COLLECTING ON THE WIN
"What? You children went to trap a Great Boar? That's too dangerous, what were you thinking?" Caelum told and scolded us.
"Father, Michonn said we couldn't catch a Great Boar on our own, so we did it to show them who is the best hunter in Slowan", Raven told Caelum, his father.
Caelum was a hunter, the best hunter in the town of Slowan. But even he seldom managed to catch a Great Boar. The Great Boar wasn't an ordinary creature but a magical creature of the forest. Usually, it took a team of hunters just to take down one of them.
"You went on a dangerous hunt just to show off to the Baron's son, you must be punished", Caelum told Raven.
"Father but Michonn said you were a useless hunter, so we have to prove to him we are not useless", Raven replied to his father.
"Not just you, he called my father a useless smith and Orion's father a coward", Bommurs told Caelum to the defense of Raven.
"I know that Baron's son has a big mouth, but you children are not ready, especially you Orion, you have not even awakened your templar sky. Don't you know it's dangerous in the forest?" Caelum asked the children, directing the question especially to me.
"Don't worry about me I just make the traps, Raven and Bommurs did the trapping", I told Raven's father.
"About that trap, how did you boys manage to even trap a Great Boar?" Caelum asked me suspiciously.
"Maybe the Boar is already sick", Raven told his father suddenly, not wanting to explain more.
"That could be it, you children are really lucky this time, but this is the last time you children do something like this, I would punish you Raven and you two too, I'll tell your parents", Caelum told and warned us.
"Can we share the profits from selling the Great Boar, father?" Raven asked his father.
Caelum was about to smack Raven for asking about payment, but it was the tradition of hunters that successful hunts must be paid, even if the hunt was made by the hunter's son.
"Here take these coins you children and share them but don't do this again", Caelum said to us after giving us ten silver coins.
"Wow so much money, how do we spend it?" Bommurs asked us.
"Well, we save it for the next hunt", I told them softly.
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"Hey, I heard your useless fathers bragged about catching a Great Boar, that's not possible, hahaha", Bellum said to us before laughing out loud, as he fronted two other boys, Michonn and Tallum.
"Yes, it's true, we caught a Great Boar by the three of us", Bommurs told Michonn and his gang.
"That's not possible, your useless fathers must be lying again. How could you two morons catch a Great Boar?", Tallum added more insult to us.
Bellum and Tallum were twin brothers who were the same age as us, but they were sons of serfs working for Michonn, the youngest son of Slowan village's baron, Baron Wilmonn.
Michonn was also around our age, but he often tries to pick fights with the three of us since we were young, and they were our sworn enemies in this village.
"Michonn, you made a bet with us that if we caught the Great Boar, you would give us a hundred silver coins", I demanded from Michonn.
Michonn made a bet with us which was the reason we went to the forest to hunt the Great Boar. Now that we hunted a Great Boar it was time to collect our winning from him. But extracting payment from him wasn't going to be easy.
"You stupid cheaters, how dare you ask money from me?", Michonn told me as he waved his hands to his gang.
Michonn's gang rushed toward me at his order to surround me.
Suddenly cracklings of energy were heard on Tallum's fist as he rushed to hit me. Tallum's muscles swelled as energy rushed into him.
This was the templar magic of this world, the world of the Ten-Kingdoms. Through the development and awakening of a magical space in our bodies, a place called the Templar sky, magic could be collected and summoned.
Tallum summoned the powers from his Templar sky to augment his punch.
"No, you will kill him", Bommurs shouted at Tallum to stop him but he was too late.
"Arrggghhh", I screamed out loud as Tallum's punch exploded on me before Bellum jumped in to kick me to the ground.
"Hey, you know he hasn't awakened Templar magic, and you use your enhanced punches on him, that's unfair", Raven told Tallum and tried to reason with them.
"That's because he is stupid, he can't awaken his templar magic, so he deserves to be hit, hahaha", Tallum said to us and laughed with his gang.
Bommurs rushed to the boys, trying to defend me but Michonn stood in the way, and Bommurs immediately stopped. While the twin brothers were a menace, Michonn was vicious. Bommurs would be as badly hurt as me if he got into the fight with him.
"Don't come", I told my friends before I spoke to Michonn.
"You must pay us what you owe us", I said out loud as I rushed toward Michonn and grabbed him.
"Get this thing off me", Michonn told his goons as he pounded me on my head and back repeatedly with his hands while I held on tightly to him.
However, despite all the punches that I received I refused to bulge until we got paid in full.
"Give us our money back", I demanded as I coughed blood all over Michonn.
The beating went on for a while and the bully boys weren't going to stop.
"Hey what are you boys doing to Orion?" a woman shouted to the boys suddenly.
"Stop meddling with our business Vickymia", Michonn shouted back at the woman.
"I'll tell your father if you don't stop fighting", Vickymia told him.
Vickymia was the town's healer, the town's only healer. Even the baron had to visit her at times for her healing abilities and he might even listen to her complaints.
"Fine, let him off", Michonn told his goons.
But I wouldn't let Michonn off as I continued grabbing tightly to his body as my blood smeared all over him.
"Fine you are getting me dirty you scum, I'll give you beggars money", Michonn told us as he signaled Bellum to give the silver to Bommurs before I released him.
"Argggggghhh"
"Take this you beggars", Michonn told me as he gave me another kick right before him and his goons left us.
"We must bring him to my infirmary quickly", Vickymia said to us as they brought me to her place.
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