CHAPTER 1: The Beginning

She woke up with an eerie feeling in her heart, moving sluggishly on her bed towards the constantly ringing amulet. She tapped it and it swung open with a hologram of a man.

"Natalya, don't forget to report for your new mission, I'll be seen seeing you" The amulet closed.

She sighed, standing up and went to the mirror in her room fixing her rugged creamy yellow hair before showering with the full bucket of water fetched yesterday. Natalya is a beautiful 17 years old with creamy yellow hair and bright yellow eyes, After she finished dressing up with her signature mission brown short vest filled with all her needles and accessories she also wore a short blue mini jeans and shoes with yellow long stockings. She went to the living room where her favorite dish was served, noodles with sea food and onions with ginger, there her brother sat on the carpet eating a sandwich with a cup of orange juice; Derek had short wavy black hair with dark eyes, he could be considered as the gentle handsome type." Ah, there he is, my little brother always so cute, be careful not be grow any more handsome otherwise you may break hearts soon" She says hugging her brothers head tightly; he scoffed displeased but not stopping her. She released him smelling her food before scooping it in her mouth. Her brother sighed gracefully eating his sandwich occasionally taking sips of his orange juice, minutes later she sets the plate down with a satisfied smile. He stares at her, she sighs. "Derek I'm sorry I didn't have time lately to hang out with you but I promise after this mission I will spend a lot of time with you" She says.

'Promise' He pleads. 'I promise' she says kissing his forehead then flicking it.

"Ow, I hate it when you do that"

She smiles standing up grabbing her weapon lying on the table at the corner, her soul weapon is a half broken crystal sword formed from methyl, magic diamonds and dark sprite (methyl is a strong dark metal while dark sprite is magic muddy dark liquid used for nullifying attacks) gotten from her first mission. She straps it to her back. "See you soon Derek, oh tell master I am leaving" She waves closing the door. "Good luck sis" He mummers.

*FLASHBACK*

She lived in a small cottage with her parents and her younger brother in a small village unknown to many. There her mother trained her. They lived a short, comfortable, happy and stable life compared to three years prior then everything changed. A large group of rogues, bandits and scavengers invaded their village. The two children managing to escape but they were followed by a group of hired assassins.

Her mother brought out her weapons. "Go, take Derek and run away as fast as you can" She said in a sad and confident tone. "Here" She took out two necklaces from her neck one had the design of a wolf and the other had the design of the moon, one had a dark ash color and the other had a jasmine color with both missing half its piece. "They have special talisman for protection, when Derek gets old enough you must give him one of those, alas. This is all I do… now run, little one, as far as you can. I promise I will come find you" She shouted.

No words could come out of her mouth. She realized she couldn't change her mind, thus she ran as fast as she could. A certain girl could be seen running through the forest carrying her brother clenching tightly onto him. After two weeks of walking through the rain and hot blazing sun, they reached a large city in the north of the continent in a town named Yggdrasil. There, they were living in the streets in hunger before resulting to theft. A faithful day came when she stole from the wrong person; an old man whom she thought was easy pickings and that person is her current master, seeing the talent of this girl in front of him in both pick-pocketing and escape, he decided to take her and her younger brother in, in order to stop them for taking the wrong path.

"Why are you so interested in me, old man" she said in spite. He gave a simple smile and said "Your eyes" He was one of the best adventurers in Virgo, being a half human with titan bloodline. Titan bloodline are characterized by their physical prowess and low birth rate. From then, on a grueling training schedule of 8 years was born for her, on her path to get stronger and find her mother also while getting revenge.

*End of Flashback*

In the world of Aram each species is accustomed to their own special lineage: for Elves, Pixies, Druids and some others it was their high magical potential but low birth rate and some were even more severe. For Dwarfs, it was their blacksmith and alchemy. For Titans, it was their physical prowess and earth affinity and for Giants, it was their physical prowess and size amplification.

However due to the wars and chaos spread across the land, some became extinct and some went into hiding, now only 7 tribes are seen.

