1 A Fated Encounter [edited]
"sob, sob, sob..." Aiden Roy, A 17-year-old boy sat on a high mountain cliff in the evening. He cried loudly without caring about the cold winds that blew past him.
"Why did it have to happen to me..." He shouted, causing his voice to echo everywhere.
Tears streamed down his face as if he was brutally hurt.
"How did it end up like this? Why did my loved ones have to be killed, why me!! why did I have to become an orphan!" He kept screaming out loud, tears falling from his eyes non-stop.
"At last, I am also going to die soon. Everyone I loved died under the hands of Those MorningStar sinners, I curse them to death!!" He shouted. his throat was getting sore but he didn't care about it.
"Mother, father, I have failed you. I am such a coward, Instead of fighting back, I am taking my own life, I am a shame to our family and our sect." He said, crying in despair.
"They are going to kill me anyways, so I would better just take my own life than die at their filthy hands." He clenched his fists.
"If only... If only I was powerful enough, I would have never taken this cowardly step, trying to commit suicide." He swore in his heart.
"Today ends my life. May the gods punish the wrongdoers." He prayed in his heart and then jumped off the high cliff without even hesitating a bit.
"I am such a coward..." These were his last thoughts when he was falling from the high mountain cliff.
He was ashamed of himself for being such a coward who could only commit suicide instead of punishing his parents' killers.
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"Hm? There is something strange happening here. How much time has it been since I was trapped here?" Rias mumbled as she felt a mysterious energy nearby that she had never felt before.
The mysterious energy somehow managed to weaken the seal that was blocking the cave.
"I must get out of here, This is my only chance. There is something strange going out there." She thought to herself and then tried to break the seal that had been stopping her from escaping the cave.
" I must destroy this seal at any cost, I can feel that the mysterious energy is starting to fade.." She mumbled.
She then started to make strange signs using her hands and shouted. "Shatter!!" Her voice rang throughout the entire cave as she cast a spell that broke through the powerful seal, blocking the path to escape the cave.
She then quickly used a flying skill and wings started to grow from her back just like an angel. She then flew towards the mysterious energy at a very fast speed.
Her speed was so fast that even cultivators at the Chaos Master stage wouldn't be able to see her.
"The energy is being emitted by the body of a young boy!?" She noticed that the mysterious energy was being emitted from the body of a young boy who was lying flat on the ground, covered in blood.
"Ah, there it is... So the mysterious energy's source was this boy." She spoke after landing in front of the young boy's body.
"What may have caused this young boy to commit suicide!?" She thought while checking if the boy was still alive or not.
"He is alive but I have to brew a medium-grade healing potion to heal him..." She spoke while lifting the boy's body in her hands.
She then flew towards the cave where she came from and then put his body down when she arrived inside the cave.
"I don't have the ingredients to brew the potion right now. But I have to save this boy at any cost." She spoke with a hint of urgency in her voice.
"Where can I find those rare herbs... there are no rare herbs here. If only I had my storage ring, I wouldn't have to worry about the ingredients." She was worried about where to find the ingredients used to concoct the potion and suddenly remembered about her storage ring that she was carrying with her when she was trapped in this cave by someone.
"I cannot remember where the ring went after I was sealed inside the cave, but it should be somewhere inside the cave as it was the only place where I was inside this whole cave.." She headed deeper inside the cave leaving the body of the boy inside her protection barrier.
It was dark inside the cave so she lit it up using her origin flame.
The origin flame was not like ordinary fire.
The amount of heat and brightness emitted by it was very high. The flame was light blue and looked like a cold flame but it was not.
"It should be somewhere here..." She stopped after reaching the spot and quickly used a detection skill to find the traces of the storage ring.
"Found it!" She exclaimed and quickly punched the wall on her left side using a portion of her strength.
The wall's front layer cracked when the punch landed on it and collapsed on the ground shortly after. A ring came into sight after the stone layer collapsed.
The ring wasn't ordinary and its exterior was made of dragon scales. It looked exactly like a luxury decorative item, used by the kings and emperors.
"Here it is." She quickly took the ring out of the wall and equipped it on one of her fingers.
"I should hurry now." She thought to herself after equipping the ring.
She flew towards the entrance where the boy's body was left.
After arriving near the boy's body, she took out a furnace that was used to concoct potions and pills.
The pot had seven dragon heads carved on its sides and had a solid body that was hundreds of times harder than normal metal.
"Let's start concocting the potion." She used the blue flame once again and started to refine the ingredients that she took out from her storage ring.
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