Free Kingdoms of West Avanum

“Hey…Hey piece of trash…hey boy come here!!”

says rudely a tall man in white tank tops waving his hand at a small boy in the darkest corner of the room.

“Tomorrow... hi hihi... we'll do a little job and you'll help us by entering the place and opening it from the inside out... hihiihi, easy money will be!!!”

Hesitantly, the boy with black skin, extremely thin and flaccid features and a desolate look asks.

"Err... this time I will be able to receive payment for the service as well?"

The man makes a face of contempt looking at the boy, grumbles, spit on the ground and says.

“Well... since this job isn't going to be that easy, it can be said that if you do well... you'll earn some change yes hihihi...”

The boy outlines a look of happiness on his face with a weak smile but still a smile.

Facing a large, old and apparently abandoned mansion are the group planning their heist, five men and a small boy. One of them pokes the leader with his arm, the same one who wears white tank tops and a gray cap, catching his attention.

“Or… Why the hell is there a mansion here in the middle of nowhere far from the barren city?”

The leader of the group takes the cap off his head and keeps it in his pocket, a few seconds later he scratches his bald head saying.

“Ahhnn... Looks like this place used to live with nobles from the region, they say the family's reputation went down the drain because of their son or daughter whatever... I don't know man, I just don't care... Let's get it this fucking whip and sell it ASAP.”

Satisfied with the leader's answer, the man nodded and took the boy, putting him under his shoulders so that the boy could enter through the small crack in the wood of the wall of the house to open the door from the inside out. The house is very big and postulent, it looks like a mansion, but it is destroyed, the entrances are covered

with thick wooden beams so that the only entrance is the front door as the windows are all barricaded.

The boy, being very thin, manages to successfully pass between one of these barricades on the wall, a few minutes later the noise of locks being unlocked is heard, a sound that seemed like music to the ears of thieves on the other side of the door.

"Well done hihihi boy... You're not that useless, it was even worth not having killed you as soon as you came out of that whore's womb hihihi..."

He completes his speech by spitting on the ground and entering the mansion together with the other men.

They then begin their search of the house, tearing things apart, throwing things on the floor without regard for any consequences. One of the men asks their leader.

“Hey, why the fuck is this whip worth so much and how do you know about this shit...”

The man rummaging around inside a trunk answers.

"Err... I heard from a strange albino that this whip is one of those epic weapons from the time of the great wars, an inheritance from that famous wizard who helped defeat the demons."

The other man near the stairs interrupts the conversation.

"Hey...Shut up, looks like we're not alone I heard something upstairs...didn't the two idiot kellos brothers go looking upstairs??"

The two then stop their pursuit and arm themselves. Together with the boy they climb the stairs to search the floor above.

“hey, shitty brat, you go... Get in that room, we'll come in after you...”

Says the leader, clearly afraid of the unknown, without many options, the boy slowly opens the door in front of him, when he opens it, the boy panics, his face is filled with horror... The boy quickly puts his hands over his mouth, holding a huge urge to vomit, he cannot hold back and then vomits, but due to probably his malnutrition he can only vomit water and small pieces of what looks like bread that has not been well digested.

“Fucking hell boy what happened??... What's in the room??”

Without waiting for the boy's answer, the leader enters the room and sees the same scene...

The so-called kellos brothers, both tainted by evil, transformed into something half human and half creature, one of them has part of his gut exposed to the outside as if it had exploded from the inside out, the other in place of the head will have something similar to tentacles , the two find themselves standing in the middle of the room, inert as if they were waiting for something, when at the end, coming from the corridor to their left, footsteps can be heard... a strong and loud walk.

“I see the boys have already found my two new toys… what do you think do you like??”

Revealing himself from the shadows of the hallway an extremely muscular and strong man, he wears a very tight red calf dress.

“Ahhhhrrgg… what is this… a freak!!”

Shouted the man next to the boy who was kneeling on the floor trying to process everything that was happening.

“No… no sweetie, I'm not a freak… I'm a beautiful woman in case you haven't noticed, my name is Daphyne, nice to meet you.”

The bald man takes a step forward asking.

“F…ffwas it you who did that…sss??”

