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Chapter 24 - The Calm Before The Storm

In the darkness where Faust's consciousness had been floating, Faust suddenly saw a faint light in the distance. Not knowing what else to do, he tried his luck and tried to move his body to the light's direction. Although it was challenging to move his body earlier, he is able to move it right now after he started to move his body towards the light.

His body moved slowly to the faint light, as he got closer to it, the light became brighter. As he enters the light, he felt the warmth of the light throughout his body. As the warm feeling spread all over his body, it became easier for him to move his body, and when he felt the shackle that was holding his body disappearing, at that moment, the scenery before his eyes changed.

What Faust sees in front of his eyes is the familiar wooden ceiling that every morning he wakes up to. The sunlight coming from the window is slightly too bright for his sleepy eyes. Faust looked to the right and found out that Angra's bed was empty so he concluded that this must not be morning, then he looked to his left and found his mother was sitting on a chair while holding his hand.

"Mom? You're alive?"

Faust looked at the middle-aged woman beside him, although she had lost her beautiful face due to age and long-working hours she is still as beautiful in Faust's eyes, her blonde hair was as long as her neck, her tender blue eyes looking at him and the many wrinkles on her face clearly showed that she doesn't have time to take care of her face.

As his mother didn't respond to his question earlier, he was about to say 'It's me, mom, I'm Faust!' the woman suddenly hugged him and said

"Isaac you're finally awake!"

'Isaac?' Faust then realized that he's currently not on earth anymore, and the middle-aged woman he saw turned out to be a beautiful woman in her twenties with her blonde hair still as smooth as silk and no wrinkles can be found on her face. With her usual medieval style clothing, and the silver pendant dangling on her neck.

'Ah yes I'm Isaac now'

"Yes mom, I'm awake," Faust said as he returned the hug from his mom in this new world.

Lily spent a minute crying and hugging her son until finally, she was able to let go of him. Before she released him from her hug she said "Promise me you will never do something so reckless again."

"Yes mom, I'm sorry I have made you worry and I promise I won't do that again."

'Oh look what we have here, an ungrateful child has been worrying his mom' Angra said telepathically while he is standing behind their mother.

'Hey can you not greet your brother with a sarcastic remark when he just opened his eyes'

'Whatever Faust, you should thank mom, she healed you when you got your ass kicked hard by that white lion.'

'Can you tell me exactly what happened?"

'Later Faust, mom seemed to be so worried about you, you should talk to her right now and you can ask the details from dad later.'

'Heal me? How?'

'Just ask her'

"Mom, what happened after I passed out?"

"We can talk about it after your dad comes back home, for now just rest on your bed. You've just woken up and the healing magic should be tiring for your body."

"Healing? Mom you can use healing magic?"

"Yes, and it is called Life magic"

"Wow… BUT WHY DO YOU NEVER TEACH ME?"

Before Lily could answer Faust's question, the door opened.

"Because those who have demon's blood on their body can't use life magic," Mark said while walking into the room.

"And you two half-demons are of course included." Mark said while ruffling both Angra's and Faust's heads alternately.

"But I wanted to use life magic too!" Faust said with a pout.

"Isaac, the reason you're still alive after being slammed down into the ground with immense force is because of your half-demon bloodline, if you are a normal human, that kind of blow is a sure-kill for a 6 years old kid."

Faust wanted to give a rebuttal, but he couldn't come up with anything because it's true that he almost lost his life because of his carelessness.

"Isaac, you need to eat and rest first. After that, I will explain the details of what happened after you passed out." Mark said while leaving a bowl of porridge on the desk beside Faust's bed.

"But I'm already fine!"

"No buts, you need to rest. Aiden, Lily let him rest for now."

The family then left Faust alone on his bed to rest and went downstairs.

'Just eat the porridge then go back to sleep Faust, don't make them even more worried than they already are.'

'Yes yes I will do it, see ya Gra'

Faust then obediently ate his porridge that actually have a lot of meat in them and went back straight to bed, he expected that he couldn't fall asleep because he didn't feel sleepy at all when he talked with the others earlier, but after laying his head on his pillow the fatigue from the healing that his mom told him finally caught up and Faust quickly fall asleep.

Faust woke up in the evening with the sun giving an orange color to all the things its light touches. Faust went out of his room and went downstairs. At the dining table, he saw his father, mother, and Angra was eating together.

Lily saw Faust coming down the stairs so she told him to join them eating dinner. Faust then used his magic to quickly go up the still tall chair that they used along with the dining table.

When Faust is about to speak, Mark said "Uh before you ask about what happened, eat first Isaac." This time Faust followed what his dad told him obediently without any retort. And when they finally finished eating, Mark told the long story from when Pat Kai brought him Faust's message until he defeated the white lion that turned out to be an anomaly using his full-fusion dark flames that left a part of the forest dry and lifeless both from the fire and death element in Mark's dark flames.

