《The false master of death》


 Chapter 1 – Egg

    Early in the morning in a secluded old mansion in the middle of a forest, a little boy had just woken up in his almost elegant wooden bed, then after standing up, he washed his face, and changed into casual but warm clothes; once his routine was finished, he left the room to go downstairs to have his breakfast, but on the way down the stairs,he heard some familiar voices, speaking downstairs,he stopped a little to identify the owners of the voices which only It took a few seconds, then he ran to the bottom of the main staircase, reached the bottom, turned left and continued to face a door in front of him, he crossed it and when he saw the owners of the voices, he ran to one of them and then hug him while saying.


    "!Uncle Fermin!"


    Then the subject he was hugging, who shared many of his features, and was in travel clothes, answered him happily as he returned the hug.


    "Ohh little Refni, look when you have grown, how old are you? 7? 8?"


    "! Uncle, I''m not that big, I only have 6" the boy replied tenderly as he separated from his uncle.


    "?Really? but are you so big that it is as if you had, 7, surely you are not confusing yourself? " The uncle continued happily teasing his nephew.


    But the adorable encounter ended when a third feminine but serious voice, coming from an elegant woman with brown hair in the late 20s, entered the conversation addressing the child.


    "Honey, I know you are excited to see your uncle after so many months, but remember your manners, and say hello as it should be".


    "Yes. mother ... sorry," the boy apologized to his mother''s scolding, lowering his emotion, and then began to greet the gentlemen who were in the room, starting with the noble lord with similar features to the child, who was looking at him sternly.


    "Good morning, father," said the boy elegantly but without much emotion, to his father, to then continue to the rest of the people in the same way "Good morning, mother, Good morning Uncle Fermin, I hope you have had a pleasant trip.


    "Good morning, Refnier darling, how did you wake up?" Asked his mother monotonously.


    "Well mother, thanks for your preoccupation," replied the boy in the same way.


    "I''m glad, darling," adding his mother.


    On the other hand, Uncle Ferm¨ªn when seeing, upon seeing this greeting, wrinkled his face with disapproval, and at the end of this comment.


    "Hey, don''t be too hard and cold with the child, making him act like a snooty noble, come on, we are in a family and not in a ''prestigious'' meeting, that speaks and acts as you want.


    "Of course not brother" bluntly cut off the lord, and then continue "this boy is going to be the future head of the family, and as such he must learn early to be a firm and respectable noble, and it is better to go learning from now that he is small.


    "aff" Uncle Ferm¨ªn sighed inwardly as he thought


    [These stiff nobles and their rules, that''s why I left home to travel the world] and then continue talking


    "I just ask you to be a little kinder to the child, but ahhh well, we better get off the topic, umm hey Refni, come for a moment, I brought you something for you that I think you will like".


    "? Wow great! that you brought me, that you brought me" said the boy cheerfully as he jumped


    "Refnier ..., your manners." scold his father causing the child to become discouraged and passively comment.


    "I''m sorry ... Oh, Uncle Ferm¨ªn, I''m glad you brought me something, and I''m looking forward to seeing it".


    [You have to see ...] Ferm¨ªn commented to himself and then said to the boy, "Come small and look, let me take it out of my luggage."


    Then Ferm¨ªn rummaged through his luggage that was lying on the table, taking out something around the size of 1 and a half hands of an average adult wrapped in multiple rags, and then showing it even wrapped to the child.


    "Please Uncle Fermin, show me quickly what it is," said the boy with wide eyes and expectant excited by that big thing in his uncle''s hands, barely controlling himself so as not to be scolded.


    "Calm down, look, when I was on my trips, I ran into this and I thought about how you would spend it here without much company ..."Fermin started to say while very slowly unwrapping the gift.


    Meanwhile, the boy when listening to the last of the phrase, was even more excited imagining what was to come.


    "I decided to buy it from you, now look and see" When I finish talking at the same time I finish develop the package, revealing a large grayish egg with some brown spots and continued before the child spoke" Appreciate, this is a wyvern egg and apparently it lacks little to be born, you know that a true wyvern ?.


    "Yes, yes, a wyvern is a dragon, right?" The boy commented passionately.


    "Hehe, well it is not, but it seems a bit, but the important thing is that if you take good care of it, it will be a good companion and friend, even maybe you can become a wyvern rider and ride through the skies".


    "Amazing ..." commented the boy


    "All right, now come and drink and take good care of it, by the way, do not worry about the incubation, these beings are born even in the open, Fermin said to his nephew.


    Then Ferm¨ªn handed the egg to the child, leaving the child holding the egg with both hands, amazed, and then adding.


    "Hey I know you''re happy but why don''t you keep the egg in your room, it''s not like it was going to hatch immediately"


    "Hey yes, I''m going," said the boy


    But before he left, his mother stopped him saying harshly.


    "Wait there, ?don''t you need to say something to your uncle Fermin?"


    "Ohh yes, sorry ..., thank you very much Uncle Ferm¨ªn for this precious gift that you have given me with so much effort, I promise to take care of it and appreciate it" monotonously and happily thanked the child.


    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon."Aff, well you''re welcome, I hope you like it" replied his uncle


    About the exchange of words, the boy turned around and went to his room, once the boy was out of sight of the adults, his father told Ferm¨ªn.


    "You have to see, that bringing such a pet to that little one, this is only going to raise him badly, is that you do not think, also a wyvern ?you know the amount of food that thing eats ?".


    "hehehe if I suppose I went too far with the species, but it''s not like you couldn''t, keep it, also they can hunt so there wouldn''t be so much problem, and about the child, I think it''s good for him, since he doesn''t have No one to play with or to brighten your day, and it doesn''t help if you mistreat him so much, ¡±explained his brother".


    "We are very hard with him so that he is an excellent noble and hardens his heart so that he is not hurt," Refnier''s mother said


    "I think they are going because he is locked up here and not a friend of his age or another age has" asked Ferm¨ªn


    "Jum, you know as well as we do that this is a bad idea, you do not remember 2 years ago knowing his condition, you sneaked him to town to play alone, and do you know what happened?" Refnier''s father asked him.


    Hearing this, Ferm¨ªn''s face wrinkled into a bad state as if he were tasting a bitter bug.


    "That that unpleasant attribute of his was uncontrolled, scaring the people, we were lucky that he was not stoned as a dark magician when we found him; And the worst thing was that everyone found out, you can not imagine the shame for having a son like this and what we had to go through not to go bankrupt due to the distrust of the nobles and the money invested in satisfying the small towns, and all because of your idea to make the child have a little fun- Refnier''s father continued speaking sternly to his brother".


    but these words caused Fermin to get a little enraged and replied.


    "Oh come on, yes, sorry, it was my fault, okay, but even so that does not merit that they treat it like this and do not want it if it gives them so much trouble because they do not give it to me and they have another child, at least with me they should be happier.


    "You know that this is not an option since Clarisa when she was born, her attribute was manifested causing her to have no more children, and I will not lower myself to pass the shame of adopting a bastard of any nobleman or sin and get a bastard that represents us and more now that everyone knows that she is my first-time; so that child we have to teach him to be a severe noble so that nobody takes advantage of him and hurts the reputation of our house, and teach him to control his attribute so that he never makes a scene again and maybe people will forget that He possesses that attribute or in which case he believes that he purified himself or something like that" Her brother replied severely.


    "! You and your noble pride! not once that child is his son and not one ..." Fermin began to attack when suddenly the repeated cry of Refnier was heard from above.


    - Uncle Fermin, Father, Mother come, the egg is urgent, !the egg is breaking?


    The three adults at that time their glances at each other were causing sparks, sighed, and left the discussion for later, to go to the little boy''s room; when they entered, they found Refnier standing in front of his small desk, watching the egg, which turned its head to its guests saying urgently.


    "Come on, come on, I didn''t do anything, but the egg suddenly started to break".


    After that, the 3 curious and fighting adults, approached the egg to see the phenomenon, being Ferm¨ªn the first to comment upon seeing the egg.


    "Calm Refni, it''s just that he''s already being born, what a coincidence that he was born just the same day I brought him, they don''t believe it," he said calming his nephew.


    Following this the 4 patiently witnessed, only with the comments of the boy and his uncle, the birth of the wyvern, being in such a way that the egg began to crack more and more.


    "You know little Refni ?, the wyverns, another thing that differs from dragons is that these, like dogs, do not recognize the first thing they see as their mother as many birds and some species, so we are not here Nothing implies, that''s why you should always be with him and train him to be very faithful and obedient like a good dog or horse, haha, a huge and scaly horse hahaha ..., oh look, he''s showing off" commented his uncle Ferm¨ªn.


    meanwhile, inside the egg, it was already showing from inside, as some parts of the lizard were showing starting from inside the egg, until after a while, the upper part was torn off by the lizard, showing inside the egg, full of fluids a tender green lizard, with the racial peculiarity of having small wings like a bat but scaly, like front legs.


    "How cute," said the child amazed


    "If you''re right" commented his uncle


    meanwhile, the parents, although curious, had nothing to comment on.


    "Well, I suppose now you have to give it a name, right ?, although let me see if it is male or female- said Ferm¨ªn, approaching the lizard a little to analyze it better and continue saying" According to the one who sold it to me as it is a dark green, that means it is a male. since the females are green as grass, well now the mystery has been solved, you can give it a name, although that cannot be immediate, you have to think about it.


    "Then he''s a male, let''s see, let''s see umm! I know, his name will be Lifnerion as the great immortal dragon from the story of Yack the dragon hero".

 Chapter 2 – Fiancee

    Four months have passed since the unusual arrival of the pet wyvern at the mansion, from which, in the afternoon hours, from an upstairs room you could hear the unfortunate screams of a child.


    "Ahhhh stop please stop, I won''t do it again!" Shouted poor Refnier.


    "As if I were going to believe you a disobedient little good-for-nothing!" His father answered him angrily and then lashed him hard with a stick.


    "Ahh hurts, please! "Cry the child pitifully


    "Good, that pain will teach you to be responsible with your studies, what a shame it would be to meet the servants and that they would inform me when I arrived after an important trip, that my son, the future head of the noble family Domiteer, he spends it every day playing with his pet and neglecting his studies"


    Then his enraged father whipped the boy again.


    "Ahh no more, no more ..." Shouted and begged the poor Refnier.


    "??No more?! ?No more? Now I''m going to give you your ''no more'' " his furious father said provocatively, then continued to whip him over and over and over again for a long time in the Refnier''s bedroom until his anger had subsided.


    The father having cooled down, took the chair from the bedroom desk and then sat in it in such a way that a few steps ahead of him he was on the emaciated floor and his poor son was sore and hardly to cry in silence.


    "Look at you, this happens to you by neglecting your duties as a noble and spending your time-wasting like a riotous bum, like your uncle," said his father coldly to his pitiful son, who upon hearing his father belittle his uncle with little strength that still remains I look at his father unconsciously in a bad way"


    "?What? ?angry? ?Does it bothers me that I insult your uncle? Well, it hurts, he is a pathetic being good for nothing, who lost his status and nobility for being an unruly good for nothing just like you, that when He had nothing left, he had no choice but to become a wandering mercenary, although I suppose that with his attitude he is happy with it."


    "My uncle is not a good for nothing ..., he is an admirable person," Refnier replied painfully to his father.


    Hearing this, Refnier''s father, an angry fire erupted within his being, prompting every muscle in his body to rise strongly from his chair and instantly kicked hard in the torso of his son, leaving him in a fetal position, dying and then dying. say strongly.


