After half an hour, the airship was finally landing on a giant leaf from the tree.
And coming out of the airship, Kai saw that a chubby boy with red hair of about his age was coming panting towards the airship, his face was full of beads of sweat running down.
"Grandfather! You finally came back, give me 80 bucks, please" said the boy with pleading eyes.
Looking at the boy, Gates gave him an angry look "Gordon, you have to stop spending money on the shitty food you buy! Look at you, almost falling to the floor because of all that fat!"
"But grandfather, the food is very good, you should eat too, but you refuse ..." said Gordon with his head down.
Looking at his grandson, Gates sighed, he knew he couldn't do anything, as a child Gordon loved to eat hamburgers, pizza and other such foods, although he knew he would hurt the boy in the future when he became one. Looter, it was better to see him happy even though he wasn't really his grandson.
12 years ago he had found the boy alone in a house that was on an island ravaged by monsters, and when he asked what his name was, the boy just sobbed: "Daddy, mommy, sister" and pointed to a certain point from the house that there were 3 dismembered bodies with the missing head, it seemed that the parents hid the boy and sacrificed themselves with the older sister.
As time went by, with the boy seeing hundreds of new things, he was forgetting what happened to the family when he was only 2 years old.
"Okay, say hello to Mr. Airon and his son Kai, Kai is new to Aswordia, so later on you will walk with him and take him out to eat too" said Gates giving Gordon a $ 100 bill.
Looking at the $ 100 bill, Gordon quickly approached Kai and pulled him "Come on Kai, I'll take you to the biggest restaurant in the district! You'll love the food they serve there, oh yeah, your name is just Kai ? " Gordon said as he looked at Kai.
"It's just Kai ...--".
"It's Kai Sirith" Airon's voice came abruptly.
Gates looked at Airon strangely, he knew that was not his last name but after thinking a little he understood.
"Ah, Kai Sirith ... Kai Sirith, Sounds good, it will be successful at the Arcana Academy, mine is Gordon Dagor, now let's go." Gordon said going with Kai to a large door in the bark of the tree.
"Dad...?" Said Kai looking at his father, his last name was not Sirith.
"Go on, remember it's Sirith, you always forget." Airon said with a smile on his face, but his gaze was stern.
Knowing by the look of his father that he couldn't argue, he just followed Gordon to the giant wooden door.
"Gordon Dagor" said Gordon with his hand on the door.
After he said that, automatically the door started to open with small dots of green lights around it, looking like dancing fireflies.
When he saw the door open magically, he wondered if it was the work of a person with some element, it was something very mystical to see.
Gordon saw that Kai had an interested face and knew that he didn't know what that was, so he said "This giant tree is magical, if the Looter who planted the tree arrives here once a month and injects a lot of his energy elementary wood, it can do many things that the owner wants, this is just one of them, and that's why a tree looks and doesn't look like a tree, it's modified to do these things "
"Uhm ...? What is a Looter?" Kai didn't know what that was and seemed even more interested.
Entering a dark wooden elevator with Kai, Gordon said in surprise "Don't you even know that? Your parents are really ignorant ... Well, Looters are those who strive to raise the level of their Orbis, they can raise the level of the your Orbis killing monsters and absorbing their Orbis, it can also absorb from other people but the Kingdom prohibited this practice several years ago, and whoever did that would be executed, that was to prevent carnage in the Kingdom, of course there are people who do this but they are seriously hunted by Kingdom authorities. "
Kai listened carefully to what he said, it seems that when he got into his Orbis he could be considered a spoiler.
"Hey, Gordon ... what's your element?" Said Kai curious.
"Mine? It's Fire! Hehe, of the 4 basic elements he is the most difficult to get at birth, so I can be considered a genius hehe" Gordon spoke proudly.
"And yours?" He asked looking at Kai.
"Mine ... Well ... I don't know, I didn't get inside my Orbis" Kai said with his head down.
Hearing what he said, Gordon was quite shocked "What? You haven't entered yet? You're screwed man! You should have entered long ago to be able to keep your Orbis stable and get used to your element"
Kai heard what he said and was a little sad, his parents forbade him to enter his Orbis and he didn't even know why ...
"Don't get down, when you enter the Academy you can train and get used to your element faster and keep your Orbis stable, you just have to work hard hehe" said Gordon giving Kai a smile.
"Okay, no problem, let's go down soon, I'm curious to know what Aswordia is like" said Kai leaving the matter aside.
"Ok" He nodded, "First floor" right after he said that the elevator started to go down.
10 minutes later, the elevator door opened and the two of them met in a huge area totally mystical and ecological, hundreds of people were pacing this area.
Looking at the area in front of him, Kai was impressed with the view, it was extremely beautiful.
"Come on Kai, don't stand there dumbfounded in the elevator, let's go out and go to the restaurant to eat" said Gordon, he was really hungry.
"Ah, ok" said Kai who was still admiring the place.
The elevator they left was very close to the exit, so soon they left the giant tree and found themselves in a park full of trees, there were people sitting under trees reading books, talking, laughing and dating in various places in the park.
"The restaurant is close by, stop looking around and let's go" Gordon was already impatient with Kai who was constantly looking around.
Minutes later they arrived at a fast food and went in and sat at an unoccupied table.
"Hey, will you want what Kai? Look at the menu and just click on what you want and they will bring it to us"
"Okay, let me see ..." Kai took the menu and visualized what was on it, although he didn't know what those things tasted like he would choose the most visually pleasing.
After a moment, Kai ended up choosing something called Siri's Burger and a drink called Pebsi.
And Gordon chose hot dogs, chips and a coke.
A few seconds later their request came with a dwarf elf.
Seeing a dwarf elf arriving with requests, Kai was surprised, not because he was an elf, but because he was a dwarf, if it weren't for the fact that his face didn't look anything like an elven child, he would think he was a child.
"Here is your request," said the elf.
"Hehe, thanks Tom" said Gordon with his eyes shining at the food on the table.
"You're welcome, whale" said Tom when he left quickly.
"What? Come back here, your smurf garden dwarf!" Gordon got up to run after him but saw that he had already entered the kitchen, so he went back to his seat muttering "What a motherfucker ..."
Kai looked at the two and just laughed without commenting.
Since the food was already on the table, Kai took the crab burger and prepared to try it.
"Hey, look at the holographic screen!" A restaurant customer sitting by Kai's table shouted.
Immediately everyone looked in the direction of the holographic screen and was shocked, thousands of monsters were in the sea swimming furiously towards an island, there were so many monsters that they just passed by the island that it disappeared quickly from the map.
When Kai looked at the screen, he was surprised but soon became desperate, the next island that was in the path of the tide of monsters was one he knew - it was Ekta Island, it was where his mother was at the moment.
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Author's note: Imagine a park full of trees and a few sculptures with the giant tree in the middle ;)