Chapter 3

Life Stories, learning about the world plus Traveling

-------------------------------------------Akino’s POV.--------------------------------------------

For 2 months I have traveled with the man called Arthas and I have to say he is a weird person. Now you may be asking why? Well let me tell you about this man ahem, he likes to wear a friendly smile as he kills people and when I asked him why he said this “I just don’t what them to think of me as a bad person”. Really you killing them kind of defeats the purpose of that. When I asked if he could stop he said he’d wear a mask he found some time back… it was a fucking smiling skeleton mask. Next is he keeps eating soul cores which means we have to watch out for more grims, plus he keeps staring at my ass when we travel like I don’t know and he seems to know nothing of purgatory and how it works.

“Ah man I’m bored” Arthas said, with a sigh as we were sitting next to a campfire of firestones.

“I can’t help you Arthas” I replied, taking out a vial of stored blood out of my void pouch to drink.

“No I feel you can help me with my boredom to be honest I feel it will help both of our boredoms”- Arthas grins and leans closer to me.

“wh- what are you getting at” I asked, taking a gulp of the blood filled vial.

“We could just fuck” he said, in a way that almost sounded sexy.

“‘PFT’! What are you ‘cough’ ‘cough’ talking about Arthas! ‘Cough’” I yelled, choking on the blood I just spit out and leaned away from him.

“What sex is a good way to pass the time; plus you’re a beautiful woman and I’m a handsome man it works out well” he said, believing every word said.

“First off you give yourself way too much credit; second off my sect doesn’t let us have… sex…” I slowed down at the end, remembering that I’m dead and no longer part of a sect.

“Hehe wait. No. you’re a VIRGIN! HAHAHAHAHA!” he yells, bursting into a bellowing laugh “how old are you oh my god! A cold hearted killer of purgatory is a virgin that’s too rich!” he shouts out making my cheeks heat up “But what’s with the whole sect thing?” he asks.

“What how have you never heard of a sect before wait which of the 3 worlds did you come from if you don’t mind?” I asked him.

“3 worlds, I came from the planet earth”

“Wait earth? Wait don’t tell me, you’re from a minor world are you?” I asked him further

“What’s a minor world and how can I tell if I came from one?” he asks back.

“Did your world have any magic?”

“Nope” he gives a quick straight answer

‘Well that answers some of my questions and makes more, like how is he so good at fighting and using the rune on his dagger’ I thought.

“So. You don’t know anything about minor worlds and major worlds and magic?” I asked to make sure.

“No. But I have an idea of how magic works but go ahead and explain the worlds part to me, we do have a lot of time on our hands” he said, pulling out his dagger and some runes and fiddling with them.

“Well ok pay attention I’m not repeating myself” I said, as I moved closer to him, then clearing my throat I started “there are 3 major worlds and trillions of minor worlds, how they were made isn’t known but most likely the two sovereigns the lord of life and the Dark mistress had something to do with it.” I said, excitement evident in my tone “The two control life and death, the Dark Mistress is the ruler of death and has control of purgatory plus she’s the judge that chooses were your soul will head to. As for the lord of life you can tell what he is in charge of and controls the reincarnation of souls sent to his life realm; aka the gateway with the golden light.” After taking a small breath I continue “he is also the head of the divine council of the 7 gods. The gods on the council each control an element, except for the darkness element as that god was killed; they called him the evil god.” I paused and asked him “are you keeping up with me”

“Yes just go back to talking about the major worlds, like what are they called?” he asked me, still not looking away from the dagger and runes he’s playing with.

“Oh. Ok sorry got off topic a bit” I said, rubbing the back of my head “so there are 3 major worlds and they are called world Shi Xin, World Denma and the last world that I came from World Asura. I don’t know much about Shi Xin other than it is full of magical beings like Elves, Fairies, Dragons, Titans and the powerful Sheng.”

Remembering about the next world puts a grin on my face as I start to talk faster. “World Denma is the home of the Demons and is full of creatures such as Succubus, Minotaur’s, Fiend Gods, the feared Fallen Angels and more but I’ll keep the list short.” I take pause and look to see if Arthas is still listening then continued “from what I know of the Demons and Succubus race they have a close relationship due to the Demon lord Dracul Nazar Satan’s First wife being queen of the Succubus race Lilith Siren and then there are the fiend gods…” I was cut off by Arthas before I could say anymore.

“Ok that’s fine for now let’s take a rest and get some sleep” he turned and lied down to sleep so I followed and did the same.

-----------------------------------------------Arthas POV.------------------------------------------------

‘Dam I think that girls going to talk my head off if I let her. Well at least I won’t be bored for a while’ I thought trying to remember everything she had just said. ‘But I wouldn’t mind meeting that succubus race’ the last thought made me grin.

The Next few days of travel were filled with her telling me about the major world of Denma. All about fiend gods, fallen angels and that jazz and when I asked her why she knew so much about that world she said that she learned about the gods and worlds from her old group she travelled with. Finally after talking my head off for about a week about Denma, we finally got to talk about her major world; World Asura and she said it breaks down into three continents. The Yun continent, Key continent and Johun continent; beings living on this planet are humans, dwarves, beastmen and other creatures. She also went on and on more about this world but I’ll break it down, humans rule most of the planet there are dragons, Elves and other creatures from other planets for some reason, demons sneak on to the planet and cause trouble and there is a race that lives in the ocean called the Naga but keep to themselves most of the time.