    "?What will you know about your uncle, and! How dare you answer me!, You are just an ignorant little brat who only knows how to cry and bring shame to the family, not to mention that you have that damned attribute of the devil. I tell you the truth as you do not start acting like a noble and keep shaming me I swear that you will not see uncle anymore and I will kill that unfortunate lizard".


    After that, without waiting for a response from his son, he went to the exit of the room, but before leaving he turned to say one last thing


    Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author."Before I forget, when you can stand down, your mother and I have something to report to you."


    And with that said, the father unceremoniously left the room leaving his son dying on the cold floor in the afternoon.


    After a few hours, moments after twilight, the boy, still a little sore, was sitting face to face with his parents in the meeting room of the mansion, separating them from each other just a simple wooden table.


    "Well, honey, explain it to me, I''m not in the mood to deal with it," the boy''s father began the conversation.


    "All right, Refnier listens, the trip that your father made on this occasion went to the neighboring territory to meet with Count Bermunt about the future of our families, and it was concluded that an alliance between the 2 families was agreed through a marriage".


    "?Marriage?" Asked her son, a little shocked, predicting what it would bring her.


    "Yes son, marriage, you should already know what it means and that as the future head of the family you should already know what this implies, do not play ignorant, oh I deviated a bit, continuing, this alliance, in short, tries that they will give economic benefits through trade agreements and others, we in addition to some economic benefits will also provide you with the status and influence worthy of our trademark title. Do you understand


    "yes..."


    "Well, continuing with the marriage, the count has 2 children, you will marry in the future with his daughter Lady Sofia, who is the youngest and fortunately their ages coincide, and about her appearance and others, umm well, she will come with their father next month, to visit to formalize the commitment there you can check it ..."


    Interrupting his wife, the Refnier''s father explained


    "Yes exactly, they will come next month so you better prepare yourself as you should by then, because I swear that if the day comes you put us to shame I swear to the gods that I will kill that unfortunate lizard in front of you, ?you understand !"


    "Yes, father, I get it," said the scared boy.


    "You better, ?now go to your room! And don''t even think about going down until tomorrow."


    Next, the boy hurried to his room, after which when he entered and walking painfully, he went to a corner where there was a large cage that contained his precious pet and friend the wyvern Lifnerion.


    Already at the front forgetting his ills in the face of happiness, he opened the cage from which the little wyvern who was now the small dog size jumped to his chest.


    "Oh, ?Lif! How are you ..., I''m sorry for letting you be locked up, but your master is too weak to prevent it, but the bad thing is over, come and play for a while!" Said the boy, carrying the wyvern.


    After liberation, they both played and played without any food, ending both, late at night lying on the bed, and the boy burning the unconscious wyvern as saying goodbye to the day and welcoming the uncertain future, he told his best friend.


    "Tell me Lifnerion how that girl will be, ?will she is nice? ?Will she is pretty? I only hope that in the end, we will be happy ..."


    After the month the promised date had arrived, Refnier hiding his nerves and taking into account all the etiquette lessons, which he was brutally taught, he went out to the garden where his fiancee was waiting for him.

 Chapter 3 – Meeting

    "An angel"


    Refnier thought dumbfounded, seeing the adorable girl with golden hair, porcelain skin, sapphire eyes, and white and warm dress that was waiting for her sitting on the garden furniture.


    [Calm down, calm down, focus this is important]


    Coming out of him trance for a second Refnier approached the girl, and as if remembering a protocol, taking a few moments, he leaned very slightly while bringing her right fist to he heart and then tried to greet politely


    "Greetings and good morning, my ..., my beautiful lady, I hope that you are pa .., having a good time, allow me to introduce myself, although you will have to assume, I am Refnier Arkas Domiteer Colosses, the future heir to the Domiteer house".


    Next, the adorable girl smiled at him, and cheerfully replied after he stood up and made a slight bow of a lady.


    "Thanks for your concern and pleasure, I am Sofia Pristina Bermunt Conclave, daughter of Count Bermunt, hehehe, sorry, it seems like this is your first official meeting,?right?"


    "I ..."


    "Easy, I was nervous the first time when I attended my first tea party, so come on, let''s talk without worrying much."


    "Agree"


    After accepting the pain of a first-time Refnier sat in front of Sofia and both began to talk about life. In the beginning, Refnier did not speak much but he was gaining confidence during the talk, in which they touched on many irrelevant topics in a good way such as magic, the weather, and others a little more serious but superficially like the situation of both houses without exposing the dark things they might have, and also, Rafnier was learning that Sofia was happy and outgoing but still maintaining modesty.


    "?Do you have a pet wyvern? Kufunn, I''m sorry, I was surprised" Sofia said after Refnier mentioned her pet.


    Cheerful and proud of her pet, Refnier continued excited, trying to maintain her manners.


    "Yes, his name is Lifnerion and he''s just a 5-month-old baby, he''s very pretty and obedient".


    ¡°Ohh, tell me, wouldn''t you mind showing it to me, ?if it''s not too much trouble?¡± Said the girl, bowing slightly to Refnier looking at him with tender twinkling eyes and expectations.


    The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.Before such eyes and you beg he could just surrender and say.


    "Sure, but I have to go ask, I''ll be back".


    Already lost to the girl, Refnier entered the mansion to ask and after a while he returned smiling carrying little Wyver, who upon seeing him Sofia could not help but stop and approach and say.


    "Oh oh how cute"


    "Yes, this is Lifnerion but I tell you Lif, come on Lif say hello to Sofia," Refnier said as he directed his pet towards Sofia, but this one, instead of saying hello, roared and tried to bite the lady.


    "Ahh" the lady shouted slightly taking a step back avoiding the bite, at this the boy nervously said.


    "Sorry, I forgot that Lifnerion is bad with people but don''t worry, he is very obedient, look" he then turned to himself and repressed him saying "Bad Lif, don''t offend her, she''s good, if you misbehave I won''t give you food."


    After scolding him, he put him on the floor, and he looked menacingly at Sofia, who took other steps back at this, but then felt the threatening gaze of his master and calmed down.


    "Now Lif, go and SA-LU-TE to Sofia as it should. Sofia does not worry and stay still trust me".


    "Agree..."


    Lief then grabbed at Sofia''s feet, then sniffed her, looked at her, snorted, and then returned to her master''s feet.


    "You saw that obedient hehehe"


    "Yes, I see ..., but it is impressive that you have tamed a wyver, in the future when it grows you will be able to ride it and be a wyver knight, that would be impressive, according to my father there are only 5, and they are very, very strong".


    "?Right yes? my uncle and my father also say so"


    And with these prayers and more the two children continued talking and playing with the Wyver until it got late and it was time to have dinner, apart from here and for 5 days Sofia''s family stayed while they made the commitment official, Refnier was very Happy and he got his first friend, but this happiness faded, when after his parents and he saw the carriage go away until he saw her, his father violently turned him by the shoulders and told him strongly.


    "??Are you an idiot or what?!"


    "?Huh? What happened I did wrong, I think ... that I behaved very well ... father"


    "?Not that!, fortunately ..., what happens that you are lost by her, by the gods, that''s why I tell you that you are! You idiot."


    "But ... this ... is not true ..." said the boy with the red face


    "Just look at your face, afffff, look I''m telling you now so that you don''t forget, you''re going to be the head of the family, not her, you''re the one who is going to be in charge, that''s why, more You better hold back those feelings and have sanity, or it will go terribly wrong if she has bad purposes.


    "But she ... is a good, father ..."


    "? You who will know if she is good or not!, You who will know if she is not cheating on you, you are only a credulous innocent child, begin to mature, there are nobles of your age who already kill their brothers by power, and girls who manipulate their fianc¨¦es as they get old fiancees to get what they want, ?React once!


    "Sorry ... ?but what about mother??you and she is not married?" Refnier said saying his sight to his mother who was right next to him who replied seriously


    "Honey, your father is right, you can''t trust anyone, in our case it was a marriage for convenience for both of us, I wanted something, he too, and about love and trust, it''s just something secondary that appeared later, that can or it may not appear in your case, I have acquaintances who destroyed their husbands in the past, now look at me and promise us that you would not trust that girl, ?okay?"


    "Yes ... I promise ..." said the resentful boy, but in his inside, that promise was not valid.

 Chapter 4 – Happy Day

    Refnier who lived almost all the time in a boring and lonely monotony in the mansion, caused by servants with revulsion towards him and tough parents. The passage of time was lived very slowly and suffocatingly, killing his childish spirit little by little, but, however, at 5 years he met his uncle for the first time, and it was he and his subsequent but very few visits, who were able to Heal his spirit and instill in him the arts of rebellion and disobedience typical of a child, which I use repeatedly to let off steam later even though this causes him to be punished.


    Although his happiness improved with his uncle and his teachings, loneliness was still a significant factor that constantly eroded his spirit. But this changed, a year later when his uncle brought Lifnerion the Wyver into his life, forming with him, his first happy constant fixed in his life, a deep bond of friendship as well as an emotional attachment of equal proportion to the animal, making him little little by little a more complete child, even if he is dependent and sensitive to his pet.


    But who would say that the child would be completed when 4 months later, he would meet his fianc¨¦e, with whom he would develop his first and innocent childhood infatuation without him realizing it in his first meeting, and that later as the visits between them were carried out , was considering her an important being in his life, completing the child''s joy. And now after 2 years now the 8-year-old boy, in a spring like many others, was practicing his magic with Lifnerion and his little Golem the same size as him.


    "Come on Lif tries to dodge this"


    Refnier said sending a command through a wave of mana his small mannequin-shaped golem, which received the order, jumped to attack the Wyver now the size of a medium dog, who responded adequately elusive and effectively attacked with A claw to the mannequin throwing it towards its master.


    "Good, great. Well done, Lif, but let''s see if you can handle this," Refnier said, sending the golem to attack again.


    "Wow! It seems that your technique with the golem is improving every time I come," Sofia said, suddenly appearing behind Refnier, making him disconcentrated and making the golem not avoid Lif''s claw and was unfortunately thrown to the ground.


    "Ahh Sofia, what a surprise, I thought you would arrive tomorrow".


    "Well we thought so, but a stagecoach was canceled, so the trip was faster"


    "Oh I see, how sad".


    "Don''t worry, it wasn''t important, but it really surprises me no matter how many times I see it, how can you handle that golem, I never could and I''ve tried."


    If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it."This is not surprising, I simply have no talent, my father always tells me that at his age he could control 3 at a time and fight seriously with them".


    "Don''t say that, I think it''s because you don''t practice enough and you play a lot with Lef"


    "Ohh don''t say that you look like my father."


    "Hahahahahaha" both laughed


    "But I don''t know why you say that amazing to use golem, they never seemed to me the great thing it takes a lot of study and they don''t do the great thing, better is your water magic that you can attack and heal with it just by manipulating your mana".


    "Hey, don''t underestimate your family that dedicates itself to the golem, besides the water is also difficult to handle, I always need to be still so that the water doesn''t fall and not even think about turning it into steam or ice".


    "You say that but you always beat me in a duel, and that even Lif sometimes helps me".


    "That''s why you don''t practice diligently hahaha."


    "Ahh let you laugh, come let''s have a duel to erase that smile".


    "?Wasn''t it that you couldn''t beat me? Stuff to try".


    "Ahh I can''t stand you when you get like that, ?do you want the duel or not?"


    "Well good, I just can''t resist when you get mad like that, but expect me to switch to something suitable."


    "Oh well it''s fine, I''ll wait for you here".


    and agreeing to the duel, Sofia went inside to change while Refnier planned his tactics, and after 20 minutes Sofia appeared with a dark blue simple magician''s tunic with light blue stripes on the sleeves, neck and one that went down the middle from the robe from the neck to the floor that covered it in its entirety, in addition to a bucket of water, which was carried by a maid behind her.


