sorry guys chapter is a bit late, cant be helped i have exams ^^ it still needs PR so there are some errors, i will edit it when i’ll have PR-ed version, (i have proofreader but im still searching for others, to release chapters faster so if someone is interested contact me :3)
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Year passed since Damon came to the Mountain Beast Range in this past year he was killing beasts nonstop and sharpening his skills, he was aready 11 years old and became rank 4 warrior and rank 4 mage, his cultivation speed was monstrous, Damon truly was Genius to becam rank 4 warrior and mage at the age of 11 was unheard of.
In the past year Damon met couple of bandits, they wanted to rob him so without mercy he killed them.
Damon was 11 years old but wasn’t hesitating to kill a human, because at the age of 5 he witnessed massacre of his entire family, because of that his psychic changed, he wasn’t evil and didn’t received joy in killing humans, it was just “kill or be killed”, if person showed kindness he would repay them with kindness but if someone wanted to hurt him or his loved ones he will repay them hundredfold.
He was killing rank 4 beasts with ease and could kill some of rank 5 or if not kill he could hold his ground, he didn’t knew any spells apart from fire ball, wind walking and wind cutter, because he haven’t seen any others apart from this and wasn’t on a level where he could develop technique himself, because of this he was fighting monsters mostly with sword and pure strength, his body was already tough, wounds healed faster and his swordsmanship was becoming better with each day.
Damon made another discovery now he could barely control his battle-qi and enchance his body, with this it was easier to fight monsters.
every person can absorb battle-qi from nature but one need to train his body to its limits to store more amount of battle-qi, if body is weak, then theres a limit on how much battle-qi body can store, Damon was training and meditating everyday, he was sleeping around 1-2 hours a day, his body was already like a steel, normal beasts attacks couldn’t made a serious wound on his body.
His control over magical energy increased too, he was rank 4 mage but was thinking that if he fought rank 5 mage if he cant defeat him/her then he could hold his ground, when he was meditating Damon could clearly feel Fire and Wind energy around him and absorb it with ease, for him it was very easy, he could feel earth and water energy too but it was too weak, as of lighting, normal meditating couldn’t help him train in lighting element, it was dangerous to train in lighting element, it was too early for him, so for now he wasn’t thinking about it.
“Kyaaaa” suddenly damon heard girls scream, it was like a year ago when girl named Clair lied to him, she and bandits wanted to rob and kill him but he survived, from the beginning he didn’t paid attention to scream but when he heard it again he let out a sigh and walked in the direction of scream.
When he arrived he saw girl lying on a ground around 13-14 years old with blonde hair and slim figure, girl was rather pretty, if not tattered clothes and dirt on face, around her were standing 4 boys around 14-15 years old, their power was rather weak for Damon, strongest of them was rank 4 warrior, they didn’t have mage.
When Damon saw situation he realized situation a bit, looking at girls tattered clothes and eyes full of tears, then boys whose mouth were full of saliva, they wanted to rape girl, he let out a sigh and leaped in a second Damon appeared in front of a girl.
Suddenly girl stopped crying, and four boys with a frown were looking at damon, “who the hell are you, kid?” one of them said with a smirk, but don’t got an answer, “get the hell out of here or you will die with her, do you hear me kid?” said the same boy, Damon didn’t even looked at him he turned around and looked at girl who was lying on a ground, suddenly girl started crying “please help me, *huff* they wanted t-to r-rape me please d-don’t leave me”, she said while looking at Damon, she knew that damon was no mere kid, when he appeared it there wasn’t even sound, he landed on ground elegantly, so she hoped that this kid, no young boy could save her.
When Damon heard this and looked at girl who was shaking and tears were flowing from her beautifull blue eyes, his heart ached, in the past year he saw many things, he saw human nature, he was betrayed, many wanted to kill him, his heart was cold, but looking in her eyes he felt something, his heart ached, from the beginning he wasn’t cruel, he was kindhearted, but Damon knew that in this world sometimes one needed to be cruel, merciless, because in this world it was rule of jungle strength was only rule, there were rules written by humans but still if someone had power, than he didn’t gave a f*ck about rules.
