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Defending the forest

Defending the forest

In a mansion in the middle of the elf village near the biggest tree in the village an interrogatory is being made to the members of Rolim’s group.

- You were bringing a human to our village?!?!?! – Asked a young elf that wore some of the best clothes in this room to Rolim’s group shouting.

- Young lord, you need to understand the situation, he easily dealt with a spell that seemed to have two (2) elements by converting it into two cards and he even said that he now had two (2) more cards for him so that spell wasn’t his, plus he created cards from the fruits of the forest and even fused those cards to create something called Elixir-Fruit – Rolim said with his head lowered.

- This is impossible, for an item to become an item card it needs to have achievements and even if it is possible to fuse cards it wouldn’t be so simple like you said – Said an elderly elf that wore scholar like clothes.

- Rolim, explain what happened when you arrived at the village’s border – Asked an elf that seemed to be a young adult and wore the best clothes in the room.

- We stopped – Rolim tried to explain but the biggest tree in the village started glowing so all of them started to run to the tree and when they arrived at the place that is shining the most everyone became awestruck since there Jack lay unconscious – Wait, that is Jack the human that we brought to the village!!!! – Rolim exclaimed being the most surprised.

- He… how is this possible… - The elf who looked to be a young adult was muttering feeling an aura like that of the tree coming from Jack and he slowly approached the unconscious Jack but suddenly the barrier that surrounded the village shook with a boom then everyone turned to the direction the sound came and everyone heard a voice filled with malice:

- Hahaha, you elves finally made a mistake and revealed your village – The voice said laughing maliciously – Now we can finally destroy at least this puny village – The voice said with a dark tone.

- Look, this human even brought demons to… - The “young lord” tried blame Jack and turned toward him but didn’t manage to finish what he was saying since he saw Jack floating, his hair growing, his eyes turning sky blue, his ears becoming longer and a diadem like mark appeared in his head and then he said in a profound voice.

- Who dare to try and touch something that is mine? – It is a voice so profound that it seemed like it came from a being so old that made even the biggest tree in this village seem young.

- Don, don’t try to make me scared, my side has an army what do you have? – The “demon”, as the young lord called them, tried to seem brave but he couldn’t maintain a firm voice since he felt fear from the power contained in Jack’s voice.

Jack seeing that the “demon” wouldn’t answer him he just raised his hand and the biggest tree, a small world tree that was in this village to offer protection to the elves so they could take care of the forest started to grown with such speed that left even the elves gasping. The tree started to attack the demon’s army like a big octopus creature slashing, perforating, and smashing the demons, and its root coming from the ground like well-placed traps that wouldn’t miss their prey. But this wasn’t everything, he was also controlling the forces of nature to create hurricanes, earthquakes, and even things like hailstorm. While this happened “Jack” used “Create Card” some times and gained the following card:

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Nature Control

The ability to control nature

Control the all kind of aspects of nature

Passive/Spell Card

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Weather Control

The ability to control weather

Control the all kind of aspects of weather

Passive/Spell Card

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World Tree’s Growth

The ability makes any kind world tree grow as you like

Control the how a world tree will grow

Passive/Spell Card

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Elf Transformation

The ability to transform in an elf

Change your body to truly become an elf while the Titan wants

Passive/Spell Card

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Flight

An ability derived from Nature Control

Control the air to make you flight

Spell Card (Newbie Stage)

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Natural Traps

An ability derived from Nature Control

Control the roots of tree to create traps that can’t be detected by anyone that isn’t perceptive enough

Spell Card (Newbie Stage)

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Hurricane

An ability derived from Nature Control and Weather Control

Control the air to create hurricanes

Spell Card (Newbie Stage)

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Earthquake

An ability derived from Nature Control

Control the land to create earthquakes

Spell Card (Newbie Stage)

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Hailstorm

An ability derived from Nature Control and Weather Control

Control the water and the air to create hailstorms

Spell Card (Newbie Stage)

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When Jack finished dealing with the demons he slowly floated back to the ground while his physical form changed back to his normal form. the small world tree also became normal again and all the natural phenomena that were happening stopped, but in the ground, he could see the group of people composed of Rolim’s group, the young lord, the elderly elf, the young adult elf and an elf that wore the same type of clothes that the young adult elf used but in a feminine version were with gaped mouths after seeing a scene that it would be impossible even in their most crazy legends.

