It was the middle of the night but people were still doing their job, guards were patrolling and torturers were torturing, but two people were sitting on top of a tower drinking and watching the purple smoke at the distance, those were the two most important and strong people in the whole building. One was extremely relaxed while the other was a bit nervous, she hadn’t expect her friend from when they were kids to ask her for drink that late at night after all, she had agreed thinking it would be something work related, but had later found out this was a genuine date, she was excited because she liked him but didn’t know what to say and what is more he wasn’t talking as well, and he was the one with experience unlike her so that made it awkward for her. She glanced at the man who was looking at the distance and thought that she really wanted him to speak, they used to be together quite a lot when they were little as they were in similar situations, they were kids from powerful families in their kingdom, famous for their fighting abilities, both of them were talented in fighting which lead to similar treatment, they really liked each others company and even went to the same school, along the way she had started to like him more and more and was now probably in love with him but she couldn’t admit that even if she was sure that the other side knew, cause even if there were a lot of similarities there was a key difference about their families, their views on relationships.

Her house expected her not to have any, as she would be in arranged marriage to someone to increase their family power, that was her family view on the matter, relationships were forbidden not only for her but for all the talented children who would lead the future dynasty as they didn’t want any unexpected occurrences happening, she wasn’t angry either that was just their family rules, it didn’t target her specifically it targeted all the children who would lead the house.

But unlike her family his wasn’t like that in that matter, for them it didn’t matter if the children were in relationship or not, all that matter was strength, it didn’t matter girl or a boy they could go out with whoever they liked as long as that didn’t negatively impact their power, in a sense his family had even harsher training regiment than hers and that was the way for the children to vent out anger, stress etc, usually she knew that her friend had gone out with several girls and had experience in all of the matters unlike her and even if she wasn’t found of that idea that didn’t change her feelings, and now was the time for his experience to show, but let alone taking the initiative he wasn’t even talking which was unusual.

He usually didn’t talk too much but still talked a lot, but now he was quietly staring into the distance and she would usually read his face cause after so many years with him it was given she would be able to, but as she looked a bit clearer at his face she felt something strange, she had never seen the expression he had right now, even after so many years he still showed her something new, she didn’t know what it was but it made her happy, for some reason it made her imagine their future together, after all that was the reason she had purposely chosen to come to this place, to this hell hole.

This place was a prison, the most hellish one in her whole country, it was located in place known as the “Poisonous desert ” at the end of their kingdom and the continent, and the reason for it being the most dangerous one could be told from its name, the desert was huge if someone escaped from this place he would be long since dead before he could find a place with people, he would most certainly die from starvation before that, it took at least two weeks to get here with their fastest vehicle which travelled 305km/h, but even if the long distance of this desert didn’t exist there was something more dangerous, in it was a constantly evolving poison with no antidote which could even go through metal and only a special kind of allow could prevent its penetration, and combining that with the constant winds and tornadoes and no living being would want to even step here, for some reason the place the prison was placed was safe, but it didn’t made her any less comfortable being here cause if extremely strong wind blew here even if there was a wall made from the special allow, as the poison was constantly evolving it couldn’t be said they would be 100 procent safe, but she had still chosen to come here just cause her childhood friend Orlo, no now it was Pluto had been iron bent on coming here, she didn’t know the reason but he had said that he would become the Lord of this place ever since he was little, and it wasn’t like there werent other place she or he could work, both of them were the strongest people of their prestigious families, if anything there wasn’t a shortage of places that wanted them, but to be honest working in this place even as a guard would bring you fame, the pay was huge and as they protected and executed people who everybody hated it was normal to be well known and respected, whats more only the strongest people could work as the Lord and the Lord secretary, of course the Lord had to go through a bit harsher trials to get here, but that didn’t mean that the assistant ones were easy, but most people said its worth it, their families thought the same as well, that’s why hers didn’t mind her working here, but in her opinion it was not worth it, there was poison, no people for miles except those that work here, almost no fun places, and the worst of all, even they would die from the poison and all it need for that to happen was to be unlucky, but as she thought of that she remembered of a promise her father made her and decided that it was time for her to talk, it didn’t look like her partner would and she knew now was a good time to bring “that” up.

