Chapter 5

'Thought'

"Talking"

[pov or other]

(Author )

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[random maid pov]

It was the middle of the night and I was doing rounds.

I kept hearing random noises, I chalked it off as it being an older house.

Suddenly the windows blew open, I let out a little yelp. I'm new here and some of the other maids said that there was a ghost but I didn't believe them. They said some maids kept quitting because of this so-called ghost, others think it's the late third mistress.

And that's when I saw it. Pale white skin, no eyes, and blood coming out of all her face holes.

Cover my mouth to scream.

But it slowly turned its head to me. I curled up in a ball, slammed my eyes shut, and cover my nose from breathing too loud.

It slowly crept up to me making a clicking sound in 2-sec intervals. Then it stopped right in front of me, you can hear my heart trying to beat out my chest.

After roughly ten seconds it stopped, I didn't hear anything else. Slowly creeping my eyes open, looking at the empty space. I got up with haste and ran to the maid's rooms.

'I'm leaving tomorrow.'

[Winston pov]

I woke up in the middle of the night, two sets of information came flooding into my head. One was from one of my [wood clone] that just finished a session, the other was the new runes I could make and there were some good ones. I can freeze an area of 15 feet, or I can make it really hot so it was a nice gain.

'Status'

[Name: Winston

Level: 1 (0/100)

Mana: (100/100)

Agility: 5

Strength: 10

Craftmanship: lvl 1

Blacksmith: lvl 1

Wood clone: lvl 1

Rune magic: lvl 2

Elemental: lvl 1

Light magic: lvl 1

Dark magic: lvl 1 ]

'I'm kinda mad that I didn't get the staff arts or anything yet. I'll just keep trying. It's still good that I can improve by just training.'

I closed it and just went back to sleep.

The next morning I did my normal routine. My siblings and I got called to my Nick's office. Once we got there we were standing along the door. He stood up and walked in front of us, staring at us for a good thirty seconds. Suddenly broke the silence.

"The first Princess is coming to Jakes's coming of age." Nick said in a steel voice.

He let it sink in, he could see the shock and worried faces on everyone but mine. I kind of knew someone from royalty would come with us being the duke kids.

"I will need you guys on your best behavior, that includes talking Winston," Nick said in a commanding voice.

They all turned to me expecting me to say something but all I did was give a small nod.

"Can't you just speak you freak?" Jake said in a disgusted tone.

"It doesn't even matter if he speaks not like anyone would care," Tim said in an annoyed tone.

"So annoying." Tina said.

'Oh, they started to bully now?' I thought sarcastically.

Nick just rolled his eyes and continued.

"It will start in ten days. When the party is about to start I want you all to be next to me to greet guests. Winston starting tomorrow you will join them in training." nick said.

I gave him another small, and he dismissed us.

The next day you can see me facing Tim while I'm holding dual axes and bruises all over my body. I'm huffing and puffing trying to catch my breath, you could see Tim with a smirk on his face. Anyone could tell he was doing this on purpose.

"Come on Winston you can't be that bad, even if you just started!" Tim said yelling with arrogance.

'Let's go, it's just more and more cliché.' I thought while laughing inside my head.

We just kept going back and forth until it was time for the magic instructor to come.

He was teaching me all the basics which I already knew. My siblings were getting mad because I was getting it first try, I never pay too much attention to them anyway.

For the next month, it was me getting bullied by my siblings or me working out on my own. The bullying started with just practice but then they started to take it in the house. They would make comments about my dead mother, push me around, and throw spells at me. The only good outcome of this is I get to practice my [light magic] for healing on the bruises you can't see, so it's whatever. I could tell they were getting mad because they got no reaction out of me. Another good thing is I finally got new skills, [staff arts] [one-handed weapon arts ] [dual wielding]. So I'm on cloud nine right now.

Tomorrow is Jakes coming of age and everyone is running around in a panic, and all I'm doing is watching my clones fight in the woods.

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