Mysterious City

Zuhn saw countless foxes roaming around below him. Zuhn was sitting in a tree watching below, tracking the movements of the animals below. The foxes had dark gray eyes with bright red bodies.

Besides foxes, there were several others animals that were hunting for food and looking for Zuhn. Zuhn was getting chased by a hybrid animal as he was running down to the valley.

Zuhn decided not to deal with the bird and just hide. The bird was at least Martial Sky Ranked, Zuhn couldn't quite see what stage it was. Above Zuhn there was a loud noise of the bird flying over.

The bird flew straight over Zuhn, once it passed Zuhn let out a small sign. Suddenly, the bird turned around and came rushing back Zuhn. Zuhn's heart jumped when he saw the bird flying towards him.

Zuhn jumped off the tree, avoiding all of the other animals while running as fast as he could. Maximus was making jokes while he was running, saying that it was pointless to run.

Knowing that it was pointless to run, Zuhn ran until he found a cave. Ahead of Zuhn around 50 meters away was a dark hole in the side of the mountain. Zuhn's target was this hole in the mountain. Running at full speed he jumped into the hole, landing in a pile of mud.

Zuhn couldn't see if he put his hand in front of his face. Maximus spoke to Zuhn, telling him to turn to page 75 of the Ancient Magic Book.

In Zuhn's mind, he thought of a simple spell that created light. With Ancient Magic, Zuhn was able to create simple spells with a bit for thinking.

Zuhn thought back to his time on earth, 'maybe this will work.'

'Let There Be Light!'

Zuhn shouted that phrase in his mind and looked around waiting to see if something would show up. He waited and waited, but nothing happened. Maximus was having a laugh listening to Zuhn try to make spells.

'Zuhn, try to think of the spell. Think about how the spell would work, how much power it would take. The time length of the spell, all of these factors need to be accounted for.'

Nodding his head, Zuhn went again to try and create a light spell. Zuhn closed his eyes and started to imagine what the light would look like. He thought of a bright yellow dot.

Zuhn wanted to start simple, and not make things too complicated. He now thought how bright the dot should be. He thought of a star in the sky, then made the length of time for the spell. Zuhn didn't want to keep recasting the spell, so he made the spell special.

The spell that Zuhn was about to make, let the spell stay cast forever as long as there was enough magical power to support it. Zuhn was getting excited with the new spell that he was about to create.

'Zuhn, there is one last thing you need to do, you need to name it.'

A bright grin appeared on Zuhn's face when he heard Maximus's words. Zuhn closed his eyes and thought deep to try and figure out a good name for the spell.

After thinking for a couple of minutes, Zuhn decided to make a name that was stupid simple.

'Light'

Zuhn thought of the spell and said the word light in his head.

Seconds later, a bright light appeared in front of Zuhn. Once the bright light appeared, Zuhn still couldn't see in front of him. The light was too bright, Zuhn canceled the spell.

Zuhn went through the process of creating the spell, then put a way to control the light. Zuhn tried the light spell again, this time there was a different reaction.

Zuhn cast the spell, and he was able to control the light of the spell. When he used the spell it was bright at first, though he used the functions of the spell to make it dimmer.

Once it was dim enough for Zuhn to see, he was able to see what was around him. In front of Zuhn laid a tunnel that was a plain sight of void darkness.

Above Zuhn was the whole that he jumped in from. The hole was directly above him, but he could see a little bit of light coming in from the hole. Zuhn moved the light above himself, shining on the walls of the tunnel.

The walls looked fairly slippery from the mud on the walls of the tunnel. Zuhn still tried to climb out of the tunnel. He moved the spell farther up the tunnel so he could see ahead.

Zuhn put his foot on the wall and tried to put the other one on the wall. He instantly fell down to the floor. Zuhn tried a couple more times than gave up.

After giving up, Zuhn decided to go into the void of darkness. Zuhn put the light through first before he crawled through the tunnel. While crawling through the tunnel, the mud started to get thicker and thicker the father he went.

Suddenly, the mud became thinner. The space of the tunnel started became wider, revealing a cave like an area. Zuhn got himself out of the mud and made the spell shine brighter.

When Zuhn made the spell as bright as he could, it still didn't reach the ends of the cave. Zuhn let out a long sigh and turned down the brightness of the light.

Maximus was in awe when he was looking through Zuhn's eyes. Just like Zuhn, Maximus couldn't see to the walls of the cave. From as far as the light could go, was just barren land.

There wasn't any rocks, or hills in the area. Most if not all of the land was filled with wet and dried mud. Zuhn started to walk forward through the mud. By now all of his lower body was covered in a thick layer of mud.

Zuhn walked for a couple of minutes before reaching a clearing. There was a small number of lights coming from a small hole in the ground. When Zuhn tried to look down the whole, all he could see was blue light below.

He looked around one more time, making sure he didn't miss anything. Once he was sure that he searched through the top of the cave, he jumped down the blue tunnel.

Landing at the bottom, Zuhn found out that the ground solid. It was not muddy at all. It felt like a regular grass covered ground when he looked down it was true.

Zuhn landed in grass and dirt. The dirt wasn't wet, it was dry and there were blue lights on random trees. The trees were quite strange, they had small blue orbs on the sides of the tree.

The trees gave off a little bit of light, inside the orbs was a blue liquid that was moving around. Maximus was getting excited inside of Zuhn's head. Rambling on about how great an Ancient Trial was.

