but it was then ruined by a sudden loud sound coming from the training area.

    So when Nevada heard that, he immediately jumped up from the bed and grabbed his pants to put on.

    "I''m gonna go check it out."he told Tania, who he accidentally had woken up and then left her there to rub her eyes.

    As for Nevada, he rushed through the corridor and reached the place where the sound was heard. So opening the door, he immediately saw a small dust cloud and heard other kitsunes also coming to check out what had happened.

    "[Push]"Yre, who had also just come out, chants and pushing all of the dust away with the wind. Now everyone walks up to the hole that was revealed and in it, they see a figure of a disfigured Kitsune.

    "Arthur!!!"Yre yells out in a tragic tone and immediately jumps down into the hole to pick him up.

    ''Arthur...Is that really my Father?''Nevada asks himself in his mind while looking at Yre, who is taking Arthurs body away.

    "Who was that?"one of the students asks out loud and Elane, who also is here, answers"That was Arthur. My brother and his dad."

    She explains and points at Nevada, causing multiple pair of eyes fall on him.

    "What?"Nevada asks them.

    Nothing is answered and they just scatter away, leaving only him and his aunt there.

    "I''ll go with Yre."Elane says and follows after her mother, leaving now only him there. Like the others, he is also about to leave, but then a familiar stench invades his nose. So he turns around and walks over to the source of it: the red blood on the ground. He crouched down and dips his fingers into the blood for a second and then bringing them up to his nose. He takes a quick few sniffs and then mutters"Fuck."

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    A few hours later, in a larger room, Yre is looking after her son, while her daughter is helping her. Arthur himself is laying on a bed while the two work around him, trying to heal him.

    "Is he gonna be okay?"Elane asks her mother, who replies"Honestly...I don''t know. He has severe mana depletion and he lost a lot of blood. Five of his tails are missing and the other four are damaged beyond any kind of way to restore them. Meaning he has lost a lot of his strength. It''s a miracle he could even teleport. There is also his missing ear, meaning his hearing will be bad. There are also his hands, which he seemingly chewed off assuming from the wound. Counting in all of this, it is sure that he will never use any kitsune powers. It would be impressive If he could keep using magic at all. Because that teleport has seriously ruined his body even further. So now, we can only hope he is strong enough and pray to the Fox God."

    "Praying won''t do anything."Nevada, who has entered the room without the two noticing him, comments.

    "Watch your tongue brat."Elane tells him in a low voice.

    "You two, Stop!"Yre tells them"Right now we have to take care of Arthur."She looks at her son and runs her hand down his cheek"So If you want to fight, do it later and somewhere else."

    Elane makes a "hmph" sound and leaves the room. But before she leaves through the door, she gives one last angry glare at Nevada and then slams the door shut.

    "I can see you didn''t come here to check on him, so why did you come?"Yre asks in a serious voice and then turns around.

    "Because of this."Nevada says and tosses Yre a small vile full of red liquid.

    "This is blood. What of it?"She asks and looks at him.

    "Smell it and you''ll understand."he tells her and what she does then. Taking off the top, she breaths in the smell and immediately mutters"Thats not good?"

    "I know."Nevada agrees.

    "What about the rest of it?"she asks him

    "I got rid of it."he replies.

    "Okay. Thats good then. I believe you were quick enough."Yre comments and Nevada nods to that. His eyes move to his supposed father and he says"He probably didn''t realize that he was infected with this virus, because it only activates when his blood comes in contact with the air for a few hours. I guess we are lucky that it has a such a flaw?"

    "Yes we are."Yre answers and then asks him with a curious tone"You seem to know a lot about it. Why is that?"

    "My mother is a Poison Master, so I obviously have read her books."

    "And what about your other parent?"

    "She taught me sword and knives."he replies.

    "She?....So your parents are both woman... meaning... They are lesbians?"

    "Is it really that strange?"he asks with a questioning face.

    "In this part of the world, yes. I have never seen same sex couples."Yre tells him.

    "Huh."comes out of Nevadas mouth and then, he says"Well I''ll take my leave then. I have other things to do?"

    "So do I."Yre says and turns around to take care of her son, while her grandson leaves the room.

 Father awakens

    A few days passed and still, Arthur hadn''t woken up. As for his condition, it has changed better, but he is still far away from being okay. His wounds from chewing off his own hands have been healed, but no one was proficient enough at healing magic to regrow his hands back. So now he has stumps instead. As for his missing tails and ear, it could never be <u>whole</u> now. The wound is too old for that. Even the best healing mages have their limits and Arthur is far beyond those. So now, they could only wait for him to wake up and hopefully get better.

    Nevada himself didn''t really show much concern about his fathers condition, as he was in no way close with him. He saw him first time only few days ago and they obviously still hadn''t exchanged a word.

    As for Yre, she has been spending all of her time with her son and just by looking at the dark circles around her eyes, you could immediately tell, that she hasn''t had any sleep at all. Even If she has slept, it had been a quick nap. Both Nevada and Elane had told her to get some sleep, but she always responded."I want to stay beside my son." So they could do nothing, but just bring her food.

    So like the past few days, Elane was bringing food to her mother and when she stepped in, she saw Yre sitting on the chair beside the bed and holding her sons wrist.

    "I brought food."Elane tells her and places the plate onto the table, near Yre.

    "Thank you."she thanks her daughter without lifting her eyes from Arthur. Elane just nods and is about to walk away, when he suddenly hears a weak groan. So she quickly turns around, to see Yre leaning against her son and his eyes gently twitching. Seeing this, she also goes over to his bed and watches, how he slowly opens his dull eyes.

    The two don''t say a word while he is scanning the room. Realising where he is, he says with a weak voice"Where is the king?"

    Nevada was in his room, laying on his stomach on top of the bed, naked. On his back, Tania was sitting and massaging his back with her hands. Reason for that, is because Nevada has started to feel himself becoming stiffer then he would like and when he told that to Tania, she suggested that. So he obviously agreed to that and now they are here.

