ÇHAPTER 1:strange crystal

In the small geographic area, around the west of Odin kingdom,sky city!

The weather was harshly cold and the snow blew violently and dropping on the cold ground forming cluster of ice blocks on the ground making it hard and sharp to walk on.

It was winter season _

Not so many preys have been in the woods lately because of the weather and they had mostly gone into hibernation state.

The most common creatures found were the horned purple beast rabbit that had thick fur and stubble feet and their hind leg for hopping fastly. Their were not easy to catch because of their flexible small body. The horned purple beast rabbit had cold resistance and mostly come out in winter when the predators had gone into hibernation.

To them they considered it safe_the horned beast rabbit have no intelligence at the level 1-5 but they always moved in groups with a higher level leading them.

Lucas who was currently seated on a broken piece of rock and a old dagger covered in a thick dirty cloth on its hilt held weakly on his right hand and the frost under his feet, Lucas was a 12 year old boy with no affinity with any element, he was considered trash in everyone's eyes.

Ever since his affinity test 2 years ago, his no affinity with no element brought disappointment to the orphanage that took him in since he was little.

Yes,He never knew his parents, whether they were dead or alive,not even a message or word,not even a name tablet on him when he was found at the doorstep of the orphanage as a baby.

It was like his parents knew he was useless

A nanny was the one who had taken care of him and gave him the name 'Lucas' in remembrance of her late uncle.

He grew with the affection of his friends at the orphanage and he got so immersed in the short term happiness until the day of his test that he was confirmed with no affinity.

The affection he once felt dwilded away from him and his friends looked at him with disdain. He became the punching bag of the orphanage and was now the official trash of the city.

Lucas looked at the horned beast rabbit that was busy eating the piece of cold grass and his small body hid behind a scanty bush nearby.

It was quite rare for a horned beast rabbit to be alone, except for some reason.

_it was a stupid rabbit without intelligence that it had wandered off away from the group.

_the others are nearby.

His movement was careful and silent,his eyes was filled with patience.

His feet sofly stepped on the snow making some crisp sound.

If he didn't kill this horned beast rabbit which was in the low level he would likely starve again this night.

In the orphanage, he was rarely given food and, he was suddenly framed for theft and was punish with no food for a week which lead him to this situation.

The punishment didn't even affect Lucas because there was no difference between being punished and not being into punishment since no one cared about him anyway not to even remember to serve him a meal.

He bent down and moved slowly to the unsuspecting horned beast rabbit and held his dagger with all his strength.

Then the horned beast rabbit moved from the grass to where Lucas was and he felt like heaven had finally opened for him.

With a moment of silence and the chewing of the horned beast rabbit, Lucas dashed straight at the horned beast rabbit that seemed startled.

A chance!

Lucas swing his dagger leaving a flash of silver light in the desolate forest and finally killed the rabbit which had it neck sliced open.

Success!

Lucas didn't rejoice but quickly took the rabbit into the sack bag on his waist and went up to the pure lake which was a few kilometers away.

In a place like this, a wanderer that was stronger than him could be headed towards and could surely snatch his efforts away, so it was best to be cautious.

After walking under the snow that had made his dirty face red and his lips quivering in cold which was deadly pale.

He cough violently and spat out a few blood from his mouth and wiped his lips and walked forward.

The slow sound running of water made the frozen woods look peaceful but Lucas knew so well that this was the most dangerous place.

He looked around and found the creature sleeping closely near the lake with it short strong legs resting on the hard ground and it hard scales shimmered under the cold sun.

The black scale crocodile was 3 feet tall and large in width and it length extended through out the shore of the lake.

It wasn't so strange that a predator was out cold in the deep frozen forest since it also had cold resistance like the horned beast rabbit.

The most important is_

This was where the black scaled crocodile resided and it was close to level 23.

And this crocodile had been guarding the water from any living thing that tried to take a fill from it

The water was a pure water that could heal physical wounds and strengthen ones soul, some may even advance to another stage if they had a bath in it instantly,which made it suitable for the black scaled crocodile to live in.

Lucas movement was careful and moved closer to the lake like a thief his small body couldn't compare to one-third of the body of the black scaled crocodile.

Growl~

A small snore escaped the crocodile long mouth and it startled Lucas and he leapt  quietly and a little bit faster.

He had to be quick, he took a small palm sized clean bottle and dip it into the running water and took a considerable amount of pure water and kept it straight into his bag and was about to go when he saw something that caught his eyes.