    "It took you a long time" Refnier said complaining.


    "Of course not ..., ?so shall we start?"


    "If we start, the same rules as always, no physical attacks or Lif".


    "Agree".


    And with all said, both invoked at the same time their magic forms, Refnier with his magic raised his golem and put him in attack posture, on the side of Sofia she concentrating, raised with her mana all the water in the bucket forming a shapeless water snake around her, in doing so she commented.


    "As I said the magic of water is also difficult, another reason is that a true magician of water, forms water from the air, by means of spells and not with a bucket¡­"


    "Yes, yes, whatever you say, you start the ladies first."


    "Oh thank you, Mr. Knight wyvern, then I will take your word


    That said, she snapped a handful of water at high speed from her snake to Refnier, who could barely dodge it and said next.


    "I also tell you, that manipulating a golem is useless since it takes time to send orders".


    next, he sent his golem to her, who without moving with the flick of her snake, sent him to fly to his owner.


    "It''s because you lack practice ..."


    "?Enough with that!"


    Then the duel unfolded with ease, resulting in half an hour to a Refnier all soaked with his golem on a tree branch, and Sofia unharmed with only a third of her snake.


    "I lost" said the drenched Refnier.


    "I do see it, but this time you managed to lower my water to less than half".


    "I don''t know whether to rejoice, or feel bad".


    "Best first, hey, ?how about we go and eat something?"


    "Okay, okay, but wait for me to change."


    And as such it was part of a joyous day for Refnier in the company of his pet and his fiancee and friend Sofia, a joyous day that Rafnier appreciated his insides and struggled enough, with enough studies and minimal behaviors not to receive severe punishment and prohibitions.

 Chapter 5 – Festival

    Every year in autumn in the Domiteer territory as well as in the rest of the country, more specifically at the end of the fifth month the autumn festival is held to honor the gods and the people for the last harvest of the year, but nevertheless Refnier He cannot celebrate it every year in the town due to his special circumstances, but this year, that is about to change through an innocent invitation from his fianc¨¦e.


    "Refnier, ?how about we run away to the festival for a while tomorrow?"


    "I don''t think it''s possible ..., you know I''m not allowed to go to town, Sofia" Refnier replied


    "That is why I said ''we escaped'', without anyone knowing".


    "That really would be a terrible idea."


    "Let''s try it, it would be boring to go to the festival alone with my parents like every year, and especially that we are in the capital of your territory".


    "Sofia I would also like to go but..."


    "But, nothing is going to happen, we leave in the morning saying that we will train or something, and at that moment we go for a while and return, ?easy no?"


    "Sofia I tell you, that ..."


    "I don''t want excuses, I have no idea of ??your circumstances, but it''s not fair that you have to miss all the things in the world like this festival, ?don''t you think it''s unfair?"


    "Well, if it seems a little..."


    "?Right not?, then why do you doubt, go ahead and go, and if your parents worry you, if they catch us, I will say that you are kidnapped hahaha, tell me what you say".


    "Aff good is fine, all right".


    "Yes, yes, great," said Sofia, hugging Refnier happily, who was complaining with a blush.


    Then both were planning their daring escape until the afternoon, and then the next day they implemented the plan, this consisted of the following, during the morning until shortly after noon, the parents of both were going to be in the mansion and on the side Of the servants, more than half were going to be at the festival and taking advantage of that time lapse both were supposedly going to be playing with the overlay of a trusted servant from Sofia, but in reality they were going to use that time to go to the festival and to return everything in 2 hours, and on the side of the maid she will only be pretending vigilance. Later, the plan being successful, both of them were now in a happy and festive city.


    "Awesome, look Refnier,?isn''t it wonderful? Refnier, ?are you okay?"


    Sofia finished saying when she saw a stunned Refnier bordering on panic, which reacted with her words and said.


    "Oh yes, I''m fine, you know I can''t talk about my circumstances but, I think I can tell you that part of my confinement is due, that one day I was here and it didn''t go very well."


    "Ah, I see, but don''t worry, I don''t think it will happen again, besides, I don''t think they know you or something, and above all, ?am I not here?"


    "Yeah well you''re right, but rather we will be fine if I''m here hehe"


    Refnier said regaining his manhood.


    "Says the one who hasn''t beat me once."


    "?Hears!".


    "We have no time to talk, we are going to have fun."


    and with the cut of Sofia both entered the bustle of the festival, in which during the time they were there, they bought sweets, played some games, danced in the plaza centering in the middle of a lot of people, among other things, until The time to return was getting closer and they had to withdraw but it was worth it because they carried the joy of a pleasant experience inside.


    But nevertheless, by chance of fate, as if a god were playing with Refnier''s fate, halfway through the forest where they escaped to reach the festival, from the shadows of the large and robust trees now gilded by the Changing the season, they were surrounded by 7 seedy hooded bandits, causing them to be frightened and saw each other nervously, being the leader in front of them he told them.


    "Jojo ... look what we have here, two little treasures, ?don''t you guys think so?" And in response to his question, his companions laughed soberly.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    "Who do you think, by lashing us in broad daylight and even closer to the Marques mansion, do you have death wishes?" Sofia said, trying with her natural courage to scare the thugs.


    "Wow, well, what a sharp tongue you have, little Sofia, ?isn''t it?"


    "You ... as you know my na..." Sofia said but was interrupted by the leader


    "?Your name? Well, we investigated it obviously, and yours was also scary, or should I say ?Refnier?.


    "Well, if you know, ?they must be wishing for death all the more reason!"


    "Pujajaja, poor children, you don''t know, you don''t know, ?how could they know?" In response the others also laughed, and then continued


    "Well, let me illustrate your situation a bit, hehe, ?I''m good, right? you will take it and nobody will know anything, ?why ?, because we do not make sure that nobody would come, now come and do not put up resistance, I would hate to damage the merchandise hahaha".


    Then as if they were experienced, they slowly approached with nets, swords, knives and with surveillance while they mocked and laughed at them, while the 2 children saw themselves and around them thinking about how to escape now, that Sofia had no water to use neither power with pure mana to achieve something similar to Refnier with the difference that he did not have a golem nor could he summon one from the earth.


    [What am I doing, what am I doing, this is wrong, we shouldn''t have gone, oh gods, they were all right, I''m very weak, and now what will they do to us ... and to Sofia what will happen ..., idiot, idiot,?what will we do?]


    Regnier thought disorderly before the complicated situation, but his thoughts stopped, when Sofia who was next to him, being terrified, unconsciously took his left hand with his right, but immediately they started off, now in desperate concentration.


    [What I do, what I do, they are very close, at this rate, no, do not think about bad things, focus, think, think, how to overcome these bastards, how I hate them, but not as much as my hatred of myself ... I hate, if that, I forgot, no, it is not that, I did not want to use it, and I do not want to but ] then Refnier took a look at the pale and scared Sofia, which gave her the determination to decide.


    "Sofia," he whispered to Sofia, "everything will be fine."


    Then without giving Sofia time to respond, I take a deep breath and exhale causing the bandits to be alert and their leader to say


    "Oh little scary man,?do you have a trick? Come on, show us, we want to see what a novice in magic can do against us, experienced thieves and KILLERS.


    "This ..." Refnier said softly releasing with him a sinister aura that gently expanded around him, giving chills to everyone present, and soon after the aura expanded, on Refnier was absorbing dark particles that appeared before him as if will invoke them from the air itself.


    Predicting the worst, the leader ordered hastily.


    "Quick for them, don''t let it end."


    "Late" Refnier said sinisterly, explosively expelling seven macabre and dark balls of mana efficiently hitting the 7 bandits with such force that the 4 were knocked down but this did not end here, moments later the victims began to agonize severely in the I floor screaming horribly in the process, except for the leader who with difficulty and pain was able to get up and tell him.


    "You, monster! Heretic! I will kill you, I will tear you to pieces, do not think that I am so weak to fall with that dark magic,! And do not think that we are only!, TRUE GUYS?"


    Saying that, from the trees several bandits appeared in perfect shape now angry and wanting to kill.


    "Tell me spawn of the devil, ?aren''t you tired? I see you pale, hehe."


    Certainly Refnier, he was tired of using his magic at such a level, but even so, either due to the effects of dark magic, or the adrenaline of the moment, he felt confident but also knew that the situation looked bad and as such, he went to Say a few heroic words to Sofia.


    "Sofia ... don''t worry ... Sofia?"


    But contrary to a face worried about the bandits, she found a scared face towards him, and knowing the reason why he tried to reassure her by saying.


    "Sofia ..., calm I am Refnier, your friend and I promise¡­"


    however, this resulted in poor results.


    "?Nooo, don''t come close! , ?Let go of me! " Sofia shouted trying to release her hand from Refnier''s slight unconscious grip, which was successful, followed by which she detached herself 2 step remembering the bandits around her, while Both Refnier seeing this again tried to reassure her, but the leader even in bad shape told him.


    "Hehehe look at you, that a demon laughing pretending to be a hero, hahaha even she knows that you are an evil being hahahaha."


    "? Shut up!" Refnier shouted furiously as he threw another black ball at him, which was in the dump, he was left wrapped in agony, but nevertheless this left him more and more mentally and spiritually exhausted, calculating to himself that he would not Many ammunition remained, and this worsened when more bandits were missing, the only thing in their favor being that they were held back by fear of him, but this did not last long and still he did not lose hope in the face of such well-known despair, he told Sofia, but also for himself.


    "Sofia, I know that¡­, I''m very scary, but don''t worry, we''ll get out of this"


    And with that said, a cold and slow encounter began, full of pose, giving an unpromising result of 3 more bandits dying, but 5 standing ready to attack a Refnier exhausted in the last and a Sofia paralyzed with fear.


    "It seems that you have run out of monster magic, you had scared us with that scared face but look at you now, everything was that was a lie hahaha, but now everything is clear, come on guys, I''m done" Refnier was going to finish one of the bandits when a date It went through his head, and then the rest were intercepted by multiple arrows from the surroundings, and referring to seeing the bandits fall he said relieved.


    "We saved ourselves, what a relief."


    He immediately fell on the floor exhausted, waiting for his rescue, which took the form of his father''s soldiers with him guiding them, and when he saw and analyzed his exhausted son, Sofia terrified and the state of the bandits dying, he deduced what happened, he lost his son and told him.


    "I am very disappointed, after the Count''s family leaves, we discuss your punishment."

 Chapter 6 – The beginning of twilight

    A new moon night, dark and silent like many others, passed with indifference in the Domiteer mansion, a few years ago, when little Refnier had just turned 7 years old, he was alone with his father in the attic, only lit by some candles that only serve to increase the terrifying ghostly atmosphere projected by the silhouettes and leftover furniture and other things that had been lost in it.


    "Son, listen carefully, what is going to be very important to your life, ?how many types and attributes of magic do you know?"


    The boy replied somewhat nervously.


    "Wind, fire, water, earth, light and darkness Father"


    "Well, I suppose you learned something from your tutor, but that''s just the basics, there are many more depending on the attribute and how you use it".


    "Null and lightning would you lack for the attributes, the handling of the mana in its pure state are null, and lightning the control of the energy. There are specials such as the control of plants or living beings, or light literally. But today I focus on 2 light and dark, more specifically in the dark, your attribute of birth, the attribute of absolute evil".


    When he was done talking, the nervous boy silently gulps and increases his tension.


