Chapter 185: I’ve Done Too Much For Master-chan (Two-in-one)
“Grandfather—”
“I read in a book that in the distant past, the Royal Court was located on a continent.”
“On that vast land, there were snow-capped mountains, undulating hills, boundless grasslands, and lakes as still as mirrors…”
“Was that… real?”
On the outskirts of the Elf Royal Court on the Lost Island, a little girl from the Elf Race, holding an old book, squatted by a dilapidated stone house.
Her hair and eyes were both a desolate gray. Currently, she was using the faint light from a piece of fluorescent ore in her hand to read the text in the tattered book.
After a thousand years, the elves on the Lost Island had long since adapted to life under the veil of eternal night.
Using a certain Holy Relic in the Royal Court, they could cultivate high-yield crops that bore fruit and were edible without sunlight.
However, even so, the resources on this small island could only barely sustain the survival of the Royal Court’s inhabitants.
The High Elf races, such as the Sun Elves and Moon Elves, who had their own Elder seats in the Council Hall of the Royal Court, naturally lived in the inner areas of the Royal Court, enjoying a relatively comfortable and pleasant life.
But the “Gray Elf Race,” often excluded from the ranks of High Elves and even lacking their own Elder seats in the Council Hall, naturally did not have such a comfortable life.
They could only live on the outermost periphery of the Royal Court, and supplies like fluorescent ore and lightless crops were intermittent, requiring them to rely on their own strength to survive outside the Royal Court.
However, everything had its pros and cons.
Being excluded from the mainstream society within the Royal Court and only able to establish settlements on the desolate edges outside the Royal Court also allowed the Gray Elf Race to retain their own heritage and culture.
Furthermore, they had not been influenced by the prevailing thoughts and trends within the Royal Court over the years, nor had they lost their independence of thought.
Long before the Great Calamity, the Gray Elves were naturally born Bards and Elf Sword Singers.
Bards and Sword Singers were nomads, traveling throughout the Prime Material Plane and bringing beautiful songs and epics to every corner of the Western Continent.
And now, although the Royal Court had fallen and become the Lost Island, a large number of ancient scrolls compiled by Bards still remained within the Gray Elf settlements.
These contained no secret supernatural knowledge, but purely songs and stories.
Yet, even so, the fantastical worlds depicted in those songs and fairy tales were enough to inspire longing.
“Since this is a book written by senior Gray Elf Bards, and all the bardic scrolls say so.”
“Then it should be true, right…”
The old Gray Elf with white hair and a white beard looked at the little girl in front of him, his cloudy gray eyes exuding a gentle kindness.
The Gray Elf bloodline had also been tainted, so although he looked to be on his deathbed, his actual age was only a few hundred years. Naturally, he had not experienced the Glorious Era before the Great Calamity.
“However, we probably won’t be able to see such scenery again.”
The elder Gray Elf looked up at the pitch-black sky.
This was the long, eternal night, and it had been so ever since he was born.
“Is that so?”
The little girl closed her book, carefully wrapped the fluorescent ore in a handkerchief, and tucked it into her embrace.
She looked up at the elder beside her, “But didn’t Sister Heiser say that soon, we will have a brand new sun?”
“At that time, we will also be able to see the undulating waves of forests, the magnificent sea, and the magnificent full view of the Royal Court.”
“We will be able to see the blue sky and white clouds again, and see flowers blooming on the branches.”
“During our drowsy afternoon naps, we can lie on the emerald green grass, with the warm sunlight filtering through the tree canopy, casting dappled shadows.”
“And Sister Heiser even showed us that kind of core.”
Heiser was an Elder of the Golden Elf Race.
However, due to various reasons, and the dilution of bloodlines through intermarriage with other elves, pure-blooded Golden Elves were already very few in number.
Precisely because of this, Heiser maintained good relations with smaller elf groups like the Gray Elves, often representing them to contend for resources at the Council Hall meetings of the Royal Court.
As she spoke, the little girl’s eyes sparkled with brilliance.
A few months ago, Heiser had visited the Gray Elf settlement on the edge of the Royal Court and shown them the magical arts known as Arcane Arts and Magic.