#Elves#

#Titans and Giants #

#Dwarfs#

#Demi-humans#

#Humans#

#Bubals, Druids, fairies and sylphs#

#Beast-men#

…And

#Demons#

Demons are typically, forbidden creatures that are naturally aggressive with impressive powers and resistance to most things except Holy, spirit, White, light, dark and sealing magic. (Most of the time)

Basically it sums up to this.

Magical creatures

Demonic creatures

Spiritual creatures and

Physical creatures

Except humans who have individual catalysts called Clusters.

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She arrives in the central town and continues running. She smiles at everyone she passes who they themselves seem to know. She starts running, jumping on buildings, flipping over many obstacles in flashy moves , making others who saw it scoff with scorn while some just smiled. She jumps past another building and with one final leap she continues to soar high, passing everything in a flash before landing with five rolls and sommersaults. She continues running and finally stopping as she reached her destination.

"The Lord Fredrick's building (lord; someone with the highest status in a middle sized town)

She smiles, reliving the fact that she currently just surpassed all previous speed record, ten minutes for a distance of 30 km. She smiles to herself."30 km in 10 minutes, amazing, that means I ran 50m every 10 seconds ha-ha, I really have gotten so much stronger since then". Her residence is in the Forest Mountains making it much longer to come here.

"Well, well… well. If it isn't 'Garlic Girl' what brings someone of your stature to be acquainted with someone of mine" She hears an annoying familiar voice.

I sigh shaking my head; I honestly could not even bother to deal with her.

Anna Rose Kirsch is a creamy skinned bitch with pink hair, who wears clothes which are downright revealing, drawing a line between nudity and barely clothed. She is a born noble and inherited the family's Tokana and apparently my sworn rival.

[Tokana: a scroll that enables a clan to pass the abilities to the next generation's heir and each improves the power before transferring it to the next thereby making it more powerful, lucky her…]

I stare at her in dismay, shaking my head." Yeah well, I'm probably here with you to make sure you don't die"

'May I remind you I have magic' she threatens, "Garlic girl" she adds.

"And may I remind you that you only have magic, princess charming. If only you had a proper working brain to learn how to use it" We sneer at each other before entering into the building.

I knock at the door. "Come in" A voice said from inside. We step inside.

Inside we see a guy standing some feet away from Lord Randal. We bow.

"Sir, thank you for seeing us, we are happy to be graced by your humble presence." We spoke in formal voices. He nods, moving to his chair and comfortably slouches on it putting his feet on the table.

"The top three prodigies in the ranking

Asterisk Inah: 3rd place

Anna Rose Kirsch: 2nd place

Natalya Dawn: 1st place.

{Name: Natalya Dawn

Race: Human

Cluster: Divine eyes, ability to see past illusions and other oddities, able to see far distances.

Soul weapon: A half broken crystal sword.

Ability: Foresight, ability to see into the future, maximum output is five seconds.

{Name: Anna Rose Kirsch

Race: Human

Cluster: Endurance, stronger focus and ability to endure

Tokana: a wand. Sakura tree fairy magic

{Name: Asterisk Inah

Race: Human/Elf *Half race*

Cluster: Weapon modification, can change his weapon into any shape or size

Soul weapon: A solid-liquid silver material kept in a jar

Ability: sentinel, it's somewhat alive, additional facts are unknown.

The man smiled as he saw all their info on his documents.

"As you all know I have called you all here for a very important reason, the A- class mission. The Cave of Aragón, where a mighty demon was sealed and guarded was invaded by demons, hordes of demons, too many to count and they have now taken control and now they need our help as you guys are the cream of the crop." He spoke in a serious tone.

"What about the Arch-priest" Inah asked.

"Injured" The lord immediately replied, "An assassination attempt, I know something is wrong; your job is to infiltrate and expel the demons' He glanced at Anna who in return only nodded.

"Your job is to protect her as she does the cleansing ritual, as sakura tree fairy magic is the only thing strong enough we currently have for sealing demons"

"Sir, this looks dangerous; if they are as many as you say, don't we need more people" He asked in a scared tone.

"This is an infiltration mission, the more we are the lesser chance of success we will get" I answer.

He nods in satisfaction. "Get ready, pack a lot of things as it will be a long journey.

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Two hours later, I arrive back at home.

