Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 7: Otherworldly beings

The elves started to pack their belongings which were quite a lot. After a remarkable time, they were finally ready to move out.

Arwen and Amaryll turned to see their tribe one more time before they departed, the fires set by the bandits were almost extinguished but many trees and tree houses were burnt and the bloodstains of bandits and elves could be seen on the surface of the ground here and there. 

They were born and raised in this village but now they realized that it's time to move on so they let out a sigh and started to walk away.

Don was leading the group of elves and beside him was Knight, Arwen, and Amaryll who was closely walking alongside Knight. It seemed the elf woman had taken an interest in Knight.

Seeing Amaryll's curious look on her face rather than a shock or sadness, Don noticed her and Knight as amused inside. However, Arwen was more concerned regarding the surrounding, he was extra cautious considering the recent bandit assault. Only some elves in his tribe stepped out of their territory boundary.

Don wasn't concerned as Arwen because he knew Knight has the ability of farsight and could scan his surroundings and sense threats in the range of two kilometers.

While walking, Knight admired the beauty of the forest as he couldn't move without a plant-touching his skin. The sheer denseness of the foliage had made him feel cozy like in all this space he could still be snug, the thousands of noises such as insect chirping had crashed over him as refreshing as any waterfall, overriding his senses.

The forest hummed with life all around elves. The sun broke through the cracks, lighting up the dirt path ahead of them and decorated with outgrown roots, wildflowers, and fallen leaves that crunch underneath their bare feet. The fragrance of minty grass and the damp earth made everyone so comfortable. Each breath was like water, fresh and cleansing, flowing freely into the lungs.

As they kept walking, a few magical creatures and beasts tried to hinder but the elven archers were quite talented as they killed them in an instant, not all the creatures tried to pick a fight with such a large group.

Since the quality and the size of the magic core increase, the intelligence of the beasts also grows. To put it simply, in peak master level beasts could understand human language and have basic intelligence.

When reaching the grandmaster level they could speak and possess human-level intelligence and reaching above the grandmaster level was very hard and several grandmasters level beasts would die trying to cross the tribulation to reach the Heavenly level.

There were only a handful of Heavenly level beasts that could be found in the mortal realm but they normally live secluded and other races wouldn't bother them because the wrath of the heavenly level beast was not to be taken lightly as they could destroy a city easily.

"Huh, Knight tell me, what magic level are you in?"

Amaryll wondered about this for some time and guessed that he must be a grandmaster level beast since he could talk like a human but Amaryll never had seen a grandmaster level beast before so when she couldn't arrive at a conclusion and everyone was rather silent she decided to ask Knight.

Hearing Amaryll's question, Knight was somewhat confused since he was not born in this world so he had pretty much no idea regarding the magic or magic levels.

"What's a magic level?"Knight responded to Amaryll's question with his own question.

"Hm? Didn't you really know about the levels of magic? What's the color of your magic core?" Amaryll tilted her head in wonder.

Arwen and Elrond also had taken an interest in the conversation between Amaryll and Knight as Knight sighed

"Lady since I was not born in your world, I have no idea what you are asking me".

Small gasps or yelps were heard among the elven group when Knight said this.

What does he mean by not being born in your world?

Does that mean there is another world?

Can other beings like Knight also enter their world?

are the gods in their world or are they gods themselves?

Many questions started to rise in their head, Amaryll and Arwen were no exception to this. Looking at the bewildered frightened faces of the elves, Knight realized that he kicked a hornet's nest. Knight stared at Don for help but he just shrugged and kept walking.

"Are you telling the truth? Is there actually another world? can we travel there?"Amaryll leaned down towards Lion and asked him with a hint of excitement and fear.

"No, you can't go there so don't even think about it"

"Then can they come to our world from theirs, like you?"

Sigh...

"I and Don is an exception and even for us that was a one-way trip, so we can't travel back there even if we wanted to"

"Won't you miss your world, Sir Knight?" This time Elrond was the one questioned Knight.

Knight laughed lightly when he heard Elrond call him 'Sir'.

"No, I don't miss my world. I and Don were pretty used to traveling around and also don't call me Sir simply Knight would do"

"So Don also an otherwo..r" before Amaryll could finish the question Knight sent her a telepathic message,

" Don't ask him about his past. He doesn't like to talk about it but when the time comes, he will tell you about it"

Amaryll jumped like a rabbit that saw a snake when she heard the voice of Knight inside her mind, she was not at all used to it.

