Rebellion and Escape

Outside the building, the politicians, the children, and the media are still outside; they all heard the loud noise coming from the building.

Boom!

Curious, Nyx and his friends ran towards their room, but to their surprise, the whole wall separating the lobby and their room is gone.

Dust and debris flying away.

Standing in their room is wounded Morrow and Veil.

"?!?!"

Everyone who entered the building shuddered in fear because they did not understand what is happening.

Uhekk. Pant pant pant.

Morrow spit out blood as he coughed, he dealt considerable damage to Veil who is mysteriously more powerful than a big man such as himself.

Veil is just a petite 8-year old girl they never even gave attention to, but now she is standing against Morrow who everyone never even thought of talking back to.

Blink. Woosh!

Veil, seeing that there are more audience now, noticed that the media is also entering the building, she disappeared and appeared behind the media, in that brief moment, she destroyed all of the recording crystals, and then appearing in front of Morrow again.

Crack. Boom.

By all these developments, everyone has no clue as to what is happening, until Veil dropped to her knees, coughing.

Uhek, uhek, uhek. Pant.

The frightening atmosphere calmed down as the magic circles that came from the Noir faded away.

It seems that Veil finally gained control of herself.

Looking around her, she could only think that this is the result of reading the unknown phrases written at the end of the book she was interestingly reading.

At that moment, before she collapsed to the floor, she remembered Ara's dream of gaining the powers in the book.

Thud.

Morrow kneels down from exhaustion from their exchange, his guards only recovering from being slammed to the wall.

"S-sir Morrow!"

"Move away! Cancel all this today!"

They all proceeded to help Morrow and asked the politicians and the media to cancel the event.

As Morrow slowly walks away, the politicians left without benefitting from the orphanage.

The other children watching the events unfold before their eyes could only gasp because they felt like watching a fairy tale.

[...]

Another year has passed from since then, the orphanage has been rebuilt and there are also structural changes to the management.

Morrow has been replaced by Wulve as the owner of the orphanage.

Wulve is a lot more dangerous man than Morrow, he might not boast a big build as Morrow, but he has been trained to fight since he was a child.

Wulve is an orphan himself and his tragic life pushed him to break his limits after limits.

Even Morrow gets chills and warning bells just by looking at Wulve's back.

Wulve has also three personal guards namely, Porter, Yue, and Cowl, who all grew up with Wulve in their orphanage.

They definitely are well-suited for their jobs as the new upper echelon of this orphanage.

Their way of operations was also changed to its core, now, the orphanage doubles as a slave market, and it became an even terrible place.

Veil, throughout all these changes, was imprisoned away from the other orphans; she was well hidden below the building, without sunlight and fresh air even reaching her.

Crawl. Crawl.

This still and tasteless life of Veil continued, as outside her cell, many different events have transpired.

Morrow sparked a rebellion against Wulve and his three guards.

An internal conflict sparked this rebellion.

Morrow did not like the idea of having someone higher than him, and he is the previous owner of this place, all the earnings and donations come straight to him, but now, Wulve and his guards are the only ones who gain benefit from their operation, these four play games and spend everything while only providing minimal value to Morrow.

While all those years passed, Morrow has been slowly building his plan to overtake Wulve.

Morrow allied with the grown gang of Nyx. In their world where fighting and strength means power, they all improved their strength to face fighting experts like Wulve.

Morrow's plan lasted for 5 whole years, gaining allies, learning new power, all in order to destroy Wulve.

In the fateful night, as the full moon rises, Wulve is busy having fun with his guards in their own room.

Video game SFX playing.

This is the night where Morrow and his allies would commence their long plan.

It is finally the day where their rebellion comes into fruition.

Morrow assigned different sets of person per target, he divided ten people per guard to at least distract and separate them, while he and Nyx will face Wulve by themselves.

With this plan, they planned to separate the four by causing a ruckus outside first, a decoy tactic.

Boom! Boom!

Hearing the explosions caused by Morrow's allies, Yue asked Wulve that she will investigate; she blinked out of her position like the trained assassin she is, making no sound whatsoever in her movement at all.

Arriving at a nearby tree, Yue scanned around the building.

Seeing that their decoy got one of the guard's attention, it is time to proceed to their second phase: causing another explosion in the building with Wulve and the rest of his guards, with hopes of separating the three left in Wulve's room.

"Advance!"

After confirming that Yue is at least 50 meters away from the orphanage, Morrow detonated the bombs planted around the building.

Kaboom! Bang! Boom! Crack!

In the process of explosion, Veil's cell has been bent, giving her an opening to escape.

"I can escape!"

