"Srash"
A slash, a big wound appear, gushing with blood, right across the creature back. The culprit, walking slowly, a big scythe in her hand, gleaming with blood.
There is not a single rush from her gait. Her eyes devoid of warmth, the eyes of killer who's done it a thousand time
No remorse in sight
The creature, despite the wound and blood loss, still alive. Try to stand, but the lack of blood to fuel it's muscle, making it weaker by the second. Despair clad in it's eyes. Especially looking at his adversary, who now, raising it's weapon high in the air
Then, chop
The creature, dead, it's head split in two, a brutal death for a brutal creature. Beside the perpetrator, a guy wearing a mask, clad in tuxedo, suddenly appear out of nowhere. He examine the body, looking it's eyes. Then slowly, he removed his gloves, showing a soft dainty white skinned hand devoid of hardship. Carefully, he reached the creature eyes, gouged it, then satisfied. The creature, already removed eyes, disappear, into thin air.
"I still can't understand the depths of your power"
Said Angelica, undoing her scythe
"You are not supposed to"
Joker nonchalantly answered. Cleaning the blood in his hand. Then, returning back the gloves in it's rightful place. Tightening it.
"I need 20 more"
He said with flat voice
"The eyes ?"
"Yes"
"What for ?"
"A task, to earn a favor, 100 chimera eyes fresh from the socket"
"That is.....unsettling. Well, can't you just....search it yourself, i'm not even supposed to do this, i'm a queen remember ?"
She said, Protesting. Sadly, the guy in her right not buying it
"Used....to be queen, now now. Don't complain too much. After all it's for your son sake"
"Don't try to guilt trip me by bringing Altaris into this"
She said, threatening. Can't he even said please.
"Come come, i've done the heavy lifting, searching for 50 chimera's nest, is not easy. The things rare after all"
Joker said, his tone dismissing. They already work together for almost 10 years, from the time he's tasked to safe her, and her boy
"You're soo sweet back then"
"Courtesy, and to calm a grieving wife"
"Ch....Whatever"
Then they moved, resuming their hunt. They dash fast, dodging branches, slashing roots. Their feet, drifting in the air, rarely touching the forest floor. Not just chimera, thousand and thousand of creature has meet their demise, just from this 2 person. Not just tiny creature, they even kill Wyvern, take its bones, and throat. A task to exchange for favor.
They meet the next Chimera, the creature roared. Scaring the intruder in front of it. Contrary to expectation, instead of run, Angelina, dashing, conjuring scythe as big as her body, as light as feather. She slash it's feet, cutting it cleanly. The creature roar, and falls with a thump. It's last back leg, can't support the entire weight. Then, comes the guillotine, Straight to the neck. Separate it's head from the body, a clean execution. Efficient.
Then, just like back then, the joker gouge it's eyes, store it in his own personal space.
19 more
In the middle of the hunt, just two of them, a small talk was bound to happen
"By the way, the kingdom, you already find the place ?"
Angelina ask, curious. She and joker has planned this for a long time, to rebuild the demon continent.
And the first step, safe heaven, sanctuary for their surviving members
"Yes"
"Where"
"In Farta, the mountains big enough"
"You serious ?"
"Yes"
"The place guarded by basilisk. An entire clan at that, where will you put it"
"Underground of course, i know a way"
"How ?"
"You really want to know ?"
"Yes"
She Answer quick, burned by curiosity
"I ask a favor from certain dwarf, in exchange for something. And.....she agree"
"What certain dwarf ?"
"The one above the anvil, and her team"
"That dwarf, you manage to to convince Carila. That hard headed bastard of a dwarf"
"Words, you are supposed to be a queen"
"Used...to be queen. By the way, How did you do it, what's so valuable she forced to leave her forge"
"My husband and i can't even convince her to make me a weapon, That's why i stuck with this.... stick"
Angelina, looked at her weapon, dismissing. She love it, sure, but, in the face of Carila creation, it might as well be stick.
After all, her creation is known to change the world, one of them is the hero sword, a sword strong enough it can hold the weight of faith.
No one can match her in the field
"I trade it with knowledge"
Answer joker reluctantly, but, he needs to answer her question. After all, he need her trust, for the future he want's to achieve
"Knowledge ? What knowledge"
"Knowledge of space"
"Holy mother demons, by incubus, Are you serious ?"
She shocked, can't believe what just enter her ears
The reason
I'll explain
In the world of Kaise, there are all kinds of fields of magic, emotion, mana, artifact, rune, nature, and the like. All of them, are available for mortal to learn. They are powerful, but still in the border of balance. Studying it won't change too much, cause all of them is connected with the world, and only the world
Alas, among all magic field, there are two fields of study so vile learning it will tilt the world balance
Yes, two forbidden and forgotten field of magic. The study of time, and the knowledge of space.
The study of this two element, is to volatile for mortal. Mastering it allowed ones to change the equilibrium of the world, making it... unstable
A pandora box that wasn't meant to be open
That's why it's forbidden
Time is absolute and space is unchained
They both are 2 thing mortals can never touch, much less playing with it. The conscience it need to not be drown by it is so much no mind can survive it
And the joker, ever rebellious, giving a sneak peak of this supposed, forbidden field, to the one above the anvil
Unbelievable
"Joker, are you try to unleashed the face of mana upon us, Do you want to open the seal ?"
Sabrina ask, she is afraid, terrifically. After all, there is a reason why it's forgotten title.
"Don't worry, i got their permission. And it's controlled too, she chained by contract after all"
Then Angelina, with her iconic shocked expression, can't help but mutter
"What are you saying, you dumb mutt"