(Oberon POV)

“Now I need you two to do me a favour”

As I look into the flame I could see a very beautiful girl in the flames, she was seated on a massive throne of fire, and looked to be wearing a dress of fire as well. This was defiantly Athreal, though she looked slightly younger than some of the paintings and statues I have seen around the temple, the golden eyes and red hair, which is very rare, are unmistakable. That and the fact I am looking at her through a flame.

“W..what can these lowly servants do for you oh great goddess?” Tura asked the goddess as Thorin who had glanced at the goddess in the flame decided to crawl away and started to inspect the flame barrier that had encompassed the entirety of the room.

“Well as you both know, he is the first of my new species, the Fireblood’s. Now as you would have seen from his status, he is a lot stronger than any other new born, he is still a lot stronger that what a Fireblood new born will be, but he has no idea how to use his power and his strength, that is where you two will come in.” The goddess pauses so we can absorb this flood of information. It is obvious that this young boy will grow to do great things as well as be immeasurably strong. ‘What could the goddess want from us?’

“Hehehe that is a good question Oberon. And yes I can read your thoughts, hehe. Well I need you Oberon to raise him please, teach him how to hunt and survive, but also I would like you to give him a happy childhood. Next Tura I want you to be his teacher. Teach him about this world, and about all the different cultures and races, but your most important job will be to teach him about magic. Teach him about the good and bad sides of magic, warn him of the dangers of certain rituals. “Tura looked very pale but determined, the god he worshipped is giving him a task and he will for fill it even if it meant his death. “Oh and he will be very strong in fire magic, as you might have guessed, but you don’t need to train him in that as part of my blessing is a complete understanding of fire magic” As she finished she smiled and nodded to herself.

“Oh hang on, where is Kellern he was also meant to be here!?” The Goddess put her hand to her chin and looked to be thinking after a few seconds of silence she shrugged and carried on. “Oh well I suppose trying to manipulate the fate of three people without being noticed is bound not to completely work. Anyway can you get Kellern to tech him to fight and train him in the use of a variety of weapons, Thorin can chose what to specialise in. Right any questions??”

“Oh great and beautiful Athreal, may we know the effects of the titles he holds?” Tura who looks to have regained some of his colour, requests that we know what benefits his titles will give him. He is asking this because only the person in question can look into his stats in greater detail, and neither of us have seen these titles before.

“Hummmm….I don’t see why not, but you must not tell anybody else the details of these titles” The goddess gives her permission and then with a wave of here hand 4 windows appear in front of us.

Divine Blessing Of AthrealYou Have recived a blessing from the great goddess of Flame, this blessing gives you a greater understanding of fire, due to this when using fire magic no chants are needed and your spells will be more powerful.

First Of My KindYou are the first of your kind, there are no others of your race, so you have to breed with different races. To ensure that your races numbers increase, there will be a 50% chance that you children will be born pure bloods of your race. This will stay in effect for the next 20 generations.

Born Of Fire You were born of fire and because of this fire can never hurt you or others of your choosing, as long as you are withing 100m of them.

UnboundSlave Collars do not and never will work on you, once you touch them they will break. Whether you use this to free others is up to you.

These are some amazing titles, his divine blessing gives him insight into fire magic, the ‘first of my kind’ title is the same as it was in the history books. ‘Born of fire gives him even more control over fire and finally that unbound title, if it is revealed he has the ability to free slaves without the masters consent, he will be hunted down and killed. Especially by the human kingdoms as they have the largest slave populations and treat them very badly, if he went round freeing slaves, it would not be long before he had an army capable of defeating one of the human kingdoms.

Just then I noticed Thorin had finished inspecting the barrier and was crawling back towards us. He sat down between Tura and myself. And looked to also be reading the windows that had appeared in front of us. Then he looked towards the goddess and gave a questioning glance.

(Thorin POV)

After being woken up by the short loud man, I was brought into a stone room. At the back of the room is a beautiful stone alter, all over the sides are carving of people lifting large objects, others look like they are farming and a man and woman standing together holding a baby. Surrounding these scenes are flames all carved into the stone.

On top of the alter is a candle with a huge flame burning from it. On each side of the candle are various stone carving, one seems to be an older looking version of Athreal. However you look at this, it is obviously one of her shrines, and the short man must be a priest or the equivalent.

