'Do you know what kind of shark you just faced?'

'I have no experience but it was strangely fast, it won't be normal as far as I know.'

'It's an extremely rare species called the cannon shark, it has a very bad reputation on the high seas west of the continent and was one of the biggest ship saboteurs making the presence of a five-circles magician mandatory in merchant ships nowadays.'

'What lives in the ocean and stronger than it, Master?'

'There are not many other than some whales, kraken and underworld creatures that rarely appear.'

'The underworld?'

'They are creatures that live in caves beneath the oceanic crust, they come out very rarely and perish is certain when meeting them. Please don't look for it.'

'Understood teacher, we ask your permission to leave.'

He did not tell them not to look for them, whether in books, superstitions, or even in the real world out of thin air. It is because their powers transcend reason and logic, and when he of them appears, it is an unparalleled disaster. -They only appeared a few times through the recorded history-

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The students left and Maximus went to the office of the principal Albus, days had passed since he had visited him, knocking on the door and then entering without waiting for permission.

'Here you go back to your old habit; I told you that this is your true nature.'

Albus laughed after anticipating Maximus' actions and hitting the desk several times. He waited for several days to say this single phrase and finally the opportunity came. Maximus did not even laugh but spoiled the fun of humor on Albus.

'You should stop laughing; I came to ask for your help regarding the most important event in the world. I need your cooperation, comrade.'

Albus' expressions changed after hearing the 'most important event in the world' in the speech of his companion.

'You spoiled my humor and now you are in a hurry. Why are you suddenly talking like that? What do you want to do now?'

'I found someone who told me about a prophecy about the end of the world and I thought there were other people but they didn't know where to find me. I will make a universal declaration and ask them to gather here.'

'A universal declaration? Huh, do you mean publications, posts or literally a global one? You must have a huge amount of mana to do an advertisement in a city, so what about the continent?'

'Don't worry about my abilities, just take care of the people when they come and the rest is on me. You have to guarantee them accommodation and I will personally take care of the rest. I'll start now so can you lend me your staff?'

'Take it and do whatever you want. I'll just watch, your words sounded a bit silly.'

Albus clasped his fingers and laid on the chair after leaning on his elbows, waiting to see him either admiration and fascination or failure of his ridiculous friend.

Maximus took the stick that was resting on the desk and put aside everything within three meters in order to ensure the stability of the circle that should not get affected by any external factors. Albus' stick was truly a great one, but it did not reach the aspirations of Maximus, who had not used a stick for a long time because his expectations were too high. The stick rammed to the ground and a magical circle was formed on the ground, consisting of several rings, shapes and symbols that each type took on a distinctive color. Seeing this, Albus rose from his seat in amazement, a spell the likes of which he had never seen in his long life as a great magician and began to memorize the formula for its creation in great eagerness to learn something new. A minute later, the circle was completed and he hit the stick again to the ground and the circle expanded by several meters, tens, hundreds.... Until it covered the whole continent. In a stern and calm tone, Maximus began to address all the inhabitants of the continent like a great emperor preaching to his subjects to celebrate his coronation:

Maximus finished his short speech that reached the ears of everyone on the continent without exception; he turned the continent upside down in a matter of hours. A speech that reached the ears of every intelligent creature on this vast continent from an unknown person talking about strange things like this out of nowhere, what everyone was sure of was the connection of the matter in one way or another to the famous academy.

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'What of a madness did you just make? Do you know what you have done?'

Albus was in complete shock after what happened in front of his eyes and without warning. Everything fell on his shoulders within a couple of minutes. If we were to give an example of the magnitude of Albus' trauma, it would be similar to being arrested without warning for a crime committed by your twin brother and accusing you of everything in ignorance. It is funny to see Albus almost dying of heart attack, even though no one who has reached the pinnacle of magic or martial arts can die from a trauma of this kind but it affects him at least a little.

'I am fully conscious, Albus. This is for the sake of the world, the world will soon perish.'

Maximus responded with a very disturbing calm, as if he had done nothing 'significant' at all.

