– Edward's POV –
After taking a shower I stood in front of the mirror.
There stood a handsome 17 year old kid with striking white hair and golden eyes. because of this unique combination I stood out most of the time.
After looking at myself for a few minutes I changed into white t-shirt and grey trouser and left for dinner with my grandparents.
After having dinner , I laid on my bed as my eyelids began to feel heavy It wasn't like how you go to sleep it was more like fainting.
"What's happening?"
I asked myself as I began to see a golden screen manifesting in front of me and that was the last thing I saw before I fainted.
'Where am I?'
I woke up and realised that I was not inside my room anymore instead I was in a white room with only a grey altar in the room.
No cross that there was another thing other than the altar. it was transparent flames above it. I was only able to see those flames because of their shining outlines.
'What is that?'
I wondered as I began to move toward the altar.
that's when something clicked inside my mind, I remember reading that most people get their arcane power in a certain white room residing on different colour altars.
'Don't tell me that's my power!!? but how? I still have two years remaining?'
Even with all these questions inside my mind,
my feet didn't stop and soon my hand rose to touch those transparent flames. I didn't feel any fear or anxiety towards my power instead I felt calm like finally finding the last piece of puzzle which was me.
Soon my hand touched those flames as in the next moment the whole place started to shatter like a mirror and I lost my consciousness once again.
As I opened my eyes I was once again in my room but something has changed as I could see a golden screen in front of me.
[ forced awakening has been completed ]
[ Arcane power of {Flame Seeker} has been granted ]
As with the appearance of these two illusory golden text boxes in front of me I knew that I had awakened.
A truly out of place thing has happened as no human was able to awaken before they reached 19 year old threshold ,more so as Edward had not even requested for awakening.
as the akashic record had gone out of there way to forcefully awaken him.
But Edward was not even paying attention to all of this as he was currently busy reading descriptions of his arcane power.
[Flame seeker: they are very rare beings who are blessed by the flames, as most of them show three similar traits.]
[Flames copy] [Flame merging] and
[Flame aura]
I focused on the three traits shown and more details about them appeared.
[Flames copy: Flame seekers do not have their own flames as throughout their life they copy different kinds of flames from different types of individuals. only flames who are able to resist the copy Flame are those who have similar characteristics or higher grade one]
[Flame merging: Flame seeker's flames are ever-growing, with this skill they can merge the copied flames and give birth to something new. Once the two different flames are merged they cannot be ever used again as a new flame will take their place.]
[Flame aura: even among flames seekers there is a level difference and this difference is shown by flame aura. Flame aura is living flames near the user, which means more powerful there flames are more powerful there flame aura will be.]
After reading all the information given by the golden screen I took a deep breath.
"This power is so Overpowered!!"
And it was crystal clear that my bloodline had played a part in it as well, because they were famous in the whole world for their flame based abilities.
"looks like I would need to talk to him "
The only place where I could find powerful and different kinds of flames was only one.
Home of my father the Alerith city or also known as the city of Alastairs.
'The real problem will be about convincing him to allow me to enter that city.'
It wasn't like I never asked him to take me to that city but he always found excuses and avoided the topic,
That is why I think he is ashamed of me otherwise he wouldn't avoid the topic. But I also understood after all I'm an illegitimate son it would be quite the blow to his reputation if someone found out about me. and this led to our deterioration relationship as father and son.
I fell into the deep thought as I thought of several excuses to enter that city.
As I was pondering for a good excuse. I saw a bright red light coming from my window, I stood up and headed toward it.
And the scene outside the window filled me
with the feeling of awe and fear.
It was a fire tornado at least 50 meters in height, it charged towards the monster and sucked them all inside.
"wait a minute? monsters it can't be."
I gazed near the tornado again and saw several monsters being sucked inside the tornado
"my eyes aren't playing there really are monsters"
— A While Back —
Draven was roaming the streets of Waross city
where his youngest son was currently staying.
Draven had very carefully considered this city for his son this was the nearest city to Alerith city. He even brought Vivian's parents here after explaining everything to them. thankfully they were understanding and didn't hold any grudge against him.
Draven had already told them the reason why he couldn't take Edward with him to Alerith city, and they agreed with him wholeheartedly. for them safety of Edward was the most important,
because he was the only living trace of their daughter.
Back to Draven, as he was roaming the lonely road of Waross city he heard the sound of thrashing from a nearby alley.
With the slight curiosity Draven headed toward the alley. The next scene causes his eyes to flash with indifference.
At the end of the alley a seemingly red creature with a tail was feeding on human flesh, more intriguing things was that the human wasn't even dead yet. that creature was eating human alive. the human's mouth was covered by the creature's tail as he couldn't even scream for help while his body was being eaten alive.
it has two horns on its head, with a red reptilian eyes its mouth was elongated at front with razor sharp teeth embedded in them. it was standing in front of blue dungeon portal.
These monsters were kobold distant dragonic spices.
Draven looked at the scene with indifference and thought.
'what's the monster doing outside the dungeon?'
Draven didn't give the man who was being eaten by the kobold a second glance as he had already lost too much blood he wouldn't survive another 10 minutes. and there was greater problem in front of him now.
"There are not any awakened stationed here means nobody knew about it, and it should have appeared around a day ago as no one could have missed the dungeon portal for this long, then the only explanation is instant dungeon break!!"
As Draven came to this conclusion a chill ran down his spine.
Instant dungeon break, they were the true nightmare of humanity, they only happened one in whole humanities history and that was in the great catastrophe 200 years ago which resulted in 90% humanity being reduced to dust and 90% of their land being lost to dungeon dwellers and mutated monsters.
'if this was even inch similar to That then we are in extreme danger'
Draven thought as he noticed that kobold had seen him and was coming toward his direction.
"But let's finish this first."
Suddenly Draven's hand started burning with red fire. he threw a punch at the monster which resulted in the monster crashing to the wall and losing its life shortly afterwards.
'now let's see what secret does the dungeon hold' but before Draven could enter the portal
A large kobold came out of the portal