The Discovery

A couple of months had passed since those knights in shining armor decided to ruin my barely peaceful life in the village. Ag was searching for ways to avoid those people finding about me. I am half demon after all. Humans think that demons are monstrosities and everything bad is our fault. Wretched beings.

In august 22nd, 9450 A.C… I was at a library within the village. Libraries are peaceful and I can travel all over the world with the secrets hidden within those books.

I wanted to find a new book to read. I had been reading a lot of demonic studies, black magic, witchcraft, and alchemy. I wanted something a bit different. I passed by shelves and shelves. Until I stopped at the one hundredth book to the right sitting in the third row of the fifth bookshelf.

The title picked my interest… Death is Living Amongst Us; it was an odd name for a non-fiction book. I picked it up and started flipping the pages. There were names, races and family tree of creatures who caused a threat to humanity and the world, there was also a threat level and a name of a worthy opponent to get rid of them.

Holy Mother Fruit Ninja… is this Japanese?

ターゲット 078

名前 イキウス

年齢: 4000歳

種族: ダークエルフ

性別 女性

身長: 168 cm

武器: 生命と毒

脅威のレベルSSS

処刑人:?[1]

Is this a book that ranks anime characters?

What a weird book. The more I swiped my eyes across the pages, the more I noticed each page was written in a different by a different person.

The other threat level SSS locked my vision.

It was written in English. Looking back, maybe each page was written by someone who lived at that place and written in a language to warn the "civilians."

Target 079

Name: Urekston

(pronounciation: youwreckeston)

Age: 3000 years old

Race: Demon

Sub Race: Dragon and Human

Gender: Male

Height: 175 cm

Weapon: Fire manipulation, martial arts, and fire generation

Threat Level: SSS

Executioner: ?

This is no anime character. My details were marked inside that page. A couple of my abilities weren't listed there though. That's a good advantage.

Since all those creatures existed, I decided to check out if there were other misfits like me who had power and were considered dangerous.

Mål 080

Navn: Britia

(pronounciation: Breeshia)

Alder: 2950 år gammel

Race: Gudinde

Titel: Dødens gudinde

Køn: Ukendt

Højde: 150 cm - 180 cm

Våben: luft manipulation, vind manipulation, vind generering, formskifter

Trusselsniveau: SSS 

Bøddel: ?[2]

Danish and this one's the Goddess of Death… is she a Viking? During the civil war between the Goddess of Creation and Zeus, The Goddess took her children to a dozen of pirate like boats. They left the land of the gods and went to the Nordic countries and settled for a new life there. So… is this one related to the Goddess?

Objetivo 081

Nombre: Nerissa

Edad: 2800 años

Raza: Ninfa

Sexo: Mujer

Altura: 167 cm

Armas: manipulación del agua, generación de agua, cambiaformas

Nivel de amenaza: SSS 

Ejecutor: ?[3]

Spanish... She must be the creature who is the caretaker of the waters. A lot of humans who try to get to the Lost City end up being caught on her schemes, I've always to test that though.

Target 082

Name: Kage

Age: 2000 years old

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Height: 170 cm

Weapons: necromancy, dark magic, shadowmancy, shadow walking.

Threat level: SSS

Executioner: ?

Target 083

Name: Runter

Age: 2000 years old

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Height: 170 cm

Weapons: Light magic, light generation, light manipulation, plasma manipulation, lighting manipulation.

Threat level: SSS

Executioner: ?

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WAIT!!! THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT THEM??? Runter and Kage are my nephews. They are twin brothers. There is a sentence that runs in our family that says: there is no light without darkness and no darkness without light. This means that everyone is born with darkness and light within their souls, but they were different. Kage was born fully dark, when he was a child, he had a habit of finding an animal and practicing death magic on it. He found out different methods of torture and different methods of killing. Runter was born fully with light magic, he is rather cheerful and like helping his brother with his thrilling hobbies.

