Chapter 2: Death of Brother
In the year of 1935 AD, in the kingdom of Eschen appeared a mysterious man, Kelem Agni, who wielded the most desired power of man kind, magic. He soon gather followers and taught them how to use magic and founded his own organization. Strangely enough, he who wielded magic was astounded by seeing smallest of small marvels of science which was general knowledge for even small children. But he was a outgoing man as he soon found that knowledge is behind these marvels and integrated these way of thinking of science in his own way of magic. Result, a new brunch of knowledge was born, "Magic studies". As a result of extensive research, his and his follower's magical prowess grew. As they learnt what is magic, how it interacts with living being, how they can increase amount mana in the body(Mana is a type of energy that makes soul. Every living thing has it. Some has little while some has it a lot. But it can be increased with training in right way. It can be used to turn it into other energies like heat, light, kinetic energy etc etc. while not all can not do all efficiently, everybody can do it to some portion. It is thought that mastery of changes of this mana or magic power is related to inherent talent.) they start to invent new variant of magic, like healing magic(by making regeneration speed fast using mana as energy source), body strengthening magic(making toughness of body higher), speed magic(making muscles working faster, and making body lighter) etc...
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Things start to speed up more when the king came with his aid in exchange for integration into army and loyalty to the throne. With modern weapon and soldier enhanced by magic, the kingdom quickly annexed two neighboring enemy country and established it self as the hegemony of the continent.
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Soon world war broke out after that and the world witnessed the power of the magic enhanced soldiers, MES. They could punch through walls, jump 5 story buildings with ease, normal bombings couldn't hurt them, they had heightened sense which leading them to achieve to avoid fatal attacks like bombing from tanks with super speed. And their training time was also 1/4 th of the normal soldiers.
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Good thing is for other countries that not all humans couldn't be trained into MES. Only 1 in thousand could become MES. Otherwise it would have just matter of time before Eschen would rule the whole world. So, as they were limited resources, they were only used to turn tide of the battles. Under leadership of Kelem Agni, the general of MES corps, they won battle after battle leading them to end up on the victorious side of the world war.
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Being delighted with service of Kelem Agni, the king gave him the title of viscount. Thus the noble clan of Agni was born. His subsequent service in his lifetime with war effort and magic research ranked up there title for viscount to marquess.
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After his death his eldest son Kalia Agni succeeded the house as they continue to serve the throne. In third generation Kalia's son Sheta managed to rank up the house up to duke due to his war effort which includes with only 1500 MES he decimated an army of 80,000 spread through out a country in 7 days. Due to his grand master level use of white flame, he was nick named the "White General Sheta".
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In fourth generation, Sheta's son Peet didn't let down his father and continued the family legacy with valor and honor. Peet's son Shamal on the other hand surpassed all previous ancestors of his. His prowess reached the level of demigod to some peoples estimations as he was the first who mastered all 5 main aspect of mana manipulation namely conjuring fire, water, earth, air and lightning. Not only he could conjure them but also he could combine them and and turn the battle ground climate into his favor. He using only 2000 MES, defeated an invading army of 150,000 soldiers, thrice. This boosted the reputation of house of Agni so much that their reputation surpassed that of the royal family.
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Due to this the current king felt threatened. He thought if house of Agni decide to annex him, who is sole controller of MES corp, who is going to stop them. His concern grew to extreme limit at year of 2060 AD when second born of Shamal, Ranga turned five. Only in one year from age four to five, he mastered all manipulation of mana, all possible known sword fighting style and spear fighting style, all current firearms handling, all basic scientific knowledge up to 12th standard. He learnt what usually takes 5 years even for the best of the best prodigy in just one year. Everyone could understand what kind of monster he would become when he would grow up. So, he forced Shamal to send his second son to royal guard. Shamal was reluctant, he wanted this genius to succeed him, but he was forced with the king's scheming.
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Fate has his own way though. Ranga Agni shone in royal guard too. At the age of 8 he was promoted to captain, at age of 9 he became major, at age of 12 he became brigadier general, lastly at the age of 19 he became general. He became the youngest general to ever exist in history of royal guards.(Author note: Yes, this kingdom's royal guard is an army for protecting a single person. Though they go to war at time of emergency because they are the best of the best. The reason for our MC's quick advancement is the king wanted to see him die in battle so he sent him with impossible assignments, which he completed with 90% above success rate. So, the king had no choice but to raise his rank). So, according to tradition, youngest general would be exempt from servicing in the royal guard. But, if Ranga was to exempt from royal guards, all his effort shall be for naught.
