Published at 2nd of September 2019 9:54 am

Volume 2 Chapter 1

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First Hunt – Rise of the Demon

Angelic demon, pure and corrupt,Take wing and fly towards the black sun,That barren black orb, chained to the sky.

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Faint..."

That's for kids!" Ezart turned around and roared angrily, even though that was not entirely true since quite a few adults were addicted to such things. Nevertheless, for Ezart that device was equivalent to a kid's toy.

Daren immediately turned to look at Ezart. His disappointed eyes seemed to silently ask, I can't buy? I really can't buy? But I really want to buy, please let me buy! Almost like a spoiled puppy throwing a tantrum for a chew toy. Ezart face-palmed and sighed helplessly, "Whatever!"

Next, he watched indifferently as Daren eagerly entered the shop. Under the inquisitive gaze of the clerk, he rejected other suggested items and instead chose the pink heart-shaped console in the showcase. After that, he looked over at Ezart with shining, expectant eyes.

"Ezart, you take one too. We can play together," Daren decided happily. From his point of view, toys were more fun when played together with others.

Ezart snorted, "I have no interest in that kind of stuff.

"Daren was a little disappointed. Just when he thought to play with his new toy, the store clerk coldly reminded, "Excuse me. Please make the payment first. The total bill is $25,000."

"What? $25,000?" Hearing the price, Ezart immediately shouted, "That's a rip-off!"

At first, the clerk felt a little intimidated due to Ezart's mountain-like muscles. Then, he remembered that the security on this street was excellent. Once he pressed the alarm, the police would arrive within three minutes and so his courage returned to him once again. However, if he had known that Ezart was the God of Disaster from the renowned YeLan Academy, and did not even need thirty seconds to send him to the hospital, the clerk would have had a much different reaction

The obliviously courageous clerk stuck out his hand shamelessly, "It's really $25,000. If you're not paying, please leave or I'm calling the cops." The clerk had already poised his hand over the alarm. These two could never pay $25,000.

Ezart gave a sneer and was about to pull Daren out of the overpriced shop when Daren spoke up.

"Can I use this?" Daren asked, pulling out a credit card and passing it to the clerk.

The clerk glanced coldly at the credit card and took the card slowly while saying, "Are you sure this card will have enough credit…

"Daren replied honestly, "I don't know really. This was given to me by gege. He said to use this to buy things. Can't I?"

Before Daren could finish, the clerk abruptly revealed what could be called the world's brightest smile. His initially cold demeanor changed abruptly as though he had just met the love of his life; his eyes turned so passionately warm that they could have melted a mountain of ice. The man nodded eagerly, "Of course! Please wait a moment while I process your payment. Would you care to look at our other products? Or perhaps you would like to peruse the latest game consoles?"

Ezart looked at the salesclerk dubiously. Is there something wrong with this guy?

Daren shook his head. Hugging the pink, heart shaped game console tightly to his chest, he repeated, "I just want this!"

"Alright. Thank you for your purchase. Please visit us again." The clerk held out Daren's card, smiling like a pimp entertaining his customers.

Daren happily fiddled with the heart shaped device - Enter name, Create a name for your lover, Set appearance - while he played, he asked, "Ezart, what name do you think would be good for my lover?"

"Xiao Ai," Ezart replied, simply using the word that meant love.

"Oh, good. Xiao Ai…" Daren keyed in the name seriously.

"What about the hair colour?"

"Pink," Ezart continued irresponsibly.

"Eyes?"

"Pink."

"Face shape?"

"Round…"

Daren continued inputting the lover's settings. All of a sudden, the microchip in his brain gave him a warning which made him lift his head and shout, "Oh no! We're late!"

Ezart cast him a brief look and said, "Now you realise? I never thought a birdbrain as serious as you would forget about classes because of a game.

"Daren glanced at his watch. Classes would begin in ten minutes but the walk to school would require at least twenty. Being late seemed inevitable.

Seeing how panicked Daren looked, Ezart rolled his eyes, "Come on, it's only being late. What's there to worry about? Everyone in the academy have been late before…"

Daren cut him off saying, "Sorry Ezart, I need to go first." He left as soon as he finished, as though he was swept away by the wind.

"Oi!"

This kid's speed is not bad at all, Ezart thought, scratching his head. Seems like he really doesn't wanna be late. But, it's already rush hour. Even if he took a cab, he would still be late.

"If you don't wanna be late, you'd better fly," Ezart joked, and continued to walk lazily.

Daren was already well aware of this. He would have to fly to reach school on time. But, it was impossible for average human beings to fly on their own. Of course, this had nothing to do with him since Daren was not an average human being in the first place. Accurately speaking, half of his body was no longer human.

After leaving Ezart's line of sight, Daren hid in the nearest alley. There, he quickly ruffled up his hair and took off his uniform to revealing a red shirt underneath. Lastly, he put on a silver visor that he had kept in his bag.

Wings of Steel, activate!

The non-human portion of Daren's body consisted of a large quantity of semi-solid metal, which was both highly malleable and sturdy. This was the main reason for him weighing 93 kilograms.

These artificial features were controlled by a similarly artificial microchip, which had been implanted in his brain. It was now emitting a warning signal reminding Daren that he was going to be late.

