The Rise Of Calamity

After I had savoured the taste of the man's anguish and pain for over an hour, we finally put him. I had recorded the last part where the women would take him out in case she would rat me out about killing him. The amount of soul energy I had taken in was also amazing too. Apparently, the worse their mental state when they die, the more energy they would give me. In this case, I made sure the man would die of torture, meaning he would give me a steady amount of soul energy as he became weaker and screamed more, until he eventually succumbed to his demise.

"Damn! That was amazing! What is your name?" I voiced out while dropping towards my bed, until I realised how they had dirtied it with their bodily fluids. I used air and gravity magic to make my self float mid air and stop myself from hitting the filth underneath me.

"My name is- WOAH!" She exclaimed as she saw me float through the air.

"Your name is woah? What the hell were your parents thinking!?" I asked with a tinge of confusion and curiosity under my monotone voice.

"Sorry, I mean, my name is Yerone Flaxburg. I am 25 years old and I want to thank you for saving me and allowing me to take the life of something so rotten and corrupted!" She spoke while bowing towards me deeply.

"Uh, yeah don't worry about it. If you want to repay me, how about cleaning my sheets? I'm willing to create the fire to burn them but I wont be touching them. Sorry, not sorry" I vocalised before turning toward the door and locking it so no one would be able to come inside.

"I'm also willing to burn the body. I was going to do it anyway but you are the one who killed him, so you are the one who chooses how to get rid of the body" I said

"burning should be fine, quite a shame he isn't alive though." She muttered before widening her eyes and looking towards me again

"By the way, are you a mage? You said you were 5 right? Then how are you a mage? Shouldn't that be impossible? How do you do that too? You can handle death of people so well, I'm jealous! I would have puked if I was in your place! How do you do it?!" Asked whatever her name was in quick succession.

I don't want to go through the same thing again that I did with Ambrose so I should just fess up and ask for her name, right?

"okay uhm, first off... Sorry I'm bad with names, what was it again?"

"Yerone" She voiced without a single hint of hesitation nor offence in her voice, as if she hadn't fully absorbed what I had asked while allowing the automatic answer machine answer for her. Either that or she had low self-esteem.

"Okay Yerone. First off, I don't know how to use magic, I'm using the runes engraved within my weapons to use magic as if I was a real magician. Secondly, I had just excepted death as a part of life. I've seen many people die unjustly by disgusting people. Pigs like that guy deserve to be slaughtered in the millions!"

"Oh my good, you are so cool!" she said while I questioned her age. Her body was mature yet her personality was that of an eight year old. In the mean time, she had picked and folded the sheets and blankets before putting them on the floor to allow me to burn them. I pointed my sword at the cloth mountain before igniting them with a blue flame, destroying everything in one fell swoop.

While we both put the new sheets on, We talked about our respective lives, and while I kept most of my life a secret, she seemed to be telling me everything. After 30minutes of talking, I told her it is probably best if she left since I need to sleep. She smiled an left just like that, without pouting. Clearly she just needed someone to talk to and someone who could understand her struggles. Maybe one day in the future, I may be able to meet her once again. Right now though, I could barely give a single sh*t due to how tired I was

The moment m head touched the pillow, my conscience started to drift away, making me fall asleep at the instant my head sank into the pillow.

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Argenta's POV

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As I finally walked up to my parents, I could see my little brother pouting over what happened before while my parents started to console him.

"That girl not only broke our little boy's heart, but she purposely avoided him this whole time... How could she?" Asked my mother

"I think we should put her on a little test. Elaina, you did say you were doubting her humanity, right? You were doubting if she has morals, right? Then how about we put that all to the test?" Voiced my grandma from behind me.

"How about we give her a test, and if she fails it, we will blackmail her into not going against our rules again. She will never refuse any of our requests again while if she does pass the test, we don't lose anything. It is a win-win situation!" Said my grandfather.

"How could I do that to one my friend's daughter? She is just a child, she knows nothing and you are trying to black mail her?" Asked my mother, flabbergasted that her parents would ask of her something so wrong.