    "Little bit lower."Nevada said and he immediately felt her hands going down his back. And as she kept going, she suddenly stopped. So he looked behind him and saw her staring at the scar.

    "I got it when I fell down onto an icicle. No need to worry."he told her while looking at her face. She stared at the scar, then him and then back at the scar, before nodding and continuing.

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    Suddenly, the door bursts open, causing Tania to stop and both of them look towards the door, to see Elane there.

    "What is it that makes you burst into our room?"

    "Arthur has woken up and wants to see both of you. So get dressed and come, brat."Elane tells him, before slamming the door shut.

    "*Sigh* you heard her."he says, while looking at Tania, who gets off his back. He pushes himself up and puts on his clothes, before leaving the room, with Tania following him behind.

    They go they corridors and reach the room, where Arthur is staying in a minute. From there, they open the door and enter the room. In there, he and she see a figure of a skinny man, laying on the bed, looking at them with those dull eyes. Beside Nevada, Tania and Arthur, there is no one else here. Nevada had at least expected to find Yre here, but there is no sign of her here.

    As for him, he doesn''t say a word and just stares at the pair, before saying"Just some fucking brats. One of them is even fake."

    He growls and moves his eyes away from them.

    "Well fuck you too then, Arthur."Nevada tells him and even including a curse word, which is rare for him."You wanted to see us and thats all you got to tell us?"

    "Yes."he replies and looks at them"I have nothing to say some boy born from a whore mother and same with the fake queen there. Disappointing honestly? Both children of sluts."

    The moment his last sentence exits his mouth, Tania is immediately angered and is about to attack him, but is stopped by Nevada. She continues to struggle for a few while, before calming down and looking at her husband, who is holding her. Tears start to flow from her eyes and she buries her face into his chest.

    "And a crybaby too. Wonderfu-."his words see cut off, when a long spear of ice flies past his eyes and into the wall. Arthur turns his head to look at him with a little more expression now and what he sees, can be considered terrifying by many. Nevadas right eyes had turned completely Ice blue and was glowing now. His entire right side of the body emitted a white cold air, while the blue marking was glowing ice blue.

    "Insult me all you want, but never. And I mean never insult Tania. Next time, there won''t be a warning."Nevada says with a cold and emotionless voice, before turning back to normal and walking out of the room with his Tania.

    In the room, Yre steps out of the shadows and looks at her son and then the Ice spear in the wall. She once again looks at him and says"Is that seriously how you dare to treat them? Especially when meeting your own son for the first time."

    "I don''t care what you think Yre. I only care that those bastards of Solas Church will die and thats all. So when someone walks in with her fucking mark, how am I supposed to stay polite calm. Those fuckers robbed me from everything."

    "You still are too narrow minded dear. You Are not the only one who has trouble with Sola and her followers. Your own son was forcefully marked and has been made to kill a demon lord or his family would be targeted for death by the church. All because Sola is a jealous little cunt, who is mad at her sister."

    "Whatever."Arthur replies and closes his eyes"I want to rest now."

 Decisions

    In a stone room, there was a giant stone table in the middle of it and around the table, there were eight chairs. And on each of those chair, a person was sitting: A man and a woman on armor, amazonian wearing a revealing dress, a guy with petite body, a fat <u>drunkard</u>, a girl wearing black dress, a man in dark clothes and the boss of them, an ashen-haired vampire.

    "So what is so Important that I have to be here?"he asks the rest of the seven.

    "It''s about Church of Sola. They have started to move."says the woman wearing the armor.

    "So what, Ira? It''s not like they can actually harm us."he replies back to her.

    "If it was like it''s usually is, then we wouldn''t have to worry."she continues"But this time they have two Kitsunes."

    He looks at her with his gray eyes and asks"Who are these two foxes then?"

    "One is the Ice Fort assassin. His fifteen, but already too dangerous. Goes by The name Nevada. The other is some kinda mage. His name and face is completely unknown."

    "Hmm."the man thinks and then tells her"the assassin won''t trouble us. He doesn''t work for Sola."

    "He has the mark."the man in the armor finally opened his mouth."And that means he is an enemy."

    "The assassin isn''t an enemy."he says and focuses his gaze at the man"Do I have to repeat myself?"

    After asking, a glowing card appears between his right index and middle finger. The sight of that card is enough to shut up the tough warrior.

    "Thats what I though."he says and the card disappears in his hand. As for the warrior, he looks at the missing chunk of his chairs back and the hole in the wall behind it.

    "Now then. Deal with the mage kitsune and get over with all this Sola business. It''s been going on for too long."he says and gets up. Leaning onto the table, he says"I have stuff to do, so bye."The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.

    And next moment, the ashen-haired man has disappeared, leaving the number of people in the room, seven.

    "Asshole."the man mutters before disappearing too.

    "All of the conversation end like this."the man in black says, before disappearing too. And so, one after another, everyone has disappeared.

    As for Nevada, he is sleeping on his bed, with Tania in his arms, hugging his body, that had changed a little. The blue tattoo, covering the right side of his upper body, had spread up his neck and ended now on his jaw. It also went down his right thigh, stopping before the knee. As for his back, it was covered with dozens of red and fresh scratch marks. Both of their nine tails were laying without moving, on either side of the bed.

    As for the blanket, it barely managed to cover both of their lower half, as Tania had pushed it down in her sleep.

    First to awake was Tania, who slowly opened her slitted red eyes and saw her husbands sleeping face. The sight of her defenseless lover made her smile and she then leaned in for a kiss. Planting a quick kiss on his lips, she slipped out of his embrace and put on her clothes. Like always, she silently left the room. The moment the door closed, Nevada opened his blue eyes and sat up on the head. He scratched his head and thought''Where is she going so early?''

    He hopped off from the bed and but on his clothes too, before leaving the room after her. He sniffed the air to get her scent, which he did and then started to follow it. He went through the corridors, out of the building and towards the entrance gate.

    "She left the premise?"he asked himself while following her. He kept doing that until he reached an edge of the mountain, where he saw her sitting, swinging her legs in the air and looking at the clouds.

