Coming up, the first thing on the girl’s mind was if she was dead. Then, feeling the pain all over her body, she understood that she somehow survived. Still groggy, she tried to understand what happened when:
“seem that you woke up”(???)
Hearing that low voice, the girl woke up completely and turning around, what she see scare her out of her mind. The reason is simple: he has light blue hair.
“a f-f-fac-faction leader” after being dazed, she hurriedly stood up while saying: “f-forgive my rudeness. I didn’t intend to disrespect you”
“it’s fine. Only weaklings care about formalities and such. For truly strong people, ranks doesn’t matter anymore”
Hearing that, the girl finally calmed down and dropped to the ground.
“why the hell did you eat an elemental seed as your first seed? There are less painful ways to die you know?”
Then, the girl explained her circumstances, how her father, during a casual health check, was discovered as having a rare case where it is nearly impossible ( nearly one in a trillion chance) to have children, how, hearing that, her father decided that rather than rely on that impossible probability, it is better to quit her mother so as letting her have a family while at the same time he travelled searching a means to have children, how, unknown to both, her mother was already pregnant of me and when she discovered her pregnancy, her father was already gone and un-contactable, how her mother being pretty rich bought her alone, how when she was nearly six, her mother fell ill and passed away, how her so called relatives appeared and took everything, leaving her nothing but an old building whose sole reason it is still standing was due to the fact that the land was worthless and the cost of demolishing it was bigger than anything that could be done with the land, how she barely lived day by day doing odd jobs for anybody who was kind enough or heartless enough to hire a six year old, among witch was an old retired teacher who taught her and where she learnt most of what she know, how, before he died, he told her to attend school because most of the schools are created by factions to search for outstanding people to work for them and many of them reward the best student of the year with a seed.
so, at twelve, she enrolled at one of the factions schools. Once at school, mostly due to the old man’s teaching, her hard work and self studying and despite being weak at pratical training due to never having eaten a seed, she ended becoming first place during the end of the first schoolwide evaluation ( the schooling system greatly changed since the great war, while the class are similar, the exam contents use subjects from all years going from the simplest and gradually becoming harder so as to know what year is the best for each individuals as well as the fact that most of the rich ones, who provides the most funds to the school have their children tutored and so, the more you know beyond the curriculum, the higher your score). Unfortunately, second just behind her was kyle lee, youngest and only son of jae quincy lee, the leader of the lee faction, the biggest faction of the town and faction patron of the school, so, furious by having been beaten, kyle lee ambushed her on my way to my part time job and forced her to eat a fire seed and she ended falling unto the river
“and that’s how I ended here. In fact, how did I survive despite having eaten a fire seed as my first seed?”
“that’s simple, when someone absorb a seed, the intensity is generally lower during the beginning and gradually become stronger as the absorbtion progress, so, at the beginning, during it’s milder time, the freezing water stopped your body from being roasted and after I found you, I gave you a water seed that countered the fire seed and saving you”
“wait, isn’t absorbing two seeds simultaneously during a skill creating step deadly?”
“normally yes, but under some specual circumstances, it is possibles. You see, there exist a gamble called dual awakening. When eating two seeds, both seeds must be of opposite elements or both being neutrals. Then, four things can happen depending on your luck:
* You explode like what generally happen when eating two seeds simultaneously
* One of the two seeds dominate the other and you obtain a skill from it while the other will strengthen one of your skills of the same element or your next skill of that element if you don’t have one yet
* Both destroy each others but remain absorbed leaving the user with a skill in less than it’s peers
* And finally, like in your case and I already verified it, both seeds balance each other giving you two skills, witch is the reason were people does that gamble, and while I’ve heard of people doing it for their first seeds and using attributed seeds as the first seed that way is theorically possible, I think that this is the first time it is done.
Also, a warning, for people like you who won the gamble, your body adapted to using opposites seeds and while it doesn’t have any danger anymore, all yours seeds must be eaten in opposite pairs or both neutrals, if not, it will not count and you will just waste your seed”
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“thank you very much for saving my life, I will work hard to reimburse your seed the fastest time possible”
“no need, it’s just a seed anyway”
“really? To obtain one, you need to be close to a faction leader or buy it at an auction you know?”
