A God Amongst Men

God

A large lightning bolt shot down the ground onto a large building, four stories high. The impact of the lightning didn't make an explosion, nor did it force the ground to shake despite its overwhelming size and speed. When it connected with the building, it completely erased it, leaving no trace of the building ever existing; the only thing that remained was a large crater and a blond standing not far away from the crater.

The building had disappeared in mere seconds.

''That is his 20th dark guild. There might be more than this number, but according to our intelligence, this is the number they've so far managed to associate with him. This is the only live recording we have, but according to eye witnesses, that is the same spell he uses each time he destroys a guild,'' one member from the magic council said to the other members who were all standing in a circle while watching the recording of Naruto doing another ''job.''

The elderly man continued. ''The spell varies from size of the guild he has to destroy. He can make it big or small, but the results are always the same: everything the spell touches is erased from existence. There hasn't been any report of anything surviving the spell.''

They were deliberating about the issue that had been brought to their attention. Recently, the number of Dark Guilds has been thinning down and a rumor went into the air: a man was roaming around the world destroying guilds with one spell. He has only destroyed on three outside of Fiore, but they were closer to the borders. His actions were obviously focused on Dark Guilds within this country. Today, they were brought evidence of this actions.

''What do we know of him?'' another member questioned.

''Nothing as of yet,'' Siegrain responded. ''There has been nothing at all about him. Our intelligence is still working on it, but they can't seem to find anything. Everything about him spans from 14 months ago. Before then, there is nothing.''

''We don't know about his fullest capabilities. Our intelligence has only reported to seeing him use that spell only. They haven't reported him fighting anyone else, and we can confirm that he doesn't belong to any of our legal guilds. We don't know if he belongs to another Dark Guild and is merely weeding out the competition,'' the elderly man who had first spoken added.

Nothing about their new subject had been found. There is no record of him being anywhere in early days or being a wizard, but the intelligence division did report that he was seen at the capital of Fiore for some time. It isn't known what he was doing there. But it reports from their Intelligence only say that he was living a ''normal'' life, but that was debatable.

''The report I recently read from one of our operatives makes mention of the fact that he is quite aware that we're investigating him. The operative says that he has made contact with the subject, but nothing concrete was said,'' Siegrain added, completing the report on this new wizard who was terrorizing Dark Guilds.

''Are we going to take action against him?'' Yajima asked. ''The kind of magic he uses doesn't leave any trace of the humans he's killed. With each Guild he has destroyed, he's disintegrated many Dark Mages. I believe such magic is dangerous, especially when we know nothing of him.''

A few nods went by. ''Why don't we just leave him be?'' Ultear suggested. ''If he knows that we're on to him, but still continues to do what he does, then there has to be something he is holding on to. If we move to apprehend him now, we won't know anything about him or his abilities.''

Of course she had her own agenda about the matter. Lightning that could turn anything it touches into ash was interesting to her. As far as she was concerned, there was no one who used lightning magic like he did. Stalling here would mean that she was going to have more time to play while digging for more Intel. Who knows, maybe even pay that man a visit.