Character: Speech
Character: thought
Character: *SFX/Action*
Warning this fic is badly written you have been warned before coming here and I shall warn you again, I have no helping hands so making this badly written fic is very possible with my measly common idea and the grammar sucks so yeah you have been warned
In a certain laboratory filled with countless containers, with human like figures being contained in each and everyone of them. Countless researchers gathered wearing their white coats and carrying their personal notes with them conversing about certain noteworthy flaws about this massive project code named A.H.
In a modern world filled with countless amount of mana, life has been totally comfortable for the rich and powerful, as for the people who could barely afford their next meal they were considered as bugs in front of the people called again as nobles.
Countless voices were clashing in exchange for vital information to further advance in this project and a pair were watching this funny situation having a conversation of their own.
Researcher 1: Hey Maliv what do you think of those idiots there gathering just to obtain a rather small amount of information.
Maliv: Jonathan, it’s rather ironic calling them idiots because the leader said that the brightest of the bunch came here like flies attracted to light, they have that certain desire to quench their thirst for knowledge as if it’s deeply rooted in them.
These pair who is having a conversation in a rather poorly lit spot as if to purposely hide their figures not wanting others seeing them happily chatting with each other, because it will likely spark in a rather competitive argument yet the two still continued to trade information.
Jonathan: I heard the leader made a prototype? what was it like?
Maliv: Oh that, the leader said it was a failure as it was still human and only retained 50% of what seems to be the kid’s power I think, but the boss throwed it in the slums as he took all the data needed, to think the boss just threw what most likely had been a few hundred million zenons, just for the sake of data but according to the files I duplicated from the original, the boy called #9334 is only 8 years old, black hair, black eyes a rather delicate body frame just like a girl, his face is covered by his bangs and hair length up until the shoulders.
Jonathan: Well, they rarely get haircuts so the male units tend to grow their hair faster but, that was the most successful attempt so far in trying to make it, he was implanted 50% more mana capacity than the average joe.
Maliv: I know, but a failure is a failure. Well what piqued my interest is that the boss didn’t tell us the reason why it was called a failure.
Maliv using his right hand burned the data to destroy evidence of him snooping around the leader’s research papers in quite close details, the smoke is trapped in a small round container by Jonathan, these two pairs were known rivals inside the laboratory.They’ve helped the leader accomplish various of things for the sake of contribution points, as to the more points you acquire the more fitting reward you will get once the project become a success.
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The slow drop of drizzle filled the place where most people who dealt in the underground, the vile , the wicked and abandoned. Simply put this is the place where garbage and criminals gather to make trades and kill each other of for petty reasons just by clashing with their deadly spells.
A black haired boy who is making his way into this place while getting bumped by several people in this place the never ending wave as the poor boy tried to escape from this.
Boy: who or better yet what am I? I can’t remember anything, I wanna ask them but I don’t have enough strength to speak. The last thing I could remember was a girl waving goodbye and I got hit by something.
The boy who was flowing with the wave of people tried to think, on what was he as to why he was here he doesn’t have any clues at all. He brushed his bangs aside to gain necessary vision to land somewhere, anywhere than the sea of crowd where he might end up getting stepped on and thought to himself again;
Boy: Aw crap, I’m hungry,*growl* wait what—— what’s the meaning of hungry again, I can’t remember anything at all, oh crap I’m getting sleepy, at least let me sleep on that comfy looking space over there—
The boy fell into a deep sleep as he saw nothing but bottomless darkness embracing him, as he fell a young lady with her old butler saw the boy.
The butler look at the her and saw the young lady with her ruby like eyes glittering as if it had found a new toy to play with, her facial expression could be describe as if she found her long lost dog. Her excitement that can burst any minute, the young lady remembered to keep calm that losing her composure now might give more leeway for more problems.
Young lady: Alfred bring that boy back with us.
While pointing her finger to the small kid who fell asleep and those few words made the butler grow uneasy because the master hasn’t visited the young miss in a rather long time, as the butler sighed as if he can’t do anything else since he dotes on the young miss due to the master’s absence.
Alfred: As you wish m’lady but may I ask what is the reason why should we keep this poor child out of the countless one out here.
The young lady was smiling from ear to ear as if she knew it beforehand that the butler will eventually ask that question before returning to their house. She puffed up her chest like an uncivilized lady would and put both of her hands at her waist.
Young lady: It’s just my intuition but this one is a lot more promising than the people in my house right now.
Alfred couldn’t deny that most of the personels in the house were combatants which her father acquired and given a job for them to retire on but the intuition of the young lady has already surpassed her father’s but she herself doesn’t know that at all.
Alfred: As you wish m’lady, seeing another boy getting saved here at all places sure does bring back memories.
The young lady waited for the butler to pick the boy up, as the street lamps started to turn on, the young lady who is at least as old as the black haired boy, same height but one thing is certainly eye catching is her hair, the blonde hair that might look as shiny as gold with high lights of fiery reds on the near edge of them.
As the lights almost showed the butler’s appearance he became a blur taking the young lady with her and the sea of crowd continued to stay the same.
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In a sector where only those who are deemed to be powerful, various high level combatants, politicians and more have their own private houses but there’s only three mansion that belongs to the three big power of the country Dynamis, Flugengard and Atros.
Dynamis a household formed in the ways of military might gaining respect from various expert around all other zones, they’ve gained their reputation of undying fealty to their sworn lord in that aspect they’ve gained thousands of believers of the same thing that their body will be sacrificed for the sake of their master.
