Sogeki's Secondary Magic Training [Private]

It was a long time ago, Sogeki was only 7 when he read about this ancient magic, human subordination. A lost magic capable of rendering any human in front of him. For a seven-year-old child who was already learning magic to satisfy his violent wishes, such a magic was simply perfect or his desires. It is this why Sogeki tried to learn this magic; however, his talent for that magic was simply nonexistent and ended up learning Mimic Body Magic; however, later on, at the age of 21, he finally heard of someone capable of using this magic. By this time, Sogeki was already evil and was not going to ask politely this man, instead, he had a more effective and quick plan.
Sogeki's magic was known to be a magic able to mimic anything it touched. This basically meant he was able to learn almost any magic for short amount of time; however, he knew by experience that mimicking a magic temporarily could help him to learn such technique. It was only a theory, but he thought mimicking repeatedly would maybe help him understand the concept, the basics and eventually how to perform the magic itself. Sogeki was a curious man and after many years, he was still desiring to use such a magic. It was just a theory, he had not tried anything similar, but he just had this feeling it would work, if not completely, partially. It was going to be at least good enough for him to learn the magic in some time.
Again, at the age of 21, he heard of a man capable of using this magic and decided to kidnap such man. He found quite funny the fact that he was about t kidnap a kidnapper, but that same silliness he thought about the situation was what pushed his curiousness to see who would win, a kidnapper, or a fake kidnapper.

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It was a dark day. Up in Mt.Hakobe the weather was usually quite harsh and that day was no exception. Besides the normal freezing temperatures, clouds gathered on top of the mountain almost making it look like night time. It was only the hot interior of the buildings that provided civilians with life and heat. Outside the little village like area, a man walked covering his body with a long hood. It was big enough to cover such a being from his frosty death.
Sogeki, on the other hand, could see the man walking from a far enough distance. He was sitting on the edge of a nearby cliff. He was not even sure the man was the one he looked for, but only a strong mage would dare to fight against such a chaotic day on Mt.Hakobe. The man slowly moved through the snow, leaving a trail of footsteps behind him which did not even last for more than a few seconds since the wind and snow together covered such trail. Sogeki had to attack as fast as possible, this man was most likely a strong mage, and despite Sogeki being used to such a climate, he was still not sure he had this completely covered. He stood up looking down the cliff. It was around 15 meters high, one would think it was a lethal fall; however, the snow at the bottom was enough for Sogeki to survive and receive no important injuries. As he jumped, he started to transform into an old man, it was one of his spells, maybe not enough to take down such man, but indeed good enough to sneak attack him before he saw Sogeki. Sogeki fell on a big pile of snow, making such a fall feel harmless. He stood up and had yet to be seen by the man. The snow was, in this case, an ally who served as a distraction for his victim.

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Sogeki, at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, ran towards his target. Before the man even noticed Sogeki, the little elder like mage used his arm to attack the almost frozen human, throwing him into the air and then having him land on the soft snow below him.
"Falcon Cross!" Said Sogeki as the enemy was thrown. Sogeki turned around and saw his enemy, but as the man on the ground looked up, Sogeki quickly transformed into the same man. This was a technique he usually used just to confuse him. The first glance the original subordinator had of Sogeki was nothing but the personification of himself. "Who are you?" Asked the man trying to stand up from the snow. "My name is Sogeki, I am here to take you with me. We can make this the easy way or the hard way, your choice." Sogeki's voice completely mimicked the man's voice. "Well, nice to meet you Sogeki. My name is Lazarus. And, I think you know it will be the hard way." The original Lazarus, followed by the fake one, smiled in anticipation of their fight.

After a few seconds of silence, Lazarus stretched his arms and activated a spell. "Tengu!" A man with two swords appeared quickly dashing towards Sogeki. The first blade missed after a little side step from Sogeki. Sogeki could feel the power of this magic already, it was just wonderful. He could already feel the enemy weakening against his magic. When the second blade attacked him, he used one of his hands to block the attack by grabbing the enemy's wrist. Both the blade welder and the summoner were surprised by such speed and ability, but it was not actually his fighting skill, it was the magic he was now using to weaken any human around him.

