10 Chapter 10 (1/2)
”...Well, this place is dull” Alexis commented, the duo had teleported to the entrance of the Beast forest.
And for as far as he could see, the forest and the empire was separated by a giant wall made of an unknown material.
”Indeed, but that's where you'll be going...” Philip said and continued,
”If you are wondering what these walls are, let me tell you, these walls were built eight hundred years ago during the time the Tier 9 beast attacked the Empire, it was recorded in the book I told you about. The walls were made to prevent another disaster from happening in the future, right after the beast was defeated!” He ended his speech and pushed Alexis towards the entrance.
”Master, you don't have to push me, I can go on my own!” Alexis complained as he walked upto the entrance, there was no gate or nothing... he could see the forest right infront him.
But then he saw it!
'There's a barrier...' He mumbled inside his head and threw a pebble at it which was let in through the barrier and knocked on a tree inside the beast forest.
While Alexis was observing the barrier, Philip got a little impatient and used a wind magic spell and threw Alexis deep into the forest and left.
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”...Ouch” Alexis said and rubbed his head which knocked on a tree.
Now that he realised it, he was quite deep in the forest and there were only trees all around him, he then decided to walk into the forest...
It was a very dark place, even the trees were darker than usual, he would frequently hear unknown screeches of certain beasts and occasionally hear roars of powerful beasts and would avoid going closer.
”Am I lost?” He asked himself.
”(Brat, in two years time you will see a flare in the sky, follow it and if you survive the journey I'll take you back home! Remember, 850 days! Not one day less or I'll show you something worse than a Tier 9 beast!)” He got Philip's telepathic message.
Alexis sighed and walked further into the forest, not that he knew where he was going...
He stopped infront a flowing river and bent down to collect some water, while his bottle was filling up, the water became murky so Alexis quickly jumped away with the bottle in his hand, he quickly closed it and put it inside his ring.
He made a good call since a Tier 4 aquatic beast bit into the area Alexis was just standing on just a few seconds ago.
It looked like a mythical sea serpent from his otherworld knowledge.
Green, smooth scales, a head of a snake with razor sharp teeth, with whisker like protrusions on the sides of its elongated face.
The beast's eyes were like rubies and had no pupils...
It had a length of around twenty meters and when it raised it's head it was about three meters tall.
The beast was huge as Alexis now realised why mages of lower tiers would die facing facing it!
It hissed at Alexis who was observing it.
Alexis ran at the beast while his palms had two red magic circles forming at light speed.
The serpent slithered and whipped it's tail at Alexis in immense speed and strength, the ground cracked wherever it struck and left small craters, but he was struck, Alexis would turn into paste!
He dodged the attacks of the beast and jumped on its head and touched the magic circles on the head.
”Dragon's breath!”
Fire erupted from the magic circles, it looked like his hands were flame throwers.
The snake hissed in pain and shook its head violent as Alexis lost balance and had to jump down.
The beast wriggled in pain and rolled on the ground but the flames proved to be stronger and deadlier and killed it before it could reach the river...
He still sprayed the serpent with his flames until it no longer moved.
”Well... that was very anticlimactic...” he said and took out his knife from his Spacial ring and cut open it's head after confirming it was dead...
”Hmm... so this a Mana core!” He mused while sticking his hand into the serpent's brain and took out a Dark Green orb that was the size of an apple.
It had a glassy texture and cold to the touch, probably because it's body was cold too as it is a snake that was underwater...
Alexis then washed the core and afterwards cut the meat from the dead burnt beast he stored the two items inside the ring.
'It is truly very easy to store items!' He thought and walked away from the area feeling some powerful presences coming towards the burnt snake...
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Aurelius was seated on his throne and signing countless numbers of papers while sighing sometimes...
”Ugh...” he groaned and rested his head on the table, there was too much paperwork!
*zwoom*
A light flashed infront of Aurelius, revealing itself to be Philip who looked at Aurelius with no emotion whatsoever.
”Uncle!” Aurelius was shocked and shouted, Philip nodded in acknowledgement.
”W-Wheres Alexis?” He asked his uncle who shrugged and replied.
”I don't know, last time I saw was when I pushed him into the beast forest a few hours ago...” Philip crossed him arms and sat on one of the sofas.
”YOU WHAT!!” Aurelius shouted at him, fear overcame him and then anger.
”Uncle, how could you do something like that?!” He shouted and glared at Philip who was silently seated on the sofa.
”Calm down nephew, he'll be alright!” Philip said and proceeded to fill a cup with tea and drank it silently.
”ALRIGHT?! HE'S IN THE BEAST FOREST!” Aurelius roared as guards suddenly barged into the room.
”He will be alright, I trained him everything I knew and he absorbed like sponge! Should he succeed this endeavour, he will come back as a Divine Duke Mage!” Philip said getting a bit angry at his nephew who didn't seem to appreciate what he had done...
”My goodness! A divine duke!” One of the guards gasped but quickly regained his strict persona and kneeled infront Aurelius.