* Authors note* before anyone get's confused, Illiana and Light, always refer to each other with these names, including the nicknames associated with that name.
The ones their parents gave them, are used by everyone else, including nicknames associated with that name.
In other news, yay! i have finally built up enough of the world, to focus on the characters and plot, what does this mean?
Training Arcs, action packed fight scenes are on the way!
* Authors note end*__________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 2: Heavenly Flame Continent
It's been 6 years since I've was born into this world, I'm currently in my mom's study waiting for Ana to get here, while waiting I started to read about the world.
The continent that I live on is called the Heavenly Flame Continent, it's called that because of the person that created the continent, yes (created,) he used a flame so hot that he created magma, and caused the ocean to disappear and create a single landmass 10 million kilometers in total.
By the way, our continent is actually one of the bigger ones on the planet, we have multiple forests that stretch for thousands of kilometers, desserts that seem to never end, and cites with hundreds of millions of people, the city I saw before while I was a soul is the capital of this continent. Selestria, Selestria and the continent are controlled by the Snow empire.
Funny I know, but see it's like this, because the person who made the continent, actually made it for a really good friend of his, that person was Arthur Snow, the ancestor and founder of the empire, and he was extremely gifted in ice and fire magic, originally his last name was different it seems, but he changed it to Snow because of his wife, on the night he asked her to marry him he made it snow, romantic right? I laughed to myself because of how ironic it was.
He is also the reason that Volcano was frozen solid, I also found out what was up with that ice field and lava I saw in the distance while I was at the capital, it seems it's illusion magic, truth is the ice is actually all water, and the lava is all earth.
It's a defensive mechanism against beasts, of course there are other defensive measures but this is the first one you see, of course after finding out it's an illusion you break the spell, and can see things for what they are.
The reason it works against beasts is because until they reach a certain level, and become intelligent, they don't understand it and are afraid to go near the fire and ice.
Illiana, is the Princess of the Empire, her name that her parents gave her is Ellia, the reason why she is my betrothed is because of my parents.
My Mother is best friends with the current Queen of the Empire, and my Father with the Emperor, before I was born they were all best friends, like brothers and sisters, and wanting it to become official, they decided if either child was a girl the other a boy, they would be engaged.
Of course our parents would never force us into this, if neither one of us really wanted to be with the other it would have been okay to call it off, but of course they didn't know that me and Illiana are literally soul mates, even if we weren't engaged from birth, I would have still married Ana.
Closing the book I was reading, I walked over to a map on the wall, in the middle I see our continent, to the east I see a continent that is our enemy, we have never gotten along with them, they view themselves as the true rulers of our planet, the Dark Cloud Continent, my mom says that when I go to school, I'll learn more about them, so I don't know much about it.
To the south I see our allies the Lunar Goddess Continent, it's called this because it used to be a desolate place nothing grew, even though there was plenty of water, it was even worse than desserts, the soil was useless because of the position of the planet it never got enough sunlight.
A really long time ago, a certain individual, actually created a second moon that directly faces that continent, and the land was bathed in moonlight for eons causing the earth there to became the most fertile on the entire planet, the people living there called it the Lunar Goddess continent, in respect for what she had done.
To the North is possibly the most unknown, the Mysterious Lands, no one really knows anything about it, from what I read there is a legendary beast that keeps away all intruders into his land.
To the West is the Savage beast lands, as the name suggests, it's nothing but beasts there, there isn't too much to learn about it, other than it's still here today, because there are beast so strong, no one has the strength to conquer it.
Breaking me out of my thoughts, my Mom comes in and says,” Wey, Ellia is here go to the dinning room, breakfast is ready,” she said in stern but warm voice.
Looking at her I see her stomach is now very large, I couldn't help but smile run over give her a hug and say,” Mom when will the baby come out? I can't wait to meet my sibling,” I said in a very excited voice.
Hearing me say so, my Mother leans over kisses me on the head, before laughing softly saying,” soon my baby, probably in a week or two,” she said in a warm and loving tone.
I couldn't wait, I don't know If it's a girl or a boy, but it didn't matter I was so happy to be getting a sibling.
Holding hand my Mother leads me to the dining room, already in a chair waiting for me is Ana, she can only described as stunning.
Long golden hair that reaches her waist, thin eyebrows, small pink lips, bright purple eyes, wearing a sky blue blouse made out of silk with long sleeves that stop at her elbows, a black flame sewed on where her heart would be.
A black skirt that reaches her knees with little hearts sewed on it, with black boots that looked very expensive.
I couldn't help but stare at her, she is so cute, in the future she will be an absolute beauty.
Noticing my gaze, she gave a cute chuckle saying,” Light stop staring at me like that, come over here and sit down.” She said in a very warm voice.
She indicated for me to come over and sit next to her, letting go of my Mother's hand, I walked over with a small spring in my step, and a smile on my face.
Seeing this my Mother just gave a wry smiling before saying, “ Luke you and Ellie will be testing for your elements today, also if you have any talent in magic, after breakfast go and get changed.” She said in a stern but caring tone.
