The Chasm-Born stood and faced Alex.
"Hand over that violet and I'll let you go".
The Chasm born said through his smile, clearly displaying its row of ink black teeth. It licked its lips while pointing towards the door as if expecting Alex to comply immediately for his own safety. The red eyes shone a little brighter as he waited for Alex's response.
But the only response the Chasm-Born got was a rain of ice shards headed towards its abdomen. Upon launching the ice storm, Alex dashed forwards with grim determination as he conjured two ice sabers in his arms. From defending against the ice shards, the Chasm-Born reacted a second too slow to dodge. However, due to the sturdiness of its earthen armour, it was able to take a strike from the saber to the side and respond with a vicious attack of its own. The Chasm-Born formed claws made of rock and swiped at Alex threatening to chop his face into pieces.
Alex deflected the swipe with one saber and then slash at the chest of the Chasm-Born with the other. When he saw that the attack wouldn't penetrate, Alex made a feign with the saber in his left hand. The Chasm-Born arched its back in an awkward position to dodge. Alex saw this opportunity to condense the ice saber in his hand into a war hammer and put all his strength into the horizontal swing. The hammer made contact with the Chasm-Borns abdomen sending guts flying out the Chasm-Borns back. Alex watched as the Chasm-Born staggered backwards and fell on its back. Its body bloody and battered.
"Thats what you get you piece of shit"
Alex said as he slowly walked up to the creature and spat on the Chasm-Born's bloody body that was sprawled on ground with a hole in the side of its chest. The Chasm-Born turned its head to look up at Alex.
*Cough.. *Cough.. "Please I will leave you and your family alone and do anything. Just let me live, I'm begging you"
The Chasm- Born said as he spat a mouth full of blood out.
"What can you do for me?"
"I can.. *cough.. protect you and your family from beast… *cough.."
"Alright"
"Really?!"
The Chasm-Born snapped his head up as he looked at Alex optimistically.
"Yep, your corpse would make a fine scare-crow".
Alex sneered before slashing downwards and slicing the head of the Chasm-Born off clean. However, Alex wasn't feeling elated. Instead, he was confused at what the Chasm-Born said before.
"Who is that violet? And what did he mean by Violet?"
Alex contemplated a bit before putting the thought aside for now and went to check on the well being of his family. He bent down and grabbed the head of the Chasm born to bring it back and show Zalan. Careful not to step in the puddle of red goop, he leaped onto the porch and knocked on the door. Alex bent over to peer through the hole made in the door and yelled:
"Amanda its me, the Chasm-Born is dead!"
He stood there waiting before feeling the presence of a female rushing towards the door. With a few clicks, the armoured door opened as the shutters receded once again revealing the clear windows of the building, and a women holding a child with a large smile on her face standing in the doorway. However, her smile froze when she landed her eyes on the Chasm-Borns head. The gruesome thing was leaking blood and black saliva from the tongue and staring at her with lifeless eyes when Alex raised it for her to see.
"Alex why would you bring that thing here?" Amanda asked.
"I'm going to show it to Zalan to show him the dangers of this world when he gets older"
"What!?"
"Amanda dear, he needs to know that power is very important in this world. I have a feeling he will become a strong awakened in the future".
Alex replied with a smile as he raise his hand to rub Zalan's head.
'At least my father is a very sensible person. And he's right, I must become stronger if I want to survive in this world and kill those people who put me in the arena'
Zalan thought before drifting off.
******
A few more months have pasted since then. At the 6th month, nothing from the outside environment has changed and no other Chasm-Born has appeared on the farm. But Amanda had started to fear the outsides for the sake of Zalan's wellbeing. And so started to take up reading to Zalan in the safety of their house. The reading room was located in the basement. Zalan didn't even know they had a basement in their house and came to find out how large of a room it was when Amanda took him there. Turns out the doors were hidden and required a password to open. After all, it was where they stored their important documents and text. Namely, the Vis control manuals. Even if Zalan knew the password, he still couldn't reach the panel to input it and so he could only wait for Amanda to bring him.
As they walked in, Zalan couldn't help but notice the cozy environment. There were several cushioned chairs surrounding a fireplace. With a light that resembled a street lamp standing in the middle giving off a dim aura that illuminated the book shelfs placed in a circle around them. However, what caught the attention of Zalan the most was the manuals on Vis control and Vis accumulation located on the side of the shelves.
The large variety of attacks came from different methods of controlling the Vis. Like his fathers ice sabers and shields require a completely different methods of moving the Vis through the body. Although Zalan knew this and has seen these manuals from his powerful family's inventory on earth, they only went up to tier 4. His eyes nearly bulged out when he saw that his current family had tier 3 and even tier 4 Vis control manuals.
'If even people like my family here have access to these manuals, am I in the higher realm or something?'
'If so that means that I can reach tier 9!!'.