The Devil's Way

Chapter 02: Ability test

The reinforced glass was like a dome that surrounded Pharaoh and the others and on top of the dome fell eleven translucent crystal like object. The crystals fell directly in front of each teen that was inside the dome and Pharaoh didn't waste time he quickly took it and started to focus on it.

Those crystal like object were the ability stones which would be used to test each of their abilities. If one looked at the crystal in close proximity they would feel as if their entire soul were being drawn by the stone.

The reinforced glass also stopped the noice from the outside and obviously since Pharaoh and the others inside of the reinforced glass were concentrated they could not make any noise to disturb one another.

Pharaoh concentrated his eyes on the ability stone and he could also feel it drawing his attention but time slowly passed without a reaction coming out from it. Slowly but surely Pharaoh could feel the time tickling by as if it as an office worker running late.

Pharaoh had weird thoughts coming to him while he tried to focus on the stone. He felt as if someone was playing a sweet melody next to his ear. It felt as if no sound on the world could be of a match with the melody being played next to his ears.

His thoughts were beginning to waver and wonder around but he still did not take his eyes of the stone in front of him. Thinking about the things his father had told him days before the ability testing. His father had told him that everyone is different and that all that mattered was whether he awakened a strong ability or not. It did not matter how long one took to have their ability awakened , it could be as short as ten minutes or as long as an hour but the time did not dictate the ability they would get.

Soon fiveteen minutes had elapsed and no one in his group had any trace of having their ability awakened. The youths around Pharaoh were also looking at the ability stones but some of them had traces of sweat coming down their foreheads. This showed that they had raised their concentrations to the highest degree.

Pharaoh was also concentrating on the ability stone but soon a frown appeared on his face. That's because he was thinking of his servant who was assigned to him by his parents. His servant was a twenty two year old single mother. She had a daughter that was three years of age and she had married when she was eighteen years of age. She became widowed after her husband died of a heart attack.

Pharaoh was thinking of her alluring figure and her watery eyes which made her look pitiful. Among all the maids in the mansion she was by far the most beautiful. She did her work diligently and Pharaoh liked how efficient her working pace was but what was currently puzzling him was why she appeared on his thoughts.

He could also feel that just by thinking about her his man hood was about to react but he quickly suppressed those thoughts.

"Ahh what a compost boy , even that could not make you lose sight of your goal"

A voice suddenly appeared in Pharaoh's head but as he was about to respond and ask who was it he suddenly got engulfed by darkness and he could see nothing but he felt that this was how things should be.

Outside of the reinforced glass Pharaoh's father and the butler were looking at the dome and observing what was going on. Their eyes were concentrated on one of the youths inside who was engulfed by surging flames. The flames around him were not the normal red flames but they were purple and seemed to be filled with hatred for the world.

"Master Carl those are demon flames that only appear on those filled with resentment , but what could make young master jack have those flames." The butler asked Pharaoh's father whose name was Carl Mathers

"I believe it is caused by the hated he has for his father. Remember that tho his mother is from our Mathers family his father is not and remember the cause of her death." Carl responded to responded to the question of the butler but his gaze was still focused on Jack .

"Ah" The butler quickly showed a look of understanding then he resumed he gaze at Jack.

Jack's mother is a member of Mathers family but she chose to marry someone who was not influential since she didn't want a husband who'd die in wars. She was not different from the others of the Mathers family and thirst after strength but she wanted to first give birth then continue with her increasing her strength. Her husband would be responsible for taking care of their son when she stopped taking care of him on his fist important years. She did not want her child to be always looked after by servants but little did she know that that husband of hers on the forth year of their marriage he poisoned her with an extremely dangerous poison that made her ability go dormant and tried to kill her. It turned out that his ability could mask his true strength and make him no different from commoners.

It turned out he was sent by hostile forces to kill her and make it seem like the Royals did it so they could go to war and create a rift in their family friendship.

On how they escaped that is a story for another day.

Back to the present next to Jack a burst of cold wind appeared as if trying to outdo Jack's demonic flames and just as Carl and the butler focused on that , gales of strong winds burst at the end of the line of youths. It didn't stop there and some of the others youths started to burst our with their ability that had just awakened.

Pharaoh was in the dark space looking around then he shouted and asked "who are you?"

"Who am I ? Haha , I'm the best part of you" the voice replied with a chuckle

"So you're saying that you're my ability?" Pharaoh asked but he already knew the answer in his heart. Since abilities were said to be part of the soul so by the voice saying 'part of you' Pharaoh already got his answer so he was just asking to confirm it.

"Quite smart for your age , but I wouldn't expect anything less to someone who's already dissecting things at your age" The voice seemed to be quiet talkative and whenever Pharaoh wanted to ask it for it's name it would just find something else to talk about.

"Can't you just tell me your name , so that I can know how to use you" Pharaoh asked the voice with annoyance evident on his voice.

"Haha what do you expect? I've been stuck in your consciousness for 14 years without anyone to talk to"

"We'll have all the time to talk , just tell me your name and we'll have all the time after that." Pharaoh was quite annoyed at the voice.

To be continued