CelestialShadow

Chapter 13 - Bronze mage

As he closed in on the three-month mark since he climbed down the mountain at the beginning of spring, Adion once again found himself deep inside the Endless Forest. It was once again time for a hunt. By now, the fruits in the safe part near the mountain had started growing, but Adion still wanted to eat some meat alongside the fruit. He was growing, after all. He would be 14 the coming winter and wanted to grow tall like his brother.

Adion had his space mana released around him, making...

Chapter 12 - Winter

A few more weeks passed in the same manner, and luckily, no new Bronze beast appeared. Most days, Adion would manage to bring back a Gray Wolf to eat and smoke in preparation for the winter.

It had now started getting really cold, and a few days ago, it had begun to snow. So, Adion decided to move back into the mountain structure for the winter. He had enough food to last him almost four months, and he thought that should be more than enough. It was a tough job carrying all the meat and...

Chapter 11 - Experimenting with space

Adion was pretty exhausted when he finally returned to the area around the Red Royal apple tree that had almost become like a home for him for the past six months. The fight had been very short, but freezing space like that around a living being always took its toll. And the hours of running while controlling the frozen space with the dead wolf had been slowly tearing at both his physical and mental endurance. Carrying the carcass in space was not as complicated as moving it normally, but Adi...

Chapter 10 - First hunt

A whole six months passed in this manner, and by the end of it, Adion had managed to reach the middle Iron stage. Making for an incredibly fast process, much thanks to the plentiful space mana surrounding him and his ever-increasing space mana control and lack of any bottlenecks a weak Will would have resulted in.

The good times were coming to an end, though. Adion hadn’t found any food sources for a long time now, and the food he had found was soon running out. No beasts had shown up...

Chapter 9 - Searching for food

Adion spent the next few days trying different uses of his space mana and meditating. Thankfully, space mana was always abundant, so he didn’t need to waste his Will to change pure mana into space mana and could focus on feeding his core to increase his strength. Adion felt he should be able to reach all the way to Bronze with his current Will, so all he needed was time to fatten up his core. Unfortunately, time wasn’t a luxury Adion could afford at the moment. Even mages had to eat, and ...

Chapter 8 - Wisdom pills

Adion felt a little disheartened about his seemingly useless powers as a space mage. He was sitting in the large cave next to the spring of water, thinking.

Space mages were rare and seemingly precious in the Age of Wonder, so my element shouldn’t be useless. I just have to figure out how to use it. What do I know about space? It is everything, or more like the place where everything is in. I can feel the space mana all around me and-. That’s it!

Adion suddenly got an...

Chapter 7 - Remains of a past Age

Adion found himself standing before a doorway. It looked like it had once held a thick door, but nothing like that could be seen now. He had followed the row of openings in the wall looking out over the forest below. In the end, only this one room wasn’t completely caved in.

I hope there is a way out here, or else I will have to climb down the steep mountainside.

As Adion stepped through and looked around, he noticed he was out of luck, though. The doorway only led into...

Chapter 6 - The world stirs

Meanwhile, far away from the old hall that Adion has found himself in. Men and women in luxurious clothes were sitting along a long table made from Light Willowin wood, waiting.

The grand hall they were waiting in was only ever used for these meetings. On both sides of the long table, pillars were reaching at least a hundred feet up to the beautiful ceiling. Fire was burning along the walls throughout the hall, a common sight no matter where you were in the palace.

But they had no...

Chapter 5 - A budding desire

Adion didn’t know how long he just sat on the stone floor, confused. It was a lot to take in. His parents and probably the entire clan were dead, except for his brother, sister, and grandfather. He was a mage. He had formed a space core, an element he had never heard of anyone else ever having. He didn’t know where in the world he was. And he was probably the first person to see a Phoenix in Ages.

After a while, he decided to meditate and increase his strength. He had a core now, an...

Chapter 4 - Forming a core

Adion felt everything around him change. He was still in what appeared to be a cave and still stood on top of a runic formation much like the one in the Remori treasury. But the cave was a different one. A little light was leaking in, so Adion could now see around him. What grabbed most of his attention, though, wasn’t the fact that he had seemingly just teleported to gods know where. It was that the strange mana of black motes that had been so concentrated before was now surrounding him in...

Chapter 3 - Attack

A month passed in the Remori residence, and things proceeded as usual, even without the presence of the clan patriarch. Adion was sitting in the yard behind the main mansion. He had a small fire burning in front of him.

Adion had his focus on the abundant fire mana surrounding it. Adion thought he had an excellent affinity to fire mana. Most people in his clan were born with a fire spark and had formed a mana core using fire mana. Something Adion also strived to do. It was the element o...

Chapter 2 - Remori clan II

In a cavern-like structure deep below ground in the Remori clan’s residence. Arlen Remori stood next to his grandson, his actual grandson, that is, because even if the youngest generation Remori all called him ‘grandpa,’ he was actually their great-grandfather.

His oldest son, along with his wife, had died in the Outskirts not long after giving birth to Adonni, Axel, and Amisa. Leaving him to raise them himself for most of their life. His daughter had married the young master of t...

Chapter 1 - Remori clan I

Adion stood at the ready, gripping his sword tightly, focusing his entire mind on reading the movements and the flow of mana on his older cousin. His eyes were fixed on Alex's every move.

A slash from the left, Adion thought, but then he saw something else. Alex was gathering fire mana in his left hand. It was a feint. Adion quickly swatted away the sword strike that lacked any considerable power and focused on his opponent's now-conjured ball of fire. He jumped back and ducked...