    "But before I will tell you about what you have, I suppose you are wondering, because of what you have, will it be that you are a demon or not, the truth is not so masterful, it''s more, so not entirely clear, but the truth is that you are not evil or anything like that, the magical attribute or affinity of a magician you can call it as the particularity or talent of your soul and mana, if you are good in a certain element, this can vary your level, from just having talent literally feeling The element as a part of your body".


    The father took a breath and continued.


    "This attribute along with the amount of mana and the ability to control mana, is cultivated through the generations, that is why the old families are so deadly and terrible, but this is only an advantage, it is not the law, he saw subjects rise from nothing to the glory. Now about our family, we by inheritance try to cultivate the attribute of the earth, being my case and that of your mother the attribute of earth, but here you enter your attribute of darkness, where it came from."


    The boy held his breath waiting for his father''s response.


    "And the answer is, by chance, as normal like that, your mother and I in our despair for a son like you, we investigated, the answer was something that was at the public''s hand, luckily, and dictates, that things like spontaneous mutations like being born white, it also happens with the attribute, and there are several cases of that, like from a long-lived family of fire attributes, there are suddenly born with the attribute of water, and several more cases throughout history, you are one of those, a causality."This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    The boy was then able to sigh in relief after a long time, but the father continued.


    "Yes, a coincidence, an unfortunate coincidence, tell me ?do you know what the dark attribute is?"


    "?Is ... is ... something wrong?"


    "You lack more to cover, the attribute darkness by definition next to the light or rather the sacred attribute forms the serious the attributes of karma or karmic support. Good and bad, light and darkness, two sides of a coin and above all rare and strong only when it has a good affinity as in your case, The sacred attribute are characterized by giving beneficial support such as increasing dwelling, healing, among others, on the other On the other hand, darkness is its opposite, it is characterized by causing damage, fear, and other harmful things."


    After a pause, the father continued.


    "?But now the detail, how? Easy here comes their category as karmic support, since they, through the other elements, are manifested, ?in what way? automatically, according to the affinity and the magician, but in their base form is useless, the sacred could a magician issue a relaxing aura, while the dark one oppressive aura, ?so far you understand?


    The boy nodded and his father continued.


    "Now why do you to those of dark attributes so hated, 2 reasons the church, and the influence and power of its attribute. The first is that the church abhors darkness and spreads habit and rumors against it, and the reason why there is more of its faith and its history, has to do with the second, you should know that with the talent of affinity sometimes not always there is also a temperament to match, but this is half-true since for normal elements it is something very indifferent, but not for light and darkness, which are elements that have to do with morals and feelings, these if they can affect your mind, if they are misled, stupid brave heroes who die in vain, saints who donate everything by starving or betrayed by envy, they are some bad examples of light, the detail is that their actions are almost always good for others and are well regarded."


    The father took a deep breath and continued.


    "The darkness, on the other hand, can form the worst maniacs and angry villains only by the last simulated in some way, and of course their actions are all less good, this is why their attribute is hated and is So dangerous, influence bad actions and improve your destructive power, that is more than enough. So ?why am I telling you all this?"


    The boy looked at him, believing a little that he was bad again.


    "For you to know what you are, and thus be able to have a base to start to control it, and you had better succeed, I would hate to know that this old family would end up with a criminal in charge, therefore from today you will come at least 2 times a week without anyone even knowing and you will get to practice your attribute, you understand"


    The boy nodded, regaining hope a little


    "Well, I''ll leave you, but you know, nobody knows, and he never uses those powers in the presence of others, remember that you only practice it for control purposes, not to use them."


    And with that I leave the Refnier alone in the gloomy attic, starting with this the gloomy and secret independent classes that years later would be able to face an accident.

 Chapter 7 – Fracture

    Once the full and perennial darkness brought by the new moon has begun and almost nonexistent winds, dark and sinister clouds softly covered the entire starry sky that adorned the stellar view of the Domiteer territory, giving rhythmically slight threatening grunts like a pack of ferocious beasts Slowly cornering his prey he traced himself, as the hours of the night passed.


    At 10 o''clock, in a world in total darkness, due to the thick blanket of clouds that finished covering the sky, between the constant rhythm of its soft rumble representing the prelude to the work, it gradually fell until it increased to the entire mantle, Silently and softly, cold and indifferent tears of sadness, the constant sound of which was the background of his mother''s great trumpets, which now presented the beginning of the work, which its events are sinister and unknown.


    12 at night, thunderous saucers invoked by the twinkling dragons and trees that began to dance between heaven and earth, brought with each movement, flashes of painful and stressful memories formed together as the nightmares now lived in Refnier''s dream, which the origin and forms of these were triggered from the unfortunate accident of the festival throughout the week until today.


    Both double-faced families reunited trying to take the blame to themselves, A confinement in a dark attic as punishment and the face of fear of his loved one, can be seen changing to the sound of the dance between heaven and earth until everything it was darkened by the illumination of the awakening at the end brought to the beginning of the work, saying goodbye to it the brief dance of a magnificent nearby tree that brought with it the rhythm of the soft voices of the chorus that adventures the beginning of the interlude of the work.


    "Ahh!" Refnier wakes up at the beginning of the interlude, rising from the cold wooden floor of the dilapidated attic where at certain times it was used for his private practices.


    "Aff, was a nightmare ..., it is raining " he finished saying when realizing his situation and looking at the window to see the brief dance of the electrical discharges.


    "Sofia I hope you forgive me, Lif... Damn, lif I hope you are well ..."


    ''Knock Knock knock ''


    Refnier listened and noticed some slow but strong footsteps that went up to him and that were sounding harder until he reached the door now invisible in the dark, and then it is suddenly opened, showing his dark father carrying a lamp which dimly illuminated the place, which coldly and with controlled anger said briefly.


    "Follow me"


    That authoritative word was more than enough for the still sad Refnier to follow him without even saying a word.


    Only the sound of the footsteps of the 2 together with the symphony of the storm, could be heard while both, alone illuminated by the small lamp, constantly walked to the entrance of the backyard.


    Once there, the father turned around and said seriously to his son, who wondered what was going on.


    "I warned you, it''s time for your punishment"


    And when he finished saying it, he suddenly opened the door, welcoming the storm to the house, and at the same time entering the end of the interlude.


    Wind, thunder, lightning, and rain were witnessed and felt by a frightened Refnier, through the door and much more when his father urged him to follow him towards the limits of the garden without any covering of the elements.


    "We arrived, go look carefully."


    His father spoke pointing to the beginning of the forest and Refnier when he saw, visualized 2 rows of soldiers carrying some with them furious monstrous hunting dogs barking at something in the darkness at the end of between the 2 rows.


    "What will it be ..., I hope not ..." Refnier thought trying to see in the background and praying that it was not the worst thing he was imagining, but nevertheless, by the lightning flash, he could see him, chained to a tree, harassed by the dogs, screaming and suffering from the cold, his pet, his friend and perhaps his family, the wyvern Lifnerion.


    "No. Lif no ... " Refnier said starting to sob and at the same time he was going to run for him, but his father''s hard hand grabbed him by the back of his shirt stopping him, then turned him around and said.


    "Yes, it is," his father said in response, the back lightning thunder accompanying him, beginning the dark climate of the work.


    "Did I tell you, no?" His father continued, "and many times the truth, that if you ever let me and the house down again, that beast would die, and now is the time."


    Then Refnier fell to his knees and beggedSupport the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    "No, please no, father, I''m sorry, I''m sorry, I''m sorry for using dark magic but that was only to save us."


    "?no! ?apologies!" He said as he slapped him so hard with the back of his right hand, that he threw him to the floor.


    "Look at yourself pathetic, weak, ?begging for an animal! ,?Where is your strength?,? Where is your nobility? ?You are just a spoiled and unruly childish child! ? What do you feel? ?So why did you escape?


    "Sorry, sorry."


    "?You only know how to say that, knowing you she was the one who urged you to this.!"


    "Sofia not ..."


    "?Be quiet! by the way, you are a liar, look at yourself defending and lying for a stranger, who you do not know who planned on you."


    "No.."


    "Shut up, your escape, your disobedience, these things would probably only severely punish you and not bad at all, but using your magic that''s something I can''t tolerate, didn''t you see the faces of Sofia and her family, ?didn''t you? ,?Did you dress well? repulsion, disgust, fear, contempt, that is the opinion of people in general about dark magic, now, the earls already knew about you, but until now they only thought of you as an unfortunate patient, ?but now? If it wasn''t that I fairly convinced them, they would think you were a heretic, ?did you hear ? heretic, dark magician, monster.


    "But I save her ..."


    "?Does it matter?, By the gods, it would have been better if they kidnapped you and then went to save you than go through this, and furthermore it shows how weak you are, if you had practiced the magic of golem as it should, you would have defended yourself, but no, you are lazy and weak, you think I don''t know that you are only trying hard enough not to get my attention, because no if I know if it wasn''t for your mother I would have whipped you properly.


    "I''m sorry, I''ll improve, I will study carefully..."


    "?Will you study? ?will you improve? It is late, it was late when you used your dark magic instead of the Golem for lack of study and practice, and now is your punishment, your retribution, for being disobedient, for being weak, look" The father point to the wyvern and continued


    "There is your precious wyvern, chained and weak, and when the order will release the dogs to eat it" as he said this, the Refnier became more and more desperate, but the father continued.


    "But rejoice, you have a chance to save him, just go and rescue him as you like, so you will show me that you are not useless, now, the guards will not do anything to you, the dogs either and even me neither, but that you will not be able to use Dark magic because if you do, I will simply participate and you don''t want that to happen, ?right?


    When he finished saying the rules, Refnier in his despair saw a little hope."


    "Oh it seems you look determined, that''s good, so let''s get started,?guards let them go!"


    And to give the order, the guards released the dogs you want, they went to the wyvern by their side, the boy desperate for the sudden start, ran towards his friend, who was unfairly far away.


    Squeals of pain began to be heard seconds later, but he was still 20 steps away, luckily Lifnerion was rude and could resist but not for long.


    When Refnier arrived where Lifnerion was surrounded without space for him, but even so, he entered between blows and scratches to his now very injured friend.


    "Stay away."


    "Taking."


    "Get away."


    "Hold on Lif, we can do it"


    Refnier said, desperately hitting the dogs either with neutral magic or with blows without doing much damage to these half-monster dogs and also vainly protecting Lif who was receiving more and more injuries.


    And at the end of the whole, both already wounded, a dog knocked Refnier down trapping him, while the others taking advantage of the fact that Lif was badly hurt, threw themselves on the covering him and attacking him with ferocity.


    "Noo, getaway, get out!" Refnier said wildly at his situation and then released himself to find himself before the cruel helplessness of not crossing the dogs and saving his friend."


    "?No!,?No!, Outside, outside, don''t hurt him, please, ?no Lif!"


    Refnier kept trying to get past, screaming and pleading, as the rhythm of Lif''s heartbreaking screams grew louder, but then faded, amidst the sounds of the storm, the growling of dogs and the tearing of flesh.


    "Getaway ... please ... stop, no more ... sorry, Lif, sorry, sorry"


    He said sobbing and hitting in total sadness and hopelessness to the mound of dogs playing with his food.


    "Stop"


    His and the guards immediately said, they called or looked for the dogs, leaving Refnier and the cold remains of Lifnerion alone, which were embraced as they had the opportunity without caring about the loose parts that came from him to Refnier who was now muttering inconsistencies while crying his body.


    "Lif already happened, already happened, you did very well ..., you were very rude ..., you are the best, the best, the best ..., those dogs were very ugly, yes, but everything is fine, do not worry, you are already ..., in a place ..., better, you can ... rest ..."


    And he kept muttering as little by little his eyes died in pain.


    "?Why don''t you move? ... Why don''t you wake up? ..."


