"My uncle? Oh. You mean Damascus. So the Black one is given by the King. Must be a big deal." Draxus said. He was still inside Pablo’s shadow as Pablo walked towards his room.
"Yeah. What about yours?" Pablo asked.
"Nothing special. Some people of the neighboring city Selka are trying to summon a Demon. I have to stop them."
’What? Demons exist here? And this guy is saying it’s nothing special?’
"Why do you say it’s nothing special? And that’s a hard task. If that’s Purple rank then mine must be a lot harder than it looks. And is it even possible to summon a Demon?"
"Didn’t you hear about the incident that happened five years ago? Where were you even living, Czar?"
"I was in Desper slum for the longest time and I worked in the mines all day. So I don’t know such things. Tell me what happened five years ago but when I reach the room."
’Sera should have also written about the important events of this world. Well, can’t blame her. She must have expected me to know them.’
Pablo arrived outside the room and Flashy was with him as well.
Pablo opened the door and with Flashy, went inside.
Draxus came out from the shadow as well.
Pablo sat on the bed while Draxus and Flashy sat on the floor.
"Now tell me." Pablo said. He would finally listen about the incident.
Draxus covered them in the shadow and started speaking.
"Do you know about a place called Hermit?"
"Yes. It’s the slum of Glory city." Pablo read about it in Sera’s papers.
"Right. Glory city is full of royals and those rich people hate slums the most. Five years ago, the royals decided to exterminate the Hermit slum and its residents from existence.
They sent some foot soldiers from the Glory city to do the deed.
It was night and the foot soldiers did their work. They set fire on the houses of the residents.
They killed whoever came in their way. Even children weren’t spared. The royals wanted no scums near them.
The foot soldiers were strong so the people of Hermit couldn’t fight them. So the foot soldiers killed them all.
The whole Hermit slum burnt that day.
After the mass murder, the foot soldiers came back to the Glory city and relayed all the Royals that the Hermit slum and its residents are no more.
The royals rejoiced. They threw a party and all of them celebrated that day.
But little did they know, there was an underground chamber in Hermit and some residents hid themselves there.
The foot soldiers and the royals didn’t know that.
The residents were obviously angry at the Royals and since they couldn’t fight them directly, they chose some other method. Some other dark method."
"And that method was summoning a Demon?" Pablo asked.
"Yes."
"We are talking about a Demon summoning?" Flashy was clueless.
"Don’t speak in between." Pablo ordered.
Flashy obliged.
Draxus carried on.
"There was an old man in Hermit and he knew the ritual.
I don’t know the exact details but he created a circle of some kind with his blood and did some chants.
There were hundred residents in the basement including the old man and all of them surrounded the circle from all sides.
Then the circle lit up and after a few seconds, the Demon appeared.
All the hundred residents lost their lives the moment it appeared and only the old man in his dying breath managed to say : ’Kill Royals.’
After that, the Demon broke the underground chamber, landed right inside the Glory city.
You should know, Czar, the newly summoned Demons are weak. They need a large quantity of blood and other things to gain their full strength. But even a weak Demon is considered a Dark Purple rank monster.
He wreaked havoc in the Glory city and the King had to deploy all the ten divisions of military to tame that Demon.
The fight between the military and the Demons continued for days without even a single second of rest, but since the Demon was weak, the military won in the end and that Demon was never seen again."
Draxus finished telling the story and waited for Pablo to say something.
"You sure know this in detail."
"It was all over the newspapers. Everyone knows it. I am sure even this idiot knows about this."
"Yes. I know too." Flashy nodded. He didn’t say anything about Draxus calling him an idiot.
’He agrees with the idiot part it seems.’
"Do Demons also have Egoes?" Pablo asked.
"No. From what I know, they use spells of ancient language. They can do many things. They can change their face. They can mimic voices and many other hideous things."
"What happened to the Hermit slum after that?"
"That is now a devoid slum. No one dares to go there after that incident."
"I see. And now the people of Selka city are trying to summon a Demon as well. Good luck stopping that."
"Yeah. I’ll try my best."
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"What about me?" Flashy chimed in.
"What about you?" Pablo asked in return.
"I also got a purple rank mission, Boss."
"Yeah. Good luck with that."
"Won’t you ask me about it?"
’I am getting late.’
"Let’s hear it." Pablo would hear Flashy’s mission.
"I have to kill a Duke."
"Great. Do that."
"What do you mean ’do that’? It’s a Duke. He is super strong."
"So? Did you forget, you are a monster too."
"I did not. But I have to kill him in such a way that it appears like an accident. He has a ten year old son. His family shouldn’t think that he was killed. Otherwise they will retaliate.
And also, after the Duke, his wife will become the Duke. But if she finds that his husband was murdered then she won’t do that and she might complain about it to the High Dukes."
"Then let her complain. The military doesn’t give a shit. These assignments are given by the High Dukes and the King after all."
"No. That’s the problem. This is the military’s personal assignment. This Duke is bothering the military daily. He is asking about his son who died during the tests. He is asking about his son’s killer and the military couldn’t tell him that. That’s against the rules. But this Duke is persistent.
So the military prepared an assignment themselves to kill him and they gave it to me of all people. They want complete secrecy."
Pablo heard Flashy and the Duke he mentioned, rang a bell in Pablo’s mind.
"What’s the name of this Duke? And he is under which city?" Pablo asked, hoping for a different answer than he had in his mind.
But hopes are lies. Flashy said exactly what Pablo didn’t want to hear.
"His name is Jack Kaiser and he is the Duke of this very City."