I briefly looked at the flames but what interested me more was the short man was preparing for something, he laid a scroll on the floor then poured a little bit of blue liquid on the scroll. What slightly confused me was that the scroll didn’t stain blue, in fact it didn’t even look like it even had a liquid poured on it.

After a few more vials of varying colours were poured onto the scroll he signalled the man holding me to approach. The short man then took my hand and pricked my figure and collected some of my blood in a bowl. Walking towards the scroll he starts to speak in a rhythmic way, I think it is some sort of chanting, anyway he proceeds to pour my blood of the scroll which forms a magic circle. He then takes me from the hunter man and out of the cloth as I do I look at the huge flame coming from the candle, and within the flame I can clearly see a smiling goddess, my eyes widen in surprise and she winks at me. Then I am placed on the scroll.

It is only as I am sitting there that I realise someone, while I was asleep had put a cloth like nappy on me. The short man then asks the hunter man a question, to which he seems deep in thought, then suddenly twitches and starts looking round the room, as if he thought the short man was speaking to someone else.

After some prompting the short man seems to get an answer he likes and starts speaking loudly, when he finishes the magic circle I am sitting it glows and I start to feel a slight itching on my right hand.

I was then taken over to a stone orb to the left of the alter, the short man places my hand on the orb and then a window appears in front of me.

Status WindowName:ThorinLevel:1Age:0Gender:MaleRace:Fireblood (Sealed)Class:ChildTitles: Divine Blessing Of Athreal, First Of My Kind, Born Of Fire, UnboundHealth:100/100Mana:1170/1170Strength:8Vitality:12Agility:1Intelligence:117Dexterity:2Wisdom65Status Points:10

‘Cool it really is like a game!’ I scanned through the status window that had appeared in front of me, strangely I could read it. It seems my new name is Thorin and my race is called Fireblood. Athreal has really good naming sense, not! The titles seem quite cool but I have no idea how good or bad these stats are.

‘Oh looks like I have some status points to spend, but I will wait until I know a bit more about the status window before I allocate them.’ As I am thinking about this I feel the short man start to shake and tighten slightly, he then starts sparking very quietly and then falls to his knees, once he is on his knees I decide to wriggle out of his embrace.

Just as I escape from the clutches of the short man, the room suddenly fills with flames, it perfectly covers the inside edge of the entire room. The sealing, floor and walls, even the door is completely blocked. A few seconds later I hear Athreal’s voive coming from the flame, but she is speaking the same language as the others so I can’t understand them, so after a brief nod to the goddess, to which she acknowledged I started to crawl towards the flames covering the wall.

I don’t know what it is but I am getting a strange feeling while looking at this wall. As I crawl closer I almost feel as if I understand it. Subconsciously I reach out and place my hand on the fire covering the entire inside of the room.

I realised I had just placed my hand in fire and snatch my hand back expecting pain to surge into my hand, but it never came. I inspect my hand for damage but couldn’t find any. ‘hummm ok, so I just placed my hand in fire, for a good few seconds and I was not burnt at all. So that means one of two things, first I have very high resistance to fire or am completely immune to it, this might be due to my birth, considering my new body was made by flames. The second possibility is that the flame barrier thing Athreal conjured will not harm you if you touch it.’

There was no way for me to confirm either of my two theories until I can touch another flame. The strangest thing is that I can still feel heat from the flames but it never feels like a burning heat.

‘Hehehe.. Well done Thorin, your first theory is correct!’ Suddenly I hear Athreal laugh then speak in my head, I turn and look at the two men kneeling in front of her flame, but she is still talking to them. ‘Must have been telepathy’ I say while sighing to myself.

With Athreal’s conformation I now know that I have an immunity or very high resistance to fire, so I proceed to place my hand on the flame barrier. After a few seconds, I don’t feel any burning so I relax slightly keeping my hand on the barrier. Just as I relax a surge of information flows into my head. Then a blue screen pops up in front of my face.

