To Garro - why am i in romania? Dude i visited the place where motha foka vlad tepes was born. And ya kniw what i did there? I ate a fucking cheescake.

-"Oy! Miss Miria! Could i know where are you heading t..."

-"replacing equipment. Mission preparation."

The voice of girl was completely neutral. Oh, she was not having problems with emotions. It was just her way of talking.

-"would you mind, if before your mission i would invite you for a meal..."

-"reject"

-"you are the shy one, are you? Come on, just one meal! I will not bite you... well, usually i do not bite..."

The grey hair girl stopped and looked at Daralon.

-"Dark mage. Away. Go."

-"Is that your only problem with me? Actually i was but a regullar mage, i devoted my life to eradicate curses. I was a priest, you know? But i found most eficient way to deal with curses! Those have very specific build, and wipeing them out with light or holy magic was tiresome... and could destroy the body of men who was being treated... but if you would replace curse with another..." Daralon eyes were shining as he was talking about his research. "You would empower one already existing, yet you would be able to shatter it right away! It would become your creation! You would know its weak spots!!!"

-"Daralon. The curse speaker. You are crazy. Corrupted"

-"they didn`y mind my activity till everything was working!!! But then that arrogant brat came! He had a powerful curse on him! You know why? Curses are not that easy to find! He, my dear lady, raped a priest and burned her temple. It was far away and kid was from nobility, so no one would mind. But i got iritated. He was not bothered by raped girl that he killed... i made... mistake. I made curse powerful... violent... i watched the kid before me as he was... melting? Dunno, but as i watched him being punished... for what he did... and knowing that i had my part in it... it was soooo goooood."

The little magician had shiver running down her spine. She was told to not iritate this men. Even if he willingly took a resticting contract on himself... who would be better in finding a way around than someone who creat that spell?

Daralon, the third most powerful human curently living.

-"mission. Must go. Farewell." She polietly bowed her head and entered warehouse.

-"eh, friendzoned one more time... wait she didn`t even want to be friend... colegue-in-job-zoned? Life sucks."

The little magician shut the door behind her. The passion in his eyes as he was talking about dark arts. The dark arts are as powerful and violent as... corrupting.

The more power you have the more you desire. The more you abuse it. But how priest was able to became a dark mage? How could he change his affinity?

Better not dig in there. Knowledge may be dangerous.

She began to collect the necesary equipment.

The archmage - boss of inner cycle of council, as he was literally covered in all documents needed to be read, was bringing his secretaries to the verge of falling down from exhaustion.

He was lacking workers... no, not the office workers but the agents. The dark mages around the council were becoming more and more active.

The problem with dark mages? They almost had no problem with those who just sit in towers or dungeons in the middle of nowhere.

The problems were maid by... "practicing one". What is wrong if necromancer wants to raise entire graveyard? There is none, but if necromancer can`t control completely these... and if the graveyard was close to the village? Exactly.

And there are cases like Daralons. Sick of love. Yes, love. He became a prist to cure the one he loved. She died. Then he kept healing everyone for half-free. Begars... homeless and so on.

And then he found injustice in this world. Bandits.... nobility abusing their privilages... and then he foud a curses. And codex. The codex found his desires and replaced his affinity. In that moment Daralon became obssesed with codex, dark magic and punishing those he found evill.

All because of love. The love is dangerous. More than every known magic. With love you can find a courage. And courage will lead to action.

And the archmage is sitting here beging for agents. Another report about blood mage that has wiped out half of the village. Necromancers summoning ghouls left and right and dark druids in order to protect the forest made trees walking. Walking and eating humans.

What a sick century! 200 years ago if the wild dark mage would appear it was the event so rare that every single magic organization would panic. The last one was Darion during The War. Then for almost 150 years there was peace and now there is more of them than mushrooms after raining week.

This is why the council decided to estabilish the inner circle - the mages with extremal peivilages. They would be taken to most inns for free (council would pay for it), these infividuals would be treated as high born nobility - in special ocasion they would even be able to demand private audience with kings or to call councill meeting... and they are able to kill whoever they wish too...

Yup, just like that. Of course thet would have some problems, if they would simply start rampage, but as long as someone "less" important or in small numbers would be killed... the council would both hide those crimes or pay the money to the familly... or eredicate witness.

Why? For the glory of s... ok, ok. These are most powerful mages. Daralon has killed over 800 dark magician in past 6 years over 3 continents. So such small... event... where he killed 4th prince of some small kingdom was... treated very ligh. Actually, he was only told to get his shit together and the royal family was told that they should be glad that only one of them was killed.

Oh, it was not the fault of Daralon. The guy was... well calling him an asshole that was worth of every word of curse would be suficient.

To keep the world in peace. The dark arts are not forbiden. The council is not an organization that stops someones grow. Just restrict free usage of those arts. Just imagine what would happen if some devil would be summoned inside of village.

Register yourself in any guild that has connection with council, state your afinity, gain certificate for using your magic (if you are a dark mage) and try to not kill innocent.

And then you are free to go.

You are not wipeing out villages? Good. You are performing some EXTREMELY dangerous magic? Just do it away from other humans. Dungeos perhaps?

Why so many dark guilds are being estabilished now? Ah, answer is simple. Black market needs. There will be always need for new poisons, drugs, weapons, spells... and those new... "tools" are being used on humans.

How strong new poison is? Lets gathet groups 100 young, old, males and womans and use it on them!

The people are getting more and more greedy. Lust for power is bigger every time you satisfy it.

And fastest way to incrase your magic capability? Blood magic.

There are even rumors about blood magic ritual that would keep you forever young! Bathing in the blood of young virgins.

What kind of beast you have to be to even discover this kind of spell?!

The inner circle is needed. The order of "sentiels" is needed.

And now, this one particular paper in front of the archmage. It was a paper about new possible Sentiel.

Name: Zariel

Family Name: no valid information

Nickname: Not yet applied

Magic class: Witch (fire, summoning)

Race: Divine Chimera (possibility)

Danger rank: SSS+ (possibility)

Priority rank: Z (require action immediatly)

Oh my dear boy, what are we going to do with you?