It was the first time I heard about a council. There was no council in the human settlements but there were leaders and whatnot to proclaim the word of their respective deities. I had been working on different assignments and had worked on different subjugations of Depraves but never once had I heard of a council.
“ What council are you talking about? Do you guys have one too?” When the collapsed world came into dawn, the world needed leaders but all they had in reserve were deities so the people we got were maniacs considering everything in the cause of their deities. They were megalomaniacs, not considering the effects of their actions. They fought with each other. Though it was a fact that with the immortality drug, not many people could die and everyone was young like in their twenties or thirties, if a person’s personal soul gadget was stolen, it meant that their livelihood was taken away as no matter how many manufactured soul gadgets were produced, none of them were strong enough to counter the soul gadget a person had with which he had arrived in the collapsed world.
What was a soul gadget really? It was more of a guiding tool that held the means to make a common person earn his livelihood by hunting Depraves, so in other words, they were weapons that everyone carried with themselves. Everyone had to hunt one or another, those who could not would slowly be taken in by hunger and other things losing their standing in the society till they become Deprave themselves. It was like not considering working for your food till you might yourselves become food or tools for others. The turned Depraves had different powers but they became hideous and ugly thus they were treated as monsters.
Soul gadgets were called Pinyin as they demonstrated a person's occupation to their living style. It held all details about the person and was usually linked with the nervous system of the person it was part of. As I excelled in making Pinyin I knew what it was and what it was capable of. There were ranks of Pinyin and classification of Pinyin. If a person's original Pinyin was stolen or destroyed by a Deprave, they themselves would become Deprave and lose their minds and needed to be hunted down. It was the only downside of the present collapsed era. Depraves were the only thing that fancied the dreams and wonders of the deities worshippers and the normal folk. This was the only thing that the major factions were working in secret to find out how these Depraves were formed and how they could be used to further stimulate the development and progress of mankind as a whole.
It was known that advanced Depraves were capable of human speech and they must have various ranks among themselves. Some people even went as far as worshiping them thinking that the most powerful of the Depraves might be one of their deities which was largely ousted as unthinkable as the turned Depraves did get powers but almost always they would go berserk and lose their minds. My servant had also gone berserk but I had managed to bring him under control as he was a weak one and since he had been living with me and helping me in my jobs and taking care of Ellaya.
If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it's taken without the author's consent. Report it.
“ Yashir, you should not have meddled in our fight. I was so close to taking him down.” Ellaya said pretty angrily as the fight was brought down to a sudden halt without her winning.
“ He was only stalling for time to swing his tail at you when you were distracted while you were constantly going after his head.” It was as apparent as day what she was going after to me and Tuz. It was not a fight rather the tale of a chase between a cat and a dog. It was not entertaining in the least.
“ But Yashir, I was so close to bringing it to a halt. If only you had not meddled in the fight.” She was angry. It was not the first time for her to be angry. She had been fumed at me for various things. She was only one hundred or something years old so it was pretty normal for her to act like a spoiled brat.
“ Come on. You already know that it is very difficult and almost close to impossible to take an advanced level Deprave. While we are on the subject, where is the servant? He should have been here to help her as she was fighting a very dangerous beast on her own.” I spoke angrily as he should have been here before me to help her out.
I was about to think of ways to carry out his harsh punishment when the dimensional void shifted as another uninvited guest used dimensional jump to enter my sanctuary. As I saw him, I was at ease. It was the servant Amir that came through the dimensional jump fully equipped for battle. It put me at rest to know that he was not lazing around and was just a little late than me. He had metamorphosis ability so he had changed himself into a wolf type Deprave form to choose speed to quickly come into the dimensional void so it means that he must have hurried back from his regular shopping to come into the dimensional jump.
“ Sir you were here. So what happened? Was it a Deprave attack? The defense protocol was breached and what happened here? Was the threat contained” He came in with a long list of things that he wanted to know. He was probably confused.
“ It was nothing. This Butler here was the one attacking. He was the Deprave that had attacked us. It was nothing to worry about.”
“ Him, Sir. l do not understand.” The Butler seemed to want to clarify the misunderstanding so he transformed himself partially into the snake type Deprave he was. His actual height was about 14 feet and he only transformed his head and body and took the size of six feet. It was partial deprivation as I had called it.
