As Leo felt his father's energy slowly gather towards his heart he started to become nervous thinking about what would happen to himself and his mum if he didn't awaken a powerful ability. Would his father really just throw them away like he said he would.
After ten long minutes of Thomas pumping his energy into Leo and Leo entertaining thoughts of what could happen. A bright light suddenly exploded out of Leo's body as he raised of the ground whilst screaming.
[ Congratulations Leo Windward on awakening ]
[ You have gained the ability plunder ]
[ Gained skill [ Plunder ] ]
[ You have reached level 1, All stats +1]
After a minute in the state of awakening Leo finally returned to the ground looking at his body in awe as he felt the power contained within his body. "What ability did you awaken" Thomas said in his same monotone voice as he inspected Leo's body.
After hearing this Leo called out "status" causing a blue screen to appear in front of him
Name: Leo Windward
Bloodline: Unawakened
Ability: Plunder
Level: 1
HP: 200/200
MP: 500/500
Strength: 2
Agility: 3
Dexterity: 2
Durability: 2
Intelligence: 5
Wisdom: 5
Skills: [ Plunder ]
[ Average 5 year old has 1 in every stat before awakening ]
[ Average adult male had 10 in every stat before awakening ]
As Leo looked over his status he couldn't help but be surprised by his intelligence and wisdom stats which were well above average. Could this be because of my previous life, Leo wondered.
After thinking about his unusual stats Leo finally turned his attention to his ability.
Ability: Plunder
Description:
Gives the player the skill [Plunder]
Looking at his abilities description Leo once again couldn't help but be surprised. This is because abilities usually give thir users skills every couple of levels instead of only giving their user one level. Such as with his father's ability wich gives him a new skill every five levels but his only gave him one.
Seeing this Leo began to give up thinking about how his father would react. Before completely giving up Leo thought that he should atleast look at what the skill does since its the only one he'll have for the rest of his life.
Skill: Plunder
Description:
Allows the user to extract the ability of a person the user kills.
Cooldown: 6 months
After looking at his skill all that could be seen on Leo's face was shock. Seeing this Thomas asked "What is it". After hearing this Leo fell into deep contemplation over if he should tell his father about his ability. Eventually after multiple minutes of contemplation Leo finally came to the decision to tell his father about his ability. This was simply because of the amount if support and resources that his father could provide Leo as an A rank hunter and the Leader of a guild.
With his decision to tell his father Leo said four simple words "Steal other people's abilities." After hearing these words a creepy smile instantly appeared on Thomas's face as for the first time in Leo's life Thomas looked him in the eyes.
"Tell me the exact description of your ability" Thomas comanded. Leo then went on to tell Thomas about his abilities seemingly simple description till Thomas simply said "come back in an hour." Before making Leo leave. After finnaly being able to escape his father's domineering gaze Leo quickly walked towards his mother's room when like always he found her unconscious body.
"Mum I did it I've finnaly gained father's recognition" Leo then went on to tell his mothers unconscious body about his newly awakened ability and what happened.
After talking to his mothers body for about an hour Leo finnaly left with a saddened gaze as he slowly walked back towards his father's office.
Once again Leo found himself infront of those domineering doors once again knocking asking for permission to enter. "Come in" Thimas said after only making Leo wait for a couple seconds. As Leo slowly opened the doors the best he could with his five year old body he inspected the room to see if there was any differences.
Within the office instead of there only being Thomas there was also a malnourished young boy who couldn't be any more then 13. The boy was dressed in rags and displayed a saddened expression.
After inspecting the boy Leo walked to the centre of the room waiting for his father to speak.
Thomas spent a couple minutes once again inspecting his son before slowly looking at the young boy in the corner of the room then he looked back at Leo. "Use your ability on that boy" Was all that Thomas said before starring at his son with what seemed to be a look of expectation and excitement. "B,but father in order to use my ability a have to kill the other person" Leo said with a nervous expression as he looked at the floor not daring to look his father in the eyes. " I know " was all his father bothered to say before adopting that same excited expression again.
After Leo heard these daunting words Leo slowly turned towards the boy before returning to his father's gaze with a determined expression. "I refuse" Was all that Leo could say before he was forced to the ground by his father's aura "You dare to refuse me?" Thomas said with a wrathful expression before waving his hand causing shackles to form around his wrists, ankles and neck. "If you won't do it, I'll make you" Thomas continued.
Still on the floor from his father's aura Leo looked at the ice shackles on his body before his body started to move without his concent. Under the affect of his father's spell Leo slowly stood up and walked up to Thomas's dek picking up a knife conveniently placed at the front of the desk.
After picking up the knife Leo slowly turned towards the yound boy and slowly walked forward. With every step Leo's gaze became sadder and sadder as tears began to explode out of his eyes but still he couldn't stop. Until finally he appeared infront of the boy and without a second of hesitation Leo stabbed the knife into the boys chest again and again intill there was no chance the boy would survive.