Discovering And Exploring A Dragon's Hideout

On one of the mountains of Friapiet Mountain Range, Planet Gaia's largest mountain range,

BOOM!

The steep ground on mountain was crushed. The light poured into the hole where the steep ground has been crushed. Asnor then jumped into the hole and slid down and jogged by the time his foot had touched the ground to balance himself. He eventually stopped and looked around.

Asnor could see the signs of the hideout being very luxurious.

Asnor explored the hideout further inside. Asnor then found signs of magic in this hideout.

"As expected! But this definitely ain't the hideout I am looking out for. Too bad. But it doesn't matter. I knew from the very beginning that it ain't gonna be easy." ,Asnor then let out a heavy sigh.

Eventually, Asnor arrived in front of a huge door.

"Humph!"

Asnor didn't even flinch at the sight of huge door. He just teleported himself to bypass the door.

Asnor didn't stop as he kept teleporting and explored the hideout's inner structure.

'Magic... this building used to be fortified with magic but not anymore.'

Eventually, Asnor arrived in a space where he could see 10 feet long malfunctioned magical guns planted on the walls.

"In ancient times, everyone was too dependent on magic such that they never thought of the idea of absence of magic. Because of this fact, all magically fortified structures became useless during the times of absence of magic. Even if magic has come back, structures like this hideout has been damaged a bit too much due to passage of time."

Asnor couldn't help but sigh at the pitiful state of this hideout.

Asnor then teleported and found himself in a huge space. Asnor looked around and was shocked.

"Is that gold powder? Diamonds?"

'I didn't even realize it because I can only sense things that are a threat to myself. This is a flaw in combining my flaw sensing power with my normal sensory powers. But the range of my overall sensory capability increases because of this combination. So, it's fine.'

Asnor found a heap of shiny materials in a corner.

"Is this a treasury? But this space still shouldn't be this empty. It feels like something is missing. Did someone rob this place before? That's impossible due to presence of those shiny materials..."

It was at that moment did Asnor realize, 'Don't tell me that this never place was in fact never robbed but depleted due to disintegration of magic? Magic was so important that these dragons discarded these shiny materials. They are heaped up in a corner. This is too pitiful.'

That's right, this was a dragon's hideout in ancient times.

Asnor then sat down on the ground by crossing his folded legs.

He then took out a book from his ring he wore on his right finger's ring finger. Asnor then placed the book on the ground and turned the pages. On the page Asnor could see, he found a map with several markings.

'This is the map of ancient times. From the map of modern times, that is, present times, the place where the dragon's hideout I am looking out for is in southern continent of United Federation.'

That's right, United Federation comprises of two continents and they are called Northern United Federation and Southern United Federation respectively.

Asnor then reminisced as to how he ended up in this exploration with a specific dragon's hideout as his destination.

Inside a state library of Erlion State, Gremory City, Erlion State,

Asnor was looking at books one by one while floating and maintaining his invisibility magic. Eventually, Asnor found a book that interested himself which was named <Friapiet Mountain Range>. Asnor didn't stop as he kept searching for books. Asnor then suddenly stopped and looked right.

A 40 year old magus could be seen walking in the row of book sections Asnor was in. He walked past Asnor. Asnor then swapped the book on his hand with another book. The man who had just walked past Asnor stopped and looked back but as if he didn't find anything noteworthy, he just kept walking while looking around.

'This guy must be quite sensitive to have sensed what I had done. No wonder my sensory power detected a threat. Unless they are the strongest magi on this world, there is no way that just anyone could recognize me. My cloak is just too powerful for that.'

Few hours later, Asnor could be seen in a coffee shop.

Asnor then started reading a book named <The only lord who didn't lose hope>

'The Elf Lord along with five other lords who were nicknamed Dwarf Lord, Dragon Lord, Demon Lord, Snake Queen and finally Human Princess, announced their failure in figuring out a way to outlast upcoming planet crisis but they said that they would still try to figure out a way to survive this disaster that affects the planet as a whole. In fact, all the lords had planned to evacuate the planet if a method to outlast the disaster falling upon planet was never found.'

'By the time lords found out about their death being inevitable if they had kept on staying on planet, the entire sky was covered in dead magic. If the lords had decided to evacuate, they won't be killed but they won't be able to fly past dead magic barrier in sky on the planet.'

