Chapter 10: Knocked out?

Perseus POV

"You are smart for an 8 year old." Edward commented "You can grow up to be a strategist, a good teacher.

"Nah, that's boring."

Like seriously, go the fuck away, my ass is sweating here, I forgot that he was the prince and just talked bluntly, it's too late to turn back now, so I just have to keep up with it, I don't want my family to be kicked out of here but it seems he likes my attitude.

"You do not want to appeal to them and show yourself off? The summoned will arrive in our world a couple years later, you can be trained by the top academies into a party member of the heroes." Edward continued

Oh, it's public information?

"How are the heroes summoned?"

"You're 8, right? It should be about when your mother was still carrying you." he answered "With our ongoing war with the demon lord, we offered the lives of our fallen to the gods and will be granted the mightiest heroes."

Sacrifices, damn...this is shit.

"I'm not interested."

"I will introduce you to my older brother, the lord of the red rose." Edward offered and I can hear some gasps and people shutting their breaths.

"Yeah, and you're talking to the lord of the black rose...wait, you're serious?"

"I already sponsored the trip for your people, you do not need to participate once you arrive" he replied as he gave me this silver token "I like you, you're smart for your age, you can grow up to be either a wise tactician or advisor for the next king. Once you arrive, present this, you and your family will be brought to me, I can introduce you to a lot of people."

"Thanks. I can't talk with you like how I talk with them, can I?"

"My siblings don't mind, but their followers will definitely put you in a cell." he answered honestly

"Fair enough, how will anyone know that I didn't just steal this?"

"I'll give them your description, do not worry." Edwards reassured him before going on with his day

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3rd Person POV

"Sir Aminu, have you ever heard about the boy before?" Edward asked the village chief.

Aminu Larron, the village chief of the tree of Paradis, he is an old man about 173 cm tall, looks to be in his late 50s, muscular, has black and grey hair, and dark green eyes. His magic is in the 7 star level.

"He is a bit infamous with his blunt attitude, you can never know when he's being sarcastic since even when he's happy, he can catch you of guard." Aminu chuckled "My daughter was scared about a story of his, I didn't know what he told her since she just rambles and end up not making sense, but the boy is smart, he can read at a very young age and he is currently a 2 star mage if I'm not correct."

"2 star?! Already?! He's 8!" Edward exclaimed incredulously "Even if the first 2 star is easy, the people of paradise have a higher and stronger foundation, a one star of your people would easily defeat an average 1 star...how is that possible?!"

"That's not the most surprising." Aminu chuckled "He's a child of the 3 person ritual, a child with the genes of 2 women and a donated weak male gene only needed to cause the fertilization after merging the female genes, he should be incredibly weak."

Edward was just even more and more flabbergasted as Aminu went on to describe the boy, but maybe his choosing to be alone result from people judging him, children of the ritual more than often die in the womb, much less live past the age of 10, some territories banned the ritual all together, people would rather focus on that fact than him as a person, he was more than sure Perseus was asked about being a child of the ritual all the time.

He's wrong though, the people of the village, if anything, know not to pester the boy, despite his blunt words sometimes, he is mostly a nice boy, they know that he is a miracle and it was an unspoken rule amongst all of them to look out for him, especially his talent for the dance attracted their attention even further.

He turns out to be a great dancer and a talented young mage, the adults know not to bother him too much, but the kids on the other hand were just curious, they were curious on why he's so smart, so they pester him, and in return he will say something to scare them away a bit.

Plus the fact that he's a healthy miracle, the fact is spread all over the village, and his moms know it too that their fellow brothers and sisters are looking out for them, Perseus doesn't realize it yet since he prefers to be secluded, but his family is thankful on his behalf.

"Though back onto the topic, I still can't visit the blue rose as an outsider?" Edward asked "I know the guardian announced that she will only grant her powers to the people of the Paradis Tree, I just want to confirm its existence."

"We can, but we will have to knock you out." Aminu replied "We cannot have you know the directions, even blindfolded, you can still sense it, so you will need to be totally unconscious, I'm sure that even if you allow it, your advisors will not."

"I brought along a lot of treasures."

"Do you think that such treasures are worth the blue rose? For your brother, it's because your family have to show it off to the people, for us, it's because she was a person who knew Paradis personally, she was amongst the founder even though she has not deemed anyone worthy since she came into existence."

"So you're willing to bring me in the case that my aides do not oppose the idea of you knocking me out of my senses?" Edward asked

"Yes, it's a very rare honor that I allow you to meet the guardian, a few have done so during past leaderships, but that must also mean I will have to take the most talented children along too, it's part of the tradition."