8 Derek Greene

"Hump!, Asher thinks he's so strong, I will show him", Derek grumbled while he walked home.

"But he is strong, he's ice element is quite powerful and he had understood his force, you haven't", white said to Derek through their mind connection.

"What!, I refuse to accept that", Derek retorted.

"But you didn't train at all, what you did was to waste your time at the blacksmith ordering them to make a dagger exactly like the one you drew", white tried to show Derek his faults.

"But those stupid blacksmiths couldn't make the dagger the way I wanted it, or else I could have won against Asher", Derek said stubbornly.

"No you could have lost horribly, those daggers are the style made for your dad, a top level warrior by the combined work of a peak level mystic blacksmith and a peak level runesmith, which took years to finish and you just copied the design and expects an ordinary blacksmith, not even a low level mystic blacksmith to create such weapon. it's totally impossible".

"And how do you want to control such weapons with your fragile power that you haven't even trained yet", white added,fully committed to making Derek understand the problem is from him.

"Fragile, I will have you know that this ability is from you, so you are the fragile one", Derek said annoyed at his faults being listed like that.

"How can you say that, you know that my power rises as you grow stronger,so technically it is you who is weak", white said feeling hurt as she retorted with anger.

Derek kept quiet and he walked home.

After a while, white who had calmed down spoke,"what happened to you Derek?, I know a single loss can't cause you to be like this".

Taking a deep breath Derek said,"it's Asher, I don't like how close he is to Alex, I think he is trying to steal my best friend away from me, look at what happened today Alex scolded me instead of helping me feel better when I lost".

"Derek, you have shown me memories of you and Alex and from what I've seen you guys are more than just best friends, your are brothers, and you look after each other, that's what Alex was doing today, do you think he is happy seeing his best friend get beaten?", white said to the heartbroken Derek.

"Really", Derek said with a lifted mood.

"Of course", white replied with certainty.

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"Dad you said you will tell me about our history", Derek said to his father in his study.

"I will but how is white, I hope you haven't mistreated her", Thora asked.

"No, we don't have any problem", Derek replied with a straight face.

Turning to look at a large mural, Thora said to Derek,"do you know who that is?".

"Is that not Greene Locke, our ancestor", Derek replied as he stared at the picture of a man with long silver hair and deep blue eyes, clad in thick silver plate armor with a golden Lion's head crafted on his right shoulder. his armor was engraved with runes glowing with gold. his white cape fluttering as he stood at the top of a mountain with a huge female phantom as tall as a human behind him staring at the distance, while hundreds of blades were suspended mid air moving around slowly.

"Wow he is great, is that his phantom?", Derek asked his dad in shock.

"It is and her name was also white, she grew to become a powerful legendary phantom together with ancestor Locke", Thora said.

"Huh!, her name was also white", Derek uttered surprised.

"And how could he control that many blades is telekinesis that powerful?", Derek questioned he really couldn't believe the number of weapons his ancestor controlled.

"You don't know the strength of a legendary warrior son, they are monsters on the battle field, capable of killing thousands, they are the turning point for every war",Thora said with knitted brows, he turns to his son.

"A breakthrough into the legendary stage separate you from the realm of men into the realm of domains, if you ever see a legendary warrior at the enemies camp and you have none, run, you can't be a warrior for these kind of people for no amount of luck can save you", Thora advised his son.

"So you are saying that legendary warriors are invisible?", Derek asked.

"Invisible,hah!, The only invisible forces known are the titians but they have never left the void zone since the great war, the best way to kill a legendary warrior is assembling a total of at least ten thousand high level warriors or you kill them by sending hundreds of thousands men to grind them to death, but no legendary warrior would be that stupid to let you surround him, so in the end they are hard to kill", Thora replied with a compiled facts.

With a thoughtful look Derek said,"dad if our ancestor was this powerful and he was under the cheiftian then how powerful was the cheiftian".

"From the news passed down,he was above a legendary warrior, his flame domain could wipe out this town(city) from the map, killing every single soul before we could even react", Thora spoke with horror.

"Wow!, then why aren't people getting this powerful this days", Derek questioned.

"That's because of the Empire, their years of peace weakened the people, all races alike, we were so immersed in the soft comfort of peace that we forgot that getting stronger was also a way we could also protect that peace, we forgot war and we forgot our ancestors and just looked at them as monuments and pictures".

"War grooms the strong and makes a powerful era, but it also annihilates,destroys and brings misery, sorrow, pain, it's a disastrous thing, but it made us strong.

Look at the alderigde, a name that brought great power and fear to its enemies, brought pride to the silver clan,a once great clan of the vastlands, our totems and banners were respected all through the land till the titians came.

"We fought valiantly, but bravery doesn't make a fist hurt any less. we were beaten mercilessly, half of our numbers wiped out and now here we are, a gravely wounded lion licking it's wounds and cowering afraid to leave it's cave, that is what we are now."

"No matter how powerful, we are just cowards", Thora spoke as he had lost himself in their history, his eyes were filled with melancholy.

"Dad what are you saying, don't let the cheiftian hear this, please", Derek said as he was alarmed by how his dad demeaned the clan.

"Who Rhyss, hahahaha!!",Thora laughed loudly.

"Although he is powerful, I had lost faith in him since the death of his wife, he had turned his back on everything except his son, but that boy Alex, I have watched him and he will be a better cheiftian, he just needs to get rid of that weak character and he's good, going to the camp should help him".

"Dad, Alex's character is good don't misjudge him or we shall battle", Derek's chubby cheeks shook as he stared at his father fiercely.

Thora looked at Derek dumbfounded,an intense urge to laugh filled him as he forcefully swallowed it and said

"Let's go and have dinner your mom should be waiting".

At dinner, Derek's mother asked,"how was your lessons on our history from your father?".

"Horrible",Derek replied .

"Urgh..",Thora choked on his food as he received a questioning gaze from both his wife and daughter.

"After dinner",he muttered while he grumbled silently. He turned to his lovely daughter

"How was training", he asked his daughter.

"Awesome! I learnt how to inscribe a rune on a book"crystabel replied with a bright smile.

"That's lame, I fought with Asher today", Derek interrupted.

"And you lost", crystabel scowled.

"What, how did you know"

"Because you never trained your ability, how could you win against people like Alex and Asher who trains every day", crystabel sneered at Derek.

"After dinner, training room immediately",Thora said while looking at Derek.

After dinner, Derek entered the large round training room underground, runes glowed on the walls.

"Sit down at the middle and concentrate on your connection with white, enhancement phantoms just merges with its warrior but elemental and rare phantoms needs deeper connection to get better with your element".

"Try to hit those moving objects, the more you hit and the faster you hit the training hall will increase it's level",Thora explained to his son.

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Authors note: Elders; are for members of the high council.

Force; is the energy that every race in the vastlands uses and trains in. It's somehow like Mana in other novels but it's totally different so no mix up.