approximately 5 kilometers away from the village, in an abandoned town filled with darkness and mist, inside a ghostly looking castle, there was a skinny old man with pale skin and greasy long grey hair, wearing a black robe sitting on the throne in the castle's hall, in front of him was a kneeling undead who seemed to be a general, he had pale grey skin with lifeless white eyes and dark grey armor.
'Master, the second wave of people are all finally grown, although there is still a kid there, so we need to take care of him'
"Finally, I'm adding to my army, Janaya, give an order to our agent to take care of that kid since he's not useful, and bring me all the grown people"
'yes master' Janaya got up and left immediately discharging the undead to do there work immediately.
"another 20 undead added to my collection. not bad, gyah gyah gyah" the old man's sinister laugh resounded through the castle.
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back in the village, everyone was in deep slumber after last night's feast, except for Saros and Fanzon, who woke up early and stood on top of the village walls watching the morning's mist covering the distant forest and enjoying the morning's cold breeze. after calming down from his happiness last night, fanzon was now trying to figure out the way saros hunted the gazelles.
'so, how did you do it? I feel like you're hiding something saros, but you can trust me, you know that right?'
"I know, I know... I- I mean I don't even understand it myself, all I know is that something entered my brain and gave me the ability to see my power in numbers, it also allowed me to have affinities"
'WHAT! A- affinities... are you serious? you know that the founder of this village was an important citizen in a city before right? he had to escape from the people he owed energy stones to, so he ran away with a couple of his friends and some promising orphan kids, as far away as possible, and ended up here. he always used to tell us about all the events that happen in a city, and he once mentioned that affinities are really important, they separate ones who have amazing potential and the ones that will have to work hard to acquire it, everyone in a top school or faction must have one, you are really lucky you got whatever that thing is that fused with your brain, you have a bright future (Maybe I should see what he's capable of, or I can even 'recruit' him, hehe) How about we go hunt together, it would be fun right?'
"Oh, are you sure about that? you will be gaining 0 energy consternation if you come with me haha!"
' Haha, you should show me what you can do before becoming arrogant like this saros! come on let's get going.'
After a long walk and recalling funny memories of his father with fanzon they finally entered the forest and headed to the ponds where there were 2 black horned gazelles. saros immediately stopped fanzon from moving, bringing oust his katana and floating, but before he could do anything a scream of shock sounded in his ears scaring the gazelles away.
"Uncle, what the hell! you scared them away".
'H-h- how can you fly! this is literally impossible unless you reach level 30 or have a skill that grants you wings or total control over the wind, but you definitely do not have any of the requirements, just how?
" it's just a skill called telekinesis which allows me to move my body freely it's not really flying per se " saros did not mention anything related to gravity or primordial and he was not planning on doing that to anyone unless he trusts them with his life.
'oh, I never heard of that before, it's better if it's like this'
"huh? why would it be better?"
'haha... nothing, nothing I was just mumbling'
Saros frowned his eyebrows, fanzon has been acting quite weird today.
Saros and fanzon kept searching for another gazelle until they finally found one close to the swamp area, saros was about to strike at it when suddenly fanzon whispered to him that he will take care of it with his sword throwing skill, and saros had no reason to object so he let him take out his sword, and when fanzon was about to throw the sword he suddenly turned his aim from the gazelle to saros's head!
'if you even move a muscle, I'll thurst this sword in your head'
"U-uncle, w-why are you doing this??"
' what a naive kid, still calling me your uncle huh? it's nothing personal brat, really! I'm just following the 'village founder' orders hahaha'
" Just... just WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! " saros was feeling so betrayed and confused that he could not hold himself and started tearing.
'chill out kid, as I said, it's nothing personal... well, I guess I could tell you the truth before you die, simply put... this village is kind of a farm for a crazy mage that uses forbidden arts to make undead soldiers, he hires people to kidnap orphans and take care of them until they have grown up, usually they are provided with small amounts of food so they don't give birth and cause problems, but since your dad was a hunter he managed to bring you to this world, your mom died naturally and your dad... he sacrificed himself for the promise of keeping you alive'
saros's eyes were red like blood out of anger, and a couple of tears fell down on his face, he felt naive, betrayed, and stupid, he wished he could say goodbye to his father but he can't change anything now, it's all set in stone.
'don't be angry at me in the afterlife okay? it's not my fault kingdoms don't care about there orphans, and the business pays well! either way, time to say goodbye, at least you say hello to the villagers and your father right? hehe' just as he was about to pierce saros's head
Hiss 'you will have to say hello to the villagers yourself'
'WHA-'
Splash Ughhh
the snake's fang was dug deep into fanzon starting from his middle part up to his head, giving him a painful death, then swallowing him whole.
Hiss 'you're lucky I was keeping an eye on you otherwise, you would've been dead by now, also learn from his mistake and never take your time with an opponent, you saw what could happen. anyway, you owe me a big one young man' Slither
the snake quickly left into the swamps leaving the still shocked saros speaking to himself.
"I used to say I'm alone when I had all those people besides me. but now I- I'm truly lonely, no one by my side and no home to go back to, no feasts with the village, no good mornings with auntie, truly a man never appreciates what he has until he lost it all. and the funny thing is, I got abandoned by humans and saved by a beast, ha-haha- hahaha" saros started crying and laughing at the same time, getting it all out.
after getting all his bottled up emotions out, he headed back to the village, only to find it empty with no soul to be found in place, this is what true loneliness was, saros went back to his house and threw himself at the bed instantly sleeping.