Few minutes earlier...
A soldier can be seen running towards a group of people wearing blue robes near the entrance of Linus.
A few meters before he can reach the group of people. The soldier stopped and catch his breath. He then proceed into walking and finally arrived.
"Excuse me, Lord Lenard I saw a beggar taking a bath in the Fountain of Incarnus." the soldier said calmly as he bowed his head.
The group of people took notice of him and one of them angrily said, "What!?"
After noticing the people looking at him Lenard quickly calm down and excuse himself from the crowd, "Excuse me everyone, there is an urgent matter to be taken off. I'll be back later."
The man quickly chant something and green magic array appeared under his feet and it quickly went up until his head like it was scanning him. It happened in a matter of a second. He then floated midair and went away.
"Wow! Just as expected from the genius from house Incarnus."
"He was only 17 years old and yet he can do flight magic now."
"He is truly a genius that can appear once after a hundred years."
"House Incarnus is truly have high affinity with mana to be able to produce numerous great mages. A great example is Lenard and his other siblings like Lily."
"..."
After Lenard went away, people started praising him. Despite being mages themselves just a few of them can match Lenard with talent in magic.
...
At the present time time.
Lenard was floating just 30 meters above the plaza where the fountain is at. He look down and saw two kids with ragged clothes with dirty body talking to each other at the fountain while the other kid's feet was dip in the clear water of the fountan.
The previously crystal clear water of the fountain has turned into muddy brown dirty water.
He clench his teeth and fist as he confirmed the report from the guards about beggars taking a bath on the fountain.
"You dared befoul the symbol of Incarnus which my father have built! Sullying the symbol of my family means tarnishing my family's name." Lenard thought with disdain.
He then saw the crowd noticing him floating above them. Some of them were pointing at him and there are some who are clapping their hands.
He then quickly look back at the two kids and notice the other kid has already ran off while the other one was looking around his surroundings.
Lenard started chanting and green magic array appeared in front of his hand. Strong winds gathered at the center of the magic array.
Swoooooosh~ Sweeeeooosh~
The winds turn into a ball twice the size of a baseball ball and it quickly went after the kid who ran away. Mid flight the ball of winds separated to each other and transform into four serpentine winds.
The four wind serpents hit its target and it quickly acts like an invisible binding and lifts its victim midair making them unable to escape.
After taking care off the first child, Lenard look at the 2nd child who is full of bruises and wounds but with clean body now.
"He must be the culprit for sullying the fountain." Lenard thought as anger surge within him once again.
He slowly went down and was a little surprise that the other kid didn't ran away nor scared at all. "His expression says that he was excited and curious?" Unlike the other kids who quickly hid themselves from him.
...
Nero's jaw drop after witnessing the scene before him. A human was floating with no gadgets nor technology attach to him body!
He then heard the young ladies near him talk, "It's sir Lenard from the house Incarnus! He attained 4th-circle in magic and became one of the youngest 4th tier mage."
"I know right, he is a genius that is born once every a hundred years."
"Whoever marry sir Lenard is bound to be set in life. You will not have any worries about your life because you can have wealth and glory."
"I wanna marry him so bad."
"..."
The ears of Nero's as if they grow bigger and bigger as each words he heard and a smile form in his face.
"I got reincarnated in a world where magic exists! It's like dream come true!" Nero shouted inwardly.
"Ah~ he's coming down!" a few ladies shouted almost the same line.
"!!!" Nero was startled by the sudden shouts coming behind him. Although the people avoided him and stays in a meter away from him. That shouts were loud enough to spooked him.
Nero look at them and at the man who is slowly descending with disdain. "Damn, handsome bastard."
"Although, I'm not handsome myself in my past life I still had a girlfriend like Robin-chan and Nami-swan from One Piece!" Nero shouted inwardly.
Finally, Lenard was down at ground floor and in front of him was Nero. After he fully descended, some of the ladies even fall unconscious as they're poor hearts couldn't take it.
"What are you lookin at?" Nero asked.
Lenard ignored him and went to the fountain just behind Nero and check the water. "Tsk."
He touched the dirty water and chanted something. Moments later, blue light appeared and cover the whole fountain. The previously dirty muddy fountain were nowhere to be found and the fountain looks as new with no sign of dirt.
He then went to Nero while ignoring the crowd. He look at him in the eyes and moments later, he chanted, green magic array appeared infront of Nero's face and white light manifest on it. Then, suddenly, Nero fell unconscious.
"What are you going to do to them after this?" a young girl about 7 years old wearing beautiful dress went and asked Lenard.
Lenard then too look at the child and said, "I'll send them back to their homes. I need to go now because their parents is looking for them." Lenard then patted the child's head and smiled.
The young child happily came back to her mother's arm and smile while waving her cute little arms. "Good bye uncle."
Lenard then chanted again the spell of flight. He pointed to the sky using his right hand index finger. After that, the other child who ran away first floated to come towards him and he then quickly took off.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh~!!!" the other child scream as he saw he was high up from the ground. After screaming so much he fell unconscious.
