Chapter 1 Prelude

• The 500th calendar year of the Hersen Empire was the year the creatures in the forest could still speak, having previously been friendly to the human race. But the existence of such a magical creature has disappeared into the depths of the forest, crushed by a new war that has just ended.
• The trees are now mute no longer talking. The birds and the forest creatures turned quiet, never to mention talking to a human race that they thought was greedy, wanted to win on their own, and dangerous.
• On the Ayax Continent which is the same area of 9,600,000 km2 (similar to the land area of China on Earth), the entire surface of the continent is filled with thin Purple Magic Energy, which can only be seen by a handful of beings who are said to have the talent to manage the Enchantment Energy into a terrifying power.
• This charm is a very beneficial energy for those who can cultivate it into spiritual power and use it for good. But some use it for their interests and then enslaved hidden powers, ambitious to become the strongest and called sorcerers.
• Although on the surface, the situation and harmony in the Ayax Continent look fine this continent has only completed a series of major wars among the five Empires. The important empires on the Ayax Continent that fought each other, all fought for the title of rulers of the continent and triumphed over resources in other Empires, to enrich themselves.
• Those are the names of the five empires, namely the Shouya Empire in the South of the Continent, the Zolia Empire in the West, the Chosa Empire in the Eastern Region, the Great Hersen Empire in the North, and the small Qingchang Empire in the Central plain of the Ayax Continent.
• In that years-of-hiring war, Hersen's empire in the North ultimately won the war and became the Overlord, colonizing the Central and Western Regions of the continent.
• The events of the defeat of the two Empires, Zolia and Qingchang, were not far from the weak system of government and rampant corruption of the two empires.
• On the other hand, the Chosa Empire in the East and Shouya in the South of the continent, until now still guerrilla in the war against the Hersen Empire which received military assistance from its two colonies, the Qingchang Empire and the Zolia Empire,
• In every war, the Military or Army does play an important role where the skill of playing war weapons such as swords and arrows plays an important role.
• Beyond that, everyone realized that the skills of Enchanters and sorcerers, who were divided into talents as Elementalist Knights, were indispensable in every battle. Those are some of the big names who became Enchantment Masters who held a big role in the Hersen Empire, making them triumph over Qingchang and Zolia. The Hersen knights are Elementalists who fight by utilizing dangerous natural elements.
• Call it the name of Emperor Hersen himself - Emperor Oberon Kraviz. Emperor Oberon has an unparalleled title - Emperor Oberon The Enchanter. He is a supreme Enchantment Expert who has the highest rank in witchcraft called Warlock. As the Warlock of the highest Enchantment expert, Emperor Oberon At that time, he conquered the famous Witch Clan in Qingchang known as the Red Phoenix Clan.
• The Red Phoenix clan waged a massive war in support of the Qingcang Empire which was still ruled by a weak Emperor named Emperor Eternal Zhang.
• That's how a Sage, the most powerful Enchantment expert from the Red Phoenix Clan named Alaric Sunburnt fought for 3 days and 3 nights against Emperor Oberon. The two tore through the sky with deadly curses and charm attacks when flying at high altitudes, and made the sky on Ayax Continent turn red like burning.
• Sage Alaric flew gallantly through the sky as he rode the blazing Phoenix. While the flying Emperor Oberon also burned the sky by riding a black Roc, black as dark as ink and exuding Aura and death energy.
• In a grueling battle that destroyed parts of the Qingchang and Zolia Empires, Sage Alaric was killed when Emperor Oberon cursed him with magic and magick using a weapon A dark power artifact he took from the world of the dead, it was named Zarael's Scepter The Shadow.
• Although Sage Alaric uses a Snow-White Sword Magic Weapon that emits Snow-White Light that can scorch living things, his soul is violently snatched by dark forces when Emperor Oberon waves Zarael’s The Shadow's Wand. Sage Alaric instantly. His death was mourned by millions of people watching the fight in the sky, at that time.
