The entrance stretched wide, a rugged mouth of stone with edges that seemed to be pulled in every direction, as if chaos itself had shaped its form.
Inside, darkness swirled like ink in water, giving glimpses of the uneven path ahead. The walls bore streaks of vibrant patterns, mixing colors in a way that didn't seem to follow any rules—blues mixing with reds, greens with shades that had no name.
As Rael stepped further, the ground felt like a puzzle of rocks and stones, as if it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. With each step, his footfalls echoed through the cave, making the surroundings seem alive with movement.
In the midst of this chaos, faint lights flickered and danced, casting wobbly shapes on the cave's walls. It was as if the cave held fragments of some secret magic, letting them play in the shadows.
Deeper he went, and the cave's wild nature embraced him. Each step carried him further into the heart of this jumble of stone and mystery.
After walking in for more than 20 minutes Rael noticed that the chaotic patterns on the walls seemed to appear more and more often to the point where the walls are half-covered with it now .
After observing them more carefully, Rael felt that although they were chaotic, these patterns had a special magic that could absorb a person's soul if he looked at them for a long time . The magic was enough to even affect him .an intermediate apprentice .
After returning his gaze fearing that some kind of problem would happen he felt something inside him itching to return his sight to these patterns. You can only imagine what will ordinary people do if they entered the cave
" What a weird cave ! In all the books I have read I have not seen anything similar to these patterns. Even if many traps can affect someone like me I don't think these patterns are a trap they are like the patterns on the beasts outside .
But with that in mind, doesn't that mean that this cave has something to do with those strange beasts outside? It couldn't be the stomach of a giant beast, could it? But if so, where is his head? Wait don't tell me this is -
The sound of thousands of legs running interrupted Rael's thoughts . the sound echoed in the cave like an upcoming disaster.
There was nowhere to hide so Rael took out his daggers, one in his hand and the other in his mouth and cast darkness body and put an explosive fireball in hold .
As the beasts started to appear from the turn of the cave Rael waited patiently to To bring out the full potential of the spell . when the beasts in front were 7 meters away from Rael. He finally unleashed his spell.
After that, he started to back off and cast the explosive fireball. The sounds of explosions, the beasts' angry, anguished cries and mixed lights from the patterns on the walls form a bloody and chaotic painting .
With each step he took back and every group he killed with the explosive fireball more and more beasts were taking the place of the previous ones like an endless stream.
Fortunately, the beasts were only at the Intermediate apprentice stage It didn't help, though, to remove the tense expression on Rael's face .
"Where the fuck did all these beasts come from? How am I supposed to kill them all there is at least a thousand beast my soul will be exhausted before I even take down 200 hundred "
Rael began trying to think of a plan to get out of this situation, as the exit is impossible, as the entrance has already been closed with rocks .
As Rael thought about the entrance, he felt a flash of inspiration hit him .
" Of course, how did I not think of that? I can simply kill as many beasts as I can, and then I can block the path with rocks and rest. Then I can reopen the entrance and start again. I can crush these monsters slowly . " thought Rael .
After that, he stopped holding back And he began implementing his plan .
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10 hours later.
Rael was sitting on his knees on top of the corpse of a five-meter wolf. His dagger was stabbed directly into the beast's head. He was breathing roughly and completely covered in blood .
" Finally , the last fucking beast . 2316 fucking beasts . I'm feeling my whole body is about to be torn apart . "
Rael drew his dagger and sent an explosive fireball into the wall, opening a three-meter-deep hole . He entered and closed the hole with some rocks and directly fall asleep.
A few hours later .
Rael woke up feeling energetic after killing more than two thousand beasts The small enhancements accumulated until a qualitative transformation took place he felt himself much stronger than before.
But the feeling disappeared immediately after he smelled the scent of blood and sweat and the smell of rotting corpses of beasts .
" Let's leave this place first . The smell is unbearable here . " decided Rael .
With a kick, he removed the stones that covered the entrance and completed his exploration .
After around half an hour all the walls were completely covered in patterns and the itching feeling inside him became much stronger he even started to hear some whispers and sounds tempting him to look at the patterns.
After Rael found himself in this situation, he cast darkness body on himself. With the help of the spell, all the voices disappeared and he was once again left with only an itching feeling .
" I can't continuously cast the spell for more than 2 hours. that's mean I only have one hour left to discover the cave and then I should return or else I will be in danger as I don't think I can resist the temptation of these patterns. " thought Rael
With that thought in mind, he increased his speed of running .
