20 Uncontrollable

Magic is an etheric energy that flows throughout the world. A knight uses magic to strengthen his body and gain great power. But magicians make their body conduits for magic power then they pour it back to create a phenomenon in the world around them.

It's the difference in relying on yourself and using nature to your advantage. Knights change themselves to fit nature but a mage changes nature to fit himself. Say a mage and a knight enter a tundra, the knight would use his exuberant life force to cut through the cold.

A mage would dispel the ice using fire and make the tundra into his oasis. It is because of this that the Magus path is so exclusive. The power to change the land wouldn't be a prolific power. Not only does it require a desire to learn but it requires talent and luck. Throughout history, there have been great mages but very few have gotten through the third transition.

Many knights have made it through the third transition and progressed to powerful heights. Per era, there isn't many but throughout history, the figure was near the 100s. But for the third watershed for mages only the prophets have succeeded and there have been at most 3 eras the prophets have appeared.

The Age Of Genesis which heralded the Human Prophet Delmar and his 4 disciples. Then there was the descent of Edith's archangel Layla beloved of the human prophet. Which lead to the birth of the human royal family and the two major churches, Blood Drop Origin of the mother Juphine and her holiness Edith with the Church of Holy Light.

They founded the human continent and dominated, the two churches spread their doctrine. At this time the world was still one physically and the beast race was still a part of the human continent

With it lead to the birth of our school of magical thought. Magic is a gift granted by the gods to combat the fey and shadowborn. The 4 divines have since granted us their elemental domains. We are to use our power to eradicate all threats to the mortal world.

Then starts the Age Of Collapse, most records for this age are lost. What is known, was that the beast race and fey race cooperated they attacked the human continent.

They nearly succeeded in destroying it until there was a birth of another prophet. He fought back against the fey and beast races. They were exiled from the human continent, and the world was split, by the end of this era there were three continents.

Some say that the prophet himself split the continent into three, with a subcontinent in the center of it all. Sending each race to its own continent and others say it was an act of the gods. But records for that era are lost so we can never be sure, it was at this point that it is theorized that the uncorrupted fey fled to a piece of land in the center of the world.

Then it was finally our era, the Era of Three Continents. The races lived in peace but they would each test each other waiting for one to weaken. The elves lived in fear of being annexed because of the convenience for attacking other continents.

So they erected a barrier with some strange methods. No one could get past the barrier, so the elves were safe and the other continents never bothered to engage in attacks.

Humanity has since been developing itself preparing for the threat to the mortal world from the fey and beast continents.

'What a big steaming pile of crap.' I thought as I threw the book down on the table, I couldn't help but feel annoyed. The whole book was summarized into a few simple points and it was all skewed towards humanity.

It was in no way objective writing and it idealized the gods, but from my understanding, the gods are just glorified idiots. Offended by anything and proud to powerful. A gift from the gods? Oh, thank you I desperately needed that, they just created us to use us and we are supposed to happy with it.

This is nothing short of brainwashing, what school of thought. No one thought of this, the gods gave them this and forced a task they weren't capable of doing themselves. The worst part about this book was it lacked the info I wanted to learn about The Age Of Collapse and how to breakthrough into a mage.

I decided to go look for some other books on the Age of Collapse to see if I can glean any info. I walked around the library zig-zagging on the first floor with the crate in my left arm and the crap in the crate.

I found the section that I found the crap and put it back, then I checked around for any books on the collapse. Then I found one titled theory of the three continents, it was old and decrepit. I could smell the dust from it like no one had bothered to do anything with the book.

As I was about to take a black-clothed student came by and picked up the book. I froze for a moment and started to feel a belly full of rage. I was already pissed off from that book and now this guy wants to piss me off more.

"what the fuck," I said before I realized it

The black-clothed student froze and turned to me, I noticed his features and realized he looked a lot like Raynard just older.

"What did you just say?"

My heart leaped at that moment my instinct was to just apologize as I had always done in life. Although I felt nervous I couldn't control myself and started to speak involuntarily.

"I said what the fuck got a problem with that?"

The student scrunched his face up in anger

"Yeah, I do have a problem with that, since when do does a Knight dare speak to Magi that way? Oh, wait you're just a rookie not even fit to be called a knight." He said with a confident sneer as he walked away

I knew I shouldn't say anything that I should just shut my mouth but once again I spoke against my will.

"Since when does my bitch dare speak to me that way? If you lick my shoes-"

Before I could finish my sentence the black-clothed student had me in a throat hold as I slammed into the wall. I felt his pulsing vitality through his hand around my neck as it squeezed my breath. His nails starting digging into my neck but I didn't stop.

"Quit it or else," I said was a raspy and scratchy voice.

"You just don't learn, do you?" he said as he tightened his other hand into a fist

As he was about to land a punch of me an icicle flew at the arm holding my neck. He moved back just in time to avoid the icicle as I fell down. I massaged my neck where his hand left a print and his nails made punctures as I looked at the direction the icicle came from. I saw Brian floating as an icy fog was emanating from his hand.

"Gavyn Gallius, is that how you represent your family by attacking our commoner librarians?"

The student straightens out his clothes before he looked at Brian.

"Who told your librarians to piss off the customers?"

"Who told you to be such a piss off?" Brian retorted

Gavyn almost wanted to fight Brian but he backed down and decided to leave but before he left I spoke again.

"I'll remember this."

Gavyn looked at me with anger.

"Do you ever learn? What's your name?"

"Don't worry you'll know it when I beat you senseless," I said with a sneer

Gavyn repressed his anger as he left flew out of the library. I vividly remembered the attack, I couldn't even move yet I just couldn't stop provoking him. For a moment I had felt something was wrong with me, but I was unsure what.

I thought about what happened in the dream formation...

'Something is going on in my mind...why can't I control myself anymore?' I thought to myself in fear, if I kept acting like this I could cause myself a massive headache one day. In my mind, the image of the devilish young man appeared and I felt more dread.