Academy

Arc 22

Mysteries

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Year 52112 during the savage war

The savages invaded the Valerian continent

With no possession of magical power , they were unforgiving with their number of soldiers.

Beast plants invaded the east coast of the Valerian continent while beast bugs launched a surprise attack by coming through the desert of the north.

For many years , the beast plants have been burnt to crisp but as they die , they released their spore and turn normal plants into their minions.

Chaaaa chaaaa

Plants rooting together to form a bigger beast , they ate everyone in their way and digest them quickly with their poisons.

The plants led a big devastated number to kill almost all the population on the eastern part of Valerian.

The other kingdom who was not part of the war decided to help the ones in need , with all the force gathered , they manage to kill of all the beast plants and noticed that the eastern ground became so fertile it could grow any plants or tree within a 3 days , the Soi Kingdom.

Skeeeeeeeaak

The bugs , moving slowly in the desert were quickly repelled by the Vale kingdom by their powerful soldiers , the kingdom gain many insight and knowledge through the war as the battle field revealed many ancient ruins deep in the sands.

One of the ruins was a orange pyramid surrounded by a wall.

Many tries to venture the pyramid but they all died by deadly poisonous traps.

Not knowing what they could find , most of the people had stopped to venture in the pyramid and went to other ruins instead.

~~~ Current Year 64591

Within the deepest underground room of the pyramid , alone in the darkness a human body with a yellow fire skull shaped sat on his throne with a set of old looking armor and a shiny black hooded cape.

??-"Hmmp..Liam?!!"

The skull person raises his hands and yellow light quickly came out from his palm , fused together , he formed an crystal orb and an image of Neo appeared.

??-"Hmmp.. this child....what's that...A white tiger..It couldn't be..that tiger is her son? ..HUAHAHAHAH this is getting interesting...It took almost 40 000 years.. Liam , you bastard... first....Kekekeke divine child... let me see what you can do"

Hold the yellow orb onto his left hand , he quickly lift his right finger and pokes the orb.

~~~

Neo-"Sven!"

Seeing all those meteors , Neo quickly held Sven tightly and jumps down the structure , sliding on the wall , he quickly jumps again

Neo-"Fleur!!! Fayn!!!!"

Fleur who held the unconscious Fayn in her arms , quickly turn her head around as she heard Neo's voice.

She couldn't see Neo because of the sandstorm so she decided to yell

Fleur-"NEO!!! Can you hear me!! I am infront of the entrance , please come help us!!"

Neo immediately knew where they were

Pooof

Neo lands on the sand , infront of him he sees a bloody Fayn who had a bone sticking out of his twisted arm

Neo-"Fayn!"

As he took a step closer , he knew the meteors were getting closer and closer.

Neo , instinctively rushed to Fleur and Fayn , pushed them down the stairs as a meteor suddenly hit the structure

Booooom Booooooooom!!!

Thousands of meteors crashed onto the sands of the desert

Fleur and Fayn felt through the entrance while Neo was stuck outside because the shock wave caused the entrance to crumble and fall apart.

Without anywhere to go , Neo turned around.

Broken ribs , abit tired... No where to go..

Neo held his fist tightly , causing him to bleed from his palms

Without any hope , Neo held Sven tightly and screamed in anger at the meteors.

Vooooozm!!!

A meteor approached Neo , right infront of the entrance.

As the meteor got closer , Neo could feel the intense heat from the wind surrounding the meteor itself.

The meteor is now right infront of Neo , in a fraction of seconds , Neo got sent smashing into the crumbled entrance by the meteor burning winds , his skin burning intensively by the heat of the wind surrounding the meteor , Neo let out a scream in agony.

Boooom!

The meteor smashes into the entrance where Neo stood on

After many waves of meteors , the sand hardens and turned yellow with giant craters everywhere around the desert.

The meteors obliterated the structure and in the middle of the crater holy , a black burnt figure holding a red crystal ball in between his arms

Sven-"Rawwr...."

Meanwhile , Fleur and Fayn buried deep in the structure , Fayn woke up and notice Fleur who fainted beside him.

Fayn-"Miss Fleur..?"

Fayn trembling , held his left hand onto Fleur.

After shaking her for abit , she finally woke up

Fleur-"Huh....where...are we"

Fleur slowly open here eyes and sit back up as she saw Fayn sitting beside her , Fleur quickly hugged him

Fayn-"O..oo..ouch Miss Fleur..are you okay.. where are we?..."

Fleur quickly let go of Fayn and stood up slowly as she felt a slight pain on in her knees

Fayn-"I..remember...the sandstorm.. and

something came down from the sky..but"

Fleur look at Fayn and explained to him that she carried him to the entrance and found Neo who pushed them away to safety.

