Lord Joyde: Heylo, Peeps! How are you all?
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So why the hell is it that I have barely any submissions, baring one which I am currently still planning out since its a bit darker than my other lemons?
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Anyways, here comes chapter 3 of The Euphorian Acumenae! I hope you enjoy, let us being.
Don't mind me guys and girls! I'm just a line break...
A few days after the meeting... – Heller's House – Heller's Point Of View...
"Grrarh!" I grunt out as I release a massive force of Essence right out of my fist, letting it soar throughout my garden and tear the winds apart.
Satisfied with the maximum power I can unleash with a single punch, I turn around smiling towards my beautiful daughter Amaya, who was running towards me with her usual and childlike happy face.
"Daddy! One of your work-friends is here! The white haired one with the weird scar!" She cutely says in a loud voice while pointing to her right eye.
"Ah, I see the young lady has already informed you of my arrival." Allen typical gentlemanly voice echoes from my house. I turn around to see him wearing a Victorian styled outfit that very much matches his voice.
I've heard that voice is something he modified after becoming an Evolved but eh, its none of my business.
"Yo, Allen! What brings you to my humble home?" Ever since I started meditating, I noticed how my way of speaking had changed... Its like I'm one of those Buddhist monks now, at peace with everything.
Somehow, I feel like that is about to change.
With a simple motion of my hand Amaya leaves us, quickly running towards the house and into the hands of her mother and my wife, Collete.
"James darling, should I ready some coffee?" I shrug and look at Allen.
He smiles at her."Ah, no need for that my dear. I will only take a few minutes of your husbands time, as that is all my schedule will allow for I'm afraid." He says apologetically as the two leave us alone and he approaches me.
With a deep sigh, Allen opens a small portal into the so-called Noah's Ark and pulls out a soul... A Noah's soul.
My head snaps right upwards as I realize what is about to happen."Allen, I-" I begin but stop as he closes his eyes... This seems to be very hard for him to do.
He lets out a breath and looks me right in the eyes as he speaks."Look James, this is something that I know you would refuse outright if I gave you the chance but please.. hear me out."
I nod, still somewhat stunned. He nods back and continues."As you may know.. the previous owner of this soul had committed suicide after her lover perished from old age... That combined with the fact that her lover was my best friend... Well you can figure out just how much this means to me."
I nod."The story of Kanda and Skrila, correct?" I say sadly as I notice Allen shrink a bit at the mention of their names.
He continues after a pause."Because my sister committed suicide... the Noah memories within her died too, leaving only the power behind as everything else this soul once possessed passed on into the next world."
He takes in another breath."I wish for you to become the next in line to hold the Power of Noah's... no, Of Mankind's Wrath."
"Wh-what?!" I figured he wanted me to keep the soul safe... not.. this?!
I snap out of my stupor and look at him."But.. wait.. tha-" He stops me before I recover enough to form a proper sentence.
"Listen James.. embracing this soul will not transform you into the Avatar of Wrath.. no, you will become THE Avatar of Wrath. As in, everyone who takes hold of this soul next will become you." He tells me in one breath before stopping, letting this sink in.
If I were to consume the soul of Noah's Wrath.. I would not be devoured by its memories... I would become the Noah within the memories... If someone told me that I would one day be offered this power... I think that I would've beaten them senseless.
"I-I-I... I don't know what to even say man.." I tell him in all honesty. This is basically immortality forever.
"If it will make it any easier for you to take the soul, I approve of this." I hear none other than Zeus himself say this and I nearly laugh.
Allen stops in his tracks and blinks, stupefied by the fact that Zeus is watching this scene.
"So you think I should take the soul, eh? Why?" I ask him in all honesty.
I feel him smirk in my head."Well now, It wouldn't be all right if the only person who ever actually beat me was someone weak." He says quite bluntly.
Oh.. so that was it. Well, I can't say I didn't expect something of the sort. I take in a deep breath as I reopen my eyes, which I don't remember even closing by the way, and gently take the soul out of Allen's unsteady hands.
I crack my neck and smirk."Well.. Bottoms up, I guess."
And before anything else could happen, I embrace the soul of Wrath.
An insane rush of power was the last thing I felt before passing out.
Don't mind me guys and girls! I'm just a line break...
The Following Sunday... - The Next Meeting... - Samathar's Point Of View
I calmly sat onto my chair as this annoying woman called Suzanne Majorie Fielding continued to bash The Acumenae in front of the public eye.
"-he monsters sitting their asses over there in that huge building are nothing more than a bunch of brats who, god forgive me but I have no other way to put this, believe themselves to be worthy of leading humanity simply because they were *chosen", to do so by the sociopath bio-terrorist known as Zeus! We, the people, should be able to chose who leads us! Not be forced to give up our friends and family simply because they say that our loved ones do not have the correct mind-set to be resurrected!" She drops her pointing hand and grins in satisfaction as the low minded baboons cheer for her.
The rest of us here smile at this. You see, one of us is not here right now but about to smash the smirk off that whore's face. Within seconds, a huge blast of gravity swiftly removes the bitch off her stage as the crowd goes silent.
After all, nobody dares speak in the presence of The High Executioner.
Leonardo, with a characteristic sigh, unleashes a viral pulse strong enough to knock out Miss Fielding's hired guards in an instant and imprisons her in a gravity field for all to see. Coming over to the stage and taking over the microphone, he speaks as the crowds attention is now focused onto him.
