《The Return of the Supreme Magus》


 Prologue 1

    How long has it been?


    It¡¯s been a long time since I defeated the Demon King that tried to enslave all of humanity.


    Who am I you asked?


    Well I¡¯m one of the heroes who stormed in on his castle on that fateful day.


    I, the Sovereign of Arcana, the Master of the Elements, the Supreme Magus.


    These titles all mean something to me, but in the end, I am just human.


    It¡¯s already been 200 years since the defeat of the demon king. And I, the last surviving hero of our generation, am on my last days. I feel my mana weakening, and my life force slowly decreasing. I cannot accept this fate!If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    So now, after a few months of searching, I finally found the thing I have been looking for since I was an apprentice of the old mage teacher I had.


    The tome of the Sempiternal Cantrap.


    I¡¯ve always been fascinated by the stories of my mentor, how the Arsenal Magus and other people from the first generation harnessed its power to gain longevity. And after eons, I have found the said tome.


    People have been trying to find the tome, many have died, and others simply became insane from spending time on finding it. But I was not like the others, for a long time I didn¡¯t even have any equals. For since I became the Supreme Magus, none have ever even come to my level. The wizards of old, maybe, or they could have also been at a higher understanding from me. But with this tome, now I have Millennia to practice and pierce through the veil of mystery that is Arcana.

 Prologue 2

    I have studied in complete isolation for the past thousand years. Having had no contact to the outside world. Staying inside my own separate dimension, needing no sustenance. Though I do enjoy getting a meal sometimes, the feeling of flavor in the mouth just gives me happiness sometimes, even if I only have vegetables and herbs in this place, this is my home.


    But, even in my solitude, I felt that I have only been able to scratch the surface of what Arcana truly is. Arcana is such a fickle thing, I have mastered the three prime elementals, Quas, Wex, and Exort, and have mastered their combinations. Even most of the Magicks by the older ages, especially the Dreaded hell borne Spell casually called ¡°The Finger of Death¡±.


    Alas, I am still stumped, what did happen to the older age when the wars happened. When I was walking the land, only remnants of the old age stood, tower defenses on every city which guarded a piece of either the radiant ore or the dire shard. No one really knows what happened to those civilizations, they just vanished suddenly from the face of the earth. Only the stories from the people who mingled with all of them remain. Even the heroes of both the Radiant and Dire, just up and disappeared all of a sudden.


    I thought to myself sometimes, ¡®maybe there was a higher power that is putting the pieces of the puzzle.¡¯


    Maybe it was even fate, or maybe a god. But gods don¡¯t mess with the mortal world, even the fundamentals disappeared ages before my time.


    ¡°Maybe I should try and get out a bit, it¡¯s been so long since I¡¯ve had any meat.¡±


    So I stood up and took a bath, it¡¯s been around a year since I had a bath, since this was my own dimension, I didn¡¯t need to have a bath since I didn¡¯t even let the things that make body odor exist here. Really convenient if I can say so.


    When I was ready to go, I open up a portal to world, which led to a cave that I assigned my followers to guard, since I knew I would always try to come back some point in time.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.


    But to my amazement, what I saw was not the old dark and drab cave that I have left, but a bustling city inside the cave, and it was very bright too.


    ¡°Whoa!¡±


    ¡°A man suddenly appeared in front of the Magus¡¯ Gate!¡±


    ¡°Call the Guards!¡±


    ¡°Mommy look!¡±


    Seems like the populace has no idea of who I am. Well I better try my old parlor tricks, I took out a fan from my sleeve, actually connected to my dimension, and posed and suddenly a small fountain of water came out from the fan, I took another one and did the same with it.


    ¡°Whooooaaaaa.¡±


    Yep, look at me, I am incredible right.


    ¡°Alright what is this commotion all about?¡± a man who was in plate suddenly called, he then looked at me.


