Chapter 9:Monster affirmed

Aldin Randell

After the session I had had with my parents I had gotten quite a lot of improvement, it was now up to me to focus on my earth attribute. After a long time, I was headed back to the woods, the wounds from the day were still deep. When I walked in, I could still remember the pain, but I pushed it aside to focus on my practice.

I had some offensive earth attributed spell, but they were all close ranged. I changed them a bit, but they all still had the same principle. After not getting anything of worth, I headed back home, normally I would always receive glares for reasons I did not know but today something different happened as I was entering the city group of people were waiting for me at the gates, I was prepared to deal with them but never got the chance when I was close enough I heard shouts of joy, this confused me, but I understood the reason when I got closer.

The people who were cheering were actually the people who had saved from the mercenaries. It seemed that they had been integrated into the city.

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After being brought to the city the captives of the wolf fangs were integrated into the community. Eagerly wishing to thank their savior they asked around, but nobody had been able to identify their said savior since it was unknown to any child within the city with such Immense power. Rumors spread throughout the city of the mystery child and one day one of the integrated residents of the city saw Aldin head out to the woods after informing the rest they all decided to wait at the gates for his arrival, those who knew of the cursed child rumors left at the sight of him approaching. And rampantly both his identities were brought up in multiple discussions, many of them still did not like the child but news of his heroic actions swayed the hearts of many and one of them was the Adventurer guilds master, Richard Zorge. His interest grew and it one day led him to the knight order where he had requested to meet the captain.

Richard Zorge

After getting word of the child's strength, I had to see it for myself but I could not directly attack the child and so I headed off to visit his parents.

'I hope they are not as radical as the rumors paint them to be' I thought as I walked into the meeting room. They were both seated on one side of the table, I was a little nervous about this and even considered turning back since I was facing the king and queen of Aden, a nickname they had gained from the people of Aden due to their great strength.

"What do we owe the pleasure of this visit Richard." Lark said.

"Well, it's about your son, there this rumor going around, and I wanted to have a spar with him." I was half expecting them to glare at me, but they simply looked at each other and smiled.

"That is a great idea, you're actually what he needs," Lark said.

This reaction shocked me and without knowing it was shown all over my face, this drew a chuckle from the couple.

"I can tell that you are a bit confused. He is actually tri-attributed, we have assisted him in his first two, but the last one is where he has difficulties in and that's where you come in, if possible, would you help him develop his earth attribute."

This information shocked me greatly, these were things that no one knew, this explained his great strength.

"When do we start"

The following day I would meet him at the gate, and we would head out to the woods, I stood there waiting and the soon the child was brought by his parents we walked to the woods, and we would practice, I asked him to show me all his spell , they were all very powerful spell that were all them were the same, all he would do was raise the earth as spikes. Although basic it was very powerful.

"You have great master of your earth attribute if you can freely shape it, but it has more potential than that but instead of simply raising it you can use it to attack."

Immediately I shot a spike form the ground, "What you need to do is raise it fats and ten detach it from the ground and it will be just like any other projectile."

I said and gave him time to practice, I expected him to find it difficult, but he was able to perform it perfectly within five tries.

The next thing I taught him was how to prepear4 pit traps and other spells. At noon, his parents joined us and informed him of the planned spar.

He immediately stood on the other side, I had originally planned to take it easy on him, but after seeing his incredible talent all that went out the window.

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Once they were both ready Lark signaled the beginning of the spar and immediately Aldin used radar, and fired water bullets but they were matched by earth projectiles and with the help of radar he was able to detect the bullets getting fired from behind him which he also dealt with. As Richard was focused on trying to land a hit on Aldin, ice orb had formed from behind him and were now fired at him at the last second he dodged it which , after failing to hit his opponent Aldin changed his tactics, around Richard spike begun to rise and soon Richard was surrounded but with retaliating he brought down all the spikes and begun to approach Aldin in hopes of winning it with close combat, he would dodge all the attacks that would come at him and when he was close enough threw out a fist hopping to land a hit, but Aldin Dodged it threw out his own which surprisingly fast and backed up with armor made of ice, it landed and Richard was sent back a few feet away. He had not expected such a magically talented child to be able to make such a powerful attack.

"I forfeit" Richard said.

Richard saw no prospects of beating Aldin after the punch he had received and looking at Aldin he had not gotten hurt at all and was still not tired from all that mana user.

'he's a monster! 'Richard thought to himself.

Richard walked toward Aldin, "you have great strength why don't you joint the adventurer's guild, we could use your strength."

Lark and Silvia had heard it too, Richard expected them to immediately deny him the chance but, "I think it's a good idea, now you'll be able to start using the sword arts I taught you." Lark said.

After getting Lark's approval Richard dived in and explained to Aldin all that would be required of him when he became a member of the guild and the benefits he would receive.

When joining the adventurers guild he would be required to complete missions to get the stated rewards, the missions varied between hunts, escorts and other such tasks and instead of starting form rank F, the lowest rank he was given the chance to jump up to rank B since his strength had been tested by the guild master himself..

"Then ill join the guild." Aldin said after thinking about it for a while.

Richard was happy with this but worried for the members of the adventurer's guild. Most of them were arrogant and would not take it well of a child joining the guild but all he could do was hope that one of them would try anything funny.

After getting back to the city, Richard had Aldin's guild card made and delivered to the Randall residence. He informed his secretary of their new member's peculiarity, At first she thought he was humoring her but the serious look on his face sobered her up.

'If they have the same mentality as her, tomorrow I'll be having several headaches.'

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The morning after receiving my guild card I headed to the guild after breakfast. As I headed down the street, I received greetings from many people as I walked along the streets, after rescuing the captives I had gained a lot of fame. When I got into the guild, it was filled with men and women in armor with the exception of the clerks. I was about to head one of the clerks and as for guidance when a giant man stepped In front of me, he looked as if he was against hygiene, he reeked of alcohol too.

"Head back home to your mommy kid, this is not a place for kids like you to be playing you'll get hurt. "He said, and this drew attention from others in the hall and some whispers could be heard. I simply ignored the huge man since he was clearly not in his right mind and walked past him, but he grabbed my shoulder form behind, most wouldn't react to this but after what had happened to me in the woods, I did not want anyone to touch me without a good reason and this was not one.