    Continuous and continuous, as his body cooled and his mind reasoned.


    "Because ... this happened, it''s my fault, I''m weak, it''s my fault, I''m useless, I''m the worst, I ... killed him ..."


    And he continued in his misery with his friend, while little by little his soul fractured.


    "I ..., because ... no ..., no ..., mu died, yes ..., I''m bad, I''m sorry, Lif you''re the best ..."


    And he went on and continued crying now in lifeless silence, holding the corpse firmly, even after the guards left, even with the storm now fading into a sad epilogue, even as he followed his father back to the mansion, it continued even when she slept with him in his bed and it continued when he swore before sleeping.


    "I ... will be ... strong ... I ... will be ... well ... I ... always ... will be with you."

 Chapter 8 – Normal day

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 Chapter 9 – The end of a path

    There is a very common and very accurate saying among people, everything that begins has an end, like those hours of the day that are about to end to make way for the night, called hours of twilight. Hours like these spent on the 24th day of month 5 of the 1312 calendar are those that Refnier is currently spending on a Sunday like any other while walking the streets of the city.


    [This is my second date with Sofia I am excited, calm, calm, walk with nobility and naturalness, ahh I hope not to arrive very early what a serious pity, you must manage my time, maybe this time the 2 of us will kiss ... hehe].


    This and other things was thinking to be excited, or contrary to what was shown on her cold face.


    [Well it seems like here, the restaurant the thousand flavors.]


    reasoned Refnier when he was in front of a large luxurious restaurant, and then entered it, inside he was received by a receptionist who, after validating it, called a waitress who guided him to his reservation in a large room at the back with nature to be more discreet and relaxed.


    Crossing the great threshold into the room, Refnier, guided by the innkeeper, settled at a table in the middle, which was the only one empty in the room.


    "Well, here is your nobility, if you wish I can bring you water while you wait" offered the innkeeper


    "Yes please"


    Moments later the innkeeper leaned down and left the room, leaving Refnier alone with his thoughts as he waited for Sofia.


    After half an hour had passed, entering the threshold, Sofia herself appeared dressed in a beautiful light blue dress, which her beautiful presence was captured by the lover Refnier who unconsciously smiled while blushing, nevertheless, this smile only lasted a few moments since Behind Sofia appeared a refined and young twenty-year-old gentleman in white armor with delicate golden ornaments, who added to the intricate crest of his chest, Refnier could identify him as a paladin of the church, a character whose father always warned him not to get involved with them because of their attribute.


    [?What is a paladin doing here?]


    It was the quickest thought that arose due to his concerns, but these increased when he followed Sofia to him.


    "?What is it?, ?Why is he following Sofia?"


    She kept thinking similar things at high speeds and all of this lasted a few seconds until they both reached a few steps from their table and Refnier could only answer by getting up and asking Sofia.


    "Nice to see you Sofia, ?may I ask?" ?Who is honorable ....?


    But this greeting was interrupted by the paladin, who replied in a rude and superior manner as if looking at an infectious rat.


    "Silence, the scum of evil, your voice corrupts the environment, I will tell you at once, I am Rouguer Alfer Paladin of the Holy Church, you have been judged as a heretic for the practice of necromancy and dark magic, and I have come to take you to the holy see to receive your sentence."


    At the paladin''s words, he was frightened but still maintained his composure and replied.


    "Honorable Paladin, I think you make a mistake, I am not a black magician nor have practiced any heretical art, this must be a mistake."


    "Ahh your hypocritical words, my ears are repugnant, as you dare to antagonize a holy agent of the church, but in my immaculate grace and mercy, I will please you by showing you the proof of your evil, and that the holy gods know that my patience towards you It is because, unlike beings like you, our teaching dictates that we must respect the rights of our fellow men, now Brother Bastian brings proof of his filth."


    At the paladin''s command, from outside the threshold appeared a knight in silver armor slightly inferior in elegance to the paladin''s and whose crest on his chest was different, Carrying a box in his arms.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    [Now a temple knight, ?but what is he wearing? ...?It can''t be! ?How?] Refnier paled when he saw his friend Lif''s coffin and what this implied.


    "Oh it seems that you recognize it, so I''ll be brief, we found this in your room, as well as visual witnesses of the practice of your hexes" he finished saying while pointing at Sofia who was effectively


    noticed by Refnier who began to deny the worst and out of unconsciousness and logic ask him.


    "Oh, it seems that you recognize it, so I''ll be brief, we found this in your room, as well as visual witnesses to the practice of your hexes," he finished saying while pointing at Sofia, who was effectively noticed by Refnier who began to deny worse and for unconsciousness and logic ask him.


    "?Sofia...?"


    Who answered him, coldly as if looking like a stranger.


    "Ufff, stop calling me familiarly, grotesque, I''m sick of it."


    "Sofia, ?what do you say?


    "Don''t call me that, your disgusting hypocritical monster, spawn of evil, uff I suppose I''ll explain it to you so you understand, you disgust me and I hate you, you don''t know how horrible I felt knowing


    that I was promised such a thing."


    At these words, Refnier''s mind fell into despair and he could only react by asking for any hope or reason.


    "But I thought you got over it, plus you would have said something you felt rotten about solving it."


    "?How I could ?, Your house is higher than mine and even when I begged my parents they would scold me, saying that I had to put up with the family and that if I am not I would have to be my little sister, then how I could refuse, all this time, I was holding on, thinking about how to get out of this, until I discovered that classmate Vicrel Alfen had a brother who is a paladin, so I got a deal with him, that if he helped me in something I would be his wife,?you understand?"


    Listening to the explanation, Refnier''s mind fell into chaos and despair, trying to deny the explanation, seeking hope, given the facts that since the incident she never wanted him, she betrayed him and not only that, now she was going to marry someone who was not him.


    "Sofia tells me it''s not true, please tell me this is another one of your bad jokes."


    "Refnier, I''m telling you seriously, don''t call me with familiarity, I hate you, I detest you and I don''t want to have anything to do with you, I''m only here for the pleasure of seeing how you are finally brought to justice, Honorable Alfen, I''m sorry, by interrupting your work, you can continue."


    Ignoring Rafnier in shock, the paladin replied to Sofia with familiarity.


    "You don''t have to be so polite since we are going to be family and don''t worry about your actions, you only did the right thing by explaining with humanity the sufferings that you suffered for him and his sins, it is more than he deserved, well without deviate from the subject, it is time that we learn it, Refnier does not put up resistance or it will be worse for you."


    finish explaining the paladin while look at Refnier pending his answer who was mired in the darkness of the facts and the multiple negative feelings that made him turn in a whirlwind of great hatred and sadness, taking him to the brink of madness and savagery only controlled by his fragrant sanity, and it was only, ironically, his father''s words that resonated in his mind that brought clarity to the moment.


    [''Son, I keep repeating it to you so that you don''t forget, your magic is frowned upon and influences your feelings, don''t let it dominate you and become what you hate.'' ]


    Then emptying his mind of insane and negative thoughts, in preparation for the end, he said to Sofia.


    "You know Sofia since I was little you like me, and this was increasing when I was growing up and I feel terrible about the incident but there was no other way to save you, I want you to know that I didn''t want to hurt or dislike you, so tell me, from the incident, ?do you really hate me and isn''t this one of your jokes?"


    At these last words, Sofia only replied as if she were looking at a hateful plague.


    "I already told you not to call me familiarly, and yes, I hate you, this is the reality."


    Refnier upon hearing these words, his mind and heart collapsed at this regret, causing the smooth flow of great tears of agonizing pain and despair, through the soft skin of a silent and sad face, and, in the midst of the darkness of madness and pain, maintaining cold and delicate rationality, began to release its mana explosively.


    "Quick, go for him, don''t let him use magic," the paladin shouted, jumping back as a precaution.


    And at his orders, the people at the tables around him, who until now seemed to melt into ignorance of events, rose to him as a whole, taking out their weapons and then heading to Refnier, but it was too late, since he embedded his mana in the Dirt beyond the wood of the restaurant floor, then ripped it up with such fury that it covered the entire place with dust and debris as well as hitting several aggressors, during and shortly after the earth explosion.


    After a few seconds of the explosion, the paladin, now no longer covering Sofia, could finally see the damage caused and start looking for Refnier, but with misfortune, he could not find him.


    "Damn, he ran away, brothers in a hurry, ?he couldn''t go far! We also have her precious box."


    But the paladin, looking for the temple knight, found him unconscious and without the coffin, causing him intense hatred.

 Chapter 10 - Family

    The family is always with you, the family helps each other, the family is the only one you can trust, phrases like these and others, are used throughout the ages, in families, and, in many cases, tends to be true, and this certainty is what now depends on the devastated Refnier, with a broken spirit, on the verge of madness, all emaciated, with some wounds from the multiple persecutions through various territories, until reaching the door that leads to the grounds of his family''s mansion.


    "I am Refnier Domiteer, may I come in?" Refnier asked the guards who were guarding the posts.


    "Oh Refnier, your father predicted you would come, so go ahead and pass."


    Refnier was surprised by the ease of entering taking into account the events that occurred, but being tired and fed up with life, with a hurt spirit and accepting everything bad, he entered his house after a few years


    Fast forward now, Refnier is still in poor condition in the meeting room of his house, waiting for his parents, who soon after sitting down, appeared without saying anything, sitting next on the sofa in front of Refnier.


    "Son" his father began the conversation "you have disappointed me."


    ¡°?Father?¡± Asked Refnier, who thought in his mind.


    [So he already knows it ... but why isn''t he angry? If not ..., just disappointed ...]


    "Silence let me speak, all these years and you still ?don''t know manners? Anyway, I''m sick of getting angry, listen, you''ve spoiled everything, in the end you turned out, after all our efforts to raise you as the future boss of the family, a stupid and useless son without any salvation, for that reason, from now on you are no longer our son, and I exile you from these lands, I hope that whoever you pray to, take pity on you ,because, our piety It is only enough to just let you leave here as long as those of the inquisition do not come."


    "Father? Can''t it be true, no? Besides, I''m not your only son, and that for your honor you wouldn''t look for another."


    Refnier asked in despair, who even if the relationship between him and his father was not friendly, at least he knew that they were watching him, so this action began to firmly tear his moral foundations from what he learned in this family as well as the meaning itself.


    "It''s true, and on the heir, with all the shame I bring with it, I will adopt one of your uncle Fermin''s sons."


    "But, but, we are family, ?right?"


    "?Family? We stopped being that, contrary to everything ?I told you! You trusted that bitch from Sofia, and in return, she betrayed you, and last but not least you gave her the most reliable dagger for that."


    I finish saying while pointing to the box next to Refnier, then continue


    "Yes, I know, I know what you have there, everyone knows that, unfortunately, even keeping that, I really don''t want to know if you did necromancy or not, that doesn''t matter at this point, now you can go."


    "But father, no, please"


    "That you go."


    "Father, please, I''m your son, mother say something."


    Finally, Refnier asked his mother for mercy, who until now remained silent, who simply looked away sadly, causing Refnier to collapse his sadness at the abandonment of his parents, producing tears of sadness.


    "Father mother, ?why?, ?Why don''t you love me? ?Why do you do this to me? We are family."


    "We are nobles and family, and you have disappointed them both," his father replied.


    "I, I, I''m sorry."


    "Your apologies are no longer worth anything,


    "What can I do to forgive them," begged Refnier


    "Nothing, just leave."


    Then Refnier, on the verge of the dark acceptance of sadness and extreme emptiness, asked one last thing


    "At least tell me, do you still love me?"


    "How could I," replied his father.


    "I never wanted to have you," his mother replied.


