VLADIMIR: The Last Blood Mage

Vladimir's training

After the deity had finished explaining everything to me. We walked towards a bright light portal, I had to close my eyes.

The next time my eyes opened I was in that same underground room. I looked around to see that the book was no longer there but a huge wooden coffin.

"Open it", I walked towards the coffin and opened it. "Arrgh... phew that was heavy"

--Dum--

The coffin door fell on the ground and raised a large amount of dust, "The man in there is the right-hand man of your father, Baron Mason. Take the amulet"

The amulet was made of a glass-like black material. It had this cold and gloomy aura around it, and it had strange engravings as though it was half of a picture.

I extended my hand to take the amulet that he held close to his chest. He was a strong man even in death his grip was something else.

--Crack --

HIS HANDS BROKE!!

if lord marshall saw this he would not forgive me even into the next life. I had to be quick and leave this place.

I hid the amulet inside my inner clothing and closed the coffin. I was almost out of the huge room, that now looked like a king's tomb, a big one at that. then this thought entered my mind.

'I came here with someone... yes Chelsea where is she? '

I looked around and found Chelsea in one corner of the room. when I got to her I discovered she was not moving.

"Is she dead?", as I said those words I felt this pain as though I had lost something precious Looking at Chelsea not moving made me enter into a deep turmoil, my heart was almost falling out of my chest.

' What is this that I feel? '

"She is not dead, the shock wave had knocked her unconscious, She is still useful to me, take her upstairs"

I walked forward and picked Chelsea up and left the tomb. The flight of stairs was still as long as before, but it was harder now, I can not even explain how I carried Chelsea and also a flame torch.

After what seemed like two hours, I could now see the light escaping from Chelsea's chamber.

As I came out from the hole in Chelsea's chamber I was shocked to see that it was still...night. It was just a bit closer to midnight, and the manor's light was still on.

I placed Chelsea on her bed my face was so close to hers. I was under a spell... Chelsea's spell. Her breathing was stable, whereas my breathing was getting hard, she looked so beautiful, I could not resist...almost.

I caught a grip on myself before things got out of hand. I walked out of Chelsea's bedroom, and as soon as I got to Chelsea's door, I heard the sound of people walking on the hardwood floor.

--Badum, Badum--

If I got caught here, this would lead to a lot of problems I wasn't ready for. My mind was a mess, thinking of what I had to do, and where I had to hide. I backed away from the door.

Fortunately, Chelsea's chamber had many rooms. So I hid behind the door that led into Chelsea's study which was closest to the door out of Chelsea's chamber.

--knock, knock--

"Lady Chelsea, it's time for your massage?", one of the maids at the door spoke.

meanwhile, I was where I was trying to keep my heart from exploding. some time had passed before the maids decided to turn away.

"Lady Chelsea, we will come again tomorrow morning"

"It seems Lady Chelsea is asleep, let's go" The second maid said and I started to hear fading footsteps.

I had to wait for it to be safe. As soon I had ascertained that it was safe I walked towards the door and opened it as slowly as I could.

--creeeaakk--

I peeped through the small opening and I saw that the hallway was clear. and that's when it happened.

I bolted out of the door, into the hallway, up to my room and fell on my bed.

"Phew..."

MEAN WHILE...

Two female servants were walking together." I wonder why young sir was running, Was something chasing him?"

"I can't say... something was off about him"

THE NEXT MORNING, BEFORE THE SUN HAD RISEN

"HEY... WAKE UP" I heard a scream in my head. "It's time for your training"

"What do you mean by training?"

"You will get it soon, Now get up and walk to the training ground behind the mansion"

I yawned, "Hah... am still tired I just woke up"

"That's not what I asked you. Seems I have to give it to you the hard way", I didn't understand what the deity meant until I felt an unexplainable pain. It was excruciating, worse than the pain caused by the green specks of light during the test. I felt the pain I had never felt before, this was a whole new level of it, as though my skin was turning inside out.

Worst of all, I could not scream out. My throat was numb, and my mouth opened but no sound came out, and I could not express the pain I was going through.

"Please... please... no... more", I begged for the deity's mercy.

"I will stop but you have to go to the training ground behind the mansion".

I struggled but I had to speak, "You... nngh...have...nngh...my...word"

"OK", as soon as I heard the words of the deity the pain stopped, and surprisingly it felt as if I was never in pain.

"Stand up, let's go have your first training session". I got up from my bed and walked downstairs into the mansion courtyard.

I walked towards the training yard, but I noticed something... There was this lingering feeling of superiority within me. It was as though everybody here was inferior... I didn't feel this way the night before.

I entered the training yard It was a large expanse of green land. It had equipment for training different aspects of the body, archery, sword practice, lance manship training pieces of equipment, strength training, and so on it was so fascinating.

"Enough of being fascinated. Time to sweat!!!". the deity urged me, " Walk towards the boulders. Start with light ones, and keep going till you reach your limit"

I had to oblige, I walked towards the boulders and started lifting them. 20kg...40kg...80kg...160kg, This was becoming tough, but I knew this was not my limit. when I lifted the boulder weighing 200 kilograms I knew I could not go any further.

"Now..."

I had steeled my mind to receive whatever it was the deity wanted me to do as {training}, but what I heard was not what I would have expected even in my wildest dreams.

"...this is what I want you to do, lift the boulder onto your shoulder and run around this field ten times".

"What?!!".

This field was HUGE it was almost as large as a village, Running around it once with this boulder was already impossible, but running with it three times was death.

"It seems I wasn't clear enough, i. said. run. round. this. field. with. this. stone. three. times". At this point, I was already feeling a trace of the pain I felt earlier that morning, and it was increasing...

"Wait... I will do it". It was tough but I had to lift the stone place it on my back, tie it in place and start running. I had never felt this heavy in my life.

By the time I was done with the first lap I was already sinking into the ground.

Before the second lap was done my footwear was already worn out, I had torn my shirt so that I would not drown in my sweat because the deity would not let me take the stone off and remove my shirt. My hair was shrivelled, I was breathing already breathing heavily, trying to catch my breath.

As at the time I was about to finish the third lap. I was no longer running or walking, I was crawling to the place I started. My nails were broken, my back was full of blisters and blood flowed from my back. I was wrecked, but all this pain did not compare to the pain I felt from the deity. "Good...good, now for your next exercise"

I could not even retort. I was experiencing pain all over my body, but I could see this deity-woman wanted to kill me.

"How could I forget... Vladimir. Heal", the injuries on my skin closed up and healed. Not only that but I felt no pain not even the least fatigue, it was as if it wasn't me who had just done this exercise.

"It seems the sun is about to rise, ok I think we will have to end this session here. we would wake up earlier tomorrow, OK?".

...I could see now that this deity wanted me dead.

I untied the boulder from my body and walked towards the mansion. At this time the servants were already awake and working when I walked into the mansion.

walking into the mansion all the maids in the household looked at me with traces of shock, desire, awe...or so I thought.

I entered my room and fell on my bed, I was wondering why I didn't feel the pains of the training session, and I heard a voice...a very familiar voice.

"You did not expect that it would be this easy? Now, feel your pain from the training". As she said this I felt the pain from the training before.

My lungs felt like collapsing, my joints were on fire, my head was spinning, and just laying down on my bed was torture.