It was the second day of spring that day and a miracle happened throughout East and West continents. Ebraham studied the mythical phenomenon that only occurred in half of the world.
Colourful flowers filled the land of Northern Hemisphere. Be it the ground, the trees, the lakes and the mountains, everywhere was filled with vibrant fresh blossoms. Every flower magically bloomed at the same time as if influenced by something.
In spite of this beautiful scenery that spanned beyond the horizon, it did not reach the level of miracle by Ebraham's standard. The miracle that Ebraham referred to was the one that inconspicuously occurring amongst the flowers.
Sporadically scattered around the wide continents, seemingly normal-looking flowers were growing and blooming just like the other flowers beside them. However, there was a secret about these flowers. That was they secretly absorbed a large amount of the magical energy in the surrounding.
Individually, it might be dismissed as magic herbs growing or other trivia science, but collectively and simultaneously it was a prologue to a major event that will be happening in the world.
Obviously, this event was very hard to perceive even by the most sensitive ancient primordial beast. Without his Domain collecting data for every second, even Ebraham might missed the event happening.
The bountiful magical energy was condensed in the tiny flower bud that strangely did not burst from the pressure. The flower bud grew bigger as the amount of magical energy absorbed increased.
In less than an hour, one after the other, the flower grew from tiny flower bud into matured fully-bloomed beautiful flower, appearing really majestic. The flower petals radiantly opened and revealed its content.
In each flower, there was a tiny humanoid figure sleeping in fetal position. It slowly roused from its slumber while cutely let out a yawn. It stood up stretching and checked its surrounding.
When the humanoid figure stood up, its four wings also unfurled behind it. The beautiful wings were translucent and much bigger than its body. When the tiny figure flapped its wings, it lit up by the sunlight, creating sparkling afterimage. The tiny figure flapped its wings and flew in a carefree way.
Yes, the tiny humanoid figure was a fairy. A fairy born from the spring blossoms.
And it was not just one, more than a thousand were born world-wide from the flowers while remained hidden from the eyes of the world's inhabitants.
"Fairies! There are fairies in this world too. It seems my luck isn't bad at all. I can unravel the mystery of fairies this time."
Ebraham was once again shocked by what he had seen in this world. Surely the world is big. There was no end to the mystery of the world. Even with this extended life, Ebraham might only decipher a tiny portion of it.
In Ebraham's previous world, fairy also existed but out of reach from human civilization. The chance to encounter a fairy was very slim.
In his one and a half century life time, Ebraham only chanced upon a fairy once. Compare to meeting an Ancient Dragon more than trice, only meeting fairy once showed that how rare a fairy is.
The general understanding about fairy was that it was an exotic mythical life form that possessed intelligent of a child, therefore had a childish temperament.
The second general understanding about fairy was that it sadly had a very short life span. Born from the flower of spring and died at the frost of winter. That is how short a life of a fairy.
Although its short life span might be one of the reason humans rarely encounter a fairy, that was not the main reason fairy was very rare. The main reason it was rare was because of the third general understanding… or to be precise a myth about fairy.
It was said that if one consumed a fairy, they would experience leaps and bounds breakthrough and could reach the pinnacle in a short period of time. From a trash to an Overlord. Cleanse one body from impurity. Evolve to a higher being. There were plenty of wonderous myth about the effect of consuming a fairy.
However, there was no written records about such peculiar event or people confessed of consuming a fairy, so the myth remains a myth.
Even then, that did not stop people from seeking it. The allure of a short cut was too tempting that many people with power, mostly nobles would conduct an expedition at least once in their life time just to seek a fairy in the wild. They would also promise a rich bounty if anyone ever find one and would buy it at a high price.
A fairy became a highly-demanded treasure and this had moved adventurous people to seek for it regardless of the danger. It was the definition of high-risk high rewards.
Consequently, fairy became deeply hidden from the world.
And now, in this primal world, the exotic and hard-to-come-by fairy was numbered to more than one thousand.
"'Born from the flower of spring and died at the frost of winter'. So, the first part of the saying was true after all."
This was the first time Ebraham had ever witnessed the birth of fairy. Ebraham made sure that the data collected was precisely engraved in the Archive. He would study it later for better understanding of the process.