Ever Flame Barrier has beed comprahended and learnt. Do you wish to view the new Fire magic you have just learnt? (YES/NO)

‘Yes’

Ever Flame Barrier A Flaming barrier that can for an shield during battle or conpletely cover you and your allies when you are in a tight spot. The strenght of the barrier is proportional to how much mana you pour into it. (Initial casting cost 20)

‘Wow, ok that will come in handy, and as the strength of the barrier is proportional to how much mana I pour in, this spell can be very strong, shame it is not offensive.’ I am pleased with the spell but I would have preferred a slightly offensive one.

‘Humph, I give you a very powerful defensive spell and all you do is complain that it isn’t an offensive one! Humph’ I think I might have annoyed my patron goddess.

‘I didn’t mean it like that, I am really grateful for the magic skill you gave me but, it is more in my nature to want to be more offensive than defensive. If you use your godly powers and look at my history all the MMORPG’s I played I was a bruiser or DPS. I am very sorry for complaining though.’ I hope that is enough and she sees that I am sorry.

‘Sigh, ok I forgive you as I was going to give you an offensive spell as well.’ Just as she finishes another window pops up in front of my.

The Goddess Athreal, through her divine grace has gifted you with knowlage of the spell 'Fire Arrow'. Do you wish to View this spell? (YES/NO)

‘Yes’

Flame ArrowProdues a flaming arrow that you can fire. You have a very small amount of control over the arrow and only 1 is produed. As you improve this spell it will gain, more power, more control over the arrows and the number of arrows. (Cost per cast 200)(Beginner Lvl 1)

‘Thank you this looks really cool!’ I smile to myself as now I have both the offensive and defensive spells. I look over and see that the three of them look to be done so I start to crawl back over to them.

As I arrive next to the hunter guy, a few blue windows appear in front of us and appear to be my titles with the explanations. But the long and the short of it the ‘Divine Blessing of Athreal’ and ‘Born of fire’ both give me more control over fire magic, ‘First of my Kind’ allows more pureblood Fireblood’s to be born and finally the ‘Unbound’ title means I will never be a slave and can free others if I so chose.

After I read over what each of my titles did, it suddenly came to me, because it is obvious from the two men’s expressions that they can read it as well. ‘Why is it in English?’ I turn to the goddess and gave a questioning look.

‘In short I am translating it for you but once we have finished here you will have to learn the language before you can read it again.’ She keeps on speaking to me telepathically, while she was smiling at me.

‘Aww come on there must be a language comprehension skill, all the best light novel stories have them, you have to give me something like that!! Please!!!’

‘Hummmm…..well I can’t magically make you understand and speak all the languages in this world, your head would explode from all that information flowing into it.’ I gulp when it hear her say that. ‘But I can give you a skill where you can learn the spoken and written language in about a week. I do suppose it will make things easier in the future, ok I will give you the skill ‘Language Wizz’ I hope it helps.’ I smile at the goddess as another window pops up in front of me.

Language WizzYou are able to pick up a language in about a week, both spoken and written.

(Third Person POV)

After a few minutes of the young child and the goddess staring at each other, the goddess finally spoke.

“I have just given Thorin a skill that will enable him to learn how to speak within about a week. Tura I want you to start to teach him all you can in two weeks. That will give him plenty of time to settle in and learn both the written and spoken language.”

After the goddess had finished speaking Tura raised his head and said “Yes Goddess”

“Great. Ok I have to go now as if I stay any longer other gods will notice me and find Thorin and we don’t want that. Oh and don’t tell anyone what he is, just say he is a mixed blood of many races, and don’t let him use fire magic in front of anyone. Ok I have to go now. Bye” The goddess waves her hand and then the Athreal flame returns to normal.

After the goddess leaves Tura picks up Thorin and says “Well you have a big future ahead of you. I will serve my goddess to the best of my ability’s. Tura smiles as he starts to think of various ways to teach and train the young boy in his arms.

In contrast only one thought passes though Oberon’s mind. ‘You poor boy!’ As Oberon had been taught and trained by Tura he had an idea of what was to come.

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Hey guys I hope you enjoy the chapter! Things from now on will speed up a little bit.

Ok the weapon Poll will finish, and the winner was the odatchi, (only by a point) but this does not mean he will only use that weapon, the odatchi will be his main/most powerful weapon but he WILL use other weapons including some which were on the polls.

Anyway thanks for your support and if anyone has time please leave a review as I would love to hear what you guys think.

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