    He saw her ears twitch when he approached her, showing that she could hear him, but didn''t look at him. Walking up to her and sitting next to her, he asks.

    "Arthurs words are still bothering you?"he asks her and immediately gets a nod as an answer.

    "Do you wanna talk about it?"

    She shakes her head and signals that she doesn''t want to remember by talking about it.

    "I understand. If you ever want to talk about it, you can always tell me."he says and puts his right arm on her right shoulder.

    "Tania."he continues"I''ve thinking about my time here and I have decided, that it will be my time to leave. I like it here, but I want to go home. So I wanted to ask If you.."he can''t even finish his question, before Tania answers</img>I want to come with you).

    "Thank you."he says and pulls her closer.

    "We will leave in five days. Until then, lets enjoy out time here."

 Home

    On the street of Ice Fortress, Maria is standing on the street and holding her cute daughter Ria in her hands. Ria, who is wrapped up by dark cloth, is looking at her mother while smiling. Maria smiles back at her too, with a cute smile. But behind Maria, there are dozen or so dead men, all ripped apart with their flesh dangling in their body parts and their blood, dying the streets red. People around them have mixed feelings: there are those, who Are completely unfazed about it and those, who are shocked. And like that, it can easily say which is a <u>local</u> and who is a visitor.

    "Back to home."Maria says and starts walking away from the scene, without any remorse.

    "What was that? Why are so many people so calm?"a man in his twenties asks, while looking around.

    "Son."an old dog beastman says"That what happens when you try to approach her."

    "Huh."the man says and then turns around to look at the old beastman."Who is she, that she can do it without any consequences ?"

    "Former assassin without any empathy. She will kill you on spot, If you annoy her. But it seems, that she has a kid now. I wonder who actually managed to get close to that woman."the beastman mutters, before slowly walking away, "Assassins run this place. They do what they want."the old man says while walking away, leaving the confused man there.

    Maria continues to walk back home, when she stops, as she can feel the very familiar presence approaching this direction.

    "Foxy."she mutters in a happy tone and then proceeds to walk faster, to get ready for his arrival.

    As for Nevada, he had left the Monastery a month ago and was finally starting to close in on the cold lands, on which his home lays. Next to him, is obvious Tania, who is wearing a heavy coat, compared to his regular clothes. Unlike him, Tania was raised in a warm place and never seeing snow before. So this was also her first time seeing snow.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

    "It''s cold."Tania tells him in sign language, to which, he replies"Well thats obvious. Better get used to it."

    He rubs her head and they start walking together. As they walk through the snowy road, they see a man coming towards them. At first, both of them ignore him, but as he gets closer, Nevada notices something on that mans face. A white mark on the right side of his face, with the same designs as his. The moment he notices that, Nevada stops to look at him. At first, Tania doesn''t understand why they stopped, but when she sees the same mark as her husband, she understands it.

    As for the man himself, he stops in front of them and says"So you are the bastard i have to kill. Fine. Lets get it on."

    And without any more words, he appears before Nevada and is about to stab Nevada, only to get stabbed himself and have his hand grabbed hold of by Nevada.

    "You seriously are stupid."Nevada mutters and pushes the man away and letting him drop onto the ground. The snow is starting to be painted red by his blood, sa he takes his last breaths. Nevada just looks at him, while Tania is cleaning the blade in her hands.

    He turns to look at Tania and asks"When did you even take it?"

    "When we married."she replies to him.

    "Okay."he casually replies and motions her to move with his head.

    And like that, they walk away from the idiot who tried to kill him right now. The man dies from bloodlost soon after they disappears from his sight.

    ''Was this even an attempt to kill me. If it was, he had no idea about my background and just decided to blindly kill me. That was honestly the dumbest thing I had ever seen.''Nevada thinks while walking with Tania.

    Few days pass and the two have finally reached the Ice Fort. The have entered the first gate and before going towards the other, Nevada tells her"Could you stay in town for an hour or so. I have to explain our situation to her."

    Tania just nods to him and goes her way. As for Nevada, he takes a deep breath and walks towards the second gate, which he easily opens once again, after being away a year. Because he doesn''t want to deal with her mothers right now, because she doesn''t want to let Tania wait for long, he decides to go straight to his room, from outside. He does this by turning himself into snow and then moving towards his window, which is conveniently open.

    Entering the room, he sees Maria working on something while facing him with her back. So, he turns back, and is immediately sitting on the bed.

    "Hey Wolfy!"he says and sees, how she turns around with a small wolf beastkin in her hand.

    "Foxy! You''re finally back."Maria says in a happy tone and then, introduces the girl"This is Ria, our daughter."

    "Huh?"

 Town

    Nevada looks at Maria with a surprised and <u>confused</u> face. Reason for it, is the surprise he just heard his wife say. It wouldn''t be that big of a surprise, if they were the same race, but she''s a wolf and he, a kitsune. Meaning she couldn''t be pregnant without using magic.

    "How is that possible? We didn''t use magic."Nevada asks Maria, who simply smiles and says"You didn''t, I did. Remember, I change my body."

    He looks at her face and sees, that she was telling the truth. Looking at the beautiful face of hers, he lowers his eyes to his daughter and sees her wolf ears and short hair, with the same snow white tone like his. He looks at her smiling face and is about sat something, but stops himself of saying that.

    Then, out of nowhere, Maria sniffs a couple of times and comments "I can smell a scent of another woman on you. So you did find another woman?"

    "Yes."Nevada replies"A kitsune with slitted pupils like me."

    "Oooh. So where is she?"she asks him"I want to see her."

    "She''s in the town, looking around the place."Nevada answers to her."I wanted to tell you first and not just appear after a year, with her on my side."

    "Well you basically did that, but whatever for now. Go get her. I want to see her."Maria tells Nevada, who simply nods his head and disappears into snow.

    "Huh. He seems to gained some control over his powers. That''s good."Maria mutters and then looks down on her cute daughter."Soon daddy will hold you too, my cute Ria."

