Why must we, the lower status...fight for those above? My comrades are dying, my families are dying, my friends are dying...my neighbors are dying. Everyone is dying.
But the Higher ups are eating delicious food and are sleeping in peace.
When the war ends, The Higher ups would celebrate and throw a party as if they are the ones fighting in the war. I hate this.
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Waking up from his temporary slumber, Jenner saw the professor and his foster father, Ludwig Perf, fighting the guy he tried to kidnap. If he recalled correctly, the guy's name was Roanoke, right? According to the knights that interrogated them.
Watching the golden haired lad being clad in a golden hue of mysterious energy, Jenner wondered what Roanoke's blessing was.
Whenever his master would throw in a powerful wind slash from his palm, Roanoke would just skillfully and gracefully dodge it.
Seeing Roanoke being so slippery, the Professor's patience was running thin as he decided to scatter slashes everywhere. Seeing that, Jenner swiftly raised his hand and created a shield clone for himself, and the moment the attack of the professor ended..his clone flickered as it was struck with wind blades. Then he saw the scene once again.
"Professor...."
Jenner muttered with concern on his voice.
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Suffering from a lot of scratch because of that man's sudden attack, I winced in pain as I willed the Ki to wrap around my arms. Staring at the man panting infront of me, he willed the wind to gather up in his palm and form a ball of wind there.
Seems like I have to do the counterattacking now.
Not trying to give the man time a moment to throw in another attack, I struck a stance....with my sword lowered to the ground, I wrapped the ki in my legs and then dashed forward as I zoomed closer towards him in the blink of an eye, surprising him.
"[ Sword of the Sun: 2nd Form: Sunrise ]"
Raising my sword in a diagonal manner, I threw in a slash towards the man as it surprised him. Unable to dodge, the man stopped the attack preparation as his torso met with my blade and leave a massive cut on his body, causing for blood to spill out.
But the man's will was strong, he gritted his teeth and did not let the cut on his shoulder push him down as he finally finished preparing the attack...and then pressed his palm on my stomach.
Crap....
Willing the Ki to gather in my abs, I strengthened it as the man fired the compressed wind onto that area and sent me flying a few meters back.
"[ Zero Impact ]"
I vomitted blood from that technique of his and felt my stomach hurting very much. It was a good thing that I gathered ki on time, had I not done so...my organs would have been fractured.
"Impossible...how...the heck did you withstand that? Most orange ranks would have been destroyed"
The man asked me while having a hard time maintaing his stability because of the deep wound that ran from his shoulder to his waist.
Panting, I wiped the blood off my mouth and struck a stance once again, this time though I wobbled because of the damage that I received.
"You've gotten weaker....."
I replied. Yeah, because of the wound that I delivered on his body...he seemed to have gotten weaker. That attack wasn't even as strong as the Pighead's club strike, I remember that pig creating a slight tremor just by a single strike.
Then not giving him any moment again, I brandished my sword as I rushed towards him and performed my family technique.
"[ Sword of the Sun: 1st form: Sunlight Cross ]"
I delivered a ki infused cross cut towards the man as the man controlled the wind in the surrounding and repelled the cross cut coming towards him...but that first attack was just a smoke screen.
Gathering my strength, I ducked and zoomed more closer to him and then with my sword lowered to the ground, I performed the 2nd form and cut him down from below.
He was surprised at that so he did not have any time to prepare a shield, as someone then jumped infront. It was Jenner....he received my strike as it severed his left arm.
"?!"
"Jenner!"
Fuck...that strike was supposed to be my last. Fuck you Jenner.
As I severed Jenner's arm, I rolled to the ground from the momentum and struggled to get back up. I took a moment to catch my breath and watched the man embrace Jenner's body.
"Be safe....Father"
Jenner uttered with a bloody smile.
"Jenner...Jennner...Son!"
The man cried as I was just heaving deep breaths there on the sideline while watching them.
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Luwdig Perf was a fallen noble, he was originally a Marquis from the Southern Kingdom, Atharasia. But because of Yao Li Sheng's rampage 30 years ago...the kingdom was in ruins. He was only 10 years old that time, and it was the time when he witnessed how powerless they are in face of a greater power. So he wanted to grow stronger.
7 years after the fall of Atharasia Kingdom, Ludwig migrated to Archanus Empire. And when he awakened his blessing, he did not attend the Academy anymore and decided to enlist on the army for his sick mother and care for his younger sister.
And after 3 years of application in the army, a war broke out with the Eldian Kingdom. Eldians invaded the town where his family was residing in, as Ludwig hurried to save his family, he was branded as a deserter for leaving his post. But he did not care, he only went for his family but....it was already too late. They died. He went back to his post on a rampage to kill the Eldian soldiers, but he was left crippled, the Eldians thought that leaving him alive to struggle was more fun than killing him off and putting an end to his misery. His mana core had been fractured and his hope of growing stronger....was destroyed. He was forever stuck in his current level.
'Why must we suffer for those in the ranks? I heard they had a banquet in the palace...'
After the war that went on for 9 months, Ludwig was dishonorably discharged as he was stripped off his assets. there are times when he wanted to give up...but someone offered him a chance...He was taken in as a researcher as he failed to die again. For years he wandered and researched a lot of species until he lost his humanity and did inhuman researches. The only one that gave him a little bit humanity left was....another war orphan.
That war orphan lost his family because of the territorial dispute. Seeing that kid, Ludwig took him in as he was reminded of himself in that kid. That kid was Jenner.
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Watching the man cry while holding Jenner to his embrace, he gritted his teeth as he patched up Jenner's wound to stop the blood loss. Jenner had collapsed from shock, so he was just there lying down once again while his so called father was crying.
Finally catching my breath, I raised Flesh Eater and prepared to attack but it was then when the man shot me a glare. With gritted teeth, he took out a syringe from the dissecting table and....injected it onto his neck.
"I still have hope to become stronger..."
What is this guy fucking on about...I ignored his words and then rushed towards him not giving him time to do whatever he was doing.
"...if my arms are broken, I use my legs, if my legs are broken, I crawl and bite. If I am still alive...I will continue chewing onto your flesh...you damn.....FUCKERS!"
With his howl, I was sent flying as the man fully transformed into a grotesque mix of a werewolf which had the maw of a sandworm.
Okay what the fuck.