Reminiscing The Past Part (ll)
STILL IN THE PAST...
While the confrontation between Allan's mom and Fang took place, Allan was already making his towards his home with a little skip in his step, as he was traversing through the slightly shabbier part of the town he thought 'they could get a better place in town but then he remembered his mother seem to be hiding from someone, she never left the home with out a veil and cloak covering her whole body' while he was immersed in his thoughts two men blocked his way in a dilapidated alleyway.
The thug with short stature said" He'll fetch us a pretty penny? Won't he?"he snickered evilly before motion the tall, bald thug with a scar on it's face toward Allan who replied "definitely" before moving towards the kid.
Allan seeing this didn't say anything thought 'this, again' but his eyes were several times more cold. He looked towards the tall thug on whose shoulder a wind bird in initial stage of liquid mana rank was sitting and toward shorter guy's arm where a peak gaseous stage mana ranked viper was coiled seeing this Allan knew he wouldn't be able to outrun the wind bird (looks like a sparrow just a bit bigger with sharp claws,pointed peak and light green feathers) so he waited for the tall thug to come in arms distance from him, before he conjured an [ice needle] with it's tip coated with dark element and hurled it toward wind sparrow in a very fast speed. With little distant and no time to react, the darkness element easily penetrated the bird's skull it couldn't be anymore deader. Allan was already utilising his mother's taught technique [shadow steps] and making his towards the alleyway exit meanwhile the tall guy issued a heart wrenching scream because of the damage caused to his soul by the lost soul bond connection of his dead beast, just as Allan was about to escape from the narrow alley, another muscular guy with a jaguar 🐆 like creature appeared in-front of him, the creature's fangs bared saliva dripping on the ground before Allan could do anything a sharp dagger pierced the man's throat causing the man and his soul bond creature to drop dead (death of the soul bond owner causes the soul bond to die, well in most cases), two needles flew through the air, one silencing the screaming tall man forever by embedding in his throat, the other made his way to the short fatty before stabbing the man's waist (because the short man was running the opposite way) seeing the death of the muscular man before he slowly crumpled down to the ground, Allan mother immediately hugged him and check him for injuries but Allan's attention was towards the fat shorty who was planning to deliver a kamikaze flame attack with blood shot before falling in his eternal sleep so Allan immediately send an yin ice needle towards the man's eyes he wasn't sure his normal ice attack would pierce the skin of a peak gaseous stage mana rank entity, the attack immediately killed the man.(what Allan didn't know was his normal attack would have easily cut through the man's skin)
Allan's mother knew about the man's attack, was about to stop Allan, before killing the man herself than she thought it was better for Allan to get used to it when she was still alive and could comfort him than even after her death he would be able survive she knew she had at most 5 yrs left. After Allan had done the deed she held him tightly and looked at his face for any discomfort or disgust but all she saw was calm she spoke softly in a slightly sorrowful tone "Sorry Allan but if you want to work you might have to face this situation sooner or later" she looked him in the eyes and said in a serious voice"Remember you have to come home safely and use all the techniques I taught you well but remember always try to not involve the innocent bystanders if you could otherwise….." she didn't finish the sentence.
'She knew' Allan thought his mother didn't know about him sneaking out, But then Allan tried to forget the matter entirely and immediately replied in a bubbly and energetic voice "Don't worry mother, nothing would happen to me even if you didn't come i would have used all the techniques you taught me and escaped" he finished with a proud full tone.
Allan's mother saw through what Allan was thinking but decided to not dwell on the matter and replied exasperatedly:
"Hah! That's where the problem lies kiddo, you can't let anyone know about your abilities especially not before your soul awakening and hopefully never about your constitution" she replied in a soft and hopeful tone
"Definitely mother"Allan replied in a serious deep and mature voice
Hearing his mature tone, Reverien couldn't help but chuckle and gently picked him up and made their way home.
From then on Allan would always come in morning to Uncle Fang's smithy and help him in his chores, one month or so later he convinced uncle Fang to teach him to forge by swinging a a 100kg hammer 100 times, after learning the techniques from the books mother gave on forging, mana circuit carving and learning under Uncle Fang for a year he became a Rank 1 Mana smith, though after 6 months, uncle fang seem to definitely know something about his constitution because whenever his skin got more paler Uncle Fang would always give him high grade yin herbs, every month he gave some yin herbs or resources by sneakily putting it in my money pouch but mother said to ignore it and don't mention anything about it to Uncle Fang so he didn't say and Uncle Fang also didn't ask anything about it from Allan just putting more yin herbs time to time in his pouch...———————————————————————
Back to the the present:
Allan was making his way home after buying the herbs though it wasn't the best it wasn't the worst either it had a homely feel to it and his mother care made it even cosier, it was made fully of strong oak wood with some concrete in the basement, just remembering his mother and home, made him want to hurry. He checked if anyone one was looking at him, then covered himself with a thin dark element film so that no one could see him through soul sense when someone's soul sense touches the dark film that part of soul sense will be erased, (darkness element destructive properties were no joke especially his dark element according to his mother, his was several time more powerful and it's purity unmatched) if there are no mana core rank mages nobody would realise he was there and even mana core rank will only think someone messed with their soul sense, most won't even bother to pay attention to him after all soul sense hiding techniques were not that rare among the same rank especially near the Empire's Capital but no one would realise that a rankless brat was using it to hide from them, Allan then utilised the mana in his pathways to use shadow step and made his way home several times faster than before. In the night he seemed to fuse in the dark only his right eye glimmering in purplish violet shade.
[Soul Sense] extension of a person senses, gives a mage/magi/divine magi, 360 view around them depending on the range