The dim old room with the conference table emitted a nauseating sense of dread and despair. An ordinary observer would liken it to be a graveyard or a torture chamber, but not for the seven figures that steadily sat around a conference table, seemingly tried to pass the time. A more observant person would notice the stench of blood emanated not from the room, but from the people itself. And someone who knew their eyes well would see that none of the blood splattered about belonged to any of the chamber's occupants but of the many enemies that they slaughtered in the name of work.

The seven life beings seated were the mercenary head captains. They just returned from the battlefield after they slain numerous people and had no ounce of remorse over their actions. They were even comfortable with the blood of their enemies on their armor and weapon that reeked the stench of the corpses. To them, the blood was akin to war spoils, and tattoo's that they marked over their body when they beheaded each of their enemies while tried to keep the count of kills. The bloodstain displayed their might and bravery when they slaughtered innocent people without any mercy. Everyone assembled inside the meeting hall, to discuss, about their next task.

To begin with-

They were not any ordinary Human beings.

To be precise-

They weren’t Human beings.

They are the seven Shamans.

As well as the leaders of the mercenary of the united realm of underworld and afterworld, Karma Outlaws.

The seven captains sat around their leader on the conference table. The silence was so intense that everyone’s breath echoed all over the room. The sweat mixed with blood oozed from their eyebrows slid along with the cheeks. They were lost thought because of their new assignment. Just a speck of light entered through a hole from the wall behind their leader, Lord Dragean. The light fell on the back of Lord Dragean’s head created a dark shade that hid his face. He sat grandly on his seat that was almost identical to a king's throne. The other six shamans were all armed, and the bloodstains were fresh as they were ordered to assemble as soon as they return to the Headquarters.

But after a long wait, the huge guy with gigantic horns lost his patience. He was the sole person who sat idle while everyone was lost in thought.

The first to break the silence was Klaus Ash, the muscle head of the seven sins. He pounded his massive fist over the conference table, attracted everyone’s attention inside the room. His humongous body with the muscles that almost looked like it was carved from a marble stone itself. He had a scar on his left side of his face that went from his forehead through his eye, till the chin.

After he banged his hand with frustration, he spoke angrily-

“ I don’t get it! Why are you people thinking so deeply about our new order? All we have to do is KILL. That is what we are used to doing and always did from the beginning. If you guys don't want to kill him, I will do it myself. I shall take my squad and hunt him down. I don't need any assistance from you cowards”

he turned toward the leader and bowed down.

“ I don't mean you, Lord Dragean. If you order, I shall bring his head, Just say the word.”

He bowed so deep that his long red hair fell over his face and the massive horns that were the symbol of Demon race, stood overhead with pride.

Seated opposite Klaus, a beautiful maiden by the name of Savina Aimes interrupted him with her frail voice and cold eyes.

“Don’t be so reckless Klaus. We need to plan out our strategy. This is not an ordinary bounty hunting mission. We are dealing with the lord of death himself. Any wrong step would lead us into a chaotic situation. So let Lord Dragean think about our action.”

Her voice played volumes other than her expressionless face. She had dark silky hair and smooth white skin. She belonged to the angel race of Nirvana realm.

Suddenly the skinny man, Weiss Skinner seated beside Klaus, joined the conversation,

“Well, I don’t agree with Klaus.” He reached out his temple area with his hand and removed his spectacles gracefully and looked towards Dragean with a serious look.

“If the Devils and Gods altogether could not kill, Lord death. How do we stand any chance against him? This is a suicide mission, and I think the Gods and Devils want to eradicate everything related to lord death, so they are setting us up. Lord Death formed us, the cursed seven sins so he could do his bidding, but now his out of the picture! We were almost free but now the ring of sinners are in the possession of Lords of Nirvana and Gehenna! They still think that we would side Lord Death and might betray their order as they are the new holder of the Ring itself. First thing I don't want to be anyone's puppet at all! We are willing to do anything to be free from that cursed ring, being the seven sin is really a pain. We don't need to be loyal to either of the ring holders. Enough of this crap! We should not involve with lord death, It's too risky!! It’s better we decline this new mission, Lord Dragean.”

