The Hard Way! Part 1/2

"Nat!"

"Nathan!"

"Remember, don't ever back down in front of any unjust, always help the weak and people who need it. You are a strong boy right?"

He remembered his father's words on the day they left and disappeared.

"And take care of yourself, eat on time, study hard and work hard. And don't forget to make a lot of friends. We'll meet soon ok dear?" His mother's sounds worried, he could just nod In response.

"Promise?" Again a mechanical nod without any emotions. His eyes were red like he cried a long time.

"Good boy" His parents hugged him last time and said their goodbyes before leaving.

He wanted to go with them, he wanted to stop them from leaving, he wanted to find out about the place where they went and go there and ask them 'Why did they leave him all alone in this world?'. He never hated his parents, there must be a reason behind their decision or maybe something bad had happened to them.

"No! They must be busy researching. I just need to grow up as they wanted me to and find them. Then it'll be all okay"

He grew up alone, first in a boarding school and then in child care. He always got taken advantage of because of his personality. He lived by the rules and principles his parents taught. whenever he wanted to hit someone in anger Nathan would remember 'Never hurt or bully someone weaker than you'

Whenever he tried to retaliate against someone stronger, he would get beaten up instead. Whenever Nathan wanted to do something to take revenge or something that was against the moral and ethics, he would remember his parent's teachings and he would stop. He did not want them to be sad because​ of him.

But when he sees others acting very differently than himself he would get confused and complain​ in his mind.

"Why only "I" have to follow the rules?"

Whenever these kinds of questions were raised in his mind, Nathan would remember a sentence.

"You are different from others. You are a very special boy!"

His innocent mind would just get happy after remembering the word "special" and try to suppress his negative emotions. He wanted to become someone who can make his parents proud. He wants to become good enough so that they come back.

Because of these conflicting emotions inside of him, Nathan's personality became something you may call "abnormal".

He never acted like others. You could not find him wasting his time playing or in other useless activities. He would follow every rule himself and encourage others too, which sometimes made them annoyed. He was good! abnormally good that everyone thought this was all just a pretence.

He always helped whoever he can, it was like he was fulfilling some kind of duty. It wasn't just because his parents told him to do it, but also because of something inside of him urging him to do so. Maybe it was his kind personality or something else, but he felt good.

He would forgive those who treated him badly most of the time and help anyone he could, helping others was one of the most joyous things for him in his dull life.

So he grew up as a perfect role model of a "good man". No criminal records, perfect scores in studies, though he couldn't continue it he was one of the top students in his batch.

He realised this truth long ago that if he wanted to live a happy life and accomplish his dreams, he would have to earn lots​ of money and raise his social standing.

More money and a high position meant he could help more people, and maybe he could find something about his parents. At this moment he already used all the money he saved to investigate his parent's whereabouts, though it brought him a lot of trouble the results of the investigations, not just him but left everyone in shock.

With all the Investigations of private and government sources, they could not found any clues at all. They just disappeared like they were just illusions. The company they said they were working with didn't even exist, nothing could be traced related to them. It was all a mystery!

Where did they come from? How did they come here? What kind of work they were doing here? What was their source of income? Why there are not any photos or videos of the couple? And why the government could not found anything about them even in the national database?

The only evidence of their existence was Nathan and their neighbours. His parents were charged for illegally entering the country and some other charges and the court issued a warrant of immediate arrest against them. Nathan was very angry at the judiciary who declared his parents as "criminal" and wanted to find out the truth by himself.

To find the truth and to clear his parent's name Nathan has to become someone important. Someone, whose voice can't be ignored. Someone with enough resources on par with or even greater than the government.

As he grew up Nathan found out that his dream of matching the government was impractical and absurd. To become someone who they can not ignore was not a child's play either and maybe he won't be able to achieve it in his lifetime.