Fayn-"I see.. Neo.. what about him!? Where is Neo!?"

Fayn agitated , looked around for Neo with Fleur then their face changed color

Dozen of corpse around with blue blood splattered on the floors

Fleur-"... we couldn't find anything and he...alone*sniff*"

Fayn and Fleur had tears flowing down their cheeks while looking at the bugs corpse.

Fleur filled with sorrow , wasn't affected by her fear of bug and began to look around the room

Fleur-"Oh no... the entrance is blocked.."

As Fleur couldn't find anything , she sat beside Fayn and took out some bandage to apply some basic first aid.

Inside the crater , the burnt corpse necklace began to shoot many white rays of light as the red orb also shines brightly.

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The wind blowing gently through the short green grassy field , Neo was found laying under a tree.

Sven-"Rawwwrrr"

Neo-"5 more..minutes.."

Sven-"Raaawwwr!"

Sven pounced on Neo and jumps on his chest repeatedly

Neo-"W..what!"

Neo woke up and quickly sat back up , looking around the beautiful field and mountains.

Neo-"Sven..Im glad you are fine!.and..where are we...the desert... wh- Fayn! , Fleur!?"

Neo shouted their names and looks around , confused , he held Sven who was on his legs

Neo-"Sven..how did we get here?"

Sven-"Rawr"

Sven shook his head

Neo noticed that his ribs didn't hurt anymore so he stood up with Sven on his shoulder.

Neo-"This place is beautiful... we can even see the ocean from here"

Sven-"Rawwr"

??-"Hahahaha , you win again! I wish I could still kill you!"

??-"Pfft you suck so much at this game that is not fun anymore"

Neo hears many voices from a direction , curious , Neo walks down the hill.

As he walk down , he notice many people sitting on a table made out of wood while playing different kinds of board games in the middle of the green field surrounded by trees.

Those people wore a really unique clothes and armors , some of them don't even look human while some were demi humans.

??-"Ha! take this!"

An old looking man move a piece on the board

??-"Curse you old man!"

??-"What are you talking about! You are like a million years older than me! The Idiot lived so long he forgot his age"

Hahahahahaha

Laughers could be heard from everyone

Neo looks at Sven who was standing on his shoulder

Neo-"It doesn't look like they are bad people right?"

Sven-"Rawwr"

The green vast field , surrounded by a thin layer of trees , Neo decided to take a walk inside circle with many question in his mind.

Neo walks up to the 2 old mens who were calling each other old and idiot

Neo-"Uhm.. excuse me.."

One of the old man stop and turn his head to look at Neo

As their eyes met , Neo felt that his heart was getting crushed apart

Neo-"Ughhh....wh...at"

On his knees , the old man also surprised and he quickly stood up from his chair

??-"W..what the!? You are alive!?"

Every one in the circle vast field heard the old man yell loudly and quickly surrounded Neo out of disbelief

??-"A living being.. here? How..?"

??-"Impossible!"

??-"Not even my clan could reach here.."

??-"Is he a god..? but that is impossible.."

??-"What clan are you from!?"

The people quickly threw a barrage of questions while Neo was suffocating as he was trying to regain his breath , the old man who first talk to him quickly said

??-"Wait everybody , he was affected by my gaze , therefore he is not a god for sure , secondly...question him one by one you idiots!"

The old man bend down and helped Neo stand up

Neo stood up and did not want to look at him in the eyes again , fearing that something would happen

Neo-"T..thankyou.."

??-"No need , it was my fault , child , my name is Gare , I am the god of the Gaze clan , what is your name and how old are you?"

Neo-"M... my name is Neo.. I am 9"

The crowd surprised as they stared at Neo intensively

Gare-"Hahahahaha Neo is it!?I don't know how you got here but since you are the only living being here.."

As Gare spoke , he lifted his arm and pat on Neo's shoulder

Gare then whisper into Neo's ear

Gare-"Say , Neo , I am willing to give you my power and teach you how to use them in exchange I only ask that you to bring my Gaze clan gory by taking the God Crown"

??-"Old man that's dirty! , Neo , child , learn from me instead , my power is more deadly since I can manipulate every shadow within a thousand kilometers!"

??-"No! Allow me to teach you Neo! You will even be able to breath fire stronger than all the sun!"

??-"My god clan is stronger than his so join mine Neo-..."

Many people from the crowd all asked Neo to choose them and learn from them

Neo-"*Wh..wha.. gods?...why do they want to teach me?..*

I just wanted to know what is this place..."

Gare-"Ah that's right Neo , welcome to the grave of the gods!"