Rory was still stunned at the giant black hole slowly rotating in the sky.

“Spatial fluctuations? It’s ...its spatial magic! Isn’t spatial magic an ancient and forgotten magic?”

Mavi and Colis who stopped their respective techniques were also staring at the black hole with a serious and cautious expression.

“What a colossal amount of magic what is happening in the east?”

From a faraway place inside a luxurious courtyard a handsome and graceful man dressed in a spotless white robe was staring intently in a certain direction.

(Huh? something is coming out)

Yefan noticed that a huge shadow made its appearance from inside the black hole and slowly advanced.

(A ship? What the hell! A flying ship?)

Indeed a gigantic vessel crossed slowly from the hole and obscured the surroundings within a radius of several kilometers, the ship wasn’t like anything Yefan had seen on earth, to begin with it was flying without the use of any propellers or engines it was black and had a rectangular shape, the second thing he noticed was that a multitude of shining lines were all over the outer walls and formed a complex pattern, what made Yefan surprised was that it looked like a spaceship from sci-fi movies.

What the people present didn’t know was that several similar black holes appeared all over the world , but they were smaller in size from them crossed several ships but they were clearly in no way comparable to the one in front of Yefan eyes .

All of sudden from the ship a passage appeared and several shadows popped out, little by little they moved toward Mavi and the others, Yefan curiously gazed at them, finally they stopped at a hundred meters from their position.

The identity of the shadows was revealed, they were five and their appearance was that of humans but clearly they seemed completely different, the one at the front was huge exceeding two meters in height, his skin was light purple in color, long and straight dark hair was spread on his back, his ears were pointy and sharp, he wore a tight black armor made from unknown materials but it exuded an imposing aura that accented his cold temperament.

The four others had a similar skin color but their features differed from each other, their hair color wasn’t the same, they also wore armors and followed behind him diligently which indicated that he was someone important.

He slowly uttered some words, Yefan strangely wasn’t able to hear a single one of them but he became puzzled when he saw Mavi and Colis expressions turning instantly sharp and murderous, a terrifying deathly aura and blue aura gushed from them.

The war ongoing under them has long stopped, all of the soldiers fixed they gaze above waiting for what will happen.

Seeing the two emperors condensing their respective magical aura, the purple skinned man smirked and slowly made a sign with his right hand, almost instantly, thousands and thousands of soldiers with purple skin and armed with weapons poured out from many passageways that opened from the ship like a rush of bees, a horrible flow of magic flooded the surroundings and enveloped the battlefield.

Rory expression tensed at the sight and prepared for the battle, the purple skinned man and his four followers each materialized a weapon and made evil smiles, an overwhelming wave of energy emitted from their bodies and clashed with Mavis’s and Colis’s , creating the illusion of cracks appearing here and there .

When the two parties were going to initiate the first attack Yefan vision became blurred and instantly turned dark, opening his eyes he found that he was standing in front of the sculpture.

“I returned? Those memories what is their meaning?”

Yefan was still shocked about what he saw, those horrible people, their powers, it was difficult for him to believe what he saw, but from the start what happened was unbelievable, being transported from their classroom to an unknown place was already too weird and stupefied him.

Looking at his body he suddenly found that the blue lines disappeared, even the light disappeared and the place regained its usual pitch black darkness but he clearly was able to see which amazed him.

“What’s happening to me…? Anyway For the time being I need to find a way to leave this place”

Yefan looked around to find a path or an exit but when he was about move a peculiar sound resonated inside the abyss and the Mavi-like sculpture began to shift to the left making a hidden corridor appear in front of his eyes.

“ohh how come a path appears when I need it hahaha”

Yefan laughed and without hesitation stepped inside beginning to walk excitedly, after an hour of walking finally he saw light and the end of the corridor.

Out of the pathway rays of sunlight immediately attacked his eyes which have long adapted to the darkness making them sting a little but after slowly opening them he became dumbfounded, in front of him appeared a large dense forest and green lush was everywhere .

