Slowly rising from the mist of dust and volitant debris, a boy not a year older than Lucian emerged, covered in dirt and dust his eyes darted around the environment in the aim to find a potential hiding spot.
The dark haired brown eyes boy didn't even notice the master of the garden and the master chose to observe and not act, he noticed that the boy was clad in a raggy yet tattered outfit.
Over his shoulder hung a small sack, not even big enough to fit an eighteen month old well fed chicken, merely looking at it once could tell it had something inside it.
" There goes my perfect breakfast " Lucian said dropping his noodles and chopsticks before covering the bowl with his book, he quietly took some bandages from his pockets and began wrapping them around his arms.
After some moments both his arms were wrapped from his palms to his elbows, ' My novels normally tell me to greet a strange person with a handshake but this guy… '.
' He look pretty confused ' he thought looking at the nearly deranged boy mumbling to himself, Lucian noticed something from his young innocent face right away, and that was the emotion of Fear.
' I would just beat him and ask for his name later ' He said lunging at the boy with his knees raised, * BOOM *, The boy was gone, he instantly killed the momentum landing a few meters away from where the boy stood.
Lucian had seen the boy's counterattack, the boy jumped before Lucian moved but he decided to attack anyway, to him the boy's movement was sluggish and untrained although quite fast and agile.
Even though Lucian missed on purpose he was quite astonished at how he could spend a few moments airborne, he jumped vertically as stopped at a hight Lucian estimated to be about three hundred meters.
Someone with this ability must have also trained his legs as to be able to land from such heights unscathed and yet create a crater on the ground.
* BOOM *
" Thirty six seconds Impressive, Okay faggot start talking, who are you? " Lucian said closing the distance between them in an instant, the boy a bit stunned replied.
" Please blud, could I cotch in ya yard for a little bit " he said in a British accent, this wasn't what Lucian asked about and he was starting to get pissed.
" Listen Blud, I am not here to play games, what's your mission? " he asked again his patience wearing thin, " The name's Gabriel Lace, I am a orphan collector of the northern Endz " he said in defeat.
Lucian was captivated a little he wanted to know more, " What are ya doing in my yard " he asked again mimicking the Gabriel's accent, " I told you I was a collector, I collected some… " Gabriel trailed off.
* Clang, Clang, Clang *
The sound of something slowly clinging unto the wall was heard, " Ahh fuck, Old bastard sent the civil defense after me " he said looking at the thick black wall that surrounded Lucian's mansion.
" Please blud, you've gat to hide me " he said begging on his knees, Lucian scoffed, " Please, I don't want to go to the Templars Magistrate again " he begged holding Lucian's feet after dropping his bag.
" Fine, just get behind me and make sure your entire body is on my shadow " Lucian instructed vividly remembering a skill he formed some years back.
" Huh ", " Just do it if you want to live " Lucian explained walking to his shade and picking up his book, Gabriel looked at him as he walked into the sunlight again and sat on the floor.
" Don't make me regret saving you arse " Lucian added flipping through the pages of his book, Gabriel quickly ran behind him and squatted on Lucian's shadow.
' I have never tried this on a large living target before, who knows he might not even leave the innate shadow domain, but life is an experiment ', Lucian thought to himself.
Second passed and nothing happened cold sweat ran across Gabriel's face as he saw hands hold onto the edge of the concrete fence.
The thought of running away struck his mind but another thought warned him to stay still, fortunately he listened to the consciousness that told him to trusted Lucian.
He slowly descended into Lucian's shadow as if sinking into quick sand and soon he was gone, Lucian just kept reading his book without a care in the world when six men stood at the top of his fence.
They stared down at him and soon jumped down the two hundred meters fence with the aid of some kind of zip lining equipment, it consistent it consisted of a type of strong rope and a gas pipe conjured by a complex machinery.
They landed on the ground and sprinted towards the dark blue haired little boy who for some reason had bandages over his arms.
' I wouldn't do that if I were you ' Lucian smiled to himself, " On ya knees kid, I won't ask a second time " the first man to approach him said with his fist already flying towards Lucian.
" Is that how you interact with people you just meet " Lucian said slapping away the hand that threatened to strike him on the head without even looking up from his book.
The man although stunned recovered and sent another punch but it got caught effortlessly, a kick came to his right side and Lucian knew he had to fight.
Instant he vanished form their sight but not because he could teleport but which the aid of his monstrous physical speed, the next place they saw him was at the spot he kept his noodles.
He covered the bowl with his book and looked up to his assailants, he noticed that two stayed behind and the remaining four attacked him, " Do you all have no shame, you walk into my property and attack me ".
" Am not even up to age, I could be the last born child of most of you yet you attack me like a criminal and don't even know whether you would win against me " Lucian lectured but it all fell on deaf ears.
A fist appeared right infront of his face, faster than he anticipated, ' I could have thought, I knew they wouldn't attack me with full strength '.
Normal he could have dodged the blow but instead crossed his arms immediately the attack reached him nullifying the impact, another kick came to his side catching him off guard.
* Crack *
He felt his ribs crack as they were met with an incredible force, he lost balance and tumbled to the ground blood streaming down his lips, he looked up just to be faced with a hurdle of flames heading straight for him and at it's rate it engulfed him.