Si Elle was in his room preparing for the first quest when Leah slowly crawled back into the room with a burn on it back.
He squatted and picked the leech up from the floor, not failing to notice the black patches on various parts of its body.
"What happened?" He questioned but the leach was too tired to talk.
She writhed in pains and agony that Si Elle thought of ending its life to alleviate it's pain.
He looked into its gaze and discovered what had happened to it through his atheric gaze.
Demons couldn't read minds, and neither could celestials. But the difference was that the minds of animals were different and celestials could read it and even see scenes from the animal's memories, a power foot demons didn't possess.
He looked I to it's gaze and through the ancient tether between demon and beast, the memory of what has transpired unfolded before his eyes. It was his infernal gaze.
He stood up and dropped the leech back into its cage, not knowing what to make of the fact that Ed Warren, the young and new boy had some this to his beast by just the sign of a cross.
It meant nothing here. Gaufridi always made the sign of the cross in public and yet nothing happens because his soul ha already been damned, how come this new human did it and stuff like this was able to happen?
He was still lost in thoughts when he heard the ringing of the bell and knew that he had to ready himself to depart for his first mission.
Turning his glare at his leech that still was in pains, he made a solemn vow to himself.
Ed wasn't just a threat now to him with Lorraine, but look what he had done to his beast. Better to end him now while it was still early than leave him be when it would be worst.
A decision was made up in his mind, he was going to conjure up Ed's soul in his portal and he was going to put an end to his existence. Because as it appeared, that was the only solution to resting his worries.
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There was a very large hall where an uncountable number of people were in, each seated in a chair with an arm rest, as if waiting for someone.
Everyone was already settled in with only one empty seat remaining, which Ed could tell was for him.
Had they all being waiting for him? He asked himself. Had they even noticed him to the point of keeping a chair for him?
But it wouldn't be fair if it was that way. The others must have spent months and perhaps even years practicing before they were probably allowed to join this first quest.
It must be like the monastery where they are taught for several years before the qualified are allowed to become seminarians who would in turn become the new reverends.
Was there no rules here that exempted novice people like him from stuff like it?
Perhaps keep him here and teach him while he waits for the next set that would join the legion, while feeding him of course.
"Are you sure he'd be able to survive it? The way I see him, he doesn't even look strong. Why do you recruit the hungry looking people all the time?" A man whispered to the Baron's ears as they walked into the crowd.
Ed had heard what he said regardless of how quiet and low he had tried to make his voice.
He didn't take his words to heart. Afterall he was hungry looking. If there was another expression worse than that, then it would be for him.
The weeks he has stayed at home after returning from the monastery had left him looking all malnourished. It was his reality, the monastery had only helped him get pass that for years but he had returned to it after having no choices to.
Ed followed the Baron diligently as he led him to the last seat that was empty at the middle of the hall.
All eyes had been on him as if he were a thief being led to prison, as if he were the party animal being led to the slaughterhouse, as if he had been the Messiah who was being led to the cross.
On reaching the seat, he has sat down and the Baron buckled him into the chair with what seemed like a seat belt.
He relaxed into her chair, it was fluffy and soft, as if it were a bed.
Raising his head, he began to scan the room for any face he could identify, knowing fully well that it might be just two faces he could: Lorraine's and Abel's.
The Baron looked at Ed with unexplainable emotions in his eyes, worry etching all over his face for him.
His fellows had spent years in the legion, preparing for this first task.
They were three but the first one was what usually determined if the student were to proceed.
He had just joined the legion a few days ago by his curiosity to find out why had been beyond him. From the book on the bed which he had been reading, he hadn't even crossed the introductory part tbag ushered students into the hierarchies, how then was he going to be able to survive the first quest?
Others had studied for decades,some ten years and some had even been groomed from childhood for this quest.
Some despite being trained in the legion,had their parents hiring private tutors and defense skills tutors teaching them sideways, but for Ed?
He didn't look like one who came from a well to do family nor even a wealthy one. He didn't seem to wield legacies passed down to him from his family who must have been preparing him for this quest for years. It doesn't seem as if he even knew what the task here stood for.
It wouldn't surprise him if he wouldn't even know what that meant, Abel who had taken him in didn't seem like the type to have briefed him on things.
He seemed selfish and self centered, evident from the book he had given him despite having countless bigger and updated ones.
Ohh, you wouldn't expect him to believe Ed's lie about picking the book from the shelf like he had told.
Ed's gaze searched the crowd until he came across an eye that were staring at him as well.
He paused. It was Abel's.
He wasn't far from where he sat and looked at him in such a manner that made Ed question what might be the reason behind his gaze.
Had he done something wrong? Or was Abel angry at him that he had come late?
He immediately recoiled his stare from him and turned towards a different direction, the opposite side of his right and beheld another eye shooting a glare at him.
Unlike Abel's eyes that were unexplainable, Ed could tell what this one meant.
It screamed anger, it screamed malice and bitterness. Feelings Ed couldn't explain how he must have angered the person to deserve such death stares from.
He immediately turned his head towards ahead of him, not turning left or right anymore but focusing on the people who stood in front of the crowd.
Everyone seemed dressed up and ready for what laid ahead except for him who was still clad in the torn clothes he had worn from home days ago while chasing after Lorraine.
It was when he leaned his head over to check what he wore that he had discovered why the countless eyes had been on him while he walked into the hall with the Baron.
"Remember!!! You must try all your best to not be killed in your first quest! If you get killed, you die!" A voice screamed from the podium and Ed knew for a fact that things were about to get serious.
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