It was a crystal in the size of a human teenage head that glowed strongly in the lake,thumping with multiple energy and it had strange carvings on it, it was under a thin block of ice.

"This.."Lucas whispered and was slightly startled.

He couldn't get his eyes off it and he quickly checked on the crocodile that twitch a little and he went into the lake and moved closer towards the crystal and the pulsing energy from that made Lucas hesitate a little.

He took the crystal ball out of the frozen part of the lake and cautiously glimpsed at the ball and then saw that the crocodile was about to awaken.

He panicked and threw the head sized ball into his sack bag and hurried out of the lake and tip toed as fast as he could out of the perimeters of the crocodile and ran forward.

The crocodile woke up and saw that what it was guarding had been snatched away by the human it let out a roar that spread across the forest.

Thump! Thump!

Lucas heart was racing seriously, he was so scared that adrenaline spread across his bones and he ran with much energy that was even faster than a human.

The crocodile was closing right on him and his face became ugly once more and panic spread across his face.

"Give me my crystal you hateful human!' the crocodile roared furiously.

Lucas face was drenched in cold sweat and his face was deadly pale, he felt weakness spread from his whole body.

He couldn't hold on anymore.

This was his limit!

His legs were aching and his speed lessened and the crocodile caught up immediately with it huge claw stretched out to slash at him.

_Was this his end?_

Lucas was unwilling to die like this, he hadn't even achieved anything in his life than what he got now and he was about to die because of it.

I don't want to die, I  do you want to die!

Lucas stumbled down a slope and he crashed into a small cave and landed on a hard sharp spike of cold ice which pierced his waist making feel numb and painful.

Lucas gnashed his teeth in pain as his face contorted into agony.

He couldn't scream, because he was scared that the crocodile would find him, he could only bite his arm which later bloodied and his waist which was pierced flowed with blood and his body became more weak and his vision became dark and blurry.

_am going to die like this?_

That was his last thought until he lost consciousness, rather he died

Unknown to Lucas the crystal was had absorbed his blood and it slip out of the bag and rotated while it lifted into the air.

The sky crackled with fierce lightning and the wind blew violently, an ancient aura spread across the entire forest and the ground shook like he was awakening.

The crocodile that was searching for Lucas was startled in fear and ran away back to the lake and hide in a cave whole looking at the strange phenomena in fear and confusion because the power it released was that of a God.

In a secluded place_

An old man who was meditating with his eyes closed and his white hair blowing.

A wave of strong ancient energy spread towards him and he suddenly opened his blue eyes and he coughed up blood.

"Faction leader?" A young man in blue asked in panic.

The faction leader was cultivating and he suddenly coughed up blood.

To him it was a bad omen!

The old man gasped and his heart trembled,and he became startled and surprised.

"What aura was that, it was so terrifying"the old man said with his body Visibly shaking a little.

In the city_

Many people coughed up blood and as they all looked in confusion and fear.

"Hmm"a man in draped in black said and he looked at the frozen forest in bewilderment.

In the forest_

Lucas was floating in the air and so did the crystal ball and the essence in the ball was flowing out into Lucas body and he began to under some changes.

His long black dirty hair gradually became silver and so did his eyebrow and his body fattened up a little bit and the crystal ball slowly lost it essence.

Half a month later..

The topic of the people coughing up blood bad spread and it later died down when they found no traces of it any longer and let the case die down since no one was crippled or badly injured.

At the orphanage_

"I finally got into the early state of core consolidating stage"a young teenager in blue shirt and black trousers sat crossed legged on the bed and he smirked mischievously.

The winter was already gone and the snow was melting gradually and the sun shone brightly in the sky.

The youngster who was a blonde guy with green eyes and a tall nose and his face showing that he would be much more handsome in his adulthood and he had an air of arrogance.

The youngster was James and he walked out of his room and met with the others.

Today was the Dean birthday! And they decided to celebrate it.

The atmosphere in the orphanage was filled with joy no one really cared about  a young feeble Lucas was missing except for a nanny—nanny Jojo.

Nanny Jojo was worried about Lucas and her face was wrinkled in worry with a troubled look.

Nanny Jojo went to meet the head of the orphanage who was having a chat with a man.

"Dean, a child has been missing for half a month!"nanny Jojo said.

Agalon face scrunched in impatience

' he was having a chat with the esteemed guest and this nanny was disturbing him all because a child was missing, nonsense!'

"Who is the child?" Agalon asked.