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So, he tried to induce his elder brother, Vajra, into rebellion. And for unknown reason, he did rebel against house of Agni. His father felt disheartened and went to mana shock (Author: It is basically when excessive mana wielder looses control over it and goes into a comatose state temporarily ). Being the only person who is strong enough to face his brother, who is as strong as his father, the king had a very good excuse to send Ranga to hunt his own brother.
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"Why brother? Why? If you wanted the patriarch sit, I would have given it to you willingly. You know it more than anyone. Then why???"
Ranga asks his brother shouting. Torrential downpour has soaked them both. Lightning is flash every now and then. There is no one else beside the trusted aid of the both brother in the valley. Vajra is still expressionless. He took his titanium alloy made spear and pointed it towards his brother Ranga.
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Sword and spear clashed while tears of pain from heart shed from the eye of both brother. After thousands of clashes and hundreds of shallow cuts on both body they took a breather then continued again. Their regeneration speed slowed down after hour of continuous spell firing and wound repairing. Now they are both short on mana. Their movement began to be sluggish. Their concentration wavered. At last, the elder brother Vajra gave in as Ranga's sword impaled through chest. Seeing this, at last a faint smile appeared on Vajra's mouth.
"Well done, my dear little brother. You are worthy of title of Greatest magic enhanced soldier of history. "
Ranga came into a stupor saying this, he started crying after that asking,
"Why brother, why? You didn't need to do this, then why?"
"To save mother..."
"What?"
"Our father is the strongest person alive.... well after you. He cannot always protect mother. There is a lot of people who could kill mother if king orders. He threatened me if I don't rebel, he shall kill mother. So, to protect mother I had no choice..."
Vajra answered while coughing blood. Ranga's mind became stone due to shock. He never thought king would stoop this low to kill him.
"Brother, take father and mother and go to a different country. Don't blindly try to take revenge. You have to take care of father and mother... Good buy."
Saying that Vajra's eye's dimmed off. Hugging his brother Ranga gave a heart shrilling shout, then lost consciousness.
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Three months later....
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"You know you don't have to go back, you know..."
Ranga's mother Xilin told her in teary eyes holding him in a hug in front of the private jet plane.
"Yes son, we lost your brother, we don't want to loose you too."
Shamal from side chimed in.
"Do you really think there is anyone in that god forsaken kingdom who can stop me?"
Ranga asked in a expressionless voice, not even hint of anger or hatred can be seen from it which is abnormal.
"I know they are not capable of that, but what about your reputation? You will have to bear the King slayer title rest of your life. Even you don't feel bad about it I do."
Shamal used his last resort.
"Sorry father, debt of blood has to be paid of blood."
"Okay, may you be blessed by Solomon and Martha."[Author note: who are these two shall be cleared later]
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7 Hours later
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In the royal court of Eschen.
A fat man with smug expression is sitting on the throne. When Ranga enters, he claps his hand and says,
"Ah welcome, welcome my brave general, welcome my strongest general. Welcome, who doesn't even let his own blood go when it goes against the throne. Ha ha, you all should learn from him you idiots what loyalty is. I am not going to embarrass you asking are you tired or not. How can someone strong as you be tired with mere jet lag. Okay, how is Shamal and your mother. I am already missing them. Have they settled down over there? "
Ranga answers in his usual expressionless tone, "Thank you for your concern your majesty. They have settled down nicely."
King continues," I don't know what Shamal thinking. Living rest of his days in overseas. Even he retires from army he should stay at his ancestral home. Huhhhh... well I can understand what happened with Vajra. Such a loss for the kingdom. So, My boy Ranga, tell me what reward do you want for your meritorious for your service to this kingdom this time."
"This kingdom has given me and my family more than we can ask your majesty. So, now I ask nothing more than my due exemption from Royal guards your majesty so that I can continue my family line. "
"Are you sure? As long as you are at your position, you are below one, above all in this kingdom. You will loose that with your exemption my boy. "
"I have decided your majesty. " Ranga answers with a light bow.