I open the door. "Master, Derek! Where…" a water balloon suddenly bolted towards my face. I dodge it, only to see five more approaching which I dodged as..." Switch blast" I hear a familiar voice as I dodge the final balloon which swaps for my brother. "Haaa!!" His clenched fist aims at my face, I immediately shift my head backwards dodging both his hand and the water balloon which passes me. I grab his wrist, spin him and tackle him to the floor with his arm bent in a not so forgiving manner sitting on his butt.

"I Yield; I yield" He shouts in pain. I let him go and stand up, suppressing my laughter with giggles as he winces, stretching his elbow.

"I yield? Ha, I guess…" My body shifts back as a giant water balloon falls to the floor, splashing a bit of water on me which slightly drenches my clothes. I frown, he gives an annoyingly cute smile, completely drenched.

"Derek! Sigh... good work. This is the closest you have gotten" I say, he smiles, "But I do not have time right now, I am on a very very important mission and I need to prepare" I add. He pouts; I sigh and move to my room.

NAME: Derek Dawn

CLUSTER: Switch Blast, able to switch with any inanimate object depending on weight, size and material.

He really did a good job, I am so proud of him… but, sometimes I feel, sighs. It's either he is getting better or I'm getting slower or maybe it's both. My mind suddenly drifted to my last mission. Ever since I almost died fighting that witch, I started losing my self-confidence, am I really strong? Should I train harder? It was too close a call… too close.

I stop all those thoughts rushing through my head and wore my A-02 prototype shoe. Ready. I get up and start moving. "Natalya" I hear my master's call; I stare at him. "Good luck": I started running, hope I'm not late.

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"Hey Natalya" I hear a familiar voice. "Joshua" He smiles rushing towards me "Hey Natalya, I heard you are going for another mission"

I nod. "I heard it is a tough one, are you sure you are ok, you barely had any rest from…" I continue trekking forward.

"Hey!", he calls

"I don't have time right now Joshua, if you want to talk you gotta catch up." I say impatient.

"Ok, ok. Hey, so I was wondering if maybe after this mission, we can go to my friend's restaurant. I heard he has a new recipe and it is his masterpiece and well…"

"Joshua… we talked about this"

"I know I know"

I sigh "I… well… uh, Joshua"

"Mmn?"

"I don't have time for all that, I'm still too weak, although I have grown stronger. I need to train harder and I also promised my brother I would hang out after."

"Oh"

"But" I give him a light kiss and add, "Thanks for always being there for me. Don't worry we will hang out later ok. See ya" I rush off. He touches his lips, blushing. "YESSS" He shouts pumping his arm in the air as others look in confusing.

I finally arrive to see Anna and Inah beside a carriage pulled by horses.

"Garlic girl, you're late, I even thought that you wouldn't show up" Anna snorts at me. I give her a cold glare

"That is not my name and I know you know what it is and yet you call me so. Stop it" I command.

"Oh, I'm sorry, garlic girl!" She snickers. I furrow my brows while Inah gives an awkward laugh; I grab the hilt of my sword opening the hatch. (The hatch stops my prophetic power from activating)

"Stop" I turn to see the Chief in a green tunic robe with a stern face.

"Sir" we bow to show our respect. "At ease" he says, "Natalya" he adds.

"Yes?" I ask.

"You are the team leader; here is our finest batch of holy water, you only get 5 bottles so use it wisely, also" After he hands me a bag filled with the bottles he hands me a toy motorcycle.

"For emergencies, it can only take you so far. Good luck"

"Yes sir" I bow. He nods disappearing.

"How does he do that; I didn't even notice his presence" Inah ponders.

"Few people do Inah. Come on let's get move on" Anna says as she gets inside the carriage, we both follow while I close back the hatch.

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The village of Yggdrasil is located in the continent of Asia in the Northern district. It is a somewhat big mercenary town. To reach our destination we have to pass the oak woods, reach a small town named Oakwood Village (The fastest way to go but also dangerous due to its natural confusing illusionary aura) go pass the valley, cross the Northern Bridge and enter the desert sigma seal and find the demon infested temple. Cleanse it and the mission is as good as done.