This microchip had perfect control over the liquid metal in his body. It drained the metal from his limbs and quickly redirected it to the pores on his back. Soon the metal began to take the form of perfectly symmetrical feathery wings. These only differed from real wings in that Daren's steel wings were hard and indestructible.

Like a movie on fast forward, more and more feathers continued to form and attach to the wing frame in layers, before finally taking shape of an enormous set of wings.

The winged Daren had planned to soar towards the sky when he suddenly remembered, "Oh right, my expression..."

He lightly slapped his cheeks and as he withdrew his hands, the eternally-curious and nerdy expression disappeared. With this change the once obedient Daren was replaced by an emotionless and cold cyborg, whose only priority was his master. He would not hesitate to transform into a demon in order to complete his missions.

His current name, was – Dark Sun!

All that the cyborg needed to do was obey his master's current orders to attend school with a serious attitude and not be late.

Even though Dark Sun's ability to fly could be used to obey this order, he had to consider another of his master's orders which specified that he must not expose his unnatural abilities to the public.

If he flew in front of Ezart, he would violate this order. However, the microchip in his brain had only calculated the time required for him to fly to school and timed the warning accordingly, forcing Daren to resort to flying anyway. If he did not fly, he would never reach school on time, but if he did fly he might expose his non-human abilities.

Since he had other means to reach school on time without flying, he had to find some way to avoid exposing his abilities.Fortunately, his master had only wished for "Daren Solaris" to avoid exposing his non-human abilities. But for "Dark Sun"... this was a loophole that could satisfy both parties.

Daren fanned his wings slowly a few times to test them since they had not been used for quite some time. Once he confirmed that they were in good condition, Daren took a deep breath and launched his slender body into the light blue sky.

Dark Sun soared high above the earth, surrounded only by white clouds. The buildings and vehicles below seemed like tiny ants. Though he had disguised himself enough that no one would recognise him as Daren Solaris, any normal human being would be shocked to see a winged person flying about in the sky. And so he sailed even higher so that he could stay out of sight. Not to mention, Daren truly relished the feeling of flying in the midst of the blue sky. Dark Sun did not mind indulging his other self while obeying his master's orders.

He landed lightly in an alley near the school. Luckily, there weren't many pedestrians on the streets this early, or Dark Sun would have had to land further away and be late.

He took off his visor, withdrew his wings and put on his uniform. Dark Sun was impassively straightening his uniform when he felt someone approach!

Another one of Dark Sun's abilities abruptly activated causing the fingernails on his right hand to extend three whole centimetres. Even in the dim light of the alley, it was obvious that these were no human's fingernails - normal fingernails would not glint with such a deadly metallic sheen.

A student dressed in Chinese attire caught sight of him and paused. "Oh, it's only you, Ezart's servant," he remarked with disgust.Shain Baylian, Daren Solaris' schoolmate, thought Dark Sun as he withdrew his fingernails Switching to Daren's nerdy expression, he timidly said, "Shain Baylian? Yes, it's me. What's the matter?"

"Nothing," Shain replied, he seemed almost too lazy to pay any attention to him. He peered further down the alley and after seeing no one else, he reluctantly turned to the nerd in front of him, "Did you see a winged… a person?" Halfway through, he abruptly changed what he was going to say. Although, he was sure he had seen a seemingly winged person land, he had no intention of being branded a nutcase by mentioning it.

Daren gave him a dumb look as he said, "I haven't seen any birds."

"Not birds!" Shain retorted impatiently.

"Young master!"

"Young master, where are you?!"

The few cries of "young master" were accompanied by frantic footsteps. Shortly, three people appeared in the alley; two men and a woman, and they were no strangers. Dark Sun knew they were Shain's bodyguards, who had enrolled in YeLan Academy in order to attend to and protect him.

"I'm fine," Shain said, waving them off.

Just now, when he barged into the alley, had he seen that coward's face with a somewhat… sinister expression? He gazed at Daren suspiciously. Was it just an illusion caused by the alley's darkness? Or was it because a normal person is usually expressionless when alone...

"Hmph!" Shain snorted derisively. How could that ass-kisser be menacing?With his typical arrogance, Shain looked down his nose at Daren and said, "Tell Ezart I'll be waiting to hand him his defeat in today's practical."

"Oh, okay. I will tell him." Dark Sun nodded, not at all unhappy about being looked down upon Dark Sun had never taken things like feelings and emotions into consideration. Even as Daren, he had not learnt to be angry when he was being looked down upon; the expression was too complex for him.

As Shain left the alley he was unable to shake off the odd feeling. Was that shadow really just a bird? he wondered. If he were anyone else, he probably would not have put much thought into it. But he knew, that there really was someone who had wings and could actually fly.

He narrowed his eyes dangerously, That guy who saved the Solaris Emperor…He had never doubted his eyes. He must have seen a winged silhouette. But is this shadow and the guy who saved the Solaris Emperor related? Nevertheless…

While he was deep in thought, a gust of wind blew past him. Startled, Shain looked up and saw Ezart's servant running furiously towards the school gates and stepping through just a second before the bell rang.

So fast! Shain was stunned. The speed in which Daren ran… even for someone as agile as Shain, running that fast was impossible.

The mystery man who saved the Solaris Emperor, the winged shadow who landed in the alley, Ezart's nerdy servant… could they all be related?

Shain Baylian secretly swore to uncover whatever connection bound these three - he would definitely find the truth.

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