Year 311 A.W.

I turned fifteen.

Right now inside the orphanage we are celebrating my fifteen years of age. Well not only mine though, there are others as well who are fifteen years old. All of us do not have the same day of birth, some of us are brought here without knowing their real age and since they assume that they look like fifteen and I will be celebrating mine soon well you can guess what happened next. They made a group birthday celebration.

I don’t mind though, what’s more important right now is I am considered as an adult know. YES! Finally after ten long years at last I’ve reached my adult hood.

“Now we are gathered here to celebrate the 15th year of their lives in this world. From now on you are going to the outside world without the support of the orphanage. At the age of ten I give you the choice on what will you pursue after you turned fifteen and train you on your chosen field well all of you except for that idiot over there” while giving her speech Ms. Clarisse pointing at me.

‘Hey hey is this some sort of public execution?’ I thought to myself since I can’t really say something offensive and I decided to endure everything till the end.

“Anyway let’s get this over with since I’m tired from yesterday’s paper work”

After her speech she told me “after the celebration go to my office”.

I give her a nod and she left. Right now I notice the difference in our height, I grew a lot from ten years ago and now I’m standing 5’8” tall. Not really something you can call TALL but not small either since I’m the 5th tallest in our age group out of ten, I can say that it’s an average height.

The celebration ended with me just standing at a corner devouring anything I could and no one ever bothered me.

After the celebration I head towards Ms. Clarisse’s office. I knocked and get her permission to enter, the wood worker is inside and right now I don’t have any idea why.

“Good day young man and happy birth day to you” the wood worker spoke.

“Thank you old man and why might you be here?” I asked

“It seems that he forgot about the agreement Ms. Clarisse”

“Indeed and here I thought sooner or later he will beg me to give it to him after a day or two but ten years passed and he even forgot about it *sigh* this is why men are *sigh*”

“hahahaha can’t blame him, kids mind tend to change as they grow up”

“Well you’re right on that but still, let’s just go on with it and finish this conversation I need some rest. The box is on the place where you left it ten years ago so it’s quite dusty and be sure to open it outside. I don’t want to have a mess inside the orphanage”

Their conversation made me confused “I forget something? An agreement ten years ago? Hmm now that you mention it I think I did forget something hmm. Nope can’t remember” I muttered

The wood worker then go in front of one of the cabinets in the room and took the box above it.

“AAAAAH!” I said in a surprised tone

“Oh looks like he finally remembered” said the wood worker “were on our way now and thank you for keeping this safe” he said to Ms. Clarisse.

“yes yes go now and I need some rest”

We left the office and heat towards the back yard.

“Now kid well not kid but I guess young man should fit now and it’s time to fulfil our promise”

He opened the box revealing the contents, the black sword and daggers that are inside became small.

‘I guess it is me who became big and my perspective became different from ten years ago’. Well it doesn’t matter after all it’s been ten years and now I can have this. But during those ten years I’ve handled real weapons, now the value of these wooden weapons is quite not that good for me.

“Now to end the ten year promise I want you to drop a small amount of blood on those three”

“Huh? Wait what did you say?”

“I said puncture your finger and drop some blood on these weapons to make you its official owner”

“Now wait a minute never heard of something like this before, if I remembered correctly you never even mentioned it and why do I even have to do that?”

“Like I said before it’s a rare type of wood that hardens when you heat this. On top of that weapons made from this wood must be personalized so it won’t be stolen from you as long as you live and that can be achieved by dropping some blood on it.”

“you never mentioned that part before”

“HUH? I did not? Hmm well I might have forgotten to mention it. Well just put some damn blood on it so we can go to the next step”

“Fine I’ll do it”

I bit my thumb to draw some blood and drip some on the weapons. The weapons began to give a red glow and after some time it stopped.

“Good, next imagine your sheathing it on its scabbards”

I did what he said and the weapons disappeared in front of me.

“HUH? Where did they go?”

