The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 25: Unexpected Encounter

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 500

Agility: 10, 000

Vitality: 2, 000

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 1, 000

Unique Skills:

-magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -fire magic -Fire Archmagic -illusion magic -water magic -light magic -nature magic -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God ]

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class normally ranked immediately under royalty and found in some societies that have a formal aristocracy. Nobility possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in society. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles.

Not only humans but Nobility also runs in the ranks of magical beast too. The higher the rank of a magical beast, the bigger their power is.

There are 8 Nobility ranks that exist in every kingdom.

Baron -> Viscount -> Count -> Marquis -> Duke -> King -> Emperor -> Great Emperor

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“You…” “You…”

Both of them point at each other and observe each other carefully, hoping that their memory is not mistaken.

“The haughty little girl from yesterday!”

“The snobby man from yesterday!”

Both of them said to each other.

“Wha- What do you mean by the haughty little girl? Aren’t you a little boy yourself?” She said angrily.

“And I’m not Haughty, it’s the show of dignity,” The girl said, while gracefully swayed her hair behind.

“To face something that you couldn’t handle proven your immaturity, that explains why you’re just a little girl. And my acts yesterday are not snobby but heroic, didn’t I save both of you and the kid? You should be grateful for me to step in.” Oz said coolly.

“Wha- How dare you… If I used my ma-“

Oz puts his index finger in front of his mouth.

“I think, if you don’t want people to discover your acts yesterday, we should just end the topic here.”

“Owen, I’ll visit your shop again next time,” Oz shortly said, and left.

“H-how dare him!” The girl’s escort angrily said.

“I’m so sorry princess, he’s new here, and it seems that he’s still unfamiliar with the identity of the big figures here. Please forgive him.” Owen said to the girl that turned out to be the princess of the Grandaria kingdom.

“It’s fine since he manages to gain the favor of Owen the iron heart, I think I’ll let it slide this time.” The princess said with a smile.

“That man, judging by his face, he doesn’t resemble people from Gracewield kingdom neither from Potterland kingdom. Did he came from a place farther?”

“Hm? It seems not only me the iron-hearted, but the ice princess of Grandaria seems to be deeply interested in that man too,” Said Owen, seeing the sight of the princess whose observing Oz’s back.

Hearing the comment, the princess glared at Owen making him shivers down his spine.

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Oz left the weapon shop and saw that the sun is on his way back to slumber. Oz walks his way back to the orphanage while memorizing all the places he passed.

“There is a lot of different faces here, some look like American, some look like Japanese, and some look like Korean, does this kingdom has that much of variety?” Oz asked himself.

The atmosphere here is heavy, people don’t smile that often, and sometimes it looks like there is a hostility between people with American faces and people with the Japanese faces.

(Are they an invader? Old man Kyron looks more like Korean, though)

Oz runs his thought, thinking about the sights he saw today. He’s wondering what’s the source of the heavy atmosphere.

“Eh? I’ve arrived?”

Drowned by his thoughts, Oz unconsciously arrived in front of the orphanage.

(Why the hell do I think about it anyway?)

*Sound of Oz opening the Orphanage door*

“You’re back,” Old man Kyron appeared from the back of the door. He stands and folds his arms in front of his chest.

“Whoa!”

“What the hell are you doing old man!” Asked Oz, surprised.

“Hm? I heard from Nash that you’ve gone sightseeing the kingdom, what did you saw?” Old man Kyron asked.

Oz gathers his thought a second before answering.

“Hostility, people seem to distrust each other. The nobles are all scums, and everyone looks like they’re in fear of something…”

Old man Kyron closes his eyes while he hears Oz’s answer silently.

“Ren, follow me to my room,” Instruct the old man.

Oz follows him to his room and sits facing each other, just like the last time.

“The last time I sit here, the next moment I got beaten to a pulp,” Oz said with a smirk.

“Hmph, it’s because of your inexperiences that you lose,”

(No one on earth would dare to say that word to me back then, and now an old man said that word right in front of my face. Just how far do I had fallen to since I came to this world?)

“Setting your lost aside, the magic academy’s headmaster had accepted your enrollment. You’ll be entering the academy in two months” (Old man Kyron)

“I’ve heard it from Nash,” (Old man Kyron)

“Since you’re new here, and it seems that you picked up a fight with the noble before because you lacked the information about this kingdom. So I’m going to fill the bits of knowledge you need for you to live here. I can’t let someone recommended by me humiliate my name at the magic academy,” (Old man Kyron)

Old man Kyron explains about all kind of things to Oz for hours.

“As you already know, this kingdom name is Grandaria kingdom, the kingdom that has a history for more than 500 years. As you have seen, people from various kingdoms have barged into our kingdom, Gracewield kingdom and Potterland kingdom that has been targeting our kingdom for a long time.” (Old man Kyron)

“How could they suddenly barged in?” (Oz)

“Just like other kingdoms, we have a king. But the problem is, we didn’t know where our king is,” (Old man Kyron)

“You don’t know?” (Oz)

“When the previous king ruled, he has only two offspring, the king and the queen live happily and they ruled the kingdom to prosperity with great harmony. But good people always be the enemies of despicable people,” (Old man Kyron)

“One day, the king suddenly got assassinated, the crown prince that’s only 12 years old, got crowned but he needs to stay in hiding because the danger that’s still unknown. I knew that the nobles that have been aiming for the crown are the culprits, but I’m powerless to punish them.” (Old man Kyron)

“The queen takes over the rule replacing the old king and is busy having a cold war with the nobles, that’s the reason why the Grandaria kingdom is slowly fell into a downfall. The state of the kingdom gotten wide to the continent, and some kingdoms like Gracewield and Potterland have started their plan of invasion to our kingdom.” Explain the old man with a face full of sorrow.

“So?” (Oz)

“Hm?” Old man Kyron raised his eyebrow because of Oz’s sudden intrusion.

“There must be something you want me to do, by telling me all of this stuff,” Oz said while crossing both of his hands.

“Support? support from an unknown person from an unknown place seems to be unimportant. Advice? I doubt that a great sage like you would need a piece of advice from me. And, the thing that you’ve seen from me is only my battle prowess, so what is it that you want? an assassination?” (Oz)

“Where do you get the conclusion from?” Asked old man Kyron sternly.

“A sage that people called as a sword god, couldn’t kill any noble in this kingdom at that much of ease doesn’t he? Whether people could track him from his trace of mana, or from his appearance which is well known in the whole kingdom.” Explains Oz with his eyes closed.

“Who exactly are you, young man? You have such a domineering presence, unbeatable sword skills, and an eye that seems to be able to look any truth you seek, aren’t you a prince from a faraway country or something?” Said old man Kyron startled.

“I’ll take that as a praise.” (Oz)

“Hmph, your answer is right, but I won’t be needing you yet. You’re just a kid with a lot of potentials if you couldn’t control that mana of yours. Before you enter the magic academy, you need to learn to control that mana of yours first.” Said old man Kyron sternly.

Oz and the old man Kyron chatted for a long time, they talked about economy, politics, sword, magic, and jokes about the nobles. Their chat continues until the dusk had almost come.

They went back to their room to have a rest from their long conversation.

Oz lay on his bed, processing the information from the conversation he just had with the old man Kyron.

!!!???

A scene suddenly showed at Oz’s mind when he’s about to went to the realm of dreams. The sight from his Griffin is showing him an unusual thing.

His kingdom. is being surrounded by the elves.