Chapter 21: Orphanage

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 500

Agility: 10, 000

Vitality: 2, 000

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 1, 000

Unique Skills:

-magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -fire magic -Fire Archmagic -illusion magic -water magic -light magic -nature magic -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom ]

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Avalon Magic Academy

Avalon magic academy is an academy whose name is very famous on the continent, Everyone from the continent wants to enter the Avalon magic academy. Every military department, like the knight order, the magic department, or the adventurer guild, welcomed every graduate from the Avalon magic academy.

Avalon magic academy is famous for its unique teachings that differ for every year, and for their graduates who are sure to be high-quality combatants. One of the requirements to enter the Avalon magic academy is, the registrant must be at the age of 14.

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“Is that all you got?” Oz said with a smirk.

Oz covers half of his face with the cloak’s hood, so people could only see his nose and his mouth. The crowd is wondering who is the hero that dares to confront a noble to defend a beggar? And where does he come from?

“Y-y-y-y-you, how dare you!”

“I’m a noble! you can’t offend me!” The youth panics seeing all of his bodyguards collapsed.

‘This man is bad news!’ The youth thought to himself.

“I don’t care whether you a noble or a merchant or a peasant or a king or even an emperor. What I know is this child’s life is more precious than your life! So Scram!” Oz rebuked.

Oz’s statement makes the noble youth lost his arrogance, he got goosebumps and his heart beats fast and loud. He felt like he saw a figure of a huge lion behind Oz. He runs away from the place with all of his got, leaving his bodyguards behind.

*Sigh*

“Are you okay kid?” Oz asked the child. The child didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere.

“Yes! Thanks for saving me!” The child said with an adorable smile.

“Your welcome,”

The child’s bright smile makes Oz doesn’t regret his decision of helping.

(The feeling of getting an appreciation do felt nice, huh)

“Just for your information, I don’t need your help back then,” The girl with the cold eyes interrupted.

Just like her eyes.

The girl’s words are very matched with her eyes, cold and frozen.

“I don’t intend to help you, I’m helping this child,” Oz answered to her cold words with a friendly smile without looking at the girl.

“Is that so,” The girl coldly said and leaves the place.

Seeing the fight has already ended, the crowd dispersed and goes back to continue to do the things they’re doing before.

*Sigh*

(What a cold personality, people with that kind of eyes always have a dark past)

“Hey kid, what’s your name?” Oz asked the boy with messy gray hair.

“Nash!”

“Okay, Nash. Where are your parents?”

“I don’t know!” Nash answered with full of smiles.

“You don’t know? Okay, hmm…”

“Tell me where’s your home, then. I’ll accompany you home,” Oz warmly offers.

Nash gladly accepted Oz’s offer, as Oz is his savior, he’s happy to be escorted home by his savior. Nash has a very innocent face, he smiles and talks without having any ulterior motives, talking to an innocent child like Nash makes Oz feel warm in his heart.

Remembering how innocent kids like Nash got oppressed by some snotty arrogant noble makes Oz furious.

“Does the incident like earlier is a normal occurrence?”

Hearing that question, Nash’s expression changed to a face filled with sadness as if he remembered something. “Yes, bad nobles like to bully peasants like us,” Nash said with his head lowered.

(So oppression from nobles to peasants are a usual occurrence here)

(Well, That’s not something unexpected for humans to do)

(Even at the earth, oppressions and abusement to the low class tend to happen)

“Big bro! We’ve arrived!” Nash said while pulling Oz’s sleeve, waking Oz up from his deep thoughts.

!?

“Um… Nash, you lived here?”

“Yes!”

There is a big sign at the gate

IBERAL ORPHANAGE

The building in front of Oz is not a house, but a 2 stories orphanage. The orphanage is quite big and neat-looking from the outside. Oz could see some kids are watering the garden plants in front of the orphanage.

“Y-you’re an orphan?”

“Hehehe, yes big bro!” Nash said cheerfully without any sadness in his words.

(He must be happy being here)

“Nash!” A hoarse voice that only belongs to someone aged suddenly came from the orphanage direction.

An old man called to Nash while walking using a stick, judging from the white beard and white hair of the old man, Oz estimates that the old man’s in his 60’s. His eyes are still clear, his forehead indicates a sense of wisdom, and his posture is calm and collected.

“Grandpa Kyron!” Nash run to the old man cheerfully and hugged him. Nash looks very close to the old man. The old man’s presence somehow makes Oz uneasy, when the old man stares at Oz, Oz felt like his gaze pierced through his bones.

“Can you introduce me to the young man who came together with you, Nash?” The old man names Kyron said. His sharp eyes scan and observed every detail of Oz.

