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LOLH: Reborn - The Alchemist and the Apprentice

A rebooted version of flic.kr/p/HgGW1B

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Arthur Newton was a prodigy in the field of alchemy, coming from a long line of alchemists spanning back far into the Middle Ages. In his youth, he was reckless, touting himself as a powerful wielder of the power of alchemy. This recklessness and abandon for authority ended with him joining a group of renegade alchemists known as the Order of the Key, a group hellbent on using alchemy to destroy all magic.

 

At first, Arthur was fully on-board with the mission of the group, but then he had a daughter. Hannah was a bundle of joy, and Arthur realized that his life with the Order would be a terrible influence on his daughter. He defected from the Order, moving as far away from their workings as humanly possible, and settling down in the suburbs with his wife and daughter, ready to be a family man.

 

When Hannah turned 13, she began to show evidence of having magical abilities, which Arthur was quick to attempt to hide away, knowing that the Order was still out there and still kept tabs on him. This urging for Hannah to hide it away caused her to become afraid of her powers, and had the added consequence of letting her magic become unstable and uncontrollable.

 

When Hannah turned 18, the Order finally tracked down the Newtons, ready to tie up loose ends and prepared to kill Hannah and Arthur as an example to what happens to those who deny their righteous mission.

 

Arthur’s wife was killed by the Order, something Hannah witnessed. This caused her to unleash a wave of deadly magical energies, destroying the assassins sent for her and her father, as well as the house around them.

 

Since then, Arthur and Hannah have been on the run from the Order, with Arthur struggling to teach Hannah how to use her magical abilities as well as alchemy despite her apprehensions, leaning more toward using traditional weaponry and allowing her magic to fester and grow more and more unstable.

 

The both of them have become somewhat of a vigilante duo, stopping crimes and Order-sponsored plans during their sporadic life on the run.

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Uploaded on February 10, 2021