POV: vile

"How did she stop my healing like that?" I couldn't help but think that out loud. "Old man how did she do it?"

"Humph ...she used an old magic that was created in the war. The elves made it to fight against our strong self healing bodies, we did have our weaknesses even for how strong we were. Anyway I doubt age used it because u are a lord just coincidence my boy."

"So why did I became so...so weak?"

"We are very weak to light magic, hence why the humans thought us demons. See demons are weak to light magic too. The higher the spell is, must need to chant the words of power such as then in the library and just now."

"So why am I in the dream state right now.

After she blew whatever that stuff was in my face, I woke up in my dream state. The old man was waiting on me on-top of the same rock as always.

"Oh I pulled you here, I wanted to talk to you."

"Why would you do that! They could be killing me right now!"

"Oh relax boy! A little sleeping powder ain't gonna knock u out."

"Then why am I here?"

"It's Time for some training!"

"Training?"

"Would you stop asking questions and listen damn it! God boy! I forget

Your just a damn kid sometimes. Now yes training, again you jus been throwing magic and running around like a mad man."

"No I wasn't! And what about me? What going to happen to my body with those people? I need to get back."

"Calm down your body will be fine. In your dream state time is a funny thing, you can change it how ever you want but right now I will worry about all that seeing how weak you are. Hahaha did you see how those adventures threw you around, hahaha oh hehehe I bout pissed my pants boy!"

"Shut your face old man! And what do you mean adventures? They said they were captains."

"Hmmm I guess I didn't explain..well those four people is what are known as adventures. They are stronger then your average solider you will find. There whole lives they fight to earn there place in this land. See boy the creatures give these adventures a ranking to judge how strong they are and same for monsters. You have from least to highest, it goes F-c which is known as the first stage, Being a c rank is like being a solider in the army, B and A rank is known as the second stage which is your captains in a army, next you have the 3rd stage which is mostly generals, knights, and royal guards, and last for now is stage 4 which are some scary folk you don't want to meet boy."

Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

"What's my rank?"

"Your rank is B rank, and the people you fought were probably hired adventurers in A rank. Whatever kingdom hired them must have put them in command of a small team of solders."

"What rank are you?"

"5 ranks higher then stage 4 but 8 ranks lower then our king."

I let what the old man had just told me sink in. Those four people were only a rank higher but it was a big difference and there is going to only be stronger people in this world. I need to get stronger and the old man is my only chance.

"You never said if my body will be ok."

The old man puts his hands to his mouth and starts to chuckle.

"Hehehe I completely forgot, see boy like I was saying before. The dream state can change and bend in time, one minute out there could be a month in here."

"Ok so what will you teach me?"

"First off I am going to tell you about runes, they give our race a edge over others. They enhance our bodies or can make other things stronger, for example when you fly. Runes or more specific gravity runes propel your body off the ground, it creates a space around you that helps you fly through the sky. Runes that effect the body such as making you fly are known as enhancements, runes that you put on objects are enchantments, runes like the one that protect you from arrows and such are called defense runes, and lastly runes like the one that shot black lightning are called offensive runes. This is what made us powerful back then, some of us didn't even need to wear armor. A sword could go against our skin and end up chipped!"

"So now that you told me, what now?"

"Well seeing how we lords can create runes as natural as fish could swim, I am going to tech you how to use runes the right way. Now make a shield."

I did as I was told and made a shield, it was a rune that matched the exact hight and width of me. It was dark purple and moved in a circle.

"Good...good." The old man nods.

He then threw his arm back making his hand form a fist before smashing it against my shield. My shield

disappeared and I was sent back a couple of feet

"Weak!" He said. "ok show me the black lightning now."

I made the rune appear in the sky and let black dark lightning flash across it.

"Weak? Try again.

"This is going to be long isn't it" I said."

"I never said it wasn't going to be boy! Hehehehe. Now that you are about to learn stuff all those little messages I would send are going to stop after this, when I feel that you can judge your power on your own without my help will I decide if you need them or not but I will be there with important stuff."

"Ok I am ready to get serious."

days went by as I trained with the old man. Soon days turned into two months. During that time I learned a lot about my skills and how scary I could be hehe, but I also learned that  light magic is a very painful and dangerous thing to my kind. I could have died back at the temple the old man said. He in a last resort used his own life essence to shield me from the spell. I am not sure if I am scared of dying or not but knowing that I would've died without getting revenge make my chest tight with anger. I must be careful not to waste this chance for my people.

I was practicing with my staff when the old man walked up and watched. My staff glowed deep red like my eyes, I swung it in one diraction producing a red slash of energy to fly out. It was called blood crest and was one of the many spells I learned from the book I found in the chest. It was a spell using blood magic. Blood magic don't use blood but the essence of it, I found some good spells in that book. I was a blood crest towards a rock. It was cut cleanly in half and then the old man started to speak.

"you will wake up soon boy so I wanted to talk to you before you do."

"what's up?"

This old man has my complete respect and only fear. So many  light spheres was shot at my chest, this is why I said that stuff about light magic because it burns the skin and organs. 

" I wanted to say that you need to plan out your stratiges before you jump head first!