Meanwhile, in the room, the two boys were standing there with shock in their eyes not knowing what had happened. They were so close to getting the scroll but without any reason, the boy in front of them disappeared. Martin being George’s roommate for a session month had seen George disconnect many times and understood the situation. What George didn’t know is that when you disconnect everything on you will also disappear until you log back in the next day, which means that that scroll would not appear again until the next session day. Martin finding it amusing started to laugh out loud until the whole room was filled with laughter. Roy seeing Martin laugh got angry and started to kick him again.

“Where did he go! Where is the scroll?”

But Martin didn’t react and just kept laughing like he had no care in the world. Max didn’t know what happened but he could tell that the chance of them getting the scroll now was pretty small and Martin was too crazy to hand over anything from inside his storage ring.

“Let’s go, there is nothing to gain anymore and the chance of getting caught is getting higher by the second.”

It took a second for Roy to accept the situation but at the end, he also turned around to run away, but before they could do that Martin got up and his laughter was getting even louder. Roy seeing Martin stand up got a little annoyed and got his sword to knock him out for good.

“Do you like to get beaten? You are no match for me so stay down and I won’t hurt you any further, don’t push me, I’m already mad enough.”

Martin had a mad look in his eyes and a big grin on his face and took his sword from the ground and pointed it at Roy.

“You come into my house, beat me, insult me and you want to leave like that? I didn’t want to do this but today I will show you the difference between a noble and a commoner.”

Martin Moved his hand and a black pill appeared, he put it in his mouth and swallowed it. After a second white light started to appear around him and his eyes turned black. The light element around him was moving in every direction and even started to destroy everything in the room. The two boys got scared and started to run away.

“You want to run? In your dreams. You may not have the balls to kill me but I will end your lives today.”

Before they could react Martin disappear and reappeared before the two boys, he casually moved his hands and the two were pushed back by the light energy and hit the wall. Martin could have already killed them but wanted to take his revenge before killing them.

“First I remove those masks and see who you are, after that I kill you. Don’t worry, being a noble with a lot of money I'll make sure to buy you as slaves and let you experience a nice time.”

Roy got so scared that he peed in his pants, the cold smile on Martins' face and the dark eyes from the pill made him look like a demon and he knew that he didn’t have any chance of escape. Being a slave was no good times by any means but being the slave of your enemy was the worst thing that could happen, some people would even prefer death.

Martin Moved with high speed and tried to break the masks with force but for some reason, the two had disappeared. He panicked and looked around to his surprise saw a man lying on the bed with a smile on his face.

“I just wanted to teach the wimp a lesson, why are you going all crazy and take a forbidden pill, I wouldn’t want to be you when the pain kicks in. At least try to gain some insight on the light element while it’s still in your body, I mean who would use a pill worth a thousand credits for something as small as a kids fight. And the worse thing is that it was not even your fight, you could have given them the boy and walked away like a sane person would. Way do the ones Solomon takes an interest in always turn out to be insane? First that awful woman and now you two idiots, I’ll tell you a secret kid, never let Solomon pick your secretary, before you know it you’re sitting in a room with a woman that could just as well be a statue. I mean, don’t I deserve some attention from my own secretary? Instead, I get the cold shoulder, I think she is looking down on my because I’m not tall enough or don’t have the fancy clothes you people wear.”

Martin was getting angrier by the second and was thinking of whatever to attack or not. But he put the thought away after thinking how fast the principal was and that he had no chance of beating him. Besides the pain would start soon and the pain from a forbidden pill was like someone pulling out your flesh with their bare hands, not many adults can handle such a pain, let stand a kid who is just sixteen session years old. The only thing making that experience worse would be the principal standing there rambling the whole time.

“I mean why are you guys the only ones who are allowed to wear the good colors? How can we look good for a woman if we can only wear boring colors like brown and black.”

Martin was completely drained from any patience he had left and quickly turned around and sat down in the lotus position to prepare for the pain that was going to come.

