Chapter 4:
Ra: the self dragon of destruction
Realm of Pharos- Outside the castle.
Time- 4:00 am
“The sun hasn’t risen yet”
‘Normally in the village of Dragonborns the sun rises at 4 in the morning, I surely miss the village. I might take Rhine to the village once we are finished with this act.’
Ascais was waiting outside the castle, standing near a light pole wearing more than 5 jackets on top of his main coat. He had his head covered with the numerous hoods of the jackets. He had his hands on his ribs, shivering in the cold early morning. 4 suitcases were waiting in an arranged management on the floor beside him.
“Achoo!!, Rhine is surely late” Ascais was waiting for Rhine to start the journey to the realm of Torus. ‘I really should be sleeping, why did I agree to go with Rhine?’
Ascais was silently waiting outside the castle in the cold early morning until a sharp blister of snowflakes landed on his head. ‘I guess there is no way I will be alive’. Staggering to get to the beach, Ascais slipped while he was to sit on it. “I guess I will sleep” Ascais slowly gave up his motive when he passed up.
As he passed on the cold floor his body felt the cold of the floor getting to his bone. The atmosphere didn’t show any mercy on him. The snow came out running in an instant. In minutes from a single snowflake, hundreds of snowflakes had covered his body and his surroundings.
2 hours later-
“Ascais, Yo Ascais here I come” Rhine came out of the castle suddenly seeing her finance laying passed out on the floor, she could do nothing but stare at him.
“Fire grave” Rhine kneeled close to Ascais, Blast of a ray of fire manifested from her hand and warmed Ascais passed-out body. The fire was about as hot as hot water, managing to control the amount of fire took some effort from Rhine.
“So, you finally came, hah” Ascais managed to get up from his deep slumber, “It’s surely cold in Pharus”
“You bet it”
“Ya, after all, it is the home to the best water mages in Ra”
“You were to report by 4:45 a.m. right?”
“I think so” Rhine was smiling in a way to which Ascais couldn’t afford to scream at her”
“Fine, I can’t do anything about you, is it” Ascais got by striking this t-skirt to remove the burn markers from the fire cast spell used by Rhine, His white coats were burnt down, with numerous signs of dig holes.
“So, say how do we plan to reach the IR portal”
“Simple, we just move”
Ascais took a step forward, “It’s an adventure, is a story of action” Ascais was extremely excited about the adventure, his boots particularly brunt from the previous exposure to the fire were completed healed, and his clothes were made brand new, what made them heal?
Dracus leather harvested from the greatest of Chaos Horses and The Un-rival wool from the infamous Tyris sheep, the raw material of their fibres is capable of self-healing on exposure to any kind of mana particles.
This is called a prepared seasoned adventure.
“You know it would take about 2 days of walking to reach the nearest IR portal point”
“that’s the fun of adventuring”
“So, you are confused between walking and adventuring” Rhine looked upset, she cared less about Ascais’ stupid plan, she looked into Ascais’ eyes without any fear to compel, looking in the eyes of the self-dragon of destruction, her glare didn’t seem interested.
Ascais kneeled downed on his feet turning his back towards Rhine, “Fine, then you say” his feelings went into were shattered into thousand pieces of falling glass.
“You look like a kid”,
“According to Dragonborn ageing I am still just a kid” Ascais replied while keeping in his gloomy mood.
“Look I don’t want to insult you or something but just be a bit more innovative” Rhine took out a crystal from her dress, she held it straight towards Ascais, “Do something like this” She uttered a few words from her mouth, She had opened her mouth big and wide but Ascais wasn’t able to here a word, I an instance she threw the crystal on the floor, banging it the crystal bounced out and came back to her hands, Crystal particles came of each releasing more and more blue coloured sparkling lights.
In a time 2 wyverns appeared out of nowhere, one of them had blue and the other red scales, this was new. Summoning beings from one crystal. Each one was about 15 meters long and 5 meters tall. Jaws were out and claws were sharp. Each one of the bony heads was as if it was trying to make Ascais scared, being part Dragonborn himself he didn’t fear them. The Scales of these Wyverns were priceless, each one of them was perfectly coloured the hue of blue. Rhine re-adjusted her broach to signify her superiority, obtaining a summon like this, it’s a miracle.
“A summoner!!!!” Ascais was shocked, His hairs were upright, it was as if he had seen a Ghost, “You are a summoner!!!”
“So, what!!” Rhine shouted at Ascais angered, “casting a summoner aside, you are pitiful life form”
A summoner, the rearrest type of class. If you get this class then it is still rare that you will be able to master it. You shouldn’t able to do it, anything I just can’t describe. (I am a pretty bad writer)
It was as if Nothing had changed, Ascais was on the Ground, Rhine was staring at Ascais vaguely pointing out towards the Wyverns, Herning to say to sit on the freaking thing. Ascais was shocked. It took him a minute just to realise what the hell Rhine was doing, By that time Rhine reputedly pointed her figure out and after a few seconds retracted it back, this happened for around 10 times, Until Ascais took the rope.
He walked towards the Wyvern, the one closest to him. He took out his hands and stripped his jackets off one by one, to think that Rhine was just wearing her usual dress in this had to survive the climate. Whatever. Ascais steps on the wing of the Wyvern naturally this is the only one taught by Ra to mount upon flying creatures, but as if the Wyvern didn’t agree with him. It let out a huge roar waking up each and every sleeping citizen of the castle, Lights shouted up as the roaring of the Wyvern continued, “Looks like it hates you Ascais” Rhine laughed at him, not being able to fly a Wyvern summoned what a misery.
