"Honey? What is a "Mental Force" you are talking about?", asked his mother suddenly with a puzzled expression. His father also looked confused.
"Son. I don´t know, what you are talking about. I never heard of "Mental Force" ever in my mercenary lifetime. My leader in the Fire-Leave also had "Spirit Power". He was "Fire-Elemental Spirit User" and he was in the "Perfect-Rank". He was really powerful… That´s also one of the reasons for the guilds name. …. Haaahh…These were exciting times…. Ah, sorry, I differ from the subject. Hehe", looking excited, his father started to laugh and then continued.
"What I´m trying to say is, that I only know about "Spirit Power"! People, which are controlling the Elements, need strong Souls in order to use it and then there are three "Steps" in every Element. These "Steps" are showing you, how good the Spirit User´s ability is in controlling his Element. The first is the "Beginners Step", then the "Advanced Step" and at last the "Perfect Step". And you should know, that there are not many people with Spirit Powers. Most of them are from the Noble families, and from them also aren´t many Spirit Users."
Looking at his father, he was shocked, that his father didn´t knew more about it. In his past, it was normal there, to have "Spirit Power". Every sixth or seventh person was one. Some of them had so strong souls, they could control three elements at once.
But what he heard from his father and also from the conversations between his father and Clark Taylor, or from the guards; for them was Spirit Power, which only "Noble" people had it and some commoners, which also was very few in numbers.
Lian thought for a while, and then came to a realization, that he never heard them talking about "Mental Force"!
Pondering for a moment, Lian asked his father, "Dad. Did you really never hear of "Mental Force"? Or wait, I will ask differently. What do think, is a "Mental Force"?"
Thinking for a while, Dan Tian looked to his wife, then back to Lian and answered, "No, I never heard it before. And if you are asking me, what I think it is…. hmmm…. Has it something to do with your mind? I mean, Spirit Power has only a connection to the soul. Then that "Mental Force" should be connected to the mind of a person, right?"
"Yes. Mental Force is something, what you can control with your mind and strains your body a little, while Spirit Power only uses the soul as energy.", explained Lian and looked at his parents and they nodded, showing their understanding.
"For example, you can communicate with it to the minds of other people. Like this!" Before his father could ask something, Lian´s eyes went from brown color to dark green for a second and in the next moment, his parents could hear him in their minds!
*"Like this. I had it since birth, and yes, I was also the one, who warned you from the attacks of the bandits."*
Shocked! Both of his parents were shocked for the first time. And here he thought, the question about understanding them since birth, was something that should have shocked them, but they were somehow aware of this info.
What Lian didn´t realized, was that his parents were mostly shocked because the change of his eye color earlier.
"Ho…Honey! Is it normal, that your eye color changes, when using your mind powers?", asked his mother astonished. Suddenly remembering something, she looked at his father and asked him, "Dear, do you remember something, as you saw his eyes?"
"Yes darling! When I asked you back then, about knowing what happened to the bastards and you said, that you saw a green light. Don´t say that…Son! Have you done something except us warning?" realizing something, Dan Tian asked his son doubtfully.
Lian suddenly became aware of what he has done and started to be nervous again. He didn´t dare to look at his parents. He stood up and walked to the window to stare outside.
Seeing his behavior, the parents were again shocked! Their son had done something incredible and monstrous, that outstripped all of their imagination. A baby in his first year, killing over 50 people, only with his mind!
"Son…what have you…", before he could finish his sentence, Lian shouted in a sad way.
"I HAD TO!! IF NOT, YOU AND ALL THE VILLAGERS WOULD HAVE DIED! I already hate myself for not being quick enough to saving mom and you that time! If I was only one year older to that time, I could save all in an instant! "
Suddenly, his mother hugged him from behind. "Lian! Sorry. *SOB* I´m sorry, that we…*SOB* …we are at wrong here. Sorry!" She cried heavily. She should have known, that they were asking him about it at the wrong time. He already had trouble to talk to them about this stuff.
Dan Tian felt the same. He stood up and went to their side and also knelt down to look at Lian. "I'm sorry, son."
"Mom, Dad. Don´t misunderstand me, I'm not angry at you. I know, you didn´t mean to harm me, and if you think about it, it should be very normal to react that way.", saying softly, he turned around to look at his parents and hugged them both.
"I'm really happy, to be having a wonderful mom, with the kindest heart of the world, and a wonderful dad, who set his priority to love and protect his family!", said he with a low voice and then started to cry silently.
…..
The next day, the atmosphere in the family was completely different from before. Now knowing about their son´s feelings and his prowess, Xia Juan and Dan Tian were naturally very worried about him. Dan Tian knew very well, that if somebody had so much power, there was always a very heavy responsibility! But he was very proud of his son. If he were him, maybe he wouldn´t get so much courage to talk about it with his parents. But somehow, for them, to accept this, was not very difficult.
