I Stand Above All

It was in the middle of a harsh winter in the outskirts of the kingdom of Highshield, a young couple were slowly walking through the forest picking berries for them to eat. These people were a Grandmaster Mage, and his wife a Grandmaster Swordswoman.

The man was tall with a rigid frame, a clean-cut beard and his blond hair tied into a ponytail behind his head, he had misty grey eyes you could get lost into. The woman had red hair also tied into a ponytail behind her head, she had a round cute face with piercing blue eyes.

They trekked through the snow every footstep producing a fresh new mark in the snow with a thud sound. They continued walking through the unforgiving snowy land, until they heard a quite unusual sound, it was the sound of a baby crying.

"Hey Ellie? You hearing that?" The man questioned.

"Yes, yes I am." She confirmed.

The couple hurried over to where the sound was coming from their footsteps crunching in the sound as they tumbled around, and before them laid a boy in a basket with many layers on, bawling its eyes out.

"John?" Ellie asked as she picked the basket up, turning her head to meet John's gaze.

"What is it Ellie?" John answered already understanding what she was going to say.

"Can we keep him?"

"But can't you sense what he is."

"So? That just means that we need to just raise him right."

John deliberated for a while with Ellie sending a puppy face towards him, before deciding, "Fine, I guess we can."

"We'll call him Ell"

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Twelve years later we see a young boy facing off against his mother in a spar with their swords. These two were fighting in a grassy plain in front of their cottage, the particular place they were fighting in looked very old, which you could see from how the grass was trampled and thrashed.

The young boy had shaggy black hair, and red eyes that seemed to pierce through everything in their way. This young boy was fighting his mother. This boy was Ell. Ell was holding a simple great sword in his hands, and was pushing back his mother, Ellie, using his strength.

(https://www.dreamstime.com/two-handed-sword-great-sword-white-background-sword-berserker-vector-illustration-design-game-two-handed-sword-image121392030 Damn it was hard to find a picture for this, all of the swords I find online are so goddamn weird, why?)

Ellie was fighting against him with two short swords, using them to block his strikes in a crisscross manner.

You could see the smile on his face as he closed in on his mother, he swung his blade at his mother once again, he was swinging his blade with such speed you wouldn't expect from a child wielding a great sword.

Ellie, blocked his strikes one last time, and in the split second that she blocked the strike, she pushed Ell's Great sword back with her short swords and made him stagger backwards, she instantly closed in on this opportunity and flashed forwards putting the tip of her short sword to his neck.

"DAMMIT!" The boy shouted, "Just once! I want to beat you just once." However, while he was saying this he was still smiling as he could see how much further he could go.

"Never let your guard down when in a battle, Ell. Just because you are winning, doesn't mean the enemy doesn't have a chance of winning." His mother said staring at him.

His mother departed from the scene, entering the old run-down cottage, leaving the young boy screaming at the sky.

As soon as she entered, she could hear the voice of her husband standing in the entrance, shaking his head saying, "What have we done to that boy Ellie? I swear we have made him into a battle maniac."

"John, it's fine, being a battle maniac helps his growth. Ell's only a 12 year old kid and he's already inherited most my knowledge and nearly beat me in swordsmanship. And he's already learnt how to use Ki." She said looking out the window seeing the boy training once again endlessly swinging his sword.

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The next day we see Ell preparing to face Ellie again, they both get into a stance, their sharp piercing eyes pointing at each other. In a moment Ell had already charged at Ellie.

Ell shouted as he swung his sword at his mother. As soon as their swords met Ell smiled and Ellie's swords were destroyed and cut through.

"YEEEEESSSSSS." Ell screamed, "I did it! Can I go out to the capital city and fight more strong people mum?"

"Fine, fine." His mother sighed.

"YESSS." Ell shouted with glee as we hurriedly ran into the distance.

As they watched their son go John asked his wife, "Why did you go easy on him? You know he has *that* bloodline inside of him."

"So, you noticed that?" Ellie replied with a shocked expression.

"How could I not? You only used one hundredth of your power!* You also didn't even us any of your skills! And on top of all of that you used such poorly made swords today that it was a miracle that the pair lasted for a minute against Ell!"

*(equivalent to a beginner swordsman, power levels are split by 10x for each level)

(Realised this could get a bit confusing for people when reading back on it, so basically what is happening is that she's using the average power a beginner swordsman has, but her using that power is still not equivelent to making her a beginner swordsman. If I had to rate her level when using that amount of power, I would say around Advanced (high).

(Also when you see (high) (middle) (low) next to a class it means that how far through the class they are.)