A hundred miles away from Mierna, Sinfl sat on his throne talking with two of his generals, a young Ifrit and an Orc, both were the best of their races.

"Did Phoenix report back? Any news on Zero? What about their army?" Sinfl asked directly to Ungrab, anxious. Phoenix was their eyes on Mierna, the best at gathering information.

Ungrab said with an angry tone "Yes sir, Zero was seeing back with the humans, their army was left unmoved"

"Thank you Ungrab, you can leave now," said Sinfl while getting up from his throne. Ungrab proceded to walk away, not before bowing before his king.

"Do you think I should send the shifters? It's our best hope after all" said the young Ifrit, he did not want to partake on this fight, there was no use in fighting the humans, in sheer strength the humanoids far surpassed any human, but their numbers only grew.

Humanoids could not reproduce, they were the result of reincarnation.

Even though every human death was a potential humanoid soldier, their numbers and intelligence could not be beaten by pure strength.

"Not yet, Zero would surely notice a shifter in the middle of humans, we need a plan. Bring the lamb"

Anthropomorphic animals were called by the animal name, of course, some exceptions existed, like Orcs, they were anthropomorphic pigs and even Sinfl was an exception. Sinfl was the only known member of the Slime King race, anthropomorphic slimes.

Fintan left the room for a few minutes and got back with an old looking lamb. Sinfl asked the lamb "What do you think Weise? What should our next step be?"

"I have made a plan, the two main goals are to get the attention of Zero and the iron mine southwest of Mierna, correct?", Sinfl nodded.

"First we should get Zeros attention, he has helped humanity too much in the last hundreds of years, maybe he is an impartial God."

Meanwhile, outside the throne room, a whole city was being built, the city of Hiera, house to all sociable humanoids, Ifrits, Anthropomorphic creatures, Nymphs, Shapeshifters, countless races.

Cattle were used to carry the material, Ifrits worked all day on blacksmiths, Nymphs took care of the crops, Orcs could be seen training, every humanoid had a role in that society.

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In a tower far away in the countryside, Ariel made a breaking discovery, by an extended period of meditation, full control of the ability to send information of the DNA could be used, a mistake made by Zero.

The DNA was so similar to him that the ability to control particles was basically engraved in it. She needed a conference with the king immediately, little did she know the king was dead. The reason Zero was in Mierna, to choose a new leader.

Ariel was but a child when she left Mierna, and besides the iron mine, nothing in there was of absolute importance to the city so the news didn't spread to this place.

She decided to try her new powers, or "magic" as she called, her first test was a very basic porcelain mug, and it turned out not as good as she imagined.

She had a look of disappointment in her face when she saw a pile of cracked porcelain drop in the floor. Training was needed in order to make actual shapes, but what if it didn't require any shape? What if she wanted to make a raw material?

The second attempt was a gold nugget. If she succeeded, the human world would change forever, or at least she thought.

The attempt was a success, a lump of gold fell on the ground. She was stunned, how could this be so easy?

Far away, on Mierna, there was an explosion just outside the Lantriarch house, Zero changed its body to a completely black color, he was infuriated, someone had used his powers.

He immediately materialized a body in front of this human, "Human, what have you done?", to what Ariel answered, in shock "Who are you?".

The last appearance of Zero on earth was 68 years ago when Dian was chosen to lead Mierna. Ariel was only 25 years old, she had never seen Zero before, but she knew he existed.

"I'm Zero, your creator.", she immediately bowed before him, Zero didn't like that attitude, human worshiped anything that could threaten them.

"You used something I created, I want to know how you did it."

"It's something imbued in our DNA, we can exchange information with almost anything, but the ability to do so is the result of a long period of meditation."

Zero now understood his mistake, he made the DNA too similar to himself.

"Child, you have my gratitude for finding this, but I have to take it out of the human race."

He was ready to change the entire human race because of that discovery, but before he could do so, he focused on her mind and saw that she wanted nothing more than to help the human race.

"Actually, it is your discovery, but it needs some limits, no one should be able to create something out of thin air."

He decided not to destroy this part of DNA, but rather change it, limiting it, instead of sending information to anything, one could choose one specific thing to focus on.

Air, fire, earth, water, those were the fields that that limitation created. One could only work with one element or with a combination of two.

A combination wouldn't allow for the use of the original field, earth and water magic could be used to create the nature magic.

If someone focused on that field, that someone would never be able to use earth or water magic. He changed back to his original appearance and said:

"You're now a wizard, spread the knowledge you've acquired, you have a brilliant future ahead of you."

After Zero left, she tried creating another gold nugget, but with no success, he had changed something in her.

Ariel felt an instinctive attraction to water after they spoke, so she tried using her magic to attract water from a nearby pond, and somehow it worked.

The next test was changing the state of the water, she floated some water in the air and tried changing its state, she stopped moving it, the temperature of a molecule is based on its movement, so a completely still water molecule would freeze.

Her hypothesis was correct, the water started freezing quickly, which led to the idea that friction would change the state again. She tried creating friction between the block of ice and the air and somehow succeeded.

After this last test, Ariel felt exhausted, as soon as she got back to the tower, she fainted.