The Seven Deadly Child
Spin Off: Dark Guild - The Strongest Lord
Author's note :
I just want to remind you, that starting next week, the weekly Spin off 2 event will be back rolling. The winner of the event will be taken from 3 lucky people who I choose randomly, based on the most interesting comments in my opinion.
Aside from the comments column, of course the top 3 highest voters will receive a spin off allotment. Whether it's a weekly voter, or a whole voter. Announcement of today. Enjoy this special spin off chapter tonight
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"My lord, I have been informed that Beladro and the traitors are currently hiding in the Merak hills!" Cassio. He is currently in a down position, reporting to Santiago.
"Hmmm... what a coincidence! Elder Rielsa, aren't we really going to send some of the best assassins to pass through the region?" Answer Santiago. Without looking at Cassio, focus on playing the Hell Orb he was holding.
"Truly my lord! To reach the Frozen Pine Forest, the only way is through the hills!" Answer Elder Rielsa who is currently sitting gracefully beside the throne of Santiago.
"Hmmm.. Then, plus our members who were sent to the Frozen Pine Forest region, we will all do a thorough sweep of the Peacock Hills!" Santiago.
"Well, I'll arrange it myself after this!" Answer Rielsa.
"Before I eliminate those rats, the Dark Guild will forever be threatened with division! So, immediately resolve this matter, so that our branches in some other empire, cannot be infiltrated by them!" Santiago said coldly.
"Give it to me!" Rielsa replied, then started to stand up from her seat.
"I'll go arrange everything, all of you put up the mission that young master Theo has requested!" Said this old lady, before walking away from the main hall.
"Cassio!" Santiago says after Rielsa leaves the place. Now shifted his gaze that was focused on the Hell Orb, changing towards Cassio.
"Ready master!"
Seeing Santiago's actions, Cassio who felt his Lord would convey important things, immediately put on a serious attitude.
"I want to give you a special mission!" Santiago.
"Whatever it is, I'll do it as best I can!" Answer Cassio.
"Hmmm... I know that other than Grandma Rielsa, you are the most reliable person! So, I want you to be the leader and also the supervisor, to make sure the mission in the Frozen Pine Forest area runs smoothly!"
"Are you willing to go back down to the field and accept this special mission?" Ask Santiago.
"My master, it's not impudent, but anyway, I've been serving your father since I was a child!"
"Your father, lift me off the streets, train me personally, and make me what I am today!"
"So when you were born, I thought of you as my own sister!" Cassio said while putting on a little face. It did not match his hideous stature.
Hearing that, Santiago just looked at Cassio blankly, like he was staring.
Cassio, who saw Santiago's gaze, looked not offended at all, and started to put a little smile on his face.
"As long as I watch you grow up, never once have I seen you show such an expression of interest in something!"
"Maybe it's because you never had a friend! Other than your father and grandmother Rielsa, you could say I am one of the people who best understand what you feel!"
"So, when I heard that you took the first initiative, in offering friendship to this boy named Theo, my feelings became mixed!"
"And as soon as this young man accepted your offer to be his friend, from that moment on I had no intention of letting anything bad happen to him."
"So, when it comes to your first friend, of course I would be willing! Let alone back down the field! If you order me to take back the title, as - Cassio the butcher - that I have long laid! I will be ready!" Cassio replied, with a feisty expression.
"With this, I want you to take your title back as - Cassio the butcher - and become the leader and supervisor of missions in the Frozen Pine Forest region!" Santiago said, then looked back at the Hell Orb in his hand.
"Cassio the butcher, obeying the Lord's command!" Cassio replied in a stern tone, then immediately stood up and began to leave the place.
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(Some time after Cassio's departure)
Santiago was still staring at the Hell Orb in his hand when Granny Rielsa returned to the main hall. He looks to be back sitting on the chair next to the throne of Santiago until suddenly Santiago asks him.
"Chairman, I want to ask you something!"
Hearing that, Grandma Rielsa immediately smiled. It was rare for his nephew to open a conversation outside the official meeting agenda like this.
"Sir, please!" Answer Rielsa.
"If I re-contract with the Hell Orb, how likely is it to succeed?"
Hearing the question, the smile on Rielsa's face instantly disappeared.
"Santiago! What the hell are you saying? That's too dangerous!" Said Rielsa, now calling his nephew by name.
"Auntie...as a Lord, I'm still too weak!" Answer Santiago.
"What are you saying! You are the Lord with the best talent in the past few decades! You've even surpassed your father's achievements when he was the same age as you are today!" Tegur Rielsa's.
"Hmmm.. auntie, don't you see the young man named Theo and Arthur visiting when is the day?"
"Don't overextend yourself, a contract with the Hell Orb is a fate! You can't measure your destiny by looking at someone else's fate line!" Answer Rielsa. Now we begin to understand the direction Santiago was thinking.
"Auntie..when I have a drink with Brother Theo when is the day, there is one sentence from his mouth that makes my heart pound!"
"If you want to reach the highest peak, then you must dare to take risks!"
"That's…."
Hearing her niece's last words, Rielsa began to run out of sentences to respond. However, he himself could also see that this young man named Theo had a charisma that not many ordinary people had. It was like this young man could draw the fate line continuing to be around him.
And in the current case, Rielsa felt, that her nephew had also started to step in and get dragged into this great flow of destiny.
"Hmm. bibi.. seeing the development that has happened in Gaia Land lately, where young monster talents began to appear and stick their names, I think using my father's achievements in measuring my achievements today, I think, no longer relevant?"
"When this continues, I will be left behind when the big waves of the Gaia Land's younger generation, begin to show their respective fangs!"
"Therefore, I must grow stronger, climbing to a place where no one of my ancestors has ever reached before!"
"So I have decided! In the next few months, I will be performing a re-contracting ritual!" Santiago said full of determination, then looked back at the Hell Orb in his hands.
Hearing all the explanations and the final decision of Santiago, Rielsa was unable to give another response to stop him. His eyes turned serious and full of sharpness.
"My nephew! I will accompany you and give you everything I have to help you achieve everything you want!"
"You will be the strongest God to ever lead a Dark Guild in history!"