The Thousand Year Dynasty
23. Scion Bracelet

After finishing their meeting in the tent of Aksa and Nata, they immediately headed into the cave to meet Talos. Figuring out how the development regarding seal magic was being examined.

"How about, Mr Talos?" Nata asked as he was already in front of the stone wall at the end of the cave.

"The use of the Soul stream from the magic sealing this place is very complicated" the Elf man replied. "As expected of miss Janice's legendary magic seal" he added sounded excited.

"Can you open it?" Aksa asked this time.

"I'll try it. It might take a little while. Miss Janice's magic seal is notoriously difficult to decipher" Talos replied. Although impressed unsure, but his tone when speaking, sounded happy.

"Alright, Mr. Talos. Just tell us, if there's anything you need" Nata added.

"Alright" Talos answered quickly.

Couran and Go approach Nata and Aksa after Rafa.

"Are you really going to open it?" Couran asked as he stood before Aksa and Nata. "According to Primaval, the room was sealed because it was dangerous" he added.

"Don't let the story of the Pharos civilization repeat itself in the present" Go added.

"Yes, we know we'll just see it. If indeed it was something very dangerous, and that was definitely not something we were looking for, then we would seal again, and we would close the cave" Nata replied trying to convince Couran and Go.

"Well if you say so" Couran replied despite still being dissatisfied.

They left Talos alone in the cave.

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"By the way, what exactly are those Scion bracelets?" Aksa asked in the middle of their journey out of the cave. "From what I read, it's a damned relic with tremendous power capable of driving its users crazy. Is that right?"

The nine of them used a freight train without a tent that was long enough, pulled by an iron train driven by a miner, Go's men.

Aksa, Nata, Rafa, Luque, Couran, Go, Lucia, Orland, and Yvvone, sat around barefoot in the carriage.

"Perhaps those who have seen it firsthand can tell a story" Nata made a hand gesture as if inviting towards Luque.

"Azuar bracelet?" It looks like Luque is trying to remember for a moment. "The bracelet is basically a magic formation" he replied later.

Everyone immediately put their ears to the new story from Luque. It's not like Yvvone. Who also never really knew about the bracelet, even though he was an Elf.

Even among the Elves, it was taboo to talk about the Scion bracelet. Because it reminded them of the civil war that had occurred several hundred years before.

"Shaped like a bracelet made of brass. Hand arm size. There was a patchwork of magic formations encrusted on the inside of the bracelet" Luque continued. "And indeed the bracelet is for use on the wrists and feet. Like the custom of wearing the Azuar clan" he added later.

"In the meantime, so can a magic spellcaster be made in the form of pictures and writing?" Nata cut off Luque's speech.

"really. It was an ancient Leafcla technique. They used it to control the flow of Souls without the need for intelligent beings to intervene" Luque replied.

Almost everyone around the place looked surprised. They had only heard about information like this for the first time.

"This time I'll have to talk for a second. So you're saying there's a way to control the flow of Souls not directly?" Replace the Aksa that cuts. "I want to explain first what I know about the magic of this world. You can correct it after that" he continued later.

"Please" Luque replied slowly.

"So according to what I've been reading all along, the magic in this world is controlled by a person or intelligent being like you said before. Starting from magic weapons, Arcane stones, even the magic seal of the Shuuran clan inside there, also using or storing the flow of Souls run by people" Aksa began to tell the story.

"No exception to magic formations. From what I read, the magic formation is a tool to help use a large amount of Soul flow that can't be handled by just one or two people. But still the tool requires people to control it. This concept is the same as the Urbar magician who used the merging of Soul streams to create a broader and stronger magic protector" Aksa continued.

"It's like that. Basically, the flow of the Soul that is in our environment is controlled by the flow of the Soul that is in us. In the past, my magic teacher mentioned how to control the flow of Souls in the body as Neidan. Or inner strength within" Luque replied.

"And now you're telling us that it's not entirely true? That the flow of the Soul can be used or controlled by an object?" Aksa connected her question. "Which means if the magic formation is attached to a weapon, even though Nata and I who do not have Neidan-Neidan can still use it?"

"Right" Luque nodded.

"Here we go! The knowledge I've been waiting for! Well, now tell me how to make this written magic chant?" Aksa looked very excited after she heard Luque's reply.

"I've never heard of this before" this time Yvvone interrupted. "I understand the concept of written tidying used by that magic formation. We Aeron also use it to make Arcane crystals. Perhaps Realns also used the same means to make their mystical weapons, or other clans to make their magic equipment.

