The era of dawn was a time in which humanity went under a drastic change. This is the age were humanity discovered magic. Humans were a able to make use of a vast amount of knowledge discovered in an ancient ruin located below the earth's surface. Scholar's that were at a wall, a bottleneck made a huge breakthrough, this was the beginning of an new age an age of magic.
Humans were now able to break pass what they thought to be humanly impossible. A man could move faster than the speed of sound; A mountain could be spilt in half; The ability to bend the laws of physics and nature to your will became possible. Humanity had finally left behind the primitive way of thinking and had achieved something they thought to be impossible.
In this new world we're anything was now thought to be possible, Licht lived in an Empire called the Dark Nebula Empire
In this new age, the main source of energy that now fuels every aspect of this new world is called mana.
From extraordinary supernatural abilities to the marvel of what this energy did to the inhabitants of of this planet. There was namely (3) three more Empire that governed this planet, they are the Star Touched Empire, The Midnight Sun and the Golden Lion Empire.
Along with their new discovery of magic ancient civilizations began to appear to connect to this energy. They were the elves, Beastmen, Lycans, even mythical dragons that only appeared in stories along with creatures of the night Vampires.
Licht an 8 year old boy lived with his parent within the Nebula Empire, Elizabeth and Amon Darkvein, they had unique features that could easily be noticed by other's Amon with golden blonde hair and sky blue eyes and Elizabeth with black hair as dark as the night sky along with blood red eyes.
Licht however inherited a little bit of both with golden blonde hair and eyes as red as blood. His appearance seemed to have been grafted by the Greek gods themselves . As he is only (8) eight years old he still has some baby fat along with his childlike voice though when he is of age he can woe any woman of his choice.
Licht had an profound reverence for the light which came from the morning star, the mere idea of it filled him with an sense of awe. Light wasn't just something that shone in the dark but was also a sign of destructive power and speed. Licht clung to that unavoidable truth with every fiber of his being.
Today Licht and Amon would have a spar however there were certain conditions to this spar, Amon would not be able to use his mana and would only use swordsmanship and if Licht manages to touch him it would be his win.
Together in a private training room reserved by his father Amon, Licht stood at the end of the room opposite to Amon today his father promised not to hold back which made Licht excited.
Badump-! Badump-! Badump-!
Licht's heart was beating at a faster rate than normal.
Was it because he was scared? No
Was it because he was excited? Definitely!!
A smile emerged on Licht's face though he hasn't formed his mana core yet he is quite the swordsman for his petite age.
Without wasting anymore time. Licht tightened his grip on his wooden sword. As the spar was about to begin Licht entered the Chūdan-no-Kamae sword stance, a balance position that's good for both attacking and defending.
"Are you ready?"
Amon asked Licht.
Amon took his own stance which was called the Hāsso-no-Kamae sword stance, where the practitioner steps forward with their left foot and holds the sword almost vertically.
" I'm ready. "
Licht said looking at Amon seriously.
Amon smiled and disappeared almost instantly and reappeared in front of Licht.
"Then let's start."
After Amon's words faded, a heavy pressure enveloped the area.
Amon released his killing intent to catch Licht off guard.
"Kuek"
A groan escaped Licht's mouth.
The sudden intense killing intent caused Licht's body to become sluggish.
Licht nearly lost consciousness and his whole body trembled at this overwhelming killing intent he felt as if the grim reaper was greeting him himself.
"If you can't even withstand a mere fraction of my killing intent how will you even put up a fight?"
Amon provoked Licht with a sly smile.
Licht forced himself to look up.
And bit his own tongue to keep himself awake.
Though still a bit sluggish he can now somewhat move.
Soon after Licht pressed his feet on the ground forcing himself to get up. Licht then slowly began to approach Amon quickly picking up th pace he began to sprint. His figure quickly disappeared and reappeared in front of Amon delivering a downward vertical slash.
TINNG!
Licht's sword was easily parried by Amon.
Licht immediately followed up with a low cut to the legs along with a subsequent overhead slash.
Amon followed up with a defensive parry and a riposte.
Licht ran towards Amon and delivered a thrusting attack with the sword point aiming directly for Amon's throat.
Amon quickly parried the blow and followed up with a riposte and in an instant switched to a horizontal slash.
"Time to end this"
Amon said o Licht.
Licht rook on a defensive stance preparing to parry this attack, however before he knew it his father was staring directly into his eyes.
Just as Licht realised this he prepared to retreat, His father delivered and overwhelmingly powerful thrust directly towards his abdomen.
Knocking him unconscious.
"Be proud Licht you've grown"
Licht said.
As Licht's vision blurred he spoke.
"Thank you fa.."