'Huh, where am i. I remember going to.... where exactly....., and who is this person holding me, they look so big, wait did I get reborn!!! and now I am a baby'
"Huh why is the baby not crying" said a voice, and just then i felt someone hit my butt and i started to cry.
'Damn you if I find you after I grow up, I will let you feel hell'
'Ugh this frail body, I am feeling sleepy' and I slept
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in a faraway place, a being sitting on a throne with his eyes closed opened his eyes suddenly
'hmm..., the wheels of destiny are beginning to move and the last and most important person is born, now show me little one will you follow the same path or will you forge your own path, i will be watching, ugh.., i can't be awake, this curse is eating away my life span' thinking he closed his eyes and went back to doing his previous work.
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in a kingdom surrounded by huge forest lied the kingdom of Rania established by the first human who led humanity to win the war against the spirits 100 years back. the kingdom has 4 dukes and has counts and viscounts below them. the royal family was formed by many people but the ones with the power and right to the kingdom are the ones with the middle name rania , the royal family was formed by the frostspire family. the first kings name that was recorded in the records was Alex rania Frostspire.
there are 3 kingdoms surrounding the kingdom of rania, the kingdom of life, formed by the union of fairies and elf's, the kingdom of fists formed by the united tribes of the beast race, and finally the kingdom of lore formed by the ancient humans that formed pacts with the divine beasts.
far from these 4 kingdoms laid the runes of the once majestic and most powerful kingdom of spirits that got destroyed in the war against the humans. the spirits were corrupted by the dark mana that flows in the dungeon and turned malevolent, this caused them to attack others mindlessly, they started attacking and destroying the small human establishments which later led to a full-scale war.
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'Sigh...'
i closed the book after reading the last page. 5 years back i woke up as a baby which got me terrified but later i came to terms with that i got reincarnated into a different world. i don't remember anything about my previous life, not even my name. i gradually gave up on worrying about my past life and started focusing on the current one.
during the past 5 years i gradually learnt about the world, i have been born as the first child of the ducal house of NightBane. the nightbanes are known throughout the world for their ruthlessness due to the work of the family ancestor 10yrs back.
he went against the kingdom of life and almost wiped out one of the duke family for a small reason that the opposite duke house disrespected the nightbanes by saying they were equal in strength and mocked the younger generation that attended the annual tournament held every year in which all the kingdoms' academies participate. this tournament is another major event where each kingdom tries to showcase their talents and show their dominance.
The ancestors is called the 'bloodbane' ryan as he shed blood on a neutral ground. the other kingdoms took this as an opportunity to suppress the nightbanes but, we nightbanes stand together, all the ancestors who were in seclusion came out to show the power of nightbanes which scared all the 3 kingdoms. we had a greater number of ascendant rankers than the whole kingdom combined.
as i was reading someone disturbed me, "young master, from today your training officially begins and you have to be there after breakfast from today, so please hurry for the breakfast, the lord and lady are waiting" said alfred. 'Yes, I had my own butler and yes, I named him alfred when he was assigned to me'
--flashback--
'I wonder why grandpa called me so early in the morning' as I reached the hall, i could see my parents and grandparents discussing something with a man who looked like he is in his thirties and wearing a butler uniform.
when i reached he said "greetings young master, my name is jack rank 2 mage and i will be your butler/shadow from today onward" he bowed to me "no, i will call you Alfred" "but master my name is..." " I said no",
he looked at my parents and grandparents who were looking at the interaction with amusement as i never was so adamant about something but if I was, I would accomplish it no matter what it takes.
"Fine young master, you can call me alfred" he sighed, "from today only i will call you alfred and no one else" I glared at my parents while saying that my father raised his hands in defeat. I got amused looks from all my family members.
--flashback end--
i hurried and went to the dining area for the breakfast, as i was going, i encountered the big hallway that led to the dining area, no matter how many times i see it i get amazed, the hall way was bustling with maids cleaning the way, they greet me with a bow and i return the gesture with a smile, the hallway was adorned with chandeliers all the way which gave it a regal look.
i reached the dining are and there my family was sitting on the dining table waiting for me, at the position of the head sat my grandfather, Vesper NightBane, the current patriarch of the nightbanes, a man respected throughout the family for his kindness but to the world he was like a predator, he had the signature black hair of the nightbanes, with little to no wrinkles on his face, no one will think he is a grandfather looking like that but the lifespan of the mages increases with their rank and they maintain their youth.
To his right sat my grandmother, lisa von nightbane, she is the eldest daughter of the strongest ducal house in the kingdom of rune, she had bright red hair and eyes, she was so beautiful that there was a mini war almost waged when she married my grandfather. even now she is considered as one of the most beautiful women in the kingdom of rania.
to the left of my grandfather sat my father, Vernon nightbane, he was the head of the nightbanes in all but name as my grandfather had yet to step down. he had the signature black hair, but his eye color was inherited from grandmother which looked blood red, and they were scary. he was considered as the strongest of his generation as he didn't lose even once among his peers.
beside my father sat my mother, alice sol nightbane, she is the 3rd daughter of the current king of kingdom of life. her hair was pitch black and her eyes were of the color purple and blue which represent the elements she is most familiar with, space and lightning.
there was another person sitting opposite to my grandfather whom I didn't recognize, thinking who she was i reached the table. "Come here..." my grandfather was about to speak something when a huge pressure landed on me. i looked around and saw that it was from the unknown person. my family was about to intervene when she suddenly spoke " it is a test, so don't bother. i want to see if he is worthy of all the praise you gave him", the pressure kept increasing and my knees were hanging on their last thread. there is a saying among the nightbanes ' it is better to die then bend the knee to someone other than family' and this lady wanted me to bend my knee to her?
I looked around to see that my family was not about to help me, i started to think would i get on my knee and humiliate the family? that snapped something in me, a sudden force broke out from me and I fought of the pressure to make it easy for me to stand but the pressure increased by a huge margin and i felt like my body would break if i don't kneel. just when my grandfather was about to intervene, a huge pressure descended on the whole palace, everyone was confused and looked for the source. A black aura was leaking from me, my black hair turned to silver and then with a boom, a silver dragon emerged from the aura soaring to the skies, i was angry for the first time in my life, genuinely angry. my pupils dilated and turned to a slit like the dragon and i shouted "you dare make me kneel, my name is ...."