His optimistic personality and determination strengthened him in these situations and Nathan moved on to work even harder thinking 'I just have to put more efforts into it then'

Nathan always wanted to make some friends, he wanted to study and share things he discovered with them. He wanted to play with them so he tried to get friendly with many people around him and most of them responded positively at first but soon enough they would ignore him like they did not know him.

Nathan could not understand why! Maybe it was because of his abnormally honest personality? Or he did not give them enough time because he spent most of his time in his studies? Or maybe he annoyed them with his blabbering and preaching? Nathan did not know but this happened too many times and then he stopped trying to make any friends all together and just focused on his work.

He did not have any relatives either not that anyone he knew of, or any family-friends or anything like that. It was like the environment around him was intentionally made by someone to isolate him from others.

Nathan was making plans​ to get wealthy and influential since long ago, which required a lot of thinking and even more hardworking. But the inability to making any friends added new challenges to his goal.

After working day and night he gained some success. But this wasn't just because of his work alone, he got a helper. And that helper was a book he found in the storeroom of his apartment that he got back after a lot of troubles.

With all the old and dirty stuff in the storeroom, this book looked just like any other trash. He thought this wasn't something important but as soon as he opened it up, he was dumbfounded because of what he saw.

Nathan was looking at letters he has never seen before and it seems the words gained life after his touch and they started moving and changing places from time to time to make new patterns. it was so magical and fascinating that he almost dropped to his knees.

After that, Nathan got another activity, more accurately his main focus and that was to decipher the book. Though it was a tough job and he did not have any references, he could not care less and diligently kept trying.

At first, he wasn't​ able to gain any understandings and after a few months of repeated failures, Nathan started to have a dream. In that dream, he would see him as a student of someone whose facial features he could not see properly because of the bright light. Nathan assumed that the person was a female because of the body figures.

She had a tall and slender body, wearing astonishingly beautiful red and white rob with golden outlines which were adorned with all kinds​ of jewellery. She would lift her fingers and Drew symbols and pictures in the air without saying any words or answering any of his questions.

Nathan could not explain this phenomenon but it helped him deciphering​ the texts more quickly so he did not question it too much. And so he started to learn the language that was known as the "Elven". The Language Of The Elves!

After successfully deciphering some words Nathan learned that the book was a personal diary of someone named 'Gormon Rydel Liafina Caijeon' that was a pretty long name so he started to call this diary 'Book of Caijeon' in short.

The said author held the position of royal alchemist of a nation called 'Fiyuneshire' and was famous for his adventures, at least that was written in it. It didn't explain more details about the author and the said nation as far as he had deciphered meaning the beginning of the book.

He did not know anything more about where this nation was and where this book came from. Maybe there was once a magical nation in this world or maybe this book did not belong to this world and it came from an alien world! And "if" aliens exist in this world then his parent's disappearance can be explained.

'I have to get to the bottom of this' This theory made him more impatient and he worked more eagerly than ever before.

When he started to decipher more and more contents, what comes as a shock to him was that according to the book, all the stories he heard from his parents in his childhood were all true "The Practitioners are real!"

There were beings saving worlds from monsters and destruction, known as "Practitioners" and if someone wants to be one of them then they have to go through an "Awakening" process that is why some people called them "Awakened".

There was a sentence that translated as "And to those awakened warriors who fought for others and themselves. To those who walk the paths towards mastery and beyond! Practitioners! and Seekers! Of truth! My life will be indebted to you, for all eternity!"

Nathan had not got this excited in his entire life. He wanted to become one of those heroes, he yearned for those superhuman powers. It took him few years to gain a basic understanding of words. The first half of the book contained recipes and techniques for making all kinds of potions and items.

And the first thing he created using the book was a "potion". It was more of a "supplement" than a potion the reason for this was lack of resources, Nathan could only make a half potion. Even this "half" was way ahead of our time.

This supplement could increase muscle's and bone's strength by a small margin. its effectiveness was hard to notice for a healthy human being and it only works few times however there was something that made it truly magical and that was that its effects were permanent and without any side effects at that!

