Chapter 0 - Prologue

The battle between a magician is very complicated. It could take forever for them to fight each other, and it could be very short and swift.

Like how two swordmasters traded blows. Swift and fast, without hesitation they swing their blade, aiming to kill and injure their opponents.

The same could be said for Magician. The stronger their Spell is, the deadlier their Magic became. For them, having an abundance amount of Mana is the deciding factor for their victory.

But some digress. Some believe that like how any fights always have been fought. Skills and wits is important for one to win.

Magic. It is a miracle of the world that allowed one to manipulate the particles of nature or Mana. It is an act of absorbing and manipulating those energy that allowed Magician to bend reality and create a miracle of their own.

In the past, when Magician first came to be. They absorbed Mana into their body and stored it into their own organs and flesh. But the consequence of that has turned them into a mindless beast. Until someone who claimed to be a Warlock showed them that there is a way to absorb Mana and creating a Mana Core inside their body as a container.

That was why Magician were branded as a heretic by the followers of the god. They were hunted and called many things. Some believe that Magician were a followers of Devil, they sold their soul to them to gain Supernatural Power. Most believe that they made a contract with a Devil and became one of them.

In the past, there has been many secret war between Magician and the Church. And from that war, Hate was born...

Because of that hate, and as a being with emotion, as a human, they fought and killed each other. For many years they sought to eradicate each other existence. But in the end, as the religions grew and started to prosper, Magician started to back away and hide in the shadow.

They did not lose the battle, they has always been the one who dominated the war. But Human always fear the unknown, and as a being that dominated the planet, there is no end to their hate and anger.

Many were slain, and a new one shall take over. Such is human, the cycle of battle continued until the Magician deems it as useless to continue fighting and started to operate in the dark, hiding their existence.

They started to create group and formed their own faction. They keep to themselves as they researched about Magic.

Many branch of Magician has been created and formed in the pursuit of power. They believe that Magic is infinite. There is no end when one is pursuing Magic.

There are theories that with Magic, one could create a world of their own. They could become a God that so powerful they are omnipotent.

Of course, talent is necessary for one to flourish as a Magician. But hard work is also one of many factors that made Magician into a being that was almost said to be god like.

However, many fell and died in their pursuit of Magic. The greed, hatred, ambition and human lifespan that ended their grand dreams and in the end, No one has reached the true end of Magic.

But of course, if one doesn't have a Mana Vein in their body, then they will never be able to use and absorb Mana in the atmosphere.

Magician, it was a phrase that was given to those that pursue the absolute of magic. To them, there is nothing that is impossible. A mere Mana Vein-less person is just a matter of time and research.

And so they did. They created away for ordinary person without Mana Vein to use magic. As gruesome as it is, they have succeeded in creating a method to make a pathway for Mana to enter a body without Mana Vein.

That is the first time Arcane Magic born into the world. Earth is a beautiful planet with many secret. And behind one of that secret is the brutality truth of a Magician.

Now in the present time, in the years of 2027, Human society didn't believe in Magic and its miracle.

In this age of science, Magic is nothing but a mere fairy tales, a fantasy that was told from one imagination.

But is that true? Has Magic truly gone from the world?

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In a small city in Japan, there's a youth probably still in his 17, walked down the brightly lit street with slow steps, he was carrying a plastic bag on his right hand.

He was around 5'9ft with a black short but stylish hair, his skin is as delicate and as white as a snow, eyes as dark as a black hole that could suck one in. His high bridge nose, paired with his thin lips made him look sexy and exotic.

The young teens were handsome, words cannot describe how pretty and handsome he is. It was as if the teens were not born normally, not in a bad way, but the teens were like he was created artificially. From his head until his toes, he look so perfect that he cannot be real.

As he was walking slowly and looking quite relaxed, his phone started to ring in his pocket, sending a small jump in surprise as he hurriedly picked his phone. Before he answered the phone, he looked at the screen first and see who was calling him in the night. After confirming who it was, he answered the phone like he always did in the past.

"Leave a message and stop calling."

He said with a monotonous tone. The young man seems to be annoyed at the who is calling him on the phone.

"Damnit Kanzaki Izumi! You locked the damn door you idiot!"

Came a screaming voice from the phone speaker, it was so loud that he moved the phone away from his left ear.

"You just have to wait for me then, Nee-san."

The young man called Izumi replied while ignoring the angry person on the phone.

"I told you to leave the key under the pot when you get out! Why didn't you ever listen to me!?"

"... I guess i just don't trust a flower pot to guard the key, so i took it with me."

After a brief moment of silent, Izumi replied again to the angry sister with a frown on his face.

He was not that sure about leaving the house key under a flower pot. What if someone see him put it there and then broke inside the house?

Well he's the one who will be blamed if that happens, so he never put it there and always take it with him.

"Just hurry up and come back!"

She shouted again and then the call ended as she was too annoyed to continue talking it seems.

Izumi was delighted nonetheless, he was the one responsible for guarding the house after coming back from school. So he need to do his job properly.