...
An unknown time passed by...
Nero slowly open his eyes and muttered, "What happened?"
He blink several times and after that his mind became clearer. He was then astonish after seeing the area he was in. He was surrounded by tress and a lot of them too! The sun is also about to set.
"Huh?"
"I can't get up?"
He then notice that he was tied into a tree and saw his legs chop off with burn marks as if it was cauterized.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh~!" Nero shouted as pain surge on his now chop off legs. He screams in terror. Tears were flowing out from his eyes.
As he is screaming, memories flood in inside his mind. Memories about how he got his legs chop off and how he ended up in this situation.
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Lenard was floating, but instead of going into a house just like he stated to the young child. He went into the forest northwest a two hundred meters away from the town. . The unconscious young kid and Nero were viciously thrown off against a tree causing them to wake up.
"Come on. Come on. Wake up you two!" Lenard shouted.
"Ahhhhhhh~!!!" the other kid shouted as pain torturing him specially his ribs may be broken from the impact. He land with his front body first. While Nero landed with his back.
Both of them have blood coming out from their mouths and nose.
"You damn noise bastard! You keep screaming!" Lenard shouted as he slaps the kid using the wooden stick he found.
The impact was so strong a tooth came out flying. "Which bastard did took a bath on my father's symbol!?"
"F-father's symbol?" then other kid asked while crying from pain.
"W-what i-s that?" Nero ask as he cough blood.
The response made Lenard even more anger than before. Veins started showing at the side of his eyes and arms.
"The Fountain of Incarnus! Who took a bath and sully it!?" Lenard shouted again.
"I-i-it is him." the other kid said while point his finger to Nero.
"N-no, no no, it is not me." Nero replied nervously while holding his urge to cry.
Lenard then started chanting again and vines started moving binding them both into a tree.
Lenard then took out a dagger and slide his two fingers at the flat surface of the dagger in horizontal way. Blue light like flames could be seen manifesting to the blade of the dagger.
"W-what is that? What are you trying to do! GET AWAY FROM MEN!!!" Nero shouted scared.
Lenard didn't stop and he slowly took his steps towards Nero who were just few yards away from him.
Then, Lenard finally arrive at Nero's location and stab his left leg.
"hnmmmm! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!" Nero shouted and this time he could not hold his tears.
Like a DAM releasing water from its canals, Nero's tears were like that right now.
Leonard's then move the blade clockwise like slicing a piece of cake. Nero scream in agony.
Chop~
The left leg was completely cut off. Additionally, the cut wasn't even a clean cut!
Nero slowly closing his eyes when the mage slap him with a stick. That woke the shit out of him.
"Hmmmmmmm... Ahhhhhhh..." Nero silent screams as he saw blood splurge out from his freshly cut off leg.
Lenard then chanted and fire manifested at the top of his palm. Lenard burn the wound and said, "No, no, no, no, you can't die yet."
He then went towards the other kid again and ask him again, " Who is the culprit?" he got a smile that wasn't a smile.
"H-him." the kid said while trying to point at Nero.
This confirms his previous suspicion. He hold the dagger tightly and said, "Thank you, good by now." he then proceed into slicing the throat of the child.
Blood soak the child's ragged clothes. Nero saw it and was too terrified to move. For a moment, he had forgotten about the pain caused by his chop off leg and his ragged body.
"Now, now, we have a lot to talk to little bastard." Lenard said as he squared to get the child eye view.
"Did you know your grave sin?" Lenard asked.
"Hmmm... Hmmm..." Nero nodded in agreement.
"So why did you do that despite knowing it is a sin?"
Nero didn't heard the question and was puzzled about the answer.
"So you want to keep quiet ah? Ain't ya!?"
Swoooosh~ Booooooom~!!!
The sound of blade cutting the wind could be heard and a dagger found itself stuck in Nero's leg.
"Aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!" Nero shouted.
"I didn't know! I didn't know it was illegal!" Nero shouted back.
...
Time pass and both of Nero's legs were cut off and he was also left behind because Lenard has already leave the vicinity.
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"Ahhhhhhhhhh~!!!"
Nero clench his teeth and fist as he force himself to calm down.
During his agonizing experience just after being reincarnated. He remembered something. He remembered that he still holds the [Item Shop] card just before he got reincarnated.
"I-i really thought I brought nothing with me." Nero said tearfully.
"B-but I don't know how to activate it."
The pain never disappeared and he was still clenching both of his teeth and hands.
"Open Sesame!" it didn't work.
"Sazam!"
"Abracadabra"
"..."
He tried multiple tries of words he knew about magic openings including the ones from the novels and webtoons he had read before, but it was in no avail.
He was losing hope, "Did I really obtained it? Or it is all a fraud all this time? Why am I even believing to a voice that may not exists."
He was having doubts now that he may never bought the thing or maybe it was all a fraud that made out from his mind.
Out of desperation and despair he then muttered the sentence, "Open [Item Shop]."
Ding!
[Item Shop] is opening...