To summarize the information I was given, the youth is a simple commoner that had been born to this village. He was born with [Blessing of the God of Sunlight].
News of his blessing eventually got out, and a messenger came to the village demanding the youth. They were given less than a month to send him. He was to be allowed to enroll in a school that trained knights and strategists of one of the Princes of the Empire.
In this world, a particular strength that creates great warriors depends on their blessing. There are different levels from transcendence to mediocre.
The youth told me of a scale of measurement of how powerful one's blessing could be.
There seemed to be [Blessing Retention], which is a weak blessing that doesn't always grant abilities. The scale goes up to the levels of [Blessed Demigod], which gives many abilities to the extent of one being a prophet to their god. There are also cases of [Divine Blessings] that are much more rarer than usual blessings. These grant the holder greater power, faster abilities, and much more force.
I omitted the 'in' because they don't really matter to me personally. All of our members have the rarest class of Blessing anyway.
This man had apparently claimed that he would return to this village and live with his childhood friend. That friend being the woman that he had clung to earlier.
The youth kept in contact with the woman and had been trying to return for some time. According to him, they would have been getting married right now in a different situation.
He was caught up in some political issues, but since he had gained his standing with a certain level of effort and held confidence within the army, it wasn't something easily dealt with. He wasn't able to get much time free.
He still failed every now and then, but he was happy overall with his life.
That is of course, before yesterday.
It would seem that when he was closing into the village, he could hear the sounds of a struggle of some sort. Rushing in, he found the bodies of many of the villagers. A scream let out for help, and before his eyes was his childhood friend. The attacker was an [Arutirumu], a centipede-like creature. Her lower body was cut into a thousand pieces and eaten in an instant.
Of course, the women was probably killed instantly from that.
After that, he seems to not have a very clear memory. The villagers had apparently managed to inflict a certain level of damage to the Arutirumu during the attack. In his rage, he used his military training and used his [Blessing of the God of Sunlight] to use solar rays to startle the creature.
It would seem that after it was startled, it was afraid of the youth. It's belly was swollen after eating many of the residents and turned out to be quite weak. It would seem that the creature must have managed to escape from him.
After that happened, the youth had begun to embrace the corpse of his childhood friend who was growing colder as time went on. It was then that we had happened upon him, and from there is history.
This can be said to be quite the common tragedy in many worlds. There isn't much that I can do in a situation like this really. Words of comfort are not easily created and I couldn't think of any that suited the situation properly.
I asked whether or not he was aware of where that creature was, upon asking, I received some hateful eyes from the youth.
It was an uncommon material and likely had a blessing, I definitely wanted to capture this creature. I used [Intuition] because I was curious as to whether or not I should attempt to take advantage of this youth.
I talked to the youth and offered him the strength to destroy the Arutirumu if he was willing to serve me for the rest of his life.
This deal seems quite like that of a devil's contract when you think about it. I like the idea of totally owning someone.
The young man asked me what gave me my strength and whether or not that I would be able to actually kill the Arutirumu.
Since I never saw the creature, I cannot be sure, but as things are now, I took the time to nod.
There was a period of silence, but suddenly the youth grabbed my hand.
"If you are able to give me the power, I will pay anything."
Hearing this, I held out one of the handcuffs and placed it on his ear without hesitation.
With this, the deal was struck.
This youth, or rather, let's call him the Avenger. His target is the Arutirumu. In exchange for the power to kill it, he has given me a powerful subordinate that has dedicated his life to that of an Avenger and my subordinate.
Not bad. There isn't really any loss here.
From now on, things are more than likely to become more interesting.