3 THE TRIAL OF DEATH

The students had appeared in a dark room lit by blue crystals. Several guards stood in front of them. Behind the guards, stood a man wearing a crown and a young girl in her teenage years dressed in official clothing.

"Welcome, summoned heroes. We received divination from above to welcome you all and to take you in. My name is Azrael Lugunica, king of the kingdom of Lugunica," said the man as the guards stepped aside, allowing him to walk towards the group of students.

"This girl here is my daughter, Ein Azrael Lugunica, the princess of the kingdom"

The girl bowed down slightly. It would be an understatement to call her a beauty. Long crimson hair, brown irises, a good seductive body, name them all. She was simply the embodiment of beauty. This left many of the summoned speechless.

"It is a great pleasure to have so many summoned in our kingdom. As said, my name is Ein, I look forward to working with you, dear summoned." She said as she bowed slightly.

Everyone was chattering excitedly aside from one, Emilia. She had not even heard a word that had been said. All she was thinking of was what happened to Mitsuki.

"How, why?? Was it Mark?.. This bastard...." She mumbled. She bit her lip so hard that she started bleeding. A girl next to her placed her hand on Emilia's shoulders, trying to console her as she cried silently.

"Don't worry, Emilia.. We all know who the culprit is.. But now, He is even far more stronger than before, we cannot do anything for now.."

"I know, Virginia. I swear... He will pay for doing this... I swear.." 

Mark at that time, was heading towards Ein, wanting to make her his girl. He truly had never seen anyone else as beautiful and as curvy as her.

"I look forward to working with you," he said.

"Same. You are the one with the post potential here, I see. You have started with a very high level," She said, one of her eyes glowing green.

"Damn girl, you have the analyze skill?" He asked, trying to put his hand on her shoulder.

"No, not really, but you can define it that way.." She said as she pushed his arm away, "I do also know your main reason for approaching me, Mark. I must politely decline your offer," she said as she turned to leave.

"Wait!! You said I'm powerful! Do you really want to pass this chance to get a strong guy as me, right?"

Ein sighed as she called one of the guards.

"I see you are cocky indeed. I am level 180, just to make things clear." She said as she turned towards the guard.

"Show them around the kingdom and analyze their skills. After that, arrange a public announcement to be done in the evening. Understood?"

"Yes madam!!"

"If you will excuse me," She said as she vanished from their sights.

Mark felt embarrassed, he could also hear giggles behind him.

"Damn that girl.. just you wait."

The King cleared his throat.

"Apologies for that.. Now then, we shall first analyze your skills,"

AVALON

"Mitsuki, you are now my chosen one, but you cannot stay here. You shall go to one of the god's mansions.. Aqua, step forward."

A god dressed in a white and blue cloak stepped forward and greeted Mitsuki and Miyuki.

"Hello there, I am Aqua."

Mitsuki and Miyuki bowed down respectfully. Even though Miyuki was still confused, she went along with what her brother was doing. Another god , the one on the furthest left, Realos, also stepped forward.

"I am Realos, god of reality. I shall now explain some things to you. The summoned are those who are called from another world by the gods in order to acquire rare skills, that can actually make us victorious against evil or rather, the coming disaster. The summoned are going to be chosen by each member of Celestior and a summoned shall only be chosen by a single god. The way the summoned shall be able to see who has chosen them is when they can see both of our names. We have the base name, how everyone can call us, and we have the purified name, the name that only those who are compatible with our power can see... Let's say for example, you, girl, do you see the one who can choose you?"

Miyuki was startled at the question, since what she was seeing was defying what she had just heard.

"I er.... I can see five of you..."

"Wait, did you say FIVE?!"

Every god was surprised.

"It has been a while since we saw such talent... There was another summoned like you a while ago who could also see five..."

The mood suddenly turned somber. Realos decided to stop the conversation there.

"What about you, I assume you can see our ruler's name only....Right?"

Mitsuki was not sure whether he was seeing things or not.

"I can see, all of your names, Including Aurendor's." 

