Prologue: The bird soars
Erina
An ashen world made from the violence deities from old had given life to 2 types of people.The Mages and Normalites,a heavenly gap was drawn between both changing how each half of humanity viewed each other,the mages blessed with the ability to manipulate organic or inorganic components of the universe from birth by a unique organ present in the base of their spines nicknamed Calfossis which produces a chemical called calfur which is expelled from another organ located anywhere on the body known as a sigil that makes a subconscious teather to their birth element allowing them to manipulate the universe around them.
Normalites were given the meat end of stick they lacked this organ making them inferior to the mages, but despite the existence of calfur magic they had exceptional physical strength and immunity to most diseases.
The world was divided into 3 major continents,the northernmost continent near the pole was called Glasseria or the 'Land of beauty' the southernmost continent closer to the equator was called Ruthaan or 'Land of the deities' and between both at the equator was known as Lyclie,'The land of unity'.
Normalites emerge from Glasseria and Mages from Ruthaan,Lycile acting as a junction between both.
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23th January,1012
On A cold spring morning in the upper northern subcontinent in Lycile known as the Juid Region known for its vast forests,high mountains,beautiful valleys and rivers.In one of these such forests,a rustle of stumbling footsteps and a loud groan of pain could be heard.
A tan skinned young man fuzzy brown hair and skin,red irises filled with fear and dread on his impending doom.Wearing an oversized black tunic and red leggings a very shiny silver axe in his left hand holding.His legs fail him as he used a nearby tree leaning against it,his axe sliding out of his grip and sitting against it holding his side bleeding from a stab wound unlike any other a burning feeling unlike anything he has ever experienced before.
Axe next to him in arm's reach.The man watches his life flash before his eyes as he fades into unconsciousness from blood loss feebly praying to himself, "May Na bless my soul in the after life.Elien...I hope you don't get caged again..." Taking his hand from his side he sees his hand: staring at a fist full of blood, "Damnit...This much blood?"
With a small smile he spoke,"This much? My Elien would screwer me on a pike,For making such a mess especially on her favourite tunic on me..."
The man's breathing got slower,his mind foggier as the events of what happened earlier replay at high speeds in his mind before passing out from pain.
(30 minutes earlier)
As the sun rises ready to make its trip to the otherside of the sky. The same young man is in a forest picking strange purple fruits from a tree putting it in a basket on his back holding a fruit to his mouth he takes a bite-and he spat it out to the forest floor saying to himself, "Sour I hope this should at least be good enough for stew." The man then begins to walk down the dense forest looking at certain light markings on the trees as he approached a hut.
The hut was medicorely made at best but quite large from the outside,standing in front of the door. He opens and then knocks on the door, "Elien?You awake?" The young man asks he sees a woman in her mid 20's blond hair and slightly blond skin with 4 black circular markings on both of her forearms sleeping in a makeshift bed of sorts in the middle of the room.
The woman grumbles as she sits up scratching her eyes her blond hair messy and matted and could be comparable to a bushfire her golden eyes barely opened as she speaks her voice hoarse from the wake up call,"Reda a few more minutes. Lemme sleep for another 10 minutes." She tries to lay back down but the man drags her by the wrists,"C'mon! Get up I didn't go out to collect flora for them to get rotten as you awake."
The woman gets up rubbing and covering her face in annoyance says,"FINE! will you stop pestering me after make food for you?" She walks towards a room as Reda follows in pursuit,She stepped into a small room with a mirror and various brushes a mirror and a sink of sorts. Elien then takes a small leather water-pouch and opens it washing her face, "What did you get?" She says grabbing a brush and guiding it through her messy hair.
"I got soku berries they're not in season though...But I've got Tangi roots,Filu deiomeya and a few blue lotuses." Reda says as he takes off the basket from his back showing it to Elien she was still busy brushing her hair not directing her attention to the basket but listened keenly, "Ahuh? I see that should be enough to make a weird soup."
"It won't be weird cause I know your going to make it delicious." Reda smiles confidently and gives her a pat on the head.
