Adept of the Great Mage

"I never thought this thing still in here..."

In one of the quarters of a high tower, book shelf are neated line up, forming a big maze. In the beginning of those shelf, covered by the dark corner, forgotten by the time with it's dust and rustyness.

A silhouette standing, with his finger, he slide the book by it's tip, making the book fall in his hand.

The brown cover is too old, with it's dust and tattered cover, you can tell that this book go through of many event.

"Hello... my old friend." The silhouette said, he sigh of such memory. "Look's like i'am just like the other human, forgetting things that it's already no use to them. Am i right..." He said to the book. Obviously, the book didn't answered, only dead silence and the breeze can only be heard.

He stayed standing silence of such action.

Shaking his head, he bringed the book with him.

Tap... tap...

Echoed the foot-step he take, going down the high-tower. With it's never ending circled stair, he didn't felt dizzy and his breathing are still stable.

In the end of it, a young attendant are standing in there. With his green hair and red eye's, and his formal military clothes, stripe with every budge. His look's can captivate a young woman heart.

"Troy Von Hall, greet his Great Sovereign Mage!" He kneeled down.

"Hhmm..."

He nodded to answer and continued his way.

"Tsskk."

Passing, the young man sneered. Old fool, your already going to die, why still heads-up? He thought.

With the blinding light, he stepped out on the tower.

With the red carpet, and lined of the soldier, the kingdom symbol of military, "White Eagle" beast, standing side by side with the soldier. The place is so majestic, bringing pride to the masses.

The people uproar, seeing the legendary great sovereign mage.

"Long live! long live for the kingdom!"

"For the kingdom" for his majesty!"

"Great mage! Long live for the great sovereign mage!"

Masses shouted their beliefs, and other's shouted for his name.

With his pressence, pride of the people rose up, for their powerful kingdom and to his majesty.

Walking, he slowly arrive on the public kingdom square. Where all of the kingdom powerful people sitting, with it's renovation. The ground will be the peasant watch place, while the nobles sitted on the floating rock carved to be a sit, designed like the opera.

In the center of it, a middle-aged man standing with his metallic staff. With it's red-fiery orb in the center, it give's a big mana condensation on it. Stocking, ready to cast a explosive-deadly attack in first minute of the battle.

He, the legendary great sovereign mage, are challenged by this ambitius young king. He, the king, wanted to take his title, so that he can use it to boost the morale of the kingdom.

Preparing for his dream to be the only ruler of this world. With his massive and strong military, success can be achieve, but before that, he wanted to be sured.

This old man, the legendary great sovereign mage have charisma everywhere. Everyone respect him, and feared him, cause of his deed's in the past that can be describe as a fairy tale, or myth that human cannot be achieve.

Using his title, he can be reassured, that everyone attempted to stop him will die miserebly.

Using his title, enemy kingdom population will submit to him, either will felt suffocate facing his army.

Even king and minister or any-other people can't stop those virus, virus that human have.

And that is.

Fear!

Just one more step and that goal will be in reach. This moment! this glory! this place! This is when will it all beginned!

He only looked on the ambitius king, infuriating his core! With his experience, any sign of it didn't shown on his face or aura.

Before he can enter the stage, a middle-aged man came over his side. "Master..." his voice stopped and emotion showed. "No matter what happened master, your the only one i look up above!" He kneeled, and gripped both his hand hard.

But he only walk pass on his disciple. "Then don't cry, you rascal. Remember your role i'd given at to you." He said stepping the stage.

With full of tear's on his face, he shouted. "Yes! Master!"

Audience uproar, the place shaken with their loud exert voices.

At the king hand command, the masses quiet down. "Good day for my own people, the pride of our kingdom, and the future of this kingdom. I'am greatfull that many of you have a time to attend this event, even though you all need to work hard for our kingdom." He said.

"No your majesty! not at all!"

"Your majesty! this is an important event for our kingdom! Why would i be not present!"

"Only seeing you majesty is a big event for our life!"

His voice touched the crowd heart, seeing their king humbled word, sting they'd felt in their chest.

