chap 5

Seclusion: A forbidden technique that allows you to grow stronger much faster. You first seclud yourself in a room entirely out of uran without anything in it. Such a room exist in every older church in the basement as seclusion was a common practice a few centuries ago. You then absorb multiple Cores. When you are full of magic energy you try to dense up the core you want to strengthen (most of the time the brain core). Hereby the chance of exploding is high. Therefore every bit of energy that remains unused should be channeled into the uran. To make your Core dense enough you usually need a year of continues practice is needed. Because opening the door could destabilize the energy sucked up by the uran it is often not opened for a year. To live that long you start first by cleaning your stomach and use magic energy to live. That is why it is called seclusion.

(Authors Note: If you try eating only liquids or nothing for a longer time you start poisoning yourself as there are leftovers from your last meal still in your stomach. If you are in a survival situation please try out very small water-diluted and cooked plants that seem edible to get to know if you can eat it instead of fasting. Do not eat unknown things in large quantities or high concentrations. And after starving for a longer time do not suddenly start eating much more.)

"report about Green in an hour to me." You always must know what your arch-enemy is up to. But before that I want to eat a soup after seclusion training. I get every two years a delivery from the capital of pumpkin soup as it has a very rich taste to it and is not like the other diluted soups you get here on land. I am here because I lost the battle against Green for the position of High Bishop and he banned me to this forgotten city near the Kariliff country. On the other hand it gave me the option to go in Seclusion and train to challenge his position again right away this year. You can challenge the Position of a High/Top Bishop every 7 month and up to 3 times. But if you are a High Bishop you can challenge the position of Top Bishop every time with the exception that it is only one challenge at a time of 3 month. At least these are the formal ways. Assassination and giving up a position are also ways to change the the hirachie. When a High/Top Bishop dies then there will be held a tournament were every church-affiliated can take part in.

"reporting: Green died in the recent Moon-Drop-Incident. The tournament will be held in two months as the tournament for Top Bishop is held in 8 Month if the top Bishop does not comes back."

"What? How is that possible? Emerald-body Green did die? How could he before I got the chance for my revenge? Who was it and what is that Moon-Drop-Incident?"

"The Moon-Drop-Incident is where a enormous tear-shaped metal building fell from the sky near the capital. Green prevented the explosion of dropping down but died from the inhabitants of the Moon-Drop. The inhabitants are currently missing as well as the Top Bishop and the people from the city Drell where the Moon-Drop is located."

"From the sky? Tear-shaped building? Don't give me that sh*t, I'm gonna go locking at it myself! Prepare a escort of ten of the best in the church."

"We can't we are the last bastion between Kariliff and the capital that has the military power to prevent a complete invasion. The Capital did order to prepare for the worst now that we lost Green and Blue as well as having a destabilized church."

"How did they lost Blue? dammit"

"Blue was residing in Drell."

"If Green and Blue were lost in the same Incident then Kariliff is not our problem but rather this Incident. Write a formal complain to the capital."

"very well, sir"

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Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! "Enemy attack! Please evacuate stay at home, go in a shelter or to the church."

"Who are they? Is it these damn Kariliff bastards? Go get Sodakata to destroy them."

"Sir it is only one lady that did this and she only attacked adventures that come and go from the city. Her magic power was detected as if she was an entire army. It is a false alarm."

"Anyhow, get Sodakata and kill her, if she kills adventurers she is hurting my profits."

(...) <--- that is a time skip

Who is this lady? She is wearing the robe of a bishop and transformed her hair into tentacles. Her arms has the same elasticity and color as her hair but she has fingers. All tentacles (+ arms?) had suction cups like a octopus. Her Magic energy was on a whole different level. It is as if I am standing before a huge undersea monster. Her magic energy was suffocating as if I am diving into her domain and no matter wich direction you go the only thing you see is black.

"He-hello m'lady, could I ask what you are here for?"

She suddenly looked away from the city and looked directly into my face. She then made a bunny hop into my direction.

"Hi" She said while lifting her arm with the hand facing the other way around. "Are you the strongest around here?"

"Yas! äh yes." I unconsciously straighten my back. I even stuttered because of her carefree attitude.

I am a scholar from the mage academy as well as coming from the Shima family. The Shima family has a special fighting style wich is also called the strongest last defence. So as a human I am the strongest in this area but if you look at the forest around then there are 3 entities that are at least as strong as me. If it is not a defensive battle then I'm not sure if I can defeat them.

"Then let's test it! Where is the second strongest one and wich race are you?"

"eh? äh I am human? like you. A-and if you count monsters in th-then the strongest one lives in the brian plain north of the town."

"escort me there, I want to see you fight!"

brian plain: a flat land/lowland where battle fields are often fought out. It is named after Brian Shima who single-handedly defeated a whole army of Krush. The land is still minced with bones and metal of the fights and the terrain itself is a little bit rocky. Most of the creatures here are monsters from the Insect type but there are also small animals. One foreign animal is a rock-drake that build it's nest around here. It has a high defensive capability as well as offensive solely depending on it's body toughness and is therefore very slow.

drake and dragon: Booth of them are monsters but some could be considered as animals as some have cores in them. The difference between them is that a dragon is more like a flying magician that flees as soon as it has the possibility where as a drake is very aggressiv and territorial and relies on brute force. Booth are highly intelligent and you could converse with them but in a fight a drake has something alike to a fighting technique and dragons are more about using the surrounding. Fighting either of them is not desirable especially as I am still humane.