“Now it seems the personalization is performed well. The weapons now are inside your body and will remain there until you need it”

“WAIT how in the world will I be able to use it?”

“That’s simple just imagine a weapon to appear on your hand”

I imagine the sword in my hand and a red light began to form in my hand then turn into a sword.

“Neat that’s a nice trick. Can other weapons become like this?” as I swing the sword left and right [note: cant find one holding a sword =_=||]

“No only legendary weapons can be personalized and in the entire world only few of them exist. Some are in possession of the kings and some are in the hands of some powerful warriors”

“hooo so that means it will cause me a lot of trouble if someone knew about this”

“Yes and that’s what my last advice. ‘NEVER EVER LET OTHERS KNEW ABOUT THIS UNLESS YOU TRUST THAT PERSON WILL NEVER BETRAY YOU’ understood?”

I bow down to him and said “Yes I will heed your advice and thank you for keeping your promise to me for all these years”

“I will have your word for it since you did your part for ten years. Then kid this is where we part come visit my shop from time to time ok”

“Yes thank you very much and if I have time I will”

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Since I’ve obtained my new equipment and I’m departing tomorrow for the knight’s training. I decided to give these babies a little swing and head towards the forest since it’s dangerous if I swing near the orphanage in many ways.

I arrived at the place where I met my master and trained for ten years.

“So what brings you here young lad. Your fifteen now and wants to enter knight hood don’t you have some things to prepare?”

I bowed down to give some respect and said to him.

“Greetings master. I came here to test something I obtained recently”

“Ooh is it a weapon? Well to go all the way here means I’m correct. The don’t mind me and do your stuff”

“Yes master” then I summoned the sword and that made my masters eyes wide open from shock. I applied some ‘Ki’ on it then I tried to swing it.

“WAIT WAIT DON’T…”

It was too late and I made a strong but perfect swing.

*BOOOOOOM*

*cough cough*

An explosion resounded throughout the forest and in front of me is a huge crater with a lot of dust floating around.

“The heck what happened? *cough* I only pour a small amount of ‘Ki’ on it to try its durability but *cough* I dint expect this”

“ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME BRAT” the voice of my master ten feet away from me filled with anger as he walk towards me.

“I’m sorry I dint know it will be like that” I speak to him with an apologetic voice.

*sigh* “Never mind that but what part in the world did you find that sword?”

“It’s a sword made from the wood I found when I was five and just handed to me as a promise when I reach my adult hood.”

Carl made a grim look on his face and asked.

“Do you know that this kind of weapon are rare no it’s the word rare is not the right word but the word legendary might fit.”

“Yes the wood worker responsible of making it said to me as he made me personalize it. He also warn me not to show this to other people whom I do not trust”

“That wood worker is right but let me correct it for you ‘NEVER USE THIS WEAPON OF YOURS UNLESS IT’S A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION’ this weapon amplifies your power and can cause the deaths of your comrades if you became careless. The ‘Ki’ you can infuse it with is near limitless and still won’t even have a single crack in it. For now learn to control your ‘Ki’ while using it in secret, remember the power you can’t control is a power that will destroy you”

“Yes master I will keep your words in my heart”

“Well even though I said train all you have to do is adjust your ‘Ki’ while using it. Now try it, just remember use the smallest amount first”

Two hours passed before I get the hang of it and do some sword stance with it. It’s very comfortable using this sword and the flow of ‘Ki’ is so smooth just like the texture of silk passing through your skin.

“Now as for my gift on becoming an adult, Here” he gave me a sword

It was an ordinary one but since its master that gave me this, I thought there is a hidden meaning behind it.

“Now you’re thinking that it’s just an ordinary sword, well you are right and a cheap one at that but cheer up you should know that carrying an expensive sword is not a good thing especially for a trainee like you so this one will serve as you first sword as you enter the knighthood training.”

I received the sword and thank him then decided to part.

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