A cannibalistic sheep in wolfs clothing

How many years was it? Five? Yes.... Five years since Necro awoke from his cursed slumber. Necro was once a powerful monster that even the dragons learned to fear, millions of years a go Necro was considered as death himself..... but now he was nothing more than a scary bed time stories told to little children in order to scare them into obedience. This was degrading, but Necro knew all too well his slumber has weakened him, even after five years of ravenous feed, the thousands of pounds of human flesh only restored a fraction of his strength. Five years of feeding and his strength was only equal to a lowly D rank mage. There was two options, feed like a monster and risk being hunted down by this new world.... or join the humans, befriend them, learn how this world came to be, and once he gains their trust... once he has had his fill of knowledge then it would be time to feast on the flesh of the fools who dared trusted him. Necro chuckled, the second option sounded more appealing.

Necro approached the ruins dressed as a scavenger, and of course he wore his signature leather mask.... This place was a place he once knew.... He gazed at the fallen structure and the foundation of the ruins..... Necro closed his eyes picturing the walls and it's former glory.... the blood shed behind these walls..... this was nothing more than a symbol of humanities hypocrisy. The truth was Necro wasn't here to reminisce about the past.... he was here to find clues or anything related to the dark mages.... Necro recently joined the ranks of the rune knights, he was able to pass himself off as a poor country bumpkin, who wears a creepy mask in order to hide his scars. Funny enough he was accepted among the ranks of the knights. What better place to hide and feast? That's right, Necro joined the ranks to hide right under their nose, after all it was the Rune knights who stood as the authority and defenders of the people. Necro smiled from underneath his mask a brilliant plan indeed, but for now he had to gain their trust by "helping" out.

Necro slowly drew to a stop, he noticed a scavenger, the poor fellow must of scurried here to look for treasure. Necro grinned, it was feeding time. Necro called out to scavenger "You there! Stop... have you seen any odd things lately.... perhaps dark sorcery of some kind?"

"Mind your own business kid!" shouted the raggedy man, Necro simply pushed up his sleeve to show the man the Rune Knights insignia. The man laughed "You don't scare me! Government DOG!" spat the man. Dog?..... Necro's eyes narrowed. In a blinding speed he dashed up to the man and hit him with the back of his hand. The man stumbled back, the force of Necro's strike caused him to lose his two front teeth.

"Now.... look what you made me do...." sighed Necro as he walked over to the cowering man. The man cursed saying that he was going to tell Necro's superiors about his abusive behavior. But Necro merely kicked him in the gut to shut the man up.

"Y-you're supposed to be a Rune Knight.... you can't do this! You'll get arrested!" The man gasped in pain as Necro kicked him once more.

"No... to get arrested evidence is needed.... there are no witnesses here. " Necro looked around innocently as if a child looking for his friends in a game of hide and seek.

"T-then I'll show them my injuries! That's enough proof!" the man laughed triumphantly as he slowly got up.

"How will you show my commanding officer if you're dead? " Necro cocked his head in amusement. He then unzipped his masks mouth piece revealing a set of pearly white teeth.

"Kill me?! T-then what if someone finds my body!" The man tried to back away. Necro simply laughed.

"That would be a problem.....Then I guess I'll have to EAT until there is nothing left." Suddenly Necro was in front of the man, whispering to him of how he would devour is intestines and organs, the man looked down at his chest and saw Necro's right hand pierce his flesh pulling out the bloody ambrosia out of his pudgy body. The man was dead.... Necro pulled his hand out of the dead mans chest and licked the blood that was trickling down his wrist.

"Tch.... tastes like crap...."

Necro sighed, Necro's mask hid his unemotional face but the truth was Necro was quite irritated that he let someone sneak up from behind, the cursed slumber really did a number on him, Necro's senses was not as sharp as they once where. Without turning to address the man, Necro spoke out "Uncivilized? Hmph....You humans are so irritating. Always ranting about being 'civilized'..... Tch... to hell with all of you! You humans are hypocrites.... you find that when a monster kills a human it is uncivilized, beastly, inhumane..... Yet the truth is you humans love to to cause havoc, you humans love to destroy, you humans also kill your own kind.... you human's are no different from we so called 'monsters' " Necro tore the corpses right arm off as if it was a chicken wing, he then began to chew on it.

Necro finally faced the man, wiping his face with a napkin. Necro recognized the man.... he knew this guy was not a person to be trifled with. "What is it you want human? I know you are not a legal mage..... murder like this should be a normal sight for you...." Necro sighed and tossed the arm, he had his fill.... the man he just killed reeked of alcohol.

Lucille once again silently kept herself to the shadows while her guild master moved around these ruins. It was starting to be a habit for her to follow him out of the Tartarus guild hall wherever he went, being his silent and hidden bodyguard. She still didn't know if Lyserg knew that she was doing this, but she had continued to as she did not trust anyone else in the guild to have his back when she wasn't around. It seemed slightly like it was borderline stalking, which it was in a sense but the blue haired mage wasn't going to say anything if her master didn't seem uncomfortable with it.

The blood mage tensed when Lyserg confronted the killer, and put herself on alert immediately. She placed herself in a stance where she could cut down the thing trying to confront her master if it tried anything without letting herself out of the shadows. All Lyserg had to do was give her an opening, and the creature would go down without even a whimper. Of course her master could defend himself, and she wasn't doubting that he could take this thing on without even breaking a sweat. But she was taking no chances at all, and thus readied herself for anything.

Lucille was a cautious and careful individual. Nothing was going to get the jump on her or her guild master, she would make sure of that.