Afterward, she even left a small sun furnace in the center of the Gray Elf settlement.
That sun furnace replaced the large bonfires used for lighting and warding off beasts in the darkness, and it was activated for half a day every day.
The brilliant radiance it emitted was a wondrous sight she had never seen before.
It made the little girl yearn incomparably for that light, and for the magic that Heiser said could create such light.
It was for this reason that in recent days, she had been flipping through the booklet titled “Introduction to Arcane Arts” left by Heiser whenever she had free time.
Hoping that one day, she too could become a creator of that brilliant light.
“Sister Heiser…”
In reality, according to her true age, that Golden Elf Elder was already…
The elder Gray Elf shook his head with a bitter smile.
“I suppose that was just Elder Your Excellency’s way of encouraging us and sparking our interest in learning Arcane Arts and Magic—”
“A kind lie portrayed to achieve that.”
“Besides, what Elder Heiser wants to do may not even be permitted by the other Elders in the Royal Court.”
The elder Gray Elf thought of the rumors that had been circulating in the Royal Court these days.
They said Elder Heiser had been bewitched by that outsider, a foreign race, and had squandered the resources accumulated by the entire Royal Court for a long time.
There were even rumors of impeachment proceedings against her Elder position.
As a member of the Gray Elf Race who had received kindness from Heiser, the old man naturally did not have much antipathy towards Heiser herself.
However, he remained quite suspicious of that human who called himself a traveler and whose origins were unknown.
The elder looked up at the dark and dim sky.
He had lived longer than the little girl, and he had stayed in the darkness for longer.
Therefore, he naturally understood how difficult it was to achieve the future described by Heiser.
Even the combined light from all the fluorescent ore and lamps in the entire Royal Court, when projected onto the sky, left no trace.
A single spark from the Royal Court—
Compared to the darkness that had shrouded the entire world for over a thousand years.
Ultimately, it was simply too insignificant.
However, the next moment.
The elder Gray Elf’s gaze suddenly froze.
Beneath the seemingly unchanging, pure black sky, at the highest point of the entire Lost Island, on the mountain that bore the branches of the World Tree, a faint light suddenly flickered.
Initially, the light was very small, causing the elder Gray Elf to blink, doubting if his old eyes were deceiving him.
But then—
The faint light went from one to two, from two to four.
In a very short period, it rapidly spread out.
Upon the pitch-black sky, countless points of light, as brilliant as diamonds, suddenly appeared—
*Boom—*
The entire Elf Royal Court was alerted. Countless elves stopped their work and looked up at the dark night sky.
Then, they silently watched the dreamlike and ethereal ocean formed by the convergence of brilliant points of light.
The stars formed a sea.
…
*Boom—*
*Boom—*
In front of Shaya, the magic furnace core erupted with a resounding roar.
All the magical runes and formations engraved on the massive furnace instantly burst forth with blindingly bright and dazzling light.
Amidst the surging darkflame, countless magic ores were burned and melted.
Then, they were transformed into the purest, most unadulterated crystals of magic power.
Through the dense network of magic transmission pathways, they directly reached the highest peak of the Lost Island.
Myriad magic particles were constrained and compressed under the enhancement of spells and alchemy matrices.
Finally, at the peak of their constraint and compression, they began to aggregate.
Releasing their mass.
Then, they transformed into the purest light and heat.
Shaya raised his gaze and, together with Ye, who was perched on his head, looked through the window towards the high mountain beneath the giant World Tree.
And towards the myriad of dazzling, brilliant points of light swirling in the night sky, like a sea of stars.
“As expected of Teacher.”
Shaya smiled slightly as he looked at the myriad of pure stars forged from magic.
“Heart of Molten Fire”
“Magnetic Field Control”
…
To forge such a spectacle of stars, an unknown number of high-level spells and even baneshot-level formations were activated simultaneously.
It made him sigh, “Master-chan is truly Master-chan.”
Even though Shaya had taken on the role of Heiser’s teacher, using his advantage of the timeline, his power system was ultimately that of a Beast Tamer. His proficiency as a wizard was only secondary.
And Heiser herself was the strongest wizard Shaya knew, bar none.
