51 Mysterious City (1/2)

Zuhn saw countless foxes roaming around below him. Zuhn was sitting in a tree watching below, tracking the movements of the animals below. The foxes had dark gray eyes with bright red bodies.

Besides foxes, there were several others animals that were hunting for food and looking for Zuhn. Zuhn was getting chased by a hybrid animal as he was running down to the valley.

Zuhn decided not to deal with the bird and just hide. The bird was at least Martial Sky Ranked, Zuhn couldn't quite see what stage it was. Above Zuhn there was a loud noise of the bird flying over.

The bird flew straight over Zuhn, once it passed Zuhn let out a small sign. Suddenly, the bird turned around and came rushing back Zuhn. Zuhn's heart jumped when he saw the bird flying towards him.

Zuhn jumped off the tree, avoiding all of the other animals while running as fast as he could. Maximus was making jokes while he was running, saying that it was pointless to run.

Knowing that it was pointless to run, Zuhn ran until he found a cave. Ahead of Zuhn around 50 meters away was a dark hole in the side of the mountain. Zuhn's target was this hole in the mountain. Running at full speed he jumped into the hole, landing in a pile of mud.

Zuhn couldn't see if he put his hand in front of his face. Maximus spoke to Zuhn, telling him to turn to page 75 of the Ancient Magic Book.

In Zuhn's mind, he thought of a simple spell that created light. With Ancient Magic, Zuhn was able to create simple spells with a bit for thinking.

Zuhn thought back to his time on earth, 'maybe this will work.'

'Let There Be Light!'

Zuhn shouted that phrase in his mind and looked around waiting to see if something would show up. He waited and waited, but nothing happened. Maximus was having a laugh listening to Zuhn try to make spells.

'Zuhn, try to think of the spell. Think about how the spell would work, how much power it would take. The time length of the spell, all of these factors need to be accounted for.'

Nodding his head, Zuhn went again to try and create a light spell. Zuhn closed his eyes and started to imagine what the light would look like. He thought of a bright yellow dot.

Zuhn wanted to start simple, and not make things too complicated. He now thought how bright the dot should be. He thought of a star in the sky, then made the length of time for the spell. Zuhn didn't want to keep recasting the spell, so he made the spell special.

The spell that Zuhn was about to make, let the spell stay cast forever as long as there was enough magical power to support it. Zuhn was getting excited with the new spell that he was about to create.

'Zuhn, there is one last thing you need to do, you need to name it.'

A bright grin appeared on Zuhn's face when he heard Maximus's words. Zuhn closed his eyes and thought deep to try and figure out a good name for the spell.

After thinking for a couple of minutes, Zuhn decided to make a name that was stupid simple.

'Light'

Zuhn thought of the spell and said the word light in his head.

Seconds later, a bright light appeared in front of Zuhn. Once the bright light appeared, Zuhn still couldn't see in front of him. The light was too bright, Zuhn canceled the spell.

Zuhn went through the process of creating the spell, then put a way to control the light. Zuhn tried the light spell again, this time there was a different reaction.

Zuhn cast the spell, and he was able to control the light of the spell. When he used the spell it was bright at first, though he used the functions of the spell to make it dimmer.

Once it was dim enough for Zuhn to see, he was able to see what was around him. In front of Zuhn laid a tunnel that was a plain sight of void darkness.

Above Zuhn was the whole that he jumped in from. The hole was directly above him, but he could see a little bit of light coming in from the hole. Zuhn moved the light above himself, shining on the walls of the tunnel.

The walls looked fairly slippery from the mud on the walls of the tunnel. Zuhn still tried to climb out of the tunnel. He moved the spell farther up the tunnel so he could see ahead.

Zuhn put his foot on the wall and tried to put the other one on the wall. He instantly fell down to the floor. Zuhn tried a couple more times than gave up.

After giving up, Zuhn decided to go into the void of darkness. Zuhn put the light through first before he crawled through the tunnel. While crawling through the tunnel, the mud started to get thicker and thicker the father he went.

Suddenly, the mud became thinner. The space of the tunnel started became wider, revealing a cave like an area. Zuhn got himself out of the mud and made the spell shine brighter.

When Zuhn made the spell as bright as he could, it still didn't reach the ends of the cave. Zuhn let out a long sigh and turned down the brightness of the light.

Maximus was in awe when he was looking through Zuhn's eyes. Just like Zuhn, Maximus couldn't see to the walls of the cave. From as far as the light could go, was just barren land.

There wasn't any rocks, or hills in the area. Most if not all of the land was filled with wet and dried mud. Zuhn started to walk forward through the mud. By now all of his lower body was covered in a thick layer of mud.

Zuhn walked for a couple of minutes before reaching a clearing. There was a small number of lights coming from a small hole in the ground. When Zuhn tried to look down the whole, all he could see was blue light below.

He looked around one more time, making sure he didn't miss anything. Once he was sure that he searched through the top of the cave, he jumped down the blue tunnel.

Landing at the bottom, Zuhn found out that the ground solid. It was not muddy at all. It felt like a regular grass covered ground when he looked down it was true.

Zuhn landed in grass and dirt. The dirt wasn't wet, it was dry and there were blue lights on random trees. The trees were quite strange, they had small blue orbs on the sides of the tree.

The trees gave off a little bit of light, inside the orbs was a blue liquid that was moving around. Maximus was getting excited inside of Zuhn's head. Rambling on about how great an Ancient Trial was.

Maximus explained that the orbs on the trees were Ancient Blue Flare trees. Blue Flare trees were extinct on the outside world. Though, they were at an abundance in this trial.

Maximus explained that there were several uses for Blue Flare tree. For one the orbs on the trees were good for healing. They were one of the best ways to heal the human body.

One drop of the liquid could heal someone that was on the brink of death. The liquid also adds 100 years onto human life. This can be stacked, though all the liquid did was add years to your natural death.