Monsters we were. The people of this world called us Orts. Our masters the MONARCHS didn't even bother to call us by our long forgotten original name. To them we were expendable forces. They were all an all-power force on their own, they didn't even need us. Till now I still think they kept us for their entertainment, pitting us against each other to thin out the weak and for their laughs, we suffered at their hands in their realm. Our food was souls and given how wicked the MONARCHS were we weren't given food to eat. Our kind suffered starvation and began dying, the weak who were hopefully going to get strong died. And then it happened, the masters found another realm, another world, filled with souls. We of our kind didn't take souls for fun, we did it as a necessity, but being starved of souls for decades we were overtaken by our hunger and began devouring everything in sight. The humans, men, women, children we devoured all. When it all dawned on us, everywhere was devoid of life around us and we returned to our masters who simply laughed it off as a game.
"You all did well" they said, "We are to take over this world, you will be split into packs and stationed at different cities we conquer".
That was their plan. To conquer this world obviously for fun.
I was selected as a pack leader and then we laid waste to this world. We didn't show mercy out of fear of the MONARCHS doing us in. We weren't savages but fear of our masters turned us into savages and soon we started hunting souls for fun. Left, right we took the souls of the people of this world.
By taking souls, we became stronger. The more amount of souls you consume the more you evolve in strength. I was evolving at a steady pace consuming more and more souls every day.
The humans were terrified of us and began to take measure against us, but to no avail. We were simply stronger than them all until they started losing more and more numbers and their numbers went down to 2 cities worth of humans.
The first city was a resource filled one. Boasting food, water and mana residue. Not that any of those were useful to us, what attracted our masters there was the space it had. Enough for 5 packs of our kind to merge and dwell.
By now the humans had already started developing techniques against us. Not that they could kill us at this point but it was techniques meant to slow us down.
"You will all go and conquer the city" said the Monarch of Truth and Lies. "I will go with to survey how strong the people of this world are, and we will, we must conquer" he added finally before leaving us.
I decided to address my pack.
[LISTEN, WE MUST MAKE OURSELVES KNOWN. WE FIGHT TO CONQUER] I said clearly overtaken by my lust for souls.
We were at the city; the humans were prepared against us and began to launch attacks in hopes of slowing us down. Sadly, for them, none of the attacks worked and they were soon killed by my kind. My pack especially stood at the frontlines with our aura that induced fear wherever we went, catching the humans was an easy feat. The city was quickly dried of life and hence became a stronghold for my kind.
Commended by the Monarch of Truth and Lies for my packs contribution to this massacre, I was named supreme leader over all packs that were to be stationed at the city. Five packs to be exact and then we were to stay here and guard/protect till further orders came from our masters.
I wasn't the strongest of my kind out there and there were definitely people above me.
I knew the packs left in this city were an experiment to see how far the humans had gotten in terms of strength with the stronger of out kind taken back to guard other strongholds or back to the main stronghold of the monarchs and I didn't care. They left me to die, and I won't be subjected to their harsh treatment again maybe I could find someone that could kill me.
We were stationed here for 10 years and by now my lust, our lost for food-souls-was gone.
We waited for orders and none came. We tried to see if we could sense nearby souls but to no avail. Maybe this world was really devoid of life and there was no final city.
That was what we all thought
At least until that day.
We were all play-fighting and then I, we sensed nearby souls. 9 in number approaching the city. These souls were rich in power, and a sudden urge came upon us. Having not taken food for over a decade was telling on us and then the lust came again.
We quickly found out the route the humans were using to come to us and surrounded it. And then it began.
A burst of powerful light came from the underground hole. Powerful enough that I shook for a second and came back to my senses immediately after.
Maybe these humans were powerful enough to kill me I thought.
I decided to observe them before making my attack. And it was disappointing, even with that powerful attack from earlier they still couldn't kill even one of us.
Maybe they weren't so strong at all and I gave the order for the pack to massacre them.
One-by-One they fell until it remained only 3 of them.
The one who started the attack earlier tried to attack me. but was too weak. His weapon couldn't even damage me and it shattered. But the attack was enough to divert the attention of the pack to him. The more powerful a person, the more nutritious their soul was which meant food. Although he was weaker than us his soul could last us 3-4 years.
The whole pack was stationed at him. The other two ran off but we didn't care since his soul was better than the others. And then it happened.
An explosion powerful enough to hurt us came from him. We didn't expect this magnitude of power in the attack and we were soon enveloped by the explosion and more explosions rang out through the city. The explosions were killing my kind so since I was the strongest, we culminated into one and then only I was remaining. But that did not save me from the explosions and I was soon at the point.
The point was where all beings came from and went to. In other words, death and rebirth.
I saw him. The man who caused our demise, Dan Terry.
"Dan Terry" I called out his name. I received no response. I did it again until finally the third time he responded.
I had heard his plight of wanting to become stronger and I new this was a master worth serving. Maybe I could inhabit in him. Yes, I will inhabit in him
"You are in a state of life and death at the moment. I heard your wish to become strong and I will grant it to you" he said. "You will have the power of the Orts and indeed become stronger. I am the culmination of all the Orts in that city. With me you shall always evolve in power. I want to see what kind of life you can live with this power. The presence of the Orts shall be with you" I said and then I began the possession and soon I was in him.
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