“Please get out, I need to prepare for the pain and try to get some insight in the time possible. But please remember that this incident is not concluded, I want a full report from the academy and will inform the board of what happened today.”

The principal moved his hand and the whole room turned back to how it was before the fighting. He didn’t seem to mind Martin’s reaction and still had the mocking smile on his face.

“What incident? I tell you what happened, you went out drinking and had a little too much wine. I mean the youth of today just don’t know when to stop, I also heard that there are weird pills out there that make you hallucinate, and I as the good principal came and saved you. And if you think that the wimp will testify for you… well, think again. One word from me and he will be crawling underneath the bed again.”

After saying that the principal disappeared from the room and Martin was the only one left. He promised himself that he would get revenge for that happened today, but right now the only thing he had to worry about was the forbidden pill he had taken and he started to meditate.

In the meanwhile, George was sitting in a corner of the room like he would do when Vincent was still around. He was mentally drained and didn’t even do his daily exercises and was just staring at the capsules in front of him. Everything had changed so quickly, in just a couple of days his life went from carefree to complicated and the worse thing was that he could do nothing about it. He didn’t have any power to fight back or to make his own decisions. A couple of hours went by and Clara got out of her capsule and started to skip towards George. She had a smile on her face and had made a one-eighty after the first week they met. She was a really kind girl and only needed some time to open up to someone, she even started calling him second brother after the second week, to George’s surprise.

“second brother George I don’t feel like doing the exercises today, let’s get something to ea…..”

George was sitting in a corner with bloodshot eyes and his hand was bleeding. Clara didn’t know what had happened but didn’t think it was the right time to ask. Seeing George not even notice her presence she moved to her room and came back with the first aid kit. It was the standard kit Omar had bought for one credit a long time ago for emergencies. She took the betadine spray and started to clean and bandage the wound. George didn’t even react to her holding his hands and just kept staring forward. Just as Clara was thinking wat to do next Omar’s capsule opened up and he stepped out of the capsule. Omar had a smile on his face as always and started to do his exercises before he saw Clara running toward him with tears in her eyes.

“Big brother come quickly, there is something wrong with second brother.”

Omar tried to wake George up but there didn’t seem to be any reaction, after waiting for a while Omar got up and orders two meals and came back to where George was sitting. He didn’t want to leave George alone and decided to eat in the corner together with George and Clara. Omar and Clara would occasionally say something to each other but didn’t talk much.

The next morning the two got up and saw George lying on the ground in the corner of the room. The sleep had done him good and he decided to go eat breakfast and prepare for another day. He had to go back in the capsule and survive another day and there was nothing he could do about it, the best thing he could do right now was to eat and strengthen his body.

Everyone went to getting ready to enter Nash when something unexpectedly happened.

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George turned around and saw Clara and Omar standing completely in shock, how could this have happened?

“Big bro, what’s going on? My birthday is in a month, why does that think say sixteen?”

Omar also had a confused look on his face and started to panic.

“I don’t know, our foster mother told me that your birthday would be in January, the only thing I can think of is that she lied to me or that she didn’t know either and just made something up.”

George could see an angry look on Omar’s face which was rare when he mentioned his foster mother.

Clara got a shock when she heard the voice and quickly reacted.

“No.”

Omar hit the table hard and didn’t know what to do, he didn’t have the money to get his sister in the same starting village and had hoped to earn enough money in the next month.

“I don’t have enough…..”

Clara understanding the situation quickly hugged her big brother and had a big smile on her face.

“I will be fine, big brother, you didn’t have anyone accompany you in the beginning either and you did fine, I will do my best to make you proud.”

George was listening to the two and without hesitating got up and walked toward the screen and made the request of Clara entering Wine village. He would have preferred her joining Omar but that was not possible, exchanging money outside of Nash was not possible, it was a rule invented to prevent young nobles from getting riches before they even started. Omar seeing this had a surprised and worried expression on his face.

“George the transfer will cost you a hundred….”

George didn’t care about the money, he needed to do something to get some of his pride back after the events of yesterday.

“No worry’s, money can always be earned back. Now let’s get ready.”