Chapter 4:

The old man in a cabin!

Empire


The sun would be shining brightly through the window. Kenjin would open his eyes. he looked around him. He'd see that he was in a bedroom of sorts. As he looked down at the lower half of his body he would notice that he had been wrapped in bandages. He'd sit up and look around the room he was in. The room would be decorated with beautiful flowers in glass vases. "Where the hell am I?" Kenjin thought to himself. As he stood up he would walk to the door at the end of the room. He would open the door and would enter a hallway with 4 other doors. As he walked down the hallway he would enter a large room with a dining table.
An old man would be sitting at the head of the table. "Who is this guy? and is he... sleeping?"
Kenjin thought to himself. As Kenjin walked up to the old man, he would feel a cold sensation throughout his entire body. Kenjin would wave his hand in front of the old man's face to see if he is awake. The man would suddenly grab his wrist and would yawn. 

"Oh, so you are finally awake? Sit, you need to eat to regain your strength." The old man said as he stood up. The man had a long black coat on. Under the black coat, he had a black shirt. His hair was pitch-black and covered his eyes, most of his upper face, and a mustache. "Wait, what? I don't even know you, I don't trust you, and I am not eating anything from you!" Kenjin said with an angry and confused look on his face. 
"What's your name boy?" the old man asked. "Why should I give you my name?" Kenji stuttered. Suddenly Kenjin would feel the same cold sensation from earlier throughout his entire body. "W-What the hell, is this feeling!?!" Kenjin thought to himself, as he falls to his knees. "What's your name boy?" the man asks again, Looking down at Kenji.

 "It's Kenji-." He would be cut off by the man. "Kenji, I see. I'll remember it." said the man.
The intense cold would slowly disappear. "I will bring you food, but you might want to act nicer to your rescuer." said the man with a smile on his face. The man would turn around, walk back to his seat at the table and sit down. He would clap his hands twice. Suddenly the door behind him opens, and 2 baskets of fruit float into the room and onto the table.
the baskets of fruit are followed by 2 baskets of bread, a glass of wine, and water in a wine glass. Kenji looks at all the delicious food floating in, with a face filled with shock and awe.

"I..I..I... I see. I now know what happened." Kenji said slightly smiling with his eyes closed.

"There is only one explanation... I must have died in that desert. and this must be heaven.
So you must be God then!!!" Kenjin said with a smirk on his face while pointing to the man.

"There is no way this is real... SO MUCH FOOD!!!" Kenji yelled out as he stood up from his chair and spread his arms in the air.

"I would have to work over 500 lifetimes if I were to ever have enough to buy this... MUCH... FOOD!." Kenjin said as he sat back down.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" The man would start to laugh loudly. 

"No this is not heaven, and no I am not God. And I am surprised you did not notice that it flew in." The man said smiling.

"Yeah! Wait a minute how did you do that?." Kenji would reply shocked.

"My weapon." the man would say.

"I get the feeling that you are about to ask me how to do that. Do not worry there is no need to ask because I will not show you. You are too young and bearing a "Zerstörung"
is an offense punishable by death." said the man. His tone was suddenly so serious.

"What's a Zestarund?" Kenji would ask, with a confused look as he takes a bite of a piece of bread.

"It's called a Zerstorung, but that's just a fancy way of saying a weapon of mass destruction."
the man said.

As the man would continue eating he would start to explain more:
"They usually come in the form of swords, battleaxes, shields, spears, and bows.
They are mainly used by powerful kingdoms to battle each other. Due to them being forged with materials from the Stormfront."

"Stormfront? what's that?" Kenji would ask while stuffing his mouth full of bread and fruits.

"You are joking? The Stormfront is the barrier of the world. Some people like to call it the edge of the world. It is the most dangerous place in the world. the area before the storm itself is invested with dangerous creatures, clouds that rain down acid, tornados, sinkholes, tsunamis, intense sandstorms, and blizzards. Many places in this world are referred to as hell. But that stretch of land right before the storm. makes all those other places seem like a paradise. 
And then you have the storm itself. Not many people have made it into the storm.
But one group managed to enter and wrote about the winds being so fast it could tear straight through solid diamonds. And if that won't kill you the never-ending lighting will. It is said that lightning strikes 1.500 times per minute, every day for 364 days.
And this does not even include the horrific beast that lives inside the storm. The storm is said to be originated from that beast that circles the known world. Due to the high-speed winds, an ore called Thormspar is created. Weapons forged from Thormspar are rare and expensive so they are usually only bought by kingdoms. But this is where all logic stops. When a user of a Thormsparite weapon uses it to kill another living being, the weapon will be born, as in it will become sentient. When a weapon is born it needs to take lives for it to grow. After a certain amount of kills, the weapon will evolve and develop certain abilities depending on the user. This process is referred to as Weapon growth." The man explained.

"Old man. I want one of these weapons as well. I was exiled from my home, they were transporting me to a prison far away when we were attacked by a giant monster. I am grateful that you saved me from that desert, and I know I owe you my life but please I beg you show me how to use one of these weapons ." Kenjin begged on his knees, with his head placed on the floor.


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