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2024-10-29 19:42:56Man, my legs hurt cried Jamie, he has been whining since we went to the forest to get some woods. Knowing how lazy the blonde boy is, I just kept pushing to him continue, promising him a big portion of my birthday cake tomorrow.
Jamie has been my friend since childhood and has always been crazy for cakes.” Say Peter it’s your thirteenth birthday tomorrow meaning you will have to go for your awakening, you know all those sparing sections we have, I wish you would be a swordsman because of the stamina you have been gaining all this while”, I looked at him and smiled, “you know Jamie, you can also be a magician and also a swordsman you know”. Jamie was already thirteen last month and when he went for his awakening he turn out to be a knight, a swordsman to be precise.The awakening is a way of waking up the dormant talent or affinity within you based on your body constitution. The awakening is divided into two sections, the first section is the knight section which is divided into three classes; swordsman, archer and spearman. Being in the swordsman class has been his dream and I was happy for him. The other section of the trials is the magic class, which was made up of healers, defenders and battle mages. I was hoping to get into magic class and be a battle mage, plus I always had this belief that we can mix both magic and swordsmanship, that is why I train a lot with my wooden sword.We talked while heading back to the village, all of a sudden I could a felt a presence around us, I stopped walking and looked around to figure out where the person is, when I saw a man wearing a black hood, the only thing visible was just his blood red eyes. I turned to Jamie signalling him to walk back slowly which he did. We walked back our eyes not leaving the strange man staring at us. We got to some distance then he started chasing us, without a word we ran straight into the forest, being our ground we knew where to turn and the path to take.The chase continued for about thirty minutes with the man gaining on us fast and Jamie was begging to slow down due to his lack of endurance. What should I do we are already close to the village and I have to buy time for Jamie to get help. I stopped and picked up a one-and-a-half-foot log facing the man who also stopped cocking his head to the right like he wants to see what I am up to. I turned and told Jamie to run to the village fast to get help which he hesitantly did when I assured him I would be fine.Now coming face to face with the man that has been chasing us for close to an hour now waiting for who to make the first move, he raised his right hand forward and I watched with anticipation, the next word I heard was a fireball, flames came out of his fingers, I was staring with awe in my eyes when I notice the heat coming towards me, I dived away escaping the flames that was sent towards me. I dashed forward with speed to close the gap between the both of us because that is how I was taught to fight mages, I got within close distance with him and swung the stick aiming for his legs, but he kicked me in the ribs sending me flying to a tree.I tried to catch my breath but when I looked up it was another fireball aiming at me, I rolled out of the way before dashing into the woods without a sense of direction just running to survive. I ended up at the edge of the cliff, looking down all I could see is just clouds then it stroke me that I ran towards the cliff edge, I turned back facing the woods waiting for the red-eyed mage to come out, flames came out of the wood towards me, rolled over to the left, struggling to get up because of my legs hurt, he came out laughing manically and stared at me with his blood red eyes.
“Boy you gave me a tough time chasing you too bad I couldn’t get the blonde too, but you are good enough for me, all I need is your blood to increase my power”, it was then it done on me that he was a dark mage. I have heard of them from my father, they are evil mages that use blood for sacrifices to increase their powers. I looked at the cliff thinking of just jumping off the cliff to avoid the torture of him capturing me and then turned to him.
