Kapitel 3: Explorer
"So, tell me what happened?" the officer asked. Currently, both Kane and his mother were inside a police precinct, to report of what happened.
Kane could not help but have a little flashback of what happened.
Last night, his scream had woken up his mother, who rushed into his room in fear, afraid something happened to his son.
As it turned out, something did happened though whether it was a good thing or not is up for question. After all, suddenly being healthy and Blessed at the same time was surprising, though it was surprising for it to happened so late.
Blessed is the term used for those who received a Shard when they were young, not needing to even go inside a Sacred Ground or Temple to obtain their first Shard. Since Shards they will have usually belonged to either deities, monsters, or legends, they are confirmed to be powerful.
Yet, usually it happened when they are young while Kane received his Shard before he was 16, like literally a day before his sixteenth birthday, so he could not really tell if it is a good thing or not.
His thought strayed for the moment. After learning Kane was a Blessed, albeit a late bloomer, his perplexed mother did not know what to do except report it to the police. After all, they would know more of what to do with his case.
"So, you telling me, that you dreamed of being in some kind of dark realm and a being, likely a god, give you the Shard?" the officer asked with a hint of skepticism.
"Yes." a very summarized version of what happened but it was good enough. Kane did not know why but telling of the creation method of his Shard should not be told, at least to those he could trust and could handle the detail.
So his mother and the officer would not learn of what he truly see.
The officer turned towards his mother. "Miss Emilia, you did the right thing to contact us. Unfortunately, we don't really know how to deal with your son peculiar case." he said honestly.
"I don't know which organization would be able to help my son, but the law enforcement is the safest bet." his mother replied, her eyes seemingly asking if she made the wrong decision or not.
The officer gulped. Kane could understand. His mother could be very scary.
"Thankfully, I had contact someone that could help you with your current ... situation." just as the officer finished talking, someone entered the room, flanked by two police.
A glance revealed the newcomer, a woman in her late twenties at the very least, should be an Explorer, or at least have some affiliation to Shard user, likely being one herself.
"So, a late-Blessed one?" the voluptuous woman asked, staring at Kane like he was a piece of meat.
"And who are you?" Emilia asked, glaring at the new arrival.
"She is the help I called." the officer intervened.
"This woman right here is a B-rank Explorer Candace Hearth, a Blessed One like your son and should be able to offer more help than the police in regard of your son's situation."
The woman, Candace, chuckled. "Don't worry, I will help with your situation."
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Taking the family of two to a nearby cafe, Candace quickly showed her professional side.
"So, tell me what happened?" Kane quickly retold of what happened. He did wonder if he should record the entire story so he could just played and not needing to waste his saliva repeating everything.
The woman took all his story and nodded.
"There should be more." Kane stiffened at the blatant reveal, "but I will not ask. It's your secret and likely it would be something hard to believe.
Then again, what happened to you, while rare, is not exclusive to you alone." she dropped a bombshell.
"Really?" Kane asked. He had always thought Blessed One to have their Shards from infancy.
"Blessed One usually get their Shards when they are babies, but sometimes they get it later. Usually during their childhood.
However, there are records of that not being the case. The cases usually will have those that become Blessed One late in their life to be sickly or have weak constitution during their younger years. I guessed it is the same witn you."
Kane and Emilia's eyes widen, disbelief written on their faces. The Explorer chuckled.
"Yeah. The difference cases of late-Blessed is the same as you. There are some theories about it but the most believed one is that late-Blessed were given powerful Shards, stronger than other Blessed One.
So, they would suffer in their childhood to nurture their Shards. Or so the theories go."
Kane quickly reminded of what he had seen in his dream.
'Is the heart I saw come from energy taken from my entire life right to this moment?' he could not help but questioned. Unfortunately, the only one to know would be the god, and he doubted he could get any answer from it.
"So, my son suffer his entire life to get a powerful Shard?" his mother asked.
Kane could see where he get his sharpness from. Then again, his mother need to survive raising him, so being sharp and aware of her surroundings were necessities.
"In a way yes. Since your son has a Shard, he will need to be enrolled to any Academy that trained Shard User." Candace told them.
"It is a good thing I can enter Camelot Academy." Kane said, showing off the email he received. Letter had been considered an outdated way to deliver message during the first 100 year after Armageddon, and email and many type of media platform had appeared since then.
"Good, except you will need to change your course. You plan on entering the Shardsmithing course, right?"
"Yes. I don't think I can become a Shard User with my weak constitution. Then, this happened." Kane exclaimed.
"Made sense. Don't worry. As long as you tell them of what happened, they will accept it. Of course, if you interested in becoming a Shardsmith, you can take it as a side subject." Kane nodded, deciding to take the advice of the older woman.
The group of three talked further before Candace looked at her watch.
"It's getting late. I will get going first. I will see your tomorrow. Still need to explain something to you." the son-mother duo nodded as they take their leave, both tired of the entire ordeal though Kane could not help see it as a way to pave the road out of poverty.
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
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Rangliste 
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