Then she talked about magic elements and how some can mix and some can’t but I don’t know I’m thinking of seeing if I can change that call me mad if you will. But before I could test my theory Akino asked me a question I didn’t want to hear “so tell me about your life Arthas” dear god where do I start but hey we have the time right.

“Ahem” I clear my throat as we traveled “well let’s start at when I was five and a crime syndicate picked me up and trained me in cruel training around the world, it was hard but the girls had it even worse. Some of boys had it bad if you looked cute or handsome; that was because the old female leader of the camp had a thing for little boys. So you can guess I was one of the unlucky ones that had to please that pedo hag of a woman and to make it better if you couldn’t please her she’d kill you. Out of the 15 boys she started with, only 2 made it out alive after her 8 years of abuse” I looked at Akino only to see that look that someone gives you when you’ve told them something hard to hear and are very unsure what to say but I continued anyways.

“When she was done with me I was about 13 but then I was given a special task of learning how to seduce and pleasure women due to me surviving her for 8 years, they thought I would be good at it.” Looking at her I grinned “Not to brag or anything but I was pretty dam good at it. The other half of my life when I was not being abused by that woman was spent training martial arts and all sorts of stuff.” I turned my head looking were I was walking “Anyways at the age of 14 I found a girl I thought I loved, but that only didn’t last because when I was 16 she was killed in front of me at our graduation party by the one person I thought to be my friend aka the other boy that survived that woman’s abuse but I killed him and the other kids becoming a new top class assassin. Oh my hobbies included reading and working my second job as gigolo for pretty rich women and I think that’s most of it.” As I look around I see we are at a good place to set up our camp.

After setting up camp, I looked over at Akino she was looking into the campfire in a daze ever since we set up camp that’s all she’s done. After waiting for her to say something I decided to break the silence.

“So did I say too much?”

“No” she replied softly.

“Well tell me your story” I said

She turned her head and our eyes meet, I smiled at her and she just sighed a bit.

“Mines not as bad as yours” she said, with a small smile in fact the first one I’ve seen her have and that is a small smile that has a way of calming your very soul.

“I was born into the shadow sect an all-female sect; I never knew my parents and I was raised and trained as an assassin,” she said, as she laid down on her back “I was trained to never show our emotions and never allowed a lover. But they had a reason for not letting us have a lover that’s because the shadow magic we trained would leave our body when we made love so it wasn’t really a big deal. When I was 26 my sect was attacked and I was killed but I had managed to save all the innocent children in the sect and so that’s how I ended up in purgatory” she looked into my eyes again and said “see it’s not as sad as your story”.

I could only laugh to myself, ‘sad’ is what they call it. I never really saw it that way but that’s most likely because I’m not mentally straight in the head hehe. But that life is over, I have a second try and I’m not letting it slip by. Then a thought popped up in my head and I looked over at Akino and said.

“You know I have a way to cheer us both up”

“And what’s that” she asked curiously

“Well sex has a way of making you forget everything” I said, in a cheerful tone with a big smile, thumbs up and a wink. But all I got was a punch to the face and Akino mumbling something about trying to be ‘nice’. ‘dam it I haven’t gotten action in ten or eleven years this is killing me… wait if I remember right we aren’t really here with body’s but souls… can you have sex as a soul’ the thought blew my mind as it was the first time I thought of it that way.

“AKINO!” I yelled then continued to shout “Can we even fuck as souls!?”

“….” At first she looked at me like I was an idiot then said “I don’t really know to be honest with you” as she blushed a little having had to think of it.

‘Fuck’ was the only thing that came to mind but with a sigh I pulled out my dagger and the ice and fire rune. Oh you want to know what theory I was thinking of before I was bugged right well I’ll tell you. From what Akino had told me there are 8 magic elements to control fire, water, earth, wind, light, darkness, lighting and spiritual, the runes down here only come in fire, water, earth, wind, lighting and darkness. Akino only learned shadow magic in her life which was a dark element but she said that other than light and spiritual magic she felt close to the other elements.

After hearing this I did some fiddling with the runes and to my surprise the ice and fire rune both felt like they wanted to return to the darkness rune almost as if it was returning home. well it got me thinking at least from what I have heard from my ‘friends’ is that people have tried to mix fire and water together but water was over powered. Then they tried fire and ice (ice being a stronger sub category of the water element) but that also failed as the weapons were destroyed due to there being no balance. But what if the darkness element is that balance the pull feeling proved this more and knowledge from my world helped. That is because what is black? It’s the absence of light right? But think of a black hole its compressed matter even light is compressed and what is seen is blackness.

So what if the darkness element is just other 5 elements comprised? I mean easier said than done and you need a strong weapon. Well that’s what I have right, so what do I add first Fire or Ice rune? Well why not try to add both at the same time. So with my plan in place I turn to see an angry Akino and said in a soft gentle voice.

“Akino I know you’re not very happy with me right now, but could you help me with something please?” I added a small smile at the end

I can see that Akino hesitated a couple of times before saying “what do you want?”

Then I put both runes in her hand held up my dagger and told her in an excited tone

“I need you to push both of the runes I gave you and add them to my dagger at the same time”

“ARE YOU CRAZY!” she shouted at me but then yelled some more “no, no you’re not just crazy, you’re fucking mad to try and mix fire and water Arthas!”

But my reply to that was “well what is there to life without a little madness right?”

Well then it’s time for a little madness.