Disclaimer:I don't own Elword nor would I ever will.
Prologue:
"Hate...Slaughter...Blank Stares...No Emotions..." was the only thought in the world...without anything or anyone important.
My name is unknown, no one knows it and the person who has that name has no memory of being called that for his whole lifetime.
"Kill Or Be Killed" was the motto for this time for it was time of terror and horror with no one knowing each other if they were in the same class as myself, as much as I hated this way of living there was no other way.
"Why do I have to live this life while the nobles with their own classy lifestyles" I kept this thought at the back of my brain, "While we live like heretics and low lives..this is unfair.."
I keep on having flashbacks of the past...seeing the terror and the horrors that happened over the years, with frozen faces...bloody images...empty souls.
"It can't be helped in a world like this where all I do is suffer.." I thought to myself and sighed wondering how my mother and father would respond to me doing all of this today.
"Hey you, get working on your next mission, kiddo!" a raspy voice rang out and I put on my long black hoodie and walked out the door.
"Alpha, ready to move out." was the only thing that my as my way through the dirty streets of the merchants quarters and moved towards my destination which was rapidly looming up in the distance.
"The Dreaded Castle Of Torture, Auschwitz" I muttered with a silent curse as the fortress looks like a haunted castle up close.
And looking all around there were armed guards in crimson red uniforms, marching in rows and they were all carrying sleek black swords strapped to their back.
And concealing myself in a veil, I quickly scaled the walls and made in inside the tall walls without being spotted by the soldiers on the outside.
The inside of the castle was a classically looking Japanese castle but a twist, It gave off a dark aura and there were red and black tiles, giving it a dark, sinister appearance.
"Damn nobles..what are they even thinking?" I shouted in my mind as I heard wails of both women and men alike, old and young and in between.
"They just need to be taught proper respect like everyone else, just because they are nobles doesn't mean that they may just do as they see fit." I cursed and muttered and looking across a deep moat to the castle, I searched for a place to anchor my way over.
And above the third window from the bottom up, I found a perfect spot and throwing my hook over the moat, I slid down the length of the rope and landed right above the window and retracted my hook swiftly from below and waited.
"So how was the feast, gentlemen?" I heard one noble say as he passed right by the window and two other voice could then be heard talking, with one immediately replying, "It was great with all of those dancers, all of that food and all of the lively music and I gripped my fist tightly.
How dare they talk about just the feast and not care about the common people, everyone was starving! and they still didn't care even the slightest about what happened to the others.
But it was the next noble's reply that made me snap, "Lucky for us, those low lives will never understand and will never feel anything close to what we are having right now!"
I swung down in a rage and running down the hallway at the three voices, I plunged my blade into the back of the noble that just spoke, he didn't even finish talking but I didn't care.
He coughed up a stream of crimson colored blood and collapsed with blood pooling under him as he slowly died off blood loss and that was when the two other nobles turned around in a shock with a paled face and were just stuck in place as they couldn't move as I brought down my blade in a flash.
"Die Filithy Nobles!" was the last thing that the other two nobles heard before their heads rolled to the floor and their bodies dropped limp.
Standing there, I added three more nobles to my own killcount so at this point of my life, I have killed 34 nobles in cold blood and all of them died one of two ways, getting backstabbed and dying of blood lose or losing their heads, ending their lives instantly.
"One day I will have my revenge on all of the nobles that killed off my family." I swore as I stood there.
"Every last one of them" I swore but I remembered my mission and ran in the opposite direction towards the cells that held my "partner-in-arms" as the nobles called us but we were no more than people trying to get rid of corruption and tyranny.
"You three better not die on me while I'm out to save you!" I thought as my mind went through a million different scenarios of them being dead but I pushed them out of my mind as I made my way into the lower sections of the castle, directly going for the dungeon cells.
