2025-04-01 19:00:27As Ryder walked through the moonlit streets, his newly purchased cloak flowed gently in the evening breeze; he observed the multitude of posters plastered haphazardly on walls and poles.
He pulled his hood lower, ensuring his face remained hidden. The best decision he could think of was hiding his face at all times since only a few people know his identity. His name is quite famous now, and as long as his face remains hidden, then it should be fine.A particular poster caught his eye, the paper still fresh, unlike most of the other weather-beaten announcements surrounding it.[Underlings TournamentEvery Tuesday and FridayOrganized at midnightLocation: undisclosedWhoever defeats the champion goes home with the prize.#10,000 Terra gold coin.]"They'll be organizing it today," Ryder thought inwardly, mentally calculating the hours until midnight. "It's Tuesday."He patted the pocket of his tr
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The number of people in the warehouse was easily a thousand or two, if not even more. Every breath Ryder took felt like inhaling a cocktail of cheap alcohol and stale cigarettes.Bodies pressed against one another, creating a suffocating atmosphere with every breath. The warehouse—once used for storing imported goods that never made it past customs—now housed a different kind of contraband: violence for profit.It was dominated mainly by gangsters. Men and women with hard eyes and harder knuckles, bearing scars all over as if their bodies were illustrating the intensity of their misdeeds with scars that spoke louder than any confession.Although various other criminals were there, they weren't there for the fight but to carry out some more illegal activities that could help them bag a great deal of cash, mostly gambling."Five grand on Crusher breaking at least three bones!" shouted a man with a face that looked like it had been rearranged by an a
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Let the fight... begin.Crusher wasted no time with his offensive strikes.He blasted forward with a leap, covering the distance between him and his opponent nearly instantly.Whoosh.He swung his fist straight at Green Bloody's face. With the power enhancement he had gotten from his familiar, the punch was catastrophic. The air itself seemed to compress around Crusher's fist, creating a small shockwave that ruffled Green Bloody's hair.No, more appropriately, the punch would have been catastrophic if it had hit.Green Bloody dodged the punch, much to Crusher's greatest shock, by ducking under his arm and swiftly appearing behind him. His movement was fluid in its grace.Unlike the few others Crusher had fought, he instantly recognized that Green Bloody wouldn't be easy.A collective gasp rippled through the crowd. No one had ever made Crusher miss so completely since today's tournament began.Wham!
The Seven Demon's Tamer Chapter 1: The Astral Shadow plain
A wide grin extended on Ryder's face as he walked forward. He was invited a few days earlier—now it was his turn to begin the ritual. The Ritual of Familiar. It was his turn to contract a familiar beast from the "Astral Shadow" plain. As he stepped into the building, a sudden burst of wind swept across his face—the aura radiating from the conjuring room to its enclosure was simply overwhelming. It wasn't comforting in any way; in fact, it felt like walking into a thunderstorm. The invisible energy prickled his skin, making his hair stand. His lungs felt as if they were compressed with each breath, as if the very air had grown too dense to be inhaled. Even despite the intensity of the aura, he still felt like his body was being drawn toward the direction of the conjuring room. "Holy mother of..." Ryder murmured under his breath, trying to maintain his composure. The last thing he wanted was to look weak in front of anyone, especially given his expectations. After eighteen years
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Ryder's vision blurred as he traveled through an endless dark space. His scream echoed as he was jolted by an invisible force for what seemed like forever before he eventually arrived at a destination. "This is not what I signed up for!" he shrieked, his voice distorting too fast before it could echo in the empty space. After he was told his soul would be teleported, he never expected it to be like this. He never thought everything would feel so real. As his body levitated in the air of a strange horizon to which he was jolted, he attempted to steady himself, but it wasn't so easy. His limbs' responses were frustratingly out of control–wobbly, unreliable, and with a mind of their own. The sensation he was feeling was unlike anything he had ever felt. His body no longer obeyed the laws of gravity like it did back in the world where his real body was. It was as if Isaac Newton had taken one look at this place and thrown his hands up in surrender, declaring, "You're on your own with t
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This whole situation was offering Ryder more benefits than anything else. The fact that a human soul had no limit meant he had no fear of adding an extra summoning beast. Visiting the devil's plane as a whole was not common. As a chosen one of the black mark, if he was going to survive, it would be a waste not to enjoy the privilege to the fullest. The beast in front of him, despite being so small, was still a devil beast. Its strength was on another level. Since he was given the choice to allow this beast into his soul without any downside, he was more than happy to agree. "Fine," Ryder nodded, trying to project calmness despite the fear etched in his eyes. "I agree to your terms. Bind with my soul and guide me to the Dracogon." The devil-viper bunny's eyes gleamed with mischief. "Smart choice, human. I've been watching you since you arrived. Most marked ones run screaming when they see me." "Run when they see you," Ryder reasoned. "Who would run from a rabbit?" Suddenly, Luxy
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"Ryder, the Dracogon just sent a message to you," Luxy suddenly spoke. The words hung in the air like an executioner's axe, ready to fall with a bombshell. Ryder, who had just calmed down from the panic of losing Luxy mere moments ago, felt his newly regained peace shatter like glass. It was as if someone had replaced his blood with icy water. He didn't know why, but he was feeling intimidated by the mention of the Dracogon. "Great," Ryder thought sarcastically. "Just when I thought this day couldn't get any more exciting. First, I get soul-teleported to hell's version of Wonderland you call the Astral Shadow Plain, then I bond with a devil rabbit." "Devil viper bunny," Luxy snapped, annoyed by how Ryder was seeing him as a rabbit, but Ryder completely ignored him and continued blabbering, his heart shattered. "...and now the local overlord wants a chat. Mom always said I'd go places." His hands trembled slightly, and he tried to disguise it by clenching them into fists. "Dracogo
