Chapter 2
It glows!!!
“Congrats, you’re a beast tamer, NOW GET.” Guess the barbaric old man still hates life.
I go stand by Callum, (in the tamers line). We exchange some congratulations lightly and wait for the instructors to finish, which doesn’t take long considering I was at the back of my line – which was the shortest -, we only had to wait for 2 more people to take the test, neither tamers, then one of the servants, which were chillin’ at the edge of the courtyard, near the doors, runs inside.
We wait a few minutes for the advisor to come out, when he does he shouts out,” well done all you who passed. All you who didn’t, the tamer that brought you here will meet you by the gate,” what a turd right, I ain’t working for him in the future,” All of you that passed, you, you’re the future of humanity. Without you, we would be the weakest race. Yet all of you have the potential to be so much more. You can be magi, warriors, scouts and more, and the best part, you can excel at it. And so, without further ado, please follow me to the beast cages. You may then pick your first beast.” The uproar from this statement was so loud it was terrifying. All the children were obviously excited, but the instructors wouldn’t be angrier if you peed on their foot.
“THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!” screams Mr. Scary, and when I looked at him his face had turned bright red, almost crimson, and his veins were pulsing so much, they looked like worms, “THE COUNCIL OF RACES HAS BEEN GIVING THE FIRST BEAST SINCE THE BEAST TAMERS DISCOVERED, 150 YEARS AGO!!!”
All but the merchant was outraged but the girl was the calmer then the bear of a man. She put her hand on the man’s chest and pulled slightly. He looked at her and she shook her head. Slowly she pulled her hair back, and we all see her pointed ears, someone in the crowd breaths the word ‘elven’, the man stands up and slowly, as if fading in to reality, tiger like ears stand up, again the same guy goes, ‘beast men’, we look at him and all in sync say, “”” SHUTUP!!!”””.
The elf slowly and clearly says, “Should you continue with this, as a representative of the Unity faction, we will go to war, and we will wipe you out.”
“as a representative of the 9-cloud forest, we shall also wage war with you should you continue.” the beast man says.
Someone gasps, you see, you must know, the Unity faction is one of the 3 greats. The factions on this continent, in order from weakest to strongest, are the Beast Faction, this faction is the largest faction, taking up the entire 9 cloud forest, named so because it’s on a flouting island the same size as the entire continent. It consists of all the beasts, beast men, and monsters that spawn, are birthed, or evolve in the 9 clouds forest. The only reason it’s called the weakest of the 3 greats is because it doesn’t take part in any other disputes.it could destroy the entire continent in days, if it wanted to.
The 2nd strongest is the demon tribes of Algothh, not inherently evil, the demons all live in the shadows that the 9-cloud forest’s island cast upon the land and sea, known for their shadow magic, these are the worst foes, since while week in the night, they reign supreme.
The first is the unity faction. While being the smallest faction, the unity faction is strong because it encompasses all races. It has Armor forged by dwarves, ephirial knights, asura strike men, and many, many more. It has the best of the best. The only race that isn’t part of it, are the demons.
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“Well,” the well-dressed man says with a weasel like grin, “I’m afraid if you were to do that you’d go to war with the demons.” And, unexpectedly, he says that towards the other 2.
“yes, “the advisor says, “you see, we, this city, are going to be a new kingdom, with demons as allies, a kingdom of the most superior race, humans. All you beast tamers who wish to join only need to come and pick your first beast.”
“Yet if you do, you shall never learn the secrets from all the beast tamers in Unity, you shall also be killed on sight in all unity factions, which may I remind you, this city is surrounded by.”
“you shall never be allowed in the 9 cloud forests, nor will you ever have a chance to ascend.”
Everyone was silent, first the kill on sight command was very heavy, you have to understand, demons live in the shadows of the 9 cloud forests, which is only one fifth of the continent, Unity takes up the rest of it. Your basically being band from everywhere but this city.
And ascending, the one thing that all people can do, from commoner to noble, human to construct. Ascending is the legendary way to ‘ascend’ to higher worlds, where they use the most rare and expensive herbs to feed cattle, precious and impossible to find materials for slave shacks. The ‘only’ thing you must do is climb the world tree and jump into one of the numerous planes. The only place in the entire world where you can find the world tree is, you guessed it, on the 9-cloud forest, and even then, it’s but a branch. Every year the 9-cloud faction let’s all people come and have a test. ‘a test you say, what is this test, ‘this test, well, you must eat the serene spirit seer fruit. This mystical fruit can see whether you’re ready to climb the world tree. No one knows how, but when someone doesn’t pass and climes the world tree, they’ve been known to appear, centuries later, saying they were takin to a lower plane. If it makes your body glow white, you’re ready, brown when you’re not.
“why worry about such a trivial thing when the demons have the plane walker turtle.” Again, gasps.
The planes walker turtle is a turtle that can, well, walk across planes. If your plane of existence doesn’t have a world tree, it will have some form of plane walking beast. The issue with the plane walkers are that not only do you not get a choice to where you go, lower plane or higher plane, but you also have a chance of being noosed, which means you basically die from the feedback. The upside, you can leave at any time.
“and beast tamers can learn secrets by themselves. Do you really need them? Also duke Halgon is joining us, so we’re not alone.”
The elf says in a dangerous tone, “Choose wisely children, we won’t stop you from joining them, but you will receive all the penalties.”
Slowly I start walking towards the elf and beast man but, “also, if you join their side, we’ll slaughter your families!!!”
I cringe. What do I do, either I go good and my mom dies, or I go bad and I cripple my and my mom’s future.
Suddenly there’s a shout, “sir, one of the families have escaped. A woman, alone, around 5 foot, red hair. she just disappeared.”
Immediately I feel relief, I only have my mom and that’s an almost exact description of her. I carry on walking. When I get there, I see 4 other kids walk up. I look at them and one explains, “me and Andros are orphans, the other 2 live in a village a few miles from here.” I nod. I look over and see the rest with their heads down. That’s when I realised Callum’s not here.
I see him on the other side with the adviser, “I can’t, my mum and dad are still here.” I shout out, saying they beast tamers, fire and ice, they can escape, he just says he can’t risk it. I scream, and, as I’m about to run to gouge the advisor’s eyes out, the beast man grabs me, “you can’t,” he says, “he has a demon on his side and its almost dusk, take revenge on the battle field.” I can’t hear him; my vision goes red and I struggle for all I’m worth. I see him put his head down, I see him turn away, and as I see him walk into the mansion, I break.
I stop struggling, stop screaming and just, just stand there. “come on, we need to leave.” I just follow him as he turns around and walks away. We get on the walker and leave. It might have seemed a short time, but he’s the only friend I ever had.
and with that one action, the demons of Algothh spelled their own doom. And the purist kingdom, well they were dead before they started.
This is how a legend is born.