Reign Of The Blood King: Rain Ch 8 "Books and the growth stone"

Reign Of The Blood King: Rain Ch 8 "Books and the growth stone"

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Humans are weird creatures, they can be the salvation or damnation of anything that crosses their path. I think only the human can show such kindness... or cruelty. Why is it that these creatures have the reign of this world? Unable even to decide if they are united or divided, they can treat their fellow man like an enemy because of the color of his skin. Yes, human are very weird creatures, Yet time and time again they have pushed back the Beast-kin and the Elves. And established kingdoms throughout the known world. I think the thing I detested most about them is-

Rain closed the book entitled "humans through the eyes of another race". It was something he found in the night while he was crying. He didn't get far into it only a chapter or two. Every chapter was written by a different race so the reader could see just how humans were viewed. He wasn't very interested until he noticed a race that wasn't named. All it had for the race's name was (??????). The more he read the more the writer seemed to hate humans. Then Rain had stopped reading, he let out a sigh with a saddened face.

He was tired and though he didn't look out the window, he felt it was late. Rain put the book on the desk and laid down. Maybe he was tired from the walk here or maybe he was tired from crying, either way, he fell asleep quickly.

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When Rain woke up his nose twitched to the smell of warm food. When he sat up in his bed he followed the scent to the desk in his room. On his desk was a plate with a warm slice of bread and next to it was hot soup. He quickly went to the desk and started eating.

Delicious...

Rain thought, he never had such soft bread and had only ever eaten one kind of soup. Soon the food was all gone. Satisfied he sat back in the chair then he saw a note under the bowl. It said

(Child, 

when you wake up and finish eating come down to the study. I have some things to give you. And then we shall begin your training.

Ramses.)

When he opened the door of his room he jumped when he saw a woman? no, it was only half human. it didn't have legs. it has a tail. it was a woman with half the body of a snake. she was a lamia. but the thing that surprised Rain the most was that she was wearing a maid uniform. she was even dusting an old armor stand. He was speechless all he could do was stare in disbelief at the lamia cleaning in front of him. Then the lamia began to lightly hit the armor stand with a duster.

'Pow Pow'

Then she turned and saw Rain, she had been cleaning humming a happy tune and smiling but when their eyes met she froze. The lamia drop the duster and they continued to stare at each other for a short time when

"There you are, what are you doing? It's just the maid stop staring at her. Now come child, it's this way to the study."

When Ramses started talking it brought both Rain and the lamia back to reality. Rain quickly shook his head in disbelief and the lamia made a quick bow and ran off as fast as she could slither with her hands high in the air.

Still in a slight daze from what he just saw he followed Ramses into a room full of books. There was also several small tables around the room. But what caught Rain's attention was a large table in the center of the room.

It had three books on it, all of them were black.

"Here you may pick one of these grimoires, I have picked these especially for you. Oh and Though I say you pick think of it more as it picks you. just look at these books you'll know when it's yours."

"Ah... okay..."

Rain said as he looked at the books, though the books gave an ominous aura Rain didn't feel a connection with any of them. he gazes at the books and still felt nothing.

"Teacher... it's not working..."

Ramses glared at Rain with a cold stare. Then one by one he picked up the black books and threw them into the fireplace.

"good, I would have been disappointed if you had picked one of these books. I believe one of these would be more for you."

as he talked he pulled put another three books and placed them on the table. but these were different from the books before. none of them had titles but still had the place for them on their covers. but most of all they leaked pure magic power. instead of black they each had different colors, the one to the left was yellow. in the middle dark blue, and last to the right was red.

"ah, you don't need to feel anything with them. as long as you can read the title it means it has accepted you."

Rain looked over the books again nothing happened. he reached out his hand to touch the red book. but his hand was drawn to the blue one. when his finger felt the cover it wasn't cold like the books on the shelves, it was warm. like a sunny day at the sea. then water shot from the book and flooded the entire room in seconds. Rain couldn't breathe, but for some reason Ramses was fine. now that he look he wasn't caught in the current he just was standing in place. but this didn't change that he couldn't breathe. he opened his mouth to breath but he chokes on the water.

he grabbed the table in front of him and saw the books again. except now the blue book had a title. Rain was going to pass out soon from suffocating. with his vision starting to black he grabbed the book and a voice came from it.

<HUMAN, SAY MY NAME AND I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AS MY MASTER.>

Rain looked at the book and with no breath he shouted all loud as he could.

"Saltanat etmek aşktır!!!"

then as if the water that filled the room was never there it was gone. Rain gasped for air as he fell to the floor.

"well-done child, you many head back to your room and rest for an hour. when you're done resting go to the plaza."

he panted and tried to stand only to fall again, after one or two more tries. he got up and started walking to his room. when he got to the door of his room he felt someone watching him. he turned and looked at the end of the hallway and saw the lamia from before staring at him from the corner of the hallway.

"what?"

when Rain spoke the lamia jumped and ran off again. not really sure what just happened he walked inside his room and fell asleep the moment he laid down.

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Rain woke up to a duster being poked in his side.

"ssssir Rain... you have to wake up..."

still feeling tired he sat up slowly. when he look it was the lamia maid who had woke him.

"Wha...?"

"Mister Ramsssses is waiting for you in the plaza!"


how long did I sleep Rain thought, as he quickly got up and started running to the plaza. he ran inside and he saw Ramses sitting down in a chair.

"Ah, perfect timing child.for today there's only one thing. all you have to do is fill this stone with your mana."

"But I don't know how to."

"don't think, just do."

Rain sat down and picked up the stone.

Teacher said I need to fill it right? so what if I think of it like water filling a cup?

as Rain thought the stone began to glow and explode. then came the runes and then the formed words.

<RAIN, YOUR POWER IN ONE YEARS TIME IS, [ADROIT COSMOS ARCHMAGE]>

"HAHAHAHA You'll be as strong as me? HAHAHA in a year? HAHAHAHA this... HAHA this is FANTASTIC! HAHAHAHA"
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