Chapter 11: Chapter 11: The Tenth Birthday II
The whole hall was quiet at Lazarus's entrance. Men were awed by how handsome he looked, sprouting the seeds of admiration within them yet they weren't absorbed in that feeling. Which was the case because they felt threat. Yes threat, the oppressive and authoritative aura exuded by Lazarus made them weary of this 10 year old.
Some of the older ones tried to encourage themselves to escape that very feeling yet failed miserably. When they arrived they had expected to see someone worthy of the surname Gremory which is often associated mightiness and grandeur as well as terror. But what they saw infront of them was way above their expectations, what they thought would be a grown tiger was instead a demonic dragon. A being who's mere presence makes you feel inferior, invokes the grandest feeling of fear and be careful around him. That's exactly what they saw Lazarus as.
The men were stood still like they had gazed into Medusa's eyes whereas the women stood still with their eyes in the literal shape of a heart with their hearts beating like drums. If anyone looks at them that person would wonder if they had been shot by Cupid's arrow as they looked disturbingly enarmoured by Lazarus's figure. Most soon snapped out of their respectable feelings while some of the younger ones were still entrapped within them.
"I thank you all for attending my tenth birthday and hope that you enjoy it. As there has been a tradition of revealing the talent one awakens on his tenth birthday, I will also do the same and reveal the talent I have awakened". Lazarus's calm yet melodious voice echoed for all to hear.
But what captured everyone's attention was the part where Lazarus would reveal his newly awakened talent. There were two reasons why everyone at the banquet were there.
First and the most important reason was because the Gremory's, one of the five royal ranked families invited them. If you get an invitation from Gremory and choose to ignore it you will face a whole lot of troubl no not trouble but a catastrophe. The Gremory's would consider your refusal to attend the banquet as an insult and as a very spiteful and vengeful family they would makes sure you will regret your decision, something anyone sane would want to avoid, especially because it is the Gremory family who are notorious for their horrific methods of revenge.
The second reason was to find out the talent the young master of Gremory family had awakened. Nobles were priveleged beings, it is because they are priveleged they would end up enveloped of the feeling known as boredom. They would try an escape that unbearable boredom by distracting themselves through work or hobbies but they will eventually become bored again. Which is exactly why the news of Lazarus's tenth birthday was a God given salvation for them to escape their bored life. Who didn't know the Gremory family, one of the five royal ranked families who always produced extreme talented individuals, hence why they wished to attend the young master of Gremory's banquet to find out what talent he would awaken.
Now getting back to Lazarus revealing his newly awakened talent.
A servant came forth while holding a piece of metal as big as Lazarus himself who was 141cm tall. He placed the piece of metal beside Lazarus and backed away. Many were confused by what was unfolding before their eyes. They had thoughts like:
What does a huge piece of metal have with revealing your talent?
Why is there such massive piece of metal here?
There were more thoughts but they were disrupted by Michael's loud and clear voice.
"This is a peak tier 4 metal called Devrum which is well known for its toughness, which A+ rankers can barely inflict any visible damage to" after revealing the identity of the soon to be pitiable piece of metal there were several gasps.
Ignoring everyone's shock Lazarus slowly took off his right obsidian coloured glove, allowing the people present to see a hand surrounded by a black smoke like aura. Lazarus went forward and touched the metal infront him which slowly began to corrode and soon be devoured by the black aura emanating from Lazarus's hand.
At the end there was nothing left of the former peak tier 4 metal called Devrum, Lazarus put the glove back onto his hand amidst everyone's surprise.
He faced the people who had their eyes almost pop out after his display and declared "I have awakened the talent Decay".
Hearing his words, many opted to give a round of a applause while some were shouting praises of Lazarus's otherworldly talent and congratulating him. Michael looked at all this with overflowing pride, it was the same for Altair and Cecilia who happened to have a smug smile on her face. She was more proud of the insane feat Lazarus had accomplished than Lazarus himself.
After the display was over Lazarus and the other Gremory's were quickly swamped by their guests, for Lazarus many of them were women. While he was struggling to escape his plight his parents and sister were expertly handling their situation. But luckily for our dear villain a kind angel stepped forward to rescue him from his misery, one that went by the name of Julia Devalrue.
Witnessing Julia approaching Lazarus with eyes shining brighter than stars everyone unanimously chose to back off, leaving the two young individuals alone.
Julia although engrossed with amazement at the ability displayed by Lazarus and looked at him as some exotic animal didn't forget her etiquette. She gently held the hem of her blue dress, raised it as she lowered her head and said "I, Julia Devalrue greet the young master of house Gremory".
Lazarus responded to Julia's greeting "It's been almost 5 years since I last saw you Lady Julia".
"So you remember me! I thought you would had forgotten so I was preparing myself to talk about our encounter from then". Julia was glad Lazarus had remembered her and let out a sigh of relief.
Lazarus for some odd reason felt a sense of danger from Julia, not a danger that threatens one's life but instead the one he felt when he was assaulted by numerous questions by the nobles earlier. However this danger was a hundred times more dangerous then what he experienced just prior to their meeting. Lazarus massaged his forehead in anticipation of the annoyance that was to come.
"Let's be comfortable with each other and drop all the pleasantries, just call me Julia" she excitedly said.
"Alright then call me Lazarus" he said with a nod.
Then suddenly Julia went right up to Lazarus and said "So Lazarus how about we become friends?"
Before he could reply she continued "Ok now that we are friends how about you tell me more about yourself, you see I am verrry interested in you. I want to know what you think, why you think that and also why you look so expressionless".
Julia went on and on only giving Lazarus time to talk to answer her seemingly endless amount of questions. She hoarded him all to herself much to the displeasure of several women wanting to talk to him but they couldn't do anything as she was the heir to a ducal rank family while they were from marquis ranked families.
The banquet carried on with Julia bombarding Lazarus many questions until the very end. Julia then left the banquet with an obvious smile after waving her hand at Lazarus.
While Lazarus had an exhausted look with a face that said 'don't come near me again', something Julia missed to realise.
And with that, came the end of Lazarus's tenth birthday as he mentally complained to himself about Julia.
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