2 Behind the Scenes.

Inside the deeper parts of the mansion an office could be seen decorated with ancient looking weapons all ranging from bows, spears, swords, sabers, and halberds all sticking to the walls of the rooms held by some unique nails.

In the middle could be seen a desk full of carvings of different beasts, giving the desk a unique flavour and an exotic feel, the desk had three chairs near it, the one occupying the desk seat was an Old Man around 60 years of age, with wrinkles on his forehead and white hair stylishly bent backwards, green emerald eyes with a small amount of cunning radiating from them, a smile that a fox couldnt even dream of achieving, and most importantly, the stature of a tall and sturdy fortress.

"Thank you for coming, and i expect great results from you Mr. and Mrs. Lonheim. i will be expecting another meeting about the project within the next week, at the same time in the same location." The Old Man thanked and led the two couple outside. both boasting weird white capes with insignias on their chests signifying their rankings and importance.

"Johan, has the boy refused to come out of his room again ?" The Old Man couldnt help but sigh while his question reverberated through the room.

"Yes Master Roland, ever since his last episode the young master has refused to come out or even talk to anyone besides me." Johan, the butler who visited Rudin the previous day, appeared out of nowhere and replied calmly, to these news the The Old Man, or better called, Master Roland shook his head with a hint of sorrow and guilt.

"Johan, do you think its my fault, ever since that incident inside the Academy Rodin has been having these episodes." Master Roland couldnt help but sigh again and look towards his most trusted aide and long time friend, Johan, he had long hair which was tied like a horsetail, his aged face showed discipline and many scars along his face, while both his eyes were squinting and barely showing any of his

"I dare not t- " johan couldnt finish his sentence before he was interrupted by a gruff and annoyed voice.

"How many times do i have to tell you Johan, you dont need to be formal while were alone." Master Roland shook his head and got up from his seat.

"What do you suppose we do, i need your advice old friend." Johan who was at the side fell into a deep thought.

"I would suggest that you go and talk to him, it has been a long time since you had time to actually talk with your son, im not trying to say you have been ignoring him, but after a certain point i noticed you didnt have time to spend with him." At the words Master roland couldnt help but wince and nod in agreement.

This led him to fall into a deep thought and remember when his son was younger, after a certain age he began to get farther and farther away from his son, thanks to the revolution it bought some unexpected problems upon his head which made it almost impossible for the father and son duo to spend some time and interact with each other.

This created a sort of alienation between him and his son.

"Im not sure how to approach him, does he have any hobbies, or anything he is passionate about ?" Master Roland couldnt help but scratch the back of his neck while looking up towards his Aid who was looking at him blankly before letting out a sigh.

"The master while inside the academy had a huge amount of passion towards magic and also weirdly enough Spearmanship and martial arts, but that changed quickly after his second year when he met the daughter of a duke, we already talked about her once, and im pretty sure she is the main cause of his suffering." Johan coughed at the mention of the girl to which Master Roland's entire mood dropped with it also came the freezing cold, the room was now misty, strangely enough Johan wasnt affected.

"Cough, sorry, i lost my temper there, hmm, magic, the spear and martial arts you say, how well did he perform in any of these ?" Master Roland asked while swiping off the small amount of frost which appeared on top of a few paper documents.

"I heard that he was at the top of his class both in Combat and Martial Arts, while Magic came a bit harder to him he managed to stay within the top 20% of the entire his year group." Hearing these results Roland was beaming with happiness, he quickly got up from the office chair, with a quick flick of his fingers everything got arranged neatly while both Johan and him left.

"Where exactly are we going Roland ?" Johan questioned with a small amount of confusion coming off of his words, to which his friend only showed a smirk and nodded for Johan to follow him.

After 3 minutes of non stop walking, turning and jumbling, they arrived at a huge double door, on the right it showed a phoenix while on the left a dragon carving.

*Creeeeak*

Roland opened the doors and entered, what entered his vision was a grand library around 10 story high, books were flying from place to place while levitating brooms and dust swipers were here and there cleaning up.

"Lazar, show yourself you old croak !" Master Roland said calmly with a smile on his face, as if on cue a huge spatial crack appeared in the middle of the library where a circular desk could be seen housing many books, documents and papers sprawled around, it didnt help that the crack generated a lot of wind which further messed up the whole desk.

From the crack came out a short old man, the lack of muscles clearly told us that he was a human and not a dwarf like many would have thought, opening his eyes Roland and Johan were met with two fiery red eyes which clearly showed mild annoyance, his hair was floating, as if on fire, he was dressed in a nice orange suit, with a bow tie and a cane in hand, and lastly, a monocle on his right eye shinning with a mysterious glint.

*Thud*

The short old man fell onto the floor and with a bent back and trembling hands fixed his huge circular monocle back into place, now seeing much better he got a better view of the old bastard who disturbed his sleep.

"Roland you pesky brat you cant even let a dead man rest in peace now, what did you come here for anyways, i thought u told me that we will meet on dragon's day." The short old man who is actually Lazar stated with annoyance clearly accompanying his words.

"Lazar, show me all the books about spearmanship and martial arts from all floors, excluding the forbidden floors." Master Roland requested with a small amount of plea, sighing Lazar just nodded and swung his cane, then as if on cue a few dozen books started floating down from 8 floors of the 10 floor library.

It was quite the sigh since all the books neatly packed onto each other.

"This group of books are all about spearmanship, there are a few of them that are direct diaries of old spear legends, dont ask me how i have them, even im unsure, then this group is all about martial arts of the ancient Beast Folk, i managed to snag a few books from those prideful bastards, even though they are genetic defects they sure got an ego." Lazar explained with a small amount of pride hidden within his voice, Roland and Johan looked at each other and nodded.

"We also need a magic teacher, and since were low on money, dont mind us." Both johan and roland jumped at Lazar who had been caught unprepared, getting hit on the head by a pan he fell unconscious.

"Johan, where in the nine realms did you hide that pan." Roland couldnt help but question his old friend, who just showed a mysterious smile, this got on the nerves of Roland who quickly kicked the old butler in the shin effectively kicking him out of the library.

"Lets go, its seems we have long years ahead of us, Johan." Master Roland said and grabbed the unconscious dwarf Human and put him onto his shoulder with ease.