Reborn With a Magic System Chapter 472 – On To Ardnet

“Yes, good idea,” Mage Veers said quickly. “Go out, let your auto-mapper do its work and then co back inside. We can then take a look at it together and figure out the best course.”

“Are you two worried we are walking into an ambush?” Damion questioned, looking from Mage Veers to Mage Teft.

“With both allies and enemies on the Mother World, it is prudent to be cautious,” Mage Teft answered.

“Alright, I’ll be back in a flash,” Damion said as he walked through the labyrinth exit.

The instant after passing through the exit Damion found himself on the Mother World. The landscape around him was not familiar. Wherever he was, he was not near the ancient ruins of Atlantis, or plateau city of Ardnet.

The labyrinth’s exit was nestled on the side of a mountain which appeared to be part of a vast mountain range. All around Damion were tall pines and snowcapped peaks. As he looked around he could not see any signs of civilization, which was good, but also troubleso.

Turning around he headed back into the labyrinth to share his findings.

“It’s quiet out there,” Damion comnted as he pulled out his tablet to show everyone the map of the area.

His map showed that the labyrinth’s entrance was situated on a steep mountain side overlooking a valley that extended beyond the edge of the map in either direction. Throughout the valley and scattered around the various mountain peaks and passes were signals belonging to Demonic Beasts. In addition to those nurous signals were signals for Realm Breaches scattered across the area.

“Great, the middle of nowhere,” one of the A Rank mages grumbled.

“This is both good and bad,” Mage Strand, the S Rank Wood mage, spoke up before anyone else could complain. “We are far enough away from civilization that our entry will go unnoticed. However, we have no idea which direction we must head in to find the Iblis and not the Alfar.”

The eyes of most of the expedition turned to Damion. They were looking for a sign or at least so reassurance that he would know where they needed to go, or at least a rough direction. Only he had no idea where they were on the Mother World. Ardnet could be just on the other side of one of those mountains at the edge of the map, or it could be on the other side of the world. He simply had no way to know.

“I am going to be honest with all of you,” Damion said loudly to make sure everyone could hear. “I have no idea where on the Mother World we are. Which ordinarily would an making our way to the Iblis over land or air without being detected or in a tily manner a bleak prospect. However, traveling to them through such thods is not needed.”

Damion paused for a mont as he gathered his thoughts and his courage. This was the only way, and it would allow them all to reach the Iblis safely. Once there, Visneer could help sort out the best way to handle the next hurdle, reaching the seal he needed to release. However, before Damion could continue several of the A Rank mages began shouting out questions.

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“If you don’t know where we need to go, how are we going to get there?”

“Are you going to contact them? Do our communication tablets even work here?”

“We will be Portaling there!”

Damion’s sudden shout over the rising tide of questions caused everyone to go silent. The A Rank mages looked doubtful, while most of the S Rank mages looked intrigued.

“Surely you don’t an you can share your knowledge of where we are going with Mage Fletcher for her to open the Portal,” Mage Parivar scoffed.

“No. I will be opening the Portal,” Damion said flatly. Before the murmurs and doubts to fill the stunned silence he continued with his explanation. “Many of you moved to Atlantis with the promise of a better future for mages. Most of you don’t know what the ans and before you, who don’t know, doubt , just know what I am about to say can be confird by most S Ranks and any A Rank that is a mber of the Mage Association.

“The thod the Association uses to test children locks in their affinity and the earlier it is locked in the greater chance that child will not be able to beco a mage. That is why at Avalon we don’t test the children’s affinities, and we won’t be teaching magic until they are 18 years old. Because at that point, their core is fully ford and they are able to learn magic safely, without risking damage to their core and with the ability to use spells of any affinity.”

The outcry from the mages in the expedition was not as loud or as doubtful as Damion had imagined it would be, but then he recalled everyone here was over A Rank. Most were likely already aware of the truth about the Mage Association.

“Continue,” Mage Veers said.

“I am a product of the thod Mage Teft is using in Avalon. And while I can’t claim I know spells of every affinity, I can use spells of quite a few.” As Damion spoke he held a hand up and cycled through casting Ice Shard, Fireball, Earth Shard and Wind Slash. The sight of four different affinities being cast seed to silence anyone with doubts about if Mage Teft’s thod was viable or not. “Once we step out of the labyrinth, I will open a Portal near the Iblis city of Ardnet. From there we just have to make ourselves known and we should be safely escorted into the city.”

“How do we make ourselves known?” Mage Strand asked, breaking the stunned silence of the group.

“Well, when I first found the city I flared my aura and they ca out to see if I was a threat. With so many of us appearing, and through a Portal, I think they will be quick to assu we are.”

“Perhaps it would be best to open a Portal a bit further away from the city then,” Mage Fletcher suggested.

“Good idea,” Damion agreed. “Shall we?”

After the S Rank mages nodded, Damion headed back through the labyrinth exit followed by the S Rank and the A Rank mages. With 70 people exiting the Realm Breach and appearing on the mountain side, the area beca quite crowded. Not wasting any ti, Damion opened up a Portal to an area about twenty kiloters from Ardnet and stepped through.

Once Damion was through the Portal and looked at the area around him, he thought he was in the wrong place. Instead of a lush forest with the plateau city in the distance, he and the other human mages found themselves in a burnt and desolate area that had either been the recent recipient of a wildfire or had been bombarded by war. In the distance he even saw wreckage that looked like it could have been one of the patrol craft of the city. Even with the tal twisted and half destroyed, he was certain of his guess.

Damion was sure he was in the right place, not just because of the destroyed patrol craft, but because in the distance he could see Ardnet. The giant towers of the city were easily visible from atop its plateau, and he could see smoke rising from parts of the city.

As others began erging from the Portal the consensus was that sothing was very wrong. Even though none of them had been here, they knew the area did not match what Damion had reported previously.

Damion quickly pulled out his tablet and looked at the map. On it there was a wall of signals moving towards Ardnet, they were about halfway between the expedition’s location and the city. With the signals heading towards Ardnet and the destruction all around them, Damion realized what was happening.

Ardnet was under siege.