("Woah, if I learn all Heroes' skills, I will become invincible.") thought Patrick joyfully.
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"What the hell, man? You look like you have been to a hellish training just yesterday?" asked Kent.
"Y...e...s! Huh, you look worried, what happened?" Patrick answered before he noticed the worried face of Kent.
"Yeah, my house had a fire yesterday?"
"What! Were you injured? Was any person in your family hurt?" asked Patrick.
"We are fine. Thank you, Pat!"
("You are such a good person, Pat!") Kent thought when he noticed that Patrick also asked about the safety of his family.
***
After school,
"Mother, I'm home!" said Kent, entering the yard.
"Ah, you are home, Kent!" said Mr. Li
"Where's mother, dad?" Kent asked his father.
"Because of the fire yesterday, your grandfather suspected that a strong fire demon has come to Earth. When he found out that other incidents like that also happened in many other places in this city. He concluded that the fire demon is in this very city, so he and your mother has gone to meet with other Taoists in the city." replied Mr. Li.
"But I didn't hear anything about this!"
"The news was already suppressed by the government to avoid panic and crisis. Umm, what do you want to eat for tonight?"
***
Sunset,
In the biggest hotel in the China town,
Old Li and Mrs. Li were sitting in a lounge reserved for V.I.P guests. The Taoists in the room were discussing about the fire yesterday.
Suddenly, the doors to the room opened, and an old man walked in, beside him were a young man and a young woman.
Then everyone stood up and greeted the man.
"Greetings, Old Wang!"
The old man was Old Wang, the Head of the Taoist Association. He was more than 100 years old and has lived since the time of the Qing Dynasty. As a senior and an experienced man, he was greatly respected not just by the Taoists, but also by all Chinese living inside China and abroad.
"Everyone, sit down!" Old Wang said.
Old Li and his daughter, together with everyone else, except the most junior Taoists, sat down.
"So everyone already knew about the incident yesterday?" Old Wang asked.
No one replied, indicating that they already knew.
"Good. So about the conclusion of the incident?"
Old Li stood up and said:
"I came to the conclusion that a great fire demon has come to the mortal world."
After him, other senior Taoists also stood up and said the same thing.
"This is serious." said Old Wang "Does anyone know any other strange incident related to demon?"
Old Li looked at his daughter and nodded. Mrs. Li raised her hand, and Old Wang nodded, allowing her to speak.
Mrs. Li took out the broken sword and she brought with her. The Taoists were shocked and there were murmurs in the room.
"Everyone!" Old Wang said, and all Taoists shut their mouth up.
"What happened?" Old Wang asked.
Mrs. Li proceeded by telling everyone her encounter with the strong demon. Old Li stood up and said "I have reasons to suspect a new Demon King has come to this world.
Then the room broke out with talking and murmurs. This time, Old Wang had to use his aura to make the room silent again.
"Everyone, from this night onward, increase your patrol at night! Destroy any demon in sight. If you meet a strong demon, call for others.
Maybe, we are in a new Demon vs Humanity war!" said Old Wang.
Old Li stood up and asked, remembering about Patrick:
"What if we meet someone working with the demon?"
Old Wang did not say anything, but moved a finger across his throat.
"In these time, there is no place for mercy!" added Old Wang.
Then another Taoist stood up, saying:
"What about the government? We must have permission from the government for a fight this scale."
Old Wang turned to his disciples and said:
"Prepare the paper and go ask for the government's permission.
I believe that the government won't reject it since this may involve the life and death situation of the country."
And then the meeting was adjourned.
***
Patrick was sitting on his bed after the shower. He had had another hellish training session with Thamuz and Dyrroth. Thamuz had him do the push-ups once again, and he had successfully raised the number to 20. Thamuz also had him sparred with Dyrroth, who held his strength back. But he still lost and was nearly beaten senseless. However, he was able to raise his strength to 5, and his agility to 4.
("One more stat point and I will be able to learn the Heroes' Skills, hehe")
Suddenly, the doors to his room opened, and a servant appeared with a stack of paper.
"Your Highness, His Majesty told you that it's time that you should begin to shoulder the responsibility." the servant said while putting the stack of paper on the table.
"Wait, but..." before Patrick could say anything else, the servant had already left.
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("What! There is such a task in a system based on a game?")
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("Ugh, fine, for the exp.")
Then Patrick went to the closet and took out a black box. Inside the black box were three things: a black pen, a blue seal with the word "Approved", and a red seal with the world "Denied". All of them have the coat of arms of Dawn kingdom's crown prince on them.
"Father..."said Patrick.
Patrick sat down on his bed for a while before he decided to work on the papers.
"Approved!"
"Denied!"
"Approved!"
Patrick solved the issue while separating them into many small stacks, each corresponded to each governmental department.
"Wait, this..."
While working on the papers, Patrick saw something that interested him.
"So it's from the Taoists..." said Patrick while remembering about his unpleasant memories with the Li family.
"Although I would like to fight them, but doing this right now is too dangerous." said Dyrroth inside Patrick's head.
"Hah, I'm also not a fool!" replied Patrick while taking the red seal and slammed it in the paper.
"Denied!"
Patrick took out his phone, and took a picture of the paper.
He then wrote an email.
"Dear ministers, chief of staff, and generals of Dawn kingdom,
I, as the Prince of Dawn kingdom, am very concerned when I saw this paper. I denied the permission but I have reasons to believe that those requested this will defile the order.
Patrick Aloysius Siegfried Silver,
Prince of Dawn kingdom."
Patrick attached the picture and sent the email to all the people mentioned above.
"Those Taoists are pitiful!" Dyrroth said inside Patrick's head.