After Anastasia made sure Max would lay still and rest, she cam back to the dining table and asked Alaric, "Do you really want to let him cultivate? If he unlocks his bloodline it might make things very dangerous for him and 'they' wouldn't let him grow with that kind of power." She had a face filled with worry about her son." You really don't need to worry, and even if I hadn't told him all that about cultivation, he would have became a cultivator. At least now he would have some basic knowledge about cultivation and came choose properly." "So, you are going to give him that cultivation manual, aren't you?" " Only if he asks about how I have so much knowledge about beasts, cultivation and the kingdoms. He has yet to question how I know so much more about all these things than the cultivators in the village." " Just say that you will give it to him when he turns 16, we both know you will give it to him anyway." Anastasia said as she stood up and walked into the kitchen to make the dinner.
After eating the dinner, Max just stayed on his bed thinking about how he was going to get a cultivation manual for himself as he only vaguely remembered KARLOS mentioning of giving him one before he sent him off or he could simply ask his parents to give him. He got lost in his thoughts, eventually thinking about his life on earth, he was an orphan. His parents had died in a plane crash when he was only six and since then he was travelling from orphanages or foster homes. When he got accepted into college, he was living with a kind old couple who owned a bakery helped him pay the fees, but after he passed college, they also passed away in a hit and run case, the robber shot them in the chest while he was fleeing. He never had any parents that cared about him like Anastasia and Alaric, As he grew up he started to think of them as his true parents and truly loved them. Anastasia for overprotectiveness, and how she cared and Alaric, for how he would always give a long lecture about anything he asked, and how he always acted stoic but his eyes gave him away.
Max had a good sleep that night, he had a dream about another life where he was married with a beauty and the peaceful life he had before the awakening changed everything about his life, his world and every person he knew but when he woke up, he forgot about it, he felt as if he had forgotten something important but after a few minutes of thinking about it he tossed it into the back of his mind after Anastasia called him for breakfast.
After eating breakfast, he went out to talk and spend some time with his friends, the twins- Adrian and Kane. They were both walking across the village not at all talking but looking at each other from time to time. Adrian as always was looking calm and collected only smiling when he saw Max coming their way while Kane as free spirited as he was shouted the moment he saw him, "HEY, Max, how did your hunt go?" many of the passing villagers ears perked up hearing Kane's word as they all knew how overprotective Anastasia was, they believed she would only let him go to hunting when turned 16 and maybe awaken. Majority of the people believed he would awaken when he turned 16 because of how hard he trained over the past years. "Let's go to our usual place before talking about this, shall we?" Max asked Adrian instead of replying to Kane. " Yes., lets go."
When the trio reached a hill just nearby the forest, they sat down. Max started telling them all about yesterday, including some knowledge about bloodline and cultivation. He didn't say much about those two topics, only what he believed cultivators in their village would know. Kane was all too fascinated about the hunting trip, that he ignored everything about bloodline and cultivation. Adrian listened more attentively when Max talked about bloodlines and cultivation, believing they were more important. "Now let's have a duel, shall we?" Max asked the duo, who involuntarily shuddered when hearing h=that statement.