Birth of the Legendary Battle Mage

Chapter 41

*tap tap tap*

“Zaron, wake up, c’mon wake up.” Julius almost whispering now, trying not to wake the others.

Zaron was up in no time. He had developed a good habit of waking up early since childhood, but at this moment he felt as though he had only gotten one hour of sleep. Due to different reasons, they warned up going to bed quite late past midnight, and even now that his master woke him up, it wasn’t even dawn yet. ‘What could possibly be the reason for the master to wake me up so early, are we under attack? Have we been found out?’ The sleep disappeared from his eyes immediately as the thought crossed his mind.

“Relax Zaron, nothing of what you might be thinking has happened. Just follow me.” Julius said as he went through the door. Zaron noticed he was the only one who was up apart from the master, so he thought whatever the master wanted to discuss was meant to be kept from the others.

“What is it you wish to discuss master? I can see that you haven’t woken the others?” Zaron asked with a little bit serious look on his face. Definitely, whatever his master had to discuss was quite a serious topic that he choose not to involve the others.

“Oh, it might be quite early, but I assure you it’s nothing serious. You see, I couldn’t sleep, so I thought we would discuss about our plan going forward.” He already had a plan, all he wanted was for it to be heard and pros checked by someone (a demon) who grew in the parts if any part of it was suspicious or could be improved.

Julius went over his plan with Zaron and Zaron in turn pointed out some flaws and things that wouldn’t fly in the underworld. After an hour, they had gone through everything and by that time it was already dawn and the sun had lit up the sky from the horizons. “Such clear and beautiful skies the underworld has.” Julius said as he admired the stream of sunlight that shot through the morning sky with a shade of goldish orange mixed with blue. The underworld unlike the name suggests, isn’t really under the earth as most think it is. Most people think that if they dig into the earth enough, they will pop into the underworld’s sky or something. In reality, it is actually like another dimension that was built off of the earth’s dimensional plane. Since the initial dimension which contains our earth and other planets and the cosmos (this current universe) is endlessly vast and filled with energy, the underworld was built off of that energy and vast space by taking out a portion of that vast space to create a new smaller model of the original.

The gate which Julius and Emilia used to enter the underworld was just a pathway that physically connected the two dimensions together, which enabled the passage of something or someone through it. All these meant the underworld wasn’t in the primary universe, but in what can be referred to as a pocket extension of the universe. This also meant the existence of a sun and moon should be impossible since the pocket dimension had no star systems or solar systems. A clearer example of what is going on is for example, if there were a lake, and towards the middle of that lake, a gallon filled with water from the lake was moving about within the water, the gallon would contain a portion of the lake but would not possess banks at the edge of the lake, and would not be in contact with the earth or air and other things, it would only be in contact with the water outside it’s body. This means the water inside the gallon would be away from sunlight and other things contained in the lake. But imagine if the gallon was to be punctured by a nail and suddenly, the water inside the gallon could make contact with the one in the lake; that is what a gate does.

With that said, it would be impossible for a sun and moon to exist in the underworld, within the pocket dimension. Which means the whole underworld would be filled with darkness, no light, no weather, cold, no seasons, and almost little to no ecosystem, this was how the underworld was, and how it was meant to be, a place of torment and suffering. But many millenniums ago, a certain god appeared who after being casted into the underworld by his father and brothers for being a danger to the world, succeeded in pulling in a star(sun. I was thinking maybe it would be a red dwarf or something), expanding the space within the pocket dimension to contain the star, and erected chunks of earth from the surface of the earth on top of the underworld and creating a moon with it. He set a system into place to hold and keep everything functioning and created an army to combat his so called father and siblings in a way to seek vengeance. These soldiers of his were what were now known as demons. Although, the name of this god had been lost throughout the ages as he had long disappeared, the demons will forever worship him as their creator and savior.

“You know, I always wondered how such a being could be forgotten, name, features, and all. Maybe he did so himself, who knows.” He said as he walked away from Zaron towards the tent. “Then again, that isn’t any of our problem now is it? Go return to sleep, that will be all.”

“Yes sir.” At this point, Zaron wasn’t sleepy anymore and didn’t feel like it, so he went off to a corner and started doing some warm-ups, getting ready for some morning exercise and training.

Later that morning when everybody had woken up bathed and eaten a decent meal, Julius and Zaron headed out into the city to carry out their task. They all wore some beat up clothes and shoes in other to fit the refugee image and because of that they got quite the treatment from other demons. Finally, they came up to a building that had the head of a wolf and one hallebarde positions at each side of the wolf’s head, “This is it sir, the Demonic Wolf Cult.” Zaron said.