    And receiving those words, falling into an abyss of loneliness and sadness, with tears in his eyes and an empty look, he stood up, said goodbye to his parents, and left his now old residence to undertake a journey to the unknown, but nevertheless, as a light that illuminates the end of the tunnel, came to his already unfortunate mind, the memory, the knowledge, of the existence of another member of the family, that if he loved him for sure, his always good uncle Fermin.


    So with his last chosen stronghold and hope, step by step leaving the territory he went in search of the ever-traveling and mercenary, Fermin Arkas Domiteer Colosses.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    Fortune and coincidence, meanings that often when they go hand in hand, bring happiness and joy, to those who receive it, such as the case of Refnier that her great search ended, only when she reached the 3rd town I visit.


    It was in such a way that while he was eating in a seedy bar, a silent hand rested on his shoulder, causing him to turn alert asking in his mind [?who is he?], But seeing better the culprit he could only express with happiness drowning all the evils that haunted him.


    "?Uncle Fermin !, it''s you."


    "Of course, if someone else, if not me," his uncle answered cheerfully as always.


    "What happiness, to have found you, I have been looking for you."


    "What a coincidence, me too, after knowing what happened to you, I left everything to look for you, but see that we follow the conversation elsewhere, more discreetly."


    "Agree."


    And just as uncle and nephew squared off, they discreetly left the place, and in silence without saying anything, they ended up in a room in some inn, where their conversation would begin.


    "Well I begin, obviously I know that you are innocent, I just want to ask one thing, how is it that they say that you are a necromancer, I mean, you have the dark attribute, it is even good, but with that, they don''t prosecute you, but ?necromancer?


    Before the soft questioning of his uncle, Refnier feeling safe explained.


    "You see ... do you remember Lif?"


    "Of course, like forgetting him, I keep saying that your father is a jerk for doing that to poor Lif, well continue."


    "What happens is that ... I really couldn''t let him go ..."


    "Don''t tell me you really are," said his uncle, concerned.


    "Ah no, it''s not that, just ummm, I don''t know how to explain it, I ..., I didn''t want to bury it, detach myself from it, so I kept his remains just to keep him close, look, I even carry him with me " he finished pointing at Lif''s coffin that he left on the floor, and feeling relieved after telling his secret to someone he trusted.


    "You have to see ..., I don''t know what to say about this, but really tell me you only carry it and don''t you give it anything weird?"


    "I .., I .."


    "Refnier, tell me the truth."


    "Well .. I''m only talking to him, I''m sorry ..."


    Hearing the answer, Fermin felt sorry for the boy and calmed him down by saying.


    "Don''t feel it, it''s all your father''s fault for taking you to this, look, I see him as a child who still sleeps with his teddy jajaja."


    "?Uncle!."


    "Jajaja, good to see you happy, well, well, let''s continue talking, since this is really serious, and we have to plan how to get out of this."


    And just as Fermin said they both spent the day planning what they were going to do, beginning for both weeks of stealth and persecution, but for Refnier these weeks would also be the happiest and most exciting he had ever had, since although they were in In constant danger, he could finally express himself with confidence and freedom, in addition to being with the only person he had left and who loved him. But nothing lasts forever.


    Weeks after the happy meeting, both stopped in the afternoon, in front of an abandoned cabin in the middle of a dark forest.


    "Well, Refni, we have arrived, this is a refuge that I discovered in my adventures, here we can stay a few days, before leaving, by these borders."


    "Wow, uncle, with this there would be 5 bases that you have, ?but is it okay that we cross here ?, according to what is beyond this forest, lies the fearsome forest of death and another reason is that since I am being persecuted as a necromancer, this would be one of the first places to protect."


    "Calm Refni, although it is certainly dangerous, I know a route through the forest that can help us, just be confident, everything will be fine, well let''s hurry, as you say, they can search these sides."


    "Agree."


    Agreeing with Fermin, Refnier calmly continued to the cabin, but, taking 2 steps into the darkness within, Refnier briefly felt a pain in his neck before passing out.


    "Then you accept or not the 500 agreed."


    "Oh come on, you can''t upload him anymore, you don''t know how rare the dark attributes are, you''re not ashamed to swindle me so vilely."


    "Sir, it is also a risk for me to be here."


    "But let''s just go up to 600 ..."


    Murmurs were heard softly, in Refnier who was slowly regaining consciousness and began to see the situation.


    [?Where am I? ?What happened? ?Why am I tied?, my mana, ?why can''t I use it?] Refnier asked himself, starting to look around, noticing that it was night, he was in a forest, and which had its arms and feet tied.


    "Hey, it seems he woke up sir," said a hooded man to his client


    "What''s going on here, who are you, man? Tell me what''s going on, ?why am I here?" Asked Refnier, even with a half-clouded conscience.


    "Ahh that annoyance, it''s going to wait, then he starts screaming a lot," said his uncle to the hooded man, then headed to Refnier.


    "Don''t hurt it, the price goes down," warned the hooded man.


    "?Uncle?" I question his uncle suspiciously.


    "Wait, ?what are you doing? Uncle, what''s up!"


    but his uncle ignored him, and in turn, ripped off Refnier''s sleeve and tied it in his mouth, in such a way that his screams could not be heard loudly and when he finished his work he told his nephew.


    "Well, what happens is that, I''m selling you."


    "Ummmmm ??? !!!" Refnier tried to scream, starting to get more desperate, wishing it was a bad joke.


    "If you see, it is that I have some debts and the dark magicians are a very expensive asset."


    Continued screaming Refnier increasingly distressed and devastated.


    "Yeah, now, don''t get like this, I know you''re angry that I betrayed you and such, but, don''t bother, you just pretended you never had a good uncle and it passes quickly."


    Refnier''s world was beginning to collapse part by part.


    "Well, I have to go, this guy is a stingy, at least, the men I sent for you many years ago, although they were a disaster, they charged cheaply."


    ''the men I sent for you many years ago'' that phrase that entered his brain led him to the cruel discovery that that incident at the festival, that incident that changed his life for the worse, was the work of his uncle, knocking down the last bastion Refnier''s sanity.


    Then denying and crying, denying and crying, Refnier saw helpless for something that prevented him from using mana, his uncle happily arguing about its sale, falling in the background to a whirlwind of irrationality composed more than anything, hatred of life itself, and sadness for his misfortune.


    "Well you win 515 then, you really are good, but hey what do you think about this box with a skeleton of a baby wyver" said his uncle while pointing to the coffin


    "Do you have dark magic or something?"


    "Not at all, but ...


    "Then I''m not interested."


    "Ahh that hurts, well I suppose I will throw it somewhere."


    Lifnerion his faithful pet and friend, the one who was always with him, the one who always wanted him and now the only being, or rather the last vestige of the only being who wanted him, they were going to throw away like any garbage, and for the man who was once her kind uncle but was now selling him like a pig.


    "No. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don''t throw it away, no, no, no, don''t throw it away, throw it away, no, no, no ".


    Refnier thought struggled and shouted at Lif''s treatment, losing himself, in hatred losing all his sanity, exploiting in the process all the mana within him.

 Chapter 11 - New beginning

    The almost eternal cycles of day and night bring the perception of a new beginning in each cycle, in life, there are those who look at this philosophy, a philosophy of which, in short, dictates ''a new day, a new adventure'', but this is wrong since the beginnings happened in each instant and in each thought, they only differentiate them in how significant, long and different is the new path begun.


    And so, the light of a new day, tenderly passes through the branches and leaves of the lush trees of an ancient and enchanted forest, to disperse between the soft mist, and any obstruction, managing to extinguish the misty darkness, giving way to a Calm magical and mysterious environment, where the song of birds and the almost inaudible footsteps of animals, vibrates through the wind and space, bringing happiness to daytime guests, who have the pleasure of listening to it.


    It was in this magical environment, where a new beginning began next to the always constant dawn, for a rare visitor to the ecosystem of this cloudy forest, which the tender rays of light like a tender mother who wakes up he children with care, covered he sleeping and battered body, gradually bringing his awareness of his long sleep, until he had opened his eyes, receiving the charming welcome of a new day.


    "Aaahhh what a dream"


    Refnier yawn after a long night, then stop and stretch.


    "Well, walking, a new day, a new beginning, umm where is Lif?"


    Seconds after her question, he was able to find him coffin next to where he was sleeping.


    "Ohh here you are, you little elusive," Refner said as she uncovered the coffin, exposing her friend''s remains.


    "I see you very weak my friend, come I will help you to wake up."


    Then next, Refnier deposited the remains on the floor, then used his magic on it, managing to assemble his skeleton as best as possible, filling the missing parts with hardened earth and connecting everything with a magic core used for golem, to finish it.


    "Uff ready, Lif you''re all lazy, it took me 2 hours to get up."This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    I comment tiring Refnier after finishing her work, the result of which was nothing less than the Lif skeleton standing and moving, as if it were a living corpse, but nevertheless the difference between these is subtle but important.


    "Well, now that we''re awake now, ?what do we do? ummm."


    Refnier wondered, but her answer came from the roar of his stomach.


    "Oh yes, food, we haven''t had breakfast yet, umm although I think it would be lunch at this time, but ... where will there be food to eat?"


    Refnier asked himself, and then looked around, in a preliminary search, noting that the area around him was in pieces, with fissures in the ground, mounds of earth detached from the ground, some trees destroyed, a large cart destroyed and several deceased. bodies scattered around, then looking at these an idea occurred to him and he said.


    "Oh great, I already found that eating Lif and ?it will be meat!."


    And declaring as such, he prepared to prepare his lunch and once finished eating, Refnier now leaning against a tree, while caressing the deceased Lif, stared at him meditating and ended up saying sadly.


    "You are not Lif, Lif is no longer, he is dead,"


    "You are just a golem made from Lif''s bones ... a golem made to calm my loneliness."


    "I''m alone, there is no one else left, I think there was never anyone to start, being alone is very sad."


    "There is no one to trust, they are all very bad."


    "?Should I kill them? No, that would only bring me trouble, although the mark is bad, he said good advice, I should not act in a crazy way, I should not be corrupted by my attribute and not trust anyone.


    "But I feel alone, alone, I would like someone, but there is no one, they are all bad, bad, bad"


    "But you will never betray me, you''re just a golem"


    "Umm, I know it''s wrong, but I don''t want to be alone, so you will be my new friend, my faithful friend."


    "But you are not Lif, you never will be, although you are made of his bones you will never be him."


    "So I''ll have to give you another name umm, I know, Ragnatium, Rag for short, it doesn''t mean anything, but it sounds good, like you, you''re nothing, you''re not alive, you don''t think, but I think you''ll be a good help to my loneliness."


    "Now I have resolved that Rag, now that we do, umm where to go that there are no people, that there are no betrayals, that there is no sadness, oh what a fool I know, we are in the forest of death, the deeper, the fewer people there will be and more security there will be."


    Then Refnier got up excited and pointing to the front he declared.


    "After fate has been agreed, and having eaten, it is time to go, we go Rag, towards the depths of the forest of death, to the place where neither the dark nor the enlightened visit him without care, where the miasma corrupts the mind even of him a most insane demon or the most committed saint, where the dead arise and roam wherever you want and where your soul will rest in eternal torment once you fail in the territory, that place, is the necropolis of Silmaria, the capital of the fallen kingdom of Osmaria."

 Chapter 12 - An exciting journey

    There will always be an open door, there will always be a path to follow, as long as life continues, the paths will clear for you, even when everything has been lost, even when you have gotten rid of everything, even when you have fallen into The deepest part of an abyss, always open paths to choose from, only the shape of these will depend on you.


