《I Got Race Change To An Angel In Hell》 1 I don’t like school *Drip...* Inside silent classroom young male student was hiding behind teachers desk. The faint smell of mold and dust lingered in air. While peeking and crouching as low as he could the boy saw something dark slowly passing by under the gap of the classroom door. "Did they leave..." The boy let out a small breath. This had to be Richards best idea since ever. What could go wrong wandering alone to an abandoned school in the middle of night. Richard''s mouths corner lifted little. "Founddd you. You little rat." *crash!* The deep voice of the hooded man right above Richard made him hit his head to the desk. Without warning the man clad in black rope kicked Richards head and stomach. "Urk..!" Richard spat some gastric fluids out of his mouth the pain and ringing was making it hard to focus but he recognized the hooded man wearing the same suspicious getup as the others inside gym. After giving Richard one last strong kick to his head the man started to pull him from his feet across the classroom without caring about Richard hitting his head to the wooden desks and chairs along the way. The last thing Richard saw with his foggy eyes was the bright moon peeking from the broken window at the end of classroom before fainting. . .. ... "... oh great one! Your humble servant is calling you..." "Thou are eternal..." From sharp pain Richard opened his eyes wide. Breathing heavily and trying to sit up, but failing to gather any strength he scanned the black figures moving with bizarre almost animal like movements all around him. "We have come as you called and gathered the offerings." "Thou are the truth..." As the black robed figure spoke in reference to the darkness many others silently praised it while carrying varying objects small girls would like such as manga, snacks and big brown teddy bear. After placing them inside circles of complex pentagrams and symbols they lit black candles near each corner of this pentagrams. Richards held his breath as the central figure of black robed man started slowly walking towards him with weird snake like dagger in hand. "W-wait." Richard let out small trembling voice the man probably didn''t even hear it. "We offer you innocent blood for you glory... The deep sound of the man turned quiet and unrecognizable as sounds of cats and snakes started to mix between his words. The ground shook slightly and the candles started burning 10 times higher than a moment ago. "No way" Richard started to tremble from the unknown around him and the sight oh the man brutally stabbing his own open hand and spreading blood inside the pentagrams without minding about the candles making him sweat like pig. What am I gonna do, think Richard think. First Richard started to focus on his pinky finger trying to make it move. Ok success, now the other fingers. After what felt like eternity about 5 seconds Richard could put his hand into a fist. "...!" With a sound of sheep and snake fighting the black figures stared to puke blood and collapse one after another. "Aghh..!" The man with dagger suddenly stabbed Richard straight into his stomach with big grin on his ugly middle aged face. "No! Stoppp!" Richard tossed and turned while yelling and sobbing trying to escape from the man stabbing him repeatedly all over. "Ah..." The man suddenly stopped and puked blood on top of Richards young pale face. Richard put his head to the ground looking sideways at the ugly man trembling on the bloody floor with tears constantly rolling across his face. "So cold" Richard weakly spat out as his eyes focused at black smoke suddenly forming small figure from the candles around him. "Oh what do we have here..." *giggle* As if pleased of what it sees the shadow circled around his body looking from top to bottom at him. After eternity about 5 seconds the shadowy figure extended its palm towards Richard. "Do you wish to live?" The shadow had no face, but Richard welt it had no ill will. "Well... if you wish to be saved just take my hand and the contract is set." The shadow extended its palm near Richards hand on ground and he took it with great effort. *giggle* Without another word the shadow suddenly plunged inside glowing pentagram on ground dragging something out of Richard with him leaving his dead body behind. 2 second chance or is this afterlife? It''s been a week since my master saved me from those freaks. Well saved is not really correct I did indeed die. *deep sigh* I look at my feet or rather lack of them as I float in air. Indeed I''m now what you may call ghost or spirit to be more correct. After bringing my soul here and feeding it something like magic power or some kind of force master prevented me from dissipating. Although I can still die from holy spells or magical equipment. Indeed! There are magic tools here in fact I''m using one of them. Tada! I lifted my holy weapon in air.... a half transparent brush. Yes master dragged me here to be ghost servant to clean his home and other stuff *sob...sob...sob* After half a day of careful brushing and occasional sobbing I looked at the sparkling clean room. "Umu not bad. " I let out faint smile admiring my job well done. "In the end I''m just servant with no pay" *smack* "Haa... haa..." I throw the brush at floor and looked at the painting of classical red demon with brown furry legs and white horns whispering to an human while bringing contract paper near him with bitterness all over my face. It seems I made an contract with master when I held her hand. According to contract master will protect me from death as in dissipating and in exchange I will have to listen masters orders until I''m able to life on my own without protection. "That is never going to happen!" I pick the brush up and throw it down again just to make a point. "Haa..." I gently wipe the dust away from the brush. This is my only tool of living. While thinking what to do Richard slowly floated throughout the door and looked at the large 5meter high and wide hallway stretching endlessly to the darkness far away. As Richard gently floated through the hallways while occasionally sweeping floor and casting curious glances to the locked doors with bizarre engravings of monsters. The black doors within red hallways and occasional painting and statues of monsters really made wonder which haunted house one has found himself in. Richard liked it though, horror has always been one of his favorite genres along with stories with magic. If not for the fact that he was dead Richard would have jumped from joy. "Oh..." Richard looked at large golden double doors that appeared behind corner with a big smile. *knock! Knock! Knock!