Charles Abel

Back on the site of explosion.

A man in his twenties was looking at the surroundings, satisfied. He had white hair, golden eyes. He was Nicholas who had left the Silverfield village some years ago.

"Finally I arrived in the Storm empire. I wonder what the future holds for me."

"Hm? Looks like that guy was blown away. Anyways he should be fine as I have created a protective sphere around him." He was thinking about Simon. Few minutes ago he had detected some people in this area.

He checked and saw a monster was chasing and killing some people, so he decided to help them.

Controlling his strength, he used the skill "Hell Spear" of the Lancer class he had got a few months ago. Upon seeing the destruction it created Nicholas had to admit that he quite liked this skill.

After some time he continued his journey. His destination was Amberlight City.

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A big ball containing a perosn inside hit the ground breaking trees along the way. After some time it stopped and disappeared in white particles.

Simon got up thinking about what just happened.

"Neverthless I should leave first. That explosion was very big. People from the town will soon come to check what happened here. "

Just as Simon was about to leave he heard someone's voice.

"Hello, my friend. I just saw a big explosion in that direction and you also came flying from there. So you must know what happened there. Can you tell me?"

Looking behind he a saw a man who seemed to be in twenties looking at him with a smile. There was another man who seemed to be much older standing behind him.

"Sorry, but I have to report it to the association first. You can ask from the association about it then." Simon began to walk saying this. He was feeling something suspicious about these guys.

"If you are going for the association then allow me to accompany you and you can also tell me what happened there while we go there. What do you think?"

"I don't even know you." Simon suddenly felt something wrong. He had a feeling that something bad is about to happen to him. He became extremely alert.

If he noticed anything amiss he will use the movement type artifact which is ready to be activated.

"Oh, how rude of me. Let me introduce myself. My name is Charles Abel. I am a summoner. Now that you know me, can I come with you?"

"No thanks. I prefer to be alone." The feeling of crises continued to increase making Simon extremely nervous.

"Now, now, buddy. Don't be like this. I have been requesting you but you still not telling me..." A sharp glint passed through the old man's eyes.

"Looks like I have to chose the hard way then."

Hum

Just as Charles finished saying this Simon immediately activated the artifact. Within an instant he covered thousands of metres and continued running.

He looked behind and saw Charles still standing there, looking at him coldly.

As for the old man

He looked behind Charles and saw that the old man...

He isn't there!!

At that moment Simon felt something in front of him. Looked forward he saw the old man appear just a few inches away from him. The old man raised his hand and before Simon could even react, striked on him. Simon's body striked against the ground making a small crater and he lost consciousness.

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Simon had a weird dream in which he saw his parents, himself struggling to survive, taking the revenge for his parents, killing others and finally the monster and the old man who attacked on him.

He woke up feeling a terrible pain in his head. He tried to move but found that he couldn't. He looked around but couldn't see much as much of the room was filled with darkness. Some candles were burning around him but they seemed to be unable to drive the darkness away.

"Hello, little rat. How was your sleep?"

While Simon was checking his surroundings he heard Charles' cold voice sending a chill down his spine. He turned around and saw Charles looking at him with a cold smile. Pitch black wings filled with complex patterns could be seen behind his back, releasing demonic energy.

Simon shuddered seeing the wings for he knew what that signified.

"DEVILS!" He screamed out aloud, his heart filled with horror.

"Yes, yes. I heard it. You don't need to shout. I am a devil. Joseph is also one. Come on Joseph, show him your wings."

"Yes, young master."

Similar pitch black wings with patterns appeared on Joseph's back, releasing even more demonic energy than Charles'.

Simon was so terrified that he couldn't speak. The fear, which he had been supressing all these years finally erupted.

"What? You can't speak anymore? Could it be you are scared of devils? Well from the memories I saw, this indeed seems to be the case."

"Yo-you checked my memories?!"

"Of course. But I have to say, I didn't expected you to be that human's son."

"My father?"

"Yes, your father, Williams. 20 years ago one of my brothers who came to the Storm empire for some work. But he got killed by your father."

"So we had to kill your father. After all he had killed a demon king's son. It couldn't be tolerated."

"Actually we wanted to kill everyone in the city but we couldn't, due to some plans."

"YOU KILLED MY FATHER!"

"No, no. We didn't directly killed your father. We had other humans kill him. So you can't say that we killed him. Also don't shout, it's annoying."

"YOU BA--"

"Annoying."

Putting his hand on Simon's head, he tightened it, crushing the head.

"And now my hands got dirty."

"Joseph, about that white haired guy, what do you think about him? He killed my demon pet. Now I will have to summon another one. Father would be angry at me. It is possible for you to kill him?"

"Young master, that human seemed to be quite strong. Even I would have some difficulty trying to kill that demon but he easily killed it. I will be able to kill him if I used my demon form but it will create a lot of commotion and it can affect our plans."