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Martial Merchant, Salesman Of Death.

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Chapter 1 - Introduction

Alvezor is a poor kingdom that is almost always at war with its neighboring countries, Teflines and Teflines. Yes, they're both named Teflines since the kings of both kingdoms are from the Teflines family, when they took over the throne, they changed the name of their kingdoms to Teflines. But they only took over their kingdoms a couple of years ago and since then have been strengthening their relationship. The only reason they've been unable to conquer Alvezor is thanks to the fact that the northern part of the kingdom is filled with mountains making it hard to invade without being used to the terrain, and also because the kingdom of Ufrein is Alvezor's ally, so each time the Teflines try and invade Alvezor, Ufrein starts invading the Teflines. 

Alveex is the capital of Alvezor, it's divided into 3 parts. The first part is where all the nobility and royalty stay, the second part is where most of the influential and rich merchants live, it's almost as luxurious if not more than the first part, thanks to the fact that all the famous restaurants, shops and tailors all lived there, since they couldn't live nor set up shop at the first part since none of them were nobles. But all of the houses that were in the first part were a lot more beautiful since they had almost 25% more room with almost 50% less population. And the third part... well, simply put, it was a shit hole, most people who lived there either moved outside the capital or turned to crime.

The only jobs there were, were helping out at the restaurants for 17 copper coins a month, with half of it going to taxes and houses costing 5-7 copper coins leaving you barely anything to buy food with. And with there being more murders yearly than days, no one wanted to live there. But there still were some people who didn't resort to crime who lived there, especially a young boy who didn't have parents or wasn't linked to any crime, his left leg had a limp so he wasn't able to get any work, so he went to the second part of the capital and begged for money & food. Well... that is until an incident happened.

"Is this disabled little goblin dwarf picking a fight with us!?" A group of kids asked each other while laughing at another child who had bumped into them.

"N-no, it was an accident please forgive me." The scrawny kid who seemed to be a couple of years younger said to the boys in a shaky voice.

"You bumped into us and ruined our clothes, pay for them and we'll let you go." The children said to the boy while snickering amongst themselves .

"But none of your clothes got damaged, please just let me go this time." The boy answered.

"These clothes were handmade by the same tailor that makes the clothes for the royal family, with some of the finest pieces of cloth brought all the way from the kingdom of Ufrein." One of the children said with a disgusted look on his face.

"I'm sorry but all i have is 14 copper coins." The child answered while taking the copper coins out of his pocket.

"What are we supposed to do with 14 copper coins?" 

"Exactly, each piece of cloth alone costs more than 15 gold coins." The children argued with the boy.

"I'm sorry but it's all i have."

The moment the boy finished his sentence, one of the children slapped the money out of his hand. The other children started laughing and insulting the boy, but without listening to them he picked the scattered coins up one by one till he got to the last one, while he was picking it up, he got kicked in the back. 

"If you can't pay us the money then we are going to have to beat you to make up for it." One of the children said while laughing at him.

The boy got back up and put the coins in his pocket, then he put his fists up and said, "I don't want to fight you, but i will if i must." After saying that, 3 out of the 4 boys rushed the child. 

*15 minutes later*

"Hello, hello, can you hear me?" A foggy voice said. 

"Who beat you up like this?" The same voice a little bit clearer asked.

"Where am i?" The boy muttered.

"What did you say?" a female voice asked the boy.

The boy opened his eyes and a saw a woman standing on the left side of his bed, he sat up and looked around. 

"Where am i?" The boy asked the woman, while trying to stand up.

"You're at the Alveex public hospital, you were brought here by a man." The nurse said while rushing to the boy, following up to her previous answer by telling him that he shouldn't try to stand up or walk around.

"Why not, i feel fine?" the boy asked the nurse

"That's thanks to the healing crystal we gave you, you wont feel any discomfort for now but you got beat up pretty bad, both your legs are broken as well as one arm, the rest of your body is also in pretty bad shape with cuts and bruises all along your chest and back." The nurse told the boy while helping him lay back down.

The boy looked at his feet and his arms, he was unable to move his left hand and his right arm was almost completely purple, then he looked at his legs which had been completely battered.

"Are you okay, who did this to you?" The nurse asked the boy.

"I don't know, all i remember was..."

*Cough* The boy put his right hand in front of his mouth but before the boy could finish his sentence, he got hit by a spike of pain, then he felt something flowing around the palm of his hand, he looked at it and saw his hand had been covered in blood, then he looked up and looked to the left at the nurse who had a distraught look on her face as she was already calling for help. 

"Please help me." The boy muttered to the nurse before becoming unconscious.