Reincarnated at Level Two Million - Chapter 105

“Alright, here is the plan.” Zell said to the others. “While I am away at the dragon village, I want you all to head to my kingdom of Neuval. Unseat my sister and wait for my arrival. Do not kill her.”

“I will do my best.” Kilgon said.

“Are you sure that’s what you want to do, Zell?” Kaitlyn asked.

“Yes, as far as I am concerned, she is no longer any relation to me.” Zell said. “But still I need mother’s blessing before she can be dealt with permanently.”

“I understand.” Kaitlyn said.

“I will remain here in Tarm.” Samantha said. “As queen I cannot go on an adventure to another hostile kingdom. I have too many duties that require my attention here.”

“Kilgon, do you think it would be alright if Isabel stayed here to defend Samantha?” Zell asked. “I don’t want to leave her undefended incase one of the demon generals attack again.”

“I will ask her to stay.” Kilgon said.

“Thank you.” Zell replied. “Alright everyone I am off to the isle of dragons again. Please be careful and be weary of my sister’s traps. She is cunning and from another world.”

“Right.” Kaitlyn said, nodding. “But Zell, can I ask you something before you just vanish?”

“Yes, what is it?” Zell replied.

“Why do you want us to travel to Neuval when you could just teleport us there?” Kaitlyn asked.

“Because I didn’t think of that…” Zell replied. “Here let me open up a portal to Neuval.” Zell began casting a portal to his home kingdom, but for some reason his spell was not working. So, he tried again. His spell failed again. “My portal isn’t working for Neuval.”

“Can you get us close then?” Kilgon asked.

“Let me try.” Zell said. He attempted to open the portal further and further away, but he could not open one until he got into the forest. “Okay I can make a portal at the entrance of the forbidden forest. I don’t know why the magic isn’t working before I reach there.”

“It’s still a lot closer than Tarm.” Kaitlyn said. “Although it was extremely worrisome that even you cannot cast a portal there.”

“I know, I have reservations about sending you now.” Zell said. “I don’t know what my sister could have done to prevent me from teleporting. I fear what else she may have instore.”

“It will be okay.” Kaitlyn said. “We are your friends. We can share your burden. Open the portal and we will go and unseat your sister.”

“Can it wait until tomorrow lad?” Kilgon asked. “Let me spend the night with Isabel. That way I can ask her to protect Tarm in our absence.”

“You just want to get laid.” Kaitlyn teased. “It’s okay though we can wait until tomorrow.”

Zell vanished from their vision with a smile on his face.

“Where did he?” Kaitlyn asked. “Oh, damn it! Don’t tell me he decided it was too dangerous and decided to do it himself again!”

“I would bet that he did.” Kilgon said. “Don’t let it get you down lass. He is dealing with things that no man should have to deal with.”

“I know, that’s why he should let us help him.” Kaitlyn replied.

“He doesn’t want to worry about our safety.” Kilgon said. “As vile and evil as the lad’s sister is, there is no telling what she has planned. Plus, it is a family matter, and we should respect his wishes on this.”

“But if he gets too emotional, he could explode and destroy the multiverse.” Kaitlyn reminded Kilgon.

“Well, here is hoping the lad keeps his calm.” Kilgon replied. “Although knowing what his sister is capable of, that may be a grueling task.”

“It will be okay Kaitlyn.” Samantha said. “At least he listened to our concerns this time.”

“I just feel like he thinks I am useless to him.” Kaitlyn replied. “I want him to need me for something, otherwise I will never get him to stay with me.”

Zell teleported to the forest as the others had predicted. His thoughts went to his kingdom and what horrors his sister must have done. As he exited the forest towards Neuval he found the land to be dark, decayed, and lifeless. The trees scattering the outer rim of the forest were all dead and barren of leaves.

What was once a glorious view of rolling green hills under a blue sky had been transformed into a nightmare of cracked black ground and a yellow greenish sky emanating from the direction of the kingdom.

“Rose…” Zell said. “What did you do? What did your fear of me drive you to do?”

Zell focused to see the flow of magic in the area. All of the magic seemed to be flowing to the kingdom. Streams of magic flowed from all the area and converged into a massive one headed to the kingdom.

“So that’s how it is.” Zell said as he watched his own mana begin to get pulled out of him towards the stream. He summoned a protective barrier around himself which caused the mana drain to stop. “So, everything’s mana and life force are being pulled from them and towards the capital.

Zell walked over to the edge of the rot and stared at it for a few minutes. He marked the line and watched as it inched slowly past. “The area is expanding as well.” He said. “Does she mean to drain the entire world of its mana and life? Where did she even learn such a gruesome spell? I am so happy I did not send the others here; this unknown magic is horrifying.”

Zell weighed his options. He did not know anything about this spell and feared what could happen if he abruptly ended the cast. An explosion of this much energy would be devastating to the entire planet and threaten all life. He also did not know the status of his kingdom. Although they were cruel to him as a child, he did not want them to suffer. He feared he may lose control if he went in.

Doing some quick math, he calculated that the ring would expand by six feet a day at its current rate. Judging by the amount of time he knew his sister was back in the capital, because of what had happened with Sid, he figured the initial zone of the spell must have been massive, or the spell slows the larger it gets.

He decided there was only one man who may know the answer to this riddle and teleported back to the dragon isle. He rushed to the house of black in hopes that Donovan and Qamra would be inside. After a quick search he found them in the library. Donovan had his nose in a book and Qamra was sleeping in a corner.

“Donovan!” Zell shouted. “Something has happened in Neuval!”

“What is it, young master?!” Donovan asked.

“Something has drained all of the life and mana from the kingdom and the surrounding lands.” Zell said. He then went on to explain in detail all of what he saw and his calculations of movement.

Donovan’s face became pale with dread. “So, Rose really, did it?” He said as if something broke inside of himself. “She used the forbidden magic left to us by the gods.”

“What do you mean forbidden magic left to us by the gods?” Zell asked. “I looked at the spell, it was not cast with god magic, but regular magic. What are you talking about?”

“I will have to get you to explain that to me later.” Donovan said. “However, it is more pressing for me to explain exactly what your sister is doing. She is using a dark book written by a man who claimed to be a prophet of the divine. He wrote many spells down, saying they were gifts from the divine. However, the man was completely mad. He wrote gibberish that no one ever understood. To think Rose translated those spells.”

“If no one ever translated the spells, how do you know she is using them?” Zell asked.

“Because I know of the horror stories.” Donovan said. “What you described to me is just like the horror tales of old. The crazy scholar didn’t just write them down and leave it. He wanted to show off his might granted to him by the gods. He could pull another’s life from their body and take it into himself. Doing that granted him a higher level and boosted stats.

That’s not all it did either. The corpse left behind from the victim would rise and serve him. He could never extend his area more than a few feet though, so the kingdom killed him from range with an arrow. We locked his knowledge away in the deepest vault of the treasury, hoping its vileness would never grace this planet again.”

“Why didn’t they just destroy the book?!” Zell asked.

“There was some sort of magic placed on the book.” Donovan explained. “Whenever it was destroyed it would drain the life of the items or people around it and reconstitute itself.. Locking it away was the only way we could deal with the nightmare.”