Chapter 1: I promised him to take his talent

The outer section of Phiri city,

'Clip clop clip clop~.'

A horse cart quietly moved along a muddy road with a normal-sized, fully covered box.

Two middle-aged men wearing long T-shirts were riding that horse cart, and uncommonly, they would look at the box back of them.

"Brother Mason, will anyone accept that the kid killed his parents?"

Grady asked Mason while looking at the box with a smooth look.

"Of course, everyone will accept it because they are not his true parents. The first reason why he killed them was, because of the grade 3 awakening serum."

Mason remain his look on the road as he replied to Grady without twinkling at him.

"But, still…"

"Stop worrying about it. Our job is to kill the boy and his friend before making their bodies vanish."

Mason was aggravated with Grady's questions as he continued, "As for the other things, there are others who will look after it."

"Okay."

Grady became quiet as he know what Mason's words meant.

'I need to get out of here.'

At the same time, inside the fully covered box, a 12-year-old kid heard their discussion became furious, and desired to come out of the box.

However, he was not able to move his finger, much less his body.

'Is it because of that injection?'

Toby remembered getting injected with something before passing out and finalized that the effects of the injection were still there.

'Sigh…Am I going to die? Without parents, Ryan and others will become abandoned and endure much pain. I need to get out of here anyway.'

Toby was having different emotions as he thought about his siblings.

Even though they were not his actual siblings, they were more than actual siblings to him.

Toby was furious, afraid, and awful as he knew even if he came out of the box, he would be killed as he didn't awaken any 'Talent' to fight adults with 'Talents'.

'Sorry Joel, because of me, you are also….'

Looking at his friend beside him, who was also captured along with him, Toby could not help but feel ashamed.

'Why did they kill my parents? Why are they framing me? Who wants to do this to my family? My family is neither rich nor powerful. So…why? Just why?'

As he thinks it was his last moments before getting killed, Toby only had questions in his head as he senses dizziness takeover his head again.

.....

Nearly a decade later,

"D..don't come near me...Leo…Please excuse me."

Marco stared at a youthful man, completely coated in blood, and anxiously begged him not to come near him.

"Didn't I already say not to mess either with me or my people?"

The youthful man coated in blood didn't have any emotion on his face as he steadily walked toward the youthful man with a bloodied silver-colored sword in his hand.

Beside him, over 100 corpses were lying on the ground, completely coated in blood.

"Just because you are the grandson of a Supreme hero gives you the right to kill anyone?"

"I may not be sufficiently powerful to go against your grandfather now; however, when I become powerful, I will go to 'Everlasting city' and make it 'Neverexisting city'."

Leo didn't stop walking as he spoke one line after another with an emotionless look, making Marco shiver even more.

"Please…forgive…me…I know I am false and I should have never done that to…."

"B*stard, get away from my son."

Before Marco could finish his words, an annoying voice came from the distance as a middle-aged man fluttered at incredible speed toward Leo.

"....Father, kill this b*stard."

Seeing that his father had come to save him, Marco was no longer fearful and asked his father to kill Leo.

"B*stard…today is the day you will die.Haha."

At the same time, he didn't forget to laugh at Leo's bad luck.

"Do you know what? I was staying for your father…Hehe."

When Marco feels Leo would be shivering and begging him, he saw a cold smile on Leo's blood-covered face.

'Swoosh'

"Son, are you all right?"

Martin touched down in front of his son and hurriedly checked for injuries on his body.

"I am all right, father. But, you have to kill that b*stard. As you can see, we can't let him…."

"Phew"

Once he observed that his son was not injured, Martin heaved a sigh of relief as he didn't bother to listen to his son's words anymore.

Instead, he looked at Leo with a furious look on his face and roared.

"Call of Undead"

'Rumble'

'Kacha'

Soon, numerous undead beings came out of the ground and stood before Martin and Marco.

There were mutated beasts, monsters, and even humans among those undead beings, each with a power ranging from rank 4 to 8.

"You killed an unbroken elite team of my Everlasting city. As compensation, you will become one of my undead beings today."

"Everyone, attack."

As soon as he ended his words, he commanded his undead beings to attack Leo.

"That's not going to happen. Rather, your talent will be mine today."

Even when such a powerful undead army was approaching him, Leo was calm as he countered Martin with a challenge.

"Huh?"

Martin and Marco lifted their brows as they didn't understand Leo's words.

"I know you can't understand my words currently but soon, you will…Hehe."

Leo said to the father and son duo with a small smile on his blood-covered face before muttering, 'Vladimir, Victor, you can take care of them.'

Soon, two silhouettes came out of Leo's shadow while releasing black mist from their bodies.

'Slash'

'Slash'

'Puchi'

The two black-colored silhouettes were very fast as they demolish the undead beings with a single slash.

"Father, what's happening? What are those silhouettes.?"

Marco asked his father as he could not notice what those silhouettes were and how they were able to destroy his father's undead army so easily.

"Shadow vampires…why are they following that b*stard's words."

Even though he could not see the illusion of those silhouettes properly, he could guess what they were, and he was shocked that Leo could control them.

"Son, let's run away."

After seeing two shadow vampires demolish his undead army, Martin decided to run away with his son using his second talent without any hesitation.

'Swoosh'

'Slash'

"Not so soon."

However, Leo arrived behind them and pierced his silver sword into Martin's heart.

'Ding,

Detected a super rare talent, 'Call of the Undead'. Do you want to gulp down it?

Immediately after Leo killed Martin, a system notification rang out in his head.

"Of course. I promised him to take his talent."

Leo smiled a little as he replied to the system in his head.