'Why you didn't tell me this, what have you been waiting for so far? Should we start preparing?'

'That's why I didn't want to tell you before, I'll tell you everything later as I promised you so there's no need to rush. We still have plenty of time and I have a plan ready for the future. Just trust me.'

Maximus patted his friend’s shoulder, who was in a strange tension from what had just happened, breathed several deep breaths and gradually began to calm down.

'Don't shock me like that again; I've been having panic attacks recently, my heart almost stopped a while ago.'

'You will not die from something trivial like that, so don't overreact, colleague. It was necessary to do this; I count on you to do your part, my old friend.'

'You threw a rock into an extinct volcano, it may or may not erupt but the risk is present in all cases, please don't regret your decision now.'

'Even if everything is burned by volcanic ash, it will comes back and grows faster than before, you may see it as a loss but it is a new beginning towards a better tomorrow.'

Albus sighed, which he could only do, Maximus did what he wanted without advice or thought (what Albus thought) and had no choice but to ask for the next step.

'After all, what are you going to do now?'

'Currently nothing but after the competition I will participate in the next trade gathering Minas, we must start mobilizing influential figures around the world from now.'

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In many places on the continent, many bored VIPs waiting for the auction have found something fun to change the atmosphere.

'It looks like something interesting is about to happen.'

'What is happening? Who is the speaker? How does he have the ability to address everyone as he claims? I'll know who he is.'

'A new face has appeared, let's see who it is.'

Many of the great faces of the continent, whose names reached the far extremities of the continent and created nicknames for themselves, their enthusiasm ignited like wildfire, and each sent an envoy to the Academy to research this so-called global discourse from their point of view.

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'Several senior figures or their envoys may come to you in the next days, please deal with them. Don't tell them anything about me, tell them that the meeting will be in the city of Minas on the first day of the commercial gathering, after the first auction in the VIP conference room. The rest is on me.'

'As you want... You threw a bomb and now you are leaving. You don't seem to have a real conscience to do this to your friend and teacher.'

'I respect you very much and you are almost the most trusted person I know and that is why I entrusted you with this necessary task.'

Maximus left and once he got out, he found Mark and Ederson at the office door.

'Who is this gentleman? Doesn't his face look familiar??'

'Isn't he similar to Maximus? ... Is that really you, mate?'

Maximus sighed from the unexpected encounter as he came across two old colleagues and comrades for years, whom he did not want to meet now because the time was a bit inopportune but there was no trick in hand.

'It has been a long time since we last met... Mark and Ederson.'

'Did you grow older or what? You had a failed experiment and these are its side effects?'

'It's much bigger than that, when the time comes I'll tell you the details, it's nice to meet you guys after all this time.'

Maximus put his hands on the shoulders of his two old companions and his comrades of study and work and passed between them, leaving an atmosphere of surprise and mystery, the two entered the director's office to inquire about what happened a short while ago, it is very important and the academy will have to take responsibility.

'Good afternoon, Director.'

'Please have a seat.'

The two sat on the couch at the side of the desk and Albus sat on the opposite couch and proceeded to speak:

'I know what you want to say, about the Universal Declaration just now.'

'Wait a minute; it wasn't just us who heard it, the entire population of the continent? Even you, boss, cannot do something like that.'

'Who is able to make such an announcement?'

'You just met him, Deputy Chief Professor and Head of the Department of Magic Engineering.'

Dozens of questions piled on their heads in moments, Maximus. Is this related to his change? Is the manager serious about what he says? What really happened?

'The end of the world is approaching and we have to start preparing for it. Right now we will do nothing but host the people involved in what Maximus said. Also, I invite you to join the VIP meeting to be held in Minas with the commercial gathering.'

'As you want, Director, it's an honor for us to join such a big meeting.'

'You're not the only ones shocked, I've been shocked myself.'

The two of them left letting Albus alone in his office, who was analyzing and thinking how to get to the truth despite the lack of information, and stretched out on his seat and stared at the ceiling.

'How are you thinking, Maximus? I can't understand the situation anymore.'

Albus closed his eyes and drowned in his thoughts afterwards...