Inside a jungle a large black deer with red eye's and razor sharpe teeth was busy chewing down on the body of a boar while unknown to it a group of people were watching its every move to get a good chance to capture or kill it among theses people was a blue-haired teen boy named vermont who was perfectly hidden in the top of a tree covered by the bushy leafs with his bow held tightly in his hand.
Vermont was observing the deer closely as just looking at it, one could tell it wasn't normal and creatures like these were referred to as demon beasts that would strike fear in people anywhere they were seen because of their unnatural power with only a unique group of humans called slayers being able to combat them with the only reason this group of humans were hunting it was because it was pretty low level so they were taking there chances against it.
Among the human group surrounding the deer was Gilbert, the team's leader. He made a sign with his hands to the closest hunter to the deer, and the hunter who was behind a tree pulled the string of the bow in his hand, and the arrow flew off quickly, hitting the deer on its neck. Still, it didn't go down; instead, it rushed at the tree where the arrow came from and slammed its horn into it, piercing through the tree and the chest of the hunter behind it. That was when Gilbert and the other hunters sprinted out of their hiding place, holding swords and spears.
The demon beasts seeing so many intruders approaching quickly pulled its horns out of the tree and the hunter impaled by its horn and paced forward while a hunter stabbed his spear at it the deer simply jumped reaching over the man and kicking its back legs while in mid air straight at the hunter's back a cracking sound was heard while the hunter was sent flying then the deer weaved out of the way dodging some hunter's that were tring to block it's path and with that the demon beasts had no one to block its path and Gilbert almost went mad seeing his prey slip away from him but inwardly he was thinking it was expected"ordinary folks simply aren't meant to kill demon beasts" he thought but immediately he regretted saying those words as an arrow whistled through the air before connecting with the eye of the demon beasts who lost its footing and fell to the ground but before it could get back up three's arrow shot off at the same time connecting with one of the deers front leg and piercing them making the deer let out an monstrous scream.
Gilbert quickly looked in the direction of the trees where the arrow came from and he caught sight of the blue hair making him know who had shot the arrows"vermont i won't let your effort go in vain "he thought as he quickly charged forward and the other hunter's seeing this didn't hesitate and quickly made there way over to the demon beasts before it could get up and started stabbing it until they stopped seeing blood poring from it until the grass beneath was soaked with block but unnerving as it may seem the beast still was breathing visible because it chest kept going up and down that was when one more arrow was fired piercing the chest of the demon beasts and impaling its heart it was quite obvious now that the demon beasts was dead and the hunter's all let out cheers as it was the first time they had killed an demon beasts an plague that was helbent on bringing there world to ruin but the cheers died down as they helped the injured and vermont had leap down from the tree he was on and the hunter's all grouped around him all singing him praise,since they knew without vermont late intervention the demon beast would have surely escaped the one with the widest smile on there face was Gilbert.
"I knew you were going to be something special when the dark wolf himself recommended you to our group" Gilbert said as he patted his shoulder like a proud father while vermont smiled at the praises he was getting. Still, he didn't let that get to his head not when an event was about to take place a week from now that would determine his future life, the next few minutes were just the hunter group packing up there stuff and the other animals they hunted then they started heading back to there city as the sun was coming down as staying out when it turned dark wouldn't bode well for them as at that time was when demon beasts were mostly active.
The hunter group didn't take long to reach Morse City, where they all originated from, except for the youngest of the group, Vermont.
As they reached the city gates their carriages were searched before they were allowed entry then vermont left the group and headed off somewhere else by himself walking on the streets of the city until he made a turn on a dirt path that had numerous bamboo trees on both sides of it he walked calmly down the path till he had reached the end and what greeted him was an bamboo gate with its bamboo wall circling a neatly build two story house also made from bamboo.
Vermont pushed open the gate entering he made his way to the bamboo house and pushed it open entering into a room where many different types of weapons were hanged up like decorations and there at the center of the room was an man seated on a maths back facing vermont.
"So you've returned young master,how was your hunt today?"the strange man said which made vermont smiled.
"You wouldn't believe but today I helped killed an demon beasts"vermont said with excitement in his voice and immediately after he said this the man whose back was facing him turned around looking at him with an stern face.
"You said you helped killed an demon beasts meaning you didn't kill it yourself,why are getting happy at such things" the man said.
While vermont smiled disappeared as he felt annoyed by what the man said he didn't bother to respond as this wasn't exactly the first time he scorned at things he would celebrate instead it was numerous times till even vermont lost check of it.
"This bastard sildar, just who the hell are you really" vermont thought looking at the short black hair man with a scar that shaped like an x on his eye who was still seated on the mat in a meditation position and sildar wasn't the only one he wanted to know about but also himself as well which would be a strange thing for someone to want to know but not for vermont who woke in an unknown place with no memory of the life he lived other than his name which was vermont mareon and the only help he got in such a predicament was sildar who referred to him as young master and took care of him even teaching him to use many types of weapons which is why he had alot of respect for the man.
Sildar stared at vermont before he spoke"are you thinking about those questions you've asked me before,that your a prince and I used to serve your father but upon his passing my service is entirely now to you"the man replied while vermont couldn't take these answers anymore.
"What's my father's name,and which kingdom am I the prince of"he said in an angry tone although he didn't meant to but then an aura covered the entire room no! The building,causing it to shake violently which made vermont took a step back.
"If you really want to know more your going to have to force those answers out of me,but I'll give you this much your from another world from this one"sildar said and vermont wondered if he was really telling the truth right now but the man before him hadn't given him any reason in the last two year's to doubt him so he stayed quiet for awhile then he spoke up" if I'm really able to beat you will you really answer my questions" vermont asked and sildar simply nodded his head while vermont getting his answer made his way upstairs before entering in his room laying down on his bed.
As vermont lay down he was not angry at all not getting answers that could calm the pain of not knowing who he was or where he was from his mind but this conversation today gave at little ease to his mind as now he knew just how to go about getting those answers.
"just you wait sildar,I'll defeat you and take that smug look off your face soon" vermont thought while having little doubt as although he knew sildar was a slayers he didn't know just how strong he was but that didn't matter much right all that was on his mind was to see if he was one of the few humans who would get a soul gear as he couldn't possibly defeat sildar without one and the ceremony to check if one had a soul gear was held every year and that same ceremony was going to happen a week from now.