"Of course not dear. We will just threaten her, not force her! This will make our lives much easier while also making hers better since she will finally understand that we want the best for her in due time. As you said, right now she is but a child, but she wont stay like that for long! We must teach her correctly before she reached her adolescence years!" Said my grandmother.

"Well, good luck because I'm not going to follow with one of your sh*tty plans to brainwash her" I snarled before walking off. Before i could walk too many steps away, i felt a tug on my shoulder.

"This is for the bes-"

"I don't care..." I cut of my father who tried to stop me.

I finally reached the door before looking back and curling my upper lip in disgust before muttering "I can't believe I have such disgusting parents".

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Pandora's POV

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BANG BANG BANG

Loud noises kept coming from the bottom floor, waking me up after a few too many noises. The moment I woke up, I looked towards the door where I saw a women standing 10 meters away from it. She was healthy and looked like she was in a sprinting position before a race, as if she was waiting for me to come out.

I pulled out my Light Brigade before increasing the size and weight to resemble a normal long sword. Having to fight humans would not be much of a hassle, however, the fact that I had lost all my muscle memory and that I was still not used to this tiny body made it extremely hard to fight against humans rather than beasts.

The moment I opened the door, The women got ready to run towards me right before I pointed my sword at her, a second before she would hit it. She was one of the maids within this house. She seemed to be covered in a red substance and severely wounded. This would have fooled anyone, yet I knew otherwise. I never trusted people I just talked to once before and I would defiantly wouldn't trust someone who has faked being injured

She may be the person who had attacked the house, meaning she would make people lower their guard before striking. She was so shocked the fact I was holding a sword that she stiffened a little. I looked at her with a curious gaze while analysing her from the top of her head to her toes before nodding and asking, "what happened?"

The maid explained to me how there was a man who had attacked the house and was massacring everyone on the bottom floor, Including Argenta, Elaina and even... and even grandma" The maid muttered while sobbing lightly even though she had no emotion in her empty sobs. I narrowed my eyes on the women before asking "Don't lie to me with those empty sobs. Now tell me before I kill you, where did this happen?"

I pointed the Light Brigade toward her throat, threatening her life if she didn't tell me the truth. After a few seconds of hesitation, she muttered "Dining hall".

"Okay thanks" I voiced before walking towards the dining hall "and if you follow me, consider yourself a walking corpse!"

The women stiffened up one last time until I was out of sight. Clearly she was doing this for someone, but who? Was she bribed? Well I'm about to find ou-

In the room laid multiple corpse like humans on the floor, as if they were dead. I knew they weren't dead due to their soul flames burning brightly with vigour, yet I couldn't help but frown. I looked around for a second before making eyeing the hooded man in front of me for less than a second before looking back at the fake corpses.

"Not very creative are you? You could have at least used magic! A lot more efficient than whatever the f*ck you did here!" I voiced while sounding extremely annoyed. There were multiple fake corpses around meaning couldn't differentiate between anyone unless I focused, which was not something I had the mental energy for.

"Hey kid, I've been waiting for yah! Come with me and I'll make your death the last painful" said the man with a genuine sadistic smile, sending shivers down the fake corpse's soul flame. I honestly couldn't care less about the collateral damage, making me go all out from the start.

I released a huge amount of killing intent which shook the man to his core, making him fall on his a*s, I pointed the light brigade towards his face and asked "Maybe I should kill you for wasting my time and sleep for something so worthless" I said before frowning and asking a question that I knew the answer to.

"Are they dead?" I asked, knowing fully well they were all alive

"Don't worry, I'll kill you all together when this mansion is burned into a crisp!" The hooded man said while chuckling, making it seem straight out of an anime.

Crap! Maybe this isn't one of Elaina's new coops to try and test me. I don't understand what the test would be if it was a test, nor does it seem like the man is lying, not that I could tell anyway. One thing is for sure, if this is a test I must keep my cool, if it isn't, I'm in deep trouble and I have to get rid of the man in front of me. The plan should be to incapacitate him. Win-win, right? I can just kill him if this isn't a coop while also gaining information on what he had done to all the people on the floor.

One thing doesn't make sense though.... Why are they all injured looking even though they all seem healthy to my soul perception? Oh well, that is questions he will be answering for me!