CHAPTER 6 A NEW HOME (2)

The group threw a party to welcome their boss. Though since Garen is an outsider, he didn't have the privilege to attend. Even if he does have the privilege, he wouldn't attend. His injuries are not yet healed.

Due to the severity of his injuries and not wanting them to get worse, with the help of the physicians in the hideout and some rest, he became as

good as new in just 2weeks. And soon he was assigned to do some miscellaneous works.

As days went by, Garen soon became familiar with the people in the hideout. Though they did not consider him as one of their own, they were quite friendly and accommodating; some even offered to help him in his work.

Garen stood up and tipped toed towards an open area some distance away from the hideout.

Swooh* a whistling sound rang out as a spear piercing through the air, olauf grabbed his spear and stab out extremely fast while also with a lightning fast return.; After stabbing out repeatedly, olauf took five quick step backwards as if to put some distance between him and his imaginary opponent.

Suddenly, olauf grasped his spear tightly with a face of filled with concentration. An orange dim glow surrounds the tip of his spear and *bang* threw his spear; a loud sound rang out and the spear flew out extremely fast and garen's eyes couldn't keep up with its spead.

*bang* the spear pierced through a boulder with zero resistance. Garen let out a gasp and look unbelievably at the scene, and soon he knew he was surprised too early.*bang* the boulder broke into pieces and soon were reduced to dust.

Garen mouth was wide opened and he wiped his eyes furiously he couldn't help but pinch himself and see if he his dreaming. "ouch, how is this possible? how?" he said under his breath.

"Garen, how is it? powerful uh?." olauf said without turning towards him. Garen walked out from behind a tree looking like a theif caught red-handed.

"what do you think." olauf finally turned towards him. A small smile lingered on his lips. It all looked inconceivable to the little boy. How can such power come from a human. "pa..pow..powerful, very powerful." he stuttered. Never in his widest imagination could he believe such could actually happen.

"how did you do it. Can you teach me." Garen asked expectantly. His thirst for strength as abated a bit since the last time he was close to death; instead, it grew stronger and stronger. Now he finally saw hope, if olauf could teach him, he we truly be able to keep himself safe and control his own life and death.

"why do you want to learn? You should know, the martial road is never a peaceful one, you will kill without remorse, blood of innocent might flow through your hands. Will you truly have the resolve?" olauf threw him this questions and looked it him. He seem quite interested in his answer.

"I DON'T CARE, as long as I can have my own life in my hands..." he took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs "I WILL DO ANYTHING." He panted lighty as he completed his words. His hands were clenched into a fist and he looked unwavering at olauf.

Olauf looked at the boy, seemingly dissapointed. His gruff voice came out gently "Garen, the place you were brought up in made you lack plenty of things. You will later come to know that there are actually some things far more important to you than your life. Keep that in mind." he walked to were his spear was laying down and picked it up. "go to old bahil and convince him to teach you how to read. That will help you greatly."

"so are you going to teach me." Garen asked fearfully. Olauf seemed to be dissatisfied in his answer. He waited a bit and olauf didn't reply, he got very nervous and kept brushing his hair sometimes forward or backward nervously.

Olauf let out a short laugh and then replied with a small smile "first learn from bahil. Tell him to teach you how to read and write. Then later come back to me, then I will give you an answer." he brushed Garen lightly to the side and walked away.

He seemed quite down, he wanted to become strong quickly. Though reading and writing seem quite important, he felt it was not as important as strength. It is not like he would use a brush to kill his enemies he thought.

Walking back to the settlement, his mood quickly plunged downwards and he walked sluggishly back with his head bending downwards.

*gbam* a stone hit him by his hand. Garen held his hands painfully and slowly raised his hands to look at who threw the stone at him.

"hey bastard, get the hell out of go. Home, you are unwelcome here." four boys at same age as him stood some distance away from him. The four boys stood hands folded.

"Krusit, am sure I haven't done anything wrong to you, why would you have keep going against me." Garen looked angrily at Krusit. Though most of the people were friendly, Krusit and his gang were one of the few who were against him.

"hehehehe, little fool, so what if I do against you? What can you do about it." the boy looked down on Garen and seem not to care about garen.

Garen who was still feeling down, flew into rage and rushed at the boy and pushed his face. The boy was stunned and didn't expect garen to actually hit him. They've been bullying garen for quite some while and since he doesn't retaliate, they became used to it and use it as something to pass time. Never in his widest dream would he expect garen to punch him.

Garen pinned the proud brat to the floor and rained down punches on him. They other three were stunned at first and quickly came back to their sense. One of them grab Garen from the back and tried to pull him away from their boss.

Garen grabbed the boy's hand and bit him hard. The boy withdraw his hands and cried out. Garen threw his head back and hammered the back of his head on the boy's nose. Not wasting a second, he rushed to the boy at the left and slammed his elbow into the boy's stomach. The boy grabbed his stomach and fell on the ground. He burst into tears and cried out for his mommy.

The last standing kid looked at Garen as if he was a demon that rose from the Netherworld. "what are you going to do" garen cracked his knuckles and walked slowy towards the boy. The boy peed his pants and ran off while shouting murder.

"RUN, RUN YOU MOTHERF**KER.." Garen shout out loudly and soon burst into laughter.