Transmigration Into The Beginning After The End

Chapter 12 - The Long Awaited II

CHAPTER 12 - THE LONG AWAITED II

It's been a day since that night. To be honest, I stopped meditating and instead became reluctant on it, so I practiced on my combat skills in the meantime.

I had a sense of fear, for not being able to ascend higher in the mana core stage. The same exact thing happened to me in my two years of training with Mordain in the Beast Glades.

After so much meditation and dedication towards it, I never felt an increase in my mana pool or spells. Everything was the same. Letting it on the side of my mind, I focused on my physical training for some time before I got some results back.

Eventually I reached where my goal was, but now my goal lies higher.

And for that to happen, I need things to go the way they are supposed to go. So I began taking morning walks and afternoon walks all over the Grand Mountain's side where cliffs are stated to be sighted. I even go past the path they are set and look around a mile or two before settling that today wasn't the day.

Repeating that same routine for some days. Hope falling low and thinking that going back to my family right now was going to be the best option or going to the Beast Glades where Mordain resides.

Loud echoes of yelling orders and fluctuations of spells broke loose on the path above me. The sound of metal hitting each other, allowing for a unique and cursed noise of chattering metal.

It was today.

The day that I would meet the protagonist and set the gears in motion as the story goes.

I wanted to go up there and at least watch it but I couldn't give away my cover like that. With my curiosity in check to some extent, I patiently waited at the cave I was staying at, packing up everything I had as belongings.

When I finished. The battle still had been going on for some time.

The feeling of anxiety and anticipation that was hanging on my chest and shoulders by a thread. Because everything—and I actually mean everything—must go through it like in the story. Anything more or less might damage or even corrupt the future of Arthur's life or even the whole continent together.

So, I stayed a couple of miles away from the cliffs and mountains. Injecting mana into my eyes, fueling them with the adrenaline of magic, unlocking the advancement of sight. It was something similar to a binoculars but instead all I had to do was just some mana and calculatedly, enabled my eyes to see farther than normal.

Sitting on a branch of the tallest tree there was around, focusing purely on the battle's aftermath. No mana beast or something bothered me while I was watching.

Of course, if something stronger than an E-ranked beast tried to attack me, the best I could do was run.

Again, I wasn't confident enough to fight a monster who has lived on experience battles in the beast glades, perhaps even use affinities in battle for its advantages, while I can't even use the four basic elemental affinities like before.

I don't even have a proper weapon to fight a beast.

Haaaa... really, I have come here unprepared.

Ignoring my own thoughts at the moment, pushing away my depression and insecurities, I refocused on the battle. And to my surprise, there were two extra people in there.

"James... Mia..."

How? Why?!

My two parents were here with the Twin Horns, traveling with the Leywins to Xyrus City. What for?