Land: The Chronicles

Chapter 1: Peace Before the Storm

A long time ago, there was a big wind between the two alliances. The Arakaza race allied itself with the Grandis race against an alliance of the Buraka race, the Demago race and the Orthras race.

The thing that triggered the war was an army of Burakas attacking the outskirts of the Arakaza kingdom.

King Arakaza demanded accountability from the Buraka side, but the Buraka Federation instead formed an alliance with the Orthras Kingdom and the Sultanate of Demago, then declared war on the Arakaza Kingdom.

Arakaza Kingdom is a kingdom that has the highest excellence in the military, so they are able to survive the onslaught of the alliance of three races at once.

But after 3 years of war, the Kingdom of Arakaza began to be overwhelmed by the onslaught of three countries at once.

The Grandis Empire adjacent to the Arakaza Kingdom felt that if the Arakaza Kingdom fell to the alliance, it was possible that their Kingdom would be the next target.

In the end, the Grandis Empire entered into an alliance with Arakaza Kingdom to repulse the alliance army, leading to the return of Arakaza.

But after the next 2 years, the war produced nothing but increasing the number of casualties, efforts to restore peace were done by two other countries, namely the Kingdom of Troumb and the Kingdom of Zakmee.

The two Kingdoms chose not to engage in this bloodshed.

Even so, the Buraka alliance insisted on war, intent on conquering the Arakaza Kingdom and finishing what they had started.

Six years since the war. Both sides mustered all the strength in the battle this time around, this battle will be decisive. When the forces of the two alliances kill each other.

Suddenly the sky above them burst apart, displaying a mysterious dark scene, a trembling sound rang out from the sky which now looked hollow.

This scene stopped the raging war, the Allies and Allied forces stared at the sky above them.

The troops who were about to slash the opponent stopped their movement, the Magicians at the backline canceled the algorithm circuit, all staring into the gripping dark scene above their heads.

In the midst of that strange silence, suddenly the ground they were treading shook. Earthquakes of unimaginable scale shook the battlefield, the forces of the two topsy-turvy alliances, even to crawl was impossible for them.

It's just, this is not over yet.

The next despair awaits. The shaking ground began to crack, cracks crept rapidly, and chunks of cracked earth shot up into the sky.

Not only the chunks of land, but the soldiers in that place one by one began to lift up into the sky, they cried out in despair, while it was impossible for them to escape from that place.

Amidst the cries of despair and screams of fear, the people who shot up into the sky disappeared one by one into dust, the soldiers grew increasingly hysterical.

They began to pray to the power they believed in, the Great Spirits, the Almighty Gods, the Power of Nature.

They called out to the existence they adored, and as if answering those cries of despair, the ground began to shake, the sky slowly closed back, and the, and the sky lowered its rain as if sharing tranquility with the remains of the trembled soldiers.

The remaining returned to their respective kingdoms, bringing an unimaginable story, with this war over, the Alliance and the Allies agreed to make peace.

The strange disaster seemed to be a warning for the damage done by living things.

With this, the entire Great Country representing every race, agreed to always maintain peace for a better future, and that peace remains for generations to come and is expected to last forever.

But who knows, if anyone breaks the peace and restarts the bloodshed, then the punishment will come back to them indiscriminately, but it is the duty of living beings to always keep the earth given by the Creator.

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"... And this story ends." The traveler plucked his instrument, I was amazed by the story brought by the traveler, until I did not realize my mouth was a little open, the traveler was so good at bringing the story, the intonation is right, the, the excerpt of his instrument on the sidelines of his story further adds to the emotions poured in each word. In other words 'perfect'.

A child raised his hand and asked the traveler.

"Is that a true story?"

The Traveler smiled and plucked his instrument in response to the question,

"Who knows? What is more important is what lessons we can learn. We must always strive to maintain peace in the world, and punishment will come if we destroy that peace."

The traveler ended his answer with a musical instrument.

"Then I will continue my journey, I hope this story will remind you to always keep the peace of the world."

He re-picked his instrument.

There was a disappointed cry from the children around me, they started throwing money into the container prepared by the Travelers, the age of these children ranged from 5 to 12 years, he said, and there's another 16-year-old.

Yeah, it was me.

I don't know why I like the story of the Travelers even though I realize that their story is much more, and the essence is sometimes impressed by Cringe.

The traveler stood up from his seat and waved at the horde of children, I stood up and patted my slightly dirty pants.

"You are so childish, Arion. Look, around you there's only a kid your sister's age, you should learn the meaning of the word shame."

I turned my head when I heard a voice behind me, there stood a (or should I call it a 'tail'?) Zakmee, a female wolf of my age, was shaking her waist and looking at me with her blue wolf eyes.

"Ah, Viona."

He was my friend since childhood, our first meeting was a little strange, when he helped me who was being bullied by bad boys.

Actually I'm not the type of child victim bully, but somehow at that time we seemed destined to meet, and not that I could not defend myself, but Viona came just as I was preparing to reply to them.

