I was just a warrior on the battle field of Gathorm, fighting against the Great sactum in the name of my holy lord, Baroek.
A war that went on for 2 millennials, and on my 2nd century, fighting for my great nation, I died as it's greatest warior.
And that was the day the Great Sactum took over the nation of Dahuuk.
I got reincarnated into another world where there was no advance technology, no supernatural powers, no war like the war on our great star fink constellation. Just constant fighting and petty wars due to greed, pride, lust and self satisfactory.
This was the Blue-Star planet. A planet where the rich rule over the weak, whether strong or weak. The strong get used as toys in military bases, wasting away their prime, growing old and dying.
And the rich are the once who makes the lives of the poor very hard, but the rich are the same ones who dies early, due to assassination of the others, trying to keep their positions and status higher than everyone, through any means necessary. While the poor prevails till old age brings death to their doors.
But one family is what caught my eyes, they are not rich, neither are they poor, they show kindness to the poor and feed them with the little they have.
They stand against people who are more powerful than them, through determination and sheer will. Not due to greed, but to protect the weak.
This is some thing I haven't seen in my millenniums of travelling through the interstellar, not ever on any planet.
But now, This family gives me a different thought that not everyone is bad. The good ones are just rare.
So I vowed to protect this family, to keep them safe for them to keep on working their miracles.
And that's my prime mission, my purpose. To protect 'The Brown Family'.
My name is Leon Black, and this is my story.
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[DING]
[HOST, DETECTED TO HAVE A STRONG WILL TO PROTECT.]
[GUARDIAN SYSTEM ACTIVATED.]
[THE GUARDIAN SYSTEM IS HERE TO HELP THE HOST BECOME THE STRONGEST SWORD OF ANY DESIGNATED PERSON,FAMILY OR CONGLOMERATE]
[HOST MUST PICK A PROTECTEE NOW]
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A system. In my last life, it was the Greatest warrior system, made me the strongest, and just disappeared. I fought thousands of wars without it,and sheared a sea of blood without it, but was it who made me unstoppable.
Now it's back, with another fancy name. I'm I just going to be the pawn of the system forever?
Fighting countless wars, battles and so on, and for what, wealth? i lived as the best in my past life and it was boring.
No I'm doing this for the greater good. What's the greater good? I don't know, guess we're about to find out.
'sinc with the Brown Family of Elsteinburge.'
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[DING]
[HOST DETECTED TO HAVE PICK A FAMILY]
[CONTRACTING A CONTRACT WITH THE BROWN FAMILY]
[PLEASE, HOST, GIVE THIS CONTRACT TO THE BROWN FAMILY TO SIGN]
[MISSION TRIGGERED]
[MISSION 001: DELIVER THE CONTRACT TO THE BROWN FAMILY AND GET THEM TO SIGN TO SIGN]
[REWARD: UNLOCK SYSTEM SHOP]
[DEADLINE: 1 WEEK]
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The lines of text appeared in my vision followed by a file with only one sheet of paper inside, I opened it and it read.
[Guardian Contract
Family name:_____
Family Head:_____
Number Of Family Members:_____
Current Patriarch's Signature:_____]
I stood up from the bench I was sitting on and heade out to the outskirts of Star city on a bus I just boarded, heading towards Elsteinburge.
Elsteinburge isn't an urbanized city with towering buildings and sky-scrappers, but a city of ruin, a deserted city of just plateaus and forests, withe the only river running through it and connecting to the sea.
That's where the Brown family relocated after being bankrupted by the Reynalds, a powerful house located in the capital, Star city.
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six hours later, I alighted in the bare city, but found a small county ahead so I walked towards it. This place is a ghost town for real.
The tallest building was a six floors inn. which was also deprived of human existence. This place was like the after-math of a post apocalypse. A city of ghosts.
As I walked deeper I found people living in the inner most part of the city. And at a turn was a bar with flickering lights and missing letters which were supposed to spell out 'CORNER'S BAR' now says 'CORN BAR'.
I entered the bar,with the bell ringing just as I opened the door, in the room was about 9 people including the clerk behind the counter.
Four men were drinking silently in the conner like they could communicate telepathically, or maybe they just gew accustomed to it.
A chubby guy who looked like a scholar was scribbling something in a really thick book while there was seven empty bottles of beer on his table, the foam on the tip of the bottles tells the tale of how it was drank just recently.