“Shit! I don’t even know where I am and now the first thing that appears is a wild forest? Fucking unlucky! Sigh …at least I’m outta that freaking place”

Sfx: Grrrr

Yefan became immediately cautious and retreated inside the corridor.

“What already a wild animal?”

Yefan looked around but found nothing, not even a trace of a shadow.

“Ah right that’s my stomach, ahh fuck I stayed too long in there I’m already starving and thirsty hmm need to quickly find food and water“

Yefan didn’t notice that his speech and behavior became ruder, before he was a stoic kind of person and had always an indifferent expression which is why he was a loner and never interacted with people in his class.

He then decided to enter the forest and look for something to eat and satiate his hunger, advancing slowly between the tall trees he looked around, thick foliage was blocking some of sunlight , the scenery was beautiful by Yefan didn’t underestimate a forest of a supposed other world so he carefully analyzed his surroundings in case of danger .

Moving aimlessly for several minutes he fortunately didn’t encounter any dangerous animal and only heard the chirping of birds but all of sudden he ceased to tread forward.

“This sound … it’s familiar”

Among the different noise of birds, a distinctive and rhythmic sound continuously reached the ears of Yefan, and again he was surprised at his senses that were enhanced, previously his sight wasn’t affected by the darkness and now his hearing was clearly improved by leaps and bounds.

Attracted by the sound he quickly ran toward its source and what he found made him smile from ear to ear.

“Yes! It looks like my luck isn’t completely gone “

The familiar sound was that of running water, in front of him laid a waterfall and a small lake, a truly picturesque place.

“Well the problem of water is resolved for the time being!”

Cheerfully he approached the extremity of the lake and began to messily gulp amounts of water to quench his thirst.

What he didn’t notice was that an old man with tattered clothes and long white hair and bird was sitting on a rock several meters near him, in his hands he was holding a fishing rod, noticing efan he curiously looked at him.

“wahhhh!!!”

A high pitched scream echoed inside the forest, Yefan stumbled on his back and screamed.

“What happened to my hair!!!? And my eyes? The color … more importantly those tattoos on my face… shit what did that fucking crystal do to me?”

Indeed, the short black hair of Yefan now reached to his waist he just didn’t notice because he was too engrossed in his dire situation, in his eyes a small shade of blue light appeared in the middle of his pupils, his height now reached six feet tall from his previous average five feet making his student uniform too tight, he also noticed that his muscles were now quite developed compared to his previous state, but the most significant change was the two black tattoos on each side of his face making him appear somewhat mysterious , all around he changed only his above average looks remained intact .

“Those two tattoos I remember seeing them on the sculpture and also on the face of Mavi inside the memories, what happened when I was unconscious? “

Yefan wasn’t stupid clearly he noticed that something probably was the cause of his incredible change and that something was without a doubt the strange and enigmatic blue crystal.

“Hey young man why are you panicking and talking alone?”

Suddenly a hoarse voice made Yefan jolt with surprise and shook him out of his thinking he alarmingly turned and looked at the still fishing old man with a cautious gaze.

“Who are you?”

“I should be the one asking this question strange young man “

The old man calmly retorted, Yefan looked at his attire and he understood that technically he was a stranger wearing weird clothes according to the standards of the old man.

Seeing Yefan silent and contemplating the old man smiled.

“Are you lost?”

(This old man, he doesn’t seem hostile and I still have the food problem maybe he can help me) though Yefan in his mind.

“Hey did you hear me, don’t look at me like that I mean no harm, if I wanted to harm you, you would already be long dead “

The old man looked at the cautious Yefan shrugged his shoulders and said seriously.

“Yes I’m lost I don’t know where I’m can you tell me?”

“You seem to not know this region at all, this is the extremity of the [Mysterious woods] this place is at the north of the [Haranian Kingdom] “

Yefan was totally clueless, what Mysterious woods what Haranian Kingdom, he was totally disoriented, but one thing was clear this world is undeniably another world.

(In what fucking bullshit story did we fall into?) He secretly thought.

“Old man isn’t there a place where I can find food “rubbing his belly Yefan expectantly looked at the old man.

