Somewhere in the forest where they call it theForest of Trials, a few people in robes appeared out of nowhere. They seemed to be suspicious and currently tracking something."Did that cat go this way?"
"He shouldn"t be far enough!"
"Find him! He cannot get away with our treasure!"
The guys shouted here and there and they started scattering. After a while, the chaotic place once again returned to its tranquil peace. The nearby rock move and an illusion barrier disappeared revealing a cat wearing a monocle. This guy is Nekoyama or Catmod in the chatgroup. He is clutching his bleeding left arm due to a severe damage to whatever caused it.
"Those guys almost got me good! Why did they suddenly target me without reason?! I am just an innocent pa.s.serby!" Catmod mumbled as he tried healing his wounds. But soon, he realized that the wound did not get easily healed. Instead, it was like it didn"t affect his wound at all.
"That won"t be healed using traditional magic," a voice from a female emerges.
Catmod quickly goes in defensive and casts his magic that can go off anytime he wanted to. The person who said those words emerges from the shadows and is currently raising her hands. She is also wearing a hooded robe like the people chasing Catmod earlier so Catmod is tensed up for another fight despite the deep wound in his arm.
"Relax, I am not your enemy. I already defected from that place so you can rest a.s.sured that I won"t be harming you."
"How can I be so sure that you have defected from those guys? I don"t easily believe anyone except myself in this situation."
The woman smirked before she removes her gloves that cover her arms. There, the back of her hand"s skin is burned to crisp. Only a bit of scab left behind can be seen on the surface of her hand and it was more like it shows the flesh instead.
"You have seen from the guys before their hands, right? As one of the cat people, noticing that small detail is just an easy feat right?"
"So? I only remember seeing them have a tattoo. So what?"
"That tattoo is something only the people who are still with them and members of their a.s.sault team would bear the tattoo. If you want to defect, destroying the tattoo by any means help defect from them."
"So you burned the skin of your hand just to remove the tattoo?"
"Is there any problem with that?"
"No. If you say so, I will believe in you. However, I don"t fully trust you yet and if you try to betray me, you will surely feel the taste of pain."
"Ha, I don"t plan to do that. Don"t worry, you won"t be disappointed. Before all of that, let"s cure your wounds first. The races of elves have nasty poisons that deal with healers. They use poisons that cannot be healed by ordinary means."
"Wait what? Elves? Do elves still exist in this realm? I thought they are wiped out from the last war!"
The hooded girl smirked. "Not all of the elves partic.i.p.ated in the last war. Some had decided to just hide away and let the time flows. After the war, the remaining elves decided to seclude from the world to avoid total annihilation in this ruins."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
The hooded girl pull out a leaf on her sling and put it on Catmod"s wounded hand. Although Catmod is not entirely sure what leaf it was or what properties it contains, he didn"t question further because he is trying to focus on preparation in case the enemy is bogus. He also tried to guess the leaf on his wounded hand. If he wants to live out on this event, he has to make sure that the leaf does not contain paralysis or poison effects that would be bad for anyone including him.
The good thing is, the leaf did not have any of those bad effects, instead, it slowly dissolves on his wounds and makes a layer of magical property on his hand that rapidly heals the wound. It didn"t take too long for the wound to scab and heal. A few more seconds pa.s.sed and the wound that still hurts and stings Catmod is already back to normal.
"Who are you? Why are you helping me?" Catmod suspected that this woman is also an elf, a race that was already thought to be extinct. But he is unsure unless the woman removes her hood. He can"t force her to remove it too. If she doesn"t want to remove it, so be it.
"I am just someone who defected my tribe after discovering what they were up to. I don"t want the world to get corrupted just because of the greedy desires that my fellow tribe people wanted. You don"t want this world to get destroyed too, do you?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about and what kind of ritual your tribe is making but if they are trying to corrupt the world just for their selfish gains, I would not sit idle and watch the world crumble. Is it possible for me to know what kind of ritual this was?"
The woman sighed but she nodded to Catmod and started speaking. "We are just the minor characters in this event, but we can are the ones who can alleviate the consequences. I know that you are the guardian of the Magic Trial Ruins not too far from here and you currently housed a guy who recently became a magician. Am I right?"
Catmod was surprised. He didn"t expect the woman to know that he is the guardian without ever knowing him beforehand. If that is the case, this woman already knows the background of the people around him. And since the woman is speaking about Kazuma, the events will likely be revolving around him.
"Is it Kazuma?"
"Hmm, so his name is Kazuma. Well, this guy will be our key to stop the world from being corrupted. You see, a few days ago, I drop an egg near him to pick up. The elves are treating the egg as an artifact and what will hatch inside is something that can stir the darkness and chaos around the whole world and if used by the wrong hands, the whole world will launch a dark age that would plunge the world to its most chaotic time."
"Wait, wait, you gave the egg to Kazuma? He is still a rookie magician and he still has no experience in battles except for a few brushes of death and a few flukes. But aside from that, he is still far from able to attack anyone stronger at the moment!"
"I know. However, he is someone who owns a very pure mana that cleanses even the darkest energy. Although he is still unaware and from the looks of it, a few of his mana circuits are sealed, he is the most qualified person to handle the egg."
"Just what is this egg that you gave him? What is so great about it that it would be able to cause a chaotic age if used by forces of evil?"
The woman paces a few more steps before she stopped and quickly goes to high alert. "Someone is getting here on our location. Let"s move out and find a place to escape for now. We can"t afford to die here."
Catmod also goes to full alert. "I pa.s.sed by on a nearby thicket before I was ambushed. I am sure I spotted a cave not too far in that area. Let"s head over there."
"Let"s go! Can you teleport?"
"Let"s not use that method. It gives away our locations immediately. Let"s sneak away. I have a camouflage magic that can cover us both. Are you alright with that?"
"I don"t care. We can"t let ourselves get caught if we want to get Kazuma. And if we perish here, we won"t be able to stop the world"s fall to darkness. Let"s get into it!"
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Seeing the message of Zacharias in the Chat Group, the mansion quickly made preparations in the ruins. Whenever something happened to the current guardian of the ruins, all of the servants in the lair would quickly deploy defensive mechanisms to stop intruders and other monsters.
Maple, Moonlight, and I were the ones tasked to find Catmod in the Forest of Trials and bring him back. With Maple"s extrasensory hearing and the way she can spot Essences easily, she is a valuable a.s.set to find Catmod easily in this very dense forest that many monsters inhabited.
Maple changed into a Battle Armor which is for the good chance to attack enemies without restraint in for later. Moonlight and I did not change our clothes. While Maple allowed me to remove the necklace that Catmod has given to me, I did not bother removing it for now because this is a big opportunity to train my body. With how many days of training, I am itching to fight and try out my blue fireball. But due to the excessive cost of the Blue Flames, I won"t use it unless necessary. I will just stick to the gloves" flames and Telekinesis for now.
Itazura also curled up on my neck. I will be relying on her illusion if it goes wrong for later. After wearing the gloves, I brought along the egg. My gut tells me that this egg would be beneficial for later.
Moonlight looked at me and asked. "Are you ready Kazuma? We will be departing in a few minutes."
"Yes, let"s go and find the cause of this event."