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“EH!!!” both me and my sister yelled.
Apparently my mom was as of now 4 months pregnant, they don’t know if it is a boy or girl only that we're getting a little brother or sister.
“YAY a new little brother or sister(The last one i got is very abnormal, my sense of normalcy is completely gone)” my sister was still apparently hung up on me being able to use magic when i was less than 1 year old.
And finally they say something about it. I have been hearing sounds at night coming from mom and dad's room at night. Pfft as if i wouldn’t know anything about that, and sometimes it goes on for hours and i just want to go to their room and just so innocently say ‘I had a bad dream’ right in the middle of them doing it just to see what their reaction is.
“Your mother and i have been talking and we have decided to ask your aunt katherine to stay with us for a while to help take on some of the chores your mother usually does” my father said.
…..NOOOOOOO. Not that devil woman. When i was 4 she visited and it was the classic almost nostalgic picturesque scene of a busybody aunt pinching the cheeks of children so hard you could sue for assault and giving the children ugly scarves as presents. Although some good did come out of that, i thought it appropriate to get rid of the old hag as quickly as possible by reviving the beautiful pixie i made so many years ago and have her magically magically glue said aunt to the bed she slept on. Moral of the story, annoying aunts make good test dummies for magic.
“YAY auntie is coming” i said giving the most incredible cute little girl smile i could while silently activating Telepathy to my sister, who was also a victim of the legendary monster called aunt Katherine.
“SIS!!!!” i was mentally screaming.
“Yeah i heard it, don’t worry, as soon as this conversation is done i’m going to go prep escape bags and survival equipment” she replied while eyeing me out of the corner of her eye.
“Great, i’ll go find a hideout we can use as well as making some stuffed dummies of us. The last time she came to visit, when i was 4, mom and dad had been out of town on a business trip and dad had gone with her to keep her safe. Aunt katherine had pretty much doubled Blake's work load by being niegh incompetent in the kitchen, doing absolutely nothing except sleep all day and use up what little money mom and dad had left us in case of emergency. Basically blake had been responsible for me will auntie dearest was off doing who knows what, I can only speculate. Afterwards me and blake made a pact in case that auntie dearest ever came back to play, we would do our upmost job to remove this calamity.
“Now now, i know you both don’t get along with your aunt-” dad began looking a bit worried at the look both me and blake were sporting.
“Dad, me and Fraxia can take care of ourselves. We can take care of ourselves, so can we just skip the part where Auntie katherine comes to visit” she asked.
Dad looked like he didn’t want to yet it feels like that kind of decision you have to make but don’t want to.
“Blake, can you guarantee that Fraxia and yourself will be able to take care of yourselves when your mother and i are not available” he asked.
“Hey sis, maybe we can make a deal here. Try asking if we are not able to take care of ourselves then Auntie Dearest will come, but until then we can take care of ourselves. Simple, easy, doable” i told her. With luck this works and avoid a calamity.
“Can we at least try, if we can’t take care of ourselves then auntie can come and stay” it looks like we might have a chance here.
“Sorry blake, we already asked your aunt and we have no intention of turning her away when we just asked her” he said.
“But dad” blake cried.
“Blake honey, we know you don’t get along with your aunt, but now you're a big girl and the last time she visited was 6 years ago when you were 9. Can you at least try to get reacquainted with each other” mom pleaded.
“Your mother's right, and anyway the decision is final” dad said.
“....When is she getting here” blake asked.
“She should arrive next week if everything goes accordingly to plan” dad said.
“…..Hey blake you there?” i asked tentatively.
“...yeah” she mentally said back.
“I’m heading out tomorrow to find some hiding places, want to come” i asked. If we were both stuck in this mess together then at least i wouldn’t leave my poor sister behind.
“...sure thing” she said sadly.
The next day, mom and dad went to work and Blake went to work in the fields. By the time blake gets off of work i should be done with my training. I set out for the north end of the village, once i get there i go to my customary hollowed out tree to retrieve my weapons. I discovered this tree a few years ago when playing hide and seek with some of the other village kids and thought this would also make a great spot for hiding stuff. I retrieve from the tree my weapons that i hid there myself, a double edged halberd, a mini crossbow and a hunting knife. I check them over for any signs of damage by animals or of use besides my own. I finish checking over my weapons, quickly taking a look around for anyone i pull a change of durable hunting gear from the tree and change into them.
I load up the weapons into a leather backpack i retrieve from the tree and start my customary 5 kilometer run. While i’m running i take a look around myself for any danger that might leap out at me, although it probably won’t do me any good because anything strong enough to kill me was certainly either hiding itself or proudly strutting its way around the forest. I pass a spot on a large fallen log that i remember, that was the spot where i was once ambushed by a Hindbear. I had been preoccupied cleaning my halberd of rust at the time that the bear had come up behind me and nearly decapitated me. One of the reasons i chose the halberd as my weapon of choice was because it had a long reach and was easy to kill with, unlike a sword. Swords, while appealing because of their versatility, take a long time to train and have tons of fancy techniques and footwork. A Spear or halberd was simple, business end towards the bad guys, stab, stab, check if bad guy is dead yet, repeat if necessary. A halberd was similar to a spear but had a bit more versatility thanks to the ax blade, with this i could hook, slash and stab enemies.
I arrive at the edge of a large cliff and sit down to take a quick rest. The entire shadow forest was spread out before me, gleaming in the morning sun. i could see patches of land that had been carved up by beasts, rivers full of fish of all different sizes and the Barrier mountain range covered in snow in the background. This was one of my favorite spots in the entire forest just because of this view. Back in my old world you had to travel in order to get a view like this. Yet all i had to do was run a few kilometers, well worth the run if you ask me.
