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    Chapter 2

“Seven years ago you assured us that the last of their clan was dead, so why is it that we still can't bloodbind their damn Inheritance Dammit!!” a large unruly man slammed his fist on the table shattering the wood into bits and pieces.

“Only for their Inheritance did we seek to collaborate against them and you useless bastards couldn't even kill the last one!”

Having heard enough a hooded man in the back stepped forward, “ Varc you weren't the only one there that day, i lost a brother and...”

“ And i lost a son!,” without letting him finish Varc stepped forward and pointed at the hooded,

“We all lost kin on that day but what did we gain? We gained shit! We cannot access their Inheritance unless there is no one of their bloodline left to inherit it and we let one get away, you let one get away Tallon, it's a bloody shame i ever trusted you and that brother of yours to begin with”

“Dont cross the line Varc, there are some things you say that you can never take back, especially if you're dead, “ Tallon pointed the palms of his hands towards the ground as the earth started rumble.

Seeing these actions as a clear threat Varc drew the enormous broadsword from his back as he stared at Tallon and smirked, “If you and that worthless brother of yours couldn't even end Therol, then what chance do you think you have to end me?”

“Say another thing about my brother and i guess we'll find out soon enough”

The tension in the room started to increase as the followers of the two men reached for their weapons, waiting for someone to make the first move.

Aside from the two men arguing against each other there was another person in this room who, until this point, had been sitting and  listening to the conversation intently, seeing the situation worsen he spoke in a calm voice.

“Cease this useless bickering, there is a problem at hand and we are here to solve it, not to cause more of them. From what we know, Talon, your brother destroyed his own Inheritance in an attempt to kill Therol, is that correct?”

Hearing the old man finally talk both Tallon and Varc had both stopped their actions and turned towards him with their heads bowed. A clear gesture of submission.

“That is correct Imperator, seeing the waves of their clansmen blocking us to allow Therol to escape, my brother alone got through their blockage but at a cost of many injuries, then in his fight with Therol, knowing he would lose he heroically chose to forcefully destroy his Inheritance in order to kill him, in which he fell short, nonetheless the wound he left him is not something he can recover and will eventually die, it's just a matter of time now” After replying Tallon glanced at Varc who was similarly looking back at him, their expressions full of hostility.

“An Inheritance isn't a play thing of a child, even with one of your clans caliber that brother of yours couldn't take Therols life, who was right next to him, worthless” Varc looked at a imperator

“Imperator, allow me to send my armies through the lesser kingdoms, it is the only place where he could go”

“I implore the Imperator to wait some time, my brothers sacrifice was not in vain, Therol is a dead man waking, merely searching for a suitable grave”

They both made their cases and waited for a favorable response.

The old man they referred to as ‘Imperator’ stood up, “Therol will eventually die and we don't have to leisure of sending armies out to search for him. We wait”

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“Inheritance? What is that father?”asked a confused Warrick.

“The blood that runs through me was passed down to you, likewise i got my blood from my father, so on and so forth. Within the blood that is passed down is something we call a Inheritance, a blessing given by the gods. According to the records this wasn't always the case,as i have told you before Warrick Twenty-four hundred years ago there was an incident in which the world around us turned into turned to ash devoid of life, or...so we thought. The only piece of land which remained untouched was our continent.”

Warrick already knew of this event as it was something that had left him speechless when he first learned about it.

“Along with the destruction came rewards, unknown stones spread out throughout the land ranging in size, the bigger ones being more powerful than the smaller ones. The stones brought with them unique abilities which gave people power on par, even exceeding, naturalists.The stones, once obtained, would become hereditary and the only way for someone else to obtain that power is to kill all the people which spawned from the original possessors blood”

. Therol spoke these words with pain throbbing in his heart, even thinking about what happened in the past was enough to give him shivers.

What good is this power of mine if i can't use it to protect my loved ones? There are hundreds of thousand people out there slaughtering families to obtain a power, those godforsaken stones, which will bring upon nothing but destruction

“Why are you suddenly telling me this father?” although this information was extremely shocking, it only increased Warricks desire to see the world above and at the same time confused him due to the seriousness in which his father had told him this.

“Earlier today you awakened your Inheritance for a brief moment “

Shock appeared upon Warricks face as he stared at his father motionlessly. I have a Inheritance?

Warrick got lost in thought as he tried to remember when such a incident had occurred, and recalled when he was at the 27th and 28th juncture time had seemingly slowed down for him, which in turn had allowed him to somehow reach the 28th fissure.

“For the next month besides the bare necessities we will indulge in training where i will teach you how to wield this power”.

“Yes father” Warrick replied after recovering from his initial shock, his father had always been clouded by mystery and seeing him talk about something personal he knew this wasn't the time for questions.