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Sogeki used his knee to strike his enemy, suffocating him and preventing him from moving for a few seconds. "I can feel the strength in this magic. I will make you my subordinate." Said looking at the summoner. Sogeki then kicked the man he was holding strong enough to throw him at least 10 meters away and knock him down. Lazarus was quite impressed. After seeing how his summon just dissolved into the air after such beating, he decided to try defeat Sogeki face to face. While he wasn't exactly the best hand to hand fighter, he was still able to weaken Sogeki. The only thing he did not know was Sogeki could weaken him as well. "My turn." Said Lazarus and rushed at Sogeki trying to land a horizontal kick on his face. Sogeki quickly ducked and evaded the attack. Before the kick could even take place, Sogeki smiled and changed Lazarus's face to that of a scared man. Sogeki then stood with a quick right handed punch at the enemy's jaw. Lazarus was elevated about 2 meters from the ground. Sogeki jumped to strike again; however, Lazarus was quick enough to summon a man with a shield attempting to block the attack. Sogeki's advanced martial arts were able to instead, grab the shield between him and his target and use it as an impulse to front flip and kick Lazarus from above, throwing him to the ground. He then pushed himself away from the shield man's back landing on top of Lazarus with his feet on his stomach. Sogeki laughed after a few seconds with his left foot kicking Lazarus repeatedly. "This magic. It's incredible. I can feel the weakness in your body." Sogeki was right. He was already able to weaken people by touching them, his blood was that powerful itself. But now, with such magic, it was like completely overwhelming any enemy. It was his dream come true.

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Sogeki looked again at Lazarus. He was bleeding from his face, mouth, and chest. Sogeki had probably gone a bit wild, but it was the magic making him feel powerful. Something special about his original magic, Body Mimic Magic, was that he didn't just look alike other people, he gained their memories and experience. He hadn't seen more than two spells in this fight, but he knew each and every single of them. He knew their weaknesses and strengths as well as their limits. But he also knew about the existence of the most important spell of this magic. "Huma Raise" Said Sogeki has stepped a meter from his almost dead target and stretched his arms in his direction. Everything got dark and mist started to appear. It was like transporting to another place. The cold could not be felt anymore, both mages were simply separating their senses from the real world and transporting their minds into this shadowy place. It was simply a perfect illusion. Eight shadows stood around the dying target and started to merge with him. "You know what this means." Said Sogeki at Lazarus. Lazarus laughed a little, almost like a giggle, and started to stand up. "Yes, I know what this means. Never thought it would happen like this." Sogeki smiled and continued with his spell. A few seconds later, he was back in the real world, he could feel the snowflakes landing on his body and quickly melting as more of them fell. The only difference was that now, Sogeki was the only man present in the area. Sogeki did not understand what he did and was confused. This was not his plan, but he got carried away; however, he could still feel the power inside him, he was still transformed in Lazarus, but he felt a stronger version of this power.

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Sogeki was just standing, looking at the shape Lazarus left in the snow and just waited as it slowly was covered by more snow. Sogeki started to change back from Lazarus to his normal body. "No, wait... what's happening?" For some reason, Sogeki's magic was being canceled, he was slowly changing back. He screamed as if he was in pain, trying to slow down the process, but eventually returning to his normal form. He fell to the ground and landed on his knees as the last needed snowflake covered Lazarus's shape. It was now as if he never existed. Sogeki punched the snow and broke a rock underneath it. But after a few seconds, he knew he had to move. He couldn't just stay in the snow so he stood up and walked back to town. The snow was still strongly and fiercely falling to cover his tracks, he just didn't know what to do now. He lost his only opportunity of trying to learn such magic. It was, after all, a lost magic, very rare and difficult to find. He now had to think of a new plan, but it was not the time to start doing such thing. He had a long day and it was already getting dark, it was time to head home and rest. At least he had now felt the magic once, he knew how it felt and how it was to use it correctly. Magic isn't exactly like riding a bike, not for Sogeki. He had used the magic to its perfection a few minutes ago, but his ability to do so again was no longer existent, or that was what he thought. He was quite mad at himself for ruining such an opportunity, then again, he had lived without that magic for a while, it was not the end of the world and he now knew how it felt.

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Sogeki woke up. He looked at the wooden ceiling in his room. He did not want to remember last day and how he ruined his opportunity, but he couldn't help it. That was maybe even the last Human Subordination user in the world. Sogeki got up and placed his right foot on the wooden ground holding his bed. When he placed his second foot on the ground, just before standing up, he felt a strange pulse moving through his body. It was similar to the power he felt in his last fight. Or to be more specific, it was the same energy but a bit weaker. Sogeki was not completely sure, but he could feel that same power inside him. He walked towards his door and opened. He was in a hotel up in Hokobe's little village. He went down stairs where a bar could be found. It was only 9 in the morning so there were no people except for a few alcoholics starting the day. He stepped out the bar and walked down the street. He could feel his energy weakening those around him. It was a busy day in the street, lots of people, civilians to be precise, were walking around. Sogeki decided to test his magic, not killing them, but instead just weakening them. After his first try, nothing happened, but with his second try, some people fell to the ground as if they were passing out but still without actually losing conscience. Sogeki smiled and ended the spell, he felt powerful, it was his dream. He had finally learned how to use Human Subordination Magic. It was now time to start training, getting stronger, and of course, starting his human collection and arsenal of soldiers. Picking his targets was going to be a lot of fun.

