He waited and waited for it to light up but it never did. The old man said, "Sorry kid you have no magic potential".
As soon as the old man uttered these words, it dawned on Crimson that the old man was probably messing with him. In a fit if rage, he attacked the old man pulling at his beard and hair.
Vincent pulled him away from the old man and apologized to the man. The man looked at Crimson in a distasteful manner and then turned away.
Crimson and his parents left the capital feeling dejected. On their way back to Tord city, Crimson thought, "I am the Dragon God of Destruction and all dragons are masters of magic, furthermore, both of my new parents are mages so how do I not have magic potential or is it because that bitch reincarnated me as a human". 'Nevertheless, I shall not let my lack of magic potential hinder my quest for revenge, no matter what it takes, I shall have my revenge on those who have wrong me in the past", Crimson concluded.
As soon as they got back to Savania, he asked Vincent to buy him a wooden practice sword and an enchanted practice doll. The difficulty of the doll was divided into fifty levels, each one harder than the last. He trained day and night, striving to get stronger to achieve the power he needed to complete his quest.
To avoid destroying things while training, he always went to a secluded area where he could train fully without any limitations.
After a while he managed to get to level twenty one. On a particular day, he went to the valley for his usual training, he met some children who were around his age. He walked up to them and said, "Hey".
One of them whispered, "It is the cursed child, let us leave before he inflicts us with his curse".
One of the bolder children named Hunter went closer to Crimson and asked, "What do you want".
"I need to train and I need you guys to leave", said Crimson.
"No", Hunter answered.
"Why", Crimson asked. "We will only leave if you beat me in a spar", Hunter answered, ignoring Crimson's question.
The other children murmured incessantly once Hunter said this but after a while, they quieted down.
"Whatever, let's get this over with and do not go easy on me", Crimson said.
"I didn't plan on it", Hunter answered.
"Good", Crimson said with a creepy smile plastered on his face.
They got into their fighting stances and got ready to fight using wooden swords. Adrian attacked first, slashing at Crimson's shoulder with a speed Crimson could barely comprehend. Crimson managed to dodge the attack and tried to land an attack of his own but Adrian parried his sword and slashed at Crimson's right shoulder. The shoulder went limp and began to bleed, Crimson screamed in pain, "Aaaargh". He tried to attack with his left hand but the pain from his right shoulder slowed down his movements. After a while, he couldn't bear the pain and he collapsed.
He woke up hours later to a harsh pain in his shoulder, he did his best to shrug it off and headed home.
As soon as he got home, his parents rushed out of the house and asked him simultaneously, "Where have you been for the past few hours and what happened to you".
"I sparred with someone and lost".
"Don't feel bad son. Keep training and one day you will become the greatest knight this world has ever seen, I just know it.", said Vincent.
"Thanks dad", Crimson answered warmly.
For the next few days, Crimson was unable to train, but as soon as he was feeling better, he resumed his training. He decided to skip levels twenty one to twenty four of the enchanted doll leaving him at level twenty five. He tried to fight at level twenty five but no matter what he did, it would defeat him in a few minutes.
"I can't continue like this, last time I lost to a mere mortal kid and now I lose to an enchanted doll. If I continue this way, I will never have my revenge and all the disgrace of living in a shriveled up mortal human body will be for nothing", he thought.
His parents had told him about beasts and other races like dragons, elves, demons, dwarves, vampires, werewolves and the likes even though he already knew about it due to his previous status as a dragon god.
After a while, he had make up his mind and said out loud, "I have to go beast hunting".
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