6-1
It was morning, Four year old grey woke up because of the tickly sensation of Eira's hair getting in his nose. He brushed her hair away from his face, she was holding him tightly while sleeping. He didn't feel weird about it, it wasn't sexual in anyways for him. Maybe because he was just a kid and he didn't experience puberty yet, he didn't feel anything about sleeping with Eira.
He kept staring at the ceiling while thinking about this. He looked towards the window, the sky was starting to get blue. But it was still too soon to be awake. But he couldn't sleep, there was one thing he couldn't get his mind off.
'When I think about it, dad looked worried when left home yesterday morning. He wasn't home till dinner too. I hope nothing bad happened.'.
He tried to change his sleeping position and tried to sleep closing his eyes, at the end, he decided to wake up. He got up by placing Eira's hand aside and gave her a pillow to hold on to instead.
He got up and walked around the huge mansion and as he expected no one was awake, except for some maid.
"Young master, you are awake early." Said one of the maids, her name is Sofia. Sofia is the maid assigned to take care of Grey and she took care of him most after her mother.
"Good morning, Aunt Sofia" Greeted Grey, It's unusual for a maid to be referred to as a family. At first, Sofia tried to stop Grey from calling her aunt but he didn't stop and Ms. Lozen seems to not mind it. Being called aunt by Grey always makes Sofia's day better.
"Good morning, young master. Young Master, you should brush your teeth, ill bring you Sweet milk."
"Okay, I will be sitting on the garden bench after brushing my teeth"
Grey went ahead and brushed his teeth and then sat on the garden bench. He was looking at the sky which was still dark but it was getting bluer and bluer, the time for dawn was near. The weather was cool and the birds were also waking up and the grass was wet. It was calming to sit on the bench.
"Here young master" She gave him the milk.
"Aunt Sofia, you can have seat too" Grey offered Sofia a seat.
He drank up the milk and kept the glass on the table.
"Aunt Sofia" Called grey, he pointed towards his head while bowing his head, like a puppy who wants to get pets and yes he wanted to get patted on the head. He loved when someone patted his head. Sofia also knew he loved to get patted on the head. She always finds it cute when Grey asks to be patted.
She made him lie down on her lap and started patting her head. He was in heaven, his eyes were getting heavier and he was going into slumber again. but then the following words came out of Sofia's mouth " By the way, young master. Mrs. Alice is training currently.". Those words were enough to bring him out of his slumber.
"Seriously?"
"Yes"
Grey always wanted to see his mom fight and this was his chance. He has always heard that her mom is one of the greatest mage warriors from a great family. But, he never saw her fight and he thought she stopped training. But, now it makes sense to him that his mom trains in the Cearly morning, it's his first time waking up so soon.
"Okay ill be back aunt Sofia," said Grey while running towards the Training room.
6-2
Grey stopped right in front of the training room. He opened the door without making any sounds and hid behind training equipment, when he peaked his head to look for his mom, his mother was standing on sparring ground and spinning a lance very rapidly in her hand. The sparring ground was quite big and it had an open sky above.
"I see a peeping cat here," said Alice, Alice already noticed Grey's presence.
"Hehe," said peeping eyes revealing behind the training equipment.
"You woke up very early... worried about your dad?." asked Alice.
Grey stood up from behind gym equipment, that's when he realized the actual pressure coming from her mom spinning her lance.
'The pressure, How fast is she spinning that lance' thought who was barely standing from the pressure.
"Oh sorry, I am really sorry my kid, are you hurt?" said Alice, she genuinely forgot the weight of the lance she was spinning and the pressure it created while spinning.
After checking that his Son is okay, she asked "Do you need anything son? Worried about your dad? Don't worry he just went for a business he will be back."
The lance in her hand changed into transparent snake-like mana which had the color of violet-indigo, and the snake went back into her body.
Grey had a curious expression on his face, Alice replied to satisfy Grey's curiosity before even Grey asked the question "That is the power of my seal marking" she showed her hand and there appeared a seal marking which is in the shape of a snake wrapped around a stick. Her seal marking was shining in the shade of Violet-Indigo, so were her eyes.
Alice had long black hair with a shade of violet and Bright Voilet-indigo eyes with a mole under her right eye. Her eyes are her most mesmerizing feature and the beauty of it was known throughout the kingdom. She had a majestic aura which made it hard for people to hold a conversation with her. Grey inherited those bright Voilet-indigo bright eyes along with the mole under his right eye from his mom. most of the facial feature of Grey was same as his mom, except for his hair. which was white just like his dad.