After running for 20 minutes the once dark cave was now fully lit with lights coming out of the patterns.
The previous itching was now much stronger but it was still in Rael's limits.
After 30 minutes .
Rael was now walking as running became a hard task as the voices have returned and he needed to put all his will in resisting them . after walking a few other steps he noticed something abnormal . he saw something glowing with a golden color .
If it was on the walls it will be just another color among many but the difference was that the golden color was radiating from the ground. Upon noticing this, Rael slightly increased his speed and approached the source of the light
" Hmm? What is a skeleton doing here? " wondered Rael.
After approaching it, he realizes that the source of the light is a set of patterns on a skeleton .
Rael also noticed a book in the hands of the skeleton and he bent down to see what it was but the moment he took the book with his hand for some reason the sounds and whispers became much stronger to the point he almost lost his balance .
He quickly increased the elemental energy used to cast the darkness body to its maximum. After doing that he felt much better .
" What the hell is wrong with these sounds ? It's just a book you don't need to be so angry "
Even though Rael was mocking , he had a solemn expression on his face as he felt that he had finally reached what he wanted. He felt that the book in his hand contained answers to all the questions he had .
" I should leave quickly this place is very dangerous and given the previous attack that failed, the problems probably won't end here, " thought Rael
He put the book inside his ring, turned around and started running towards the entrance of the cave but as he took his first steps he heard the sounds of thousands of legs hitting the ground again .
Perhaps because Rael was close to the source, or because of the effect of the sounds, or because there were more beasts, but the sound of the footsteps was much stronger this time
" So this is your last card huh , good movement but unfortunately you don't learn from your lessons, do you ? I will just do what I did previously. "
Rael continued to run and from time to time he will cast an explosive fireball on the roof . but after doing that three times he felt his soul a bit tired so he stopped.
After running for an hour Rael now returned to
the place where the sounds were the weakest. he stopped casting darkness body as he felt that his soul need to rest and took out the books .
He was in a hurry previously but this time after looking closely at the book in his hand he noticed that many Many pages have degraded due to the effects of time .
" This book should be very old. the skeleton must belong to a strong magus too to stay in good condition after all this time "
he opened the first page and found a note with a signature at the end of it the note was written in the universal language of the Magus a language that he learned in the academy. But due to the lack of time, he wasn't that good at it .
" This is Draco Infernova's magic book. If you're reading this note, it means that you found my dead body . I'm dead and since no one picked up my corpse my plane Novaheim one of the strongest 10 planes in the universe fell with me too . "
Rael tried to continue reading but the words had letters that were erased and he needed to re-write the note and try to place each possible letter until he find the right word but even with only the first part he felt an urgent need to continue reading as the book contained something very important
After an hour he was finally able to read the full text .
the owner of this book is the disciple of one of the most powerful Magus in the universe his plane was attacked by what he called primal chaos. The power that surrounded the universe . The universe represents order and the primal chaos represent well chaos.
the chaos could affect any creature with a mutation Which makes them lose their rationality and turn them into monsters with only one goal to destroy. in return, it makes them stronger and fearless .
In the beginning, the higher-ups of the universe did not take the primordial chaos seriously, as it only affected some weak plane, so they considered it just an irrational force driven by a desire for destruction only. But what happened was unexpected, as the primordial chaos planted something like a seed in the source of this plane, and it passed undetected by placing these seeds from the weakest place on this plane, the Dark Forest.
When the higher-ups of this plane discovered this it was already too late to eradicate the seeds as it will damage the plane source, so they decided to kill all the mutant creatures and eradicate it slowly.
But this was their biggest mistake. They underestimated the horror of the Promidal Chaos.
In just a month almost one-tenth of the plane was affected.
In a year a terrifying battle was taking place between the forces of the universe on one side and the primordial chaos on the other .
the terrifying thing about primal chaos was the ability to spawn an endless number of monsters .
He was sent to secure something from the place where the primal chaos sent her seed . It was supposed to be a safe mission. Primal Chaos changed its location, but for some reason, he was attacked by a large number of powerful monsters. Despite being a powerful person on his own, he died.
Before his death, he wanted to pass on his legacy but he knew that it would be very difficult, so he left his magical book, and there was only one condition for obtaining it: not to be a monster .
He put all the things he learned in this book . he was called a disaster magus and it was a stage Rael didn't know how many times higher than a supreme magus.
As Rael was going to read the book he heard the sound of thousands of legs hitting the ground again