“No no, please have mercy!” A scream ran through the hallway, the students that heard the scream felt their legs becoming weak. Some even were boiling with anger because that monster is doing such things to a human being. But they couldn’t do anything because that monster is not something they can handle on their own.

Inside the room that the screams came from were 3 humans they all looked 20, there were 2 women and 1 man, the man was on the floor screaming and tensing up like he was in immense pain. The two girl’s were screaming but they couldn’t move because they felt like an invisible hand was holding them in place.

In front of these girls was a man in his teenage years, he was wearing a white lab coat and white skull mask on his face. It was Adrius, it has been 2 days since he captured the original Adrius soul and sealed it in a ball. Croft has sent him these 3 humans, they had a soul mark on them so they were like a slave to him, and couldn’t feel anything. But Adrius told Croft to remove the mark because in his research he found out that souls that their original body suffered torture or something very painful from someone then they will have more power than the normal souls because the anger and hatred made it stronger. So if Adrius uses them in his soul refining potion then it will have better effects.

He wanted to use only two of these humans and the third one he had something else in mind for.

He was currently drawing the soul of this poor man in front of him, he could just kill him and take his soul without any spell but he wanted him to feel pain, anger and hatred toward him so his soul will become stronger.

Finally after 5 minutes the man stopped moving and screaming, the girls were still crying because they knew it would happen to them as well.

The girls just saw the man's body stopped moving but Adrius saw something else, when he stopped moving a ball of light came out of his body, it floated to the height of Adrius and when it saw Adrius it started to change color from pure white to black and red. It was the symbol of anger and hatred, Adrius then moved quickly, held it in his hand and then put it inside the ball too, the soul was screaming curse words and killing threats. Adrius then put the ball in a place so it can watch what happens next, so it will make it more angry and thus make it stronger.

After he got rid of the original Adrius’s soul he felt like he had become a worse person then he was in his past life, but then he thought about it and didn’t actually care because what is the purpose of power if you can’t do what you want?

And now he wants to become stronger so what if he killed a million humans, who can judge him? No one weaker than him can, maybe someone stronger than him, but the person stronger than him has probably already understood that in front of power everything is allowed.

Adrius then turned toward the two girls and wanted to choose one of them, he then thought of something and wanted to try it: “ Only one of you will survive, who do you think should die?”

The girl on the right didn’t even hesitate for a second before she pointed at the girl next to her and said: “ Mary you should die, you are a useless bitch and only lived because Father liked you! I’m better than you”

The girl Mary didn’t know what to say after the talk that came from her sisters mouth, they came from the same village all of them, and someday a man wearing a black jacket with a golden raven on the heart area, came to them and took them without any warning. Their Father tried to stop him but he was killed with a mere finger move of the man's finger.

Then they brought them to a man with pitch black eyes with no white in them, he then did something on them and made them like dolls but when the man that was in front of them now, came he asked for them to be humans again. They thought that he will use them as maids and servants but when they entered the room he started to torture their friend Ben immediately. And now he asks them who deserves to die, and the worst thing is her sister thinks that she should die.

‘ Good, Mary has always been a shy child so she won’t dare to answer me’ Thought Mary's sister, she was perfectly fine with sacrificing her sister if it means her life is safe.

Adrius then looked at Mary’s sister and asked: “ You, what is your name?”

Mary’s sister started to shiver but she answered anyways: “ My name’s Rachel my lord”

Adrius then smiled when he heard her name, Rachel thought that she was safe and smiled too, but then Adrius said something that made Rachel scared to the bone: “Hmm Rachel? Goodbye”

Before she could think of anything unbearable pain started throughout her body, it was like someone flaying you alive with a dull knife.

After some time Adrius got her soul also, he did the same thing and sealed it in a ball. Throughout the thing Ben’s soul was watching and it’s color started to become a darker shade.

Adrius didn’t care about them because it was time for him to make the potion, he started by putting some ingredients on the fire and waiting for them to melt and he did all the other steps then he got to the final step. The soul essence of these two, he took out Rachel's soul first and held it above the fire. And started to squeeze it with his hand and at the same time using magic to draw something from it. Rachel was screaming in agony, because this pain was worse than the one she felt earlier because it was damaging her soul not her body. He chose Rachel because she sold her sister to live so she will sell him if it means she has the chance.

After some minutes a drop of liquid dropped from Rachel’s soul, the drop was white and had a magic aura surrounding it. It fell right into the cauldron that Adrius was using for the potion. It was her soul essence, it was everything valuable in her soul concentrated into a drop. Then Rachel’s soul started to become dull and eventually after 30 seconds it disappeared. Rachel was dead, Adrius then looked at Ben’s soul and took it out. Ben’s soul did a good job of resisting but it didn’t have the same power as Adrius because it was a mortal soul and didn’t have any magic power.

So it couldn’t resist for long and Adrius defeated it, he then did the same thing as he did with Rachel’s soul. But this time when the soul essence dropped it was 2 drops not one, it was because Ben’s soul has suffered pain and has built anger and hatred against Adrius and it made the soul stronger.

After the soul essence disappeared Ben’s soul ceased to exist, Adrius then added a little more ingredients. And then he turned to face Mary, who was on the ground sitting silently with a blank look in her eyes. She was still shocked that her sister sold her like that.

Adrius looked at her and then spoke: “ Mary, you might hate me, it is understandable, and I don’t care actually. I actually want you to do something for me and then I will let you go, what do you say? Deal?”

Mary looked up and stared into Adrius’s eyes and said: “ Deal!”

Adrius smiled: “Great, not the first lesson, you don't look at me like that again or I will gouge your eyes out. Understood?” An invincible force pushed Mary to kneel in front of Adrius: “ Yes Master!” Said Mary with submission.

“Good, now go and tell someone to come and take this trash from my room” Said Adrius pointing at the two corpses on the floor, Mary then walked out.

Adrius then walked to the soul refining potion and checked. It was ready!