58 Problem (1/2)
At the same time, somewhere in Castille, deep in the Barvwort Mountains.
A hidden cave was located inside the tallest mountain in the range, and there sat a naked man with a floating, circular halo above his head. If one would observe that halo, they would realize that multitudes of runic writings and scriptures were written there, continuously morphing and changing.
The man looked as immaculate as the woman earlier. Even as he was frowning, he was someone that men and women would want to have a taste of.
”How is this possible…the seal has been destroyed? How long has it been,” the man muttered to himself, unsure of the situation.
”This means she escaped as well…She could be anywhere-” the man paused for a bit before his face contorted to a look of puzzlement.
He actually detected her…she was moving northwest, west to where he currently in. When he released his divine aura earlier, his scan did react towards something in that direction. However, it also immediately disappeared. Does that mean she also sensed it and was currently heading there?
No! I must not let her get this and become stronger! I still have a mission to fulfill, and I cannot fail, the angelic man thought to himself. He stood up, and did a praying sign, releasing 3 pairs of white, golden wings and left the cave, passing through the rocks, minerals, and plants like they never existed, and immediately flew to the direction the woman earlier was flying to.
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Xander was currently having a headache right now. As soon as he had reached his villa, he had first detected a wave of a strong, righteous energy wave pass through his body, causing him to purify it in his body and absorb it. After all, free magic energy is magic energy. However, the next moment, he had then detected a strong, corrupting elemental wave passing by, causing him to automatically purify the aura using the Purge element under Purgatory as well as activate [Absolute Defense]. What was surprising was that a trace remained in his body, which was slowly growing.
Xander was surprised, and then the system suddenly mentioned that this was a type of Hell element, Corruption, and should be erased immediately or it will affect his progression. This led to Xander teleporting to different locations in an attempt to wipe the trace, succeeding only at the third teleportation after applying the Destruction and Purge elements under Life and Death for the third time.
He clearly felt that these were from 2 different sources, and the ones that released these were roughly at the same level. He used his smartwatch to check all working magic satellites and even sightings for the past 15 seconds, and saw some relevant data. Using Accelerated thinking, he came up with 2 current conclusions based on the data he had.
First, these two beings are probably antagonistic to one another, due to the opposite natures of their elemental signatures. They are not natives of the planet as well, because basing it from the energy they showcased, it was above Divine class.
Second, they were probably here on the planet already, because he had set an invisible, passable barrier for him to detect any outsiders entering the planet discreetly. That means, either they had just woken up from their meditations, or they were released by some sort of seal.
Seal…wait, didn't I discover a gigantic seal placed in the planet, Xander mused to himself. So does that mean I released these two beings from their captivity? So, it is my fault. Ugh, more work!
Damn it. Xander said to himself bitterly, and then gathered the personnel in the villa. He also called for Faykes to come.
After 5 minutes, they were already in the living room of the villa. He looked at each one of them before saying gravely,
”I have made a mistake a few days ago.”
”There was a mass hallucination event if you all remember correctly?”
They looked at each other, before nodding at Xander. Xander sighed, before saying,
”Well, it was true. I accidentally activated a spell of mine. The good news is that yes you died, but you also didn't die. You also gained experience of life and death. The bad news…”
”…is that I may have accidentally released 2 sealed beings even I have no way of fighting. And, they are all heading here right now.”
”So, I need you all to leave the villa as I wipe any traces you people might have left, and protect these people, except for you Faykes. You, just go and do the task I gave you.”
”To clarify, I won't be taking a no from you all. You will do what I say because frankly, it's way easier than resurrecting you lots again. Right now, you are baggage for me, designed for me to show others, specifically the Eta government, that all is well.”
”So…leave. I'll tell you all when you can come back.” Xander did a hand gesture, causing the words the soldiers to die in their mouths. They nodded, before giving an officer's salute to him, and they all hurriedly left to their rooms and packed their stuff up. In 10 minutes, they were done and immediately left the villa's vicinity.
Faykes also nodded in response and left the villa, following his instructions. Once everything was quiet and empty, He immediately released an elemental wave, wiping out the remnant traces left.
He then set-up a multi-dimensional barrier around the villa, as well as time-reversal and time slow all over the place.
He then headed to Eden to greet and talk with the sprites and magic beasts once again, talked with the 2 Seeds of Life who were now starting to create flowers, and then checked up the progress of his contracted sprites and magic beast have, before leaving and entering the laboratory.
He saw that the Tree of Creation was growing nicely, and if one wasn't sensitive to Order and Chaos elements, they would have just seen a simply old tree. It was already 60 meters in height, and 2 meters in width. Its roots were rapidly extending underground, currently with a 100-meter radius from the tree.
There were no fruits being produced so he started to plant another Tree of Creation, as well as a Tree of Destruction, all three being equidistant to one another.
He left and headed to the sofa in the living room, opening the hologram viewer to watch a series from Metflix. Trying to wait for his two untimely visitors to appear outside, hopefully, of the villa.
After an hour, he felt visible elemental fluctuations occur in the villa's protective barrier, however, he acted like he didn't notice it and continued watching.
Minutes passed, and Xander spoke out, without pausing the episode,
”Are you just going to stand there all night? Sit. We're still waiting for the other one to come in.”
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Cenele had reached the general area of where the thing reacted with her magic. From the conversations she had casually with the folks in this place, it seems this was called Callows City, a city under the country called Eta.
She also browsed a bit in the library to double-check what was the time and era she had been sealed. She was surprised to see that it had been more than 600,000 years ago.
600,000 years… although for them 6-winged devils, such a time could pass in a blink of their eyes, it was still quite shocking that she had been trapped in such a puny planet for this amount of time. She closed the book she was reading virtually and left the library. She was now going to search for the mystery person or thing that had caused a reaction to her spells.
”Hmm…should I release a stronger magic wave to see if it reacts again?” Cenele pondered to herself, before discovering a clue: There was a villa that her spiritual perception couldn't get into!
Although this was a unique trait common to Celestials and Infernals, and that they have ways of blocking this ability, she hasn't experienced such a thing in the physical dimension.
Cenele wasn't stupid, so the appearance of that villa seemed like a beacon for her to enter. When she came to look at the villa, she was more astounded, because it was built with layers upon layers of shifting dimensions, continuously changing every fraction of a second.
Could the person or thing that reacted to my power be proficient in the space element, Cenele thought to herself. Although traversing multiple dimensions is easy for Infernals, traveling through a multi-layered, multi-shift dimensional barrier is not, because they have to find the right moment to strike to create a hole into the actual space they wanted to get into.
If they strike at the wrong time, it just creates a whole in one dimension but doesn't manage to go to the other dimension. She needed to ensure the dimensions that appear in that fraction of a second are actually one right after the other.