Father's most expensive belonging would be the sword in his room. It was made of unbreakable steel and could cut you with the lightest touch. The sword could be sold with at least 10 gold pieces, that was even more money than the house. Father told me his father slayed hundreds of monsters with that sword. I told him I will reach the thousand one day.
"I bet you will," he replied to my promise. He called the sword "The Family Sword," but nobody was allowed to touch it, unless he told you to.
The Family Sword was the sword that rested in the hands from the red suited knight before me.
"Never seen it before. It looks to expensive for someone in this village," Martin said.
"What about you?" the red suited knight said while looking at me. He had a lot of muscles and was bigger than his green suited co-worker. He had a lower voice than the other as well. His dark-red hair was a bit spikey. He looked serious to me, howerver his serious eyes looked a bit angry.
๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ... ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ข๐ด ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข ๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ, ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ.
"My son doesn't like to speak to strangers, but I can confirm he never saw that sword either."
๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด? ๐๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ? ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ฆ.
"I see, in tha..." The green suited knight wanted to end this conversation, but was interrupted.
"I'm not introverted at all." ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐บ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
Martin was shocked by my words, even the knights were shocked.
"Then answer me, what about you?" the red suited knight repeated the exact same question.
"Whose blood is it," I replied with a counter question.
"Answer!" The knight spoke loudly and sounded really angry.
"I will not answer until I know my answers." I did not gave up.
The red suited knight made a "grrr" sound and took a step towards me.
"Someone found it in a small house west from Lori village. The victim was a brown haired man laying in the kitchen and he was... headless. The house is currently being searched for clues." The green suited knight answered my question to back off his co-worker. This knight looked a lot nicer and tried to solve everything, by staying calm and treating everyone with respect. He was skinier than his co-worker and had green hair.
๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ... ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด?! ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด. "No sir, I just happened to saw that sword in a book I read once." That was a lie, to keep away any suspiciousness.
"I see... I am sorry for taking your time," the green suited knight said, while closing his eyes and touching his left chest. However the red suited knight made a "I will remember
you" look, before they walked away.
"Was that the truth?" Martin asked to me when both knights were out of sight.
"It was." ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต.
Martin nodded and said, "Alright, let's go home."
"Can I ask you a favor?" I asked.
"Sure, ask me anything," Martin replied.
"I want you to teach me magic." ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ. ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ... ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ.
"I'd liked to, but I can't teach you anything today,. I have work to, after I brought you home." ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ!
"Then I will stay until you teach me all you know."
"Really?" Martin couldn't believe it but he seemed happy about it.
"Don not make me repeat myself."
"Yes of course, my apologies." ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ถ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ. "I will begin teaching you tomorrow." After Martin's promise, we both walked to his house.
When we arrived, Martin showed me around the house and left after that. I watched him leave the street and immediately went upstairs. The back room was my target. ๐๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ง ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค, ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฃ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต. ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐บ. ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ง๐ต. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ. I smiled villainous. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ต. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ธ ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ? ๐๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ. ๐๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ง ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ. This was it, this was my plan.
I stopped thinking and went to the library. I searched for a fire book for beginners. "Let me see. No, no, no, yes and this one." I picked two books called "How To Control Magic" and "The Full Encyclopaedia of Fire Magic." I opened the first one and started to read it. "You need to control your mana to control magic. Every magic sort begins at level zero and you need to level up every sort of magic individually. The more magic you use the more mana you can have, it works like increasing stamina. First you need to open your gate and focus on the element. Once the magic comes out of your gate you used magic. You will feel something, if you can control that feeling you can control magic." These were the most important words I read. I picked a candle laying on the desk and grabbed the fuse with two fingers. ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด. It was quiet for a minute and then... "huh?" the fuse burned with a small fire. "It worked! I knew I could do it." I tried it reversed be putting the fire back in my gate and the fuse dove. "No lets try something harder." I picked the candle, brought it outside and placed it on the grind floor. I took a step back and aimed my finger on the fuse. "Release!" and a I shot a small amount of fire on the fuse. The fuse burned again. "I am such a pro. Just one more thing." I closed my eyes again and said, "release!" I shot some water through my finger pointed at the fuse. The fire dove again. "Alright!" I felt a bit dizzy so I brought the candle back inside and decided to end today's training for today.
I walked to the food storage and to search some food. ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต, ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต...? The same piece of bread I consumed yesterday laid on in the storage room. This was the only evidence I needed. "This guy is going to pay!" I made grabbed an apple and went to bed after I finished it.
I refused to wear any of his pyjamas, so I slept In my underwear. And I repeated the sentence on more time, before I fell back asleep, "This guy... is going to pay for this!"
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