"Lucas"

Agalon face twisted in ridicule and mockery.

"If you dont have anything important to say please leave now and take care of the 'important ability users kids" agalon emphasized on the last word and stressed it out like he was implying something then he ignored nanny Jojo and continued his conversation.

The birthday party went on and James was mostly the center of attraction.

"Congratulations! On reaching a new rank, with your age you will definitely enter a good academy!" The head of the orphanage agalon said with admiration.

James smiled and he stood proudly under the envious and jealous gazes.

"Wow I want to be like James! His so cool!"

"he is probably a genius! For him to reach that stage at 13"

"He has a promising future,for him to reach to the stage at his age, he is definitely a genius, I hope to see some surprises from your orphanage"the old man said with a cold expression and smiled coldly.

The old man is named Hugh Hefner, he is one of the teachers of the popular academy, Sky diving academy!.

He was clearly an esteemed guest in the orphanage and the other youngsters were all trying to gain his attention.

"Of course!of course!" Agalon said with a smile.

James was already floating above skies as he enjoyed the envious eyes and smiled proudly.

' hmph! I surely am the strongest in the orphanage '

There was a probability he would be a sky diving academy teacher student with his potentials.

The sky diving academy was the strongest and best popular academy in Odin kingdom. Those who were admitted there were all strong and the leaders were all above elemental master.

In the forest, at the small cave_

The crystal ball had already reduced in size of a finger and it slowly vanished and Lucas hair was which has become long and was now silver and captivating, it was very smooth to touch.

Lucas floating body slowly settled down and after a while Lucas snapped his eyes opened which had a faint golden colour making him look cold and mysterious.

Lucas looked at the dark cave and smelt a very bad smell and went out of the cave.

The bag had a foul smell, it directly came from the horned beast rabbit he killed and Lucas was confused then flood of memories entered his mind.

' I thought I died, I  could feel my soul coming out of my body and suddenly_'

Lucas then search for the crystal ball and found out it was missing.

"No!, I nearly died to get this thing now it was gone!"Lucas almost ran mad and he was burning In fury.

It's gone!,it's gone!,ITS GONE!

Unknown to him he had already absorbed the crystal ball.

Lucas  sat down on the ground and his golden eyes was glowing in anger. He stood up and threw away the rotten horned ****** rabbit after carving out the core and he took out the pure water that was clear and radiated a pure aura of life.

He took the bottle and opened the lid and drank it without hesitation, though it couldn't do anything but it could strengthen his body and cleanse his soul.

He felt his body slowly get cleansed and his eyes glowed again and slowly dimmed, Lucas seemed to have not noticed the changes in his hair and eyes.

Lucas felt like something was reaching his back and he caught,

silver hair?

He traced it and he discovered his hair was silver and long and his emotionless faced twisted in confusion.

' When did he have a long silver hair?'_

Lucas then suddenly became aware of the changes in him and he noticed his mind was more clear and sharp and he could even see things miles away from him.

"This.."

Lucas climbed up the slope with slight difficulty then walked into the forest and rubbed his forehead, he was confused.

How did I not die?_

Why is my hair silver?_

Lucas stopped when he had a roar coming from afar.

"Oh I almost forgot"Lucas said.

Unknown to Lucas him absorbing the crystal made him undergo changes that he would not feel troubled even in a dangerous situation.

His face was much calmer and colder for a youngster like Lucas.

"Despicable human, I don't know how you are alive but your journey ends with you between my teeth" the black scaled crocodile roared in anger and it dashed forward to the startled silver head youngster.

"So fast!" Lucas calmly watched then he noticed that every he could see things  became in a slow motion.

He quickly dodged the huge mouth that was about to crush his head with his teeth.

"Huh!"the black scaled crocodile was confused when it saw that the measly human dodged it's attack, even with it's speed a level 24 beast couldn't catch on.

"Hmph!, You may have being lucky to dodge that but you shall know the full meaning of angering a level 23 crocodile"the black scaled crocodile added all it power and some dark lightning stricked around it huge body.

The black scale crocodile has entered beserk mode.

"Now let's see how your luck will play in this"

"Not good!"Lucas said and ran for it.

The black scaled crocodile chased after the fleeing Lucas.

Lucas speed doubled and he was surprised, he ran for some minutes and he didn't feel tired then he suddenly caught the glimpse of the crocodile claw and dodged clumsily and turned around.

This time he had to fight against the black scaled crocodile.