He created this because 1st, most of the materials were also available in this world and 2nd, this was one of the lowest level potions so it did not require any magic or alchemy skills. Anyone with good knowledge about processing medicinal plants could make it which Nathan learned from the internet.

He worked online for his daily necessities and focused all of his free time to gain more knowledge and understanding of the book.

After he got confidence In his product Nathan used his all savings and took a loan from the bank and founded a small private company which he named "Desires & Hopes" private limited. In short D&H.

It took some time and effort but Nathan succeeded in introducing the supplement to the market. It did not accomplish anything on its first launch but as people tried this product it started to get famous. Only in two months, Nathan was already short-staffed. Orders came from everywhere like a flood.

This product which he named "ReNew Herbal strengthening Supplement" gained wide recognition among the elderly and people who inherited weak bodies from birth because of various reasons. It was called a revolutionary product by different institutes. It opened new ways that medical science had never imagined and Nathan and his small company got famous in the world. At age of 20, after more than 4 years of hardworking Nathan Wallace gained initial success towards his dreams.

But soon enough other big companies analyzed his supplement and soon they also started introducing products close to his and some with even better effects. There was never a shortage of genius and resourceful people, Nathan's supplement showed them new ways and opened a whole new world to them.

The Black Tech Corporation in short BTC was one of them. It was given a rank of number three in an article titled "Top 5 companies In The World" in a world-famous journal this year.

BTC was one of those companies that introduced an improved version of Nathan's Renew supplement. Thanks to that his production line and all the workers he had hired in short, every additional setup becomes dead weight and Nathan began to lose considerable amounts of money.

Seeing this situation Nathan sped up the deciphering process and gained some new formulas for making medicine and potions but because he was not a medical student and neither he could trust anyone about the book Nathan got stuck for some time.

Nathan was looking for something unique that no one could duplicate or analyse. during this process, he put out two more supplements. The first one he named "ReMind" was for increasing memory and better mental health and the second one was "ReGrow" for curing baldness and making hair thicker and shinier.

Another wave of praise and amazement came from all over the world. Nathan was invited to several interviews with all the top news channels like BBC and CNN but Nathan did not have any free time so he rejected all of them.

Soon just like Nathan had guessed, other companies also started launching their equivalents of "ReGrow" and "ReMind" and as happened before some with improved quality at that. Nathan did not pay any attention to them and kept doing what he was doing.

And like always Nathan's hardworking and perseverance rewarded him again with something amazing. It was a "truly" revolutionary product of metallurgy! A breakthrough in "materials science"!

D&H introduced something that no one had expected. A "super steel" that humans had never seen or heard before outside of fantasy stories. Nathan used it's original name from the "Book of Caijeon"... "Adamantite!".

The most amazing about Adamantite was that it could even rival diamonds in hardness and it was not brittle at all! This extreme metal was so magical that it's sounds impossible!

Of course Nathan was not able to produce the real Adamantite rather, an accident happened during his experiments and to his surprise Nathan gained this initial form of Adamantite that was just like his supplements was a half product. Even this was an achievement worth celebrating.

There were many ways to make an Adamantite and Nathan had chosen the most simple one of those. Despite this method looked simple in front of other techniques but the procedures of making Adamantite with it was a very complex and dangerous.

After merging different kind of metals it also needed some plant extract compounds to start a chemical reaction in it that could then transform into a totally different type of metal and Nathan could not find any info about the two plants that were essential to complete It. So he replaced it with compounds that have similar properties of the missing plants and after very arduous work he found himself lost. He was at the brink of closing this project for good when that accident happened and he got this unbelievable product.

On one beautiful evening, In a very luxurious setting, Nathan unveiled it in front of a crowd of journalists and professors of different establishments. There were also CEOs and other important staff of many International companies. Everyone was curious to see what D&H, who was responsible for introducing many miraculous products in the past has to offer this time. And the result? You guessed it right! It swept the world like wind and it brought his company to heights he never have thought of.

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