Releasing sigh, King takes a rolled document from his attendant then says, "Ranga Agni, come forward."
Getting up from his position Ranga comes in front of king and kneels on one knee. Kings gets up from throne and offers him the document saying.
"For your meritorious service in the royal guards and achieving the youngest general position, as per tradition I here by exempt you from your binding of royal guards. You may now have possessions, positions and relations of mortal world. May Eschen prosper with the continuation of your blood. "
"I thank majesty for your grace." Ranga gets up from his position saying that.
"Ah, my boy this is a matter of celebration. Why not you remain in the place tonight and attend the banquet.", king asks.
With a strange smile Ranga answers,"I couldn't have ask more, your majesty."
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The banquet was boring. Now that he is exempt from royal guards, daughters and sisters of other dukes and marquees' were sticking to him like pest. Even the third and fourth princess came to flirt with him. Even a person with IQ 70 would understand their intention. He left early and retired in his old allocated chamber which is near King's as then he was then still member of royal guard. New room should have been allocated but the king said it's okay. May be killing his own brother earned him a lot of trust.
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But alas, king doesn't know that he is here today only for one reason. To kill him in the most painful way possible. When it's mid night, all people in the castle is retired to their chamber. Even though the whole castle is covered with IR camera, it doesn't matter today, as the strongest person of this world wants to take the king's life.
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When the clock ticked 12 am, Ranga got up from his bed. He took off pajama and instead of battle attire, he wore his brother's favorite blue trench coat over black shirt and black pant. In it he looks like the most handsome male ever existed in history... with a little reddish skin tone. All member of his house has this distinct reddish hue as skin color. When he asked his father he said it is from their ancestor. By the way, any woman who sees him would entranced by his beauty and would fall for him. This kind of situation is caused by refinement of mana. Every cell of his body went through harshest refinement of mana form age of 4. His DNA literally evolved due to that.
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Just as he was about to unlock the door and get out. He felt a bloodline resonance which he only feels when he is around his father and brother. It is stronger than the ones with other members of the house like his cousins and uncles. He felt confused. His brother is dead and father is overseas. How can he feel his bloodline resonance in this palace unless it is an illegitimate child of his father. But as much as he knows his father he is not such a man. He is madly in love with his mother and never looked for another woman.
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He felt confused and curious. So, he spread his sense around to find the bloodline resonance. What a surprising thing was that he found that resonance from a space fluctuation. That's right, their clan's hidden secret, space magic and time magic that they kept secret for last century. But right now, he is feeling space fluctuation although faint. Only patriarch is allowed teach it to his children. His two uncle and his only aunt knows it. As their father was patriarch but none of his cousins knows it. His father taught it to him and his brother. Among them, the one who becomes next patriarch shall pass on the secret among their offspring. That was the rule set by the founding patriarch and no one ever since had the gall to break it. But now it has appeared out side of family. He felt a little angered. Some one dared to pass it outsiders even if it is of illegitimate blood. The space fluctuation started to surround him finding his response and started to get stronger. When the fluctuation exceeded certain limit he recognized the pattern. Someone trying to use teleportation spell, an advanced type space magic. Then it hit him, is it father? Has something happened to mother so that that he is using it to summon him? Without further a do, he gave in to the space fluctuation and he vanished from the room as if he was never there to begin with.
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When he reappeared in the physical world, the one waited in front of him is not his father, but a gorgeous woman with voluptuous body and a shade deeper red skin tone and wavy hair. More importantly the bloodline resonance was coming from her. The moment Ranga looked at her, his mind went blank for a moment but soon he regained his reason. The woman on the other hand wasn't faring so good. She was still dazed looking at Ranga. Even after few second gone by she hasn't said anything. Ranga getting impatient gave a light cough and told, "Excuse me, can you please tell me who are you, where is this and what am I doing here?"
Waking up from her stupor, she gave an apologetic smile and said, "Sorry for letting you see such embarrassing sight. Welcome, my future husband. First of all, let me apologize again for forcefully bringing into this world without any notice. I ask you to forgive me."
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Cidny_Remon Okay, I really don't know such serious atmosphere took a sudden turn like that. I feel confused my self. Well, you live only once, so I am going with it, as it satisfies me.
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