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Flugengard another noble household that revolves around the monopoly of weaponry, application and gadgets that deems to be useful all around the planet. They have shut downed various rivals through their might in the field and they have gained enough fame to be bestowed upon a title of a noble.
Atros, a noble clan that can be dated back with the ancient modern world. Those who are from the Atos clan can be considered to be powerful enough to solo kill a beast with the rating of B or higher. With this amount of power it would make you anxious due to the clan having enough power to overthrow the current rulers if they were willing on doing so but yet there hasn’t been any precedent but for all they knew it this clan had the power to dominate if they wanted to.
At the district where only the strong and rich can live in, a young black haired boy who is still in the realms of dreams slowly began to arise, specks of lights keep bugging his closed eyes telling him that it’s already daylight and he needs to wake up.
As he opened his eyes he was frozen stiff because of the place he’s at right now is not the same comfortable alley it can’t even be compared to that, he was sleeping in a rather luxurious room. A room with a bed, table, and a window that brings in light inside the room, for him this room was rather luxurious indeed for a beggar like him to be able to sleep in a place as comfortable this will be the time he had a decent job to feed his own mouth.
As the boy who is still frozen from shock the door opened and an old man in a butler uniform came in.
Alfred: Kid the young lady wants to meet you but I can’t tolerate your appearance that can be on par with dirty soaked rags, come now kid I need to clean you and at least give you decent looking clothes so you can be at least fitting to see milady.
As Alfred held out his hand to the boy who was still in a state of shock, he subconsciously reached out to the hand that is being offered and got off the bed.
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As the boy was being cleaned by Alfred, his seemingly lost voice came back to him he was bewildered by his ability to scan his body by using his mind. As he spoke out Alfred was almost done cleaning up the boy.
Boy: Uh….Uncle where exactly am I?
Alfred: Oh you can actually speak boy, well since you can I have the need to inform you that you’re in the mansion of Flugengard and milady saved you from your pitiable state.
Boy: I see.
The boy who still had lots of questions regarding where he currently was, his memory of the last few years were exactly blurry like a figure without exact form. Alfred chantlessly used fused magic to dry off the boy with some air element and fire element fusion magic.
With one blurry movement made by Alfred the boy was shocked to see he was dressed in some clean shorts and a plain white T-shirt instantaneously. The boy admired Alfred’s quick hands looking up to him with eyes sparkling wanting to know how to do that and he responded.
Alfred: Stop looking at me with those glowing eyes, milady is waiting for us so move along.
Alfred was a bit shocked at the boy who was getting familiar with him so sudden but it wasn’t a bad feeling it just felt like a long time ever since his first meeting with the young lady. Both of them gave off that friendly feeling vibe but the young lady was always occupied in her room tinkering with various machineries making toys from the surplus materials sent by her father.
As they walked along the hallways, the scenery of a beautiful sunny day was ingrained in the boys pair of eye. The two of them halted in front of a door with a shield and a pair of sword carved on it, when they were about to enter a rather large explosion occurred inside the room when Alfred opened the door he was sighing as if this event was in the realm of his speculation or its just like an everyday thing to him.
Alfred: Come inside kid, milady is always like this so you have to get used to it.
The boy looked at Alfred in the eyes and nods in confirmation, as they further went inside the big room a small coughing voice was heard and Alfred quickly moved.
??: Alfred, clear the smoke before I suffocate to death.
Alfred: As you command milady.
Alfred gathered mana in his palm and the boy saw a ball of wind spiraling on top of Alfred’s palm and it slowly gathered all the smoke in the room. The boy kept staring with his eyes filled with curiosity, the boy was certainly interested in magic but his talents were so far unknown.
As the smoke cleared out a figure could be seen with her face covered with black and her hair disheveled from the explosion and with the snap of her finger Alfred’s figure blurred and instantaneously cleaned the face of the young lady and her hair that was unkempt was straightened out again.
The small voiced coughed to clear her throat and her eyes began to sparkle like she has finally got a hold of a new toy to play with.
Young lady: Hello there, as far as you know right now I saved you when you were about to die in that place so you have to pay up but giving me your name is enough for now.
The small voice spoke out to the boy but the boy tilted his head due to the demand the girl made, he didn’t know what to do since to begin with he has no name.
Boy: Uhm about that you see, what’s a name?
The two were shocked to see a person asking what is a name, this was a first for them encountering a person without an origin at all. After recovering from the shock the young lady was holding back her laughter until it bursted out.
Young lady: Ku….hahahaha this is just great I found a person with nothing at all, so hey do you want a name?
The young lady asked the boy who was still confused and still has no idea what benefits does a name give.
Young Lady: My name is Alice Flugengard and I am the master of this house, having a name means having an identity you won’t be just one of the thousands of unidentified people and you need a name because from this point on you belong to me.
Boy: A name sounds good then what name will you give me Alice?
The boy who was interested in the so called name looked at Alice his future master with eyes of expectation on gaining an identity of his own. Alice who is now responsible for this kid is thinking about the name she will bestow upon her new servant(toy).
Alice: Ah, your name shall be Fen Asra.
After the cogs has been set, the gears of fate has started to turn.
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So hey thanks for reading this rather short bundle of words, let me know what you think about this archetype common story. I’ll make chapter 2 possible but I won’t know when so yeah best regard and hope that no one will bash about how bad I am since I know it’s true :D