    ¡°Well it seems like we have a clown here,¡± he then looked at me ¡°¡­ seems like you¡¯re new here, do you have a license for street performing?¡±


    Seems like this person doesn¡¯t know who I am, maybe I can mess with him a bit.


    ¡°You see, uhm¡­¡±


    ¡°Call me Crell, the Viscount of the Underground city and the city above.¡± He said


    ¡°You see, people suddenly glued their eyes on me, and so, as not to look suspicious, I tried to do some party tricks for them.¡±


    He looked at me, do I look suspicious? Don¡¯t people see old wizards loiter around anymore? He then stepped forward and cuffed my hands! The nerve of this Human! Calm down Rustle, you can handle this.


    ¡°Well then I would like to ask you to come with me to prison, we would like to see if you are telling the truth, only a good wizard would be able to in this case anyway, and we¡¯re in luck since we have the Wizard of the west visiting us today.¡±


    Wizard of the West? In my day we had a lot of people calling themselves that, well maybe it carries on until now. So we headed to the prison where a portly man wearing robes and a small sizable beard greeted us.


    ¡°Good day Viscount! I¡¯ve heard the news, is this the clown that was in the city proper earlier?¡± He called me a clown, this is priceless.


    ¡°Yes he is, now Mr. Wizard, please try to find out who he really is will you?¡±


    ¡°Sure Viscount,¡± he then looked at me ¡°¡­ you look like you practice magic, are you a wizard.¡± He asked me as we both sat down.


    ¡°I do practice magic, but I wouldn¡¯t call myself a wizard.¡± I said as I smiled, and he just smirked there as he held my hands. A divination spell, a minor one at that.


    ¡°Seems like you¡¯re having some trouble there Mr.¡±Wizard of the West¡±.¡± I said as I looked at his confused face.


    ¡°What kind of magic is this? Why doesn¡¯t my magic work on you?¡± he asked as he let go of my hands. ¡°¡­ are you¡­¡±


    ¡°So you finally realized, I am not just some practitioner of magic, I am¡­¡± I got cut of as the portly mas shouted.


    ¡°¡­ He¡¯s a demon!¡±


    ¡°¡­.whaaa?¡±

 Prologue 3

    ¡°Guards!¡± The Portly wizard shouted and 10 people including the viscount entered the room with either blades drawn.


    ¡°This¡­ this vile creature is a Demon! My divination magic won¡¯t work on him!¡± he shouted again, this doesn¡¯t look good.


    ¡°Hah! I knew something was wrong with this person! Men attack him.¡± The viscount shouted as his men charged at me.


    ¡°Seems like you are misunderstanding something,¡± I weave my hands to cast a spell ¡°Stone Gaze!¡±


    All the men then suddenly stopped moving, only their eyes and mouths were able to move.


    ¡°Arghhh! I can¡¯t move!¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s happening!?¡±


    ¡°Gorgonic Magic! That¡¯s an old type of magic! Demon how can you cast a spell like that!¡± the Wizard kept shouting, I¡¯ve had enough of this. I again weaved out my hands to cast another spell.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    ¡°Silence!¡± the wizard finally shut up.


    ¡°Now you listen to me while I explain myself, though I doubt your tiny minds would even understand it,¡± I sighed as I glanced a look at every person around me. ¡°I will lift all my spells if you agree to listen to me, blink your eyes if you comply.¡±


    Half of them including the Viscount and Wizard kept blinking, the others? Well they seem to be stubborn, so I leave them paralyzed for a while.


    ¡°Okay, we will listen, but can you at least undo your magic on my men?¡± the Viscount asked, so I undid the paralysis.


    ¡°Well that¡¯s taken care of,¡± I said ¡°so I will introduce myself, I was called a lot of names, Sovereign of Arcana, Master of the Elements, even the Supreme Magus, but you can call me Rustle.¡± I added as they started to listen to my story, I told them how me and my followers made this area to be my gateway whenever I wanted to come back to the world, but haven¡¯t in the past millennia.


