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Chapter 21 - Are You Ready?

When Alex open the All Knowing Book, it was blank and didn't even have a single drop of ink from front to back, judging from the thickness of the book, it has 1000 pages at the very least, and beside it was a quill and a note saying; 'This is the Quill with Endless Ink, just give it some mana and it can write without ink needed'.

As Alex read the note, he tried to focus on the quill and soon enough, the tip started getting wet with ink, although he doesn't know what he just did, when his focus was gone, the ink quickly disappeared.

"Ok you can check those later, lets continue transferring your magic," Estela said, and the others quickly changed focus. Elijah stepped up to the crystal ball next and excitedly placed his hands, it produced a mix color of silver, purple and brown.

Nile then stepped forward and placed his hands on top of Elijah's then said the same set of words that Ethan said. Elijah agreed with no hesitation as the color on the crystal ball then went towards his heart and faded away.

Nile also gave him his memories and went back to his group and sat cross legged beside Ethan. The same thing is repeated for the rest of them, except Alex, with only notable difference is the color on the crystal ball.

When Charlotte touched the ball, it didn't give a specific color, instead, it showed a silhouette of a wolf's face, Charlotte was confused when it showed a different thing, but was soon cleared away when Cecil gave her his magic and memories.

Next, it's Joana's turn, and when she placed her hands on the ball, it gave a blinding light that almost no one can see through, but Joana and Zach doesn't seem to be bothered by the blinding light while the other's covered their eyes, when Zach transferred his magic however, the blinding light was swallowed by what it seems like a black hole and then traveled to Joana's heart where it gave another flash of blinding light before fading away.

Then it's Leslie's turn, the crystal ball gave off a verdant lime green, and it was Estela that gave her the magic, but instead of traveling through the ball, roots protruded from the ground and wrapped around Leslie into a cocoon like structure, and the center pulsed with a verdant green hue.

The others were about to make a move but Estela motioned them to stop and wait. They anxiously waited for 5 minutes before the roots started receding back to the ground and showed an unconscious Leslie.

She was about fall when Alex and Elijah caught her, "What happened?" Alex asked.

"She's just unconscious after I transferred magic as it's the most potent one out of all of you," Estela explained, "Let's wait until she wakes up before we explain what you'll be set out to do."

And they did just that, and only after an hour did Leslie started waking up, "Huh? What happened?" she asked.

"You were knocked unconscious after Estela transferred her magic to you," Charlotte said with concern obvious on her tone.

Estela then explained what they have to do; apparently they have to defeat Alva Colvin, the Root of All Evil, and they have a few years to get strong enough to be able to face him and his forces.

"Ok so it's a generic esekai quest where we get to be transferred to another world and defeat the demon king," Elijah commented. "Simple enough."

"It seems like one of you has the general idea," Estela nodded, "So let me ask you one last time..."

"Are you ready?"

Estela's group asked in unison, Alex's group also answered in unison, "We are ready!" They exclaimed as they unconsciously sent out waves of power that blew the nearby foliage and cleared the area.

Unexpectedly, the underside of the foliage has a magic circle engraved on a stone platform.

Estela's group then sat on 5 smaller magic circle placed on a the edge of the bigger magic circle. When viewed from above, it makes a pentagon shape. Soon after they sat on the magic circle, it began to glow and light began to pour into the bigger magic circle.

When the bigger magic circle lines are finally filled with magic, light shot up into the sky covering Alex's group, Estela said to the group before they leave "You are about to embark on a dangerous quest, to save an unknown world and unknown people, may the spirits guide your kind souls to victory!"

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