"Yeah right go clean up those herbs." She says mildly amused with his compliment as he walks away to another room. Meanwhile she grabs a wooden tong like instrument with 2 steel pieces in the inside and many pieces of her hair of it as she chants,"Fi" one of the sigil above on the back of her palm glowing a red as it lights up in a small flame.
Holding up the flame to 1 side of the tong's metallic parts she would turn it and hold the flame against the other side for a brief second as the tongs were hot enough holding a bit of her hair pressed the tongs together sliding it down her hair using it like hair straightener as the fire in her hand fades and the sigil stops glowing. "What are you looking at Reda go and clean up those herbs" Elien says as Reda picks up the basket going to another room a kitchen like place with a stone rectangular sink and a similar leather-bag like from the previous room.
Reda Grabs a large wooden bowl with a small poorly scratched on 'REEDDA' the rim as puts the herbs,lotuses and berries in it and pours the water into it. He takes a spoon of salt and bottle of wine, "Okay..." taking a spoon he puts 5 spoons of salt into bowl and guesstimates how much wine he should pour;He pours at least 20ml of wine but stops after a 3 seconds. Using a stick to stir the produce taking a sieve pouring the solution down the drain as he is left with just the herbs in the sieve.
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A satisfied 'mmh' is heard from Reda as he puts the herbs back in the bowl and as he turns around he flinches as Elien stood there,"AH! what the hell...was that for Elien?" A second later she laughs and says, "What a little spook you can't handle? Little Red?" Elien says the last part teasingly often she called Reda 'little Red' as way making fun of his almost upright responsible nature which felt odd for someone his age."ugh...Elien I told you not to call me that."
"Yeah and your my younger brother so I'll call you however I like go be seated at the table its going to be ready soon" Reda walks back and sits down on the makeshift bed in the middle of the room staring at his axe hung on the wall. This axe was special to him it was one of the only possessions he ever carried throughout his years of living,It had a wooden handle and a silver axe blade with thatch binding the whole thing together.
"Man..." his stomach grumbles as he awaits food but hears a knock on the door, "huh?...who's that?" He approaches the door,opening it the first thing he sees is: 3 hooded figures.One of the hooded figures a woman with a lock of teal hair that flowed out of her hood would look at Reda and begins speaking, “Who’s…this kid…where's the curse bearer” she says with a tired expression before she could get another word in getting interrupted by the tallest in the group.
The tallest out of the group walks in front of the 2 “I kill him? Zerion?” the tallest figure had a muscular physique that could even be seen through the robes as the third figure would say,“I’ll handle this kid Edline secure and capture the curse bearer first” the third figure had a very clear burn mark,Reda immediately realises he is face to face with 3 mages and quickly grabs his axe standing his ground.
“Ryo fu rubi" Third figure chants as the figure’s index finger had a sigil that glowed a bright white light and the figure’s hand breaks open with a bone slowly coming out sharpening itself into a sharp edge and his wound closed back up uninjured as he raises the bone sword bringing it down towards Reda.
As this happened Elien would catch wind of the noise and runs towards the door and chants, “RE SU FAIN!” her sigils glowed for a second as the door frame bursts into a oceanic wave of flames.She grabbed Reda by the collar and ran towards the back of the hut burning a hole through it and jumping over it hoping to lose the figures in their pursuit.
The hut was ablaze getting charred as the figures would be on their tail getting through the fire rapidly closing the distance towards them.the tallest figure grabs a branch and throws it at Elien,It hits her in the leg and causes her to fall down Reda stops and stares back and she yells at Reda a command,"RUN! GO!"
Elien stands back up her leg with a stick deep in side as the robed woman says tired,“Careful…she bears 2 curses….” The teal haired figure would say as she’d take a stance so would the hooded figures Reda would be shocked but continues to run,the burn-face man going ahead after him as Elien is locked in a 1v2 against these two unknown figures.
The first to make a move is Elien she’d chant, ”RU FAIN BER!” a large wave of fire was sent towards them but the 2 would dodge and the teal haired figure chants, "yui".Running at her from the side trying to flank her with her palm with a sigil that glowed a silver covered in a clear crystalline substance in a attempt to touch her forearm.
