The 1.000 year Great Sage ---> COMPLETED STORY

While Seya and his friends were having dinner with the Royal Family, one particular little girl with curly blonde hair and blue eyes was on the rooftop of the Auditorium, looking at a couple of Phoenix and smiling.

Suddenly, a small flying being covered in bright light approached her and a high pitch voice could be heard.

- My Goddess, I came to report a situation. Oh, a couple of Phoenix birds! I didn't see one of them for the last 500 years! I thought that they were almost extinct!

- Yes, these ones were made by Seya. He left them behind after two of his classes so I took the opportunity and gave them life. The school janitor found each of them and he's taking good care of them. He even made this hen house. I think that the female is almost ready to put some eggs. If that janitor continues, they will be able to reproduce. Maybe in some more years, we start to see more of these guys flying around. But this time, I'm not going to let the young Dragonoids mess with them!

The small flying being was hovering in the air, above the two Phoenix, she almost forgot what took her to meet the Goddess.

- My Goddess, one boy tried to kill Seya with a knife in one of the school corridors. I caught him and placed him inside my Light but now I don't know what to do with him.

- What? Did Seya saw you? Because last time he knew that he was being followed by a pervert Examiner, he killed him!

- I might have screamed to warn him. But I'm sure he didn't saw me.

- Ok, but I think you didn't have to do anything. I know that Seya always has a strong Ancient Dragonoid Magic around him. A simple knife wouldn't hurt him. But you did well. Let me see the boy that you caught.

The small being shot a very tiny ball of light to the ground, that started to inflate and when it disappeared, the boy from the 3rd-year that attacked Seya was lying on the floor, completely knocked out. The Goddess approached him and she grabbed him from his hair to take a look at his face.

- I remember this one. It's the son of a Marquess of this Kingdom that annoyed Seya and was sent to the training grounds of the RabbitKind. I'm going to take care of him, don't worry. I know an old LizardKind that can mess with this boy memories. When I sent him back to his family, he will not even remember that he was once in this school.

The small being was flying around, and a worried high pitch voice started to stutter.

- My Goddess… do…do you… think that will be enough?

- I think so. It's better to erase his memories than making him disappear. It would lead to a lot of questioning.

- I will take my leave then. Seya and his friends were going to have dinner with the King and Queen Rohan.

- Yeah, I know. I bet that later this evening, Seya will come to talk to me. Send my regards to that crazy daughter of yours!

- I will, my Goddess. Farewell.

The small being surrounded itself again with a strong light and it vanished, leaving two Phoenix blinking their eyes.

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In the Royal Palace, a troubled King was thinking if he should tell them or not...

- Well, I guess that sooner or later you will all hear about it. I've received some information that the Empire is gathering their troops and sending them to the border of the Elfian Kingdom.

Seya got worried. It was too soon!

- The Empire is trying to invade the Eternal Forest to expand their borders again? And my King thinks that they will not stop there, right?

- That I don't know for sure but since we are allies of the Elfians, I've already sent my troops to our side of the border. Tomorrow they will start marching through the Eternal Forest and join forces with the Elfians on the border at the other side.

- I see. Can I help in some way, my King?

- Only if you have some kind of Magic to stop the Empire army without initiating a full-scale war. Because that what's going to happen if the Empire army enters the Eternal Forest.

- And if I do that?

- You could ask for anything. I would even gladly give you my crown.

Seya was thinking, he had to make some changes in his life plan.

- So that matter as already reached this point.

- But let's not worry, for now. Let's go have dinner and celebrate.

…

After dinner, they said their goodbyes to the King and Queen and they went to Seya's room using his Gateway.

They were happily chatting amongst them while Seya was seated, still in silence.

Princess Heiji noticed that Seya had a serious looking face and she approached him, looking closely to his eyes and lowering her voice.

- You were very quiet for the entire dinner and you still seem to be thinking about something. What's wrong, Seya? It's about that girl's voice and that blinding light? I saw it from the beginning, right before that boy disappeared, you know?

Seya understood. Seems it wasn't just him that saw the 3rd-year boy trying to kill him. He smiled and winked at the Princess.

- I'm not worried about that. You know I have a lot of protection against any physical and Magical attacks.

Seya gently banged his head against Princess Heiji forehead while smiling and got up. He started to walk back and forth, thinking.

The others noticed that he was walking in the room for a while, without saying anything. Finally, Seya took a deep breath and explained.

- This situation with the Empire is worrying me. It could start a war.

Ryn held on Seya's arm, she was also worried.

- But what can we do about it? The King said that everything is already prepared, we can only wait and pray for the best.

- Yes… pray… pray to the Goddess… if you excuse me all, I have to leave for a moment.

Ryn was looking at Seya, it seemed he had a weird idea.

- At this hour? Where are you going?

