Chapter 12: Rise of the Demon God “Grin”
Chapter 12: Rise of the Demon God "Grin"
"The Mysterious Jailbreak of The Scarface: Who is insuring our safety?
The famous gangster of Chicago disappeared from his cell in Alcatraz last night. Warden of Alcatraz had a press conference this morning, saying that 'There is no sign of him escaping the prison. We used all kinds of professionals and help of different agencies, but as the evidence show, he should still be in his cell. We have created a taskforce to …'"
I folded the newspaper and looked up as I felt the last person joining.
I was sitting at the top of a long table. Looking around I could see a lot of familiar faces.
Al "Scarface" Capone who was there because I freed him myself, Frank Costello from the Genovese crime family, Carlo Gambino from the Gambino crime family, Angelo Bruno from the Philadelphia crime family, and other people from Greek mafia, Sicilian mafia, Jewish mafia and Yakuza.
They were all under my spell, I clapped and they were suddenly free.
They all wanted to get up and start killing each other, and of course kill me.
My people were around the room, they were the people who brought these mob bosses here – of course it was with my help. They took out their guns and pointed at these crime lords, but it seemed that these guys didn't care. Only a handful of them knew if I had the power to do these mystical things and had the power to gather all these people here, they should sit quietly.
I hit the table with my palm and they were forcibly sat. I smiled and said: "This is better. We have a lot of things to talk about. But first of all, I want to know who is looking for a power beyond humanity, to gain immortality, an eternal life and power."
Before they could talk I took off my cloak which was hiding my face. I had a well-built body, and was wearing a dark robe and a mask which was white, and only had a Grin on it. (It didn't seem to have eye holes for seeing, but it actually had these holes. I just enchanted the mask so it looked like it doesn't.)
The grin looked like the Grin without a cat, from Alice in Wonderland.
"Before you say anything, let me show you an example."
They were waiting and a bit scared.
"I talked to Mr. Capone before this meeting and showed him the procedure of the action. He is going to show you what I mean about power and eternal life."
Al Capone got up from his chair and took of his hat and put it on the table. Then he slowly took of his coat.
'This man has class!'
He walked toward me while rolling his sleeves and nodded to me.
"Bring the sacrifice and the Grin Altar."
The men that I hired had many compulsion charms and loyalty charms on them. I didn't trust any of these men.
The altar looked like a small pyramid. It was made of stone and was covered with runes. At the top of the pyramid, there was a hole. The altar wasn't that big, but it had to be carried by at least four people.
My men brought the altar and a guy whose hands were tied and had his eyes covered.
Al Capone grabbed the sacrifice and put his neck on top of the altar, in a way that his face was toward the criminal lords who were sitting at the table. Al looked at me and I took out a knife from my robe. It was also covered in runes and cad a circle cross-section which would fit the hole on top of the altar.
Al Capone moved fast and pierced the sacrifices neck, the sacrifice was bleeding but he couldn't shout, his airways were filled with blood and he was nailed to the altar. His life was leaving his body and his legs and hands were tied.
Al kneeled in front of the altar, as the blood of the sacrifice was running down of the small pyramid.
"Ancient runes burn inside, Ancient gods laugh within me, screaming loud I pray, and holy light shines in my eyes, as I invoke the god of this altar who is looking upon this lowly being. I call upon Grin, the omniscient. I call upon Grin, the wise. I call upon Grin, the just. I call upon Grin, the compassionate. I call upon Grin, the merciful." (You see what I did there? Green, Grin) (and I got a part of prayer from the song "Taranis Jupiter" by Omnia. You should listen to it too.)
The runes on the altar slowly lit up in red and was buzzing in power. When Al saw that he said:
"I implore thee, the mighty Grin, to accept this sacrifice of mine. And shine your light, your mercy to this servant of yours."
I could see that I got a soul added to my status page, and at the same time, a red light came out of the altar and went toward the Al Capone and was absorbed by his skin. As he was absorbing the red light, he got a bit younger, thinner, and a bit of muscles appeared. Also he got his hairs back, which looked weird on him.
I moved my hand and a mirror appeared in front of his face. He was mesmerized like other mafia lords.
I said, "I, as the prophet of the lord, have the mission to find more followers for the benevolent god, Grin. I'll give you an altar if you accept these conditions."
A scroll of contract appeared in front of each one of them.
"If you sign this contract with your blood, you can have an altar to gain a power to make an eternal kingdom for yourself. But the first rule is not to attack any of your fellow followers, and help them in the time of need. There are ways to contact me, written on the book of guidelines and doctrines that I'll give you. Any questions?"No one had a question. They saw power beyond men within their reach, they would sell their own souls for this power, but selling someone else's soul, that was something they would do gladly.
I grinned under my mask.
"That's good. Sign the contract and I'll send you to your homes."
Everything was finished there and I sent them home, they were 28 people from all over the world. Each got their own altar, and I said in the guideline that their body can't take more than 5 rituals per month. And they could let high ranking people of their criminal organization and their wives (if trusting) have the rituals. So each month, if they had 5 five high ranking members and +5 for their wives, I could have around 1400 souls. I just needed to sit back and watch.
But no, I needed the serum, I couldn't sit back. My people told me that the procedure of making the Captain America was going to happen in 2 days. I needed to set up a private meeting with the Dr. Abraham Erskine.
I just mastered the Mind Arts of Wizarding School of Magic and could read his mind for the serum.
The mastery gave me a huge boost, it only gave me a +3MGC directly, but also finished my Mission on my grandmastery.
[Mission completed: I correct the world with the tip of my wand, like a Maestro.
You finally found yourself in the big leagues of magic. But you still need a little push to call yourself a Grandmaster magician.
Requirement: Reach 7 masteries in different branches of a school of magic. (7/7)
Rewards: Staff of Solomon, +15 MGC, black robe of Kael the invoker.]
I got the +15MGC which pushed my MGC attribute to 101. Which gave me 3 screens.
*Ding*
[MGC attribute passed 100 and generated a random MGC skill.
New Skill:
Skill – Magic Amplification [Level Max] (passive)
Magic is surging in your body, as your body has turned into magic and magic to your body.
Effect: +100% Mana Capacity]
*Ding*
[Mission completed: To Ascend
I am not only of this earth. I am more. I can reach more.
Requirement: Reach 100 points in one of your stats.
Reward: Ascended tier, a magic affinity increased (-20% cost of magic, +20% control of magic).]
*Ding*
[You started the path of Ascended.
Current level: Ascended (Low)
Effects of the tier: +200 years life span (From mortal tier), +200 Hp/Mp/Sp, +10 All Stats]
All of these gave me huge overall boost. I could say I was at least on the Dumbledore level on magic capacity. I needed couple of months to finish everything on the library, I lacked magical knowledge to him, but I had my special powers and a more powerful body, and of course the Staff of Solomon which the system said it (system) couldn't see everything about the staff and I should wait for my observation ability to check its power. The only thing I knew was that it could give me a power boost of at least 5 times, and it wouldn't lower my control.
For my mission of death, I've been contacting potter family for the cloak, and it seemed like if I pushed a bit more with my negotiations, I could get the cloak.
I looked at my clock. It was 12pm and I still had 6 hours till morning and my library duties.
���It's 7pm in new York. Let's go for a trip.'
I was a bit thrilled to meet Howard stark. I didn't want to manipulate his memories, I knew if there was one person alive that would overcome a mind manipulation it was Howard Stark.
But Dr. Erskine, well he is going to die soon. Why not?
And with a pop I disappeared.
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I'll update status page soon. I'm just too tired. :D