Chapter 1 Daniel (2/2)

The reason the teenager ended up in that prairie wasn't to try his luck and obtain the fruit of this once legendary tree The real reason, was that he had been recognized by a guards patrol right outside of the city walls Where he had the habit of swindling foreign uide

He ended up being chased into the forest, and kept running for hours while thinking about the punish sent to work into the mines as a slave, for the rest of his life

That was also the exact same fate that awaited him in case he wouldn't be able to pay the debt in full

The hotel owner, fro, had been sure that the two orphans would have never been able to pay the debt in full, so he already had the intention of selling him to the mine, and force his sister to work in his hotel as a prostitute or sell her as a slave

The sheer thought of his sister beco a slaveot out of the forest, andhim anyrass, with a giant tree placed right in thelike a small mountain

At the base of this tree sat an old round, inbetween two large roots which seemed to have parted just to allow him to sit He had a thick white beard, like so enough to reach the base of his neck He wore a siine an old hermit to wear as he roams the woods Yet, if someone were to look at this man from up close, they would notice that the robe was spotlessly clean, and that only his bare feet were covered in dirt

As this oldhim, he lifted his head and looked up in the distance

A teenage boy was staggering from exhaustion towards the tree

As the old ht shone on his eyes for a rew on his wrinkly face

The teenager approached the tree, and i near its roots After taking a rass cooled by the tree's shade, and catch his breath for a couple of ot up and approached the oldup?” Said the teenager

The old er as if he was aler's words

”No, young man do you need help?” Said the old man with a deep voice, which resounded in the depths of the younghim stunned for a htly startled, then, with a hint of embarrassment in his voice, he asked ”I don't knohere I aet back to Phyrri?”

The look on the young man's face was a hopeful one, as his state of uards for who knothe direction inside the forest More importantly, he had to coh to pay his debt, as theout

”HA!” exclai to help others, if you don't even knohere you're standing? HA HA HA!” The old randpa, hurandchildren Yet, the powerful voice of the old ain, feel startled

”Do you knohere we are or not?” Asked the teenager, slightly annoyed by the oldand started to stroke his beard He see his answer ”I a tier became quite curious about what the oldaround hi if the oldaround with him

Provided that the old man looked like a heres, capable of cultivating the spirit by tapping into thethepickpocketer He was barely aware of the cultivation that guards, soldiers andand spiritual cultivation, were not subjects he had co about the oldman sat in front of him Once he sat down, he turned his upper body to the side and reached for the sed at the side of his waist He then took a piece of bread from it, split it in half, and offered one to the old rear suddenly He then reached for the bread in the teenager's hand and took it

The youngpiece of bread It was just a piece of bread, but he was happily biting into it while looking up at the big tree, which provided shade for him and the old man His look was one of a

”Your naer

Without taking his eyes off the tree, the teenager answered ”Daniel”