418 Fernandos Roaring (1/2)
On the thirty-fifth floor of the Congress of Magic's headquarter tower, in a medium-sized meeting room.
In the center of the room, there was a long cherrywood table surrounded by twenty-four chairs. The chairs were all made of precious wood and their red velvet cushions were nice and soft. The backs of the chairs were carved with different fine patterns, such as the symbol of elements, a storm enveloping bolts of lightning, the crown of magic and arcana…
”It has been confirmed that the God of Silver Moon, Alterna, brought about the change of the scarlet moon. As for Alterna's enemy… it was an existence which has never been discovered before, probably coming from a silent world where all colors are devoid except for black, white, and grey.” The Prophet, who was wearing a grey pointy hat, concluded primarily.
The scarlet moon and what happened to the two beings so close to the ”truth” caught the attention of the Congress of Magic immediately. The Highest Council called for a meeting to decide further arrangements.
Since the meeting was a rush decision, only eighteen out of the twenty-four members managed to attend. Hathaway and the other five members were not in Allyn right now.
Hearing what the Prophet just said, Vicente Miranda, also known as the Thanatos, knocked at the table and said, ”What we should really care about right now is which dimension Alterna and the unknown existence ended up falling into, and why They started fighting.”
Vicente Miranda was covered with a black cloak. Inside his eyes, two dark red flames were flickering.
”It perhaps has something to do with Dracula, the Vampire Prince, and Rhine, the Silver-eyed Count. They aren't getting along with each other. According to the information yielded by Horoscope, I went to the Dark Mountain Range this early morning and found that Rhine's castle has jumped into the Night Highland to recover from severe damage. The surroundings have been completely destroyed into ashes, and traces left by Dracula were everywhere…” Douglas said in a calm tone. ”As for why they started fighting, and why the unknown existence was involved, no idea so far.”
Fernando's red eyes surveyed around the meeting room, and many of the legendary archmages slightly lowered their eyes to avoid direct eye contact with him. They did not want to be roared at by Fernando if he somehow found a fault of theirs.
”I've sent Bergner and Annonis to locate the dimension. If any of you are free, please join in. We all know how important this is,” said Fernando. He had been safeguarding Allyn in recent years and was therefore responsible for making the arrangements at this point.
Bergner was the Prophet's name, and Annonis was the Astrologer.
”Also, I have confirmed from other sources that it was Dracula and Rhine who caused it. If we want to find the reason for the fight, we must focus on the mysterious existence and the silent world made of black, white, and grey!”
As Fernando spoke, he looked directly into Vicente's eyes.
”What do you mean, Fernando?”
The dark flames in Thanatos's eyes flickered. He was not a crazy mage who had no idea of interpersonal relationships. Thus, he understood what Fernando was indicating.
”I've got a message from the Duchy of Violet. At the end of April in year 816, great changes took place beside Lake Elsinore. Some adventurers survived and they described the changes as 'all colors but black, white, and gray started to fade, and the sounds also disappeared'. Don't you tell me this has nothing to do with what happened last night!”
”Also, Rogerio was there at that time! Why he didn't he include this in his report?!”
The light in Fernando's eyes was sharp and he was almost roaring. The survivor he was talking about was, of course, Lucien.
Because of the ambush of the Church and Hathaway's involvement, there were quite a few survivals from the catastrophe. Some of the night watchers and knights who were chasing after Argent Horn were there as well. Therefore, the information was in fact relatively easy to access. Thus Lucien did not try to hide it from his teacher, instead, he confessed in front of Fernando, which was in actually a good way of showing that he knew nothing about the World of Souls.
”You gotta ask Hathaway.” Thanatos tried to shift Fernando's attention to Hathaway who was not present.
”Shall I also ask Hathaway why there's also the solidification of black, white, and grey in Heidler as well?!”
Fernando's roaring kept going on. Thanatos couldn't help leaning slightly to one side.
The rest of the members of the Highest Council all knew what happened in Heidler. But because no possible reasons were found, none of them mentioned about it before. Now that what just happened resembled Heidler's condition so much, they all started feeling suspicious. However, facing Vicente, they were hoping that the Lord of Storm could take the initiative to put it forward.
Fernando did not disappoint them.
Thanatos was so skinny that there seemed to be only a layer of skin covering his cheekbones. He responded in a rather calm manner, ”Heidler is connected to an unknown dimension. It became like this because it was contaminated. Unfortunately, we haven't found the entrance of the dimension yet, so we're unable to explore it further. Currently, we have no idea if this has anything to do with the silent world. I was about to make some further investigation when I return there.”