Solitude in the Dark

Episode 1: Stranger Danger

Those with 'Low Mana Concentration' have a relatively low amount of mana in their bodies. As a result, they can't properly use magic. The vast majority of the world's population falls within the LMC classification, without sufficient mana unlike people that are classified as HMC (High Mana Concentration), these people must heavily rely on other ways such as tech, physical power, or advanced tactics in fighting someone specially a creature who have supernatural abilities.

Cloud only responded with a loud screech. While Envy heals after being cut in half. The feral Cloud grabs his neck and throws Envy to a nearby building, he instantly sprints to Envy's location to throw him again and again. He throws Envy into the ground like he's nothing but a rubber ball. His sheer strength is strong enough to make the ground tremble.

As he drowns himself in the overwhelming power of the Archon, he screeches like a wild beast, and his hair transforms into white. The two Archangels hurry to get up from their feet, seeing a ton of crowd being gathered creating panic and commotion.

"This is getting out of hand! summon the veil." Concerned Rennji said to Miguel.

Miguel waves his hands in a circle and creates a magical circle and raises it towards the sky. "Purifying Magic: Veil!" The mystical circle scatters in the sky creating a dome to separate the battlefield from the bystanders.

The Veil is finished to cover up the area. Cloud opened his palm to gather energy for an offensive attack again. He leaps to Envy and he screams "CORRUPT MAGIC: CRESCENT MOON!" Cloud's solid attack on Envy is successful. But it's not his face was scratched nor his body but he caught the Crescent Moon with his bare hands.

Envy looked him in the eye smirking and said "That's all you got? A mere infant's play"

Envy starts to vanish like dust, and Cloud is perplexed about what just happened.

A slow clap of sarcasm was heard from someone sitting on the side. Cloud sees Envy on the bench unscathed with no scratches, and no wounds, he is in his normal form like earlier. Very different from earlier, and looks like he's not even moving an inch of his body, with no signs of fatigue from a fight. "This is my Mastral; False Reality"

Radiants and Schattens referred to their mastery of mana as Mastral, Their mastery of harnessing their mana allows them to amplify their output techniques, and also have the ability to create their unique forms of magic. The more they master their mana, the stronger their magic and techniques are.

Envy sitting explaining. "Well, that was a show, watching you fighting your own shadow for three minutes. As the Archangels arrived earlier to save you two idiots, that's where I began to cast an illusion. The whole fight was an illusion, the released blade and the transformation are all fake! Tail, horns, armor, pfft... I'm not that edgy. This was supposed to be a quick-in-quick-out-boom-kill but it was compromised because of you, Cloud, whatever your name is. You managed to sense my presence in a short amount of time and even managed to react to it. Wrath will surely kill me... I'm keeping you alive, you amuse me. How about this? Since I'm not gonna kill you, for now... Someone will take your place to die. How about that?

The agitated Cloud grows fiercely...

Envy lifts his finger at a distance and mana starts to concentrate on his fingertip and darts a concentrated energy of mana in a specific direction.

"This night is worth fighting for. Thank you, Cloud, I have high expectations for you, take care of yourself, your friends, and most important; FAMILY." Envy said to Cloud with a devilish grin.

Envy strikes the fabric of reality, shattering it like glass, creating a portal to the unknown.

Cloud contemplates the words left by Envy. Snapping into realization. He instantly rushes to their house. He is so fast that he leaves a large crater and breaks the Veil which is a type of magic that has the ability to contain such magical forces. Miguel, Rennji, and Yunika also followed Cloud with haste.

Worried Cloud begins to lose grip on the Archon's power, his eyes start to flicker back to normal, hair reverts to brown. "ARGHHHHH! NO!" Cloud shouts to himself as he loses control stumbling in the process.

The powerless Cloud cries in despair as he senses his mother's presence of mana starts to disappear. The two Angels and Yunika finally caught up to Cloud. Yunika was about to approach Cloud to calm him down. But he glares at the three. Without saying a word, he slowly gets up from the ground and starts to screech louder deep from his lungs. His eyes lit into bright purple again and his hair turns into white.

As he continues to screech demons and monsters emerge from the shadows and surround them. Rennji and Miguel draw their weapon for a battle and suddenly a flock of ravens envelops the area. Thousands of black feathers pour like rain above them and a man emerges from the cloud of ravens.

The man appeared from the ravens and charged head-on to Cloud, the man one-handedly pinned Cloud on the ground, stopping the emergence of the demons, and leaving the two Archangels to extinguish what was left. Cloud and the mysterious man start to fight with their fist. Even though Cloud never has a piece of knowledge about fighting he manages to keep up with the speed of man. Overwhelmed by anger, despair, and desperation he releases chains of punches. But Cloud's punches are easily dodged by the man. Cloud is giving a strong punch but the man dodges it again and chokes him lifting him from the ground. Cloud begins to screech again and a few of the demons that appeared start to swarm to attack the man. The man releases him, teleported in the middle of the demons, crosses his arms and recites...

"Order Magic: Divine Push"

A strong shockwave pushed all the demons including Cloud, Yunika and the two Archangels.

Cloud immediately gets on his feet to channel his mana to his palm, but the man teleported behind his back and whips him unconscious with ease.

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Waking up from a beatdown, chains to his arms and legs. He looked up and saw eight warriors above him. As he comes to his senses, he recognizes one of the people, the man with ravens is one of them.

" Do you have anything to say about the catastrophe you have caused in Busan?" the man asks Cloud.

"What...What do you mean by "catastrophe"? What did I do?!" Cloud answers in confusion as he sways his attention around to understand the trouble he's been through.

"Cherubim, looks like he doesn't remember anything that happened." Said by one of them.

The Cherubim descends towards Cloud and he places his thumb on his forehead. He recites... "Let...Him...See"

Cloud's eyes turn pitch black. Cloud saw and remembered the events that happened from the appearance of Envy to the death of his mother. He begins to scream due to shock. Cherubim removes his thumb preventing him from showing further events that happened.

"My-- My mother"

"Your mother is gone, I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do to bring her back from the dead," Cherubim said to Cloud.

"So, what now? Do I go home and pretend that this never happened? All this, my mother is dead because of the fucking demon, ENVY!"

Cherubim lays his hands on Cloud gently, "You can't go back to Busan. After all of that, Schattens will be hunting you. You will be hidden far from here to keep you safe." he said.

"Then where?"