The empire of dratsbek is dying. Not from war, not from invaders, but from the corruption that has been strucked into its villages. Farmers worked endlessly, but before they could even bring back the goods they grew from the very beginning, it was seized by its own kingdom. As the disease of bloodlust spread through the entire world, this disease would make you lose all control of yourself, but to get affected of this , you must have a desperate desire of something...
In a small hut on the edge of the starving villages, A family of three. Rodd sat staring at an empty wooden plate before him. His wife Amelia sat across the table holding her pregnant belly. As Ryzek sat at the bed staring blankly at the both of his parents. All of them were pale, as hunger sounded from the entire house.
Hunger is dangerous, whispered a voice in Rodd's mind. Desire can become a sickness.
And it did.
Rodd's vision blurred. A desire coursed through him, the desire to eat. His love for Amelia twisted into something unrecognizable. Bloodlust had claimed him.
He strikes the weak amelia, grabbed the knife and opened her belly. Took out the fetus and fed it to ryzek. As he eats amelia alive..
When consciousness returned, horror followed. Amelia's lifeless body layed sprawled on the floor. And the child… the poor unborn child… Rodd's hands shook as the monstrous truth settled over him. He had taken the unimaginable. The love of his life. GONE...
And then, guilt showered him. Rodd hanged himself before the eyes of the crying ryzek.
Ryzek survived, though the world had no mercy for him. Orphaned, unwanted, and and then a slave. Marked by tragedy, he became the property of his grandfather a cunning, ruthless black-market merchant. The old man treated Ryzek as nothing more than a tool, a slave to play around with. Hunger, humiliation, and relentless labor became the cycle of Ryzek's life.
Yet even in misery, Ryzek's curiosity led him. One day, he wandered into the disposal area behind his grandfather's compound, where broken relics and cursed objects were cast aside like trash. Among the debris, a dark glimmer caught his eyes.
A katana/Sword with an empty middle part.
This blade has a price. To wield it, one must have taken a human life. Without it, the wielder would age rapidly, and each heartbeat drawing them closer to death.
As ryzek gripped the sword. The curse had no effect on him.
From that moment, he was no longer just a slave, he was something more. Something dangerous, And something waiting...
Ryzek started to brag around with his new weilded sword, as ryzek was walking away another slave saw him holding a sword.
The slave pushed ryzek to the ground. " Give me that sword, that's mine! ". The slave took the sword from ryzek, but the curse took over..
With every beat that his heart does, he aged by 1 year.. Slowly.. His lifespan vanishes..
80 seconds has passed.. he bacame an old man with his ribs showing.. Ryzek is shock on what he just witnessed... The slave became a weak old man as he let go of the sword.. "Kid.. What have you done to me?!"...
Ryzek ran with the sword in hand, he ran and ran.. While crying..
Some guard heared ryzek's commotion, They tried to top him.. Ryzek slashed the guard. Look's like nothing happened.. but as ryzek continues to slash, the guard continued to aged rapidly..
Ryzek's grandpa (topaz) heard the news from his guards.. "THERE'S THIS KID GOING NUTS!!"..
Topaz walked slowly.. He senses something...
He know he is in danger.. feeling the strong and thick smell of the curse..
"KID STOP RIGHT NOW!!" Topaz shouted.
Ryzek hearing that voice.. Stopped. He looked at Topaz with an intense glare.. A glare to kill.
Lungging at topaz , ryzek used all of his strength to JUMP. SWINGING HIS SWORD WITH ALL HIS MIGHT. HE.
Missed.
Topaz swong at the back of his neck knocking him out.
As ryzek woke up, he found himself laying in a bed he once dreamt of sleeping in.
He got up to look for his sword while doing so Topaz suddenly walks in the room.
"Hey kid, We need to talk." Ryzek tries to tackle topaz but he gets countered with a straight punch. "Just because you're my grandson and a kid , doesn't mean i care about you. SO SIT DOWN!!!" He listened ,
"Im your grandson..? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MY PARENTS COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING TO EAT!?" Topaz sighed, "look kid.. your mother betrayed me.. she sided with your dad, so i cutted ties with her." Ryzek starts crying remembering what happened to his mother.. "Mother..." As ryzek bawled his eyes out...
Topaz smacks ryzek on the face "CAN YOU QUITE DOWN???" topaz yells at ryzek as he scolded him.
"When i saw you with the blade of grief.. i found potential in you, since the blade's curse doesn't affect you, i know i can make you stronger."
"What do you want from me?"
"I want you to help me in killing some public officials."
"Public what?"
"Dont worry about it. If you help in this task in five years, i will let you go"
"You mean it..? Then can i atleast get something to eat?.."
"You will have to work for it. If you want something to consume..."
Ryzek sighed as he agree's with topaz..
"Where's my sword?"
"First of all kid , that isnt your sword, its mine, i treiw it in the disposal area, if you want it back you have to earn it"
"How?"
"You need to train with normal swords first, gain strength and kill atleast one public official. Make sure i don't ever regret teaching you anything."
Topaz kicked ryzek and throws a wooden sword..
"You need to learn how to dodge all of the strikes"
"Huh"
Topaz continues to pummel ryzek with the strikes of a wooded sword, "is only that what you got? Tssk. Do better tomorrow i have a lot if things to day , i will be personally training you."
As ryzek layed on the ground completely beaten up..
"That old man.. this isn't that bad either.. atleast i know i still have someone.. a family member.." Ryzek cries not from getting beaten up, but from realising that he isnt alone anymore..
End of chapter 1.