Chapter 18- The Escape
Western continent
Tears flowed like rain, after crying so much, the voice became hoarse and the tears dried up, fear, anger, hatred, suicidal desire .
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One
Two
One
Two
Heavy footsteps in the dark night, the steps were completely unbalanced, the right leg dragged the bloody left leg, white bone stained with blood could be seen.
Puff
The boy fell again, he got up with great difficulty, like every time he fell on this dark night, he picked up his sister's corpse in his arms and continued to drag his left leg, dripping blood, staining the ground red.
The boy carrying his sister's corpse continued to wander aimlessly through the night. Looking closely, a smile could be seen on the corpse the boy was carrying. Seeing this smile, anyone would say that the girl died peacefully and happily.
The boy was only 8 years old, short hair down to his ears, black eyes, he was a human being, he was a proud and arrogant boy, until two months ago when his entire family was exterminated, except three people his sister, the cursed woman and himself, but now his sister was dead.
The boy refused to bury his sister's corpse, his mental faculties were distorted, he was no longer a normal person.
Hahahahaha hah hahahahahahahaha
Laughter that didn't belong to a child came out of the boy's mouth, there was no sparkle in his eyes, they were cold and lifeless, the sister he had despised his whole life gave her only life to save him.
The boy was dressed in imperial robes, which were a symbol of dignity and respect, but now made him look like he was dying. Blood continued to drip from his leg, but he didn't care. Suicidal desire began to take over his mind. He saw no reason to continue living. His parents were dead, his brothers and sisters were dead, his friends were dead, his fiancée was dead. The only living person in his family was that damned woman. Why live then? He had asked himself this question countless times.
Revenge? What a joke, he knew that things like revenge were useless, you live in pain and hatred, greedy and full of bitterness, and in the end, even if you achieve your goal, you will never be happy. Revenge only breeds more revenge, at least that's what his father told him before he died.
His family was powerful on the continent, but even so they were exterminated, he only survived by luck, where the hell would he get the strength for his revenge.
For someone in his insane condition, it was a wonder he still had any logical thoughts.
The boy entered a cave, laid the dead girl's body on a kind of altar, he took a dagger, pointed it at his heart and was about to stab his own heart, when a memory passed through his head.
In his memory, his sister sacrificed herself for him and said with a smile before succumbing to death.
"Brother , you must live. Don't worry, I'm dying willingly in your arms. It's my fortune. As long as you live, I'd die a thousand times for you to have a chance . I want you to have a good life, forget the past, and make new friends."
When the girl's last breath was exhaled, the last words did not come from her mouth but from her soul.
—Be strong brother, protect those you love, I will always be with you.
If someone was powerful enough to see some, they would see the soul of a 6-year-old girl floating right in front of the boy, the soul humming like a flame that would extinguish at any moment.
***
Sub-Saharan continent
John was having dinner with his family, now they had another family member, it had been a week since Felicia, John's aunt, arrived at the castle.
—Sister-in-law , pass the salt please.
Felicia asked Catarina, but in response nothing happened, since John returned injured that afternoon, Catarina has been helping as if Felicia was not there, she refused to talk to Felicia and acted as if she was just air, normally Fernando was the one who sometimes seemed childish at home, but this time Catarina behaved like a little girl.
Fernando and John looked at each other and saw the fear in each other, in women's fights they were often one of the two who suffered from the attacks from both sides, Felícia and Catarina had tried to pull the boys to their side, as neither of them took a side things were strange, especially on Fernando's side.
This week a lot happened and the most important was the wolf family, little Isa's mother was receiving treatment at Venhorst Castle, at John Fernando's request I gladly gave some potions to Isa's mother, now the family of three was living in the castle area where the most loyal employees resided, at first Catarina and John wanted the family to live only as guests.
The Lobo family refused to live for free, except for Francisca, Isa's mother who was recovering, Judith, Isa's aunt, and she herself decided to provide her domestic services to Venhorst Castle.
Catarina knew that John held Isa in high regard and had some affection for her as well, even if it was just sisterly affection, Catarina took this in high regard, she delegated Isa as John's personal maid, it was a very good job, Isa acted as a secretary, only she took messages for John.
Isa was happy with her job; she practically did nothing but follow John everywhere. She also had access to the same classes as John, except for the theoretical magic classes that Catarina taught personally. She also attended physical training classes . three Isa , Alex and John were now the best of friends and unbeatable.
***
In the dining room, John was already fed up with the bad atmosphere, after finishing the meal he said goodbye and went to his room, Catarina also did not want to stay in Felícia's presence, she dragged Fernando to the room.
In the couple's room, Venhorst, Catarina and Fernando were having a conversation, planning John's future, Catarina didn't want to separate from John and Fernando wanted the opposite.
—Honey , why does John have to go to college?
Fernando has heard this question many times in the last few days, Catarina continued asking questions like this.