    ¡°So the Writings were true! The Last Supreme Magus really did not die!¡± the wizard shouted with glee and came to hold my hands while kneeling ¡°Supreme Magus¡­ no Master, please teach this lowly one the old ways!¡±


    Seems like the so called Wizard of the West wants me to be his master, it¡¯s been a long time since I have had an apprentice, the last one I had was quite the character, would taking him as an apprentice be the right choice?


    ¡°¡­No.¡±

 Prologue 4

    ¡°Why won¡¯t you take me as your apprentice master?¡± he asked me, his eyes were watery, something to expect from a portly man like him


    ¡°Don¡¯t get me wrong, I will teach you, but not as a master, but as a teacher would. You will not be my apprentice, but my student.¡± As much as I hated this portly man, I need him to help me this time, since I¡¯ve been kind of out of sync with this world now. A bit of equivalent exchange if you will.


    The portly wizard suddenly showed a very bright smile, and his eyes are kinda sparkling all of a sudden. Ahhh dame~ stop, an old man like you shouldn¡¯t show me something like that.


    ¡°I promise to understand and properly learn all your teachings, teacher!¡± he then said as he once again held both of my hands.


    ¡°errr¡­. Right, so as you now know, I have not been in the mortal plane for around a thousand years now, and as such I don¡¯t have any backgrounds to the kingdoms that might exist now, tell me how the Stonehall Empire is now? It was the empire which I served, and the empire that ruled this area.¡± I asked as to know the fate of my home country, for a few minutes they haven¡¯t said anything.


    ¡°Well¡­. Supreme Magus¡­ actually this is the only refuge of the former Stonehall Empire, all of it¡¯s former territories have seceded, only the Stonehall and This city, the city of Vanadia are left of the once vast empire.¡± The stubby viscount said.


    ¡°Let me think for a moment¡­¡± I said as I contemplated about what I would do next. Since the Empire has already degraded to only the City of Stonehall and this city, it seems that I cannot continue with my plan. Since in my plan I needed to travel the empire to recover some stuff I have left behind a thousand years before.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    I look at the ¡°Wizard of the west¡± and motioned my hand to let him come forward.


    ¡°What do you need master?¡± He whispered.


    ¡°I actually want an audience with the emperor, king, or whoever is in charge of the kingdom now.¡± I replied and he immediately brought out a whistle and blew on it, afterwards he wrote a message on a piece of paper and made the viscount sign the letter alongside his name. a few minutes after an owl entered the room and he attached the letter to the owl and told him to go to the royal palace.


    ¡°It is done master, I have informed them that we would arrive as soon as possible, where do you plan to stay for now master?¡± he said to me as he sat down on the chair in front of me.


    ¡°I actually plan to go to one of my stashes nearby for now, to check on some equipment I have left, if it¡¯s still there that is. How long will the owl reach the capital? By your estimates that is.¡±


    He paused a bit, maybe he¡¯s calculating it.


    ¡°It will be around half a day or so.¡± He answered


    ¡°Well then,¡± I faced the viscount ¡°Viscount, I plan on taking the Wizard of the West with me-¡°


    ¡°Call me Jaras¡± the Wizard said


    ¡°Uhmm¡­ Jaras will be coming with me to my stash, do you need him for something today?¡±


    ¡°Not at all Supreme Magus, please take him if you wish, I can also lend you some of my guardsmen to guide you if you like!¡± the viscount answered.


    I looked at the militia men around us, there were around 9 here, but none of them fit into the criteria of what I was looking for.


    ¡°Do you have any guardsmen that is highly adept with ranged weapons? Preferably keen weapons.¡±


    ¡°We only have one, if you¡¯d like I can call upon him now.¡±


    ¡°Sure, sure, and also I would like something else.¡±


    ¡°What would you like?¡±


    ¡°I want to eat some meat.¡±