• After Sage Alaric's death, the spirit creature Phoenix then became dazed like a chick and lost its mother. This is natural. When entering into a contract as a spiritual creature of Sage Alaric, half of the Phoenix soul named The Flame seemed to die with Sage Alaric.
• The dazed Spirit Phoenix creature was then taken captive and made a slave to Emperor Oberon, confined in a hidden place that no one knew.
• Within the level of Enchantment Expert or Ayax Continent Mage, there were 5 levels among the commonly known.
• Level 1 Enchantment
• Level 2 Enchantment
• Level 3 Enchantment
• Level 4 Enchantment
• Level 5 charms are divided into 3:
• Ekhel
• Dund
• Sage or Warlock
• The Sage designation is the strongest Enchantment Master for wizards who enter into contracts with clean-spirited Spirit Beings. While the nickname Warlock is intended for the strongest mage using Spirit Creatures from the Demon class.
• Emperor Oberon The Enchanter then became the ruler over the three lands, Hersen, Qinchang, and Zolia. He made regulations regarding the talents and abilities to cultivate Enchantment energy. None of the ordinary commoners living in the three empires could freely train themselves when they became aware of the spiritual power that suddenly awakened.
• Emperor Oberon Kraviz only allowed the children of aspiring charms and the possessors of Enchantment Energy talents to train at the official academy under the supervision of the Hersen Empire. Clans, Orders Enchantment, and magic organizations were all disbanded, including the Red Phoenix Clan who were now fugitives in Hersen's three empires.
• All the children of the prospective enchantment were controlled and bound with special spells to obey and submit so as not to dare to make resistance to the side of the Hersen Empire.
• Time flies quickly. Spring became autumn and then it snowed and everything turned fast, imperceptibly five years passed already.
• But voices of discontent over Hersen's occupation were heard everywhere. The rebels guerrilla against the Hersen Empire, this time came to the name the Red Phoenix Organization again, which not only rebelled in the Qingcheng Empire, but also this group developed in the Zolian Empire.
• Many war infrastructures and arsenals of the Hersen Empire were damaged and burned, both in Qingchang and Zolia. The Red Phoenix Clan's secret organization has always claimed responsibility for all those incidents.
• Emperor Oberon became enraged and issued a decree ordering every child aged 7 to 13 to undergo a magic aptitude test and aptitude test that would be guided by imperial charm experts. This was just in case before the would-be Enchantment and Magic Master was recruited by the Phoenix Clan Organization and became a thorn in the flesh throughout the Hersen Territory and colonies.
• Emperor Oberon was even more upset when the hearsay blew, a Future Reader Magic master, who observed the movement of the stars predicted a surprising thing.
• "Sage Alaric will reincarnate and establish the glory of the Phoenix Clan to overthrow the Hersen Empire."
• Since then, everyone who has the ability of Enchantment and magic talents will always be spied on under the pretext of having to go to the official Magic Academy belonging to the Hersen Empire.
• This is where the story begins.
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• ARC 1. Begonia City.
• In Begonia City, the air was rotten and dark. A group of people whispering to each other on street corners only adds to the gloomy atmosphere that has been densely packed around the city for many years. This city was a long time ago, once beautiful. But now, the cityscape is only filled with buildings using, if you don't want to call it rubble.
• The whole building was left only in ruins. They burned and were shapelessly damaged after a grueling war that destroyed the entire country.
• The snow blown by the wind covered the dust that slipped between the potholed roads. The city that was once bright and prosperous, after the end of the great war, all that was left was misery and disgust. No more the laughter of little children playing happily. There was only a sound of heavy breathing, almost in every corner of the city, adding to the gloom of Begonia City.
• In that corner of the town of Begonia, there is a slum that looks lame when compared to some mansions owned by officials and wealthy nobles. The slum was full of fragile and unkempt small houses. Some houses are even just worn tarpaulin roofs with makeshift walls, it's from the leftover wood of deformed ruined buildings.
