By the time the next morning rolled around I had come up with a plan of action and at only the cost of a night’s sleep it was nice to have some clarity of purpose. It was a three point plan; part one secure more dragon’s blood that shouldn’t be too hard after all there was a massive dead dragon outside. Part two get Lindis to help me train, I actually felt relieved knowing that he was using me. After all if you are being used that means you are being useful and useful beings are not betrayed, and there is a certain amount comfort in knowing if you have to slit his throat you don’t have to feel guilty because the feeling was mutual. Part three I get that fucking demented princess to change my title I will even use force if necessary extremely excessive force hehehehe.
As I got ready to go down to breakfast I ran into Lindis and Sin both looking bleary eyed and sleep deprived but Lindis wore an expression of determination and Sin one of enthusiasm that belied how tired they really were.
“Morning Ass Slayer”
That damn cheeky Lindis first thing in the morning and already going at it.
I brought Jack down in front of me with great force that left a resounding THUD sound echo throughout the castle.
“If you are so insistent on using that title I will give you a reason to call me that.”
At that moment the sun flared more brightly through the window making Jack seem to glow.
Lindis quickly snapped his legs together while making a forced chuckle.
Sin came running up and wrapped me up in a massive hug.
“Isn’t this exciting Oldor I can’t wait to go explore the city and you can take me shopping and we can find lots of new puzzles to play with.”
Ahhnnn this loving embrace this warmth this softness it makes me want to go on living. No; wait explore, take her shopping, go play that is totally a DATE. Only four years old and already going on a date, I won’t have to become a wizard when I grow up. Ow great gods of the heavens ittsutakimasu I will savor her well hehehehe.
Having met up we all went down to breakfast where I was given a note by one of the attendants from the princess
"sorry I won’t be able to meet with the great savor of the city today but I had prior engagements but I did have a reward prepared to thank you with as well as your monthly nobility allowance a grand total of five hundred and twenty gold."
PS. if you complain about your title I will have it changed to Sir. Anal rapist. （ミ￣ー￣ミ）
Dat bitch there goes part three of my plan but its ok I can’t have my mood ruined right now and the princess even gave me money for my date with Sin.
“Wait where was sin?”
“Ah while you were standing there reading the princess note with a creepy smile on your face she ran off in a huff.”
NOOOO my beautiful Sin don’t go if you leave me now I may very well end up a wizard for life.
“Actually Oldor I did want to talk to you Oldor in the few days I have known you how many times have you ended up fighting? Everyday wasn't it anyway it seemed to me that you might wanna improve your combat abilities if you plan to continue that trend.”
I nodded at that since it suited me fine it confirmed the suspicions jack had brought up and it would help me fulfill my own goals.Part two of my plan was already complete now just to get my hands on more dragons blood.
There was no dragons blood…apparently my massive discharge of magical energy inside the dragon had destroyed all the organs bodily fluids and muscles making them all unusable. Instead I had to scour the city with Lindis in the end we only found two small bottles of the stuff and it cost me half of my reward money. It should be enough for now though I was also able to get some other supplies and a new set of clothes though I wanted to save money to take sin on a date later so I tried not to use too much of it.
After that Lindis had a meeting with a teacher and I needed to enroll in the knight academy anyway so we headed there next. After introducing me to an instructor he took off it seemed his teacher was rather strict about punctuality.
The instructors name was Darwin a red dwarf a stocky body with muscles that would make any body builder twinge with jealousy. He had me go through a series of exercises to test my Ki and magic in a number of different scenarios. I passed them all easily with the exception of one a six one fight against other instructors. While this might have seemed unfair six fully grown veteran fighting adults against a four year old boy but this four year old boy had the power to slay a dragon so they probably thought it was just a formality but it exposed a massive weakness on my part.
My missing right eye severely limited my field of vision, in all my fights till this point it didn’t matter it was hard to miss a hundred meter long dragon and against the boar horse there was only one enemy that I had to track. The one time I had multiple opponents they surrendered before it actually became a fight and after what the instructors put me through I am glad they did since I may have been the one who was saved from a beating.
With so many opponents moving in and out of my field of vision I resorted to wild powerful blows hoping to bring them down in one hit with sheer luck but their polished movements made a fool of me and by the end of the exercise I had gotten the worst of it by far.
After the exercise Darwin came to talk to me about some observations he had I told him the story of how I lost it but I still had hope since the Allister’s were getting me the finest medical treatment available to which I was promptly told…to give up.
Seems it is impossible to restore sight to the eye with current healing magic stopping bleeding and mending bone and muscle were one thing but they had no way to repair the nerve damage not that they even knew what nerves were. This was the first time I felt a real sense of loss since coming to this world I had been so busy with all the events of the past few days to focus on it and given that I had seen them use magic to do all kinds of things I had just assumed that this could be fixed to. I fell into a state of depression but Darwin was quick to encourage me it seemed the best I could do now would be to get a glass eye with runes engraved to restore my sight though for some reason it was always in black and white they hadn't figured out how to make them see in color yet.
After my talk with Darwin I had an idea that I discussed with jack that instead of using their runes that could only give me back partial sight we would use the same runes Jack used to allow him to see magic and Ki powers.
In the end I was still accepted in the end and to the advanced knight course were I would focus almost exclusively on combat related skills instead of the usual courses in law and chivalry.
