In a small elegant room filled with statues and paintings,there were two man sitting across each other,drinking tea from a white crystal teacup while speaking.One of them was a middle aged man dressed in luxurious purple robe.He had a tied black hair and relaxed expression.The other man sitting across him dressed in simple clothes.His hair's 60% was white while the other parts were black.His eyes were stern and expression couldn't be observed.

These two were Raiden,the noble man Grim and his brother met at Truman's place,And their father,Auber.It has been 2 month's since the attack of household.The weather was already a bit cold and trees were starting to drop thier leaves.It was near to the mid autumn,which was the time for experts to evaluate the abilities of students.

''But realy Auber,I wouldn't have thought Aeneas would be this good at teaching.At my time most teachers were very old.Some of them are already dead.But he can still work it out at this young age.''Raiden said with an admiring tone.He already knew the big talent of Aeneas at magic,but he never knew he could be a good teacher.

''Then he is lucky to get a praise from you.''Auber said calmly,and took a sip from the tea while nodding.''But Raiden,How do you find such tea?I remember a giant friend of mine who was a tea addict.Even the finest piece in his 200 years old collection is not comparable to your usual teas.''

''Just ask your chicken brother,i just pay him and he gets it.''Said Raiden while smiling and also took a sip.With a sigh,some steam got out of his mouth which dissipated slowly in the warm room.''Oh,when will the next letter arrive?''Asked Raiden who just remembered it.''The results of evaluations should already be out,right?''

Auber nodded and said''Yeah,I'm also waiting for it.Even though he can use Void stone to directly send it,there will be some parts which could be ununderstandable,so he just sends letters''Raiden was not suprised.Void stones were long distance communication crystals,which was a rare type of mana crystal.Even though it could send a message from capital to the pale city,former at the middle of continent while latter at the eastern-south side of continent,Because of the great distance there would be some errors occuring.

As the distance increased,error count would also increase,so Void Stones are generally used by military or times of emergency.''So,what are your expectations from them?''Raiden asked him.He was curious about it.Would he wait something greater from his own son,or from his nieces'?

''I applied enough pressure to him,just advancing at a good speed is enough.But for Deroc,I have really high hopes.He is not that off from Aeneas as talent,but he lacks at experience.Stella is still like a child,but already knows what pain feels like,so she can achieve great things.''Said Auber with a steady voice.

''Right,but they don't have much time to grow''Said Raiden,and the temperature in the room dropped by several degrees.Both of their faces were a bit ugly at the mention of it.''They are restless.They know that this era is the weakest of the all.But they still want to start a war.''Auber said angrily.''Even though we killed that old freaks,the threat is multiple times bigger than them.''

''They were just ruined members of the already dead Alliance Of Six,They would die eventually,we just fastened it.''Raiden said and continued''Even though we eradicated them,we still don't know why they attacked your home.''Raiden and Auber were confused at this point.There was no great wealth or big secret at dryflame clan.One also couldn't steal the spirit weapon Auber was using'Phoenix'becuase it was the heirloom of their family.If they wanted to use a member of them to sacrifice,or steal their bloodline,they would just turn into dust.These kinds of act were forbidden by most of the high gods to restrain the powers of low and mid gods.

''Just forget them,Our concern this time is Dark Lands.''Auber threw it at the back of his head.It wouldn't bring them any profit to think about the already passed thing.They had to focus on the imminent danger.Raiden turned his head towards the door and called the man at the other side of it.Man came hurriedly and brought some papers Raiden asked long before.He laid them down at the table and got out hurriedly while closing the door.

They were not worried about any person sneaking upon the talk,becasue the whole room was soundproof.After the guard left,Raiden placed them on a order and started to read the first one.''Mana values are rapidly deteroating at the borders of Darklands and Dark mana is swallowing the whole land,slowly but steadily increasing the size of Dark lands.''

2nd Report''By the advancement speed of it,In 250 years it's borders could reach Realm Gate.The animals near the dark lands are being affected by dark magic,turning into wild beasts,destroying the nearby villages.With the increase of deaths,Aura of death affected regions are faster than normal land at transforming.''

3rd Report''We sent 4 teams of 5th rank scouts to investigate the reason.While cerating posts near the border,lessening the errors because of the distance.The continous investigations showed that in the deeper parts of Dark lands,Demons are appearing.They have already started to build cities,which most of them are protected by many 6th and 7th ranks.''

