The journey to the fairy's nest was surprisingly short. By the ti the first rays of dawn broke through the veil of the darkness, we had already arrived. I scanned the area below with a curious expression. What lay before was a normal forest.
I turned to glance at Ayona who was smiling with anticipation as she pointed directly below us. "Ho!" She kept repeating.
"Ho you say. I don't sense any presence down there, which could only an one thing. An illusion."
My eyes blinked as my vision changed. The world suddenly turned colorful as I watched the various strands of mana swirling about. Glancing in the direction of the nest, a strange sight awaited. I would have missed it before, had I not known that this was where the nest was situated.
The mana down below was impressively... Normal? It was a combination of most elents, with the prominent one being the earth mana. That was normal, considering we were in a forest. Now if I was just passing by, I would have not bothered taking a second glance at this place.
Now, however, things were different. Behind its cloak of normalcy, this place hid a secret. The movent of the other elents was abnormal, forced even. The earth mana, on the other hand, was unmoving. It remained in its place as if to hide sothing.
The various other elents: water, wind, and even so faint hints of fire, constantly moved about in a predetermined pattern. It was as if the whole point was for them to simply mimic the movents of normal elents. It was wrong, it was all wrong. The longer I stared, the more problems and flaws I found.
Mana was unpredictable. The wind elents were free, and unrestrained. The water elents, on the other hand, were... Flexible, fluid, reserved. And fire... Fire was wild and destructive. The scenery before went against the natural order of mana, how I know it. That's how I was able to tell that sothing was wrong.
It was as if all of the elents were trying to mask the presence of the earth mana. Sothing or soone was forcing them to move about as if to hide sothing.
"Fairies are masters at illusions. Their main elent is earth mana," I recalled, glancing at Ayona who at so point jumped from my back and was floating beside . "If this place is indeed the nest, then that would an this is an illusion. The only one that should be capable of an illusion of this scale, is the great mother."
I nodded in understanding and slowly descended to the ground. Mana steered at my presence, as the water elents struggled against an invisible force, trying to stop them from moving toward . "That settles it I guess. Soone is definitely controlling the mana."
I was sure that it was indeed the great mother fairy, but what confused the most was the fact that she appeared to be wielding all of the elents. Water, wind, and fire to mask the workings of the earth mana. "How is she doing that?" I muttered to myself in almost disbelief.
My presence, however, seed to disturb what ager control she had over the water elents, as after a few seconds, they all rushed towards , disregarding their positions. With the water mana missing, everything seed to co crashing down.
The wind elents were the next to disperse, followed by the scarce fire elents. With no elents to hinder my sight, the scenery before changed. The amount of earth mana swirling in place was abnormal, even if I took into consideration that we were in a forest.
The pattern it moved about was also unusual. I traced it with my eyes, finding a weak spot in the giant formation, and then used my mana to push against it. The second I did, the sound of glass breaking resounded throughout the forest as the illusion suddenly disappeared.
What lay before was an impressive sight, causing to halt in my tracks. Thousands upon thousands of tiny fairies, in the ground and the sky, stared back at with a mixture of horror and awe in their eyes. Small houses decorated the various tree branches, while others were built on the ground. Far behind the sea of fairies, was a striking palace. Its size, far too big to belong to a fairy.
I turned to Ayona who pointed at it and spoke excitedly, "Great mother!"
"She's there?" I mumbled before turning my attention to the faraway palace. My eyes constantly scanned the fairies, ready for any sort of retaliation. Surprisingly, however, there was none. It was then that I felt a strange disturbance in the air, the sea of fairies then parted to make way for towards the palace. Ayona's eyes lit up as she looked at and spoke, "The great mother, invites master!"
"Hmmm," nodding, I slowly walked to the palace, not letting my guard down. This great mother seed to hide quite a number of secrets. Just the fact that she was able to command all of the elents already made wary of her.
The fairies slowly followed behind us and abruptly stopped a distance from the large palace. Almost as If they did not dare get at closer, or couldn't get any closer? To my surprise, even Ayona stayed behind. I glanced at her with an inquisitive look, to which she replied, "The great mother only invited master, not Ayona," she said and lowered her head.
I simply nodded and brought my attention back to the palace. I had to admit that the castle was quite striking. It stood there as if conjured from the storybook of a child. It was, perfect. Every stone was even and square as if those who built it were set on perfection. From a distance, it is uniformly green, blending in with the ancient woods as if it always stood here, hidden from prying eyes.
What impressed the most, was its size. I was sure that it could accommodate the giant that was my father. As I approached, the massive gates opened with a loud creak, giving an unobscured view of the inside. A long red carpet extended from the entrance, all the way, to the deeper parts of the castle. My steps subconsciously halted, the second I stepped inside. The familiar unnatural twirl of earth mana surrounded from all sides causing to frown.
"So that's how it is."
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