Excalibur.

The rounds of question and answers continue in the field of flowers whilst being under the sun whilst drinking the most exquisite tea prepared for us.

More than rounds of question and answers one can day a complementary exchange of information.

Maria :

Speaking of Raizon, I understand the rift sent you a thousand years back. But how did you end up in going back to the same time when I killed Raizon.

Jay :

There was this pedestal where when I was laced my spear when stabbing it. It sent us there. And then back where we came from.

Maria :

After you left a few weeks later I myself ended up in Raizon there was no such kind of pedestal anywhere. I even have the post damage records.

From her hand photos appeared magically. As she spread them out in a table. Most of them were an top down shots of the ruined city.

Taken after the city was destroyed. The city was completely destroyed had become barren and still had a dusty atmosphere. Even the system which was supposed to control the weather had failed and was being worked on.

Maria :

So where is the thing you are talking about.

You returned after the city being destroyed so where is it.

If in the future you used it then it should still be there. Can you pinpoint a specific location.

Jay :

No I actually Dont remember, but ur should be around here.

Jay pointed towards the shady marketplace where he met Sara. The now Queen of Raizon.

Jay :

Why are you asking for a relic.

Maria :

It seems one of my old acquaintances made it. It's not that important.

McElroy :

On the topic of Raizon, why was the king involved with you.

Jay agreed

Jay :

That's a great point.

Maria :

He was nothing but a pawn. Blinded by power he never saw.

Happiness he never achieved, wishes never fulfilled to become someone better.

Soon Maria ran out of question she wanted to ask

Maria :

From my side I've covered up everything I want to know.

Do you wish to know anything else, so that we can end this meet.

Jay :

None from my side. Unfortunately.

McElroy :

There have been instances i have been curious about something. About the daughter of Evan Swan.

Maria : surprised

You know where she is? , I've been searching for her for months now. Her trail suddenly went cold.

Jay :

Why us the foundation searching for her.

Maria : teary eyed

Just like the others I've been looking for a successor as well.

One that can handle magic on a very huge scale.

You see even if we are immortal our lives may fade away, our brains stop working, body organs wouldn't regenerate.

Somehow mana starts eating our lives again.

And if they desert like I did. Someone has to be there to take my place.

It seems what they both have been hearing for a long time is true. Maria has deserted her position and is hiding somewhere in a space no one could find her traces.

Maria :

That girl is talented. She has inherited everything from Evan as well as her mother. And she never even practiced lightning magic in the first place but still was able to strike down her Uncle.

That's why I wanted her as my disciple.

She will be the next one who can use World Magic.

Jay :

On that related note what is this world magic anyway.

Maria :

World magic is the pinnacle of magic. It allows one to chenge the structure of the world itself. It can change the structure of the world itself.

Maria :

This is a table which is made up of mostly biodegradable materials. But if I use magic.

Maria waved her wrist and in the next instant the entire table turned to diamonds. With one more wave. The tea, parasol, and the cake turned into sand.

This was the much more advances version of the magic the Steel King showed Jay in the past. The steel king had managed to turn gold into platinum by knocking off the components of the atoms.

And Maria is changing the entire structure of atoms, their bonds, their conformation and that too on a large scale. This is truly astonishing.

Well in the end this is a dream world after all. So one shouldn't be too surprised.

McElroy : awe

This is amazing I've never seen something like this in my entire life.

Maria :

This world you see is fake it is also something I've made with world magic.

With just a loud clap of her hand. The flowers faded from existence, the sun waned and disappeared, the bright blue sky turned cloudy, the ground which was flat with indentation and hill like structures went back to normal to a mountainous soil and the area covered by fog. The tables dissipated and mixed with the ground.

The scene completely changed from a field and hills of flowers to a mountain region filled with fog where the sun has been dimmed. There exist an village deep in the mountains north of the battlefield where Maria is hiding herself.

After seeing and causing years of destruction and bloodshed she finally lost it and took off from the foundation and lived in the wilderness. Away from the reach of the foundation.

Maria :

Follow me.

Jay and Maria both followed her as they had no idea where they were. After a few minutes of walking they arrived at an place.

There were many huts made out of mud with doors of sliced wood, and roofs made up of straws and husks of leaves and trees that had been harvested completely.

There were paintings in the red walls of the huts with paintings in them simple in style representing Warli paintings found in ancient cultures.

From these huts there were small openings through which air would pass through and the were perfect as a peeping holes. As Jay and McElroy walked through the big village they felt the stares of the villagers whom they haven't seen staring them to death.

Their gazes being cast upon them.

McElroy :

Where is this place.

Maria :

This is a place even unknown to the foundation.

They walked to the center of the village and they could see something resembling a sword.

As Mcelroy saw the sword he felt a nostalgia towards the blade. The blade was not itself very special. It was a double edged sword the edges were thin and much more sharper that even if a paper at an extremely odd angle flew to the sword it would be separated into two pieces.

It was blade fitting for someone to be called the God Slayer .

Maria :

This here is the weapon of the God Slayer. You can feel it's calling right McElroy.

McElroy lost in his nostalgic feeling stepped towards the blade. He felt like the blade was calling out to him. From afar he could hear the whispers of the sword which was stuck in stone. Only one whisper to remove it from the stone.

A moment like the legendary weapon Excalibur.

Which was either removed from stone pedestal or an anvil.

While some stories say that the Excalibur sword was given to him by the lady of the lake. Who emerged from the lake and handed him the sword.

McElroy touched the blade and felt something well inside of him. He grabbed the handle and slowly he pulled the sword from the stone pedestal.

But the sword wouldn't even budge. McElroy tried to pull it repeatedly but to no avail. McElroy once again pulled the sword with all of his strength. And still failed to pull it out.

McElroy lost some of his excitement.

McElroy :

Is this really my sword?.

Maria :

It's supposed to be.

McElroy once again concentrated and pulled the sword from the pedestal still it was stuck.

Jay who couldn't bear to see his friend struggle shouted a solution.

Jay :

Oh for God's sake, McElroy just cheat the damn system.

Break the ground below dammit.

Listening ti Jay's idea. McElroy punched the ground so hard that the entire ground collapsed. The pedestal split into two pieces. And the sword was freed from the pedestal

McElroy finally picked up the sword and raised it up towards the sky. As a light emitted from the blade shot up towards the sky. And then stopped.

Maria :

I would be worried if you couldn't removed the sword.

Jay :

That's a nice weapon.

Maria :

I also have something in store for you.