* Without hesitation Richard started knocking the lion head decoration on the doors with the other side of the brush. A little trick he learned. Normally Richard can''t interact directly with anything his hands will pass trough any object without magic and enchanted objects gives him a shock or in worst case make him disappear. To Richards delight and sorrow his master gave him semi material brush that ghosts can use and change from material to spiritual object at will allowing Richard to work forever as a ghost. "You may enter." A gentle and unhurried voice of an woman woke Richard from his thoughts. As Richard opened the other side of the door with the brush a large room with books, thousands of them spiraling up and down in circles followed by stairways going all to different directions making you wonder how you could ever find what you were looking inside possible. "Richard you''re here again" Behind mountain of books beauty with wheat colored hair, white rope and white pointy which hat filled with golden glowing symbols peeked at Richard smile on her tired face. "We meet again Sandra." Richard leaned his hand at nearby bookshelf. While shifting his face 45 decrees sideways and met Sandras eyes in what he thought to be cool smile... "Pfft..." Sandra used her hand to hide her laughing face as Richards hand went trough the bookshelf and he ended up looking at the sky with cool face. "A-anyway Sandra can I go reading today too as I have done my shift today." With hopeful eyes I looked at the friend of my master and this library''s keeper. Sandra Falkill a true monster if she is to be masters friend. "Sure, but be careful I saw kroak book 2 stairs up on the west last night." Sandra looked absentmindedly to her right. *gulp.* "I will see who eats who if it try''s this one." Richard throws fist at the direction where Sandra looked while floating to an opposite direction. *giggle* "Be careful okay." Sandra showed Richard smile while he tried to shield his eyes from getting blind. "Yeah I''m not just any ghost you know." As Richard said that he started floating to an familiar direction soon finding where he went yesterday. There it''s. Richard started poking at green book with title "Evolution and the ways to break trough" With effort Richard found the chapter he was last time. ""The basic way to evolve is to accumulate soul energy by training your own or stealing from others such as killing or trough special inherited skills. In this chapter I will tell you about basic way to cultivate your soul energy and how to steal it from others..."" ... .. . 3 Night visitors *drip... drop...* "..." Without sound Richard kept looking at rain outside in his own personal room. A small attic barely having room to turn around with worn out bed and round window. "Haa.." Richard yawned out of boredom ghost don''t sleep at least he has never had the need for it. As such Richard kept looking outside without really thinking anything. Outside the window black forest without any leafs stretched as far as one could see with occasional columns of fire bursting out to sky before vanishing without leaving, but an empty hole to the black ground. "Truly an hell..." The realm of monsters where weak are preyed on and where the strong makes rules. Ever since Richard made the contract with the great devil aka witch of eternal carnage aka Elean Falblood his normal life ended. Well Richard was about to die from getting stabbed all over so it''s not really her fault. The moment Richard took the shadows hand he was dragged trough some kind of portal and next thing he know he was before Elean inside her personal room floating in confusion. ... .. . *Giggle* "Boy can you hear me" Richard blinked his eyes and looked at the victorian style room he was inside. Dark red mattress nicely decorated black wallpaper with occasional red symbols and strange gadgets and bookshelves full of big old books. There were also white and red sofas near fireplace making it seem classy and comfortable. "Boy are you ignoring me?" While trembling Richard turned to the source of the sweet voice. The feeling of chill made Richard almost pass out. "Yes?" Right beside Richard behind wide black wooden desk full of books and scrolls was an unbelievably pretty girl with long dark red wine like hair and black pointy witch hat with red ribbon and symbols in it. The deep crimson eyes of the girl looked at Richard with mischief and warning. "Oh so you didn''t go totally dumb when I pulled you here." The girl mockingly smiled at Richard. "Umm..." Richard was at loss of words should he feel offended or thankful for getting out of the previous situation. The mocking stare of the pretty girl didn''t make it any easier for Richard to decide... for now. "Thank you." Richard bowed to the girl. "Without you I would have just died there for nothing." The girl looked little surprised. "Hmmph... mortals are indeed foolish." The girl swept her glance over the table and picked hand mirror to show Richard his current self. "Eh..." Inside the mirror Richard saw himself same as how he died full of stab wounds in bloody white hoodie. An avarage looking male with black hair and blue eyes, except... The boy in mirror was half transparent and floating without legs. "W-what is this?! It''s ghost right. I''m dead... that guy is totally dead. What am I going to do with my virginityyyy!?!?!" "Ghost can have sex too right? right?!" The girl cast a mocking glance at the panicking ghost while breaking his dreams. "Nope, not possible." Slump. Richard floated near the ground with dead eyes. ... .. . *drip... drop... thumb...