Black Hero
The appearance of white fire

"Rina is my childhood friend and my savior."

"Your savior?

His eyes looked astonished looking at me seriously.

"Yes when I was a baby I was found by Rina's family and I was taken care of by her parents like their child, so I did what I could to repay their kindness."

"Ooh so, it turns out you've been through a hard time huh."

"It's time to find a way out of here."

"It's impossible to get out of here."

"Huh?"

Riska said that with a look of despair, I felt confused by what she said.

"What do you mean impossible?"

"Because we can't get out of here without a key."

The key? what does the key mean, I'm still astonished. The forest is locked.

"Because this forest is their forest that doesn't love their lives anymore, because this forest is covered by high-level magic so it's impossible for us to come out without a key."

"So you're saying this key can unlock the magic that covers this forest?"

Riska simply nodded and did not say anything else.

Blarrs...

The sound of explosions was heard so close from where we were.

"What's that sound?

I glanced at the sound, and there was a huge smoke coming from that direction.

"I don't know, let's go there."

Riska just nodded and we quickly ran to where the smoke came from.

When we arrived, a rather large field in the middle of which was a shallow, smoky hole, on the left there are 5 men they hold a small knife in a position ready to fight and on the right there is a big wolf, its fur is bright red like a burning fire.

"That's Flame Wolf"

Riska's surprised voice saw the big wolf.

"Flame Wolf?"

"You don't know, the Flame Wolf is one of the 5th strongest magic beasts in the encyclopedia of magical beasts. They're friendly creatures but if they're distracted they'll attack him."

It seemed like that Flame Wolf looked extremely angry, and it was those five people who were making him extremely angry but what made that powerful magical beast so angry.

"Hey you two help us fight this thing."

Shouted one of the men to us, which made that Flame Wolf look at us.

"Hey Zen, are we going to help them?"

Asked Riska who seemed to feel sorry for the five of them. But I feel it would be troublesome if it helped them and also this has nothing to do with us.

"I'll help you if you tell me what made the wolf angry."

"There's no time to tell it."

Shouted one of the other men.

"Are you going to help or not?"

Two of them shouted at the same time.

"Hey Zen, why don't we just help them?"

"Don't you just say that the Flame Wolf will only attack if they are disturbed."

"I. it's true."

With a bit of stuttering Riska said that.

"Then, that means that if they don't want to tell you the truth, they must be doing something that makes that Fire Wolf very angry, and if we help without knowing anything, they must be doing something that makes Fire Wolf very angry, we'll be the ones affected, too."

"Then what are we going to do?"

I still think what I would do if I was wrong to help I could die.

"Just approach and then talk to Flame Wolf, he understands our language."

Such a sinister voice rang out from my head, a voice that sounded familiar to me.

"What you really say."

I answered at once still curious his voice that sounded familiar was from where and who.

I approached that Flame Wolf and tried what he said was true or not.

I asked him the reason why he was angry, Riska and the five people looked at me in confusion who were talking to the flame wolf.

"They stole my master's flame necklace, I kept it safe for my master."

The wolf's mouth was still closed but his voice I could hear clearly.

"I'll help you take your master's necklace, how?"

I said that while thinking about how I fought them without any fighting magic, if I asked Riska I was afraid she would not believe that I could communicate with the flame wolf.

"Alright, but make sure the necklace is safe."

The flame wolf replied in a very serious tone.

"Hey, what are you doing there?"

Shouted one of the men, I subconsciously burned my right hand by my white flames but my hand did not feel hot.

"Oi, what the hell is that?"

"Zen, you-"

I was confused how white fire works.

"Give it to the five of them."

His voice was heard again from above my head, and I knew that it was coming from inside my body, it belonged to Azazel.

I spontaneously pointed my right hand as if pointing with the palm at the five of them.

They saw my hands with faces already flooded with cold sweat, before long their faces and whole bodies dried up like old baked cookies in the microwave.

"Eh...? What's going on?"

That Riska and Flame Wolf looked extremely frightened by what they had just seen, it was only natural that I was also surprised to see someone who had arrived to dry up right before them.

"My lord, I will serve you forever."

The flame wolf suddenly lowered its body and said that by bowing its head to me.

"Didn't you have a master?"

"Actually I sought out my master by testing them, but they stole it instead and now the necklace belongs to the master."

I was surprised to hear that he was guarding the necklace just to find his master.

"So, what am I supposed to do?"

"Make a contract with me, sir."

He said that and took the necklace that was in the dried man.

The necklace was in the shape of a red star lit up like a blazing flame, the necklace was an iron chain.

"Contract? how do?"

I was confused by how to make a contract with a powerful magical beast.

"You can just wear this necklace and give me a name."

I took the necklace that was in Flame Wolf's mouth and turned to Riska with a face that said "What a good name for a magical beast."

Riska let out a long sigh and asked my name once again.

"What's your last name, Zen?"

"Signatius..!"

With a sweet smile while holding his chin he thought of a name for the Flame Wolf.

"Ignatius? it means fire, then what about Ignis?"

"I like that, then my name is Ignis now, so you call me by that name."

A red light enveloped the three of us, on Ignis' forehead appeared a star-like image on the necklace and on the back of our left hand also appeared the same mark as the one on Ignis' forehead.

"What's this?"

Riska looked puzzled after seeing the mark that was in her hand.

"This is proof the contract has been established because Mr. Zen is wearing the necklace and Miss Riska is giving me the name then you two are my new masters."

Ignis lowered his head again while saying that.

"Isn't that master just one?"

Riska said that by tilting her head which looked somewhat confused.

"As I said, because you gave me a name."

Riska sighed in her heart which made her face seem to say "It will be very troublesome."