"Easier said than done, although we don't have to go through the woods since we are going by carriage, now would you please shut-up" Anna shouts. I roll my eyes. This is gonna be a long journey.

3 Days later.

We arrive at Oakwood and enter the gates after paying a toll. We come out of the carriage and head to the market section. The streets are bursting with activity with trades as retailers offer deals to potential.

"Sword, axes, halberds, come to Tenert's blacksmith shop to get the very best."

"Potions, pills and medicine made by the mage Association, get them at a cheaper price from me"

I smile as I pass through the interesting things for sale sometimes stopping to buy a few pills and potions.

"Can you hurry up; we need to go through the Western city gate." Shouts Anna impatiently.

"Oh come on Anna, let's book an inn to rest, I am exhausted" Inah complains.

"He has a point; we need to be a hundred percent ready" I agree. She pulls a large groan. "Fine" She agrees. Afterwards, we went to look for a good inn with Anna groaning all through.

We arrive at an inn named. "Barley's Inn and Bar" pretty convenient (It is a 3 story building with the lowest being a bar and the upper floors rooms)

"Hello, yes, please we like to rent uh, 3 rooms please" Inah spoke politely to the waiter. After paying some silver coins we went our separate ways.

3 hours later, with the sun setting, night came. The red and blue full moons giving a bewitching shade of purple aided with the stars creating something truly beautiful. I give a bitter sweet smile as old memories flood through my mind; the first day I met master, the grueling 8 years of training, watching my brother grow up, mom…. And then the talk I had with Inah in the campfire. (Note: skip this page if you do not care about the flashback)

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The continuous bickering between me and Anna only kept worse with time. "Fine, take it spoilt princess" I shout in anger. "Humph" she says taking all the beds and covers to herself. I sit down on the grass looking at the campfire. "Seems like you guys are finally done" Inah whispers "…" I didn't reply. He smiles. "She makes me sooo anger" I add. He sighs. "You know I think you guys are really close" Inah says.

"Huh?"

"She usually doesn't care about what most people think, only a selected few which you are part of"

"Hurray" I say in a sarcastic tone.

"Her family is pretty strict, after all they hold one of the most powerful treasures given by the great Sakura fairy witch "Aurora" and yet she's second, losing to you no matter how much she practices" He says.

"Hmm, how do you know all this" I ask him in suspicion. "Do you have a thing for her" I add. He blushes shaking his head.

"I'm one of her butlers, I am also in charge of her safety" He spoke in a low tone

"I see; how did you end up being her butler?" I ask.

"She saved me 7 years back"

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*Inah's Flashback*

I endured the beating, the horrible name calling; I had no choice but to, my mum was an elf and a servant to a powerful mafia boss "Dracos" A powerful man with demon blood, she was just another disposable concubine to him and because of the debt my father owed before he ran away and left us but everything was bearable until she got very sick. I did everything I could I stole food, water, medicine and sometimes got caught but she wasn't getting any better, and that was when an old man who told me I needed to get the "midnight dusk" to save her, it's a beautiful blue rose that grows on a tree deep in the forest, said to be very rare and a single flower takes an entire year to grow. But I needed it and went despite it being guarded by powerful druids. It took me 5 days before I finally found it, I sneaked in and took one but upon leaving I was found, so I ran as they chased me until I got surrounded then a knight saved me and escaped their clutches. That was the personal guard of Anna. I was grateful and thanked only to be shocked…

"I did not save you "just because", I noticed the way you managed to sneak past the enchantment my clan put and I felt intrigued. Now… if you don't want to be in prison for a long long time for crossing private property you will do what I say" She snickered.

"Whaaa!!" I exclaimed. That was the first time I met her… unfortunately. She asked me to steal one of her friend's newest edition eh…toy and to do that she dressed me as a butler. It was harder than I thought. You have no idea how much security a Nobel will have to hide her belongings. After that she let me go only for her father to call me and request me to be her secret guard.

*End of Flashback*

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I sighed feeling distraught and cautious as we entered the barren land, the barren land was a strange land with outside its radius of 1000 cubic meters as it is surrounded by a cube shaped barrier inside being completely barren, with a Huge cave at the middle where the demon is sealed, however. Now the barrier is nowhere to be seen with 20 flying fiends with chaotic looking spears. A certain flashback suddenly sprung upon me.