- Let’s just pretend this didn’t happen, okay? – Jack said since he didn’t want to be looked like some kind of freak, but his wishes were in vain since the young adult elf bowed to him and all the other elves also bowed to him so he did the only thing that he could think of: he ran.

Jack always was like this, when he is confronted with a situation where he is put in a more important role, he is always afraid to be on that role he feels like that isn’t the place for him so he just run like there is no tomorrow. He ended up in the part where the demons were exterminated and he slowly walked towards a direction that he though there is nothing there but after he arrived there, he found a card floating in the air:

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Attention!!!

The Titan has encountered a Black Card

Black Cards are cards generated in places where big tragedies happened, normally a big number of people died

These cards are cursed cards that are filled with some kind of evil and they will try to do anything to spread its evil

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Massacre

When activated a massacre will happen in the side the Titan wants

Black Card

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- Ok, this is worrying – Jack said feeling afraid of the aura that this card emanate, it is an aura filled with malice and the intent to kill everything but he also could feel that it is submissive to him since he is the one who created it so he took it thinking that it is best if he I the one who will take care of it than some radon thing – But why all my cards say “the Titan wants” or things related to Titans when in Veritas it is supposed to be others beings who can use my cards aren’t exclusive? – He wondered to himself in his thoughts but the system answered:

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Unless the Titan master a card that he creates and it go to Babel’s library no one will be able to use it

Plus, unless the user of the card is a Titan black cards will eat the user’s mind to spread their evil

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- Okay, thanks for the explanation – Jack said feeling a shiver traveling through his spine since that black card could have eaten him if he wasn’t a Titan and he doesn’t even know why he is a Titan. After musing about how precarious his situation is he decided go back to the elf village but hiding his identity by using Elf Transformation but changing his characteristics: his hair became a whiter tone of black, his eyes became a mix of dark blue and dark green his ears became longer but still not as long as in his first transformation and he became taller. In the end he decided to try to use “Darkness Control” to hide in the shadows of the forest, it was difficult in the beginning but each time he became better at hiding himself and when he became satisfied with the result the system responded to his efforts:

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For constantly training using an ability that you aren’t familiar with and mastering a new technique the Titan has gained a new card

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Shadow Concealment

Uses the darkness to hide in shadows

When activated the Titan will become increasingly harder to find in the shadows

Spell Card (Newbie Stage)

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- Cool, a new card! But what is this Newbie Stage? – Jack said excited to gain a card through his own efforts.

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Since this is a card created through the efforts of the Titan it is still in its early stages but it can evolve and become better

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- So, what about the cards that I created using “Create Card” – Jack asked but wasn’t truly expecting an answer.

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Those cards can evolve through special means

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- OK, so I will try to discover them later but now I should go to the village – Jack said this and started walking through the forest until he arrived at the border of the village and tried to sneak inside but afraid that the barrier will react the same way as the first time, fortunately for him it didn’t react so he arrived at the village without having many problems.

The first thing he decided to do is to go to a library to learn more about this village. It wasn’t so difficult to find it since it is a big building with big door and filled with book, he went directly toward the history section and started reading more about this village.

He discovered that the people in this village dealt better with water, fire, air and earth in this order and their respective spirits, they resemble a lot the humans from this land besides their ears and eyes, the elf in charge of this village is the lord Ardryl that is the lowest kind of “noble” in the elven hierarchy, elves don’t use the same kind of hierarchy as other races and are ranked by their power, and feats be in the battlefield or any other field like agriculture or technology, and if a member of some family do something that is considered illegal the member is punished and depending on the gravity of what he did the family can fall in the hierarchy and this is what happened with the family of lord Ardryl, his son left to live with a human and this is one of the taboo of the elves from this land, it isn’t so big but the family will always fall in hierarchy if possible. He also discovered a map of where they are with all the elven villages in this forest, the map also has the characteristics of each village. After seeing all this he decided to stay in this village and find a job to earn the money of this village.