Necro paused, the silence at first seemed hostile but it was quickly broken by Necro's light chuckle. "You're quite interesting human..... quite interesting indeed.... I'm no fool.... I can sense that your power ranks much.... much higher than mine.... it would be foolish of me to 'invade' your so called space any further... so as a token of respect allow me to clean up this little mess that I made....." Necro then bowed to man in front of him, this was something Necro was accustomed too, despite his seemingly prideful behavior Necro hated arrogance... for arrogance is a deadly poison that can kill even the strongest of creatures. Necro would simply let the man have his way, even though Necro desperately wanted to kill the man in front of him, Necro knew it would be an impossible feat in his current condition.

"Allow me to call my assistant..... she'll have this place spotless. Nemu? Child come out and clean this mess." Necro called out his assistant at first there was silence, then a soft voice made it's way through the quite area. "Yes master...."

A little girl quietly stepped out of her hiding place that was right next to the mans so called body guard. The little girl stopped in front of Lucille, with out any emotion she spoke "It's not nice to listen into peoples conversation....." the little girl then walked away as if nothing happened. She then walked to Necro's side.

"Nemu, will you please be a dear and clean up the garbage?" Necro gave the little girl on the pat on the head.

"Yes, master right away..." Nemu then pulled out a black suit case out of no where and opened it up, Nemu then took out two butcher knives and began to cutting the dead man into pieces. After she cut apart the corpse the then placed the body parts in the suit case, in a matter of minutes the place was spotless, not a single drop of blood could be found. Nemu then looked at her master and said as she pointed at Lyserg."Will you be eating this later master? Or will you be eating that man?"

"No, no my dear Nemu, I will not be eating any of them, dispose of the body later..... and mind your manners Nemu, this man in front of us is...... a friend, or I do certainly hope he will be." Necro chuckled and gave the little girl another pat on the head. He then turned to Lyserg. "Is this better? We cleaned up the place I certainly do hope that there will not be any more trouble between the two of us, I mean no harm, sir, you can call off your little lady friend over there."

Lucille nearly let her hat loose when the little girl came out in front of her. Not only ruining her hiding spot and giving her away, the girl had the audacity to try and reprimand the blue haired woman for hiding and watching her guild master from a careful distance. Lucille had the urge to just kill both of the two in front of her, but that would possibly anger Lyserg. If there was one thing she disliked doing, it was making her guild master angry. Thus, she stepped out of the shadows and walked over to Lyserg's side. She bowed to him gracefully, hoping he would feel no anger at her actions for his own safety.

"I apologize master." Her voice was cold yet soft and held a bit of fear at what her master's retaliation would be. Lucille couldn't hold a candle to Lyserg when it came to any type of fight, and thus if he wanted to harm her he could. It wasn't as if she would fight him though. Lucille was a weapon for him to use as he saw fit, so she would never raise a hand to him. He was her guild master, and she was the tool to ensure their goals got accomplished. If that meant she was going to be his punching bag for a bit, so be it. "I accept any form of punishment you see fit for me."

"Well there is no use to hide it now good sir, I'm a Rune Knight, my name is Necro Stigma Rank-D officer.... I'm currently in search for any clues or hints about the dark guilds, but if I may my say, my position in the Rune Knights is..... uh what one would call temporary...... I carry the badge and the perks that come along as a Rune Knight, but I do not carry their ideals and beliefs.... I'm no fool, you probably think my kind are mindless gluttonous creatures that feed on your kind, but that is not entirely so.... I've read the text book information about us.... all those documents and things that you think you might about my kind is only a fraction. The ghouls recorded down in history were the stupid fools of my kind who was foolish enough to get caught..... You sir have much to learn from my kind, like humans the most dastardly and great of my kind are unknown in history...." Necro chuckled putting his hands up as if he was surrendering.

Necr paced back and fourth walking about trying to calculate an escape route just in case if things took a turn for the worse, "I'd like to say, I mean no harm, I only regarded your power in respect, and yes you are right. I am in fact frightened, scared shit less to be exact, with the current gap between our powers I am no threat to you..... So to resolve any further conflict and misunderstandings, I'll give you some information. Nemu! Give our friend the file." Nemu nodded and produced a file which was labeled classified Rune Knights only. Nemu then walked up and offered the file to Lyserg.

"Recently The Magic Council and the commanding officers of the Rune Knights have been on their toes due to the recent attack in Rose Garden....... and I'm willing to bet an arm and a leg you ,sir, had something to do with it.... anyway, the higher ups have recently been sending over undercover agents and other legal mages from multiple legal guilds to scout any information here in the ruins, the higher ups believe that something is going on here..... they believe that the dark guilds are planning something else..... I unfortunately have limited access to that classified information, but.... I'm sure I'll be able to get closer to the goods when I rank up and gain the trust of my superiors..... but for now this is the only information I can give you, in fact this is the only information I was given. I do hope you sir have found this information useful....." Necro explained the file and it's contents, he explained everything thoroughly. It was obvious that Necro cared little for the Rune Knights and the Magic Council, all Necro wanted was a simple cover up while he regained his strength.

"Is there anything else you'd like to know?....." Necro's left eye gleamed, during this whole time he was trying to figure out Lyserg's  identity, Necro came up with a hypothesis that this man was not from here and was only here for no less than two or three years, this was probably why this mysterious mage managed to stay under the radar..... this man was dangerous, Necro noted it would be best not to anger this man.....The information given merely a demonstration that he could be an ally to this mysterious mage, after all Necro believed in the saying if you can't beat them join them....