33 Risen#re

I don't know if you'll understand, but what just happened, is impossible.

The script it records and guides the matriarchs and patriarchs of the Pendragon line, only the patriarchs and matriarchs it can't hold the words of anyone else.

The script appears before my mind once more and there I can see, it's right there clear as day, our whole conversation is there, I've read it before, but I just can't remember until it happens.

I had been taking note of his odd behaviour this entire time, and now I see why it's so reminiscent, it reminds me of myself he's bound to the script just like me.

But that should be impossible if two people could be bound to the script, I would have caught that old foggy, the previous matriarch my mentor and forced her to bear this burden with me, I'm sure my predecessors would have done the same to their old mentors.

As I look through the extract, I'm truly amazed, I thought the script was exasperated with me, but there are entire pages of it dedicated to cursing and insulting Lucian, at some point the script was even begging him and throwing a tantrum for him to follow it.

'No wonder his eyes are shut!'

It's right here in the script it keeps telling him to not look at me, to not look anywhere, but when I think of speaking to him about the script the script warns me against it.

That's when I remembered what Lucian said, everything has to go perfectly or everything will cease to be, and it's written here in the script.

'By the gods! Is this the reason the scripts seem like it suddenly has anxiety, is it leading everything to make sure that the whole universe as I know it doesn't vanish.'

'I fully believe in you script I will follow you to the end, yes if I follow the script good things will happen, and the universe not disappearing sounds like a very good thing,' so I tell myself, feeling a little nervous, my stomach has not churned so much since… well since I first got this crazy script.

I can't figure out how he is linked to the script but since the script shows me no indication to ask such a question I will follow its will.

'The script knows best.'

I read the most recent line of the script, 'It seems that it's starting to grow an ego, I'll have to fix that up when this whole crazy situation comes to an end.

As I look at his thoughtful face, I think that he's realised the same thing, we are both linked to the script, I can't believe that this crazy thing would be useful at a time like this, it drove my predecessors crazy, well all except the founder.

Arthur Pendragon he's the founder of my family, the one who journeyed with the great diviner Quaria and conquered the mortal plains. He wrote the script with the help of the mother of the six civilizations Quaria.

"Well then little child, it is time that I give you what I promised, I shall teach you the art of my world spell weaving," he told me and got up making his way into the shaded area.

"I'm a pugilist, casting spells, isn't exactly my speciality," I tell him.

Pugilist are a little different from the other two second accord classes, by that I mean that we don't dedicate our selves to the study of the laws, warlocks study the natures of the universe and use its laws to power their spells, and saints study the laws of weapons and martial arts.

Pugilist's however do not enhance their mind like the other two classes, we instead create a powerful body and infuse high levelled elements into our bodies.

The perk of this is that our growth in power can exceed all other classes, because if we happen to consume a high levelled element from the immortal realm, we'd be able to use realm breaking powers, of course the draw back would be that it consumes to much energy.

The other problem is that even with the best techniques we can only hold up to three elements in our body, I myself have only two, fire and earth, I'm waiting to find a powerful spatial energy to use as my third.

As a pugilist the focus of my path is to channel the world energy through the powerful body I created, and unleash the raw power of the high levelled elements on my enemies.

All of those sophisticated spells are meant for warlocks.

"Spell weaving is a sacred art of my home world, it's not difficult to learn, in fact so long as one can use the energy of the world they can use the art of spell weaving."

"The technique isn't anything revolutionary, however it has great uses to those of the first accord that are not mages, and in the second accord it's uses are only heightened in the hand of a pugilist for pugilist hold the most energy of all,"

"But the main reason that it is so good for a pugilist is because pugilist tend to lack in one area and that is long range attacks, a pugilist is most deadly when they are up close to their opponent, and well warlocks are slippery and saints are graceful in their movements, it makes it hard for a pugilist to contend with them."

He started to lecture me on the flaws of a pugilist, seriously if he wants to test out his theories I'll be more than happy to rough him up and show him how amazing a pugilist can be.

Spell weaving has only two requirements, energy and knowledge of the elements.

He slowly spread his arms out wide and brought them around in deliberately slow circles, I could tell that he was doing it like that to teach me.

"Fire is a form of energy, and so to is lightning," he said slowly and as he slowly began to move around twisting his body, in what seemed to be a kata form I saw it thousand upon thousands of little strands forming around his body.

They looked white like silk and spread all around him touching the atoms, and in those strands I could sense the fire and lightning he spoke of.

"With energy we can alter all things, we can reshape the universe as we see fit," he said confidently.

I focused my eyes, and looked at the atoms the threads held onto, it was just small particles of dust, mainly nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the threads touched the nucleus of the elements and released streams of energy, completely rearranging the composition of the elements.

The elements he just touched had all been turned into oxygen and he did it so effortlessly, I just watched him do nuclear transmutation with complete ease, he wasn't lying at all, all that he did was use raw energy, and if I watched him correctly he used his pugilist abilities to use the world energy instead of his own, it was simply ingenious.

"Composition of the elements and energy are key, however that is just the beginning."

"Under the influence of spell weaving the elements of nature do not exist, fire is simply energy, wind is merely the by product brought about by the change in temperature and pressure, water and earth are merely tools to be transmuted."

I watched as he created a thread that carried fire and another that carried the earth, and as the two threads came together, boiling hot magma spewed forth, creating a pool of lava in the woods.

Then I watched as thousands of threads spun around his arm, it was treads that carried fire but as he delivered a punch forward I heard the loud screech of howling wind, if crashed through trees and boulders and ripped the ground apart.

I was certain that I sensed fire in those threads, yet I saw only wind, 'Yes that was what he meant when he said that wind was a product of heat and pressure, many threads of fire created heat which in turn created pressure,' I thought excitedly, it was so simple it was brilliant.

As a broken tree fell into the pool of lava and slowly sizzled away I looked at Lucian with wonder in my eyes, truly the script has come in useful for the first time since its creation.

Then I could feel the quality of water in the threads and fire as well, then a blade of pressurized water cut through stone and continued deep underground.

He had just done something that only those that study laws or mages who have memorised spells could do, yet he only used the threads, however the thing that truly stood out to me was the transmutation.

Then he stopped and began to lecture me on the problems about spell weaving, which quickly dashed my hopes for the uses of transmutation.

"Transmutation is the first ability that spell weaving grants, however it only works to create ordinary elements, like oxygen, tungsten, silver, etc… however it cannot create graded elements like mithril, orichalcum, charimit…etc."

"It's probably because while the plain enables spell weaving it doesn't support it, I imagine that in some past iteration of the plain, it was discovered and deemed useless to further the development of the plain," Lucian said thoughtfully more so to himself.

"The other draw back is that while it can imitate the effects of laws, it can't imitate high level elements, this is why it is especially useful for pugilists who have high level elements within their body."

And so my training began, and for the next three years we remained there training, I had to admit he made the art of spell weaving look easy, but three years later I mastered the new art.

And so came the time for our farewell.