There was only one month left that Ren would spend training at Merlins hut. Merlin wanted to test Ren and his growth, but he did not want to test his Mana Potential. He wanted to test him in a different way.
Merlin appeared while Ren was training in the backyard and assigned him his first ever task. "Ren my boy, you are growing in power at an extreme rate, as expected of my pupil. Before you leave im going to give you a task you must complete, take it as a little test."
Merlin explained the task Ren was supposed to do. Ren was super excited after hearing that he would be able to go on a task for the first time. He was also curious about what the task be that he would have to complete, the final test of this intense training.
"In this world there are many different creatures like goblins and orcs as you know, Mages and Fighters in adventure guilds have tasks of defeating such critters for a hefty amount of coin. Starter Adventurers usually go into goblin caves as a team to clear it, I will assign you to go alone and clear one that's close to a village near here."
"They say the villagers are suffering due to the goblins killing of all their livestock and messing up their crops. Make sure as soon as you get there, you will talk with the villagers about the situation. No matter what, they know more about the situation than you do."
"Beware of the goblins, they are pretty weak but to be able to put an entire village in fear is something that would be hard even for them." After Merlin's hefty explanation, Ren was excited to go on his first ever mission. "Goblins huh?" Ren acted pretty chill on the outside but he was kind of scared.
On earth, there was no such things as goblins in real life. Just the thought of a humanoid creature that lives in caves and terrorizes citizens was already pretty scary to Ren, but more than scared, he was excited.
Merlin gave Ren a map and he was on his way. Running on top of trees, it would take Ren a couple hours to get there. Ren was pretty fast, using wind to slightly boost his speeds at times, he could go above 40 mph, which is very fast for a human.
After a couple of hours Ren had arrived close to the village, through the horizon he could see thick smoke in the air. Ren got a little worried, thinking that the goblins might have burned a house down. He started to go full speed, rushing over as fast as he could.
The sight he saw when he arrived was devastating. As he walked above the crumbled buildings, he saw the entire village burnt to a crisp. The bodies of women, children, and men alike all dead on the floor. Their expressions and melting faces sent shivers down Ren's spine.
Ren couldn't even blink. He was scarred at what he saw. "There is no way some simple goblins would be capable of this." Ren thought to himself. After slowly walking around for a little bit, he heard something that sounded like a cry from somewhere.
He rushed over to where he thought he heard it, there was a little girl there, her body was completely messed up from the burning. She could only use her mouth, her voice was rough due to the burning of her vocal cords.
"Who.. who did this to your village?" Ren was traumatized at the sight of her. She tried to talk before dying in Rens hands. Ren couldn't help but shed a tear. He didn't know what to think. Was this normal for adventurers to see? Was it something that they were used to?
His mind was flooded with thoughts. He stood up and wiped off his tear. Innocent people died, and he could do nothing of it. As he continued walking he heard some muffled talking. Ren hurried over to see 2 people both riding horses.
One of the horses was white, and one Brown. The person riding the brown horse had a guards armor on, he looked to be a prestigious knight. The person riding the White horse looked like a kid, around the same age as Ren. The kid had a royal robe on.
His clothing was something that Ren had never seen. Extravagant and luxurious. Ren had seen many nobles and royals while scouting around the outer town, but he had never seen one with such clothing on. The kids robe had many diamonds and sapphires encrypted in it.
Ren overheard them talking. "Dagen... You are indeed a good ally, what a good show you have put on for me haha." The kid was talking about some kind of show... "Of course my lord, to gain your trust this here knight would do anything, framing these people of crimes and hiring a Sorcerer rank conjurer to kill them all is something that I am very capable of."
As Ren heard this his eyes burned from anger. He wanted to go over there and mercilessly kill them for what they had done. Killing their own species for salvation. As they approached his direction while talking to themselves, Ren quickly tried to hide, but he couldn't move his feet.
Ren was too angry and scared to be able to move. He wanted to get revenge for the people, but he also didn't know if this knight was stronger than him. Afterall he was only a warrior rank.
"What am I doing, I need to run away, if I get caught... if I get.." Ren suddenly started to run towards them, he couldn't control his emotions nor body. As he ran, the 2 people saw him. "Who's that running at us from a distance! Is he a survivor?" the kid seemed scared. "No such thing lord Engar, no need to worry, I will take care of him."
Ren was now fully invested, he could move his body again on his own free will but he chose to fight. Dagen quickly pulled his sword out and rushed towards Ren, He tried to stab Ren multiple times but it was for naught. Ren dodged all of Dagens attacks and blasted him with a Lighting Blast. It left Dagen stunned for a good 5 seconds.
Ren used those 5 seconds to conjure Plague Arrow with the help of Crona. He jumped up in the air towards Dagen and shot the Dark Arrow, impaling him right in the head. Dagens dead body thumped as it fell on the ground.
Engar was looking at Ren like a deer looking at a tiger, his eyes sunken lin like he hadn't slept in years. Engar pulled out a rock like thing with some encryption on it while staring directly at Ren with fear and instantly vanished, leaving the horse behind. All Ren could do was scream as loud as he could.
[ *DING* New skill learned: Domination 15%. Allows one to dominate another simply using their voice. Using Advanced Mana to amplify effect.] Rens scream echoed throughout the world due to Crona using Advanced Mana that Ren did not even have.
It was thunderous, reaching across all the lands and all of the people.
Inside of another kingdoms throne room, the king of the empire of Darvyn spoke. "A monster as appeared."
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Rens mind was racing. He had just killed a person, seen hundreds of people that had their skin melting off them, and had just used some kind of advanced mana to scream as loud as he did.
He fell on his knees and tears started to drop from his eyes into his hands which he was looking at. Other thoughts started to come into his head "If only I was here a little bit quicker." But then he stopped.
Ren had a sudden Epiphany. All of this happened because he was too weak. His strength had let him down. No matter how much he had trained so far, he was still far too weak.
[ *DING* new type of mana learned: Advanced Mana 0.0000000000000000001% Allows host to use a perfect type of mana with no deficiencies. Warning, if host uses Advanced Mana at current state, host will die. ]
Ren stepped back on his feet and asked. " When can I use the advanced mana?" to which Crona replied. [ 5 years ].
Ren didn't mind that. Ren stared into the distance. His expression was furious. "Crona..." [ ? ] "Im sure you feel my emotions and intentions, how do I get stronger, I need to know at once."
[ I am sorry host, but your time has not come yet. There will be a moment in time when your emotions now will look like a babies. When that time comes, you will be able to grow stronger. For now you must endure everything that is coming to you with an iron will. ]
Ren surprisingly didn't take this as a bad thing, instead this became his motivation. The fabled day where he would unlock his potential. With fire in his eyes, he left to the goblin cave.