*FLASHBACK*

9pm. Before the start of the mission.

"You wanted to see me sir" I asked feeling perplexed for the sudden call stepping into his office.

"Natalya, does this mission seem strange to you?" he swirls around on his chair.

"Strange? In what way"

'This was originally a temple housed by a powerful sealed demon, still is, but apparently a horde of demons attacked the priests and knight protecting that place. Scouts were sent and most didn't come back, except one. In any case, a priest gave this mission to the Kirsch family as a favor. Natalya, I may not have told you this but things are getting worse, remember that witch you fought six months ago?"

I nod absolutely focused. "The demons are aggressively attacking the human border and we are steadily losing ground and unfortunately none of the other continents are helping us. So, can you glue up these pieces of information Natalya?"

I furrow my brows. "In summary, the demons are attacking the borders and we lack sufficient manpower. So the priest asked Anna's clan to take care of it, since sealing is their specialty and gave us this artifact to help us seal it and banish the demons?"

He nodded. "But?" he sighs.

"You think this is a trap? Why?" I ask.

"… be careful, you may go"

I nodded before leaving, but then… "Sir, why are we being rejected of reinforcements from other races?" I asked curious.

"Natalya, hmmm? Well, for Elves, we were always on bad terms. The docile races hate violence and can't synthesize with us because of our nonexistent mana or magic… look there are many reasons but I myself do not know the true reason. Now Leave" He says.

"Yes sir" I sigh, leaving the scene.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

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"So any idea how to get past them?" I ask. They both shrugged their shoulders. "Fine, let's do it quick and precise." I grab my dagger made from a special material specifically for killing demons, rubbing it with holy water adding further damage. I take a deep breath before dashing towards them accurately aiming at their eyes, noticing me approaching but too late to dodge the projectiles they shrieked; the remaining 13 I didn't hit flew towards me with spears held tight and ready with great precision. I jump over 3 with cross slashes across their backs. "Anna, Inah." I shout; she releases long pink spiral arrows hitting at the blinded 7 with Inah suddenly above me slaughtering the rest. Let's move.

Inside the cave after stealthily killing the guard demons' inside after a while we reach the seal inside a wide white lightly lit room. I raise my hand to stop them. "2 lesser ranked demons inside, strong, Anna, I and Inah will distract them get your spell ready" I order. She snorts before nodding. Inah and I nod. 3…2…1 with a huge burst I and Inah rush in, me shooting projectiles; Inah unsheathing his naginata going slightly ahead of me. The buff looking demon ignoring the projectiles as they hit his skin with a clank sound before falling, the other demon seemingly blending with the shadows. Using its bastard sword swung down with Inah jumping above while I slide below aiming at its groin just to feel my hairs stand up as I rolled from the long shadowy spikes just as Inah gets knocked back from the demon, he throws his naginata, the demon flings it away, it rises just in time as I jump catching it before thrusting it into its head only to be swiftly parried with its bastard sword, the brown skinned buff spiky horned demon gave a mocking smile. My eyes go hyper as I grab the hilt of my sword opening the hatch it flings me up; bringing my soul weapon I dive back down with a spiral spin while it jumps towards me just before we were about to clash. "Anna light spell" I shout as I reverse passing beside it just as a bright light is formed. "AHHH!!" grabbing its legs I swung it down with my eyes still closed I pick up sounds of another" Inah 3 o clock at my right. Anna finish this" just as the demon smashed on the ground a magic circle appeared above me "…Magic Lance" Anna shouts. A huge lance shot forward with great speed barely missing me as it bulldozed its way bodypainting the floor with blood. I land to find Inah had already taken care of the other demon, I throw him back his weapon. We arrive at the seal, a huge black gate blocked with chains stood before us, the aura on a gate gave the dark reddish glow with glowing cracks as the chains were phasing in and out. Before they could move I stopped them, I glance around for any traps. "Something wrong" Inah asked. "it's too easy"

"Huh?" they say in unison.

