What a Rune

A Huge World

It was Sunday, and Leroy was block on the energy rune, again! The other runes took him only some hours to understand and use them, but this one seem different, he was not able to use it, surely because he wasn't able to comprehend which element it was or what it look like.

'The stable rune that let you do object and the unstable one who let the element go berserk in the form you want is really interesting, it took me 4 hours one and 6 hours the other to understand yesterday. My two sister come back and Ariel got into a fight, I could saw it cause of her happy mischievous smile...

It's Already 11 pm and I will go sleep, need to be more focused tomorrow, it's my last week before going back to school.'

Dean closed the Grimoire and gone to bed, switching of the mana-lamp.

After some time the Grimoire rose, the symbol graved on it light up and a ray of light shone on Dean, the light scan the shape of the body of Dean and the young boy was drawn by the light, straight into the book. A falling sound was heard.

-Ouch, what happened?

Dean stood up and looked around him, he was not in his bed anymore nor in his room but in a forest. Because of the shock he tried to took one step backward but he bumped into something and the sound of a known warm voice was heard.

-So my son how are you doing?

He didn't believe it, he was hallucinating. So he turned and he see him, tall with slim but muscular body, fine face, the same brown hair than him and eyes that look upon the soul itself. His father.

-Why are you her... No, why am I here, Father?

-Cause I wanted to speak to you and the book has now enough soul energy to do it with the distance getting shortened, like this I can guide you too like I should do.

Tears began to roll on the face of the little boy.

-Hey don't cry son, everything will be okay, I'm coming back home the fastest way I can, so please don't cry.

-It's tears of happiness, don't worry dad I'm fine.

Say the boy, wiping the tears and putting a smile and straightening himself.

-Ok son, all good then, come with me I will start explaining you some of the thing here.

Say his dad starting walking to somewhere.

-So first, what you see is the space inside the book, it's a little world that I built some years ago to train freely without destroying everything in the world. Second I'm not here physically or I could have gone out of this book with you, it's my soul who is with you. Third the book will restore and heal everything apart your enhancement. Did I forgot something?

-So you was really connected to the book. When will you be back?

-Ah yeah, cannot say at which time exactly but it take me one month to get from the Eighth world to the sixth so I think 3 month from now I would be with you all again, so before Christmas and your Birthday, I'm bringing present too.

Answer Lekyan with a smile. Talking while walking they passed through the forest and arrived to a lake with an island in the center. The island was fifty meter away, with a tree in the center.

-Son, now I will test you, think about a blood leopard.

Thinking of it the blood leopard appear 15 meter from them, it was massif, 3 meters tall, 8 meters long, a body muscled to the perfection and a fur between light and dark red.

It was the first time seeing it and it was a shocking sight. His tail got some sharp pike and the fang that was showing every time he growl to them was eye cutting from their sharpness

'Will surely die just by his blow...'

Thought Dean, quickly followed by some instruction from his father.

-So this is a Copper ranked beast and with the rune you know you will have to beat it.

-Okaay... You really like testing me on difficult thing, right dad?

-I can put you against some blood-iron or purple gold ranked creature if you want, maybe some Star ranked, I just want you to not give up.

-Beast have greater rank than platinum?

Asked Dean, a little shocked by the rank given by his father.

- After platinum you have, blood-iron, sea-copper, leaf-silver, purple-gold and Dark-platinum. After that you have the Moon the Sun and the Star rank.

Listening to his father, the world he known grow a lot in few time, the beast in front of him was already scary to him so a what blood-iron one would look? And a star ranked one?

-The difference between an iron and a blood-iron one will be that one is able to use mana and cast spell, the other has only a tough body.

-So what different about the moon , sun and star one?

-Their wisdom, not every beast started at the iron rank but if an iron ranked beast could grow he would be able to go the platinum rank without difficulties, if by any chance, he got some wisdom by some good fortune or by living long enough he is able to become an Blood-iron or other advanced ranked one. Some beast jump from Iron to Blood-Iron. But the Astral rank is different they have to accumulate knowledge and comprehension. When they have enough they can fight the heaven by condensing their mana core, then they will have their limit push further. A moon ranked beast can grab the moon, a Sun ranked one the sun and a Star ranked one the star.

Explain his father slowly throwing Dean in a huge new world.

-Now stop asking and fight, or don't blame me if you get hurt the kitten is coming to you.

Just has he say this, Dean for the first time felt a strong pain, a pain that was not simple to describe and was send flying to the island in the middle of the lake by a huge paw. Letting his body dismember by the shock of the power.