She was able to quickly grasp the basics of Arcane Arts and Magic from being a complete novice in just a few months.
And after a few more months, she could complete the conceptualization of a magic-powered creation that still existed only in blueprints—”Quasi-Star”—and apply it to reality.
To achieve this goal, Heiser had even personally created several new baneshots.
For example, the baneshot “Heart of Molten Fire” was used to reinforce the alloy that formed the sun furnace, allowing it to maintain a stable structural form and remain under control even at the extreme temperatures of magic particle fusion.
It could only be said that in terms of magical talent, he, Shaya, would cede the crown to Master-chan.
*Owooo~*
The little dark dragon of darkness also gazed at the clear sea of stars in the night sky.
It flapped its elegant, pitch-black dragon wings, leaped from Shaya’s head, landed in his arms, and let out a gentle whimper.
“Right? You think it’s beautiful too?”
“Our masterpiece, Teacher’s and mine.”
Shaya gently stroked the little head of Ye in his arms.
Originally, Shaya and Heiser had planned to directly create an oversized sun furnace, have it hang in the sky like the sun, and completely illuminate the darkness of this world.
But as they began to actually carry out this plan and mobilize the resources of this world to build the planned sun furnace.
They discovered that the resources on the Lost Island were simply too scarce.
Just the alloy needed to forge the oversized sun furnace was not enough, even with the ore reserves accumulated over thousands of years on the Lost Island.
Even with the reserves Shaya had stored in his Spatial Pocket, it was still far from enough.
So, Heiser ultimately decided to implement a compromise.
Not a single sun anymore.
But— a multitude of stars.
Currently, on the pitch-black sky, each point of light was a sun furnace undergoing fusion reaction, also known as a “Quasi-Star.”
Although not as dazzling as the scorching sun, the combined light of the stars shining simultaneously was enough to illuminate the darkness.
According to Heiser’s plan, when the elves began to learn Arcane Arts and Magic in the future, and embarked on the path of wizards, and powerful individuals could leave the Lost Island alone to obtain resources from the outside world—
At that time, they could invest more resources to gather these hundreds and thousands of stars and combine them into a unified whole.
Then, it would be a new sun illuminating the Lost Island.
At the moment those stars flickered into existence.
Shaya heard the tumultuous uproar from the Royal Court.
“They’ve caused such a commotion.”
“So, some people should be getting restless now, right?”
Sensing the commotion raging outside, Shaya murmured to himself.
And almost as Shaya’s words fell to the ground.
The next moment, he heard the faint footsteps at the door.
And the rapidly approaching powerful aura.
“Outsider.”
“According to the resolution of the majority of Elders in the Council Hall, your existence is too dangerous.”
“Please come with us.”
Alert voices, as if facing a formidable enemy, came from a distance.
“Do not attempt to resist, nor try to escape through the Astral Realm.”
“We know you are powerful, but you should have also discovered that under the rule suppression of the Lost Island, your spiritual power cannot be projected outward.”
“And due to the effect of the Holy Relics, this space has already been sealed off, so even if you wanted to leave by descending, you cannot do so.”
Powerful auras rose, silently surrounding Shaya.
From the items carried by several of them, Shaya also felt a mysterious power.
The weakest among these few auras was a genuine Legend.
However, Shaya paid no attention to these Legends who held high positions in the Elf Royal Court. Instead, he cast his gaze towards the source of the mysterious power they carried.
“It seems that even a starved camel is bigger than a horse.”
“As expected of the dominant race of the Glorious Era, even in their decline, they still possess so many powerful Holy Relics, only slightly inferior to the Holy Spear and Holy Sword.”
“If I were to sell them, they should fetch a good price…”
However, Shaya quickly suppressed his covetous thoughts.
Master-chan, Master-chan…
To help you grow and mature quickly, I have given up such a large sum of wealth.
In the future, you must make it up to me properly.
Facing the vigilant gazes, Shaya grabbed Ye, who was fiercely glaring at the surrounding Elf Legends and about to cause a massacre, from the top of his head and threw him into his Soul Pact Space.
Then, Shaya raised his hands with a peaceful smile.
“Don’t worry, I won’t resist.”
“Please take me with you.”