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It has been two years after Sogeki absorbed Lazarus. He has had the power of human subordination magic since then; however, with nobody to guide him, training has been slow and difficult. This magic is, after all, a lost and difficult magic to learn, not common at all. The day was as cloudy as ever and Sogeki was yet again in Mount Hakobe. The only difference between this day and two years ago was a tattoo in Sogeki's body. A big white snake-like head in his back representing his position in the dark guild Basilisk Fang. Sogeki was now stronger, smarter, and more ambitious.

After learning how to use human subordination magic, Sogeki had been training to perfectly execute this magic; however, it's been a real pain for him to easily learn. After two years of slow learning, he decided to start filling his arsenal of human souls. Hunting humans would, first of all, help him train and practice combat with his magic, and second, would help him continue with his journey towards completely using human subordination magic.

Sogeki stood up from the chair he was sitting on, it was around eight o´clock, but waiting for the sun to hide was part of his strategy. Some days before he had already picked a target. A young girl who practiced bat magic was living in this area. She was a talented mage and had lately been practicing until the late every single day. She was Sogeki's first target. She wasn't strong enough to defeat Sogeki on her own plus she was an orphan. With no family or people to ask about her disappearing, Sogeki's plan would work out easier and cleaner than with other targets. It was maybe not moral at all, but then again, Sogeki had been in a evil guild for a while now and regrets were something he did not have.

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Sogeki walked outside the guild doors and walked directly towards the little town in Mount Hakobe. The town is not actually too far away from the guild base, so walking was not a problem at all. When he arrived at the little settlement, the sun was nowhere to be seen and the moon was as clear and big as it could possibly be. But despite having enough light to walk at night with no needed extra lighting of any sorts, it was dark and lonely enough for Sogeki to hunt his prey. Sogeki saw a big building near him, one of the tallest construction in town. He quickly jumped, springing up and landing almost at the top. He used his arms and legs as well as his natural agility to reach the top. Once he had his feet on the building's top, he started to scout the place. He looked around his area which is where the girl usually plays, but not being spotted by her was not going to be an easy task. After only a few minutes, however, he saw the girl. She was wearing a red and white dress and was jumping around the roofs as a couple of bats chased her in giggles. She looked like a very happy girl, then again, that was not Sogeki's concern. He stood up and prepared for battle as he stretched a bit. The girl was not much of a problem; however, it was in his best interest to practice with his human subordination magic, so body mimic magic was not going to be used much. Sogeki jumped to the roof of a house near the building he was standing on. He quickly moved in the girl's direction, jumping from roof to roof. It would only be a few seconds to reach her, but he also wanted to end his job quickly.

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When Sogeki was around two roofs away from this girl, he stopped and spoke to get her attention. "Lady Vania, I was waiting for you." The girl turned around with two little circular bat like figures on her side. "Am... hello there... how do you know my name and why were you waiting for me?" Asked the girl feeling everything but secure. Sogeki smiled under his bandages and crossed his arms. "My name is Sogeki, I know your name because I have done some research and I was waiting for you because I want to take you with me." Silence over rules the place for a few seconds. You could see in the girls face fake confidence as she thought and spoke. "Okey mister Sogeki, would you mind explaining yourself a bit better? Why would you want to take me?" Sogeki giggled at her question and let a sigh out. "I am indeed not sure you will understand. But I want to make you my subordinate for the rest of both our lives. Sounds extreme I know, but I promise I will treat you well." Again, Sogeki smiled, this time, wide enough for his bandage to slightly resemble the shape of a smiling mouth. Vania was frightened in the inside but was making an effort to avoid showing fear to Sogeki. One of her bats slowly moved towards Sogeki and quickly examined his body. Sogeki in the other hand did not change position and kept standing with his arms crossed as the little circular bat drove his body around Sogeki's. "I'm sorry Sogeki, but I don't want to become your subordinate, I will rather just say goodbye and see you later." Said the girl and smiled as she turned around and slowly started to walk in opposite direction from Sogeki.

"Look, lady Vania, I am really sorry but I am taking you one way or another." Sogeki was still being scouted by the bat when he was suddenly bitten in the neck. As Sogeki showed a quick answer to pain and placed his hand on his wound, the girl and her little bats started to run away, jumping from roof to roof. It was impressive how easy it was for the girl to jump around and move swiftly. Sogeki started chasing the girl, keeping around a two roof distance and slowly cutting such distance. Sogeki was indeed faster than this girl; however, she was also quite smart. Once their distance apart was only one roof away, the girl quickly changed direction towards the streets a few floors below the roofs they were running on. Sogeki did manage to quickly turn in the same direction, but the girl's quick decision did confuse him a bit and slowed his turn. Sogeki started to gain more momentum and quickly was catching up. Vania realized Sogeki was almost catching her and again made a quick direction shift. This time, however, Sogeki did not slow down, he was a quick learner and it was now easy for him to tell when Vania would turn in another direction. After about two or three blocks in that direction, they got to the market. The market was a bit place where lots of people went to trade and buy stuff, but at night, only boxes and some trash could be found. Vania and her little bats moved quickly throwing some boxes at Sogeki and just floating around to evade any obstacle. Sogeki easily evaded all the boxes and obstacles thrown at him. "You do realize you'll never get away from me this way don't you?" Sogeki was right, Vania would eventually trip in speed and lose to Sogeki, she had to do something about it and quickly.

