Wizard of Altima

Under the dark sky illuminated by a few scattered stars, the exhausted young man stood in front of the great dragon on the top of the Chaos Mountain. He was breathing heavily, his body thickened with wounds and his eyes filled them with despair and fatigue. But in his heart, a glimmer of hope remained.

The young man, with a shaky voice but full of determination, said, "I accept this, no matter what."

When the young man uttered these words, he felt the weight of the universe fall on his shoulders. The sudden silence clouded the place, and the wind stopped as if listening to the bold decision. The sky, which was blazing with blood colors, seemed to be watching what would happen.

The dragon, with a deep and calm gaze, approached with calculated steps. He raised his head to the sky and closed his eyes, as if thinking carefully about a gourd. Suddenly, he slowly opened his eyes and advanced towards the young man. Then without the young man knowing what happened to him he had been cut into 3sections by the dragon!

The dragon raised its head and released its first puff, it was deep and strong, carrying with it the blue flame that wrapped one of the young man's divided parts. Parts of his body began to fade and form into the body of a new human. It was then that the dragon said:

"The power that stems from compassion, can defeat anything."

With the second puff, another human formed from the young man's remains, the dragon said second:

"To embrace strength with all patience, and let the purity of the heart be your key."

Finally, with the third puff, the last part of the young man turned into a third human and the dragon finally said:

: "From the depth of the night the waxing is born, and from the wound the wisdom flows."

After this is over. The three youngsters looked at each other in amazement and then looked at the dragon to understand the significance of all this.

The dragon simply said:

"Try to get down this mountain, this is the challenge!"

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When I peeked at the black spear attached to the dead wolf's body, I noticed a strange change. The spear began to shine with a faint black light, as if life was taking effect in it. Slowly, the spear faded, as if the ground had swallowed it, leaving behind only the body of the large wolf still motionless.

Then, I felt a cold void fill the place. The air became heavy as if the forest itself held its breath in front of the incoming danger. Suddenly, the ground began to shake softly under my feet, as if responding to a great force preparing to appear.The sound of the wind faded, and a shocking silence took place. Everything around me became in anticipation, and finally that person came out of the trees.

The first thing to catch sight of his huge body, he was taller than me but he wasn't the same as me, he was with prominent muscles, his dark green coat with large sleeves and not covering his stomach and bare chest. Black pants and white sandals. His brown hair was up to his shoulders and his eyes were almond-colored. He was one of the famous actors.

I glanced at a black spear with his right hand, his blade thin and his handle red... It was the same spear that killed the wolf apparently!

"Hohohoh, it looks like I got a light warm up." The man spoke to no one and his voice sounded like a spoiled child's voice!

Then he glanced at me after not a heroic time.The astonishment on his face did not look but was even closer to boredom.

"Who are you He asked me after long looking at me.

"Me !... I am.. "

The words betrayed me and I couldn't pronounce properly. Just what will I tell him "I'm looking for black magic ingredients and in my bag the dissident guardian book."

"Well don't care Illumi, you must be the slave of one of the wizards." He said in an uninterested tone and returned his gaze to the wolf corpse and then continued.

"But, where was your mind When you face a royal mirror wolf "

"This is a mirror wolf But it seems.." My tongue went off and I kinda felt more comfortable.

"Magical creatures are species in strength, ordinary and royal and brutal and sacred and heavenly."

He explained it to me and as if he felt proud that he knew a lot.

The ordinary were common magical creatures, the wizard of the level of the first could defeat him, the royal was about ten times stronger, the wizard of the level of the Adeep might find difficulty with him, the monstrous creature was at the level of the wizard of Brettes or even stronger, the sacred was the rarest and the most dangerous. His strength was equivalent to a fifth-level wizard, even me some of them reach the sixth level, Heavenly Beast He told me that he thought it was a fairy tale and did not meet one of them until the hour.

"And but what I realize you is a myth? The world is vast even on wizards" I asked out of curiosity and trying to win his own friendliness.

He sat on the ground,he was playing with a tree branch on the dirt as a child and put his other hand under his chin.

'This magician is a fool for real! ' That's what I inferred.

He said and yawned:

"I may have reached the eastern border of the eastern continent and found none of it."

From my shock I fell on my ass!

"And but that's impossible!" I said in a trembling and unbelieving voice.

This world is made up of 7continents and 5Great Oceans, Central, Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern, Lower Continent which is between Central and Eastern and Upper Continent between Western and Northern.

Only crossing the Central Continent from east to west might last decades on the Arcon Magician! The cut-off of the periphery of the "Orovin" separating the Central Continent from the Lower Continent is difficult even for the empire's naval fleet and may take years despite being the best on the continent! And this person said that he has surpassed all of this and is even far beyond the Eastern continent, this same person who looks like in his thirties!

He raised his gaze to me and smiled in an arrogant manner

"Don't be surprised boy, I'm 180years old!"

Just stare, he shouldn't have lightened my shock has increased it!

"Hahaha! You don't have to, I know this is above your ability to understand, just I am a wizard of the level of Altima.. That's it"

Shit! This was completely beyond my expectations, meeting a Level Six Magician here in particular!

"Don't worry, kid. I won't kill you, even though there's a spell that can turn the two Luminaries into a small puppet as a source of mana. But you will not benefit me in something"

I just keep watching him without asking questions. And he keeps talking like he's reading my thoughts.

"In fact I like collecting collectibles, months before my return to this boring continent I discovered something that provokes my curiosity and drools him"

My team gulped, just touch my bag holding the book and the black old mushroom.

It was a wrong move! I felt a change in his aura, that person who seemed to me blushing and childish had started to show some sort of seriousness.

"Have you met any magical creatures other than this wolf He asked me cautiously.

I think carefully about my answer.

"Just a smaller wolf, it was an ordinary mirror wolf" There's no point in lying here.

He closes his eyes like he's thinking, then says after opening his eyes.

"Either you are so weak that magical creatures can't notice you, or there is something in you that made creatures fear you."

After he opened his eyes he was examining me with his gaze, his eyes were looking tenderly and unrelenting, as if they were penetrating my soul directly.And that aura it emitted was enough to cut my breath and feel weak just looking at him directly.

He mumbles a speech I can hear. "Long white hair, slim and long body, golden eyes.. And the dissident guardian book!"

My heart had stopped hearing his last words. How could he tell his presence even inside the bag.

He notices my reaction and smiles. And he says.

"Don't worry, the dissident guardian book is not what I'm looking for."

I sigh, before he completes.

"But I always wanted to know.. If that magician was alive! Who would have won a fight between us in your opinion !"

I just shut up trying to decipher his question.

"Do you know something, boy?"

"...!?"

"This book I liked... I decided to add it to my holdings!"