Chapter 8: Like me

Prometheus and Leo walked side by side and headed towards the main area of the mansion. The purple mansion was a huge residence where Leo and members of his mercenary group lived. The manor was about 3 hectares in radius and had a rectangular shape. In its centre was the garden. It was a spacious and green place, except when Brutus passed by to sow the carnage. The building was made of grey and rigid stone like granite, at some point the banners of the group of bloody mercenaries were hanging. These banners were made of red silk embroidered with a golden eagle in the centre.

Leo had been rid of Brutus and the new recruits for a long time and was now alone with Prometheus. He spoke to him in a very relaxed way and did not seem to be in a hurry.

- So, kid. What do you want to do later?

Prometheus thought: "Destroy this kingdom, make everyone equal, take revenge on the nobles and castrate the whole Landcaster family, but only after I had brought my mother back to life". After thinking of the words mother Prometheus remembered the horrible fate that was hers. He said to himself, but first of all I will avenge my mother for this bastard who dared to abuse her and all those responsible. The face of Prometheus was deforme goes from a normal face although a little thin to a face with resentful and sad features.

he says:

- I want to become a magus! A great magus.

Leo locked Prometheus and lost his smile.

-Justly kid... I need to talk to you about this, but I'd rather see you sat down before I talk.

What did Leo want to talk to him about, Prometheus was a little surprised.

After a few minutes Prometheus and Leo arrived in a building reserved for Mr. Leo. This building was located right next to the main bloody's mercenary building. The building was covered with a very dark red paint. Once inside, Prometheus noticed that the building was spacious and also covered with a red paint bursts out, as well as the furniture. Leo waved to Prometheus to sit on a bottle in the entrance and then Leo sat in front and spoke.

- I have a bad news. You see, kid, I'm afraid you can never become a great magus. Actually, after I found you comatose on the floor, I bring back you to my place. That's when I asked one of my healers to check your health. You suffer from a serouis injury. In fact it is not the most surprising my healer first noticed that you had a mana brain since you were born but it is damaged.

The healer had in fact checked Prometheus' state of health during these first two days of unconsciousness. He had therefore seen Prometheus' mana brain before he was used the spell of rank 0 invigoration.

( By the way, the revival spell was created by Prometheus for a simple reason. Prometheus suffered of mana brain injury during all his life. He has therefore always done research for this cure and the invigoration spell is one of his masterpieces, because he can warn the mana brain as well as the human body and he does not require much mana control. Frankly, I have an explanation as to its logic and its weak mana shot and its effects on the body from a pseudo medical and scientific point of view, but if I put that there the chapter will be too long. So I'll put this in an end of chapter commentary to interest them.)

Before the use of invigoration his mana brain was at least 70% damaged. But thanks to the use of invigoration 20% of his mana brain be cure by pushing the healing abilities of the human body to their peak. Prometheus was therefore at 50% of his mana manipulation ability as when he joined a magic school in his first life.

As for the fact that Prometheus already had a mana brain, the reason was actually very simple. Prometheus' family was a second-rate magician's family, but it was not nothing. On the contrary, to be recognized as a magician family, all the blood members of this family had to possess a common character that was specific to them and linked to magic. For the Prometheus family this characteristic was the fact that they possessed a mana brain from birth. Prometheus had inherited this from his father. But in reality this characteristic was rather useless because anyone with a mana nucleus could turn it into a mana brain. Of course, it was recommended that the children normally wait until they were 10 years old before training him. The reason was simple: from 10 to 15 years old the somatossensory brain areas developed the most so areas 4 and 6 of the brain developed. They were linked to the manipulation of mana when we had a mana brain.

But let's get back to the main topic.

Leo looked Prometheus in the eye, he seemed sad but said words to comfort Prometheus.

- You know, I'm a great sword fighter. If you want I could teach you to fight and don't worry, I don't have a mana heart either, yet you saw me give Brutus a huge blow. You could get as strong as me to see better with practice.

(Sorry, but I'm not going to explain now what is the heart of mana.)

Prometheus looked Leo in the eye. He noticed Leo smiling as if he was trying to comfort Prometheus despite his serious injury. Prometheus is not sure what to think of this man. He was acting like a father to him. Although Prometheus never had a father, he had always dreamed of one.

- No, sir, I want to become a magician. I... I'll try to get into a magic school at the end of the year, if I don't get accepted then I'll become a mercenary.

Prometheus was actually sure to pass the entrance exam to a magic school as a free candidate. The reason? It's because he had already done it twice in his previous life.

- All right, kid, but if you fail, you'll become my disciple.

Become his disciple! Prometheus thought at first he had heard wrong, but he thought he had observed Leo watching as if he was waiting for an answer. He understood that this man wanted to make him his disciple.

- Why me?

- Uhhhh.... There are several reasons for this.

- Which ones?

- First your body, you're arms and legs are maybe thin for the moment, but they are very well balanced and proportionate, which is perfect for my hand-to-hand fighting technique. And then... you make me think of myself when I was your age.

Leo then began to tell Prometheus about his childhood. Leo was actually an emigrant who had fled the war during his childhood. Leo and his family were from the new continuant also called old land. Old land was in fact the oldest continuant on the planet but also the birthplace of the Magician Emperor Merlin. Before his death Merlin had cast a mirage spell on the entire continuant that had made him isolated from the rest of the world. But after 1000 years the fate was blurred and the people coming from the Promethean continent were in a hurry to come to the Old Continent to loot and enslave the people.

During their escape from the Old Continent Leo's parents had been killed and Leo had ended up on the street and ophelin. Moreover Leo was a migrant, at that time the migrants of the Old Continent were lynched and some were turned into slaves. Leo had therefore experienced a youth as sad and mortuary as Prometheus. That's why when he saw this child looking as skinny as a skeleton crying on the ground in a dark alley, he wanted to help him. As he would have wanted to be helped during his childhood.

Prometheus didn't know what to say. This man looked so much like him. They had lived there as children. Prometheus then decided to take acrazy bet. A bet he only took twice in his life. A bet that he had made her lose her life and liver in humanity, the one to trust someone.