• Those Red eyes •

In a world where magic is present, it is normal to have a certain hierarchy among people, taking away their social status of course.

In this world this type of position is defined by the people themselves, and not by competent authorities, which means that it is a position that anyone with sufficient power can exercise to judge and use the weakest individuals ...

But before we focus on how cruel this world can be to the weak ... me, a simple boy who does not have an ounce of magic even after passing the age of waking it up ... will explain to you how magic works!

The magic that some people awaken since childhood is divided into 2 categories, the normal and the rare, the normal being the elementary and the rare magics, the magic of gravity, of the shadows and finally the most rare ... death.

People who awaken rare magic, are called geniuses and are the most likely to have absolute power over people and therefore are often the noble lineages that have these kinds of magic.

But this does not mean that these magic types are stronger than the normal ones, because, only the circumstance will be able to tell how powerful a spell will be, that is, only the person who possesses it will be able to mold it in order to make it a dominant spell before the others.

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-16 years later-

> At a Slave Prison on the outskirts of the city of Exos <

(Exos was located in an area far away from the main kingdom of Britania)

A 16 year old boy was leaning against a wall, full of small cuts and bruises ... this boy is called Angel and unfortunately suffered at the time, discrimination from his Prison mates, with the excuse of not having any magic. ..

Yes, this is me....

Angel's POV:

"Ahah, look at this poor excuse of a person ... he doesnt even fight back!"

Said a person named Zion, a senior of that place... that i am in and one of the main stupid bullies that exist on the same;

"Right? I can't even understand why this thing still lives here in the Slave Crest and eats our food...he should just go die in a corner"

Said a girl, with a ugly appearence while looking at me, "you know? You should just quit living... you are only wasting our oxygen and you will never be choosen as a slave...nor will you live much more so just hurry up and go die you scum, ahahahah".

(Slave crest: a place where criminals and people who are captured in wars or just where people without magic who are of no use get dragged to... to be transformed into simple slaves and then sold at auctions.)

"I don't understand... isnt it bad enough that we all are slaves here just to be bought..they still have the mentality to judge themselfs higher than other?" I thought, a boy who had been abused all his life, and was yet again suffering discrimination and physical injuries while hearing the same thing he was always told...not to mention all the scars this poor boy had in all his body.

And the moment I finished "reflecting on such a thing", the threats, jokes and abuse they made with me in the center, became even more violent..but from that moment on, they left me bleeding to my  death alone in just some corner of that cold and dark looking place... that i really wished nobody would have to live and suffer as i did in such a place...

"Cough, cough !!" I coughed while i tried to get up and go to the medical room that was situated in the floor above the one i was right now...

While almost crawling through that horrid place, every slave that was there for the same porpuse...being sold out to someone...looked at me with cold eyes that stabbed me in my very soul with contempt and disgust.

So looking at them i said "What are you all looking at? Did you all never seen me here? Just go back to what you bastards were doing, it’s not enough that I don’t have any magic and the only thing I’m good at is getting beaten up but now I also have to be looked down by the ones like you?" I said, already tired of being looked down and despised by other...by the idiots in front of me ...

Some of the slaves that were around me said things like:

"Rubbish that even just a little magic is nowhere to be found, does not have the right to lecture us about how we should look at a shitty boy !!"... but i got past them while ignoring what they said and went directly to the medical room...

When i got to the the place i was headed, i knocked on its the door twice and a woman inside harsly told me to get in.

I, then opened the door and sat silently in a small looking bed that was situated in the corner and proceeded to wait for the medic...

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When i got finished with the medical treatments i got up, and silently left the medical room...of course i did not forget to thank the medic for healing me...

Then i headed to my room, that looked more like a cell than the former, but whatver it looked like... that was my reality, after all, i did not have anyone in this life, as i was found as a baby alone in some old house and brougth here...all i had was a necklace with a woman engraved on it, that i could make up as my mother...she was a beautiful woman with red eyes and blonde hair..."i wonder how she was like...no, dont think about that now"..."i should not think too much of the past, it wont take me anywhere!", i said while getting down on my bed ready to sleep...and so, clearing my head from such thoughts i fell in a profund sleep and the night past silently as if i wasnt in that hellish place anymore...

-The next day:

In the morning when I woke up, I got my sleepy self up and got all my morning routine done, everything I needed to do such as assigned shores or training that i had as a slave i did as fast as i could so i could go back to my peaceful room and sleep a little more...

