Rei, Rinka and Eunji were summoned to the headmaster's office after the higher ups had sent a mission request upon having information regarding the Fallen's relics. The higher ups had said to find one of its relic to be in South Korea where Jinwoo had already started to look around which led to the trio to go immediately in order to secure it.
"Anything on your radar?" Eunji asked while Rei was trying to scan the area with his passive ability with aura manipulation.
"Nope. Haven't felt a single thing but I would guess this is another person who's smart enough to hide their presence along with the marble." Rei stated before continuing, "I'll try using my shadows to check the vicinity, it may work but can't promise." He added as he started to check any weird things happening.
The male tried his best to check everything but couldn't find anything suspicious or any leads to the relic. "There's nothing. They are either that good or prepared." Rei said as the group moved from station to station after checking the entire area.
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Jinwoo was walking around with Eunji, the two Koreans scanning everything in the underground of South Korea's famous underground city that was once a part of Ethereal until the civil war.
"Haven't seen anything so far." The Korean male uttered after checking a corner of an abandoned alley while Eunji hummed while rummaging through the old cabinets.
"I'm not sure if it's even here in the first place but I don't think this will end well either way…" Jinwoo said which Eunji agreed to since if someone was to find it then they were already corrupted and blighted by the relic.
"By the way…" The male uttered before looking at her in total confusion, "Who's the lucky guy to be able to give you all that?" He said after being annoyed with the hickey that he was able to see on her neck.
Eunji looked like she was annoyed by it, "None of your business." She said cold heartedly to which struck Jinwoo's heart.
"Jeez… So defensive… Never knew my junior would act like this… Hiding a boyfriend–" Eunji intervened his statement that surprised both him and her, "HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!"
"Oh– Wait- Huh?!" Jinwoo looked at her dumbfounded by her statement, "THE FXCK YOU MEAN HE'S NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND?! YOU TELLING ME THAT YOU LET SOMEONE HIT IT?!?!" He exclaimed while Eunji was flustered and blushing as she was dismissing his questions.
The two continued to bicker back and forth even when getting back with Rei and Rinka had finished their scouting as the two were just looking intrigued at Eunji and Jinwoo's bickering.
"You gonna tell him or will I have to do it myself?" The orange brown haired girl whispered to Rei while the latter just shivered at the mere thought of telling it to Jinwoo.
"You do it. I might just get executed by him if I did…" He whispered back as Rei imagined how the Korean male will execute him for allowing Keith to have his way with Eunji.
Rinka was about to tell Jinwoo before Eunji snapped to which made the orange brown haired girl and Rei to turn around, not wanting to look at the situation.
"I asked for it alright?! It was amazing and I will do it again!" She exclaimed before realising the words that came out of her mouth while blushing brightly.
"D-" Before she could even explain nor to extract her statement, Rei's hand suddenly moved by itself before a mouth was manifested while grinning at her.
"I knew it ~ I bet you'll let me c-" Rei didn't hesitate to slap it with his other hand but another mouth manifested.
"How rude. Anyways, I'll always be here if you needed a swift dxxking ~" Keith teased playfully before disappearing as the tension grew higher with Jinwoo glaring daggers right at Rei who was already sweating at the situation.
"You BRAT!" Jinwoo shouted as both Rinka and Eunji were trying to pull the tall Korean male from trying to hit him. "I ALLOWED YOU TO DO ANYTHING RECKLESS WHEN HAVING A CONTRACT WITH THAT FXCKER! BUT TO LET HIM HAVE SEX WITH EUNJI?! YOU DESPICABLE HEATHEN!" He exclaimed while Rei was already battling two fights, one with Keith mentally while with Jinwoo physically.
"Jinwoo! I didn't even know about this until last week and now!" Rei said while desperately trying to push Jinwoo away "I swear to god! I only found about it recently! I didn't even allow or had even known that he would try to take action on her." Rei exclaimed as he barely avoided Jinwoo's daggers.