"You are all idiots." He blankly states without pause and causes all of us here to burst out laughing as the crowd has a collective what the fuck moment.
He just shakes his head in negative."Look, I'm not a fucking politician, nobody among the Acumenae really is, so don't expect us to constantly go around giving speeches full of false promises. Surely you can see that what little miss over there is doing is nothing more than another power-grab." His brutally honest and blunt words make most of the people in the crowd drop their heads down.
One brave man raises his hand."May I ask a question?"
Leonardo nods with another sigh."Yeah, that's kinda why I'm here right now, go ahead. One by one please."
Nods and whispers of agreement echo throughout the crowd as the man begins."Could you at least tell us what you are planning to do in the near future? You say that nobody within The Acumenae is a politician, but you sure are good at hiding your true goals from us, the little people."
A nod from Leonardo."Some things are better left hidden. These are words to live by for any human ruler that has ever lived and will ever live. It has applied to the Politicians that drove our world to run in the past... and it will probably apply, at the very least in some ways, to The Acumenae. That said, the reason we haven't really been shouting out our accomplishments over the past few weeks is because we really don't need the fame. In fact, I'd say that in some cases, myself for example, its simply too much of a bother to go around and explain in detail just what we are doing up there in that tower. I keep hearing how people working for the Acumenae know everything so why not just ask one of them? After all, there is like, four hundred of us, right? Surely, you must know at least one person... That makes me wonder, how come nobody had the idea to start a newspaper company yet? Because like, that would make things so much easier on everybody, wouldn't it?"
He said how he wasn't a politician but he sure danced around that question quite perfectly, didn't he?
The crowds murmur, seemingly content with the answer, most likely trying to think up a way to start the aforementioned company. A young boy, barely the age of thirteen raises his hand midst the chaos.
"Um.. sir? Can you tell us when the next patch for Blaze Heaven is coming?" Blaze Heaven? Oh yeah, Leonardo is the owner of a gaming company, isn't he? Blaze Heaven is an MMORPG that he started making as soon as the first computer was born upon Euphoria. With the help of several VI's, the updates are coming quick.
"It should be done in around two weeks." He answers blinking, clearly happy that someone asked him an unrelated question.
The kid jumps into the air happily and then runs over to his parents. Leonardo sees this and then sighs again, calming himself as he quietens the crowd. Having their full attention once again, he speaks."Look, I know that you are all fairly unhappy with us telling some of you how your family and friends can't be brought back to life... however, this is for a very good reason. Mind analyzing magic is relatively new so many mistakes will be made before we can perfectly make use of it and eventually become able to... for a lack of a better word, *fix* those who can't yet be resurrected."
The bitch had regained consciousness during this speech and spat in Leonardo's face."And who are you to decide that someone's mindset is wrong?! While I do see the benefits of resurrecting only select people, proper men and women of clear mind should be put in that position and not a deranged psychopath like you!"
Leonardo wipes the spit of his cheek."How childish." He simply states as he approaches her, looking her directly into her eyes."Yeah, I'm a god-damned psychopath. I'm also someone who saw the reasoning behind Zeus's destruction of Humanity, unlike yourself. However, If it were me in his role, we would have never been granted a second chance. Not after destroying our own fucking sun."
He straightens his posture, still eyeing her with a glare."Still, we must thank you for the trouble you have given us up till now, Miss Fielding. You have ensured that your kind of persona will never be allowed to be resurrected."
His eyes grow yellow from power as his essence flares immensely."You see, there is a reason Zeus chose each one of us within The Acumenae and none of the leaders of the previous world. All of us are bound by one goal only, the rabid advance of mankind. I find this immensely funny considering that there is absolutely not a single Politician within our midst. We, as the leaders of humanity, have decided that the People called politicians, thanks to your blatant aggression towards our rule, will never even get the chance to be resurrected."
He drops her from his force field, allowing her to free-fall to the ground with a thud. Then he turns towards the crowd."Instead, we have decided that the current mindsets of The Acumenae are exactly those which should stay in the ruling positions. The mages, the scientists, the psions, the masters of essence, the spiritualists... these are the kinds of people that Mankind needs in order to survive and grow beyond the fragile idiocy of our past."
He then turns back to face her, as the crowds cheer to his words."And if one of us is to be eventually replaced, weather by retiring from our job or by dying, it will be one of those types of people that step in that position, chosen by the people of Euphoria from several candidates which fit the criteria, regardless of their social standing and capability, for those are meaningless in the face of Genius."
He then grabs her by the throat as he lifts her in the air, she gasps for breath as the crowds continue to cheer, blood-lust growing in the air."And you know what girl? Your kind, the politicians, are no longer considered a part of the Equation known as mankind."
He turns towards the crowds once more as he hold her high in the air."So then, what say you, people of Euphoria? Shall I show you how to deal with a politician? Or would you prefer to do so on your own?"
Everyone here smiles wickedly, even Dana, as we realize just how easily Leonardo managed to play the crowds old hatreds against their former leaders."GIVE HER HERE!" They scream and with an evil smirk of his own, he throws the woman to the heart of the crowd and we all watch as the hate-bound men and women tear our enemy apart.
With a silent clap to himself, Leonardo leaves the scene almost invisibly, not even wincing as a thread connecting Suzanne to the Mind link finally... snaps.
Don't mind me guys and girls! I'm just a line break...
Lord Joyde: Yeah. I hate Politicians. Thing is, I kinda qualify for one myself.
Oh well, you know what they say. The People who you hate the most are usually those who are just the same as you!
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