Cohen of the Rebellion-Volume 1 Chapter 3

Chapter 3 - The Land is a Ball

The name of this continent is Peace, a magnificent place full of glory and sadness. This place has been the battlefield of the Divines and the Asmodians since the beginning of time. The Divines live on a giant island north of Peace called Heaven. The Asmodians created their own giant island to the south and named it Hell. The eternal fight between the Divines and the Asmodians made the people who stuck in the middle forced into two allies. They have to choose one as their god to worship in order to gain protection. Our hero, Cohen lives in an empire called Swabian, who worship the God of Light, namely the Divines. Most of it’s residents are human beings. The Darkmoon city Cohen lives is to the west. Beside it are the mountains of Black Forests and a desert called The Ocean of Death. There are lots of alien races who live in the two areas. Although they are parts of Swabian, public security has always been a problem in this place. Riots happen every year.

“Your Excellency Visual, please allow me to apologize. I can’t be of any help with Cohen’s studies.”

“But maester, how come? Did Cohen disrespected you?”

“No...No, it was not, Cohen respects me a lot. It’s just… my knowledge is far too less to understand his bizarre ideas. Speaking of which… gosh my heart…”

“Ah, please calm down, Maester Cisco.” Visual Kheda thought it through, “We’ll find someone else for Cohen, but what do you say about Rick and Swift?”

“Your senior and junior childe? They are doing excellently on both martial and magic skills.” Speaking of them, Maester Cisco looked beyond excitement.

“Then I would have to ask you to continue your excellent work, will you do the honor?”

“Will I? Of course, would you allow me to be their mentor?”

“Sure thing, you are the best maester in the city.”

“It’s such a pity people worship wands and swords more than knowledge.” Maester Cisco grew a bit gloomy.

“Don’t mind too much, maester, I’m not from the army remember?” Visual said with a smile and pat on Cisco’s shoulder, “To be the successor and become a nobleman, martial and magic are sure not enough.”

“I promise you I’ll do anything possible to pass on my knowledge to your children.” Maester Cisco made a bowed to Visual, “but please ask Cohen not to say those words anymore, if people from the temple know… you’ll be in trouble.”

Visual Kheda was startled by the maester, “What did he say?”

“You’d better ask him yourself, excuse me…”

Watched after the maester left and sighed, viceroy Visual fell into distress. His third child, Cohen, trouble never seized to come since his birth.

At the beginning, it appeared to be a big deal that Cohen laughed at birth and processed no magic power within.

(Hold that thought)

Compared with what followed next, those birthday matters became minor.

First, he grew black hair which was processed by no one on this planet. Soon everyone in the empire knew about the viceroy’s third childe.

Even the his Majesty was disturbed and immediately sent the high priest overnight.

The high priest then put the saint fruit and scarab, which symbolize light and dark, in front of the toddler Cohen, and ready to release the identify spell. Before he could do anything, the little devil grabbed and ate the saint fruit and stamped on the bug. Luck for him, the priest was unable to discover the hidden tendency for dark magic, or he will be tied to a post and burned.

Identify spell: By putting the saint fruit and the scarab in front of the subject,

then the priest release the identify spell. If the subject is inclined to light, then the scarab will crawl away. If the subject is inclined to dark, the white saint fruit will turn black. Subjects who have tendency to dark magic will be burned. The Asmodian allied countries will riprap the light carriers.

Then Cohen grew up a little to his school age. Little Cohen wouldn’t touch anything related to martial skills. He cried and screamed when he was given weapons. As for magic skills, the unexisted magic energy made him not able to learn magic. As a result, Cohen’s parents were forced to let him study other things, hoping he would be a man of letters some day. But nobody could anticipate the things that were going on in his tiny brain. Every teacher were scared off. Ninth including Maester Cisco.

“My child…” Visual Kheda sighed.

“What’s going on darling? His wife, Katherine came in gently, “why are you sighing again?”

“Your dear son, scared off another maester!”

“Again? Haha, how many now?”

“How could you be laughing… this is the ninth.” Visual spoke bitterly, “Cisco is the last maester I could find in the city.”

“Don’t you worry too much, Cohen may be a little unordinary, but he’s a good boy. See, he made this today.” Katherine handed over a blue belt with silver stripes on it.

It was obvious that Cohen put a lot of work in this belt. It was handmade, and under the blue background, the silver lace crossed together into a lively phenix.

Looking at the belt, Visual Kheda could feel the love from his child, but he couldn’t help but feel gloomy once again.

“Katherine, you don’t expect your child to make belts all his life, right? Cohen is indeed a good boy, but a good boy can’t survive this dangerous world.”

“What could we do?” Katherine became a bit worried.

“Where’s Cohen?”

“Outside, might come back by night.”

“Let’s talk with him over dinner. Oh by the way, I’m off to DC in a couple of days, you want anything?”

“No, I’m good. Say hi to Tennessee and Webster, Belletina as well.”

“I will, I miss them too.”

DC, the Divine City, capital of Swabian

I’m a 6 year boy! I’m so happy~ no class today! Grandpapas wear sleep robes talking thing I think meaningless. Father said those are knowledges, but I think they are all wrong!

Like today, Maester Cisco said, the ground under my feet is flat.

Why, I don’t think it’s flat. If it were flat, then why do we first see the top of a ship sailing back from far away? Clearly it is a ball. But when I said this, Maester Cisco’s look was so frightened. I don’t get this. I didn’t mean to scare him. Anyway, now I have time to play!

You don’t know who I am right? Let me tell you. My name is Cohen Kheda. If you want to be my friend, then call me Cohen. I have no magic, not at all. It is unbelievable in this continent called Peace. Because everyone has it. I have no idea why. Mother said I was born this way. So I don’t have to use magic. But papa had someone taught me a bunch of knowledge on magic. What for?

One more thing, I, Cohen Kheda, hate… hate weapons of any kinds! As long as it is the things that bring wound and death, I detest them. I would vomit and scream and throw them far far away!

Well, so I can’t learn martial skills either.

Although I’m such a child, everybody loves me. Because I love to help everybody! I have a lot of friends who watched me grow up. I like them too!

“Uncle Sam! How much are those fruits?”

“Cohen, it’s free, take one.”

“I’ll make a hair band for uncle Sam!”

Habitats, male or female, in this continent grow long hair.

“Big sister, can I play this?”

“Cohen you like this? Take one.”

“I can’t take it. Mother said I can’t take things from others. Can I trade with this three-colored flower seeds?”

“Granny, can I read your book?”

“Sure, take it, little Cohen.”

“Thank you! Granny, I’ll return it in a few days!”

With the book in hand, I saw the name of the book is Continent Chronicle. It’s a book about history! I don’t like history. Why, if I return it now, granny would be angry. I’ll put it down for a few days and return it, that’s right.

… guru…

What is it? I looked at the dark sky, it’s dinner time! I have to go back home. Hurry hurry hurry, I have things to do after dinner!