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Chapter 19 - [The Path of Feathers and Vengeance]

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Entry Title: 🦉 [Owl] — The Path of Feathers and Vengeance.

Compiled by: [Black Mask].

Access Level: 🔒 Confidential – 10,000 🟢 Green Cores required.

Classification: Z Ranker | Wanderer of the Thirteen Lands | The Vengeful Flight.

🌒 Prologue: The Departure from [Land of Legends]:

Before he became one of the most feared and mysterious Z Rankers of the Story World, Rikudo — now known to all as [Owl] — once lived in the poetic Fragment called [Land of Legends] 🎀. There, he began his descent into vengeance. After his family's deaths and his first acts of bloodshed, Rikudo realized a bitter truth: he was not yet strong enough to end the Empire that destroyed everything he loved.

So he left.

Leaving one's native Fragment is a moment that marks a Player forever — the birth of their true Story. Upon crossing into the Story World, Rikudo created his Original Story, naming it simply: [Owl]. He began as a C Ranker, a rare starting point granted to those whose strength and experience in their home Fragments already defied the norm.

From that moment onward, Rikudo's legend began to soar — silent, merciless, and lonely.

🎭 The Crimson Stage: Birth of the Shadow:

In his early wanderings, [Owl] found a strange sense of belonging in the Crimson Stage 🎪 — one of the 13 Great Territories of the Story World.

It was a realm of laughter and blood, ruled by the mysterious Laughing Court, a cabal of masked jesters who treated life and death as games. There, Rikudo roamed the endless carnivals and floating tents, drawn to the chaotic mirth that clashed against his solemn nature.

He became a regular at the Grand Gourmet Restaurant 🍽️ run by the culinary syndicate Thousand Tastes 🍰, a group said to serve dishes made from living Stories themselves. Even the most eccentric chefs there feared him, but respected his quiet demeanor and impeccable taste.

However, peace could not hold in a place built on performance. One night, a confrontation with a member of the Laughing Court turned fatal — [Owl] killed one of their masked elites.

The laughter of the Crimson Stage turned against him. Hunted by assassins and jesters alike, he barely escaped with his life — still only an SS Ranker at the time. From then on, the Laughing Court placed him on their Eternal Blacklist.

🗺️ The Wanderer Across the 13 Great Territories:

Rikudo's flight from the Crimson Stage led him through all 13 Great Territories — a feat few can claim to have achieved in their lifetimes.

He traversed the white marble cities of the Silver Empire, the industrial wastelands of the Iron Expanse, and the ever-twisting jungles of the Beast Kingdom.

Everywhere he went, he learned — fought — and disappeared again. But in time, his travels brought him to the Black District 🕳️, the deepest and most lawless of the 13, where he finally stopped wandering.

⚫ The Fifth Floor and the CEM Hunters:

The fifth floor of the Black District is infamous — a maze of shadows, syndicates, and powers too dangerous to dwell on the surface. It is ruled by the faction known as the CEM Hunters, specialists in tracking and erasing anomalous beings.

It is here that Rikudo found his place among them — because he had uncovered one of the greatest secrets of the Story World: the existence of an Endborn 🧧.

The Endborns 👹 are whispered beings of pure conclusion — entities rumored to embody the final collapse of all existence, the silence after the last Story ends. Most dismiss them as myth, yet those who've seen their traces are never the same.

Through [Owl]'s discoveries and first-hand encounters, a new Endborn 🩸 was identified — though its name and nature remain classified.

⚠️ For further details, see entry: "[Nightmare Palace]" — Available for 400 Billion 🟢 Green Cores.

⚔️ His Enemies and the Weight of Survival:

Much like his friend and fellow Z Ranker [Last Note of Black] (Renzo), Rikudo has accumulated an impressive — and deadly — list of enemies:

The Laughing Court 🎭 — for the killing of one of their own.

The Shadow Circle 🕷️ — an assassination faction whose contracts he's disrupted.

[Silent Blade] ⚔️ — a rival Z Ranker who lost an arm to Rikudo and swore revenge, now part of the Seven Wounds.

[Duke of Fire] 🔥 — one of the Thirteen Dukes under the [Last Emperor], who lost his son to [Owl] during a duel gone too far. The Duke challenged [Owl] afterwards. Though Rikudo won, he spared the Duke — a mercy that did not go unnoticed.

The Seven Wounds 💉 — who list him as hostile due to his growing association with [Last Note of Black]. As well as because of his fight with [Silent Blade].

Despite being within the Top 30 Z Rankers, Rikudo's conflicts have even reached as high as the [Last Emperor] himself — one of the ten strongest Z Rankers alive, and by extension the Council of Eight. Yet no moves have been made against [Owl] directly.

🌙 Closing Words:

"Another famous Z Ranker, proving that like just all the others, he's worth watching and reading about." — [Black Mask].

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