Chapter 13: KNOW.YOUR.PLACE

ASHLEY GREY P.O.V 3 DAY TIME SKIP

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Anger, that's all I could feel even while I practiced my spear techniques, seeing my brother had chosen not to follow in the path of the fighter but instead chose to rely on the use of tools and crafting, I don't know why though, he was never really good at fighting any way. He was always just that weak and scared, pale boy who could never look me in the eye whether it was fighting or day to day activities like breakfast, It was the same for our parents as well, he was always so different and I don't know why.

A growl escapes my mouth as I sigh in frustration, attempting to rid myself of these feelings and focus on my spear training right now while my parents had gone to speak to the White Lion guild they are affiliated with to gather Daniels materials.

It made me angry how instead of becoming a fighter for the front lines, To protect what was left of humanity he chose to become something of a 'Crafter' so he could pursue his selfish desire to to build things for us, It sounds nice and all but what Humanity really needed was more fighters instead of production classes.

I put more effort and strength into my swings which starts to slice through the air and heat up my surroundings at the same time as my anger fuels my strikes. The many lives lost just so what remains of humanity could grow stronger to defend itself against the threats this new yet familiar world they used to know. Now they were lucky if there tens of millions of humans left in the world. A large step down from their original billions but I guess that was the price we had to pay to become strong. A large percentage of those deaths were due to people choosing production classes as their main, not seeing the value of it. And now seeing my brother had made the same mistake I'm just waiting in anticipation when he gets himself killed fighting a weak monster and dying because he picked a weak production class.

Another thing about my brother recently is that instead of working on training himself, He's been hold up in his room or in our family's library, trying to stay out of everyone's way while we worked and he just brushed up on knowledge about all kinds of things. Luckily our library was pretty extensive and had a wide range of categories to choose from, like cooking all the way to blacksmithing and things like that. I couldn't help my shout out in anger. "He's supposed to be training! God damn it!" Another hole appears in the ground as I stamp it, having had enough I walk towards the library finally having had enough of him sitting on his ass.

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General P.O.V

Daniel was inside the library conversing with Frenzy, coming up with a plan that works with his production class. Although it said Crafter he didn't know the first thing about crafting to be honest and it was getting to him. The reason he asked his parents for the materials was he wanted to get in practice with normal metals before he attempted to try and work with magic ores. The insects he had another idea in mind.

As he was putting together a brainstorm for how to begin the the exit doors suddenly burst open spilling fire through with them blowing Daniel backwards into a bookshelf breaking it in the process as the wind his lungs is knocked out of him.

"So is that all it takes to get you to go down!?" Daniel hears the loud and angry voice of his sister walking towards me, welding her violet spear as flames danced around the blade tip, a scowl on her face as she walks towards me, making scorch marks on the floor burning any books around her, Daniels eyes widen as he notices and attempts to regain his breath as he speaks out in a hurried voice. "A-ASHLEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Her scowl grows even fiercer than before as she responds. "What am I doing? I'm trying to figure out why your wasting time doing...Doing THIS!"

As she finishes her spear lets out another burst of flames, burning away more books and getting closer to the brainstorm he and Frenzy(Whom was oddly quiet since she arrived.) His eyes widen as he crawls forward, Scavenging what remains he could as it was important knowledge he required for his attempts to Make Items. This only served to Enrage Ashley more as decided to give her brother a little 'Scare' as she squared her feet and placed her spear at the side pf her waist as she turned a little. The whole blade began to glow red as concentrated.

Daniels eyes widen knowing his sister was readying an attack and quickly responded with fear. "Wait Ash! You'll destroy the whole library, and for what?!" His sister merely responded with 6 words. "For you to learn, [FLAME THRUST] !!" As the words left her mouth she turned her waist and thrusted her Spear forward.

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Daniel P.O.V

I saw a large wall of fire come at me, It hurt but it was barrable but not tot the point I was able to stand my ground as I along with frenzy and all the books I was reading went up in flames with me being sent through the wall and into the outside. I was still consciousness but my mind was blank as I watched at the potential knowledge that could have helped me go up in flames then to ash. Frenzy was by my side, Still silent as My eyes were wide, My hand reaching out to pick up a book shaped clump of ash before it fell. This wasn't just a place I needed to research on Materials and methods to build. This was also my escape during my younger days when my sister hurt me badly...I would stay in here crying for hours until my parents came and helped bandage me up or took me to the hospital, the fairy tails I grew up on....gone. Al the research I could have put to good use...GONE

Unknowingly my right hand was gripping the handle of frenzy extremely tightly as my whole body started to tremble, This new yet familiar feeling started to feel me, Not just that, it started to burn me as I felt a part of my world start to turn a dark shade of crimson, my mind tuning out any voices as as my eyes wander to figure of my sister looking as if she had done the right thing.

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ASHLEY GREY P.O.V

I felt incredibly satisfied with my work, Destroy the source of what I thought to be my brothers stupid sanctum as I let out a Hmpf! of triumph speaking. "Maybe now you'll start to proper train, You'll see brother I did this for your own go-" Suddenly I heard the familiar voice of the S rank weapon Known as Frenzy speaking, this time In perfect English.

"𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐲. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭. 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬."

As the hammer started to speak I noticed a little change go on in my brothers eyes or just his left one. It started to go completely place with the iris turning a dark crimson. I also noticed a red glow surrounding the skin around his eye before turning into scar tissue as he looks at me with a never before seen emotion written on his face, My eyes turn to his trembling body starting to rise from the ground, my gaze mainly glued to his right hand holding the S rank Weapon whom started to speak again, this time in a more darker and slightly irritating voice.

" ₭₦Ø₩. ɎØɄⱤ. ₱̶̖͙͉͉̺̮̩͚̆͗̑̕Ⱡ̸̮̣̮͂͗₳̶̛͎̭̦͐̔͋́͗̋̚͘͝₵̷̡̦̰̎͑͆̽̈́Ɇ̴̳̬̦̖̬̉̇͊"