The pain of loss

It's been a month since I created Zera. During this time I was constantly training my body and magic while killing monsters to level up. I found many new ways to use mana and discovered a couple different types of magic. My stats went up a lot and I got quite a few new skills. My status looked like this.

Name: Maverick

Race: ????

Title: Deity Slayer

Level: 248

Strength: 2744 Agility: 2901 Dexterity: 2731

Intelligence: 4810 Wisdom: 4749

Vitality: 3152 Endurance: 3267

Mana: 900000/900000

Stamina: 6500/6500

Skills: Transformation, Body of the elements,

Passive Skills: Pain tolerance, Supreme intellect, Alchemy mastery, Smithing mastery, Enchanting mastery, Bladed weapon mastery, Blunt weapon mastery, Bow mastery, Martial arts mastery, Elemental magic mastery, Mana mastery,

Skill points: 0

Today Charlotte, Kota, Zera, and I were leaving Zinath and are going back to the Celeste Kingdom. Kota he wanted to check up on and Charlotte wanted to steal from noble families. Of course Zera is coming with us as I made her as a weapon and she is practically glued to me. I tried once to get her off of me but she looked like I just killed her puppy in front of her and cried so I just gave up and let her do what she wanted. I did make her but she has thoughts and emotions is like a child so letting her stick to me is fine.

"Everyone has what they need?"

"Nope I just left everything back at the inn. Of course we do dipshit."

"I wasn't asking you. I was asking the two cuties."

"Yes we have everything but please try to keep the bickering to a minimum."

"If only we didn't have a certain loudmouthed woman with us."

"I'm not loudmouthed jackass!"

"Oh my, I never said I was talking about you. It's good you know that your loudmouthed though, maybe you could try to be more quiet?"

"I'll kill you!"

So with Kota and Charlotte arguing like usual we left the city and headed toward Celeste kingdom. We arrived back at Mensel after about 3 weeks but we weren't planning to stay long. It was on the way towards the capital city Celestine where Kotas family was and Charlotte had some aquaintances she wanted to see. After we got rooms at an inn Charlotte went to meet her aquantances and Kota went to the adventurers guild. I walked around the city with Zera looking for anything interesting.

I saw couple of spices that I had never seen before and bought them along with a few books on herbs and spices. I was the first back to the inn so I started reading the books to kill time. Zera was reading a book about deserts while drooling. It was late and Kota and Charlotte hadn't returned yet so I decided to go to sleep.

I was jolted awake by the sound of rushing footsteps. I could tell they were heading towars me so I hid Zera and I with magic. The footsteps stopped outside my room and a male voice shouted to me.

"Demon spawn Maverick! The church of light orders you to surrender quietly and come out! If you don't we will use force and your companions will suffer for your sins!

I was shocked and immediately left and headed full speed to the church. I went straight through the walls quietly and searched for Kota and Charlottes mana signatures. I found them under the church and used earth magic to become like a fish in water.

What I saw stunned me stiff. Kota and Charlotte were strapped up and were clearly tortured.

"Kota, Charlotte! What happened..."

They were dead. Both of them were dead. I felt dizzy and weak. I felt my cheeks were wet. I was crying and a pain unlike anything I ever felt gripped me for who knows how long before I blacked out.