'The conflict between The Yadour empire and the Rimor Kingdom grows more heated by the day. With a few insurgent forces trying to declare their independence in the Breil region, the empire seems to have taken the opportunity to march their soldiers to the borders, as a full-blown war threatens to start at any day. The Academy does not appear to have any intentions of meditating between both countries. Peace is merely held by a tiny string, and I fear the day that string breaks.' — ???
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'I don't know what the second element are you talking about,' I admitted, I was clueless when it came to magic save for a few of my theories and deductions.
I never truly understood what mana or magic as a whole was, so I was quite interested in what the strange old dragon was talking about. Hearing my question, his gaze moved as it locked with mine before he squinted his eyes.
"You don't know what's your second element?" I could easily sense his confusion as he asked.
I sheepishly nodded, feeling strangely ashamed. 'Was I supposed to know my elements at birth or something?' I wondered.
"Judging by your size, you should have already gone through your rite of passage. No?" He asked again.
'My rite of passage?' I mumbled, my confusion must have been easily noticeable since his eyes squinted even more.
"Youngling, how old are you?" He slowly asked in apprehension.
'A few weeks I guess?' I replied, to which his jaw hung open in surprise before his body turned into liquid, once again disappearing from his place and reappearing by my side.
He constantly moved around me as he seemed to study my boy with shock. I stood still unsure of what was wrong until he finally stopped and turned to look at me with a strange expression.
'W-What?' I asked.
"You really are only a few weeks old," He muttered, seemingly talking to himself rather than to me. "How fascinating, " He mumbled.
'I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure I follow?' I asked, the strange dragon seemed to have descended into a world of his own, as he kept muttering to himself while pacing left and right.
At my question, he turned to face me once again. "Hmmm, since you are still young it does make sense for you to not understand. But then again how are you this big?" He asked.
'I think this happened when I hunted a strange crimson four-eyed monster in a giant lake,' I answered, unsure about the reason myself.
My growth sprout did occur right after that, so I suppose it must have had something to do with it? Hearing my reply, the strange purple dragon suddenly paused before he nodded continuously a few times.
"Indeed, that would explain things," He said.
'About that magic element you mentioned?' I hesitantly asked. I was not going to let an opportunity for me to gain more knowledge pass.
"Magic huh," He muttered, a terrifying grin made its way onto his face causing a shiver to run down my spine.
I didn't have time to react before his entire body turned into his liquid form again, this time it extended to the sky, I hurriedly summoned a shield of water yet that proved to be futile as he enveloped me whole.
It felt as If I was underwater for a second before the liquid disappeared. The strange dragon reappeared by my side, we were both teleported to a different space.
I glanced around in surprise, we were standing on a purple water surface, the purple sky seemed to touch the water as all I could see was purple. 'Where are we?' I managed to ask.
"This is what remains of my soul space,' He said, his voice carrying an undisguised hint of sadness.
'Soul space...' I muttered, rolling the phrase in my mouth as I tried to understand what was going on.
"You see young one, soul space is the source of every dragon's strength. The color you see here is the one representing my element," He explained, as his eyes wandered around the empty realm.
'Purple? What is your element?' I asked in curiosity.
As I said that, I turned to look at him only to be met with a horrifying grin. His face moved inches next to mine before speaking.
"Poison,"
I audibly gulped as I took a step back in shock. "Don't be so surprised little one, I have no intentions of harming you, if I had you wouldn't be standing here," He said in a reassuring tone, yet that only served to further scare me.
"Poison wasn't my only element, once upon a time, I also held control over water as well yet time change..." He mumbled the last part with a blank look before he shook his head.
I didn't interrupt and simply waited for him to finish speaking. He continued staring ahead as he spoke. "Magic little one, is split into two branches. The elemental magic, which consists of the main elements, fire, water, wind, and earth."
I nodded, father was a fire element, mother was a wind one and I was a water element. I think green Is wind while Golden boy is earth, but then again what about White and Blacky?
"The second branch is also the rarest one. Dragons with these elements stand horn and wing above the rest, and that is the pillars of existence." He said in a serious tone. I gulped, eager to hear more.
"The elements in the pillars of existence are also four, Holy magic, Dark magic, Cosmo magic, and finally time magic."
My eyes widened at the revelation, Holy magic, and Dark magic, that just sounded like White and Blacky! 'Well, shit there goes my dignity as the eldest,'
Suddenly, the strange dragon continued rekindling my lost hope. "You little one, seem to have a particularly strong affinity with one of the four pillars of existence,"
'I do?!' I asked excitedly.