• The atmosphere around the slums was gloomy and depressing. Small children ran around in the narrow hallway wearing shabby clothes and looked dirty, seemingly unkempt. Several housewives can be seen busy arranging the arrangement of dirty dishes and bowls spread under a simple tent, all faded without a smile.
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• Begonia City
• Kiran an an 11-year-old boy lives in Begonia City with his two parents, Arhun and Kora Wang.
• Kiran is not the only child in the family. His two older brothers, the eldest named Thorn Wang when he was 19, were recruited by the imperial military to join the conscription program - defending the country, which was really to go to war for the glory of the Hersen Empire, not the Qingchang Empire.
• In the autumn that began to cool, when the Peach plants began to molt, Arhun Wang froze at the door of the house. A city official came to inform him that Thorn Wang had died in the war on the Qingchang border in an endless battle for 3 days and 3 nights. A devastating war against the Chosa Empire in the Eastern Continent.
• Since that incident, Arhun Wang has become quiet.
• Then another shocking news came to the Wang family. As a mortal who cannot cultivate Enchantment Energy to be called a sorcerer, Aura Wang, the second child, and the only daughter in the family, is summoned by the Qingchang Puppet Empire to participate in the conscription - defense of the country. Aura Wang is a girl who is good at reading incomplete maps, even proficient in compiling them into new maps, an ability she acquired when the school was still organized by the city government when things were not too chaotic.
• With the skill of reading the map of Aura Wang, his skills are needed by the attacking forces, when they have to fight by taking new paths through enemy defenses.
• Time flies fast.
• One autumn passed and the town of Begonia welcomed the autumn of the following year. Peach Bunag falls, and plants begin to molt. Shocking news came again at the door of the shabby house.
• A City Government soldier knocked on the weathered door at Arhun Wang's family home. He had an expressionless flat face, waiting for the host side to come out to hear the news. Arhun Wang, Kiran's father, immediately fainted when he saw the guest at the door, even though the anchor soldier had not read the contents of the official letter.
• Although his heart was pounding, Arhun Wang tried to look stoic.
• He stood fragile and leaned against the fragile door, similar to his condition. Then the anchor soldier read the contents of the City Government's letter aloud. It tells us that the Skywraith, Aura Wang's ship, exploded by magic flames on the border of the Chosa Empire - and the war never ended.
• Arhun Wang, Kiran's father, immediately fell to the ground. He is like a person who has a terminal illness. Arhun Wang lay in bed for days, without moving at all. His eyes stared blankly, like lifeless. Arhun Wang from that day on turned into the undead. He refused to speak and moved. Just silently silent on the bed.
• We return to the present situation, in the cramped house that Kiran lives in with her parents Arhun and Kora Wang.
• The clumped house they occupied, was attached to a neighbor's house, a group of rickety houses with thatched walls and coarsely embroidered mixed with tarpaulin. And everything is completely unadorned.
• Only one or two leftover paintings picked up from the rubble of the destroyed house, were pasted perfunctory in an attempt to decorate the walls of the house to look fine. But it didn't help.
• Because of the thin wall that limits house to house, it is clear that no secrets can be hidden in the row of slum housing. The news quickly spread by word of mouth, it was even faster than the gust of winter wind from the North of the country.
• This is the latest news.
• "According to the announcement at the village chief's office, next week or 7 days from now in the town square an aptitude test will be held and measure the talents of all children who meet the age limit set by the government, to determine their future."
• The test was to find out if a child had magic talent and was able to cultivate Enchantment and live in service of the empire. Bound with a controlling oath or spell so as not to rebel, later. If the results of the aptitude test shows that the child is not talented, he will only become a mere mortal, who is just waiting for time to become a little considered an adult, receive a military training invitation letter, raise a sword, and fight on the front line.
