Knock, knock, knock.
Someone knocked on a wooden door.
No answer came.
Creak.
The door opened slowly, and an immactely dressed person stepped in. It was a man with white hair,
but it was a bit difficult to discern his age. Even though he had white hair, which obviously came from
old age, there were no wrinkles on his face. If one only looked at his face, one might believe that he
was rather young.
However, appearances often deceived.
If someone heard of this person''s age, they wouldn''t be able to believe whoever told them.
The man looked around the room with professional eyes.
It was a small study filled with all kinds of books, scriptures, tomes, and papers. An unbelievably soft,
violet carpet was strewn across the ground, and a cozy fire crackled in the firece.
The man''s eyes looked at the back of the room.
Another man was sitting on a chair behind a mahogany desk. Several papers were strewn across the
desk, and the man practicallyy in his chair, his head looking upward.
The man at the door slightly shook his head and walked over.
Bang!
He slightly kicked the table.
"Oh, wha- huh? Oh, good morning, Wester," the man who had just been sleeping said after recovering
from the shock. He was an old man with gentle facial features, and everyone that saw him would
believe him to be a nice grandpa.
"It''s evening, sir," Wester, the butler, said to the old man.
"Oh, already?" the old man asked in confusion as he looked around his room. "I was working on this
year''s reward for the n Tournament. Guess I lost track of time," he said.
"Mhm," Wester uttered, deciding not toment on how he had found his master napping.
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"What? You don''t believe me?" the old man asked with an offended expression. "Look! It''s over there,"
he said.
A tome started to float from the desk and stopped in front of Wester.
Wester took the tome, opened it, and scanned through it.
"An Element-Neutral King Rank Spell," Westermented. "You didn''t read the dossiers about the
candidates, did you?" Wester asked.
The old man felt like he had been found out.
BANG!
Wester put his hands on the stacked dossiers on the table, making it impossible for the old man to
peek at them.
The old man groaned. "Fine! Fine!" he groaned, "but it doesn''t really matter, does it? Element-Neutral
Spells are worth more than Element-Specific Spells anyway."
"Sir, if you keep creating Element-Neutral Spells for every tournament, the other ns will start
believing that we don''t care about the tournament," Westermented.
The old man groaned again. "Fine! I''ll just create one for every Element, and you can choose
whichever you want to hand out in the future tournaments."
Wester put the Element-Neutral King Rank Spell under his arm but didn''tment on the old man''s
words.
Silence.
The old man felt a bit awkward as his butler only stood before him, not saying anything.
"Do you need something else?" the old man asked.
Silence.
"The Child of Cmity has vanished," Wester said.
The old man was a bit taken aback as he looked at Wester with skepticism. "Vanished? Did he flee?
Why would he? He had money, freedom, status, a family, everything. What happened?"
"We don''t know," Wester said. "When our people arrived at his home for their monthly visit, he was
simply gone."
"Did you search for him?" the old man asked.
"Of course, sir," Wester answered. "I sent the seventh legion to search through every particle of the
surrounding 50,000 kilometers. As a mere Apprentice, he couldn''t possibly have traveled further, and
we would have noticed any spatial fluctuations. However, we still couldn''t find him."
The old man scratched his chin in thought. "Not even the other ns could have hidden something like
that. Additionally, they would only be shooting a fireball in their own faces by taking him away. I''m
certain that he hadn''t had any help."
"That only means that his Affinity has imed his own life. That would also exin why you can''t find a
trace of him," the old man muttered.
Wester nodded. "That is also our assumption."
The old man also nodded. "I presume you need the seal?" he asked.
"Yes, sir."
The old man gestured with his hand for Wester to give him something, and a piece of paper appeared
in the air, which then floated to the desk.
The old man looked at the paper and read it.
Then, he put his finger at the bottom of the piece of paper, and his finger shone with purple lightning for
an instant.
"As always," the old manmented as the paper flew back to Wester.
"As always," Wester said.
Wester turned around, left the study, and wished the old man a good evening.
After Wester left, the old man looked with furrowed brows at the middle of the room.
The old man waved his fingers. Some water gathered in the air, and a clear pool formed.
The old man looked into the pool, and the pool reflected a seemingly infinite world.
The old man''s eyes moved with rapid speeds as he scanned through every hidden corner of the world
in the pool.
Ten secondster, the pool vanished, and the old manid back on the chair.
"Sure enough, he''s gone. No trace of him. That''s a new one," the old man mumbled to himself. "I
mean, Affinities can eat up their owners, so it''s not really unbelievable. It just hasn''t happened with the
Child of Cmity before in the past 100,000 years. This smells fishy! Something''s different this time!"