He started to wander through the village, he exited the library and went to the main square, in this square there are lots of people, some selling stuff, some people were doing a picnic, some were just sleeping. But he isn’t here for this, he is here for the town hall where he can register himself in the city and search for a job when he entered the building, he liberated the spell that he was using and went straight to the place where he could register himself but he quickly noticed something that could difficult things for him: he doesn’t have any idea about how elves name their children so he sat in a corner and started to think of a way to name himself. Various ideas went through his head but the one that he accepted is to try to remember names from legends he tried to remember all kinds of legends and the best name he could think of was just one: Aragorn. It is a name that means king value so he thought it would be a good name nut he couldn’t imagine the problems that this name would bring him.

He walked to the desk and while walking there he noticed another problem, how he should choose his age. From what he discovered elves age ten (10) times slower than the humans of this land and when they arrive at one hundred eighty (180) years their bodies begin to age so slowly that they almost don’t age so he doesn’t know if he says his age converted to elven age or another age, in the end he decided to convert his age to elven age but before he could he remembered another possible problem: where he was born? This time he decided to just go with the flow and just say that he didn’t knew because his parents told him that they would tell him when he became an adult but both of them died before he managed to have his birthday so he doesn’t know.

Finally, he arrived at the desk to begin his registration in the city.

- Hi, I want to register myself in this city – Jack said trying to be nice.

- Your name, age and element or spirit alignment – The worker said with a tired voice typical of someone who is tired of working in the same function for a long time.

- Aragorn, one hundred and eighty, fire – He said naturally but regrated it when he saw the look in the face of worker, he understood that he did something wrong since the look in it is that of someone horrified.

- Can, can you repeat please – The worker said stuttering.

- Aragorn, one hundred eighty years, fire element – Jack said already feeling a little scared.

- Can you come with me? – The worker said rising from the chair trembling, Jack followed her feeling uncomfortable by how the elves here were looking at him. The worker took him to a room with a crystal ball – Please touch the Scrying Ball and insert your energy in it – She said trembling.

Jack doesn’t know how to do this so he just tried inserting fire into the ball which worked. The ball started absorbing his fire and started to turn a majestic golden, a golden color that looked like came straight from the purest gold that was enhanced to become the most beautiful gold. Seeing this the worker fell in her knees and started to cry with a smile on her face and hearing this an elf came running to see what happened but when he arrived at the room, he also let a tear fall but he managed to maintain his composure.

- Please sir come with me – He said with the tone of someone who saw a relative who it wasn’t seen since a long time ago. He guided Jack to another room and in this room, there is another crystal ball – please sir put your hand in the Ball of Choice – The elf said but before he finished what he was saying Jack already put his hand on the ball in a kind if trance while his iris changed. When he put his hand on the ball his iris together with the ball started glowing in a mix of colors like that of an rainbow but with much more colors and from the void of space appeared a card with a ring in it.

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Attention!!!!

The Titan has acquired a Mythic Card

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The King of Weapons (Incomplete)

The elven part of The King of Weapons

It can transform into all kinds of elven weapons

When it encounters other parts of The King of Weapons will fuse with them to become more complete

Equipment Card

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Seeing this the elf couldn’t hold himself and also stated crying like there is no tomorrow but he managed to say the following phrase:

- Welcome back our king.

In the center of a forest in a country where only elves lived an elf using a crown is staring at an empty case made from the resin that the world tree shed to contain one of the most precious treasures of the elves.

- So you are back, the first king of the elves and the best. The king who managed to unite all the elven races and the only emperor, Aragorn. I hope that you can bring peace to these lands again – Said the elf in an ancient language that most have forgotten a language that only those who have connection to ancient beings.

- What do you think will happen - Asked an androgynous elf that seemed to be young but had a wise look in its eyes.

- I don’t know, but the legends says that Aragorn was the only member of its race that was still alive so he didn’t had any connection with the other elves but he still tried to unite the elves so I don’t have any idea of what will happen – The elf with the crown said.

- He, you shouldn’t believe so much in legends, some people of that age thought that he cursed the elves so they never could be so united again and this is why the elves now live in so different countries across the entire world – The androgynous elf said with a disdainful voice.

- I shouldn’t but it is all I have since you don’t provide the information I ask – The elf with the crown said with the tone of someone who is being mocked upon.

- He, let’s see what happen – The androgynous elf said laughing a little.