SILENCE AFTER THE GODS

Chapter 6 — Knowledge versus Duty

While Zian went to kill the last two strangers, an unusual presence crossed the arid air of the cursed desert. The wind, which until then carried only sand and silence, suddenly got confused, as if frightened.

A figure appeared in the distance. She didn't walk. She was sliding.

The grains of sand froze under his steps. The desert itself seemed to bow in its path.

An elf.

A magician.

A legend.

Zian stopped sharply, his eyes shrinking like two steel blades. The world had never taught him to hesitate. Yet he raised his head slowly, as if an entity of the same rank had just entered his territory.

- "What are you doing in my territory? He asked in a voice as sharp as the north wind.

The elf did not answer right away. She looked him straight in the eye. She was neither afraid nor hated. Her voice, when she spoke, was calm, of inhuman precision.

- "I am here to look for a disciple from another world. "

She paused.

- "I must transmit the magic to him... before this world swallows it. "

Zian stared at her. His look, already cold, became icy. A kind of sacred contempt vibrated in his posture. He didn't move, but the atmosphere changed around him.

- "You think that..." he said, as if he was spitting an impurity. "...is an excuse? "

The elf inhaled lightly.

- "I know that you, the Exorcists, never give up your duty. But I came to take it... by force, if necessary. "

His voice darkens. The air trembled around her. It was no longer a simple statement.

It was a challenge.

Zian doesn't react. Not immediately. But his fingers were already slightly tense. A vibrant tension escaped from him, subtle, imperceptible for the weak... but overwhelming for those able to perceive it.

A breath of death.

But she remained straight. Impassive.

He hadn't seen anything yet.

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[Open Status: Elaria]

• Name: Elaria

• Titles:

• The last great mage

Description: When everyone focussed on the raw power of their unique ability, there was a woman. A woman who sought to understand all forms of magic, large or small, ancient or forgotten, for millennia.

Effect: Can invoke any spell, whether it is old, lost or unknown to the present.

• The Legendary Elaria

Description: She had no exceptional talent. Nothing innate. Just a thirst. A devouring thirst for knowledge. This thirst has crossed the centuries. And this girl... has become the elf that we respect as much as we fear her.

Effect: His name is known in all worlds. It inspires reverence, respect, or terror.

• Species: Elf

Description: When the angels began to disappear, the gods shaped an immortal race from angel blood, so that it would never die out.

Effect: Life expectancy: 100,000 years.

• Age: 1000+

• Physical description:

• Hair: Pure silver

• Eyes: Emerald green - hypnotic, huge, antique.

• Unique Ability: The thirst for knowledge

Description: When the gods shaped this world, they forgot one thing: the thirst for knowledge. For fear of what it might cause. But the thirst for knowledge is embodied in an Elaria.

Level: 30 (elected)

• Capabilities acquired:

Acquired sleeping abilities: Understand 5x faster than others

Acquired awakening skills: Understand the origin of anything studied 10× faster

Acquired object: transferrable memory

Description: when the first human descended from heaven go to earth the first human has the knowledge of everything the name of things he sought an idea to transmit this knowledge without losing it, he created object called transferring memory

Capacity: it can be great at any knowledgable, without ever getting lost if it is recited in front of this box called transferring memory

Acquired master skills: See the defects of each thing seen.

Style: be both the teacher and the student

Description: this unique style Elaria allows her to learn from her students when he learns from her this style allows the unique ability the thirst for knowledge to have no limit to learn.

Capacity: allows Elaria to learn my when his students do not want the step has only one condition that he is a teacher and a student.

Acquired elected capacities: everything it creates 25× more effectively

Unique Sword: Thief of Experiments

Description: this sword is forged in the underworld for the sons of demon kings with his blood to create a sword that he takes to steal the enemy combat experience to become more powerful possibility.

Ability: Steal a randomised experiment

• Mission: To reach level 40, she must create and improve perfected magical items with her elected ability ( 378,835 / 1,000,000)

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Zian too step back.

Not on fear.

Respect for the fight to come.

- "You are one of those who think that magic can save this world. "

- "And you, you are one of those who believe that it must be purged. "

They looked at each other. Two visions. Two philosophies. Two entities born of a ruined world.

She, the living memory of ancient wonders.

He, the sacred sword that cuts the anomalies.

- "You don't understand what I came for, Zian. "

- "And you, you don't understand what I'm ready to do to prevent it. "

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The fight began.

Zian melted on her with inhuman speed, thanks to his blood of Yao half-peacon.

Description: There was an ancient and mysterious species that had refined avian characteristics, but was neither completely a fox nor completely a beast-man. They were called the Yao half-peacons, renowned for their supernatural grace and power.

Zian leashed like a bolt of lightning, then used his unique ability:

Acquired object: size bag

Description: the bag was once a bag a demon to make the body of the victim

To eat it later.

Capacity: an infinite dry or little to transport brings nothing except the living

With his bag dimensions he came out a personal spear appeared in his hands in a heartbeat. He sent it like a death cry.

But Elaria, without backing down, activated her title: The last great magician.

She whispered an incantation lost for 4000 years, in a language forgotten even by the gods.

Thanks to its title The Last Great Magician

Effect.: Can invoke any spell, whether old, lost or unknown to the present. She didn't depend on mana. His title alone was enough.

She invoked a spell of slowing down time... then she made her spell more powerful thanks to her unique ability, the thirst for knowledge Acquired elected abilities: everything she creates 25× more effectively.

The whole world stopped.

Zian, at the peak of his momentum, could no longer move. Even his thoughts seemed frozen. Sand suspended in the air, distorted light, absolute silence.

The desert itself held its breath.

Zian said to himself:

— "How... is it possible? Such a gap between our levels? The world always considered me a genius. But there... there is such a chasm between the two of us. "

Elaria approached slowly, her steps leaving trails of light.

— "You're really talented. At 16, you already have this power. When I was your age, I was just an ordinary elf. "

She stopped in front of him.

- "If you had chosen another path, you could have surpassed me one day. "

- "But you wasted your talent to become... an Exorcist. "

Zian clenched his teeth. Inside, he said to himself

- "I'm doing this so that the mistake of the past is not repeated yet"

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And in the distance, in another breath of the world, Ken and Ashen, ignorant of this duel of entities, continued on their way...

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End of Chapter