"So...lol...I found them rummaging through my stuff so I had no choice but to turn them into my pets!"

She answers him with a sweet smile, then opens her eyes in a cold and pressure-filled way, the leader of the thieves, clearly afraid, starts to walk away, when he notices the whip in her hand.

“Ohh... I understand it now, that's why you came, isn't it?... you're after my treasure of chaos... my torment, hihihi... I'm sorry but you didn't leave here alive very much except with my torment!!”

The leader, panicked by Daphyne's words, starts to run incessantly until she slams her whip on the ground and quickly sends it in a straight attack towards him, however he manages to throw himself to the ground and before he could be hit again he grabs the arm. his companion who was also on the run and uses him as a shield.

The whip pierces him right in the belly and there he stays, it's as if the whip had life even though he was in the air he was still stuck there floating, and then Daphyne pulls him back pulling some organs from the man through his back.

The whip lands in Daphyne's hands where she runs her tongue along the single strip of the whip enjoying the blood.

“UUrgg… I expected more, you have terrible taste.”

The man hit by the whip falls to his knees, his vision becomes blurred, blood begins to flow inside his eyes, he feels a huge pressure in his head.

“Hi…Do..n’t…lea…ve…me… here.”

Suddenly part of the man's head bursts giving way to a reddish and grotesque mass, from his belly disgusting tentacles with claws at the ends begin to appear.

Daphyne walks slowly while preparing another attack with her whip, but before she attacks the fleeing man she stops her attack. The desperate man seizes the opportunity throwing himself out of the window without thinking too much about whether or not the fall would be too high.

"Hmmm... I feel a very strong presence here, why don't you stop hiding and show yourself sweetie??"

Daphyne says turning back where from that same dark corridor where she came from earlier a hooded figure is shown, the hood is a worn dark, small gray hairs in a whitish tone are the only thing that can be seen from inside the hood.

The little boy seemed forgotten by fate thrown to the mercy of luck in the corner next to the doorframe, he manages to catch his breath and return to reality. Still panting, the boy starts to get up slowly and walk subtly backwards without attracting attention.

Daphyne just turns her face towards the boy saying.

“Go boy… enjoy the martyr fate has reserved for you, I don't kill children so just get the hell out of here.”

Without thinking too much about those words, the skinny boy starts to run without looking back because his life depended on it.

“Sorry for the intrusion...”

Before the mysterious figure could finish his sentence Daphyne interrupts him.

“You… you were watching us weren’t you??”

“Indeed… I was, I wanted to see what she is capable of, the renegade, shame and destruction of the noblest family of Avanum is capable of!!”

Daphyne then changes her countenance to a serious face and a hateful look.

She then launches an attack with her whip towards the man who just keeps in place being crossed in the chest by the whip.

"You despicable worm... now you will be part of my collection like all the idiots who come here after my family's fortune."

Through that immense darkness of the hood it is possible to see a smile.

“I'm sorry... your chaos treasure will have no effect on me as it cannot change me into what I am... and what I seek here is the single greatest treasure that the richest family in Avanum could offer me that’s you Daphyne!!”

Immediately the woman puts her hand under her cheek getting embarrassed.

“Who… are you??...and why are you so kind in your words?”

"My name is currently not relevant, all you need to know right now is that I need you."

She starts blushing even more looking down immediately.

“You're fed up with this world aren't you too ??... those who don't accept you as you really are, this miserable world that condemns you for something you are not to blame... I want to clean this world, that's why I came here and therefore I watch her.”

No response Daphyne just watches him with her face flushed, her eyes fill with tears, she puts her hands under her mouth and bends over, crying more and more.

Already far away, the boy continues to run incessantly without looking back for a second.

And he runs, runs and runs some more, he has no strength left, but he keeps running.

He wants to leave all that behind, all that suffering he went through with his boss and especially all that madness he saw in that mansion because of that he keept running.

And then before he starts to lose his vision and feel an immense desire to give up and hit the ground he manages to reach a house surrounded by wooden fences with a huge and green field, he ran so much that he was probably no longer in Avanum he stood on the borders between Avanum and Aurgus.

His last vision is of a beautiful Elf girl bathing in a river next to him, and with that vision he passes out.