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Three years later.
A boy stood beside a tree, along with two other boys who wore huge beast gears, and held weapons in their hands, looking forward at their enemies. The boy had a breath-taking look, he had a short silky gold hair, beside him was a huge winter wolf who growled in anger. In front of them were three huge snakes with double heads. The snakes were black in color, and had blood red eyes.
"Damien, handle the basic beasts. We'll handle the two pops." Luke commanded.
"Why do I get to fight the weak one?" Damien asked.
"You know, it's still a miracle for Luke to bring you here." Karl replied.
"Shut up, you piece of dog poo." Damien replied. "I'll handle the Viking beast." Damien added.
"Do not…." Damien didn't listen to his brothers, he charged at the beast with speed, using the wind to serve as a boost. When in close range, he quickly casted a spell
"Ignarious." Two flame balls constructed right above Damien's hands. He shot out his left hand, releasing the fire ball which swiftly travelled to its' target. The snake bent its' head aside, dodging the attack, before releasing a spray of dark energy at Damien. This attack was expected by Damien, he quickly changed direction, moving backwards, before casting another spell.
"Ignise..Guardeia!" The fire threads immediately formed a huge fire wall which protected him from the attack.
"Damn, first time hunting and he already cast offensive and defensive attack like this? Our brother is for sure one of a kind." Luke said before joining the fight.
Luke growled before using his two sharp claws to strike the enemy, three fire energy traveled at the opponent who didn't expect the sudden attack. The snake got several cuts from the attack. It released a huge red aura at Luke who just countered by using both arms to form the X sign which created a huge wolf head formed from fire, which not only stopped the attack, but also advanced to the opponent, killing it in contact.
"The rest of the kills is yours Karl." Luke said as his eyes turned normal.
Damien and Raaz threw several attacks at the void snake who was already getting tired from the attacks. This just made Damien happier, with Fay giving him the heads up and telling him where to attack, this kill was surely theirs. Damien had roughly improved his fire magic, but had no dark magic spell to use since all the Dark spell books were hidden from him. Damien could now form different things using the fire thread; all he needed was to say the spell along with what he wanted to create. Although this was only limited to his imagination and that was as far as he could go. Meaning the more mentality focus he used when constructing the spell, the more powerful it becomes.
"Ignise..ulia" Damien's whole hands became surrounded by fire threads from different directions, he stretched out both arms which released a wave of tiny fire threads which pierced the snake from different directions.
"Damn, I really need to work on chanting fewer incantations. It drains a lot from my mana." Damien said before walking to the dead beast and then extracted its' core. Karl easily defeated his opponent.
"Wow Damien, you never told me you had skills." Luke said as he placed the beast core in a brown leather bag.
"Seriously, I am a really powerful warrior. Pretty sure I can take down Karl In a battle." Damien boasted.
"Lies, you won't even last a minute." Karl replied angrily
"Want to go right here, right now?" Damien asked.
"You two, let's get this skins to Raio." Luke interjected.
Damien and Karl's relationship only worsened over the years, both threw abusive words at each other, and would start fighting if the opportunity presents itself. Their parents had gotten tired of them, and could only pray to God to heal Karl's heart.
"Who's Raio?" Damien asked.
"He's our good friend." Luke replied.
The four of them walked out of the forest and went to Raio's house. This was the first time Damien entered the city. Even when he was five, his parents still refused to let him out, he had learnt that he needed to engage in a job first before he would get into an academy of his choice at the age of 10. Damien would choose hunting for sure, since it was easy for him and he could easily slay down animals with and without affinities. Damien had learnt from Luke that Raio was a hunter; this meant that Damien could ask for help from him.
They were now in front of Raio's house, which was secluded far from the town of Ania. It was the only house which stood out amongst the land filled with grass. It was an old two story building. Luke knocked on the door then waited. A man who seemed to be in his late 80's with brown shoulder-length hair and brown braided beards. He wore a brown coat with white fur fixed on its shoulder, and brown pants. He had the look some people call 'sugar daddy.'
"Hey kids, I see you brought the little one." Raio said as he opened up the door widely for his guest to enter.
"Well, he wouldn't stop begging." Luke replied before walking in.
Damien was shocked when he noticed the interior; it was well furnished and had many weapons hanging on the wall. Ranging from; daggers, swords, cross-bows, axe, and many more. Raio sure was and old a** hunter who loved using weapons and was a fan of them.
"Does your dad know?" Raio asked.
"No, I told Luke not to bring him." Karl answered.
"Well, all the better. He needs to start his training when he feels like he's ready." Raio said before bending down to talk to Damien. "Young man, are you ready to train." He asked.
'You old d***, I am not that short.' Damien wasn't satisfied with his height. He was six and yet looked three, with his skinny and short stature. He was only 3'3 in height.
"Yes master Raio." Damien replied.
"Well, get ready." Raio said. His thick voice, for no reason just made Damien inwardly smiled.
'You are definitely my type of master.'