Fourteen years ago,
There were many lightnings are shown in the sky. It was said that sky was splitting everywhere. There were earthquake everywhere.
At this time a man was passing by, heard a cry coming out of nowhere. He ran towards the sound and found that there is a basket and inside was a baby who is crying.
He thought the baby was abandoned and took the baby to his own orphan house. There was a woman sitting on a chair and sewing something.
"Dear you are back" said the lady.
But she heard a child voice and saw that her husband brought a child with him.
The man who got the kid is indeed minister Gibbs and in front of him is his wife Rose.
"Rose come here and take a look, this baby was abandoned by somebody. I am planning on helping him." Said Gibbs.
Roses gave a snort and said, "you will take care of this child, don't make me laugh. I know I will have to take care of this kid by myself. You can go back to work and keep everything a secret like you always do. You can't even let other know that you have a wife let alone having a child and an orphan villa."
Just like that Rose has been taking care of this child more than other children. She would feed, clean and even take care of his all the necessary things.
For the first time Rose found something that could make her spend happy time. But she as the principal of the orphan villa, she also works.
She always wanted a child and didn't get to have it with her husband for many years trying. She was really upset and she blamed on herself for not being able to give any birth.
But her husband brought a gift for her, and that is this child. She named him Drake because in the pendant he was wearing is named Drake Walker on it.
So she respect the actual parents and named him Drake Walker. She treats Drake like his child. She spoils him rotten.
By the age of year 1 Ray walks like a normal child.
By the age of 2, he learned how to speak and by the age of 3 he could read and write.
So she started bringing many books for Drake to read. She also found out that Drake finished all the children book way too easily and can read even higher level. So she asked her husband to bring more advance level books for Drake.
So as per the request of his wife Gibbs brought many basic level of books such as formation, alchemy and blacksmithing related books.
Drake has always questions he couldn't understand. It took him many years to understand all three of them. He would get enlightenment little bit by bit.
By the age of four Drake was given the chance by Rose to play with other kids. He had become popular with smaller kids to bigger kids. He would play with everyone. And everyone think he is adopted child of Rose. So they were extra friendly towards him.
His aged friends think of him as leader, and some kids who are few years older than him are also friendly.
There was one thing that interested him, was two thing swords and bow. So he was taught basic by the teachers. How to hold them and practice them.
Slowly a whole year passed by doing the daily tasks or a routine he made for himself. Sleep, study, learn martial fighting and weapons and finally the most important part that is giving time to Rose. She asked for an hour but Drake gives her more than that.
They talk, eat and sometime go out the city to show him around. She would buy equipment and resources for Drake. So that he could practice any of these 3. He actually picked alchemy first because he thinks he need a lot of pill to get a chance to awakened his talent.
He has researched on it daily and found out that formation, alchemy and blacksmithing. All three of these follows the rule of 6 stages like cultivation. That is qi stage, wood stage, iron stage, bronze stage, silver stage and finally golden stage. But unlike cultivation that has 9 levels these have only 4 parts. They are early, mid, late and peak.
So he concentrated on making awakening pill only. He made mistakes and destroyed the ingredients hundreds of time. The thing is to make qi and wood stage pill, you only need mortal level fire. So he has been trying over and over to get it correct.
After couple of months of losing so much monies he finally made it to qi early stage. But even that was only 80% accuracy. 20% of them is impure.
Rose thought of selling that 80% successful qi stage pill since Drake said he doesn't need it. Drake gave his approval to Rose to do whatever she wants with it. He continued on with his experiments and it started to give him enlightenment of the ratio, the amount of heat, the amount of ingredients, the amount of time. Even the cauldron he is using. The adjustment took time.
Rose started to make huge profit by selling this pills and after that Drake went from qi early stage to wood early stage to 100% accuracy. And in each stage time he makes 100%, he eat only those. Because those are the ones that is not impure.
And mortal child who are ordinary could only have early qi stage pill. Genius level could take mid level qi stage pill. Super genius could take about late to peak level, depending on their strength. The funny thing is no one warned Drake and he had wood early stage pill. And he is going for mid qi stage pill. By the age of 14 he took iron stage early pill. He is the only one who is monster enough to take such pill and survive.