424 Accursed Child
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Although Ellergest always tried to cheer up Kyle, he never truly saw through his friend’s true emotions and feelings. The feeling of desolation and loneliness. The feeling of despair and resentment swelling inside of his young heart…
“Hey, Kyle, look!”
However, such negative feeling flew away each time he spend time with his best friend. Ellergest used his light magic to create mirages using his newly learned spell named [Light Mirage] and created several and beautiful butterflies, dragonflies, and bees flying around Kyle.
The little young Kyle’s eyes opened wide in surprise, as he saw the beautiful mirage of countless of his favorite bugs flying around, flowers quickly began to emerge from the ground, as the white-haired boy found himself surrounded by nature.
“Oooh! So cool!” Kyle quickly was brought back to reality from the world of his insecurities and sorrow, smiling happily.
Ellergest always felt like Kyle was his little brother, someone he had to make happy and protect. He couldn’t help but smile back as Kyle enjoyed the illusion of magic.
“Magic’s pretty cool, right? I am sure you’ll awaken something amazing once the awakening ceremony starts!” Ellergest said. “Don’t worry about it, everything’s going to be alright! Things never stay the same for too long. We are in an ever-changing world of countless possibilities, Kyle.”
Ellergest filled his young and saddened heart with hope and dreams, giving Kyle the happiness to smile and look forward to the uncertain future.
“You’re right! I want to explore the world one day too… Can you accompany me, Ellergest?” Wondered Kyle.
“Explore the world?” Wondered Ellergest, the young boy rubbed his chin. “Sure! I was already planning to go around places. I kind of don’t like how the entire church is structured. Don’t you think its weird? I’ve always wanted to make a change. I am sure we can do something if we join forces.”
“Yeah!” Kyle said.
“Now Kyle, how about I teach you some moves? My father said that I could teach you how to fight with hand to hand combat.” Said Ellergest.
“But I am too weak for that…” Sighed Kyle.
“Don’t worry! I’ll go easy on you. Come on.” Laughed Ellergest.
“Ugh, you just want to bully me…” Kyle said while looking dispirited again.
“Eh? That’s not it, I just want you to grow strong by yourself, I am sure you’ll eventually grow up and get stronger.” Said Ellergest. “Come on, let’s try it. I can teach you how to channel mana too.”
“Mana…” Kyle seemed attracted by that word. “O-Okay!”
Like that, Kyle’s magic and hand-to-hand combat classes resumed. He learned how to better control the flow of Mana from his body even without awakening his spirit or talent yet, and was even taught basic element-less spells by Ellergest, which were taught to him by experts in the church.
“This Spell is named Mana Transfer; you can give Mana to someone else using it. And this one is called Mana Sense; you can sense your surroundings with it!” Ellergest showed Kyle many new magic circles written in paper, as the young Kyle tried imitating them, sometimes succeeding and other times failing, but he seemed to have a lot of tenacity, never truly giving up.
p-a- n-d-a-n-0-v-e-l、(c)om “Hahh… I am so tired… I don’t want to fight anymore. I don’t like punching…” Sighed Kyle.
“Come on, hit me more. Use the Body Strengthening Spell I taught you!” Said Ellergest.
“But I don’t wanna hurt you… You’re my best friend, Ellergest…” Kyle sighed, getting all saddened.
“Aw, come on now, don’t get like that! You’re so weak that it wont even hurt anyway.” Laughed Ellergest, provoking his little friend.
“Geez, you bully! Take this! And this!” Kyle was very prone to provocation, as he quickly began hitting Ellergest with all he had. He indeed had very weak punches.
“Hahaha! See? You can do a lot once you’re provoked. We have to work in your patience, Kyle.” Laughed Ellergest as he was being hit by Kyle’s tiny fists.
“D-Don’t laugh at me!” Kyle angrily said, hitting faster, but not very effectively…
These times were the times Kyle remembered the most, the times he liked to be alive, the times when he was truly happy and smiled. With his friend, the one that has been the pillar of his life the entire of his childhood…
Even when that day came.
“Spirit… R-Reaper? And… T-Talent… Five Star… Necromancer?!”
The priest looked at the young white-haired boy who touched the crystal of awakening, his eyes growing filled with more pity for his fate, but quickly remaining silent after that. He didn’t judged the boy, but the other people, all watching, couldn’t help but nod as they knew the boy had something strange.
“Necromancer? What’s that?”
“I had never heard of such a talent.”
“But it is five star! It must be powerful! Right?”
“Necromancer… I’ve heard of that word before. In the past, the Great Tyrant of Death was born with such a Talent. They say that Necromancers can control the dead and bring doom to everything!”
“What?!”
“Well, I couldn’t had expected anything less from the accursed child!”
“Right…”
“And his spirit… what sort of spirit is it?”
FLASH!
When Kyle’s spirit showed up, the people gasped in horror as they stepped back almost instantly. The creature in front of their eyes was a skeleton made of phantom, covered by a black cloak, and holding a scythe…
“T-The reaper…”
“It is the reaper!”
“He brought upon us death!”
“B-Burn…!”
“Burn him!”
“Burn that child before we are all doomed!”
Many of the people panicked, asking for something insane. Kyle’s mother quickly grabbed her son and ran away from the church as many people followed her from behind, but were too cowardly to actually act, leaving her be.
However, the coming days, many threats were sent to Kyle’s family. Papers with messages about burning the Accursed Child, about exiling him, or even some insane people that asked Kyle’s parents to sacrifice him for the Holy Spirits to be appeased.
There were all kinds of insane people in these times, and they showed their true colors as they grew desperate. Rumors spread by ignorant people began to quickly take over the minds of the citizens of the village…
Soon, Kyle’s life became a living hell.
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