Magic Of Mana Book 1: The First Tragedy
Chapter 5: The Quartz and the Throttling Kingdom (Part 1)
Chapter 5 (Part 1)
The Quartz and the Throttling Kingdom
Shumi opened the door to her room. He saw his father, King Victor, standing there alone. He looked a little fresher and tidier than he was at dinner last night. Shumi then bowed a little respectfully and let her father in.
“Please enter Ayah”, he said.
“Thank you, my son”, replied King Victor, then he went into Shumi's room and immediately sat on the bench in the corner of the room straight from the door. In front of him was a round table of wood painted in white, the same color as the stool.
Shumi closed the door again and followed her father sitting on the other bench and facing his father. He looked to his right and left side, usually his mother sat between the stools when visiting his room.
“Father also remembered your mother, Shumi”, said King Victor, “This is the first time I entered your room without her”.
“Iya, Ayah”, reply Shumi. “Now he has calmed there”, Shumi sighed for a moment, “If I could make the potion earlier, maybe you could still survive the disease”, he said.
“No, Shumi”, said his father, “The banquet from you is fantastic, even that new discovery in the world of potions. But, for your mother's case, the potion will only hinder her age for a little while, even I have to say, very briefly”.
Shumi's surprised. “How did Dad know?”, he asked.
“That's a long story, son! Next time we talk back”, replied King Victor, “What is clear, it relates to the ring you are using now it”.
Shumi started to remember something strange about the ring lately. “Shumi just realized it, Dad. This ring is not yellow anymore as it used to be. Since when is the ring in.?”, said Shumi before his father cut.
“Since a few weeks after your birthday”, said King Victor. “A short while later, he was sick and lying in the room. That's because the ring's effect was gone”.
Shumi's surprised. “This ring effect? What is the effect?”, he asked.
“Your mother was cursed by a very powerful creature as a child, and the ring was the antidote until the effect of the ring was gone and the curse resumed its function. No one knows also what the curse caused, until finally there is new information that your mother experienced a very fast aging process”, the, King Victor then poured a cup of tea available on the table before him, “The curse is irrevocable, even Dad has tried to ask for the help of the famous witches from the White Forest Kingdom, the White Forest Kingdom, the only country our friends”.
“How can Shumi not know, Father?”, he is rather sorry and disappointed.
Shumi remained silent. He felt desperate now because he thought that even though he knew it before, he could do nothing. The atmosphere was silent for a while until King Victor had finished his cup of warm tea.
“Where is the parchment, My son”, asked the King.
Shumi got up slowly and picked it up at his bedside table, then sat back on his stool. “This, Ayah” he said put the parchment that was still rolled and bound to the red tape on the table.
“Good, before you open it, I want to tell you a little, maybe you already know some, but this may be a little different from what is written in the books”, said The King. “This may also be related to your mother's story”.
Shumi nodded and went back to prepare for another story. He watched his father begin to tell stories.
“Before, sometime more precisely, before the order of the kingdom as it is today, the region in the world is divided into four regions based on the ancients, namely the ruby, quartz, raiden and blizzard, the, or perhaps in the book are the red living in the west, the white in the north, the yellow in the east and the blue in the south.”
Initially there was a civil war in each race where humans who have magic abilities do not want to be equated by ordinary humans. The humans who have that advantage call themselves magicians or witches. And the Humans or ordinary humans too long ago became lowly creatures who could not do anything. They even headed towards the slaves for the witches. This is what ignites the war.
The human beings of all races unite and fight. Resistance starts from the red who practice slavery and the social level is very bad. There was a war that took a lot of casualties, especially from the humans who only hoped for their pure fighting ability. This war is known as the Red War. The end of this war was won by witches.
This made things worse for the human beings. There, they actually became slaves of the witches and it made a community of pro-human witches in the white quarter move. They crossed the border between races and crossed from north to west to liberate the humans from the Ruby. The war was fought again, this time the ruby men fought with some of the white magicians. And this rescue mission was successful so that there were no more humans in the ruby area. The war was known as the Death Candle War.
A few years after that, the human race in the white area became the majority as many human beings from other regions sought refuge and freedom to the area. Over time, the number exceeds the number of white magicians who truly love peace. They became strong and betrayed the white people. They drove out the witches and established a kingdom there.
The expulsion of the white magicians made the red people who had a grudge against the human race plan to unite with the white magicians who were driven away and avenge human actions on them. The red witches were unsuccessful. The displaced white magicians prefer to stay in their hometown at “The fallen city of Topaz”, the, because of the advice of their chieftains at that time who claimed to have asked for the opinion of the eidolon and made the area their territory. Fortunately, at the time of the expulsion, the white witch kept carrying and guarding the ancient weapons of Topaz and Mare's wand. And the white magicians are famous for being neutral on anything that will happen to humans and are referred to as “The Quartz”. They will indeed be neutral on matters outside their territory, but will greatly maintain the integrity of the blood magicians there. Every unspeakable human, they'll kill.
As a result of this incident, there was a series of events that made the order of the race and state change. Some are through the war, some are through the alliance. Initially formed a kingdom, then made a country consisting of several kingdoms.
“... And you know? The kingdom that is now more precisely referred to as the country that expelled the quartz was the kingdom of bumi”, King Victor finished telling the story.
(Connected to part 2)