Within the world of Roara there lies many empires but nearly all of them are ruled by tyrants always spouting that the gods put them above the people and that the people should follow without a second thought. Most are content to do so just to not be bothered even when the taxes become so much they can hardly pay such as the case in the outskirts village of Kurinet in the Fiernian Empire. Kurinet is not a rich village it is one suffering due to the high taxes and the people often feel abandoned by the same gods that the tyrants use to hold their power. In this village lies a man named Yorun, he cares for the village as well as the family he has there including his wife and children, his wife's name is Lina while his two children who are by this point adults though still referred to as kids by both their parents. They are named Rayne who is the son and Jaynle who is the daughter. One day was all it took...

"Morning everyone!" Yorun shouted as he entered the farm where he worked alongside his family and others from the village

"Awfully chipper this morning dear" Lina said while other villagers made their own greetings

"Well may as well start it off nicely before the collectors come later" Yorun said with a bit of annoyance in his voice

"I suppose that's fair, these days they keep wanting more and more. I hope the village has enough for this time we wouldn't want what happened to the village of Arnale" Lina said with a hint of fear in her voice

Yorun nodded briefly thinking on what happened to Arnale, only one person from there survived and all he spoke of was horror the royal families men descended on the village and destroyed it. There was always one thing that bothered Yorun about the mans story, a brief mention of a dark cloaked man watching it all from a nearby mountain top barely visible one second and next gone in a blink of an eye. Rayne and Jaynle made there way to the farm just as Yorun had started working.

"Morning kids, ready to work hard today?" Yorun asked his children

"Ready as we can be even if it is hard" Rayne and Jaynle both said at the same time

The whole village get to work and finish what they need to do before the Tax Collectors show up. A town crier first saw the coming soldiers and quickly told everyone they were nearly there. Everyone quickly made their way over after grabbing all the money they could from their houses, soon after lines were formed as every villager handed their money over, the process did not take long as neither the villagers nor the soldiers wanted to take long but no one was ready for what happened next.

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"You're short." said the soldier collecting the money

Those single words sent chills down everyone's spines as they all begin to freak out in their minds.

"W-what do you mean we're short? We checked a week ago to ensure we had enough for when you came!" Rayne shouted

"Then you hadn't heard, the taxes went up yesterday" said the head guard in an uncaring manner

Now the confusion had turned to anger from the villagers but just as they were about to raise their voices in frustration about this a scream echoed out as one of the soldiers put their sword through one of the villagers.

"You all need to get the rest of that money. Right. Fucking. Now" Said the head guard

"There is none left" Yorun said now with fear in his voice

"Then I'm almost sorry to say, we have our orders" The head guard said as he rose from the chair he was seated in

The other soldiers including the mages brought alongside them begin to attack villagers left and right while beginning to burn the houses. All the villagers including Yorun and his family quickly try to run, Yorun quickly moves his family in front of himself as they run so he would be his first if they attacked them. This was in vain however as a mage launched a fire ball at them hitting them all, all of them screamed as the fires began to take them, their flesh searing but something happened they did not anticipate, the flames turned green and then died down, the other villagers just kept running while soldiers gave chase but the mages stopped and looked at the family of four all of whom were barely alive.

"Now which one of you did that?" Asked one of the mages as he loomed over them

None of them can speak due to the pain they are all in but the mages don't care as they begin to use magic to levitate the four of them and then force them to speak even though it causes far more pain.

"I-it w-was m-me" Yorun said in a small pained voice barely making it's way through his burned throat

"Did you know you were could use magic? or did you hide it as to not be taken from Kurinet?" The mage asked with seemingly genuine intrigue

"I d-did not w-want to leave. P-please l-let my family g-go" Yorun said his voice growing weaker

"And why should we do that? Oh well doesn't matter, who knows had you left and trained the way we did maybe you'd have burned down this village alongside us or maybe you'd tried to stop us" The mage said with a smirk on his face

The mages seemingly with their curiosity satisfied snap the necks of the whole family one after one but when its Yoruns turn he sees past the mages and watches in what he believes to be his final moments a cloaked woman begin to make her way over but then everything goes black as his neck is snapped. The mages walk away letting their bodies hit the ground. The screams of the villagers don't take long to be silenced but the smoke is seen for miles, other villagers know what happened. The soldiers and mages leave and hours pass nothing happening in the now dead village until a dark green light emanates from where Yoruns family fell when Yorun still burned but now less so suddenly sits up with glowing green eyes, nearby stands the cloaked woman watching him...