The old man scratched his chin for a while longer, but then he put his head back in a sleeping position.
"Well, doesn''t matter. The legions will find the new Child of Cmity anyway," hemented to himself
as he closed his eyes.
Meanwhile, Wester was walking through a dimly lit hallway made of stone. Every step he took
seemingly pulled him forward for hundreds of meters. It was difficult to discern what was more
surprising, the fact that Wester was moving this quickly or the fact that the hallway was so long.
After some seconds, Wester arrived in front of a wooden door, which he quickly opened and walked out
of.
Wester arrived in a grand hall.
The hall was two kilometers long and 300 meters high. Powerful weapons and adornments were on the
walls as imposing, violet gs hung down from every column. The gs had white lightning bolts
imprinted on them, and a gigantic table was in the middle of the hall with some chairs surrounding it.
Right now, the hall was empty.
Wester went through another door and down another hallway, this hallway being far bigger and grander
than the previous one.
Wester walked through another door.
This room had several tables and chairs. Many different kinds of magical equipment could be found in
the room. Several papers and different objects were on the desks.
"Good evening, sir. Do you require something?"
A blonde woman with ostentatious purple robes stood up politely. Electricity sparked around her as
space seemed to bend around her.
She exuded incredible power.
"Oh, Sarah, perfect, I was searching for you. Everything going well?" Wester asked politely.
"Yes, sir. Thank you for asking, sir," the woman spoke politely.
"Sarah, I need you to do something for me," Wester said politely as he took out the paper the old man
had signed earlier.
The paper floated over, and the woman looked at the paper.
Her eyes widened more and more as she continued reading. "Yes, sir," she said.
Then, she took the paper and walked over to a wall. She spokeplex and unfamiliar words that
warped her surroundings.
Ten secondster, an outcropping in the shape of a piece of paper appeared on the wall.
Sarah put the paper in the outcropping, and the paper burned away.
DING! DING! DING!
Three bells rang throughout an unfathomable distance, their sounds ignoring the upper limit of the
speed of sound.
"Have a good hunt," Westermented politely as he left the room.
"Thank you, sir," Sarah said with a bow.
SHING!
Sarah was engulfed by a bright light, but the bright light vanished just as quickly as it had arrived.
However, Sarah had undergone a world-shaking transformation.
Her purple robes were reced by a shining silver armor, covered with different runes. Golden wing
bones were on the back of her armor, which were quickly filled out by bolts of lightning, resembling the
feathers.
A two-meter-long spear appeared in her hands, also crackling with lightning.
SHING!
Then, Sarah seemingly vanished.
She had teleported away!
SHING!
Sarah reappeared in the grand hall through which Wester had gone.
However, the hall was no longer empty.
10,000 people in golden armor with golden staves filled the hall in an orderly manner.
"We greet the general!" the ten people at the front of the army spoke in unison.
Sarah exuded irresistible power as she looked at the gathered army.
This was the sixth legion, which was responsible for reconnaissance.
"Men and women of the sixth legion," Sarah said, her voice echoing throughout the grand hall. "The
Ancestor has given an order!"
Silence.
"The Child of Cmity has vanished, and a new Child of Cmity must have appeared in the world.
The sixth legion willb the world. Every child in the world below the age of one must have their
Affinity tested with a blood test! If any child tests positive for an unknown affinity, the child will be
brought to me personally!"
"I expect you all to finish by the morning!"
"Yes, General!" all the soldiers echoed.
"Go!"
SHING! SHING! SHING!
All 10,000 people teleported out of the hall and reappeared in the air outside the building.
Below them was a magnificent purple castle, built on top of several mountains of unfathomable height.
The castle itself was several kilometers wide!
Lightning crackled violently on the storm clouds below the mountains where the castle was built on.
Nothing aside from an endless sea of clouds filled with lightning could be seen.
The 10,000 people in the air crackled with lightning as their bodies shone in golden light.
BANG!
Then, with an explosion, all soldiers transformed into lightning as they shot into the horizon.
Their speed was impossible to follow with one''s eyes.
On this night, many humans would notice golden shooting stars in the sky.
On this night, all babies below the age of one would gain a tiny red dot on the fingertip of their index
finger.
This was where the blood was drawn from for the test.
No one but the peak powers would notice that this had even happened.
The entire world had beenbed in but a single night and no one had noticed.
Yet, the Child of Cmity had not been found.