The Third Star

Chapter 32 – New people

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. Old)

The next day, as usual, Ken woke up before the two, went to each of their homes, woke them up in their sleep -quite rudely and funny at the same time- got ready for the day, and wore their uniform, a battle attire given to them one month ago when their last uniform either didn’t fit them anymore or too tight to wear.

Ken wore a simple brown robe, leather boots, gloves, and his Scythe held on the middle by a garment on his back, Celine wore light garments that allow for unrestricted movements, leather boots, gloves, with her quiver on and bow on her back,

While Wilbert wore his armor, not exactly covering him all with metal, but enough to cover the vital points, the chest, shoulder, and lower parts of his body, like the rest, he wore leather boots, and gloves, with his sword sheathed, and shield on his back.

They’re not exactly that pleasant to look at when it come to meeting guests, but this was only the clothes that their parents deem pleasant to meet the guests, their parents were also asked by the leaders of the forest to attend the said event, along with the three,

The parents also prepared for this occasion, wearing the clothes they wore at their first visit and brought with them their weapons, they traveled together to the Northern Forest’s village to meet the guests.

Upon arriving at their destination the locals have also prepared themselves wearing clothes they deem proper for the occasion, the leaders are at the front gate with their four students at their side, with the village having only one entrance, the group of humans that arrived where astonished at the display the village present before them.

Soldiers and magical practitioners of the northern forest are at the front wearing their uniforms when in duty, the commoners at the back situated on what seems like an elevated platform made of tree roots, having sufficient space to mingle and move around, the village entrance and square are close to each other and quite large to accommodate about 5,000 people on the village.

The people weren’t surprised to see the group of humans approaching their village for they became accustomed to their presence in the past few years.

“Papa, mama, uncle’s and aunties, we shall join our other co-disciples and masters now.” said Ken to the adults to which Alfred nodded, the three kids proceeded to the back of their masters each positioning beside their co-disciples.

While their parents went to the side lining themselves behind the village soldiers and magical practitioners, -fun fact, even thought the people on this village are innately adept at magic, they still consider that learning magic like the humans can give them understanding about the depths of magic,

Hence they are called magic practitioners, a concept they had adapted from their neighboring magical beasts civilization, the dragon kingdom- and waited for the arrival of their guests.

Light chatter and conversations carried out on the square with the occasional questions of the children beasts to their parents about the said event, some other children marveled at the soldiers at the center of the square and those at the front,

Often looking where their father, uncle or brother are located, then sharing their discovery with their friends and voicing out how proud they are to see their family on the line up of soldiers, but of course not all male beasts of the village joined their military might, some are with their families, and have other lifestyles.

The villages range from bunny magical beasts to wolf magical beasts, others are deers, bears, and many other animals you can find on the wild, they all look so festive in their clothing and their animal features such as animal ears and tails, how are there not bird magical beasts, Ken thought.

Their first guest arrived in what looked like a giant nine-tailed fox sprinting from afar, upon closing the distance the fox seems to be carrying with it on its back a beautiful adult female nine-tailed fox wearing commoner clothes, and a somewhat feminine looking boy nine-tailed fox also wearing commoner clothes in their human form, having distinct features such as fox ears and the nine tails.

Upon arrival the giant fox laid down its body to let its two companions move down to the ground, then the giant nine-tailed fox transformed itself into a puff of cloud to which a handsome adult male nine-tailed fox walked out of -wearing the same clothes as his family-,

Approached the female and boy nine-tailed fox, gave a loving embrace to the both of them, before they approached the awaiting leader.

The difference of this nine-tailed fox to other races are that they are highly associated with spiritual magic, some of them are so inclined to their spiritual nature that they are able to phase in and out of the spirit realm in this world,

One could say that they are the guardians of the spirit realm as well as powerful practitioners of spiritual magic, making most of their kind live on the spirit realm.

“Greetings Klein of the Northern Forest, I am Zin, this is my wife, Alira, and our son, Flin, a pleasure to meet your acquaintance, we deeply appreciate your approval of letting our son learn and train under your guidance.” The male nine-tailed fox whose name Zin said.

“The pleasure is ours Zin, rest assured that your son will be well taken care of here.” replied Klein.

“Wow, their fur is so white, just like their hair.” Ken, absentmindedly said, to which everyone chuckled, he snapped out of his daze and look around, everyone -which I mean his companions and the adults- gave him a knowing look,

Making the boy blush, lowered his head and counted one to ten to will the blush to go away, after, he took a deep breath, exhaled and then looked straight.

The family of nine tails smiled at the comment, and was then escorted by Ulysses to the side where the parents of the three children are situated for them to join in wait of the other guests to arrive.

Not for long, a gust of wind swept through the crowd of people, making them look at the direction the wind came from, which was up, on the sky a majestic giant red bird can be seen hovering over the crowd, before it landed on the empty space at the town square relatively away from the crowd.