* Richard woke up from his recall and saw just in time shadows slip inside the house from the side of black forest. *grin* Waking from the depressing memory Richard remembered his new goal. To evolve and get new body. The whole last week after getting over the shock of turning into an ghost Richard has been reading books full of mystical knowledge. It wasn''t easy first Richard didn''t know how to read the books full of ancient languages and secret symbols, but seeing his predicament and thirst for knowledge Sandra helped Richard. After shooting some spell she called blessing of Libarianos Richard gained the ability to read books of unknown languages. It''s not perfect though, but the more Richard reads the stronger the blessing becomes. In this week Richard learned about this realm, about different kind of races and how people gain strength here. The main ways are trough magic, battle arts, summoning and soul evolution. The one Richard got interested is soul evolution. Trough it monsters can evolve into higher beings such as from skeleton to and zombie and from zombie to an ghoul. The evolution is decided by many things such as an inheritance of race and if you devour soul force of an stronger being it may with good luck have an possibility to cause mutation in evolution. Of course it''s not totally safe as you could mutate into some weaker race. While floating down the stairs Richard turned invincible and headed to the direction where the unknown visitors will probably be. The fastest method to evolve... is to devour other beings. Unknown to Richard he has long forsaken some of his previous beliefs as an human. With an grin Richard observed three beings sneaking from one of the guests rooms downstairs. ... .. . 4 Evil eye flower "A-are..." "..." Within a minute from leaving his room Richard was facing the greatest crisis of his ghostly life. With effort Richard calmed his bearings to look at the scene before him a black knight and a sword ready to send his ghostly head flying. "..." Just 5 seconds ago which felt like eternity to Richard. He was tracking the intruders silently while looking at the empty guest rooms. When he heard some yells and gasping from one of the doors in front of him until they went totally silent. Slowly peeking from the side of open door Richard saw slender black knight stabbing her flaming black long sword into what looked like small red goblin on floor. "Imps huh..." Oh shit. Richard noticed his mistake as soon as he spoke just in time to see the black sword already resting on his ghostly neck. *gulp* "Umm... I''m Richard a ghost... nice to meet you." *Swishh...* With an air cutting move the flaming black sword vanished from Richards neck. "..." Without speaking and showing any additional interest in Richard the black knight returned burning the three imps before walking away. "Umm..." So cool. Richard looked with longing eyes at the back of black knight as she vanished from his eyes. Richard didn''t find anything but ash remaining from the imps. While silently cleaning Richard had found answer to the mystery of ash piles suddenly appearing in rooms he had cleaned the day before. " *Ping* You gained achievement! The 3 mystery of Bloody heart manors secrets uncovered ( The mysterious ash piles ) " Just kidding. Richard smiled happily while thinking about the black knight just now. "Oh but what about my experience points..." As Richard smile turned strained he decided to go ask Sandra about the black knight tomorrow. ... .. . "Mmm mm mmm mm..." While gently humming to an lullaby her mother used to sing to Richard he cleaned from under guest room bed. "Richard when you are done here can you go inform Ember that this week food has arrived. I need her to verify everything is good." Richard looked at the doors behind him and saw maid with dark green bob hair and lightly glowing warm green eyes looking at him with smile. The strange part of the girl was the blackish green plants growing all over her clothes. "Yes right away." "..." " I mean, yes miss Lilium." with satisfied nod Lilium turned away hurrying to other jobs she has to do as an head maid and mistresses direct maid servant. She had a lot of jobs and education of new servants being surely just one of them. "Haa..." With big sigh Richard looked at the empty hallway and the candles flaming with blue fire illuminating the unmoving statue of an 3 meter high monster devouring small imps upper torso. "..." While Richard looked at the monsters face the stony creatures eyes suddenly turned from the imp in its mouse to Richard. "Ah!" Without associating himself further with this statue Richard hurriedly started flying away from the statue while faintly hearing something resembling rumbling laughter from behind him. ... .. . Shit. What is wrong with this place. Richard swung his brush like an sword at the nearby statues while hissing as he flew across one hallway to another. Circling the statues along the way as far as he could. Soon Richard found the stairs he was looking for soon arriving to an old wooden kitchen with all kinds of pots already flaming and big creature resembling lizard or alligators but red slowly turning among heart of fire in big open fire place at the end of kitchen. Tending to the lizard was an woman black like coal with burning hair and skin. "Miss Ember!" With light yell Richard floated inside the kitchen. "Oh Richard... what is it?" Without turning her eyes from the flames Ember slowly rotated the red lizard inside the flames. "Miss Lilium asked me to tell you that this week food delivery arrived." With an curious look Richard started to study the red lizard in flames and skull like purple fruits in purple plate clearly prepared for the lizard from the plate size they were on. "Mmm..." Without turning the woman burning near the fireplace just kept turning the lizard slowly and gazing at the flames with yearning in her eyes. "Skraaa..." Casting a curious glance at the screeching fruits on the plate Richard turned and floated away towards stairs. "Sandra wanted to see you... bye." I heard Embers small voice as I was leaving and told her bye while letting small smile out. ... .. . Richard floated cautiously near the mansion backyard while seeking creatures he could whack to death with his brush. After discussing with Sandra about his desire to evolve. She told him that if he wanted to evolve trough meditating his soul force it would take about two hundred years to turn into banshee. An step up from ghost possessing cool abilities like voice so loud it can kill weaker creatures or possession, taking hold of the mind of weak