“Bring your sword and meet me by the waterfall” after finishing Therol disappeared from from sight.

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After picking up his sword Warrick made his way down to the waterfall to the beautiful scenery which he was all too familiar with, he made way his way towards his father who was standing next to the waterfall.

“A power inherited is fundamentally different from a naturalist, instead of drawing power from nature we draw it from our blood, there are many mysteries that lie within inherited blood which we do not know of”, Therol motioned Warrick over to the waterfall “Look at the platform beneath the waterfall and try to cancel out all unnecessary noise.”

This was easier said than done, the waterfall was constantly crashing against the rock platform constantly making ear wrecking noises making it hard to even hear his father.

Yet thinking back to the events in which he had, according to his father, briefly awakened his inheritance he remembered that at that time noise around him had been canceled out and his sight had been abnormally focused.

“The most basic aspect of our Inheritance is called Heasing, if perfected, it allows our perception to focus in a target and by doing so one's hearing will cancel out any extraneous noises and eyes will focus on a specific object blocking out any peripheral movements.”

Warrick nodded to show that he was listening, now understanding that getting to the 28th fissure was due to this phenomenon, by putting all your attention on a single object it would allow you to block out any unnecessary movements or obstacles and by heightening your senses your corresponding strength would increase for as long as you were in this trance.

“You will stay here and focus on this platform until you reach this trance, this is something that cannot be taught and must be comprehended by yourself. Only after you are capable of reaching this state will we proceed.” after he was done taking, Therol took his leave.

While listening to his father, Warrick had already started to focus on the platform yet couldn't figure out how to enter this state. He took both his hands and covered them over his ears,

“Maybe if i can physically block the noise i could focus more”.

After a few moments Warrick abandoned this idea due to the sheer deafening noise of the waterfall which his hands couldn't hope to  block.

‘Perhaps the water could help me concentrate’, he got up and dove into water, after 30 minutes he exited the water with a dejected look.

‘That just made things harder and adding on to that...I'm now wet, that's just great but at least it got my blood pumping’. Warrick returned his attention back to the platform and focused his eyes

‘Wait that's it! Blood, father said that a inheritance is activated by blood and i remember hearing my own heartbeat when i was climbing’.

Warrick immediately focused his attention onto his own body trying to hear his own heartbeat, slowly the noise of his heart beating became louder and the noise of the waterfall decreased eventually getting to the point of being nonexistent. Although the noise was drowned out, his sight still had much work to be done on it, no matter how much he tried to narrow his eyes and focus his vision, he was still perceiving the surroundings of the rock platform.

‘It's gonna take some work but now that i know the basics i have a way of training this.’

The hearing part of the Heasing level was relatively simple to obtain yet the sight aspect of it was a bit difficult, so in order to train his vision Warrick sat as close to the rock platform he could so he vision was limited to only that and slowly made distance to improve his focus. 3 days went by in a flash when undergoing this process, Warrick now sat 100 feet away from the platform.

‘Lets try this again.’

Warrick let out a sigh and listened for the noise of his heartbeat “Dum, Dum,Dum” the noise was now much louder that it was a few days ago due to his training, his pupils dilated as he focused his eyes upon the platform, the surroundings turned into a blur and the platform which was 100 feet away seemed as if it was within his grasp, all the fine details were now easily visible, some which he would have a hard time finding even if he was on the platform. Warrick averted his gaze to test this “Heasing” ability on other objects, he focused in on the waterfall and found out that when using this ability on animate objects it seemed as if they were moving a bit slower than reality.

While his focus was on the waterfall he felt a sharp pain inside his head and immediately lost focus.

‘It seems that focusing in on moving objects can only be done for so long’ the pain in his head eventually subsided as he walked back to the wooden houses.

Arriving at his father's house he noticed, to his surprise, that there was no one in there so he

headed over to their usual sparring area which was the only other place his father would be at.

Along the way he saw hints on blood on the ground, although they were only traces of blood Warricks perception had somewhat improved over the past several days so he managed to notice them, he sighed inwardly as continued walking, no matter what he said, his father wouldn't listen to him when it came to his health and for the past couple months every time he saw his father's injury flare up he had a foreboding which he couldn't seem to shake off.

Warrick arrived at the location and saw his father sitting on the ground cross-legged with his eyes shut.

Sensing his presence Therol asked, “Have you managed to enter a Heasing trance?”

“Yes.” replied Warrick

Hearing this Therol was a bit surprised, it had only taken him 3 days to recreate that trance, due to his injury acting up frequently now he wasn't able to keep watch over Warrick all the time.

‘All my remaining  strength and time will be spent on helping you train your Inheritance’ he slightly smiled and picked up a rock the size of a palm.

“Good,Then let's begin”