author's note Hello~ guys how are you doing? sorry for the delay, i will try my best to gives a chapter every 2 days. some times there will be a delay i apologize for those inconvinients :(
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-STOMP-
I am with a group of people, in front of us a black skeleton dragon descended from the skies, its eyes sockets were fill with a blood red light and a white gas is emanated from its mana-core at the center of its chest.
It did a noise with its teeth, it was horrifying, it felt like a laugh from the very devil itself.
It seems to be night, but not so many minutes before it was morning, now the sky is filled with darkness… no stars could be seen, only a big green moon on top of the black skeletal dragon was there, giving a terrifying light.
I began to talk, indicating directions and talking to the people, one seems to be a fairy and another an elf… the rest seems to be humans…
After that everyone left. I was alone facing that black skeletal dragon.
“HAHAHAHAHA.”
The black skeletal dragon did a small jump like a puppy playing with its master, and brought its head close to me…
“SACRIFICING YOURSELF! ERIC?!”
That is the only thing I understood from that nightmare.
Right after saying that he ate me.
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“WAAAA!!!”
“NOOOO STAY AWAY FROM ME!! STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!!”
“Young Master! Young Master! Everything is alright it was a dream!!”
-huuff- -huff- -sob-
Yes… a dream it was a dream…
“Hug… give me a hug…”
She is my maid Maribel.
“Yes yes Young Master.”
Hmmm her breast are so soft… their smell release me from the fear… but I still can see my hand trembling in fear…
“Young Master, you are about to have 7 years now you should become a strong man.”
She giggles when she say that. She is so mean…
“Y-Yes you are right, n-n-no more hug.”
“Yes Yes Young Master. But if I am allow to ask, what was your dream about?”
I have that dream once a month at the least…
“The same one, I am with some people, fighting… they abandon me… I can’t remember anything else…”
For some time her gaze turned sad but soon enough it turned back to gentleness.
“It’s ok master, you are the Young Master of the noble house Red Fire. You don’t have to fight.”
“Yes… yes you are right.”
I am important man from the noble house Red Fire! I don’t have to fear anything!
“Now master let me help you change your clothes, breakfast is ready. You know today is magic training right?”
“yee~s”
Magic… our noble house focus in one type of magic, although the aura we release when we cast magic has the resemblance of a red flame… we use arcane magic… I am not good but not bad either with arcane magic.
“Will father be back today?”
“I don’t know Young Master.”
Well it’s not like I can show him something to be proud anyway…
“… Is there any news of mother?”
“Young Master Gabriel, said she will be back tonight Young Master.”
“Those are great news!!!”
After so long they were really good news.
“Ok Young Master, look at the mirror if you want to change something call me, I will wait outside.”
“No, stay with me.”
I don’t know since when but that part become our daily morning duties… I don’t like mirrors… they scare me when I am alone… and she tries to help me in that way.
“You are handsome as always Young Master Andrei.”
“Look at you! Young Master; thin body, short nose, white skin, short brown hair and blue eyes… you will break the hearts of many girls in the future.”
“huhuhu of course!
What is the other maid doing?”
“She is busy preparing your breakfast and today’s lesson.”
Each of us, the sons and daughters from the main family can have up to 4 exclusive maids or butlers to make our life easier… right now I only have 2 maids… but it is ok, I am really happy with Maribel.
Hmmm I thought of something.
“Ah! Wh-What are you doing Young Master?”
It took her by surprise. I am hugging her now in front of the mirror from her waist… well I can’t huge her neck because she is taller than me… she is 16 years old… we reach adulthood at 15 years old, also women can work as maids since 12 only if the one they are serving is woman or boys underage. She has been with me since I was 5 years old, unlike my Mon that I barely see her 2 or 3 days a month…
She is relaxing to the eyes… seeing her one would relax oneself, her breast are of a healthy size considering weight and height, she doesn’t has curves but that doesn’t reduce the calming aura she has… she has healthy short legs as well. Her green hair’s length reach her neck but it is tied as a ponytail, her violet eyes show a serene soul and her smile just make me want to hug her all day long. Her maid uniform shows her arms and her cleavage, the skirt reach her ankles… the black color of her uniform has a deep contrast with her white skin.
“Y-Young Master teasing time is over. Let me escort you to the Great hall”
She took her distance from me… why? I love her…
…
“Her food is so delicious!”
“Yes. She is meticulous with her food, you should show her some appreciation too!”
Yeah… I should but I don’t know why I can’t bring myself to do it.
“Where is she?”
“She is waiting at the courtyard.”
“Ok I will thanks her for all her work”
“Yes! Thank you Young Master.”
…
Today is the same as always… I fail to cast properly an arcane ball… it is the most basic elementary attack magic…
Right now I am studying at the library… I don’t like it because there is a mirror here as well… I don’t like mirrors… Maribel is not with me right now… right now Liz is here.
As to show her my gratitude, I allow her to come with me to the library and let her practice reading and writing… we, from the noble linage, began to learn write and read at the age of 6, maids if they are lucky, learn mathematics and literacy but almost all of the time they barely knows how to write their names.
Well it is not odd because most of the time they are from orphanages.
I don’t know why I always end up in front of a mirror... I can’t even understand this book… magic is sooo hard…
“yawwwwnnnn~”
“Young Master? You need to focus a little more.”
Liz talked to me… I know but… I am so…
…
“waaaa!!”
