"Can you put that away?"Jason eyed the sharp sword just an inch away from his neck. The long silence from the audience finally broke, and a loud cheer erupted from the crowd. It almost sounded like they were going fanatic with excitement, but Jason didn't feel happy. He simply couldn't match up against Amelia."What? Are you disappointed?""A bit."Jason sheathed his sword as Amelia did the same with hers."You could have done better if you used magic."Amelia ran her fingers through her long hair and adjusted her clothes. Even if they both used aura to protect their clothes, it was challenging to keep them tidy during a fight. While Amelia's clothes still looked better, his clothes were in much worse shape compared to hers.Even with multiple Arcane Shields and Enchanted armour, Amelia still landed several blows on him with ease.“I might have.”Jason knew better.Sure, his Magic Sphere had a devastating power, and the Arcane Spawns could do wondrous against enemies. However, he kn
“Captain, the escorts are ready. Three lord wizards are at Forestedge, waiting to join us. They said they can come if it is necessary.” “No. Tell them to wait. We will leave in ten minutes.” Timothy gripped the box in his hand as tight as possible. The most valuable possession he had at the moment should be inside this box. The legendary rune, Summon Death Knight. The only rune of the kind and many parties wanted to get their hands on it. However, the Steel Knights were willing to do anything to protect it. Their armies were moving toward the Dark Forest as he sat here, trying to gather his thoughts. A battle was inevitable as many wanted to possess this invaluable rune. If they could, they would have already kidnapped Jason Hope to make more of these. ‘Is it possible to even make more of these? If so, they can create an undead army. That will be a real challenge.’ Despite Jason announcing the possibility of creating a duplicate of this rune, everyone knew it was possible. The o
“Will Daddy come back, Mommy?” “He did promise, didn’t he?” Amelia tightened her hands around Hanna, feeling conflicted about her own words. “Daddy promised to come back to Hanna and Mommy.” Hanna’s voice was firm but refused to take her face off Amelia’s bosom. It was obvious she was sad without Jason, but she acted bravely. “Then he will come back for us.” Amelia again looked at the spot where Jason disappeared. This was the first time the mysterious entity took him away in broad daylight. However, this wasn’t the reason that made her worried, it was the message she saw on Jason’s armband before they took him away. ‘Genetic shackles, isn’t it just a myth?’ The message directly said Jason should find a way to undo his Genetic shackles to successfully advance further. When he asked about the Genetic Shackles, Amelia wondered if he was joking. According to what she knew, Genetic shackles were a concept she only heard in legends. According to the legends, there was a genetic
‘Where is this?’Jason found it odd when he felt the mushy wet feeling surrounding him. He slowly opened his eyes and felt a sense of uneasiness as the blinding light pierced through his eyelid.“Screech….”A loud screech of a soaring predator greeted him as he slowly raised his upper body off the ground. ‘A forest? And why am I like this?’His body looked completely normal, and he found the surrounding environment normal. Unlike previous scenarios, he wasn’t in some devastated and ravaged land. ‘Wow!’Jason’s eyes widened as his senses became clear. ‘Is this a normal forest? What kind of place is this? These animals… They are normal, but there are some species I have never even heard of before.’He felt many things in his surroundings, and what made him feel odd was that everything felt normal to him. There were no abnormalities in his surroundings, except for the several creatures that he found odd. There were foxes with extra tails and birds with vivid coloured feathers. Some i
“Hm? A human?” The older man looked into the forest. It was an old man working on a stone sculpture. His work was almost complete as he carved a perfect human figure from a boulder. The sculpture looked perfect, almost too perfect to be true. It was an open patch in the forest, and the surroundings had many similar sculptures of different creatures. All the stone sculptures looked at a near-perfect level of detail, and the old man seemed to have carved them over the years. “Doesn’t matter. I will wait for you to be here, anyway.” He turned his attention toward the sculpture, but it was only momentarily. “Is that… Magic?” The older man turned his body toward the direction Jason was coming from. His eyes remained dull as before, and his tone didn’t change. It was as if the man himself had no emotions. However, his movements showed signs of wariness. “Wind and Fire. He is commanding the elements of two domains.” Humans were the only intelligent race that didn’t belong to a part
“Is that truly a village? I am not sure anymore.”Jason didn’t feel like going to what he saw as a village.He saw no movements except for some smoke coming out of chimneys. After what happened with the odd old man, Jason didn’t want to get into any more trouble. He felt it was afternoon by the sun's position, but he wasn’t sure about the time.“There are animals, but why do they all look terrified?”The village looked similar to the villages in Yuriel. Actually, it looked similar to Light Shone as the village bordered the forest he came from. The houses were made of wood, clay, and stones, and he didn’t see any modern technologies in the surroundings. He felt this was a world of magic similar to the Yuriel, but he wasn’t keen on finding out while he felt vulnerable. ‘There was no change after that weird incident, but it is better to be careful. And this is a bit creepy.’The animals in the village seemed to be terrified of something, and he saw some panicked dogs, hens, and cows. Al
‘Why isn’t my slave responding?’The little creature looked around in confusion. He followed one of their elders to the other dimension in secrecy, which was his biggest mistake. Not only did the elder get into a fight with two powerful monsters, but it even got him injured. Luckily, he was too small for the gigantic snake to notice, but the little one still received critical damage from the lightning storm. Luckily, he escaped the relentless assault of the two monsters. However, he knew he had no chance of survival until that creature came along.‘A human with the power of our dimension. That stupid elder.’Their kin could easily be the apex predators of the dark dimension, but there was one thing their kin lacked; intelligence.They could gain knowledge by extracting the emotions and thoughts of weaker creatures of the other dimensions.The elder he followed needed to be more smart to confront two powerful monsters. Their lack of intelligence and emotion overshadowed their advanta
‘Seriously?’There could be many reasons for no stars in the sky, but Jason felt all the reasons he could think of made matters more complicated. Either this world had a problem, which was possible, or this world was truly alone in this universe. The other possibility he could think of was that this entire universe was dying. He could not think of any other reasons to explain this empty sky. ‘This doesn’t fit right. I should focus on solving my problem and getting out of here.’However, Jason couldn’t forget the fascinating spells he saw from the Dragon and the Snake. ‘Sigh. I don’t think I can sleep. And I should stay here till dawn.’Jason listened to the animals' noises echoing through the forest at night. It seemed like a set of animals was taking over the night of this world.…“Howl!”A pack of hounds with burning bodies with lava-coloured skin ran below the tree, and Jason heard a loud screech from the distance. A herd of Unicorns ran through the distant grasslands as their