After hearing from patriarch and first elder, Caesar quietly left the room but currently his mind was in a mess, he had too many thought going through his head. Now what he needed was some alone time to sort out his thought. After going inside his room he sat on his bed with his feet touching the ground.
"AHHHHHHHH! Fuck! how can this make sense, That orb just need to say that I had a this or that talent, hell all this doesn't make sense, how can an anomaly happen with me why didn't it happened with that Max."
A knock sounded when Caesar was venting his frustration.
knock! knock!
"Young master can I enter the room."
Caesar who was in bad mood let out a wicked grin, he was now thinking of how he is going to create chaos. Caesar started remembering all the deeds he had done which made him happy.
It was nearly one year ago Caesar was 11 -year old and was on peak of his ridiculous behaviour, one day he made the maid stand out in strong heat during the day for nearly 12 hours while holding a tray of tea set and for every time she faltered a single step the maid would have 15 minutes added to do the same thing the very next day and such continues for 3 day, the maid had been tortured by Caesar by making her stand under intense heat of sunlight and on third day in evening she finally lost her consciousness and was bedridden for few days.
Once Caesar didn't like the dress that was tailored for him to wear so he called the male tailor and made him wear maid's uniform and order him to wear this for 2 days, The tailor too in fear of this young scion, wore the maid uniform for one day and became a laughing stock for the whole city and the very next day he left the city and went to another town with his family.
There was once were Caesar was in a party arrange by a noble to celebrate his son's birthday and on that auspicious occasion Caesar had a fight with the birthday boy then the boy suddenly said that he is going to tell his mother about Caesar's behaviour, Caesar said to him, "Your mother is a slut" and it was audible to all the guest present their. It took some time for the elder to registered the words said by Caesar and after 3 seconds hell broke loose fortunately Caesar was not hurt in the party but he was ruthlessly scolded by the patriarch as patriarch was the one to take the blame for Caesar's immature behaviour and of the whole situation created by Caesar and had to apologise to the organiser of the party and afflicted individual. And more so to please their anger, lord patriarch had send many expensive gifts to the noble family but yet the relation between two family had still some sore spot.
It was once, Caesar had accompanied his father to visit his best friend John Gram Edwardson, and there he met daughter of John, Cecilia Edwardson and after just talking with her for few minutes he asked her to strip naked and this earned Caesar a good beating from his father.
After all this Caesar's antics has just increased. He started ordering maid and servants like they were his slaves, he made a servant down on all four limbs and sat on his back making him a portable chair for a week until butler Mors came himself and stopped Caesar.
Then on a fateful day nearly 6 months ago Max confronted Caesar about his behaviour with servants and soon they both started bickering for few minutes and after that Caesar lost his cool and slapped his brother and from then on the relationship between two brother went in a drain and both 11 year old Caesar and 12 year old Max got into a fist fight, punching and kicking each other and this just didn't stop their and they started clawing, pulling each others hair, Pocking eyes. Guards soon separated them and after few minutes they both were standing in front of patriarch totally bruised, with disheveled hair, torn lips and black eye. Here is were relation between Caesar and his grandfather worsen for good as Caesar was the blamed for the entire incident by his grandfather and was grounded in his room for rest of the month while Max just got an earful of scolding and was set free and during Caesar's punishment it was only Helen he could see for all day long and except for her it was first elder Dexter Von Rosehart his grandpa who came and met him and consoled him.
After one months of imprisonment Caesar was quiet for a total of two week and after that he became more daring and overbearing with his acts. His play soon became torture for servants and maids, even the guards were not spared.
It was on one faithful day, Helen was fed up of the antics of her young master so she resolved her mind to do some thing about this.
Helen that day directly told Caesar that he had to stop his nonsensical acts or else she would tell other maids and servants all his shameful moments. Caesar like always didn't took her words seriously and went on with his daily routine but after three days the maids were gossiping about Caesar's shameless and embarrassing act like how he once wet his bed after having a nightmare or that he once stole panties of one of his maid. Hearing such rumors flying around, Caesar became pale from fright and soon asked Helen, if she was the one to spread this rumor and he got an positive reply from her and again hell broke loose.