creatures and controlling them. "Two hundred years is way too long!....." With no other option but to try to kill weaker opponents Richard wandered outside. Also it seems like the protection of the master only includes inside the mansion. If I want to go out and die it''s not her problem it seems. Need to be careful. Of course Richard has done his ground work before coming outside. It seems that inside the garden you can find evil plants that give small amount of exp ( soul force ) when killed and occasional unintelligent imps wanders from the black forest seeking prey. For starters Richard was wandering inside the garden behind the mansion. There is not really much here only red flowers all around small hill with stone monument of an fallen angel. "Was it called red spider lily..." Richard looks at the beautiful red flower blooming with many red thin petals curling up. Hell flower indeed with sharp eyes Richard soon found anomaly among the red flowers. An red flower with an black blob in the middle of it. "Found you..." *Grin* "You are mine! Exp! Exp! Exp!" With burning eyes Richard started floating towards the anomaly while wildly hacking his brush ready to whack the anomaly down. *stare* Suddenly the black blob in the middle of the red flower opens showing swirling black pupil. "Ugh..." Shit. It''s evil eye flower. While frozen in air Richard is stuck incapable of moving... After 2 hours it was staring to get dark and the evil eye flower started to blink and setting Richard free. Without hesitation Richard turned around and started to flee without turning back. "I''m not done with youuuuu...." While yelling like sore loser Richard fled towards his room done for the day. 5 New life *thud!* Within red hill full of burning red flowers an sound of brush hitting ground sounded. "Hmmph... too easy." With an smug face an pale and transparent figure materialized beside floating half transparent brush. Richard looked at the crushed evil flower under his brush and slowly reached his hand inside it. Within the crushed flower small particles of energy seemed to slowly float down towards earth. Within Richard mind he recalled ones again how to surround and devour this particles with the small white flame burning inside himself. Soon all the remaining green particles vanished leaving only Richards slightly brighter small flame behind. There are no more monsters to kill in the garden. After Richards crushing defeat yesterday he spent the rest of the night and day stimulating how to fight finally realizing that he could turn invisible as ghost Is there even an opponent for Richard now as long as it''s not high ranking magical monster he can simply smack them death while being invincible himself, truly an perfect assassin. Richard looked at the field of flowers with an empty look. It''s lonely being invincible. Richard soon looked up at the fallen angel statue. The statue was of small girl sitting on top of stone cube and looking at sky with tearing eyes. The other hand of the girl was trying to grasp desperately something far above her head. Curious of the statue Richard floated in front of the statue and noticed something written on the cube of the statue. "Lets see..." ""Here rests the crimson angel... the guardian of bloody hearts manor."" "..." So there are angels in this lands too, but what an small girl. Why did they make her so sad as if she was trapped here or something. Richard looked at the innocent face of the statue and turned around ready to leave explore the forest. "...wait" "?" With a start Richard turned around towards the small voice, but only seeing the statue. Ready leave again Richard started to float down the hill. "Wait come back" With much clearer sound an girl seemed to call Richard from behind him. While turning around Richard raised his own voice. "Who is it, come out. Just so you know I''m not to be bullied... or I will cry." "I''m here" As the sound ended white hand sprung out from the ground in front of the statue of the girl. With twisting movements white torso seemed to rise from the ground. *gulp* Richard stared with open eyes while an figure of an small ghost rose from the earth. "Hello." With an pleasant smile the figure of an girl with open white wings replicating the statue behind her spoke to Richard. "Hello... didn''t know there were other ghosts here." With an blank look Richard looked, as the girl floated near him. "I don''t have much time... I seemed to sense one of my brethren, but your blood must have been weak as you don''t even have wings and you are ghost too. "You are ghost too right?" "No... just an image left behind. Doesn''t matter I have no time left. Please go inside the cube to inherit my last will my fellow brethren." With an sad look the girl turned into tiny particles and vanished. "..." Really what is going on with this place. Without thinking twice Richard floated towards the cube. Why not right, it seemed interesting after all. As Richard hand went inside the cube he could feel a massive ball of golden fire trapped inside it. "This is no joke!" With an fast pull Richard tried to retreat from the fire, but in vain as in the next second Richard was inside the stone reduced to an small ball of white flame which was currently being eaten by the big golden flames. Shit! Is there no way out of this. In panic Richard tried to float away but in vain the very existence of Richard was getting devoured by the golden flames. Soon Richard mind turned blank and the white flame turned smaller and smaller under the burning of the golden flames soon leaving behind flame as big as an match. Within next second the small white flame turned bluish and started to merge with the big golden flame turning it from gold to red and then blue. ... .. . After what seemed like an eternity, 5 seconds later Richard woke up. "Aaaaa...! My head." "... who is it...hello?" Is that my voice Richard opened his eyes and saw nothing but darkness. Something was strange. Richard voice seemed to be strange and there was an even bigger problem... Richard could feel he was inside some small space and he was hungry. Both things which should be impossible to the current ghost Richard. Or rather where am I. Richard slowly recalled touching the statue and getting devoured by the golden flame inside but how is he still alive. "I can feel..." With an sudden realization Richard started to laugh he could feel the stone where he was hugging his soft warm knees. He was alive. With an strong kick the stone broke in front of Richard letting gentle red glow shine from the broken wall. With little difficulty Richard got out legs first from the stone cube. "Ah... I''m alive!" With an yell Richard stood up and looked at his two slender pale feets standing on ground. "Hehe..." With laugh Richard swept hair away from his face and looked at the crimson moon with happy face. "Finally my new life begins..." 