Then Angra proceeds to explain what happened after Faust passed out cold on the ground, the moment when they are talking about the white lion's abnormality then the next moment the white lion jumped up silently then was able to get onto Faust's back without them realizing it before it was too late.

"You got your lungs punctured by the force of the lion's claw Isaac, it really is true when your dad said your half-demon bloodline saved your life, a human will surely die when they are left that long with a punctured lung." (Lily)

"And if Aiden didn't protect you before I arrived, you would surely be gone right now." (Mark)

'Yo thanks bro, but I'm more curious how are you able to hold out alone against that absurdly strong magic beast.'

'Your welcome, but I expect you to return the favor because the lion's soul is even extinguished by dad's flame that I can't eat it, it is surely a scary power. And regarding what happened that I was suddenly able to fight against the white lion is..'

"Dadd" (Aiden)

"What is it Aiden?"

"Do you know what happened to me? At first, it was hard for me to even kite the white lion but later on when I focused on protecting Faust and just kept swinging my fist and dodging the lion's claw, I suddenly felt that the world is going slower and my body is able to move faster."

"You're probably just entered the half-full fusion state, I guess what you're using is lightning fusion then? Lightning fusion in its half-full state can boost your nervous system thus heightened your senses and boosting your body capability is just the natural characteristic when you are more integrated with the element you are fusing with. When you reach full fusion your body will be able to move even faster, I can even fly with my dark flames in my full fusion state.

"Btw enough magic theory lesson for today, let's rest up, It's been a long day for us all, and tomorrow I will teach you guys another trick you can do with magic."

"REALLY DAD?"

"Yes Isaac, and please don't stand on your chair."

"I'm sorry," Faust said while going back to a comfortable sitting position on his chair "But promise that you will really teach us new things TOMORROW okayy?"

"Yes, I promise, now you guys go upstairs and make sure you rest well so that your body will be in top condition tomorrow."

"Okay then goodnight mom, goodnight dad! And thank you for saving me and healing me dad, mom!" (Isaac)

"Bye mom, bye dad, thank you for saving Isaac." Aiden said while slightly bowing to his parents.

After the kids went back to their room, Lily looked at Mark then said

"So you used your dark flames right?"

"Yes.."

"How long until they can track you down?"

"It should take them about a week from the other continent to reach here"

"So we have much or less 7 days to teach them everything right? Will they be fine?"

"I'm sure they will, they are very smart for a six years old, way too smart I'd even say."

"But they are still children, can they take it well?"

"I don't know, but we can't drag them into this, they will surely succeed here, their talent for magic is incomparable to others even for demons."

"But their unique skill revolved around death mana remember? Anything dealing with death mana is considered taboo and dangerous in this continent. And if they found out that Isaac is a necromancer and have been building his own undead army, it will be even more dangerous for them."

"That's why in these next 7 days, we will teach them everything they need to survive in this world."

The conversation ended in a tight hug between the two individuals who really cared and worried about their sons future in this world and they prayed to whichever god that exists so that the twins can live their life happily and survive in this cruel world.

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Race: Cambion

Name: Isaac Marchosias (Faust)

Age:6

Title:-

Level:7

Job: Necromancer

Job History:-

Attributes:

Strength=29

Agility=23

Endurance=20

Intelligence=54

Mana=330

Skills:

Link Undead

Create Undead 2

Chantless Casting 8

Multi Casting 7

Unordinary Strength 4

Soul Vision

Mana Sense 8

Unique Skills:

-Soul Telepathy (to Aiden)

-Loved By Death

*Charm undead: Souls and Undeads naturally are not hostile to you, and weaker soul/undead will willingly submit to you

*Help of the dead: You can borrow death mana from undead/souls who submitted to you

*Death Mana Talent: You have a natural affinity in controlling death mana

×you can't directly harm souls/undead with your death mana

Race: Cambion

Name: Aiden Marchosias (Angra)

Age:6

Title:-

Level:6

Job: Barbarian

Job History:-

Attributes:

Strenth=64

Agility=36

Endurance=38

Intelligence=24

Mana=182

Skills:

Bloodlust

Weapon Mastery 5 (Halberd)

Close Quarter Combat 7

Mana Sense 5

Unordinary Strength 9

Soul Vision

Unique Skills:

-Soul Telepathy (to Isaac)

-Feared By Death

*Scare undead: Souls and undead will naturally avoid you and the weaker ones will be scared of you

*Death Eater: You can consume death mana and souls to strengthen yourself.

*Death Mana Talent: You have a natural affinity in controlling death mana

×You can't use your death mana to control undead/souls