"It's all too easy" I grab the hilt feeling uneasy. They look at each other. I sign. "never mind" we move in closer. I open the hatch of my soul weapon just in case. Holding, clenching the hilt of my soul weapon at my back. Anna brings out the artifact and places it on the floor and raises her wand, strange hieroglyphics appear below the artifact. She starts the incantation. Ok, everything seems to be going according to plan but…

"Halfway through" she stifles then continues. Huh, guess things are going well for us, what could go wrong! Suddenly the walls burst open with demons, ghouls and goblins flood in. I smack my forehead, me and my big mouth guess they must have sensed Anna's magic. "Stall them!" Anna shouts. I take out my soul weapon and dagger. Inah's weapon turns into a composite sword

"Kill the intruders" a random demon commands. They rush in. "Inah, protect Anna. I sprint towards the horde starting a killing spree with inhuman agility and dexterity I dance my way through killing them gracefully, I glance back at times to see Inah handling his own pretty good. I look up to see flying fiends heading towards Anna. "Inah" I shout, sprinting towards him, he nods. I jump with a somersault land on his weapon, vaulting me up towards the fiends as I struck on a demon's wing then rode it towards the other fiends jumping off onto another as those crashed into the ground I threw holy water on them, soon after they turn into ash. Instincts took over me forcing me to leap off avoiding the attack that severed its head, from where I landed I was surrounded so was Inah. We were surrounded. This is bad.

"Done, brace for impact" Anna shouts. I smile, just the words in need to hear. I close my eyes as a huge swirl of pink magical energy fills the cave, I open my eyes to see the monsters turn into dust.

"huff, that wasn't too bad" I exhale. I close my eyes as a huge swirl of pink magical energy fills the cave, I open my eyes to see the monsters turning to dust.

"huh, that wasn't too bad" I exhale.

Suddenly a dense amount of ominous energy fills the cave breaking apart the enchantment. I really should stop talking. Inah gives a grim look, this does not make any sense. I turn to the seal, my eyes widened. "Th…the seal, it's gone… no, it was never there in the first place" Anna contemplates. "which means" she adds. A huge fiery demon appears wearing dark colored armor with a huge sword on its back. The demon general, but wasn't he sealed. I clench my weapons tighter as the grave situation finally hit me. This is a trap!!

Below the demon general a shadowy figure emerges giving the image of a demon.

"Ah! The offspring of that venomous witch is finally within my grasp. Kill them" As soon as that was said, gates appeared all over bringing out even more monsters than before. I gulp. This is bad, this is really bad.

"Natalya" I turn to Anna. "seems like we've been blackmailed to a suicide mission" she says in an angry voice. "Natalya, I and Anna will carve up a path, you have to report this to the chief' Inah shouts. But….

"I" my voice gets drowned by the shrieks of incoming monsters.

"Tier two magic: shooting stars" more than a dozen twinkling stars sprung out bulldozing the monsters along the path to the exit, with a few distracting the demon general, Inah and I run, I turn back to see a sad but resolute expression on her angelic face. I turn my head away as water starts leaking out of my eyes for some reason. A horde of monsters of monsters block the exit, damn. I grab the toy motorcycle from my sachet and throw it forward. I get on the bike, Inah gets on behind me, no words were said as I drove towards the horde. "Inah!!" I exclaim. He nods changing his weapon into a bazooka, he shoots out missile after missile of holy water. We pass through reaching the exit only to realize that a horde three times the size of before were approaching us… at least 200 monsters, damn it.

"Natalya" he said in a whisper. A resolute smile emerges from his face. I nod. This is no time for weakness. I accelerate further, Inah crouches on the seat as his weapon turns into a fifteen-foot-long scythe with a dark red aura. I switch on the booster going even faster, meters away from the horde, a ramp appears suddenly launching us into the air. 'What the' I thought. Arrows from below flew at us only to be flung away by Inah. We can make it, and then…. We made it past the horde, sigh we did,

"Stop!!" Inah exclaims and jumps off. "I need to go back" He softly spoke.

Wh-what? "Don't be stupid Inah, hop in we need to repor…"

He gives me a sharp resolute glare. We stare at each other, neither of us saying a word then, he runs back, I start the bike and move the opposite direction.