Princess Heiji understood immediately.

Seya remained silent, thinking.

- ...

- I understand. Let's leave him, guys, he needs to do this. Seya, send my regards to the Goddess, ok?

Ryn was looking at Seya while being pushed by the Princess.

- But… but…

Princess Heiji pushed everyone outside Seya's room and she closed the door.

- Let's go already! Seya, we'll be leaving then.

Seya was thinking to himself.

- …||…seems it's time, already. I thought I still had years until something like this happened…||

When his friends leave, Seya opened a Gateway to the Church of the Goddess in the Capital of the Royal Kingdom. As soon as Seya went through, he was at a discrete corner of the Church. No one was there. At that hour the Church was closed.

Seya looked around. He really liked that Church, filled with ancient walls carved with images of the Goddess creating animals, trees, and plants.

There were also images of the Goddess with the RabbitKind, one with her between the Elfians and the Dwarfs and one that Seya already saw on the Dragonoid Library.

That was the most strange of them all. Seya never understood how the two images could exist in two different places. Seya knew that the image on the Dragonoid Library had close to 10.000 years. But that one on the church couldn't have more than 1.000 years. The Church was built when the Royal Kingdom was created. Maybe Inia, the Elder Dragonoid Protector of the humans, had something to do with that image.

Seya walked along the Church, looking at every image in the walls like he always did, all the times that he went there.

When he reached to the front he stopped, facing the image of the Goddess. It was a statue that he knew that could only be done by a Dragonoid in a human form. That was definitely the work of the Elder Dragonoid Inia.

It was the image of an adult Goddess, with an amazingly beautiful face. Even the curves on the Goddess body and the robe were a perfection.

Seya stood in front of the statue for a moment and after looking around again to make sure that no one was hidden in the shadows, he took a deep breath and he started to talk with the statue.

- ||…no one here, perfect…||… Hello, my cute Little Goddess. I hope You can hear me. I'm thinking about doing something really stupid that can kill me again. Seems that You will need to find another one to help You, really soon.

Slowly from behind the adult size statue, came the cute little Goddess with blue eyes and curly yellow hair that Seya knew so well.

- Hello, little one, I'm here. Did you call for me?

- Hello again. I'm glad You came. I need Your advice on this matter.

- You don't need any advice, you already know what you are going to do, right?

- … yes… I guess I'm a little worried about letting You down.

- Nonsense. I believe in you.

- There's nothing You can do to prevent all this from happening?

- I can only try to guide my people in the right direction, I cannot intervene in such a matter. But you can.

- Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'll try.

- I think that maybe its better if you hide your identity as much as you can on this matter. You are still young in this world, to have people after you when all things are settled.

- Hum… I understand. I need to talk with King Rohan and the Elfian King, things are going to become a little crazy. I hope You enjoy the show.

- I can't wait for that! Oh, send my regards to those Kings. I haven't seen the Elfian King for quite some time. And King Rohan is forgetting his prayers!

- By the way, Princess Heiji Rohan sends her regards.

- Oh, that cute little Princess! I saw that she found herself a good partner! I knew that it was a good idea, helping his grandfather escaping from the Empire! I'm really good, right? …knnnya… knnnya… knnnya…

- You really need to do something about that laughter of Yours, one can't take You serious, after hearing that.

- You meanie! Now, get out of here, you have work to do! I want to see what you are going to do! But take this, before going.

Seya saw a huge ball of Magic that the Goddess had on her hands. It was the size of his own head!

- What's that big amount of Magic gathered on your hand?

- Take it. It's just Pure Magic gathered from the world, a day's worth of it. I think you can put this on those Magic Crystals of yours and use it. Of course, you need to separate the Attributes, they are all mixed together, for balance.

I never would have imagined that you would be able to create Crystals so easily! That really surprised me!

- It was only because of the First Gift that You granted me. I remembered my old Geology classes back on Earth.

- But still… well, go now, go, go! And try not to kill everyone, remember that the people of the Empire are also my people!

- I know. Goodbye, my cute Little Goddess. I hope we meet again.

Seya opened a Gateway to the Rohan Palace and he went through it while waving and smiling to the Goddess.

When Seya made the Gateway disperse, the Goddess was looking at it disappearing as if it has been taken by the wind and she was smiling in approval.

- That's a very handy Magic that my little one has there. I always like to see this. Pretty neat!

…

When Seya crossed to the throne room, the King was not there. But by sensing his Magic Flow, he found the King at his office examining some documents.

- My King, sorry to intrude again, can we talk for a while?

- Oh, Seya. Sure, what's the matter?

- About this situation with the Empire army, I will take care of that.

- What are you thinking of doing?

- My King, if I stop them I would appreciate the title of a Duke or a Marquess and also lands from the Empire, like 10 km from the Eternal Forest borders into the Empire lands and since the ocean in the West until the Dwarfs Kingdom in the East.

