14 Chapter 14 : Failure

Allen Styles (picture)

Magic is an exceedingly strange and miraculous power which is capable of achieving awe inspiring feats.

But unfortunately with the tragic fall of Magi, and the disappearance of mana force has changed the situation of the Aryana Continent and the whole humanity.

Nobody knew the real cause of this, but as the Magi lost their last strands of power, the previously subordinate Sword Gods and Saints reckoned that their time had come, and that the main driving force in the near future of Aryana Continent was the Battleforce that they possessed.

Without anyone to contain their greed and the fall of their current rulers. With their newfound freedom their own selfish ambitions flared vigorously, and they began to fight among each other.

No longer bounded by the fear from the retaliation of the Magi, they murdered, pillaged and destroyed to their hearts' desires. The Magus established an extremely majestic civilization which was at their mercy now.

The battle warriors hated being under the control of the mighty Magi who ruled over them like emperors and vented their anger on these majestic structures built during the age of magical civilization. They would not be satisfied until every one of them were reduced to ashes.

After wantonly destructing everything of the past they turned their attention in founding their own kingdoms or nations. They also wanted to taste the sweet power of authority as they towered over the common folk and were worshipped by their subjects.

But as the Magi faced their end, Sword God's and Saints in their arrogance had forgotten that without the magi's mighty mysterious power in the first place, they did not have the ability to tower like emperors.

As they grew older and their lifespan reached its inevitable end, they discovered that their descendants could not inherit their abilities and they were only ordinary men as they didn't know how to draw out the innate Battleforce in their blood.

Because of this, since only those Magi knew how to utilize and extract this strength, The newly built empires and legacies of Battle Warriors were left with no eligible heir.

After their inevitable demise, a menacing thousand years of darkness and hopelessness descended onto the humans of Aryana Continent.

Having lost their mighty protector and left with no chance at salvation, the humans could not fend off the dreaded magical beasts and were helpless against their assaults.

The rulers become dogs running for their lives as they had no choice but to live in seclusion in the corners of the world for the sake of survival.

The human population on the continent was reduced ridiculously, as uncountable people weren't able to survive, the whole continent was almost deprived of humanity during the thousand years of darkness.

However, their broken lives were rekindled again as one lone heroic warrior miraculously awakened his Battleforce in a fight to the death with a magical beast while he was hunting.

Using the power of his newly-awakened Battleforce, he killed the savage beasts and survived.

The humans despite their fall had always held a small hope in their hearts to once again regain their previous glory hence, they protected the ancient Battleforce manual that was passed down by ancestors.

The veil of the night was lifted and the rays of hope once again shone upon the humans. The awakening of this sole warrior's Battleforce was a silver lining and brought hope to the dwindling human race.

The hero brought the humans together as the survivors cooperate together as they research alternative ways to awaken Battleforce. They wouldn't let this chance pass them by!

In the long years of battling against magical beasts, the humans slowly began to understand the dynamics of Battleforce and with the help of many great minds they eventually grasped the means of Battleforce awakening.

Without the magical formations of the Magi and knowing that the Battleforce manuals left by their ancestors were not applicable to them, since the laws were different.

Humans could only learn from their experiences in battle through the process of trial and error. Their progress was definitely slow, but fortunately steady.

Another thousand years elapsed and the humans have once again become the overlords of the Aryana Continent. Battleforce was no longer an impossible power system to look upto and has become common knowledge. Stimulating the innate magical beast factor in their blood to awaken their Battleforce and training to achieve higher levels of power allowed the humans to turn the tables against their enemies.

They once again thrive over magical beasts and become the predators instead.

No longer having any threats to their survival, the once unified humans succumb to their greed and broke apart again into different tribes and creeds and once again competed among each other for their own agendas and goals for hundreds of years up until present time.

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Outer Zone of Kemosin Islands.

A mild fire was burning silently encircled by dark stones as a few peeled small beasts were roasting at a distance as they were skewered on the ground. Faint smell of appetizing meat was released as it tempted anyone to drool.

A bit away from the small fire, Allen was currently sighing as he practice weaving different kinds of hand seal signs.

He was practicing the shinobi arts, which is released with the help of activating and stimulating various chakra points pathway inside his body in a particular pattern with the help of using hand seals sign.

There were twelve basic hand seals and the different combinations of these hand seals turned into all the hand seals required for using shinobi arts or Ninjutsu.

