"Dad!! I will be going to the river for fishing" Laston said as he ran out the house.
"Be careful" his dad said, but he was long gone to have heard that.
The river was located three miles outside the village, so Laston went to seek out his only friend Lynx who lived at the outskirts of the village.
Lynx lived alone because he was an orphan and because of that he was despised but not withstanding he took Laston, his only friend as family.
knock! knock! knock!
"Who the hell is out there!!!" Lynx shouted from inside the house.
"Come out here you idiot" Laston shouted, then there was a slight pause from the other end of the door before it opened.
Lynx peeped out from the door before coming out completely. His tall figure stood out well, coupled with his red hair and red eyes and a well-defined body which seemed a bit too much for his age.
"Hello buddy" Lynx said as they hugged each other.
"I actually thought you had forgotten about me" He added.
*Thwak thwak thwak*
"What was that for!" Lynx shouted after getting chopped on the head by Laston.
"I can never forget you, you are like family and family never forget each other, no matter what."
"Hmmm, are we going to the river?" Lynx asked in other to let out the awkwardness in the air.
then Laston responded in a cheerful voice.
"Yes, we are" and as soon as he replied Lynx, he zoomed of with the highest speed which his legs could muster.
"He got fast compared to last time if only...." Lynx grumbled as he chased after him.
"Finally, I can beat him even if its once" that was the words that came of his mouth as he ran out the village, not considering the fact that he cheated.
But then as he ran, he noticed a blur image approaching from behind at a speed that was almost humanly impossible.
At that moment, he started running with all his strength, however, his effort was futile because after running for a few hours without rest, at the last moment before he reached the river location which was eight miles outside the village, the blur image from before over took him and ran straight to the river shore and stopped.
"Hahaha!" Lynx busted out into a loud laughter, as he reached the river shore.
"How can he keep up for so long without using any technique" he thought inwardly, It was shocking, because he had been running for straight 3 hours without stopping.
But he brushed such thought out of his head as Laston approached him.
Laston then said, "You always seem to amaze me. No matter how many times I cheat, you still manage to beat me…. but your movements are like that of an animal, when you run it's like you're imitating an animal although you do not run on your fours, your just strange"
Lynx only shrugged but was inwardly in his thoughts thinking about God knows what.
"Let us begin, shall we?" Laston said snapping Lynx back to reality.
"Oh sorry, I was kinda lost in thought"
"it's fine, I just hope you are okay," Laston said as he grabbed the net and headed for the boat at the river shore.
Away from the village in the opposite direction that Laston and Lynx were currently fishing, five men were running to their village with fierce aura and speed. Their aura could be felt from miles away as they approached the village.
Lincon, Laston's father was cutting down wood into logs, but as he felt their frightening aura, he quickly went into his house and placed his hands on the wall. He rubbed against it until he reached a particular spot where he then stopped and punched right through it.
As his hands redrew from the wall a sword was in his grasp, which was giving an indescribable feeling.
He then said inwardly "Thank goodness Laston was not here, otherwise he would have put me in a tough position."
Just as he prepared to leave the house, a cold and yet calm voice, entered his head. This was not only happening to him but every single civilian currently in the village.
"Lincon, I know you're here in this village although you're masking your presence"
"I can feel it, it's faint but I can feel it, it came out now" he said, and after that maintained his composure, remaining calm.
But after five minutes of silence and no one appeared four figures appeared behind him.
One of the figures spoke saying "commander Nax why are you being lenient with that traitor the royal decree stated that the moment we spot him we should make him tell us about the whereabouts of the queen and after that we can dispose of him".
The four hooded figures currently standing at the back of Commander Nax were known as the royal executioners with power equal to or over a commander.
Commander Nax has been traveling with these four cold-blooded murders anytime he gets a feel for Lincon presence, but although he travels with them for once he has never seen their faces, for they were always hooded but by their titles or rather code names could be used to differentiate them.
Chopper the axe man, Slicer the arc sword man, Frevor the cruncher and lastly Noel.
Commander Nax has never heard of the figure named Noel but any time he thinks about Noel it gives him the chills, even the three other Henchmen don't mess around with the figure named Noel...
Just as Chopper finished that statement about the decree, Commander Nax shouted in a booming voice and this time around there was no calmness in his voice, "Lincon if you don't come out you give us no choice but to level this village down.
As soon as the civilians heard this, they all became afraid. "Knowing your personality, if you are still the man I know you wouldn't want that to happen".
And at that moment Chopper and Slicer glanced at themselves, with a devilish smile they both released their aura and it sent shivers into the spine of all the civilians living in the village.
After that Chopper glanced at the Slicer using the transmission technique.
He told him inwardly, "let's see who kills the highest civilians in this village and whoever loses gives the winner a thousand gold coins."
Slicer glanced back to the Chopper with a grin "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED".