‘This can’t be… Alston killed by Lucien? How…’
“Stay back!” Alisha yelled as he drew another arrow and shot it straight at Lucien.
Lucien limped forward and extended his good arm again.
Clap!
The arrow disappeared as Lucien breathing became even heavier. Lucien stumbled and fell to his knees, but he never once took his eyes off of Alisha.
‘He may have killed Alston, but it is obvious that he is close to death himself, so why am I so afraid of him?’
Alisha franticly drew more arrows, unleashing them all upon Lucien.
The numerous arrows were deflected and ended up destroying Alisha’s own troops as Lucien tried saving some magic power. Neutralizing them took more out of him, but in this way, Lucien was able to cause the deaths of the enemy soldiers.
Lucien was now lying on the ground as he used up an enormous amount of energy to deflect them all.
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Seeing Alisha’s dead body on the ground, Lucien turned back towards the battle still going on between the revolutionary army and the Monarch’s forces. ‘Now to take care of the rest…’ Lucien’s eyes glowed as he raised his right arm and extended his hand with his fingers spread out. The temperature began to drop immediately and a few soldiers in the back watching the fight go down in the front line felt their bodies begin to go numb. As they wondered what could possibly be causing this, a few saw their skin begin to freeze and turn black and began experiencing symptoms of frostbite. Some began to scream as they saw this on their skin and their skin began to burn due to the extreme cold. The screaming would continue until their lungs and vocal cords froze and they stood completely still and silent. Some of the soldiers hearing the screaming turned around to see why they were hearing it and were more confused by the sudden stops. T
Pow!‘Why?’Pow!‘What did I do to deserve this?’Pow!“That’s right, you filthy commoner, stay down. Oh wait… you’re not even at the level of a commoner. You don’t deserve this whole loaf of bread or these coppers, but I’ll leave a few crumbs,” laughed a boy along with his followers.Pow!Lucien Verglas, a nine-year-old boy with short white hair and cold blue eyes, laid in the street, tattered and beaten. His clothes were that of rags, barely enough to cover his body, let alone keep his frail body warm.
Lucien woke up the smell of fresh bread and the chirping of birds outside. He rubbed his eyes, then yawned.“Morning sweetie. Ready for breakfast?” asked his mother.Lucien smiled, “Yes mother!”As Lucien ate his bread his father walked in the door.“There you are my boy, ready to learn some basic self-defense?”“Yeah!” cheered Lucien.“Good, meet me outside, when you finish your bread,” Instructed his father.Lucien stuffed his bread in mouth, took a small drink of water to help swallow it, then rushed outside to meet his
“Hey guys look, it’s that low-life Verglas,” sneered the boy in front who looked to be the ringleader of the four boys behind him.“Hi Cletus,” greeted Lucien. Cletus Adelson was a noble’s son, so naturally, many kids would flock under his leadership. He was a little taller than Lucien with combed blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles. He was dressed in fancy clothes that suited a noble’s son.“What do I keep saying peasant? You don’t deserve that bread. Now give it to me.”“Come on Cletus. This is my food. My family barely has enough as it is. I can’t be wasting it on someone like you. Besides, what did I ever do to you guys?”Cletus scowled in response to t
Lucien woke the next morning to a light pitter patter of rain on the roof of the cabin. He put on his new shirt that his mother did her best to clean, and the pants he always wore, even though they were too short for him now.His wounds healed slightly, but they were still tender.After having his breakfast, he gathered his books and set out to school.By the time he had reached the school, he was soaked from the rain outside, water dripping off of his hair and clothes. He was a little earlier than his other classmates, so he patiently waited and decided to practice writing some of the letters Ms. Grell had taught him yesterday.His other classmates slowly filed in and took their seats. Lucien noticed that everyone avoided sitting any
As the days went by, Kalin and Lucien became great friends. They accompanied each other wherever they went, to school, to The Tavern, on the way to each other’s home. They even took the same beatings. Although, Lucien felt bad about this because all of the beatings were only supposed to be for him, but Kalin refused to leave Lucien when those times came.Lucien’s father also hung a bag of dirt on the tree nearby their cabin. Lucien made immediate use of this and practiced hard. His father wasn’t able to teach him much during the week, but he had the weekends off, so his father was able to instruct Lucien then since Lucien had the weekends off as well.It was tradition in the country of Verglacia to not do any work during the weekends unless you were tending to your home. Lucien made use of these times to practice his s
Lucien ran home to tell his mother the news.“Mother! Mr. Fuller gave me ten coppers!” Lucien exclaimed.“That’s amazing sweetheart!” his mother congratulated. “Did you wash more dishes than usual?”“Yeah. He paid me extra for it!”“Oh, tell me how you did.”“The tests? I felt like I did alright. Results will be posted at the school in a week.”“That’s good.”“I’m going to back outside ok, Mother!” Lucien rushed back outside, picked up his wooden sword, and headed towar
Two days later, it was the start of the second year of school.“What do you think the new teacher will be like?” Kalin asked Lucien as they walked towards the school.Kalin looked to have gotten a little taller after a year. Lucien, however, hadn’t grown at all except mentally.“I’m not sure. I hope whoever it is teaches as well as Ms. Grell did.”“You got that right. All I want to do is pass. So they better be good at teaching. I don’t want to put in any more work than I have too.”“What do you want to do when you finish school?” Lucien asked.“Hmm. I’ve