I looked at him with fear in my eyes. I turned to the cliff running towards it as my last hope, then I felt heat coming towards me, with the blast of the flame at my back, I flew over the cliff all I saw before I was clouds that I was falling into, at that moment all I thought of was that, so this is how it ends, tomorrow is my birthday and I was going to the die today, oh mum and dad sorry that I wouldn’t be coming back home to you, mum take care the baby coming and dad protect them for me. I close my eyes and let myself fall to my death.Silas POV:Jamie ran straight into the house with tears in his eyes. “What is wrong Jamie where is Peter?” I looked into the boys shaking eyes. “We have to hurry a man was chasing me and Peter so he decided to buy time while I call people for help we have to hurry,” he said as he dashed out, without blinking an eye me and my wife Alice ran out after him calling for the fellow villages as we ran to the forest.We got to the spot where he said Peter was and what I saw was a part of a tree scorched by fire, he was a mage, and we saw two different sets of footprints heading towards the cliff. We ran there hoping that nothing happens to my son. As we approached the cliff we heard a scream and a bang sound, Alice shouted running towards the cliff, when we got there we saw a black hooded man, “ah that was a waste”, were the words he said before he faced us with his blood red eyes, without a moment to waste I drew my sword and dash towards him shouting before I could get close to him he released a wave of fire sending me flying back.“Would you look at that, a bunch of insects thinking they can kill me, I sent your son flying through the cliff, too bad he was quite agile and would have made a wonderful swordsman or mage, goodbye let your heart drown in the grief with you knowing you lost your hope”, he said all that and laugh while disappearing in a cloud of smoke? Grief hit us like a wave of wind but it brought sorrow instead, I looked at my wife wailing and the other women trying to calm her down, I just stood there looking at the last place my son stood to defend himself.
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My head hurt, “hey get up lazy ass”, I opened to see a tall red-haired man looking down at me with his azure blue eyes. He was wearing blue sleeves, black pants and black boots. “Hey, how do you feel, that was quite a fall you know”, then I remember I fell from a cliff. Looking at my body I don’t feel any pain even after the fall and no sting from that last blast, “don’t worry about that I healed you up well”. He then squatted and looked into my eye, it was like I was looking at a mirror, “you look exactly like me” I told him, “I am you dummy” he patted my head,“But not you right now, but the you that you will become”, “the reason I am here is that I sense that you are in danger, and I guess it was a dark mage that attacked you wearing a black robe with a sign of a crow right?”. He knew the mage,“How do you know him?” I asked,“Because he is the leader of the dark mages ‘BLOOD CROW’”. He told me about the battles he had with the dark mage and I was surprised that I will
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I have been in the palace for two weeks now and I have already been sparring with knights in the castle, except for Sarah taking me for walks around the palace it was quite boring here, today she said she would take me to the training ground to watch her train.“Wow, this place is huge, this is amazing,” I said as I observe the training area.“This is where I would be spending most of my time now, my teacher would be coming in soon, let’s wait for her”. Soon after a woman in her late twenties, enter the training area. Miss Helen, a sixth circle mage with power over wind element is one of jasmine’s elements.“Good morning princess, I see you brought a friend” she looked at me for a while before the hint of surprise appeared in her eyes, she seem to have sensed my mana flow, that was quick.“So have you gone for the selection yet boy” “oh my name is Peter, Peter Grey miss Helen” that was awkward “and I haven’t gone for the selection yet, but I believe my class would be different”. She l
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When we saw the king looking at us, Peter could feel the immeasurable pressure coming from him.‘So this is King Mark, he must be at the peak of martial knight rank’ Peter thought to himself.Looking at the imposing man standing 1.8 meters in height, with brown hair and black eyes that give the feeling of being watched by a higher being.“Your majesty” everybody in the training ground bowed to him as approached us.“You may rise,” he said as he glanced around the crowd before finally resting his eyes on me and David. “You must be Peter right, I was watching your spar, and I must I am impressed at how you fight with a sword despite not yet in the novice rank,” he said with a look of approval, which angered Baron Paul greatly.“Thank you for your words of encouragement your majesty,” I said as I bowed to the king.“Paul your son seems to be improving well, but he still to train more,” he said as he looked at David.“Thank you, my king, I will see that h trains more” he bowed to the kin
