1.20 The requirements are fullfilled

Duming Ritvik, a level headed man who thinks before doing anything, his way of passing time was making clay models. His sculpture were well sought after by the high class community, when his gate opened, his senses to see things and get their feel turned monstrous, he was birthed to make sculptures. His whole house was filled with his beautiful or sometimes horror inducing artwork.

He had a beautiful wife and oddly enough an always smiling daughter, he was always happy with this his life, he didn’t lacked anything when spoiling her daughter and wife, though his family think that he mostly ignore them and always is lost in his own world, he is actually listening to them attentively.

So the first time his daughter called out to him, he thought that it may be a normal matter, but hearing her voice and understanding how grave the situation can be, he stifled and got up.

He has never seen his daughter that scared, what happened to his all the time smiley daughter. He understood after watching the said video, his eyes were dark. This much mercilessness…and a 16 year old at that? (I know he is 17 but her father doesn’t know that, he predicted based on her daughter’s age)

Understanding why his daughter was scared, he asked his wife to calm her down and went out for a walk directly towards the Sun Scripture Academy.

*

After meeting with his teacher’s family outside the ICU, Titus with a serious face entered to look at his teachers face, he was worried.

Maybe this was the last time he was going to see his teacher?

Entering the room he directly called out. “Teacher!” But beside a woman with tears streaming down her face to make a sound, no reply came from the person who laid in the tube with his head out of the cylinder.

“Who?...” While wiping away her tears she looked at Titus. “Who is it?” With dark circles under her eyes and dried tears making a stream down her cheeks, it easily signified the woman not much older than him had not slept for the last few days, Titus knew who she was, she was his teacher’s childhood friend. His brother who visited Casper early had told about meeting her friend back from class when they were younger, she was also the woman Casper had a huge crush on.

“I am Teacher Casper’s student, Titus Zamirus. Teacher used to give me lessons concerning cultivation.” His emotions were in turmoil seeing the face of the woman, but he kept his cool.

The woman had a pitiful smile suddenly, she replied. “Oh! You are Gerald’s little brother, he had told so much about you, nice to meet you. My name is Meera your brother’s and Casper’s classmate.” She wanted to gently reply and show her tough side by hiding her emotions, but for Titus her state of mind was like an open book. She was fidgeting all over.

He talked with her for some time, and got to know one thing, she also loved his teacher deeply, it was not just one-sided, and the love she showed for Casper in front of Titus was just a crux of an iceberg. Teacher if you knew this, I wonder how would you have reacted.

In the bed laid Casper, scars filled his whole face and mainly lips in a zig-zag pattern, his scalp was attached recently and the scar marks can be seen easily where it was connected again. His eyes were closed but Titus can feel the ordeal that his teacher went through was not an easy one. Getting out of it alive was already asking a lot. Though due to being covered with a glass tube, Casper’s body can’t be seen, Titus knew one this.

“The state of neck down is worse than the head.” Titus controlled his emotions in the ICU, he had already learnt what happens when his emotions go berserk, and he didn’t wanted to harm is already severely injured teacher anymore.

“Who would do such a thing to teacher? That person can’t be a human at all.” Titus also knew one thing, his teacher may not be ever going to talk with his natural voice ever again, or even taste the food he loved to eat so much. His tongue has been cut cleanly and he doesn’t had the asset to regenerate a part of the body.

He looked at his teacher for some time, he was waiting for his teacher’s eyes to flicker, but that flicker never came, his teacher was silent as if dead, if not for his breathing sound, no one would believe that he was even alive. I will find him… and I will kill him myself. Titus was so angered that he even forget to consider what his opponent’s strength will be who can easily do something like this to his teacher Casper. Even Meera who stood in front of him can feel Titus’s anger overflowing throughout his body. She didn’t know to whom this anger was diverted to. But for some reason she felt happy seeing Titus this angered seeing his teacher’s state.

I am a Hunter now…. My first hunt will be to hunt whoever did this.

After saying his goodbyes Titus left the ICU. Now the hunt begins.

*

In a remote corner of the city, a man in hoodie and a very common wear sat on a table of a rundown bar, he was eating noodles and waiting for someone. His eyes would flicker to other tables and his hands kept fidgeting as if he was nervous, it was the first time he have come to a place like this, all the other occupants of other tables were blurry and dangerous looking people, you can’t even differentiate between man and woman in the seats here.

They all eyed the new meat as if he was some kind of alien. They were thinking who would eat this young meat.

Just come you fucker!!.. I came where you asked to meet me. Due to his face being hidden by hoodie no one can look at his face, but his eyes that reflected the bright neon lights were enough to tell them that he was young man.

There were even some woman who licked their lips seeing the eyes of the boy.

After half an hour and seeing that no one approached him, a man who was sitting alone on a table got up and without asking anything or mentioning anything sat in front of the boy.

