It's a windy afternoon and there is a chill in the air.
A 17 year old young man with a sharp face and a skinny body is sitting on the terrace of the school building and staring at the sky.
The sky looked like a gigantic blue diamond; the midsummer sun seemed like a huge fireball, hung on the top of this huge diamond with various shades of colors. Using the sun's position, one could estimate it was around 4 PM.
Long Fan let out a sigh and whispered to himself. "I don't know how long this is going to keep going. I have been looking for a solution in Asmodius for almost a year now but still I haven't found a solution."
'Hehehe… Why are you still looking for it in there? I told you that you won't be able to find the solution in that stupid system. You have no other choice; just accept your fate and let me handle the rest of your problem. ' Long Fan heard the rough sarcastic voice from his mind.
"Never, I will get rid of you for sure. You wait and see." growled Long Fan to himself.
'Hahaha stupid brat' came the voice again.
Long Fan shook his head like he is having a huge headache and whispered to himself "I cannot lose focus, or I will regret it. I will find a solution and I will find my parents."
[DING… DING… DING…]
As the loud bell spread across the entire campus, the silent campus becomes noisy and there was ruckus below the building. Students poured out of the building, laughing and chatting in groups, moving towards the school gate.
"Brother Fan Fan! Brother Fan!" a sweet voice drifted from the door of the terrace.
Long Fan turned around and saw a girl with a pale face, shoulder length hair and wearing glasses walking towards him. Anyone can tell she was a nerd just by looking at her.
Long Fan smiled wryly and even the voice inside his mind spoke in an irritated voice "Here comes the nuisance."
The girl is Gong Mingue who is studying in the same class as Long Fan for the past year and his only friend in the school.
She came to him and curiously asked "What is so special about the sky Long Fan? You even cut classes everyday to come here and look at it."
Long Fan chuckled and said "Well, it's fascinating to see the color reflection of the sky through the barrier."
Gong Mingue smiled and about to ask something but controlled herself and sat next to him to look at the sky through the barrier accompanying him silently. She knew the guy sitting next to him preferred silence and gets annoyed by her, bombarding him with questions.
When they were immersed in the peaceful atmosphere, sound of footsteps came from behind them disrupting the silence. Both of them turned around to find a group of students walking toward them.
In the midst of the group of students, a teenager who was holding a wooden sword walked along with the students. He was wearing a red sports uniform and looked brawny and imposing.
Long Fan stood and these two people: one sturdy like a brown bear and Long Fan, who looked like a skeleton next to him, stared at each other. The difference was immensely large between the two of them when they standing close to each other. However, this brawny guy seemed to display formality. He looked at the Long Fan and asked politely "Brother Fan, I have something that I need your help with."
Even though he was polite, Long Fan could see the craftiness in his eyes.
"With what?" Long Fan asked laughingly.
"While I was training my sword skill, I felt like there was something wrong. I was wondering if brother had any time to give me any pointers since you are the best in our school in sword skills according to our sword master."
The brawny guy continued, "Of course, I will battle without using my bloodline." One could hear the sarcasm in his tone.
"Oh… okay." Long Fan paused for a moment, nodding his head.
He knew that brawny guy, Dong Cheng, wanted to defeat him so that he will be acknowledged by everyone since his miserable defeat last time when they started the sword class two months back, especially when Long Fan was considered the odd ball, the only one without the bloodline in his school.
Dong Cheng felt humiliated because of the defeat, and Long Fan heard Dong Cheng has been practicing hardly in the sword skills ever since then to win against him in a fight.
Dong Cheng waved his hand and the group of people came with him moved back to leave enough space for the two of them to fight.
Gong Mingue also got back a little with a smile on her face to let them fight.
She has full confidence in Long Fan since even the Sword Master of their school, Zhou Yuan, who didn't even give a positive comment for anyone's talent in sword skills, praised Long Fan for his quick learning and understanding of the essence of sword skills.
Long Fan caught the sword Dong Cheng threw at him and looked at it. In the school it is only allowed to use wooden sword with blunt ends and not sharp swords or iron swords according to rules.
He kept the sword at his side and looked at Dong Cheng nonchalantly.
Dong Cheng initiated the fight and thrust-ed the sword straight at his heart. Long Fan nonchalantly sidestepped and used the sword to slap at the sides of Dong Cheng's body.
Dong Cheng grunted slightly and moved the sword at him and continued his attacks with more ferocity but Long Fan easily moved aside and made non lethal attacks on Dong Cheng.
As time passed on, Dong Cheng realized that he can't win however he attacked and his face turned ugly. He has been working hard to overcome Long Fan for the past few months but he still can't even land a hit on Long Fan but he was attacked by the other more than ten times already.
He looked around and found everyone was looking at him with pity, and anger got a hold of him. He activated his bloodline and his body and sword was covered by a thin layer of azure color.
Seeing this everyone's face changed and Gong Mingue shouted and moved towards them to block the attack while shouting "STOP IT."
But the attack already reached Long Fan and hit him in his stomach; he flew and hit the rail on the terrace and fell down blood flowing from his mouth. He didn't even had time to react to th sudden change before getting injured.
Gong Mingue reached and stopped in front of Long Fan and angrily shouted at Dong Cheng "Dong Cheng, How dare you use your bloodline power in a fight inside a school? Do you want to get punished by the Control society of our school?"
Dong Cheng face changed immediately when he heard about control society, but he soon calmed down since his father is also one of the teacher in the school. He sneered and said disdainfully "Hmph… Mingue don't think I will be afraid. Control society won't do anything to me for just a trash who doesn't even have a bloodline."
Gong Mingue want to retort, but she knew what he said was true and the only reason that Long Fan even joined the school is thanks to his parents. She said in a cold voice "Don't think you will get away with this. I will make sure you will get punished."
Dong Cheng just snorted and walked away with his group without another word to find his father soon. He know no one will care if he broke the rule only for Long Fan, but if it involved Gong Mingue who is also considered a top figure in the school just like him then things won't be the same and there is a high chance he will get punished.
Gong Mingue immediately turned around and reached for Long Fan, who is still lying down and checked him with concern. She took a medicine from her bag and made him swallow it.
While she was doing all this, there is no sound from Long Fan. His face didn't change and his face showed no emotion but she could see that the peaceful feeling he had before is no more in his face.
She sighed and spoke slowly "Don't take that guy's words seriously Brother Fan. He is just a bully who acts nice on the outside, but sinister on the inside. As the Ender's envoy said before, you will activate your bloodline soon."
Long Fan shook his head, and looked up at her then calmly spoke while getting up "Thanks for helping me Mingue. Sorry I have to go out to work; it's getting late. I will see you later."
He didn't want her to look at him in such a state, his only friend in this school. This is not the first time, or the first person who is using their bloodline to attack him in a fight to injure him and humiliate him, but this is the first time it's happening in front of Gong Mingue.
He walked past her with a steady pace. She wanted to speak but hesitated and sighed with a complicated face and looked at the lonely back that go down the stairs disappearing from her sight.