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Early the next morning, I was woken by the chirping of birds and the rays of sunlight. When I got off bed, I did my morning routine which involves a bunch of exercises to get my day started. After that, I went to the bathing room to take my bath and clean myself up since I was already sweating. I got out of the bathing and put on the clothes I have already selected to wear today from the previous day. It was a Dark blue tunic long sleeve, black pants and shoes. I looked in the mirror to adjust my clothes and arrange my auburn red hair before heading out. As I walked to the sitting I greeted the maids and servants. It was quite lonely in the corridor since it was early in the morning. When I got there, I saw Sarah and her mother Queen Elizabeth sitting on the couch talking about something. She was wearing a green dress the same as her mother's but hers made her look like a little princess and only got to her knees and she was wearing silver sanders. The queen’s dress was long with
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At the time we arrived at the pavilion used for the awakening of talent. I saw children my age with their parents guiding them into the pavilion and I wished my parents were with me here.The queen noticed my mood and patted my back, “don’t worry, we are here for you and they might get the letter by now and know that you are ok” she said as she gave me an encouraging smile.I smiled at her and gave her a nod and Sarah held my hand leading me inside.When we entered the hall, everybody bowed the moment they saw the queen and she wave at them to stand. The hall was huge and could easily accommodate over a hundred people.I noticed some people wearing cloaks of different colours and turned to Helen. “Who are those people wearing cloaks,” I asked her when pointing at them. “They are mages from the magic tower in charge of the awakening, you see they have different colours right,” she said pointing at a few of them.“The green robes are for beginners, the blue is for the middle or inte
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When we got to the palace, Queen Elizabeth led Sarah and me to the king's private study. When we arrived at the door of the study, she knocked twice before we got permission to enter. The study was huge. It had shelves that were as high as fifteen feet, stacked with books of different colours. Some of the books were about magic, which is surprising because the king was a broadsword user. We saw the king sitting behind a desk filled with files and ledgers. Behind him were a blue lion shield and a great sword behind it. Sarah hurried to him and told him what happened at the awakening ceremony, while the queen sat on the couch at the centre of the room and made a cup of tea for herself I could see the surprise and astonishment from the king as he looked at me with a strange glint in his eyes. “Peter my boy, you sure a full of surprises, this old man knew you would be a knight but to imagine that you got magic too, your p
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That night, I decided to take the red dragon pill. When I swallowed the pill, I could feel a fiery sensation coming from my chest as the pill started to dissolve. Then it spread from my chest at its starting point to every part of my body. It was as if my body was set on fire, as I could feel the temperature raising and sweating all over my body. The next moment my joint started snapping, which caused me great pain. I thought I could bear it but the pain increased and my body felt as if it was burning up, to the point I let a scream and pass out on the bed. When I woke the next morning, my bed was damp and dirty. I got up and looked at my body to check if there were any changes due to the pains of my bones snapping and the feeling of my body set on fire. My body looked ok after my observation, just that my sight was a bit hazy. I went to the bathroom to wash off the dirt on my body, after I was through with that, I walked out and passed the front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror in
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The stage of the arena was covered with smoke. Peter stood at his spot waiting for the smoke to clear off. On the other side, the boy pointed his staff forward and four magic circles appeared, “Scattershot.” Flames shot out from the circle into the smoke heading for where Peter was.Peter sensed the fluctuation of mana and his dragon sense made him know that an attack was coming his way. He channelled mana into his hand creating a whip from fire. When the flames shot out of the smoke screen, Peter flogged his whip forward towards the flames and it destroyed the flames.Peter sent the whip forward striking at his opponent, the boy raised a flame wall to block it. If it was not for the boost his staff gave his flame spells it would have collapsed under that single strike.Peter whipped the firewall again, and it started flatter, after the next strike the flame wall exploded, and the shockwave sent the boy two feet backwards. Even with the staff he was still no match for Peter’s atta
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Samuel stood on the stage facing his opponent. He took a red staff with a ruby at the tip. The ruby glowed with a tinge of an orange hue to it. He got the staff from a merchant for a high amount of gold after his duel with Peter.The boy with the buzz took off his cloak; he was wearing a sleeveless top showing his muscles. He had too many muscles for a mage.“Are you both ready,” Owen asked the boys and they both nodded. “Begin,” he said and the boy with a buzz cut shot three rock bullets at Samuel.“Fireball” a magic circle formed in front of his staff and fireballs blasted out of it meeting the rock bullets coming his way. “BOOM” an explosion happened as the spells met midway. Immediately Samuel shot another round of fireballs through the smoke hoping to take the boy by surprise.Through the smoke, three balls of flames came right at the boy with a buzz cut. “Wall” an earth wall rose and blocked the balls but it cracked when the last one hit it.The smoke cleared, and Samuel saw tha
