The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 159: The Druid And The Owlfolks (1)

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Reo Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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—2 Months Before The War With The Potterland Kingdom—

At the Eastern continent, a man clad in a black-green robe walked in the endless forest. With a face full of joy because of the dense mana of nature surrounding him, he continues to stroll around without any specific direction.

“This place sure is only filled with forest, huh… Not bad~” Praised the man.

The man is one of Oz’s clones, the druid. All of Oz’s clones have their own job with Slime Oz as the center replacing the original Oz. But since each clone is connected by Oz, his deep slumber made the connection between each clone got disconnected. But that doesn’t bother them since they could contact each other through magic, and it’s still easier to locate each other since they share the same soul, to begin with.

Holding a wooden staff in his right hand, Druid Oz climbed a tree and take a bite of its fruit. The fruit is similar to apple in taste, but it’s a little bit sourer and harder to bite.

“Hm~ But unlike the magical forest, the fruits here are just normal fruits, huh~” (Druid Oz)

While he’s busy finishing the fruit he’s eating, trouble suddenly appears as if chasing over him.

“Which kingdom did you come from!? Answer me!” A young girl’s voice suddenly appears from above together with the sound of swords colliding.

*Clank!* *Clank!*

“Answer me!” The young girl’s voice once again sounded.

Since her voice seems to be in danger, Druid Oz jumped to look at the situation, only to get his eyebrows furrowed.

“Owls?” Druid Oz couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise when he saw four huge owls fighting above the sky.

But one strange thing is that the claws of the owls are using some kind of blades that could fit into their legs. The blades are well-made and are sharp. Despite using their legs, they skillfully use the blades and fought intensely.

“You imbeciles! Answer me!” The voice of a young girl once again sounded, and Druid Oz finally realizes that the voice came from the cornered huge owl.

“T-This is…” Druid Oz realized that there are unfamiliar mana emitted from the three huge owls that are attacking the huge owl girl.

(Demonic mana!) (Druid Oz)

As time goes on, the huge girl owl got even more cornered and she got more blows landed on her body from the three huge owls attacking him.

(They’re demonized, she’s in trouble) (Druid Oz)

“Run over here!” Druid Oz’s voice sounded, and the keen hearing of the huge owls definitely hear his voice.

Hearing that voice, as the girl owl is at a pinch, she couldn’t help but take that last stroke of hope as she dashes as quick as she could towards the source of the voice despite she’s totally unfamiliar with the voice.

“Wise choice, little girl. Let me handle the rest,” Druid Oz ready his staff as the girl owl dash towards him.

Tap!

Right when the girl owl about to enter the forest from above, Druid Oz tapped his staff towards the ground while spreading his mana towards the surrounding trees.

“Capture them,” Druid Oz silently whispered towards the winds.

With that sole command, the forest heed Druid Oz’s command and went to action. The huge trees moved and attacked the three huge demonized owls with their branches, and entangle them.

The sudden attack and ambush from the surrounding trees caught them off-guarded. Causing them to get caught by the huge trees, but as they’re demonized and have their strength greatly boosted, they’re still struggling to get released by the branches entangling them.

“Oops! Not that fast, [Sleeping Toxic]” Druid Oz released purple mist from the tip of his staff. The demonized owls that inhale the mist immediately get into a deep slumber. But there is a reason why it’s called sleeping toxic.

It’s called sleeping toxic because those who didn’t wake up by the toxic in 2 minutes, will continue their sleep into an eternal slumber.

“That should do,” Druid Oz tapped his staff once again towards the ground, and the trees finally withdraw their branches, their branches got replaced by their roots that suddenly took the three huge owl bodies, while three trees took each one huge owl, burying them and entangling them inside the ground with their roots. The huge owls will become their new source of nutrition even if they wake up.

(Hm~ Transforming into them might be useful in the future. Their body is strong and powerful, it might be even better than transforming into a griffin) (Druid Oz)

“Now, where is the little owl I just saved?” Druid Oz shifted his gaze and search for the dashing owl that passed him just now.

He searches for a while, but the one he found is rather unexpected.

“I-It transformed…?” (Druid Oz)

The owl had transformed into a little girl that should be around 10 years old in age. She has beautiful white hair while her ears are definitely an owl’s ears.

(She’s greatly injured…) (Druid Oz)

“Just what kind of mischief did you do to the point that those huge demonized owls injure you this much, little owl?” Muttered Druid Oz as he points his staff towards the little girl’s head.

“How disheartening to see a little kid as you got wounded like this…” Druid Oz stared at the little girl as green particles appeared from the ground, and slowly gather at the little girl’s wounds, healing them at a high speed.

“Heal her, dear forest. And may one day she became the one who will heal thee,”

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Her name is Charnia Galhala. She is the second daughter of the great king and queen of the Galhala kingdom. Raised as a noble Owlfolk, Charnia grow as a beautiful and gracious kid.

But as beautiful and kindhearted as she is, her parents had a lot of enemies, resulting in lots of people pursuing her life too. She usually got tightly guarded by her sister and three of her personal guards appointed by her father.

Her royal sister is her target and her inspiration. She admires her greatly, and she vowed to herself that she will become like her sister when she’s become an adult. Just like her sister, she learned every common knowledge the royalties need to know, she learned manners, she learned how to fight, and she learned how to use magic.

But as she’s still a kid, there’s a limitation of how she could train and what she may learn. There are fighting techniques and magic spells that are still too dangerous for her to learn as she might not use them wisely or still couldn’t use them safely.

But those limitations didn’t prevent her to continue learning. She’s brave and has a little rebel personality. She silently watched the fighting techniques used by the soldiers of the kingdom, and silently steal books of advanced magic for her to learn.

When she thinks it’s safe, she sneaked out of the palace and tries to practice the fighting techniques and the magic spells from the books she stole. She’s overjoyed when she successfully uses the fighting techniques the soldiers’ used, but when she about to start to practice the magic spells from the books she stole, three unknown figures appeared behind her.

But she’s not weak, she decided that if she can’t flee, then they might just serve as her target to train the things she just learned. But as just how always be, the three Owlfolks before her are not the same as those Owlfolks that had attempted to assassinate her before.

They’re stronger, faster, and more ruthless.

The young owl soon realizes that she couldn’t win, so she dashed as fast as he could, running from the three demonized Owlfolks that are chasing her. But she’s still exhausted because of the training she just had. She could feel her wings felt numb and her sight start to feel hazy.

She shouted and asked who are they, hoping that they will respond and stall some time. But it turns out to be vain. They continue to attack and she desperately blocks their strikes as tears started to drop from the corner of her eyes.

Every strike landed on her body are hurt, at that moment, she finally realizes something.

This is what a real battle is.

But just when she about to surrender her life, a voice containing the last hope of his life appears out of nowhere.

“Over here!”

Despite she didn’t know who the owner of the voice is, she dashes in the direction of the voice as fast as she could. But her wings failed her and she fell before she could even flee and went back towards her kingdom.

And there, the little owl lost her consciousness.

“Heal her dear forest, and may one day she became the one who will heal thee,”