While Luck and Caroline were on their way to a pizza house they felt a weird sensation of mana, they both felt it but they didn't react strangely to it

"You feel it too don't you?" Luck asked Caroline

He stopped walking and slowly turned around to look at her

"I feel it but I think it's nothing, it's probably a randomly generated mana zone so we can simply ignore it!" Caroline said as she kept moving forwards, but before she could get ahead of Luck he grabbed her wrist

"Why not explore it?" He asked with a smile on his face

Caroline smiled back

"I didn't think you are the type to jump in danger but I won't complain"

Caroline then walked closer to the source of this weird sensation

"I'm entering in if I'm not back in 10 seconds then don't enter" Caroline said

And before Luck could say anything, she vanished like thief in the night, Luck waited and before he knew it Caroline popped out of the mana zone, no harm was done to her

"It's amazing inside there, let's go explore!" Caroline told him with excitement

Luck then entered the mana zone with Caroline, and when he entered he was surprised to see himself reflecting in a pod of water, but something even more surprising was the huge dessert surrounding this small pod of water, there were no sights of plants or civilization around

"This place is huge! How will we find the mana core in this massive area?" Luck asked as he looked around

"Relax! We don't need to find the core we just want to explore so how about we go this way, we may be able to find something if we look hard enough"

Caroline said as she pointed at the distance

"Wait how big is this place?" Luck asked confused

"A randomly generated mana zone can be at least 1 square km and can reach even 100 square km, the largest recorded mana zone is infinite, and if I remember correctly it was supposed to be the garden of Eden, it was named that because it was rich of mana and very peaceful this zone didn't even have aggressive entities, and to make things even crazier people couldn't attack each other inside that zone, it was this crazy! Nobody knows how it was created but people suspect it was created by 1 of the 2 mana spirits, the two founders of mana"

Caroline told Luck as they were walking in the direction she pointed previously, Luck was amazed by what he heard

"How do you know it was infinite?" He asked confused

"Someone shot a beam of reflective light and it never came back, that's what we used to determine its size" Caroline replied

She then shot light at the horizon and after not even some seconds the light came back

"See? It reached the barrier of the zone and it reflected back"

Caroline told Luck but it was still very hard for him to accept someone had the power to create such a mana zone, and then it hit him

"What are the mana spirits?"

"Oh them? They are a fairy tail about how mana and the elements were created, even if I refer to it as a fairy tale it's very much real" Caroline explained

"So the story goes like this. Once upon a time there was a lonely spirit, this spirit had the power to create everything it wanted, from a tree to a whole planet, its power was omniscient but he was all alone, he didn't have a friend and he couldn't create one either, people are not something that can be created but find"

Luck seemed very invested in the story

"So one day this lonely spirit got tired of wondering into the space all alone so it split itself into two, so he can always have a friend, the two beings named each other, the white spirit was named Aurumia by the dark spirit and the dark spirit was named Skotos by the white spirit, those two wandered around and made memories with each other for millenniums, they were the best of friends but they didn't share the same thought process"

At this point of the story the tale turned into a dark one

"Skotos likes to destroy things and rule over them where Aurumia liked to create things and watch over them, so they can grow big and strong, after another millennium Aurumia had secretly created our solar system and made us, humans, when Skotos found out about the earth he wanted to destroy it immediately but Aurumia stopped him, Skotos got mad so he started a fight between the two of them, the fight was disastrous, they both fought like they were long life enemies, in the end of the fight these once omniscient beings fell into the earth, their power was drained out but they both had a fire still burning inside of each other, the spent some time on earth growing and improving, the humans that Skotos wanted to destroy that much helped him gain power by making him a god, and Aurumia had a similar fate, humans worshiped her beauty and power with their own life, but all this worship and admiration divided humans into two groups that hated each other, it didn't take long for them to go on a full fledged war, a war that even the gods took part in, in this war Aurumia was victor and with her win she managed to seal Skotos in the core of the earth, and as for her and Skotos's power she gathered it all and divided it into six, so humans can use this power safely. end of the story, the message of this story is that even the most loyal friends can go to war if their beliefs are against"

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Luck viewed this story with a hint of doubt but also fear

'Caroline said that these spirits were real so that means somewhere on this earth Skotos is sealed and Aurumia is still wandering around, it's scary to think that beings this strong are roaming the same planet as me and Caroline'

Luck thought as he looked at the ground

"If you were Aurumia what would you do now?" Luck asked Caroline

"Probably go undercover, humans are scary in this day and age, so if they find a powerful source of mana they will abuse it without thinking any deeper than that" Caroline replied almost instantly

