2 AM Backlund time. East borough.
3 MI9 members walked into the brothel with two police officers. There were bodies scattered everywhere, all with different injuries. Some had their skin burned off or pieces of flesh were missing.
"According to one of the women who worked here, a man in black came in with a rifle and began shooting everyone out of nowhere. No one knew who he was nor why he did this. They told us he carried a black rifle with him which he shot the people with."
MI9 is a special devision of the Loen Kingdom's military. A devision with beyonders. It was Loen's secret service.
One of the officers told the MI9 members. Samuel who was an MI9 agent stepped forward and nodded before pulling out some kind of charm with a spiral on it. The charm grew bright and Samuel closed his eyes. About three minutes later he opened them and sighed before looking towards his colleagues and nodding.
"Please leave, we will take it from here."
This was targeted towards the police officers. The police officers complied and left the scene quickly, leaving the MI9 agents to do their work.
"It was done by a beyonde from the reaper gang. If this continues, the entirety of east borough will be in chaos... a large scale gang war will erupt."
Samuel stood straight and pat his hat. He had brown eyes and some very visible eye bags. Other than his average looks, He was in his mid thirties and had just advanced to sequence 7 Briber two months ago. He's been in MI9 for 4 years now. Originally he used to be a dock worker struggling to keep a roof over his head. He worked tirelessly every day to take care of his one daughter, Mia. His wife had died after gaining a disease from all the pollution. This made Samuel leave east borough and start living in west borough.
At first he started off as an informant, but after coming into contact with the world of mysticism he was invited to join MI9, and with the promise of 4 pounds a week he joined. Now he was making about 7 pounds a week. His daughter could take a carriage to school now and didn't have to walk there every day. They could enjoy nice meals instead of having rye bread almost everyday.
Mia was now a 16 year old and worked a job at a restaurant with Bayam cuisine, making 1-2 pound a week. Samuel didn't just join MI9 for the money, but because he wanted to protect his daughter. And the powers of a beyonder allowed him to do just that.
"The Zmanger gang has ties with the Reaper gang, and if the reaper attacks the east borough tiger then Zmanger will help. But east borough tigers have a hidden cult following them called the pillars of termination. And that cult is looking for the Zmanger gang for some reason."
The pillars of termination were the ones MI9 was after in this case. A secret organisation who believes in the deity named the end. It was a newly formed organisation that has only appeared and the last few months, yet MI9 and the Loen Kingdom placed great importance on this one group. The 7 churches and MI9 were working together in order to figure out where this group is, but they haven't found a single member yet, only whispers. Divination didn't work either no matter how hard they tried.
The pillars of termination apparently believe in the end of the universe, they believe that it will occur in the year 1368... but they also believe they will be saved from the end of all things and leave the universe together with the deity they worship. Rumors even had it that the leader of the cult is a sequence 2...
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Leon was back in Charlotte's office with the ingredients laid out on the table. Simon approached him with a black pot he had just cleaned and laid it on the desk.
"Do you remember my warnings?"
Chance to lose control and turn into a monster... chance to die...
Leon was in deep thought before finally answering: "yes, of course i do."
Charlotte began concocting the potion.
"First, we add the supplementary Ingredients, 100 milliliters of anothers blood, in this case i used Arthurs. Nine nail fragments from Nine Different Individuals, I used the nail fragments from some our members. 1 sapphire and 10 grams of Verbena powder."
Charlotte added all the ingredients into the pot and a green liquid began taking shape. This green liquid began spiraling and black blobs formed inside it.
"Now for the main ingredients, 1 Blood‑Speckled Black Mosquito and 1 core of a candle Devourer"
Charlotte threw in the wax covered sphere that oozed out pus into the pot and then released the Mosquito into the pot.
Am I... not gonna die from this?
Leon started having second thoughts as he stared at the pot which began rippling and releasing a green gas before calming down. Charlotte poured it into a glass bottle and handed it to Leon.
"Try to calm down and relax before drinking it. Hesitation makes the digestion worse. That's very important when advancing"
Leon held the bottle and looked at the liquid inside, it was a deep blue-black color.
Remember, im doing this to head back home.
Leon took a deep breath and brought the potion up to his lips. He tilted it and drank the whole thing quickly. Surprisingly it only had a bitter taste, leon expected it to taste like rotten eggs and a bird that got ran over in the street.
When he finished nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until he began seeing things. The entire room glew a bright white color before settling down, Leon felt his body turn light and his hands more agile... but then his head began hurting. He looked around the room urgently like something was pulling him, his eyes began bleeding and his hands trembled. His senses were going haywire, a stabbing pain was felt on his back. Leon couldn't stand anymore and fell onto his knees while clinging to himself
Charlotte rushed over and crouched down to try and help Leon, but he shook his head. He raised his head and looked out the window where he saw a crow staring straight at him. A sense of dread washed over him when he locked eyes with this crow. But the same time he felt his body calm down and the pain dissipate.
Charlotte brushed away the blood from his eyes as best as she could and then helped him up.
"I did it." Leon said in a exhausted tone. His hands were still trembling of course.
But now he had finally become a sequence 9 Marauder! He was finally a beyonder! Leon sat down and began taking in all his new found powers. First his hands had become agile, precise and flexible. His hands had become dexterous. Another thing was his superior observation, allowing him to sense valuable items within ten meters. It worked more a intuition, it was so powerful headache could sense valuable items in cupboards and drawers.
That wasn't all. His body also became stronger. He gained near inhuman levels of acrobatics. He also gained a talent in coordination and throwing various objects. At last, theft. All these abilities served to help him steal things better.
After he calmed down Charlotte sat infront of him with her hands crossed over her lap. She took a deep breath before she said anything.
"Congratulations, you are now officially a beyonder. Ill help out with the basics of mysticism, ill teach you as much as I know. You have entered a new world after all."
With these powers i can try stealing that cane from that antique store.
Leon already made plans, with these newfound powers a whole new realm of possibilities had opened up to him. Since Leon didn't have a home yet he decided to spend the night in Charlotte's office.
That night his dream was strange.