4th and last Report''We have lost the conneciton with 4 teams at the same time.The only thing we knew is the last message they sent''A brilliant light of green appeared at the deepest part of lands.''We can't get any clue about what it is or what could it be about.Our first priority is to secure the borders and purify the converted lands.''

After Raiden was done with them,he showed a last page of paper,which showed the name of the man sent it and a map of the Continent.It was sent by Kong,An Old Paladin of Light God Celeste,who was one of the 4 leaders of the Continent's Military power.He was already a 1st rank ,unfortunately he was only 3rd class among hero realm.

''I have sent letters to every powerhouse 5 days ago.The earliest response was yesterday,by the Frost Dragon Sieg.Latest should arrive in 1.5 months.''Raiden said.Auber was feeling down.''Demons were the ones who hated the gods most.So why are they trying to weaken continent at this time?Don't they know a high god is enough to kill half of the continent.''He sighed after saying this.He was just trying to find another path.He clearly know everything.

Demons were the ones that hated the gods most.They were the ones who sacrificed most.They were the ones fighted most.Also,they were the ones who lost most.In far past,they were the most heroic of the races.Even their Emperor at that time,Sol,was the main reason they could raise the flag of rebellion against their opressing rule.

But other races were hungry.Hungry for power,Hungry for glory and wealth.Other than the Dragons,who where known as the most intelligent and powerful race among them,all of the other races waged war against each other.Demons were pitiful at that time.They didn't have a emperor to rule them nor strong people to lead them out of the despair they were in.In a year's time Demon population was already cut to half.

The reason was simple.Humans.Even among the other races,Humans were the worst.At that time,they were infulenced by the gods,gaining position of 'Divine messenger' and delivering justice,honor and righteousness to other races.With the support of gods from their back,they just massacred everyone.The main culprit behind it was one of the 8 high gods 'Aeron'.He was god of death and war at the name,but everyone knew he was just a beast at the level of god loving killing people.

As Demon's were getting near to extinct,Dragon race couldn't stand it anymore.One of the 3 Absolute gods 'Ramla' a Sand dragon,put an end to this.She killed Aeron and 5 other gods who massacred the last chaos world.She didn't touched the good loving light god Celeste or neutral God of magic Karin.But things didn't end there.After killing high gods she just retreated and disappeared from the world like she never existed.Without the support of gods,war changed against the humans.

Even at their Dryflame collection,there was no clear description of that era,so they could only deduct this much knowledge.They didn't know what happened that allied the races and discriminated demons.Dragons have near to immortal life span,so there are people from that era.Also the current Dragon Sovereign was a participant at that times war.But Dragons withhold the all information from that age,and elven kingdom and Dwarf kingdom were separated from them because of Giant Emperor.So they had no way to know clearly.

Even Their own family didn't know how these things were recorded.Their family at that time was not as brilliant as it was in these times.The war was (estimated) 20000 years ago after all.Even at the secret grounds of elves,there may not be this much information.Let alone Dwarfs and Humans.If not for Dryflames,Most of the knowledge towards the war would be unclear to powerhouses of Humans.

''This is just way too much.How much will we lose this time?''Auber asked towards Raiden.They already knew what that green sign meant.There was another 1st class hero among Demons,who was newly ascended.With no help from outside,Demons had no way to ascend to 1st rank,let alone be a 1st class among the 3 class of 1st rank.

''We don't know how much will dragons help.Giants are ... you know it.Hydras are currently rallying their forces.They are low in number so their situation is more dire than us.They can handle the supplies,but they also need many people at their side.''Raiden was feeling more and more bad when he talked about it.

''If everything goes good,then 1/8 of people will die,But if it comes to worst...''Auber added''We may only survive under the wings of Dragons.''The pressure in the room was suffocating.The beads of sweat were falling down from the forehead of Raiden,falling slowly towards his nose,and dropping to the ground.The cold room now felt like they were in lava.As the gloomy aura was growing stronger,a sound called from the outside of room.

''Mr.Raiden.There is a letter from Sir Aeneas.Should i deliver it to you?''Asked the guard outside the room,unaware of the gloomy air in the room.Even if it was a bit little,mood liftened up and Raiden called the men to come.Guard hurried in,and when he felt the air,he became flustered directly stucking the letter at the hand of Raiden and rushing out.Raiden didn't minded it.It was their fault after all.

He gave the letter to Auber,who directly opened it.He hold the paper in his hands,closed his eyes and took a deep breath.He felt a bit better now,but when he saw the first line in the letter, he directly dropped the letter from his hands and felt like fainting:

''Grim Forged a Spirit Weapon''