Arriving at my room, I thought for a moment about the truth of that place ... that place, that was overflowing with sadness, violence and lack of freedom ... that made me saddened  by the thought of the direction my life could take if i was not sold there in a few years, but to my surprise... my staying of 16 years in that hell would soon come to an end.

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At the end of the same day, I was still in my room satting against the cold and uncomfortable wall in the corner and took out of my slavery uniform pocket, (a uniform similar to that of prisoners in the world) the necklace with a small picture of my mother ...and let myself look at the beautiful red eyes on the picture trying to imagine how she would be like... but i quickly closed it and hided it in my pocket as fast as i could... that was because i started to listen to some guards talking to a woman i had never seen in my life... and stopping just in front of my cell, I was able to distinguish what kind of woman she was... she was a beautiful girl around 19 years old, with red hair and eyes that matched it, this girl who looked more like a piece of art instead of a human, was wearing a beautiful uniform, even if it was a battle uniform, it emphasized her beautiful curves and her beauty that burned even my lost eyes... but returning to my normal, I was able to see something that I had not noticed until now ... the emblem that she had on her uniform ... I knew that emblem, it was the emblem of the Ignis family ... the family of nobles with the highest global ranking of fire magicians ...

She looked at me, and in a cold, chilling voice...said to the guard who was accompanying her:

"I will take this one!"

Angel's POV:

I couldn't believe what I was hearing, after all, I was facing someone of noble status and coming from a powerful family ... but more than that it was precisely why I didn't understand why she choose me, after all I didnt have magic so i had no use to her.

I couldn't understand why that girl choose me, but I also had no choice but to go with what was said to me after all ...

Getting myself up, i picked my coat and walked over the cell door, it was then... when I left that small, cold and gray like the rain-filled clouds in the sky of a storm cell, that the temperature immediately changed as if I had moved from a cold place to a extremely hot zone. At that very moment, I realized why the weight that the Ignis family had, was not just for decoration.

And thinking for myself i said: "How can a person emit such a fiery aura?"

I just didnt knew that It was something that I would eventually discover in my own way...

Then looking at me coldly, that person who would now become my master, said to me in an assertive tone: "Follow me"

And nothing more was heard from her...

  Me, who could do nothing but obey, followed her carefully and maybe a little bit afraid until we arrived outside of that prison-like place that i want to forget....

   Already on the street outside the Slave Crest, she went to a carriage full of rich decorations and of course with the symbol of the house Ignis on its top... it was surely a noble carriage just like some princess would have...

   Inwardly i laughed at the sight that i beholded in front... "my master is now some rich girl from a noble family, but will they be good masters...or evil scums that will abuse me?", that was my only thought as i followed her silently... she then got in and looked at me confused to why i was not entering, in fact i should not do so, because slaves never acompanied their master inside their own carriages, but she then ordered me to do so...and so i climbed it and got myself on the sit in front of her while looking down.

  She then ordered the man to direct us to "our" residence, and thus the journey home begun.

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Our trip was silent and fast in progress, but from what I heard from the conversation between my lady and the man who was driving us home, due to an accident that had occurred on a road that we were going to pass, we were then kind of forced to take a less secure route through a valley that would be further away from home.

I do not know if I would have had a cold face that conveyed fear and a little anxious look, but my lady looked at me and said:

"Don't worry too much, even if it is a road where mercenaries are found usually roaming, none of them would have the courage to threaten a high nobility like me!"

And with a gentle smile, which refuted the first personality I had witnessed in that beautiful girl, my heart felt relieved.

And when I was just letting myself be carried away by that goddess in front of me ... when I just relaxed and lost myself in that beautiful look of hers...

A crash occurred.

"It was a blast, but where and why?" The carriage also stopped completely at that moment, my lady tried to still speak from the inside to the driver, but nothing was received back ... "only mercenaries could have killed the driver", I said, shaking while my lady got up with urge.

Perplexed by the situation, I just kept crouching in the wagon, but the same did not happen with my master ...

Beatrice Ignis POV:

" Don't worry too much, even if it is a road where mercenaries are found usually roaming, none of them would have the courage to threaten a high nobility like me! "

"That is what i said ... but now this is happening?", Was what i said to myself as i hopped out of the carriage.

Seeing my surroundings, I was able to capture around 20 men with torn clothes and old weapons ... after all they were not mercenaries as my servant mentioned but thieves? "This is going to be easier than I thought ..." I said to myself.

"But something is not right ... even if they are thieves or bandits ... they would not dare to do something against a high blood like me ... so what could it be?"

It was then, that I discovered that among all of those thieves, a strong aura was pairing in the air.. it was a high rank mercenary ... that is said to be a mercenary capable of having a magic rank comparable or higher than mine, "so what now?", I thought for myself...

