“Uh no, it’s a female... maybe it’s Icaria?” Confused by the gender, Tethra wondered out lout.

Reaching his hand to the drawings on the stone, Tethra slowly traced the carvings with his fingers fondly.

“Icarus...” Right after he spoke that line, the book in his hand glowed and opened the first page. The stone also glowed at the same time. Then, the carved drawing on the stone flew to the air above Tethra and it slowly changed to characters.

“R.. U.. S.. I.. C.. A.. Rusica... so the name of Icarus here is Rusica...” The words shuffled then fell to the glowing book at the first page. The first page now had 2 sentences. The first one is some kind of title at the top of the page and the second one is “Icarus” below the title. The book then closed by itself.

Tethra suddenly woke up from his trance. He got surprised by the everything that happened before. His got too immersed by the feeling before that he went into a trance.

“The stone glowed when i say the right name of the heroes, and the book absorbed the drawing?”

Happily opening the book, Tethra found a title and the word “Icarus” on the first page of the book.

“Wooooh, so i just have to find all heroes drawing in this world to finish the book? Awesome, i don’t have to go back to earth again!” Again, Tethra got his priorities wrong.

“Wait, so all of the heroes here are the parody of earth’s myth? Really funny, i hope earth won’t sue this world” See, his priorities was messed up.

Noticing another sentence on the book, Tethra checked the title on the first page. “Chapter One : The Heaven Defying Heroes”

“Cool name! So what is this about, a magic grimoire? When i say Icarus will i get something magical? Let’s try this out!”

#Pok*m*n Battle Theme#

Tethra used “Icarus!”.... But nothing happened.

*Cricket sounds*

“What? So it’s not a magical grimoire? Pooh! Maybe i should throw it?”

#Pok*m*n Battle Theme#

Tethra threw the book. “Go! Icarus!”.... But nothing happened.

*Cricket sounds*

“Now what? Maybe i should push the button ‘Icarus’?”. Tethra pushed the word repeatedly. But still, nothing happened.

“Fuck! Now i feel like a fucking magical fish from some kind of game”

Tethra remembered his Grandpa’s words, after getting frustated by the failures. “Soft method worked best, if it still failed, then after that you can use the hard method”

“Maybe i should have tried the safe method first? No worry, I will just try it now” Tethra tried tracing the word “Icarus” slowly. Luckily, Tethra found the method to use it after a sentence showed on his mind about the word “Icarus”.If not, the fate of the book couldn’t be fathomed by being in the hands of Tethra. According to the book, he needed to wear a coat for this spell to work.

“Shit, i should have listened to Grandpa’s words! From now on i will use the soft method first!” So, Tethra’s Grandpa suddenly became the hero of this world that prevented the world’s utter desctruction. Of course, utter destruction is just one of the worst case of chaos, no one in this world shall escape CHAOS!

“Now where should i find a coat?” A lamp bulb flashed above Tethra. He suddenly had the idea of making his hoodie, a coat. First, he took the hoodie off, then he tied the sleeves to his front and let the body part of the hoodie to flap behind him.

“*Ta ta ra ta ta* The Impromptu Coat!” A blue arm with round white hand without fingers could be seen holding the impromptu coat.

“So, i can use Icarus now? Icarus!”. Closing the book while throwing it above, the book changed to particles and the particles entered his bodies. Strength filled his body, and even more strength filled his foot. Now he felt like that his body was as strong as a bear, maybe more, he didn’t know because he hadn’t fought a bear yet.

“Wow, this is cool, so this word increase my physique to the level of the greek heroes and additionally increase my jumping ability? Nice!” Tethra merrily jumped and exactly as it said, he jumped a whole 20 metres without using his full power.

“Wooohooo, this is so cool!” He continued to jump until he got very exhausted. The sun was still out exactly above him, so he decided to sleep until the afternoon.

“Well, i better go sleep for a while now” Then, he slept there on the grass without a care in the world.

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Around 5 kilometres from where Tethra slept, some young men were running and an old man was flying to where he was, The Stoney Forest. Nobody knew who named it, really uncreative. But every new generations respected their ancestors, so nobody changed that name because they feared the revenge that would be brought upon them from the descendants.

“What was that thunder, Elder Pan?” A disciple asked respectfuly but with a confused face. The young men all wore a white robe and the old man flying wore a black robe with two white strip from left shoulder to right hips. Additionally, they all bore the symbol of a circle with wide crack in the middle and inside the crack, some kind of light could be seen peeking out.

They were all the disciples of Divine Ravine of Hope Sect that is located around 10 kilometres from the area where Tethra landed. They were actually the nearest sect there, and as soon as the sect master saw that heavenly thunder, he decided to let an Elder bring some outer disciples to get new experience while the true mission is for the Elder to find out what treasure was birthed there.

Actually, The Stoney Forest held no monster because of something, no one knew what that is but monsters avoided that forests. That was also the reason Sect Master told Elder Pan to bring some outer disciples for experience, because they would never got killed by monsters in a forest without monsters.

“I don’t know, i’m only told to investigate the place where the thunder struck, Sect Master didn’t tell me anything about that thunder” Truthfully, Elder Pan knew that it was actually the birth of a new treasure even if the Sect Master didn’t tell him, but he never got blinded by greed and would avoid mentioning it so that the disciples wouldn’t try to take it. The Sect Master always trusted Elder Pan fully just because of this. That’s why, even though Elder Pan only had the rank of an Elder, his actual rank is just below the Sect Master.

The disciple shut up because even if the Elder didn’t know, they wouldn’t even get the chance to see it let alone touch it. They became increasingly near by the time the moon had started to rise. But as soon as they arrived, they became dumbstruck by the sight they saw, a man with drool were rubbing his half-opened eyes, the man of course noticed them right after he sobered up.

Tethra, that just woke up, would had never expected that the first sight he was brought upon the first time he woke up was a hovering old man and 3 disciples wearing robes. The first thought that came to his mind was the cruch’s priest from another world. But after a careful inspection, he saw that the old man wore a black robe and he hovered around 1 metre above ground, so there would be no way that they were the church’s army. Then a second thought crossed his mind.

“Shit, I came to a xianxia world??!!”