They went to Northern Ireland one thousand years ago with my sister. My sister is younger than me and older than me at the same time. She is Ag's daughter with some nameless person. She is a human, so a couple years after they moved there… she passed away. Kage is stubborn so I was expecting someone to find out about them sooner or later.

…I looked around to see if I was being watched. I didn't sense any eyes, so I ripped the pages that had the SSS threat levels. It only had six targets on that level.

A few minutes later… there was a faint scent of perfume. Trees started to rapidly grow inside the library. The humans inside were running away or trying to call for help.

What the Hell?

One of the trees had a particularly weird feature. It looked like there was a face carved inside it.

Suddenly, two arms came out from inside a tree revealing a rather dashing dark elf. She had a long mint green hair and a crown made of flowers. She was wearing a long green dress that matched her hair and the markings she had on her cheeks.

She instantly fixed her eyes on the book I was holding.

"Hand it over." she ordered.

She was rather bossy. But if she really was the dark elf that is considered as powerful as me, I wanted to test her.

"I refuse."

Without a second to waste, she raised her right hand and directed it at me. It was like she was conducting an orchestra. I could imagine an exciting song forming from her hand movements.

A tree branch was getting wider and came directly for my heart. Not really a smart move. I've been training for ages with Ag. I'm able to manipulate my body temperature at will. As soon as something reaches a certain proximity of me, it will instantly melt. It is like a shield of sorts.

"Huh… that was interesting…"

We went for hours. She threw thorns, rocks anything of which she could think. In the end everything melted. She started stamping on the floor.

"Earthquakes? Now were talking."

 The floor started opening underneath me. I put some pressure on the floor and jumped. The problem with floating and flying is that my demonic form appears.

"Wait... You're a demon with human form and the Red Queen's magic? Why are you working with those filthy rats?"

"I'm not. I just found the book and saw your name next to mine in it so, I wanted to test your abilities."

"Wait, are you Urekston?"

"Yeah. How exactly did you find out about this book though?"

"I kidnapped a guy who was stalking me and tortured him to death until he answered me."

"Sounds fun."

"It was boring actually."

"Stop right there!" A man dressed in the metal armor ordered.

A barrier of twenty people was surrounding us holding pointy swords.

"Are you guys really going to hurt a woman?"

"You're no woman, witch!"

"Oh, boo hoo. You guys are no fun." she said disappointed. "What do you say we do a competition?"

"Sounds fun. What's the prize?"

"If you win, I can make you a new outfit. If I win, I'll take a portion of your magic."

"It's a deal."

She walked closer to the knights' captain. Her hair was gaining some purple meshes. Her dress got shorter and a mixture of black and purple. Her eyes remained green. Her fingernails got bigger and sharper.

She walked scratching her nails on the trees she had planted. They began to die. It was a plague. Her face became expressionless.

She was poisoning everything and everyone she touched. I entered in the game as well. I walked towards the knights who were so fixated on me. They swung their swords at me, but I simply caught the blade and melt it. The temperature was so hot it started to melt their hands. It's kind of hard for me to control my flames' temperature…

The battle was one sided. Two creatures took down ten humans with armor and weapons. They were weaklings so I didn't have as much fun as I thought I would… A couple minutes later, a blast of wind came out of nowhere throwing the reinforcements to the walls.

A girl with long white hair, porcelain skin, blue eyes and a pastel blue cropped dress made a hole in the roof and floated downwards to the battlefield. She was beautiful.

"Oh, finally! Decided to join us?" Ikius spoke.

"Sorry, I was stuck in traffic." said Britia, placing a wind barrier around us.

"What traffic? You were flying."

"There was a migrating flock going at the same direction. I had to wait in line."

One was impatient and the other was childish. The perfect combination. Well… it was an interesting duo.

