Iode was excited seeing the welcome signboard at the entrance of the city, his heart was throbbing wildly in explicit happiness getting back to his hometown for months, but he had a question at his mind, how were they able to get to Illusium city within just a day period, normally, it should take about three days from Rohanes academy to Illusium city and two days at minimum.
Iode looked out of the window and curiously asked the couch man
"Sir, how did we get here so fast, we should spend at least two days and at most three on our way here, what kind of magic did you use".
"Oh that's because the horses are phantoms, made by the Red tower". The couch man replied.
"Whao, incredible! How come I didn't even notice nor feel it?". Iode asked eagerly.
"I don't know much about it, I'm just your average couch man, anyways, anything for us successor?". The couch man said stretching out his hand to Iode.
Iode blinked at the couch man twice before he sighed.
"Sigh, fine take this". Iode said as he reached out to his pockets and gave the couch man a gold coin.
The couch man smiled cheerfully at the generous gesture, he happily rode forward. Iode on the other hand sat in the carriage seemingly inspecting it, still amazed by the fact that he was riding a phantom vehicle.
Looking at the horses which are now red like holograms, Iode thought of Igor's autobiography, there are some things he learned, one being the Dark magicians. In history books and words of mouth passed from generation to generation, very little is said about them and what he has read so far, Igor didn't describe them to the detail.
But one thing is clear, the kingdom of Theron _ now Magical nation knew about them and their activities and tried to stop them but failed, infact, the dark magicians sabotaged the mechanism made by the authorities of kingdom to stop them, and turned it into a medium for unparalleled communication to the underworld but it also mutated every persons into... The present magical nation.
It was as clear as day who sabotaged the original five formulas for reverse engineering the magic dust even though Igor is yet to say it fully _ explicitly, and created the first Kaiju called the Behemoth.
It became quite obvious to Iode that each tribe of the magical nation purposely hid the affairs of the dark magicians probably because of their conduct of using living people as sacrifices. They are the dark side of history the authorities doesn't want the people to know about, to the extent that they were just citations.
For now, Iode stopped when the leaders of the dark magicians confronted the original five, when he gets less busy, he'll continue reading Igor's journey.
'the wizarding five, what a conspicuous and glaring name for a group of wizards, not like the name original five is any better but it's acceptable considering the fact that they were stronger than other wizards at the time'. Iode thought.
The carriage was going to Iode's home in Illusium city, the people were mesmerized at the phantom horses, they kept staring at them because it is a rear sight even as an harbor city. Iode looked at the people's mesmerized faces and couldn't help but have a small smile on his face, the city is just like he left it months ago.
'welcome home Iode '. He said in his mind.
Suddenly, water from the sea rose high in huge waves, obeying the tides, the wind and something else... Something humongous, a large aquatic creature.