Chapter 798 Time-Skip (6) Kremeth Junior the golden boy
( Kremeth junior, the story of his life since being born )
Kremeth Junior was born with the platinum spoon in his mouth and surprisingly he was well aware of this fact ever since he was capable of conscious reasoning.
Everyone around him always seemed eager to please him, whether it be his mother, second mother or his palace staff.
For people who would unilaterally spoil him, his uncle Sebastian was high on the list with him regularly gifting items worth over 200 million gold coins for Junior achieving small milestones in life.
If he even showed a remote interest in playing with axes, his uncle Sebastian would gift him a collection of axes to play with, each with unique properties and each being impossibly hard to buy in the open market.
However, despite his uncle Sebastian being a very doting uncle, the cake for the individual who spoiled him the most was his uncle Shakuni, a legendary individual that Junior never personally met.
Every year on his birthday, without fail, a package containing divine artefacts whose value might be incomprehensible was sent to the Dombivli palace, with the most valuable items being the spells and manuals that helped Junior grow as a warrior and have a solid foundation.
At age 3, Junior learned how to control mana, a feat unheard of for an individual his age, however, perceiving and controlling mana came naturally to him as if it were a part of his instincts.
Unlike Max, he could not directly practise blood manipulation, but that did not matter as his own Bloodline ability was no worse-
As an enhanced vampire, the Bloodline ability he had was called [Eclipsing Reality], it was an almost broken ability that Junior had not explored to its limits, however, the limited times that he did test it out gave goosebumps to even his stoic father.
Within a small range of effect, when junior activated his Bloodline ability, the ' Eclipsing Reality ' he could use it to nullify magic attacks, reverse injuries and confuse opponents as if altering the very fabric of reality to one's will.
The ability was extremely taxing on the mortal body of Junior as he would immediately cough out blood once he used it, however, Max was convinced that once Junior became a god, he would have better control over his power and it would be an unstoppable force by his side.
At the tender age of 4, Max decided that Junior was ready to start training and although it was too early for him to start combat training, he was put under a strict physical exercise regimen that continued till date.
At age 6, he was finally introduced to weapons training when he finally ascended to tier1 and since then his progress had skyrocketed.
After a successful SSS promotion into tier1, Junior chose the special class " Sword Sage " as he was judged to have natural levitation towards the sword arts just like his father and uncle.
Although Junior tried his hands at learning to wield the dagger with his mother and archery with his second mother, it was swordsmanship where he finally found his calling and it was his father who mentored him in the field.
Growing up, Junior always saw everyone having the utmost respect for his father, but he never understood why?
It wasn't until he crossed swords with his father for the first time that he understood just how strong he was and how effortlessly he could perform the techniques that Junior could not with his entire strength.
The way his father taught him the basics of swordsmanship by chopping a small block of wood into a thousand pieces or blocking a large boulder with nothing more than a stick, he had never read about or heard anyone learning this way.
For his father, Block, Parry, Counter were the basics of swordsmanship and before Kremeth junior was allowed to learn anything else he was forced to perfect these three basics.
Only at age 8, two years after beginning his swordsmanship training and ascending to tier2 did Max teach him the two basic offensive moves in the form of slash and thrust as in the process of mastering the basics, even Max did not realise what sort of a monster he raised in Kremeth junior.
Born with a superior speed and intellect that were incomparable to modern vampire's and reflexes that would put even the primordial vampires to shame, Junior was a natural prodigy for close quarter combat.
His supervisors, responsible for overseeing his levelling hunts described him as a monster who could take on multiple opponents a tier above him with ease, while his sparring partners that were royal knights and fabled warriors with years of experience, found it extremely ' Pressurising ' to face Junior in battle as they called his power monstrous and techniques as ' Unheard of '.
Overall, Junior was the golden child with an unlimited potential for growth.
He was raised in the best environment possible with the best teachers and resources available in the entire vampire society, however, he was smart enough to not let it get to his head and behaved extremely humbly.
Perhaps it was his superior intellect, or perhaps it was observing his father's behaviour towards others that made Junior realise early in life that kindness and humility were a must have virtue for any man.
He was proficient in using his charm and cuteness to get what he wanted while also being aware of his responsibilities towards the protection of his family, as despite being only 12 he felt responsible for the safety of his tier6 mothers in the palace.
Reaching tier4 at the tender age of 12, Junior was a rising star within the vampire society just like his father was once upon a time, however, while the rest of the world validated and praised his genius, the man he wanted to praise him the most did not.
Max doted on Junior unconditionally till he was a child, however, from the day that he started to train him, he never verbally praised Junior anymore.
He would pat him for a good session, he would tend to his injuries caringly when he was injured, but he would never say how ' Proud ' he was of Junior nor seem impressed by his achievements.
Somehow, this indifferent attitude of his father versus that of everyone else made Junior eager to please him, as he would always behave properly and train harder than usual when he felt his father's gaze being on him.
In his heart, his father was his hero and the man he wished to be like, however, no matter how strong he became, he could never seem to catch his father's silhouette in battle.
He was a mountain that Junior aspired to climb but was way too out of his reach.
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( Present day )
As Junior was introduced to Zippo, he profusely thanked the black dragon for saving his and his mother's life way back when as even Zippo seemed impressed by his manners.
Kids at around 12 were usually brats that were difficult to deal with, but Kremeth Junior did not seem like one of those kids.
He was ambitious, self aware and extremely disciplined, as a child from a noble household should be.
As Zippo looked into his sparkling red eyes that were gazing at him intensely, he could not help but overlap the look against that of Max as it was the same expression that Max often gave when he was lost in thought.
It was funny in a way, but Zippo found this circle of life to be beautiful.