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After a long while, the battle finally ended, “you did good kid”. The berserker said as he merges his axe back together as one. “You look stronger in your dragon form, I wonder how powerful you are now,” the leader said to her. In her dragon form, he was just a couple of inches taller than she was.She switched out of her dragon, her scales disappeared, and she returned to her usual height. “that’s not what we should discuss now, we need to make it to the city, so I can meet up with one who can protect me,” she said calling back her spear. The group agreed and continued their journey.In the king's study in the capital of the kingdom, in front of the king stood a man in all black. His face was covered so that always his eyes could be seen. He had little presence and could easily be lost in the crowd. He was part of the king’s special squad.“Have you gotten any information on what I asked you to look into?” he asked the man in front of him.“Yes, your majesty. Approximately three mont
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The group were surprised by the people they saw and could not understand who the man called the avatar of the blue dragon surprised the group.“You asked me what I was doing in the forest when we first met right? I was running away from them,” Sophia said, “they massacred my entire village just to get to me and the only person that could protect me from them is in the capital of this kingdom.”Hearing what she said, the party became vigilant because they could feel that the people were strong and had a sinister aura around them.“I see that you guys are a decent adventuring party and from your pieces of equipment you should be stronger than average, so let’s do this. You hand over the girl to us and we will leave your bodies intact for you to have a befitting burial.” The leader of the group said.His words enraged the man with the axe, “you don’t seem to understand something, you are the one to beg me to leave your bodies intact.” He said as he released his aura. Just from the pressu
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The boys were surprised by the outcome of the fight. Because they know that, the boy that Peter defeated was the second strongest in the group.The boy that led them stood there with a frown on his face. He did not expect Peter to be that strong.“Ok boy, it is me and you now.” Another boy said as he approached Peter with sword drawn and ready to attack.“Come on.” Peter welcomed him as he got into stance.Both clashed with their sword and the force behind Peter's sword made the other take three steps backwards. ‘He was not as strong as the first guy’ was what Peter thought.Peter docked to the side as the boy continued attacking. The boy swung his sword again and Peter parried it to the side before kicking his right shin breaking his balance.Before the boy could recover, Peter grabbed his head and slammed his head on the grass.“Next.” He said standing straight, looking at them dead in the eye. One of the boys left was terrified of the outcome of the fight. It ended faster than the
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Everybody at the table stared at the two boys, waiting for them to say the identity of the person who sent them.“It was Jackson the son of Baron Steven that sent us.” The other boy said proudly, as if proud of the fact that he was a lackey.“Do you guys know any Jackson in the academy,” Peter asked the people around the table since he has no idea who the person was. Jude was the same as him but he knew who Baron Steven was. He was the baron in charge of a big city in the east close to the border between Gales and Green land. He was a wealthy merchant and his merchant group was spread across the kingdom even into other lands.“I think I know who Jackson is,” joy said. “he is a fourth circle mage in the tower and I have seen Samuels group with him before.” She said after thinking for a while.“Since you know who ask for you now, can you come with us?” The other boy who had not spoken anything said.“Sorry go back and tell Jackson that we having dinner with our friends and cannot leave
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In the class, students were inscribing tunes into sheets of paper. It was not other ordinary paper but magic sheets used to create magic scrolls. Magic scrolls are sheets with spells engraved on them, sold to merchants or adventurers.The price of the magic scrolls depends on the quality. The scrolls are divided into three grades. They are ‘Normal, Rear and Epic’ grades. So the class are learning how to engrave magic spells into the sheets. Some would blow up in their face, while most just created normal-grade scrolls.Peter found it interesting, as he tried to engrave the runes without using the steps he had gotten from the knowledge of the dragons. He wanted to test himself and he was among the set that the sheet blew up at their faces.Joy was not having it easy but she didn’t blow the sheets up in her face like Peter.“that’s all for today, I know it’s not easy but keep practising and we will continue in the next class,” Owen said as he made his way out of the class.“This is very