6 System? When Richard peeked inside the broken cube he just crawled outside from he saw small door on the ground. "This seems interesting." With the light from the red moon Richard found switch on the side of the door. As soon as he pressed it the door moved to side. "Ooo... high tech." With approving look Richard pulled up the chest inside the hole. " *ping* you have found treasure chest...." Moving on... the wooden box seemed to be almost empty Richard looked at it from up and down, but it seemed almost as the most plain since becoming ghost. *click* It''s not even locked! Within the box Richard found white robe with beautiful blue symbols and silver ring with blue engravings. "Cool" It''s right size too. No more nakedness. Richard was already happy that he didn''t have to start his new life running naked. All though he is still commando under. And this finger seems to be made for his right index finger... ara? As Richard looked at the ring it seemed to start to glow with light blue color. "I see... so this is what happened." So the inheritance the little angel girl was talking about was this ring. In front of Richard eyes he could see now system messages spamming and small hologram of what seemed to be his current form it seems. The child inside the hologram seemed almost like the angel girl but obviously boy... not so obvious what is with those slender legs and hands the long white hair and blue eyes... Richard looked like some kind of anime character... Well doesn''t matter. At least I''m not ugly and there seems to be some kind basic stats shown too. Name: not registered Race: celestial race (lesser) Age: body age 10 years old (soul 18 years old) Physical condition: healthy Titles: no titles Blessings: The blessing of Libarianos, Child of light "It seems kinda plain, but celestial race... huh? Did I turn into an angel." Richard still couldn''t fully wrap his head around the sudden happenings. It seems there is more there. After Richard focused near the system texts that vanished he could see an blue arrow pointing down. Welcome to the system! You have been registered as an blue cross rings new owner. Scanning host. Scanning completed Do you wish to finalize registration? Yes. No. As Richard focused on the floating yes button the ring started to send memories he hasn''t seen before inside his mind. After about 5 seconds Richard woke up from the daze seemingly remembering seeing things but forgetting what they were about Well what ever. Richard didn''t really care, but more than the self statue and the hologram there seems to be nothing else... I need to level the ring up to unlock other functions? So that is what those memories were for. Richard looked up at the mansion and the red moon high up the sky. "What should I do now... I look completely different than before or rather only my soul is same... or did it evolve too? If I try to walk in like usual won''t I be cut down like those imps before..." What to do. What to do. Richard smiled merrily while sitting beside the angel statue on the cube and swinging his legs rhythmically. Richard calmly listened as the wind howled and earth occasional cracked as fire burst into air inside the forest. *sniff* The smell of burning wood and flowers lingered in the air. Richard was really alive now. Unlike when Richard was ghost he really felt like he was here. "Should I sing..." "Mmm mm mm... One minute you''re here and the next you''re killing Alive You''re looking at the warm soul Alive Save me from the deadly eternity You don''t wanna be stuck indoors Save me from the deadly eternity And when you''re done I feel alight One minute you''re here and the next you''re killing You''re the deadly one And I''m dancing because you''re done Alive... mmm mm mmm..." Without caring about the passing of time Richard kept singing what ever came to his mind. ... .. . 7 Elean Falblood "Aaaaa...! So boring." Elean kept rolling over manga spread on floor. Most of this manga were either gore or shojou manga (aimed for young females). "When is the next patch coming?" "***** **** ****" "Yawn is that so..." With small breath Elean rised from the furry mat of some kind of big red wolf and swept dust from her black robe away. Behind Elean her shadow extended and pushed one of the books on shelf opening secret door with a click sound. Without minding about the dark figure which went back into her shadow she walked into her office and went sitting behind a pile of books and papers. *ring...ring* As soon as Elean lowered the small bell down a knock was heard behind her office room. "My lady." "You may enter" With a small bow the head maid Lilium walked inside the room with a silver tray and white tea cup on it. Without speaking Lilium gave the tea cup with steaming red liquid inside it in front of Elean. As quietly as she came she walked to the door and with bow vanished. "Mm..." After Elean took small sip of the red liquid she let out small smile. *fffuh* With a small puff of smoke one of the 40 black candles at Eleans left side lit up. *giggle* "here it is" Eleans shadow without warning started walking on the burning black candle on its own and carried it on front of The desk on floor. Before the desk as soon as the shadow lets go of the black candle it lets out flames on the floor creating burning circle with different symbols. "Go." With Elean order the shadow jumps into the circle and disappears. As Elean can use high level shadow servants it is easy to share the vision with one of her shadows. As Elean closes her eyes she saw young white hooded man struggling against fat black hooded human stabbing at his stomach. It seems this guys are useless. Elean sees the offerings of this humans. With a