'The reason was the combination of them being incapable of using magic wherever dead magic was present and also the pressure created by dead magic barrier on lords themselves.'

'Among the six lords, the elf lord was the only lord who had hope in surviving the disaster. Thus, he started researching on how to survive the disaster. Eventually, he found a way and that was spiritual magic. He needed the help of fairies to to counter the disaster. He eventually came into an agreement with fairies and the elf lord then proceeded with his plan.'

At least that's what Asnor understood by reading the book.

'I felt like reading this book again and again because of how ridiculous it sounds. Modern times, the end result of the elf lord's achievements, hah? After knowing about the result, I couldn't help but pity this elf lord. Also, who would have thought the the elf whose body I had exploded was the elf lord?! He was one of the six strongest beings in ancient times.'

Asnor sighed upon experiencing the emotions that he wouldn't normally experience yet again.

'Ancient times, modern times. Then what would I call the times before magic even came into existence.'

Asnor thought for a while and he then found it.

'That's it! I know the order! Ancient Era, Ancient Magus Era, Modern Era and finally Modern Magus Era. This can perfectly describe the four different times. I don't know anything about what happened before Ancient Era since I didn't find anything about it in the books I found inside the elf lord's ring.'

Asnor then took out a book from his ring and turned the pages of the book and read, 'Legendary Magical Equipment Set, comprised of six different magical items that was made by all six lords together with the help of Fairy King nicknamed as Spirit King. Each of these six magical items were represented by each of the six lord's individual manifestations respectively. These magical items were made at a cost on Fairy King's behalf even though the fairy king hadn't told any of the six lords about what kind of loss the fairy king had.'

Asnor then turned the pages and saw a map with markings.

Asnor stopped reminiscing and looked at the map once again.

'This book wrote personally by Elf Lord states that this was his inheritance journal that could have easily helped out his successor a lot. The magical cloak was the one of the six legendary magical items that represented elf lord himself. The elf lord only knew a rough idea about whereabout of the dragon lord's hideout.'

'After the lords started realizing about their future fate, all of them hid to figure out how to survive upcoming disaster. Luckily, the elf lord had talks now and then with dragon lord because he had subordinated himself to the dragon lord a long time ago. So, even though the elf lord didn't have a precise idea about dragon lord's whereabouts but he still had a rough idea. The rounded marking on a landmass in this map could presently be described as Southern United Federation is where the dragon's hideout is probably at.'

'I have been trying to figure out where dragon's hideout was at and thus I ended up in a state library of Erlion State but the library only seemed a little special which isn't enough considering the great lineage of Gremory Family. I might find the special books in Family House but that's where mother lives. I feel like mother can easily find me if I were to infiltrate the Family House. It's kind of mother's specialty, I think.'

'Thus, I started exploring places that I found suspicious of where the dragon lord's hideout would probably be at. Friapiet Mountain Range was sixth such place. I finally found a dragon's hideout but it ain't dragon lord's hideout. It was easy for me to figure out if there was a hideout in this mountain range or any other places. I just needed to use my sensory powers with the magical cloak's help at different regions by teleporting rapidly.'

Asnor sighed.

'There needs to be a short cut to my current problem. This is just my second day and I already feel it's very annoying to just explore random places I find suspicious of where the dragon's hideout is probably at. Besides, it's the dragon lord. He will only hide in unordinary manner.'

Asnor then looked at the elf lord's journal.

'Maybe this book might have clues to it?'

Asnor just rejected the thought since he had already read the book thoroughly and thought to himself again,

'If that's case, only I myself can solve the problem. There is only one way I can easily find out about this hideout, that is, my visionary power.'

Asnor smiled upon his own realization but it didn't take long before he showed his facial expression of being upset.

'But it's unfortunately not working. I thought I could easily find out about all these five remaining hideouts because of my visionary power since my visionary power was what had helped me find the elf lord's hideout. I thought this would be a piece of cake. But I never out found my visionary power working for some reason when it comes to remaining hideouts of these lords. I wonder why? As long as I can figure out the reason, it might help me out in getting a vision regarding these hideouts.'

Asnor got up and walked around the treasury room. Asnor then suddenly stopped walking and thought about the feeling he had got when he received his first vision.

"Don't tell me!", Asnor smiled widely since he may have figured out at to how his visionary power has been working out so far.