Chapter 11: Alistair's plans
After moving for 2 days, she reached a forest on a big mountain.
Alivia looked down from the hill and thought," Here is the border of Robels kingdom, Mount Robels!"
Mount Robels is 6 kilometers tall.
There are a few legends about it.
It's said that a rank 4 mage created it to train a particular meditation technique requiring massive pressure.
As for why create a mountain and not use one that already exists, Alivia has yet to learn.
She couldn't imagine how strong a rank 4 mage's body must be to tolerate that mountain's weight.
"Water shield!" she screamed and cast this rank 1 spell!
A shiny shield of pure water surrounded her.
Right after that, she was hit by a giant fireball!
With a loud boom, the water shield broke, and the fireball hit her.
She was thrown more than 50 meters away and seriously injured!
"Who are you?" Judging by its power, Alivia thought, the invader must be a mid-rank 1 mage!
A man with weird orange clothes that had black skin and pointy ears came out.
"Orange light!" she screamed.
The man was wearing the official mage clothes of Orange Light Academy.
Mage uniforms of all seven color academies were widely known.
One reason is that the uniforms stayed the same from the beginning days of the Seven Color Academy.
When something remains the same for more than a million years, people will get to remember it.
Another reason is that the Orange Light Academy wears an orange-colored uniform, the Blue Light Academy wears a blue-colored uniform, the Invisible Color Academy wears an invisible-colored uniform, and so on.
Alivia thought exceptionally quickly," he can't be here all alone! I have to run the Robels kingdom as soon as possible!"
The Mata city was close to Blue Light Academy, so she planned to temporarily take shelter there.
As for what happens to Logan City, she can only pray.
Even one rank 1 mid-level mage nearly killed her, let alone higher-ranking mages that might be present!
With that, she started to run.
The man who attacked her remained motionless, without any intention of chasing!
...
Alivia ran fast and didn't stop.
After 6 hours of running, she reached the capital of the Robels kingdom and quickly went to the royal palace.
A rank 1 mage came to greet her, but before anything else, she told the story of Orange Light Academy.
With a long-range message spell, Nell informed Alistair of what Alivia said.
"You said orange light attacked? send the witness to the academy!" Alistair said.
"Consider it done, great mage Alistair," Nell said.
Alivia asked: "What should I do?"
Nell said:" They are going to investigate, so you must go to the academy to answer a few questions. Don't worry about your city; as long as you cooperate, we will protect it!"
Alivia's eyes got cold.
She thought, "This is a threat! It hadn't been half an hour, yet they started threatening me! damn it!"
She doesn't want to endanger people in the logan city.
Alivia reluctantly nodded to Nell.
Nell nodded in response and said," Let's go."
Just as they were about to leave, Owen arrived!
With a newborn in his hand, he asked," What's going on here?"
He gave the child Doris to Rose, who was beside him.
"Rose, my dear, you can go and rest," Owen said gently.
With mother and baby gone, Owen looked at Nell seriously.
"Your Majesty, this young mage named Alivia Logan is here to register with the Blue Light Academy!"
Owen thought," Why is she familiar?"
Alivia said," You! You became the king?"
"Oh? You know me? Who are you?" Owen asked with a probing tone.
Aliva said," Of course, you don't remember; you are one of the people who killed my whole family!"
Owen was taken aback!
He served as commander of the kingdom's troops before becoming the king.
Today, he is 49, having served 25 years as the king.
Before his father's death, he served as a general in the kingdom's army.
Before Owen came to power, there were no courts, and the power of nobles and royals was unchecked.
Technically, the king's power is unchecked even now, as the court can't order the king to do anything. But Owen plans to change that before he turns the crown to anyone else.
But before, it was awful, as anyone suspected of any act against the royal family would be killed without a chance to defend themselves.
Most of the kings in the Robels kingdom were ordinary people who could die with a simple poison.
The crown will always be from someone from robels family.
But there are a lot of people from Robels family!
For this reason, many kings were fearful of conspiracies in their palace.
At that time, when Owen was 14 years old, his mother was killed by poison.
It was investigated very seriously, and the perpetrator was found.
However, the king was unwilling to punish her.
So they just blamed a bunch of commoners for the crime.
The order was from his father.
Owen couldn't stop any of it; still, in name, it was his troops killing the commoners, so Alivia might be referring to that.
Owen thought," To think a commoner from that incident can reach the official mage stage is astonishing."
The one who killed his mother was another one of his father's wives.
mother of his deceased brother Cameron.
Cameron's mother herself was later killed by someone else!
If it wasn't for Owen's magic talent, he might have died in childhood!
The competition between his father's wives was fierce.
It's a pity for them that hair to the throne was decided long before by Alistair himself!