Another girl seated beside Savina, stood up thumping both her hands on the table, with the palm side faced downwards. Her name was Margorie Wrath.

Her up-tied pony black tail hair waves with the gust of wind created by her sudden actions. She does seem like a typical innocent girl in her teenage years, but her personality doesn't match her looks.

“Shut the fuck up, both of you demon-morons!”

With her stern looking face “ How about you zip it and let master Dragean do the talking.That would be very kind of you.”

Klaus stood up while pushed away his seat during the process after he heard the insult thrown over him.

“How dare you call me brainless! I shall kill you! You puny creature! right here and now!"

Weiss wiped his glasses with the edge of his Clothes,

“Did you referred me and Klaus, as idiots? Why are you lumping me with that brainless muscle head! You sadistic bitch!”

Margorie unsheathed her knives and wielded in her both hands,

"How dare you call me puny! I have lived thousands of years, killing demons like you. Say your prayers you demon scums! I will cut open your brain while you will be screaming in pain while begging for your death itself!"

Weiss equipped his saber blade on one hand and his glasses on other, “Let us settle the score once and for all.”

Whereas Klaus armed himself with his dual battle hammers,

“I shall squash both Weiss and this puny girl, I know you called me an idiot, and I won’t withstand insults.”

Weiss placed his glasses on the table and wield his saber's hilt with both arms.

“Bring it on Klaus, time to put an end to this walnut-sized sadistic bitch, as well as the Walnut brain, sized demon.”

Margorie crossed her temper limit after she heard the insults over her body size which she really doesn't like to be made fun.

“Oh no, you don’t!” Margorie placed one of her foot above the table and try to dominate the argument with her small body.

“ I shall be the one to kill both of you guys AND FIRST THING, MY NAME IS MARGORIE and not a PUNY GIRL or a BITCH. SECOND THING, fuck off from this space you are polluting the room's oxygen! ”

Suddenly a guy seated along with the row of angels seated around the rectangular table broke in laughter. His laugh boomed inside the chamber.

Everyone was a bit startled by his behavior.

Margorie was the most pissed among the three rebellious captain. Her eyebrows twitched almost at a 90-degree angle to be exact.

“What are you laughing for? I won’t mind shredding you in pieces even if you are a fellow angel. You want to join. I would be glad to excrete out some of the poops out our guild. You could join them in the afterlife.”

After he controlled his laughter,

" Oh, I’m very sorry. I mean you are right! You should not make fun of people’s defects. How dare they address a lady by calling out names like puny and bitch. They deserve to be punished! I know she tries to act all high and mighty and also that personality of her won't ever help her to get a boyfriend! Even her growth is stunned and she is flat as the shield itself, but we men should not point out the error of a little girl......eh ... I mean lady! My bad! But I am a Gentlemen so I won't insult a lady, no matter what the circumstance be.”

Margorie tightened the grip of the knife hilt which cracked was heard clearly by everyone inside the room while she stared at Lux.

Weiss, who almost pitied Margorie, thought,

'I think you already insulted her pretty harshly!  Gentleman? You should be called Harshman, instead! '

But Lux wasn't done yet,

“On second thought, you should not also insult demons as they are our fellow, comrades. We were enemies in the past. So reminding them that they are idiots and a piece of rotten shit infested with larvae's poop and many other diseases was very rude of you, Margorie. Someone said that ‘Truth is sour.' " 

He got cheerful and looked at Weiss and Klaus with a gentle smile and gave a thumbs up, 

"But don't let it get to you! So just ignore my intrusion and please continue.”

He even ticked off the nerve of cool Weiss,

"I swear I wanna kill you so BAD!! You are just sprinkling salt over the wounds, I am not an Idiot! You have insulted us the most that it won't even sum up with insults of the three of us all together! BY THE WAY, SHE DID NOT CALL US LARVAE AND DISEASE INFESTED............. yet! "

Being cunning was always the second nature of Lux Barclay, who also belonged to angel race.

A shady figure seated opposite Lux along with the row of Demons stood up. He was aware of his cunning way to re-ignite the fight among the comrades itself. He wore a hood and black clothes all over his armor, and the black color was mostly originated from dried up blood stains.