Damon turned around, looked at the boys in front of him and said “the scum like you doesn’t deserve to live” while saying this he unsheated his sword, and approached boys, when he appeared he had already casted wind walking so he was extremally fast for rank 4 warriors, in an instant he appeared in front of boys who were shaking with fear, “wind cutter” he muttered and made a slash, he was releasing battle-qi so his attacks were stronger, when he ended his attack “pshhh” sound of blood could be heard, all four boys heads were missing and blood was splashing from their bodies and soon they collapsed on the ground.
Girl was looking with wide eyes, she knew that boy in front of her was strong but she never thought for Damon to have strength like that, she stood up, approached Damon and said while bowing her head “t-tthank you very much, if n-not for you I would have been dead, I will always remember this kindness”, when damon saw her he sighed “its nothing much, I just don’t like that kind of people that’s all”, girl looked at him and for a moment her face got red “I’m Kate, my I know your name?”, “I’m Damon, by the way what are you doing here alone?” he asked, it was rare for a girl like her to be in Mountain Beast Range alone.
“Ummm, I met this guys in a small village near this forest, I wanted to see what Mountain Beast Range was like, they were coming here to kill monsters and invited me, I was happy and agreed, so like this we came here but when we entered forest, they showed true colors and wanted to rape me, so I run from them, but soon they catched me and then you appeared”. Said Kate, She and Damon sat near a tree, Damon gave her his clean clothes and food.
“So, it was like this, huh” Damon looked at her with a pity, then he stood up “I need to train, its dangerous for you to be here I can take you out of the forest, but not further do you agree?” Kate looked at him and nodded “Umm, thank you again, I want to leave this place as soon as possible”, she stood up and followed Damon, in about a hour they got out from forest, kate thanked damon and went to the village, from where she came, Damon was looking at her leaving for about a minute and then again entered forest.
He was walking slowly in the depths of forest where rank 4 and 5 magical beasts resided, he walked around 1 hour but still didn’t saw any of beasts, suddenly from his left near a tree he saw something that was shining on a suns light, he neared tree and saw Crimson Ring, he picked it up and started to observe it, on a ring there was dragon imprinted, apart from that it was just a simple ring, but when Damon was holding it was like ring was calling him, suddenly he remembered when he was traveling with Desil they spoke about Divine Artifacts, but on the Continent of Esterlyn Divine Artifacts were very rare and because of that there were not many things known about it, he knew that one need to put his blood on Artifact to activate and bond it.
“let’s try and see what happens” thought Damon and cut his finger, then dropped blood on ring and put it on his finger, in that moment energy overflowed Damon, it was like he was absorbing energy of heaven and earth with a terrifying speed, he fell on his knees, so much energy just flowed in him he couldn’t handle it, it was like he would break at any moment “GHHAAAAA” he screamed and fell on the ground unconscious.
He opened his eyes and it was already dark, “what happened?” he thought for himself puzzled, then he looked at the ring but there wasn’t anything special, he took a meditative pose and started to meditate, Damon entered his conscience, there was river with no end, in the center there was something like a Crimson orb, size of a fist, but the most important thing was that he made a breakthrough! He was already rank 5 mage, he was astonished, “just what is this ring?” he thought to himself, Damon understood that it was because of ring that he made a breakthrough, and in his conscience there was Crimson Orb hovering in the air, he didn’t knew what it was, for an hour he was observing it but didn’t found out anything.
“whooaaaa” he exclaimed and opened his eyes, his training speed increased dramatically, when Damon was meditating fire and wind energy were coming to him, like they were a living thing they were hovering around him and he was absorbing it with ease, like it was natural for him to be like this, he was even sensing earth and water energy, “just what happened to my body” he was thinking for himself but soon stopped, something happened to his body but it was something amazing, he was happy that it was him who found this ring.
it was already dawn and damon stopped meditating and stood up, he was cheerful, his body was so light it was like he was reborn, “its time to hunt” with a face on his smile he started walking towards the deeper parts of forest.
Damon didn’t knew that Crimson Ring that he found would entirely change his life and future.
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