Awaken After 19 Years
Green River Town, Giant Forest Province, Red Bull Kingdom.
On one corner of the town.
There stood a blacksmith manor. It is not of grand and striking build.
Inside.
Clang..clang...clang...
The sound of hammer hitting the iron on the anvil echoed the room.
A young man of about 19 years old was hitting the iron with his heavy hammer. His name is Xi Chen. He turned and look at a boy of about 15 years old. "Bing your feeding the flame to quickly. Make it slow down." He said.
"Sorry big brother, I will try to maintain its pace." The boy replied with sweats dripping from his face. He is Xi Chen's younger brother. 15 years old. And his name is Xi Bing.
Xi Chen did not correct or scold him. He knows it takes time when learning things.
At this time, the door was push opened. And another boy of around 13 or 14 came in with a package in his hand.
"Big Brother, second brother, the food is here" he called out to Xi Chen and Xi Bing.
He is the youngest and last of the Xi family members. He is Xi Xuan. A thing young boy of 14 years old.
Xi Chen has no one in this world except for this two younger brothers. They are his world. If they eat, he eat. If they are happy, he is happy. If there are only enough food for 1 or 2 people, they will eat and he will starve.
His father and mother were kind people. But God does not want good people to live in this chaotic world. When they got sick with serious illness, nobody wanted to help. Even the people they helped. So without having enough money they could not get treatment, even when they begged to the doctor.
On their deathbed, they asked Xi Chen to live a happy life and not let his younger brothers suffers. And Xi Chen promised.
"The food is here." Xi Xuan said again as he put the package on the table.
"Oh my God, I was on the bring of dead. If you had arrived any later. I would be gone." Xi Bing dropped what he was doing and started opening the package.
"You did not get into any trouble on the way, did you?" Xi Chen asked his younger brother as he approaches the table.
"No. But the prices of the foods went up again." Xi Xuan replied with a dejected look.
"Again..! Man yesterday it was 5 copper coins per meal. Now how much is it sold at." Xi Bing talked as he stuffed the food in his mouth.
"7 coppers coins.." Xi Xuan mumbled.
Xi Chen looked at his dejected brothers and went. "Do not worry, we can still afford the prices even if it went upto 10 copper coins."
"OK. Eat up the food quickly or it will go cold. We have so much to work today. Li clan placed an order to make 40 axes for them." Xi Chen also started eating.
After eating lunch, both the younger ones helped Xi Chen in making the tools for Li clan.
When time hit aroung 3:30pm, Xi Chen told his brothers to stop the works and they all packed up their fishing gears and went to the town lake.
On the way, the trio saw many fishermen coming back from the town lake with dejected look.
Seeing their look, Xi Chen stopped one of them and asked. "Why are you all coming back? Is the town lake closed for fishing today?"
The man who was going back home with a 'How am I going to eat today' look, looked up and said. "One of the man fishing with his pole caught a golden blood carp but could not keep it. Instead two unruly martial artist started fighting over it and in the process the man and other two died. The lake got dirty. So fishing is not allowed for 2 to 3 days."
As soon as heard the words martial artiast, Xi Chen tighten his grip. Ever since he knew there are martial artist who could destroy rocks and punch through concrete walls, he has been trying to learn the methods and skills. But every time he searched for a way, he was met with dead ends.
The only way he could find was to join the army. He could not do that as he had to take care of his little siblings.
And one time, he tried joining a gang but he stopped as soon as he realized that only the leaders have power and others are all ordinary people.
He tried finding a Martial school but not a single was in the town. He even thought of venturing outside the town to go another town or city to find a way but could not. The outside of the town is filled with hidden dangers. Without the power of a Martial artist or without the help of martial artist, no ordinary people could go 2 miles away from the town.
Xi Chen bowed to the man with hand stacked. "Thank you for that."
"No worries." And the man left.
Xi Chen and his brothers also left along with the many dejected fishermen.
Since they nothing else to do, Xi Chen continued working on the orders with his brothers.
They work for hours and stopped when it was dinner time.
After having dinner, they all took a bath and went to their respective rooms.
Xi Chen has a room alone for himself but his two younger brothers share one room.
They have two houses, one is the place they sleep and cooks. The other one is only one big room at the front and they use it as a shop and working area.
As Xi Chen lay on the bed with his back. His head filled with many thought on how he will continue to live and how can he improve their living conditions. And most importantly how can he marry someone if he continue living like this.
As he is thinking, he started getting dizzy. Xi Chen thought to himself.'Maybe I worked to much today'. But suddenly he got shooting pain in his head. He did not even have time to scream when he got unconscious.
One or two hours later, Xi Chen woke up from his unconscious state. And he murmurs 'So that was my past. I did not think that one day I will regain my past memories'.
According to the memories he received. He was a gang leader in Guangzhou. He got killed in a gang war. Then he is reborned here.
When he is busy thinking.
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Owner: Xi Chen
Bloodline: None
Clan: 3 members
Combat Skills: Iron Hammer Fist(evolvable 2/30), Eagle Claw(2/20), Heavy Palm(4/25)
Cultivation Technique: Crimson Body Tempering Technique (5/30)
[Ghost Hand Clan Panel]
Xi Chen's eyes lit up with surprise.
What the freak...