    As for Tania, she is walking around the town, while waiting for her beloved Nevada to come get her.

    ''I hope his wife will accept me. No. She will definitely accept me or else Nevada wouldn''t have brought me here. As a beastman herself, she too should know the need to find a strong mate. I will prove my worth, If it means I can stay with him.''

    Tania makes her resolve while aimlessly wondering around and ending up in front of a bar.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

    She looks at the building and decides to wait for him inside, rather then waiting in the cold. So she enters the bar and immediately is hit with a strong stench of alcohol in the air. People here are laughing and drinking their asses of at the same time. She looks around some more, until she finds a empty table.

    Sitting down at the table, she puts her hands on the table and rests her head on them, while aimlessly moving her eyes around the place. As she does that, she gets so deep into her thoughts that she doesn''t notice some drunks approaching. Only when one of them touches her shoulder, she is kicked out of her thoughts and looks at them.

    She sees five guys, all in their thirties and with below average faces. They reek of alcohol and their ugly eyes, filled with lust. They grin, revealing their yellow teeth and before one of them could even say anything, Tania grabs the hand that is touching her shoulder and throws it away from her.

    "So you''re playing hard to get. Okay. Makes it more fun."says one of them and is about to grab her, when he suddenly stops. Reason for it is a cold blade against his throat and slightly cutting into his neck.

    "Fuck off."Says Nevada, who''s holding the dagger. Immediately, the man raises his hands up in the air and backs away, knowing he will definitely die, if he tried doing anything else. He then slowly steps away with his group and once a few meters away, they dash out of the bar with their tails between their legs.

    He looks at them leaving and then sheaths his blade. Looking at Tania, he lets out a sigh and says"I leave you alone for ten minutes and you already get into trouble. *Sigh* Come with me. Maria wants to see you."

    Tania just nods and gets up from the chair and follows him to outside. They walk through the busy street towards his home.

    From the distance, a handsome man is sitting on top of a buildings ledge and in his hand, is holding something that looks like a smartphone. In his ears, a pair of black headphones, through which, he seems to listen to music. He looks onto the street, where he sees Nevada and Tania walking together and then, raises his phone to take a picture. And with a single press, the photo is taken and he looks at it, before closing his phone and putting it away. He takes off his headphones and mutters:

    "I should adopt this worlds appearance."

    And the next moment, his sneakers turn into black boots, his blue jeans into black pants, his shirt turns from white to red, the leather jacked changes into a coat with extended sides and back. His blond hair dyes itself into purple hair, that reaches to his shoulders. His green eyes take on a colour of purple too.

    He gets up onto his feed and ties his hair into a ponytail. He stretches is muscular body and says"So this is one of the fighters from her side. Compared to mine, he''s much better. But nonetheless, the fight between them should be interesting. There''s also that vampire brat. But this fight will get Lucifer''s attention. Can''t wait to see that fucking brat again. Always fucking around with the balance."

 Agent of Two

    In a small human town of Urelo, there is a bar. It''s an old bar, that has been in that city since it was still being built. Inside of the bar, a hooded figure is sitting at the corner table, observing everyone in there with his red eye. Next to his chair, a crimson katana is resting against the wall.

    He slowly drinks his cheap beverage and continues to observe the humans in here. He keeps doing that, until he stops and puts his mug down on the table.

    "What do you want?" he asks in a rough voice and turns to look at the man with a long purple hair.

    "I want you to test out someone''s strength. You can''t kill him nor injuries him <u>severely</u>."

    "Payment?"he asks him.

    The man doesn''t say anything and instead takes out a vial filled with black liquid and rolls it over the table to him.

    "Finish the job and you get nine more."the purple haired man says.

    "Who''s the target?"he asks back.

    "One of The Ice Fort assassins, a kitsune. You''ll know when you see him. Push him far enough that he will go all out."he explains.

    "Consider it done."he replies and takes a sip from his mug.

    "Good. I''ll appear once you have done your part."the purple haired man says and disappears into a thin air.

    Only a few minutes passes before one of the most gorgeous woman sits down on his table. She has beautiful golden silky hair down to her hips. Her eyes are golden and pretty enough to get lost into them. Her face is so pretty that it is nearly impossible to compare her to anyone. Her body is covered by a white long dress, that shows enough cleavage to distract anyone.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

    "Is it done?"she asks in a charming voice.

    "They have twenty five marked soldiers. All of them are trained and skillful in their field. Sola herself has started to break the rules too."

    "What rules?"the woman asks

    "Restricted to say so. I won''t break my rules."

    "So this is as far as I can get."she mutters.

    "Yes. Now pay up."he says.

    "Here."she says and gives him a blue feather, which he takes and observes."

    "One cryo-phoenix feather like you wanted."

    "The payment has been received. Until next time."he says and gets up from his table. He grabs his sword, but before he can leave, she asks.

    "Could you remove this illusion? Its kinda disturbing."she asks the man, who doesn''t reply anything. He simply pushes the katana slightly out of the sheath with his thumb, revealing a crimson blade. Next, he pulls it back with his thumb and next moment all of the people disappear and are replaced with pool of blood on the floor, with bones, guts and other body parts are floating.

    The blood splattered on the floor when he steps into it and walking outside of the bar. Outside, the streets are in the same condition: everything painter red with blood.

    "Blood sacrifice doesn''t have to be so chaotic."she says, while walking outside and holding her dress.

    "Easier that way. You can go now, Order. I don''t want to see you or Chaos for the next ten years after this war. And I know very well who I am talking to."he says without looking at her and just keeps walking towards the center of the city.

    "If you didn''t have that sword, we would have killed you years ago."she says and disappears from that scene of massacre.

    "I know."he mutters and reaches to a fountain, where water is replaced with blood.

    He takes out the feather he got and throws it at the center of the fountain.

    "[Atian ellum eet annis suk busa us kinamo]"he chants and next moment, the it starts to spin furiously, before stopping in a direction.

    He stares st the weather and then looks up towards his next location.

