Cath Chirschin was born in the remote village of solainm from the kingdom Green River. The Green River is located on the Hirden continent, beside the continent of hirden there are another 2 continents, they are pirk'ret and Vanster.

The remote village Solain, is almos unkown because besides being in the corner of the kingdom, its sorrounded by mountains making it hard to reach the village.

The villagers eat what they plant and hunt, rarely trading with others villages.

In one of the mountain sorrounding the village, Chirschin was Stalking a prey, pulling the bow string, stretching to the point of where sound are coming from the string as if it's about to break.

Letting of the bow string, the arrow fly in direction of an deer, it lift its ears hearing the sound of the arrow piercing the wind the deer try to jump away, but before the arrow was noticed by it, the arrow already was upon it.

Quickly dashing to his prey, he approach it while taking out a knife from his belt, and start to skin it. After gathering the skin, he started a fire, piercing a stick throught the deer he put it above the fire, and while cooking the meat Chirschin carefully put the skin inside a bag.

Savoring the flavor, he hear the sound of branches breaking, stopping eating and putting the a piece of the deer on the side, he slowly get up and climb a tree next to him, not seeing a shadow, he jump at another and continue searching for the sounce of the sound.

After jumping around for a few minutes, he finally find what he is searching for, below him there are 4 people, one that look like a warrior with a sword on his back, one holding, probably a archer, and of the two left, one is wielding daggers while looking cautiously around, if Chirschin wasn't a natural hunter he would be found by the thief, the other one is hugging a stave to his chest while arrogantly looking at his companions, they are 2 males and two females, the warrior and the thief are women while the mage and archer are men.

Interested on them, Chirschin start to follow them while jumping from branch to branch, an didn't took long before they arrived in front a rocky wall, he could hear them speaking from afar.

"Hey, where is it? You better not be lying to me!", a voice with a arrogant tone sounded from afar, and since couldn't get near since he had to hide in the trees and around the rocky wall is barren.

"We aren't lying, if you could just wait for a few seconds.", this time was a soft voice, probably from one of the women.

Climbing down the tree and hiding behind a tall bush, Chirschin looked at group from there, he could see the thief pressing a rock and the rock going inside the wall while the archer was pushing one rock to the side, after pushing for a few centimenters a loud sound rang from the wall and a part from the wall rose showing a entrance and staircase going downwards deep in the darkness.

They lit up a torch and start to walk inside the entrance, and Chirschin who is following them stopped to think facing a indecision, if he continue and go inside the cave, or go back to the village and talk to his parents, this is hard decision for a kid his age, but the curiosity of a 12 year-old kid won over the danger that he would face, and moved his feet to the darkness that is inside the cave.

Entering the cave, he searched for the party that entered before him, luckily he didn't took long to make his decision so he isn't so far behind them, seeing the light from the torch from afar, he could hear them speaking in a not so soft tone of voice.

"Why don't you use your magic to make light?", the thief who is holding the torch said angrily.

"Because casting it costs mana, and its not better that i reserve mana in case we need my magic later?", the mage said as matter-of-fact and in a arrogant tone.

The archer frowned and said,"So then while you reserve your mana, hold the torch since you aren't doing anything."

The mage opened his mouth but couldn't find the words to refuse, and grudgingly accepted the torch from the thief's hand and snorted.

From afar Chirschin could see that the harmony wasn't that great in the party, if there's any should be between the thief, warrior and archer, and from the conversation earlier on the rocky wall, it seems that the mage is not part of the party, and and attracted by them because they found this place.

At the end of the stair, there's a long corridor with a lot of monster, and after the fight they talked about a lot of things, which gave a lot of information to Chirschin, after listening he understood where he is and got a lot of random knowledge from the adventurers as they call themselves.

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This place is one of the famous dungeons, that can be found at lot of places across this continent and the others 2, they searched for a mage to help them when they discovered this new dungeon.

Chirschin discovered that a lot of the village stories are true, the stone that quantify your strength, the dungeons and a lot of others things, after finding about that he started to dream about using his talent in hunting and entering a adventurer party as a archer.

While fantasizin about the new possibilities of his life, the party was already walking again, shaking his head to wake from the daydreaming, Chirschin follow their step.

Hours passed as they fought and rested while advancing deeper inside the dungeon, and finally they are before a huge gate, after resting they pushed open the door and walking inside the room, Chirschin too stepped inside slowly while admiring the relief in the door, and slowly and carefully hide on the corner of the room, while look attentively at the party actions.

After the party walked to the middle of the room, the torches lit up, lighting the room, but luckily the light was not too strong and the corner where Chirschin is hiding is still a little dark because the shadow from the pile that is in front of him, he examined the pile and was suprised that the tall 4 meter pile is all gold coins piled together, and Chirschin was even more that the party isn't cheering or anything like that, sticking his head out from behind the pile, he was scared that his soul almost escaped from his body.

The couldn't even take a look at the gold behind them, because in front of them a huge monster is resting calmly, and this monster is one of the most dangerous in the entire world, a dragon.

It was sleeping calmly until the light appeared in the room, and piercied throught its eyelid, opening its eyes and looking around see the ants before it, slowly getting up and looking down at the ants that dared to intrude its room interrupting the good dream that it had when sleeping.

With a snort, it gave a annoyed glance at the ants before pulling back its arm while spreading the claw, swinging its arm through the ants not giving them a chance to cry before death called them.

Chirschin back was full of cold sweat, while quivering unceasingly in his boots, his brain stopped working and he couldn't find a way out of this situation, until something unexpected happened.

After the dragon was lying on its side back again, like nothing happened, a door opened behind it, and from the door walked out a dwarf.

The dwarf shaked his head and while looking at the gore, said."Lala couldn't at least make it less bloody, it is annoying to clear the blood from the floor you know?", while saying that the dwarf walk to the dead bodies and take out the intact equipements and throw it at a pile that Chirchin hadn't notice earlier, that is full of armor and weapon, then the dwarf turned back

to the dragon,"Burn it.", said while pointing at the bodies on the ground.

The dragon snorted and opened its mouth letting out a fireball, that burned the bodies not leaving even ashes behind.

The dwarf scanned the sorrounding after which glanced at the dragon, and it moved its head to the side, the side where Chirschin is hiding

Then the dwarf said,"Come out and i might not kill, i may not look like that, but i am kind person."

Having only this option and hope, Chirschin walk out from behind the pile of gold, and now could see better how the dwarf looked like, 100cm, thick arms and chest, long beard and hair, exactly like the adventure party, now dead, said when they are advancing in the dungeon.

"Good, now closer to me have a better look at you.", said the dwarf, trying to sound as gentle as he can.

Chirschin approach the dwarf while sweating a waterfall on his back.

A light flashed in the dwarf's eyes, before he nodded his head while saying,"You are lucky, because i was looking for a disciple and you have the talent. "

Chirchin was confused, and not given a answer the dwarf was already next the door from where he came from.

"You can call me Iron, Master Iron, now follow me.", he left this words while his silhouette fade in the light from the door, and Chirschin hurried behind him.