"Gwaaeeegh..."

With his last cry, the earth lizard draw his last breath before his vision was filled with pure darkness.

[You received 50 000 XP]

"Finally some quiet..." Danzel said as he aimlessly stared at the sky.

`Why did I even leave the church in the first place? Danzel asked himself.

Not only was he made to wait in that slow carriage for hours long, but he had to hear those two blabbermouths at that too.

He originally wanted to just have a chance of page after all this sitting around and working at home. Just to shake those undead bones of his.

"How the hell did I end up killing that huge a*s lizard in the middle of the forest?" Glancing at the earth lizard dead body, he shook internally his head.

`Right, it was because I went to that association building...

He purely wanted to get some kind of excuse to go out and hunt something in the forest by request of one of the quests so that he wouldnt feel bad about wasting his time like this.

Once Hannes appeared and awaken his curiosity about this earth lizard though, he already fell in the dump hole that he walked in.

"I should avoid going to that association building anymore, or better yet staying at the church. At least there I would have some quiet..."

*Crack

"Mhhm?" Turning his head towards the sound, Danzel cursed internally.

`Ugh...did it really have to be now?

Staring around the beast that appeared from his surroundings with saliva in their mouth, the death mana in his body flared up, making the blood quickly turn black until not a hint of blood remained in his armor.

"They must have smelled that fat a*s over here..."

`Sigh, I should even stay at the church...

Jumping off the earth lizard neck, his killing intent was felt by every beast around him.

While the wised recognized the danger that Danzel possessed, the stupid ones recognize it as a challenge!

"Woof!"

"Keeegh!"

Different kinds of beasts similar to wolves and bears came rushing towards Danzel.

****

Three days later in the capital of Arcana kingdom.

In a place with no windows to see and only artificial light.

There was a huge circular room that had three different platforms at different heights.

The lowest platform had close to a hundred small pools of water on the floor while the second-highest floor had only around 20 pots of water that although similar to the ones of the lower floor, their quality was one above those below.

And in the third and highest platforms, they were four golden pools crystal with clear water to the left and right side.

And right in the middle of those 4 golden pools, was a magic circle drawn in the silver ground.

Suddenly in the room, almost every single pools water of from the lowest to middle started to bubble continuously as the glow of blue mana lighten the water up.

Like a whirlwind made out of the water, the water in the pools started rising into the shape of people with by each second more details being added in.

In less than five seconds, hundred of different images of people appeared in the room.

As everyone one of them looked around them in silence, in the highest platform, a magic circle in the middle lighten up.

Appearing out of nowhere was a man with deep blue robes and two gauntlets.

Once he appeared in the room, a massive amount of mana flooded through the room, though the people showing in the images werent physically in the room.

Their mystical sense was able to perceive the pure yet terrifying strong mana.

As if everyone agreed before hands, the simulations gazed to the ground and aimed.

"We welcome the almighty Magus of the Tower!"

Gazing down on the people, a staff appeared on his hand and hit the ground.

*Tiink~

Waiting for the echoes to end, the man with the robes said.

"By the name of Arcane, I declare the begin of this conference among fellow seekers of magic!"

Making his staff once again disappear, a silver liquid came out of the ground and turned into a silver throne with a sigil of a tower with an orb in the middle.

Sitting on the throne, he lazily looked at the lowest floor.

"The great mages of the "lowest floor" shall tell their cases, right after with the Archmages."

Many of the people hearing the word "lowest" showed their frowns for others clearly to see.

As the elites of the whole arcana kingdom, being called the "lowest" was a heavy insult.

One had to know that, unlike normal great mages that served as soldiers, every single one in here was an important figure.

From family heads to principals of famous magic academies and talented people.

Used on being the ones in power and not the other receiving end.

For some of them, insulting their pride would be considered the greatest sin

Alas, none complained of this remark.

Since right above their heads were beings that far surpass them, they could only suck their toes in the grievance.

With one starting to take the lead, the others follow along with heated topics revolving around their kingdom and the current war with the Berum Kingdom.

Most of them being reports and asking for assistance in something, the man with the drop blue robes stopped them and allowed middle ones to speak.

On the middle floor was an old man raising up his staff, mentioning if he can start.

With none objecting, he looked at the man with the deep blue robes.

"Excuse me, Oh~Magus of the Tower. But I would like to ask where the presence of the other four Magus are..." The old man, Archmage Nevvan said.

"...The other four haven't found any time to attend this meeting."

"I see..."

Continuing the meeting, one of the archmages wearing a mix of armor and cloth said with a heavy tone.

"I believe it's finally time to engage the offensive, great Magus. Reports of our spies say that the saintness of the Berums church to have finally passed away. With a being of the 5th-tier less, if we it was all 5 images together with our army. Our chances of winning are high!"

"I disagree, with that statement of yours. I believe it would be wiser to remain in our territory and if possible...end the war."

"What!?"

"What do you mean by ending the war?"

"We can't just-"

"After all those sacrifices we can't just-"

Murmurs of disagreement echo through the room, with some looking at Nevvan with hate.

"Silence." The deep blue-robed man said loud enough for everyone to hear.

Like pressing the stop button, silence befell the room

Looking.at Nevvan with his eyes, he asked.

"I believe that Nevvan has his reasoning that he would like to say something like this"

"Indeed I have... My reason for wanting to put an end to the war isn't to end the suffering that war brings."

"But about some things that we recently got aware of. Not long ago an undead Anomaly appeared in the Berum kingdom, an extremely rare existence."

"The reason is why I am telling everyone here that is that three days ago, another anomaly appeared."

"Wait, you can't mean-"

"Anomaly's can only be born with a huge amount of mana mutating their being. And the current anomaly that was found was in a forest with not so dense mana."

Looking straight at the Magus he continued.

"That making me believe that another of " those" disasters will soon be affecting our lands too. If that were to happen in the middle of the war, then-"

"Stop," he Magus of the tower said with his hand raised.

""That" disaster that you are talking about is predicted to come in year's later. It has to be confident that two appeared out of nowhere."

Shutting down Nevvan's further request of his topic, the conference continued...

***

Present...

"Finally done..." Danzel said as he sheathed Veren back to his sheath.

Killed every beast that came rushing at him, although annoying.

In Daniel's ethereal eyes, they looked like some kind of XP bags running at him by their own will.

"Sigh...at least it was worth the trip. Not only did I get rid of an annoyance, but also received more XP than I already thought I would gain.

"Mhm, I guess I should upgrade the runesmith class one more. As the progress of the Veren rune would be taking so much on. I got enough XP for it anyway. "

"I also would need resources to practice, so selling the tuned weapons doesn't sound such a bad idea.

As he walked the path that they came from, he soon spotted Sennan, Hannes, and Serah seemingly talking to another person.

'I guess they are giving their report to that guy.'

Walking towards them, he gestures at the shocked Serran.