Noctem

" Is that all you've got? Honestly I've got to say it's a little disappointing, and here I was expecting something different from you, it's disappointing to know that this is all the death god of Syx is capable of." A young pale man spoke with a bored look as he gazed down on the figure under his feet.

Beneath him was a slightly older version of the white haired kid who had brutally massacred his peers in the camp of the forest.

He was badly beaten and barely able to move. His hands trembled slightly as he tried to reach for his dagger which was sprawled somewhere on the floor not too far away from him.

The pale man noticed this then took his leg from the White haired teenager's back and stepped on the hand that was reaching for the dagger.

A pained grimace quickly found its way to the face of the white haired teenager but despite that, he didn't utter a sound.

Leaning closer, the pale man spoke.

" I think I was better back when I was still a newbie at Syx, yeah I was. Lucas, I was just about your age when the manager sent me on a mission to assassinate your parents..."

Lucas looked up at the pale man, a deep scowl was visible on his face and his eyes were burning with rage.

The pale man leaned in a little bit closer and grinned in a vile manner.

" Hehehe.. how does it feel to know the very ones you're working for were responsible for the fall of your household? I guess Marcus never saw it coming, that the bonus prize he got from the president's household would turn out to be a rare gem."

He chuckled.

" Are you angry? Do you feel despair? Being angry but knowing you can do anything has to be one of the most shitty feelings in the world. Kekeke Hahahahahaha hahahahaha!!!!"

Wiping a bit of tears from his face he sighed and his laughter subsided.

" Huu.. well I guess it doesn't matter, you're gonna die anywa... Huh?" He abruptly stopped talking as Lucas forced his legs off his hands.

A palpable bloodlust filled the air surrounding them and the pale man suddenly felt suffocated.

Lucas chuckled softly but his soft chuckles soon turned into a crazed and vile laughter.

" Stephen Walters.. No, I should say, target number twenty seven, I will eviscerate you!!" Lucas spoke with a mad grin and tears streaming from his face.

Stephen met Lucas' grin with a smile of his own.

" That's good, put up a little struggle before you di.."

Before he could complete his words, Lucas had already appeared before him in the blink of an eye, Stephen didn't even have the time to react before his vision turned red.

Squelch!!

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Nox stirred on the floor, slowly opening his eyes to an unfamiliar place. The room he found himself in was white, flawlessly cleaned and its size seemed unending as it stretched far into the distance.

A confused look was visible on his face as he looked around, the last thing he recalled was being stabbed through the chest by the giant stinger of a revolting creature.

' Did I die?' he couldn't help but wonder, hardly anyone except a said few could survive being pierced through the chest.

" My heart was damaged in the process so I doubt that I'm still alive... Dammit, I can't die yet, I have to live, I still have to pay those bastards for what they did to my family!! I don't care what happens to me, even if I have to make a deal with the gods, demons or angels, I don't care! I have to kill those bastards!!!"

A deep sigh sounded from above him, Nox quickly tilted his head to the direction where it came from.

Above Nox was an exact replica of him, well, exact wouldn't be an appropriate word for it. The entity seated above him on the branch of a large tree where nox had no idea how it came about in the white room. The entity had shoulder length silver hair that had black strands along the edges, alabaster skin which was flawless and unblemished and an effeminate face which one could definitely mistake for a girl. It had a soft, tiny plush lip, similar to those of a female but its eyes were pitch black with black tears streaming down its face.

It rested its chin on its hands and gave a mocking look towards Nox.

" What a pathetic sight, but we'll I suppose it's only fitting for a creature as pathetic as yourself."

Nox trembled slightly, every nerve in his body was tingling as his instincts screamed for him to run, to escape far away from the entity in front of him. But the question was where! Where would he run to? In a vast space of endless white, where could he flee to just to escape from the sight of this entity before him.

He gritted his teeth as he muttered the words with contempt.

" D..Damned wraith..."

Nox hated the feeling of being powerless, he clenched his fist tightly and he was filled with an overwhelming urge to hit the mist entity. He had been diligent with his training, although his time with the wizard was short lived he did manage to learn the basics that had been drilled into him by Eren.

The wraith scoffed, it seemed like it was bored but that wasn't the case, it was clearly mocking him.

" Foolish creature, after all your empty promises, after claiming to get revenge for the death of your family you still couldn't, huh? Look at you, on the verge of dying, truly a pathetic death quite fitting for someone as lowly as you." It commented with a haughty smile, its presence becoming more ominous as the seconds grew by.

Nox shuddered a bit, he felt fear, yes.. he was indeed scared of the dreadful entity in front of him using his very own face in communicating to him, there probably were only a few things more annoying than having an enemy using your own face.

Nox was about to retort but the wraith said something cutting Nox off.

" Your parents!! , don't you want to see them again? Since you're dying anyway, how about I take you to them?."