Revolution of the 8th Class Mage

24  Dark Veil (2)

‘What is this place…..?’

After diagonally tunneling through, the outside was reached.

To his surprise, it appeared completely different than what he had imagined.

It was nothing, but a wide open ‘flat’ prairie land.

Nothing, but a wide prairie filled with only grass.

There were cliffs all around.

Has the earth been risen up?

‘No, wait.’

It wasn’t risen up.

It was floating in the air in the first place.

That is, a piece of earth was ‘levitating’ in the air.

A bundle of clouds nearby has assured him.

It was a ‘levitating’ earth that has never been heard or seen before.

What is this place?

‘A human?’

Ian has recovered from confusion.

He located someone in the distance.

A man was sitting at the edge of a cliff.

At a quick glance, it appeared to be a human being.

He was sitting in a very precarious way.

‘What is that?’

Ian felt somewhat confused.  He came to this place chasing after his curiosity and feeling that something would be here.  But, he has discovered stranger things that were beyond expectations.  A wide, levitating prairie that was as high as to reach the clouds and even an unidentifiable human being.

‘This definitely looked suspicious.’

He thought it to be suspicious.

As that would be the normal expected reaction.

However, his mind wasn’t having such a feeling at all.

Although it was hard to explain, he felt at peace.

With the entire landscape that came into his view,

And even that person, too.

‘Is it witchcraft?’

There was a high probability that that’s what it would be.  No, he was certain.

The problem was that even though he believed it to be witchcraft for certain, he wasn’t able to overcome it.  Ian doesn’t easily get tricked by witchcraft.   At least, once he detects witchcraft, he was always able to overcome it.  However,

‘He can’t feel it.’

The power of witchcraft could not be detected.

It can only be overcome if there were physical evidences.

There would be only two reasons in such a case.

It wasn’t the effect of witchcraft to begin with

Or

‘The sorcerer is much stronger than me.’

Ian is a 6th class mage.

He even possesses the knowledge of the 8th class.

No one would have stronger sorcery abilities than Ian.  At least there will be no one among the human beings.

‘If this was an effect of witchcraft,’ then there was only one answer.  The man that was still sitting on the edge of the cliff with his back showing, the ‘one who appears to be a human being’, that man must be the sorcerer of this witchcraft.

‘At a minimal, he would be comparable to my former self.’

It had to be someone like the former Ian, that is, someone equivalent to an 8th class mage or with unlimited possibility of being greater than that.  That would be the only way to totally deceive Ian like this.

‘What if he was hostile towards me…..’

There was nowhere to run to.

It would mean a gamble for life in order to escape from that person.

Gulp!