Clare “Pluto you know that no matter how much you stare at the fog it wont disappear right”

Pluto ”Well, yea, it was there even before we were born so I doubt that it would suddenly disappear but you never know ” he said with a charming smile

Clare wanted to slap herself, she wondered if that sentence was the best she could come up with, but still got a bit angry cause she knew, he knew that she was embarrassed cause, he knew her as well as she knew him, their time was spend together and she knew, he paid her attention that’s why it was difficult for her to suddenly start speaking when he himself wasn’t doing it, so she decided to get straight to the point, that was her usual character, her family thought her how to fight and use people and those skills were currently useless, so as Pluto usually said, “shooting straight is the best”, there was no need for deception between them.

Clare looked at the purple poison in the not so long distance, took a deep breath and started talking again.

Clare ”you know I want to ask you something, have you decided who to marry ”

Pluto “No, I still havent”

Clare “well you know I talked with my father a…”

Before she could finish a strange tremor resounded in the distance somewhere in the poisonous cloud, making them both stand and turn to look, but nothing was there

Clare{For fucking real, did something just had to happen now, do the gods hate me or something}. She really had to say something no matter what, but as she turned, she felt something, as she looked down she saw blood dripping from wound in her stomach and a hand inside, as she followed the hand she couldn’t believe her eyes, it was Pluto, the man she loved had suddenly stabbed her with his hand, she was dumbfounded, she knew she was about to faint and looked at his face, he was smiling but she could see the sadness in that smile so she decided to ask, she knew she wouldn’t be able to hear the answer the but she still had to ask.

Clare ”W.,why”

As she finished the question she fell on the ground, in a pool of her own blood.

Pluto who saw this, felt anguish but he had a job to do so he bit his lips to the point of bleeding and started walking.

Pluto {did I really do the right thing}.

He materialized a hammer which looked like it would split the earth in two and started walking towards a place, which he since long ago knew, would have to go to, as he was stepping down the stairs from the building top , his aura was raging, thirsting for blood, ready to kill everyone in his path who would want to stop him, and since he was in a pretty bad mood right now, he really hoped that the guards would start traying to stop him now, as he needed something to vent his anger from the events taken place just now.

Actually he wasn’t a genius like Clara, if anything he was weak, the reason he was so strong is cause he wasn’t from this world, long ago he had lived and then died in an accident, at the time he had thought he would never wake up again but to his surprise he had opened his eyes in a white room and whats more amazing, he had met a god.

He was now in front of the prison gates and told the guards to open, but as they couldn’t do that without an outside authorization they refused, he swung the war-hammer and dropped its head on the prison gates, making them shatter like they were made of glass, as the guards saw this they were split in two groups, one was wondering what happened while the other was charging at him with their weapons, there was only one rule in case the gate was broken and that wasn’t done with the direct permission of the king, which they all would know someone had received, kill the one who broke them. Pluto saw that and welcomed them with dark smile.

The God he had met was made of rocks and dirt, at first he thought it was someone who would guide him to the netherworld but after he heard what the god had to say he knew that wasn’t the case. This was a god from another world, and he made him a deal, or how he called it a pact, the pact was quite easy to understand, the god would give him a new life and a new future, in exchange he had to do a few things for the god.

Blood was flying everywhere, people would be screaming if they were lucky enough to be alive after getting crushed by the heavy Warhammer that they couldn’t resist, at first only few guards had attacked but as the others saw that their comrades were killed ruthlessly, they decided to attack as well, at first they didn’t know why their lord had broken the prison gates and were confused but now that this place was changing its color into mix between red and purple, thanks to the blood and the insides of the guards, they needed to attack, their lord was the strongest person in charge so they didn’t know why he had started killing them but now what happened, happened, they needed to kill him for sure, the prison had rules and he had broken two of the three most important ones, don’t break the prison and don’t kill the guards, in case of breaking even one it was the dead penalty, no matter the reason. They knew they werent his opponents so they needed the secretary, the second strongest person here, but they didn’t know why she wasn’t coming when all that massacre was taking place, they could only hope that she hasn’t betrayed them as well and would be here soon cause if they combined their force they had a chance but if they didn’t, nobody here could stop him.

The god wanted to exterminate the humans, most of the humans in this world, Pluto didn’t know how they had managed to make the god so angry to make him death set on killing them but he pitied them. It might have looked like he would take his time to think about the deal but that didn’t happen, he agreed immediately, he didn’t know it while he was alive but he really wanted to live, and he didn’t know what would happen if he didn’t take the deal but he didn’t think it would be anything better than what the god offered. After he agreed the god had given him weapons explained what he needed to do and told him to close his eyes, when he had woken up he was born in his current body Orlo, or after becoming the Lord here, Pluto.

