As dawn broke in the land of the first star.The newly elected Prince has awakened from his slumber.
Days turned into week,and weeks turned into months ever since his entire ordeal had happened.
As he was living under the royal family,he couldn't believe the amount of riches that he had access to even thinking that it had surpassed his biological father's networth.
Even as the prince he still had duties that had to be done around the palace, that included cleaning the shrine.Free rather liked the shrine because it was a quiet,shaded place, people rarely visited the royal shrine anyways so he always had time to sit there alone minding his own business,either scrolling mindlessly on his phone or sketching whatever came into mind in a blank book he found in his room.
He found peace sitting alone with his thoughts.though the real reason he sits outside is because the WiFi reception in the palace is terrible.
"Maybe royalty isn't bad after all"
Said the prince to himself
He laid his head back on the wall of the shrine drifting asleep.
Half an hour later his adoptive father woke him up
"Free"
"What are you doing over there"
"Get your butt off the ground,there's much to do"
"Come over here and continue your training"
"Today I'll be teaching you one of the family's techniques"
Free reluctantly got up dragging his half asleep body to the back of the palace preparing for his martial arts lessons
"My son,today's the day"
"I, the emperor will be teaching you the ancient techniques of my bloodline"
"Passed down from the time the founder of this kingdom set foot in this land"
The emperor said with a stern face
"But you must always remember,to not use these techniques unless necessary"
"Time after time again, whenever someone in my bloodline has even tried to use any of these techniques,a heavy toll is taken by the body"
"The day we first fought,I used one of the techniques against you and the attack, though knocking you off balance, strained my arm and my back"
"Consider this an honour"
The emperor said, grabbing a wooden sword off the ground
"Very well,Master"
As Free grabbed his wooden blade of the ground the session had begun
"Follow my movements"
Said the emperor
As he and his blade danced,the emperor moved with such speed and such grace.
His body moved in such a way that it seemed as if he was but a leaf in the wind.
That speed and grace later turned into a multiple powerful strikes delivering razor sharp blades of wins towards the direction he was facing devastating anything in front of it.The poor training dummy was obliterated a crater was left beneath the place it stood
Free was astonished by the amount of power that was delivered through that singular blow.
"It was only a wooden sword,but it managed to create a crater"
"Holy-"
"Your turn,Free"
Said the emperor with a smirk
And replicate the attack he did, dancing with a blade but something changed,not only did he do several cuts but he jumped in the air and did a slicing motion, landed diced the training dummy into several pieces,and released a burst of fire from his palms, incinerating the dummy.
"Did I overdo it?"
Questioned the prince
"Yes,by a mile"
"Magic shall only be used when absolutely necessary"
"As long as you have a weapon in hand,that weapon is your best friend"
The emperor said
"Yes,master"
Said the prince
Moving on...
As many feats of extreme power were displayed by the master and as his disciple replicated them with many mistakes.
They both trained until the sun set, perfecting Free's techniques.
As the sky turned dark the emperor told free to meet with the royal sorcerers in the forest.there they will be teaching him how to utilize his affinity for magic in order to combat demons.
As one of the sorcerer's predicted that the moon will be stained with a blood red light, reanimating the dead from their places of rest.
The sorcerer's greeted the boy with a smile.
"Well boy, we've taught you all we know for combat"
"I can tell that you absolutely despise using magic to help"
Said the main sorcerer
"Pretty selfish if you ask me"
Whispered one of the arch-mages
"Now as the dark night sky is stained a blood red,the dead shall rise once again"
"You're test free is to eradicate all of the undead"
"Seems easy enough"
Boasted the young boy
And the night sky lit up with a crimson hue,the moon releasing a brilliant red glow.
The earth began to shake as the dead rose once again, the forest that they stood in used to be a battlefield which lead to it being the grave of many unfortunate soldiers and mages who were killed in the war.
Magled corpses began to reanimate, clawing their way out of the dirt,some were perfectly preserved,some had only bones left,others were still left to rot.
Free channeled all his magical prowess,his heart glowed a bright white as the spark of creation bestowed upon him the power to manipulate the elements.
Charging headfirst he released a burst of flame and incinerated a number of the deceased,later he threw sharp blades of wind dismembering a number of the other rotting corpses.As more were approaching him he summoned a stone pillar in order to get some high ground.
Stop the pillar he channeled the energy around him and changed its properties to be as hard as rocks creating an impenetrable defence,he then harnessed the power of the wind creating a gust of air launching him up high,in the air he manipulated the ether around him to materialize a lightning bolt striking it into the ground as he fell
Creating a explosive burst of light destroying even more of the dead.This all went one until the sun rose eradicating the dead with its golden rays.
The head sorcerer came back with a clipboard and a pen.
"Mhm"
"Yes,very good"
"A little collateral damage but it's negligible"
He mumbled as he jotted down the results
"So did I pass?
Asked an exhausted free
"You did,but you'd have gotten a better score if there wasn't much collateral damage"
Said the sorcerer as he pointed to the landscape
What used to be a forest is now a land filled with ash,random stone structures protruding from the ground,and several craters.
"Good job boy"
"But alas this is all I can teach you"
" you have to be on your own now"
Said the sorcerer
The boy sighed with relief but quickly panicked as had to get back home, though he was exhausted he couldn't miss his adoptive fathers lessons and his mother promised him to teach him more about the countries history.
The prince ran out of the forest stopping mid run looking borh left and right
"Crap,where did I come from"
"Was it here"
"Here?"
"MAYBE HERE?"
The boy said panicked
The sorcerer who didn't have time to deal with this teleported him back to the palace.
Free looked relieved as he got to the palace only to find a very tense atmosphere.
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