The Lands of Steel 2
On the top of the volcano where the ash flowers bloom radiently , the skies are clear and the sky is blue . One man stands atop the peak . The Fire King had a thought.
" The kids these days learn too fast , He absorbed everything that I had to teach like a sponge . "
" When I was a kid , it took me various struggles to stand where I am now , this man his growth just scares me "
" I wonder what the other masters think about him , if they accepted him as their disciple "
Meanwhile an Empress staring out the window of her Ice Palace , holding a cup of tea in her hand , freshly poured in a teacup
" That Kid McElroy was it , I thought he would be my next successor but I was wrong , He is talented for sure . But his mind is somewhere else . "
" Even sometimes he just feels incomplete, but that's just my intuition" .
"Letting him leave is not one of the best choices I have made " .
"I wonder what's he doing now "
Meanwhile in The Lands of Steel .
Steel :
I'm going to show you something that even I don't know how it's possible. But somehow I succeeded at it .
He raised a pillar made of pure gold . A gold 0illat without any impurities. If sold in my world . It would be enough to buy an entire Island .
Steel :
Pay attention I'm not going to show you again .
I had my eyes peeled on the gold pillar , tried predicting what's going to happen . The pillar splits into a new structure. Maybe it changes its state . Maybe the entire pillar will be disintegrated in an instant . The possibility amazed me .
Steel :
Here I go .
Steel concentrated his attention to the magic and somehow the colour of gold started to change . Into a more whitish - silverish colour . This process started from the ground to the top .
Steel :
Examine the pillar .
I approached the pillar as it had changed colour I thought that it had just interacted with light differently such that the pillar of pure gold had changed colour .
I touched the pillar and was shocked . This was no joke , the pillar of pure gold had turned into a pillar of pure platinum in front of my eyes .
I was seriously amazed as well as shocked by the fact that I just saw the pillar of pure gold turned into pure platinum within seconds . But when I felt the pillar with my sense . I found out the there was not even a molecule of gold left . All of it was now platinum .
How is this possible .
Jay :
How did you do this ?
Steel :
Surprised right ! As I told you I don't know how but it just came to me . I did it based on my instinct .
Jay :
Now this is something magical .
Steel :
Speaking of magical , you know the strongest lightning user . 'The Moonlight Thunder King ' Once said that there is no such thing like magic .
It is just science but he never told me how .
What do you think magic is Jay .
Jay :
The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them
Steel :
This is a definite way to define it . What about you young girl . What do you think magic is .
Era :
It is the right over the power of creation .
Jay :
Is this the definition which X follows ?
Era :
Yes .
Steel :
I think I have gone senile , so I don't get it can you explain me.
Era :
The less mana you have the less you can use spells . The less you can use stronger or different spells . And vice versa. This the more mana you have the more you have the right over the power of creation. And inturn you can use much more stronger magic than before . Because by having more mana your restrictions are less limited than before .
Steel :
Regarding the power of creation, If I use magic to destroy something or disintegrate pre existing objects . So wouldn't it be destroyed . And instead be called The power of destruction.
Era :
It depends upon perspective, If you destroy a kingdom using magic then you didn't destroy the kingdom but instead used the materials in the kingdom to turn it into a ruin .
And it turned out to be that way because you wanted to create a ruined state of the kingdom which is unfit to live .
Steel :
You are an intelligent little girl . I think you can help with my dilemma . Can you tell me how this pillar of pure gold turned into pure platinum using magic .
Era : (Cracks neck)
Easy , you interacted with the atoms of the pillar and knocked out the excess protons , electrons and neutrons due to which. According to the Modern periodic table . Which is based upon the numbers of protons , electrons and neutrons in an atom .
This Element No . 79 Gold had its constituent knocked down to create Element no . 78
Platinum .
That's how an entire pure gold pillar was turned into a platinum pillar .
Steel :
What is the periodic table ?
Jay :
This might take a while .
Meanwhile, On the other side of The Lands of Steel.
The other side of the Lands of Steel was covered with a lush green forest and a sandh desert area .
With the metal covering 50% of the area , the lush forest covering 25 and the remaining covering 25 %
Where McElroy was being trained .
Eren :
What better person can teach you about the soil than me . Eren .
Eren :
The soil is made of different compositions .
They have nutrients which sustains Trees like me . The colour of the soil changes depending on the composition
Such as The Red soil is much more rich in Iron .
Even rocks have a certain composition. As the occur naturally.
Even ore veins occur naturally but they are in an different category entirely .
Can you control metal McElroy.
McElroy:
I tried to but I could only make a small marble of iron .
Eren :
That's quite impressive .
Eren :
Returning to the rocks once again . The main character of the earth is not giving and taking but sustaining and controlling . So many things that you friend Jay could do such as create lava isn't possible .
As it's not the character of earth .
But today we are not here to talk about it .
McElroy:
Then ?
Eren and McElroy walked over to the desert region of the Lands of Steel.
Eren :
Today we'll learn to control sand .
McElroy:
Sand ?
Eren :
Sand is also part of the earth but instead of constrained it's in a free form . So controlling it will take quite getting used to . Try it .
McElroy put his entire concentration on the same and used magic . And something happened .
Nothing happened. Just a mistake .
Eren :
I should demonstrate it .
With the soft knocking of his stick on the ground a tornado of sand was created . And after 5 seconds it dissipated .
Eren :
We should start somewhere small .
Eren picked up some of the sand and gave it to McElroy
Eren :
Now try to move it .
After intense concentration now McElroy concentrated on much smaller target and he felt some of the sand particle move .
McElroy :
Finally some progress .
Eren :
Actually the sand was moved by the wind . Please try again .
And the training of the gatebusters countinue in the Lands of Steel