1 The Local Thief

Late night, my old grandpa is teaching me his secrets because my pa didn't learn it when he was young.

My grandpa is holding something. It was a gold bar! I was naive and didn't know that a glowing bar can buy one's life. I was intently looking at it then it suddenly disappears. I looked at my grandpa but he also disappeared.

"Grandpa!?"

I was shocked and almost cried. But someone rubs my head and clears my tears away.

"Grandson, the thing I did was teleportation! It is something that you will learn."

My grandpa smiled and starting from that day, I learned everything from my grandpa. When he was young he was a legendary thief that had a hundred success rate. His confidence made him blind to threats making his right leg cut off and made a hundred enemies from different sects. He also told me that 'never your greed consumes you or you will be punished like me!'.

I remembered that it was all in the past and the moon is vibrant as the day when grandpa started teaching me.

"Your teachings grandpa is always in my heart.", I turned off the glowing watch that has the hologram of my grandpa and faced my back.

"O, Felix. You can't run now."

All I see is a bunch of thugs staring me with hate but they never knew less I could still teleport after they chased me this far.

"Huh!" I was startled in shock.

"HAHAHAHA! Can't teleport? You must remember that not only I hate you and your clan but also the upper class!" He said.

His henchmen started to pull out their blade. And some started licking it.

To think that I will die as the same day grandpa and father died.

"Haha... I'm pathetic." I pull out a knife and slits it into my throat.

It is better to take my life than giving it to these bunch of thugs.

I jumped on the sea to make sure that no one claims my bounty.

Every second of my time in the water feels like an hour. The pain in my throat is like a fire that spreads in my body. The cold in my body made me slowly close my eyes.

The second moment I opened my eyes, I was not in the water.

I could barely move my limbs because of heavy shackles restraining me. I couldn't see clearly in with eyes.

I was facing a dazzling light striped by the metal bars. All I see are shadows cast by many men. Was I captured by them?

I was surely dead when I jumped the saltwater with a bleeding throat. So how am I alive.

"Ye, my daughter seems needed a slave so I bought her one." A man with a caterpillar mustache looked at me.

A slave!? what are they saying? How can great Felix be a slave...

I saw my face in a splash of water. It was young and beaten. A face of a man deprived of rights and justice. I remembered my life full of freedom and escaping the chaos I created.

Something is telling me to escape but I can't, If these shackles were removed and a bit of mana I need.