Seriously.

His father was a soldier and his mother a Master, I can guess that he was bored at home because his parents were not around.

Even though school is on holiday today, it looks like Viona's mother is attending a meeting.

"Even your sister has never been interested in the story of the traveler, has she?"

When we walked together, Ariel was a little special, she was not interested in childish things like the story of the traveler.

Different from her brother, although she is still 10 years old but you can say that she is much more mature than me.

"How else, that was my hobby long ago"

As I exhaled, I looked up at the sky above me, imagining that the sky had suddenly split open and revealed a mysterious dark scene.

"Hey, Arion. If you're too fond of reading illustrated fairy tales, you might not have gone to class."

"Why indeed? You're the only one who doesn't understand the thrill of reading pictorial fairy tales"

I chimed in, after all, I could always enter the list of 30 students with the best academic scores despite being lazy to study.

"You should have studied harder, I'm sure when you're serious about studying you can make the top five in academic grades."

"Why do you care so much about my school? You're not my mom, are you?"

Viona's face pouted. He looked at me annoyed.

"Tsk .. whatever". Viona threw away her face. I laughed a little at Viona's pouting face, this wolf girl is cute too when it's snooping.

I have to admit she's beautiful, her skin is white, her hair, tail and ears are gray, and it's very compatible with her blue eyes.

Also, even though he often put on a pouting face, he never got angry or spoke in a high tone to me, which was what made me happy to befriend him.

I don't think I mind if he asks me to marry him.

As we were walking in silence, a group of school friends came across us. I greeted them, and was replied with a look of ignorance.

"Oh, are you on a date, Arion?" said one of them.

"Damn it, make you jealous." Others chimed in

I just stared at them annoyed, I was used to dealing with situations like this. Because from childhood I was close to Viona, so after we approached adulthood, many thought that we were dating.

"No no ... Don't get me wrong, I'm just taking this lost wolf to his house."

I try to control my tone to make it sound as normal as possible.

They laughed out loud.

Suddenly Viona kicked my leg, I immediately lowered my head to hold my painful leg.

"Ooh .. So this is how you guys make out .. shit, just get jealous." they laugh again.

"Can't you guys just leave? We're getting noticed people know." I said in a annoyed tone. Not because of their words, but Viona's kick hurt for mercy.

"All right ... We're not gonna interrupt your precious date on holiday, so we're leaving first."

They just pulled it out laughing, I stood up and looked at Viona who was down, maybe she was embarrassed because so many people were staring at us.

"Sorry, that was just a joke."

"I know." she said

Some people greeted me kindly even though I didn't know them, I only replied with an awkward smile.

Always like this. Not even infrequently the person I just met greeted me with familiar 'Arion, right? Now you're a big boy yeah' and stuff.

I'm not very comfortable socializing and just familiar with a few people, but I'm quite popular in this city. Because I am a mixed race.

Why does that make me famous? Because normally if two people of different races have children, then their child should only inherit the nature of the race of one parent.

But I don't, there are two races of blood in my body, the Arakaza blood of my father and the Human blood of my mother.

When I was born, many thought that I inherited Human blood from my mother, but they were surprised to see my dark orange eyes, dark orange eyes are one of the hallmarks of the Arakaza race, and the other feature is the deep red line under the eyes, this is what I don't have.

We have reached my yard, this house has two floors. Thank you for your good father's work, so we can live in a luxurious and comfortable home.

"I'm home." I opened the door

"Welcome." the mother in the kitchen said.

I walked into the kitchen, where I was preparing lunch assisted by Ariel

"Oh, there's Viona, you want to have lunch together?" Ask mother.

"I did take him to lunch together, no problem, right?" Actually there is no need to ask like that, this wolf girl is indeed very often lunch with us, especially if her parents are not home.

"Of course it doesn't matter." replied the mother, she's a friendly person, different from her son.

He comes from the Helarc Marvette family, one of the upper class noble families in the Human Kingdom, it seems like father has not come home this afternoon, he is one of the military officers in this city, he is a, same profession as my grandfather.

Her father was quite busy, but she always had lunch at home, I listened to Viona and Ariel chat who helped mom prepare lunch.

"Have you been able to use magic?" ask Viona to Ariel.

"Yes, I can use basic Magic" Ariel replied.

She learned magic from mother, mother family is a family of magicians, Cold Energy Magic is Magic that characterizes her family.

Not that Cold Energy Magic could not be learned by others, but the one who compiled the Magic formula was the head of the first Helarc Marvette family. All members of the family who have reached adulthood can definitely use that magic, the magic Ariel learned is Cold Energy Magic.

"Arion, did you learn magic?" Viona asked me while her hands were busy stirring the soup in the cauldron.

He tasted a little, then muttered something then added some seasoning into the cauldron.

"Slightly, I was lazy to memorize the Magic algorithm." I plucked the side dish from the plate, suddenly a frying pan hit my head. It was Ariel, I went straight away and took another side dish.