“My name is Ren, nice to meet you, respected elder,” Oz greet and bows respectfully to the old man Kyron, he felt some danger form the old man, but he thinks that it’s just a grandfather interrogating a stranger that suddenly walks with his grandchild, so Oz decided to treat the old man Kyron respectfully.

“What a well-mannered young man. Young people with good manners are quite rare these days,” The old man laughed.

“Don’t be too tense, I heard that you saved Nash from some trouble with a noble. I should be grateful to you, thank you!”

“I’m just doing the right thing,” Oz replied shortly.

“Hahahaha, come, come in, let’s have some talk inside, Ren!” The old man laughed and said.

Old man Kyron lead Oz into the orphanage with a very good mood. the orphanage door is huge, it’s a 2,5 meters and 2 meters wide double door. The door looks strong and thick indicates that it was made with high-quality wood.

*Sound of the double door opened*

“Hey! That’s mine!”

“No! I took it first!”

“Stop fighting! Let’s continue the game!”

When the old man Kyron opened the door, the sounds of chatters and laughs from the kids could be heard at Oz’s ears. Some kids are playing, some kids are fighting, and some kids are reading a book.

All of the orphanage kids are around 10 years old, the interior seems to be not that old, and the kids are all looked clean.

“Hey kids, don’t fight!” Old man Kyron scolds the kids that are fighting over a game.

The kids immediately cease their fight when the old man Kyron scolds them.

“Yes, Grandpa Kyron!”

But when they look back, a stranger is standing together with their grandpa Kyron. Seeing the confused face of the kids makes Oz grin, their expression is so pure and cute, Oz couldn’t help but smile warmly to them.

“Let’s go, Ren. Let’s talk in my room.”

The old man Kyron leads Oz to his room, the old man’s room is are the corner of the east side of the building. When old man Kyron opened the door and invited Oz to come in, Oz could sense some a lot of mana surrounding the entire room from the outside.

The room is pretty simple, there is the bed, a pair of chairs with a small table in the middle that could be used to receive guests, a bookshelf, and a closet.

“Come, sit here, Ren,” Old man Kyron said, pointing to a comfy chair in front of him.

Oz gladly accepts the offer and sit in front of him politely.

Old man Kyron folded his arms and closes his eyes.

“So, Ren, I want to thank you once again for saving Nash from the young noble abuse,”

“It’s okay, I’m just doing the right thing,” Oz answered the same answer like the one before.

“A right thing it is, but do you know who is the youth that you had just offend?” The old man asked with an eyebrow raised.

“….” Hearing that question, Oz suddenly remembered. A noble accompanied by 16 bodyguards with a decent fighting power must be someone renowned.

“As I expected, you didn’t know. Are you new here?”

“Yes, I am..”

“The one you had just offended, is the only son of this city’s lord, Kevil Snyder. His father is a count with great power and he dotes his son too much,” Old man Kyron explained with a frown.

(Damn, I got the short stick right away on my first day at the human town, huh)

“But because you saved Nash from him, I owe you a favor so you can’t need to be too afraid about that troubled kid, but you need to be more careful with your actions from now on, offending a noble could make a lot of trouble.”

“Well, enough of the serious talk, I feel bad if I don’t reward you for saving Nash from trouble, is there anything you needed?” Asked old man Kyron.

“Um… Something I needed..”

“I think that if you could show me a place for me to work, it is enough,” Oz answered after thinking for a while.

The only thing that Oz very needs right now, is money. Without money, he can’t sleep at an inn, and he can’t buy any food. So if the old man Kyron could give Oz a place to work, he would be very grateful.

“Hmm… a place to work… then can you tell me how old are you?”

“I’m 14,”

“14, that’s good then, do you have any specialties that you confident in?”

“Hmm…”

(Science? the science here and earth are different, a skill, specialty, in a medieval time like this maybe being a sword trainer is good.)

“I’m quite good at using a sword,”

“Sword? hmm… then may I tests you to see some of your skills?” After the old man Kyron offer to test Oz, the atmosphere suddenly tensed up and Oz could feel a dense killing intent from the old man.

(Hmph testing me, huh)

Oz smirked.

The old man Kyron was shocked. He has tons of experience in terms of fighting, and he could accumulate enough killing intent to make a knight lost the strength of his leg.

‘At such a young age, to have a strong heart that even a regular knight couldn’t compare to, who is this kid?’

Old man Kyron suddenly laughed, shocking Oz to his senses.

“Interesting! Very interesting! Come, Ren! If you did well in the sword fight too I will make you the sword trainer at this orphanage!” Old man Kyron said enthusiastically.