I felt a little sting in my head before I even had the chance to stop for a second and look back at what the system had warm me about, the kind of pain that I felt was the pain that made me feel this headache go all the way to literally causing my eyes to suffer the same fate of feeling like they were burning hot.
But nothing bad really happened to me, even that surprise headache attack. It didn't even last a couple of minutes, just a few seconds. I knew right away what I needed to do in order to get rid of the pain, and that was for me to take a second to close my eyes and breathe, despite the time continuing its countdown.
I let out a sigh that wasn't that loud but just normal, and before I even had the chance to turn my head around, I opened my eyes first.
And though I couldn't see what had happened to them, I knew right away that they weren't the same colour as before, and that was ocean blue eye coloured, which happens to be my natural eye colour that turned out be one of the few things that I had inherited from my father apart from my features.
The door was made from some kind of wood, and to make it look beautiful they had made it shine, so I decided that it was time to turn around and look at these so called demonic parasites.
The second that I turned around and looked at them, my eyes had already turned orange, and though I'm not sure if what I think I felt was real, but when the parasites were so close to me, like maybe two to three inches, I think I felt my eyes intensify.
Cause though I couldn't get the full description of the parasites, I still made out how they really looked. They were like sand worms, and though they were almost like a normal worm, they still were a little big on the side, and they had hands that they used to crawl around with. And they didn't have any eyes, but I still did see their sharp tiny teeth that looked like they were all over their mouth.
There were two parasites thrown at my direction, and I still don't get if my tutor must have really thought carefully about what he did, or does he even know the sort of damage he would have caused if let's say those parasites landed on me.
Because if I didn't obliterate them and turn them into nothing but ash, something tells me that they would have dug their way through my eyes, and right now I would be blind.
After I looked at them, they squealed and screeched in pain as they turned into nothing but dust. For sure, that surely caught my tutor by surprise, because he was definitely betting and hoping for a complete different outcome than the one he just witnessed.
His eyes opened, and his mouth literally formed an O shape.
Before he could say anything, because I counted that he did want to say something, and whatever that was it was going to be pure nonsense.
"H-"
Before he could even finish off what he wanted to say, I had my eyes focused on the two parasites that were now nothing but ash on the floor, so I moved my eyes so quick and I looked at him, and when he saw that I was now looking at him, he was so afraid he almost trip over his chair.
I didn't know this, but when I was looking at him my eyes intensified even more worse than before. It was like in the pupils of my eyes he could see something getting consumed by fire. He just froze and sat down. Now he was shaking.
Obviously, I didn't know what was the cause of it, but I knew that I had something to do with it, so I winked at him, continued to open the door, and before I left I stood by the door and looked at him once again. But this time I didn't turn my head, I just moved only my eyes, and I gave him a side eye.
I proceed with what the system had ordered me to do. Now I was walking in the hallway of my family's castle. This place was so big and beautiful, it was like I was seeing it for the first time every single time I walked in, and that was something that occasionally happened every day.
On the walls, a little bit high up, there were different portraits of each and every member of my family bloodline, and the portraits weren't just those ones that created a space between other portraits. My family was such a big family with such a big bloodline.
So all the pictures just left like space between them that was around like one or one comma five feet between them.
And my family's castle was so beautiful. It had all the decorations that you would expect to find in these kind of castles. There armored statues that looked like Knights but weren't actually Knights, and there were weapons on the walls that were different, but they all had one thing in common, and that was that all of them had dried up bloodstains.
Now it was hard to know who did the bloodstains belong to. Was it one of my ancestors, or it was the blood of their fallen enemies?
I didn't know, and even if I wanted I couldn't know, because ever since I started taking these classes it's not like there was anyone who would come with me and explain my family history, and a person who wouldn't have minded to have done that was not always around, and that was my mother.
So I didn't have that privilege to know all these people that I often found myself in the presence of, but now it wasn't the time for sightseeing, as time wasn't something that was on my side either. The countdown that the system had given me was moving so fast, like it was the speed of light, and now when I had decided to check on how much time I had left, when I saw how much I had I didn't expect it.
[ Timeframe: 00:00:11 ]
When I realised that I didn't have much time, I decided to get my head straight, because I knew that if I didn't fulfill the system's request something bad might have happened to me, and I didn't even want to think nor find out, because if what I thought was right my punishments tend to be different each time, and now I've been punished maybe two times, and the funny thing is that those punishments only started the time around I was about to be five.