What what happened?
Oooh… I fall asleep… a blanket is on top of me.
Hmmm although Liz is strict, she is not that bad… she is 12… although I feel she is harder to approach than Maribel.
You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
In front of me there is a candle. The book isn’t on the table… I suppose she kept it on the shelf?
“Liz??? Helloo??”
“Hmm no one is here…”
-step step step-
I heard step outside the library.
“Liz? Are you there?”
I went out of the library but I saw no one.
-plop-
I heard a noise behind me… ok this is getting scary…
“…M-Maribel?? C-Can- Are you here?”
She should be getting her revenge…
“???”
A diary is on the table…
“Hello???”
Scary… but curiosity is stronger…
“Let’s read the diary…”
“Young Master? Liz told me you fall asleep. I am here to escort you to your room.”
“On my way”
Well I will read it later…
“Young Master you should study seriously, else when you get in to Ox, you will not have a happy school living life.”
Ox, the magic school… it is the best magic school from Heroic kingdom.
Heroic kingdom is the kingdom that my family lives in.
“Yeee~s”
At the end of the day father didn’t come home, mommy either…
“Let’s see what this diary has…”
Empty… if so why was it on the library?
Well I will going to sleep.
… …
Today is a good day, to begin with I didn’t have that nightmare.
“Young Master, let me help you with your clothes.”
“Yeee~s.”
This day went like the other until study time… when I decide to write on the diary I found a note on its first page…
“What is this?”
It was clean yesterday night.
Hmmm it is a spell…
It is a way to make an arcane ball!! But it is way different with the way teachers taught me…
Casting magic is about of mental affinity when you want to use a type of attribute…
For example my family used to have mental affinity with arcane magic.
There is also a matter of mental capacity, there are two types… capacity as a hardcore orthodox that do everything step by step, just how books explain it. It doesn’t matter if it is an introductory spellbook or a highly advanced spellbook written in a university… or capacity as a liberal… they can say bread, think of flower and cast the spell… I understand that both have good and bad stuff but I don’t understand that… it seems there is something else I still don’t understand as well…
This spell teach arcane ball not in the orthodox way… it is clearly different from what teachers’ taught me… I do understand it, it should be a liberal way… but it is from a book? It seems I need to study more… I will try it tomorrow at practice time at the courtyard.
…
Today is the day… I have to do it!
“Young Master! Good Luck!”
“I know you can do it Young Master!”
Maribel and Liz are encouraging me, I have to… this method I know I can do it.
The spell I was trying before was simple, it was an aria, and a set of motions that have to be done in a determined speed and rhythmically with the aria… sounds not that difficult but for some reasons I can’t do it… for more than a year I fail to cast the most basic spell…
This other version is easier, I have to collect mana around my hand after that I have to imagine a snowball on my hand and launch it, of course there is an aria but the diary doesn’t says I have to say it aloud…
There is a target in front of me, a scarecrow…
-bang- -crack-
… … …
a-a long silence… I I did destroy it, didn’t I?
”YYYYYYAAAAAY Young Master!!!!!”
“Congratulations Young Master.”
“I-I-I DID IT!!!!!!!!!”
“Yes Yes Young Master, but this is not enough to cry”
-giggles-
“I am not crying! A scrap from the scarecrow got into my eyes!!!!”
“Yes Young Master let me see your eyes.”
Th-that Liz sure is meanie!
She is Liz, my second maid, she is 12 years old, she doesn’t have that body as Maribel, but her voice is that of a girl. Her black hair is short, her maid uniform is different comparing it with Maribel, but it is the same with the other maids below 14 years, it doesn’t show her cleavage and it cover her arms as well. Her skin is pinkish and unlike the comforting aura from Maribel, Liz’s aura is colder, making it harder to approach her… but shows little details that proves she is a good person… her eyes are black as well, although her maid uniform cover her body, one could see two small bulks on the chest area, clearly she is girl.
“it-it’s ok, I will try again. Liz another target please.”
“Yes!”
I was able to succeed in casting it! I also don’t feel tire… that’s so great.
Mom and dad will be happy with this news.
The day pass like that I check the diary but I can’t see a new spell… hmm not even the one that I learned is here… well tomorrow will be another day.
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-step step step-
Hurried steps can be heard in the middle of the night.
The residence of the Red Flame consist of a courtyard, backyard, a basement of two floors and 4 floors.
Andrei’s room is on the third floor, the library at the 2nd level basement.
Unlike the other 6 main flame families, the red flame, lives outside of the capital. Their residence lies in their area of governance, red sky providence. It once was one of the greatest place with high income, but two generations ago the red flame family fall in disgrace, thanks to the king’s mercy they were just demoted, but the repercussions were vast, trade routes were taken, minor nobles broken apart from the Red Flame…
That is a true that little Andrei has yet to know…
-steps steps-
Really low sounds could be heard on the main stairs that leads to the fourth floor.
-knock knock-
On the 4th floor, near the main stairs a maid knocked a door.
-creak-
The door opened. The sight of a young man could be seen, he wasn’t on his pajamas even though it was late into the night.
“Maribel, I told you not to contact me in the house, walls have ears.”
He was the oldest son of the head of the house, Gabriel.
“I know. I am sorry but Master I have something to tell you urgently… May I come in?”
“…Sure…”
She went inside and stayed there for a couple of hours.
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