Whilst the flowers that bore the fairies bloomed, something else also bloomed a few meters to their surroundings with the flower as the focal point. Suddenly, the area that they germinated became hidden from the onlooker's eye. And the scene when the fairies born were also hidden from normal eye sight.
Knowing that they were hidden from the outside world, the fairies happily made a few spins without any fear. They knew their own value, but with the help of concealment, the difficulty of finding them was as high as their value.
Ebraham noticed the concealment around the flowers and its capability. Despite the fact that he knew it, seeing that a near Beyond-Dragon-Level ancient primordial beast just casually passed the area without noticing the fairy was very surprising. This proved that the capability of the area concealment was not simple.
The area concealment was not the same level as magic technique created by human. It was much simpler but beyond that. The intention was very basic, but the result of it was very complex. This was not magic technique instead a magical phenomenon created by nature.
"Certainly, fairy is a very mysterious creature"
While another mystery about fairy was uncovered, Ebraham also knew how valuable the discovery about the area concealment was to magic users. As a magical phenomenon created by nature, it is the origin of magic. By studying it, Ebraham might expand the Theory of Magic to another level. There was limitless potential to be discovered.
Focusing back to the fairies, unlike the new-born of other creatures, the fairies that were just brought into this world could already move around in a lively manner. They also seemed to have certain level of understanding about the world without anyone teaching them, seeming able to identified what is what at a glance.
When they were checking their surroundings, the fairies stayed inside the area concealment yet they kept on looking at a certain direction. They were curious and kept on looking at the empty space as if seeing unseen things.
They wanted to go towards that direction, but was conflicted of leaving the safe zone and venture to the unknown. Nonetheless, many of them headed towards the direction while the remaining few lagged behind after a long contemplation.
Each one of them was far apart from each other, yet they still came into the same conclusion to go in that direction without consulting anyone.
Needless to say, this action was not missed by Ebraham. Although he did not know the exact location of which the fairies were heading to, he could make an approximate guess from the general direction that the fairies were going. Since he could observe the whole world, the movement pattern of the fairies could be seen.
The locations that the fairies were heading to might be the four Blood Obsidian pillars nearest to them. And since it was so obvious, his guess might be right.
When the fairy was born… or when the flower that bore the fairy, now named Fairy Bud, was growing, it grew at a random location throughout the two continents. It was bound to be that some of its germination location was near to the habitat of ancient primordial beast.
Ancient primordial beast was a magically sensitive creature, especially the hegemon of ancient primordial beast, although it could not bypass the area concealment, it could sense the changes of magical energy in the air from miles away.
Immediately after the fairies left the area concealment, hegemon and nearby ancient primordial beasts sensed large changes of magical energy in the atmosphere and went to check what was going on.
The weaker ancient primordial beasts did not catch on anything. But the stronger and sharper ancient primordial beasts sensed the presence of fairy. So, they chase after the fairies.
As a mythical creature born from the nature, fairy was also a magically sensitive creature. They even possessed higher magical sensitivity than ancient primordial beasts. When they were born, the fairies noticed the magical energy of the world was shifting towards certain direction like a river flowing to the sea.
Since magical energy was very closely related to their existence, the fairies wanted to know the source of this strange occurrence. So, they bravely left their precious Flower Bud and followed the trail of magical energy towards its final destination.
The fairies had two racial traits which were fast movement and concealment. However, the skills were mutually exclusive, so it could not be used at the same time. When they were on their long journey, the fairies move as fast as wind and traversed the continent in no time, leaving a trail of light. When they sense danger, they stopped and concealed their magical energy hiding it from the perception of its enemy. That was how they defend themselves against danger.
Despite the fact that the fairies could fly at a fast speed and concealed themselves from danger, they still could not overrun the hegemons of ancient primordial beasts that could move at the speed of sound and possess myriad of skills.
A few of the fairies had fallen in the jaws of ancient primordial beasts.
After devouring a fairy, the ancient primordial beasts that was already powerful suddenly became much stronger. They evolved into higher bloodline as their Beast Core breakthrough to higher rank.
When Ebraham saw this, he immediately knew it was not a good sign. Other than their physical prowess, the ancient primordial beasts' ability to learn and manipulate magic was already troublesome to deal with, now if they became stronger and unlocked their mind palace for complex thinking, humanity could not place a footing in this world.