The Chronicles Of Rhaxtyx

"I feel something." (Rhaxtyx)

"What?"

Rhaxtyx looked towards the back of the cave. There was a wall where he looked so Angeline thought he was doing something stupid again. But Rhaxtyx was serious. He walked towards the back wall and began studying it. There was nothing on the surface of it. It looked like a regular cave wall, that's all. So, he began touching it. It was rough and seemed natural. But he could feel there was something wrong with that wall.

"Stay back. I'm going to try something." (Rhaxtyx)

"What are you doing Rex? It's just a regular cave wall."

"Oh yeah? Why don't you try using your mana? You just might feel it too."

"Really? Just let me try."

Angeline focused her mana towards the wall but she did not feel anything out of the ordinary like Rhaxtyx said.

"You must be tired because of all the running we've done. Just sleep, I'm sure-"

"No. There is something over there I'm sure of it. The mana is fluctuating ever so slightly. Stand back."

"What are you doing?"

{Blazing flames of the nether realm come forth!}

Firebolt exploded on the wall but there was nothing apart from scorch marks. Rhaxtyx lifted his eyebrow and fired again. But he got the same result.

"There must be a way."

"You are just hallucinating Rex. So please be quiet. I'm trying to sleep."

"Maybe if I used- Let's give it a try."

Rhaxtyx put his hands on the wall and closed his eyes to focus his mana. He pushed mana to his palms and willed so it would go into the wall. As he did this, he felt that there were some holes in the wall. He willed his mana in those holes and made his mana to move according to those holes. These walls were like channels and when Rhaxtyx opened his eyes, a blue magic formation appeared on the wall. This formation was according to the mana channels in the wall.

When Angeline saw this her chin dropped and her eyes were open with shock. She looked at Rhaxtyx, then the wall, then the magic circle.

"What the hell did you do?"

"I told you, I felt something. But I can't read this. Care to take a look?"

"I'm not a mage you know. I just know that this is a magic formation."

"Is that so? Then there must be something that is hidden. It was like this back there. Hmm, let's see if there are any differences here in the method."

Rhaxtyx channeled his mana to his hand and reached towards the formation. The formation flared and the whole cave started to shake. Pebbles fell from the ceiling and numerous cracks appeared on the walls. After a while the wall that magic formation appeared, collapsed and revealed a corridor behind.

"I knew it! I told you there was something."

The walls of this corridor were smooth, as if someone carved it. Rhaxtyx began walking in. Angeline was so shocked by this development that she failed to stop Rhaxtyx.

"Hmm, too smooth. Hand carved? Looks like someone was trying to hide something precious. Let's go deeper shall we?"

As he went deeper and deeper, as there was no light, it got darker and darker and after a point he could not see anything.

Angeline was looking at this dark corridor with surprise and alarm. She was waiting to hear from Rhaxtyx but when he didn' trespond for a while she became anxious and called for him.

"Rex? Rex!"

*Slash! Pow! Crack!*

"OOOWW! OW OW OW OW OW OW!"

"Rex! Are you alright!?"

"All clear! You can come now!"

After Rhaxtyx's confirmation Angeline dashed through the corridor. What she saw was Rhaxtyx with arrows and cuts everywhere. Even with this he gave a thumbs up and grinned like an idiot. It was a miracle he was still alive.

"Hello!" (Rhaxtyx)

"Hello? Don't hello me! Can't you be more careful from now on? What happens if you get poisoned or something! Just because you cannot die doesn't mean these kinds of things don't affect you!"

"It's okay. I'm not dead so it's fine right?"

"I don't want to carry you around!"

"Relax! I'll be fine."

"Haah. You and your infinite confidence. So? Did you find anything?"

"Apart from this lame c.h.e.s.t there's nothing."

