Chapter 8

After Bael calmed down he started thinking about the grimoire once more. How could he not? Such temptation was beyond him. After the first taste of such power and its usefulness. But he realizes that he needs to be careful with corruption.

Bael wanted to choose a spell that wouldn't bring any corruption. But he could not find any such spell, all would bring some degree of corruption to the caster. So Bael chose one which could be used in many ways. -weather control- could help him in many situations. He remembered those old movies with possession or any of horrors. In them, the weather always responded to the situation.

When a group of friends walked to the forest because they thought there was a shortcut which they could go, or they entered an abandoned building to explore. Especially mental hospitals would be extra scary with all those people inside.

-weather control- was the most diverse power which he chose to study, and because of it also the hardest one. Pure diversity in it becomes a problem, but Bael knows that such problems would be only temporary, and once mastered it would bring fruits of options.

Bael at the beginning tried to make it rain, only he failed repeatedly. So imagined for clouds to gather and then make them bigger, denser with water. After which it indeed started to rain. "Hahaha..."Bael started uncontrollably laugh from the pure joy which he felt. Only to looked at his fingers surprised when they become twitching and even itch. Bael felt something was wrong so he in hurry opened the window and left for the forest, because he didn't know what was happening and started panicking, but still calm enough to realize he should probably leave. So he jumped out and in the middle of the fall, he transformed into shadows to merge with them. After which Bael started to run.

When Bael was somewhat deep in the forest he stopped and wide-eyed looked at his fingers when the itch becomes unbearable. 'What is happening? wha...' Baels thoughts were interrupted when one of his nails fell off. After which others followed. But then he felt movement as if new nails were growing. Only these were darker in color some shade of black and much bigger and sharper.

Bael couldn't marver about them for long when something pierced his right leg. Then Bael heard shouts "Keep focus brothers, we must cleanse this foul creature. Brother Anton shot!" Bael felt another piercing pain but now in his left shoulder, when Bael looked at it it was some kind of harpoon only smaller than those which were used at the sea. On the end of the harpoon was a chain that traveled to figure in some battle gear with a strange marking on them, probably Anton was his name. Bael shout at them ' " STOP! " '

He saw them twitch but that was all. "Fiend, do you think such little thing will work on people of the god? Your petty tricks will not work on enlightened like us."

Five figures were circling Bael. When he tried to move he felt another two shots, now to his stomach from front and one to his back. Bael could withstand the pain from the first shot but others made him scream from the pain. And then he felt as if those harpoons were on fire.

"BURN IT!" one of the figures yelled at the others. 'They want to burn me?!' Bael thought through his pain but he knew he wasn't fireproof so they could certainly succeed. Bael saw as the last figure which hasn't yet shot at him took some type of canister and splashed him with liquid. After which he heard some type of grinding of stone. When Bael looked at him he saw that figure held lighter in hand and threw it at him.

Bael lit up a fire torch at a campsite. Then he heard them laugh from joy. In the pain from shots and fire, Bael thought about the reason they are doing this to him. 'Why? How did they found me? WHY?' he wanted to yell at them but only screams of pain and growls escaped his throat.

When Bael was losing consciousness his anger took control of him.

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Anton looked around him as he sat in the car. He and his team got a new mission and were sent to exterminate some type of monster which was sighted at the crime scene of a recent murder.

Anton was a Witch Hunter and his duty was to exterminate any pests which would bring harm to humanity. From the report they received, they are hunting some time off vampires or wraith. It's hard to tell at this stage, they knew that it could transform to some type of mist or shadow and use mental attacks.

Normally they would firstly gather more information on their target. But their commanders commanded them to strike now from fear of losses. 'They thought about lives of innocent yes but what about us? We don't know what we are facing only base information.' Anton sight as he thought about everything that they may or may not need.

When they arrived at their destination they loaded up their equipment. Anton chose a chained harpoon that was coated with flesh-eating acid. They were nearly always useful. Then fire could be helpful so he also took one canister of highly flammable chemicals. Some guns, bullets, few smoke bombs, and silver daggers.

After which they left for abandoned building in the forest at witch yesterday some people were attacked. When they were halfway to their destination through the forest they heard someone running.

Anton saw some teen in pajamas who was holding his hands. When the boy stopped Anton become dumped stuck as he saw the boy's nails fall. Boy didn't pay him any attention, probably from the pain or something Anton thought. When he wanted to shout if he needs help he saw it as new nails... no not nails but claws grew from his finger. As he saw it he also smelled the stench of sulfur. Then he saw as brother John shot the boy to his right leg, then Anton calmed down and thought about their mission to eliminate this boy. No, he is not a boy that's some type of fiend.

Anton started to run on the opposite side of him so they could hold him in place with harpoons. After which he heard a shout which chilled him to the bone ' " STOP " ' Anton was able to resist, such trinks worked only on ordinary people, not on those with training in occult like them he would need something stronger to overload them.

After brother Simson light the fiend on fire, they started to laugh, it was always an honor to cleans land from spawns of hell.

As they started to celebrate from the job nearly done they heard not scream but a deep chilling roar. Anton saw the fiend shirt burn and fall and the sight brought him terror which he hadn't felt for years. Clouds hid the sun and its light which made it more horrifying. On fiends, upper body were countless mouths with razor-sharp teeth. Widely open and screaming. Fiend's eyes were glowing bloody red with irises of goat. "God, protect our souls" brother Simson whispered with which Anton agreed.

Then Anton saw as from those mouths tongues or tentacles shot for them. One of them wrapped itself at Anton's leg and pulled him down to its mouth. Others didn't fear much better. Brother John took his gun and started shooting at the fiend. In response, Anton saw as fiend twisted and throw them away.

Anton felt as he flouts and hit a tree with his back, which kicked air from his lungs. When he looked around he saw a fiend jumped at his brother which throws a lighter at the fiend and clawed his face. His face was riped as chunks of flesh and bones were torn. Hunter stopped moving but the fiend didn't stopped and bit him in the neck and pulled. Anton saw as his fellow hunter's head was ripped from his body.

Fiend continued his rampage by tearing John leag smashing his head with it until it cracked. Then fiend pushed his claws to brother John's head and pulled out its content. After finishing another unnamed hunter he runs to Simson when Anton jumped and holds a chain from the harpoon which was still in the fiend's body. As the fiend's claws were only a few centimeters from Simson's eye Anton pulled at the chain and the fiend fell on his back.

At that moment Anton took his dagger and started stabbing the fiend to the head. Simson joined him to finish this fiend. But fiend was still clinging to life and his left claws hit Simson to neck and right claws to Anton's rib, after which he went still.

Anton was in great pain but luckily his ribs somewhat stoped fiend claws, from the ground fiend attack didn't head that strength behind it. But then Anton realizes that Simson needs help, so he jumped to him and started to hold his neck. After which he called for reinforcement.

Anton still holds Simson's neck who was choking on his own blood and hoped he will survive.

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Missions like this would normally bring unwanted attention, but 'Corporation' to which this team belongs would take care of all side effects.

After this accident Corporation made an investigation on fiend which name was Bael as they later found out. After the usual procedure, they also made a certain test on his family only to find out they were humans unaffected by any manipulations so they were left alone. But they made a police release statement that Bael died in a wild animal attack.

Of course, his body was taken to be studied.