Like every morning, they were having breakfast together. The difference was, they had a nice chat altogether this time.
"So mom, you say that Dad, after your wedding tried to surprise you by cooking breakfast, but the taste was so horrible? Hahaha", laughing, he looked at his father, who was pretending nothing to hear.
"Yes, really. But right now, if he would make breakfast again, it would be definitely tasty. Hahaha, he asked me teach him some dishes.", smiling heartily, Xia looked at his husband and laid her hand on his.
Feeling better after hearing her wife, he looked warmly at her and then to Lian and said, "You said, you wanted something from me. What is it?"
"Ah, yes. Dad can you bring me some books from Lord Clerk? I would like to start reading about the history of the different Kingdoms.", asked Lian his father. He knew nothing about this world. He only knew the date, the Kingdom where they lived and some minor things. The main problem was; the date was completely different from his past.
As he died, it was the 13th of October 713. But the date now was the 5th of Soffy 626.
He later learned, that the year and the months' names were completely changed.
The new Names of the Months are:
January – Jennet
February – Castof
Mart – Cifir
April – Koste
May – Soffy
June – Perso
July – Orsep
August – Festa
October – Amst
November – Tusaf
December – Masc
He had to find out more about it, or he may never learn what happened meanwhile in the past, after his death.
"No problem. And I thought you would like something special. HAHAHAA", laughing loudly, he stood up and went next to the door. At the floor was his white golden armor, with his longsword in silver color and a little pocket for the waist.
Dan Tian putting on a piece after another, and after finishing he said happily, "OK. I´m heading out to work. Son, take good care of your mother and darling, you take good care of our son. Bye."
After leaving, Lian stood up to help his mother bringing the dishes back to the kitchen.
"Honey?"
"Yeah mom?"
"Want to walk with me in the city?", asked Xia with a warm smile.
"Yeah, with pleasure."
And so went the days in peace again.
….
South from the Sereth Kingdom far away, in the Nuala Kingdom.
The Lessa City
Deep underground of a wide wasteland, there were ten old man and women in black cloaks meeting in a dark room. The faces from all these old people were covered with dark red cloth.
The room was big enough for hundred people and the strange thing was, that there were no windows or a door. Only a big white mirror with some patterns on it. It was two meters tall and three meters wide.
Suddenly, a light flashed from the mirror. The patterns on the mirror started to moving in circle.
After few seconds, it stopped and there stood an old man in complete white cloak with a dark red cloth on his face.
""""Welcome, Master!"""", all the others stood up from their chair and bowed at the man with the white cloak.
"You may all sit!", said he in a commanding tone.
After everyone sat down, the old "Master" continued, "Zikov, you said, you have something important to discuss with us. Tell!"
One of them stood up and bowing slightly and he said, "Master, it is something that happened two years ago. The news about it arrived five days ago to me. In Sereth Kingdom, in a little village called "Kulab", a group of bandits attacked the village."
"And what´s so important about it?", asked the old master short-temperedly.
"Master, when the bandits were slaughtering, something happened. After attacking, a short time later, all the bandits were screaming in pain, and they then started to feel a high temperature in them. Before they could realize what was happening, they started to…"melting"! And that happened to them all at the same time.", said the one with the black cloak.
"What do you mean by "melt"?", asked the master again curiously.
"From the information what I got, they melted literally.", answered Zikov directly.
"Did anything like that happened ever again somewhere?", asked master with a thought.
"No. And if, we didn´t got the news about it yet."
"Hmm… What Spirit Power can melt someone? Does anyone of you know?", asked the master to his subordinates.
Another man stood up and said, "It should only be a "Fire-Spirit". But even at the "Perfect rank" and having already contracted a sign with the Spirit, I never heard about the prowess to melt someone. Can I ask Zikov, was there a fire?"
"No. It didn´t burn anywhere. There were only melted bones, or ashes from them on the ground."
"Zikov, you are responsible for Sereth Kingdom. Send someone you trust to attain more information about it. I will send you someone with the "Com-Rings" in two days. That way, you can communicate with your subordinate directly. And don´t forget about the souls in the Soria-City! They are very important to us…. You others also don´t be careless with your Souls!", commanded the old master.
"""Yes Master"""
"That is something new! We have to know, what really happened. If it´s a weapon, it would be perfect! Killing without letting a bit of information of the culprit. HAHAHA!"
Laughing, the old master stood up turned around to the mirror again. Before activating it, he ordered, "The best thing would be, if we all search for information about this case or similar ones in our territory's. Search, and if you find something, contact me directly!"
"""YES MASTER!""", bowing slightly, they all answered together.
"You're dismissed!"
After giving his orders, he activated the mirror and vanished from the underground room.