    "Oooh. This is gonna be interesting."he says and an evil smile forms on his face.

    And so, he leaves a town of Urelo with a former population of five thousand people. Now: Zero.

 Danger approaches

    During a cold winter night, it was snowing pretty heavily. On a field, covered with a thick layer of snow, a man was walking. He was wearing a pair of gray boots, which currently were under the snow. A pair of light gray pants with a dark brown leather pouch strapped onto his right tie and seemed to hold some type of weapon. His upper body was covered by an armor made from red scales. Over that, he wore a white coat with extended sides and back and also with a red fur collar. Around his neck, he wore a white scarf and his head was covered by white hood. On his right hand, he wore a black glove, while his left hand had nothing to cover it. Under his coat, a hilt of a sword was sticking out.

    "I''m getting close. But this snowfall makes it too hard to see."he mutters and looks around the place. As he observes the place, he stops to stare at a direction and then starts walking towards that place. With heavy steps, he walks through the snow and into the forest.

    He keeps moving on until he sees a house with smoke rising from its chimney.

    "This place..."he mutters and keeps walking towards.

    He reaches to the door and knocks on it three times.

    *Knock, knock, knock*

    With his sharp hearing, he immediately hears light footsteps coming towards the door. The door is opened and a beautiful woman opens the door.

    "Yes. How can I he-."her words are cut short when a blade pierces through her heart. Blood starts flowing out of her mouth and from her wound.

    "W-why?"she asks in a weal voice, before he pulls the knife out and lets her fall onto the snow, painting it red.

    He steps in and closes the door behind him.

    "Who was it, mom?"a voice of a young woman could be heard and then footsteps approaching from the corner.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.

    "Mom?"she asked in a worrying tone and then turns a corner, to see him, holding a bloody knife.

    Before she could react, he had already appeared in front of her and grabbed by her throat.

    "I''m gone for a few years and now I come back here, only to find two sluts living in here. Explain, you demon-wench!"he says, but then he thinks something else. He looks at the struggling woman in front of him: feet kicking the air, hands scratching his, eyes full of tears.

    "Actually, I don''t care."he says and simply snaps her neck.

    "Fucking succubus."he mutters and turns around to throw the body out into the wild.

    "Look at her memories."a ghastly feminine voice whispers to him.

    "Shut up!"he shouts and continues.

    "Trust me."the same ghastly voice says.

    "I said: Shut up!"he shouts and opens the door. Immediately throwing the body out, it lands next to her dead mother. He looks at the two and slams the door shut.

    "She had information about your kitsune."ghastly voice says.

    "Will fucking shut up already."he yells, while doing a tour around the house to see what the two woman had changed in his house.

    He reaches to his bedroom, where he takes a few quick sniffs.

    "They were disgusting. Doing with your own daughter."he mutters, but then he smells another scent. An old one.

    "A kitsune was born on this bed."he mutters."One of them were his mother. But they weren''t close. The freshest smell is the same age as the oldest. They abandoned him."

    He quickly concludes and then moves on.

    After checking through the house, he takes off his coat, armor, boots and weapons. Now he only wears sock, pants, his glove and a black shirt with long sleeves.

    He sits down on his old bed and looks around the room.

    "So many happy memories here......I hate them."

    He mutters and puts his sword next to the bed. He also puts a knife under a pillow, slowly falling asleep after months of not sleeping.

    In the Ice Fort, Nevada is peacefully sleeping on his bed with Tania on his left and Maria on her right side. Near their bed, a cradle has been placed, on which Ria is sleeping. All four are sleeping peacefully.

    Same could be said with Veronica and Alice. Both peacefully sleeping in their embrace.

    And like the couples, almost all of them are sleeping by now.

    As for Anna, the Master of Ice Fort, she is still up and has been so for the past few days.

    She looks at a file on her desks and keeps muttering.

    "It''s not possible."

    "It can''t be him."

    "He''s dead."

    He keeps repeating these lines, while biting her nails.

 First move

    In a small house, a little elf girl is running inside of the building with a sheet of paper in her tiny hands.

    "Papa! Papa!"she yells with a loud voice when <u>entering</u> into a small office like room. In the room, a man with platinum coloured hair is sitting and reading a book, which he shuts when he hears her entering.

    "What is it little Olivia?"he asks her, while walking over to her.

    "I made this."she says in a happy voice and presents him the drawing. On it, there are three people drawn: A man, a woman and a small child holding their hands. He takes it into his hand and says.

    "Very good Olivia. You already draw better than your mom."he says and picks her up from a ground with one hand. He kisses her forehead and the two look at the picture.

    "What was that?"a female voice asks and the owner of the voice, a Snow-Elf enters the room while watching the parent and the child.

    "Papa said i draw better that mama."the girl says in a cheerful voice.

    "If that is true, you also draw better that papa. He has no artistic talent."

    "Ar-tist-ik Talent?"the girl says in a questionable tone.

    "It means he can''t draw."she replies and walks over to the two.

    "Ouch."the man says jokingly and hugs her with a other hand.

    "I love mama and papa."she says in a cheerful tone and hugs the two of them.

    ""We love you too.""

    In his bed, the man wakes up covered in cold sweat and with rapid breathing. He puts his hand over his heart and grabs onto his shirt with a painful expression. Slowly, the pain fades away.

    "A nightmare?"a ghastly female voice asks him.

    "A dream from the past."he answers and immediately gets out of the bed.

    He quickly puts on his clothes and equipment, so he could leave this place as soon as possible.

    Once clothes and equipment are on, he grabs his sword and puts it on his belt, before leaving the house.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.

    "Are you sure you want to leave?"the voice asks him.

    "Yes. Now shut up."he replies.

    "You always tell me to shut up, but you still talk to me."it says, creating silence between the two.

    In the Ice Fort, Anna is in her office and going through her files. She''s tired and seriously needs some sleep. As she reaches for a next file, she hears something flying through the window behind her and the next moment, an arrow between her fingers.

