"Ancient Era?" Rilos paused in surprise and asked.
"Yes, the mysterious twelve seals were created long before the end of the ancient planar war and were well hidden by our Divine Lord. From what I heard from Lord Shade, many Ancient Gods and ancient beings from other planes created these seals and hid them in different parts of the world long ago."
"But what is the purpose of these seals? Why does it cause a large-scale Earthquake whenever we break it?" Grazius showed a curious look and asked.
"Although I'm not sure if my guess is right, I think it has something to do with the Will of the World," Britta said solemnly.
"You mean the foreign gods created these seals to suppress our Plane's will?" Rilos' face turned serious.
"It's a bit more complicated than you think. Although we won the Planar War by borrowing power from the foreign Gods, we also lost many of our plane's guardians like four Beast Gods, Sun God Catar, Thunder God Zerasil, and Storm God. Not only that, other gods like Mother Goddess, and Nyara went into hiding because of the Foreign Gods' secret hunting. If our Divine Lord hadn't intervened at the last moment, our whole plane might have been occupied by those three damned foreign High-Gods by now." A trace of anger and frustration could be hidden in her voice.
'I never knew there is such a large history behind the ancient war.' Abium also understood why Nyara pulled his consciousness into her divine realm and warned him earlier.
"Anyway, our job is to break this final seal and help the Will of the World to regain its strength." Saying so, she fell into deep thought and continued to follow after RIlos.
Rilos, on the other hand, started pondering for a moment and soon asked,
"Are you saying it is God Wilos' work? No, Gods still can't enter our world, right? Maybe it's a Demi-God's work?"
Britta halted her footsteps for a second and shook her head before speaking,
"I don't think so. If the one who placed these mysterious seals was a God, why did he place severe restrictions? In our world, gods can only use their incarnations to walk. Not even Avatar could enter. Moreover, their incarnations' strength was also got reduced to Legend Tier due to these seals, making it harder for them even to enter. The scariest thing is that the planar restriction on our plane is much more severe than on any other plane. If my guess is right, it must be that group of old monsters who roamed here 10,000 years ago."
As Abium heard those words, his expression turned serious.
'Are they talking about the ancient mages? Azolla, do you have any guesses about these seals? Did she guess correctly?' Abium asked Azolla while he continued to walk towards the crimson hills.
'I can't make an assumption just from hearing others' words, kid. But if the mages from the Ancient Era were the ones who placed these mysterious seals, they must have done this due to some hidden purpose. I also know a genius and a crazy kid called Fex, and he is a dual elemental mage. There is a slight possibility that he did create this dimension, but my words are just an assumption. Well, let's find out it later.' Azolla's words made Abium fall into deep thoughts.
Meanwhile, the group silently went towards the hills area and soon bumped into a group of mutated black panthers. Most of the panthers were silently snorting and seemed to be napping while only one mother panther stood guarding.
Before the necromancers' group could slow down their footsteps, the mother panther sensed their arrival and let out a threatening roar. A second later, all four of those mutated black panthers woke up and stared at them with vicious deep blue eyes.
Meanwhile, three small cubs went behind the mother panther and nervously stared at the strange humanoids.
'All those five panthers are Rank-1 magical beasts. That's odd; it would take many decades for these normal animals to become magical beasts, right?' Abium furrowed his eyebrows and soon thought of the Fex Dimension's strange atmosphere.
'Hmm, it must be the reason.' He nodded in enlightenment and turned his attention to the mutant panthers.
Meanwhile, Rilos took out a white skeleton from his spatial ring and got ready to attack at any second.
But Aliza took a step forward, raising her hand and speaking in a nether tongue.
"Stop. Obey!"
Except for Ulzez, they all cast a puzzled gaze at her and soon went wide-eyed!
At that moment, the Rank-1 mutant panthers suddenly stopped their movements and soon started wagging their tails!
'What the hell? Is she controlling those beasts? Is this the power of death mage?' Abium stared at Aliza in wonder and shock. He had heard rumors about her in the past, but all those were exaggerated tales of an evil witch.
