"I killed him! I killed him! I killed that bastard Nikita! He died in agony from my own poison! By my own hand!" such thoughts swirled in my head all the time as I, leaning against the wall, or rather holding onto it with both hands, climbed up from the basement. Something happened today that should never have happened.
Asura, no, Jiaxing Yun, our target, no, my teacher, my mentor, he burst into our base and neutralized everyone in it in just a couple of minutes! Even Elena Dmitrievna was captured by him! "And now? What is he doing now?" a thought flashed through my mind. I had already climbed up and was in the hall, lying on the floor, unable to go anywhere. Lifting my head, I looked at the basement door. Faint screams and cries for help were already coming from there. He is torturing them all, one by one, driving them to death, a painful and incredibly agonizing death. I can only guess what he will do to them, but I'm already starting to feel sick.
Suddenly, another chain of questions flashed through my mind: "Who am I? Why did he choose me, make me his disciple, signing a spiritual contract with me? Yes, now I'm essentially his slave, but it's better than dying down there from his torture!"
Indeed, who am I? My name, or was it, I'm not sure if he'll leave me my name, is Vita Orlova. My parents died when I was not even three years old. Then an orphanage, where I lived for about thirteen years! Thirteen years of humiliation and abuse, and all because of what? Because of my green strand of hair. I tried to dye it with anything, spent all my pocket money on expensive hair dyes. But literally the next day it returned as if nothing had happened! I tried to cut it off, but again failure, another strand turned green!
I no longer remember how they started clinging to the strand, but I clearly remember that the cause of all the abuse was precisely it. It's impossible to forget, after being reminded of it day after day. But it was precisely thanks to their mockery, taunts, and open abuse that I became stronger. To escape them, I hid in the library. There was a grumpy librarian who hated noise, and that's putting it mildly, she literally hated it! So while I quietly read books, no one dared to approach me.
I started with fairy tales and stories about great mages who protect humanity, and ended with works on the theory of magic. At school, where the orphanage sent us, I was also bullied, but now the teachers stood up for me. They loved me for my good grades and victories in various competitions. However, in the orphanage, I still had only one safe place – the library.
Time passed, I got used to almost all the taunts that were thrown at me, it didn't really affect me anymore. Thanks to my knowledge, I managed to pass the exams better than anyone else and get a place in one of the best magic schools in all of Vladivostok! It was under the patronage of an ancient lineage of guardians, people who protect the covenants and knowledge of their ancestors.
It seemed my suffering was over, but it was only the beginning. However, everything started quite well in the new school. I managed to awaken the element of poison, dark magic at an initial level, I don't know if it was influenced by how much I wanted to kill all my offenders. All I know is that my poison is more than three times stronger than others and with proper development and necessary resources, it can become even stronger!
I also found out why one strand of my hair was constantly green. It turned out to be very funny. It was the effect of my poison element, which had infected my body even before awakening, and the green strand was a side effect of the poisoning! After awakening magic, there was more green hair. However, I didn't think about it, as I was accepted into the lineage as an external student, and with my talent, I could become an internal one! However, a guy got there with me, the very Nikita who died, literally half an hour ago.
He was a terribly disgusting type, he had been bullying me since childhood and ruined my entire life in the new place. Thanks to him and his nature of gathering a gang of followers around him, I started to be tormented with new force. And after five months, when most could already release magic, my life became hell! After all, even the saving library was gone! And all because?
Because the people of the lineage believe that it is necessary to completely subjugate their stars, literally depriving them of their will! I fundamentally disagreed with this! My stars became my conspirator friends, who, along with me, during cultivation, devised countless plans of revenge against all offenders. I simply couldn't allow them to be deprived of their will, especially since I wasn't going to do it myself. So, I fell behind everyone else, which led to increased bullying.
And again, a chance to change everything. For the New Year, more than five months ago, I was sent to China for knowing Chinese and due to poor development progress. Some old traitor of the lineage appeared there, who stole some relic that seemed very important and affected the balance of power of all lineages. In general, an important thing. I thought, here's my luck, a change of scenery, new people from whom I could learn a lot, but no...
This Nikita was sent with me again, plus his friends in the transfer. Maybe, of course, it was his doing, as he was a young genius who was allowed a lot. It's funny, in two and a half months he subjugated all the stars and released his first magic! He could easily persuade the elders to send himself and his lackeys with him.
We were sent to Xi'an, according to known data, a girl lived here. I was surprised when I found out that the target was an eighteen-year-old guy. The days dragged on one after another, we didn't do much, except for ordinary life in Xi'an. They seemed to want to make new documents for me, but decided it was too expensive, so they just told me to pretend to be a tourist if anything happened.
Of course, my life was still ruined by the trio led by Nikita, but thanks to the great freedom of action, I could hide somewhere in the city and not show myself to them. Quietly sit and study local books, culture, language. During this time, I mastered them well, even better than those from our group who had lived here for more than five years. I also learned that being sent here was comparable to a demotion and disgrace for everyone. Except for Nikita, Elena Dmitrievna, and those like them, who were talented and decided to go here themselves.
