Masala lived in an average sized wooden house with a nine tailed fox demon named Hashimoto Aiko in gronila village .
Aiko was Masala's mother and she had lovingly raised,protected and cared for him . Aiko was a brown beauty with purple hair, long fox ears and nine dark purple tails with red like irises in her eyes.
As a child she would read him stories of a brave hero she had fallen in love with saving her from a castle filled with oppressive foxes that always wish for her demise and she was happy he did so cause she ended up having him her cute little winged fox and would hug him tightly while doing so as if she wanted to show her unparalleled affection for him .
Every single time he heard that story he would show a wholesome smile and say in his childish voice " Want to be just like him "
he wished to be like that hero , ' his father '. His mother would gently smile at him and reply in a gentle voice say " I know you will "
Masala's mother was ill as masala was told still she tried not to show , remained strong and took care of him .
She often tried to hide it from him and every fifteen days she would travel to town. Masala would stay alone at home because everytime he walk in the streets kids from his village would distance themselves from him while others ridiculed calling him some demonic spawn's filthy remains etc. Thought they were afraid to do anything else as they feared the power held by the witch for they had seen how powerful she was in the past.
They knew that any further advances to harm him would spell that 'yeah nah, I'm fucked' moment for them. As such frequently occurred time did it's own thing until he hit the age of four he asked his mother to teach him all that she knew so that he could help her out. "Are you really sure you about learn everything I know.", And he affirmed with startling conviction.
She taught him how to do his chores in the morning and during the afternoon he would do the horse stance to strengthen his body and martial arts like aikido to help him hone his sensitivity to movement and intent so as to absorb mana effectively for when he starts train in it, even though he naturally had it but couldn't circulate it yet.
While at night he learned alphabets of the human, Demon, beast and heavenly languages and different stages of mastery.
"So there are five realms of martial arts, forging, language, alchemy and et cetera. Which are the Amatorregnum , Discipulregnum , Magisterregnum , Archimagisterregnum , and the Artifexregnum and they seem to be subdivided as followed from the beginner , intermediate , mega and peak stages" he quitely mumbled to himself.
He continued saying to himself "Then there are the universal power cultivation realm which divided into the Parviregnum , Medioregnum , Magnidemioregnum , Caeliregnum and the subdivision of Parviregnum are the fundamentum, viator , conjector , nucleus Apertio and unicorpus minor realm each also having beginner, intermediate , mega and peak stages " Masala continued to mumble as he digesting the accumulated knowledge while time furthered into the late night and the day's fatigue got him drifting into sleep.
He had done this for two years and during that time Masala had read the books his mother inscribed for him. As for why his mother took that decision was simply because she couldn't always be around to teach him all the time as she too had her own fair share of work. He was already annoyed by that boring routine and so one more he chose to tell his mother that he wanted to learn how to fight and also the magic he had learned about in the books. Initially his mother was skeptical about teaching he magic but seeing him so eager she ended up just giving in. That how his lesson in mana and sword practice started along with shield training for control and balance.
He trained all of them to the highest caliber for four years and one day when he was training his aikido under a water fall he felt something gathering in his from his lungs to his blood stream and to his every muscles fibers and tendons, feel his soul be cleansed of impurities and mana energy started to show an immense increase until some limiter broke and then after that he should out in excitement,"Yes ,I finally did mother would be so proud." He said before wearing his clothes and running out of the forest toward his home's direction.
While running he felt a more faster and energetic rejoicing at the feeling of breaking through to a new level,and then he arrived home entering inside while up holding the same spirit . He went into the lounge shouting mom then he entered the kitchen,but then he remembered that she had gone town so he decided to wait for her outside to arrive.
Not wasting a second he immediately went out to only to find a shocking scene in their backyard. After heading out he for the first time found his mother was limply sprawled on the ground heavily gasping for air ,seeing her like that he screamed mom few times then urgently setting aside his worries and carried her inside the house after seeing her not even flinch as he did so he felt a cold aura seep into his skin.
He had wondered why she felt so cold ,but then he brush that thought aside and open the door to her room and gently placed her on the bed and tugging her in thick sheets of blankets to try and eliminate or at least alleviate the coldness she felt.
Aiko's POV.
Aiko was running at high speeds towards the town of faithsteena . She smiled thinking to her self ' I should buy little Mas his favorite green ton milk tart. ' She saw the town appearing in her line of vision a ran even faster .She arrived there and immediately felt the presence of a few ants were tailing her from around her and behind, so she entered a dark ally in town and spoke out to those following her in the shadows.
"If you keep following me heads are going to fly and your leader is going to know what the flames of hell look like." After she threatened them they backed away quietly daring not to provoke her as they were tasked with tailing her only and also due to her reputable strength. "How boring I thought you were going to fight some in some way?" She asked before showing a devilish battle hungry smile.
She then arrived at a witchly cathered store house owned by a witch named Mary Lise after entering she found the her pinned to the ground by people wearing the same clothes as those who were following her. Aiko attacked the people pinning her friend down she then removed the cloth covering her mouth after hearing her shouting all the time "hum, hum."
After she removed it she heard her saying "Don't breath in , the gas version of the scent or tasteless shadow froster's poison is being released."Aiko saw after the group of assassins enter the store but still she easily dealt with that group.She tried rescuing Mary but she was tightly bond by a light type of legendary item and she felt weak.
"Go hide they are draining your strength with the assassins to make it easier for their leader to fight u they know that your realm dropped and about your curse. I suspect that they might head to your house to take little Mas as a hostage you have to hurry over there. " Aiko looked sadly at her friend than changed her expression to a grim one after hearing what she said before agreeing with her then running with great speeds to reach her house.
With her curse unsupressed and the poison coursing through her uncontrollably she steadily started to loss her strength but she ran towards her house like her life depended on her as the thought of anything happening to her source of strength fueled her. And then she arrived she fell tiredly in their yard but found some strength which allowed her to only reach their backyard that's when she started to faint as she heared Masala shouting in joy as he sprinted inside and thought 'my son I.need.to.pr.....'before she losing consciousness.