Damon Merula a sixteen year old boy of the house Merula of the Merula plains under the duchy of Abegnog lay dead in his bed when a maid came in to clean up his room. When she saw the situation , she informed the guards who then informed the Lord regent and uncle to Damon , Lucas Merula who was to take care of the house affairs until Damon had reached the adult age of seventeen. But Lukas immediately after his brother's death had started poisoning Damon in small doses which turned him into a weak and feeble person. Damon couldn't even join other noble children who had attended the imperial academy but was instead homeschooled. Worse he showed no aptitude for magic.
Lukas has received what he could describe as the most beautiful news of his entire life and started making his way towards Damon's room on his face was a mask of sadness that was hiding his real feelings of elation. But his happiness would dash to the ground because when he opened the door to Damon's room he saw Damon ( formerly John) alive vomiting on the floor.
This last dose of poison was supposed to be able to even kill a high level mage , Lukas was confused about the present situation he thought that maybe the alchemist of the Merula family had betrayed him in this scheme.
The original Damon had actually found out that Lukas was poisoning him , infact he knew that most of the staff were loyal to his uncle but there was nothing he could do. So when John came into the body of Damon and became one with him , he retained most of Damon's memories including the hate and anger that he felt towards his uncle.
When Damon saw his uncle rushing into his room to confirm his death and also as blood drained from his face when he saw that he was still alive he felt a little joy .
Damon used a cloth to clean his mouth then he ordered a maid who was standing around to fetch him a jar of milk. He then turned to his uncle " it seems like I'll not be dying today uncle" he said giving his uncle a fake smile.
His uncle trying to control his seething aura replied " ah yes it seems like you were saved by fate , I shall get back to running your fief my Lord" . He then turned and left. It took almost all his will power to not explode into rage .
Damon looking at his uncle leaving already knew that he had backed his uncle into a corner which was a dangerous thing . He knew at this moment that he would have to get proficient with his abilities and push them to the max potential .
After drinking the milk brought to him by the maid he he found a way to slip out of the castle undetected and made his way into the town. He was not afraid of anyone recognizing him as he was a noble and rarely left the castle also his with his scrawny body no one would even believe that he was a noble.
As he walked around he noticed that the architecture was a mixture of medieval and Renaissance architecture so was the fashion.
After observing the town for a while he decided to explore some parts of the woods surrounding the town. As he had not been to this part before he followed a path that led him to cross paths with a group of three bandits who were famous for robbing and pillaging the towns people. The only problem was that Damon had not realized this development, he walked up to them clueless and oblivious to the situation at hand and asked them for directions which brought laughter from the bandits.
One of the bandits jokingly said " I wonder how much he's worth in on the slave market perhaps a gold coin ".
Another bandit replied" look at how scrawny the kid is we would be lucky if we received ten silver for him" .
Damon quickly realized that he had encountered an impossible situation so he did what he thought was the right thing to do. He conjured up a ball of fire which surprisingly made the bandits to start laughing harder than before.
"What do we got here, a mage and here we were thinking that you were worthless . You are going to be worth a lot of money " one of the bandits said in-between laughter .
Seeing the confused face on Damon the bandit proceeded to explain " you see mage or not you can't handle two intermediate and a peak first star warriors.
For context magic users were separated into warriors and mages . Warriors use magic to strengthen their bodies while mages use magic as an external force. Their power source was mana circles for mages and the mana star for warriors. The number and density of magic stars or circle determines the level you are and according to history and legends the number could reach ten for both mages and warriors but most people die before they could reach such high level of power. So the levels were beginner, intermediate and peak.
Damon receiving this bit of information then retracted the flames which caused the the bandits to laugh harder . But Damon had other plans he walked closer to one of the bandits as if to surrender but in the last second he covered his fist in lightning and struck the fellow in the middle of his chest. The high voltage of electric combined with the force of the punch and also the fact that the bandits guard was down caused him to go into cardiac arrest stopping his heart before he could even reach the ground. The laughter immediately stopped after this incident . The surprise came first because mages usually had one element and it was rare to see a dual element user. The bandits were afraid but they could not let Damon live because he had seen their faces and also because he had killed their comrade.
Damon the other hand was not interested in prolonging this fight because he knew that if any of these bandits hit him he would be done for.
The two bandits then decided to run a flanking attack on Damon while brandishing their swords. Both of them arrived at his flanksand swung at the same time in a an attempt to cut off his neck , in fact Damon almost didn't see them. He then sucked to the ground, then used telekinesis to drag one of the bandits arm a little forward causing his arm to make contact with the sword of his comrade which sliced the arm completely. Without waiting for them to recover Damon held onto the bandit that still had both hands and immediately absorbed his magical energy turning the man to a mere mortal without powers. Then he used all his strength to conjure up large enough flames burn up the bandits that were still alive.
Damon then decided to rush back to the castle as things had gone a little awry that he expected.