The whole realm went quiet. This time, Aurendor himself was baffled.

Realos shook his head several times, waiting for Mitsuki to say that what he said was a joke.

"There's no-"

Mitsuki went ahead and said all their second names, aside from Aurendor's, leaving all of them even more surprised.

"We shall need to discuss this. For now, I shall teleport you to another place, your training shall begin immediately. Bye bye,"

"Wait a se-"

The next thing they saw, they were in a different place.

"Damn him! That was too sudden!"

"What should we do, brother?"

Back in Avalon, they were in a tense mood.

"So, what shall we do? This is strictly absurd!"

"I want to try out something...Grim, You shall do the following...."

After hearing all what their ruler wanted to do, they immediately understood what he was planning.

"That is an excellent idea, my lord. I shall now go to the Itsuo family," said Nozark as she vanished.

"Now, let us see what will happen"

Mitsuki and her sister had been teleported to a place surrounded by tall trees. Mitsuki was deep in thought.

"So, it is really unusual, and I didn't tell them everything...."

"Um excuse me..." Mitsuki heard. He had not noticed a girl whose face was close to his. Miyuki was at the side , watching with shock. Mitsuki immediately backed away, his face beetroot red.

"Who the hell are you?? Where did you come from??!"

The girl had orange hair, a slightly light skin and a well made body, although one thing stood out; a gold chain collar on her neck. She bowed down at Mitsuki.

"My name is Poki Itsuo, from the Itsuo family. I am the one who has been sent to serve you as a slave." She said.

"A.... Slave?"

The girl's legs seemed to be shaking and Mitsuki noticed it.

"Our family, committed a grave sin a long time ago that made billions die.. As an eternal punishment from the Supreme One, we have to serve those that we are commanded to." She said.

"Oh, so that is why she has such a collar on herself," Miyuki said, analyzing the collar.

 [Divine Collar]

 Mitsuki walked up to where she was, telling her to stand upright.

"How old are you?"

"Sixteen, sir."

"We are basically age mates, huh....."

"Shall we commence with the contract ritual," she asked.

"No, wait." Mitsuki said as he touched the collar. Poki closed her eyes, expecting the worst, but all she heard was a sound.

"Clang!"

When she opened her eyes, she saw the collar on the floor, broken into two.

"I hate that. It seemed like you were shaking pretty much according to me. You did not want to do this, right? Now you are free, do as you like," Mitsuki said as he smiled at her.

Poki looked at the guy in front of her, surprised. Warm emotions started flowing through her and the next thing she knew, she felt streams of tears flow down her face.

"But, it is an eternal punishment, won't you get punished?" She asked amid tears.

"No, I don't-"

Suddenly, everything froze in front of Mitsuki. He saw dark energy everywhere and the next thing Poki saw, was Mitsuki collapsing on the floor."

"Brother!!" Miyuki said as she ran towards him, feeling his pulse. Her face immediately turned pale ad she started shaking.

Poki's heart started racing.

"There.. There's no pulse...." Miyuki mumbled as she emitted her aura subconsciously.

"MITSUKI!!!!!"

Mitsuki was floating in a dark realm. All he could see was a path in front of him, glowing a faint dark red. 

"Wait. What happened.. Where am I?"

He heard footsteps echoing in the realm. He saw a dark figure in a pure black armor walk towards him.

"You are..... Grim.. Where the hell am I?" He asked. He was getting more and more worried as he could hear faint voices calling him.

"Hello, chosen one. Welcome to the world of the dead," Grim said.

Suddenly, chains appeared and hoisted Mitsuki up, tightening around his hands and legs.

"What the hell is going on!!" 

"You are quite the stupid one. You broke the divine collar, did you not think that there would be other effects?"

"Are you telling me.. I'm dead??!!"

Grim let out and evil grin.

"Who knows? Anyway, your trial shall begin! I hope you are well prepared for it," Grim said as he let out an evil laughter. He floated up above the ground, revealing dark red wings and a bloody red crown that appeared on top of his head.

"Now, let the FUN begin!!"