" What will he learn there that you or I can't teach him? I'm a peak average being, it won't be long before I have a breakthrough if I resume training, and you? You're a superior being, you'd make a most adequate teacher, and then there's Felicia . "
Fernando interrupted.
"Honey , we know what's at stake here. We can't give our son everything he needs. We don't want him to grow up arrogant and clueless."
—The institute is not an ordinary place, there he will have to rely on his strength, talent and persistence, even his meals will come from his sweat.
—The missions there will be dangerous, I know, I'm worried too, but it's this danger that's necessary for our son to grow up and become a man.
—It is necessary for him to chart his own path and make his own choices.
Fernando looked at Catarina and asked.
—You haven't forgotten our wedding promise, have you?
Catarina clenched her fists and said with a sparkle in her eyes.
—I will never forget.
Fernando sighed and said.
—Our son has to grow up and become a real man, our son is not a normal person, you know, we don't know what will come of his future.
— Here in the territory, John is the Lord's son. No matter what he wants, he just needs to extend his hands and it will be his. He just needs to point his finger and any woman would be his willingly. That's why I don't like him leaving or having contact with the outside world.
—In a few days he will be 8 years old, I don't want him to spend his adolescence here in comfort, only fighting for what you want will you give it the value it deserves.
—He would have no true friends here, only flatterers.
—At the institute, there will only be people at his level and talented young people, so no one will need to flatter him. If he is careless, he will suffer the consequences.
—He will learn a lot there and become strong.
Fernando smiled and said.
"The royal family will be donating 50% of its annual revenue to the three institutes. The best in the kingdom will be teaching there. Masters will be teaching potions, forging , magic arrays, magic circles, alchemy, astrology, and much more. No matter whether John chooses to be a wizard, warrior, or anything else, he will be well-trained."
—He will have teammates who have shared life and death, that's the most important thing.
Catarina gave in, he looked at Fernando and asked.
—How much time do we have left with him?
—Two years at most...
Boom
An explosion sounded in the castle, Fernando who was speaking frowned, he flashed and disappeared, Catarina followed right behind.
****
In the castle prison.
Fernando appeared in a cell, Felicia appeared in a flash, the next second Catarina also appeared.
—What happened? Catarina asked.
The bars of the cell were destroyed, flesh and blood were scattered everywhere in the destroyed cell, Fernando felt it with his sonar and responded.
"Someone blew up their own evolution core here. Judging by the residual energy, the suicide bomber was only a primary being. But the energy doesn't match his level; he must have used a scroll that fueled his power."
The prison warden came running, and when he arrived as quickly as he could, he discovered that his superiors were already there. Fernando looked at the warden and asked,
—Who was locked in this cell?
The warden responded with sweat running down his face, he knew it was all over for him, the one who was trapped was a very delicate prisoner, he remembered to seal his evolution core.
—My lord, it is, it is the Man that Lady Felicia brought the other day.
Fernando was upset, he wanted to deal personally with this criminal so he asked to put him in prison, who would have thought he would commit suicide, Fernando looked at the guard and asked.
—How come you didn't seal your core? Didn't you know this could happen?
The director replied in a trembling voice.
—My lord, I personally barn your core, we don't know how this happened.
Fernando sighed and said.
—Forget it , it's too late, get everything sorted around here.
—The bastard was very lucky to commit suicide. Let's go.
Fernando, Catarina and Felícia left the place, in the cell there was only the director and his men.
***
As it was already night, everyone returned to their respective rooms. With the expulsion, everyone in the castle had woken up, even John and the wolf family, but as Fernando the Lord said that everything was fine, everyone went back to bed.
In the room Catarina and Fernando continued their conversation until late at night, finally Catarina asked.
—How are you going to deal with Felicia?
Fernando was sincere and said he was out of ideas, Catarina made a cunning fox face and gave her suggestion.
—Your sister is very greedy, how about she pays for John and Alex's evolution ritual as compensation, we will prepare a very expensive ritual of the highest degree, so she will bleed a lot, and you should also beat her a little.
Catarina was a very cunning woman , but that was also a good thing. Fernando was already having headaches with the amount of money he had to spend on John and Alex's ritual. He also wanted to test his current power and using Felicia was a good idea, after all, there was no superior being for him to test his power on.
***
The next day
John was having a theoretical magic class with Catarina. Now, John already knew the incantations of many spells of the water and earth elements. In theory, John was able to cast a spell every second. The Babona language was a complicated language to master, but John was fluent in this strange language. Because it was a language that evoked magic, it was not used for conversations, it was only used in incantations and in magic books.
***
A wind blew, Fernando and Felicia flew over the forest, they went deep, the ferocious beasts did not dare to stop the two visitors, when the beasts sensed the evolution bases of the two, they moved away, in the forest there were only wild beasts up to the level of an average peak being, for Catarina it would be a dangerous place, but for Fernando and Felicia the beasts in the middle kingdom were just ants, a direct attack would be enough to defeat them.