There were two men sitting in front of the counter with cow-boy hats on while gently drinking their boredom away from a tiny glass.
The Clerk was a man who looks old on the face but the body tells you a different story. With a build like that, he looked like a mafia boss.
and the last person, the only lady in the room, who looks to be either a chore-girl or the clerks daughter.
I stopped looking around and walk straight into the bar heading straight for the counter.
I took my sit beside the younger looking man who was dressed in a cream and red suit, while the older looking gentleman on his left side was in a white and blue suit and they both have the black cow-boy hats on.
I didn't look at them much, just sat there and waited for the clerk to tend to me.
"New?" he said, without even looking at me.
"Depends on the level of alcohol inside. I need something soft to keep me awake for a meet-up in a few hours." I replied without much thought.
Just then the clerk burst out into laughter and even the men beside me smirked.
"That lays it all out, welcome to Elsteinburge buddy." The clerk laughed it out before walking to the back.
The chore-girl who couldn't stop smiling, especially after still seeing the perplexed look on my face just shook her head.
"He was asking you if you were new in town, it's not a drink." said the chore-girl after approaching.
'Buddy? you are not even half a century old, girl.
"Oh that's why, sorry." I said, scratching the back of my neck.
The old clerk came back with the drinks and the gently poured the mixtures into the glass in front of me.
"So what brings you to Elsteinburge? Business, tour, or the art of love?" the old clerk asked ,now staring at me.
"Don't mind, if you don't want to say. Just be careful around here. It might look lonely, but there are eyes everywhere."He added after sometime.
I looked him in the eye for sometime before I answered. "Business, Work, The will to protect, and order from a powerful entity." I said, not trying to make sense but, to give them a rough idea.
"Oh that's a lot of staff, on your list. Mind telling me who you're protecting?" The clerk said.
I looked around and saw everyone was now looking at us keenly, with much attention, except the chubby scholar-looking guy of course.
He was still there scribbling something into the book like he was either solving all the worlds crisis, or re-drawing the Monalisa off-head.
According to the reports I read, everyone in this town and the Brown family, protects each other, making them absolutely loyal to the Browns.
"How familiar are you with the Browns?" I said with my head down, looking into the drink.
At once, the already quiet place became even more dead silent, even the chubby scholar paused for a second before continuing without even looking up.
Then the four men drinking near the window stood up. And two bulky men in suits came from nowhere and stood on both sides of the bar, near the counter.
'How didn't I notice them before?' I thought.
"Okay, and what family sent you?" the old clerk said, putting his hands under the counter as if retrieving something.
I could see everyone staring at me, with the two guards putting their right hand in their suits. I looked beside me to see the two men not reacting at all, except the older one in blue, who looks like he wanted to grab a gun too.
"No family." I said casually, without even glancing at anyone."Just a powerful entity who wants me to help them rebuild up their empire. And also sign a contract too." I said whiles pushing the file to the man in the red suit by me.
"What's this?" The older guy said while standing up. The two guards also approached.
"It's a loyalty contract for the patriarch to sign, in front of the whole family, Mr.Lorenzo Brown."
The moment the words left my lips, the guys in suits pulled out their guns, and pointed at me. The four burly ones at the conner also moved forward.
"And how do you know who I am." Lorenzo, the older one in blue asked.
"Common Mr.Lorenzo, you're the only politician of the family and you're body guards here don't seem to hide it with their suit and family crest.
So what do you think, Mr.Edgar?" I said, shifting my attention to the man who is yet to talk.
"I must applaud you for you keen eyes and judgement. But as you can see, we do not need protection."Edgar finally said without even raising his head.
I looked around the place, and saw every one ready to kill. The two guys in suit had their guns right behind my head. "hmmm" I sighed.
I punched through the counter and removed the short gun under the table and slid under the table.
Quickly getting hold of both guns behind me, with a swift motion, I stepped on the counter in front of me and back-flipped into the air, landing behind the two guards, pointing their respective guns at them.
"This is your protection? Looks weak to me. Just think over it and call me in three days if you really need this chance. And also get the whole family to be present by then." I said and threw back their guns back at them.
I turned and left, after dropping two bullet racks, a card with my number on it, and a bundle of cash on the table by the door.
"I'll see myself out, thank you for the service."I said before finally getting out.
Today's trip didn't bear any fruit but at least, I got to meet them in person.
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[DING]...