"Λοιπόν... ποιος είναι αυτός ο τύπος; Μπορώ να τον σκοτώσω;"[4]

"Jeg mener, du kunne prøve... men du vil ikke kunne. Men jeg er ikke din fjende. Britia, dødsgudinde. En fornøjelse at møde dig. Jeg er Urekston, kaosets mester."[5] I said.

"A demon who knows the Vikings language huh?"

"Anyway… we should go, or else there will be more trouble" Said Ikius returning to her usual self.

It was like she was a completely different person. Her personality was completely different.

"Come with me." Britia grabbed my hand and summoned a giant wave of wind that surrounded us. The next thing I knew, I was inside a cabin surrounded by a group of demons.

We had teleported. Ikius appeared from inside the wooden wall. Apparently, she can teleport using wood. Britia can teleport using wind. Kage can teleport using his shadow walk ability that let him go to anywhere in the world just by moving withing shadows. Dark elves can't fly. But they can jump three times their height. Despite having the name dark elves. The difference between dark elves and elves are that they have different hair color and live longer. Like elves have the same hair color... a yellowish white. Meanwhile every dark elf has a unique hair color.

They also tend to live in the darker parts of the forest. Their villages are protected by a smoke shield that makes the enemies senses go crazy and cause hallucinations.

"We've been awaiting your arrival, Urekston, Master of Chaos."

What was the Goddess of Death and the dark elf doing with those miserable demons?

…There was a knocking at the door. Ikius opened the door and a beautiful girl with blue hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and a cropped shirt with a medium sized skirt walked inside, followed by a boy wearing all black and another boy wearing yellow tones.

"Kage, what are you and Runter doing here?" I asked.

"It's a bit hard to explain uncle."

"Didn't I tell you to avoid calling attention to yourselves?"

"You did, but it was hard to keep calm after mom died. The common people were always calling us names and banishing us from stores… but one day we met Nerissa and she said she understood us, and that she could take us to a place where there are more creatures like us."

"Nerissa? I see. Well, I'm glad you two are safe but don't do anything stupid. Ag will kill me if she finds out something happened to you on my watch."

˜Excuse me, who are you?" Asked Nerissa.

"He's our uncle…" Answered Kage.

"Wait, a demon is the uncle of two humans?"

"I'm part demon, part dragon and part human."

"That doesn't explain how you speak the Viking Gods language though."

"I speak every language, so I don't know why speaking the Nordic Gods' language is so strange."

"Anyway, what were you doing with that book?"

"Reading… you know, horizontally swimming my eyes through the papers."

"I know what reading means!"

"Now that I think about it…" I looked to each of them, one-by-one and examined. "We have one dark elf, one goddess, one water nymph, one shadow, one light warlock, and a demonic humanoid dragon. Since each of us can use at least one of the elemental relics of the beginning, that makes us the strongest ones in History. And considering what they wrote about all of us, we are threats to their miserably pitiful lives."

"True, but what are you suggesting?"

"We could become a group. The most powerful beings in Existence."

"All of us are powerful enough to defeat the whole world alone."

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[1] Target 078

Name: Ikius

Age: 4000 years old

Race: Dark elf

Gender: Female

Height: 168 cm

Weapon: Life and venom

Threat level SSS

Executioner: ?

[2] Target 080

Name: Britia

Age: 2950 years old

Race: Goddess

Title: Goddess of Death

Gender: Unknown

Height: 150 cm - 180 cm

Weapons: air manipulation, wind manipulation, wind generation, shapeshifter

Threat Level: SSS 

Executioner: ?

[3] Target 081

Name: Nerissa

Age: 2800 years old

Race: Nymph

Gender: Female

Height: 167 cm

Weapons: water manipulation, water generation, shapeshifter

Threat Level: SSS 

Executioner: ?

[4]" So... who is this guy? Can I kill him?"

[5] "I mean, you could try... but you won't be able to. But I'm not your enemy. Britia, Goddess of Death. Pleasure to meet you. I am Urekston, Master of Chaos."