Centuries after the Great Sealing, a new, fragile peace held the world in its grasp. The world contains peace now. There are no wars, and rarely any conflicts among the nobles.
With the breeze of cool wind, a shadowed being watching the world having a peaceful time, said with a deep voice, "This world[1] of might is ruled by fools now, not knowing the dangers lurking, yet they decided to not train themselves to the limit. Seems like I have to interfere a bit..." But before he could complete his words, he felt something, stopped his speech, and disappeared.
The world was in bright radiance today as something was about to come. The new heir of Arcanis was born today. The 16th generation of House Ardynveil was born today, so a festival was held in the whole continent of Arcanis. Ardynveil showed no sign of lack of money during this festival. It was so grand that the entire continent was glowing with lights. The other Houses came, since all Houses were friends, and were genuinely happy for them.
During the festival, there were stalls; everything was free today. The Emperor decided to pay for the citizens; everyone was dancing, enjoying the festival.
A certain someone asked, "What's the name of our new Prince?"
Someone next to him replied while drunk, "The prince is named Caelith... Caelith Ardynveil."
The person whose identity is unknown repeated, "Hmm, Caelith... The mana here is kinda different; it'll be interesting. I should wait before doing something."
The person who's character wasn't known was the shadow who was watching the world. None knows his name, face, or anything about his origin.( We'll call him Mr. X, until his identity is exposed)
The royal Houses[2] are celebrating the party in the main castle. The castle was huge—maybe "huge" itself is a small word compared to the castle. Its walls shone like gold, and there were carvings on the wall as if dragons were pasted there. The three huge dragons represented the glory and strength of Ardynveil. There was a huge table decorated in the hall of the castle where the party was being held for the royals. There were many kinds of food items, hard to count, but when someone wanted anything, he just said it to the waiter, and with magic, it got passed to the person.
While everyone was enjoying the party,
The knights announced, "The Emperor and the Empress are entering the hall with our prince!"
The Emperor entered the hall and thanked everyone, "I thank you all for attending my child's birthday party. And my special thanks for my brothers, the Emperors of other continents, for attending this party and coming to congratulate us."
The Emperor of Valthera said while laughing, "What are you saying, Artenious? We are brothers, there's no need to thank us; your child is our child." The other Emperors nodded their heads in agreement.
The Emperor of Arcanis is Artenious Ardynveil. He felt happy and talked to others. Everyone enjoyed the party.
Everyone presented their gifts to Artenious in order to congratulate him. However, no one bragged about the gifts, since gifts are just a way of congratulating someone. Being Emperors, they knew each other well, so none bragged as they knew everyone brought the most expensive and unique item.
The banquet was over, and with that, everyone left for their nation. They spent a very nice time together.
As a few years passed, Caelith, at the age of 3, was a 1st-Circle Mage, the youngest 1st-Circle Mage in history. His family was proud of him, especially his father, Artenious Ardynveil. He began to personally train Caelith. His days in the castle were peaceful. Everyone was so nice; he was happy with his current life.
Arcanis was a wide continent having mountains and beautiful scenery. The capital city of Arcanis was Arcendra. The capital city contained six mage towers representing six elements: air, fire, water, earth, lightning, and ruin magic. Each tower was high, and the Royal Castle represented unity to these towers. The Emperor was a 6th-Circle Mage, which was also the strongest of the continent. The family of Ardynveil was the only House which could use all of these elements; others could only use two or three types of magic. But due to their progenitor, they had unlimited potential.
The capital city is bigger than the other six cities: Lythra, Dulexia, Hyeon, Sharshil, and Kashit. It was a quite peaceful land full of mana.
After a few days, when Caelith turned 3 years old, his father told him that a new Prince of House Valenor was born and they were invited to his birthday celebration.
They traveled through a magic portal created by the older generations. As they reached the Capital city of Valthera, Eryndale, Caelith noticed big mansions and houses in the capital. He got excited. The castle was as majestic as a knight holding his pride to its peak. It was not less than the Castle of Arcanis. As they reached the banquet hall in the castle,
A Knight announced, "The Emperor of Arcanis is entering."
With that, they got in, and Caelith was amazed since it was his first time going to a royal banquet on another continent. He was excited throughout the banquet.
And another announcement came, "His Majesty, Theron Valenor, is entering."
With that, the Emperor of Valthera, Theron Valenor, with his two children, entered with his wife. Caelith was surprised to see such a small child. Being surprised, he asked his father, "Papa, what's his name?"
Artenious laughed and said, "Why don't you ask yourself?" With that, he walked with Caelith towards the Emperor.
Artenious happily, while holding a glass of fine wine, said, "A toast to your lineage, my friend."
Theron laughed, "What are you doing, brother? No need for the formalities."
Meanwhile, other Emperors also came to greet and congratulate the Emperor.
Artenious said, "My child here is very curious about your child's name."