Because his magic talent was detected while he was one year old, Alistair sent a rank 2 mage to always protect him.
It made him safe but very isolated.
Owen said," The wrongs from the past can't be corrected perfectly; however, I will arrange for compensation for your family to …"
Alivia shouted:" Stop it! You can not compensate for what happened to me!"
"Let's go to the Blue Light Academy quickly; I want to leave as soon as possible!" Alivia shouted to Nell.
Nell bowed and left along with Alivia.
Owen smiled bitterly and decided to compensate wrongly accused people from the past.
...
Alistair was bewildered!
"This is bad! This is terrible!"
His planes were good.
However, he couldn't predict the future.
Initially, he wanted to become a demon!
Demons have a longer lifespan, and hell generally has many more resources.
Time is only locked in the mage world.
In hell, time can be manipulated!
Alistair closed his eyes and started thinking!
He met a rank 4 mage from the Orange Light Academy many years ago.
That mage proposed giving him a rank 4 dark transformation pill.
At that time, he was much younger, so he rejected it without much thought.
However, as time passed and he got older, Alistair got worried that he might never be able to break through rank 5.
If a mage can't break through, they will die when their longevity ends.
There is no life extension method.
No reincarnation.
No possessing a new body with your soul.
Once your lifespan ends, you must die.
The fundamental law of time will not allow anyone to live past their lifespans.
Alistair was afraid of death more than anything.
He contacted Orange Light and offered cooperation.
He will get four things.
1-rank 4 'dark transformation' pill.
2-knowledge regarding hell.
3-rank 5 magic treasure 'disguise fate.'
4-can use black light academy's rank 7 treasure, 'swallowing the oath.'
Rank 7 magic treasure 'swallowing the oath' can remove any oath taken by means of lower than rank 7.
He had already used it.
No oath binds him to the Blue Light Academy.
The rank 5 magic treasure, 'disguise fate,' also has been given to him.
Now, only rank 4 dark transformation pill and hell knowledge remains.
Alistair initially needed them to increase his lifespan.
That was why he orchestrated an attack on Robels kingdom, pretending to be the Orange Light Academy.
Alistair put magic treasure 'disguise fate' there intentionally.
Disguise fate magic treasure has 2 main functions.
1-It can disguise the fate of itself and its host.
2-It can collect the fate of others who have a lower rank.
The condition for collecting fate is that the target musk seeks and touches it.
It can collect their fate as long as they seek and touch it.
That's why Alistair spread fake news that orange light attacked a city in Robels kingdom and spread the news of a cursed object.
That cursed object is 'disguise fates' magic treasure.
It is a magic treasure but can disguise itself as a cursed object.
Anyone below rank 5 can't see its true nature.
Alistair was sure that the dean would not come out unless the sky was falling.
The only people who will come seek it are other rank 4 deputy deans.
When they come and ask Alistair for it, they are seeking it.
Then Alistair hands it over for them to 'appraise it' and have their fate collected.
This fate will later be used for a spell to open sealed objects inventory.
The sealed objects inventory can only be opened by the dean or by all of the deputy mages.
However, deputy mage fate and Alistair's spell would suffice.
After that, he would give the rank 7 'reverse astroid' magic treasure to the Orange Light Academy, take his dark transformation pill with knowledge of hell, open a passage, and run to hell!
With 'disguise fate' magic treasure, he is sure that the Blue Light Academy can never find him!
However, with that pill container, everything changed.
With it, Alistair can break through rank 5 without becoming a demon.
He changed his plans.
The only problem is that he already took a lot of stuff from the Orange Light Academy.
They will never let him back out of the deal.
So he decided to stall!
After this much time, he only collected one rank 4 deputy dean's fate.
However, this attack by orange light would definitely alarm blue light.
Every deputy dean will likely come and investigate the 'cursed object' from the orange light.
"I can't get out of it! I can't think of anything! What trouble!"
"I may really be forced to go to hell! Then I have to get that pill container sooner than expected!"
He was already sure that it was orange light who attacked.
Other mages disguising themselves is theoretically possible but unlikely.
The higher the mage's rank, the more rational and obsessed they become.
Finding a rank 1 mage who is crazy enough to disguise themself for no reason is nearly impossible.
As for other academies doing it, it's even more unlikely.
Because the actual perpetrator would eventually be found, and whoever it is will make both the academies their enemy.
Currently, there are two main mage factions.
Academies that follow white light academy and academies that follow black light academy.
There is no third faction.
As for invisible light, it has a rank 7 dean.
It has always been neutral.
It does not need scheming to weaken black light and white light.
With a wank 7 mage in charge, it can take over the entire continent easily!
The difference between ranks 6 and 7 is massive.
As Alistair was thinking, a knock came from the door.
It was nell!