"Hmm, you should be able to find out which one exactly after your Rite of passage," He answered with a nod.
Hearing that, my mouth curved upwards into a wide grin as I grew excited by the thought of me wielding one of the elements of the pillars of existence.
'Even the name sounds impressive,' I mumbled with stars in my eyes.
So he's Palkia, water/dragon type who controls space.
Cosmos sound like the first ancestor dragon king as he was hanging out in space for ages. Unless he was special and had them all?
If he was the dragon god/king I can see him having cosmos or all of them
I think Cosmo (space) and time. Space/time!
The elements in the pillars of existence are also four, Holy magic, Dark magic, Cosmo magic, and finally time magic."
"You little one, seem to have a particularly strong affinity with one of the four pillars of existence,"
interestingthe magic of time in this story, but if this little boy manages to dominate it or if he has an affinity with it. He might do some pretty funny magic tricks.
Well, some that I read in other novels like:
-restore: restore an object or person at some point in its "time". Do not restore an object or person in its "initial" state or only "repair", if not "restore" person object in a "state" of your timeline. That is, it restores the "body" to a youthful age, "restores" the time to when one was poisoned, drunk, or injured somewhere or when one was not injured or partly tired, etc, etc.
-Accelerate "time": time is a major force of "erosion", every object or living being after certain years ends up turning into sand or dying of old age (except dragons, which can live for several thousand years), if manages to make a "fog of accelerated time", it will become a disaster for any creature that is not a dragon.
-Accelerate: directly, accelerate the speed of an object, the same as the above, but it is directly "accelerate an action", the speed at which an object is thrown or where that object would be in example: 10 seconds if it is thrown, ignoring air friction and gtabedad ... syria as "simulating the firing of a pitola".
-slow motion: simple, slow down time within a certain zone, either to think and react or it depends on mastery to move freely within the slowed down zone. a "spell" to simulate increased reaction time. In extreme cases, people would think that one teleported without seeing when one moved.
-pause / stop time: I had seen this in a novel, when time is paused, it is also light, sound, movement, inertia, magic, mana, etc, etc. In the novel I read, one could only survive a "time stoppage" if his existence was a spirit or semi-spiritual. All means of attack except that of the "bodies" of those who are within the "stopped time" could attack, in that sense also the "defense force" was canceled, it was only a fight of "stocks" ... so say it. I doubt that this is in this novel, but I wanted to comment on that
one that would be something striking would be to "alter cause and effect", well, a "reduced" version of that effect would be "back an action X time". example: they cut you in half, step back the movements made and "repeat" the action, but this time you know what the other party will do and where the blow will come from.
Another example: the target, boss / beast / enemies etc, uses an ability to enter "berseker mode" or an ability that increases the regeneration of him etc. You can make "repeat" the action before it starts to do it and interrupt it or, if it is "running" or eating another of the same time to strengthen itself, it "backs up / repeats" its time as if nothing had happened (yet). It would be similar to "restore", but "restore" applies to the "state" of an object or individual, "repeat" is from an action from seconds ago.
if at the end it has the element of "cosmos / space" it will be interesting, as I think, the "dragon king" (who I would like to call more like "dragon god") in this story seems that this is one of its elements. It goes without saying how many things can be done with the space element, from level like teleportation to things as exaggerated as "dimensional collapse" in a given area.
Space or time, hm. He hasn’t shown any space so far, outside of reincarnating in a different realm. His constant visions could be an indicator of time too.
The forbidden continent, it was dubbed as forbidden since it was the land of the Dragon king
Isn't the Dragon King supposed to be in space or a higher realm/dimension?
Magic little one, is split into two branches. The elemental magic, which consists of the main elements, fire, water, wind, and earth
What about poison then? No lightning dragon? Lava, etc.???
The elements in the pillars of existence are also four, Holy magic, Dark magic, Cosmo magic, and finally time magic
No specific space dragon? How could a fire and wind dragon parents give birth to a holy and dark dragon? Beside their mother is grey not green. Based on her entrance during the fight as well she should be a storm dragon, wind and water.
Thanks for the chapter. I'm excited for his Rite of Passage (Destroying an Empire/Nation).
Didn’t know Lightning would be considered a pillar of existence. Thought that would be Life, Death, and maybe Space.
A bit late to the party, but I think it could be time due to all the visions that he is having.
Thanks for the chapter
thanks for the chapter(i bet time magic)