After walking through the door, Chirschin was inside a spacious room, behind him the door closed.
Looking around the room, he realized that it's a little empty with only a couch and a table in middle of it, the wall to his left only has a door and to his right the wall has a few paintings, at the wall opposite to him the windows bringing light and allowing him to see the outside which is a gloomy town, tall building spread through it not allowing him to see much, and above the city was a few grey clouds, giving the impression that the city is always this way, cloudy.
Looking around and not seeing the dwarf, Chirschin allowed himself to sit on the couch, but before his bottom could touch the couch, the door opened and from it Iron walked out with a stone and a blue crystal.
Chirchin jumped like a scared cat, and turned stiffly to his master.
Iron not taking note of his new disciple odd behavior, said, "Here, eat this.", and shoved the crystal in Chirschin's hands.
Chirschin looked at it and asked his master,"Master Iron, what's this?"
"Mana Crystal, now eat it."
Chirschin brought it to his mouth unwilling, but when it touched his tongue it slowly melted in a warm liquid that flowed down his throat, feeling how tasty it was. He shoved the crystal in his mouth but he soon regretted it, when all the crystal at once transformed at liquid and suffocated him.
After drinking the mana, Chirschin looked at his master and asked,"What now?"
Iron looked weirdly at Chirschin and gave him the stone saying,"Now just touch this stone while trying to feel anything."
Few seconds later, Chirschin still feeling nothing, opened his eyes and looked at his master, who was sitting on the couch,"Master, i don't feel nothing."
"That's isn't possible...", Iron closed his eyes in deep thought then opening his eyes asked,"Kid, what's your age?"
"12."
"Kid, if this is really the problem you aren't a simple genius but a monster.", Iron got up from the couch and entered the room again, at the same time he was explaining what is happening to Chirschin,"Normally this isn't the way we teach disciples, but by telling them to feel the air around us and try to pull to inside them what they feel in the air.", Iron got back to the living room with another mana crystal, and continued explaining without looking at Chirchin, who tried to do what Iron said earlier.
"That will teach them patience and build strong foundations. Oh, and by 'we' i mean us dungeo-", when Iron lifted his head he stunned by the situation in front of him and the mana crystal almost escaped his grasp, quickly gripping hard on the mana crystal, he was celebrating inside him, 'Looks like this kid is really a monster.'
Iron could feel the mana being pulled by Chirschin so strongly that it easily surpass the level where it could be called a genius, Chirschin was immersed in the pleasure in being bathed by mana, and forgot the sorrounding, and concentrated at just pulling the warm energy inside his body, slowly the energy began to take differents colors, he pulled each of them, red, blue, yellow, green.
Feeling full, just like when he ate an entire deer, he stopped gathering mana and threw himself at the couch, with a expression of satisfaction and happiness, while his counscioness fades away.
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Iron looked at his disciple sleeping, thinking, 'What a monster i took as a disciple ,and he didn't absorbed only the 'pure' mana, but of each element. I need to find a way for him that will not become a arrogant and prideful bastard.... Seems like hard training is the answer to teach him humility, and respect for the other.', long days of suffering for Chirschin began to appear inside Iron's head.
Iron then got out the house and look at the gloomy city, feeling emotional, he cried, for that now he wasn't alone anymore and got a disciple, and a monster on that.
Turning around to look at his simple house of one living room and one bedroom, he smiled, reminiscing the countless years that he spend here, didn't helped him in stopping his tears.
Entering the house, Iron looked at Chirschin while drying his tear, he remembered how they met and how he kind of coerced Chirschin to follow him, 'His parents must be worried. I hope they can allow me to be his master.'
Hours later Chirschin waked and soon feeling umcomfortable by the bow on his back poking him, he got up and looking around he realized that he is not at his house, remembering the strange things that happened to him at the past hours.
He scanned his sorrounding and not seeing his master, he went out the house. Chirschin sat down on the ground next to a tree, he observed the sky and noticed that the sky is a little strange here, the 'cloud' that came out of the buildings' chimney don't disperse but gather at 'clouds' at the 'sky'.
Moving his eyes from the sky to the road, he see a tiny silhouette caming, getting up, he waited for the figure to come closer.
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Iron has gone out to buy a few things for Chirschin, but was suprised that he was already up waiting for him, holding down the emotion building in his heart, he continue to step towards his home.
Approaching his home, Chirschin came to him, and while looking at the bags said,"It's gifts for me?"
Iron looked at Chirschin and replied calmly,"You think that you're not expensive enough? You ate one of my mana crystal, and you don't even know how much it costs, right?"
Chirschin couldn't think of way to answer his master, he could only lower his ears and look down sadly.
Iron looked at his disciple sorrowfully, but holding the urge to hold the poor one, he entered the house.
Chirschin looked at his master and said,"Sorry."
"Don't be, that wasn't wasted on you, but invested in for your future, so think about every little thing you use with care, and not be wasteful like the bastards that you will meet soon."
Chirschin entered the house too, and sat down on the couch while Iron went to store what he brought inside his room, soon stepping out of the room he asked Chirschin,"Where is the stone that i gave you earlier?"
"On the table."
Iron looked at Chirschin and said,"What are you waiting for? Take the stone and try to do what you couldn't earlier."
Chirschin took the stone in his hands and closed his eyes trying to feel whatever he had to feel. Soon the energy inside him interacted with the energy inside the stone, they fused together then cicled through his body before returning to the stone .
"Now put it on the table.", Chirschin could hear Iron's voice, so he did what his master told him to do.
Putting the stone on the table and opening his eyes Chirschin could see a blue panel expanding from the stone. On it was the information about him.
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Name- Cath Chirschin Race- Human Age-12
Hp- 90/90 Mp-165/165
Strenght- 8 Agility- 10 Vitality-9
Dexterity-10 Intelligence- 13 Wisdom- 7
-Special-
-Fate's smile-Blessing-(Used)
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Iron kept a cold exterior,as if this stats was the most normal thing on the word, but inside he was cheering, he looked at Chirschin and said, "Passable.", but he didn't explain that 10 was the number that a full grow-up man need to at least work a little get all stats 10, while Chirschin is only a child.
Iron tried to change the topic,"Don't you have parents?"
"No, i have parents.", only now remembered about his mother that had he thought that he will never be going to meet again.
Seeing it working, he continued,"Good, then let's go to your house.", while saying that Iron operated the door from where he and Chirschin came from.
"Why?", Chirschin shocked, couldn't help but ask it.
"Because they are probably worried about you right?", Iron said as matter-of-factly.
"Yes.", Chirschin answered that,but he thought,'And whose fault is it?'
"After all, it is your fault for going inside dangerous places alone, and don't follow strangers too, it's dangerous don't you know?"
Chirschin looked weirdly at Iron.
Iron noticed that and asked,"What? Did i said anything strange?", the runes on the shined and it opened, then both entered the door leaving a empty room behind.