Caesar became bloodthirsty and for two days he was on search for Helen with a knife in one hand to kill her. Helen was an awakened human but still she was maid of Rosehart house so she went to butler Mors and told him all the things that had happened in last few days. Butler Mors became infuriated not at Caesar but at Helen for her thoughtless action and spreading of rumour among maids but he soon calmed down and understood Helen's situation, how Helen's friend and co-worker were treated like slave so he let her go with a simple punishment by cutting her salary by 50% for next 6 months.
Butler also handled the situation with Caesar, made him calm down and made sure to satisfy Caesar's condition of giving her harsh punishment. Caesar was told that Helen was lashed with 10 lashes on her back, well it was lie told by butler to calm him down.
After this drama the relation between Caesar and Helen didn't changed much but he was still wary of her and didn't provoke her as she still has Caesar's weakness in her hand.
Caesar may be cruel and evil in nature but one thing he learned after living in Rosehart was pride. He prided himself on being a Rosehart and he couldn't see himself becoming a laughing stock and a topic for maids and servants gossips, so he listen to Helen and reduced his cruelty on others.
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Caesar released a long sigh after hearing that Helen was at door asking permission to enter the room, he said, "I don't want to meet any one now Helen, just leave me alone and make sure that no one enters into room if its not patriarch or first elder."
Hearing his word Helen just gave a small ok and left.
Caesar was now left on his own, alone in his own world, he was now remembering the dream he had two days ago. The were he was in vast expanse of endless space. He tried to remember the dream but he couldn't due to the fear his heart felt during that time.
Caesar pushed the thought about his dream in back of his mind and started thinking what he was going to do the next day.
'Pest from branch family are here, tomorrow lets humiliate them, and now that awakening ceremony is over, big brother Max just wait till I bash that smug face of yours.'
But suddenly while thinking about Max Caesar felt his body lose strength and his eyelid twitched and got heavy, soon he drifted into sleep.
Caesar who was sleeping peaceful started struggling in his sleep, his heart rate increased to an ridiculous rate, soon his breathing became ragged. Some mysterious effect was taking place inside Caesar's body.
His red heart was now glowing in a purple hue and soon the purple hue started flowing through his veins. Now the purple veins can be seen all over his body. Caesar was now struggling in his bed, his whole body glowing in purple hue. Soon pores of his body opened up and purple gas was spread inside the whole room. The purple gas covered every inch of the room and it seems like the gas had its own consciousness. The purple gas soon started concentrating on a single point and formed a ball and started descending onto Caesar's chest and soon disappeared inside him.
After that Caesar too started breathing normally and finally relaxed in his sleep, unaware of every thing that had happened inside his room.
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NEXT DAY
"Wake up young master."
"yawn ! What time is it Helen."
Caesar still had his eyes closed and was sitting on the end of the bed just trying to get up on his feet but then his maid instead of answering, she started making weird noises.
"shush - young master shii"
Caesar's mind was still in haze from just waking up, he turned toward his maid and opens his eye.
"Kyaaaa! haa haa," Caesar let out a small scream like he had see a ghost, Caesar saw something he never would have thought he see just after waking up.
He saw an old man with half grey and half white hair with a well trimmed beard, sharp blue eyes and wearing a lose suit with a robe and that old man was intently staring at Caesar with slightly grumpy face.
"What are you doing here grandfather and that too so early in morning, don't tell me you came to wake me." Caesar spoke sarcastically.
"Brat you will never have a powerhouse as your alarm clock to wake you up and I have came to talk about your condition. You wake up so late for such a young boy, its already 5:00 AM in morning." Jonathan spoke with same sarcastic voice as Caesar spoke.
"Hnaaaa! its only 5 AM why did you come so early, we could have talked at your mansion."
"Brat you didn't came to have the dinner that was organized yesterday to celebrate the end of awakening ceremony of this year, every one was present including the kids from branch family, so you probably don't know but from today onwards your training is going to start."
"Huh, what training."
"Don't feign ignorance you knew that from today your training was going to start, its just that you are too lazy to remember. I don't have time to waste on you so listen now, Oh and Helen please leave the room."
Hearing patriarchs order, Helen didn't stay a second longer and just left the room. Finally when both of them were alone Jonathan spoke, "Listen carefully Caesar, family records have no information regarding your condition so for now our only ways is to to observe you and see your performance and until then we will try to find record from another source and also, your training schedule has been already been set so your training is going to start from 6 AM in morning and will end at 8 PM at night so good luck."