“Bwahahahaha, of course I myself live in this forest, there is a tribe living near here and I’m one of them I caught some fish, you can keep this frail old man company and eat with me”

(This old man his claims that he is frail when he talked about killing moments before)

And like that Yefan followed the old man.

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Meanwhile inside the castle the king arranged for XuLong and the others each one a confortable room, exhausted and hungry king Aden and Rodin allowed them to eat a sumptuous and luxurious dinner before they took some rest.

Xulong and Meifeng were sitting inside a room talking about the incomprehensible things that happened.

“I still can’t believe this weird situation I mean kingdoms? Invaders? Magic? It’s like …”

“Trapped inside a dream?” completing the sentence of Xulong Meifeng smiled wryly.

“Exactly! Come on all those things they were always in novels and Mangas but to become realty “

“I feel the same, this situation is beyond common sense but compared to the initial panic I fell like accepted it quite easily “

“At least my childhood friend is with me “

“Sure friends help each other in times of need “

Sfx: toc toc toc

XuLong and Meifeng looked at each other.

“What is it?”

“I’m one of the servants of the king, his majesty will have a private audience with you, I came to inform you and show you the way “

“Alright”

Inside a large room the king sat around a table with a thoughtful expression, behind him was Rodin with his still elegant and refined aura without a doubt because he was a high magician.

At the table also sat Miss Chen and the others they were already present, finally Xulong and Meifeng made their appearance and the audience with king Aden can begin.

“I gathered you together to clarify some points and to teach you about this world, seeing as you were previously exhausted and still shocked I chose to let you rest and calm yourselves till you adapted to the new situation “

All the students and the teacher nodded to the king indicating that at the very least compared to the first conversation they were a lot more composed .

“Good, I will explain to you where exactly you are and what our world powers and history consists of, first our world is named “Edea” our world is vast and is constituted of three large continents, the blood continent it’s where we are currently, the Dark Continent and the light continent, there exists also another vast region that is principally consisting of several large isles it is called the submerged continent legends says that it was also an ancient continent that faced a disaster which led to several regions being engulfed by the seas thousands of years ago , our own blood continent is consisting of twenty two kingdoms , ten lower kingdoms , eight middle ranked kingdoms and four high kingdoms , like I said previously this kingdom of Ederith is a middle ranked one , kingdoms are ranked by population and military might , all of the twenty two kingdoms make an empire, the Chamberlayn empire , each continent has the same system , the empire doesn’t meddle in the wars between kingdoms on the contrary it encourages them resulting in the ranking system , there exists four major races on the blood continent , the humans naturally , the light elves , the Vampires and the Beastkin , on this continent the supreme race is the vampires the emperor which controls the continent is a high-vampire , that was mostly all about the blood continent , as for the others the servants will provide you with books to know more about them , the good news is that this kingdom has not waged war for 10 years its eventually quite peaceful , but we can’t let our guard down which is why Rodin here will teach you about magic , indeed all races except the beastkin can use magic “

The king finally ended his long explanation, but the people present were amazed at hearing the vastness and the different races that exist in this world.

“Why do beastkin can’t use magic are they weak?”

Xulong asked with a puzzled expression.

“Good question, but related to magic I’ll let Rodin explain to you “gazing at Roding he made a sign for him to go ahead.

Nodding respectfully Rodin walked beside the king.

“For all of you here I see that the concept of magic is foreign to you may I ask in your world is there no magic?” asked Roding curiously.

“No in our world magic is only a fantasy, we instead have something called science “this time it was Miss Chen who replied.

“sc-ien-ce? Truly interesting if it’s not inconvenient can you explain to me at a later time “

“Cough …Rodin?” King Aden severely gazed At Rodin

“Ah yes your majesty allow me to apologize, well continuing about magic , magic exists everywhere in this world in every living being and even inanimate objects , all creations have a flow of magic or you can also call it ‘Mana’ , magic is also within the surrounding air , it only differ in quantity and intensity in each recipient , a magician is one who controls magic , magic can take the form of a natural phenomenon like fire , water , earth ,wind and also many others ,I myself i am a high magician , my principal attribute is water ,please allow me to demonstrate to understand “

Rodin then moved his wooden cane and tapped it on the floor lightly, all of sudden a ball of water the size of a hand appeared in front of him and it remained floating.

