He leisurely grabbed the goblet on the side of the table to quench his thirst. The elves were having a bit of a party so the goblet was filled with red wine produced from the nearby village,
Despite the goblet’s simple look, it was heavy and imbued with a rune that made the goblet near impossible to break,
Ignoring the approaching elf, Elidyr took a little sip of wine. His body jolted when the red wine touched his taste buds.
”I can’t say I didn’t miss this” Elidyr took a long sip and in a few blinks of an eye, he emptied the goblet.
”You have some ba-“
Bang!
The runemasters who were looking at the elf dashing at the half-elf stumble down. They couldn’t realize what just happened. The half-elf was drinking wine, the elf was dashing at him. The next thing they saw was the elf collapsed to the ground.
Only a few seconds later they noticed the crushed goblet in the half elf’s hand. They finally realized that the half-elf hit the elf with the goblet with enough force to not only knock down the elf but also crush the goblet itself.
The amount of force required to crush the goblet was not a joke yet the half-elf crushed it by hitting the elf in the head.
”ARGH!” The elf was grumbling on the ground in pain. He held his head as blood drenched the floor beneath.
However, his agony became more painful when Elidyr stepped on the elf’s throat, increasing pressure little by little.
”If you assholes want to spend your lives being racists, knock yourselves out. But when I’m here, I don’t wanna hear a single snarky comment about me or my race”
Few of the elves couldn’t see a fellow elf being crushed by a half-elf in front of their eyes. Hence, they dared to attack the half-elf. Fighting in the common rooms was not a big deal until no one informed the prefects about the fight. They doubted that even if the prefects knew they beat up a half-elf, they would give a damn about a maggot. After all, the prefects of house runemasters were also elves.
ZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
The elves were a couple of feet away when a sudden vibration reverberated in the room. The elves halted their steps. Their golden hair produced smoke as the smell of burning hair permeated the room.
Elidyr snapped his finger and the elves began to tremble violently.
Their robes smoke as they crumbled down leaving the elves naked. Their golden skin soon turned as red as ripe tomatoes.
The other runemaster witnessing the scene with startling faces looked down to see a glowing chakra on the floor where the elves were standing.
”When did he place the rune?”
”What rune is that?”
”So powerful”
”How did he do that?”
The onlookers were stunned beyond words. Elidyr snickered inside, seeing how a basic level rune could surprise these amateurs like this. The energy in his soul deteriorated over the years and once a Half Immortal stage cultivation was now a mere Body Refining stage cultivator.
Until Elidyr could cultivate to become stronger, he would only be able to use mediocre runes. Nonetheless, these basic runes were enough to keep the elves from annoying him in his time at Mazeroth.
”Next time, I’ll burn the thing between your legs” Elidyr threw aside the goblet before making his way towards his room.
The elves who were being electrocuted collapsed to the ground finally when Elidyr snapped his fingers again.
”Now someone shows me my room” he evilly grinned which sent a chill through everyone’s spines.
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Somewhere else on the Ozer continent, Noah was trekking through a snowy mountain. As far as one could see, there was nothing but milky white snow and crystallized ice pikes that were sharp as daggers. The howling sound of the wind was the only thing that accompanied them while the blowing wind brushed past their bodies with enough force to knock them down at any moment.
”Argh I miss flying” Noah sighed but kept trekking through the snow,
”And I miss a roof above my head and something that saves my hairy butt from freezing” The golden babaroo, Norvin, curled up inside Noah’s inner pockets. The monkey made a comfy home of his long coat’s pocket but still bitched about the weather.
”You should have brought Alicia instead of me. She must have loved being literally cold”
”We are close Noah” Andreas’s voice sounded in his head.
”Shh” Noah shushed Norvin quickly,
”The old man inside the ring talking to you again?” Norvin rolled his eyes being annoyed by getting shushed,
Apart from Noah, Norvin was the only one who knew the existence of Andreas. Just like the dragons, Norvin’s race, the golden babaroos also possessed the skill to view the world differently. After Norvin reached the Core Formation stage, he sensed a living being in Noah’s ring. His suspicions were confirmed when Noah was stuck in an unwinnable fight and Andreas had to manifest to save him.
”Conjure the heaven’s flame”
Hearing his mentor’s voice, Noah closed his eyes as an emerald green flame shot out of his hand. The green light lit their path,
”Look” Norvin quickly pointed out at the runes on their path to the top of the mountain.