“it’s fine. If you want, you can work here. I need people to take care of my mansion, and your salary will be one seed per day”
“I accept, when do we begin?”
“once you’re healed. So before we forgot and it become too akward to ask it: I’m Wolf, Frost Wolf, Frost being the family name, and you?”
“Suzu Haname, with haname being the family name”
“Haname! Like, Shinji Haname?”
“you know my father?”
“wait here a minute” and then he disappeared from the water border where he was all this time to instantly appearing near her with a strange looking gauntlet and said:” wear it”
Seeing her new boss so serious despite having been casual for all this time, she didn’t have the courage to refuse and the instant she wore it on her left hand, it emitted a blinding light before disappearing
“so, you had a daughter, hun”
“mr Frost, sorry, I don’t know what happened but the gauntlet disappeared”
“don’t worry, the fact that it disappeared prove that you’re really that bastard’s child, may he rest in peace. Also, you can call me frost, brother frost, or even uncle frost if you want, after all, even if we fought all the time, that bastard was still considered as one of my best friend”
“ok, by the way, how was he?”
“if we describe him in two words, it will be genius idiot. You should know that during the war, there was some peoples that fled the earth during the great war, do you?”
“evidently, it is common knowledge.”
“If so, before I tell you about your father, tell me what you know about it”
“England, due to it’s ambiguous position in the European union, it not sharing currency together with a big fight with the others nations of the union, about the repartition of fuel, during witch England, being the strongest of the closest country to America, ended being a battleground and due to that received the most damage of the entire union; yet, after their victory, only receveid the same amount of fuel as china who lost the war and ended having only a little bit of fuel due to the treaty and when protesting, ended chased from the union and having his part shared among the remaining countries. Historians says that it was a plot of the others countries of the union so as to have more fuel for themselves, with the severely weakened England being unable to defend itself; and it was also the spark causing the downfall of the union, with having succeeded once, was born the desire to obtain more parts with the parts belonging to the others nations.
At the same times, china, despite losing the war and signing an unfair treaty, due to not completely losing, still succeeded to obtain a meager quantity of fuel from the treaty and using it, oppressed the surrounding rich countries to pay exorbitant taxes so as to pay the various reparations as well as strengthening itself.
Seeing that, as fellow sufferers, they became closer and discovered that if things continued, like that, another war will break and in the worst case scenario, a nuclear war of witch the radiations will attain them who are the neighbours of the two parties.
So, by taking drastic measures, they entered an state of urgence, stopped their monetary system, in favor of a daily ration, dismounted all their nuclear plants and transformed them unto reusable nuclear powered spaceships, and even used all electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen from the seas to use both as a fuel as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were used as main spaceship fuel since the beginning if spatial conquest; as oxygen and water sources. Then, as the great war began, these countries launched, they were already ready and launched the entirety of their populations, as well as specimens of all animals and plants existing on their territory to the moon and not wanting to see their previous home being destroyed, ended settling on the hidden side of the moon, where they lived until the divine descent.
When the gods descended, they complimented the wisdom of the then people of the moon but at the same time, they were troubled because many moon gods didn’t appreciate the moon being overpopulated. So, they let the mortals choose: living on terraformed mars and having the artifact ability, or living on floating islands on the breathable height on venus and having a personal ability
As such, everyone choose witch planet they want to go and the gods made the lunar gate, three gates, who since the settlement on mercury became four situated on the moon enabling people to travel from one planet to the other.”
“good, now, if we talk about your father, first is that he was of mixed blood having a parent martian and another Venusian, not only that, but he not only obtained a powerful personal ability, but also possessed an easily upgradable artifact, becoming a level nine artifact wielder ,that is until he received a powerful attack and died. And before dying, he asked me to give his artifact to the love of his life. How the hell did he expect me to find that so called love of his life, that I heard for the first time that day, without a single clue, not even a name, when he never talked about his life before being a wanderer. In the end, after searching in vain for some times, I gave up and returned to one of my mansions that I didn’t inhabit for at least fifty years. Who knew that his last will would have been completed that way”