"That's everything I know."
Said Ivan while staring at the masked guy surrounded by fireballs, all of them, ready to take off anyti if he ever wish for. Even now, Ivan is still shocked at the magnitude of this guy abilities. If Chris was here, perhaps only him could put up a fight with him.
Ivan couldn't help but thought back to the ti when Chris told him about 'the awakening.'
They are two types of people upon awakening, the first being full awakening without any help from item or soone. In this case, if they also has a good potential as bonus, they would definitely beca a great person with frightening magnitude of abilities if nurtures with all their resources. Unlike the second type, this type can grow beyond their limit if their talent didn't hold them back. Perhaps, this guy might be in this category, the sa as Chris.
As for the second type, they are people that forcefully awaken themselves with the help of item, soone, or sothing taboo that shall not be ntion. Even if they have good potential, they won't be able to get far as the mont they awakened with this thod, it is the sa as cutting their own path beyond their limit. No matter how much they trained, be it ten years or thousands of years, they wouldn't be able to surpass their limit. And Ivan was included in this category.
With how thin Mana is in the air, it is hard for one to awaken on their own at such young age. Heck, if they stay in a place where it's rich in Mana, one could potentially lost their life due to Mana Sickening, a state where their cells would slowly die off because their body was unable to adapt to the Mana. Before awakening, Mana is nothing but a foreign energy that the body detected could cause harm to the host. And so, if one prolonged their stay in such a place, there's no other result other than death for those idiotic people.
With that said, they have no other choice other than the forceful thod. Again, in a world where Mana is so thin that only a few special spots exist throughout the world, if one await to awaken on their own with that kind of condition, they might not even being able to experience being half-step away from awakening before dying of old age.
If that wasn't the case, the world would have been filled with all sorts of wannabe superheroes by now. But unknown to Ivan, the guy behind the mask in front of him could awaken literally anyone, so long as they are invited to his hidden world. Furthermore, the said hidden world is also a place where Mana thrives. If any secret organization ca to learn of it, they would never leave the man alone.
"Huh, so he didn't lie back then."
"He?"
"Rodrick Jayson. An arrogant young master that should have known his limit and lay low after my warning, yet he couldn't control his emotion which lead him to his death. Didn't he follow you here? He want to make suffer, but in the end, it was him that suffered in my hand. How laughable."
'Is this the reason why that brat wanted the gem for?' Before entering the highschool's premise, Rodrick suddenly asked him that he wanted to buy the gem at any cost, just na the price. To Ivan, the gem isn't much since it was given to him by the Mad Scientist, and he would never be that guy experintal rat again.
He never thought of using it and was going to let it rot in his pocket, but who would have known that there was an idiot that willingly wanted to be one, and he would even get money for it. It's a win-win situation no matter how he looked at it.
However, it was just as he had expected, the gem couldn't do much against soone whom had a full awakening. It was like throwing a rock against a boulder, it stood no chance of surpassing the latter, be it raw power or size.
'Hmm? Sothing isn't right. Rodrick was aiming for a high school girl, but the person in front of him is a guy without a doubt. Which ans...' It was now that Ivan realized the guy real identity might actually be that high school girl. After all, it couldn't be a re coincidence for him to be here unless he's a student of this high school.
Rodrick had repeatedly advised him to be on caution on many occasions before arriving to this location, to the point that it annoyed everyone on his group. Other than that high school girl, everyone else is just a normal person with no special ability like them. By the process of elimination, Ivan easily reached conclusion.
He didn't know how the girl was able to look completely different from the picture shown by Rodrick, perhaps, there's a powerful artifact in her hand that could do such things. it could also change her voice to that of a common guy you could find anywhere on the street, powerful indeed.
"Now that I already told you everything and you have also confird that I'm not lying, take out of this place, just as you promised a mont before."
"Hmm, that's indeed the case. I did give you such a promise."
Sheila nodded her head in agreent.
"Sure."
Though he was relieved that he's finally out of this shitty space with nothing but darkness, Ivan couldn't help but grows suspicious as things went much smoother than he thought. He was prepared to bribe his way out of this since he recently earned a lot from the prideful brat. His life is way more important. After all money can be earn again, but if you're dead, there's no second chance, unless you're the protagonist of fictional story.
