It was getting dark in the small city of Ping, all the citizen started towards their homes. which mostly consisted of large common tents.

They started their nightly routines of heroin and the drug dealers started wandering from tent to tent with peoples merchandise. one of these dealer´s name was Conrad, he was known for being a Conman and really good at it. he would sell his dope really cheap. but he would lace it to the extreme, making sure his victims died, he would then proceed to rob them.

the only reason this worked was that no one really knew what he really looked like, as he would always change his appearance after each successful con. He was known as the Con Ghost.

Tonight Conrad was preparing to sell to a lady named Ling, he has had his eyes on here for a while, but she has always refused any and all advances of his. so his nefarious mind planned to drug her to death, then rape her corpse before taking all her valuables.

He was rather satisfied with his plan and walked towards her tent with a spring in his step. the only thing that annoyed him was that her tent was close to the wood-line and there was almost always a lot of animal feces next to it.

so as he was nearing the tent, he started to plug his nose with some rags. he proceeded to carefully step over the feces and maneuver towards the tent.

he finally reached the cloth wall and snicker to himself as he felt his pants tighten due to his growing horn. he was ready to fuck this bitch that always acted too good for him.

"let´s see how your dead pussy feels. hahaha, I shall be your first and last!"

As he grabbed the knife on his waist and proceeded to carefully slice a peek hole to check if she was alone, what he saw wasn't Ling or anybody else, he instead saw the earthen floor dyed red, Conrad quickly pulled back in fright. he started to look around for any suspects.

as he properly looked at the other common tents, he only saw rips and blood everywhere, he hadn't seen this as he tried to avoid the other tents to not get caught.

he turned around to run into the woods, only to slam against a tall figure, Conrad was terrified as he looked up at a three-meter tall greyish-figure staring down on him with an ear to ear grin.

The figure was clearly not human as its body consisted of what seemed like endless tendrils that were in constant motion. Conrad slowly looked down only to see the most vicious claws he had ever seen. the thing had five 15 centimeter claws on each hand, its legs also had the claws that now were deeply buried in the earth.

Conrad´s heart almost blew up from the fright alone, and his previously stiff horn was no leaking foul liquid.

"hehe, you're the last one so I bet master wouldn't mind if I had some fun with you!"

a voice almost sounding like a growl came out of that foul mouth, Conrad stared at its mouth in fright as he couldn´t comprehend how words could come out of that open mouth with rows upon rows with vicious teeth.

"what-what are you!" Conrad scream as he tried to back away with shaking legs,

A strange growling came out of the beast, almost sounding like laughter "I'm one of the master´s Harvesters of course! and now I'm your playmate!"

the Harvester raised its hand, pointing two claws at Conrad with a cruel grin on its face.

"You got a leak! let me help fix that!"

The Harvester then leaped forward cutting Conrad between his legs with his two claws, leaving a horrible gash between Condrads legs

*thud*

a small brown piece of meat fell onto the ground as Conrad started screaming

"hohoh now you´re leaking even more! wow, and you´re really loud... Let's kill two birds with one stone!"

The harvester had saliva dripping down its jaw as it forced open Conrad's mouth and ripping out his tongue, then proceeded to stuff the tongue deep into the gash between Conrad´s legs.

*gurgle*

Conrad continued screaming but all that came out was the gurgling if him choking on his own blood. the Harvester saw this and snickered as he gently caressed Conrad's face. he took one finger and started from his temple and went down to his ear then proceeded down his jawline, following it until he had reached the spot he had started at.

"time for the grand finale" it muttered as he grabbed hold of the cut he had cut around Conrad´s face, and ripped his face off.

The harvester let go of Conrad watch as the con slowly died on the floor, his mouth dripping blood and his face a much of red muscle tissue.

As Conrad finally died in a puddle of his own blood and urine with his face and horn next to him, the Harvester smiled as black smoke rose out of Conrad´s glabella.

This was Despair Essence, the Harvesters collected this for their master to consume. Said Harvester smiled as he darted towards the city center to meet up with his master and brethren.

Praedo himself was sitting on the floor giggling in his human form, he had a great harvest this time! his 50 harvesters had collected enough Despair Essence for him to figure out he could use this essence to strengthen his body and even use it to boost his bodies strength and speed in short moments, he could even detach a tendril from his body now and use it as a projectile under the control of his Despair Essence.

He couldn't stop giggling at the amount of fun he was having! in front of him stood his 50 harvesters as well as 7000 Enforcers. he was pondering about how he should deal with this massive amount of forces.

Maybe he should further merge them? but the Harvesters were so useful! let's have 100 Enforcers and then convert the rest of them into harvesters.

Sensing their master´s desire, the Enforcers quickly started merging leaving 100 enforcers and 119 Harvesters. Praedo frowned as this was still too many forces to travel with ease with. lets 100 harvesters and see what becomes of it!

The Harvesters again sensed their master´s wish and quickly merged, leaving 19 harvesters, 100 enforcers and finally a completely grey creature standing at a solid 3,5 meters tall, it had a mostly human shaped body with a lurched back and a ginormous grin on its face.

Praedo stared at it with satisfaction when he noticed the creature had a tail as well, looking further on it he noticed the end of the tail was a large round blade! He absolutely loved this creature!

Again looking at this creature that had the strength, speed, and durability of 10 000 Enforcers, he felt truly excited to bring this on a spin!

"Look at that cute face of yours! hahaha, you shall be named Smiley!"

The creature continued smiling and responded

"I'm ready to make the world smile to you master"

as the words came out, the Smiley´s tail swiftly struck in a curve in the air. when Praedo saw this he grinned as he thought, "I got myself a little joker!" as he immediately realized that the smiley didn't mean to make people happy but make a permanent smile on their faces...