Will was inside the train.
The train's of this world could travel at the top speed of 5000km /hr.
In the normal world it may have been impossible but as the world changed and gained mana, humans gained a new form of enery – Mana energy.
Mana was perhaps the cleanest source of energy leaving no waste products after its usage.
Further, amount of per unit energy it produced after being consumed was 1000 times more than the conventional energy sources of that time like coal, wind etc.
Moreover, the earth was covered with mana thus humans could get it very easily from anywhere.
But perhaps the topmost reason for switching over to mana as energy was because it was unlimited.
Yes unlimited. As soon as you would use mana as energy, new mana was generated in the world. Imagine it like a bucket with infinite space. No matter how much you take out from it, it'll still be the same quantity.
Thus this discovery led to humans rebuilding everything – planes,rails,cars , houses etc such that they could use mana.
'Hmm… My Divine ID card lets me use all forms of transportation for free… What a cheat. As it is I was low with money. Hehe' Will had a smug face while thinking all this, while the people around him after seeing his face were getting creeped out and maintaining a distance from him.
After some time the rail announcement system activated. "We have arrived at the last station of the A city."
"My stop came." While saying this Will stood up from his seat and exited the train.
Will looked around and the rail station was almost empty.
This was expected as this area was at the edge of A city.
This was the area where the poor lived. It was expected that when the train station would be made here , this area too would grow but it was all a dream.
Thus the only amenity this area had was the train. Nothing else.
Will started walking towards the residential areas.
Wherever Will looked he only saw tents. No proper houses.
And perhaps this was right too. If someone would start making a house here, the people around him would think that he must have gained some money and hence the next day one would either find him robbed or worse, dead.
Hence everyone here only constructed tents.
Will kept on walking and reached the end of the residential area. A big forest was in front of him.
There was pin drop silence and once in a while the occasional sound of owls and other animals.
'Haha , such a clique setting I wrote for the artifact. Hmm as I think about it my whole book had many cliques.' he laughed at himself and then started walking inside the forest.
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It had already been half an hour since Will had entered the forest.
'Hmmm…. This should be the river I wrote about. Now I only have to move along it till I find that tree.'
For another 15 minutes he walked along the river.
Then around 20 m in his front he saw something peculiar. There were 7-8 trees without any leaves in his front but right at their edge another tree was with lush green leaves.
What was peculiar about this was that the species of this tree shedded its leaves in this season and hence those trees were without any leaves, but still one of those trees didn't follow this pattern.
'Bingo' he smiled and started running towards that tree.
Will touched the bark of that tree and smiled.
He then took out gloves from his dimensional ring.
Though he was too poor right now to even imagine owning a dimensional ring , but all the students at Divine were given one as an admission gift. This immediately reflected how rich and strong Divine as an academy was.
Will wore the climbing gloves and started climbing the tree.
Around halfway up he saw a hollow space in the tree.
He looked inside it. It was completely dark except one space that had some light in it.
He put his hand towards that area and felt something made of glasslike material there.
As soon as he touched it some writing came in his mind.
*Shard of mellow(1/4)
-consumable item(converts back to consumable item after death of owner)
Effect -
increases/decreases strength and speed to G level and locks it.
Mana increases to A level.*
'Here it is….. the shard of mellow'
He took it out and got down from the tree.
The world had seen many great mages with extraordinary strengths. There were many discussions and debates about which mage was stronger than which other mage, who would defeat whom in a fight but if someone would ask who was the greatest mage till now ?
Well then everyone would only get 1 name in their mind – Mellow.