In the very north of Lustitia, in the city of Hosszúzöld, the people have struggled with an unknown being or entity that hunts them in their sleep. It doesn't seem harmful—and in fact, it isn't—but the problem lies in the very eerie form of that being that appears in the nightmares of its victims.
That entity would apear first as a normal person and then and stare into the eyes of its victim for minutes and the longer it stares, the more face twists and losses its human details, this happens very slowly, and the bigger problem is that the victim can't wake up from that nightmare, nor can they move there physical body in there sleep to show discomfort so that someone wakes them up.
Because of that the locals could just act up randomly from the tense fearful situation they were once put in, and it could reach up to the point were that thing kills people in there sleep by causing them a severe heart attack.
At this moment the city officials have had enough, they sent multiple help requests to the concilium, in most times they didn't respond and when they respond, they send a person who doesn't have quite the experience to deal with such complex beings that actually got something special about it when it hunts.
So instead they decided to send a request into Gladius Auremanuum for any help from an expert man who can use psychic powers and they raised 40 Aureus for whoever is willing to put an end for the terror of that being.
The next day, they received an answer to there request, by a man called Ahab who will arrive in a range of 2-4 weeks and will do that request for free.
Two weeks later, and The time have passed in the office of the city governor, the governor was waiting patiently for that Ahab to arrive and suddenly, a fridge sized human with white, blue and red cloth have decimated the office door, entered with absolute excitement and said:
"Morning comrade, i am not Ahab who signed for your request but one of his followers and fear not, i will purge that being or whatever that is which is terrorising the people of Hosszúzöld." Dante then reassembled the door he broke by a random hand waving and the governor was just out of words until someone entered the office while panting and said:
"My lord..*heavy breathing* there's a very big person running at unimaginable speed through out the building and we dont know where he is."
The governor was just fed up from this because Dante was literally on a chair infront of the governor's desk, and so the governor said with a frustrated voice:
"Are you serious??? He is LITERALLY infront of ME on that CHAIR" the man was confused from the governor's response because there is literally no one on-site and said:
"I am sorry what?" Dante then looked at the governor with a smirk look on his face and said while screaming in a draconic voice:
"HE DOESN'T SEE ME NOR HERE ME NOR EVEN FEEL MY VERY EXISTENCE IN THE ROOM BECAUSE I WANTED TO DO SO." After that unholy scream the governor looked at the man next to him thinking he can't lie anymore but the man gave the governor the confused look that says 'and?', then Dante said:
"Until now." He then snapped his fingers and became visible to the other man, the oyher man said in shock:
"What? But ah- how?? You weren't even there!!!" And governor said:
"Ok slow down big man, you mean to tell me that you are someone sent by Ahab to do his own mission and you are capable of absolute invisibility, super strength and repairing the things you have broken, anything else to add to the menu?"
"Yes, the fact that i am here to do what the concilium failed to do at the price of zero aureus, now since we are at night, and there will be some people sleeping soon, how about you put these in every room."
He then opened bag he was carrying and pulled out a lot of small candles and said:
"Their is a total of one hundred candles on this table, i want everyone of these specially curated candles i made myself to be placed at as much bedrooms in as much houses as possible, and before you ask what these candles do.
They work as detectors of terrible emotions like sadness and fear, but they only flare brighter when the person in the room is asleep. When that light lingers stronger, I know the one beside the candle is being mentally assaulted by that thing.
And when the flame grows, that's my sign. I will storm into the sleeper's room, dive straight into his nightmare, and face the son of a bitch who's been terrorizing these people." The governor said:
"Have you heard him! Go take all these candles and distribute them into the nearest houses as quickly as possible."
"Yes sir." The man then took all the candles in a bag and left the office as quickly as possible, the governor then said:
"How rude of me to not introduce myse-"
"Just dont introduce yourself because when you do introduce yourself, you will want me to introduce myself too, and my name is already a very big problem in the eyes of the concilium, in short, it will be better for you and your people to not know my name."
"O-okey then." The last words Dante have said actually terrified the governor and made him understand he isn't being helped by a normal mercenary but a man who is being hunted by the concilium itself.
Soon after, the candles were all sent, and the citizens felt like there is someone who is actually going to do something with that thing that hunts them, because candles light is cyan, a fire colour most people dont get to witness, and the people were ordered to sleep so the entity would cause someone sleeping with one of these candles a nightmare and Dante will take care of the rest.
Dante waited at the top of the highest building in the city, watching and sensing his candles waiting for any one of them to light strongly, he waited up there for around two hours and when decided to observe how beautiful the crescent moon of that night was, he felt one of his candles acting up in a nearby house.
He jumped out of the building he was on and straight into the street infront of the house, he knocked on the with his fist, very brutal as if he was going to break the door, when the mother of that house quickly opened the door, Dante said:
"OUT OF THE WAY, NO TIME FOR INTRODUCTIONS."
and climbed up the stairs entered the room were the candle was glowing and it was a man in his 40's who was sleeping, judging from his heartbeats, Dante knew that this was the one.
And so he placed the palm of his hands, on the man's head and Dante's fingers didn't touch the head they were spread open, he then closed his eyes and focused.
On the other hand the was being terrorised by the entity that this time had more than legs that is using them to move, the man had no choice but to give up and accept whatever will happen to him.
And out of nowhere the man heard a crack in the wall, which was weird because the place he was in with that being was just pitch darkness, but not only that because he looked at where the sound came from and saw as if the infinite darkness had a glass crack and then the whole glass wall exploded with cyan fire, ultimately lightning up the whole nightmare, Dante then said:
"What's up baby gurl, how are you doing?" He spat those words directly toward the entity, the entity spoke with the voice twenty ill people speaking in the same time and said:
"Oh it's you, Dante, the blue scourge." The smile on Dante's face faded the moment he heard his elite title.
But the being didn't have enough and decided to change its face into the face of someone that Dante have trusted for years but that trust was a lie, the being took the face of Mirosław himself infront of Dante, the being then said with Mirosław's voice but in a sick tone:
"What is wrong Dante? Are you scared of me? Since when was the blue scourge was afraid of one of his friends." Dante then smiled a psychopathic smile and said:
"You have no idea how grateful i am to you that you have taken the face of Mirosław, because i have been dying to torment that face"
Dante then with cheer force of will, just forceed the being into the ground as it was being crushed by something above it but there was nothing above and when Dante reached the being.
It barely managed to raise its face and see Dante infront of it with the same deadly smile and for the next fifteen (yes 15) minutes, Dante have been non stop beating the entity until he was about to kill it and heal it and repeated this many times until after fifteen minutes he decided to finish it off by killing that thing and locating where the host of that being was hiding.
When Dante killed it the man who was in that nightmare woke up and so did Dante, the man was shocked from Dante size and didn't dare to remove Dante's hand from his head and then, Dante just left him and left the house and headed toward the host make him face justice by the governor and the people of the city.
After that with around thirty minutes, the governor said:
"I can't explain to you how grateful i am to all you have done,...follower of Ahab?"
"Yeah no problem i am cool with that, anyway i will leave now, i got other stuff to do."
"Okay then have a safe journey."
Dante was on his way out but then he saw the same man who have whom he have invaded his mind, the man seemed curious for Dante, and just had a lot of questions so Dante just told his wife:
"Mam, do you think it will be better if i made your husband forget whatever he saw in this nightmare." And she said:
"He is all yours."
"Thank you." Dante then made the man forget about the entire nightmare and from here, Dante have left Hosszúzöld.