He knew his speed was fast but he couldn't outrun a black scale crocodile that specialises in lightning.

He took a fighting stance and bravely faced the black scaled crocodile.

"Kid,I like your brave attitude but it won't save you from being eaten by me" the black scaled crocodile said and made claw offense.

Lucas saw this in slow motion and dodged it and gave a fist punch towards the crocodile black scale.

If he could at least penetrate the scale he could have some hope.

"Huh!"the black scaled crocodile was surprised and it felt some pain on it jaw area.

"This kid actually manage to penetrate my scale!I clearly had underestimated this kid"the black scaled crocodile became solemn.

Lucas was surprised as well but he quick took the chance and brought out his old dagger.

If he could penetrate the black scaled crocodile body then he still had 30% chance of survival.

The problem was that the crocodile was now cautious and it created a defense of dark lightning.

"I admit I underestimated you kid,You may have been able to penetrate my scale but that's doesn't stop me from killing you"the black scaled crocodile roared out and attacked.

Lucas dodged every attack and his movement became more smooth and he

Came up with a strategy and decide to stall for a while until the crocodile was wasted.

Though he got beaten pretty badly with his back dripping with blood and his hand was slashed open but didn't stop him.

Fortunately for Lucas, as he dodge he noticed that the attack was now much slower than before.

Lucas then attacked and smoothly invaded the attack and avoided the dark lightnings.

He threw a devastating blow to the black scaled crocodile head and the crocodile swayed a bit showing that the head was clearly it weakness.

He had some knowledge on them while he frequently snuck into the library in the orphanage.

He took his dagger and slashed everywhere on the hard black scales of the crocodile.

The black scaled crocodile roared in fury and pain and it glared at Lucas.

Lucas penetrated the head of the black scaled crocodile and kick the crocodile in the belly sending it crashing Down.

Who could imagine that a level 22 beast was being beaten up by a 12 year old kid that had no affinity with any element.

Some will never believe it, Lucas looked at the injured black scaled crocodile that was injured with it scales torn up and It body severely injured.

"If I take it core it would probably give be a huge amount of money"Lucas said out and glanced the black scale crocodile that was shivering in fear.

A core of a beast could be sold for 100 terra silver, and plus the claws and fangs which would be a total of 20 terra gold and it could sustain him for weeks.

"Monster, you are a monster!"the black scaled crocodile roared out in fear.

Lucas sneered and ignored the curses of the crocodile.

"Stop! please I will give you anything , my claws anything please don't kill me!"the black scaled crocodile begged.

"Huh!"Lucas was startled.

When did the crocodile turn like this, a black scaled crocodile like this were all known for their proud nature.

He even began to doubt if this was really a black scaled crocodile.

"Too late"Lucas said and pierced the head of the injured crocodile that roared in pain and he carved out the core and the black scaled crocodile collapsed dead.

Lucas was victorious!_

But a rush of fatigue and pain from the injury he sustained stretched across his body and he looked the palm sized core which was black and had a lightning symbol on it.

He suddenly had strange idea and looked the core and decided to try it.

He sat down cross legged near the black scaled crocodile corpse and closed his eyes and entered a meditating state.

His forehead was drenched in cold sweat but his face remained cold.

The core reacted and the lightning was sucked at an unimaginable speed and Lucas opened his eyes.

"I a-actually did it!"Lucas said in disbelief.

He made a small lightning which was silver and a tint of black.

"I have an affinity with the rare lightning ability!"Lucas rejoiced and took the valuables of the crocodile like the claws, fangs and scales and went to the lake and took a bath in the pure water then he saw his full appearance.

His skin was now white and smooth more than a woman, his face had a sharp and cold expression and his face structure was more mature and exquisitely handsome at his young age with his dreamy silver hair and a deep golden eyes.

He couldn't help but sigh, he had been gone from the orphanage and he didn't know how long. He took his dried clothes and wore it and took the black cloak with a hood to hide his appearance.

He found some valuable things around the lake and picked them up.

Energy crystals, blood heart grass, a new weapon which was a bow which was dark and silver in colour which made him wonder where the black scaled crocodile brought this from.

Unfortunately the bow was somehow damaged and Lucas sighed and still took it.

He took all the valuables and went out of the thick wet forest which had grown pasture on the wet ground, the forest was back to it lush green and clean air of nature.

It won't take long before the beast will start wandering around.

Seeing this Lucas was worried because for the winter to have melted meant he had gone for long time.

Hopefully nanny Jojo won't be so worried.

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