Well, I am having a very irritating evening. Some fool messenger was very looking to deliver a message to me. So instead of leaving his message with the inn keep he came up to my room to deliver the message personally. He barged into my room without knocking while I was entertaining an admirer. I had to take the message and push him out of my room as he was staring at my body and could not seem to speak. The fool did not tell me the message was from the king, and I considered throwing it out but opened the message. I thought I was being summoned to the capital, but the message said to appear at the manor of a lord that was several days away on horseback. I do not know if I will go but I do not care right now I am going back to my admirer for the night. I decided to go I paid my bill and left the inn this morning and began my journey.
It been several days of camping out, but I have arrived the manor. I did not know what to expect from the summons but not this. There were many people who were also summoned to this meeting. I saw at least 2 squads of regular soldiers led by champion knights with overall command being with a paladin. There were also 4 rangers, 3 priest, and at least 2 spellcasters after talking to them one specialized in attack magic and another in healing magics. There were also 4 other creature hunters besides me and only 1 other had reached Slayer rank. I was shocked by the gathering and a bit disgusted when I saw the other slayer since I knew him and hated him.
Luckily when I saw him, and he saw me the meeting began so I did not have to interact with him. The meeting was about what I expected a lot of pomp to announce the lord before we could find out what we were there for. The meeting was for an investigation of a part of the lord territory. Apparently, the town of Silverleaf was reporting trouble and now no reports have come from the region. The lord asked us to investigate the trouble and figure out why the town stopped reporting. We were tasked with investigating and dealing with the problem.
After the lord gave us our mission we began speaking and make preparation. The paladin Garrett set himself as the overall leader of the company with his captains Archer a tactician and strategist and Jax a weapons master acting as his seconds. The 28 men that made up the 2 military units were considered elite royal soldiers. Veterans of dozens of battles and skilled in a variety of weapons. Only one Ranger gave me his name of Kage he was the leader and most experienced of the ranger group. The Priest where an eclectic group one named Rune was a master of runes and runic powers. Warden was a master of wards and warding powers. Atlas was a scholar of a variety of other arcane subjects. The spellcasters Ignis and Alethea, Ignis was the elemental spellcaster capable of attack and defense magics. Alethea was a healer capable of healing most wounds that the company would suffer. I spent some time getting to know the other members of the company when he decided to make his presence known. The only other slayer in the group Asher and I had a history we both studied under the same master. At the time I had a deep connection with Asher. He seemed kind and I in my youth and naivety though we could have a deeper relationship than friends. It was when in a time of vulnerability, I chose to share with him a secret of myself. That I was Nephilim; the blood of the angels having been past in my family since before the catastrophe that destroyed the first world. That the angelic blood gave me special power and even enhanced my appearance giving me more angelic features. It was after I told him this that Asher’s personality became clearer. He showed himself to be a self-entitled narcissist. He laid claim to me, calling me his property and that he would take me. I told him that I was not his and I would never be his. We had a falling out after that, but it did not become a problem until he tried to force his claim on me. It was then that I threatened him and told him if he ever tried to force a claim, I would kill him. Yet for some reason Asher and 4 other hunters who I knew to be his cronies were called to be a part of this company.
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It was while the company was making preparation of if we discovered people still in the town and how long the investigation make take. When Asher came up to me, he said he missed me, and he hoped I missed him. Then he said, “I will make you mine Seth make no mistake, you belong to me and before this is over, I will claim you”. While he said this, he tried to lay his hands on me. I was forced to pull a knife and remind him what I had told him. “I am not your property Asher I will never be yours and you will not touch me, or I will end you”. He gave a predatory smile before he walked away, and we continued our preparations.