Elien would dodge saying,”Not today not with those ugly hands of yours” punching the woman in the stomach sending her reeling back the other tall mage clasps his hands from behind the sigils on his cheeks glowing a green chanting, "FlOURA ANDI JUI!" vines and branches from the earth reach towards Elien trying to dodge by jumping away this attack but little did she know she fell into a trap the robes had her where they want her.
The robed woman manages to graspe her sigils coating it in the crystal as she was unable to cast any more calfur as the robed woman punches her in the face,"that's deserved...you iliet." Elien bleeds from the nose but it heals in a few seconds"yeah right?...if you didn't have your friend I would killed you."
Elien now captured meanwhile, Reda continues to run away not looking back the third figure still following him closely behind as the robed man lunges and stabs him with the bone sword in the side digging it deep in the side as the blade,”AHHH!” his scream was loud and blood curdling as the figure pulls out the bone sword making him drop his axe to his side.
The figure kicks him to a tree as the figure crouched to Reda looks at him into the eyes of pure white the figure’s burn scar showing he whispers in a soft voice like a ,“it's going to be painless…sleep…now…child.” Reda would lay there on the forest floor as figure walks away with as he reaches out but falls to the ground seeing the teal haired lady restrain her in a crystalline substance around her arms taking her away.Their hut burning away into charred ash Reda passed out from the pain as the figures disappear with Elien.
Reda crawls and painfully groans with each movement and sits up leaning against a tree holding his side bleeding from a stab wound a burning feeling unlike a silver axe next to him in arm's reach.The man watches his life flash before his eyes as he fades into unconsciousness from blood loss feebly whispering, "May Na bless my soul in the after life". Taking his hand from his side he sees his hand: staring at a fist full of blood, "damnit...this has to be-*chough*-the worst way to go out" the man passes out cold.
(1 hour later)
Reda was the same spot tired and in pain he would try to get up and but fails sliding back down holding his side with his left hand and his axe on his right,before he could ponder on anything he hears footsteps approaching him slowly.
In front of him he sees a man in a green uniform clear glasses with an object wrapped in rubber sheets on his back reminiscent of A trident or fork. To his right a woman wearing a military uniform with various vials of seeds and bottles of water orange flowing hair and sigils on the back of her hands.
The second person following the lead man was another man wearing a mask covering his mouth with a similar military uniform but it was a lot more baggy than compared to the girl's,black hair and sigils on his ears he walks silently towards the injured man.He raised his axe clenching his side afraid and in pain.
“Stay back!” Reda yells the man in green baggy clothes and glasses raised his hand telling the 2 others to stop moving as he approached, “Say…who are you to tell me to stay back when I came to help?” he looks with a smirk and without a chant his sigil activates glowing a deep black and pulls Reda towards him a purple aura surrounded him as he got pulled his axe separated from his hand as he was just 1 meter away from the trio:the feeling was of weightlessness is what Reda feels as he floats in suspended air.
Reda could feel his body is unmoving no matter what he did seeing the aura exclaiming,“What?...just happened let ME GO!”The man chuckles and snaps his fingers speaking sternly“calm your soul kid…. Leyroy get to work.” the woman accompanying the man in green was she approaches Reda.
Reda asks, “What ARE YOU DOING?!” the medic girl would take out a siccor from her pocket and cut a hole in his shirt side then she took a small vial of water and a seed and poured it on his wound and chants, “Or rei fubi” the sigil on her hands glowing a cherry blossom pink as the seed would latch onto his wound closing it up and blossoming grew into a flower that would turn red from absorbing his blood his blood.
Reda would have no reaction but would feel a nice cool feeling in his side after the flower plugs up the stab wound like a pain blocker he's side would feel numb.The man in green’s sigil on his hand stops glowing and Reda falls to the ground, “Get back up…” The man in green puts out a hand, “What’s your name? Kid.I'm Rogan jasper from B.A.F”