Theron looked at Caelith like he was looking at his own son's innocence and said calmly, "Dear Caelith, his name is Astrein, Astrein Valenor. I hope you take care of him in the future." And with that, he waved towards his older son. The son came.
Theron looked at Caelith and said, "This is Astrein's big brother and the Crown Prince of Valenor, Draen Valenor. He's 6 years old. Be friends from now on. He was present on your birthday party."
Caelith, being a bit shy, gave his greetings to Draen. Draen chuckled a bit and shook his hand with Caelith.
The Emperor of Parthion said, "Oh come on, guys, you left behind my child."
The Emperors of Dravonar and Noctrya also said, "Ours too."
With that, they waved towards their children, and their children came. They greeted each other and made friends with each other.
Caelith enjoyed the banquet and made many friends.
After the banquet, everyone left.
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A few months passed, and then another invitation came from Dravonar. The second heir of House Dravane was born.
A great banquet was held. Caelith was excited to meet his friends. With the teleportation portal, he came to the Royal city of Dravonar, Spikeon. It was a large plain expanded throughout the continent. It was perfect for farming, and as such, there were many farms there. The city had large roads. He entered the banquet hall with his Father and met his friends. While they were talking about their training and other things,
A knight holding a spear announced, "The Emperor of Dravonar, His Majesty Varkon Dravane, is entering."
The Emperors greeted each other, and Caelith asked, "Brother Francis, what's the name of your young brother?"
Francis Dravane was the first prince of Dravonar, the big brother of the new Prince. He was 7 years old.
Francis replied, "Brothers, my brother's name is Raizen Dravane. I hope you will take care of him in the future."
Draen Valenor said with a smile, "Your brother is our brother." Everyone nodded in agreement.
Everyone was kind to each other like they were from the same family. Well, it can't be denied that the brotherhood of these families dated from ancient times. They all helped each other in time of need.
Everyone enjoyed the banquet. The food was too delicious since the empires best chief made it for a special day. Caelith enjoyed While talking to his friends and eating with them. It was a new experience for caelith. Even Draen was now caelith's bestfriend. He talked about magic and Draen talked bout aura and swords. Truly new world to caelith. After banquet was over. Caelith had to leave unwillingly like a child . Well The emperor wouldn't have denied him to stay but still he chose to go home.
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Caelith enjoyed his nice time. He got good friends and brothers. When he reached Arcanis, he wanted to train more since his father was going to tell him new spells. He needed to master his old spells.
A few months passed, and he mastered his old spells. His father called him to the battleground and said, "I'll give you new spells; they'll be interesting, but you have to prove to me you mastered your old spells."
Caelith said, "Okay Papa, how should I prove it?"
Artenious said, "Mages use their spells, rather than their tongue, to prove something. Take your position. I'll limit myself to 1st-Circle Mage. Show me your spells. And don't be scared of hurting me , I am not 6th circle mage for show"
Caelith, being from Ardynveil, was capable of using spells without chanting.
He made a fireball and threw it towards his father.
Artenious deflected it with a wave of his hand.
Caelith became surprised and asked, "Father, how did you do it?"
Father said, "Observation is key in today's lesson. Don't try to copy my moves, you have to observe them. I know you can do it. Lets go Cael."
Caelith understood what his father meant and started observing while fighting his father.
He made a water spear, long enough to measure Caelith's height himself. Then the water spear turned into ice. Then, Caelith, using mana, threw it towards his father.
Father easily used a technique called Blink, used to teleport for a short distance.
While they were fighting, Caelith observed many things and became excited and surprised.
His father said, "Now use your best move. I shall see what your limit is."
With that, Caelith used a spell originally created by him during his training: he made five arrows which are made of fire and water both, like fire and water are in harmony. He used lightning to make sure the speed is fast enough and used earth to make it pierce through an object, and using wind to cancel any resistance from the air.
His father was surprised with this.
He suddenly changed his stance.
Caelith threw the arrows towards his father. Artenious used a magic shield to protect himself and was saved. He thought:
(That was dangerous. If I hadn't changed my limit from 1st-Circle to 2nd-Circle)
Artenious, being too happy and proud, said, "Very well, Cael. You did it. This spell was perfect. A perfect creation. I shall reward you with this."
With that, he took out a mage's cloak. It was blackish-blue, but looked too cool to describe.
Caelith became happy and thanked his father.
Artenious, seemed to be happy, said, "You still have a long way to go, so make sure to practice these spells which you've observed and get promoted to 2nd-Circle Mage."
With that, Caelith started his training. Time flew by, and....
[1] The world contains 7 continents - Valthera, Arcanis, Veyndor, Noctyra, Dravonar , Parthion and celesthra. Each continent is ruled by a royal family
[2] The royal houses are- Valenor, Ardynveil, Veyrault, Noxveil, Dravane, Parvelis and Caelora.