Klein gestured to his co leaders and disciples to follow him and receive their guests, four people are at the back of the majestic bird, another beautiful woman wearing a stunning red dress embroided with gold and silver flower design fit that of a queen, without a crown,

A dashingly handsome teenager wearing what seems to be a blue uniform with embroideries of white and gold at the sides, with an embroided picture of a bird -kind of like a phoenix-, and a boy wearing a sky blue stunning clothes with gold embroideries and patterns similar to his big brother and a girl wearing a red dress embroided the same as her mother, all having wings and horns sprouting from their forehead as their distinct feature of the Guardian Avians.

The majestic giant bird transformed itself unto its human form by a display of swirling feathers and fire, came out a very handsome man wearing clothes similar to his sons but having a distinct feature of a big bird at his back, he approached his family whom waited for him at the center. All of them are wearing white gloves.

The Guardian Avians are what they literally mean, for they became the sole defenders of the magical beasts society, one such guardian is situated here at Northern Forest, the giant bird the three children met on their journey towards the forest, they guard the sacred rights of life, and nature,

Making them formidable beasts in the forest more so on the sky, they are also magical practitioner of the higher caliber, focusing on offensive and defensive magic. So far, four nests are scattered all over the continent as to fulfill their task of protecting the land.

The group of Klein stopped a few feet in front of the family of birds, to which Klein and the family of birds bowed to one another, Klein knew this was their way of acknowledgment.

“Greetings old friend, quite a big greeting we’re receiving today.” said the man, whom regarded Klein as his friend.

“Likewise Varus, how could I not welcome my old friend lavishly.” replied Klein, as they laughed heartily.

“It has been such a long time Klein, how have you been?” said the woman beside Varus.

“I’m doing well Cara, thank you for the concern.” replied Klein, to the woman named Cara.

“By the way, this is our eldest son, Herris, and our twins, Riyah and Icarus.” said Varus, gesturing to the teenager then to the twins whom are either sides of their mother while the teen stayed behind them.

Klein nodded, and gestured for Lana to receive the guests and escort them beside the first guests who arrived in front one of the elevated platform near the center, there are a total of five platforms, one facing the entrance and two facing each other at each side.

Klein gestured for his group to follow him back to the entrance of the village, while walking towards the entrance, suddenly the surroundings of the village glowed, and several magic circles the color of gold appeared everywhere, from atop the houses, the sides of the trees, on the ground, and even on mid-air.

Right then draconic beings appeared on top of every magic circle summoned, signaling the arrival of the Dragon clan, they have distinct features of horns protruding from their heads, sharp ears similar to elves, a scaly tail, and having patches of scales here and there found all throughout their body, sharp cat like eyes and most of all a powerful aura.

Each individual of the Dragon are as strong as 3 men in both human and magical beasts term, let’s not forget about those primal animal beasts, even the draconic women are far more superior to women of the other races when it comes to brute strength -scary-,

But what separates them from other barbaric races are that they hold high intelligence, making them the first of the magical beasts to ever advance when it comes to society and economy.

As powerful beings -as they think and see themselves-, they rose from an unorganized living, to a compact and progressive kingdom, and now that they don’t have any more problems when it comes to their society,

They turned their attention to magic studies, creating different sorts of devices that has many purposes such as energy or in a more practical way, tactical devices and or magic effective on the battlefield.

The knowledge they accumulated throughout their study of magic, is what they call as, arcane knowledge, their most recent breakthrough. Despite being intelligent beings, they still follow a hierarchical manner, their civilization is built upon a kingdom,

But the humans are not aware of such a place or society, which you may ask, why would a powerful race ever send a candidate to study and train under an inferior one? The answer lies on the individuals.

As all of the dragons appeared through their magic circles, some of it didn’t disappear as the individuals who summoned them are still situated on it, floating, unlike the magic circles on the ground had disappeared once their caster has been teleported.

All of the dragons who appeared from the magic circles all wore armor akin to that of a soldier of a kingdom, all silver, helmet silver, those that appeared on the ground scrambled towards one another forming squads of five by five lining themselves at the center of the town square, leaving quite a bit of space on the center,

Enough to let a group of 5 side by side without bumping on each other’s shoulders walk through, there were ten squads in total, each parallel to one another, all of which facing the center in front of the gathered guests.

Suddenly a big magic circle three times the size of the previous ones9om appeared just outside of the entrance of the village on mid air, and a portal was opened, out came additional soldiers of the Dragon Clan, but these soldiers wore golden armor with lines of silver on the outer parts of the armor along with golden swords and spears.

Their helmets have a distinct feature of a dragon’s face, they were called the royal guard -for which the townsfolk, including our protagonists will learn in the future-, and after having two more squads walk out of the portal, having the same formation as the ones before, a draconic man walked wearing a different attire.

He looks to be a butler, but not your typical black suit butler, this one wore a white suit, then another draconic man walked out, this one wore an attire similar to that of a scholar, the color of brown is clearly dominant on his attire, having different types of color adorned all over his shoulders, and upon close inspection, everyone could recognize them as jewels.

And finally, before the portal and magic circle disappeared, a girl, dressed in what seems like a Gold silver lined battle armor for a female, walked out of the portal, her hair was golden yellow flowing on her back, at chest length,

Her armor gold with silver linings at the edges, including her boots and gloves, but leaving her right shoulder with a shoulder plate adorned with red jewels, anyone who recognizes the jewel, will realize that the jewels were rubies.

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