The two posed in an open field in the forest, the wild beasts abandoned the place, they were face to face about to have a training battle, Fernando became a superior being 8 years ago, but during all this time he had not fought against another superior being, practically, he did not know the extent of his current strength.
Fernando became a superior being in the tomb of the primordial sin, and the method used as well as the evolution ritual was not a common method in the kingdom, from what he knew he would be stronger or weaker , as Felicia was here he wanted to test his current strength, since he is going to the capital in a few days, knowing the extent of his strength was crucial.
During these 8 years Fernando progressed in two small kingdoms, he was now a superior being level two of the peak, it seems to be little but for normal people it takes 10 years or more to go from level 1 to the peak of level 1 and it would take 2 to 5 years to go from the peak of level 1 to reach level two, it only took him 8 years to reach level 2 of the superior kingdom.
Felicia was another complete aberration, she is already a superior being, intermediate level 3, but unfortunately level 3 is called the cemetery, because to overcome this level depends purely on luck, it does not depend on talent, persistence or evolution resources, at this level the individual had to have luck and deep knowledge, that is why the most fortunate only overcome the bottleneck at 100 years old or more .
Felicia was always very talented, much more so than Fernando, if it weren't for the tomb of the primordial sin, Fernando still wouldn't be a superior being to this day, but Felicia never faced a bottleneck until the higher realm, Felicia was confident that she would reach the fourth level at the age of 80.
—Get ready, I'm going to attack.
Fernando drew his sword from his space ring and said.
—Come on, I'm ready.
Felicia spoke, she extended her hand and two swords appeared in her hands, a golden sword in her left hand and a blue one in her right hand.
The earth elements were frenzied in the area, no matter if it was Fernando or Felicia , they both unwound their tails that were tied around their waist.
Fernando stomped his foot hard on the ground, a piece of rock was ripped from the ground, the piece flew at full speed towards Felicia , at the same time Fernando launched another attack with the water element, a blue sword beam followed the piece of rock.
Boom
Felicia released several sword beams with a yellow glow, with an explosion sound the rock was shattered into several pieces, but before Felicia had time to breathe, a blue sword beam passed through the debris of the rock, too close to block Felicia jumped, escaping by half a centimeter of the blue beam, in the air a sword descended towards Felicia's neck.
Boom
Felicia's body shot to the ground like a bullet, forming a crater and knocking down several trees in its path .
As it turned out, Fernando's first and second attacks were just distractions. When Fernando launched the sword beam, he jumped into the air and landed on top of Felicia , and when she jumped, she found Fernando's sword waiting for her. In the last decade , Felicia managed to turn one of the swords to block the attack. As a result, she was thrown to the ground and the sword she used to block the attack flew out of her hand.
—Sister , this is serious, I will not hold back any of my strength.
Fernando didn't wait for Felicia to get up, countless sword beams flew towards Felicia, using the earth element two rocky arms appeared in front of Felicia blocking the sword beams.
Collide
Collide
Collide
All the beams were blocked by the rocky arms that Felicia created, none of the sword beams came close to her.
— First form, rising waves
Fernando raised the level of his attacks using the first form of the sea-splitting sword, the elements of water gathered in Fernando's sword, when his voice sounded, a vertical cut was delivered, the sword beam transformed into a giant sea wave that covered the sky, with a height of 6 to 7 meters.
—First form, rising waves.
Felicia's voice also sounded, like Fernando's, a giant wave formed through a sword beam.
Boom
The two rising waves collided, the forest turned into a river and the trees were devastated by the wild waters, the shock created strong winds, the arts used each canceled the other, Fernando and Felícia each used spiritual energy in their feet and stood in the water, neither of them sank.
The water spread in all directions after a moment, the river dried up, the trees were devastated, there was only debris and no trees standing.
Felicia picked up the sword she had dropped, now they were both drenched in water, an earthly glow enveloped them both at the same time and with war cries, they rushed at each other.
Boom
Shrapnel
Boom
Shrapnel
Boom
The swords crossed countless times, the attacks were too fast to discern who was attacking and who was defending, amidst the bangs and shrapnel, they exchanged several blows in just a second, the terrain around them was devastated, the earth at their feet cracked forming spider webs.
Fernando stepped back and said one word.
— Graviton
***
There was a checkpoint that gave access to the exit and entrance of the Venhorst territory, a middle-aged woman had just been inspected and she came out clean, from the Venhorst territory , the woman took a carriage and left.
After arriving in an isolated area, the woman said goodbye to the coachman, she entered an abandoned house, there she found two men, the woman began to tear off the loose skin on her face, she took off her clothes right in front of the two men, the two men, they spoke in unison spoke.
—Commander , welcome back.
The woman turned into a man, if the Venhorst family or the wolf family saw this woman who just turned into a man, they would recognize him, as the man who was presumed dead in the Venhorst castle prison, the same commander who left John on the brink of death.
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