A New Found Owner

Greg looked down onto the approaching creature while summoning out his fairy to his side.

"My daggers wouldn't be any help here, so the only thing that I can protect myself with is my pet."

As he thought about this, a white light covered his body and floated up into the air, while he slashed toward the evil.

*Slash!*

As he slashed, a huge wind blade with a size around 5 meters appeared and flew toward the creature, ready to cut it into pieces.

The devil seeing the incoming attack, stopped and put its hand out.

*BOOOM!*

With a huge explosion, the wind blade hit the devil's palm. Greg thought this would be enough to injury at least the creature, however, a second later his mouth opened wide.

On the devil's palm, what remains was just a small cut, which instantly healed.

"This is some kind of joke, yes?"

His fairy was a mutant Manifester creature with a terrifying attack, which could kill even some stronger enemies with one slash.

However, this creature before him, just defended against his wind slash with its mere naked hand like it was nothing.

The creature looked at its palm and a while later it looked up at Greg in the sky and started to smile eerily.

"!!"

Feeling the danger, Greg used his speed boost ability to dodge to the side.

*Swish!*

A second later, a black smoke passed by where he was a moment ago.

"Damn, if I was even a millisecond late, I would be d-, sh*t!"

Not waiting for Greg to know what just happened, the devil shot another black smoke at him with an insane speed.

Greg dodged the attacks from time to time using Alice's wind ability, while Alice herself on his shoulder, protected him against the insane heat from the volcano.

As he tried to retreat a bit, suddenly the creature started to chant again and a red thunderbolt came at him from above.

*BANG!*

Dodging to the side, another lightning came at him.

Seeing that he couldn't retreat, Greg flew closer to the creature, but as he did that, the devil started to shoot at him with its black smoke again.

"Cannot retreat because of the flashes of lightning, but cannot go too close to the creature, because of the black smoke. Fantastic. Something else?"

Just as he said that a small lava pillar shot up right before his face from below, almost killing him in an instant.

"Okay, that's not funny at all.", thought Greg with a shocked face and dodged another black smoke from the creature.

"Argh!"

When another lava pillar appeared before him and burnt his hand and flesh, while the incoming black smoke almost killed him, Greg clenched his teeth and looked toward the mask on the statue.

"If I want to survive, my only option is that thing. I need to get it somehow."

With the mask in mind, he switched to his light element and started to shine, while his speed started to accelerate every second.

After he ranked up, his acceleration ability got much faster, and also his body could bear more than before. And what made Greg surprised was his body's shining ability.

In the past, the shining didn't do anything special. However, now as his body got shinier, he noticed that the burning on his hand started to heal slowly.

Greg was surprised, but because of the incoming danger from time to time, he couldn't see exactly what or how the injury got healed.

His speed got faster and faster, reaching the speed of a bullet and it continued to accelerate even further.

The creature saw this, stopped attacking, and looked here and there as its blood-red eyes followed Greg's figure all the time.

While dodging the incoming lava pillars, Greg looked at the devil for a way he could pass by it and reach the statue.

Time went by second after second and minute after minute, when suddenly a huge lava pillar exploded out before the evil.

"NOW!!"

*BAM!*

Without any hesitation, Greg launched himself toward the statue, with insane speed. Even the air behind him vibrated, showing just how powerful was his momentum before the launch.

In less than a second, he was next to the creature, however as he looked next to him for a moment, his eyes contracted.

The devil on his side was smiling wickedly while pointing toward him. Without hesitation, it shot a black smoke, which was faster than the others before.

From that close, it was almost impossible to dodge, so as a solution, Greg summoned his daggers and threw it toward the smoke.

In an instant, as the smoke touched his dagger, a shocking scene appeared before Greg, while he flew toward the statue.

The dagger started to melt away with an insane speed. However, the most shocking thing was that as it melted, small larvas were crawling out from the liquefied dagger.

Just thinking about what would happen if that smoke touches his body, made Greg tremble a bit.

"I need to get that mask now!"

Almost instantly, he was before the mask, and without any hesitation, he clenched the mask and tried to pull it off from the statue, however it didn't budge even an inch, no matter how hard did he try to pull it.

As he was trying to take it, a creepy voice came from behind him, making cold sweat appearing on his back.

"Ke, ke, ke. Oh, poor boy. Humans cannot take away that artifact nor use it no matter how hard you try, so just give up already."

Greg turned around and looked at the devil, which was walking toward him slowly while talking.

"Y-you can talk the human language?!"

The devil just smiled and answered, "Every creature can, but we are too lazy to do so."

Hearing this, Greg was shocked. He knew that creatures could talk at higher ranks, but this devil before him was just a low ranked one and it said every creature can.

Seeing as the devil walked closer and closer, Greg turned back and tried to take down the mask even more.

"Ke, ke. I told you. No matter what you do, humans canno-, huh?"

As the devil talked, it suddenly stopped and its smile froze.

As Greg tried to rip the mask down, suddenly his Soul Stone appeared before him and floated before the mask.

Greg seeing this was confused, but in the next second a quiet voice started to speak.

"For how long will you plan to stay there? Your master is dead. Your past is over. As one door closes somewhere, another opens elsewhere, so why don't you forget the past and help in the present instead?"

Feeling that something was wrong, the evil raised his hand and shot toward Greg a huge black smoke, which size was three or four times bigger than the others before.

Greg saw the incoming danger and his eyes contracted.

"Now I'm dead!"

*BOOOOOOM!*

Hearing a huge explosion and feeling no pain, Greg opened his eyes and saw as his Soul Stone disappeared and instead, the mask was floating before him, deflecting the incoming black smoke.

"H-How is that even possible? That's a thousand years old artifact, which no one could use before, so why you? What the hell did you do??!", shouted the devil, while pointing at Greg with a scary expression.

As Greg watched the mask before him, suddenly it floated before his face and stopped only an inch away from it.

"It wants me to put it on my face?", thought Greg and grabbed it at the edge.

As he touched the mask, he felt a small connection appear between them, so without any further hesitation, he pushed the mask on his face...