CHAPTER - 14

  ~ A few days later ~

  Dav: It's time to meet Matteo.

  I have many questions to ask him.

  From what mom said, he is the leader of an important guild.

  I’ll call him to warn him.

  ~ Phone rings ~

  Matteo De Lion: Hello, who am I speaking with?

  Dav: It's me, Dav, your cousin.

  I need to meet you and talk about a few things.

  Matteo: You can find me in Milan, at my guild.

  I'll send you the location.

  Will you be here tonight or tomorrow?

  Dav: I don’t have time, I’ll be there in 10 minutes.

  Matteo: ...

  Ah.. Alright..

  ~ 10 minutes later ~

  Dav: It's been a while, Matteo.

  For me, it feels like weeks, but for you.. It must have been quite some time! HAHA

  Matteo: Yeah.

  What brings you here?

  You had some questions, right?

  Dav: Let's go somewhere to talk.

  Let's grab a drink and something to eat like the old times.

  Matteo: The old times, huh..

  Those were good times indeed.

  When our greatest happiness was those few moments we’d meet to eat sandwiches in a little shop just the two of us, talking for hours.

  Alright.

  There's a place ahead that makes great burgers with fries.

  Your favorite, if I’m not mistaken.

  ~ 20 minutes later ~

  Matteo: What was so important that you flew all the way here to meet me?

  What’s bothering our world's most powerful hero?

  Dav: Cut it out..

  I don’t know why they keep calling me that, but it’s really annoying..

  Anyway.

  Remember when I told you I didn’t have powers?

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  That I couldn’t use aura even after a thousand struggles?

  Matteo: I remember perfectly.

  It’s alright now, right?

  Dav: Someone cursed me.

  I don’t know when, how, or who.

  But you need to find this person and bring them to me.

  We need to stop them.

  Do you remember Gabriel? Same fate as mine.

  I had to tamper with his mana lines and give him a small part of my power.

  When I tried, I saw inside his body mana corroded by a high-level curse.

  Matteo: Wait, I don’t follow..

  Are you implying that someone tampered with our bodies?

  Something like that could only happen when we were kids.

  When no one was watching and the child couldn’t do anything.

  My theory is: if you want to find your person, the only place is the hospital, looking through the files of who took care of you and Gabriel.

  Dav: That’s why I came to you.

  I want you to investigate this matter and find that bastard who ruined my life and Gabriel’s.

  When you find any information or something similar, come to find me at the academy.

  I recommend asking my mother; she might know more about that day and the face of the person who took me and Gabriel away during the birth.

  Matteo: I’ll make sure to find clues and bring you that damn monster.

  With the assassin guild and me as the leader, it won’t be hard to gather information.

  Is that all?

  Dav: I wanted to know more about the runes, the craters, and if you know any active, skilled blacksmiths.

  Matteo: Get comfortable, 300 years are about to enter your head.

  To begin, what are the craters?

  Craters are like portals in the ground, from which monsters come.

  There are many types of craters by grade:

  C/B/A/S/SS/SSS

  Currently, the last one has yet to be discovered, but we assume something like that could exist.

  Your crater was a bit special 10 years ago.

  Too many monsters and a calamity boss..

  It wasn’t given one of these grades, it was simply called a Divine Calamity.

  That crater was worldwide, not just in Italy.

  But most of the monsters appeared here naturally, and there were more problems.

  From my information, 5 years ago, the top 1 SS+ ranked hunter completed an SS raid with the help of the top 10 guilds.

  His name was:

  Azrael Kingsley –

  An SS+ ranked hunter known as "The Angel of Death."

  A master in hand-to-hand combat and dark magic, he’s feared by monsters and respected by humans.

  Very strong and tall.

  Blond hair, a reddish long beard, 40 years old.

  Currently, after your awakening, he became number 2.

  I think it burns him, but he doesn’t show it.

  As for the craters, they appear randomly in high mana density areas.

  When that happens, based on the grade, cities are immediately evacuated.

  You wanted to know about the runes, but I bet you also want to know about magical crystals.

  Dav: Magical crystals? You mean the resources obtained from monsters?

  Matteo: We call them resources because they bring profit in trade and mana engines to power machines, energy, and fuel based on the crystal.

  The era of gas and pollution is over, my dear.

  Currently, the crystals are:

  Green Crystal (250€) – from low-grade monsters like E/D

  Blue Crystal (550€) – from mid-low grade monsters like C/B

  Orange Crystal (15,000€) – from high-grade monsters like A/A+

  Yellow Crystal (450,000€) – from high-grade monsters like A++/AA

  Red Crystal – (10,000,000€+) from top-grade monsters like S/S+

  The rarest of all is the found crystal, the Purple Crystal – from SS/SS+ monsters – (250,000,000€)

  Italy obtained many purple crystals in your last raid.

  But they didn’t find the boss’s crystal or its rune.

  While runes can be distinguished by shape and symbol.

  The more common ones you can notice by the aura around them.

  Common Runes – Light blue

  Rare Runes – Blue

  Epic Runes – Purple

  Legendary Runes – Orange

  Dav: Is this the crystal you mean?

  I don’t know why, but I can use a kind of magic pouch by touching the void with my fingers.

  A crack opens, and I can store my things and take them out whenever I want.

  Matteo: This crystal is Black!

  I’ve never seen one like that.

  How much will it be worth?

  1 trillion? Maybe 10 trillion!

  So a Divine Calamity boss gives something like that?

  Dav: As for the rune..

  It gave me this.

  Matteo: What is this, what?!

  Hide it and don’t let anyone see it!

  How can something like that exist?

  I suppose it’s a divine rune?

  I’ve never seen one like this, and I can feel its power just by looking at it.

  You won’t let just any blacksmith touch something this divine, right?

  I’ll find someone who can help you worldwide.

  I won’t let anyone unworthy even look at it or touch it, and certainly not talk about it anywhere.

  Dav: I’ll leave all the work in your hands.

  ~ Shortly after Dav's departure ~

  Matteo: (Chuckling worriedly) I might have forgotten to tell him not to mention that I’m the leader of the assassin guild..

  Knowing Dav, he’ll forget about it immediately.

  He’s gone now, I can’t ask him.

  END OF CHAPTER - 14