Ubidar: An Old Faithful Exploration

Chapter 1: The End of an Old Sage, The Start of a New Life

Sparks fly, as Raymond slams his hammer against the heated metal rod. He stops working on the rod and quenches it in the water. He finishes making sure everything around him is working. The flames brighten the dimly lit room.

"Time to start my final project!" Raymond says with a soft, serious look on his face. He takes his time as he begins melting some iron. After a while he pours the molten iron into the bar mold he has. He holds out his hand above the molten metal, and carefully manipulates the Magic and Spirit energy around it, causing it to cool quicker and become much harder and more durable than regular iron. After it cools down fully he admires the shine and glow that the bar emits. He sits down on the stool in the middle of the room and begins gathering Magic, Spirit, Life and Soul Energy into the area. He lets the different types of energy mix into the area for a few minutes. Raymond starts working on crafting a sword. During the entire forging process from start to finish, he takes the energy from around the sword, and infuses it into the sword itself. After a difficult two hours and forty minutes, he manages to complete the base sword itself. He smiles softly as the base has been completed. He spends the next four hours working very precisely on the hilt and engraving on the sword. He smiles proudly as he admires the finished product. "What a marvelous beauty!" He says holding up the sword, making it glisten in the light from the moon appearing from the small window on the back wall. Raymond sets the sword down into a sword stand, and sits down in front of it. He begins gathering the different types of energy again, but this time mostly life and soul energy. A magic circle appears under and on the sword, as well as under and around his own body. He has the sword absorb all of the energy he has gathered as well as some of his own life and soul essence into the sword. This ritual process took around two hours. Raymond sits there regathering his breath after finishing. {Seems like my time has finally come.} Raymond thinks as he sighs with a soft smile. {I should probably tell everyone, even though it has been many years since I last showed myself.} He thinks as he grabs the sword and it glows brightly in response to his touch, as if it were alive. He looks at it proudly as he walks over to the stool in the middle of the room and points the sword downward, as if he were a warrior king. He waves his left hand and several magical screens appear from different angles all around him. At the same time screens begin appearing in front of everyone around the world, although see through. Many people look at him in confusion, while some watch him closely as they remember him. "Hello everyone. I'm sure you all are probably surprised. While some of you may remember me, since it has been about 80 years since I was last in public, I will introduce myself. My name is Raymond Joy Oden, some of you might know me as the person who united the world in the past. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I was in your history books." Raymond says softly and laughs a little. Many people start recording the video, writing and typing everything that he says down for history. "The main reason I wanted to talk to you guys is because I have something extremely important to say. However, let me tell you a small bit about my life." Raymond says as he smiles softly and looks at the screen in front of him. When I was younger, I was born into a world that knew almost nothing but war and the basic needs for survival. As the years went on I learned about magic and many other forms of energy. As a result I have lived for a marvelous 7631 years. Throughout my life, I have seen how the world has changed due to the many wars. I eventually after 1739 years managed to become a Grand Sage of the world and united it. After that I took my time and learned many more things. I found myself smiling as the way culture developed as time went on. Especially in the past 67 years when advanced technology was introduced and has become world wide. I loved watching everyone have fun, and I fully hope that this continues when I'm no longer here." Raymond says and many people stop what they're doing, shocked by what he said. "I will sadly be leaving this world in a few seconds... Please enjoy yourselves!" He says with a soft smile as he stands up with both hands holding the sword, blade into the ground. His body slowly hardens and he passes leaving behind a husk of a statue. Some people stand there confused as to what just happened while others begin paying their respect in their culture. The screens slowly fade away, as the magic energy from his body flows throughout the planet, revitalizing the Nature Energy of Planet Feldoiya.