Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil

Harlia told everyone present in Ground 0 that if the new vampire king, Malvador came in front of them and if they were not Pablo, they should do only one thing…

"Run."

Everyone nodded as they didn't have the guts to argue with the Admiral.

"Now get lost!" Harlia shouted.

Everyone left the ground and began acting on her order right away.

Only Pablo and Harlia were left on the ground now but not for long as Harlia turned to Pablo.

"I also need to prepare some things. Do whatever you want but be ready tomorrow. Two days later is the war. I want no cold feet."

Pablo smiled. "Don't worry about it. Make me stand on a slab of ice and I won't get cold feet even then."

Harlia nodded and bent her knees.

Then, she took off in the air and Pablo didn't know where she went.

But Pablo didn't have such jumping power so he walked towards the exit of the ground and proceeded to go to room number hundred of the candidates.

He walked fast and in just five minutes, he reached his room and sat on the bed.

After that, he was finally ready to hear about this Ashen Crucible.

The Angel floated in front of him and he asked it right away.

"Tell me about this place. Tell me everything you know."

Cupid nodded and as she also knew the urgency of the matter, she wasted no time and began telling Pablo about that place.

"The place, Ashen Crucible—The Dread Horizon, is the same as its name suggests. Long ago, many, many, many years before, the Gods used to give Egoes to people from their birth. There was no need to become eighteen and awaken your Ego. People had it from birth. The rank of the Ego depended on the rank of the parent's Egoes. So people who had high ranked Egoes birthed children who had high ranked Egoes as well. And from there, the problem arose."

Pablo listened carefully and the Angel carried on.

"Years passed like this but soon, skirmishes began to take place. More and more people wanted to test their strength. They began attacking each other. The weak began to die. The strong began to rule. Strength became the currency. And after all that killing around the world, a time came when only the people with a high ranked Ego remained in the world.

Only the strong were present in the world and as a result, the people ruling the kingdoms were thrown into chaos. If everyone was strong, then no one was. No one wanted to be ruled by someone who wasn't stronger than them. This happened all over the world. But all hell broke loose when one Elf went beyond to test his strength."

Cupid paused. Then said:

"That Elf went to kill a dragon."

Pablo nodded. Cupid continued.

"The dragons were obviously the strongest creatures there ever were. They also had Egoes, but they were big, they could spew fire from their mouths, they could fly. They were untouchables. Even a new born baby of Dragon is capable enough to kill ten Demons in their full power. Because of this reason, no one dared to mess with them. No matter how high ranked Ego they had, no one even thought about fighting a dragon.

But when they heard that an Elf was going to fight a Dragon, they all became worried. Because the elf had said that if he defeated the dragon, he'll be the strongest and then he'll rule over everyone because he proved his strength by killing a dragon.

Of course, no one wanted that. Humans didn't want to be ruled over by an Elf. Vampires didn't want to be ruled by an Elf. Orcs and Ogres were also present in this world at that time and they also didn't want to be ruled over by an Elf. That's why just like the Elf, they also set out to kill a dragon.

One brave and strong warrior from each race decided to go into the kingdom of the Dragons and kill one of them to prove their strength.

If the warrior of each race won then they would be hailed as the strongest individual from their race and then they would become the king of their particular race.

The plan was good, and soon, an Elf, a Human, a Vampire, an Orc and an Ogre reached the kingdom of the dragons.

All five warriors didn't fight against each other and sneaked inside the Drakona Kingdom. There, all five of them looked for any dragons. And soon, all of them found a dragon for themselves each. The dragons they found were only one year old and they were playing.

The five warriors waited for nothing and attacked their respective dragons. The dragons were babies so they were shocked to be suddenly attacked. And the four warriors weren't weak so they had enough power to kill the five dragons.

The warriors won their battles and had smiles on their faces. But after that, everything went downhill.

The five dragons the warriors killed were none other than the children of the dragon king and as soon as they died, the dragon king got to know about it and he went enraged.

He sensed where his sons were and he landed in front of the five warriors. The five warriors were frozen on their spot but after killing the baby dragon, they were confident to fight against the King. The king was fifty times bigger than the dragons those warriors killed, but the arrogance of the warriors was hundred times bigger than the king.

That's why they attacked the dragon king. But the dragon king roared and the whole world trembled. The five warriors held on but they weren't able to harm the dragon king. However, the dragon king also didn't harm the five warriors but he threw them back to their kingdom with a message. The message being— It's War."

Pablo leaned forward and after a breath, the Angel continued.

"The five warriors felt mocked by the behavior of the dragon king. They felt like they were weak, that's why the dragon king didn't kill them. Which was true. So, they accepted the challenge of the war and the next day, Six armies were gathered.

The army of the Humans, the elves, the Orcs, the Ogres, the Vampires and lastly…"

Cupid gulped.

"The army of the Dragons."