Since I wasn't allowed to do much ever since I was born into this family, and that had to do with the way that I was treated, so I was only allowed to do limited things. Like for instance, I was only allowed to go to my classes and only my room, and now that I've grown up I didn't share the room with my mother now, meaning that the people now I'm only allowed to be in contact with was only her and my nanny, who has now officially became my servant.
And it wasn't like I didn't know which way to take or which room to go to that was room six. I may have been forbidden to go anywhere else, but it didn't mean that I would listen to them like a little good boy that they wanted me to be. After all, I was still a child, and as you know as a child curiosity takes a hold of you like crazy.
My family's hallway was more big than the hallway or corridor of schools, whichever one you called it with, and of course it wasn't like it was empty while I was exploring it. I met other servants that worked for my family. Some were now quite familiar with me, and some I just saw different faces each and every time.
I kept walking and looking around, and I saw all the doors that led to other rooms. Of course, I've explored all of them. Some rooms were more interesting than the others. Some of them were filled with with weapons, equipment, and while others were training rooms amongst them all.
In my mind I really thought that I had explored and seen all of the rooms that were here, and I didn't think that it was ever going to be possible for me to get it wrong, cause while I was searching for the room and the time given to me close to lapsing, I was now starting to panic.
Where is this goddamn room?
I asked myself as I was opening and checking the last room that I was so sure was the room that I was supposed to go to, but I couldn't be more wrong, as it happened that the room wasn't the one I was looking for, but it was the room that the servants all rested and got together when they were taking a break. And one thing I liked about my family, and that didn't mean I liked them or anything, it was the fact that they treated their servants like family.
"Oh sorry, wrong room?" I showed a little bit of smile as I was closing the door quickly.
And the thing that they did, they just stared at me with different facial expressions on them. Some were surprised, and others stunned.
I looked around and couldn't find any other room anywhere, so I had decided to accept my fate. Whatever punishment the system had for me couldn't be way worse that my tutor's twisted punishments, right?
As I closed my eyes and took a deep breath while I waited for time to hit zero and then I get punished, as I was waiting.
In a far distance, I thought that maybe it was in my head or maybe that was part of the punishment, but I think I heard people. It's either they were fighting or they were getting their butts kicked, cause I heard clanking sounds coming from somewhere, and if I know and guessed correctly those were sounds of swords, and I know that because in one of my classes I took sword training.
Thanks to my curiosity I had submitted to it, and so I followed the noise to where I thought I heard it coming from, and lucky enough I did see another door which was a bit further away from the rest, and it was so hidden it really made it hard for me to actually see and realise that it was there.
As I got a little bit closer, something in me knew right away that I had to be careful, so I made sure that I was carefully keeping my footsteps quiet, and that was easy thanks to the floor boards. They were up to date, so none of them made a sound.
I finally reached the mysterious room, and lucky for me I didn't have to do much, because already it was slightly opened, and from the outside of where I was standing I could see maybe like five guys all exchanging sword, but not with each other, but with someone else.
And all of them attacked that person, but it wasn't like whoever was on the other side was an easy target, because that person fought back, and they made every single guy fly off, and they all groaned in pain.
Since I couldn't quite see who was the mysterious person who has done such an amazing job, I decided to sneak in, and from what I learnt from my techniques class I initiated being stealthy and undetected, so I sneaked in.
All the guys were lying on the floor with their sword out of their hands. They were all over, so I had to be careful not to step on any of them, and to see that this person was really good. All the guys they had just defeated were monks, and though I've never met one before, but from my previous life I still knew how strong monks were.
I was so focused on what was right in front of me I had neglected to even pay attention to what was in front of me, or in this case who was right in front of me.
And it wasn't because I was careless or anything, but when I first came in I really don't remember seeing anyone else there.
But there was someone here, and I found that out the hard way.
Cling!
Before I even got the glance of what had appeared right up all in my face, I just felt a swoosh sound like something was passing near my face, and that was just a brush of wind, which was outrageous because I was inside.
But when I came to realise what it was, it was already too late for me.
I saw a sword pointing right in front of my face. It was so pointy that it actually touched between both my eyes.
"Who are you and how did you get here?" A young girl asked me as she made sure that she kept her hand steadily.