Julian's eyes linger on the mess he had created. He had killed Ethan by punching him to death. All that punching had caused a crater in the road below.
He ran back to his burning house in a hurry trying to save the things that were still intact. He found Ethan's black cloak that somehow not burning and the book he used to summon Astorath.
After coming out of the fire be checked the inside pockets out of Ethan's cloak, luckily, he found his phone.
'Pretty sure he's too stupid to remember a new password for his phone, so I should be able to open it.'
Just As he guessed, the phone's password wasn't changed. He looked through his phone and there were no images, contacts. He went through the phone's notepad app and found several notes leading to one place and one organization situated there.
'Cult of Zarathustra, situated in Switzerland, somewhere along the Alps.'
'He never gave me a proper answer for being a murderer. Maybe, if I go there I will find out more about these incidents. It's not like I have better to go considering the fact he kinda toasted my house here, and it's not like I have something else to do anyways. But the problem is going there, all types of transportations are permanently banned.'
'Hey Astorath! Is there any way I can fly with magic?'
"Yes, there is a way to fly through the magic, you just need to upgrade your magic level."
'Magic level?'
This reminds me of a certain jrpg i used to play.
"Well you see whenever you humans make a contract with mythical beings like us, we don't grant them our full power since their body won't be able to handle all of that, so we grant them a miniscule portion of our magic. To access to more abilities you will have to upgrade your magic level."
'And what is it that I need to do for upgrading my magic level.'
"Oh it's pretty simple and straightforward, you will have to feed your contractor human soul. For that you need to kill humans."
'Tch. He wants to make me a murder. What should I do now? I really need to go to that place and find about the motives of that cult.'
'Very well, I agree to you.'
"Oh! That was quite a quick decision. You must be a natural murderer to agree to something like this."
Astorath laughed mockingly. I couldn't say he was wrong, since even I knew I have started to act more bloodthirsty.
'How many souls do you need?'
"Just killing them, I'll stop you when enough are gathered."
'One last question. Can I kill someone sneakly with magic.'
"I thought it would be obvious by name or are you too dumb to even figure that out?"
'How helpful of you.'
'To be honest, how did i not figure such simple thing, shadow magic's main attribute should be shadow manipulation. By using that I should be able to do this task without much of a trouble.'
I knew exactly place I could do this. The HM prison and hideout of the drug cartel.
Julian quickly made his way to underground hideout of a drug cartel he had heard about from news.
'Apparently the police had tried to raid this place multiple times but the casualties were too much to continue.'
Julian saw two tall and muscular bodyguards blocking the area. The area had a lot of barricading but they were the only two protecting the door.
"Hey kid what're you doing here!?"
One the guards spoke out loudly as to alert others that someone had come near their area.
"Sorry but you will have to die."
Julian smiled and rushed towards the guards with his knife. His speed was too fast for the guard's to comprehend what had happened to their bodies. Blood spattered on the floor and the door as their bodies were sliced like onion rings.
Julian concentrated his purple circuit ability to infection the shadow of the area. He was able to blend in the shadow.
'2 on the top, 5 on the 2nd floor, 30 guards near the main underground entry. They're criminals, they've taken more lifes than me, killing them shouldn't effect me much.'
Julian thought as he proceeded to make quick work of all the guards without anyone noticing anything.
Finally he opened the door of the underground storage. The door was made of heavy metal and when opened it made a loud sound which alerted everyone inside.
"What the hell is a kid doing here!?"
There were 23 people inside and Julian proceeded to kill them without mercy. They tried to shoot bullets at him and stab him with knife but he proved too fast for them to catch up with resulting in their death.
As all the guys were dead, only one remained standing and trembling in fear. As soon he was about to shoot Julian cut off his legs and arms.
"W-Wait I will tell you where boss is, let me live!"
"Aww, how cute you are begging for your life? Let's see.....i am in the mood to kill today though...so better luck next time."
The man beggend for his life but Julian just glared at him and smiled as he stomped on his head, crushing it with brute force.
'Why the hell was i smiling like a maniac?'
'Astorath, how many more do i need?'
"Let's see, you've totally killed 60 people a few more."
Julian glanced at the door that lead to underground packaging facility, there were twenty people working and 19 guards watching them, needless to say 2 minutes after the floor was dyed red with their blood.
Julian made his way to the last part of the underground facility where all the drugs were stored before processing them.
In the center a man was sitting on the chair wearing navy blue suit and trousers and 20 people were gather near him as to the opposite side to him a girl was tied up with tape over her mouth and ropes bounding her to hands and feet to the chair.
Julian pulled out his knife made quick work of everyone except the formal wearing man and the chair bounded girl.
"You have done a mistake! Our boss will track you down to hell!"
He screamed as Julian decapitated him.
Julian glared at the chair tied girl. He slowly approached her slowly and stabbed her in the forehead with his knife.
'is it done now?'
"Yes, you were done a bit ago but I was to trying to enjoy the show so I forgot to upgrade. Poor people died for nothing."
Astaroth said it with a mocking tone. Perhaps he was trying to make Julian feel guilty.
Suddenly Julian felt his entire body tightening up as his left shoulder started experiencing a burning sensation. It lingered for some time but after that Julian felt lighter and stronger than before. His muses were bigger and he had grown a few centimetres in height.
"Focus your 'mana' on your legs and relax your body."
Julian did as Astorath said. Suddenly he felt him being lifted off the ground as he opened his eyes he saw his feet floating in the air.
"Let's go!"
"But I haven't slept for some hours I need my nap"
Julian said as he made his way to a hotel and slept on the comfy bed from the money he had taken from the people he killed.
His facial features and body relaxed as sleep took control of him. He was sleeping comfortably unaware of the gaze lingering on him
April 16,
Julian was running on a ground filled with blood. He was sweating profusely and his breathing was heavy in panic. He reached a dead end, a wall of bricks with soears coming out of the wall. He turned back to see a black shadow approaching him.
"JuLiAn WhY DiD YoU KiLl Us! YoU ShOuLd HaVe SaVeD Us!"
The shadow kept repeating the same words as it approached him. Hands sticked out of he shadow and started choking him while repeating:
"YOU'RE A MURDERER!"
"YOURE A MURDERER"
"YOU'RE A MURDERER"
"..."
Voice began to faint out as Julian opened his eyes as he woke up from his nightmare. His body was shaking and sweat covered his body. He made his way to the bathroom to wash his face in the washbasin.
He took a bath and changed from blood covered clothes to a new pair of coffee colour shirt and cream coloured trousers.
He went out of his room and started making his way down to lobby. Something felt weird about the hotel....there were no people here.
As he made his way to the lobby a horrifying sight greeted him, copses of humans were stacked on top of each other like a throne on the seat of the 'throne' there was a note which read:
"We are expecting you, Julian Raymond.
-Cult of Zarathustra"