    She quickly gets up and looks out of the window to search for the shooter. She quickly finds the one who shot the arrow. He is standing on a tower roof, across from her office. His clothing is white and different shades of gray with some red. He also is wearing a white mask with red fin shaped drawing spreading around the mask from his right eye. Through the eye hole, a crimson eye stares at her.

    Annas body starts to tremble while looking at him.

    "He''s alive."she says with a weak voice, while looking at him. She sees him drawing his bow once again and taking an aim. Not at her, but at someone else. The arrow is pointed down and Anna is looking herself too, seeing where he is aiming. Down there, she sees Alice there, peacefully chatting.

    Realizing where he is aiming, she looks back up and sees that he has let the string back and put the arrow away. This was him saying that he can kill whats precious to her.

    The two stare off, before he suddenly appears and she lets out a deep breath. She turns around and slowly slides down onto the floor, where she grabs her knees and just stares at the arrow on her desk.

    "After all these years, why return now? No. How is he even alive?"she asks herself.

    Minutes pass, before she finally gets back onto her feet and looks at the arrow. On it, she finds a message.

    "Tell the Kitsune to come to the Snow Fields. If I don''t see him when the sun is the highest, Alice will die.

    Ps. Come in numbers if you want"

    "Why does he want Nevada?"she asks herself.

    "You called, Anna."Alice says while entering the office. Immediately when she enters, she sees a hole in the window and Anna observing an arrow with red feathers and red triple-edged arrowhead.

    "That arrowhead? Isn''t that.?"

    "Raz''s? Yes."Anna says.

    "But Raz died over twenty years ago. How is this possible. An imposter?"

    "No. I saw him and it was him."Anna says."He wants your son."

    "What?! Why?!"Alice asks in a loud voice and she immediately rushed over to her table.

    "He didn''t say. He just said that Nevada must be on the Snow Fields tomorrow, when the sun is at the highest or he will kill you."

    "I can protect myself."

    "No you can''t. Not against him. He has that mask for a reason. He had his aim at you before. He could have killed you easily. I don''t want you to die. You are my only family. I can''t lose you."Anna snaps at her sister.

    "Okay. Okay."Alice says in a calming tone."What else did the letter say?"

    "That he doesn''t mind If there are extra people."

    "That''s good then. We can just take the strongest her and take him down."

    "It won''t be easy. He has the Cursed Sword and a training from me, you, Veronica and Maria. He knows what we can do, while we know very little what he can do now."Anna explains.

    "With Maria, it will be easy. She is the strongest for a reason."

    "You are too optimistic."Anna mutters while looking at her sister.

    "That''s just how I am."Alice replies

 The fight

    It was early in the morning and Raz was standing on the Snow Field. He walked around with slow steps, when he suddenly stopped and turned around. In front of him, he saw Anna there, dressed for a fight.

    "The sun is still rising. Why are you here?"he asks her with a calm voice.

    "I came here to talk."she replies. He looks at her face and then the hilt of the dagger, which is sticking out from behind her back.

    "Here to talk...with the God Slaying weapon of Lighting?"he says and looks back at her."Well whatever. Lets talk."

    He takes of his mask and hood, revealing his long platinum hair tied into a tail and a long red streak of hair: braided and tucked behind his pointy half-elf ear. His right eye was crimson and <u>slitted</u>, while his left eye gray and with a normal round pupil.

    "Say whats on your mind, Anna."

    "What happened to you?"she asks in a weak voice.

    "Really? Can there be any dumber question that that?"he asks himself, while shaking his head. He then points at her and says"You happened. You stabbed me in the heart. And the worst part of it was your expression. You looked at my like I was some filth."

    "I-i...."

    "You don''t get to say anything right now. Your betrayal weakened my mind, letting her corrupt me. Thanks to you, I have this eye now."he says while pointing at his right eye.

    "I''m sorry for that. It''s just...."

    "It''s just what?"he asks in a loud voice"It''s just that you decided to kill your husband? Is that it?"

    "No. Of course not."she replies"It''s just...."

    She goes silent and seeing her like that, he says"I don''t know what I honestly expected from talking to you."

    He then takes the sword in his hands: left one holding the sheath and the right one grabbing the hilt. He takes in his stance and then dashes forward while unsheathing his crimson sword. Reaching her, the sword is already in a slashing motion, but instead of blood spilling when he strikes at her, a sound of metals clashing can be heard instead. Anna had pulled out her dagger and blocked his attack. What follows next, is a shockwave, which destroys everything around them.

    "Ah."he says to himself and jumps back, sheathing his sword.

    "At least your senses haven''t dulled that much."he says in a mocking tone.

    "What that supposed to mean?"she asks.

    "Yesterday, the harrow hit the target and wasn''t stopped before. In the past, you were able to catch an arrow with just two fingers."

    "I was just tired."she answers

    "Oooh really. Did I keep you up? Did you get reports of a man with a white mask going around, massacring towns?"he asks her in a mocking tone, while taking a hold of his hilt again.

    "So your minute cooldown is over."she says and focuses her gaze to his hands.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.

    "So you still remember."he says and dashes st her. Their blades collide and create even more violent shockwave around them. This time, the ground they stand on gets cracked right underneath them and destroyed around them.

    Once again, he jumps back and sheaths his sword.

    "Once again, you have an one minute window to kill me. So why won''t you do it. Finish what you started on that day twenty years ago."he tells her and spreads his arms out, leaving him open.

    "I never wanted to hurt you. I was confused then and didn''t know what to do. The dagger..."

    "...started to whisper into your mind. Yeah I know. But that''s not an excuse. Because of your betrayal, she managed to corrupt me even further. Making me lose memories and make happy memories a nightmare. But that''s not what''s important here. What I want to know is: If you felt guilty, why didn''t you simply search for me. You knew where the stream goes."

    She stays silent while watching down at her feet. Seeing a chance, he dashes at her, ready to deal the killing blow, only to have his katana blocked by an another katana.

    "Aah. The kitsune is here."he says and looks at Nevada, who is holding onto his own God slaying weapon."I''ve been waiting for you."