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It could be used to weave attacks with elements like fire, water, lightning, earth, wind etc. as well as different unusual things like making doppelgangers( shadow clones, earth clone, lightning clone, wood clone) and phantom clones( Illusionary clones).

Allen carefully used a series of hand seals and his actions were fast indicating the meticulous training he has invested.

Even If he had the knowledge of this as well as experience from Hiroki, he still practiced to train his speed to the max but he unfortunately it was all for nothing.

Snake → Dragon → Rabbit → Tiger

[Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique]

".... "

"Damn it! What is the problem? Why isn't it working?" Allen kicked the ground and screamed. He was frustrated because even after trying for two days he was utterly unsuccessful in using the chakea to use Ninjutsu.

"The hand seals are correct, the isle I stimulate are correct, the pattern is correct but it has no effect. I don't even feel a drain on my chakra, it's as if the Ninjutsu are not allowed to exists here or something." Allen wasn't annoyed because he couldn't do it, he never thought that he would start spewing fire just as he began training.

There would obviously be a need of practice to perfect the shinobi arts but the problem here is that he cannot even initiate Ninjutsu. If he tries to use a fire attack, let alone fire not even a single ember is released.

His chakra is stirred and his isle points are stimulated but not even a bit of chakra releases out of the chakra pathway network.

This shouldn't be the case, the chakra is otherwise available for walking on vertical plane, or water, he can also extend it on his sword but for some reason it is not possible to use it in a form of Ninjutsu.

"I thought I would be able to learn to adapt according to the peculiar laws and different understanding of this world and modify chakra but it seems like this world just outright rejects this."

"Previously I thought that training in Ninjutsu is similar to learning a new foreign language, but how can I advance if it's the tongue of dogs! It's not about a different approach, it's a totally different thing." Allen fumed for a while but he couldn't do anything either so, he tried to calm down and have a pleasant meal.

It was almost 2 days since he started practicing hand seals and his hands were also almost cramped. Till now he had only practiced forming those 12 basic hand seas and he had already became quite skilled in it, but the lack of results disappointed him.

Time slowly passed by as he was immersed in cultivation again. Cultivation isn't something which may produce immediate results but it should be done daily for maximum benefits. He had already planned his daily schedule to cultivate.

His daily schedule was to exert himself for cultivating to his limit and after that go hunting.

He also made sure to keep practicing Ninjutsu, just because it's not fruitful now doesn't mean he would hastily quit. If he cannot find a way, then he would make one.

"There is nothing I could do here in the outskirts, I should go deep inside now." Allen decided to continue his journey as he looked into the dense forest, there is no lack of ferocious beasts inside.

Even Gold Rank Swordsman are not completely sure of their safety but of course, such beasts rarely wander away from their territory which are marked as forbidden areas.

"There is also this!"

Allen chose to go further inside the forest and from his bag he withdraw a few pages which were marked like maps with different labeling as he observed it.

The previous Allen was filled with much enthusiasm for magic. He had always been fascinated with magic.

Allen showed great interest in Silver Moon Academy's archaeology, language studies and ruin exploration courses, but he actually never really signed up for them during his semester years because he was mainly a very swordsmanship oriented course student but despite that he had read a lot of books in these disciplines.

Ruin exploration refers to the research and study of the architecture and the purpose of buildings left behind from the age of magic as well as the means to excavate such ruins.

Archaeology dealt with the distinguishing and handling of artifacts found in ruins and was concerned with determining the purpose and worth of such artifacts.

Language studies was the hardest of the three, given that the languages of the fairies, dragons, gremlins that the Magi used were said to contain mystical power and people without magical affinity could not truly grasp the language.

Even if someone did manage to learn a couple of words, he would only be able to make similar sounds but unable to reproduce the archaic power contained within each word.

Allen was able to buy various maps of different ruin areas all around the surrounding countries. This particular one is drawn by a rather accomplished scholar who adventure through most of the Kemosin Ruin Islands and marked various regions. One of them was a small ruin that was said to be a tower that used to be a magus's residence!

"Magic, Maybe this is the answer I need. If nothing else, I could probably learn something more about this world." Allen held some faint hope in his heart, the excavation of something like a Magus related structure must have been conducted uncountable times and it may be proceedings even till now so, there are very small chance of getting anything but there is nothing wrong with checking it out.

Allen looked at the map and marked a particular site which is his current goal.

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