The legend of ice - 5 The laws of the universe

Richard continued to say how hard it is to reach those ranks and how many years it would take.

“You are only 118 and you reached the ‘chaos lord’ level?”, I asked.

“How do you know that the ‘lord of chaos’ is a level of cultivation?”, he asked regarding my question.

“I told you before, I read books. Anyway, you haven’t answered my question.”

“I am biologically 115, but technically I am over 3 million chaos cycles”.

“And each chaos cycle is approximately 4 trillion years, am I right?”

“Exactly”, he said, waited for some time as if to let me consume this knowledge, then added, “all of this is achieved when you study the laws of the universe”.

“Which are?”

“First there was only the primordial chaos, then there was the 4 elements that are: water, wind, fire, and earth. And from these elements were born 4 edicts known as the edicts of life, death, fate, and destruction. This brings us to other laws such as the laws of darkness, light, lightning, reality, time, power, space, soul, and mind.”

“That makes a lot of laws”.

“Indeed, there is also countless lesser laws mostly known as ‘Daos’”.

“Let me guess, you study the law of darkness?”

“I study a lot of laws, but yes mainly the law of darkness.”

“So you are saying that every person has an affinity to study a specific law, right?”

Richard nodded.

“Then what’s my affinity?”, I asked.

“You, kid, has the affinity to study the laws of water and wind, and at a time you will learn how to merge these laws to create a new law”, he said, ” come on now, I will take you inside the house”.

And with this, we walked towards the mansion. There were two soldier statutes at each side of the wooden door of the mansion, each holding a spear and a shield.

Richard passed without any problem. Only when I was about to step, the two statues moved and crossed the spears and spoke in one deep creepy voice:” Only the residents of the mansion shall pass. The lord is the only one that can make an exception”.

I was scared, I won’t lie. Now, I know you’ll say” you are a coward Hasan, you don’t deserve to be here”, you don’t have a point. But tell me, dear reader, what would you do when a piece of stone talks to you? Do you experience it all the time? The answer is no of course.

“God”, Richard said while slapping his forehead, ” I forgot about that. I, Richard Dumbledore, the lord of this house, gives Hasan Awada permission to enter the mansion.”

The soldiers returned to their positions and let me peacefully pass.

We entered the house. The interior was amazing. It had medieval and modern furniture. I stood in the open corridor admiring the beauty of the room.

” Starlet”, Richard shouted.

I gave him the ‘ who-the-hell-is-Starlet’ look.

“Starlet is the spirit and the manager of the mansion”, he explained.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man appeared out of nowhere. That wasn’t apparition, I have seen how Richard did it.

“Master”, the man bowed to Richard and then looked at me like I was an interesting object that needs to be repaired.

“Starlet”, Richard said, “meet my new to be disciple, Hasan Awada. Give him a tour inside the mansion and then get him to my office.”

He then took the stairs to the second floor of the house leaving me alone with the ghost.

“Um hi”, I said, not sure of what I should say.

“Come here, son”, Starlet said, ” I will show you where your room will be and give you a general impression of this house”.

We walked through the mansion while Starlet was explaining to me the various rooms, and when the mansion was built, how, and why. I didn’t know if I was to be surprised by him or myself. I found that kind of interesting, rather than boring.

” Before this mansion was built”, he said, ” Master and his disciples lived in a nearby castle named Hogwarts. An ancient name, but still the modren people still call it like that”.

“Wait a minute…”, I reviewed what he said, ” you mean Hogwarts the school? It is real?”

“Yes, how do you think that castle was transformed into a school for young wizards and witches?”

“Oh… Sorry. So we are in Scotland right now? And where exactly near Hogwarts?”

“Yes we are in Scotland. As to where near the school, we are in the dark forest.”

“Oh. So, tell me. What do we do exactly here?”

“Here you learn how to control your power, practice magic, martial arts, care for creatures, potions, and other activities.”

” Nice”.

He showed me my room. Wow. It was big. It was the sort of room I wanted and mostly desired.

Starlet then took me to a statue of a bird, a phoenix. He spoke a word I coudn’t spell – I imagine it is some sort of password – and the phoenix started to rise, and with it round stairs rose with it.

We climbed the stairs and entered a room. How could I describe this room? Well, it was like the headmaster’s office at Hogwarts. A telescope, shelfs of books all around the room, and an office. There were other artifacts hanging on the walls. I turned my attention to the ceiling. Wait. There was none. There was a beautiful night sky with plenty of shining stars.

Richard was at the telescope looking in it and mumbled some words. I didn’t realize that I was standing in the door and my mouth was hanging open. Starlet’s pushing let me wake up from my trance.

“Ops, sorry”, I apologized, which also told Richard that we were here.

“Come in”, he said. I did as he told, but found that the spirit didn’t enter and closed the door behind him.