Volume 1 Chapter 2 : The Introduction

Eric had run about 4 streets carrying Lyralei when she finally woke up.

“Wh-who are you? Where am I? Put me down this instant!”

Lyralei was panicked after she found herself far away from where she was before, with a person she didn’t know carrying her.

“Calm down, I saved you from that guy. Don’t worry, you’re safe now.”

“How am I supposed to believe you! For all I know you might be Ryan’s friend!”

‘So his name is Ryan huh’ Eric thought.

“I’ll demonstrate my skill to you so you’ll believe me. Is that good enough?”

Eric finally put her down and took his knife to cut his own arm.

“Wh-what are you doing?” Lyralei was panicking again after seeing Eric wounding himself.

“Don’t worry, my Skill is a heal. I summon you, o holy light!”

After Eric demonstrated his Skill, he started to introduce himself.

“Well should we start over? My name is Eric, Eric Ross”

“My name is Lyralei Windrunner, wait did you say Ross?”

After Lyralei heard a familiar name, she began to start acting excited.

“What’s your relation to Erica Ross? You look really like her.”

“Erica? She’s my twin sister.”

“Ehh? How come we don’t know she has a brother? She’s like the most famous person in our school.”

“I don’t go to your school, anyway I have to go, my family is probably worried about me and I also have to buy something.”

Eric finally left after saying that, leaving Lyralei to think about what had happened.

“Hey sis, I’m back.”

Eric called out to his sister as he entered the house and set down the food.

“What took you so long, I’m hungry now. What did you buy?”

Erica was irritated and didn’t hide it in the way she acted as she went down from her room.

“I’m sorry, there was a commotion outside the market and it delayed me. I bought you you’re favorite food.”

Eric brought out roasted chicken and buttered corn and set it in front of her.

“Hmmph! At least you bought me actual food. Wait what are you eating for dinner?”

After seeing that only her food was there, she was confused and asked Eric.

“It’s fine. We need to cut back on costs, dad didn’t send as much money this month.”

‘Should I offer him part of my food? But I’m supposed to be angry at him. What should I do if he hasn’t eaten a lot.’

As Erica was agonizing over her thoughts, Eric went up to his room.

“I’ll go sleep now, wash the dishes you use.”

Before Erica could even think of a way to discretely give him food, Eric immediately went to his room and slept.

In the headquarters of the Kingdom’s Army

A messenger entered the main room of the building bearing a message from the scouts.

“General, you have a letter from one of the scouts. Specifically, Amanda from the southern province.”

“Thank you, let me read it in private.”

After the General read the letter, he began thinking about his plan.

‘So even Amanda found 3 potential candidates. Other scouts have also found people with such tremendous talent. If all goes well, my plan might actually work. I have to think of ways to convince and compensate this people. They’re absolutely important for our kingdom to survive.’

The General then began to prepare to meet the first two people the scouts discovered, the two arena fighters in the deserts of Nazir.