“Give me the picture, name and the place where she frequents most… along with half the money upfront! After the job is completed you will automatically notified.” Said the man whose mouth spouted a strong alcoholic stench. His clothing was dirty and he looked no better than a beggar.

“Who?” The boy hunched in front showing his hidden face, which belonged to Guan Law. He didn’t had his usual rat like expression, but instead a serious one, he didn’t hide his disgust when a dirty man like the one who sat in front of him started talking about job, he came to give a famous Hitman. He never knew that a famous hitman would look like a common street thug.

The man was surprised. Is this guy an idiot? But then noticing his appearance he came to understanding, then without wasting any time he continued.

“I am the man you were going to meet, I act as mediator between you and the contractie.” Explained the man, his speech was very patient, but his heavy voice still gave goose bumps all over Law’s body.

After listening carefully and understanding the situation. Say this before, and I though I need to deal with… no wait a minute. “What proof do you have that you are the same man I contacted earlier?” The man just placed his wrist on the table, and a number appeared on the screen. “141341” This was the code no. Knowing that the man in front of him was genuine thing.

So without wasting anytime and checking the surroundings if anyone was listening, he took out a memory chip, and handed it over to the dirty man. “This contains all the information regarding target, I just want her mind to break. I want her to get mad, I want her to blame a specific person for whatever you guys will do to her.”

The dirty man was taken aback he said. “10k credits more and the details about the person you want her to blame.” The talk was decided to break a girl’s mind and make her go mad, no one told me about focusing her anger towards someone, this will require extra money.

Hearing 10k credits for Guan who was not well versed in bargaining was asking for a lot. His hands bled as he nodded and gave a card to the dirty man.” Aren’t you asking for a lot.”

“Fault of the job, the more complicated it is the more dangerous it will be for us.”

“20k credits now… the rest will be given after the job is completed, and the details of the one her anger should be diverted is also in the chip.”

“And don’t waste any of my money.” Added Law before getting up and leaving the hotel, as he stepped outside the bar he heard.” Don’t worry, we only act after we have researched the target thoroughly.” This loud noise was heard by everyone in the bar even the bar-maid, and as a fear inside Law welled up of being found out, he noticed the occupants of the bar all ignored him and the dirty man.

“Guess I am not the only one!” With his hoodie covering his head, Law disappeared in the dark alley.

*

“Robbed of a mothers love at birth (left to drown in blood) he was to die beneath her corpse.

Meant to rot in a cesspit of despair, born to die as a waste of air. Blood and Guts, Blood and God's Hand Raised as a child one shorn of fate in a fit of rage he, knows a violent destiny will await, only life by sword shall reign and he never to death be slain. Blood and Guts, Blood and God's Hand.”

The opera song was sung beautifuly by the musicians and the great orchestra with fluid and beautiful sounds complemented the beautiful opera, the whole opera was filled to brim with various rich people, and as though the theme of the play was dark and gloomy, everyone in the audience was sitting with anticipation and sadness, this was not more than a mere entertainment. The whole play was beautifully acted and choreographed, the whole stadium was also lit with various lights, it would have looked beautiful, if not for the giant figure of Sura sitting in the audience or on the audience, his figure reached the ceiling and it just looked like a monster who has come to watch the show, the audience was not disturbed in the least by this, instead they totally ignored the giant Sura and immersed themselves in the story they came to watch.

Isn’t this scene a bit odd?

After watching the opera till the end, Sura didn’t know what to feel. He turned a ring on his watch and the giant hologram that covered the whole room shrunk in size to only a miniature model and instead of showing the whole opera house, only the stage where the opera was taking place was shown. Ultimately closing the projection Sura again opened the book and started reading its contents.

“I was able to increase the projection size and intensity of my watch to 300% after reading only 1/4th of the book! This book hides many wonders to be unearthed.”

He has already checked the whole book for a name or just initials, but he couldn’t find anything concerning the identity of the books original owner.” Just who does this book belonged to?” He couldn’t imagine what kind of genius was the person who wrote these notes, was he the same as him when he wrote these notes?

Sura can’t even imagine this, only a peak and experienced Hunter realm expert is smart enough to write such a detailed book in the least. If not for his brain power increased by 3x, he imagine that he wouldn’t even be able to understand even 10% of the book by himself. He will be forced to ask Old Han about this.

He studied the book for straight 2 days without eating anything, his health deteriorated during this time but his health doesn’t matter to him anymore, if he eats some food that drug will show its effect and heal his body instantly. He didn’t want to waste time on eating when he could gain so much after reading from this book.

Maybe the day when he can create his own artifacts is not far. A day will come when every genius of the world will beg for him to build them an artifact. Forget about going to Underground Arena to earn money, he will earn money with the right means

He only needed to work hard, and ignore the storm that is brewing in the city and coming his way.