Gusion

Rebellious Son of House Paxley Although born into the most powerful magical family on the continent, Gusion has no interest in magic. He is keen to draw inspiration from the sacred light to develop new combat skills. Eventually, Gusion left the family. ===Patriarchs and big brother... Do you really know me?===

House Paxley ruled Aberleen Castle, south of Moniyan. Generations of the house had guarded these areas for the Moniyan Empire, defending against invasion from the Abyss.

About a thousand years ago, House Paxley was granted the dukedom during the reign of the legendary mage Valentina.

Many horrible stories were told across the Moniyan Empire of House Paxley's use of forbidden magic, and so people avoided any Paxley they encountered.

But Gusion Paxley was an exception.

He was naturally skilled with blades and daggers, and before he could speak, he had been able to accurately strike his nanny in the forehead with a toy dagger in revenge for disciplining her. And when he began to read and write, the ink-dipped quill always flew toward the back of his personal tutor's head as if it had eyes.

His unruly behaviors continued until his older brother Aamon took control of the duchy – young Gusion was showing off his dagger skills at the party when he accidentally missed his target, the dagger instead leaving a deep cut on Aamon's face.

Aamon did not blame his careless younger brother, but word quickly spread throughout the Moniyan Empire that the fourth child of House Paxley was a blade-wielder - for the Paxley family who were famous for their magical skills, only lower-class citizens who did not know magic would fight with daggers and swords.

The Paxley elders who actually controlled the family soon ordered Gusion to stop playing with daggers and concentrate on practicing magic. And Gusion actually inherited the family's magical talent. He had a strong affinity for the element of light and quickly awakened his potential while learning magic. But he hated memorizing tedious spells and writing complicated scrolls. When the other students were researching magic indoors all day, Gusion powered himself with sunlight so he could run faster than a leopard, or used candlelight to move knives and cut an entire table's dishes into pieces.

Gusion was the only upperclassman who spoke with the servants at their family academy, and he was a naughty but friendly child, so the servants always covered up his incessant violation of the rules; even when he was kept in solitary confinement, the guards pretended not to see the desserts that the servants slipped under the door...

Eventually, these exasperated elders asked young Aamon to discipline his desperate brother. Gusion hoped his brother would be on his side, but Aamon instead began lecturing him as the head of the family.

Gusion was disappointed and completely ignored his brother's lessons, while feeling deeply sorry for the big brother who was close to him – Aamon in front of him was clearly one of the elders, only the youngest...

And during their dinner together, Aamon persuaded Gusion to follow family traditions and accept training in magic, as Valentina, the first duchess of their family, was a great mage herself. Aamon also told Gusion that he could become an assassin like him, transforming magic into sharp blades.

Gusion felt strongly reluctant and instead asked, "Can't a Paxley become an assassin who fights with blades?"

Aamon had no choice but to say, “As a noble, sometimes you will have to hide what you truly love…”

Gusion looked at his brother and did not speak further.

A few years later, during his coming-of-age ceremony, a family fighting competition, the 18-year-old Gusion appeared in the arena in a unique style: he used bizarre and fanciful movements to dodge projectiles fired by the other young mages, while his swift and mysterious dagger precisely struck his opponents before they could even cast their spells. The elders of House Paxley were stunned: Gusion was an unconventional blade wielder, but he did indeed use magical powers to control the dagger...

The other young mages lost to Gusion began to accuse him of "cheating", but he instead provoked them further, claiming that those who felt unfair could challenge him together, as he was capable of defeating ten cocky Paxley mages!

The provoked competitors rushed towards him, when Gusion suddenly used a move no one had seen before: he swung his arm and sent daggers flying towards the fan-shaped area ahead, hitting any enemies that charged him. Then he jumped onto the spectator stand, before throwing a dagger at the statue of House Paxley ancestor Valentina and hitting her in the forehead to provoke the others!

“It’s what you want – it’s just like the motto of House Paxley: fear over love.”

After Gusion shouted these angry words, the exasperated elders began chanting spells, attempting to punish the rebel of House Paxley with magic. Aamon, who had remained silent, then stood out and announced loudly: Gusion was going to be kicked out of the family for seriously breaking their rules!

Now that Aamon had expelled his brother, the elders who were ready to kill Gusion had to stop their dark magic spells, watching Gusion walk out of the arena without sparing them a glance.

What would its future be? Gusion had never thought about it. He felt a heavy weight lifted from his shoulders, confident that with his abilities, he would one day make a name for himself in the Land of Dawn.

Aamon thought as he watched Gusion walk away: “What I can do is give you your freedom back…”

===Destiny Deniers===