However, I was not upset by this at all, even glad, because it meant that sooner or later Nikita would leave here, leaving me alone. And the others from our team treated me quite well. Well, except for Elena Dmitrievna, it sometimes seemed that she disliked everyone here.
It would have been so if not for today. It was a very strange day. First, Elena Dmitrievna called me and told me to urgently catch Lin Yun Er, the target's friend. Which I did using paralyzing poison, due to my magic, I have a good understanding of poisons. After that, they helped me deliver her to headquarters, if, of course, a derelict building can be called that. And then I was even ordered to guard her, in a room on the second floor, which I did. From the very beginning, a bad premonition did not leave me, but I could not disobey the order. Elena Dmitrievna came in, took a picture of the prisoner on her phone and left, leaving us alone again. After about fifteen minutes, sounds of a breaking door, screams, dull blows against the wall were heard from above. Soon they descended to the second floor, after which everything went quiet.
My heart started pounding like crazy, blood rushed to my temples, and when I jumped to my feet, I realized my knees were shaking. I guessed that someone had broken into the base and started a fight. The sounds had stopped, so the fight was over. The question was, who won, the invaders, or ours. If ours, then everything is fine and there's nothing to worry about, but if not. "I don't want to die! I'll do anything just to survive! I don't want to die, not now, when there's a chance for a normal life, without bullying!" such thoughts were running through my head at that moment.
I tried to cast at least some spell, but the stars themselves trembled with horror and didn't want to fall into place. This was the first time, they seemed to sense a monster that was ready to eclipse the whole world. This didn't happen even when I watched how the undead once again stormed the fortress walls of Xi'an. And then a group of supreme commanders attacked the city, and there were so many undead that the ground was almost invisible! But the stars easily formed a star path.
After long seconds, which were simply endless and flowed like water in a lake, driven by the wind. The door flew to pieces and he entered. A man in black martial arts clothing. He had a terrifying white mask with a devilish smile depicted on it and eye cutouts outlined in red. Black hair stuck out from under the mask. The eyes of this man seemed to burn with fire, and his very appearance overwhelmed me, depriving me of any desire to fight. This was the first time with me, he was like a god of death descended from the pages of some story. It seemed that behind him, an abyss was opening up right now, from which the moans of his victims would be heard, and my soul would be drawn to them. I couldn't withstand such pressure and simply fell to my knees, powerless, and sobbed, awaiting my fate.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" he asked, his voice as cold as ice, impartial and as if belonging to another world, it was like the voice of the god of death, come for human souls!
"Huh?" That's all I could utter, lifting my head from my knees.
"I asked who you are and what you are doing here, aren't you too weak to help the guardians?" he repeated his question, clearly starting to get angry because of my silence.
"M-my... n-name... is... Vita... Or-lo-va... I was sent... here to... help the elders... find one... person..." Somehow I managed to squeeze out the words. However, he didn't get even angrier, but simply ordered to treat the wounds of those below. To my horror, when I went downstairs, I saw four mages of intermediate level lying on the floor writhing in pain. All of them had no legs. While I was treating their wounds, they showered me with curses as a traitor, but now they were all absolutely indifferent to me, none of them were even approximately equal to him.
Having finished, I sat by the wall, waiting for him. I wanted to stay with him, I didn't want to just run away. He returned, as the mages thought, he entered through the main entrance. They acted according to the plan and unleashed a barrage of initial level magic on him. But as soon as the light from their spells dissipated, I saw the incredible. He stood in the middle of the mages, who were unconscious, knocked out by an electric discharge!
After such a demonstration of power, I was ready to do anything for him. He started asking various questions, and during the conversation, the fire in his eyes gradually died down, making him less sinister. I didn't even notice when he offered to become his student, naturally, without hesitation, I agreed. He took out paper for a spiritual contract, asked for my blood, which I gave with slight hesitation. After that, he soon handed me the contract. I quickly skimmed through it and understood, I was selling myself into slavery, but I didn't care. I boldly signed the contract and became his student. After that, we went down to the basement, where I learned who he was and saw his face. I was shocked, our target had exterminated us himself, and how! He is only eighteen, and he is already so strong. Plus, his face was incredibly beautiful, creating a huge contrast with his terrible image. My first task was to bring everyone to the basement, which, although with difficulty, I managed. By the time I returned, the basement looked more like an improvised torture chamber. Soon Nikita woke up, the teacher asked me what his position was in the lineage of guardians. I answered the truth. After a short deliberation, he ordered me to use my poison on him. Which I did with great pleasure. I wanted to hit his side, but the teacher pointed to the groin. I was slightly embarrassed, but decided it was even better. However, how my poison would act surprised me greatly, it literally dissolved the penis! From such a sight, I started to feel nauseous and sick, after Nikita completely dissolved, the teacher sent me upstairs. My revenge was complete!