thought from Elean the black robed man start to die one by one. "If you are going to summon devil at least bring the latest manga ." With frown Elean wills the shadow to burn the offerings too. As the shadow floats near the last dying human Elean senses a faint trace of divinity on the black haired man. *giggle* Interesting with this the boy may survive the summoning to this side. With ease Elean makes low level contract and brings the spirit of the man to her side as the body would crumble without higher level summoning she didn''t bother to even try. ... .. . It''s been little over an week since Elean made a low level servant contract with the spirit known as Richard. "What is that fool doing today." With a knowing smile Sandra laughed as she started to tell Elean about Richards battle inside the garden against an evil eye flower. *giggle* "Well as long as the boy doesn''t rush into the forest he should be fine, but why did he want to fight against the monsters in the first place?" With puzzled look Elean looked at her friend since school days. At the time they become inseparable at it hasn''t changed in twenty five years since then. "It seems the boy learned about evolution and decided to try his luck against small plant monsters on garden" *giggle* "Did you tell him that it would speed his evolution at best with 5 years with monsters as weak as that. With a small glint on her eyes Sandra smile knowingly without answering. "..." "..." ... .. . As Elean walked on the upper floor towards her private room she walked past half opened window facing towards the backyard. "... alive... you are killing... alive..." With curious look Elean opened the window to hear better the faint sound of singing coming from outside. "... I have fought against thousands of enemies... killing them all. No one can say no to me again... laa la laa. They keep coming without knowing I''m the end and ruler here..." "..." With a stunned look Elean looked outside seeing small white haired girl singing next to the statue of an angel swinging her legs. What made Elean stunned was not only the mesmerizing sound of the girl that seemed to take hold of the listeners soul while carrying oppressive pressure of someone divine, but the actual divinity of the girl actually emitting from within her very soul. Something which only celestial could possess being their one of their trademarks as divine race. Wasn''t that fool supposed to be at the garden too. Elean tried to sense Richard, but couldn''t feel the contract mark anywhere near the mansion. "Grrr... was it that girl." With a burning flame on her red eyes Elean started to walk towards backyard. "If you did something to that fool divine race or not you will be the second angel buried on that flower bed..." 8 Convincing demon [ Bloody hearts mansion garden ] "Laa la laaa" My voice is so much clearer now. Richard tested all kind of different voices from high to low from famous male actors voice to a certain wizard on bridge. "You shall not pass...!" The voice of Richard resonated deeply in air making even himself impressed how his voice can sound so low. "Oh... pretty arrogant for an intruder. To even have the guts to order me around." *gulp* Like broken robot face full of sweat Richard turned slowly his head to left. With small unhurried steps Richards master Elean Falblood walked trough the sea of red flowers towards him. Her deep red eyes full of murder. *thud* With hurry Richard jumped to his feet and put his most harmless face on while smiling at Elean. "M-master it''s not like that. Yes! I was just practicing my impressions. I did not think anyone would hear me." "Master? Do I know you?" With a clear look of utter distrust and suspicion Elean sized Richard up. Where did this celestial came from. More over... Elean sharply started at Richards beautiful pale blue eyes and snow white hair with jealousy. *grrrr...* Oh no master is super mad. Richard started to a tremble little. "M-master I don''t know what happened either it''s me Richard. I was hunting monster plants when suddenly a ghost of an angel appeared and she talked about inheritance. Then big ball of flames tried to kill me and I was like this..." "..." Suspicious... Elean looked at the celestial before her, but there was not even a slight resemblance to the weak fool of a ghost from before. "If you really are what you claim for then you don''t mind a little test right?" With a sharp glare that told there is only one right answer. Richard nodded hurriedly showing his willingness to cooperate. "Follow me." With last sharp glance Elean turned around making her deep red hair swing along as she started walking towards the main entrance of the mansion. Richard let out small breath of relief as the oppressive aura from Elean lessened. Without turning Elean led Richard trough the mansion. Along the way many servants and people Richard had never seen cast curious glances at Richard along the way from the rooms and hallways. Was there this many people before. Richard looked at the curious people with gentle smile of his own which seemed to cause even more unrest among the curious people. Some blushed and waved at Richard as he walked past them. Who is she really and what is she doing here. Elean secretly kept looking back at the white haired celestial calmly following behind her. Does she not know who she is. The amount of people she killed alone at the recent war 5 years ago alone could fill a lake with blood full. What is more celestials are so rare here that you could count them with one hand fingers. Then there is that Richard too where did he wander to. While both in deep though they finally arrived before an big black door with an red flaming heart symbol in the middle of it. Without stopping Elean walked towards the door. Before reaching 3 meters from it the red heart symbols slowly lit with red glow and the door opened without sound. Richard stopped for a fraction of second his eyes glittering as he saw the automatic door before walking after Elean. Of course it''s impossible to Elean to miss the celestials reaction as she was secretly observing her, which brought small smile to her lips. As Elean sat on her black wooden chair high enough to enable her to see the magic circle before her desk. Richard cautiously walked inside too at the edge of the circle. "So shall we continue. You claim to be Richard, but that is impossible. So let me tell you what really happened." This doesn''t look too good. With a troubled look Richard looked at Elean. *bang!