Return of the Empyrean Arcanist Regalia Magus

Chapter 4: Black Ridge City

1,291,281 letters, it took Nysh around a year to finish all of it, he could probably finish it in two or three months, but he... he savored every bit of information, affection, and stories his friends had shared.

Also, for one more reason, his friend had never failed to send him a letter once every year, so, if he waited for a year, he hoped that he could see one of his friends, just a glimpse of them.

A year, he had waited, and it had become useless.

He had learned more things reading their letters than he had studied his whole life, he walked close to the door, then, he saw the figures of his friends just beside it, all six of them lined up when they were in their prime fighting the Gods, his statue was also in the middle, which all of them were made of gold, he smiled and placed all six of them in his inventory, although he wanted to leave them, he heard that there are many treasure hunters now, and if those hunters were to see these, they'd definitely steal it without much thought for any sentimental value it gives people.

He opened the door, for a whole year, he haven't seen the light of the sun, now, he felt rather warm.

Wiping the last bit of tears from his eyes, he activated his skill [Wind Magic: Winds of Flight]

He flew up in the air and checked where he had been sleeping for a million years, the mausoleum is buried under a great tree, he looked at it sadly before turning his head back and moving forward.

He felt that it was actually weird, looking left and right.

There aren't any behemoths, monsters as tall as mountains, predators prepared to eat other races as they pleased.

"It seemed that mass purging was a success..." He uttered, after all, when the Gods had died and entered his sleep, Bihyoho led the remaining six heroes to kill these monsters, is what he had written in his letters.

Although there could possibly be more hiding, at the very least, Nysh had traveled for more than 1,000 miles already, yet, he had only seen monsters the size of humans.

The first thought he had: "Are they edible though?"

Yeah, he's really hungry. He then remembered something, Rae had written that humanity had created an empire, although Ygdrassil also said that after 5,000 years, it was destroyed and many other kingdoms were built after that, even then, after so many years, many more were established, wars, chaos, and many other things happened.

For a hundred thousand years, humans had entered another chaotic war, fighting amongst themselves.

Due to their selfishness, the other races had decided to go their separate way as well.

For some reason, after 200,000 years, Ygdrassil stopped mentioning the human race.

Nysh could only assume the worst for that.

He immediately used mobility magic, Shunpo, that he had learned from Bihyoho, it was really a special skill that only he had managed to use.

But for Nysh, he learned it like it wasn't anything special.

As he traveled further north, he saw a massive number of monsters ahead: "Hmmn?" He couldn't help but want to look, and so, he did!

It's mostly composed of level 50 monsters, but there's a single level 100 monster behind this group.

"A total of 2,000 monsters..." It's still rushing towards a certain direction, Nysh looked at the direction they are heading and used a skill [Farsight], and just a hundred kilometers ahead, there's a wall: "Is that what Rae mentioned? A wall?"

Rae had said before that, humanity had developed cities, and even developed something called monarchy.

Seeing a highly erect building: "That must be the castle, it's quite a nice upgrade from the shacks and caves we've lived before..."

Seeing the monsters heading towards that place, Nysh could guess what its purpose is, he opened his palm as energy gathered immediately: "Burn to ashes!"

Three balls of flames launched from his hand and immediately struck the group of monsters, they couldn't even react as they lost their lives, not even knowing what had happened.

It was quite weird though, there were around two hundred corpses of humans in that group of monsters, it may look tragic to others, but for him who had witnessed billions of lives vanished with his own eyes, it's something like ants being stepped upon accidentally, still, he clasped his hands together: "May you find peace in death, from ashes come to ashes go."

After saying his prayer, he immediately started moving forward once more, but after just a few seconds (around 80 kilometers), he needed to stop as he saw something weird, a group of people fighting.

[Ashwalt, Level: 814

Class: Tormentor General

Race: Devil.

Faction: Eastern Chaos]

[Reyad, Level: 312

Class: Mage Swordsman

Race: Human

Faction: Radiant Sun Party]

[Aldous, Level: 299

Class: Knight

Race: Human

Faction: Radiant Sun Party]

[Kike, Level: 301

Class: Sacred Paladin

Race: Human

Faction: Radiant Sun Party]

[Bayong, Level: 241

Class: Priest

Race: Human

Faction: Radiant Sun Party]

[Alliana, Level: 333

Class: Shadow Sniper

Race: Human

Faction: Radiant Sun Party]

Nysh found it amusing seeing something, and that is, a race called 'Devil', he'd never seen something like that before nor had he heard anything about it from his friends: "Probably developed within the last five hundred thousand years of my slumber." He uttered lowly.

The group of humans is almost spent, their armors completely in tatters as their mana pool is already empty, meanwhile, Nysh looked at the devil and noticed that it's pretending to have suffered damage as well, but truth be told, it had only received damage of 1/100th of its total health.

And of course, this made Nysh remember a really unpleasant memory, monsters toying with their prey!

Still, he didn't care much about it now, since his friends wanted him to live a normal life, then, he'll try to do so, at the very least. He teleported from his current location to a hundred kilometers away from the group who are fighting.

In just a few more seconds, he arrived at where the city is, around fifty kilometers away, he descended from the ground and started walking instead.

As he reached further ahead, he can finally see the gates, there are a lot of people lined up, giving something to the people guarding them.

".........." It's like a caveman appearing in modern society, even his most recent knowledge was from one hundred thousand years ago!

"What are those things..." Nysh felt slightly nervous, other than fighting and eating, he never had any knowledge, especially with what Valkyrae had said, socialism...