    As it is the imaginary path of Refnier by which he is walking happily, to reach the necropolis of Silmaria. Path of which after traveling for 1 day until today, the atmosphere, before cloudy and spectral, now feels a sinister sensation in the air.


    "Rag, ?haven''t you recently felt like a slight sinister sensation, that penetrates your body and your mind, causing negative emotions in you?"


    "?Nothing at all? Well, that''s obvious, you''re a golem, but I do feel, umm that will be, maybe I know the mystical miasma will be, but how strange if it is I imagined it as a black mist or something, well it only remains to check, if detect it well it is, and if not, umm well I don''t know."


    Then, Refnier in his adventurous emotion stopped, closed his eyes, and concentrated on detecting mana in the surroundings, being that in a minute he opened his eyes affirming.


    "Well, yes Reg, as I suspected, we are surrounded by mana, and the dark passage, by which we can say that this is miasma, and that we are already closer to our destination, I did not tell you that going to the southwest was the right path, well now let''s continue."


    Not caring about his dangerous discovery like many others, but instead, he was excited happily, continued his long and monotonous journey while talking and playing with Ragnatium, while little by little the miasma became thicker and more dangerous until it arrived. a point in the evening of a day later, Refnier commented.


    "You don''t feel happy Rag, that the miasma is getting so strong, that sometimes I think about giving me back and killing everyone, or maybe committing suicide, this means that there is little left, well I think it''s time to stop for today."


    And just as Refnier said, he decided to prepare for the night, being the first thing he did, was to prepare a campfire and food, but during dinner, Refnier detected a sinister presence approaching, so he stopped and invoked several mannequin-shaped golem, even taking care at this point that its sinister mana does not impregnate itself in its magic.


    "Something dark is coming Rag, you have to be prepared, it could be a demon or something terrible or, or, or, wait, it''s just a skeleton."


    He finished saying disappointed, when seeing several meters barely illuminated by the bonfire, a skeleton of a person running to him, without any weapon or clothing on him, just a sinister presence on him.


    It was then that Refnier barely finished speaking, put his golem in front of him, while expanding his mana in the ground, caused that from the floor under the skeleton, with an infallible precision, the ground of this moved Tying him formidably-mind, trapping him in a thick and rigid cocoon exposing only his head and arms.


    "Well, it''s already captured, it was a piece of cake, this facility makes me question the rumors of this place ..., well Rag, let''s continue eating, we will review it well tomorrow, but before it is better to put up a barrier.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    Therefore, Refnier kept his word, raised a 3-meter earth wall around him with a diameter of approximately 10 meters, in addition to sending his golem to patrol just in case, to then continue eating and later sleep with nightmares due to influences of miasma.


    "Ahhh no !, Ehh? , uff what a horrible nightmare, ?Rag where are you ?, oh there are these."


    Shout then calm down Refnier, from his terrible nightmare and then seek and find Rag and then talk animatedly-mind while his eyes dripped silent streams of tears.


    "Damn Rag, what a terrible nightmare I had, I dreamed that they killed Lif in a cruel and ruthless way over and over again, how terrible it was, but hey, what''s going to be done, he''s already dead, and he''s not coming back, what if we could to do, is to see how to have no more nightmares and I feel that it is because of miasma."


    "Now, to the important thing, ?breakfast!."


    And declaring as such, breakfast as if nothing had happened, and then when he finished resting, he approached Rag to the skeleton who was inside the walls, and with his magic, manipulated the cocoon to interweave in such a way that it formed a cross with the crucified skeleton.


    "Well, bones, let''s see how you work, I know no have to experience in necromancy, but I have a dark attribute, it should help something, so let''s get to work."


    It was then that Refnier began to investigate and manipulate the skeleton, in different ways to outrage about it, until after a few hours it came to a conclusion.


    "You know bones, no idea how you were made and how you work, I give up, but at least he learned how you are made, you are made of obvious bones and a corrupted or manipulated soul I don''t know, what I know is that your soul is full of dark attribute, umm I think as a gift for your contribution I can free you, let''s see if this works."


    Finished Talking Refnier, using moving his mana to wrap and penetrate the sinister mana of the skeleton, then after some instinctive attempts, thick to absorb the dark essence of the skeleton, or rather let it invade it and then catch it and take everything for himself, finishing last, with his mana to destroy some seals that clung to the soul with the skeleton, causing it to immediately dissolve in the air, and the skeleton to crumble.


    "Uff it seems that I succeed, but how horrible this mana feels, these negative feelings that invade me suddenly, what horror, it is to go crazy, but I think that if I treat them ignore like the rest everything will be fine, yes, there is only that letting him go, that everyone deserves to die, and that he wants to kill them or commit suicide, does not imply that I should care and be evil, well this was tiring, right now, ?isn''t it Lif? It''s not Rag now, sometimes I forget, sorry.


    And compelling with what has been said for a while to then continue his patient and calm journey through the vast forest, calmly absorbing and accepting the sinister miasma that was intensifying according to each step he took, and was freeing each undead that he was, to a point that his sinister aura before always hidden now escaped without permission from his body, his skin became pale and sickly, locks of white gray hair came out and sometimes he cried blood, but, this did not prevent his spirits and his ''sanity'' would bend, if not that he would cheer up like any child on an excursion, until he had reached his destination.


    "Wow, I''m sure we have arrived Rag"


    Refnier spoke after 3 days of walking after finding the first corpse, at the end of the forest giving way to a large green valley whose mist covered a gray mountain that was seen in the distance, which contained at his feet and on it an imposing citadel surrounded by destroyed walls, now in ruins and infected by undead that could be seen from its outskirts to the inside.


    "Well, now we have to see how to get in without being killed by all those dead Rag, but don''t worry, they don''t look very strong. On this way, I have verified that these rumors are exaggerated, so let''s go."


    And it was so with those words, along with Ragnatium, he ran straight to the Silmaria necropolis.

 Chapter 13 - Facing realities

    What is it that differentiates dreams from reality? Many could say that one is real and the other is not, and it could be easily seen in the coherence lived in them, but there are others who say that reality is defined by oneself. And in a world where fantasy becomes reality, the limit of both concepts tends to become blurred.


    "?Lif is you? ?Why are you all hurt and about to die?"


    This question was asked on a sinister morning, in some ruined house covered in mist, by a recently awakened Refnier, seeing his former friend in such a state 2 meters away from him.


    "Ahh it''s because I couldn''t protect you, sorry, I was very weak back then."


    He sincerely apologized but without much visible emotion other than his tears of blood.


    "Well, I''m already full of apologies for today, if not, this will have no end, and I promised to keep going, now how can I get rid of that illusion umm, well it will be resolved, I''ll just have to get used to Rag looking like Lif."


    "Then, this is my second day here, it was more complicated than I thought but I am near the castle, in the middle area, but you have to see, these skeletons are a problem, they are too many and strong, but I will solve it, now, to the charge Rag."


    It was then that Refnier, with the spirit on top, left the house in ruins, to continue his path, but nevertheless, he could achieve little, with the number of skeletons, leaving him trapped in a ruin even in the area where he was injured in your body after several hours.


    "How painful, these skeletons are a nuisance, what to do, what to do, I think I''ll rest for now ..., maybe I can think of something ..."


    Refnier ended up deciding, after reasoning the difficulty wall he was facing, but contrary to serious thinking, he spent playing with Rag in the form of Lif, getting some food, drawing on the floor 4 circles one inside the another which represented the city and being the last thing he did was think of something.


    And he continued with that way of acting until the next day, where luckily, Ragnatium stopped seeing himself as Lif, and among his spontaneous ideas, it occurred to him to capture a skeleton around noon to experience a possible solution.


    "Well step one, capture a clever undead, now step two, camouflage myself by posing as them."


    Refnier explained, having reviewed his plan, to then think and experiment on how to achieve his objective, his idea to continue is covering his dark aura similar to the undead, whose result was not seen until the next day, being This satisfactory, but with the disadvantage that he had to always be concentrated in the camouflage state, which constantly worn down his mind, as well as suffering from the influence of the dark attribute, but these difficulties Rafnier as many others when waking up from the forest faced him with a smile despite looking paler from the horrors in his mind, the infrequent illusions and that half of his hair was already white.


    And with this same smile and a focused mind ignoring all his regrets, he calmly began to walk to the top of the city, to his goal the castle, saying to himself, every now and then


    "?Why I''m climbing? Why should I go to the castle? I can leave this and live in the forest, I can die in peace"


    But he always answered himself over and over again, getting the courage and ignoring all the evil that concerned him, as if it were something trivial.


    "How little I am, to die peacefully, I will do so after living for many years, and why am I going to the castle? I remember, it is for the fun of having something to do, I feel that I am being forgetful about my convictions."


    Although it was still difficult, all the time concentrated, all the time recovering the spirits, and with more and more effort, as the miasma increased its density, to levels that anyone would either kill for a mental collapse or would make insane. But it went on and on until it reached the colossal main entrance to the interior of the castle devoid of any door, of which in the late afternoon a large room with several columns was barely visible, but nevertheless this entrance was guarded by two non-residents. -colossal dead.


    "Kuf kuff, hahaha finally arrived, this trick if it works, Rag don''t think."


    He coughed up a bit of blood but was finally able to rejoice seriously after such a long walk.


    "Well, what''s the use of waiting at the entrance, we''re going to enter Rag."


    He was saying while walking inside the castle, after graciously greeting the fearsome guards who ignored him, but to Refnier''s misfortune, once he had taken some steps inside, his vision changed completely leading to the place and moment when Lif was killed, along with all people present.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.


    "What was missing, ahh this is horror."


    Then after complaining, breathing deeply as tears of blood fell from him, he kept walking forward, ignoring the ghosts of his past yelling at him as images from the scene developed and repeated randomly.


    "You are useless, weak, useless ... weak, you don''t deserve to be my son ..." his father''s voice sounded.


    "Lif don''t die, resist, please don''t kill him, I''m sorry I''ll be better I''ll be better, I''ll study a lot, a lot" his past self sounded.


    But all those voices, although heartbreaking and desperate, even though his soul was corroded with sadness, he continued walking with his friend, until the front, always facing him, until he ran into a wall which he followed with his hand, like a siege until Touch, I enter another room, which did not know, because the scene now changed to a restaurant.


    "Now it seems like it''s Sofia''s turn."


    He said with anger and pain, at the prelude to an illusory encounter, but even when all the characters and voices appeared, even with the contradiction of love and anger towards his former beloved, he continued walking as always.


    "I hate you, I always hate you, I never loved you."


    "Look, look how happy I am with Alfen your classmate and not with a monster like you."


    "There is Vicrel please in public, no less before this garbage."


    "Oh Vicrel, look our little one is kicking, how good it is not from Refnier, and it is with you."


    "You are a monster, I hate you, I don''t love you, it was all a lie, how delusional."


    And it continued even when scenes that he lived and other fictional ones that lay in his worst thoughts, appeared in front of him, as real as if there were, so real that he could raise his hand and strangle her, or kiss her, or perhaps kneel down in apologies, but no, he continues, he continues until running into another wall and guided by it and he enters another room and scene.


    "Hehehe 2 for one, I don''t know if it''s the miasma or another spell, but the necromancer who did this showed off, well Lif, say Rag, let''s continue, I feel that this is the last one.


    Refnier prophesying the future or praying for it, he continued forward, now facing 2 scenes one on his right and the other on his left, working somehow in the middle."


    On the left, exile by his parents was developing and on the right, his sale by his uncle.


    "You are useless, a shame, out of here, you are no longer my son" said and repeated his father.