* Elean suddenly hit her hands at the desk before her. "First I don''t know your true goal, but you clearly are aiming to obtain something from this mansion. The reason you know Richards name is because you must have seen him outside the mansion and captured him..." With a confident look Elean started to narrate her hypothesis. "...Let me tell you this. I don''t care about that fool if he goes and gets himself killed outside on his own, but I will avenge it if you miss treat any of my servants! This is your last chance. Tell me who you are and what is your aim coming here, or are you saying. A nobel celestial just wandered on her own to Bloody hearts manor by accident." "Ummm..." But I never left. Richard started to furiously think how to convince her master to not kill him. If only I could... "Ah!" With a good plan in his mind Richard closed his eyes and started to concentrate to his soul. Inside his mind Richard soon saw blue flame much bigger than before slowly floating inside a circle which Richard imagined as his body. "...!?" *clatter!* Elean stood up clearly not believing what she saw from the celestials body a soul slowly came out you could say this was unbelievable dangerous and stupid to let unprotected soul come outside from its protection was suicidal. "Wha... Richard?" The soul that came from the collapsed celestial still linked to its body clearly looked just like Richard but with white hair and blue eyes. "The story before was it true?" Elean didn''t get her answer from Richard as his soul returned to his body while he went unconscious from over exerting himself. "What has happened to this fool..." With a confused look Elean kept looking at Richard before she ordered her shadow to bring Richard to sleep inside his room. ... .. . [ Bloody hearts mansion attic Richards room ] "Uhh..." What happened... Richard woke up in his bed with face full of confusion. "..." While looking around Richard started to smile. Master must have believed me as I''m in my room and not in dungeon. *shudder* That place was terrible. Richard could feel the coldness and stench of blood from just remembering the dark stone dungeon deep, deep beneath the mansion. Richard had been cleaning the entrance before the dungeon. Lilium told him that he would get himself killed immediately if he entered inside that sealed chamber. *knock knock knock* "Come in" With a courteous bow a victorian styled maid in long black dress with frilly red apron full of black thorn decorations came inside. "Lilium hello sorry for not doing my work today." With an shy smile on his lips Richard reflexively apologized as she recognized the green haired plant maiden before him. "... I''m sorry I don''t seem to recall you. Miss Falblood has tasked me to take you to her as soon as you wake up. If you would, could you be so kind as to follow me." With an blank look Richard looked at Lilium who had shown calm emotionless face to Richard from start to finish. Is this really Lilium. Richard couldn''t help, but to wonder. Never had Richard seen Lilium without an kind smile before. Now she just seemed emotionless, polite, doll like servant without will of her own. As Richard walked behind Lilium they soon arrived before two golden double doors with lions as door knobs. *knock knock* "Enter." With a tired voice from inside the double doors opened showing a sea of books before Richard and Lilium. Without hesitation Lilium started walking without stopping clearly having memorized the way beforehand. Soon Richard saw both Elean Falblood and Sandra Falkill two beauties one red haired and other wheat colored hair staring intensely at Richard from behind a pile of books on red leather sofa. With a bow to Richard Lilium walked beside Elean silently. ... .. . 9 Apprentice of an Witch of carnage ... Before me two demons were staring at me like they wanted to open me up and see what is inside. Richards smile started to strain a little bit as the silence between the four people continued. "Hello master and Sandra. You wanted to see me." After quick look between the two girls Elean smiled at Richard and asked him to tell them again what happened yesterday to him. Richard slowly started to tell them from the beginning... ... .. . "... I see." Sandras usually sleepy eyes seemed more awake than usual as she nodded convinced about something. "Do you know what happened Sandra?" Elean seemed to urge Sandra before her as she leaned towards the other beautiful girl on the red leather sofa. Richard peeked secretly at Elean. The dark red haired girl was wearing beautiful red lolita styled dress today. With red ribbon on her modest breasts and with long white sleeves covering her pale hands. The sleeves left only her long fingers showing which were gripping on black pillow on her lap. Below the black pillow Eleans legs were covered with elegant black stockings with red thorns decorating them. Different colored thorns seemed to be popular here as Richard had seen them in the servants clothes and in many wallpapers and other decorations around the house. Richard looked at Sandra who saw him peeking at Elean and showed him a smile. Sandra was wearing her usual white robe which couldn''t hide her curves seemingly bursting at every right place. "I got some ideas." Sandra waved an golden wand which seemed to appear from thin air towards the sky. As Sandra lowered the wand before her an blue book floated from above her head and descended slowly towards her open hand. "..." Within seconds she seemed to find the right page from the nearly 10cm thick book. "... inheritance of an celestial. It''s said that when an celestial mortally wounded or incapable to anymore fulfill their virtue can leave their virtue behind to strengthen weaker celestials virtue." Sandra, Elean and the confused Lilium all looked at the kindly smiling white haired small kid before them. "You mean to say this fool was an celestial? He was clearly only an dying human when I brought his spirit here." "Well he clearly had some blood of an celestial inside him or he would have just burned to nothingness as