ELECTUS

"Yes yes. He is that type of Worthless. He came for a visit a few moons ago and now he is going to help me sell my goods."

The gate keeper replies with

"Very well, you may enter. But if you commit a crime this time, you won"t get so lucky. Either one of you. Understand?"

After that he shouts

"Open the Gates"

Shortly after, the great wooden gate opens. It was quite flatering to see a ten meter tall gate open. The strength and people needed to open it isn"t exactly small either.

As soon as they enter Crutal Kingdom, they make their way up to the bookshop.

The book seller welcomes Woldemir and Eric with a good greet and asks

"Who is your friend there Woldemir?"

Woldemir replies with

"A very special person. Dear Stefan, we need your help. Can we find a quiet place to talk this out? You know, a place where a diseased ill.u.s.tratio can"t overhear us and get us in trouble.

Stefan replies with

"Of course lets go to the storage room in my bas.e.m.e.nt. No soul could hear us there."

Woldemir replies with

"Alright that sounds like a good place."

And then he turns to Eric and says

"Son, you stay here and keep a look out. If anything, knock three times on the door and enter. Alright?"

Eric replies with

"Yes for sure. Go ahead and don"t worry."

Woldemir, Garther and Stefan go all down to the bas.e.m.e.nt. They take a seat on some wooden crates and Woldemir starts the conversation by saying

"Lets keep our voices down just in case. You can never be to safe around ill.u.s.tratios.

Also, Stefan my friend. I"m sure your curiosity is at its pique about who this man is.

I am going to sound like a madman right now for saying this but, he skipped two hundred years and appeared here, on our time and year."

Stefan replies to Woldemir

"You got the Madman part right. How on Earth would he skip two hundred years and appear here? Seriously! How? I wanna use it to get out of this ill.u.s.tratio infested place."

Woldemir replies with

"My friend, i know its hard to believe this. Trust me, i still have doubts. But why would this intelligent man lie to me? What possible benefit could he have from it except for a waste of time? Eric saw him in action with his own eyes."

Stefan replies with

"You have a point there. But can you at least explain how you skipped those two hundred years and came here? I"m sure being shot from a Catapult wouldn"t do the trick."

Woldemir replies with

"Actually, have you read about the last Electus? He knows Electus personally. And he was her Mentor."

Stefan replies with

"Right of course. And i am secretely King of Ignis but i work as a shopkeeper to keep of attention. How the actual h.e.l.l do you expect me to believe that?"

Woldemir replies with

"You don"t believe because you didn"t see anything yet. All Witches And Wizards were killed right? After the ill.u.s.tratio invaded Occidentis igne, right? They all were killed after our country got invaded, correct?"

Stefan replies with

"That is true. They wiped out every Witch and Wizard here on Occidentis igne. Even on all the three other countries in our continent as well. All this genocide happened when Xakro ill.u.s.tratio was crowned King of Septemtrionis ignis.

Invading the two other countries was a breeze but invading Occidentis Igne was always impossible when Akareas was the Queen."

Woldemir replies with

"Exactly. Xakro even a.s.signed his knights to hunt down any Witch or Wizard in hiding. They wiped out each and every one without missing. Meaning there shouldn"t be any more of them left.

Garther whose name is actually Mogranius survived because he skipped through the entire war when Akareas unleashed a teleportation spell towards him. It"s a long story on why she did that, but the main reason is that teleportation magic isn"t well researched, so the results were unpredictable, and Akareas was left no other choice.

But this might prove our point a bit more."

Then he turns to Garther and says

"Garther, blast out fire out of your hands like you did back on the woods. But careful, don"t burn this store down."

Garther replies with

"As you wish but i hope you know what you are douing."

After that he breathes in and as he breathes out, fire comes out of his palm. Not a fireball but just a small amount of fire rising above the palm of his right hand. After it starts off from the palm, it goes down to the back of his hand as well. After that reaching down to the fingers, it shows quite well that Garther"s right hand is surronded completely by that fire.

Stefan"s face turns pale. Which is ironic because a warm fire is near him.

After that Garther says

"You see Stefan, if i was lying to you i wouldn"t even trust you enough to show you my abilities. And if there was some trickery behind this fire, surely i wouldn"t be able to hold this continuesly lasting fire around my hand without burning my own hand down in the proccess."

(Said Garther a second after he shut down the fire on his hand).

Stefan replies with

"W-well now i am a bit more c-convinced and i can understand why you aren"t using your own name. To dangerous to walk around telling people your name. Sounds to much Wizard like.

But i am still confused on why you told me all this. What can i do for you?"

Woldemir replies with

"My friend, you"ve spent your entire life buying and selling books. I"m sure you can help us get unique books that will prove useful to us and history books that will shed more light to the situation Garther is in. And a bit more knowledge on how the war happened of course. You are one of the brightest people i"ve ever met. You grew up studying. You can be of much use to us"

Stefan replies with

"With that i can be useful. Help yourself with any book you please sir Mogranius.

Indeed i studied a lot.

And about the unique books, what exactly are you looking for?"

Mogranius replies with

"You see dear friend, Akareas and i found a book about teleportation deep down in a dungeoun. But disaster was short to follow after part of the dungeon collapsed.

I was seconds away from being crushed by boulders but Akareas teleported me out of there. She read a page or two of the book and as i was poking around the dungeon, i became victimized from my own curiosity. Those boulders didn"t crush me, but at the moment i"m thinking that would be more lucky than living at these times.

However, we need that book about teleportation. Do you have at least the slightest clue where we can find it?"

Stefan replies with

"I"ve read that Akareas peacefully died at the age of ninety three. And she died peacefully in her bed. At least, that"s what her second in command claimed. Was she that old when you were in that dungeon with her?"

Mogranius replies with

"Not at all, she was in her fifties at that moment. Do i look like that old to you? I"m clearly not over one hundred and thirty years old. I mean look at my wrinckleless face."

(Said Mogranius with a slight laughing tone)

Stefan replies with a humourless look on his face

"Right. Well that means Akareas along with the book survived that collapse. Meaning the book might still exist hidden somewhere. But i am not sure myself on where it could be."

Woldemir jumps in the conversation and says

"Did Akareas have a journal or diary? You know, where she writes down her adventures, thoughts and such."

Mogranius replies with

"Woldemir my friend, you just gave us the brake we have been looking for. That is a brilliant idea. And whoever became her second in command after me, had a diary for sure. We even have read it on that book."

Woldemir replies with

"Yes and if we find it, it might lead us to the teleportation book. And at least, these diairies or journals are less impossible to find i suppose."

Stefan replies with

"Yes! I love it when a plan comes together. Lets do this!!!."

Both Woldemir and Mogranius look at Stefan with confusion and sounds of crickets shortly followed. After that, Garther replies with

"You wish to join us? Dear friend, the Dangers along with it can be very unpredictable."

Stefan replies with

"The heck with it, I"m not living a better life like this anyway. Most of what i earn is stolen from the ill.u.s.tratio for "taxes". Plus i"m sure that you two have way more plans afterwards. I mean what would you need a teleportation book for if neither of you have the power to control it? You surely must have more plans, am i right?"

Woldemir replies with

"Indeed we have, we could use your knowledge at these troubeled times. And there is more for you to know. My son Eric is actually the new Electus. He restored to me something i lost long ago, hope and faith."

Stefan replies with

"I always saw something different in that boy. He isn"t like the other mannerless kids. But i never thought he would be this special. What are your plans after you get the book?"

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