"In addition to being intelligent, Ariel is also very diligent, very different from someone. That's why he quickly mastered Magic." My mother joined the conversation.

"Well, I don't understand who aunt means by 'someone'." Viona laughed a little. Mom laughed and shrugged her shoulders.

"Sister, there was a senior girl who left you a letter." Said Ariel who was decorating the dishes.

"Keep, where did you put the letter?"

"Still in the bag, after lunch I'll get you." The answer.

"Who is the one who sent the letter?" Viona.

"I don't know, I don't know any middle-class brothers." Ariel shrugged her shoulders.

"Is he from the same class as me?" I asked while trying to remember the faces of the girls in my class.

"Not knowing." Ariel Sahut.

Viona had already finished making the soup, and now she was helping Ariel decorate the dishes. I secretly tasted Viona's soup. It tastes pretty good.

In the past, I did not expect that Viona could do household chores, even my mother repeatedly praised her and said that one day she would definitely be a good wife.

"It's lucky that a man can marry you." That's what mom said when Viona first helped her cook.

Viona's tail was always twitching as she listened to the praise. Although I don't think that sounds like a compliment at all.

"Arion was very talented in Sword Technique, even he started to be able to use Bara. If only he wanted to, maybe he could get a high position in the military."

My mother joined the conversation while nimbly preparing lunch

"If only he wanted to?" viona asked confusedly.

"Yes ... Arion has no interest in becoming a Soldier and prefers to be an Army." replied my mother.

"Darlingly, why don't you just travel? I'm sure you can get a lot of kids interested in your story, even 19-year-olds" . Viona grin.

It was a crushing innuendo, my mother and Ariel laughed, Viona's face looking very satisfied. I pretended not to respond and continued to pick up the lunch side dishes one by one under the threat of Ariel's teflon.

Amidst the busyness in the kitchen, the door of my house opened and the voice of my father was heard.

"Dad's home."

"Welcome." we said in unison.

Dad walked into the kitchen, mom came over to me, took off her coat and greeted her with a smile. Viona who was helping mom also welcomed dad.

"Do you want to join us for lunch?"

Viona nodded. "Arion invited me to lunch together."

"It looks like Gavielle and Hasia are pretty busy huh." Said the father who then sat on one of the chairs, Gavielle and Hasia were Viona's parents.

"Yes, I'm sorry for the trouble." Viona looked polite, though,

"It doesn't matter, I'm glad this table is crowded." Dad waved his hand.

The women nimbly began to organize the dining table, in an instant the table was filled with a variety of lunch menus.

We began to eat quietly, one by one the food on the table began to decrease. Dirty dishes began to be stacked one by one.

After the meal, Mother, Ariel, and Viona had a light conversation, the topic was only about school and daily activities. My father and I talked about men.

"So, what do you think?" father asked.

I'm the one who's drinking staring at daddy confused, "What?"

"That girl looks like it's okay, right?" His eyes were pointing towards Viona.

"Hm ... Because I've been friends with him since I was a kid, so I think it's normal." I try to answer as flat as possible.

"Hey ... You are, next year you should already have a partner."

19 Years is the age a person is considered to be an adult. Usually, people will get married shortly after their 19th birthday party.

Even so I don't really care, I just want to adventure around the world. Making money from a mission, I think living free like that is more fun.

But if there is a woman who will accompany me adventure, then I do not mind marrying him and then adventuring together, not infrequently also such cases.

"It's still too soon to know, I still have a lot of things I want to do." I answered Dad.

"Yes ... It's up to you." Dad nodded and sipped his tea.

"This morning, I was assigned to supervise the training of the new soldiers, then tonight there will be a meeting of the higher-ups and I was asked to attend. Dinner was provided there so there was no need to wait for me to have dinner". Dad told us

Mom nodded and hurried to tidy up my father's work uniform. I went to the bathroom to wash my face.

He should have taken a shower, but his father was a slacker like me.

Actually, if you say there's a meeting, it doesn't always mean a real meeting. Sometimes my father and other top soldiers just party by booking a room in the bar for a full night, you once told me that this was a man's secret.

Mom deftly tidied the tangles in dad's clothes using iron. The clothes were ready as soon as Dad came out of the bathroom.

I then went to my room on the second floor to read the Fiction Book I bought today.

Drawing Fairy Tales were first introduced by the Human kingdom, the Human race is the most evolved race in terms of technology and entertainment, they also have a very diverse culture.

I heard faintly the sound of the front door being knocked on, after the door was opened by someone speaking, I guess it was Viona's mother, the conversation was sometimes punctuated by Viona's exclamations telling her mother to shut up, I don't know what they're talking about.

In the evening. Like you said, he came home late, so we weren't waiting for him for dinner.

When Ariel and I went to each other's rooms and I saw that she was still waiting in the living room, I imagined how she would react if she knew she wasn't in a meeting, he'll definitely be in trouble.

I continued reading the Fiction Book. After it was too late, I went to bed.