Laston then used leaves to build a cushion for Lynx as he was sleeping due to exhaustion, he then left him and went to the village to see what was remaining of it
he went to the supposed location of his house and everything was utterly destroyed, He sighed but just as he was about to leave, he stumbled on the head of a miniature dragon sculpture that was partly buried on the ground.
Looking familiar to his father chest which was always locked away in the basement.
He then hands Dugged the ground and brought out a steel box that had slashes on it and this was because the clawed chain could not penetrate the body of the box.
he tried to open the box but to no avail after many failed attempts he then left the box.
as he went around the city in search of valuables but nothing could be seen, it seemed like the once hearty Village was devoured.
He continued to look around until he reached the entrance of the village, he then saw a trail of blood, he then followed the trail outside the village gate then gradually he began to see body parts and organs until twenty meters away he saw a detached head facing the other side.
He then approached slowly until he could see the face behind the head, and it was none other than Lincon his father.
The moment he realized this, his heart sank and screams could be heard as he broke down in tears.
After he had cried his full, he stayed motionless on that spot for three days without food or water, on the fourth day he stood up with his eyes blood shot.
He gathered all the pieces of flesh that was left of his father carcass that he could find and buried Lincon, he then headed back to where he had left Lynx.
Due to not eating or resting for the past three days he was not thinking straight, he then went to where Lynx was lying down seemingly still at sleep.
He started subbing, "Lynx, that man from before was actually referring to my Dad". "I saw his body, he was actually ripped into many pieces like he said, and now, now you too want to die and leave me alone in this place, I don't really understand what is going on".
"I want to ask you many questions like, who that man from earlier was? how did you know that man was coming? or how was that man able to fly? but now you're dead, nobody is here to answer my questions"
Then there was a slight movement from Lynx, then he opened his eyes and said to Laston "you dummy am not dead, at least not yet".
After Laston heard his voice, he was stunned then collapsed on top of the just awakened Lynx.
Lynx got up and stared at Laston and said inwardly, "he probably has not eaten for a while, just how long was I asleep for, I even feel hungry".
Looking to his left he saw the basket which they had kept the fish which they had caught earlier and started to roast them.
Eight hours later, Laston woke up to the scent of roasted fish, when Lynx saw he was up, he pushed the roasted fishes to his side and with no questions asked Laston ate the fishes without holding back until he was fully satisfied.
He then turned to Lynx with an emotionless expression.
He then asked how was that man able to fly, Lynx then stopped eating, "I made a promise to your old man but since his gone, I will tell you everything".
"The day my parents died I was supposed to have the same fate as them, a royal executioner just like the one that we saw earlier"
"Royal executioner? what is that?" Laston asked confused by the term.
"Well, they are puppies the royal family use to do their dirty work, they were sent to exterminate my clan".
"The Demon beast clan. I wouldn't say we are the best of clans but we were not bad either.
Eight years ago, my parents ran away with me and left our clan when the executioners arrived for the extermination".
"But unknown to them that they were being tailed, while we were running to this village, about just fifty miles away, like a ghost without a trace my father's head was chopped off".
As he said this anger could be seen in his eyes, "then my mum being a shape shifter transformed into the strongest beast she could think of, and told me to make a run for it".
"I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, but even with that she could only hold him off for barely two minutes and died while trying to protect me".
"Sorry Lynx I didn't Know."
Lynx was silent, but then continued. "The executioner's chased after me and obviously he wanted to behead me as well, but before he could pull his sword from his sheath, his head was on the ground".
When I looked up, I saw your dad, he then asked "what have you done to those bastards to be chased all the way out here? And here I was thinking he was coming here for me".
"Where are your parents? "Probably dead" lynx said with no desire to live in his voice.
Lincon then channeled his spiritual energy to his eyes so he could see far ahead, when he did that, he saw the state of Lynx parents and felt bad for him.
He then took me to the corpse, then asked me, "don't you think you should bury them?"
He then helped me to bury my dead parents or at least what was remaining of them.
After that he brought me into the village and introduced me as his friend, although people didn't believe him which was apparent by their faces, nobody questioned him.
He even wanted to assign an old lady to take care of me, but then I told him I could take care of myself, he insisted so I had to transform into a beast, after that he told me to suit myself.
After that he bought me a house, and supplied it with a month stock of food, but before he left, he looked at me then said in a serious tone, "Lynx your life belongs to me now, so you're not allowed to do anything stupid, I live there" he said as he pointed to the direction of your house, just ask about Lincon you won't miss it.
I have a kid about you age, when you feel better you can come see him.
But you have to promise me that everything that happened today will not reach his ears, you're not to tell him anything that concerns magic or the ability one can hold, power rank, power hierarchy, or anything that will make him deviate from living his life like that of a normal civilian.
"You are foolish, how would he survive in this kind of world we are in. where anybody can get what he wants as long as he has money or power, you won't be alive forever to always protect him".
I promised his mother that i will keep him away from everything as long as I live, he is not aware that one can become a powerful individual his just an ignorant brat an I will love to leave him that way.
"He warned every civilian in the village to abstain from Telling him about the power system, and because they respected your dad they had to obey.
which brought about why other kids avoided you so that they don't slip up and give you any information.
All this Lynx said as he narrated to Laston who was left in utter shock and disbelief.
That is also the reason I run faster than you, I use a technique that enables me to use the attribute related to animals.
with that Lynx then activated his technique and used it to change his form to that of a mouse, then reverted back to his real form, then said "that is all I can manage in my current state, I used my life energy to hide us from that executioner now I think I only have about twenty years left to live".
"What do you mean by that" laston asked
"It means I have little to twenty years to be alive, I had to draw energy from my core in other to stay safe from a high-level executioner.
"can't nothing be done maybe we take you to a doctor"
Doctors can't heal me, but a healer can, but they can only heal me using their life energy, I dought anyone will willingly do that.
"can't nothing can be done? Laston asked, "No, on the contrary something can be done, there is a herb called nine Dragon root of longevity it can heal me".
"If it is seen and auctioned, it's worth a fortune, the last one that was seen two years ago was sold at nine hundred and ninety-nine billion gold coin".
Even if I worked my whole twenty years, I won't be able to raise that kind of money.
Then for the third option, I can grow my powers, if I do that I grow in spiritual energy, the more years I get, but that means I would need resources and to get resources I would have to either become an adventurer and hunt for the resources or get into the royal capital and enter the military academy, but then that means I have to work for those scum bags.
Laston watched Lynx speak, he was so shock at how stupid and ignorant he had been to the extent that general knowledge known by everyone was foreign to him, he was very disappointed at himself.