Arwen noticed Amaryll screeched

"Are you alright Amaryll?"

"Yeah yeah I'm fine, just an insect landed on my shoulder that's all" Arwen looked at Amaryll doubtfully but he didn't ask her further.

"That voice I heard in my mind that was you right? How do you do that?"

Amaryll whispered to Knight.

"Yes, that was me I can send telepathic messages too and don't wonder, you can't do that"

"Why did you stop me? is Don an otherworldly being like you, I knew something was wrong with you two" Amaryll probed Knight but this time her voice was so quiet that only Knight could hear her.

"What's wrong with us, just don't try to judge so quickly" Knight sent a piece of telepathic advice to her.

Arwen also noticed what just happened when Amaryll was abruptly stopped when she was asking about Don's origins but Arwen was not interested in Don's past but his only concern was the future as he knew everyone has a past that they do not want to share, that was the kind of person Arwen is.

"So are you gonna tell me about the magic levels you were nagging, lady? "

Amaryll pondered for a moment she was still cautious about this duo but she chose to answer after a while

"There are six levels in magic we have: Beginner, apprentice, master, great master, grandmaster, heavenly. Each level is divided into three layers, low mid-peak" Amaryll halted and stared at Knight who was hearing sincerely and then continued,

"As for the magic core, everyone in the world is born with it. The magic core is located near the heart, when someone dies, it would disappear leaving a small trace of magic thread. The color of the magic core determines your level, the colors are light pink, silver, white, red, crimson, purple"

(for example, Beginner's magic core color is light pink while heavenly being's color is purple)

Eventually, she noticed that Knight was still calling her as Lady and it made her feel slightly frustrated so she pursed her lips and said,

"And one more thing, don't call me lady, I have a name. It's Amaryll you should use that"

Knight smiled and started to recollect what Amaryll said about magic levels.

They walked for a bit in silence, Don was walking with a calm face while Elrond followed him closely behind.

"So now it's your turn to tell me about your powers or sorcery, whatever you use"

Amaryll questioned Knight again. She wanted to gain much information about them in case they were a threat.

Knight carefully chose his words before answering,

"In my world, we aren't born with the magic core, we just cultivate energy called Battle energy or Battle qi comparable to your magic"

"Battle energy huh? Is that you and Don used? Do you have levels in battle energy?"

Knight was slightly irritated in the questions of Amaryll but he judged her as an extra curious one so he didn't mind,

"Yes, and yeah we do have levels from low-level to high-level which are Human, Earth, Sky, Moon, Star, Sun, Celestial level and coincidentally each level is divided into the same three levels as yours, low mid-peak "

"So what level are you and Don in?"

"I am in peak Skylevel while Don is in the mid-Moon level" Knight stated proudly.

Amaryll gasped as she heard "So are you saying that you are a peak master level magi and Don is midlevel great master??"

Even Arwen and the other elves were shocked and curious to hear the answer from Knight. In the mortal realm, great masters are prominent figures and nobody would dare to mess with them, they were rarely seen in outer lands, besides all of them would be older and as a matter of fact, according to Amaryll's knowledge the youngest great master was fifty-six years old but Don seems to be in his mid-twenties how abnormal is that?

Knight wondered on how Amaryll came to this conclusion,

"Hmm I don't think that we can compare level to level using magic and battle energy but I'm looking forward to seeing which one is better," Excitement rose in his heart while thinking about the battle between battle energy and magic and he was speculating about the results on the way.

While Amaryll thought about the matter, at long last the group stopped walking and Arwen began to examine the surroundings.

"We should camp here tonight, it seems ahead is the region of the druids. We better don't go into their region but we should stay here" Arwen glanced at the giant trees in front of him and thought about for a moment,

"they won't do anything as long as we keep our distances"

Amaryll also nodded in approval because druids lived in the deeper parts of the forest and normally no humans or other races would attempt to come this far since Druids were dangerous beings. Clearly, the humans knew about this too, but they wouldn't take any risks coming here but for Amaryll's group, this risk was worth it because they had Don and Knight with them.