~~~~~~~~~~~ (3rd POV) ~~~~~~~~~~~~
East of Quarth in the Red Waste, a young boy with medium-length brown hair with a red streak, who had almond-shaped green eyes, had a beard about 2 weeks old, which contradicts his normal clean-shaven look.
He was wearing a red shirt under a sleeveless brown leather breastplate that had an eagle in the middle, with belts on each side to adjust the size. He also had a brown leather shoulder plate strapped on his left shoulder with the strap going on top of the breastplate.
He had brown leather trousers as his pants; he had a belt around his waist with three vials on the right side and a dagger on the left, with two pouches, one dangling by some chains under the vials, while the other one was sewn on the back, with leather boots on his feet.
He was sitting on top of a rock, with a satchel over his right shoulder; he was seen holding a double-edged sword in his right hand. The sword shone an electric blue as it crackled and sizzled; as a few sparks danced at its edge, it had a leather handle. The sword was made of Valyrian steel, as it was black as smoke and about 2.2 feet tall, with some runes running along it that formed a dragon when looked at from afar.
~~~~~~~~~ (Jade's POV) ~~~~~~~~~
"Jade!! It's your turn to survey for any worm wormmanger!!" shouted Rhea from the sky as she came down riding a buffed griffin; at the front its feathers were snow white with a sunny yellow mane at the back.
She named her Lightdawn; she raised her to be a fighter. "Sure!!" I shouted back as I stopped feeding mana to the sword to stop the spell.
I then turned my sword into a bracer in my right hand; I jumped off the rock and then picked up my shield and turned it into a gauntlet on my left hand; I whistled before jumping off the rock.
After a short moment, a lean Griffin with black feathers like a crow's and a fiery red mane came flying at high speed and got down near me.
I ruffled its black feathers before riding on the black leathery saddle at its back. "Come on, buddy!! Up!!" I told him as he started flapping his wings.
As we were soaring through the sky, I surveyed the ground. In these last six years, I learnt a lot of spells, and I easily became a master rank. I also completed a lot of missions and jobs, which earned me the nickname Hellryder.
Right now, Sister Rhea and I are hunting for Wormmangers; they are huge worms that ambush merchants on the road towards Quarth.
It uses the sand in the red waste as a camouflage to ambush them and lay waste to them. Our mission is to kill as many Wormmangers as we can, and for each one slain, we receive 1000 coins.
As I am soaring, I can't help but reminisce about the last years, as my 14th birthday is just around the corner.
I have 2 familiars now: a shadow lizard which can evolve into a shadow dragon and a lightning tiger, which was my first familiar. I already managed to evolve it once from a lightning cub.
I also have 3 summons now: a cold flame atronach, a variant of fire atronach, a storm atronach, which only appears with our family, and an iron golem, another variant of the earth atronach.
I am a master in the school art of destruction. I plan on becoming a master in the school art of conjuration next, which is why I am trying to learn how to conjure weapons.
My spell list is as follows:
- Spike (Earth, Pure mana)
-Wall (Fire, Earth, pure mana)
- Elemental Ball (Fire, Earth, Pure mana)
- Body reinforcement
- Mana control (Pure mana)
-Slice (Air, Pure mana)
- Shield (pure mana)
- Elemental arrow (Fire, Earth, Air, Pure mana)
- Chain lightning (lightning)
- Burning hand
- Elemental control (Fire, Earth, Air)
- Elemental sword (Light, Lightning, Fire, Earth, Air, Pure mana)
-Dancing light (Light, Fire, pure mana)
-Disguise (Pure mana)
-Bind (Pure mana)
- Feather fall (Pure mana)
-Enchantment (Pure mana)
-Mage equipment (Pure mana)
- Mirage (light)
As I am reminiscing about the past, a loud cry brings me back to reality; a giant wormmonger about 16 feet in width is trying to reach me and Brightnight. This is my 12th large wormmonger thus far.
I equip my sword and get off Brightnight. Just as I near the worm, I double jump using mana as a platform and cut the worm in half with my sword, Stormbringer.
I fell down on the sand with no pain. As I came to a point where body reinforcement is always active, Brightnight joined me on the sand shortly after. I looked at the two sides of the Wormmanger and put them into the pocket dimension on my back belt.
'I think that this was the last worm manager in miles,' I think to myself as I ride back to the caravan and meet up with my sister. 'Back already??' she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, I don't think there are any more worm managers, and staying here any longer is just a waste of time for us." I said it in a matter-of-fact tone. "Okay!! Then let's go back to Quarth!!" the sister said, getting off the rock she sat upon.
We each rode on our respective Griffins, I on Brightnight and my sister on Lightdawn.