Maximus explained that the orbs on the trees were Ancient Blue Flare trees. Blue Flare trees were extinct on the outside world. Though, they were at an abundance in this trial.

Maximus explained that there were several uses for Blue Flare tree. For one the orbs on the trees were good for healing. They were one of the best ways to heal the human body.

One drop of the liquid could heal someone that was on the brink of death. The liquid also adds 100 years onto human life. This can be stacked, though all the liquid did was add years to your natural death.

After hearing Maximus's explanation of the liquid, Zuhn filled with greed and was about to approach the tree. Maximus forcibly took over Zuhn's body and made him back up away from the tree.

'No… Don't go near the tree. Each of the trees is Spiritual Sky Lord ranked. Spiritual Sky Lord is a very high ranked in cultivation, close to my rank. You wouldn't be enough to even get close to the tree. Once the tree detects a life form, it sends out spikes and slashes towards the target. Once the target is dead, it gets sucked into the ground, food for the tree.'

Zuhn gulped when he heard what the tree was able to do. Zuhn slowly backed away from the tree, trying to figure out how to pass the trees without dying.

Maximus guided him through the grove of trees, leaving behind the amazing liquid left a tear in Zuhn's eyes. Walking farther into the cave, they found a couple of trees. In the trees were regular Ancient Fruits, these fruits were guarded and could be taken.

From all of the chaos of the 'Light Spell' Zuhn totally forgot about going to page 75 of Ancient Magic Book. Zuhn took out the book and flipped to the page that Maximus told him to go to.

The page read '10xSpaceRing' The Space Ring was a special ring. This ring gains the user access to put items into a stalled time of space. For example, if you put food inside of the ring, it would not go rotten. Time in the ring was stopped.

The 10x part of the name meant that it was 10 meters by 10 meters. On the page besides the 10x10 SpaceRing, there were other rings with different names.

The ring that caught the most attention to Zuhn was Lightning Attribute Ring. The description read, 'Ring that gave the ability of Lightning Attribute to anyone using the ring.'

Zuhn was shocked by how powerful the ring was. He really wanted to use one of them. Zuhn's happiness was short-lived when he looked at the materials he died.

X10 Blue Flare Liquid Drops

X5 Lightning Dragon Scales

X20 Regular Dragon Scales

X2 Lightning Dragon Hearts

X5 Regular Dragon Hearts

Permission From Mystic Ranked Human

Maximus let out a sigh after seeing the ingredients needed to make the ring.

'Zuhn, My cultivation just recently reached Mystic Ranked. Which means you have one out of the six.'

Zuhn could hear the weak smile on Maximus's face through his tone of voice.

'Okay, Let's see about the SpaceRing'

Zuhn wasn't hoping for much after seeing how hard it was to get the other ring. Zuhn looked at the description and began to read.

'Any user of Ancient Magic Book can have a free 10xSpaceRing'

After reading the sentence, Zuhn couldn't help but let out a cry of joy. Maximus was also shocked when he had the book he wasn't given a free ring.

The Ancient Magic Book wasn't just a book. The book was alive and could interact with its users. Meaning, it could change the book according to the user's skills. Inside the book was ways to create certain items, as long as you gave the book the required materials. The book could create any item that it had a recipe for.

'Maximus, how does one get the free ring?'

Maximus was silent for a couple of moments.

'Uh… I truly don't know. For me, when I had the book, I just thought about the item and it gave it to me...'

'Okay, I'll try that.'

Zuhn looked down at the ring and started to think about the item. The book didn't move, just sat still. Zuhn tried again looking at the item, making his face turn red.

Once again, the book didn't move. Zuhn put his hand on the book and felt a small pinch on his finger. Zuhn lifted his hand off the book and looked at his finger. There was a drop of blood that was dripping from his finger.

The book had turned bright red and was glowing. Zuhn looked down at the book, the book started to move. The words on the book changed, a small purple gem was coming out of the book.

Slowly the gem moved up and up until a full ring came out of the book. Zuhn reached out and grabbed the ring from the book. When he picked up the ring, all he could feel was the power of the ring.

A ring had such power, Zuhn himself was quite shocked at the aura around the ring. Zuhn put the ring on and looked down at his finger. Maximus mocked him at the site.

The book below Zuhn turned pages on its own and moved to a blank page. On the page, words started to be created. The book was talking to Zuhn, and it was telling him to move forward.

Zuhn already used the book a lot during the time he was in this world. So he listened to the book and walked forward. In front of everyone was darkness, but far into the darkness, there was a strange white light.

Zuhn moved forward edging his way to the white light, the closer he got the brighter the light. Once he was close enough to make out a silhouette, Zuhn was shocked at the site.

What Zuhn was looking at was a city. The city was huge, it had a small thin bubble around the whole city. If someone didn't have good eyesight, then they wouldn't have noticed the bubble.

Zuhn moved closer to the city, looking at the ground and around to make sure he doesn't run into a trap. When Zuhn got outside of the city, he tried to look inside.

While Zuhn was looking, the book became slightly warm. Zuhn took it out, the book turned the pages again and wrote something on the blank page.

'Put this book on the forcefield.'

Zuhn took the book and moved up to the bubble, he brought out the book. Zuhn took one deep breath before he put the book on the bubble.