One month later, the HQ of the Execution Temple
“Again.”
Said indifferently Master Executioner, who was on the Satan-Class that served as drillmaster of this bunch of Recruits. Soon enough, many of those who showed prospects would undergo trials of Initiating.
In the past month, Rias Lucifer-Gremory has lived a life that could be considered torturous to someone like her.
Living conditions were s*** for recruits; many of them slept on the ground or fought for available beds. In the end, after she got beaten several times and in one case, nearly killed by her co-recruit, she started realizing the cold reality of life.
That, those without power were nothing.
This wasn’t an Imperial Palace or Capital Anor Londo.
Contrary to her eldest siblings, that experienced plenty of wars, as they were born during turbulent times and fought in many wars for expansion, she was born in a time of peace. In the safety of Sanctus Imperials of the Imperial Palace, life was heaven.
After one month of training with Grandmaster Valefor and under various drill masters, she has not only reached the initial Grand-Class but also most importantly, started getting better at controlling her Clan Traits and started learning how to wield a weapon.
The weapon she chose for herself were twin daggers, as they were pretty suitable for her.
She only now understood how far behind she was compared to her siblings.
All of her siblings, in various degrees, were trained by their father, often being personally taught how to wield their Clan Traits to utmost perfection, Tier Magic System in every detail and aspect, and even trained them in combat.
She did learn a bit about controlling and using the Power of Destruction from her mother after she forced her to learn. Still, her mother stopped teaching her anything after some time, as Rias never showed any interest in training, as she was busy and had many important things to do than argue with an adolescent teenager with a lack of motivation to do anything.
Among all of them, Sirzechs and Renxue were taught by their father practically everything from Clan Traits, Tier Magic, Strategy, and many other disciplines. While Renxue was a cultivator, she could use Clan Traits and imitate the effects of Tier Magic with her Clan Traits. She even learned Scythe Mastery from her father.
Sigmar, Hilda, and Sigurn, too, learned from their father plenty of things, from Magic to Clan Traits and many more things.
After several centuries, their father reached Forbidden-ranked Mastery in a Scythe Mastery and learned and perfected to Master-ranked mastery Dagger and hand-to-hand.
She was aware that her father never had much time to spend with them due to preparations for something big. From the little time she spent with her father, the majority of that was spent arguing about her lifestyle, which mostly ended in Rias storming out of the room.
Of course, when she was little, she remembered that both of her parents would be constantly with her and playing with her; only when she got a little older, several years back, probably five years ago, did everyone start getting busier and more occupied and stressed about something.
“Stop. Number: R0165-E419 come to me.”
Ordered Master Executioner as he shouted a number that belonged to Rias, as everyone stopped in their tracks.
“You have grown a good amount during this time, so I will now assign you a mission.”
Said Master Executioner as Rias nodded indifferently, though deep inside, she was s a bit nervous about her upcoming mission.
“There is the movement of human magical, affiliated with the Church that is creating a foothold on Earth in USNA. Currently, USNA is a human country that worships devils and is under the direct control of the Chthonian Empire; these human magicians and exorcists could be a great threat if left unchecked. As by orders of Grandmaster, you are going to deal with this alone. Leave none alive.”
Said Master Executioner as he passed her tablet filled with files of her targets.
Altogether, hundreds of humans ranged from old people to babies. Executioners of the Execution Temple usually dealt with shady things and very dirty things like this. Massacring several hundreds of humans, among them, many infants were nothing new.
“Any problem with the mission Number: R0165-E419?”
Asked Master Executioner as he looked at Rias as she hooked her head in denial. Even though she had never trained or attempted anything, she was very well aware that things like this were common around the world.
USNA, or rather the United States of North America, was a human nation under the influence of the Chthonian Empire that primarily worshipped devils as gods, mainly Zeoticus Lucifer as Father of the All Devils. They were a foothold on Earth, as practically every faction had their human vassals.
Many humans from the USNA that proved themselves were recruited and either reincarnated as Devils or turned into Vampires and absorbed into the Chthonian Empire.
“Excellent, the time frame for the competition of this mission is one week. You will depart tomorrow.”
Ordered Master Executioner as she nodded in agreement and departed to prepare herself for the mission.