While Veil plans her escape, Wulve's room suffered the most destruction, but to Morrow's surprise, the three inside is battle-ready, almost as if they are prepared for their raid.

Vrrrrr. Vrrrr.

"Sir Morrow! The decoy plan failed! The Yue chasing us is an afterimage! Wulve should know our plan by now!"

Dead on, and that is why Wulve and his guards are ready, as if they are expecting Morrow's arrival.

Hearing this, Morrow broke into cold sweat, his plans are not working as expected, and the real Yue then appeared in front of Wulve who is sitting in his couch.

Crunch.

Morrow could only crush his phone from anger.

As Wulve finished taking a sip from his drink, Yue spoke.

"Brother Wulve, you do not even have to make a move this time, I am enough to annihilate all of them."

Wulve sneered and gave his permission.

"!!!"

Hearing the two's conversation, Morrow rages, it is almost as if they are putting no importance to Morrow and his gang.

While Morrow pondered what to do regarding their plan, Nyx and his gang suddenly kneeled to Yue.

"What do you think you are doing, Nyx!?" Morrow's veins are bulging from his neck to his head.

"We have no intentions of siding with a weak man such as you, Morrow!" Nyx retorted with a grin.

"!!!"

Because of this situation, Morrow lost his control in rage.

Nothing worked his way despite waiting for half a decade to forward his plans.

Woooong!

Morrow's fists glow, it seems that he has gained some sort of power throughout the years of his plans.

Skill: Rage Smash!

Woosh. Swing!

He charged towards Nyx, but Nyx's friends intercepted him.

As Morrow's fists made contact, everyone who intercepted Morrow flew away from impact, cracks appearing on the walls and the floor.

Boom! Boom!

Morrow's eyes glow with fiery rage as he continues his charge towards Nyx, Nyx prepared his twin blades to slash Morrow.

"You can't beat me!"

Swing. Thud. Crack. Woosh.

The two exchanged blows for minutes, until Nyx fell down after getting hit by Morrow in his gut, the same sensation from when Morrow punched Nyx years ago.

Aughhh. Uwekk.

Yue, seeing her underlings failed to repel the raging Morrow, started moving herself.

Blink!

She instantly dashed towards Morrow, and then reappeared behind the big man to stab him with her bladed fan.

Stab! Swipe!

As if he read Yue's movements, he stopped the fan with his bare hands, the blades at the tip of the fan bending in the process.

As all of these are happening, Wulve and his two other guards even continued to play their video games seeing that their gadgets did not get damaged by the earlier explosion.

They do not care as to what is happening at all. Absolute confidence!

Morrow seeing this, gained confidence in a 1v1 against Yue, whose weapon is now unusable.

"Your weapon is now unusable Yue! You won't be able to beat me in a melee combat!"

However, Yue threw her destroyed fan; put her hands inside her sleeve to get more fans, this time, she has two bigger bladed fans.

Shing. Shing.

After posing for an attack, Yue swiped both of her arms, making blade surge of winds that whistle through the air.

Skill: Bladed Wind!

These invisible slashes wounded Morrow's limbs severely.

He has no way of knowing where and when the slashes will come.

Uuuugh. Ahhh!

Weakened by the wounds all over him, Morrow's rage glow slowly fades off as he falls down to the ground.

Thud!

One of Morrow's ally, Nort, walked behind Morrow to help him.

Nort is a man Morrow met in another city; it seems that he is acquainted with Wulve, seeing how angry he is for what Yue did to Morrow.

Nort's wife was caught in the serial killing of Wulve and his guards.

Killing is like a game for Wulve, and Nort could only wait in rage until this fateful night.

Cling. Clang. Crack. Boom. Woosh.

The fighting continued on the upper floors, while the children below could only wait in fear, they do not know what is happening above them after being stuck in their room, as rubbles block their ways out.

Veil, who made her escape, climbed up to search for the other children with the hopes of saving all of them.

Growing up with the powers of the Noir, Veil has been communicating with the spirits of the Noir in her dreams every single day.

She is now 13 years old, she found out that aging gives her more control to her dark curse. The spirits in her dreams also guide her in the power they bestowed her after reading the Noir.

After all those years, Veil can summon different objects at will using her curse, but at the process of activating her power, different symbols appear all over her body, the most prominent change being the lines in her face and the change in her left eye.

This eye gives her vision to the dark orbs she can absorb, taught to her by the blade spirits.

Crkrkrkrkrkrk~

She then summoned a longsword from her shadow, a mask to cover her face and changed her clothes into a dark coat to cover her body.

Swing! Crumble.

Using a slight force to slash the rubble, she helped the orphans out and led them far away from the building.

"You are all safe now! Let's go out of here!"