I looked around the kid and searched for any injury but I could not find one.
His face looked pale and it looked like his body lacked blood.
His body was cold and it looked like he could drop dead any second.
I looked around and found a sharp stone drenched in blood and it stunned me.
The stone had sharp edges enough to harm someone.
I couldn't find anyone else.
If a monster had attacked there should be some signs and traces left but there was nothing that indicated a monster had attacked him.
Most of all I could now feel that the barrier was functioning properly now that I had come much closer to it.
I also had taken in that someone had attacked him but I could not think of a reason someone would attack him.
In places like this village where people are secluded from the rest of the world there is generally a sense of unity and lack of security problem.
I was confused as to why he had blood drenched all over him if he had no injuries.
If it was someone else blood then why did he look like he would drop dead any second.
There was also the fact that no villager dared to come close to the forest as they dreaded it.
As I inspected the stone and looked at the boy without any injuries.
A terrifying speculation came to my mind.
The boy had no injuries because he had awakened some kind of healing superpower.
I looked at the boy as my mind had discovered the reason for his injury.
He had intentionally injured himself to awaken himself but this notion was ridiculous and terrifying.
It's true that one may be able to awaken during a life-endangering incident but that is only a possibility and to act on such a possibility without even knowing whether you would awaken is ridiculous.
It's not like no one knows such a method but no one uses it as it's just throwing your life away.
But this little kid did something that not even adults dare to do.
I didn't understand what kind of mind process a child would have to do something like this.
But only someone twisted would do something like this.
I don't know how a child from a barren place even knows about such a dangerous method of awakening.
That woman is also a person who used this method to awaken as she was an abandoned person.
She had no resources or elixir to help in the awakening.
If left unchecked she would have probably awakened in her middle age.
But she had used this suicidal method which is called the transcendent Threshold.
The Transcendent Threshold is a method in which an individual breaks their limit and reaches a higher level of evolution.
It's when someone inflicts themself with physical and mental torment to reach their limit and go beyond it.
One should have an ego so strong that one can take any pain to use this method.
In simple terms, it can be thought of as making yourself injured so that your body has no other choice but to evolve or die.
It's a suicidal method that no nobles use.
Even if one survives this method which is unlikely.
They are prone to be mentally scarred
and even are sometimes physically crippled.
In this boy's case even though he did not have any combact ability he was very lucky.
If he didn't have healing but something else then I might have just found a corpse and not a living body.
I carried the boy and rushed him to my home.
It was a good thing that I had taken herbal electives during my time at the arcane academy.
I started to create medicine for him to help him recover from blood loss as the rest will be recovered by his superpower.
I looked at him for some time and walked out of the house.
I wanted to learn more about this boy.
I wanted to know his motivation and how he was raised.
It was strange that this curiosity of mine started from the lecture and I knew I should stay away from people like him as they were either lunatic or broken.
I visited the village after leaving him alone.
Initially, the villagers were excited but when I told him about the child their excitement dawdled down.
I got to learn that the boy's name was Dustin and villagers feared and hated him.
If it wasn't for the village head to adopt him he would have probably already died.
The reason they hated him as he was found abandoned in the village.
It would be different if he was found somewhere else but this village was isolated mostly from the outside world.
Carriages or vehicles didn't come here so how did the kid come here if he wasn't any villager child.
Did his desire for power come because of a lack of security or revenge on the village?
I don't know but I have decided I will keep an eye on this kid from now onwards.
I had reached home and found him awake he looked at my face and for a second I felt like he could see through me.
I got chills in my body, I now understood why the villagers feared this boy.
His origin was not the only reason.
They might not be able to see how dangerous he is but their subconscious warned them to stay clear away from him.
If he was really unwelcomed by the villagers he would have faced even physical assault by the adults.
Well probably not as the village head looked very brawny and I have heard how he broke a man backbone and permanently crippled him.
He looked at me and said "Thank you".
I looked at him for some time and mumbled quietly "Could he..." and then I walked away from him and my house.
It was a stupid notion that came to my head even if he could somehow beat those geniuses in the academy.
It was impossible to compete with that woman.