"But all of that is just passive talk. Which is used to store and change the flow of the Soul into a certain shape after the user flows it into the magic tool" explained Yvvone at length.

"It used to be a tool with a magic formation is commonly used for things like making work easier. But since it was felt to damage the balance of the existing Soul flow, also because then the Ninue civilization managed to find a way to make it easier to do a job without magic, then the tools with active magic formations began to be abandoned" Luque continued his explanation.

Yvvone's eyes looked just as sparkling as Couran and Rafa heard the explanation from the Luque.

"Oh, so because it is not energy efficient, and even cause more losses, so it is not used?" Nata asked who was answered nodding by Luque.

"Means that if the input is unlimited, the output can also be unlimited" Aksa chimed in.

"So like a device powered by solar panels. Once turned on, as long as there is still sunlight, then the tool will never die. Definition of high-end technology, once" Nata adds.

"Then how do you make that record?" Aksa repeated her question impatiently.

"Nobody knows how to make it now. All records of this began to disappear with the progress of the Pharos civilization at that time" Luque replied, which immediately made Aksa bend his face. "And the Azuar bracelet is the latest tool that still uses the ancient magic formation method, after almost a hundred years after the last one was made" he added later.

"So there is a possibility that the Azuar clan still has the knowledge to make a written report?" Aksa started to look a little more excited. The one Luque answered by shrugging both of his shoulders. A sign that he doesn't know either.

"Well, let's go back to our discussion about the Scion bracelet" Nata said. "So what because of his ability to cast magic as much as the number of Soul streams he took, the bracelets are feared?" Ask later.

"It's not just that. When used alone, the bracelet is actually no different from mystic weapons or Arcane rocks" Luque continued his discussion of the Scion bracelet that was cut.

"The fear was when they merged" Luque returned to tell the story. "The bracelet is basically made to be used simultaneously. There are still five more crystals besides the four bracelets, which as I recall were deliberately broken by Miss Stellar. And if without the crystal, the strength of the bracelet is reduced by half"

"One crystal is attached to one bracelet, then the last crystal, where is it?" Aksa interrupted with a question.

"The fifth crystal is mounted on a tiara" Luque replied.

"I never heard of it" Yvvone interrupted again. Because once again, the information from Luque was different from what he had known all along.

"me too. There has never been a book written about the tiara" Aksa added.

"Maybe for those who did not experience the great Elf war, would not know about the existence of such a tiara. Besides all the notes about the bracelets in detail, they are locked in the Azuar settlement at the eastern end of the southern mainland" Luque explained.

"So the four bracelets and one tiara were called Alta Larma, which in ancient Elf language meant the ultimate weapon. Which then became more often called Scione, which means circles by other Elven clans" Luque said as he stared at Yvvone, it was as if he was making sure that he recited the words in the Elven language correctly. "And gradually known by the outside world as Scion" he continued later.

"Oh, if my place Scion's a car name" Aksa interrupted. "Why is it that every time you tell a story, a name always means something, anyway?" It looks unacceptable.

"Here you go, Miss Luque" Nata asked Luque to ignore Aksa's words. When he saw that there was a wave the girl was about to reply.

"Then Alta Larma was used by Miss Stellar, the leader of the Azuar clan at that time, in a great war between the Elves" Luque continued his story. "And then part of his tiara was destroyed in the war. Which only leaves the crystal alone" he closed later.

Everyone felt enlightened hearing the story from the Luque. Even Yvvone.

"Then which part is cursed and affects its users?" Aksa asked again.

"Indeed, the bracelets have a tremendous power. Even without her tion part" Luque said again. "Maybe because the power succeeds in tempting its users to do bad things. Until finally the bracelet is called cursed" he continued trying to answer.

"What is the strength of the bracelets?" This time Nata asked.

"Each one of the bracelets and crystals had different powers" Luque re-imagined his sitting position. The position he usually uses when he wants to do a long explanation.

"The "two is called a wristband. Because it is placed in the hand position. Possessing elemental powers commonly used by magicians.

"The one named Eruzio who has the elements of Fire and Land.

"Then the other one is named Tempest which has the element of Ice and Wind.

"Then next is the anklet. Which, one of them named Luce who has the magic power of Light and Lightning.

"Then the latter was named Celes who had healing and strengthening magic abilities.

"While the tiers have the magic power of space and time" Luque closed later. That leaves Nata with a half-disbelieving face.

"That's a Super Omega-level weapon, what's it?" Chirps Aksa later.

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