Time to train. There's a waterfall a short distance away that i run over to and start the long climb down, based on my calculations, today my training schedule said endurance training. I had been down. This for a few years already so i was confident that i wouldn’t collapse as soon as i started.
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After i get to the bottom I look around for the rock i needed for my training and after a few minutes of looking find it under the torrent of water coming down off the waterfall. I Step over to it and jump into the flow of water coming down and feel the extreme weight and freezing cold seep into my bones. Let's see if i can break my record of one hour under the flow. While i’m under here i am also trying to concentrate on meditating, by doing this i can shut out the outside world and focus on my magic training as well.
I enter my profound state and concentrate on surrounding myself with magic power. Alternatively if i had cultivation resources i could cultivate my soul while under this waterfall but since i don’t and i haven’t learned how to make my own pills and elixirs yet, i will just train my magic. Some people who actually have the resources such as children of rich families and clan members are in the large sects and soul institutes in the city, but out here in the country only rich men can cultivate and pursue the path of a soul cultivator. Similarly i, who come from a working class family can only dream of cultivating, or that's the usual for people; of my status. Then again people of my status don’t have a goddess teaching them what kind of forest plants are needed to make pills, or what the most suitable cultivation technique is for me. Kyanu said that the best option for me since i was technically a reborn soul, and was the envoy of death happened to be a technique called the Death Flame of hope and rebirth.
Currently i trained it whenever i could but it was slow going because of the lack of resources. However kyanu was teaching me alchemy and how to refine my own pills and elixirs so eventually when i find a furnace and learn how to draw a fucking alchemy circle then yes i could refine pills. Who knew that when i came to another world i would still be given homework.
I was concentrating on manipulating my internal magic supply when i got a chill down my metaphysical spine. Something is happening outside.
I exit my profound state as quickly as i could when without damaging something to find myself a short distance away from my waterfall rock. I was rapped in a big coat and sitting near a fire...and my training clothing was laid out near the fire Nearly dry after its time in the waterfall. Whenever i exit my profound state it takes awhile for some reason, why? I don’t know, i'll ask the goddess why later.
“Thank goodness You're alive!”, i could hear a voice behind me say.
I looked behind me and to find a tall man in his mid 30s with Salt and pepper hair, blue eyes and a stubby beard. He was wearing traveling gear with a big sword on his back marking him a warrior.
“....Stranger Danger” Children if you look up the definition of pedophile in the dictionary, a picture of him will pop up.
“ACK...How rude, especially when i just saved you from drowning” he said with taking a step back.
“Lolicon” i refused to believe he was walking out here, kilometers away from the nearest highway, with innocent intentions.
“ARG.. fine be that way, and anyway why is a little girl out in the middle of the woods, you could have been eaten by tigers & bears” Pfft as if an ordinary bear or tiger could make me sweat, the only thing in this forest i need to fear are demonic animals.
Demonic animals are animals that wander into clouds of miasma. Things like that hind bear i faced years ago or a pack of Iron backed wolves, of course i do also benefit from fights like that. When i killed that bear, i had been screwing around with the Integration potential function on the armor. After a few attempts, and randomly absorbing stuff, i figured out i could absorb any corporeal material, when i was first starting out i had used it to absorb hard shelled snapping turtle shells to increase my defense. After the bear was dead i used the same ability to absorb the bear giving me a new armor
Hindbear Bristling fur armor LV1(Equiped)
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby
Effects:
Heightened Sense
+80% STR
+60% AGI
+80% VIT
Bound Skill:
Hindbear Searing breath LV1(Active)
Cost:
150 MP per use
In all fairness i was unaware that the bear had a cub nearby when i killed it, but don’t worry. I took the bear and brought it to my hideout so he can be my mascot (AN note: Have you seen my bear tibbers XD)
Now how to explain to this pedo that i can in fact kick his ass without breaking a sweat. *Lightbulb* Adorable problemed and helpless child attack!
“I was looking for medicine for mommy” and time to bust that bunker this guy calls his mental fortitude.
“Your mommy is sick? Why doesn’t she just go to a healer” all is going to plan.
“Mommy says she was Pre-gn-at. I can’t say it, it's too hard. She said that she had to stay in bed and mommy only lets me stay in bed when i'm sick. Blake said that you can find medicine in the forest so i wanted to find medicine for mommy. Blake says that people who get sick can die,but I don’t want mommy to die” lesson to all the mediocre liars out there, the best lies are mixed with truth. Together they create a lie as strong as concrete, and to finish the job, use the most overpowered ability i have ever acquired. Activate Crying child LV999(Active/Passive).
“Oh…..well little girl i tell you that your mother won’t die. Didn’t your parents tell you, you're getting a sibling. So dry those tears now, lets just get you back to your mommy and daddy now”....wow this ability is OP by any standards
Shadow forest village is the only village nearby so i can toss out giving him an excuse that i came from somewhere else. At least he didn’t find my weapons and pack, which was still up on the cliff.
It was twilight when we set off for the village apparently was slumped in the water the way i do sometimes when i stay in a single position for too long meditating. This guy took that as a sign that i was in fact drowning and pulled me out of the water. Well i guess that concludes my training session for today as i probably won’t be able to ditch this guy, speaking of which i still haven’t gotten my clothes back and am still in the coat. Crap, did i forget something?
Oh right, Blake.