Vania quickly turned around floating backward and losing no speed at all. He pointed his hands at Sogeki and created a magic circle. "Vampire Blast!" Shouted the girl as a big round creature with a face and wings dashed towards the bandaged man. Only a blink after the red bat was created, it landed on Sogeki creating a little one-meter radius explosion and leaving the threat behind in a red and black cloud of steam. Vania quickly turned in a few blocks trying to finally lose the evil kidnapper. With each sidestep and direction shift, he was most likely running from Sogeki. But the man was indeed stronger than she even knew.
Vania stopped to take a breath behind a wall many blocks after the attack he landed on Sogeki. "I think we lost him." She said to the little bats flying around her. "We should anyway be precocious." She gave a little bat instructions with her index and middle finger like a soldier would. The little creature moved up to get a better look around the block and saw nothing. It returned with Vania, trying to return as silently as possible. "Okey, it looks like we finally lost him, let's head back home." She said with a sigh. She knew this meant she would have to leave town, but then again, there was nothing holding her there. She stepped forward maintaining her silent style of movement, but before she could throw her second step, she felt a little hand grabbing her right wrist. The hand was only tied to an arm stuck on a wall. At first, she was confused and scared because of the weirdness, besides, it was the hand of a little girl. She just tried to keep calm and not make much noise, but as soon as she thought she would easily get rid of such grip, a girl started to emerge from the stone wall.

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"Hello, it is me again, do you remember me?" Said the little girl who had just pulled out her torso from the wall and was still holding Vania's hand. Vania's look in her face was only that of a terrified girl. Sogeki was indeed having fun with this activity. Chasing and scaring a little innocent girl was probably one of his favorite things to do. At least that is what he was thinking as he tracked her down through the village. "So...sogeki?" Asked the girl with a crumbling voice and shaky body. The other girl finally pulled out her body from the wall and got close to Vania's face. both were now little girls only standing with around one and a half meters maximum, but Sogeki was still a bit smaller. He pulled his face near Vania's and whispered the answer she was so early going to hear. "Yes, it is I... Sogeki, but you can call me Midori in this form." Sogeki was indeed now in his form called Midori, a little child wearing a purple outfit and tall wizard like hat. He had a particular magic known as phasing. This magic allowed him or her to move through solid objects, and it was maybe one of his most used forms. "Bu... but... how?" Asked Vania as she was almost crying in desperation. She indeed intended to pull herself off the grip, but Sogeki and Midori were both too strong. But it was not only that factor applying, Sogeki had quite a spell going on at the moment. He had cast some weakness effect around any humans around, plus his blood itself was able to make a weakness causing aura, more like a sickness kind of thing. The girl was simply unable to do anything to defend herself. The only thing she could now do was probably hand in.

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The last thing she remembered when being free was easily called strange, creepy, and even disturbing. Sogeki had a strong grip on Vania, but it really was his weakening effects stacking on each other that prevented Vania from escaping. The ground around them started to become black and with a dead like look to it. The buildings started to disappear and a big fog surrounded both of them. This was simply an illusion but the start of a powerful spell. Numerous shades surrounded both and started to walk in circles until a few seconds after, they stopped. Sogeki, in his Midori form started to walk away and joined the circle of shades. From each shade, a shadow extended through the ground reaching Vania and completely immobilizing. By this point of the spell, she had no escape at all. "Huma Raise" Said Sogeki in his normal form and the shadows finally started to take Vania's humanity. It was only a few seconds before Vania completely banished from the town and the illusion ended. Vania had been successfully captured and finally banished from the phase of this existence. She was now the first servant in Sogeki's pocket and would be until the end of Sogeki's days; however, something bothered Sogeki, during the spell, inside the illusions, one of the shadows resembled a known face. It was him, his bandaged body shape was a shadow in front of him. It was the first time that happened while he was performing such spell, but then again, Vania was the first person he captured. It seemed the man he absorbed or rather killed for this magic would be haunting him forever. They were now mixed, the man was now part of Sogeki and so Sogeki was part of him, but it was only a matter of time before the man returned to haunt or kill him.

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