Mage Adam - Chapter 1

... coerced them into forgetting about their existing duties.

Sounds of footsteps could be heard from the manor, the guards snapped out of their stupor, grabbing their weapons to guard the gate.

The footsteps creeped closer -- a thin young man donning a set of neat clothes appeared, but his garments did not match the weather. He held a basket the size of his body, a sickle in his hands, trudging out the grounds of the manor.

This young man's head was large for his body, his ...