    "I should not have had you, I regret having you, I do not consider you my son," said his mother.


    "Sorry, I had some debts, but don''t take it personally," said his uncle.


    But just as these horrible words of detachment were repeated, echoing behind, were words of union and happiness that increased the damage of the betrayal of the former.


    "I''m tough, but this is for your good and for the family," said his father.


    "Is there a son, are you okay?" His mother consoled.


    ¡°Hey little one, ?did I already tell you about the time I chased a dragon?¡± His uncle happily recounted.


    However, with all the pain and emptiness, it continued to move, it continued although its hair was mostly white, it continued even when its dark and fearful aura sent from its body even imitating in the core an undead, it continued moving until after to pass another room, to another illusion, continued even when he lost track of time, he continued although the horrors repeated in his mind over and over, he continued until he almost forgot the name of Ragnatium, he continued until at some point a dark.


    Endless darkness, that went in the belief of Refnier, walked between he until Lifnerion appeared in front changing between half-dead or in perfect condition that I ask him, in such a way that I stop him in his tracks.


    "Refnier, because you abandoned me, I believed in you, and now you deprave my body, as you have been able."


    Refnier sadly replied.


    "I''m sorry, I''m sorry, my only friend, I have no forgiveness, I was weak, very weak and I still am, but I will still continue."


    Finished saying that, he went through the illusion of his friend, and then another one appeared before him, this time being Sofia telling him.


    "Refnier, because you lied to me, I hate you, I hate your type, I hate the dark magicians, I am afraid of them, and I will never love you, I was only with you because I had no choice."


    Like his friend, but this time with the feeling I hate you and love he said.


    "Sofia, I''m sorry for lying to you, I''m sorry for being born with this attribute, but my love for you was not a lie, unlike you who never loved me, unlike you who betrayed me while I saved your life, so, So much, I will tell you that I am better than you and that you are a bitch and my love for you will overcome someday."


    And courageous with that statement he went through it with momentum, giving way to the appearance of his father and uncle, but none said anything, instead, they waited for Refnier who responded with a hollow in his heart more than sadness and hatred.


    "Father you are the worst, I''m sorry for not being your perfect son, but you are not a good father, you scare me and you make me angry, maybe Lif never persuades you, but even so I appreciate your advice and thanks for them, Without them, I would no longer be alive."


    "Uncle, I hate you, what you did to me is unforgivable, I don''t regret killing you and eating the remains of you and my friends, the only good thing you have done for me is meet with Lif, give me some happiness in my childhood, and maybe. To finish breaking my mind, perhaps bringing with it, the freedom of my spirit."


    Refnier then finished venting, he calmly walked through them, making them disappear and along with them all the illusion that surrounded him, revealing that he was in the middle of an old study, in the orange light of the decaying afternoon.


    "It seems that finally, I got out of this, how horrible it was, wasn''t it Rag? It was like being in hell, a lot of suffering, but I think being relieved, but damn, that was heavy, I felt like I spent several hours on that, but in the afternoon light it seems not, ?now where am I ?."


    Finish questioning Refnier who immediately began to review the study noticing, in a very short time a letter and a newspaper that emitted a terribly sinister aura of them, and died of curiosity, began to read the letter first, giving birth without intending to the origin of the necropolis of Silmaria.

 Chapter 14 - The false master of death

    The inheritance or legacy are the gifts built by one throughout his life, to give them, whether they want to or not, to the people who are symbolically under his shadow.


    And throughout thinking history, many people lived and built their gifts in an endless loop, repeating trends or sometimes innovating learning from previous legacies, but in the end, there is always something to give and contribute to the long record that makes up history. And now today, in a dark ancient study, on a lonely afternoon, a story, a will is finally obtained after a long time, giving way to the beginning of another story.


    [


    For whoever reads this.


    Greetings dear reader, I hope that whoever reads this may have some sanity after arriving here.


    I introduce myself, I am Angus Laprase, the former chief magician of the royal order of magician of the kingdom of Osmaria, and adoptive brother of the last king of it, and this is my story, I hope it can serve as wisdom for those who read it.


    I was born and lived as an orphan in the middle class in this city, when I was 5 years old, on the day of general baptism, as is the custom here, I went to check my magical affinity like many others, where tragically-it came to light that I was born with the very strong dark attribute as well as a high amount of base mana.


    The horror of my parents was such that they almost threw me into the streets, but fortunately, the royal family was present and as if taken from a children''s story, I was welcomed by them for pity and for my latent talent I think.


    It was then that my golden age began, being from the royal family, I had the opportunity to develop my magical potential by becoming over time, a genius recognized by all and a war hero, but more than titles and knowledge what I really appreciated It was a good family, although busy with their duties they were good.


    Not everything was good in my life, my attribute haunted me making my relationships difficult, which is why when I reached adulthood I was still single, but I overcame that with my love of study and a good family to love and protect.


    It was very sad when my parents the king and queen died in an altercation in the castle because of some assassins from a neighboring kingdom, my brother now the king and I, as the head of the magicians, we promised to make pay, giving rise to the era of the glorious conquest of the kingdom, but for us, or at least for me, it was a time of hatred and mourning.


    Our conquest after 20 years came to an end, with the destruction of the assassins of our parents, finally our kingdom and we, we could be happy again, but even with the emptiness of our parents.


    Little did I know that 5 years later, something happened that would turn my life upside down, do not expect a great drama, because it was suddenly, one day like any other, I was summoned to the throne room to give my reports, but when I got there I only expected treason and my own brother, his excuse is that it was very dangerous and sinister for the kingdom, and that is why he was going to be subjected and put in prison, do not accept it, of course not, I replied several times, I demanded better answers, but no, they did not want me, therefore I escaped carrying all my hatred.


    What followed was a dark time, looking for ways to get revenge, I learned sinister and heretical arts from some small dark wizards, and I improved them.


    Then already in the middle of my life, I scourged the kingdom with death and destruction, giving me the satisfaction of seeing all the wretches who condemned me for crimes dying in agony that now I was making reality.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    Finished my work, with no more around me than many dead, I decided to relax and continue studying for pleasure, improving my techniques and skills, but when I got old, I began to reason my life, my history, and what I will leave behind.


    Reader, I do not regret having massacred everyone and leaving this kingdom in ruins, the only thing that fills me with regret is that with my power it did not occur to me, meeting other people like me, so if you really are a dark wizard, yes you inject your dark magic into this will, the magic seals will be passed to you that will give you the privileges of entry to my private study where all my knowledge lies, as well as it will give you control of all my undead becoming your master.


    I just hope that the one who inherits this is someone who has lost everything like me and uses this inheritance to find happiness


    From Angus Laprase, the master of the dead.


    ]


    "Ohh it seems that you did too badly, Angus, my respects, and thanks for the gift, I wish I had met you in your old age when you were in good spirits and if what you say is true I will see you as my first real master."


    Refnier thanked his predecessor of circumstance, and one of the greatest evils in modern history, to carefully imbue his sinister mana, inside the blade causing it to emerge sinister strands of magic, which crossed his body accommodating and forming 2 seals inside his soul.


    "This was creepy, umm I suppose one is the key and the other is for control, how they work, well I''ll see, I have plenty of time for that, now Ragnatium I suppose with this we conquered this kingdom, now we proceed to investigate that study."


    and being animated, he went in search of the private study of the master of the dead, but not before eating a little.


    Each person in his brief existence creates and forms his own history and path through his decisions or unforeseen events and now in Refnier''s life, this is only the beginning of a volume in his history, but not before concluding his stage current with a decision that would mark its course to follow.


    This decision occurred a day later at the same hours in the afternoon when he read the will, when Refnier carrying his master''s journal and accompanied by Ragnatium, entered the gigantic throne room for the first time through the main door, marveling at the Sublime view caused by its spaciousness and architecture adorned by the dust and cobwebs of the passage of time.


    Then Refnier emerging from his stupor, looked forward, but there was the central corridor, formed relatively by the rows of columns on both sides of the room, found at the end where you could see an elevation where the only chair in the room was, but not any chair, a great chair made of marble and gold, with elaborate details in all places whose back rose to the ceiling, no, it was not a chair, it was the royal throne.


    And fixing his objective Refnier walked until he reached the front, where he could see a simple golden crown, of which only had an oval elevation where a gem should go, Refnier smiling, grabbed it, put it on and then sat on the throne.


    Once seated, I contemplate with Ragnatium in his lap, the ruined landscape that was once a hectic and sublime real environment and then he began to remember in his life since he was an innocent child, in his first accident in town, in the meeting of his only friend, the fun with him and his fiancee, the accident of the festival, the death of his friend, the days of studies and efforts, the betrayal of his fiancee, the expulsion of his family, the betrayal of his uncle and his adventure through these desolate lands.


    Finishing remembering, I take a deep breath and declare to myself.


    "I have no one, I feel sadness, I feel hatred, but even so, I kept going on advice from people who turned their backs on me and by my own search for hope, now I am here, inheriting the knowledge of one of the most infamous magicians Dark as well as his ruined kingdom, I made up my mind a long time ago when Lifnerion died, but I will declare it here as well as the path I will follow, before nobody but me and the remnant souls that still inhabit the place."


    "I Refnier Arkas Domiteer Colosses, from now on I will be called Refnier Arkas Lifnerion Laprase to the honor of my old friend and the master Angus."


    "From today I name myself as king and sovereign of these earth full of death and darkness, and I will rename them as the kingdom Dawn, in honor of the new beginning and of the light after the darkness."


    "And lastly, I reiterate my path in magic, declaring that I will follow the path of the golem and will not fall or use dark and heretic magic no longer in dire need, but nevertheless I will continue to study it only for its useful knowledge, as what I have been doing so far."


    "Let the luck, the coincidence, and the strength of the inhabitants, take care and bring prosperity to this ruined new kingdom ?Peace and prosperity to the kingdom of Dawn!."

 Epilogue

    A long time ago an atrocious necromancer lashed what was known as the kingdom of Osmaria, bringing to the entire territory only death and evil, but with the passage of time, the miasma and the damages caused were reverted to the area of the capital, where the miasma was so strong that it maddened even the fiercest demons and where the living dead were so numerous and strong, that they terrorized even the valiant paladins of light.


    But now after more than 100 years of silence, the miasma has dissolved, giving way to adventurers and those interested in this kingdom in ruins and death, where if they manage to probe the new dangers like the old ones, they would discover that the place already has a new ruler, who would be called by many, as the master of the dead.


    but among the few people who could know the truth behind it, they would know that title that would change to The False Master of Death


    Good morning everyone, I hope you have enjoyed reading the false master of death, and I am very grateful to you for following this novel.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    In the beginning, the end of this volume was planned as a starting point to reach after a few chapters, but in the course of development, it was postponed until the end of the book, in my opinion, a good decision, since later From this point some of the other novels that I am thinking or writing, began to link with this, as I had planned to happen to my novels.


    Speaking of other things, I suppose some are not satisfied that the novel is so short with only 14 chapters and an epilogue, this is mainly because this is just a story that complements a bigger story.


    Now speaking if there is a sequel or not, I will tell you that in my mind I have already thought of a direct continuation for this one, but when it will come out, I will talk about it at some point after finishing publishing the others.


    Speaking of other things, I suppose some are not satisfied that the novel is so short with only 14 chapters and an epilogue, this is mainly because this is just a story that complements a bigger story.


    Now speaking if there is a sequel or not, I will tell you that in my mind I have already thought of a direct continuation for this one, but when it will come out, I will talk about it at some point after finishing publishing the others.


    Well, if nothing else to add, I will say goodbye by saying thank you very much for reading the false master of death and I wish you all the best, until next time.