The Grand Mage

"Hello my child, I am Theodore" The grand mage said to me with a friendly smile that creeped me out a bit for some reason

"Oh boy you don't need to be afraid I'm just a dying old man, I heard you were saved by these barbarians right? They probably carried you on their backs while running at their top speed, am I right?" He asked while looking at Sero

"Yes sir" Sero replied with his head down and voice in a low tone, and that's when the feeling got even worse, as he seemed to like to intimidate others and it reminded me of my classmates

"Now boy, I'm rather interested in you and how you managed to survive the desert on the south side when there is nothing near there, but I will not ask for your secret, instead I will sponsor you and make your life amazing" Theodore said with an amicable smile that creeped me out even more for some reason, just like my father's when he was angry but wanted to act nice to me when I was young,

Something was wrong, and I knew that, but I my fear of offending this old bastard doesn't let me say anything else, ' I guess I should just try and keep a poker face as if I'm happy, I haven't had to do this yet, but I should be pretty good I hope'

"Yes Sir Theodore it is my pleasure to be sponsored by you" I responded in a humble tone and tried my best to look delighted

"Good, good boy, very well as I do not have much time let's just teleport to the city you are going to feel a bit nauseated but don't worry it won't last longer than 3 minutes" As he said that he started chanting in some weird language that for some reason I couldn't understand even though I had that blessing it felt as if this language was on a higher tier than the blessing

After an entire minute of him doing his magic, I started feeling a little woozy and then it got worse and worse and worse then I couldn't take it anymore and fell to the ground and threw up

After a few minutes of throwing up it felt as if I had no more to throw out, thankfully it felt as if I was back to being semi normal and could stand up again, though that was a little hard and took me a few seconds

"Ah, you're finally up, good, now then let's get going, we need to get you signed up for being a civilian here and get you tested out" He said with the same smile as before, and as I was about to bring up the messy floor and myself, my entire body felt cleaner and so did my head, and it looked like the floor was clean too

Then I noticed that we were standing in the middle of the city centre or that's what I'm guessing it is on a strange pod which I'm guessing is some kind of teleporter or something as it looks like 2 groups of people with robes are queueing up and 1 group of young students that look excited, there is also the group at the front who look like barbarians

"Hey get off already, it's charged up and we need to go now or we are going to loose a lot of valuable time you folk seem to have" While he was speaking the old man's face kept getting darker and after he finished he turned to face the leader of the group who was talking and... did nothing, or so it seemed at first

"What are your names" He asked in a rude manner and seemed to be demanding the answer rather than merely asking for it

"Eh, who are you old timer? You think just because you look like that old bastard you are going to fool us, heh we have already seen him and he sure as hell wouldn't allow someone to throw up on him even if it only got a bit on you, that young lad may have not seen but we did" another one in the group said and Theodore's face darkened even more and it felt like dread, real dread could be felt and the barbarian's faces seemed to be getting darker just like the sky which started to rumble

"Smite thy existence" He chanted and this time I could understand him, it looks like he is holding back, yet the lightning that came down terrified me as I was so close but somehow nothing happened to me and only those poor fools seemed to have been struck

I heard a sigh escape from Theodore's mouth

"Ah those fools don't they know that my temper is short, now I can only kill 53 more people this decade without background that have offended me" Theodore whined while shaking his head and seemed a bit sad, but not over their death just over his killing allowance?

Before I started questioning the morals of this world he turned around and said "Let's go boy, I'm in a bad mood because of those fools" and he started walking as if what he has done is completely normal and I just shut my mouth

After a few minutes of just walking while the crowd no matter where we were parted their way for us, or more specifically for this old bastard next to me as if he is some scary figure

"Umm sir where are we going right now?" I asked politely and humbly as I couldn't take it anymore after what had happened and I'm even more frightened of him right now, as he appears to have a great status

"What do you mean? Have you already forgotten that you need to immediately get citizenship once you get to a city or did they not teach you that?" He asked me