The wind fiercely brushes my face with my ponytail fluttering widely, on the surface I have an indifferent expression but inside, I am a mess. I couldn't think, I forced myself not to. Soon enough I arrived at the Northern bridge. I squint my eyes as an incoming. Ah shit. I jump out of the bike and roll then turn just to see a large sharp wooden spear struck the bike leading it astray until it exploded. I bring out my weapon wary of the slowly incoming threat. A feminine figure emerges dressed in a purple tunic showing her sides, her slender thighs and waist with seductive curves, sky blue eyes and auburn colored hair. She gives a cruel grin.

"Natalya Dawn, I'm afraid I can't let you pass" she grins.

"What do you want?"

"hmm? I want…to kill you. Now for the introductions, my name is Blight Sapphire and you are?"

"...…." I furrow my brows.

"oh right, I said that. Oh well, if you are wondering how I know your name…" she pauses, I stay silent. "You're not? Ah well. Tsk Tsk Tsk, you're a naughty girl, you have caught the eyes of some very powerful beings thus it ends here, offspring of Aurora" she brings out her whip as her eyes turn sinister. "Any last words?"

'shut up you talk too much' I say then with a burst of speed I dash towards her aiming to end this as fast as possible. With a frown dozens of vines sprung out from the ground and shoots at me at a fast pace, I release the hatch containing my soul weapon I activate my foresight however when looking at the vines they glitch, huh? Using my weapon, I shift the vine aiming at my neck away and swiftly dodge the rest while retreating, the cut on my cheek hurt as blood drips down, I switch off my foresight eye.

Blight gives a loud overconfident laugh. "The fight has barely begun and you seem to already be in a bind, disappointing" She says shaking her head in a disappointed manner followed by reemerging of vines, now they were twice as much. My powers don't work and the enemy seems to know a lot about me not to mention all my supplies fell off me plus I have a time limit in this fight before reinforcements arrive. I sigh readying my resolve, even so I won't be dying today. With a frightening speed they strike at me with my dagger and my sword in tow I dodge and cut the vines while steadily moving towards Blight, I push through cutting all the vines and arriving in front of Blight

'secret sword technique: Vast gale' However before I was able to display it her whip attacks came at me and I attempted to dodge with a follow up attack however the whip seemed to be following my movements I slash it only for my attack to pass through then it sped up accurately towards my face but at the last half second my figure seemed to have flickered letting it pass me by a hairs breath I immediately dash at her and 2 meters away attempted to slash her my hairs stand up immediately after I jump up as I look down I see many long spikes of earth emerged around her. I land where her back is faced towards me. 'Impressive' She applauds as the spikes fall back into the ground. I contemplate attacking her again but decide against it, too many things I didn't understand happened if I go in again I might be caught this time I need to observe. I throw my custom made needle projectiles only for them to easily be blocked by the vines.

"Why would an esteemed person such as yourself want to kill me, or are you just an assassin" I initiate conversation.

She gives an intrigued expression. "Finally talking I see; Well I personally am not allowed to say anything however I will say that after you killed the crimson witch a certain group of individuals found out you are the offspring of Aurora and as for why I am here that is because I was given an opportunity, defeat an offspring of Aurora and be given a promotion, so honey do you finally realize why you have to die, oh but don't worry…"

Offspring of Aurora? Aurora… hmm.... Oh, the Sakura Tree Fairy Witch…

"-though I really prefer a doub..."

"Blight" I interrupt her "What exactly are you, a witch? A mage? A plant cluster user? A devil user? Or a mixed race." I ask.

She gives a surprised look then smiles. "A cursed child" She replies in a serious tone. I see. "Final question, is my mother still alive" I gulp nervously.

"… yes" She replies swiftly

I see. I breathe a sigh of relief.

"Though your father isn't also don't even try, you won't be able to save her not to mention you are dying here."

I shook my head. That was enough. It seems the people that were after us finally found us and they seem to be associated with demons and… my mother… is… alive, then my objectives haven't changed, I will report this to the chief grab Derek and hide then search for mother. And in order to do this, I just have to kill her. I smile, a very wide bloodthirsty one.