• "I hope you have at least a little talent, then finance the Hersen Empire and go to the Magic Academy. Instead of being a mortal waiting for an invitation letter to go to war," Kora Wang hissed to Kiran as her hands vigorously cleaned the yard.
• Kora Wang was anxious. Kiran's 11-year-old is the time that determines whether he becomes elected, or waits for the time to get older and accept a military invitation.
• Kiran doubted.
• "But, isn't our family not from the descendants of the Charm Member, right?
• I felt that I would not be selected, being a talented child of magic who lived comfortably behind the walls of the academy, the school I heard was only occupied by spoiled noble children," Kiran said skeptically. He then ran away to find his friends. Kiran thinks she is still very young. There are many opportunities in the future.
• Kora Wang desperately wants Kiran to at least be given the chance to become a student at the Magic Academy, even though she knows, the descendants of her own family, as well as her husband's descendants - no one has ever been called an Enchantment expert. But Kora didn't give up hope. She desperately wants Kiran to live a better life – someday!
• Like a mother on the Ayax Continent, Kora diligently knelt at the Temple and asked for the blessing of the God Tempestia - the God who became the lord of the people of Qingchang Country, asking for blessings on Kiran Wang, after her two children were gone. But that was then. Now Kora never visits the Temple again. Her heart has been barren since the death of his two children, plus Arhun Wang's pain.
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• Kiran runs fast to meet three of his best friends.
• He was not unwilling to be called a child who possessed Enchantment talent and would later become an Enchantment Energy cultivator. Kiran secretly harbors a desire to become a famous Enchantment Magician. But he knows himself. Such a talent test will only bring disappointment to poor children like them.
• In addition to talent and bloodline, in this Ayax Continent, if one wanted to become an Enchantment Master, from an early age one already had to consume expensive resources that were only affordable for the wealthy nobles to buy. "Kneeling and praying, asking for the blessing of the God of Tempestia is not enough. Money and power are crutches," he thought.
• In Kiran's eyes, his mother Kora Wang's ideals were just like a hump longing for the moon - Kiran thought. He is mature-minded and accepts reality as it is.
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• Today Kiran plans to play with 3 of her best friends in the small town of Begonia. Kai, Ming, and Avena. Avena is the only woman among the 4 friends. They are all children of war victims, similar to Kiran.
• The playing habits of the four children are sometimes too brave by breaking existing rules. They often frolic in the Pine forest on the outskirts of the city. The Pine Forest is a forbidden forest of the Imperial Party, called the Whispering Forest.
• Why is the Pine Forest called the Forbidden Forest?
• It is said that behind the Hidden Forest are rows of hills and mountains, all magically created to border the Qingchang Empire with the Zolia Empire to the West. It was Hersen's Great Emperor, Emperor Oberon The Enchanter himself who turned the border into a magic-coated mountain range so that his two colonies could not exchange information.
• Not to mention the rumors that say that behind Mount Barisan there are hundreds of guards from the military, who with arrows in hand, their snipers are ready to roast anyone who tries to cross the territorial boundaries.
• Rumors that the military is guarding the border, that is only part of the news have not been frighteningly frightening. It is said that sorcerers, the Pyromancer Enchantments also participated in guarding the borders of the Magic Mountain Range. This Pyromancer's power can engulf anything with his magic fire. Indiscriminately they burn anyone who breaks the rules.
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• "Didn't we just play around on the edge of the pine forest instead of stepping into the interior of the forest?" The girl shouted in self-defense. His name is Avena.
• "And... Isn't this the same as not breaking the rules set by the Emperor?" Whenever Kiran warns them that they have violated the Empire's provisions, Avena fiercely denies them by playing around in the Whispering Pine Forest.
• "I'll stop talking to you, otherwise follow us frolicking around on the edge of the Pine Forest!" Aven's threat finally made Kiran surrender, she nodded her head forcefully.
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