"Living together with a woman in her mid twenties is hard... Even though she is my Nee-san... probably because she is my Nee-san?"

He thought loudly before shrugging his shoulders and then he increased his walking speed.

Izumi keep walking until he came into a small park a block away from his house. As he passed the park, he was rather curious as he could hear a rustling and gasping sound from there.

He thought that it was some nasty and uncivilised couple doing the deed in the park. Feeling a bit annoyed and disgusted, he then took out his phone and set his video to record it.

As annoyed as he is, he can't just walk in and scream at them to stop. What kind of idiot would do that anyway?

So as a reasonable and smart person, he took a careful step while holding his phone in his left hand. He was planning to record and report it to the police. It was a bother to the neighborhood anyway... Also disturbing.

And maybe he could use it as a blackmail material if necessary too... He was by no means a good person, so doing something dirty for a quick cash is not a problem for him.

Searching for jobs and earning money in this days and ages is so difficult after all. And as annoying and bothersome as she is, Izumi really respected his big sister a lot. That's why he doesn't want to rely on her all the time.

He made a careful and quiet steps as he hide behind a tree to watch and record the couple doing their deeds.

That was what he was planning to do... But what he saw in front of him were not what he was expecting!

There laid a very beautiful girl with long black hair and snow white skin just like his own. She was quite tall for a girl, but that was not the problem!

Her clothes were ripped in many place! She was wearing a strange dress that seemed like a black gothic dress from anime. She was breathing heavily with her eyes closed in pain.

Under her were a pool of blood that he assumed as her own. Izumi were standing still shell shocked at the sight in front of him.

"Wh... You got to be kidding me!"

He shouted as he ran towards to bloodied girl as fast as he could. He threw away the plastic bag that he was carrying to the side.

"Oy! Are you dead yet!? Open your eyes!"

He shouted with panic as he crouched beside the bloodied girl. Now that he was closer, he could see that there were many slash, stab and burn mark on the girl's body.

"Police... No.. Ambulance! I need to call ambulance!"

He tried to call an ambulance on his phone. But Izumi's hands were trembling really bad and wet with sweat that he couldn't do it right.

The panic were getting on his nerves! In frustration, he then slammed his phone on the ground!

"Damnit!"

Izumi yelled in frustration. He then took a deep breath to calm himself. And after a few deep breath, he tried to pick his phone again.

As Izumi's hand were trying to take the phone, his wrist were grabbed so suddenly that he almost jumped in surprise.

If the grip were not strong then he was sure that he would've been standing and moved away from the girl.

"Go! Run away fool!"

A sweet yet strong but enchanting voice traveled into Izumi's ears. Even though she looked in pain and hard to breathe, her voice never wavered as she glared at Izumi. Her brows were furrowed in displeasure.

"Wha... what are you saying! Look at you! You are bleeding really badly, you need to go to a hospital!"

Izumi shouted while pointing his finger with his other hand at the girl.

"Forget about me and run!"

She ignored what Izumi was saying and keep telling him to run away. She then bit her lower lips in frustration as she tried to stand up.

"Oy! Do you want to die?! Don't move your body yet, it's bleeding really bad!"

"No! You're the one who wants to die!"

The girl yelled at Izumi as she pushed him away and stood up as if nothing happened.

Her body were drenched in her own blood and the gothic like clothes she's wearing revealed a large portion of her skins.

There were many holes and tear mark on the worse for wear clothes. It looks like a rag rather than a clothes now.

But the girl ignored it as she glared to her left side.

"O-oy!"

Izumi tried to call her again, he was clearly nervous now. But she didn't listen to him and just keep frowning and glaring to the left.

"Is the one who did this to you still here?"

He asked again, although he was nervous, he's by no means scared to fight. He was just shocked that there is a bleeding girl that looked like she was raped and then going to be killed.

Just because he was not a good person doesn't mean that he was a heartless one. Seeing a girl bleeding to death is not something he could ignore!

"Shut up and go away!"

The girl turned her head to Izumi and then told him to leave. Her face were filled with frustration and clearly, he could see a trace of fear from her.

"You-"

When Izumi was about to scold her for being stubborn, his words were swallowed back down to his throat.

The scene in front of him were too mind boggling for him to believe! A red magic circle is forming in thin air from out of nowhere!

Lines after lines started to form as it formed a complete magical symbol that looks like a complicated formula.

"Run! Now!"

The girl screamed frantically at Izumi. But he was too dazed to make sense of what was happening.

As the magic circle glows more brightly, the girl beside him were even more panicked. She tried to move her body, but she ended up falling back down.

She could only watch in horror as a red flamming spear flying toward Izumi in a lightning like momentum.

*Splurt*

A sickening sound of flesh being pierced and blood splattered resounded in the quiet and empty park.

With eyes opened wide, Izumi stared at his own chest being stabbed by a flaming spear.

"S-shit... I.. it... h-hurt...."

He managed to let out a sound as he puked a mouthful of blood in return. The flamming spear then disappeared as Izumi's body hit the ground lifelessly.