There is no way of knowing if I can handle them all on my own ... but I have no chance, I could run away ... but what would happen to my servant if I really did?

That was something I would never do! No matter what happened, I was going to find a way to control the situation... i needed to! And it was then that the bandits started heading towards me ...

  So I looked at them and said raising my Magic Aura, "You will only find death if you decide to approach us!"

And one of the bandits closest to me, then said while laughing: "You talk a lot, as if you were strong enough to protect that sissy one behind you ... but you are just a commodity that will be snatched by us, whatever you say wont matter, ahahahah "

"tch, we will see that!"

I said, already a little angry ... and one by one I burned them down, but none of them seemed to either give up or be afraid, and suddenly I felt a shiver in my spine and instinctively, I backed away as quickly as possible.

It was then that I saw a crack in the ground where I had been and then I understood ... that mercenary, that bastard is a wind user, it looks like this is going to be complicated.

Preparing for a long-distance battle, I invoked without saying a single word, 10 magma spheres and hurled them towards my opponent ...

But he, as clever as I expected him to be, created a small tornado of wind and dissipated my spheres without much difficulty ...

"tch I already realized that you are not an ordinary person ... what do you intend to gain from a noblewoman like me?"

"Gaining?" Said the individual as he recited an attack that involved a few hundred blades made of wind around him, "I do this only for the thrill of humiliating a noble and imposing b*tch like you, at least on the outside, ahhaahahah"

Trying to defend myself from all those wind swords that came towards me I invoked a wall of flames ...

...but apparently it was not strong enough to protect myself from all of them ... thus, i was sent back a few meters , and fell to the ground, full of blood and cuts all over my body ... and so, looking at my servant who was there full of fear but unable to abandon me ... making me feel like a failure, i said: "it looks like I'm not strong enough to beat a high-ranking mercenary, so I want you to listen to my order and run! run away and don't stop! "

"M-master! How could I do that! You are my lady!" Said the boy, a little younger than me in that state of fear.

"sigh, you really are a little special as i thought you were when i found you in those cells, but listen to m -..."

-Boom

An explosion caused by the encounter of cold and hot winds created by the mercenary gives way on the place where I was ...

Angel's POV:

Boom

An explosion occurs right in front of me ... and the only thing my eyes followed next was my lady's body flying a few meters in the air and falling down right in front of me ...

Seeing that scene unfolding in my own eyes, I could not contain my concern, after all even though I was a slave ... I saw that beautiful lady as my savior, the one who took me out of that prison and who could give me maybe, a life that I I was just wondering how it would turn to be ... and then from the bottom of my soul I screamed, "my ladyyyyy!"

"Pffft, so sad ... what a pity of a woman ... if not so mistreated i could make a fortune with her body ... well i still can i guess.", said the mercenary.

But as he said so, i could only see one thing my mind and that was a piece of my memory when i was a baby..well i guess, and the image of a beautiful and goddess like woman with blonde hair and red eyes, crying while looking at me with regretful  beautiful red eyes...

And as the man that was still saying something that i didnt hear i can only remember myself losing conscience of what i was doing and then i can only remember something dark... that embraced me as if it was comforting me ... and nothing more ...

(I had passed out)

??? POV:

I received a signal of help through the necklace from our family, and that request came from the valley in front of me ... thinking about who could be the issuer of the help request, I came to just one conclusion.

My sister was the Summoner of the sign ... but ...

what the hell happened here?

Watching the burnt forest down to the last possible molecule of life ... I found my sister's body lying on the ground in the distance. I hurried to check her condition, and when I reached her I managed to feel that she was alive, but ... what the hell happened? Looking up, I could only see open terrain ... stretched for tens of kilometers which did not contain any life ... what did this do ?, no ... the right question would be who was the one responsible for this... and, a few meters away from my sister was a young man lying in a place that miraculously contained grass and flowers ... and i could already imagine what would have caused this total catastrophe ... and thinking out loud i said:

"Sis, after all the discussion you had with our father about whether or not to have a servant of your own ... you brought one with you, ahhaahah"

"You brought a bearer of death magic ..."

" i cant even believe you found a person capable of such possession ... he will have the power to not only change the destiny of our family ... but as well of the whole Britain ... haahha you really did it you damned sister ...

Angel POV:

I was dreaming...looking at my mother besides me in the bed, she was beautiful... as i always thought she was but then..."-ake up..." i heard her saying...

"Wake up son!", and again that soft and warm voice echoed through my mind...

