9 Prologue 9

"hmm?trial?" he muttered while thinking"father didn't say that there is a trial and this is strange?'

"hm" he nods, a little bit of pause then he continued" as this servant is a guardian, BUT my time is about to come to an end, I have to find a courier to find someone "

The skeleton then stood up from his throne, grasping his silver staff with a big ring on the top and a mini rings in the ring and to where he gets that no one knows as it appears when he clutches the air

"and now I finally found someone to be my successor" he then raises his staff while a black miasma is overflowing out from his body then all the miasma gather at the tip of the ring

Clang clang~

His staff make the sound of metals colliding it. Miasma that had scattered around was sucked into the staff, gale, and winds whistle under Julius ears

He raises his hands toward his bony forehead and has his thumb and index finger press on the middle of the head, where the middle of the eyebrow should be. He dug it causing a crack to form, it was not as gore compared to a living person but it is still creepy

About half of his two fingers are inside and was looking like it will take a while. After a moment of silence, he had done his action

Between his fingers a shockingly dark bead, it was attractive and gorgeous just like a woman butt. He then drop it into the ball of miasma then the whole place explode with brightness

The whole place is so bright that it is so hard to see the place

Hmm"he jumps a little while hiding his eyes from the light then

Shiing~~

He steady draws his blade and had his guard ready for any situation he'll face, his lips rapidly open as ancient words materialize in the air and enveloping his whole body making him glow

'What! you two are talking normally earlier just like elder and students and now.... the hell is wrong with your head' But she has her little eye taint with worry

Then as time pass so do the brightness of the place, Julius make his stance as he on his guard while looking at the skeleton who makes the whole place bright

Now holding the staff with a small black sphere like a bead in the tip while ancient words floated at it and

surrounding it

Words flow out from the jaws of the skeleton, the clacking of sound cause by his teeth colliding and word mix each other

"thou shall accept this" said by the skeleton while his sleeves flutter in the air and his white flare in his eyes became denser

The orb shot toward Julius, it was quick and steady, the tail of it leave a trail of black miasma that linger for a while then disappear

He looks at the orb that is only five meters away from him, he had these foreign feelings that he didn't experience until now, his eyes were steady but the looks of it was just as if he desperate

A feeling of will to survive but as he struggles his time is thinning up as the orb is an inch away from his forehead then it goes through his mask then go inside his forehead

"thou will be perfect," said at the skeleton while his shrilly voice became weaker and his clothes starting to became ash followed by his feet then it crawls up to his body

Then his staff that made of unknown metal crumble into pieces just like a dead stone when crush by a hammer

"your destiny will be greater than before after you accept it but also find the one who truly can hold it," he said as his socket became empty and not for long his presence became only a memory to does who him

"you!" as he felt so much power running through his whole body, the power first wash his skin then to his veins then it continues to run until to his heart where there is a diagram it looks more like a web

A tsunami-like power trike through the whole seal making a crack on it, as it keeps attacking so do the crack is

It attacks until it broke down into pieces while new information keeps flashing into his mind

He felt amazed by the complex techniques and moves it holds, then on his forehead where the black bead go through there now a sphere with a crescent moon in white in it while in outer of the sphere there it was surrounded by an arrowhead making it more enchanting

But no one can see this as he is wearing his mask now

His mastery of the shadow manipulation is expanding, surging with the power he can't help but punch the air, the power of his surge through his forearm then goes to his fist until it forms a bullet-like sphere that throws out,

the ball of sphere drop to the ground making a large black sphere on the area but it is still the same as it only the color of the place change not the geography

Then amazed by his new power he then hurriedly drop to the ground as he executes the lotus form, his goal now is to stabilize his condition as it will be dire if he just let it be as it will be damaging to his meridian

His manipulation of the shadow grow from stage 2 until stage 4 making it astonishing because no one in the history made a breakthrough like this, a breakthrough that straight pass and jump to the next stage

Timepass, his position didn't change but now there is a little lizard who shamelessly sat on his head while also making a lotus form and absorbing the element from the body of Julius making it infuriating to anyone but he Julius didn't mind it as he cares the little lizard

Unknown to them the shrine that the previous Onmyouji guarded

In there, a candle suddenly flared