Angel Monarch

The streets of Castleburg were bustling with people, cars, buses and even trains.

'I mean they need this amount of transportation for a city this size.'

The buildings were truly amazing, there design foreign to Sera and the others. They only seen it in history classes. The cities of Newber and Copen were very different. They were modern, flat, boring, but efficient.

This city done it very differently, but the real question was how? After the Apocalypse most cities were destroyed, only the very large ones with millions of people survived. Which means everything they built, wasn't here 25 years ago.

'I will ask about it when we have time.'

The guards lead them to an especially beautiful building. It was huge with multiple domed roofs, metal railings on its top and a huge wooden double door. Its windows were colored and there were pictures visible on them. It looked more of a temple, than a migration office.

Sera really wanted to see every picture on those windows, but she didn't have time. They entered the building and she looked around. Even the interior was like a temple, which made her suspect that it was one.

Suddenly the lead guard turned around and said. "All the non Evolved follow this man for the debriefing and registering. The rest follow me." He then turned around and continued.

There were people sitting in the rows of chairs, as the small army of Evolved passed them, they stood and bowed. They said things like "Good day Lords and Ladies." or "God blessed us with you."

Sera looked at Bea confused. This wasn't how people acted around Evolved, at least they thought. Turns out they didn't treat Evolved the same way everywhere. Sera walked to a guard and asked.

"Why do they speak like we are sent by a greater existence?"

The guard answered in a neutral tone. "Weren't we? Haven't noticed between killing monsters and surviving. Do yourself a favor, don't question it, just enjoy it."

'Well that wasn't reassuring at all.'

After another couple of minutes they arrived at a different part of the huge building. This one had a lot of rooms on either side of a corridor.

"Everyone go into a room, there are people inside qualified to interview, debrief and evaluate you. At the end you will get a rating and have to complete a couple courses in our Evolved University. They will tell you the rest, bother them with your questions."

All of them began to go into rooms. Sera was with her daughter and was about to enter a room when the guard interrupted.

"I think I was very clear! Only one person per room!" He sounded annoyed.

"I'm not leaving my daughter alone." Said Sera coldly.

The people stopped entering rooms and looked at Sera and the guard. The guard was a bit smaller then her but his presence was even stronger than hers.

'An Ascended, how annoying.'

The guard looked at the both of them and said. "I don't see the resemblance, can you prove you two are family?"

Sera answered with indifference, to further annoy the guard. "No, because we aren't related by blood. I adopted her."

"If you two are not related by blood, then go into separate rooms. Nothing will happen to her I..." Sera interrupted.

"No, I don't think so." She answered with a stupid grin.

The guard was angry at this point and began to summon a weapon, probably to threaten Sera. Unluckily for him Faith was already there. Holding a knife to his throat, she whispered in his ear.

"I would think twice before making any more rash moves. My hand might slips." To prove her point she moved the dagger a few millimeters, and drew a drop of blood.

"You think you can just kill me, I am an Ascended..." His voice was cut short because the dagger came closer, drawing even more blood.

"Don't worry you are not my first Ascended kill, but try your luck. Maybe you win who knows?" Faith began laughing, which sent a small tremble through her hand.

The guard was white from fear. He inclined to believe Faith it seems. After taking a lot of very shallow breath he said.

"Fine you can go in... Now let me go!"

Sera looked at Faith and nodded, her dagger immediately dissolved and the guard turned around fast. She was already gone by then. After taking a couple of deep breaths and giving Sera a murderous look he went away.

She looked at everyone once more, then went into a room. In there was a man sitting behind a desk with some computer in front of him. There was also a chair in front of the desk.

The room was very plain without much decorations, it was closer to a cell, then an actual office. The man didn't say anything or even look up, he just pointed at the chair in front of him.

Sera approached it and sat down, then Vicky jumped into her lap with a giggle.

"Your name, age, previous occupation, first kill, essence count, title if you have one, are you fertile..." He said in a monotone voice, like a robot.

"Slow down, I didn't hear half of that, the other half I already forget, and what is this about fertility." Said Sera, she was very bewildered by this man.