"Move!!! Or Die!!!" I give a sharp glare. Her body becomes tense.

A cursed child could be said to be a child that is born with a very unstable cluster able to use their clusters at a very early age, however powerful their clusters are they are also very dangerous and unstable being able to wipe out units of fully trained warriors and rumors of some even being able to wipe out armies. However, their powers have no distinction between friend or foe and being unstable can even use all of the lifespan of the user by self-destructing which is why they are either killed or trained as a weapon.

Blight may be powerful with a mysterious ability however in order not to KO herself she will have a brief cool-down.

She raises her hand at which vines three times more than before rose from the ground surrounding her like tentacles, she points at me immediately after they swarm towards me creating high pitched sounds with their high speed. This time instead of moving forward I dodge and observe, cut and observe, looking for any clue on what her ability may be and then a fatal mistake is made as I dodge a vine and attempt to move back my ankle hit a crack on the bridge making my balance falter at which vines struck me however mysteriously instead they passed through me, at the corner of eyes I see Blight groan and collapse on one knee to the floor. Now, I immediately dash towards her cutting any vines that got in my way. At fifteen meters away she brings out her whip which divide into five parts at which the vines disappear. The whips shoot towards me.

Secret sword technique: Vast Gale. Like a blur I pass through followed by their dismembering at which I arrive in front of her and with the highest speed possible cut her neck like knife through butter, however. My attack goes right through, my eyes widen, she gives a villainous smile. Shit. Vines from the ground wrap around my legs followed by more which wrap my body, her cut whip turns into a broad sword, she raises it high.

"Game Over" That villainous smile still stuck on her face, she swings down. At the last possible second the attack stops or rather there is no attack at all, the broad sword disappears followed by vines. Blood drips down from her mouth. "What… now?"

I sigh in relief then using this opportunity I slash at her, as expected her figure vanishes and she appears at least sixty meters away breathing hard.

Close call, too close. I almost died again!!! Damn it. I was careless. However, I finally understand her cluster.

'You can bring out anything into existence, what a powerful cluster but it seems to have restrictions and limit.'

{Name: Blight Sapphire

Race: Human *Cursed child*

Cluster: Energy/mana- creation manipulation. Works in co-existence with imagination able to bring things into existence as long as an energy source is constantly used. Restriction: Gathering energy source requires a medium (suggestion: Body's nutrients, glucose, proteins, *blood*) in extreme cases life span will be used instead. Creation is currently limited from inorganic to simple living structure (Unicellular organisms or plants, vines.).

Ok I got this.

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Above the sky, a small distortion occurred in which two individuals emerged however beyond the invisibility they both seem to be wearing dark shady cowls. On the right was a fair skinned man with dark hair styled in punk, he has sparkling ruby red eyes and an easygoing smile with a sturdy figure giving off a delinquent vibe.

"What do you think, my new spell is cool right, no one can see us or notice our… you're not listening are you?" He says in a slightly annoyed tone.

The man beside him gave him an expressionless glance before shifting his gaze back to the battle. Inside his cowl black hair styled into a ponytail could be seen, he had a constant expressionless face, his pitch black eyes gave a dull look mysteriously so that added even more charm to his handsome looks.

"Soooo, that is her offspring huh? She's kinda hot, not my type though. Hmm? Did something catch, no of course something did." He nods to himself.

"Her little brother does not have her magical properties right..."

"YES!!... so?" He says scratching his chin.

He smiles. "Drake, I want to try an experiment do you mind cracking up your spell by a ton."

Drake's red eyes shine. He lightly nods. The black haired man brings out a pair of dice.

2 minutes later.

The dice could be seen giving off a very powerful pressure.

"Dude drop it already I'm nearing my limits" Drake said through heated breaths. He nods. "The dice of fate" Each die having only two icons on four sides of both dies, an ominous skull giving off a death vibe and a green life pouring out a lively aura. (Former represents death. Latter represents life)

The dice drops seeming invisible lands on the flowing river. Both land on the skull. "Well shit" Drake curses. "Dude are you sure you didn't rig it after all it is your Mo… "He stops when he noticed the killing intent. He sighs turning back to the battle. BEST LUCK NATALYA.