I want to open a road later on, across the Eternal Forest to unit those lands to this Kingdom.

Of course, I will also discuss this with the Royal Elfian family.

- What? Are you serious? Why do you want so many lands?

- My King, I think that by granting me those lands I can make sure that I can create some security measures for the Empire troops not to do something like this ever again.

- That's a lot of territory. You could make a country with all those lands.

- Perhaps, but I prefer being an honorable member of the Kingdom of Rohan.

- But that would only happen if you were able to stop the Empire. Do you really think that you can do anything?

- Yes. I will need just a little bit of help from my King.

- What do you need?

- Please send a message to the Kingdom troops that his Majesty is sending a Great Sage to help. They don't need to do anything when they reach the Empire border, the Great Sage will take care of everything.

- A Great Sage? We haven't seen one for the last 1.000 years! You are still young but you are quickly reaching that level. Ok, you can count on me. I'll send a message right away.

- Thank you, my King. I must leave now, I need to talk to the Elfian King. By the way, the Goddess said that my King is forgetting is prayers…||…Gateway open…||

- The Goddess? Ok… Seya, the Great Sage. I wonder…

…

Seya opened a Gateway to the Elfian Village, directly to the throne room and he went through it. On the other side already smiling, were the Elfian King and his son. Seems that they were discussing some plans, from the maps that they had on the table in front of them.

- Look who has returned! Seya, what are doing here?

- My King, I heard that there's a situation here and I came to help.

The Elfian Prince was tapping Seya's back, smiling.

- This little brother of mine, I knew he would be running here as soon as he heard of it!

- Of course, Big Brother. We have been friends for so many years and when I heard that the Empire was trying to invade my second home, of course I would come!

The King nodded his head in agreement.

- I knew you would want to come and protect your beloved Eternal Forest but I didn't want to concern you with such a matter.

- I have a plan that I think will prevent anyone from dying. But I will need my King to agree with it.

- I'm all ears! Get it, ears, because of my pointy ears? Heheheheh!

- My King, I've asked the King of the Rohan Kingdom that if I stop the Empire army I want lands from the Empire, 10 km from the Eternal Forest borders into the Empire lands and since the ocean in the West until the Dwarfs Kingdom in the East.

And later on, I want to build a road that could cross the Eternal Forest and unite those lands and the Royal Kingdom of Rohan. Of course, I will not kill any animals or plants, I will just replant all the trees along the border.

I ask the same reward from the Elfians.

The Elfian King was so surprised. He couldn't believe what that young human was saying while looking so confident!

- Hum… Seya, if you can prevent this war I would even give you my crown and one of my daughters! But why do you want those lands? You will become a target for the revenge of the Empire!

-My King, I can create some security measures for the Empire not to do something like this ever again. But I also need to disguise myself and I need some help from his Majesty.

- Ok. What's your idea?

- I've asked the same thing from King Rohan. Please send a message to the Kingdom troops that your Majesty is sending a Great Sage to help. They don't need to do anything when they reach the Empire border, the Great Sage will take care of everything.

The Elfian King slapped his own forehead. He remembered!

- A Great Sage! So, it was about you that the Great Goddess warned me about!

- By the way, the Goddess sends her regards.

- Oh, you talked to her already about this? What's her opinion?

- That cute little Goddess said that she was counting on me and that she was expecting a good show.

- Ahahahahah! Seems that even the Goddess trusts you on this! I'll send right away the message. Go to sleep now, your old room is still there for you to use.

- Thank you, my King. Big Brother, I'll make my leave now.

…

When Seya retired to his room, the Elfian King was silent for a moment, thinking.

- Father, are you agreeing with this? But, my little brother can be killed!

- A Great Sage. I still remember the last one. That woman was amazing. I always thought that there were great things waiting for this young boy. Don't worry, I will be standing right next to him for his protection. Despite the fact that he doesn't need any protection.

Seya entered his Elfian room, deep underground in the middle of the roots of a gigantic tree. He had that room kept for him since he was little. He often stayed there, every time that he went to visit the Elfians.

It had only a small closet, a net bed, a table, and a chair. Seya was used to have few things. In fact, he always thought that having too much furniture was a waste of space.

He then opened his Compressed Dimension and he took from there a Sage robe with a hood, filled with a lot of Magic Crystals and a staff with one Big Magic Crystal.

- Now, let me just put the Magic that the Goddess gave me on this staff and on this robe… there. Mmmhh… seems that it can hold even more Magic. Perfect.

And I have an enormous quantity of Magic Crystals on my Compressed Dimension to fill with Magic.

I think I'm ready for tomorrow. I need to sleep, tomorrow is going to be a good day to die. Or not… If I could avoid, I would prefer not dying. Ryn would never forgive me.

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