Azrael's fight or flight instinct imdiately kicked in, and at that mont, adrenaline rushed through his body like a river! Azrael pushed Francis back and bucked his hips hard enough to force Francis to get off him! Azrael had just gotten back from the gym, so all his muscles were wound tight! This allowed Azrael to exert a lot more force than normal, and he wasted no ti as he grabbed Francis around the waist and reversed their position so that he was on top!
Slam!
All of this happened in less than a second, and Francis was too stunned by the speed to do anything about it! Azrael raised his hand with a mad shout, and a blow slamd into Francis's nose!
SLAM!
SLAM!
SLAM!
Francis put up his hand to protect his face as Azrael went crazy! Azrael was screaming and shouting like a madman while unleashing blow after blow, and Francis was too stunned by the intensity to push Azrael off him.
Azrael was more than prepared to end Francis right there! This bastard thought the world revolved around him!
"Just because you got an A-rank doesn't an you have the right to attack others, you fucking piece of shit!"
Azrael raised his hand for another blow, but there was a sudden impact to the back of his head!
BAM!
Azrael felt his skull rattle from the impact as his entire body froze in place, and he imdiately lost all the strength in his body as he fell to the side. Behind him, one of Francis's lackeys threw a bloody tal bat away while breathing heavily. A blow that hard would have killed a normal human, but Azrael was a demigod, so he had only suffered a massive cut and a concussion.
Francis scrambled to his feet with a roar and imdiately slamd his feet into Azrael's stomach! He continued to kick Azrael in anger for a few seconds before one of the lackeys pulled him away while screaming that Azrael might be dead. Azrael was no longer fighting back, and they hadn't seen his chest move in a while.
"Let's get out of here! Co on!"
The lackey pulled Francis away, and Francis scowled and only glanced back at Azrael's bleeding body as they all ran out of the alleyway.
...
Contrary to what they thought, Azrael was not dead.
But the intense blow to Azrael's head had left him unconscious for a long ti, and by the ti ten o'clock was passing, Azrael still hadn't woken up. The blood pooling under his head had slowed, and his higher constitution as a demigod allowed the injury to already begin healing slowly even as he lay there, but Azrael was only sixteen years old, and he had just gotten back from working out, so his body was too tired to recover quickly.
"How long are you going to keep waiting, boy?"
Azrael blinked in confusion and opened his eyes. He was standing in the middle of a dark plane. For as far as the eye could see, everything in front of Azrael was covered in a dark veil that he couldn't see through. Azrael looked down and was surprised to see that he was floating in the air. There was a pressure in the air pressing down on Azrael like soone had suddenly dialed up the force of gravity to twice what it should be, but Azrael didn't find it too difficult to stand since he was very fit.
Where the hell am I?
"That isn't important, is it? I decided to et with you, and you should be truly grateful for this honor. It is not often that a mortal is deigned worthy of gazing upon a god."
Azrael quickly turned around when he heard a voice behind him, and his eyes widened as he saw two giant yellow eyes glaring at him from within the darkness. They were high up in the sky, so Azrael could only imagine how large the creature they belonged to was!
Azrael took a few steps back and almost fell back in shock, and the eyes tilted to the side with a hum before the voice from before spoke again.
"Yes, I rather like the look in your eyes. Your fear is understandable. Perhaps I should have taken a more agreeable form."
The darkness shifted, and from inside it, walked out a man in a black suit. The man had a devilishly handso face and short black hair with yellow glaring eyes. When the man smiled, Azrael saw a forked tongue peeking through his teeth.
"Is this better?"
"What are you?"
The man frowned as Azrael asked this question before he shrugged. The man knew that Azrael was completely disoriented by the sudden transportation, so he understood his confusion.
"I am your Celestial Guardian, and you are in my God domain. Well, you are in the lowest level of my God Domain. Anything more than this and the weight of the Divine Essence would kill you."
"My Celestial Guardian?"
Azrael's eyes narrowed into a curious stare as this thought passed his mind, and it wasn't long before he took another step back once he realized who he was standing in front of! It was Thanatos!
"You're a god."
Thanatos grinned devilishly and waved a hand around like what Azrael said wasn't truly important.
"Yes, I am a god. There really isn't much to be surprised about. But enough about . I am more interested in you. You're quite the unlucky one, aren't you, child? Born to alcoholic parents who abandoned you on the side of the street imdiately after finding out you were not worth being sold on the black market. Unfortunate enough to not have received any Aspect and possessing enemies who are willing to leave you bleeding out on the street. I would say you have the devil's luck, but that would be an insult to the devil."
Azrael felt anger filling him as Thanatos started listing out all of the things that were going wrong for Azrael! Who the fuck did he think was at fault for this!?
"You're the one that didn't give an Aspect, and you're the reason my parents left ! If not for you, I would've been the best. But instead, you cursed with your rejection."
Thanatos' smile turned into a bloodthirsty sneer.
"I have no control over who is worthy to receive a gift from , boy. If you try to pin your diocrity on , then I'll eat you."
Azrael blinked in shock before taking another step back. Eat him?
Thanatos did not look like he was joking, and Thanatos just sighed as he started to float around the dark space calmly.
Thanatos was not used to being in his human form, so he didn't even feel like walking. He would rather get done with this quickly and return to his original form.
"But although you were born with the lowest kind of luck possible, it seems that the strings of fate have converged and granted you sothing beyond even your wildest imagination. You possess an EX Rank Divine Potential. Sothing that only the gods should have, and that potential is what has drawn to you today. Boy, I have co to grant you an opportunity."
Azrael felt his heart rate picking up as he heard this. Azrael was extrely cautious once he heard Thanatos say that he would eat him, but the promise of power was far greater than whatever fear Azrael was feeling. It didn't matter how terrified Azrael should be. If this was an opportunity for him to beco strong, then Azrael would not let it slip past him.
Thanatos saw the eager look on Azrael's face, and he smiled as he stopped floating and faced Azrael. An eager person was the easiest to convince, after all.
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