Hundreds of guards were dead, their bodies looked like broken pieces of a puzzle nobody could recognize the original form of, somebody had decided to run and he didn’t chase them, his purpose was the same from the moment he made the pact.

After he reincarnated as a baby his life was hard, he had reincarnated as a child in a famous family which recognized only strength, for them the weak were nothing more than bugs there for their amusement, it was true that most families treasured power and took it to the extreme but his took it one step further, they let their children freely kill each other, he had almost died several times, at the beginning he had thought that he would have huge advantage but that was a mistake, his first life was in save environment so he had barely fought during his whole life, but he couldn’t say that it was all bad as well cause even if the memories didn’t help him much just the fact that he was an adult in mind gave him huge advantage, even if he was weak then he still managed to become as strong as he was now, and also thanks to that family he had met Clara, his first friend and his first love in this world, at first he didn’t like her but as time went on his dislike turned into indifference and his indifference turned into like and then friendship, and then finally love, he knew that she liked him as well but he couldn’t do anything.

He had his purpose and he needed to fulfil it, even his family in this world knew that love was a doubled edge sword to the point of making a rule thaught to everyone, which in his opinion was a bit cringy but it goes as follow “Love is needed when its strength and unneeded when its weakens”, that was why their family let them have relationships as long as they didn’t last, that was the training method for their emotions, they would wait for the children to find someone they like and threaten to kill them if they don’t do almost impossible thing, but even if the child managed to do it they would still kill their loved one to show them that emotions clouded the judgment and made them unable to see, that there was no right choice in the first place, but even if that wasn’t the case he still wouldn’t have been able to be with her cause she made him doubt his real mission, that’s why he didn’t want her to come to this prison in the first place.

That’s why even when he liked her, he still used girls to make Clara not like him, and made her dislike this place since she was young, but at the end she still followed him, and when he had received the news from his family he really wondered if it wasn’t better to just let go of the pact, Clara had come to this prison on the condition that they marry, her father had agreed as well. That’s why he almost cried when he had done that to her, even when he had little to no emotions left and didn’t treasure human life at all, he really loved her and for someone who had barely any emotions thanks to the environment he grew in that was something that mey never happen again, that’s why even if he knew he needed to do it, he still doubted about doing it until the end.

As he walked into the poisonous smoke an wood brown light started flowing from him and armor appeared around his body, at first glance it looked like ordinary metal armor except for the color but that was wrong, no ordinary armor could protect him from the poison, as he walked for a little more he reached a strange circle and he immediately knew, this was the place, he took his hammer and swung it down, he destroyed the circle and a huge tremor much bigger than the ones before resounded ,the sealed being was out.

Earth looked at the metal knight before him and smiled brightly, he was free.

Earth [Thank you for your work, but before we continue ]

Earth clicked his fingers and the earth trembled, after a few minutes devilish screams were heard not too far away in the distance, in the prison beings were crawling from beneath the ground and were attacking all people insight, the humans thought that nothing could live here but they were wrong, life would always find a way after all, there were creatures roaming underground who fed on that poison, that had changed their biology and now they could only live here.

However even if they fed on the poison and needed it to live they still couldn’t intake too much so they lived deep underground where the cloud couldn’t reach, and they had extremely small intelligence as well but although it wasn’t much it was still there, which lead them to worship the earth they were in, which was the same as worshipping the god of earth, so he had control over them and now he gave them a single command, painfully kill the humans, and these creatures were strong to the point of proving that only the strong could feed on the poison and nothing weak could survive that experience.

They were biting, tearing, skinning, dismembering and doing everything that seemed to make these creatures they were attacking scream as much as possible, just as their god had told them.

Earth heard the screams and his smile became even thicker, he wanted to hear that sound so much till he was sealed, that he just couldn’t contain his happiness.

Earth [What do you think, these pathetic creature tried to kill me, but cause they couldn’t they sealed me, but now that I am out all they could do is scream like that, at first I thought about opening the earth and shallowing them but that would have been too painless right]

Pluto nodded, but as he looked at the far away prison deep inside for who knows which time he once again wondered if what he did to Clare was the right thing to do after all.

But suddenly as Earth was enjoying the sound, the screams suddenly stopped, he knew the reason so he turned and faced the creature responsible for that.

With a smile on his face he greeted the being in pijamas with a pillow now standing in front of him.

Earth [Hello, long time no see John]

John frowned.