The old man poured his tea into his wooden mug, sat down on his wicker stool, as he did every morning, and waited for his son. A few of the shopkeepers were leaving their homes to open their shops. With the glimmer of dawn just beginning to break and the calm that reigned over the town, the man meditated on his past. He started learning martial arts the day he stopped drinking milk. His father, the legendary martial artist and knight of the time, named him "Nullus" meaning "nothing" and he repeated at every opportunity "Unless you deserve a name, you are all that". And that's why everyone called him by his name.
As a child, he had never received love from his parents or had such feelings for them. He only respected his family. One day, in the innocence of childhood, he told his father how he had escaped a fight in the street. He was then locked in a room and starved for five days. At the end of the fourth day, as Nullus was begging for food, he heard the door open. A woman with bread in her hand noticed at the door; He stood up, rubbed his eyes, and asked, "Are you the mother?" Yes, this woman looked very much like her mother; But where were his dull eyes, his expressionless face as a wall? It couldn't be her mother, the woman who was constantly checking her surroundings with a scared look. Nullus took a step over her. However, the door slammed in his face and was locked again. Before the boy collapsed to the ground with hunger and fell asleep, he heard the woman collapse to the floor with her back to the door and cry with sobs. As he grew older, he would come to realize that what he saw was a delusion of hunger.
Before Nullus turned fifteen, he won the Royal tournament, attended by the most outstanding swordsmen in the Empire, and continued this streak for twenty years, earning the title "Invincible". At seventeen, he became the youngest knight in Imperial history. With the special request of the king, he appeared in many international tournaments. After completing these tournaments undefeated, he was rewarded by the palace with a sword on which "immortalitas Nullus", that is, immortal Nullus, was written. He was so busy with his work that he didn't even have time to spend on marriage. He had no love for anyone but his sword or cared enough to hate anyone. Until that day;
When Nullus was thirty-six, he was patrolling the coastal areas with his small unit. Nullus, who all these years had not found a rival to his own teeth, had fallen into the void. He had fought thousands of battles with orcs, dwarves, elves, humans and even mages, but he could not enjoy a single one. He was shaken from these thoughts by the explorer's cries. "Commander," the explorer called out:
-The pirate ship is approaching the town ahead, we must leave now
They began to gallop their horses into town, and by the time they got there the ship had already reached the shore. They were obviously preparing for a duel. A knight, whose silver armor could be seen even in the dark of the night, entered the pirates, who were lined up in a circle next to the ship's hull. Laughing, Nullus called out to the pirates:
-Is there a problem with extra spectators?
The pirates mockingly approved of their watching
As the circle opened, the bloody body of the knight lying on the ground slowly emerged. His helmet had been taken off his head and thrown to the ground, his gaudy armor shattered. He turned his face towards the ship with difficulty towards Nullus. He had received such severe blows to his face that he was not even recognizable. Nullus suffered a brief mental eclipse as the man fell into this state within seconds. He ran to the knight. The old man sighed to say his last words. He grabbed Nullus's hand tightly, looked him in the eye, and began to speak: "Get out of here, get on your horse and ride as fast as you can, don't look back." Meanwhile, the captain of the pirate ship moved towards Nullus. old knight; With blood-soaked hands he climbed up to Nullus, who was kneeling before him, and took his head in his arms. Staring at the captain half a meter away, he took his last breath, a hoarse voice and wet eyes, Noctua said, "Kill me but please don't hurt my son."