Poison p2

The next day, Me, Amelia, the kids and the three students left the village for the city. With the goal to meet up with the rest of the students in the city.

The kids used to travel from place to place before coming to this village. The villagers were kind enough to accept them.

We left saying our goodbyes and got on the carriage that left for the city, the bandits that we caught in tow.

The trip was mostly peaceful and rather uneventful, so I will dump some lore because I have nothing to do!

now where do I begin? maybe how my past life and how I met Amelia.

My life began when I was born.

The place that I came from is the Ashokan empire. It is the strongest and the largest empire in Zion. It is ruled by my father Joseph Aurora. There are two big royal families. The Auroras and the Asuras. The Asuras ruled the Ashoka for the majority of its history, but only under the rule of Abraham Aurora, my grandfather did the Ashoka grow into an Empire.

The Asuras were tyrannical and cruel, while the Auroras were kind and caring. Both sought power, the former to rule and oppress, while the latter to protect and lead.

My father is the 44th emperor of the Grand Ashokan Empire. My step-mother is Frostine Aurora. and I have an older sister named Draco Aurora and an older brother named Jacob Aurora, also I have several cousins and siblings as part of the 'royal' family all who hate me!

Why? Because my real mother was from the Asura family. During the time of Abraham Aurora. A large scale movement was organized to eradicate the Asuras and capture and bring them and their evil acts to justice. And at the end of it, 99.9% of the entire Asura family was captured.

well! the remaining 0.1% was a small group of people who sought to bring back the rule of the Asuras and my mother was one of the survivors. Then my dad somehow found out and f*cked her without her consent and then married her! And that's how i was born.

Because of this, I'm part Asura and part Aurora. And people are not too keen on the 'part Asura' part. Then it turns out that my grandfather was pretty chill and didn't care and took me in as part of the family.

But Mom(Frostine) Had other plans. She put me through hell to train me and made me join the army and somehow i'm an intelligence officer for the army!

Then one day while doing my duties as an intelligence officer i came across a certain Stryx, who was a thief at the time. Lemme tell you all about it.

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I was in the docks for doing a routine check on the new equipment that just arrived. It was completely normal till I came to the medical supplies crates when I noticed that a few crates had been opened and some of the goods were missing.

"hmm! weird!"

I muttered to myself, while rubbing my temples. This was a very troublesome issue. Medical equipment is very expensive. And the goods missing in question if my memory serves me right, were specifically used dress wounds and anti-biotics and stuff

"what's more annoying is that they seem to have the 'key'!"

I quickly bring out the ledger to find out which of the crates have been opened. The inventory management system employed in the empire has an tracker on each of the crates. they can can only be opened with the key. if someone attempts to open the crate by force, then the crate will reveal the location of the crate. for higher priority items such as weapons and ammunitions, the crate f*cking explodes.

After going through the list, I made a mental note of the crates that have been opened and quickly found out the goods that they were after.

Then I made my way to the final crate on their shopping list! After waiting for some time, the girl in her teens showed up. She had black and purple hair. She wore a face mask. looking at her body it's clear that she's been working out.

"Yo midget! that crate is mine! step aside before it gets ugly" she spoke in a threatening voice.

"If you want supplies for an orphanage, then you can legally approach the ministry of welfare! now return the goods before it's too late" I replied while I began charging up my shadows.

"i'll be kind and tell ya something! my powers are considered a grade 4 threat! I use poison and plant manipulation." she warned me.

"that's cool, but not enough" i replied with a smile.

she flicked her hand and a fog of poison quickly covered the whole area.

"good idea, take the initiative before the opponent" i commented.

Amelia clicked her tongue and ran towards me. but i was prepared. It's a technique that I use when I'm not in the mood to fight. It involves letting my shadows become part of my body and artificially increase certain aspects of my body. For example i can use this technique to make my body optimised for speed or strength or even endurance and stamina. It's called the [shadow empress' physique].

I activated my technique and blocked her punch. As for what I turned my body into, let's just say it's buff. REAL BUFF.

"Hey, where's the cute girl i was talking to?" Amelia forced a smile as the corner of her eyes twitched.

"are you talking about me?" i asked with a mischievous smile, but she couldn't see it as i was completely covered by shadows and the only thing that one could see was a shadow figure of an "INCREDIBLY BUFF MAN".

it didn't take long for the soldiers to come to our place and she got arrested. strangely enough my mum was interested in Amelia for some reason.

2 days later, I found her working as an intelligence officer alongside me, thanks to my mum. Then we become best friends.

My mum then explained to me that Amelia is part of the Stryx family, which specialises in poison and medical research.

But the Stryx family was involved in secret illegal activities involving organ trade and human experimentation.

When the government learnt about this, they staged a raid to capture and kill all members of the Stryx family who were directly involved. While the others were stripped of their status of nobility.

Amelia was supposed to be missing during the raid, but here she is.

"what's up Neo?" Amelia asked me.

"oh nothing, just thinking about our past" I replied.

Then we reached the city. I made some inquiries and some cool stuff happened, but that's in the next chapter.