2nd Rank Apprentice Realm

"Alright, I'm going in"

"Be careful then" Faere said as she disappeared.

John nodded before he jumped over the fence and he cautiously walked towards the front door.

"Man, I really don't like places like this" John said nervously he wiped the sweat that already formed on his forehead.

John arrived at the front door and slowly pulled out the wooden sword from his back and his left hand wrapped around the door knob and tried to twist it wanting to know if its unlocked and out of expectations the door actually opened by itself when his hand just let go of the doorknob.

"Huh? Is 'he' actually inviting me in?" John said with a gulped and just as he was about to step inside, Faere appeared on his shoulder and slowly said: "Careful now, I sense multiple faint auras of evil spirits inside".

"I will, I can already see some dark aurus leaking out from one of the rooms over" John said as he pointed at a room not too far away from him and at the opening below the door was something that looks like a smoke coming out but much darker than an ordinary smoke.

"Hehe, good thing I finally am a Rank 1 Novice and not take that expensive potion just for me too see or detect them" John said with a faint smile.

"Enough talk just go in already, I'll accompany you" Faere said knowing that John actually has a deep fear for this kind of places but the good thing now is that his now slowly shaking off this fear.

John stood there at the front door as he shook his shoulders trying to shrugged off the uncomfortable feeling inside him before stepping inside and the door slammed shut after him.

"W-what?" John said startled as glanced at door behind him and continued walking towards the door earlier.

John leaned his back at wall beside the door and took a deep breath as he slowly twisted the door handle before pushing it open in one go afraid the he might get sneak attacked.

John then stood there dumbfounded by the door as the 'thing' that he saw inside shocked him silly.

"Snap out of it!"

John regained his composure upon hearing Faere's shout.

"Damn!" John cursed and gave his thanks to Faere before looking at the scene in front of him in anger.

John looked inside the room, the room was so spacious that there was nothing in it that maybe it could even house 4-5 SUV's and in the middle of the room was young child smiling at him and it only made him grind his teeth as he felt like it was making fun of him and the hand that was holding his wooden sword was gripped more tightly that veins started appearing on it.

"Hehe, did you like it?" said the kid smiling at him before it slowly turned into an evil looking 'creature' that still has the same feature of the cute boy before but this time it now has dark black eyes, longer hair that reached down and covered the floor around 'it' with sharp teeth while smiling and with its body became covered in blood.

"Fuck you! To use the appearance of a child! Grrr!" John said angrily and pointed his middle finger at him.

"John calm down! It would only make it stronger the more your angry!" Faere hastily yelled beside him.

John took a deep breath trying to calm his anger and glance at the flying Faere beside him and said apologetically "Sorry, It didn't just dwell good inside me thinking that there's actually a child stuck here and then it turned out be just a ruse, hmmp!"

"I know, that's why I kept telling you before that you must not lose your composure while facing this kind of malignant creatures or it would only spell trouble to us"

"Uhmm, thanks. I'm good now"

"This one is as strong as the evil lady before but now you can defeat it easily now that you're at Novice Realm"

John just smiled and was about to attack it but 'it' slowly change its appearances like of his brother, mother, his sister and even Rina and Rea but it made a mistake at one of its transformation.

"Die bastard!" John yelled as he rushed towards in front of it and swung the sword in a upward slash and the 'evil child' shriek in pain as it stumbled backwards.

"It hurts you bastard! Die for me!" 'It' cursed at John before the evil spirit attacked him with his hair successive motion and John was forced to defend as he parried it and slowly back away.

"Damn, it attacks are like a spear wanting to stab me!" John said as he kept defending and got pushed at the wall.

"F*cker..just keep attacking then let's see who will exhaust his energy first, you or me!" John yelled at it smiling and because of it, it only made it attacks more stronger from being provoked.

The evil spirit just kept attacking John while cursing at him as it slowly walked towards him with a malicious grin.

Faere who was standing on top of door watching the scene in front of her smiled in disdain when she saw the grin on that 'child'. "Fool, sooner or later you will run out of energy, let's see if you can still smile like that. Hehe, actually forgetting that its energy are very limited right now"

A minute later, the attacks ceased and the evil spirit appeared stunned a few meters away from him.

"My turn" said John with a playful tone as he dashed towards it as he slashed at its neck then kicked at the side of its head which sent it flying towards the left wall.

John slowly walked towards it with a sinister smile and when the evil spirit saw John's smiling, it shook it hands in front of him with fear written on its face as it slowly assumed the appearance of the child earlier and said in pity: "Don't kill me please"

"Wrong" John only said a word before he prepared to stab on its head.

"W-wait, w-we can make a deal ins-" the evil wasn't able to finished what it was supposed to say before it was stabbed in head.

"Deal your face and...you never learned" said John expressionly.

"B-bas..tard..mas..ter..wi..ll..kill..you..in the...end" it said weakly with face filled with malice as it slowly disappeared in the wind and on the ground appeared a Spirit Crystal.

"I'm looking forward to it" John smiled with dark look before picking up the crystal on the floor and he slowly walked towards the door.

"Good job" Faere said as she landed on his shoulder.

"Uhmm" John only nodded.

Faere didn't say anymore and just smiled as she felt the burning fighting intent surrounding him and thought to herself " It seems his fear towards ghost have now disappeared, thanks to that dumbass earlier" and then both of them blatantly headed upstairs.

John exterminated three more evil spirit in succession, it was like he was a bandit ransacking a house as he hunted and looked for them in every room inside the house, the dropped three spirit crystals the size of a thumb and the last evil spirit even dropped a ring which John happily hid it inside one of his pockets.

"Were here" John said with all seriousness as he stood in front of the last room, the door and the walls around it are covered in a malicious dark looking smoke.

"Be careful, even though this evil spirit is now injured, it's strength is now equivalent to yours as it managed to the restore its strength a bit" Faere said flying beside him.

"How powerful was it when it was in its peak form?"

"2nd Rank Apprentice Realm"

"I never fought seriously for a few years now, this time would be interesting" John smiled as he raised his right foot in front him and kicked the door open.

"Hehe, it seems the exorcist association is now looking down on me, for them to send a mere 1st Rank Novice Exorcist, kukuku"

"Hmmmp! You talk too much" John was startled a bit when he saw that the evil spirit actually looked like a goblin that he saw at a manga before but then snorted as he dashed towards him with his sword ready in hand.