Capítulo 11: Father-son duo, Hardest fight
[Reynold's POV]
"So, where did you say we are gonna go today evening, dad?" I asked dad with a suspicious gaze
"Hmm? Oh! we are going to the Helstea household, you know. We are invited there for dinner."
"And why is that? Why would a random stranger, invite us to dinner the moment we arrive in Xyrus city?" I ask again, my eyes narrowing even more. No matter how you think about it, it doesn't make sense, unless...
"We are not complete strangers, though. There have been some dealings between us during my adventuring days."
"So you are saying you guys are friends?" as I am listening to him, I am increasingly starting to get scared of the thing called fate 'such a scary thing...'
"Not exactly friends, I guess you can say we are acquaintances. The house lord, after hearing our predicament, agreed to let us stay in their house. Of course, on the condition that I work as a guard and your mother work as a hostess for the auction house that they own." Dad clarified to me.
Well, it does make sense a bit now. Oh well, let's just get along with it...
Deciding to let the matter rest, I take my eyes off my dad and roam it around the city market. I am currently outside, walking around the city, or rather we are forced to walk around.
......
This morning, after finishing breakfast, mom decided to hone her magic capabilities out of the blue. She said that us being in the inn room would benefit her nothing other than the occasional problems that we create.
That being her justification, she just straight kicked us out of the shared room before secluding herself inside the room. Can you believe that! She kicked us!! Literally!!! the AUDACITY!!!!!!
ahem!..... got a little out of character there, sorry about that.....
So anyway, having nothing to do, we father-son duo are roaming around the floating city, trying to come up with a way to pass the time.
Dad seems to be having a way easier time than me. Why am I even surprised.....? Feeling as if I am the only one suffering here, I continue to endure... what can you expect, that's the only thing I can do....
As such, time slowly trickles down. And the few hours which I thought would be agonizingly long, soon turned out to be quite enjoyable, thanks to all the new and different stuff I am seeing in this new, big city.
Whether it be fun games, eating contest, getting in trouble, and just generally creating problems, we did everything we could do, tasted everything we could taste, bought everything we could buy and in general, messed around a whole lot.
And here we are. Walking back to the inn with a bottle of soft drinks in my hand and a can of beer in my father's. After this, we will be leaving for dinner at Helstea house. If mom's done with her training, that is.
'Speaking, of mom, why do I feel like we are going to get in trouble with her? There's this strange feeling that we, especially dad, should avoid her for the time being.
Don't tell me... did we go overboard with our antics?.....haaaahhh....' heaving a sigh, I submit to my fate and continue walking.
Right at that moment, a thick wave of malicious energy, not mana, but energy hit me and after that, I find myself in a dark alley, along with dad and another presence.
Dad falls over with a thud, knocked out completely. I rush towards him to check if he is safe or not.
"Oh? the boy is completely fine?..... Good, Good! you will be a fine tool for the great sovereign to use. Hahahaha!"
After confirming that dad is fine and just unconscious, I stand up and turn to the supposed perpetrator.
"And who might you be?" I ask the cloak clad figure with a cold glint in my eyes. 'He is strong!'
"Hah! feeling gutsy are we?" the figure barks back.
"What are your intentions?..... talk." I ask again, with the last part being as cold as the arctic ice.
"Hehe.... don't get carried away child. you are lucky that you have enough potential to be of use for the great Vritra!"
Hearing the name sent alarms throughout my entire body. I immediately take a 'Flowing Arts' stance and call upon my enormous mana pool, my hands trembling ever so slightly. This is going to be my first ever battle to the death.... and it has to be against someone like him! just my luck!
"Hmm..... you are barely 6 years old and you have already manifested your mana core? and an orange one at that..... I was right, you are a perfect tool, a perfect tool for mass killing!" The figure drooped all of his former cockiness and turns serious, perhaps by the amount of mana I am riling up? But from his monologue, I at least got to know that he will not be killing me.
With that out of the mind, I jumped at him. As I am closing the distance between us, he snaps his finger. I sense a small amount of mana congeal at my left and notice the subsequent increase in temperature.
Immediately I build a water wall on my left and at the next moment, it is assaulted by a searing flame. I jump to my right to avoid the temperature and then swing my hand to send a vertical water slash towards him. As the water slash approaches him from the front, I concentrate a small portion of mana behind his back and immediately an ice cone pops out from the ground, its sole purpose, to stab him through his heart.
But my intentions were not realized. In the next moment, he was not there, but I can hear his voice.
"You are more talented than I thought, brat. To think you would be able to cast a spell without any chants...what can I call you if not a genius."
As the stream of words come to an end, I feel a terrifying presence behind my back.
I duck down fast enough to have only a few strands of my hair as casualty.
I try sweeping my feet backwards but did not find any resistance. Not taking any chances, I leap back only to see the ground I was standing on charred black with a fire hammer. ' Is he trying to kill me?'
"not bad! not bad at all! show me what more can you do, brat!"
Still squatting down, I sigh a bit. 'let's try this'
Standing up, I collect cold mana near my lungs and exhale them out.
{Frost Demon's Breath}
A Frosty white haze starts coming out of my mouth and covers the whole area, dropping the temperature in the process.
'and then...'
{Flowing Arts: Unseen Flowing Footworks}
I move within the haze, my presence completely concealed.
I go forward with complete stealth, such that the figure will not even notice me until I am right beside him. But, I guess that's all the time he needs to prepare.
Every single attack of send at him are either blocked, parried or dodged.
' his reaction time is insane! '
I can not help but feel a little helpless.
'If it's not helping, then maybe....' I weigh my options.
But that was a mistake. That single lapse of concentration was enough for me to lose track of him.
'Shit!' I curse in my mind.
Suddenly, I feel a hand on my neck, and the next thing I know I am slammed against a wall.
I open my eyes to see a smirking lower face, the rest hid by the hood of the cloak.
I am held up against a wall by my throat.
" Are you done now? Don't make it any harder than it needs to be. Rather, why are you so against it? You should be honoured that the sovereign sees some use in you."
"Heh..." I scoff at his victory talks.
"..... You know, you are really irritating me now.... WHAT'S SO FUNNY!!!??"
Enduring the pain from his outburst, I keep the mocking smile on my face.
"... You are right where I want you to be....."
{Darkness: Devil's Cry of a Thousand Sorrow!}
"Huh!?...."
And that's that.
with that, his eyes lose focus and he slumps down.
Finally free, I throw him a last glance before walking towards dad.
I support dad on my shoulder and take towards the inn. His feet are dragging on the floor because of my small stature, his body slightly cold. probably from the drop in temperature... yeah, definitely.
To mom, I will just give the excuse that he drank too much and it was cold outside.
everything else, is on him.... apologies in advance.
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Trinath_Mukherjee at last, it's finished!
this is actually the longest chapter that I have written..... 1475 words!
now, I know that it might not look much to most of you, but that's a great deal for my newbie self
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