    Raz kicks himself back and sheaths his blade.

    "Okay. I see you here, Anna next to you....So."he shouts out"Where are you three masters?!"

    "So you noticed."Maria says and appears next to Nevada with Veronica and Alice.

    "All of my teachers are here now. But this you are here only to be spectators."he says. Next he pushes his sword out of the sheath with his thumb and pulls it back. He does it twice and then looks around. Everyone is paralyzed, except Raz, who simply walks up to the group and looks at Nevada into his eyes.

    "You can see, you can hear and you can smell, but you can''t move. So enjoy the show."

    Raz pats Nevada''s shoulder and walks up to Anna and simply grabs her dagger from her hand. Now with a dagger in his right and his sheathed sword in his left, he walks over to Alice.

    He turns to look at Nevada straight into his eyes and sees despair and also anger in them. He realized what was going to happen.

    "All of you gonna suffer."Raz says and stabs Alice into her chest, through her heart, killing her. He lets go off the dagger and doing so, her body drops onto the ground, blood painting the floor. He looks at Nevada and sees the struggle in him to break free.

    "Now the second mom."he says and with a quick unseating slash, Veronicas head falls off from her shoulders and drops down onto the ground. Her head rolls on the floor and stops in front of Nevada''s feet.

    Raz looks at him and sheaths his sword.

    "Hmm? Maybe Maria is next?"he asks and looks at her, then him.

    "That''s the hate I want to see. Come on let it all loose."he says and hits Nevada''s forehead with the hilt of his sword, releasing Nevada from his own prison.

    "I will fucking murder you!"he shouts with tears in his eye and leaps onto him with his icy sword.  Raz blocks the attack with ease and kicks Nevada immediately after.

    "Is that it. Maybe I should kill Maria, then the other kitsune and finally, what should I do with the baby? Kill? Adopt?"

    "Don''t touch them."he shouts and jumps at Raz like a wild animal. His claws are out and his body starts to grow white hair all over.

    "So it''s here."Raz mutters and leaps away from him, letting him transform. And like some time ago, Nevada once again turns into a giant fox with nine tails. But this time he''s twice the size.

    "A true king. Too bad my job is done."Raz says while looking at the fox, who is leaping at him, with his jaws open. Without any effort, he holds out his sword towards Nevada and when he touches it, he drops onto the ground, turning back to his original form and once again, paralyzed.

    Raz looks at Nevada and says:"Anger is the key. Embrace it."

    He then turns around and sees the purple haired man there, Chaos.

    "Job is done. Payment!"Raz says.

    "Here."he replies and throws him a leather bag, which he catches.

    "I have seen my enemies side. Your opinion on who will be the winner?"he asks.

    "Order this time. Your group is bunch of fucktards."Raz says and looks back at them.

    "I''ll also take this."he says and holds out his right hand. A bolt of lighting shoots out under Alice and at his hand. Once the bolt disappears, Annas dagger is in his hands.

    "Wanna remove the illusion?"Chaos asks

    "You''re still here? Why?"Raz asks and turns around, to see him disappear.

    "Annoying."he mutters and quickly pushes and pulls his sword with his thumb. Immediately after, Alice and Veronica are on their feet, completely alive without any injury. All of them are still unable to move.

    "You know where to find me, my love."Raz says and throws the dagger. Next moment, he disappears as a bolt of lighting.

 Waking up

    Slowly opening his eyes, Nevada sees the ceiling of his room. He slowly turns his head to his sides and sees no one there. As he watches around in confusion, he remembers everything what happened and jumps out of the bed, only to have his body give up on him. So he collapses onto the floor with a loud *thud*.

    "Fuck."he mutters and rests against his bed.

    Few seconds later, the door is opened and Alice walks.

    "W-what???"Nevada asks in a confused voice, when he saw his mother enter the room. She was supposed to be dead.

    "Nevada!"Alice shouts and <u>immediately</u> runs up to him and helps him to sit down on his bed. She grabs his face with her hands.

    "I know what''s going through your mind right now. I''m not some illusion or anything like that. I didn''t die on that field and I wasn''t even hurt. Raz made you see illusions. Me and Veronica are fine. Everyone is fine."Alice tells him while holding his head.

    Nevada doesn''t say anything to her and just grabs Alice and pulls her into a hug. He was glad that she was alive.

    "Don''t worry Foxy. I won''t go anywhere."Alice says and pats him.

    "So you are awake."says Maria who walks into the room, with a file in her hand. She walks over to the bed and puts the file on the bed. She grabs Nevada from Alice and gives him a kiss before taking the file in her hand and saying.

    "I know you are tired, but this is something you should hear."she says and shows the file."This is the file on Raz. It took a lot of time, but I found it. I''ll read it out to you. You listen too Alice.

    "Name: Morgan "Raz" Zain."

    "Did you just say Zain?"Nevada asks and looks at her."Z-A-I-N?"

    "Yes. You know that family name?"Maria asks.

    "Yes. Echo Zain."Nevada says.

    "Gray hair and eye?"Maria asks immediately

    "Yes."Nevada asks.

    "Ooh shit."Maria mutters.

    "Eeh. What? Who''s Echo Zain?"Alice asks in a confused voice.

    "The eighth demon lord, Despond."Alice answers.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.

    "Not that shit again."Alice says"Last time was such a trouble."

    "What happened last time?"Nevada asks.

    "Veronica had to kill her master, as he had gone rogue because of a demon lord."Alice answers.

    "I think the two aren''t in contact? As much as I know, Echo wouldn''t send out his son."Nevada says.

    "And how do you know that?"Alice asks.

    "Because he''s a friend."Nevada answers.

    "I wont even comment on it."Alice says and the looks at Maria"Continue."

    "Right. He was born in year . Race: blood half-elf."

    "Never heard of that race."Alice comments.

    "It seems that Anna has written that his parents were high-elf and a vampire. So mix of the two?"

    "I guess."