"I can summon a snake in my hand which can change to any type of polearm type weapons like the lance you saw earlier and the reason I was spinning that lance was to strengthen my hands, it's an exercise done by lance users." Said Alice.
"So mom your main type of weapon is lance?" asked Grey.
"Yes, and any type of weapon that has the shape like a lance, my snake can take shape of it, it can even be a spear. This seal marking, you can also inherit. If you are fit for this seal marking you can inherit it. But I am not the one who decides, if you are capable for the seal or not, the seal itself will decide it." Said Alice.
"Does anyone else has this type of seal?" asked Grey while holding his mom's hand to take a closer look at the seal.
Alice crouched down to let Grey take a closer look at her seal marking and said "No one I know of, I think I am the only one with this type of seal marking. I am sure you already know, not everyone can get a seal marking, it's a very rare existence. The fact that you got a seal marking as a three-month-year-old kid is rarer." Alice got up to a standing position and summoned a small snake in a mana-like form which turned into a small lance and said " Enough talk, want to train with me?"
Those words made Grey eyes bright with excitement.
"Yes!!! Yes!!!!" In Alice's preceptive Grey was looking like a puppy who was happy.
Alice handed him the small lance she created and said " Okay fight me".
Grey took the lance, he had a serious expression on his face which shocked even Alice, before this Grey has never shown interest in fighting or training. But for Grey his mom shined the brightest, he looks up to her and was even interested in learning how to fight from her, anything is related to his mom is interesting and cool for Grey.
He took a stance that he saw in a book and he tried to mimic the stance that Mrs. Lozen's students take while sparing.
"Someone is serious." Alice took a fighting stance too but she was going to fight barehanded "come at me.".
Grey closed the distance with a dash, the move he was going for was obvious, he was going for left swing aiming for her leg. It looked cool in Grey's mind but Alice just dodged it with a simple jump. Grey's back was wide for attack and Alice poked Grey's back with an index finger while releasing a little bit of killing intent.
Grey felt a shiver in his back, his neck became sweety. He experienced fear of losing his life. Alice's intention was to make Grey feel a sense of danger and to sharpen his reflex. Grey turned his back quickly facing Alice in a defensive position pointing his lance towards Alice.
'Did I put too much killing intent? No that was just small enough to give a small jump scare that's it.' Thought Alice, and she was right. The killing intent she put into her index finger poke was just enough to give a small jump scare. But a person's strength and people they have killed can be read by their killing intent but it can't be done by anyone and it takes a lot of experience and training.
"Grey are you okay? What happened?" asked Alice.
"Ye – yes, it just felt like if I didn't defend myself I would lose my life." Said Grey.
'This kid sensed nature of my killing intent? What kind of monstrous sensory power is that?' thought Alice.
"Do you want to continue Grey?" asked Alice, to which Grey replied "yes" with changing defensive stance to the offensive one.
Grey charged again this time he went for right swing aiming for the right leg which Alice dodged without any efforts, but grey didn't give her time to retake her position and turned around in mid-air and swung his lance with his body while holding the end of the lance, which swung right past stomach barely missing her. Alice dodged backward, Grey quickly regained his feet on the ground and dashed frontwards with much greater speed. Grey was going for thrust which Alice dodged again, this went for a good half n hour with each attack faster than the other and the speed of Grey attack was just getting faster and faster and it was taking more and more effort for Alice to dodge his attacks, then Alice finally decided to wrap it up by just not dodging and grabbing the lance to stop Grey's attack.
"This is enough for today. You are so adept at fighting, why aren't you interested in training or fighting?" asked Alice.
After Alice stopped the fight Grey realized how tired he was, It felt like something wore off from his body which was preventing him from getting tired.
"I didn't think of this a fight, it was like I was playing with you, mama," said Grey with a big smile and then lied down on the ground, he was tired,
Alice picked him up from the ground "I'll take you to your room and go have a bath, then we will have something to eat.".
During the spar with Grey, Alice was already shocked by his reflexes but she found out more interesting than that, During the fight, his speed and strength went on to increase throughout the fight.
This was common in people's Ormr blood and Alice can use that power too, It's a power where People of the Ormr family can increase their speed and strength to a tremendous extent with venomous aura in their blood but a person needs to use their mana to do that.
This was a power Ormr family was well known for, it was like a cheat code. They can reach up to tremendous power and speed by using this power. But Alice found out that Grey was using that power without realizing it during their spar and he was doing it without using mana and his mana core isn't even developed yet.
He was able to use the venomous aura in his blood to increase his strength and speed without any use of mana.