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Chapter 3: Chapter 2: The Kingdom Of Cuwran

Al winced at the glaring of the sun on him. He woke up feeling the heat from the sun. As he wakes up he noticed the bitter taste coming from his mouth. Probably a morning pill, Toke has been exploding inside of him, it was only natural to give him birth control pills. It'll be a disaster if he becomes pregnant but he spits it out because it was useless to him.

He checks his surroundings, he was inside the dumpster sprawled like a thrown garbage inside. His body seems paralyzed from aching. Multiple purple bruises can be seen from his shoulder downward of his body. He can even feel the sticky liquid down is middle.

His hands unconsciously reach for his nape, it is still smooth and no sign of any wound or specifically a bite. He then breathes as a sign of relief. At least Toke is not delirious as he was what before.

Aside from body ache, he also bleeds.

For a moment, Al didn't move. In practiced breathing he relaxed his body, whispering under his breath. Then he helps himself out of the dumpster. Wounds are gone without a scar, bruise from purple to yellow then vanished as if it didn't happen. Even his broken bone is also healed.

He stretches his body as the delicious crackling sound was heard. Ahh so much better.

Clattered money and his tore clothes were on the ground. It was his clothes, now he's butt naked.

Because he's an omega, it was just a typical night for him. But what was perplexing is that something triggered his estrus or heat, making his pre-estrus to come early. Pre-estrus is the stage where he will feel heated and weakened but on a milder notion. He can function normally, except he secretes minimal pheromones. Although it was minimal, alphas' can still smell it distinctively.

His estrus should come during winter and not before. Although it's almost the season of winter, usually his estrus will come in the middle of it, so he didn't take any suppressants.

But even if he did, it won't be effective as it normally had.

Omegas could take suppressants for their estrus to be manageable. It has 99.9 percentage of success, but for Al, suppressants, and injections are not effective as it should. He's the 0.1% of the odd.

The downfall of the alphas. Haha.

There's only one way his estrus to be manageable, it's to be marked by an alpha.

Haha.

No sane alpha would do that for Al, especially if they know what he did. He cut the reason why omegas are omega. His fertility rate turns into zero, he will never get pregnant. And maybe this is the reason why his estrus is hard to control.

But that's not the real problem, he remembered last night at the bar where he's working he suddenly felt heated. There was this specific smell that affected him, making his blood wreak havoc causing his estrus to come early.

What makes that specific scent affected him?

Mm...

He was thinking about what that means while he tries to look for anything that could cover his nakedness.

He found some winter woolen coat in navy blue. Long enough to reach below his knee. Al has always been different from typical omega. Generally, omegas have a small stature, most of the time delicate and feminine. But Al is tall, almost as tall of a man beta which sometimes mistaken him as a beta. Although he has a thin waist his shoulders also wide like betas. He has the typical appearance of beta, though his face looked delicate.

Al was fastening the coat around him when out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a movement. When he looked it was a child with big round blue eyes and black hair like an onyx. He had big eyes that carried a pair of bright and clear blue irises. They were so clean that they were able to clearly reflect Al's figure. He didn't know but somehow the child seems familiar, he just can't point where he saw him.

He seems to be between the ages of 3 to 5 or seven? Eight perhaps? He wasn't sure because he never really know what's the difference between those ages to a toddler and a kid. But the boy is small and round, he looked like a rabbit with those chubby cheeks and big round eyes.

For a long time, the tiny human just stares blankly at him. Al wasn't sure what to do, the tiny human is watching him when he was getting dressed. He didn't know how to address the issue less to explain why is he was naked!

Ahem. He let a dry cough be heard.

And as if he didn't see him, he ignores the child and started to walk away. The dumpster is near the slum, people often have thrown something in there. Sometimes things, most of the time dead bodies. Or alive, like the tiny human.

There are only two types of jobs there, one is finding a body and the other is burying it. If you're still alive, that means you can live and hide. Find a job and lived, but never ever return to where you came from.

This is the lowest of the lowest. If you're thrown in here, that means you are not needed. The Slums are the place for useless.

In the Kingdom of Cuwran, there ae three main region.