Smashing through the doors to the cells and making my way to the ceel containing my partners and I breathed out in relief as the three of them looked fine and I called out, "Are you three ready to get out of this place?" and they looked up to me in relief.
"Sure" came the response and I smashed the door to the cell and led the three of them out and we were on our way to the door when we were met a fierce looking character with a large wooden staff but looking at it, my eyes went wide.
"That can't be a staff", I gasped and looking at the staff, it turned to a whole tree trunk and not a staff.
Heck it was about the size of him but it was so big that he had to carry it under his arm to get the thing through the door.
"Get him!" I commanded as the four of us charged at him and took out our daggers and started to stab and slice at his skin like he was a wild animal and within minutes he was bloody from head to toe but he didn't even flinch.
"Get out of my way!" I commanded and axe kicked him into the ceiling which made him drop his weapon and gave the rest of us enough time to make it through the doorway without any trouble.
Sprinting through the hallways upwards I suddenly had a gut wrenched feeling as I could hear armored troop's footsteps ahead of us and a loud thumping sound of something enraged behind us, so I commanded group to jump out immediately.
They immediately started to protest but there were no other choice so I fired my hook out of the nearest window and dragged the three others out of there and just as I did...I froze in place.
I heard a voice inside my head say, "You aren't going anywhere..." and looking down at the moat below there was a girl standing there with a sweet smile on her fac
She looked odd as she was just there on the water, not like anyone else...like she stood out like a lightbulb shining the words, "I AM HERE" in bright letters.
I thought it all to be an illusion and I cloed my eyes and shoke my head yet she was still there!
But when I away and then back down, she was gone, vanished into the thin air almost like a ghost, I was creeped out but pushed that thought away as I made it to the other side of the moat.
Dumping the three people who clung on to me, I questioned, "Did any of you three see the person on the moat?" and I was met with three very confused faces, so I dropped the matter.
"Okay, let's move on back to base" I commanded and the others followed suit and the four of doned our hoodies and and sprinted into the fastly approaching morning.
Half way on our way to HQ, we met a squad of imperial guardsmen on patrol and sprint up to nearest one, I pulled out my dagger and charging it with electricity, I stabbed through one and planted my foot on another, knocking one guy out and killing the other.
Looking over to my partners, they made short work of the other 3 guardsmen and the last guard was shaken from head to toe and shakingly asked, "Who are y-" but he didn't finish the question as my dagger found it's way into his gut.
"Who I am is of no importance" I whispered in his ear, "Sorry for your own little life.." I trailed off to let it sink in and retracted my blade and left him pooling in his own blood.
I turned around and sprinted away, just to hear the girl again, "Again you take the life of one who's life doesn't mean to be taken.." the voice sternly spoke.
"Who are you to care enough about it?" I demanded mentally and the voice disappeared, and I resumed movement as usual.
And after about a half hour later, the group with me arrived at the headquarters and were successful getting intel but one piece of information was missing, the location of the crystal that was needed to cleanse this land of all evil.
Handing in the report, I wrote to my boss, he looked at me with a weird expression at first, then he broke down laughing after he saw my face.
"I am proud of this report already, my child!" the praise sounded genuine, and he waved me over and tossed me a bag of something heavy.
Chuckling, all he said before he dismissed me was, "Good luck on become a lame haute!" he said and I walked away with a feeling of accomplishment after so long.
"I will be going then, goodluck Boss" I bowed curtly and walked outside the door and walked outside.
It was getting dark outside and I teleported away from in front of the door to the door to my home.
Not bothering to lock since I lived outide the city in a small fishing village, I didn't have to worry about enemies.
"Let's see here..." I sat down in my own room and opened the bag that my Boss gave me and what was inside shocked the living daylights out of me.
"Hey kid, I don't know our name or who you really are but I think you are a real kid with talent not to kill as my pawn like you'd , real power comes from trying to accomplish feats no one has ever done, and just uding this, I can and have already tell that you will be a real hero one though you are just a kid, I can tell you that life is long and hard..."