She spoke as she was once in her place, Luck and Caroline remained silent after, they didn't have anything more to say to each other, they both walked into a straight line hopping to find something, even a single rock, eventually, a Caroline saw a fog approaching them, the fog was coming from way too far to tell what or who was it, but as the fog came closer and closer Luck and Caroline were able to detect what it was, it was a group of horses that looked like they were decaying, these horses were being ridden by zombified cowboys with guns

"Get ready Luck the action is about to begin"

Before Caroline could inform Luck about them, Luck had already created a sword and was headed toward them

"Looks like you have grown a pair of balls!" Caroline told Luck as she ran in front of him

She then jumped on top of a horse, and with a swift kick she obliterated the rider, Luck in the other hand he ran up close to a horse and by enhancing his sword with mana he sliced the 2 right legs of the horse, resulting to it falling to the ground with the rider and shattering their bodies, and before Luck could recover a bullet was headed towards him, he saw it but he was unable to block, but before the bullet could hit, Caroline caught it with her arm

"You got to be more careful G salt!" Caroline told him with a smile

"Shut up and watch this!"

Luck said as he jumped on a horse with a rider, Luck tried to slice the rider in half but the rider blocked the attack with his gun, the rider then grabbed another gun with his spare hand and pointed at Luck's stomach, his hand was cut before he could shoot by Caroline, she used a wave of air to cut it, Luck was still trying to cut through the gun but it was useless, the gun was simply too durable so Luck improvised, he released his grip on the blade and quickly enhanced his hand with mana, he then punched the face of the rider with all of his force, turning it into pieces

"I killed it!" Luck exclaimed happily but his celebration was quickly interrupted by a punch from the head-less rider

Luck had forgotten that he needed to destroy the mana core of a being to kill it, not its body, Luck then channeled his mana and released a slight electrical shock in his body, he then rapidly punched the rider destroying his body, Caroline was surprised to see Luck use the element of destruction

"Hey Luck there are two left, check this out!"

Caroline said to capture Luck's attention, she then focused her mana to create a large spear, she then threw the spear in between the 2 riders, and when the spear perfectly aligned with the riders it created a large electrical field that fried the and destroyed the 2 remaining riders

"You didn't have to flex how much better than me you are but alright" Luck said with a pissed expression

Caroline hugged him with her right arm

"Come on Lucky Luke! You are going to get on my level eventually, you just have to train" Caroline told him to make him feel better

"Get off me Caro, I'm not mad" Luck said as he pushed Caroline away but she didn't let go of Luck

A bullet suddenly flew between them, when the bullet hit the ground it exploded, Caroline and Luck immediately looked in the direction that the bullet came but to their surprise they saw a morbidly large cowboy zombie

"Do you want to deal with him?" Caroline asked Luck

"Watch and learn!" Luck said as he tapped Caroline's shoulder

He then created 4 clones of him and surrounded the giant cowboy, the cowboy had a hard time finding the real Luck since the clones didn't give a different aura from the real Luck, the cowboy then shot one of the five Lucks the bullet hit the Luck and exploded, but it was simply a clone, Luck then used his clones as a stepping tool to get closer to the cowboys head, Luck then created a grenade and threw it inside the mouth of the cowboy, the zombie cowboy's jaw was missing so getting the grenade inside its mouth was easy, as Luck was falling he ordered his clones to catch him, so he wasn't hurt from the fall, an explosion occurred inside the cowboy making his whole body explode creating a bloody mess, Luck used his clones to cover himself from the rain of blood but Caroline didn't have such a thing so she was bathed in blood

"Oh my bad Caroline, do you want help cleaning up?"

Caroline told him as he created a towel Caroline took his towel and burned it in front of his face, she then started hugging and rubbing her body on Luck

"Stop you bitch! You will get me dirty too!" Luck yelled as she kicked Caroline but it was futile

Caroline completely covered Luck's clothes with blood

"Look what you have done! Now we can't go out for food!" Luck said angrily, after seeing Luck's face Caroline laughed

"What's so funny asshole?"

"Your face it's just so adorable!" Caroline replied

Luck felt embarrassed so he quickly used the element of illusion to hide his filth and exited the mana zone, Caroline quickly followed him

"Where are we going?" Caroline asked him in a teasing way

"To take a shower obviously! Because you don't know when to not act like a child" Luck told her with a puffed face

"Haha, sure sure, let's go, first person, to go baths first!" Caroline said as he began to ran

"Hey, that's unfair! Come back" Luck said as he ran behind her in the busy streets of New York