Ascais was upset with himself for lacking the certain points of Knowledge, He saw Rhine climbing the Wyvern effortlessly.
She climbed up to the Wyvern’s back using the support of his neck, she then walked from the neck to the back, bouncing and throwing herself on the saddle.
“Rhine, you know what”
Ascais was done for, he had too much. He took out his voice, “My friend, my partner, my best one, my guardian, my slave manifest to me, come towards me, I am who has chosen you, I am who you have chosen, Familiar Summon”
A Great magic circle, it was about 10 meters wide, it slightly extended 1 meter from the Drawbridge, it was doubled layered one which was slightly pink in colour with the majority of it in the colour of white while the second being in the bright rose-pink colour. An 8-sided star was drawn on the circle, each point connecting to the boundaries of the magic circle, a another circle appeared on the white layered magic circle, it was centrally located with a radius of 4 meters, it laded about 2 meters from the edge of the circle. The two circles separated perpendicularly 12 meters from each other, the white which was below rosed up while the topmost rose pink one came to be down. The aura of the same colour of the rose-pink coloured magic circle encircled both Ascais and Rhine, Rhine was amazed at the summoning abilities of Ascais. In an instant, a white-coloured dragon emerged in the part between the circles. It was as if a dog sitting for the master for giving him the whole-hearted treat he wanted. “Long time no seen Horus”
The dragon nodded with a quick glance at Ascais, Its magnet wings and the variety of wings plus a dragon without scales made it rather unusual to believe that it was a dragon, but oh my god you have to believe that it is a dragon.
“So what now you are a summoner” Rhine replied. Rhine wasn’t shocked at what Ascais just pulled, see was just caught off guard. Her voice was weak when she saw the dragon. “Nah, it’s just my familiar. Horus” you should know that before joining Ra I used to love dragon-riding, in the village, I was known as the ‘superdraguskertoyu’ roughly means, Rascal riding a dragon”
“Will they were right, after all,” Rhine was amused at this discovery. ‘The self-dragon of destruction rides on a familiar dragon, it would be a nice catchphrase
“So are we planning to move or not, back to the adventure”
Ascais jumped on his dragon, seamlessly the mighty creature bowed his head down to make a path for the young man to climb and seek his ride, Even the dragon acknowledge him as its master, “I am the self-dragon of destruction, you get it Rhine”
“Let’s race then self-dragon of destruction” Rhine had a cheeky face, her anger was out of the question, moments ago she was deeply upset on Ascais, but now they are one this is called the power of un-rival arranged but very familiar love.
***
At the IR portal point, When the dimensional rift between realms was broken, certain particular points in realms had made a direct connection with portals across the other realms, when breaching or going against these portals is teleported to the desired realm which happens to be next door, the sequence is hard to match. So, the Inner-realm portal faction or IRF is responsible for maintaining these portals.
In true identity, these looked more like gateways, huge at that factor. Each IR portal is about 45 meters tall and about the same in width. Each is shaped like a crystal on that fact. The portals are powered by the mana in the atmosphere. If the atmospheric mana reaches zero then the portal closes. The portal reflects the mana particles in the hair, for this matter, the blue colour particles of mana over in this realm show the fruitful and the lively ness of the town as well as its speciality for water magic.
“So, this is the IR portal of Pharus”, “Yes, it is”
“It is quite different than what I had imagined”
The portal was surrounded by a town, there was a great sense of mirth in the town; perhaps it was born of the joy one feels upon meeting a friend being magnified by familiarity. The town was full of houses amid green pastures, the chattering trees and the mirth of laughing meadows, lived the country town.
The town had its own sense of tradition, The IR portal being less than 2 feet far from the entrance the town was exposed to various traditions.
“It’s surely lively” Ascais.
“That’s what you get for coming to an IR town” Rhine had moved passed Ascais and was helping herself at the Takoyaki stand. ‘Buying foodstuff before a mission looks like her, what happened to me, I Barely know her even if our past self-match us, then still who are we’
“Ascais, could you pay for it,” Rhine asked, she was sometimes clumsy, this happened out of nowhere, “Absolutely not, Ascais screamed at her. Asking for money for what, to buy some foods for what, a mission? or adventuring?”
‘Look who is taking’ Thinking this Rhine passed over the Takoyaki, Ascais seeing that Rhine had her eyes away handed a bunch of coins to the vendor, taking the packed Takoyaki from the stand.
“Rhine wait for me” Ascais rushed after Rhine who was about to enter the portal, Ascais held her hand and passed the plastic bag containing the Takoyaki to her hands, he moved to her other side holding her other hand. His movements were fast, fast enough that not even an ACE like Rhine was able to see it, “You know how I cannot keep my fiancé’ hungry, at least I get to pamper her, she is really cute, miss”
“My fiancé is annoying as hell, but he loves me to his core, thou he may be forced to do it but I still like it when he does it”
“Let’s go beyond,” Ascais and Rhine said it simultaneously as they moved through the portal.
***
Crossing through the portal, the party of 2 arrived at the distant realm of Torus.
When the couple arrived through the portal they saw it, “It appears to look like an old ruins Without any roof in the vast empty plain, we stand alone. If it’s seen from a distance, it might be mistaken for a large water fountain.
In the night sky stars shone as sugar grains over a plate of black marble, glistening in the sun. The night sky was such a welcome sight, appearing like magic.
“You said that Torus is advanced in technology and magic is below zero”
“It should be”
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