Diablo was standing on his balcony, the wind blowing his hair and his black top. While Diablo was enjoying the view of the city, he thought to himself "In the end, it's those who use every means to win, that win. Hard work, dedication, cheating, it doesn't matter. In this world, its the ones who create paths for themselves that end up getting the victory. If I wanted, I wouldn't have helped Alex in his battle against Seiten. I could easily have started a new reality in an instant.....". Diablo started to remember the times he's trained Alex, played with him, and even see him struggle to win fights that should have killed him "But still, abandoning the kid who struggled to become stronger, and disregarding all the good times we've had as master and student would be very heartless. That's not something i would want.", Diablo started to remember Kazuma and Mio(Alex's father and mother who were also his trainers) "If I had left Alex and the rest of this reality to get destroyed, it would be a spit on their faces despite how they treated me like their kid brother.". Diablo just sighed and scratched his head, he looked at his three years old daughter (Veldora) sleeping "The kids asleep, which means I have all the time in the world to catch up on all my manga and light novel. Luckily the wars are over, so the authors who are obviously soliders, have enough time to write content.". Suddenly, Diablo heard his door bell ring. Diablo sighed "Oh, that's right. I forgot that I asked Kinto to come over.". Diablo walked to his door and opened the door, Kinto was the person he saw at the door. Diablo waved to him "Hey kid, what's up with you?", Kinto asked "Can I come in?". A few moments later, Kinto was seated at Diablo's living room, he was sitting adjacent Diablo. Diablo asked with a soft smirk "So? Is there anything you'd like to say before we start?", Kinto replied "First off, this is the first time you and I have actually spoken. I've only seen you or been around you when you were hanging around Levi sensei or Sughi Sensei.", Diablo replied with a scoff as he explained "Well, those two were my closest friends before they passed on, and you were always around them, so it only makes sense if you've seen me Interact with them and not communicate with me personally.". Kinto just sighed "Whatever. By the way, why did you call me here? We've never spoken or had anything to share with each other. Is there a problem?", Diablo replied "As you very well know, you had a devastating fight with the dragon kins in which you nearly died. You activated a whole new level of insanity and power.", Kinto seemed a bit annoyed "Huh? You were watching?", Diablo replied with a smirk "Oh yes, i watch everything that happens around. You went completely psychotic, more psychotic than the previous fights you've had over time. You activated a new level of power that instantly jumped you to A-rank.". Kinto then asked "Okay. Normally a wise person would ask why you didn't do anything to help if you knew the details of the fight or what's at stake, but it doesn't matter.". Kinto crossed his legs and tilted his head a little "So, let me guess. You want to test my new power and make me get use to it. Is that it?", Diablo smirk "Smart guy. You are completely right. You see, when someone activates a new level of power, the best thing to do is learn how to activate such power out of will. The second one is to learn how to control that power, and the third way is to understand what triggered you to use such power. If you understand the trigger, you can learn how to switch it on and off.". Kinto replied with a little confusion "Doesn't that mean learning how to trigger comes first?", Diablo replied "Yep, learning it's triggers is the first thing to do. But you have to learn and teach yourself how you activated that level of power before you fully understand its trigger. Its complicated, but you get it.", Kinto jokingly thought to himself "If I were any less smarter, then this wouldn't have made any sense to me.". Diablo jokingly smiled at Kinto and thought to himself "He's a wild card, but he can behave like a typical boy when he feels like it. That's a deadly move right there.". Diablo clapped his hands once and smirked at Kinto "Okay now, your training would start this night. I'll send you to another dimension where you would have to face monsters and all sort of challenges. Doing so would enable you to understand your full power and potential. It's basically going to be like a video game, but don't worry. If you die, then you'll just appear in your bedroom.", Kinto had a wierd smile on his face, he thought to himself "This guy makes dying sound easy, and here I am, smiling nervously about it. How did Alex, Kazuki and Serena survive this man."(That's what I ask myself too.). Kinto then stands up and stretches, "Well, whatever. The test is this night, right? I'll just get myself ready.". Kinto walked towards the door while waving "I'll be ready around 10:00PM.", he exited the house. After Kinto's exited, Diablo started to laugh. After laughing for a solid five seconds, he took a deep sigh "Levi, Kito. You both have created a terrifying young man.".(END OF FLASHBACK). A couple hours go by, and Alex and Kinto are standing on the late night street while looking down on the city that was filled with glowing bright lights from buildings. Alex looked at Kinto and asked "I see, so you're saying Diablo called you and told you he wanted to train you?", Kinto replied "Yep, I have a feeling everyone else is going to get caught up in this *Training stuff* I can bet my life Veronica would want to make everyone resume training like we didn't just fight for our lives almost three months ago.". Alex sighed with a nervous smile "Yeah, I know. Life as a soldier and an assassin sucks. But whatever.". Alex stretched his hand for a fist bump "Good luck buddy. And make sure you obliterate everything that stands in the way.", Kinto smirked at his friend "Yeah, thanks. I'll need that.". The two friends walk together before separating into different paths. Kinto went to his house, got into his room, pick up a few explosives and a couple of other devices. He texted Sōn and Deo "Hey, you guys, I'll be gone for a while. Maybe a week would go by without you hearing from me.". Sōn texted back "Sure, good luck with whatever you're doing." Deo texted Kinto "Cool, take care. Make sure to use the pocket dimension I gave you access too. You can never tell when you need anything.". Kinto switched off his phone and placed it on his desk, wore two robotic gloves. One was red, the other was grey, he also picked up a pistol and then left his room. Kinto opened up his fridge and packed 5 loafs of bread, he opened up a small pocket dimension to store them. A few moments later, Kinto went to Diablo's house, Diablo asked with a smirk "Are you ready? It's going to be a crazy test.", Kinto took a sigh and smirked "Sure, let's go.". Diablo opened a portal "Alright, get in. Don't be too reckless, except if you're fine with dying.", Kinto smirk widened "I'll obliterate anything you throw at me.". Kinto walked into the portal with his smirk still stretching wide "I'll go as crazy as I want to, you can count on that.", the portal closes up as Kinto ventures into the unknown. Meanwhile as Alex was laying on his couch with all the lights off, he couldn't help but to wonder to himself with a smirk on his face, he looked at his hand stretched up "I'll keep on getting stronger, no matter what. I'll make sure I'll get so strong to the point that I'll always be the clear victor.". Alex slowly falls asleep with a smirk "But till them, let me catch up on some sleep.". Everything went dark the moment Alex fell asleep. As he fell asleep, a small cra k of energy distorted the darkness. Suddenly, Alex's eyes were filled with disinterest as he stood In a desert filled with giant three-hundred feet tall red snakes with huge fangs, they were about 10 In number, and they were ready to tear him apart. Alex asked himself with his white hair blowing with the breeze "Now were the fuck am i?". Suddenly, some of the snakes started to charge up beams of energy while the others launches themselves at Alex at near light speed. Alex immediately had an insane grin on his face, hands, eyes and legs sparking with red energy "OH WHAT THE HELL! I'LL JUST TEAR EM APART!". Alex launched himself at the snakes at light speed with a blade of death on his hand, he tore through one of the snakes as he launched himself in mid air. Alex was ready to tear the rest of them apart with a deranged smile of excitement written all over his face, along side a deranged laughter.
A NEW PHASE HAS BEGUN, ONE WERE OUR PROTAGONIST AND THE REST OF HIS ALLIES WOULD BE TESTED. THE TEST ARC HAS FINALLY BEGAN!
END OF VOLUME.