The God's Throne

Sunlight slowly faded, bringing along an inky night, and damp coldness. Although that was the case, the Golden Wolf world was beaming bright like a clear day and warm as a desert. Currently, two silhouettes could be seen rapidly moving through the soul essence river: one was cautious while moving, while the other moved like he wandering around his garden.

The two figures were moving towards the pool that was connected all the braches of soul essence river- the center of the hundred beast forest. It was known as the palace of royals by intelligent magical creatures.

"Since you have so much power, you must have trained a lot. Tell when were you born?" asked one of the figures, while looking at the other character with respect in his eyes. Currently, there was also cunningness hidden beneath those eyes of admiration.

"Hoho. So you finally understand how great I am. Since you respect me so much, I will tell you what you want to know. As to when I was born, don't remember, it was probably hundreds of years ago. So I am basically many times older than you- so you should treat me with like you treat your elders." The other figure said mentally, without opening its mouth, while wagging its tail, and raising its head high towards the sky. This figure was the king of Golden wolf- also known as the ruler of the hundred beast forest.

Eria was astonished upon knowing Aptho approximate age. He was almost sure that the magical beast before him was the God of Rebirth. Given that he himself was born fifteen years ago, Eria assumed that only a few decades had passed since the battle of gods; however, it seemed as though many centuries had gone by without him noticing.

Taking a deep breath, Eria suspended his surprise to make sure that he was contemplating precisely. He went silent for a while before asking, "Aptho, I wanted to know if you know anyone called God of Reb-"

"Whissss"

However, before he could finish his sentence, an immense aura suddenly acted upon his body. Along with the soul-crushing aura, a cold, chilling sound came. It seemed to freeze time, and make one feel like they were a chicken ready to be slaughtered.

"King Aptho, every one of the clansmen are panicking right now. Please offer your guidance."

"Stop releasing your aura, Yum. We have an important guest here, don't go shaming our name," The beast king bared his teeth and said using its psychic power. Aptho seemed to be offended, which surprised Eria, as he had imagined the magical beast as a gentle beast.

"Sorry for my rudeness." A voice once again resounded as a figure slowly became visible. He breathed in and suppressed all his aura. The figure had red hair and had an old face, but Eria knew it was a beast who had shapeshifted his body.

Eria suddenly felt like a massive mountain had been lifted off him back as the aura withdrew. He glanced deeply at the figure and immediately thought 'Spirit invisibility.' It was an innate ability of Golden fox. Only the magical beast at the third stage or beyond could use it.

Suddenly, several figures appeared at the scene. Some of them looked like a werewolf, while others ``looked like human beings.

"Brothers and sisters, I have found a way to solve our hundred years of struggle. No longer will anyone of us suffer anymore." Aptho declared by linking his mind to his clansmen. His voice was domineering but had tinge of gentleness.

The sudden news seemed to have a positive impact upon the Golden wolves. Eria could see the excitement in their very eyes; it was as though they had suddenly been rescued from a great crisis.

"King Aptho. We don't mean to doubt you, but even your father wasn't able to remove that foreign danger from our sacred land. In fact, he sacrificed himself in order to seal it, and he was at the same level as Magical emperor. So, as one at the level of Magical king, I don't see any way you can." An elegant man steeped out from the pack. He had eyes as blue as the ocean, and skin fair as an angel. He had a muscular body which seemed to result from heavy training. Rather than a gentleman, he looked like a sage.

"It's not me who is going to solve it, it's him," Aptho said with his psychic power as shook his head slightly. After that, he pointed at Dan with his nose.

"What! You are joking, right. " The man said emphatically. Moreover, voices of doubt could be heard from the other clansmen. Even Eria looked at Aptho with betrayed eyes. How come this beast led him to danger each time. First, it was the man-made beast, and now it wanted him to solve something a being at the same level as magical emperor could not do. Magical emperors were mage at the fourth level of mage order, and they were at the peak of that level. Even millions of elite knight wouldn't amount to one magical emperor, let alone Eria was at the beginning level of a mage.

"What have I got myself into. These vicious creatures are sure to tear off my limbs and eat me alive if I fail. Furthermore, that is if I fail. Who knows? I might die without even lifting my finger."Eria wanted to hide under a rock and be hidden forever. He was currently thinking about the scenarios of how he was going to die.

"You can see it with your own eyes. Eria, follow me." Aptho said while dragging Eria towards a dazzling pond. The pond was clear as divine water from legend and oozed out vigorous mana and spiritual power. It was currently sending out strong pale light which corraded the spiritual aura and the mana. However, it capitated Eria against his strong willpower, so he moved to touch it, to feel it with his very hand. However, before Eria could get close to it, he slammed his face against an invisible wall.

"Don't try your luck. You will get killed if you force it through." The sage-like man appeared before Eria. He had a proud smirk on his face as he witnessed Eria's failure.

"Eria, come over here," Aptho said while raising his claw which looked more like a paw. As Eria got close, he tapped him on his forehead, transferring mana. As the transferring occurred, a flood of information surged into Eria's brain at a quick rate. His fist closed tight as his nerves couldn't handle transmitting information over his brain.

Eria closed his eyes for a second, and after which, a gleam of knowledge extended from his eyes. He stood like a puppet for a while thinking 'So, it's a king ranked magical technique. It's quite similar to my own formation breaking art but uses way less mana and is less powerful. It's unfortunate that I don't have all the memory of my art so this might be the most powerful art I have now."

Eria couldn't use his previous life profound art as his memory about his techniques were sealed. However, it was a good thing. His brain couldn't hold onto such a substantial amount of information, and his body didn't hold enough mana to use it. He could only use his soul technique, which required less memory power but an innovative brain and god soul. His body wasn't made of divine stone anymore; it was now an ordinary flesh.

He slowly opened his closed tight fist and pointed his index finger at the pond's invisible barrier. He focused all his mana and directed it towards the barrier. However, It still couldn't penetrate through the barrier, but Eria could see the barrier was starting to turn translucent. Unfortunately, it recovered its original power in a split second.

Nevertheless, Aptho and his clansmen were amazed by this outcome. To learn a king ranked technique in a few seconds wasn't possible for a normal human being. Let alone an ordinary individual, it was even impossible for a genius from the Holy kingdom.

"Ok. Now take my essence blood," Aptho said as he handed him golden blood which contained some origin power of himself. "And, make sure it mixes with your spinal cord."

Eria swallowed the essence blood without any hesitation. He knew Aptho wouldn't hurt him now since he was going to carry out a mission for him. He directed it to his spinal cord, from which his spinal cord turned golden. His body rapidly changed due to this. In a few seconds, his body broke through its previous limit and broke into the ranks of peak second layer beginner mage.

Aptho smiled upon seeing the change, and said clearly, "Since you have my essence blood, and the golden wolf divine technique, you will be able to pass through the barrier easily. And, after you get there, go to the bottom of the seafloor, and you will see a pagoda at the very center. You need to subdue the origin of the white light from there. That's it; nothing less, nothing more."