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I just looked at her before laughing and said in a lighthearted tone,” okay Mom.”
Sitting down next to Ana, I started to eat my breakfast, we ate while talking about what to expect and how exciting it was to finally be able to start training.
In this world you don't start cultivating before the age of six, even though I knew cultivation methods, it wouldn't have mattered, the natural laws of the world don't allow to you train before the age of six, this is because before you awaken to your elements, and try to forcefully cultivate, you would cripple yourself.
Simply put, the body couldn't contain the Qi or the Mana, without destroying itself in the process.
Me and Ana already know or elements, this isn't a surprise to us, we have always known, the reason we didn't start cultivating is because even though we know our elements we still haven't awoken to them, in our bodies it's a process that naturally occurs.
I heard from Dad, that this is called a breakthrough, and I've had this really weird feeling for awhile now, like I'm about to gain enlightenment, maybe that's what a breakthrough is.
After finishing breakfast Ana goes with my mom and waits for me to go get dressed, I walked towards the stairs before heading up to the second floor, we have three floors the first is for guests, meetings, it has the dining room, kitchen, and a hall for party's and important events.
The second floor is only for my family, the servants aren't even allowed on this floor, we do everything ourselves, except for washing our bedding and clothes, we send them down to the basement using a small transportation formation.
The third floor is for the servants it's big with multiple rooms, and a kitchen of their own a bath just for them, if your wondering how they get to the third floor without passing the second floor it's simple, they have their own staircase in the kitchen that only goes to the third floor.
Walking up the stairs even though you can't see it, there is a powerful formation the only way up here is if the person who set up the formation gives you permission to go through, once you pass the barrier you can immediately tell it feels different.
It's as if the outside world as been cut off, here it's completely tranquil, once you get to the second floor there is small hallway, and at the the end it splits off into two directions, one leads to my parents room the training hall, and the bath.
We have showers in all of the rooms on this floor, but only one bath and it's massive, it's basically a pool.
The right side leads to my bedroom, or more specifically our bedrooms, for the children of this house, along the way, there are guest rooms a lot smaller than the main rooms, but still bigger than common sized bedrooms.
In the middle is the most breathtaking, it's like being In the forest surrounded by nature, there is a pond with a waterfall flowing into it, it's big enough to actually take a dip in, there are Beautiful bright fish in it.
The ground is covered in grass, with very colorful flowers all over the place, there are chairs with a table in the middle, for talking and relaxing, next to the pond a little open area so you can meditate.
There is naturally light being emitted from a skylight, it's very peaceful, there are even a few birds chirping.
This place meant to meditate, and cultivate it's actually one of the most important things in this house, it's a cultivation field and they are very rare and difficult to setup.
My parents are actually the ones the set it up, my Mom collected all the items to make it, and my Dad created it, even most major sects don't have something like this.
The Royal palace has one, but it's weak and small compared to the one we have, in the six years I've lived the one thing I have learned is, my parents are amazing.
My mother is the blood descendant of the ancestor to the biggest sect in this country, and only two others on this planet can even slightly compare, she is next in line to be the patriarch.
My Dad is a genius, he was of noble descent but because he didn't have a talent in Qi they kicked him out, abandoning his last name, after marrying my mother he changed his last name to Azura.
He is one of the most talented Magi in the world, and when it comes to formations, no one can compare except for maybe that legendary beast in the Divine Fate Continent, this is the one of the reason's why we only have maid's at our castle, if they can break the seals made by my dad, no warrior or mage is gonna be any help.
Once in my room I stripped and threw my clothes in a corner, than went in my closet and found some clothes.
Looking in the mirror, I see a little boy about 6 years old looking back, with dark brown hair almost black, his hair is short letting nature take it's course without styling it, “simplicity at it's best” the little boy says to himself, on the left side there is a line through his hair front to back, it's color is blood red like his mothers.
The boy is tall for his age, sharp eyebrows, small face, eyes that are golden with a bright blue hue in the center, the boy has a small childish grin on his face, at six years old he is cute with a mature charm, in the future he would be devilishly handsome.
Putting on his clothes, he put's on a thin black shirt that almost seems to suck in the light, it's a defensive type artifact, that his dad made him, even though it's just a shirt it will stop blades from piercing his flesh.
He than put's on an expensive robe it's color is sky blue just like Ana's blouse, it has a crimson colored sewing of what looks like a soul, where his heart should
Once dressed he runs back down stairs to where his mother is, seeing him she let's out a sweet smile showing her pearly white teeth saying,” you look handsome sweetie, you and Ellie will be taking the transporter, Aunt Tessa is on the other side waiting for you, I can't go with you, it isn't good for the baby.”She says in a warm voice.
Looking at her I just smiled and said, “okay Mom, I'll be back soon.” he said with a warm voice, than he took Ana's hand, and led her to a room that had a bunch of weird symbols on the floor.
My Mom looking at me gave me worried face saying,” be safe and don't do anything reckless, love you honey.”
I looked at her giving her a warm smile and said,” love you too Mom,”than as everything went white, I said “this should be fun,” with a grin on my face.