"Thank you for your kind word my people, truly, your all our kingdom hope." He said.

Crowd cheered loudly again, seeing they'd been praise by their king. Truly a wonderfull word for them.

The king only smile, seeing his people cheered for their kingdom. No, for him!

Deep inside, a evil grin formed. Fools! your all my loyal dogs, even though i hate idiot, i like all of you in my kingdom pressence! No, my empire!" He thought.

"I knew that all of you are already know that this big event is gonna go down on our history! But on the other side, our own kingdom greatest man, the legendary mage of our history! If! i! win this fight! our own greatest man kingdom history will surely fall-a-part, for my own selfish ambition! Me! a selfish bastard! striving for fame and didn't respect our great sovereign mage!"

He said out-loud, acting to gained sympathy for him, to appeal the masses on his action.

"I do know that our ancestor will surely understand your majesty!"

"There's no need to be worried your majesty! I know that the great sovereign mage will understand! Who would not wanted to have a powerful person to has his title!"

"Right! That's right your majesty!"

Why would i be wanted to have this bastard to be my successor!!!

He thought, infuriating him inside of such claim. But he only thought it, standing there only looking to the king give his speech.

"Even though that i'll being selfish right now, your all still supporting me, shame to me..." He sigh bowing.

Making the crowd shout, wanting to stop their benevolent king action. It's all touched their heart...

"Without further speech for me, i want- no, we should all wanted to hear our great sovereign mage right!"

He said, shouted answered by the crowd. Wanting to hear him talk, their greatest mage of their kingdom. No! the greatest mage of the entire world!

The king give silence for him to speak.

Waiting, he just stand there not speaking.

Can we just get to the fight! I will give you a good beating! He thought.

The king knew already what's the silence, without wasting anytime he spoke. "Look's like this is our great sovereign mage emotional moment... For he, already accepted the fact... and look's like his happy about it, just for his silence... it's already an answer."

With his gibberish, the crowd moved by his word, and tried to cheer-up their great sovereign mage.

"At last, the final moment has come my people, the greatest duel that will write down on our history! The fight that will decide who's the strongest mage! the fight that you will tell to your grand-children! that they will to their children and grand-children! You! people! that in here right now! Will witness the greatest fight in OUR HISTORY!!!"

He gaved a powerful speech, boiling the masses hype.

"Long live the kingdom! Long live for the kingdom!"

"Long live for your majesty! Long live for the kingdom!"

They'd shouted out-loud, giving almost an earth-quake feeling on the city.

He cancelled his voice spell and signaled the people in the floating rock. All of the head of each family stand up, they putted their both hand in there center.

A staff manifest in their hand, gripping it, they'd casted a barrier spell, engulping the battle stage. One, two, three barrier, they'd putted a fifty great barrier spell. Exhausting their mana in half.

The king gripped his metallic-staff that hovering in the air, with it's efficiency to absorb mana in the mana world. It's red-fiery aura condense purely, breaking the barrier within the mana world and realistic world. Giving a fatal-skinned burned if you past through it's aura range.

"As the Minister of our kingdom, I! Ruthan Von Ulam! Will be witness this fight! Fair and square! Let the fight begin!"

One of the highest floating rock, a old na standing, giving signal to the fight. Without no one moving, He and the king stared at each other, reading who's going to make a first move.

"Take out you staff, So no one can argued that i'd win because of fluke" The king send a telepathy.

"..."

Only silence that he receive. You old fool! Although i know that i can't defeat you! I'll the king, king of this kingdom! Have ace! Infuriating him to his core.

On the other hand, he didn't answer and only raised his hand in quietly odd-manner. Three fire phoenix manifested, taking it's form, it fly towards the king.

Hhmmm... The king gotten confuse. Low-tier spell, are he taking me for a fool.He thought.

Veins already became visible on his head because of angriness. "Dispel!"

With word only, the magic distuingish on the spell, so too it's fire.

On the other-hand, the legendary mage attack consecutively, with it's oddly-posture, seemingly something stopping his nerve and fiber muscle.

Look's like can't escape age, heh. The king thought, with those creepy smile inside. He dodged everything all spell coming on him.

