A Tale After Four Lives - Volume 1: Receiving The Reward Chapter 29 29: Being Unkind

Alex’s house.

A ripple appeared in space as Alex, Aura, and the rescued children appeared in Alex’s living room.

“Aura please settle the little ones in one of the vacant rooms”, Alex said, his day has been ruined by what happened. Alex went up the stairs, planning on having a long nap.

“Master!”, Aura called after Alex making him stop halfway up the stairs.

“I’m tired Aura, just settle the kids down, make sure they’re comfortable, and be there when they wake up”, Alex said then started climbing the stairs again.

“…”

Aura was silent, after some time she raised her hand and a white light came from it, fluttering like a ribbon it surrounded and lifted the children into the air, carrying the children via the light ribbon she went upstairs and into the only empty bedroom left in the house. Luckily the kids were still small and all of them fitted on the queen-size bed in the room, all except the girl in the barrier, Aura carried the girl into her room and placed her on the bed.

Throughout this whole time, she couldn’t stop thinking about the spell her Master had used. It might not have been the largest Area Of Effect spell she had ever seen and could be said to be quite small if one based it of Alex’s power, but even then it was exactly that spell that haunts her thoughts. The amount of energy that that spell unleashed was horrifying and to be able to make so much power engulf the entire area was even more so.

It was common sense that the larger the affected area the less damage would be individually taken since the power had to be spread, but with this spell, even if she were to use her most powerful single-target spell, and attack an enemy weak to light with it the amount of damage she would do would only equal to one percent of what was done to each individual within her Master’s spell affected area.

Just thinking of how his single target spells would look made her shiver, in fright or excitement she knew not but shiver she did.

…

Alex laid down on his bed, lifting his hand he covered his eyes with it, “I shouldn’t have done that”, he thought, “but I don’t regret it”.

The spell he used was called Pillar Of Ashes or [Titulus monumenti cinere], it was a rather high tier spell being at the seventh tier, but even then it should not have been able to release that much power, the only reason that was possible was that he supercharged it with a shit ton of manna.

Alex himself categorized spell via his old world’s where he lived as Mythandar, though not all the spells he knows came from that world it was from his perspective the easiest system. Spells were categorized from the first-tier to the tenth-tier, then there were the Super-tier spells and lastly the God-tier spells.

Of the last two tiers, Alex possessed five super-tier spells and two god-tier spells, these were his greatest powers in the arcane arts magic so powerful it could destroy all in its path.

Super-tier: Hell-blaze (Darkness and Fire)- Single

Super-tier: Avengers Edge (Light)-Single use Enchantment

Super-tier: Devine might (Light)-Self

Super-tier: Sky-Fall (Fire)- AOE

Super-tier: White Death (Ice)- AOE

God-Tier: The Mortal Spear (Blood) – Single

God-Tier: Archons Decent (Light) – Self

Alex slowly drifted asleep, mentally exhausted by all that had happened on that day.

…

The next day, Alex slowly woke up and headed downstairs only to be met with several more pairs of eyes than he had expected. Sitting at the dining room were seven children enjoying a delicious breakfast of bacon and eggs on toast when they saw Alex they all stared at him.

“Morning”, Alex said before sitting at the head of the table waiting for his breakfast.

The children just stared at him, not even eating anymore, they were told by the Lady that made them food that her Master had saved them, though still mistrusting they knew they would not be alive at the moment, they knew they should not have woken up after closing there eye’s because of the poison they were given, but here they were, though not ready to fully trust these knew strangers at least they were not afraid of being killed, who kills someone after going through so much trouble to save their lives.

“Mornin Master”, came a cheerful voice as Aura delivered a plate in front of Alex, Bacon, and eggs on toast the same as everybody else.

“Good morning to you to Aura and thank you for the breakfast”, said Alex as he slowly ate the food Aura made for him. The children after realizing that he will not talk to them or give a speech continued eating their breakfast.

After finishing their food they looked towards Alex again finding that he was waiting for them.

Seeing that everyone has finished there breakfast Alex spoke, “Well now, I’m glad to see that everyone is… well for a lack of better words alive.”, he said with a warm smile.

“I hope you have not found our hospitality too abhorrent, I must apologize for having you share one bed as I did not expect to have so many guests over.” Alex continued, he spoke in a calming voice while exuding a kind and gentle aura, it immediately had to affect on the worn children as there tense shoulders visibly relaxed and the tight nerves loosened most of them even had tears in their eyes.

Looking at them Alex felt pity to them but he had some words he needed to say and there was nothing he could do about it. “Now, you are welcome to stay here until I can find you a better place.”, he said.

His voice caused the relaxing children to tense up again some of the girls even had tears running down their cheeks. “I know this is a lot to take in, but I simply cannot take care of all of you…” Alex said staring at his hands, “… it might even be better to not associate with us.”, just thinking about the amount of killing he would have to do in the future he could not bear to raise these children. What sort of childhood would that be, they have suffered enough already he had no right to do that and even if they wanted to stay they had no right to ask him to raise them while having them potentially die one after the other in front of his eyes, and if they miraculously survived how long will it take before the time they die of old age as all mortals do.

It might sound stupid but Alex would rather not spend give his heart to something that would die after he blinked his eyes.

“I am truly a pathetic god”, Alex thought as he stared at the crying children. Standing up from his chair he spoke “Aura, please look for any orphanages that would be willing to take in these children”, then he looked towards the children, “I will not place you in any place I believe you would be abused, nor will this happen any time soon. You will stay with us for a month no matter what, it gives you time to calm your minds and steel your hearts.”

After his speeches Alex left the children with Aura as he exited the house, standing just outside he let out a deep sigh, “This is for the best, even if I am being unkind.”, he told himself.