Falling... He reached the ground but didn't get hurt. It felt like some external force caught him before he could fall.
He reached a dark room. Nothing could be seen but a ray of light coming from a direction. Zephyr followed the light and reached a room. The room just had a diary on the table and nothing else. Zephyr, surprised to see a diary, unconsciously got near the diary. The diary was too old and didn't have any title on it. Zephyr became more curious and opened it. When he opened the diary, a bright, blinding light came from the diary and entered his eyes. Zephyr rolled on the floor in pain.
His eyes felt like they were burned. He was crying in pain. After some time, the pain lowered. He could see everything now. However, he got a feeling to say, "eyes of wisdom." When he said, "eyes of wisdom," suddenly everything changed in front of his eyes. He could see everything, like a different world opened in front of him. But that wasn't the case. He just could see things which were impossible for a normal eye to see. But using the eyes exhausted him and he fainted.
Mr. X appeared suddenly in front of him while he was fainted and blurted, "Impossible... the eyes got a heir... this soon... truly remarkable... this child has great potential."
After sometime, he opened his eyes and found himself in his room while a maid said, "Young noble, you're up, wait, let me call the doctor and his majesty."
Zephyr said, "Don't worry, I'm fine now." The maid nodded. Zephyr went to his father but didn't tell him anything but wanted to test these eyes. He said in mind, "eyes of wisdom," and the eyes activated. He thought he could see through his father, but instead what he saw was two big eyes watching him. He became terrified and deactivated the eyes. He said to his father, "Dad, do you have any good book for me to read?"
The emperor laughed and took out a book, "Yeah, I got one specially for you. This book is 'History of Veyrault' and is perfect for you to spend years on it."
Zephyr took the book and thanked his father happily and returned to his room.
The emperor laughed again and said, "Interesting..."
Zephyr thought to take a round of the city while using those eyes. He was truly curious about the world, but now he got a way through which he could see the whole world. Rarely anything escaped his sight. While traveling, he found a house with a red glow. He knocked on the door, but no one came.
The lock was open, so he entered the house. The house seemed old from inside, like no one cared for it. Zephyr got near the red glow, and there was a handle on the floor. Zephyr pulled the handle and found out it was a door to a hidden basement. He could see a red light ray going towards the way. He followed the ray and got near another door.
This door was different. Not because of its looks, but because of a very bad stench. This stench was too sharp and Zephyr suddenly closed his nose. This was his first time smelling this bad smell.
He opened the door and got terrified with what he saw. He saw corpses lying on the floor and a man standing among them. Zephyr was using his eye and could tell that this man was at least a 2-star warrior. He started running towards the gate. But the man easily chased him.
He shot out a metal ball towards Zephyr, and Zephyr couldn't dodge it in time and fell on the ground. The man said, "Insect! Did you think you could run from me? Now become my meal." With that, he pointed small blades towards Zephyr and said, "Any last words?" But before Zephyr could say anything, he shot them.
Zephyr closed his eyes and unconsciously moved his hand and waved his arms. When he opened his eyes, he saw a blade moving in the air and attacking the man.
It turned out to be that Zephyr could use telekinesis with the help of the Eye of Wisdom. The man died. It was Zephyr's first time engaging in combat.
Zephyr reported the incident to the nearest knight while hiding how he killed that man. The knight told Zephyr, "Go back to the castle, young noble, I'll report this to his majesty and make sure to investigate thoroughly."
Zephyr understood and left.
Zephyr returned to the castle and started to read this book and spent most of his time on it. And also asked his big brother for training in martial arts.
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In Dravonar, Raizen Dravane became 7 years old. And according to the tradition of the Dravane family, he now needed to go to the Forest of Trails and spend 3 years in the forest for his training.
Raizen at age of 7 was an exceptional warrior for his age. He was just a step away from a 2-star warrior.
Raizen was ready and didn't even show a bit of a cowardly look. His father came to his room before the day he's going to leave. His father said, "Rai, from tomorrow you'll spend your next three years in the forest. You have to hunt and cook for yourself. While you're in the forest, master your skills, then I'll take you to meet Caelith."
Raizen was most curious about the mage called Caelith. He had heard his father talk about him. He didn't see him in his life once but was very interested in him.
His father took out a spear, it looked quite cool. The spear body was red and the head had a dragon mouth holding a blade. His father gave him this spear and said, "Best of luck, Rai, and make sure to master your spear."
Next day, Raizen left out for the forest. He just had a spear in his hand. He climbed a mountain and found a location where he could live for the next two years. He chose a mountain so that he could train his legs through climbing the mountain daily. Though the forest looked calm, it was home to many dangerous monsters.
He trained his footsteps and arts of the Dravane family on a daily basis. He started hunting for small preys and didn't go for big ones yet since he knew he would be dead the next second he entered the monster's area.
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When Astrein got news that Raizen had gone to the forest, he started training more relentlessly. Though he was a 2-star warrior at the age of 7, his rival was now in the forest to train him to an extent, how can he lag behind? They weren't enemies but rivals and friends at the same time.
Astrein asked his brother, Draen, to train him. His brother was most exceptional since he was a 4-star warrior now. Everyone respected him.
Astrein learned Valenor sword arts. He learned sword steps and he used to fight Draen on a daily basis to make his moves more sharp.
He also showed his skills to his father. A few months later there was a swordmaster championship only for 2-star warriors. Astrein decided to participate in it.
On the day of the competition, he fought many and reached the quarter-finals.
In the quarter-finals, only 8 people were selected. Astrein was one of them.
He fought a knight, it was a bit hard, but the rival was respectable enough to push Astrein to this limit.
Astrein got selected in the semi-finals, which he won, but it wasn't as hard as the quarter-final match.
The Final match was Astrein vs Rexian Voyexan.
Rexian Voyexan was winning his matches effortlessly.
They came to the stage, the public cheered for Astrein and Rexian.
Both bowed to each other according to traditions and walked 10 steps away from each other.
The referee waved his hand and the match started. Astrein used the footwork he learned and got behind Rexian and waved his sword.
Rexian's reflexes were strong and he easily dodged it. Astrein became surprised that he dodged that easily and used his footwork again, but he still dodged again.
Now Rexian said while laughing, "It's my turn now."
With that, Rexian swiftly got in front of Astrein and struck his sword. (Clash!), both swords clashed with each other and Astrein fell from the impact while Rexian took 3 steps back.
(Clash! Clash! Clash!) Both moved their swords with a bright smile on their faces, it seemed like they acknowledged each other.
Astrein decided to use his family art's 1st move. 'The Perk,' it uses aura.
His sword turned red and started glowing, and Rexian saw this and went on high alert and got a weird stance.
Astrein launched his attack, but Rexian's weird stance actually worked and he made Astrein fall and placed his sword on Astrein's neck and said, "You lost."
Astrein accepted defeat like a true warrior and Rexian won the competition.
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Meanwhile, in Parthion...