The past two days were more or less the same working in the fields helping for extra money at the docks and even got some bread
with the extra money.
"Finally I can start working night watch today!"
Xian shouted with glee.
"Xian quiet down your at the table hurry and eat your dinner" Mayu Xieo his mother a sturdy 36 year old woman that was wearing a rough yellow and brown clothed dress that went well with her beautiful brown hair scorned.
"sorry mom I'm just exited that we can finally start earning more money, not only will we be able to build a tile roof instead of thatch we will also be able to reinforce the walls with wood pillars instead of mud, rocks and grass and we will also be able to have proper meals instead of just fish from the creek and vegetables"
on his way to work he stoped and looked in the creek and made sure his long black hair was nice and neat and that there was no food on his handsome face so as to make an impression on any cute girls he met he then straitened his clothes and saw his little sister yan yan standing next to him she was wearing a dress with a flowery pattern made by mother that was a beautiful white with blue and yellow tulips designed on the shoulders and skirt that made her pale porcelain skin and black hair stand out.
"Big brother I made you a snack for if your hungry at work" she then held out a small bundle wrapped in a clean cloth there were some dried peaces of fish with a few carrots.
"Thanks yan yan I was worried I'd hungry or get in danger during my watch but now I have carrots to eat and dried fish to keep the bad people away!"
yan yan giggled helplessly at that and said "no your suppose to eat it all or I won't let you eat no more! hmph!" she said while trying to put on a serious expression.
"ok ok I'll try to eat it all though you know how I don't like dried fish" xian said with a disgusted look on his face.
yan yan said with her cheeks puffed out "hmph! you better eat it ma ma said it will give you a lot of energy so I thought it could help get you through the night"
"haha ok yan yan I gotta go to work now or I'll be late it's already 5:00 pm I got 40 minutes to get there or I won't have time to get dressed in my uniform"
while running to work xian seen his father a foreign man from an unknown land with a large build and jet black hair and glowing black irises where I inherited my hair and eyes it took a while for people to get use to his looks and he eventually just became part of the community. He was carrying 2 sacks of wheat home 'he must have sold this months harvest and with the usual amount sold would be around 5 silver and 97 copper minus the amount for wheat it would be 4 silver and 30 copper untill mother went to buy more cloth and more salt then we are left with no more than 1 silver and 45 copper and the last silver was to pay the taxes that left us with 45 coppers which is enough to buy fishing line and a pair of shoes otherwise nothing.
We are very poor our family are all cripples with no martial arts or any magic, people who had magic or martial arts were all nobles and up the and magic and martial arts had special requirements most of it is hereditary but there are some cases were people who's family has no magic or martial arts some how are geniuses in the fields usually surpassing everyone else.
37 minutes later I was standing outside a huge gate walls higher than 20 yards made of shinning bricks of refined mana stones mana stones are magic stones with magic stuffed in them they are usually mined but can be made by any mage with special magics like light, shadow, air and wind magic or earth magic. And the stones have high physical resistance though they can be used for magic devices or even spells but these ones are enchanted with magic resistance so as to prevent the weakness to magic attacks to be countered of course this makes seance incase a war broke out and mages or martial artist were involved normal walls would fall in seconds.
once in the city I noticed a lot of traffic of people it would seem as though the axis church is causing a commotion and the duke of Drakeston is trying to calm things down and prevent the mad ravings about the end times from freaking everyone out and make them start pillaging the stores and all that mess. I arrived at a building that looks like an inn with a sign board that read guard house upon entering I went to the chief of the guards and reported for duty got dressed and went on my patrol.
3 hours latter I felt my stomach growling for the snacks made by yan yan but decided to hold out for a while. "arggggghghhh" squelch! squelch! rriiippp! 'what the?' xian thought as he turned a corner looking around the corner that's when he seen it a cannibal wait that's their wearing the night guards uniforms why is he eating him?! being absolutely quiet he got against the wall and looked around it didn't seem to notice so he studied it wait it's leg is broken the shin bone is snapped and broke through the skin how is it not hurt or let alone dead?! 'I need to report this' he thought and then that's when the impossible happened the dead person started twitching and opened it's eyes! the man who was dead was a fellow guard from the night watch I think his name was Jeet or James and the other was saposta be at the tower! ah! that's not important right now what's important is that I sound the alarm and inform everyone what's happening!
Xian then ran for the guards bell tower upon arriving he notice a large pool of blood and a trail leading in the direction he just came from! wait so he fell! how is he alive! why is he eating jeff or whatever his name is what's going on! he then climbed up the wooden tower and started ringing the large bronze bells there were two of them using a rope attached to the levers on the gears of the bells 'BING!' 'BING!' 'BING!' he shouted for reinforcements and then went down and noticed the two dead guards were coming for him! Xian then climbed back up the tower and ducked behind the short wood wall that was meant to be a rail guard.
'sh!t is this how I'm gonna die?!'