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After listening to Ryder's proposal on what they should do next, Luxy merged into Ryder once more. The process, unlike the last time, was both fascinating and unsettling to witness—Luxy's form becoming translucent, then ethereal, before turning into a foggy black smoke that swirled around Ryder, then the black mist gradually sank into Ryder's skin until Luxy was completely inside Ryder's soul. The sensation was unlike anything Ryder had ever experienced—like being filled with liquid sunlight, not one of thousands of degrees Celsius, but the soft sunbeam radiation on Terra. Ryder traced the outline of the tattoo with his fingertips, the roughness of his skin in the area where the tattoo was embedded. "So this is how it works," he murmured. The last time was painful. Maybe it was because it was not just merging, but also the contraction process as well. "You'll get used to it," Luxy's voice echoed in his mind, carrying a hint of pride. Jumping off from the tall mountain where he p
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Let the fight... begin.Crusher wasted no time with his offensive strikes.He blasted forward with a leap, covering the distance between him and his opponent nearly instantly.Whoosh.He swung his fist straight at Green Bloody's face. With the power enhancement he had gotten from his familiar, the punch was catastrophic. The air itself seemed to compress around Crusher's fist, creating a small shockwave that ruffled Green Bloody's hair.No, more appropriately, the punch would have been catastrophic if it had hit.Green Bloody dodged the punch, much to Crusher's greatest shock, by ducking under his arm and swiftly appearing behind him. His movement was fluid in its grace.Unlike the few others Crusher had fought, he instantly recognized that Green Bloody wouldn't be easy.A collective gasp rippled through the crowd. No one had ever made Crusher miss so completely since today's tournament began.Wham!
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With how popular Ryder was turning out to be, he was beginning to trend around the four nations of the United Kingdom.All the radio channels were booming. All they could say was about Ryder and the most recent disaster.—"Today on the recent unexplainable disaster: What exactly is Ryder? Man, myth, or monster?"—"One who contracted with the devil beast."—"Has the devil beast possessed the anonymous Ryder?"The news anchors delivered their lines with a wry grin that was supposed to be fake, just to appear presentable, but the excitement in their eyes betrayed them.This was the story of a lifetime. Ratings had never been higher.And as for the rumors? They multiplied at a crazy rate.Some said he could fly; others insisted he could walk through walls. One particularly creative someone said Ryder was actually three small children in a trenchcoat who had been possessed by his familiar.Cases like these do spring up once in a while about someone contracting a familiar from the devil pla
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The morning sunlight penetrated through the half-drawn curtains, casting beams of soft sun rays across the living room.Ryder sat cross-legged on the wooden floor, his dark eyes fixed on the translucent figure hovering before him. Luxy—his familiar—floated in the air, the edges of his ethereal holographic form rippling once in a while like disturbed water."Familiars and their summoners are emotionally linked, but not you, Luxy," Ryder said, breaking the silence that had stretched between them for nearly an hour.This is one of the few times he had summoned Luxy out. This kind of summoning style wasn't the regular one; it was different.It may appear like a unique style he developed by himself at first, but then, deep down, he knew this was a failure.He has tried multiple times to summon Luxy out of his body to experience the world, but not once has he succeeded.Normally, summoning a familiar isn't something that is learned, because the knowledge of it naturally engraves itself on t
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The piercing wail of FSG van sirens cut through the heavy afternoon air, along with the continuous, windy noise from the flapping wings of various familiars. The cries and roar of familiars and sirens echoed across what had once been the busy eastern district of Ludlow. The district where various shops and busy street markets had stood just hours before now contained only an area filled with rubble—a wasteland of shattered concrete and twisted metal. Commander Lucian stepped out of the lead vehicle, his boots crunching on debris all around. The smell of smoke, along with something else—something he'd come to recognize from too many scenes like this—hung in the air. There was also the unmistakable scent of spent magical energy—the remaining trace of gamma energy that had been unleashed through an affinity for fire. "Spread out, fifteen-meter intervals. Our priority is survival of the survivors, and evidence accumulation," Lucian ordered, his voice carrying the authority that came wi
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"If I go all out and kill this familiar, then what?" Ryder questioned."Well, if you kill a familiar, then it will die for good, and there'll be no way to revive it."Ryder rolled his eyes. "You're right. That's generally what 'killing' means."Familiars are dwellers of the Astral Shadow Plain. The Astral Shadow Plain is a plain for partially dead creatures.When some creatures die, their souls instantly travel to the dead domain, but while others do, their souls get transferred to the Astral Shadow Plain."Death has one beginning and one end, but what lies in-between differs," Luxy explained, his tone taking on that professorial quality that made Ryder picture him wearing tiny spectacles and suits, that is, if beings inhabiting one's soul could wear spectacles."The Astral Shadow Plain makes creatures half alive and half dead. With that state of existence, they can either visit the living or the dead Plain at will, if a contract is being made."Ryder tilted his body to the side, narr
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Ryder was quite surprised at the situation unfolding right before his eyes.He knew there was something up right from the time he got into the room. The muscular size and strong presence of the disguised workers made him already know that he might be having a problem.Furthermore, he was most certain of the fact that they were all interested in him from the moment he noticed their piercing gaze on him.It was like being watched by a pack of wolves who thought they were being subtle.Every time he glanced up to stare around, at least three pairs of eyes would quickly look away, busying themselves with random tasks that seemed comically out of place.One particularly large man with scars peeking from beneath his rolled-up sleeves was delicately arranging chopsticks with the precision of someone disarming a bomb.He never expected this situation he had found himself in as the outcome of being unable to pay for his meal. But before attending to all the workers there, Ryder couldn't get so