"Really?"
Ivan doubtfully asked, still unable to believe that this is happening. If it were him, he would have ask for a ridiculous amount of money in exchange of their life.
"Of course, do you doubt ?"
"No no, of course not. I was just asking, haha."
It doesn't matter what she's thinking as the mont he was set free, Ivan is determined to launch a deadly move the mont his feet touch the ground. If only there wasn't a mask covering her face, Ivan would have been able to read her to a certain degree and take the montum to his advantage.
"Alright, here we go."
With her nonchalant words as the trigger, Ivan that was freely floating in darkness suddenly finds himself standing on the marble floor of the classroom within the blink of an eye. Without a second waste, he imdiately charge with all his might toward the masked girl in front of him with a sharp dagger in his hand. The speed of his charge is astonishingly fast as one could only see blur if they were to witnessed it.
Seeing his target not showing any sign of making movent of either dodging or defending himself, a grin appeared on Ivan's face. He hadn't ntioned it before but, his awakening ability is called Leap. Within a short span of ti when the skill is active, Ivan's speed would increase trendously, to the point that it appeared as if he had just teleported from one place to another. With this skill, he managed to kill many of his enemies caught off guard.
The mont they noticed his movent was the mont their head was then plucked off their neck. Ivan believes the current situation would also follow the sa pattern as it did heretofore with all of his enemies.
*Swish!*
And just like that, a head flew up high as the headless body imdiately fell following the consequence of his action. Mission success.
"No matter how powerful you are, once caught off guard, you're nothing but a prey ready to be behead."
Ivan nonchalantly whispered under his breath while wiping the blood off his dagger with the dark napkin he had at all ti. If the plan didn't work out, he had already prepared himself to escape the mont it fail, but unexpectedly, it actually work in the end.
"It is unfortunate, however. If we were to et on a different term, we could have been colleagues. With your abilities, you might ended up becoming my boss though. Now that I think about it, yeah, I don't like it. It's good that you're dead."
"Is that so?"
"!!!"
On reflexes, Ivan quickly turned his body around before leaping backward, putting the distance between them. To his astonishnt, the girl that he thought had died after getting beheaded is now standing perfectly fine. If not for the bloods on her shirts, the evidence of his action, he would have thought everything so far was just an imagination of his.
"I-Impossible!"
"What is? Oh, are you talking about coming back to life? Naw, that was nothing. It was just so skills of mine."
Sheila cheekily replied. Ivan's expression is simply precious, almost godly even. If not for the serious situation, she would have laugh out loud.
"But I'm sure that I sliced your neck! I even feel a bit of resistance from that!"
With a dumbfounded look on his face, Ivan yelled in denial. In his experience as the priest of Ignis Church, he had witnessed almost all things that one considered insane, and managed to stay sane till the very end. Yet at this mont, everything that he ca to knows, all crumbles to dust.
"I had initially thought of letting you go after hearing of your story, and though I expected this is how it's gonna turned out, I still hope that you would just escape the mont you're given the chance to do so. Honestly...you and I are no different from each other. We both have our own goals and sothing that we treasured. We both trained hard to beca strong enough so that we can protect our love ones with our own strength."
She then paused for a mont as Ivan could feel her eyes staring at him hidden behind the mask.
"But you disappointed . You choose to eliminate the danger to your organization first instead of running away. Logically, you're not wrong. However, I must have misjudged your priority. I had thought your mother, your love one, is more important to you than the organization that's forcing you to kill people like it was nothing. You are a disappointnt, Ivan."
Every words she said pierce ruthlessly through his heart. That's right, ever since he was busy with missions, he had never once visited his mother after he bought a house for her. The fact that such a thought never crossed his mind brought him to silence.
The reason he joined the Church to begin with is mostly because he wanted his mother to have a good life. A life free of worries and sadness. But how could she be free of worries if her only son had suddenly stopped visiting her just after gifting her a warm house to stay.
"Only now did you just realized it? But it's already too late. The kind has long gone, you should now repay your sins with your life."
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