"Haaa... Another slow one, great. Listen what is your name, both of yours."

"My name is Seraphine and she is my daughter Victoria." Sera smiled at Vicky as she said it, she smiled back and soon both got pulled back to reality.

"Age?" Said the emotionless man.

"I'm 18 I think and she is 8."

The man suddenly stopped typing and looked at them confused. "You are telling me you gave birth when you were ten?"

"Of course not! I adopted her! Don't you see the difference between us?" The man just grunted and continued typing. Soon he asked his next question.

"First kill?"

Sera didn't really want to answer it, but not like she had a choice. "My first kill was a Horror of the 3rd Tier, hers we don't know, she doesn't remember."

That finally got the mans attention. With pure amazement he asked. "Horror... of... of... the 3rd Tier?

Am I... correct?"

Sera used all her willpower not to smile and said. "Yeah its name was Archangel of Despair."

After a couple of minutes the man began to speak again. "And why can't she access her Watch to see that information?"

Sera got very annoyed. "Because neither of us has Watches obviously!"

The man spoke with a hint of fear, because of her tone. "Oh... Why didn't you say so! Her you go." He pulled out to Watches from one of his drawers.

'Who makes these.' She was thinking while putting it on herself and helping Vicky.

It took about 5 minutes for the Watches to boot, after that Vicky could finally access her information panel.

Name: Victoria

Title: Soul Keeper

1st Kill: Unknown

Life Essence Absorbed: 1000/1000

Sera couldn't read further, because the first few information was so interesting.

'Her name changed to the one I gave, and she already has a title? Why is her first kill Unknown? How is her Life Essence at 1000?' She froze from the amount of questions popping up in her head. The man ever helpful brought her out of the shock.

"So, first kill?"

"It says Unknown." Answered sera, still very confused. The man wasn't much help either.

"Hmm... That is weird. Anyway Life Essence?"

"Fully saturated, for both of us." The man looked at Vicky with skepticism, but typed in their answer anyway.

"Titles?

"Mine is Angel Monarch, hers is Soul Keeper." The mans head snapped to her and his whole body began to tremble, but not from fear. It was excitement. He suddenly began laughing, it was a weird sound coming from him.

"You said Angel Monarch? That is what it says exactly? Monarch?" She nodded and the man started laughing even harder.

"Is there something I don't know about my title?" Sera was feeling very weird, she thought titles were just some reward for doing a good job.

"Don't worry about it. You will learn when you get to the University. Anyway are you fertile?" The mans ability to change moods was truly fascinating.

"Why do you need to know that?"

"Oh it is simple. There is a bachelor system for single Evolved. You are only a new Evolved, but with that title of yours, even a Transcended husband is not out of the question. Maybe even one of the Counts, Dukes, the Princes or the Princesses. Only the sky is the limit!"

'This place is very weird.' Was Sera's only thought, but she let it go.

"Yes, I am and don't you dare put my daughter on that list of yours. She is only 8!" The man looked confused for a second, then he said.

"Don't worry about that. No one under 18 is registered. That would be very weird."

'It is weird like this as well!'

A couple more questions about her personal life later, he took a picture and made IDs for the both of them. It had all their information's on it. It also had an evaluation at the bottom. There was 3 S, at the bottom for both of them, Sera's even had a plus next to it.

She was about to ask what it meant, but the man was already answering.

"The evaluation means what your potential is. It calculates it, using the first kills information and how fast you acquired x amount of Essence. In your case it was a 1000 in 6 months, which is better than anything I heard of."

"The ranking is pretty straight forward, F worst, E better, then so on until A. Above A is S, then SS and finally SSS, which is the best possible rank to achieve. But you're actually even above the triple S, so there is a plus next to it. You are the only one in this city with that rating..."

Then there was a pop up sound and the man typed a couple of things, then began laughing.

"I stand corrected, one of the only two persons."

Sera looked interested who the other person could be, but she had a very strong guess. "Who's this other person?" She asked with a knowing smile.

"Are you familiar with the person named Queen of Nature?"