Chapter 4 Sparta

the soul of serenity was put into me, and automatically I could feel her magic energy flowing through me. But I needed to practice, so I hired a teleportation expert to train me.

two weeks later, I was at school. It felt like Amelia was watching me. I then got a note to meet on the roof, where it was off limits but she somehow she got permission.

As I got on the rooftop I felt something was off.

"Why did you call me up here"? I asked. "I wanted to confirm something". She said as she put her hand on my chest. I took a step back. "Hey hold on what are you doing"? I asked.

"I knew it". She said. "What are you tal"- all of a sudden I get forcefully pinned to the ground. And appeared two zana.

Amelia approached me. "You stole a young fairie's soul, just as you stole two others". She said. "What are you talking about"? I asked.

"I will rescue those souls l, and I will kill you". She held up her hand and a light orb started to form. As she was about to jam it in my chest I clapped my hands and got teleported above the lake by my house and fell in it.

As I swam back to shore I yelled at my servant in the garden to ready the carriage. I got my things ready and set off to the city of Rhode.

Thankfully I wasn't captured by Amelia. Though to avoid being followed I masked my presence using fire sense.

Now I set myself on a journey from the city of Kalamata to the town of neapoli voion to get on a boat and sail to the city of Rhodes in order to kill a god.

But wait… how do I kill a god? I thought this to myself and new this was a suicide mission. But I needed to get it done in order to save serenity.

I got to Sparta (which is on the way to neapoli) within 10 hours and arrived by morning. Having no sleep I had to find an old inn that took care of carriages. I brought plenty of money with me so I didn't have a problem getting a room at a luxury inn.

By noon the next day I went to get my carriage ready, but to find out my carriage was stolen.

I sent a request for my carriage to be found at the adventurers guild. While I looked for it myself I hopefully had an adventurer looking for it too.

I started by looking in the city of Sparta. Hoping that my carriage hasn't gone far.

As I got to the gate to look outside the city, I get confronted by an adventurer.

"Are you the man that has a carriage stolen"? He asked. "Yes I am- and who are you"?

"Oh my apologies. I am phoebus, nice to meet your acquaintance". He said as he reached for a handshake.

"Jack, and it's my pleasure". I said as I shook his hand.

"Jack?" He said. "That's a very odd name. Are you from around here"?

"From Kalamata. South West from here". I said.

"Still a very odd name even from-".

"Please, I'm in a hurry. What is it you want from me"? I asked

"Oh where are my manners today? I stopped you because I found your carriage, and on the way to grab it I found you". He said.

"Great! Where is it"? I asked.

"At a bandit house. South east from here". He said.

"Alright let's get moving". I said.

We started walking out. And on our way, I found this a little suspicious. So I struck a conversation to read his social cues.

"So why did you say bandit house"? I asked.

"You for real? That's what they are called". He said.

"Well I usually call them a thieves hideout, or a criminal base". I said.

"Oh I see. You are very English". He said.

"Pardon"? I asked.

"I've met an English man before, and you say the same things as that man." He said. "I take it you speak English"?

"Yes I do. I learned as a child". I said. But in reality I was an Englishman in my past life.

"Well we are getting close". He said. I spotted my carriage in the hideout. It was my carriage but my donkey was replaced by a horse. And a corpse of a donkey looking figure was beside the campfire. I gave the adventure his money and told him to leave.

I don't want to make a scene so I need to take them out one by one.

The base is in a forest on the outskirts of Sparta. So I had cover.

I snuck inside, and creeped behind two thieves, and stabbed one in the temple, and snapped the others neck, and hid them in a small room on the side. One by one I killed these thieves. But when I got close to my carriage I was caught by their leader and thrown in the middle of the base where they were eating my donkey.

"The rich man has fallen for our trap." He said. "Didn't your daddy teach you not to follow strangers"?

"Give me back my carriage and I'll let you all leave". I said.

He started laughing and more thieves showed up pulling out their weapons.

"You see all these boys here? They can't use magic, they were cast aside by their own family. But I saved them, and now we will take our vengeance on the rich". He said, "Now, kill him boys".

I pulled out mountain leveling, and imbued it with magic, and slapped it on the ground. This shook the surrounding area like a major earthquake and they stumbled to the floor. I then pulled out reforming Earth and threw it to the ground. And threw out my hands and slammed them on the ground to cover up the fallen bandit in the dirt and mud and hardened it. All of a sudden I'm hit with a lightning bolt and I fly towards my carriage, breaking it, releasing the horse which ran away in a panic.

The thieves' leader started to walk towards me slowly.

"Your magic is good. But you don't have complete mana control. Didn't your daddy teach you that yet"? He said,

I lifted my head up and said, "my 'daddy' tried. But I couldn't learn it".

"Oh so you're a complete failure. No wonder why you're here on your own, your family abandoned you. Ha, how sad". He said.

I got angry and lunged at him. He started to charge another fire bolt. And right as I got close to him I clapped my hand popping up behind him and conjured earthly gauntlets, And swung at him. But it failed. It crumbled in my hand. And he grabbed my arm And kneed it, breaking it in two. I screamed in pain, and then he grabbed me by the throat and lifted me in the air.

I couldn't breathe. My head felt light. And my eyesight started to fade. The last thing I saw was the thief leader charging another lightning bolt.

Next thing I knew I opened my eyes and I was lying on a bed in a room somewhere. I looked to my left then my right and saw a man grinding herbs.

"Wh-who are you"? I asked.

He didn't answer me. Then he poured it into a pot of soup and mixed it.

I looked down and saw my stomach bandaged.

"Excuse me sir, where am I, and what happened"? I asked again.

He then put the soup in a bowl and told me to eat. I felt hungry, so I obliged.

After I ate I asked again.

"Sir, I appreciate you feeding me, but I need to know where I am, and what happened".

He then sighed, turned towards me and said, "you're in Sparta in a little house that I own. I found you with a hole in your stomach and a broken arm in the middle of a shallow river. You were barely alive".

"And my carriage"? I asked.

"I have no knowledge of a carriage. I guess that you were robbed and stabbed by a bandit". He said.

"Then I guess I won't see my stuff again"? I said.

"No, probably not". He said.

"Wait, If I had a hole in my stomach how did you heal me"? I asked.

"I have a divine gift from the goddess of life." He said, "This allows me to heal people with wounds normally they would not come back from. Luckily you were still alive thanks to your wound being burned shut".

"Burned shut? How does that make any sense the thieves would have wanted me dead not to keep me alive longer". I said.

" Maybe they wanted you to suffer. Who knows. At any rate you are healed and you ate, now leave". He said.

"Wait, I need to know your name before I go". I asked.

"My name is Ares Athanasiou. Now leave my home". He said.

I left his home with his name engraved into my head. Now without a carriage and without money I have to look for a job and save up for the trip. Then I noticed I needed more training in order to kill the goddess of love. So I applied to be an adventurer.