"C.h.e.s.t? I'm pretty sure it is not just any 'lame' c.h.e.s.t. I think a powerful wizard wanted to hide something here. So before we do anything else, we should be careful and look around for more traps, especially magical ones. So be careful and do not touch-"

"Aah booring. If it was up to you, we would just sit around and do nothing. My way is more fu-CK"

Rhaxtyx pried open the c.h.e.s.t and with a flash of light, Angeline found him buried in the wall.

"What did I just say?"

"Ugh. My head. And my eyes."

"Come. I'll help you out. Hnng!"

Angeline pulled Rhaxtyx out of the wall and together they walked to the now open c.h.e.s.t. There still was light coming from inside. Rhaxtyx scratched his head and looked inside. The light was coming from a piece of paper. There were runes written on it and the paper itself was bronze colored.

"That's interesting."

As soon as he touched the paper, it broke into golden fragments of light and those fragments made their way towards his head through his hand. His eyes began shining golden as these fragments entered his brain and after a couple of seconds, the shining stopped and, in his brain, there was a new knowledge. When he focused, he could see a dark fog like symbol appear within his consciousness. When Rhaxtyx focused on it, he immediately knew it was 'The Shadow Arts'.

"That's insteresting." (Rhaxtyx)

"What did I tell you about touching? *Sigh* So? What is it?"

"It's something called 'The Shadow Arts'. Do you have any idea what that is?"

"Not really no. From what I know, in the world of magic, domain of shadows is hard to control as it can drive people mad and draw them towards the darkness for obvious reasons. It must be something decent as it has a mysterious kind of vibe.

"Is it so great?"

"I think so yes. And you also mentioned it being an 'Art'. I heard a couple of things from my travels and they are quite rare. This place must have been made by a really powerful wizard, perhaps maybe an Arch Mage even."

"That's cool!"

"Don't be so excited yet. We still don't know if it is something good."

"I'll think I'll be fine. I mean I'm the God of Magic, I have affinity towards every kind of spell in the world!"

"Remember that you are on a different world with different 'laws of magic'?"

"Sh*t I forgot about that. But I still think it'll be fine."

"I'd say be careful with it but I feel it'll be unnecessary as you will still recklessly experiment with it."

"Ooh you know me quite well! I wonder if there are any other kinds of these things. "

"Don't have any high hopes. You are already lucky to find an art already. Do you think people give these out like they are smiles?"

"Aw maaan."

"Anyway. I think there are no other things as you said so I'm going to sleep. *Yawn* I feel like I can sleep for full two days."

"Okay you sleep. I'll wake you up if anything happens."

After Angline slept about an hour, Rhaxtyx closed his eyes and entered the realm of consciousness.

"Oi! Come out!"

"You called?" (Yggdrasil)

"Yeah. Got some questions. First of all: What are these arts?"

"Not even a 'How are you'? You break my heart."

"Anser my question!"

"Okay okay. We had something similar remember? It was called 'Ancestries'. This is the same concept it feels like. I pried upon it when it synthesized with you and I learned of one major difference from our 'Ancestries'. These things called 'Arts' are a lot harder to make and a lot harder to learn from. Not anyone can create one, as it requires a strong soul and a good level of understanding of the said concept, in this case shadows."

"I see. So I can use this Shadow Arts as long as I study it thoroughly?"

"I think so yes."

"That's awesome then! I have a means to fight now."

"I wonder what kind of concept shadow domain has in this world."

"Well we'll see soon enough I'm sure."

"Don't push yourself too hard or with your personality and level of recklessness, a city might be doomed."

"Oh. Why are you like this?"

"Oh? You ask THAT question to ME? Hah! I remember you causing the destruction of the Fifth Land because of, what was it, oh right; a 'Cute' Lizard'!"

"Hey! Sir John Ludwick Hans Grimlock Esq. has nothing to do with this okay!"

"You unleashed an ancient Blight Dragon and like it was not enough, you even blessed it! I had to cleanse the world for hundreds of years because of you!"

"Yea it was fun now that I remember it."

"Haah I hate you so much."