Cursed Technique

"Catch!", said a boy while throwing a basketball at Barry.

The ball sliced through the air as the boy who threw had influenced it with the wind's ability to increase its speed. Barry missed the ball as it smashed his face leaving him growling on the ground in tears. The world wasn't fair or was it to Barry only?

Barry was born in the Aorika clan, a clan known to be very lethal and had past history of awakening a power that could challenge the two main clans known to mankind. But the power was lost and forgotten in history as the people of Aorika grew civil arguments which led to a mass civil murder and eventually, the clan dissolved, with very few people left as its descendants.

"Look at that cursed boy, who can't even catch a ball," said the other kids.

Fueled by anger and hate Barry clutched his fist tight as he took a stance to perform an unidentified technique. His aura turned into a pure white color as the ground below shattered.

[Cursed Technique 3: Dime....

As he prepared to initiate his assault, a figure with an untainted aura clad in pristine white materialized before him, their presence causing the surrounding breeze to dance with graceful ease. In a swift motion, this entity intercepted Barry's fist and nullified his technique.

"So you're the so-called "Cursed Boy", said the master in a soothing tone.

[Back on the Battlefield]

Barry glided through the debris and fallen structures pushing his speed to the limit to reach the scene where it all started. Gabriel had fallen way behind but this was Barry's intention as he didn't want him to witness the fight or be a part of it.

The process was complete, the chamber opened as the lifeless body of Hazel dropped to the ground, The seal was broken.

The lady reached her hand out to extract what she begged for this long but a ray of light sliced a nick of her flesh as she was alerted of Barry's presence. Barry's eyes were dead seeing Hazle's body lying there in weakness, His soul collapsed as the word mercy disappeared from his eyes.

With a deep breath, he released his aura turning all his body into a glowing light source, and initiated the attack.

[Summoning type: Sehira and Sylph]

Two huge beasts emerged from the ground as they exhaled fire and wind respectively. They both towered over Barry as he alone without hesitation took out his katana and charged.

The scorching elemental, a towering and sinuous serpent of fire, roared with flames flickering and undulating along its serpentine form. It lunged toward Barry with jaws agape, belching searing infernos. The radiant arena was illuminated with the dance of flames and light, casting fiery shadows across the battleground.

Assisting the fiery menace was the embodiment of wind, a majestic, ethereal creature with a formless, swirling mass of gales and gusts. It moved with the grace of a cyclone, unleashing a barrage of razor-sharp winds and tempests that cut through the air, seeking to disorient and overwhelm Barry. The howling wind and the radiant energy clashed in a mesmerizing whirl of fire and wind.

[Light Type: Refractive Barrier]

The immense attacks glided along the face of Barry's as he stood there unfazed and with the same expression as before. He awakened his sword with his power as he jumped towards the beast. 

With his ability being enveloped over the sword he approached the beast while slashing their attacks in half and with a jump boost with his ability a crisp sound of *shing* was heard as he sliced both the creature's head off.

With no sign of exhaust, Barry lunged at the lady who had summoned a demon sword to fight back, but this wasn't any regular sword as on every clash it absorbed the opponent's mana. Barry caring about nothing went head-on at an unmatched speed with the lady.

Barry's gift from his clan in fighting style was giving him the edge along with his blank state of mind he was able to give shallow cuts to her. The battle raged on as Barry showed no sign of exhaustion, while the lady started to lose her breath with a large blow she created a distance between them, but Barry rushed in to fill that gap and there he had fallen for it.

Gabriel Rushed to the fight with consecutive shallow breaths as he fell down on his knees after seeing something dreadful.

Barry had been pierced right in the stomach with the demon sword as his aura disappeared and he fell down while spitting down blood. The lady laughed at the foolishness of Barry as she finally disappeared, It was not her real form fighting Barry. During the summoning, she summoned another demon that was hidden from Barry as he focused on countering attacks. The demon created a copy of the lady to fool Barry, which had worked.

The lady approached Barry as he struggled to take breaths, She looked at him with a deep smile as finally, the cursed child was to be finished by her hands. She raised her demon sword to give a finishing blow right to the heart.

[Ice Type: Frostbite]

The battlefield turned into an icy domain as the lady stopped midway from stabbing Barry, she couldn't move.

Gabriel coughed up blood while sweating profusely as this technique was sapping a ton of his mana and he had never used this before. Due to his lack of control, he kept triggering and stopping the ability giving time for the lady to move. In one episode of his flaw, the lady used her magnificent speed to catch up to Gabriel as she held him by his throat clenching with tight force as she laughed menacingly.

[Cursed Technique: Aorika]

A fatal wave of power spread through the field as it shook the lady to release Gabriel. She looked back to see Barry standing up and looking down on the ground as his wound disappeared but his uniform was still drenched in blood.

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Master brought him back to his residence and sat him down to ask some questions. Barry had lost his parents during the dispute of his clan and was transported to the light residence to live as their clan had no interest in having him. He had no one, no friends, no guardian he was alone desperate for someone to befriend him. 

"Barry was it, Your clan's history goes way back you don't know the horrors of it, by the way, do you even know the meaning of your clan?" asked master.

Barry was still shaken by the fact that he single-handedly stopped his punch and had invited him over as this was his first experience of someone being nice to him, but still insisted on answering.

"I don't know I have long forgotten my origins", answered Barry as he looked at Master's calm smile".

"Well, you don't need to recall them, from now on you are my responsibility and I'm your master, You are truly one of a kind Barry".

Barry's face lit up as he finally found some hope in his life and was accepted as an apprentice of the strongest man in the residence"

"The meaning was Eternal", whispered Master as he saw Barry rejoicing.

...

Barry stood there laughing menacingly as he had finally awakened the cursed technique that he had been restricted from all this time, he felt at ease and looked dead in the eyes of her opponent ready to destroy her.

[Cursed technique 2: Mani.....

[Light type: Seal]

A subtle touch of the master's hand on Barry's back made his overwhelming power disappear as he fell unconscious into his arms.

"The first form of cursed technique was used....."