The Celestial Land

Chapter 3: The Mage

Arlina and Elleste had been getting along the whole night, with Arlina excitedly telling Elleste about the whole knowledge regarding this world. Somehow, Elleste's wound also recover faster after she eat those food given by Arlina. She didn't know what was so special about it. Later, she was told that the fruit was the spirit fruit that contain a lot of nature energy to make recovery go faster. It worked for all races.

"This is the place for all races to train. I don't know what happened that all races are suddenly being summoned, but I already heard some rumors about the dark creatures, demons, and monsters races launching a war banner on us." Arlina said the last sentence quietly.

Elleste shivered inwardly as she heard the war part. She cursed her rotten luck yet again. She had just come here and now she was about to be tangled in the flames of war?

"What is the reason?" Elleste asked.

Arlina just blinked, then shook her head grimly. "I don't really know about the details. Perhaps, it was about the territory? They stated that they wanted the land in the Nothern Forest to belong to them."

Frowning, Elleste looked at Arlina, but she didn't say anything. At some point in the night, the two began to sleep, although the undead sleep less than human. They could also do daily activity with ease without afraid of getting burned by the sun.

Arlina also had told Elleste that this place was the mix of humans, undeads, and shifters to train. They allied themselves against the dark creatures, demons, and monsters. After all, the two sides could also be considered natural enemies.

The humans, undead, and shifters sometimes used the core crystals of dark creatures, demons, and monsters to ascend their stages and become more powerful. Similarly, the dark creatures, demons, and monsters also hunted the humans, undeads, and shifters as their flesh and organs were beneficial for them.

The alliance between humans, undead, and shifters was called Light Alliance while the other side was just called Dark Side.

Now that the two sides were in the verge of war was resounding everywhere, the situation was pretty chaotic. The Dark Side had begun to invade some humans villages and devouring them. Even those secluded villages couldn't escape them at all.

The situation wasn't any different from both sides overall. They were also some small scale battles over here and there. The member of Light Alliance sometimes also hunted those from Dark Side.

The s*******r between the two different sides had begun. Is there any right and wrong in this? Frowning slightly, Elleste pondered. After a few moments, she just shook her head.

In her opinion. There was no right and wrong in this. Everything was done according to some people's interest. Both sides were engaged in s*******r, so none of them could be really blamed.

When Elleste went to sleep, Arlina was still waking up, she didn't really look tired at all. Instead she looked more fresh than ever. Though the sun was unable to hurt the undeads, the night atmosphere was better for them.

Elleste wake up in the morning, with Arlina was still asleep. However, a few minutes after Elleste waking up, Arlina suddenly opened her eyes.

Elleste looked at Arlina who was still as beautiful as ever even after she had just woken up. Then, she just sighed. Her own hair looked like a bird nest just now. Maybe, this was the difference between someone from modern world and someone from magical fantasy world. They are literally worlds apart.

"Did you sleep well?" Elleste no longer felt bothered by the creepy vibes that Arlina sometimes gave off. She couldn't judge too soon, but she found that Arlina was a rather friendly person and easy to get along with. Despite her somehow unexplicable grim appearance, she looked rather cheerful.

Elleste just smiled and nodded.

"Is your injury already alright?" Arlina looked at the bandage in Elleste's head worriedly. "If your head still feel sore and dizzy, you don't need to come to the training today."

Elleste touched her bandaged head and was startled for a moment. She, again marveled the fast recovery in this world. Elleste had heard that some healer had casted healing magic and apply some medicine to her. But still, it was just a day, and the dizziness from being traumatized by yesterday event still hadn't go away.

She looked at Arlina and shook her head, answering honesty. "I still feel rather dizzy."

"Just continue to lie down here and rest then, I will bring you the food. Perhaps, you would've recovered in afternoon." Arlina said. She exited their room to fetch some food.

Arlina took the time to fully marvel her surroundings. This room wasn't that wide, it it looked neat. The whole thing was made from wood, even the bed was also made from strangely softer and comfortable kind of wood. Elleste felt like she was truly living in the nature by staying here. It really refreshing, so different from the polluted air from modern world.

Elleste really hoped that she way gain some chance of living here. As for the war... the only thing she could do was getting stonger so that she had higher chance to survive.

Arlina had also told her that all humans were required to take a profession so that the chance of their side winning would be high. After all, there were some humans who lived in secluded place and away from other races. They lived normally as ordinary humans without professions, forming tribes. It was the same for undeads and shifters.

What really interest Elleste was the mage profession. The first person she met in this world was a mage after all.  She may could learn some skills to protect herself by being a mage, though she didn't really know that she had the talent for it. Being a mage required talent and how high someone talent is was determined by how much nature energy their body can hold.

There are a lot kinds of nature energy. They can be earth, fire, or wood in form of energy that isn't easily being seen by n***d eye. Mage spells gather those energy and mixed it so that it can be used to attack or defend. The amount of nature energy required for each spells are also differerent. It was all according to the how high and powerful that kind of the spell was.

She knew that each person was going to be tested to find the suitable profession for them. Elleste was determined to embark on the journey of being a mage.

The creak of the door brought Elleste out of her daydream. Arlina entered their room, bringing a tray with her. She handed it to Elleste, who took the tray with a look of gratitude. "Thank you."

Arlina just nodded. "Since you are still feeling dizzy, you can rest for a while. In the afternoon, how about I am bringing you to take a look at humans' training ground? You may check about those training beforehand."

Elleste pondered about it for a while, then just nodded. She also wanted to know about all of those humans here. After all, the only person she knew in this place was just Arlina and she was of different race at that.

Arlina looked at Elleste for a while and then pondered. After that, she walked toward the door and said to Elleste. "I am going to attend the daily training training right now. You can just rest here."

After Arlina was gone, Elleste took a look at the tray before her. This time, the menu wasn't noddles, but a meat. There were also some kind of colorful fruits just like last night.

Elleste stared at the meat and wondered what kind of meat beast was it. Is this some demonic beast and dark creatures that they spoke of? After all, they said that the crystal cores were really beneficial for them. So, it wasn't a wonder that the meat, though wouldn't be as good, would still be somewhat useful.

She quickly eat the food on the tray. She noticed the different right away, and the feeling was almost magical. Her body feel more refreshed and her dizzines had lessened quite a lot. After a few moment, the food on the tray were throughly gone, being transferred into her stomatch.

Elleste smilef happily, maybe living in this world wasn't that bad. After thinking for a while, she suddenly raised her eyebrow.

Elleste noticed that the place had gone much quieter than before. She had heard quite some noise from outside. Is that probably from those people preparing to go into training? Elleste just realized that she hadn't gone out at all the whole time. Last night, she only saw the dark scenery outside through the slightly ajar small window on the other side of the room.

Tentatively getting up from the bed, Elleste stabilized her footing foe a while, then she slowly walked towards the window and opened it. The sight that greeted her was really mesmerizing.

There were a lot of wood cabins like hers and Alina's outside. They scrambled around everyhere in an unorderly manner. Though it made them looked more natural. Colorful trees with strange fruit grew everywhere. There was also some big trees that being used as living cabin.

The tree log was big enough for someone to live there. Strangely, the tree didn't die though. It continue to flourish, majestically towering around and spreading its green and wide leaves everywhere.

"You don't go into the training ground?" A sudden voice startled Elleste that she almost jumped up.