2 The Intruders

Suddenly there was a huge explosion. Two soldiers who were guarding the gate flew far away from the explosion. Citizens near the area started panicking right after the explosion. Some citizens were caught up in it, there were bodies of soldiers on the ground.

The attackers then showed up their faces and stood over the dead bodies. One of the attackers face was covered by a red mask and the other had a huge scar on his face, almost as if he had fought with some wolf. A dark aura was flowing through them, thier aura were much stronger than the aura that the kid earlier showed.

"Is this the place, Akuma?" says the Red Masked.

"It seems like it!"

The Red Masked heads towards the mansion, with a nasty smile on his face. As if he's about to devour someone.

"Akuma, step aside. I'll blew up this entire place"

"Don't go overboard, Steve!"

After Akuma steps back, the Red Masked releases black magic balls. Throwing it straight to the mansion. "EXPLOSION!!"

Boom!!

The entire mansion was destroyed. The dead bodies of the soldiers were spread all over the place.

Akuma with an annoyed look glares at Red Masked. "Steve, don't forget we are not here to bring ourselves unnecessary trouble, and remember we have to bring the child alive "

"You worry to much. He won't die easily from such a weak attack" hehehe..

The Red Masked goes closer to the destroyed mansion.

Suddenly the Viscount throws the concrete that was on top of him and pulls out the kid and all the people within the magical barrier. He used his magic powers to make a barrier and it protected the people with him from the previous explosion.

The Kid stares at the Red masked. His eyes became red, as if his eyes were filled with red blood. His heart start beating slower and slower untill it stopped beating, thumb...thumb...thumb....thumb...

The Viscount seemed to recognise them. While the healer and the knights were feeling uncomfortable from the aura the kid was emitting.

*This guys Akuma and Steve, aren't they the rogue knights who betrayed and fled from our neighbouring nation? What are they doing here? Do this guys have some connection with the attackers from before. Anyways these guys are dangerous, I have to take the kid far away from them*

Suddenly the kids presense vanished. Everything felt silent to him, he couldn't hear or see anything other than the enemies and the only thing he could hear was "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you" (the final words he said to his parents when they died). Tears starts coming from his eyes as he stares at enemies.

"I'll... I'll kill you all bastards."

He raises his front foot to the ground, putting a strong pressure on the ground and flews right towards the Red Masked. He closed the gap between him and the guy within a blink of an eye. Grabs the enemies neck tightly, lifts him up and throws him to the walls that covered the mansion. He lands far away to the other side of the wall, shattering through it.

Both Azuma and Viscount looked shocked at the aura flowing through the kid. The aura was even more stronger than before.

The five knights and the healer was astonished by the dark aura coming from the kid.

"This kid is strong!" Azuma quickly goes to Steve.

"Don't underestimate the kid, he's stronger than we expected"

The kid jumps high above them and grabs his both fist aiming to hit right at the enemies.

*EXPLOSION!* Steve smiles

Out of nowhere something exploded pushing away the kid. The explosion pushed away the kid, this caused him to fall right to the ground. His right arms stopped working and blood came filling out of his arms, but to everyone's surprise the kid stood up as if he didn't suffered any damage. Within few seconds he charges towards Steve, Akuma unleashes his fangs. Furs grew from his neck, hands and foot, he seemed half human and half wolf. Since the kid's right arm was unable to move, he hold his left fist tightly in slightly turns down to hit the enemy.

Azuma quickly pushes Steve and blocks the kid's attack. Steve falls to the ground after being pushed.

"Hey whats your deal, i nearly got him" Steve complaints.

"We can't afford to stay here any longer"

"What? Why?" Steve seemed somewhat confused

The kid finally found an opening and starts swinging his right fist. Then Viscount hits on the neck of the kid, making him lose consciousness.

"Look behind you, at the guy standing there. He is dangerous!" Azuma seemed very nervous.

However Steve wasn't aware of any kind of aura besides his comrade and the kid. Azuma could clearly sense the dangerous aura as he was a half wolf, wolves had a high sense of smell. Steve shifts his focus back to the kid, he starts gathering huge magical energy in his hands. "I'll make sure to blew you up kid!"

Suddenly Viscount was at the back of Steve, Steve hadn't realised it yet. When he looked back Viscount kicks him in his stomach, the power of the kick made a huge impact forcing him fall 50 meters far away. Blood started coming out of the mask, Azuma quickly carries Steve on his shoulders.

"We are retreating" Azuma says with an anxious face.

"You think I'll retreat after that bastard dared kicked me" Steve rebels and was being stubborn.

Azuma stares at him. "Sure, if you have a death wish go ahead"

Steve kept silent.

"Running already are we?"

*How did he moved so fast?* Azuma looked shocked.

"You bastard, I'll kill you right here." Steve losses his temper and gathers a huge amount of magic energy and throws it right towards Viscount. There was a massive explosion in the area, the explosion could be seen ten kilometres far and could have been heard 20 kilometres far away. Azuma used his transformed legs and quickly ran away from the place. After the gap seemed far enough, he takes deep breath. Finally puts the persistent Steve down and rest on a tress.

"Still running away? are we?"

Viscount uses his magic. A Giant Ice hand pops out of the ground and holds both the enemies tightly.

Few hours later -

"Where am I?"

"Your in my Mansion" The Viscount replies excitedly.

The kid stares at the Viscount. "Where are those bastards!"

"Don't worry, they have been captured!" The kid looked disappointed.

*So in the end, I couldn't even protect myself. Pathetic*

"The healer said that it'll take some time for you to fully recover."

"I see." The kid snaps out from his thoughts and replies calmly

"About my past! What do you know about my past?"

"That I can't say you that just yet."

"One last question, are students in the academy you mentioned strong?"