“This is a basic spell it is called [water ball]”explained Rodin.

“Wouah! That’s amazing! “ SuXing exclaimed

“Right I never thought that I will see true magic in my life “said LingLing with an admiring gaze.

All of them were amazed at the sight of flying ball of water, it was surreal for them.

Roding seeing them shocked about a mere basic spell smiled wryly.

“This is only a basic spell, magic spells are divided in basic, middle ,top, high, great, legend and heaven ranked spells and magicians are also ranked using a system , I’m a high magician because I can use high ranked magic , magicians are respectively divided into beginner, apprentice, middle, top, high, legendary, heaven and God ranked magicians , but it’s not the only way to know your ability rank , about 500 years ago a legend ranked magician created a special artifact , through this artifact a person can identify his potential and have a detailed layout of a person’s all characteristics magic and non-magic , after I end my explanation I will provide you with this artifact to have a clear idea , a magician has the ability to create his proper spells but only when reaching legend rank and above , in this world magicians aren’t the only ones there is also warriors , warriors are also divided according to a certain system : beginner ,apprentice ,middle ,master, high and legend rank , warriors are also divided according to certain classes , there are swordsman ,spearmen ,archers ,blade wielders , axe wielders , and knife wielders ,previously you asked why beastkin can’t use magic and is it because they are weak ? on the contrary it Is said that the beastkin were the most powerful race having incomparable physical strength and wielding powerful magic at the same time but an incident resulted in them being cursed and striped of their magic ability leaving them with only their physical strength but it doesn’t mean they became weak, with only their physical strength they are already a frightening race “

Listening attentively the students and their teacher were enlightened about this world laws.

“I still need to clarify the last and most important point… it’s about the invaders” the king then resumed the speaking

“Yes you mentioned them as invaders but what are they really?” XuLong was extremely curious.”

“You said they also can use magic but from where are they coming exactly? “Meifen also asked a question that was bothering her.

“They are a race named outlanders we don’t know their origins or their true name we simply call them outlanders, like it expresses they are beings from far away who invade worlds a sort of otherworldly pirates , they are powerful and extremely intelligent, their magic is absolutely terrifying, in all the history of our world they appeared three times each time they lived behind them ruined civilizations and sowed death in its four corners some ancient races perished because of them , the first time they appeared was twenty thousand years ago at that time the four emperors of that era who were powerful beings repelled them in extreme difficulty , the second time a prophesy mentioned that you travelers will appear and defend our world with us and indeed the travelers appeared and defeated them successfully , the third time other travelers appeared and battled them to death but each time they came they became more powerful than before , we don’t know from where they come , they use ancient spatial magic to penetrate inside worlds , they look like humans but with special features they have light purple skin and sharp ears , this is what mentioned the sacred records …”

The king as he talked made a terrified expression fearing what the future will bring to this world.

“And we are going to fight them isn’t it a death wish?” SuXing scalp was tingling.

“What other choice do we have but to fight the only way to return to our world is for them to be defeated! “XuLong said with an uncomfortable expression on his face.

“like I said this time something is different you are different from other travellers , Rodin said you all have amazing potential and talent maybe it is a good sign , I will let Rodin train you and teach you how to use magic , like that you will have confidence in yourselves and at least have the means to defend against danger “

“Thank you king Aden “said Miss Chen she clenched her fists tightly like making an extremely important decision.

“Concerning your friend I have dispatched some of my private army to search for his whereabouts “

Hearing this LiXiu who was silent all the time had a glimmer of hope in her eyes and prayed for Yefan safety.

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Sfx: ahhchooo!

Sound of sneezing could be heard.

“Who was talking about me?” YeFan scratched his head and looked at the sight in front of him.

Beside him was the old man still smiling and a small village surrounded by the tall trees lay before his eyes, it was already night time.

End.