"I nearly forgot to tell you, your training will be conducted by seventh elder of the family and you will not be going through regular training with other kids so as to keep them safe."
"Keep them safe, it's not like I am going to eat them or run behind them with a knife in hand."
Patriarch recalled butler Mors telling him how Caesar was trying to kill Helen with a knife. "Well, we really don't know but it is possible for you to do thing you just said."
Before Caesar could register patriarch words he had already left, after a total of five seconds Caesar could clearly understand that he was in deep problem. After all he was said to be training under seventh elder.
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After one hour ; 6:00 AM
Caesar was now standing before a four storey house which had a big garden on its front. Yes, it was the house were seventh elder lived and coincidentally like patriarch, Caesar also had a sour relation with seventh elder but the thing to focus on was that the seventh elder was not like patriarch. According to Caesar she was a revenge taking vixen unlike patriarch who just scolded him or gave him punishment.
Taking a deep breath and steeling his resolve Caesar took his step toward the vixen's den and,
'Knock Knock'
After knocking, the door suddenly opened and a voice sounded in Caesar's head "Come inside boy." And just like he was told, Caesar went inside the house.
Caesar walked passed two rooms and entered the third room like the voice had instructed him. After entering Caesar could see that he had entered a spacious room.
The room had wooden flooring with a white ceiling where a big chandelier was hung. The room was fully furnished with expensive furniture and a young women with black raven hair and black eye who could said to be in her mid-thirties was sitting on a luxurious sofa reading a book. Seeing that Caesar had entered the room she flipped her book closed and let out a warm smile.
Seeing the smile Caesar had a shiver run down his spine, he soon bowed a little and said in small voice, "Good morning seventh elder, Its been a while since we last met."
"HO HO, Its been a while since I last saw you Caesar, you look really cute for a 12-year old kid, I am sure when you will grow up, you will swoon hearts of many maiden."
Hearing her words Caesar soon let out a awkward laugh.
"Now boy, Jonathan told me about your condition and the anomaly you are going through and I have some idea for what that anomaly is, but only by seeing from my own two eye I can confirm if I am right or wrong, Now follow me."
Soon Caesar and seventh elder went through the backdoor of the house. Behind the four storey house was a large open training ground.
"Are we going to start my training here seventh elder."
"Yes we are, and please call me by my name Caesar call me 'Ramona' from now now on."
"Yes seve- I mean Ramona."
After hearing that Caesar could call seventh elder by her name Caesar didn't even hesitate much. Usually other people grimly oppose such and still call Ramona with her title but Caesar was too immature to understand this.
"Good, well you don't seem all that eager to train usually children your age are all hotblooded wanting to experience thrill and are very eager to start their training as an awakened."
"Well its not like that Ramona, its just that I am still bothered by what happened yesterday."
"Don't sweat such small detail and focus on your training for now. And don't think that you are some special case, ahh! wait well you are indeed a special case but not as much for me to waste my precious time on you. If you didn't show some satisfactory result according to my standard in a month then I will kick you out of this place and make sure to break your limbs for wasting my time, and you know that your mother can not interfere now like she did it on that day."
Hearing her words made his whole body stiff. Frankly Caesar was scared, scared to train under her after all she had most seniority even among the elders.
Who was Ramona. She was the sister of previous patriarch, father of Jonathan and Dexter. In relation Ramona was aunt of Jonathan and Dexter. So technically she was Caesar's great-grand aunt 'Ramona Von Rosehart'.
But this is not the end, she was said to be genius among her peers in her generation and the fact is that she is still alive till now. Ramona was a very famous individual when she was active. Moreover she can use both magic and sword, so basically she is a magic swordwomen and that to on pinnacle of the power chain among awakened. She still look like a young women because she had stopped the aging of her body with magic. It doesn't matter that she is 100+ year old because her body is still in her thirties and it will remain like that until her life force is depleted.
Ramona is very conscious of how people perceive her age and beauty and she absolutely hates it when someone call her old or think that she is a old women.
Ramona looks at Caesar and lets out a gentle smile on her face, "Now little Caesar, from today onwards I am going to be your trainer so I want you to listen to all my order very carefully, If I say run, you run. If I say sit, you sit or else consequences of going against my will be dire. Well you are a smart boy so I am sure you understand it, right."
Caesar gulped down his saliva and nodded his head in approval.
"So the first part of your training is for you to start running."