1 To the other sides
In a dark place, ten men were grouped in circle, all, wearing robes with the color blue, chanting gibberish words, almost screaming all of them but the weird thing is not these people but the vast round liquid floating about a meter from the ground, moving like a heart beating, encircled with two magic arrays, dark violet and blue.
Ten of them continued chanting, iris on their eyes can't be seen, sweats can be seen on their faces because of the emitted faint blue light from the ball of liquid.
Images were projected on the huge ball, random ones, a planet, a star, mountains, butterflies, humans, aliens, they can be observed but not for too long, others last a second, others don't last that long.
Then scream of agony can be heard, it began with just a single person, then there's two until all of them started screaming.
Let Go!
An explosive sound can be heard, ten of them were pushed by something like a strong wind. Other's touched their back from pain. Luckily no one was hurt on his head, but they went at least two meters from their original spot.
"Something is coming, We need to tell the king."
The sun was as strong as ever, in the land of Grimeria, the life was simple, humans own almost 50% of the total area, elves, dwarfs, and others took the others, the other races did not make any considerable opposition, not because of the king's force but his different quality. Almost all of Grimeria's beings know of the king's kindness.
It's been almost a century since the family of Senaria started consecutively ruling Lutunia. King Henry Senaria II was considered the favourite, children of his kingdom played with dolls with a face similar to his, his statue on the plaza centre did not lack beautiful flowers and plays were enjoyed with his character as the protagonist. The story of him drinking together with Dwarf Chief Turian, hunting happily with Eternal Elf king Lefunia were shown, but the audience keeps coming back to witness it again and again.
The castle was a quiet place, no hurridly soldiers march to the King, no arguments were started, it was a place of positivity, it was very peaceful almost dull actually.
The quiet atmosphere was intensified with a humming sound, a young man was walking through the corridor alone, he continued humming loudly but halted when he noticed footsteps in front of him.
Is it "Peace of my time" you're singing Ser Tristan?"
"You're right," he answered the woman servant.
" It's a good day," she added.
"It will continue I hope," he added.
The woman said her goodbye to Ser Tristan, and they passed by each other. Few steps forward Tristan stopped and looked at the sky, " I wish."
After a minute of walking, Tristan finally noticed something worthwhile, few men were shouting encircling two young men who are fighting each other with practice swords, the sound of wooden swords clashing each other almost silenced the sound of the screaming.
" You have improved Ser Rain," the slightly dark-skinned man with a black hair talked after taking a step back.
"Really Ser Lance," Rain, who has a pair of blond hair and blue eyes replied with a proud expression.
" Just a little bit thou," Lance smiled preparing his stance.
Tristan hastily joined the crowd, he smiled after taking a look with taller Lance playing with shorter Rain.
"Will they do it daily now," Tristan can't help talking to himself.
"Oh... Ser Tristan", the audience almost jumped back from shock, recovered seconds later, all of them bowed, Ser Lance and Rain even halted the fight, noticing Tristan.
"Don't mind me," Tristan noticed the awkward situation he was in.
" It's an honour Ser Tristan, you rarely go to practice fights, perhaps not enough things to do?", Ser Lance asked.
"You can give me pointers Ser Tristan, with that I can defeat Ser Lance next time," Rain added.
" You wish," Lance laughed, the audience forced themselves not to chuckle, afraid to offend one of the best knights of the kingdom.
Tristan pondered for a second," Hmm... you should practice your footwork, that might fill the gap of your natural weakness, you're one of the best knights I've seen so I can't really say anything too helpful".
"Wow you've noticed that much, I'm grateful to Ser Tristan comments," Rain spoke with gladness.
"It's nothing," Tristan warmly smiled.
The duel did not finish that day because of a few seconds after, a soldier wearing armour but without helmet approach the stage with speed.
"Ser Tristan, Ser Lance and Ser Rain, the king asked for your presence".
The three of them looked at each other, then followed the knights leaving the audience who were gossiping about the reason.
They arrived on the king's hall, from the full door to the king's chair was a long blue carpet, the colour that dramatically resembles the history of peace for a long time, windows on both sides were numerous and significant enough to lighten the hall.
When the three of them arrived, the messenger immediately left while the door guards closed the door from the outside.
The king was sitting on his chair with a solemn expression, a golden crown only for a king, a beautiful combination of white and blond hair, an experienced face under the epitome of beauty, sitting calmly but tidal waves were ready to be unleashed, wearing clothes simple looking but as complex as history, he's the King Henry Senaria II.
The seat can be reached by taking three steps of stairs, in front of the king was two young man looking at the arrived three's direction.
" All five of you are here," the king gestured with his right hand and the bowing five men who were standing in a horizontal line, stood straight.
" I have an important thing to tell of you, a secret only selected specials only knew for a reason", the king noticed the faces who were deeply listening," An unknown danger is about to fall on our one Grimeria, not this soon but the time will come for sure, and I need your whole support on this one".
" We will gladly!"
The king noticed something strange but continued, " Now, here is Wizard Howard to explain the scope of the danger you're about to face."
A man wearing a blue robe on the right side of the king step forward, a bald man, apparently older than King Henry himself, " I'll introduce myself to you who don't know me, I'm Howard Amuse, the Leader of the Magic Circle. We discovered black energy when we were scouting the infinite unknown dimensions, we predicted that the black energy will continue growing as time pass by just like other black energies, but its danger is incomparable".
"We were not able to exactly know the exact dimension the energy is in, but we were able to lessen the list to five dimensions," Howard looked at the five men who looked like they're getting the idea." Thanks, Albus for that, this force if not apprehended will eat the dimension it's in then will grow strong enough to consume others, that's the enemy we're trying to defeat here".
"They're not fazing...", Howard silently talked to the King.
" They're part of the Ten True Knights, that's to be expected", the king smiled.
"You must have heard about the First Pendants, there's thirteen of them that has still white energy on them, strong enough to expel opposite energy, that what you will use but first you should find the black energy, the pendant's energy will automatically leave the pendant and discharge the black energy. The important thing is you find the black energy before it gets too big, there's only a little white energy inside the Pendants, precious holy rare energy."
Howard was about to continue, but he felt his throat hurt from explaining for too long, " How do we reach the other dimensions, Wizard Howard?".
" An expected question, a secret device that only the King and the Circle know until today," Howard replied after coughing inwardly.
" Sorry to keep the curiosity, we can continue this later," The King inserted."We're going to send invitations for a sudden party, we can't let them go blank in the future why five of the True Knights gone missing".
"We understand your King!"
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