World End: The Successor's Contract

Chapter 23 Albedion

?*The year 978*

Back when the world was still pure and had not been overrun by monsters, a time when religion was at its highest and demons were still humanity's threat.

The town of Siek was known for having the highest rate of slavery throughout the nations, suffering befell those who couldn't sit well with society.

The society that shunned dark magic and detested sorcery, this was a time when no one dared question the rules that were laid out.

Some practiced magic, those who were gifted by angels, and those who signed a deal with the devil were equally treated as trash.

Only those born as a hero, sage, healer and the likes were accepted as normal, and thus found no reason to hide.

Any magic user was born with a crest on their body will be judged accordingly, which made it hard to hide their identity.

This crest had their meaning and tide to a certain entitty, if one was born with the crest of a snake, thay would mean his magic are of that of lucifer, if borm win a pegesus it means their magic is from the angel gaberiel.

The heroes are mostly born with the crest belonging to the angels, pegesus, dove, fruit, wings, lion, and so many more.

While those who habour the crest of the snake, bull, beast, scorpion, fangs, beast are known to be sorcerers, witches and the likes.

All the same, they were looked down on, stoned, raped, and burnt on the alter as the citizen gazed upon them.

. . . . . . . .

One day, a young man went by the name, Reki, a man who one could refer to as a freedom fighter, a lone traveler that chose to stand against the system of the world.

He signed a deal with the devil, giving him immense powers, and with it, he stood as the hero of justice for his kind.

Story has it that thr devil he signed with was one so powerful that it was strong enough to par with the goddess.

Fighting those who oppose the world of magic, Seki created a place for them, a place for those born with the rejected crest, a place of peace.

A garden where they could all live their lives freely, without the fear of being hunted down.

He named this place, Fedora, this paradise made the people start to feel whole again, but that feeling didn't last.

The humans invaded the Fedora after information got to them about the place, they stormed in and began killing every magic user they could find.

They sent in four heroes, who who called themselves the Ancestors, the wiped our ever person they could find.

Burning down buildings and raping children, they were killed before they knew what hit them.

One particular mother took to her feet and started running.

"Come, this way" The man who was leading her to the escape route said as he opened the leaf that was covering their view.

But just at the other side of the leaf, was a soldier, he held in his hand a child, a girl to be precise.

She had bruises all over, her clothes had been completely torn off, and tears rolled down her cheeks as she began to beg for mercy.

The man withered his face before stretching out his hand, "Let go of her, you monster" A ball of fire abruptly formed in front of him as he launched it at the soldier.

Dropping the girl, the soldier fell to the ground, screaming in pain as his body was being roasted by the fire.

"Go, there are more coming this way, I'll hold them off" The man yelled, grabbing the soldier's knife and stabbing him in the chest.

"Are you…"

"Go!", the man yelled again, she could see the rage in the man's eyes as he walked up to the soldier that were nearing them.

The woman grabbed the girl and started running for her life, with no aim to where she would run, all she could think about was escaping the humans trying to kill her.

Breath after breath she took, holding the girl's hands as she desperately tried to get away from the enemy that was chasing her.

But still wasn't good enough, they didn't give up, the human chased her on thier horses and it didn't take very long for them to catch up to her.

The woman stopped running once she realized that it was useless trying to outrun a horse, she was better off standing her ground and fighting them off.

"Witch, why do you run? When you know you can't escape us" One of the soldiers riding a horse said as he pointed his sword at her.

She didn't respond, instead, she gave them a hard stern glare with her body covering the little girl from them.

"I see, you would sacrifice your life for that girl, oh well, I always thought witches were selfish" The man laughed.

"Before you die, I should grant you the honor of knowing my name. My name is Demik Balgoon, the first son of the Lord Soate, be honoured, men fire!" He yelled.

The woman put up a barrier that blocked the arrows from hitting both her and the girl, but she knew that wouldn't be enough to stop them.

Looking at the young girl beside her, who was completely terrified, the woman gave a warm smile and said to her "Please live on, for all of us".

The woman stepped out of the barrier and gave out a sinister laugh to heaven, her hair stood up to the sky and her eyes lit up with magic energy surging through her body.

"Ear my call o ancient and noble one, purify this land and make the darkness cease to exist"

The crest of a two headed beast apeared on her chest, it glowed a dark purplish color as the wind increased.

"Don't let her finish that chant, stop her!" Balgoon exclaimed, ordering his men to aim their arrows at her before charging towards her.

But the woman couldn't care less, the arrow hit her from every angle, and her blood spilled all over the ground, but that didn't stop her.

"I offer myself to you, in exchange, devour my enemies…. Albedion!" She yelled.

Her body started decaying, almost in an instant, and the soldiers were surprised as to why nothing had happened yet.

"Grab the girl and let's go," Lagoon said

Just as the soldier was about to near the girl, they felt a huge earthquake, it was so huge that it spread around the village and the sound could be heard miles away.

Then suddenly a huge explosion appeared out of nowhere, thousands of hot falling rocks began clearing the field, killing every soldier that invaded the village.

Even though the little girl was behind the barrier, she still got hurt, the blast broke the barrier and left her open to the damage.

Soon after the explosions stopped, the girl found herself in front of a cave, her body covered in blood, and her back rested on a tree.

She could barely open her eyes, she could only hear the sound of her heartbeat slowing down through the silence.

Then, the sounds of footsteps approaching her added to the bass of her heartbeat.

Struggling, she raised her head to see who was coming and saw a boy, dressed in a black robe and a red scarf over his neck.

He bent down in front of her, she couldn't help but notice the lifeless eyes the boy had on him.

"Do you wish to live?"The boy asked.

. . . . .

"The hell, why would you stop there?" Andrew yelled, listening to the story without even knowing when he finished the meat in front of him.

"I'm tired, I wanna go to bed" Uta let go of their hand and lay on the bed.

Everyone was disappointed, but Ava was an exception, she could see how uncomfortable the story made her.

"We shouldn't force her" Ava uttered.

"That didn't even answer my damn question" Andrew yelled.

"Hey, guys… something isn't right here," Anna said as she stared outside the window.

"What do you mean?" Ava asked

"Just this morning, I saw women crying, begging the guards to release someone, and now , they are all just having fun like nothing happened," Anna said

"I also noticed, they all have this look on their face, the same look my mom gave me before she died, something is off".

"I don't know, maybe we shouldn't poke our nose into this one" Andrew suggested.

"No, we are definitely poking" Uta uttered, laying on the bed with her back faced at them, "I don't trust that man one bit".