    "Okay. His rank: eleven or Red rank."Maria then starts to explain to Nevada, who she knows hasn''t heard about it"Red rank is a special rank, that you can''t earn by just doing jobs. You must inherit the mask from the previous owner. With the mask, comes the rank. As for the mask itself, it''s as old as this clan. Nowadays no one really talks about it and there hasn''t been a new one, because the current one hasn''t given it up."

    "What does Red rank even do?"Nevada asks.

    "No one knows besides The Master. And Anna is currently missing. No one knows where she went."Alice answers to his question.

    "Could I finish this file and then we can discuss."

    "Sure." "Okay."

    "Specialization: illusions and information gathering.

    Abilities: illusions, blood magic.

    Bio: I found him in a small village of Hura. The residence of the village were all slaughtered except for him. I found him in the middle of the village, sitting there, hugging a sword. He was covered in blood, but on closer inspection had no wounds. He was the one who killed everyone. Knowing I couldn''t let him stay there, I brought him here, the Ice Fort.

    -Anna"

    "And here''s how to defeat him.....this is a joke."Maria says.

    "Whats written there?"

    "DON''T ENGAGE. RUN!"

    "Is he really that dangerous? That Anna would suggest to run."

    "Yes. He could even paralyze me, someone who''s body is affected by the void. His blood magic is really dangerous."Maria adds.

    "So what can we do?"Nevada asks.

    "Nothing. Right now, we can hope that Anna can talk sense to him."Maria answers.

    "How do you know that Anna is going after him?"Nevada asks.

    "Because before R- Morgan left, he said that she would know where to find him. So obviously she would go after him. They were lovers for 30 years."

    "What?! I never heard about it."Alice shouts.

    "They kept it a secret from everyone. I just happen to notice the chemistry between them."Maria answers.

    "And you didn''t tell me?"

    "Not my business to tell you. It was your sisters job to do."Maria answers her friend.

    "So what now?"Nevada asks them.

    "Well we can''t hunt him down, so we can only continue living our daily lives."Maria answers.

    "I can''t just let him be after what he did."Nevada tells Maria, while grabbing his bed sheets.

    "And If you find him, what will you do? He can make you immobile and kill you. I don''t want that. Alice doesn''t want that. None of us wants you to die. So don''t go out there and get yourself killed."Maria tells him"Trust me when I say: I want to take him down. But we simply can''t."

    "Okay."Nevada gives a weak reply and just drops his back on the bed.

    "I''ll go now. I have things to do."Alice says while watching the two. Before she leaves the room, she tells Maria.

    "Enjoy yourselves."

 Unknown

    In the middle of a beautiful <u>luscious</u> green forest, a river was running through. Near the river, a small house was standing. The house was made out of wood and could fit a family of four. The door of the house opens and out of it steps out Morgan. Right now, he is wearing only a pair of shorts, meaning the rest of his body is uncovered. His right hand is pitch black and the dark colour seems to slowly spread to his wrist too. Body itself is covered with scars and with the most important one being the one over his heart. His left arm is covered by a sea-blue tattoo of a sea serpent, with the tail of it starting from his wrist, wrapping around the arm and ending with the head on the shoulder. As for his katana, it isnt with him and instead, was left in the house.

    He slowly walks over to the river and then steps into it. He lets the current flow between his legs as he stares at the waterfall in front of him. Slowly, he raises his left wrist and up to his mouth. Opening his mouth, one could see his canine teeth extending. Next, he bites into his wrist, drawing out blood and letting it flow out of his bitemarks.

    He puts his left hand up to the elbow into the water and lets the blood flow with the current. Seconds pass and after thirty seconds, he hears a voice inside of his head.

    "Have you finished your mission?"the mighty female voice asks.

    "I have the cryo-phoenix egg."Morgan answers in his head.

    "Good. When will you return?"she asks him.

    "Soon."he answers and pulls his hand out of the water, to let his natural healing close the wound.

    Finished with his business, he walks out of the water and onto grass. There, he looks around the place and stops, when he sees someone. About fifty meters away, is Anna.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

    "So you came."he says and a smirk expression forms on his face.

    Back in Ice Fort, Alice had taken over Annas job and now is a temporary master until the original returns. That also meant, she now had access to everything she needed and currently, it was any information about Raz and the Red Assassins. But even after a week of going through everything, she still hadn''t find anything about either of those.

    Right now, Alice is lying down on the sofa and muttering"It''s like the files have been destroyed or hidden away too well."

    *Knock knock*

    "Enter!"

    The door is opened and Veronica enters the room. She looks at her wife and sits down next to her.

    "Still nothing?"she asks her.

    "Yes. I''ve gone through everything. Every cabinet, searched everywhere for a trigger that may unlock some hidden stash, but still nothing. Only thing we have is that profile file in Raz and it only tells us what we already knew before."

    "Well we taught him, so we know what he can do."Victoria tells her lover.

    "We KNEW what he could do."she corrects her."The powers what we saw recently were on a whole new level. And his personality was twisted and unrecognizable. I wonder who has more control over that body now."

    "Maybe the sword finally won?"Victoria wonders while looking at Alice''s face.

    "Maybe."Alice says and gets up onto her feet"Maybe not. Who knows. I mean we couldn''t even do shit against him."

    Victoria rises an eyebrow from surprise. She never heard Alice curse.

    Alice sits down on the chair behind the table and continues in an angrier"Why the fuck would Anna even take in such a dangerous person. A fucking child who slaughtered his entire village for who knows why."

    "Alice, going on a angry rant here won''t do anything. Anna disappeared, Neveda is training like crazy and doesn''t listen to his wives. I''ve seen him cough blood for crying out loud. He doesn''t pay attention to his daughter. There still is the old problem with the Church. And we also have to figure out who was the man he was talking to."

    Victoria gets up from the couch and walks over to Alice.

    "As for you, my dear wife, you need to rest. You are an elf not a vampire who doesnt require much sleep. So stop going crazy in this room and come to bedroom."she leans over to Alice''s face and seals her lips with hers