the virtue combined with him. More importantly what are you going to do from now on Richard. You are an Celestial now and the contract you had with Elean has been canceled." Richard thought about all he had been trough since coming to this place. Richard had no real desire to go back to earth. He had no one he missed there and the only real regret he had was the lack of internet here. On the other hand he had seen many magical things here that were impossible at earth. The servants here were all nice to him and there were countless interesting books for him to read and magic to discover. Moreover he had an actual body now so he wanted to try learning magic now that he could. "I want to continue living here and learn about magic. Master is that okay." Elean looked at Richard and seemed to think something as she showed an evil smile towards him. While crossing her legs under the black pillow. "Richard I can accept you as an apprentice, but do you know what it means to learn from an devil as an celestial?" Richard showed an troubled look. "Is it bad?" "More than bad, if any celestial learned about it you would be instantly killed. Knowing this do you still wish to learn from me?" "Yes, I want." Without an moment of delay Richard agreed. Surprising the girls with his lack of fear and hesitation. *giggle* Elean laughed happily. "I see. You are fool indeed, but as your master let me give you an compliment for your loyalty. Starting today you''re my apprentice. Work hard and I will gift you surname when you''re ready. "Yes master I will not let you down!" *guuu* The girls looked at Richard in wonder, suprised how stomach rumbling could even sound cute. Richard smiled little awkwardly remembering that he hasn''t eaten anything since coming to hell. "For starters let Lilium guide you to eat. Then she will show you your new room. I will call you later today. For now you are dismissed." Lilium bowed little at Elean and Sandra before walking to Richard and grasping his hand with an smile on her pale face. "Let''s go Richard." Soon Richard was dragged towards the exit of the room and he could hear Sandra and Elean faintly speaking about something behind him. ... .. . 10 Life goes on. With wave of his hand Richard summoned an arrow of light that pierced an red imp slowly turning it into ashes. "La la laa..." While singing happily the white haired child hopped across the black grounds towards the small wisp of flame still lingering on air and letting the ring on his finger to absorb it. The last week has been a literal amusement park ride for Richard first getting weird resurrection to a child. Then becoming masters apprentice and trying to adjust his new life of not being servant, but studying actual magic! Richard found the actual magic to be really cool! First it was really boring for him, trying to actually control this weird energy, but he finally did it. Now Richard could shape his natural energy into light arrows and light spear. Currently Richard was clearing the forest near the mansion something the black knight, (insert starry eyed Richard) usually did. While clearing the forest of small predators like imps and evil flower demons he practiced magic and fed the inheritance ring energy to let it evolve. Truly an one arrow to take three targets. "Wa ha ha! Koh! Koh!" Richard sword to practice his arrogant laughter later, but now more pray awaits him! "Let it go! Let it gooo....!" While singing meaninglessly Richard continued his killing spree knowing his master was observing him using shadow servant. "Giggle..." ... .. . After having his fill of mindless carnage Richard walked back inside the mansion the red flower field still captivating him on its beauty. Richard pushed the side door open meant for servants. "Iiiik!" Richard felt the door hitting something and a thud of something falling down. "Hurts..." On the ground was an maid with blue hair and unnatural white skin holding her nose. "Sorry are you alright?!" Richard walked towards the teary eyed maid feeling guilty of opening the door with more speed than necessary. "What is wrong with you! First of all this is the door for servants! Not for someone like you!" "Geez... I said I''m sorry Ella... forgive me please." Richard tried to pacify his ex work buddy, but failing. "Hmph..." With a look of irritation the maid got up, but not before leaving one last resentful look at Richard. Richard rubbed the back of his head little sad. "I wonder why she started to hate me so much..." Richard sighed remembering her sempai, she was always cold to Richard, but after becoming Elean Falblood''s apprentice she turned outright venomous. "Just gotta make up with her later..." ... .. . After another day Richard was studying a book about demon hierarchy and rites of certain clans. "Richard?" Elean looked down at the white haired boy looking at herself feeling awkward due to the current situation. "You are going to school." "..." "..." "What?!" Elean averted her gaze feeling the heated stare of Richard bearing down on her. She know that Richard didn''t have the best experience from schools m, not to mention he was brutally murdered and sacrificed on one. "Yes. You will go to school starting tomorrow." "Bu-but why! I can just learn from you and Sandra? There is absolutely no reason for me to go?!" Elean let out another sight hearing Richard aversion and small panic in his voice. "If me or Sandra were here that would be the case, but both of us have to leave to capital due to an urgent situation there." "I can just come with you?" Richard asked pleadingly, but felt his heart drop seeing his master gently shaking her head making her dark red hair sway. "If you were still ghost, but as you are now it would be practically death sentence to bring you along and without me or Sandra here to mask your aura the mansion could get attacked. You are going tomorrow for your own good. You will be safer there." Richard didn''t answer just trying to wrap his head around the situation seemed to keep him still. With a slight sad look Elean left Richard to ponder himself before encouraging him a little at door. "I will come to teleport you there tomorrow so say your goodbyes for a while at least. Even at worst case it shouldn''t take us more than a year so show some spirit apprentice." "...yea."