The cloak although long was a perfect fit for Lian. It made him look like a young noble mage but the appearance only made Scarlet feel heartache.
'It's so unfortunate that he can't learn any magic arts.' she thought to herself.
A few years ago when Lian was only a year old Scarlet had decided to take him for a cult test. A cult test was something they used to do to see the cult strenght of the baby. This decided entirely weather the baby was to be a mage or not. Well Lian's story was unfortunate. From his childhood it had been found that he had a low level of cult in his body. This Shuttered Scarlet's dream of his becoming a great mage. In the other way Lian was affected most for he had high hopes of his revenge being successful if he became a mage. That's when Ladwick had come with the idea of teaching Lian swordsmanship atleast he would become a knight.
Scarlet and Lian soon headed out to the town market. The town was a big surrounded by hills making it ly in a valley. The town was not of a high tier as it resmbled a village with the houses greatly spaced though some parts were densely populated.
It was a long way from Lian's home to the town centre where the market was so it to the some 30 minutes to reach there.
However when the reached there, people gave the strange gazes and started whispering.
"Look it's the cursed family." one of the on lookers whispered to his neighbour.
Scarlet could hear their mumbling but chose to ignore them she hadn't done anything anyway.
In the past years when she and Ladwick had first settled in the area, the town people noticing thet they were empire knights at a high cult level they were so happy. They could bring gifts each morning to welcome them to the town but shortly after Lian's birth things changed. Due to Lian's indifferences the town segregated the family and even named them the 'cursed family' and no one was to socialise with them. Scarlet wasn't minded about that all she thought about was Lian's happiness. Even though the all town hated her because of giving birth to her cute boy she didn't care.
They walked through the crowd in the market ignoring all the whispers and stares. Scarlet was holding Lian's hand incase some thing bad happened. They eventually made a stop at a certain shop more like grocery stall. This is where Scarlet usually bought her home needs and the only place with a person who didn't care what others said and stayed with Scarlet. The stall beloged to Scarlet's sister, Mariah. Lian knew her well as she was the third person he knew is this world.
Mariah had long straight dark brown hair with well curved body her so smooth and shiny and her eyes similarly to Scarlet were crimson. Regardless of them being in the age of thirty to forty Scarlet and Mariah were incredibly hot I mean beautiful. If Mariah were not Scarlet's sister many men would have provocked her. Scarlet was the most beautiful of the two.
"I have already prepared the vegetables you will use next week." Mariah said. "And some other greens you will be arriving in the evening so I will drop them myself."
Mariah was skillful in what she did. She was wise and understanding knowing the try time to talk and when to shut up. She was disciplined and respective. Lian always had the thought that Scarlet and her sister grew up in a noble family for their traits were far more than commoners' behaviours Or if they were not from a noble family their parents might have been knights or mages and taught the principles of good nobles but Lian didn't know exact Scarlet had never talked abot her parents.
Scarlet and Mariah went on to chat about somethings forgetting all about Lian. "Women while talking don't mind of their surrounding." Lian murmured as he noticed that the duo nolonger bothered about him. He went through the back of Mariah's stall as it was next to an alley. He moved through the alley and ended up large empty space filled with gabbage he then stood still as he was stunned by what he saw.
Infront of him lied two dead dogs with theirs ribs wiped apart and their insides removed but this wasn't the thing that stunned Lian. Dropping the gaze from the dead dogs and staring further infront Lian could see children surrounding a fire but not to get warm but to roast the parts of the the dead dogs. Lian couldn't believe.
'Even when I was not human I tried to eat like one but these kids are beyond savage.' he thought.
Suddenly he felt a push at this shoulder that almost got him off balance but he steadied himself and turned to face the person.
"This is my turf." the person behind said and then a punch was landed on Lian's cheek as he turned. The pain was in massive as the person that hit had bony strong knuckles and the strength of the punch threw Lian onto the ground and further more burst his lips so blood was oozing out. Lian had not felt the pain for so all so he wanted pay back. He got up but all the kids were looking at his with disgust and hatred. Then he noticed that his cloak had fallen off.
"So the town curse has come into our turf how hilarious." the boy who had punched him said. "I guess they didn't teach him manners."
Lian became furious and barked back,"Why did you hit me?" he asked with fury.
The boy simply chuckled and looked at Lian with a strange grin on his face then said,"You are a curse to us all when you were born my parents died in the wars and now am going to revenge them." He got out a long sword slivered two edged thin blade and pointed it at Lian.
'He had a sorrowful childhood but why blame it all on me.' Lian thought. People in the town had simply put every disaster on him and claimed that he's the cause. He didn't like it.
Despite the boy being taller and older than Lian, Lian pulled out the short blade he had been using for training.
Lian had picked a dagger while traning with Ladwick but later found it unsatisfactory and incompetent while fighting so he chose lighter and sharp blade later.
He instantly removed from the sheath tired on his back and held it firm waiting for the other to mack a move. Well the boy didn't wait he attacked at a speed Lian struggled to keep up hence being cut at the shoulder but the didn't stop he attacked again this time going for the chest but then Lian was quick to act and placed his sword o block the attack. The boy's strenght was superior to his so Lian was pushed back a few step. The boy continued to send several swings from different angles leaving Lian to suffer with the blocking. Lian manage to block some but most hit due to the superior speed the boy was attacking with.
Lian went down on one knee as his legs had deep cuts and could not support anymore it was bleeding severely too.He had a look at his sword which had dents all over and was almost breaking. This was because the boy's gear rank was higher than his so his inferior gear had to give in. Never the less Lian ignored the surging pain and attacked again he still had one trick up his sleeve. He threw the sword straight head for the boy. there was large gap between them as the boy had put some space so that he himself could get some rest then attck again. Lian followed the sword from behind at an awesome speed he had been practising the trick for the past year trying to modify what Ladwick had taught him. Lian as Raz was a powerful being who used magic for his attacks so he had no need for swords. With this he implied it in the attack using the sword as a obstruction he ran to gain momentum for a single punch with all his strength. The sword went fast and when reaching the boy he knocked it but when he got back to look at Lian a strong punch was delivered in his stomach that he moved back off balance. He then fell on the ground.
The onlookers of the fighter were surprised as they could not believe it. "The curse has defeated boss."
Lian for the fact was happy but he had used up all his remaining strength so he fell on both his knees with his face facing the ground he had lost alot of blood.
Unfortunately the boy he had just knocked out stood up. "I admit you had got me there but now your run is over." the boy said. Lian was helpless with no energy left so he just let it been. The boy delivered a strong hard kick on his forehead making his body fall back wards with blood splahing from his mouth. He lied down his eyes started closing but before they closed he was able to see the boys suddenly running and then two figures running towards him. Finally his eyes closed.