Upper Region: City of Seros. This is where the Elites and the leaders of the kingdom lived. They are the upper class in the Kingdom. Such as, the Minister, that overview the kingdom and the Palace, lead by the royal blood he Queen. Both are the first line in the Elites. Followed by the rich and powerful, the nobles and the officials. Since alphas are born masters, they are usually the responsible for leadership and military work.

Middle Region: Gonne. Most populated and other center of the kingdom. The middle class. They are the white worker, mostly betas. Betas' physical strength was second best and their IQ was average and above average, they could basically bear any work and had good enough fertility rate, the backbone of society.

Lower Region: Aros, the lower class. Although not populated as the middle region, they are the poorest. They are just poor because its usually omegas.

Omegas' character were delicate and timid, their strength is generally low. Since they can't do basic physical work they usually work as white workers. In the military, they can't be in the field, because of the problem from their erratic estrus. What if they suddenly in estrus while they are surrounded by alphas? Not only it was dangerous to the omega but also to the alphas.

The kingdom doesn't have any use for them except for their great fertility rate. Omega is a birthing machine, and the child's greatest genetic inheritance came from the father's side. Meaning if they paired with alpha, it was certain that their offspring would be also an alpha.

Other than that, they don't have any redeeming quality except if you're an omega born in the upper class, now that would be a different story. But if you are born in the lower class, what are you? That's why omega remains in the lower class. They can't do manual labor, they are lacking courage and confidence so in order to survive, omega usually sells their body as a birthing machine.

But there's even lower than the lower class. The lowest of the lowest, the Slums. They didn't even bother to think of what will they call us, just simply the place where useless lived. The poorest of the poor.

Al walks leisurely as if he's not naked underneath the coat or he's walking without shoes, wherever his shoes are, he better get them that's the only pair he had. And also the uniform, when he was staggering coming home, he's still wearing his uniform but now it was fallen to pieces.

He sighed and look for his missing shoes. He never finds them.

. . .

Inside the dumpster, the child's round blue eyes followed Al's back. It was father's coat, he thought, he should get it from the stranger. Wanting to get his father's coat, the tiny human troubled himself to get out of the dumpster.

He needs to get the coat.

He followed Al without him noticing that the tiny human was behind him.


Chapter 4: Chapter 3: Mages

Al stretches himself as he yawns. He looks outside his window and it was cloudy. The weather forecasts said that it was expected to snow this afternoon. The first snowfall of the year, declaring the official beginning of the winter season.

He only slept for a few hours, when he came back to get his new uniform from the bar it was already lunchtime, he ate there before walking back to the Slums. The bar was located at Calles street the red district of the lower society.

It's already 5 in the afternoon and the bar is opening at nine. Although its four hours until the bar will open, he needed to clean the place first then open. There will be unspeakable human fluids scattered all over the place. And not only that, drunkards who can't come home because they blackout will be on the floor still snoring.

Yeah, he needs to clean the bar so he hurried into the bathroom.

His apartment is small. It was so small that it only has 2 doors. One was in the bathroom and the other is for the main entrance of the four walls apartment. The living room, dining area, and the bed are in the place. He got the portable table that can be folded if he's not using it, an analog tv that needed to hit for the signal to work, and some sort of bed. At the entrance was the kitchen. When you enter the main door, you can already see his whole apartment.

The only innovative he had was his watch, where he was required to have. This is his identification, wallet, computer, phone, and everything.

His apartment's wall is thin, you can even hear your neighbors' snores. This is the Slums, the worst of the worst are here. So the apartments here weren't appropriate to the payment and the condition. Even the whole apartment building looks like won't hold much if a strong wind blew.

Since it has thin walls, the temperature outside his apartment and inside is almost the same, even the waster is freezing he had to warm the water pipe to get the water going.

Although it was in poor condition, considering this is the Slums, he's already lucky, at least he had a place to sleep.

Al fills the tub with water, while his hands hold the water pipe, the water that came out is already warm and steaming. After he washes, he sinks his body to the tub and groans in pleasure. At the same time, he also makes his whole apartment warm.

Al is a mage. Usually magic is hereditary but not always, some alphas could see magic particles, some omegas could feel magic but betas are usually who can use magic. Most mages are betas. He's a quarter mage. His late mother was half a mage. But since today's society, with the technology and stuff, there's hardly any magic resources you can use and remains, the magic in his blood is the only source he can use.