With Lindis finally returning from his meeting we headed for the healer who only confirmed what Darwin had told me but he took the measurements for my glass eye and after that we headed back to the Allister estate.
once there I immediately headed off to my room and got to work on my tattoos. It was a lot harder than I
thought and I needed to use a small mirror to see the some of the areas I was working on. In the end I had enough ink for three tattoos the first was a cross on my chest opposite the shield and I inscribed it with healing runes I had learned from mother. The second was a second spiral of runes on my right arm that matched the runes on my left. I should mention that having the runes on a specific body part does not mean that they affect only that body part they cover the entire body but by adding another set to pull magic through I had effectively doubled the power of all my blows. Finally I got to work on my last tattoo a real masterpiece and fucking hard to make. After getting the idea from the dragon I had talked to jack about the mechanics of flight and decided it would be possible to make a pair of wing tattoos that I placed on my shoulders with runes for heat, cold, and air. the advantages of flight would be massive with my tiny legs I would be unable to keep up with an experienced adult adventurer and in all honesty when I chased the dragon down I only caught up because he was hovering and to make my attack on the dragon I only barely made it with a full power blast if he had been just twenty meters higher I would have been completely screwed.
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I was so caught up in my work that I had never heard the call for dinner or the announcement that Sin had returned and when I finally noticed what time it was already dark out the perfect time to try out a midnight test flight hahahahaha. Having successfully snuck my way onto the roof I held jack before me as I pulled the great magic flows though him I felt the tattoos warm and I was surrounded in a black reddish mist that formed into a pair of wings…well sort of they almost seemed like two large monsters hands sprouting from my back colored midnight black but with streaks of fiery red light running through it.
The wings did not move in the slightest as I started to rise off the ground. The theory was to create a hot air mass under the wings and a cool air mass over the top to generate my own thermal lift and then use the air runes for thrust and maneuverability.
I admit the control was a little shaky at first but after the first half hour or so I had pretty well gotten the hang of it but after that it was a truly one of a kind experience it really isn’t something that can be put into words. After rising a thousand feet into the night sky a stopped and just hovered feeling the cool night air caress my skin.
In my past life my memories of my final moments were pretty distorted but I do remember that stinking hole. I hole not deep enough to stand up in and not wide enough to lay down in I could only squat awkwardly the hole was even covered with a heavy iron plate so that I could not see the sun or the moon and stars I could never feel the breeze blow against my skin.
Instead I was locked in a hell hole forced to shit and piss myself causing infection and pneumonia from the unsanitary conditions as my whole body would shiver from the muscle spasms for staying in the same position for days on end the coughing would take the wind from my lungs and the constant diarrhea would sap my strength and the sores that formed on my skin would cause unbearable agony but in this one moment with the beauty of the night acting as a balm for my soul it did not matter. No perhaps these now five years I had spent in this world had been healing my soul.
As I scanned the horizon I noticed something unusual a murky red haze and a great cloud of white smoke some ways distance a massive fire was raging. Tracing the path it would have to take to reach Elfhiem I reassured myself that the long road between the fire and city would act as a firebreak. A road connecting the fire to the city? That was a village burning!
NOOO I know that road I walked it for three days that was MY village burning!
Roaring in a rage I started throwing all the magic I could into my wings and as I did they doubled in size and the air started to whipped around me in a whirlwind but I paid it no heed as I streaked toward my village. The chill of the night wind whistling by might have frozen my body had my rage not burned like hell itself warming my body till I started to sweat.
The scene I saw on my arrival was like something from I had not seen since my darkest days as a child soldier. It wasn’t just buildings that burned but bodies to a massive pit had been dug and then filled with the bodies of the villagers the men the women the elderly and the children. I fell to my knees and my magic left me, my strength failed me, even my rage that had till now seemed to burn like hell fire when held before this blazing inferno it had utterly lost all of its heat.
Without a sound tears rolled off my face.
Fucking idiot; to be so lost in the wonder of a new world I had lost all sense of reality all sense of danger. I only saw this world as a nirvana for me to rest my tortured soul. I never believed that I could experience any pain in this world greater than what I had already gone through; I was wrong.
The hellish rage I had held cooled but it had not gone out instead it frozen becoming colder, harder my heart had become steel.
“Those mother fuckers will pay Oldor they will I swear it; they will taste the massive shaft of Samuel L. Jackson.”
A wiry smile cracked out on my stony face at that. Indeed they would they would taste that pain and much much worse.
Gathering my magic if released my wings and soared back into the sky. Finding an open spot in the village I gathered all my power I dive bombed right into it. Before using jack I had created a crater fifty meters across with a single punch and now with the second set of runes amplifying my power and hitting it at speed from a thousand foot dive bomb made a significantly bigger hole and it achieved my goal of bringing all the bastards who had done this running to see what had caused such a ruckus.
maybe a hundred men came running and to my surprise there were some familiar faces here like the nice misters that gave Sin the maid outfit and tried to kidnap her.
the first man who reached the edge of the crater was also the strongest his well cared for armor covered in magic runes and the massive bastard sword screamed mercenary. since he was the first to reach me he was the first to die. using my wings i shot forward slicing my hand through his neck. not only did his head fly off but the was it was spinning with the blood draining from it made it look like some sort of macabre pinwheel that i caught in one hand before his body ever hit the ground.
seeing their greatest combatant fall in a split second the rest of the men stopped in their tracks. hefting the severed head i hurled it at the nearest group of men. it hit with the force of a cannon ball sending the whole group flying back.
I then reached over and took the beheaded soldiers massive bastard sword in one hand and started to twirl jack in the other. i had not forgotten my earlier humiliation at the hands of a mere six opponents and here i had picked a fight with a hundred plus enemies. wielding a weapon in each hand I split my magic power using it to harden my skin and to use the heat runes from my wings to create a cloak of fire around me. if they did not want to take the heat of my flames they would have to take me head on.
When vastly outnumbered there is but one rule to remember; if you stop you die always keep moving always keep striking the moment they put you on the defensive they have already won.
Those men never thought about attacking they only thought to flee the demon toddler bathed in the flames of hell and wielding a sword twice his size in his left hand and crushing enemies with the great staff he held in his right.
They did not escape not one....