Stains of blood covered the letter at this piont but the writing continues, "By the time you would read the letter, I should be on my way to my grave. I'm sorry to make you committ all of thes acts, but...in order for you to grow, you must realize that you have the power to protect you..."
The stains make everything hard to read at this point but what could be made out was, "But the real deal is...For you to have power to protect others who can't protect themselves...I have the remainder of my money here...Take Care"
The rest of the things were too stained to read and setting the letter down and opening the drawstring of the bag, I reached in for what I thought to be a normal bag but I was VERY wrong.
Reaching my whole arm into the bag I pulled out a handful of gold coins and looking into the bag, it look like it was the size of the interior of a large dojo or larger.
And it filled to the brim with gold, there was at least several lifetime worths of gold in that single bag alone.
"Why this would happen..." I trailed off in thought, as I was deep in thought however a loud crack downstairs signalled something else as ther was suddenly a loud explosion that knocked me off my feet.
"The hell?" I was shocked and getting back on my feet, there have no chance that the imperial men have found me here.
"No way, it must be something else" I told myself and readying my dagger, I put my hand on my katana.
Walking down the stairs, I was met with a sick sight, there were dead bodies everywhere.
Like the people were just rounded up and killed extremely brutally as there were torsos, heads, and other limbs, not to mention the blood that was everywhere, painting the ground red.
"Who would do this?" there was the question that floated around in my head, there was no way it was the troops of the imperial army as they were way too far to be here.
My answer was a dark-blue skinned demon that stood at the height of a two or three story building and it had fur around its neck with a muscular build.
"Okay demon, why are you here?" I demanded as I raised my katana which glinted in the moonlight.
There was no response but all that I felt was a slow increase of gravity and I swore that I felt my lungs were about to burst.
It felt like I went from light as a feather to as heavy as concrete, my legs refused to move like normal.
"Quaker Buster!" a man dressed in a dress shirt and dark purple armor said before shoving me aside, "Don't get in the way, a**hole!" he commanded as he knocked me aside and barely dodged a punch that the blue skinned demon threw.
"Quicksilver Striker!" the man yelled and smashed into the monster using a magnetic field then lifted the demon in the air and repeatedly smashed the demon withg punchs, kicks and electricity until it was was limp and he allowed the fiel to drop, killing the demon.
Shortly afterwards he turned back to be and all I had to say was utter 'thanks' and the man just studied me and then laughed, a ery hysterical but true laugh.
"Kehehehe" the man laughed again, "Don't mention it, just give me a little meal and I will be on my own way" and so I agreed and slowly we walked through the street until we were met with a nearby chocolate store and that's when the man stopped me.
"Stop right here and we can just go here!" and we went in the store just for the guy to grab almost all of the candy and chocolate from the shelves as he can and put it on the counter for the cashier.
I felt bad for the cashier immediately and pulled out five gold coins to which the cashier said to take everything he felt like taking, he was over with his shift and his job.
"Wow" the man said as he piled up on the candy, "This might even last me a few months" he said as he stuffed everything into plastic bags and walked out.
I just sighed and followed up around to where we met up at, he told me, "Hey you" he motioned, "Since you did a good job and allowed me to get all of this" he motioned to his candy and snacks.
"Do you want to join me and my little group on our pathetic quest to find the f**king El Shards?" he asked, staring me down with a dark purple eye.
"Uhhhh sure, why not?" I slowly said and he just gave me a fist bump and said with a wide and warm yet hysterical smile.
"Welcome To The Elgang, I'm pretty sure that I didn't catch you name, kid?" the man coughed, clearing his throat with emphasis.
"Oh I don't really have a name" I said looking down, the man gave me a little squeeze on my shoulder, "Welp, we can figure out when Rena names you a f**king great name"
Opening a portal with 6 little metal devices, I was told to put my hand on his shoulder and all I heard was insane laughter.