Mages, also known as magicians, are people with a propensity toward magic and those trained with its handling. They draw on the elements—earth, air, water, fire, and the void. They can manipulate and handle it and other forms of the elements, such as the wind and ice. With the elements, they can forge metal with earth, shape air into illusions, fire into prophecies, earth into bindings, and water into healing.

Mages are trained in the Palace. They specialized in an element appropriate to them. Each mage only had one or two specialized elements but sometimes, an uncommon occurrence, if they can master all elements, they will be called Masters.

Mages today are rare, and if one existed, their proficiency at controlling the elements is not that good. So most mages use the magic crystals to help them contain it and drawn it out easily. Magic crystals can be obtained by buying it which is expensive or kill a Zerg.

Inside the zerg was a nucleus. This nucleus if purified then becomes magic crystals. The higher the level the zerg the denser the magic crystals are.

High-grade crystals = Grand Archmage

Middle grade crystals = Master, Archmage

Lower grade crystals = Mage, Apprentice

The grade of the crystals and the people who can control.

Grand Archmage > Archmage > Master > Mage > Apprentice > Novice > Rookie - The ranking of mages, from the highest.

Some can use magic crystals to pull out its magic the only difference is that mages could draw out the highest potential of each crystal. Between the two mages is more valuable, it only a waste if it was handled by an ordinary. That's why the palace always seeks people who have minimal potential so that they can train them into a mage.

Since technologies' domination natural elements scarce it's really hard for Al to use magic. Most of the time he's saving up his magic for his estrus. Al is different, his estrus is stronger than ordinary and it also the time when the magic inside of him will run rampage. It harms himself and the people around him. So he needed to form a barrier around him.

When he was done cleaning himself and soaking, he dried himself with a spell and wore his uniform and his newly bought shoes. He was readying himself out when he go back and grab the coat to wear it again. It was a good coat he doesn't need warming spell to keep the cold out.

As he opens his entrance door, something black fall from the ground. It was a small body.

He looks around at first to see if someone put this outside his door but when he didn't find anyone, he got curious and approach the small body. He peeked towards its face and it was the familiar tiny human before. The tiny human was curled into a ball and eyes are closed as if sleeping. He poked his chubby cheeks only it fell cold.

Too cold for someone alive. He touches his forehead to feel his temperature and notice how he's stone cold.

Al immediately grabs the child inside his apartment. Realization dawned at him, the tiny human must have followed him. From the dumpster to his workplace and back to his house, he did that with just walking, since he doesn't extra money for travel expenses. He was so tired when he comes home that as soon as he was done eating he slept throughout the whole afternoon. Does this mean this tiny human is waiting outside the whole time?

It was so cold outside, it was the temperature where warm humid and cold snow mixes. The coldest before snowing.

Al wrapped the child within his arms and starts to give him warmth using his incapacitated magic inside his body. He thought he can just save up later.

The tiny human was cold and has shallow breathing. If minutes later he probably died without him noticing. The child has a pale complexion, lips are dark as blue. His small hands clenched and teeth clattered as he trembled.

For a while, Al continues to send warmth towards him together with healing spells, without noticing how much he's giving. He only felt a little exhausted and wanting to sleep.

The child within his arms started to relax his clench teeth and hands. He's breathing became normal but his eyes are still closed. Maybe he fell asleep, as soon as he felt some warmth.

Al sighed in relief.

. . .

An unknown time later, the child within Al's arms stirred. Feeling the comfortable warmth enveloping him, he jostles his small body further into that source. In his half-awake state, he smelled a fragrance, it was fleeting and vanishing. A very familiar smell, it smells like his father.

Suddenly his sleepy eyes sprung awake. He looks around to look for his father when he saw his surrounding is an unfamiliar place, he was relieved. They were lying on the floor at the entrance. The stranger beside him was the same person he followed this morning. The stranger holding him in his arms and giving him warmth.

He looks at the navy blue coat that the stranger wearing it was one of his father's that he took when he was taken. So that's where the smell is coming from. He panicked a little because he thought he might have been found by his father.

He blinked looking at the face of the stranger. The warmth from him is traveling within him is not a natural body heat, it could only be meant one thing. He's a mage.

He yawned and get back to his position before, feeling comfortably he closes his eyes. He goes back to sleep.


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