The Grimoire's cover was dark purplish in color with an indescribable picture or a shape in the middle which was dull red. The pages were silky to the point of minimal friction. After checking out the book, Victor was disappointed. 'There is nothing written in this book…. An empty grimoire is nothing but a piece of crap. Hmm… What is a parchment doing here?'
He took the parchment and saw only two words, "NEED BLOOD".
'Blood huh… how much tho? Anyways, a small amount of blood isn't going to make much of a difference.'
He took out a small knife from under his bed and sliced the tip of his index finger. A thin red line first formed and then a drop of blood came out from one of the corners. He then let it fall on the book.
'No changes. Let's go all out. Getting a grimoire is a really lucky thing afterall and if I don't do the necessary things to read it, I'm gonna seriously regret it later.'
Thinking this, he slice his wrist smoothly and in 2 seconds, the blood started flowing out and falling directly onto the book. 'Damn, is this thing a vortex? Just how much blood do I have to give. Well it doesn't matter, I ain't gonna stop.'
He slowly took out a healing potion and put the knife in the storage bag. After about 3 minutes he shook his head violently and drank the healing potion, put the book and the empty bottle inside the storage bag and hid it under his bed. Jumped on his bed and passed out.
"Ugh… " Victor woke up and looked at the empty room he was in. 'Hmm… looking at the apparatus, it seems like I'm at a healer's clinic. Nevermind, I was probably brought here because I didn't wake up due to the blood loss. I'll just go back to sleep.'
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"Uncle, Is there anything wrong with my son? We found him sleeping on the bed in the afternoon with the door open and he never leaves his door open when he sleeps. I thought that he would have forgotten to close it. But, when I called out to him, he didn't wake up. His skin was pale and he looked feverish." Said Kevin, with an extremely worried expression .Jane sat beside him and Koby stood to his other side.
"Kevin, There is no serious problems with your child. You only have to give him a vitality potion once, every week. He seems to be lacking blood in his body and letting him consume vitality potions for a month will aid him in getting a normal blood production .After that, there is no need to continue consuming it."
"Thank you." Kevin said as he took out a silver coin and gave it to the healer.
*Bang* The healer hit Kevin on his head.
"You think you have the ability to pay for my services? I'm one of the national healers and one appointment with me costs atleast 50 silver coins. Sigh….. I'm your uncle not a stranger. You don't have to pay me. Victor is my grandnephew after all."
"Thank you, Uncle Kim. I didn't know that you were such a great healer."
Kim Lee nodded satisfactorily. "You can take him home now. Don't forget to give him the vitality potions. That kid's heart is weak ,so , its better if u make him do some physically taxing stuff after his recovery."
"Yes. I'll do it."
Victor opened his eyes slowly and recognized the familiar ceiling of his room. But he frowned when he saw a girl and a guy standing beside his bed silently. ' Uggh, my knife…tch , its under the bed.' Victor suddenly jumped up from the bed and hit the guy on the neck and saw him fall down with a thud. 'You're next…huh … ah I…. no blood' he fainted and the girl's frightened face was the last thing he saw.
[A few minutes later]
"Hmm… dad, what are you doing here?" 'Was that a dream?'
"Son, Drink this first and then we will talk." Kevin said as he handed Victor the vitality potion.
"What's this dad? I've never read about a potion like this in the library. This one is bright red…."
"Drink up first. We will talk after that."
"Okay." *gulp*Victor just swallowed everything in a second. 'Hmm… this is tasty.'
"What was this dad? It tastes so good."
"That was the vitality potion. The healer said that the blood in your body is less and drinking this potion once in a week will help you recover."
"Uhhh… Can I drink it every day?"
"Hell no! This stuff is costly and it takes time to get the potion to be completely affective. This is not like the heal potion, to give immediate results."
"What's the difference between vitality and heal potion dad?"
"Hmm…. In simple words, heal potion recovers wounds and vitality potion repairs your body."
"uuuhhhh , so a high grade heal potion is called vitality potion."
" No. A vitality potion has many variants. Some can cure diseases , some heal the heart, some help re-grow bones. A heal potion only uses the already available nutrients in your body to heal. A vitality potion does not need to use the nutrients in our body."
"So, this means that vitality potion is more effective in fights as healing potions use the nutrients and get the user tired."
"Yes. But a vitality potion with an immediate effect is still not made."
"Okay."
"Now, Do you rem-"
"Dad, I'm hungry."
"......…"
Kevin stood up and left the room. His knuckles were white as he clenched his hands tightly.
'I pity the person who crosses father's path first.' Victor thought as he smiled.
"OYY . WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE? GO GET SOME FOOD FOR VICTOR."
"There you go."
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After a while, the door opened and Kevin came in with Jane and Koby.
"Let me talk to him, darling."
"COUGH…..COUGH….. When did u start calling dad like that? Just how many days was I unconscious? Or was it months?"
Jane's face had become bright red after listening to Victor. Kevin's face had no changes, proving that he had quite a good experience in handling stuff like this and in political discussions, A poker faced guy.
"Step-mother started calling father as darling after your birthday."
"Oooohhhhhh…. Mother, how long should I wait for my new sibling?" Victor said with innocent eyes.
"We are going to have a new sibling?" Koby asked curiously.
"Hey dad. Why don't you tell us?"
"No. You won't be having any extra siblings." Kevin said with an awkward expression.
"Oh, Ok. No more siblings…. Boring."
"ANYWAYS. We came here to talk to you about an important matter." Jane said with a serious expression.
"Okay. What's it about?"
"Cindy. Bull. Come in."
Two kids entered the room silently and stood with their heads down.
"Ah. These two attacked me. What are they doing here?"
"No, Victor. These two didn't attack you. You were the one who attacked them. They are top class slaves bought by your father. You can select one of them to look after you and the other one will go to your brother."
"Eh. But I don't need anyone looking after me."
"Victor. I need someone to be by your side, always. I want to make sure that something like yesterday doesn't happen again."
"Alright….. But, since they will be serving us. Why not let them pick who they want to serve.
"Okay. Cindy and Bull. You can pick who you want to serve." Kevin said to the two them.
"Father. The slaves have no right to choose their masters. Where has the pride of the Lee family gone? The thought of being picked by a lowly slave disgusts me." Koby said furiously.
"Don't forget that you are the son of a lowly slave yourself." Victor gave him a sharp look.
"Cindy, You will be serving Victor from today onwards and Bull, you will be under Koby."
After Kevin said this, He and Jane left the room with Koby walking behind them as he hung his head down due to the humiliation.
"So, your name is Cindy….. Tell be about yourself and your skills."
"Master, I am 12 years old and I am a rank two water mage. I was taught to clean anyone and anything with my water magic and I also know the Elvish language."
"So….. You are absolutely useless…. Okay, just clean my clothes for me and you are not allowed to ask me any questions."
"Yes, master."
"Lock the room for me, sit at the corner and cover your eyes."
"Yes, master."
She locked the door and sat in the corner as she closed her eyes with her hands. As she recalled the things her trainers told her, she trembled ' I'm gonna lose my virginity to a kid.'
'Time to check the results hehehe.'
He took out the grimoire from the storage bag and opened it excitedly, only to see dots of red color at random spots of the pages.
'So, it gets distributed randomly…. This might take atleast a year if I use the vitality potion every week.'
*Sigh*
'Time to make a to-do list'