”Lux stop refueling over their stupid fights, I can’t believe this is a conference room or Circus filled with wild mammals. I’m gonna take my leave.”

He started to walk towards the doorway, while he continued,

"I can’t bear this scene, the mighty seven shamans who are mostly a just bunch of mindless idiotic apes.”

The shady figure was Theodor Storm, who was a demon mage that practiced spells and magic. He had a serious personality and did not get along with his comrade other than their leader Lord Dragean.

Even Lux giggled over Theodor’s comment, whereas Weiss and Margorie stared with rage. But Klaus was clueless he did not understand the taunts made by Lux or by Theodor.

“Where are the mammals you are talking about? Are you an idiot Theodor.” Klaus laughed alone over his joke. Everyone stared at Klaus over his idiotic statement.

Margorie ignored Klaus pathetic humor and exclaimed in her top voice,

“Are you running away, Pussy? If you got balls, Theodor, come here so I could kick them.”

“Or you could blow him off, slutty Margorie” interrupted Weiss with a grin.

“Now you have crossed the line, Weiss! Time to put an end to your miserable life! DIE!”

She hurled with her knives toward Weiss who sat across the table.

“Bring it on Bitch!”

Weiss stood on guard, with saber that was equipped like a baseball,

Suddenly Klaus interfered between Weiss and Margorie,

”Hey don’t forget me!”

Klaus unsheathed his massive Dual Hammers that almost took a metered space between both Margorie and Weiss.

Weiss backs away and tried to create a distance from Klaus who was just seated beside him, Whereas Margorie had a little problem because of Klaus Huge body and his weapon and mainly of the little space inside the conference room.

Savina ignored the ruckus and continued sipping her coffee that she just poured from the teapot, during their squabble.

Theodor reached to the door was about to unlock the Doorknob to exit.

Suddenly, Lord Dragean in a mild tone commanded,

“Be seated Everyone at once!”

The three rebellious people bit their teeth as they could not settle the score.

Lux had a smile like a satisfied audience who just watched a play.

Savina dropped the coffee cup which she brewed a cup of coffee in the middle of the commotion.

Even Theodor returned over his seat.

Lord Dragean continued while he rested his chin on the left hand that was placed on the left throne's arms support,

"Lord of Death, or should I say former Master Diablo is no more a God! But he is immortal, so his spiritual soul is wandering around the realm of earth. Without death, Even Queen of Life has also given up her post. So the gods and demons are free to use their power however they want. But the spirit of Lord Death will try to possess human and try to reconquer his authority. So we have the duty to hunt the Master before he could unite with a human completely. He might already possess a human body as we talk now, but it's impossible to contain a human body completely. We must hunt down this sole human and capture the soul of Diablo. It would be better to make use of the humans that worship gods and demons with full loyalty. Maintain as much secrecy about this mission or the prey might flee. Let us start the hunt before we get hunted instead!"

Weiss Skinner eyes opened wide with confusion, "But how can we find a mere possessed human in the Population of this trillion other people? It's like finding a needle in a haystack. "

"Hmm, good question Weiss. How can we find the possessed human with lord death's soul? Just drive that human insane. If we torment the human vessel with despair, the spirit of master Diablo would also come in affect and will be enraged as well. The grief will help Lord Death to overtake the body but it will go berserk causing mass destruction, once the human loses his sanity. The news of such destruction can quickly spread like a forest fire. This way we shall track him down and find him."

"My torturing will come in handy for that! " interrupted Margorie while she raised her hand cheerfully, " But still we need to find that particular person first? the problems still, persists!"

"If you can't find a needle in a haystack, you should just burn all the grass. After the burnt hay what remains is the hot heated needle."

Still confused Margorie, "What you mean?"

"Just torture all the humans, within the crowd. We shall find the human vessel quickly that way! Relay a message to the realm of Gehenna and Nirvana, let them unleash the Karma Outlaws at their full potential to roam the human world. It's the time where the easy go life of Human beings come to an end. This meeting is now adjourned."

Everyone in the conference room stood up and bowed before Lord Dragean, and they left the room to get ready for the Great Hunt.

-To be continued