Two people could be seen descending down the stone spiral stairs. The sound of their footstep reverberate through the area. Their slow footstep sound make the dark flight of stairs eerie but the two people didn’t even seem to mind that.
“Serias, how was your research about the soul?”
“It’s progressing in quite a good pace. But I lack any other soul other than my own to help me analyse the pattern of the soul. This hamper my research a bit but not a main problem” reported Serias.
“Okay then, I want you to recite back on what I’ve taught you about the magic system.”
“Magic system was divided into seven type. The first one is the elemental magic that pertaining about controlling six basic element that is fire, water, wind, earth, darkness, and light. The second is space magic that control the space. It is one of the most difficult magic as the knowledge about it is limited. The third one is barrier magic which is about creating barrier, seal and wards. The fourth is conjuring magic that create temporary structure made of pure mana. It need magic circle or strong imagination to activate it. The fifth system is the soul magic, the most undeveloped branch of magic as soul is not easy to investigate and understand. Utility magic is magic that encompass magic from reinforcement magic, movement reinforcement magic, tracing magic, alteration magic and rune magic. The last branch is the alchemy where potion or material is concocted with the help of magic to improve its effectiveness.”
“Oh! You did your homework didn’t you?” Stella smirked at him playfully.
They arrived at a door after descending for about 10 minutes. The door was made from a type of metal but was painted black. Stella touched her silver ring on the door and it swung out revealing a small room with a white crystal orb on a 1m high column at the centre. They entered the room and the door were closed by Stella quietly. Stella moved to the centre of the room and put her hand on the crystal orb.
“Come. Put your hand on the orb.”
Serias stepped slowly to the centre of the room and stood opposite of Stella. He put his hand on the orb. It glowed white before his consciousness was bombarded by numerous white light. The he feel that his mind is pulled to somewhere.
What he saw after his mind is cleared is numerous number of shelves with books. There were books everywhere. It could be compared to the biggest library that he saw back on Earth. His mouth was wide open and his interest is perked immediately by the monstrous amount of books. This amount of books could last a lifetime. There were also stairs that could brought the visitors to the next floor. From his eyes he could see the library was at least 10 floors. Suddenly his shoulder is poked by someone. When he turned around he could see Stella with her smile.
“What do you think of this library?”
“Just what the hell was with this library? Every single floor could even last a single lifetime to read it.”
“Well this is the Archive. The library that housed the Magic Archive. It included every single book or knowledge or a grimoire that had been found by previous Archivist.”
“You meant this is the lifework of thousands of years?”
“Yes it is. Did you remember when I told you to train and control your own mind? It is for you to access this Archive.”
“How?”
“An untrained mind could be burned and paralyzed when accessing this Archive. The load of information could overload and fried the brain. That is why I taught you to train your mind first. And you must thought about why the first Archivist built the Archive to take form like this. Well, it is only for aesthetics sake. Oh, the Archive also use (time acceleration magic) like the training room, so just read the book without worry.”
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
Serias could only frown when he heard the reason behind why the Archive take the form of big library. As it take the form of a library it contain a number of seat and tables for the use of Archivist. Then he slowly walked to the seat that when gestured by Stella.
“For today I’ll tell you some history about this world. The previous Archivist, our predecessor didn’t take priority in compiling the history of this world. The First Archivist was too busy collecting books and information about magic by the end of the Precursor War that he simply discarded any notion of collecting any history book. What I could you is only the tale that the previous Archivist told me.”
This world, Kosmos, was initially a planet that didn’t have any fauna only flora. Then one day the Precursor found this world through some exploration team. Then gradually the Precursor started moving into this world. For about 2000 years the Precursor develop this into something like paradise. Then they found out about mana after some of their own assimilate with the mana. The era of magic start and rapidly developed what the people now call the golden age of magic. But this era end when they started straying from their path. Creating abomination for the sake of curiosity, the dragon for example is actually created by the Precursor. This created a friction between the Conservative and the Revolutionary faction.
After a cold war that last for about a millennium the two forces clashed. The Conservative force that employ their best magician that had been cultivated for about 10 century. The Revolutionary on the other hand release the beast and monster that only could be heard from legend story of the Precursor. This war last for about 200 years. This was the Precursor War. Both side didn’t want to lose and threw away their ideal. By the last half century of the war the First Archivist started moving to collect the knowledge that didn’t get burned by the flame of war. By the last decade of the war, he built this safe sanctuary to store the knowledge that he collect. He leave the job of collecting, compiling and the safeguarding of the Archive to his apprentice before he passed away.
Finishing the story, Stella sat on the seat and out of thin air two cups of tea with saucer was safely conjured and put on the table. Serias were perplexed by this act. He knew that this act was an act that defy logic as magic is not omnipotent that it could materialized the thing in front of him. Stella take the cup and sipped her tea while eyeing her apprentice with amused face.
“Don’t think too much about that. This place after all only a virtual or imaginary not a real one. As the supervisor of this place, the act that I do is not even a magic. Only something in our mind. I know that you are drooling at the book. Just go get a book that you like.”
Serias without further ado dashed to the nearest bookshelves to take a look at the numerous book that were contained in the library. Eyeing at the bookshelves he could see almost all of the book were about fundamental of magic. Stella from afar laughed loudly at her disciple.
“This floor only contained the book about the basic of magic. Only from next floor contained advanced level magic book.” Stella yelled loudly at Serias who were quite a distance away.
Serias who heard that bolted to the next floor. Stella could only shook her head at his childish disciples. She continue to sip her tea while contemplating about what to do next.