Staring at his bestfriend, Lucas suddenly felt like he no longer knew him anymore.
His pupils were dilated as he blurted out,
"Wait ! you have a last name? How come you never mention anything about it?
Victor couldn't help but release another sigh.
He stared left and right and then shook his head,
"Firstly lets go somewhere that's private"
With those words he turned into a abandoned alley, Lucas brazenly followed him.
After checking that no one was nearby to eavesdrop on their conversation. Victor began to slowly recount what he knew about his parents and how he was the last descendant of a cursed clan.
Lucas listened attentively without changing his expression.
Once Victor was done explaining his story, Lucas who had been attentively listening then suddenly sighed,
"Man that's so hectic, wait! l still don't understand why this has anything to do with your birthday"
Another sigh once again escaped from Victor.
"Its what the priest said when we were about to leave.
He seemed to know that it was my sixteenth birthday, and the fact that he asked me about tomorrow is questioning.
l suspect that he was suspecting me of being a cursed bearer based on some shallow evidence, as for what the evidence was l don't know. Anyways once he knew that my birthday was tomorrow, all of his doubts were probably cleared off"
A panicked expression, instantly revealed itself on Lucas's face,
"So what are we going to do?
Victor was silent for a moment, before eventually replying.
"What l need to make sure is to survive this day until l turn sixteen. Once it reaches tomorrow l will be safe"
"Safe! Wait what do you by you will be safe"
At this point Victor suddenly smiled, l was originally planning to leave the stronghold tomorrow morning through the help of a friend of my family"
An'ohh' sound excaped from Lucas, as he soundly acknowledged Victor's words.
"So where should we go? Obviously the orphanage is a no no"
"Dont worry about that, l have a certain place in mind"
After that Victor signaled towards Lucas to follow him.
The boys moved through the puzzling alleys and roads until they reached a certain part of the stronghold, that had the name downtown.
The downtown was an untidy and infamous place that was infested by banished criminals and heretics.
Entering the downtown part of the stronghold Victor and Lucas later emerged inside a bar tavern that have the sign Shadow Weave on its entrance.
The pale white skinned boy pushed opened the two doors and walked into the noisy Shadow tavern.
Once the doors were a opened a soft bell chimming sound resounded throughout the room and with it the bar suddenly turned silent.
Once Victor and Lucas were inside the tavern, they soon noticed the uncomfortable silence in the room.
Plenty of people cast their gazes on the two young boys.
However, several seconds later, the lively atmosphere returned to the tavern, as if the people who came in were just normal people.
Lucas stared at his surroundings with a puzzling look, leaning on Victor's ear, he whispered.
"Hey Vic are we even allowed to be here?
Staring at his anxious friend, Victor shook his head and replied
"Dont worry about it"
Just at this moment one of the people who were busy drinking suddenly stood up from his seat and approached Victor.
The man was an obese man with a brown bushy beard. A large scar stretched from his eyebrows to his cheek.
He was holding a wooden mug that was filled with alcohol.
He tiddly moved towards the two boys and suddenly said,
"This aren't a place for kids"
Luca was already tense because of being surrounded by a lot of criminals, added the appearance of this scary giant man, the young dark skinned boy couldn't take it anymore.
He suddenly kneeled on the floor and began to beg for forgiveness,
"l am sorry sir, we were just lost, we didn't mean to-"
It was exactly at this moment that Victor who was standing behind Lucas, suddenly burst into a heartfelt laughter.
The obese man infront of Lucas also began to laugh.
"Hey Victor, who is the whimp?
Suddenly asked the obese man.
Lucas was suddenly dumbfounded, behind him Victor took a few steps forward and then clasped his shoulder and said calmly.
"Uncle Jones, meet Lucas, Luca meet my uncle, Renkin Jones, the greatest illegal smuggler in the whole stronghold"
Lucas still with a shocked expression turned towards Victor and slowly mumbled to himself,
"Uncle-, l didn'-l don't, goddammit are you still the same Victor"
Looking at his friend, Lucas suddenly felt like he didn't know him as well as he thought he did.
Seeing how puzzled his friend was, Victor shook his head and released a resigned sigh,
"Don't worry I will explain everything later, but before that we have pressing matters to attend to"
At this moment the dark haired boy turned towards the obese man,
"Uncle we have problem"
Staring at his nephew, the intoxicated expression on the fat man's face suddenly vanished and in its place, a look of solemn seriousness suddenly appeared.
With a sigh the giant man only released few short words,
"l see, that's too bad-"
Before Victor could hear the rest of the words, he suddenly felt a stinging pain at his neck, ahead of him Lucas suddenly fell to the ground with a resounding thud.
At the same time, behind him the two wooden double doors were suddenly flung open, men dressed in silver armours suddenly marched inside.
Turning his head behind he could see one of the men holding a few darts in his hands, he could see a blonde haired man with purpiless white eyes and clad in white robes standing in front of the armored men. Turning his gaze back to his uncle, Victor finally understood one thing, he had been betrayed, his uncle had probably sold him out about his cursed status.
Just at this moment, a dizzy feeling suddenly began to assault Victor, the world began to spin and a sudden drowsiness began assail him accompanied with a feeling of passing out.
Before he could fall, he suddenly heard a loud bell sound resounding throughout the entire stronghold.
One the silver armored guards behind him, suddenly blurted out with fear,
"The- the stronghold is under attack"
Those were the last words that Victor heard, the next time he woke up he was surrounded by an endless gray fog, a lot of dead bodies with a feeling of hunger and bloodlust assailing him.