The orders of the holy palace which Leon was following, was that they wanted someone with black energy which they were able to locate in a hidden village.
Taking on the mission, Leon went on to his hunt for the finding of the person with black energy.
They knew it was within the hidden village but the idea of where this village was. That intel was not given to Leon or the holy palace.
Leon had to find out about the village all by himself; if not so, the holy palace did their own search to find any information regarding the hidden village.
Leon, sitting in a bar, heard some slave traders talking about the orc attack when transporting the slaves.
Leon could have minded his own business as to this not being important stuff for him. Changed his focus to them when one of them exclaimed.
"i heard from a survival guard while escaping he heard one of the orc speaking human language"
One of them laughed it off by saying, "nonsense there's no such thing as talking orcs, monsters are monsters he must have been out of his mind, I'm not buying such stupidity"
Leon came to them and slammed on the table, everyone's eyes were locked at Leon.
The serious Leon questioned the man and asked about the guard who survived the attack. "Where can I find the guard who survived the orcs attack". His cold and serious look made the traders' spine shiver in fear.
Seeing the large sword on the back of Leon, which he was carrying one of the traders fearing for his life he answered "he's in hamsring, we don't know much but they said he is put in a medical check. That's all what we know"
"The locals or any other thing about him is not in our range to know"
This information was enough for Leon, leaving the bar he starts the search for this guard in the city hamsring.
"Talking orc, the information giving to me was right if it's them then they are definitely from hidden village"
Head to hamsring, it doesn't take Leon much of an effort to find the guard which was placed in a room for a medical test. He had become mentally unstable.
The guard was forgetting everything but one thing he remained clear about was the orc attack.
Leon is somehow able to extract the information, he leans to where the attack took place. Upon reaching he found nothing but blood on the ground examining it he found out some clues which might lead him to the hidden village.
With the help of an ability tracer, he located the orcs which went to the hidden village.
This lead was a big win for holy palace, Leon reported back to holy palace and holy palace command him to bring the person with black energy.
Leon reaches the hidden village and causes the destruction, killing and burdening whatever came against him was killed and burned or sliced into pieces.
But he wasn't able to find anyone with black Energy because at the time Lila with Thomas was in search of a cure.
Luckily Lila who was coming back from her trip saw the commercial caused by Leon. Sensing the black energy nearby Leon taps to the location where this energy was coming from.
In the result of his search he witnessed an arc carrying a boy, Leon felt a weak state of the orc and black energy coming out of the boy.
He walked and walked, Lila falling on the ground. Crawled to Thomas covering him up to protect him from Leon.
But it was just in vain, Leon grabbed Lila from the neck and lifted her up. Knowing that she will die she said, "don't kill him," seeing her state and the pity face she was making.
Leon didn't want to kill her but the necklace in his neck didn't let Leon's emotions take over him.
Stabbing Lila in the heart and killing her, Leon took Thomas along with him to the holy palace. Where sorts of experiments were conducted on Thomas.
He was used as an energy source for the holy palace like a solar plate or generator is used to produce electricity.
In the end Thomas died at the age of 90 even after that black energy was still coming out of his body which was used for the same reason.
"I owe him an apology." Leon stated looking at Thomas. It was the morning time Leon and the other 4 decided to leave the village for their next destination.
One last time Thomas hugged his mother before they departed, "take care and eat properly, and don't do something stupid mostly don't throw rocks at others and don't cause problems where you might get harmed" hearing so many things from Lila caused Thomas' ears to bleed.
"I get it, ma I will take care and will be obedient"
Looking at Thomas Lila's memories clicked, "look how big you have gotten it was like yesterday you were just a little baby who was barely walking on his feet" hearing such lovely words from Lila's mouth Thomas got embarrassed and walked off to Leon.
He was blushing, seeing Leon, he said. "old master, let's get going, I'm ready for some adventure." His voice with him was filled with a lot of spirits.
Leaving the village, Lila and villagers waved at them Kathel and Thomas wave back.
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[Only one remains, recruit one more strong individual to your team]
"Master, where are we heading to now?" Joseph questioned.
"Do you know about the southern land of dragons snow mountain?" Leon inquired.
Joseph replied back, "I don't have much intel about such region but I have heard that there lives an elf who rules over dragons"
Leon smirks and said, "get yourself ready, we will be facing those dragons head on if any one of you failed then you will die from my hands"
Hearing the death threat from Leon, Thomas and Kathel were in terrier but Thomas was also excited to face dragons he had hatred towards the dragons for attacking his village. He wanted revenge.
"Don't worry old master, I will defeat them and–"
Leon quickly said, "you there, your too weak for these for you to fight dragon you need to become as strong as this fellow knight then you're allowed to fight dragons"
"Not fair!!" Thomas shouted in disappointment.
On the other side, the southern land of dragons snow mountain. In a massive cave Elvin sits in a throne petting one of the dragon's heads while several dragons bow their heads down to him.
"I get this feeling, I will have my hands filled with blood again" Elvin stated.