After dodging everything, he felt something amist. Strange... Why all of his attack is only in middle tier spell? Whatever, his already going to die, there'a no point knowing. I'll only need to be patient. He thought.

His patient bear fruit as his staff pulse, like it have it's own life.

Without wasting anytime, he started their scheme to successfully killed this old man. "God Chain!" "Angel of Judgement!"

The king roar as the High tier equipment ring glow in light. A golden chain restraints the great mage and his back, a glowing statue of angel stand with her wing spread, as her hand rested on a big slim sword.

"Sin... Punishment... Death... Suffer..."

As the first sentence of the giant angel statue, the king already nessecary things to make sure this old man will never survive.

"Guardian's Knight!" "Thief of the Time!" "Eye's of the Revenge!"

He casted a high tier spell which he borrowed on every each family. With partners in his world domination and handling the land and army, which all of them agreed to get rid of the great mage.

A 12 statue of a knight holding a big shield appeared on the stage with it's loud noises it create. Crushing the earth underneath, with it's height on the big angel waist.

Next, a white pulse appeared as it vanish like nothing happened, and the king eye's turned red as it's pupil change shape. With it's original dark pupil, it turned slashed across to up to bottom, exceeding what the cat eye's have.

"Great Eruption!" The king shouted.

A big red circle of runes appeared below the great mage, and it's continuedly appeared one by one as it reach the lowest part of the cloude. With it's different disk size, a thin pole of red light came out below it and pierce it through the sky.

The angel sentence finished as it say "suffer". With abgreat boom, the barrier inside the guardian's knight spell keep inside the explosion. Not doing harm to the people in place.

The light shape inside exchanged fast in different density of it's light. But it came back to normal when the mana inside the king staff exhausted.

The great mage body obliterated into nothing, as it been erase by the god. Only the statue remain intact without a scratch or bruises that indicate it had been damage.

Seeing it, the king almost shouted but stopped him it by doing so.

First, he needed to calm the masses of him killing the great mage. Which are now in chaos of what happened.

Before he can talk about it, a voice sounded. "Light Chain of the God."

A voice said nonchantly, which a golden cuff appeared on his hand. And that goes with the other's too in the nobel sit place.

It magnetically glued to each other making then kneel to the ground. The king gotted confused what is happening.

His face turned red like as the blood of a young child. "You peasant!!!" He shouted, and look who's the bastard that dare to raise he's sword on him.

He frozen on the spot. "Impossible!" He mumbled said.

The great mage that suppose to be dead right now is standing in front of him. Confusing him who's the one he attack.

"Never thought i will someday use that witch potion, truly a surprising world it is." The great mage said.

"Now, i should start so we can now go home."

The great mage clicked his finger which nobel sitted are now in chaos, because one by one. Their head leader or influencial in the family is now dying.

In front of the people, he walk in the front of the king and manifested a light blue sword, which he sliced the hand of the king. Caught off guard the people, their mours of what their king experience and curse on him.

"Arrfgghhh!!!" The king shrill voice resonated.

"Now die!" The great mage shouted and swing the light sword.

Kacha!

Blood splattered, which the king face paled mouth lips curled up. The great mage chest have been pierce through by a sword, and which his student doing!

With his disciple ugly face because of crying, he pulled the sword in his beloved master. Making a flesh sound that super disturbing.

"Great! You will be rewarded!" The king rejoice not giving concerned about his chopped arm. But a beam pierce through him which he vomit blood.

Thud

He flap down on the ground and he can see who's the one looking for him. It's the great mage, which in praying position and pointed his finger in him.

Without strength, his voice are so low, like a baby mice. "No..."

The beam obliterate his head leaving nothing that can point that this his body is, except for his clothes.

"NO!!!"

The crowd roar wanting stop it.

"It's all your's little rascal, don't dissapoint me." The great mage said, without turning to face his student.

"Yegghh, mashter!" His student said crying hard. With one beautiful cut, his head leave his body part and rolled to the ground.

Crowd crying and anger he see's on the crowd face. Before darkness engulped everything.