  In that moment i opened my eyes like when we open our eyes when we finish a nightmare...just to found myself in a big room that had quite the noble look.

I got myself seated on the bed and before I knew, a girl that looked like a maid of the place and a man that wore clothes that looked like he was some rich person, emtered the room...

At that moment, before I could even say or express anything, a strong headache suddenly appeared on my head and my body trembled everywhere with pain. It was the result of what had happened, whatever it was.

The maid that saw me in pain, picked up a wet towel and hurried to where I was and said: "You need to rest for a bit before you can get out of the bed!"

Looking at her, I asked: "Alright, but who are you two and where am I?"

She then proceeded to explain what happened after I passed out and how the younger brother of the Ignis family got myself and Beatrice here safely.

"So thats what happened..." and with that said I looked at the man standing in a corner looking at me with eyes that showed contempt towards me.

So I asked "May I help you?", with that said the man then got close to me and said with a raging look on his face:

"What did you do to my sister you scum?"

"...huh, what do you mean? Sister...Oh so you mean you are Beatrice's brother? But what do you mean? I didn't do an-", then he grabbed me by my neck and putting me against the wall of the room he said "What do i mean? You lowly slave dared to hurt my sister and now you think u can just pretend you did nothing?!"

I didn't know what was happening, but I could see rage sparking in that man eyes... So I said: "Im sorry. I really don't know what you are talking about, I would never hurt my lady..."

I could see him holding himself to not get out of control and start hitting me...I really didn't know what he was talking about, but I was in no position to say something more...Or I would probably die by his hands right there.

Controlling himself he then said: "Get this lowly scum out of here and throw him into the cells in the underground, I will deal with him later!"

The maid standing there hurriedly said "Yes sir!". And proceeded to escort me to some cells that I couldn't even distinguish given the darkness that was pairing on the underground of that place...

****

Already on my cell, a dark and chilly one...I sat myself and started to think about all that had happened today...

Apart from everything that happened, before I passed out, the only thing that was said to me had been that the younger brother of the family found me and my lady lying on the ground on the place we were attack but apart from that they didn't say anything more...

What was strange was the fact that my lady's brother said that I had hurt her, wich can't be true since I would never do something like that to the person who saved me from that hellish prison...So I thought that there must be something they were not telling me, it could only be so...

Whatever happened, I will eventually find out in time so instead I tried to sleep a bit... Even though I had slept for quite some time, I was still tired, but before I could do so I heard some footsteps in the corridor...

Arriving in front of my cell, a young man with similar clothes to Beatrice's brother reached the door and calmly said:

"Im sorry for what is happening to you, when my sister wakes up I am sure she will take you out of this cell, so please bear it for some time!"

With a strong red, shaggy hair neatly coiffured to reveal a long, menacing face. Glittering bright red eyes, set seductively within their sockets.

Several moles are spread delicately on his right cheek leaving an aching memory of his upbringing.

This is the face of the youngest brother of ignis family...im sure of it, a true genius among fire mages. He stands big among others, despite his subtle frame.

There is something ambiguous about him, perhaps it is his firm and clear voice or perhaps it is simply the aura that he exudes. Still, I heard that people tend to subtly ignore you, while thinking of ways to become your friend...how curious.

He then turned around, and waving back without looking at me finished this encounter by saying:

"...Oh and my name is Zain...Ignis Zain!"

In my head I said, "so that is the person that found and brought us here huh... "but I remained silent as he got even farther from the place I was in and eventually fell asleep thinking about what really had happened to Lady Beatrice...

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Beatrice POV:

I was dreaming...

Dreaming about my own death.

It was in the future, to put it simple I was in the main kingdom of England... I was in Britain, walking chained to a guillotine in an open balcony in front of a huge square where people are killed in front of thousands of people... and my case was no different... because there were exactly thousands and thousands of people there.

Some of them were yelling "Die\, you scum!" Or "You are the reason our kingdom fell in disgrace\, you wench!" Or even "Bring us our peaceful times back b****!"

But I didn't listen to them nor did I moved even a bit to escape that situation... Not that I didn't try... I just couldn't move, I guess I was not in a simple dream.

But in that moment I saw him... I saw him trying to get through the guards and yelling my name...

"BEATRICE!!!"

"Let me pass you bastards!" he roared while a purple aura started to flow around him knocking the guards... he was losing his reason... but in that moment, it was simply to late...

I tried to say something but the last thing I remember was my vision spinning around and Angel falling on his knees while he cried...

In that moment, I really wanted to say something but...

-I was dead.-

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