Chapter 2

He breathed in an immense breath of fresh air and looked out onto the beautiful scenery and set off jogging down the lonely road. On the way he learned a few things the capital city was called Regnia and was the biggest city in the world not to mention it was also the main centre of trade for other kingdoms. He carried on down the road thinking on what he had learned and considering how to make a living in this place he was completely absorbed in his own thoughts, so he only snapped back to reality when he heard a someone begging "please stop, I'll do anything please" the person said screaming at this point. Then he heard a sickening crunch and he ran to the top of the hill and saw a man sobbing over the body of a boy not even ten years old who had blood flowing from a gash that was approximately forty centimetres long the man sobbed despondent.

Just at that moment the leader of the gang who was attacking the man laughed "the bastard couldn't even protect his own son, I wonder what will happen when we reach his wife," the man said with a disgusting expression on his face Arthur eyesight turned red at this moment as he remembered an image from his past his mother swinging on a noose with blood dripping from her eyes after she had carved them out with a knife at the end of her long descent into madness. Arthur jumped into the battle without a second thought though it was five against one, not only that five men and one fourteen-year-old boy but Arthur flowed past the men's defences looking like the embodiment of vengeance his knife slitting one man's throat as he jumped towards the next man his eyes what they thought Satan would look like when he judged them eyes blazing covered in blood Arthur plunged his knife into the mans heart he then moved onto the next, in a flash the mans intestines were falling from his body the final two. One ended up with a knife directly in his spine as he tried to run away. Arthur finally turned to the man as he begged for his life "please ill give you anything money power both just please don't kill me please," Arthur brought his knife up between the man's legs he turned to the man you don't deserve to live but nor do you deserve to die," he tilted his head to the side and started laughing not a warm accommodating laugh a cold psychopathic laugh that chilled the blood "you know what you'll be forced to work off your debt to me for the rest of your life," Arthur leaned closer to the mans ear and whispered " don't try to escape I will track you to the ends of the earth and next time ill take something much more important." Arthur turned to the man he had saved "I've helped you so you can help me," looking at the caravan the man was with Arthur laughed, warmly this time "I need to sell some stuff."

Three days after the attack the man was becoming happier especially after he found the kid who'd saved his life was homeless and wanted to sell things he gave him the offer of housing a job and was willing to buy all of the items Arthur had apart from some knifes and daggers everything was sold especially the lead, not the dagger though, it turned out that lead was very valuable as it blocked magic which interested Arthur if magic was real imagine how much stronger he could get. He had also found out the merchant was called William, but he preferred to be called Will Arthur was happy he had a promise of shelter a job and food he was content. He didn't realise what was going to happen when he reached the capital on this caravan.