"Spare me!" Rei shouted before avoiding a dagger that was close to stabbing his eyes, "Senior! Help!" The male begged for the two girls who were doing their best to hold Jinwoo.
Keith was frustrated as he manifested himself out of Rei's body. "If you beat me fairly. I'll leave her alone. However, if I win then I get to court her ~" The ancient being said in a mocking tone and playful manner.
Jinwoo felt his pride being mocked as he immediately accepted the challenge without any logical thinking while ignoring Eunji and Rinka's statements not to do it.
In the end, Keith won fair and square to which Rei was envious of especially when he himself had always experienced the harsh and foul play from the ancient being while Jinwoo only received at least a bit of mercy to which Eunji and Rinka had also felt jealous since they had also experienced the same treatment from Keith himself.
"Don't break your promise ~" Keith said playfully while Jinwoo sulked at the corner, still sulking at the fact that he had lost against the ancient being who was just playing around him during the fair fight yet still showed him why he was hauled as the 'strongest' in history according to the records.
"Piss off." Eunji muttered upon feeling Keith's gaze over her. "Well, that wasn't the thing you said last night-" The strawberry blonde couldn't control her anger as she tried to cut him down with her katana but it just phrased through which made her stumble towards him as he held her in the process.
Rei sweatdroppped along with Rinka on how Jinwoo was just playfully crying and telling how Eunji grew up from being the 'Ice Queen' to 'Modest Ice Lady' when seeing her in Keith's arms.
They were all having a moment before Keith suddenly picked her up in a bridal carry while the rest followed suit when the ancient being told them to jump. The floor suddenly collapsed as tendrils appeared from the ancient being, black blood like tendrils while shadows emitting from it along with what seemed to be dark red blood that had gone bad.
"Six to eight hostiles. Eunji and I will handle the higher two. Rei. Handle the one wielding my relic then Jinwoo and Rinka handle the strays." Keith commanded to which made them surprised at his professionalism as if he was an official Ethereal sorcerer.
Despite that odd situation, they all followed his command as Keith had summoned what seemed to be a shadow dagger mixed with diving properties due to the bright serrated edges and markings on the blade especially with the energy emitting from it.
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The moment the fight started, they were all separated as Keith had tightened his hold on Eunji, not letting her go as if he was protective or possessive of her. "Don't move. Let me handle everything." He talked telepathically to her as the strawberry blonde wanted to refused but somehow felt like she had to listen to him which she wanted to refuse yet her body followed his command.
Keith breath heavily as if he was trying to focus everything before his eyes glowed a bright shade of golden yellow to which surprised her, after all, how could he manifest to tendrils without even activating his prowess.
"Crimson Ray Formation." he uttered before his spiritual energy spiked high which Eunji felt from the passive ability of her prowess. His spiritual energy nature between divinity and depravity as if it was madness itself that couldn't be determined between the two.
Eunji was shocked when the execution of his technique immediately cut every creatures that had been summoned to try reaching out to them, each limb, torso and legs. No matter how many were there, everything was cut down in a spider web formation with less space and only small chunks were left behind after being cut.
"For him to be this powerful… What happens if we manage to secure all the relics? Would he be even more powerful? If so, then how do we execute such being?" The strawberry blonde thought to herself before witnessing using his tendrils to carry her around while engaged with some of the creatures in hand to hand combat.
He was more precise, brutal and ruthless as every strike and evasion was at a level that neither her or any strongest sorcerer in today's generation would ever catch up to even if using their prowess to their max potential along with weapons.
His usage of daggers was extremely skillful from how he was parrying, switching grips to either cut or block then slashing them immediately. It was like watching a professional have a warm up with their colleagues in an unfair power system. Although, it was closer to being an apex predator just being ok a casual hunt without troubles of executing their actions.
Maybe it could be the very reason why he had the title as the 'Fallen' or the great calamity that they all had named him as…
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