”We are on the right path” Andreas was excited. It was the first time he sounded excited since they found the location of the Dark Lord. The failure to apprehend the Dark Lord still haunted both Noah and Andreas. They were so close to capturing him yet he outsmarted him by using Noah’s family as hostages. What happened that day made Noah realize what the Dark Lord was capable of and the necessity to eliminate him.
What they were seeking could help in doing just that. They followed the runes to the top of the mountain. Noah climbed the mountain with new vigor seeing he was close to the weapon that could slay the Dark Lord.
”Tell me why we can’t fly up again?” asked Norvin, feeling tired just by seeing Noah climb the mountain.
”Using arch energy will activate the traps” Noah answered while climbing higher and higher. The higher he climbed, the colder it got.
The runes led him to a dead end where he saw nothing but a stone wall in front.
”Hmm, I thought a door or a pathway would appear” Norvin rubbed his hairy chin,
”Teacher” Noah called out Andreas standing in front of the wall where the runes are glowing,
”These are Lady Qin Jiu’s runes, there is no doubt” Andreas’s ethereal figure manifested out,
While Andreas was studying the runes, Noah conjured a ball of heaven’s flame and sent a stream of emerald green flame towards the wall.
The wall didn’t open as Noah expected but a bright beam of light shot out within the wall toward Noah. Noah’s instincts made his legs dash out of the way yet the bright beam was too fast and Noah was standing too close to the wall.
Unexpectedly the bright beam of light shot through Noah doing no harm to him.
”The God of Light” a sweet feminine voice echoed through the snowy mountain. The showering snowy rain stopped all of a sudden as though someone pushed the pause button.
The mountain before Noah slowly split open to reveal a grandiose hall. Noah stepped into the hall as the mountain closed up behind him. The eleven braziers on each side of the hall lit up brightening the hall. A snowy white carpet materialized under Noah’s feet to the end of the hall as he cautiously took his steps forward. There were four twelve feet statues made of ice stood majestically, two of the statues were female while the other two were male. Despite their gender difference, the four of them looked extremely dominant and mighty.
”Who are they?” asked Norvin in amazement.
”The four great legends” Norvin saw Andreas’s ethereal form bow towards the statues. His eyes were full of reverence as though he was worshiping them.
Archer Crooke, Ingrid Stenham, Qiu Jin, and Kargin Pavlovich
”Archer Crooke, the heavenly warrior” Andreas looked at the statue of a man in battle armor. He was holding a sword in one hand and a spear in another.
Andreas turned his gaze to the statute of a graceful smiling lady who held a tiny bonsai tree in her hand
”Ingrid Stenham, the legendary 6-star Alchemist. Her talents were beyond any star levels. The legend has that a drop of the healing potion brewed by her could heal an army to their full health”
He turned around to look at the statue of a long-haired muscular man with a hammer,
”Kargin Pavlovich. The only human 6-star blacksmith this world has ever seen”
Finally, they all turned their eyes to the statue of a lady in qipao. Her hair was tied into a bun and unlike the rest of the statues, she was looking at the stone table at the end of the hall.
”Qin Jiu, the woman who saw the future, the mother of the great prophecy”
Noah was surprised to see Andreas kneel down in front of her,
”We won’t fail you Lady Qin Jiu” Andreas said, letting out a deep breath.
After saying those words, the trio cautiously walked toward the stone table. They expected to spring a trap any second but they never did. When they reached the stone table, they saw two hand imprints on the table.
”I have a feeling you two should place your hands on the marks,” Norvin exclaimed. Andreas and Noah looked around, there was nothing except statues and the stone table in the hall.
”Shall we?” Noah believed those who were called him here, they had no intention to harm him. If they had, they would have done it by now. Therefore, he placed his hand on the stone table and so did Andreas.
Nothing happened for a moment but soon, the hall trembled as they noticed the heads of the three legends slowly turning towards them. From each of them, a bright beam of light shot out at Noah. Finally, a golden light shot out from Qin Jiu’s statues. When the four light beams met at the center of the stone table, the same voice they heard before sounded again,
”Find the other four arrows and vanquish the darkness”
From the four lights emerged an arrow that radiated an immense amount of power. The arrow was made of no metal but light.
Noah gently grabbed the arrow and the moment he touched the arrow, it disappeared into him. He sensed the arrow within him, in a form of energy.
”We are one step closer to ending him teacher,” Noah grinned.