"Hoo!" The Viscount looks at him smiling.

"Yes and what are you planning to do about it?"

"I'll accept your proposal from earlier, I hope you won't disappoint me."

The Viscount seemed so happy, as if a child got a new toy to play.

"Now that I think about it, I've totally forgot to ask your name." The Viscount seemed disappointed at himself.

"I'm Leo!" Leo slightly smiles. He seemed somewhat more comfortable speaking.

"Nice to meet you, Leo! I'm Chris, Viscount Chris!"

"Alright I'll be heading straight to the Academy's Director, make sure you recover well kid! ugh I mean Leo." hehe

"There is one favour I'd like to ask of you."

"I didn't expected you to ask for a forward." Viscount seemed surprised.

After a short chat, he departs away.

The next day Viscount arrives again. But to his surprise Leo was not there in his room. He became tensed thinking enemies might have abducted him last night. He was worried and looked tensed only to see Leo training outside through the window.

"59, 60, 61!"

Viscount goes closer to Leo. "What are you doing?"

"Training! isn't it obvious?" Leo looks at him with a flat obvious face.

"Ofcourse it's not obvious, you just nearly lost your live yesterday not to mention your left arm!"

"I don't have the luxury to rest. If I don't hurry they will be taking many innocent lives. And I can't let that happen, can I now?"

Leo looked serious as he continues with his training. "80, 81, 82"

"So what kind of training is this?" The Viscount asks

"I'm doing light exercises since I'm still recovering." He was skipping.

However Viscount didn't seemed to know about such exercises.

*Must be because they are not from my world*

Leo closes his eyes while exercising. *I have to get stronger in every possible way, bit by bit. Just you wait bastards, I'll come after you all*

"Last night where did you slept? Isn't this your house?"

"Oh it's not my real house, it's just I use this for guest." Viscount calls out his servant, go and bring us some tea.

"Yes, My Lord."

After few minutes -

"Here have some tea and rest for now"

"500, 501, 502...." But Leo seemed to be deeply into training.

"Are you sure it's really a light exercise? Won't this affect your healing wounds?" Viscount seemed worried.

Leo was sweating heavily, his heart was beating hardly and was breathing deeply. "Huff huff huff"

Leo then replies with confidence. "Don't worry I don't plan on making things worse!"

"Alright then." As he slowly drinks the tea he watches the boy exercising. After almost an hour. "4050...4051....4052...."

Leo rests on the ground. "Thats it for today's morning."

Viscount was shocked at how hard the kid is trying to become strong. He had never seemed such a determined person in his whole life.

"Hey Chris, don't you have works to do?" Leo calls the Viscount by his name.

The servant behind Viscount starts feeling anxious as Viscounts are of high nobility and some commoners calling them with thier names means death. He feared that Viscount might kill him for witnessing such disgrace.

The servant quickly kneels to the ground. "Forgiveness My Lord, I will forget everything what I just heard. Spare me please!" But to his surprise, Viscount was replying normally to Leo's call.

"I do have lots of works to do, but right now monitoring you is more important."

"I see"

Few days passed -

Leo was doing more exercises than what he did before

"200..201...202!" Leo was doing push ups, his whole body was sweating. The ground was wet of his sweat. "998....999....1000!"

He was doing push ups, skipping, stretching, squads, meditation and even jogging. He recovered faster than expected, it took 5 days for him to fully recover.

He still had one more week tine before attending the academy. He started putting extra weights about 1.5 kilograms on himself to make his exercising more efficient. He kept doing it over and over again untill his body starts becoming more stronger.

One week had gone by, it was time to check how much he had improved over the course of two weeks. His aps and veins become more visible, his shoulders, arms, chest became more refined and shaped. He could feel his aura becoming more stable and easier to control, he grew a lot taller than before, a growth spurt from 5'7 to 5'9. His hands were fully recovered and his senses were sharper than before.

A moment later Viscount arrives -

Viscount could see the kid improved a lot within just a week for his absence. "Are you a monster or something?" asks with an excited face.

"I just used by every bit of opportunity to become stronger."

*After all I only just utilised my potential to maximum*

"You really are different from all people I've met so far!" He was excited as always.

"Anyways I bought something interesting today." He takes out crystal ball, it was shining and had some mana inside it. "This is a power stone!"

"Power stone?" Leo looked confused as he have never seen an object filled with mana.

"Yes, power stone! it tells you how strong your magic is, based on your mana and control over it and so on....it gets more complicated, so I'll put it in short. If the crystal ball turns to certain colours it determines what level your magic power is, and its divided in rankings!"

Leo was listening closely to the explanation.

"If the colour turns blue it means your a D rank, yellow for C Rank, green for B, red for A and lastly dark blue for S rank."

He then holds the ball and raises it towards Leo "Focus your magic power in your plams and hold the ball." Leo holds it and starts focusing on the magic in his hands. The colours starts changing as he starts focusing his powers, the colours stops changing at Yellow.

"Wow green, just as I expected. You really are a monster." The Viscount becomes excited once again.

"Monster? it's just C rank!" Leo seemed kinda disappointed.

"Let me correct something, even among C-ranks there are different stages from 1-4. And yours is at the 4th fourth stage, meaning your powers are close to B-rank 1st stage."

Leo listened quietly as chris explains.

"You see, our countries knights are usually at C-rank 2-4 stages. You on the other hand, you're already on the last stage."

Leo nods

"You're very young, you have lots of potential kid!"

"What's your rank, Chris?" Leo seemed curious.

*If I'm C rank given with the intense training I had endured, then he must be atleast a B rank!*

As Leo was asking him question, Viscount changes the topic. "I know a place that could speed your training process at an insane rate."

Leo's eyes widened.