The Burning Sky

Flames lit up the dark night, the sky was burning and meteors falling all over the world. This signaled that the last Guardian God, the Flame God, Ignis fell. Many space cracks could be seen everywhere in the burning sky. All kinds of spells were fired off from the ground into the sky. All kinds of colors exploded in the sky, just like fireworks. Burning lava balls, thunder dragons, ice angels, earth spears, all flew towards the many space cracks, stopping the invading enemies.

But all in vain, after hundreds of thousands of years, all the Gods guarding the Wizard Realm fell one by one. And only Ignis, the Flame Deity survived to this day and yet he also fell. Without any gods protecting, all kinds of invaders came, demi-humans, beasts, demons and devils all started invading the Wizard Realm. The the wizards firing spells only lasted a few days. The Demigods protecting the World Core, which generates all the mana in the Wizard Realm, fell. Killed by the invader's Gods and Demigods, the World Core was snatched.

Without the World Core generating any new mana, after firing spell after spell for several days nonstop by all the wizards in the Wizard Realm. All the mana in the Wizard Realm was used up. All the people panicked. All they could do was to grab all their treasures and magic crystals and run. Although magic crystals could substitute mana to cast spells as they are crystalized magic power. But who in their right mind would use up their magic crystals to just to slow down the invaders for a bit and then be all defenseless? These magic crystals were the wizards' last defense, those that could become wizards are all intelligent people who stood above the masses and harnessed the power of nature. Once they learned that the mana depleted, the all prepared themselves to band together and run away. Luckily the Wizard Realm was massive and could be counted in the top 3 realms in size and resources. By letting the many invaders of different races and differences, vy for the rich resources in the Wizard Realm as well as fight each other for many other reasons, such as revenge and prejudices. The wizards could thus avoid the spearhead and live in hiding, while fight the the invaders that accidentally found them.

Nine years later…

Luckily the Wizard Realm is old and thus has numerous ruins of many beings both human and non-humans, thanks to the many underground cities built by underground beings, many surviving wizards hid deep underground, using various methods to stay hidden, with maze like ant tunnels making it impossible for outsiders to find the right paths to the wizards' hideouts.

In a large underground room close to the earth core, two people stood in front of a large spell formation the size of a village. The spell formation carved into the mud floor was extremely complex and beautiful, looking just like a living enigmatic yet unidentifiable being. Beside the large spell formation, enormous amounts of magic crystals piled up like a mountain.

The two people were the Demigod of Space, Antonidas and his student, Archmage of Space, Agun.

"Well, at last." Antonidas sighed in relief and said: "We managed to finish carving the spell formation."

"Teacher, will this spell formation really send us back in time?" Asked Agun nervously.

"According to my calculations, it should be capable of sending you at least 50,000 years back in time. Though… Due to my poor comprehension of the Time law, and just that which I have comprehended through the peak comprehension of Space, leading me to take half a step into the Space-Time law, I can only create this crude spell formation which is only capable of sending your soul back in time." Antonidas said while looking saddened.

"T-Teacher! What about you?!" Agun stammered when he heard only he was going to leave, even ignoring the fact that letting just a defenseless soul travel through a space-time tunnel is gravely dangerous.

"My dear Agun" said Antonidas while rubbing Agun's head lovingly.

"I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, yet I'm still just a demigod, but you. You've just studied under me for less than 60 years and have already reached the peak of Archmage level. I reckon, in less than a thousand years, you'll breakthrough and become the youngest demigod of all in the Wizard Realm! Your talent is no less the greatest genius of all times and the forefather of Wizards who created the Wizard Era and changed the name of this realm to the Wizard Realm" Antonidas said while looking at Agun in regret.

"Unfortunately, unfortunately you lived in the wrong time." Antonidas said while shaking his head lightly.

"It's all thanks to teacher's nurturing" Agun said respectfully. Actually Agun was from Earth, he was called Cheng Yan, an mechanical engineer, due to overwork, he somehow died and was reborn in the Wizard Realm. By using his understandings of Physics and Chemistry, he learned magic at an incredible pace, catching many demigods' interest. Due to the mystery of space and it's wondrous applications which have been theorized on Earth, but due to their lack of understanding, could not applied. Cheng Yan was fascinated by space magic and decided to study under the Demigod of Space, Antonidas.

How wonderful would it be to be able to store anything you wanted in a space pocket no matter the size and bring it out whenever you want, although there were spatial storages made by space wizards. But those were limited by the amount of space. And how incredible would it be to be able to teleport years worth of distance in a blink of an eye?

Hearing Agun's words, Antonidas smiled gently.

"Don't worry child, we shall meet again in due time, once you have travelled back in time, you know where to find me" Antonidas smiled lightly and said. After all, as a demigod, even going back a hundred thousand years back in time, he still was a demigod and living just fine.

"But why can't you come with me, teacher?" Agun understood somewhat already, but he still tried to deny it.

"Child, due my poor comprehension of the Time law, I need to operate the spell formation while sending you back in time." Antonidas said while smiling gently to Agun.

The legend said that a long long time ago, before wizards appeared, while although magic power existed throughout the world, but humans were incapable of absorbing this power into their bodies, and neither were they capable of using this power. One day an unparalleled genius was born, who invented the method to absorb magic power and nurture one's soul, using the soul to control the magic power and cast powerful spells. He was also the first wizard to transcend mortality and ascend to godhood, becoming the first Wizard God and created the era of wizards. Wizard God Roland then left the Wizard Realm to explore the outside world and ever since then, have never returned. Many new gods have ascended to godhood ever since then, but none of them have ever been able to find out where Wizard God Roland have gone to.

Antonidas sighed, thinking of how great it would have been if only the Wizard God Roland could return, who would then have dared to invade the Wizard Realm?

"Child, the space-time tunnel is filled with chaotic turbulence is very dangerous for pure souls to travel through, I will split my soul in half and give you half of my soul to nurture your soul and protect it through the space-time turbulence" Antonidas said gently and closed his eyes. Moments later, powerful soul fluctuations appeared and many small mini space cracks started appearing around the room.

A gigantic bluish translucent colored Antonidas appeared in front of his body, slowly he chanted a complicated incantation and let his physical body's hand chop his soul in half. Beads of sweat poured down Antonidas forehead. It was easy to see just how painful it was to split one's soul in half, if not for Antonidas being a demigod, he would have either died or turned into a vegetable state from doing such harm to his soul.

Antonidas staggered while one half of his soul returned to his body. Agun swiftly stepped forward to support him.

"Teacher!" Agun shouted Anxiously.

"Huu-" Antonidas breathed out heavily and tiredly said "I'm fine child"

Immediately sending the other half of his soul into Agun, Antonidas started controlling his soul to melt and wrap around Agun's soul while slowly permeating bit by bit into Agun's soul so to both protect and nurture his soul.

Agun felt his soul become stronger and stronger, his understanding of the Space law was increasing at an incredible speed. Agun understood that not only was his teacher nurturing his soul, but also gave all of his comprehensions to Space law to him. By giving someone else all their comprehensions of a law is fatal for a higher being like a god or demigod, since they used their law comprehensions to ascend. Losing one's law comprehension is the same as a knight removing all his steel armor and sword, returning to an ordinary person. Usually causing for gods and demigods to either die or be heavily injured and falling, becoming a mortal.

"Teacher!" Agun cried. He knew that it won't be long before his teacher was going to become an Archmage of Space, but his teacher needed to operate this complex spell formation that would even exhaust a demigod. For Antonidas to give up his space law comprehension, it was equal to suicide!