"O' the Unholy Lord of the death! You became a death mage?!" In the meantime, Rilos turned his gaze to Aliza and uttered with a shocked expression. On the other hand, Britta, Grazius, and Ubrauqir also turned their attention to her and even gave Aliza a respected bow.
A few moments ago, Britta and others didn't glance at her.
But the sudden change in their attitude made Yozis and Abium widen their eyes in shock and puzzlement.
"What do you mean by death mage, teacher? Why are you showing a shocked expression?" Abium took a glance at Rilos and asked. He was well aware of the real Baxter's common knowledge and knew that Baxter did not know much about these death mages. Moreover, his original character was curious, so Abium raised his doubts.
As Rilos heard Abium's words, he smiled proudly and started talking.
"Like Light God Welo's chosen ones, death mages are chosen ones of Lord Nurotl (God of Death). During the Ancient Era, I heard that many Death Mages were born in this world and considered powerful figures in status and strength. Even a single first-tier death mage had the strength to battle against ten normal first-tier necromancers. But after Lord Nurotl lost his Divine Throne, death mages' also stopped appearing in this world.
Some death mages rarely appeared and caused great changes in history. The last death mage appeared 500 years ago and caused the undead war in the nearby kingdoms. He is the only Death Mage I admire the most. But even his rise was interrupted due to the Light church's intervention.
Not too long ago, we received news from the higher-ups saying that many newly chosen ones would again descend into this world. But I didn't expect Lady Aliza to be one of the chosen ones." He deliberated for a moment and soon spoke solemnly.
"Unlike necromancers, Death mages have the power to borrow strength from our Lord Nurotl and use it to control the life and death of any living beings." As he finished talking, he turned his gaze toward Aliza and fell into deep thought.
At the same time, Britta frowned and asked while raising her right eyebrow.
"When did you become the Chosen One, My Lady?"
Aliza was startled a little and replied hurriedly.
"Around two months ago, Ma'am."
Although she replied calmly on the outside, she began to feel uncomfortable inside. Her mind was full of chaotic thoughts. From Ulzez's words, she understood that she was just an experimental subject and felt some deep secret hiding behind this title.
"This timing is too accurate. It was as if the Lord of Dead had already anticipated your arrival." Britta's words made Abium's expression frozen this time.
'What is she trying to say? He knew about the future?' Abium furrowed his brows and asked Azolla in puzzlement.
'Every God has a method to predict future events, kid. The title 'God' is not just randomly given to anyone.' Azolla said mysteriously.
"What does that mean, milady?" Meanwhile, Aliza showed a puzzled look and asked Britta in curiosity.
Britta didn't reply; instead, she stood there while gazing at the surroundings with a vacant expression for a few seconds and started talking in a deep voice.
"Lord Shade received an oracle a few years ago. In that oracle, Lord Shade got a divine message from our beloved Death God saying that the chosen ones will appear in Easica World once again and give birth to a new chaos and order era. He also received an order from the Divine saying that we all have to help the Chosen Ones break the seals that placed everywhere in this continent."
'An oracle?' Abium's face turned stiff as he heard those words.
"Let's go! We don't have much time." Britta shifted her gaze towards the Volcanic Mountain range and walked ahead while evading the vine branch attacks.
Meanwhile, others also nodded their heads and followed after her quietly.
On the other hand, Aliza gave a few more orders to the mutated panthers and walked away quietly.
For the next few minutes, the ground didn't meet with any obstacles and slowly moved towards the crimson hills.
'As I thought, the more we move towards these hills, the temperature seems to be rising exponentially. Still, these strange plants and trees are not even slightly affected by the heat. Did these plants also mutate and become resistant to fire?' As he was thinking, he suddenly felt a strange gaze from the surroundings and frowned.
'Something is tailing us? Are these the panthers we saw earlier? No. It's those two sneaky beings which have been following us all this time.'