Chapter 1 Alone And Forgotten

As I stare out of my massive palace with my many servants and land under my, Sora Harideens rule. My enemies to afraid to even come out of there holes they hide in and everything I wanted below me. I look back to how is all started and reminisce about my journey to get here, closing my eyes it all comes back to me in this trip down memory lane.

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My parents, used to love me before last year on my ninth birthday.I was three and a half feet tall making me tall for my age at nine, in

the family and I was always stronger than the other kids as well. When we come of age and we get our talent and physique checked.

I only got a C- on my physique and just a low level fire manipulation talent. That would have been amazing for a normal family, but not for a large and strong clan like mine, not for the son of that clan master of one of the biggest clans in the Griffin kingdom.

The physique is graded from D, C, B, and A. Though there were S and X grade physiques in the era of the gods. The gods granted these two physiques to there representatives they liked. Talents on the other hand are your element affinity.

They go from rank one or manipulation, and rank two or control. There is a third rank lord, but that was also in the age of gods. Most are in the first rank, manipulation. With some geniuses in the second rank, but they are few and far between in the whole continent with maybe a only a couple probably.

There is also low, medium and high in each rank, I had the the lowest rank of rank one which cemented me as the same as a peasant in the slums in the eyes of my clan with even most of the normal members above me in talent or physique.

In there disappointment they distanced themselves away from me just like my friends and clan members, and far faster then they should they all gradually over the past year forgotten about me.

Until I am now getting kicked out for trespassing, the guards stop me from trying to get back in. They keep asking why some child is trying to sneak into the clan headquarters and go back to my parents, when that's what I'm trying to do.

I know these guards, they saw me many times with my mom and dad before. I played with them before. Looking into there eyes I see no familiarity in them, even pretending to not know me and looking with disdain at me is better. But all they see is a complete stranger when they look at me.

So why have they completely forgot about me, I talked to them and they used to treat me nicely. But they don't even recognize me anymore. Like they have never met me before. Why? With no place to stay and no food or water I tried to steal some from a street stall next to the clan headquarters selling fruit.

The stall owner is fast asleep and the usually busy street is empty with no one around. This is weird but perhaps its just slow in the city at this time. I quietly walk over and reach to grab a pear, but the moment my hand grasps one the stall owner seems to have teleported right behind me and grabs hold of me.

This is not the speed a stall owner can have, this is equal to my clans elite troops. Even worse some city guards come barreling over to our side when no one was in site a second ago. Everything is happening to fast and I'm struggling catch up as the owner is talking to the guards and handing me to them.

I have resigned myself to spending a night in the youth jail, they drag me down the street quickly and turn a corner at the end of the block, but instead of taking me to city youth jail as was supposed to happen, they gave me to these two men with around 30 other kids and put us all in to a cage wagon and road out of the city. There were a dozen guards in leather armor and this fat man ordering them around and relaxing in another far more comfortable carriage in front.

I asked the other kids whats happening why they didn't put us into jail like they are supposed too and who these people are. They told me we were sold to slave traders. I couldn't understand how they are aloud to do this to children, the city has a law against this.

Do everyone only care about what benefits them. Are the laws and honor of nobles I grew up learning all lies.

This is not how its suppose to be, I don't understand this world anymore its the opposite of what I learned. Everything I was taught about this world is a lie. There is no honor, there is no righteousness and love of the citizens and fellow man.

There is no patriotic spirit and love of out country, I have seen children of commoners and they loved them even if they didn't have any talent or power. Yet for the nobles, anyone of lower value are cast aside.

The clan just forgot me even after a year even as I lived with them and ate food and walked around them. I didn't have anything to eat and was forced to steal like these other children, but no one cared about that and only punished us because they are trying to live.

As I am lost in my thoughts and what awaited me in the future, we are already a ways away from the city and there is lush forest around us with the road going around the lost forest. A famous forest that all go in get lost and never escape.

We from burning soul city the name of where we come from is located next to this forest and we just call it misty forest locally. The heavy white mist permanently obscuring and flowing about making you barely able to even make out the faint outlines of the forest behind it.

I am just staring at the forest blankly, not focusing on anything when a RRAAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRRR bellows out of the forest followed by a large beast running out straight at us.

The monster is a wind cougar, an animal more than two meters tall and a little more than three meters long with high level wind manipulation and powerful physical strength nearing b grade. Its rare for anything to come out of the misty forest, but all monsters that do leave the forest boundary are extremely powerful normally an entire battallion or three star warrior with support from a squad like this one is needed to kill a misty forest beast. And they are intelligent to.

"Defensive formation shields up archers behinds us and start shooting!"

Yells the head guard is they are scrambling to form there formation just

in the nick of time as the monster is descending on them. The fat

slaver is rushing out screaming what is happening as he witnesses the

battle and runs back in and hides. The carriage driver whipping the horses to make them run back to the city as fast as they can.

An earthen wall raises up to impede the beasts charge at them, but it bulldozes through it like it wasn't there at all. Spears though were waiting for him though yet the beast seemed prepared for it and there was a coat of wind over it like armor blocking the spears and giving it the opportunity to wave its claws shooting these wind slashes cutting one of the mercenaries to pieces.

Arrows covered in lighting, frost or wind shoot at its legs, but the beast is so fast its already at another side of the formation, the mercenaries in that part of the formation with there experience were prepared, the ground softened up like quicksand letting the leopard sink into the ground while two fire balls are shooting at it, when the leopard called up its wind to protect itself the guard captain used its own wind talent that seems to bee at medium level to hamper and slow down its gathering speed, it only hampered it for a second or two, but that was long enough.

BOOM! The fireballs lands right in the beasts neck and face, the mercenaries cheer and gain this hopeful look like they might live to see another day, yet when the smoke clears there is only some minor damage to it. With some new bald spots on itself, the look in its eyes change and it starts growling when it never made another sound after that first howl. It was pissed and it seems its getting serious now.

"GGRRRRRR RRAAWWRR" massive wind turbulence is gathered and unleashed at everything around it. Crescent wind slashes unleashes on all of the mercenaries, they use all there power to defend, but they are still butchered in the end.

A stray wind slash hits our carriage freeing me and the rest as we all scramble to run away, but before we even move more than a foot in different directions, the cougar sees this and as fast as the wind dash into the middle of us and summon a wall of wind covering to other side of the road and a half dome around the other parts around us where only the misty forest is open to us now.

Then it starts biting down and feasting on us, the 30 or so kids screaming and crying while they are all hitting the wind wall, pushing up against it hoping they will maybe squeeze through it or just become invisible. With nowhere to go and death approaching me soon the only place to go now is the misty forest.

As i book it for the only place to run to and faster than I thought possible with my little body and physique, probably because of adrenaline, a small stray slash of wind goes past my side with a terrible stabbing pain and blood flying out, but I don't stop and push past the pain to keep running

So that's what I do, right into the ever flowing mist of the forest of the lost.