'Did She just hear those words come out of her father's mouth.'
'Did She just see her 7 year old brother manage to slap her father.'
'Did She just notice the cut on her father's right cheek begin to bleed.'
These thoughts keep repeating in her mind as she walks behind her father, who is carrying Ray over to dining room table.
It is an elegant rectangular table that could seat twelve people one at each respective head and 5 on each side. One head is close to the window and the other us close to the door.
He sets Ray down on the seat closest to the head of the table near the door.
"Fetch some water, Fen." Rowan says to the maid who has constantly been by his side. She leaves for a minute as she walks through the hall she passes by the furious Emily stomping towards the dining room.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SON!" Emily shouts as she slams open the doors. She previously saw Rowan carrying the unconscious Ray, and after hearing the commotion knew something bad had happened.
"I just proved your methods work." Rowan states calmly.
"By almost killing him!" Emily points at the sleeping Ray.
"Obviously not if he had died I would've brought him to you as nutrients for you little garden."
Emily calms her anger already knowing her husband and his ruthless nature. It is alright as long as her son is still alive.
Fen returns behind her with a glass of water. "Apologies for not being faster miss Emily."
She says with bowing her head before handing the water to Rowan.
He proceeds to throw the water onto Ray, waking him up!
"Ahh where am I?!" Ray says abruptly as he awoke but he quickly realizes he is in the dining room.
"Oh, never-mind." Ray shakes his head to get rid of the drowsiness. He sees his Father, mother and sister all looking at him elated faces.
"You did very well, Ray!" Rowan says with a wide grin contrary to his cold expression before.
"You managed to slap me... and you managed to make me attack 4 times."
Rebecca chimes in. "your fight was quite the spectacle brother!"
"I'm glad your alive, my ray of light." Emily says running over and giving him a warm hug.
"Now that I know your safe, I'll take my leave and get my children a nice meal." Emily says putting a hand on Rebecca's shoulder.
Rebecca turns her head away as if to avoid acknowledging her.
Emily pays it no mind as she heads for the door, stopping right before leaving.
"Thank you, Fen." She says with a bow before leaving.
"Now let's get back to the subject at hand." Rowan claps.
"So, do you think he could participate in the upcoming tournament?" He asks Rebecca.
"Yes."
Rowan then turns to Ray. "Do you think you can reach top 10 in the Solaris family's tournament?"
Ray takes a second before answering.
"Forget the top ten I'll reach first in the Solaris family's tournament with some more training!" He states confidently.
"Alright then, you are now my favorite child." Rowan decisively chooses based on Ray's confidence and potential. The statement doesn't seem to phase the cold faced Rebecca.
"Let me explain." He continues on without missing a beat, about how the tournament works.
{The Solaris family tournament was called the sun tournament. All the family members of the Solaris family [rank-C]{ Basic stage } and below.
It is a solo battle tournament which has a maximum of 150 combatants, with 100 coming from the branch families and the rest being winners of the selection tournaments happening around the continent.
There are 3 different battles.
First is the preliminary where a 50 person free for all takes place, once ten people are left in each arena it moves to the next battle.
The next battle is the duels. Random numbers 1 to 15 will be drawn and they will fight whichever person draws the same number.
The last battle is a choice fight, everyone will pick their position and if it goes unchallenged they will not have to fight for it.
Each person has 3 chances to challenge, whoever wins the challenge gets the position.}
"So who should I be hoping to meet?" Ray asks getting excited.
"I'll tell you the main four." Rebecca takes over while Rowan lets out a small chuckle.
The most popular and youngest genius is named Jack Solaris of the 2nd branch which is known as the law enforcement branch.
His nickname is the Red Sky child because of the red clouds that hang around him.
He has duel elements which are both rare elements [Hell flame] and [cloud wind].
He is only 15 and has long straight blue hair as well as dark blue eyes. He's a sword practitioner who's reached advanced sword mastery.
The next one is Cain Solaris of the 4nd branch which is known as the research branch.
His nickname is The Mad Disciple because of his master the Mad Scientist.
His element is called [abyss ocean water].
He is a real recluse who only goes out with a mask so no one knows what he looks like. His weapon is potions that have been rumored to have crazy effects.
The third one is your own sister Raven known as the crushing stone. She is regarded as the most ruthless combatant.
Her element is called [stone earth].
Her main weapon is a rusty old morning star that is the only weapon that hasn't broken under her brutal attacks.
The last one is the strongest out of the four.
She is Belle Solaris of the 1st branch which is known as main family. Her nickname is the Burning Rose.
Her element is [Sun flower flora].
She has glowing green and red hair which was complimented by her purple eyes. She uses a magic staff given to her by the head of the first branch.
After hearing this Ray thought it was best if he trains some more.
"Thank you for telling me this father. I will take the top spot and bring pride to my mother." Ray says as he stood up and put his fist to his chest.
As Ray walks out Rowan yells out to him.
"The tournament is in four months, do not fail!"
Greg reached the training ground and asked Arthur how to create the mana storage rune.
Arthur explains that he has to focus on the intent of the rune and then write the rune with his own energy and the more energy put into writing the rune then the stronger it will be.
He showed him the rune and tells him to write it on his left arm.
He also taught him a rune to attract more solar energy. This rune was called [bring sun].
Ray does as he said and focuses solely on what he wants the rune to do.
He gathers all the solar energy in and around his body. He focused it on his finger making it glow bright like ET. He then presses his finger to his left shoulder.
The pain is immense!
Ray grits his teeth and holds in his screams then continues to write.
10 minutes of immense pain follow and finally right before the 11th minute he finishes. He lets out a pained sigh of relief. He could feel the solar energy around him flowing into his mana core, then after it was full. the flow moved to the rune.
It was successful!
However he is not done there he cultivates his mana core until it reaches the advanced grade of rank-E.
After that he begins to write the same rune in a circle around a large rock. This took all night since he had to take a break to replenish his mana core after each rune.
This lasted until nightfall however during the writing Ray got better at using and controlling the solar energy on his finger.
Each rune is written better than the last and after nightfall he uses the solar energy he collected in the storage rune.
Finally he completes the circle just short of 4am.
Arthur is impressed by his dedication since writing runes for so long can cause a crazy amount of pain. And that it did but he pushed through.
Ray thanks him as he falls asleep on the large rock.