Once I reached the small plaza, I saw how different it was from the first time I saw it. The cobblestones are no longer broken and filthy. The magic circle is now clearly drawn on the ground just like it was just set up recently. This is the first time I''ve seen how powerful restoration magic can be if a person with time attributed mana was involved. You can restore something by rewinding time to the moment it was just created! This has given me hope that one day, I can see this place return to how it was in my dreams again. It is just sad that the people that sacrificed at that time will not be here to see it.

    For a magic circle this big and powerful, I don''t have any idea how much mana it will take to activate it. I cut my connection with the black orb last night in preparation for this task today so my mana reserves would be full. I am just hoping whatever amount of mana I have right now is enough to recreate the realm.

    I slowly walked and stood in the middle of the magic circle that covers the entire ground of this small plaza. I did call it small but this plaza has a radius of about 7 meters from the point I am standing so it is still massive. I think it was as big as the magic circle that was used by the Academe of Gnosis to pull people from other worlds. Here goes nothing!

    I closed my eyes and then directed my mana towards the ground to power the magic circle. Since I don''t know how much is needed, I just fed the magic circle about 90% of my mana in one go with a boom. Keeping 10% is the bare minimum to support a mortal''s life in case of mana drain. I am no mortal though but it doesn''t hurt to be cautious. I heard the ground rumble and it looked like a crater will be produced with what I just did but somehow I felt in my heart that everything will turn out just alright.

    I felt weak in my legs and ended up sitting on the ground heaving. I think I have gone deaf and everything was in slow motion around me. I saw the ground changing to that of an opening of a huge black hole. I was too weak to leave the center so I got sucked into it. All I can see is black for so long that I did not remember how much time it took before I reached solid ground. I think I am about to faint.

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    Location: Human Realm

    While Luna was opening the portal to the New World Tree realm, an earthquake never before experienced by the world struck. The tremors lasted for almost a full minute before it stopped. Luckily, there was no deaths but some properties were destroyed and several people still got hurt.

    Nobody can explain the cause of this natural disaster. Yes, they tagged it as a natural disaster because there was no recorded mage in any part of Aeocrescens that can release such a massive mana wave that it can shake the entirety of the world.

    If there was one though, he/she did something considerable huge and changes might come soon. They just don''t know if it would be something good or not.

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    Location: Central Church of Lumienere

    At the Central Church of Lumienere, several priests, high priests, as well as the current pope are kneeling in prayer throughout the earthquake that lasted for almost a full minute. They were fervently praying that the goddess'' anger will subside soon and she no longer punishes this world.

    This religion always believed that there was a deity that created the world and has taken care of all the living things in it. They believed that her name is Lumienere.

    She was known as a generous and forgiving god that gave birth to all races. They kept their faith no matter how much the number of believers decreased for the last few centuries. They believed that their prayers will eventually be heard and the sins of the whole world will be forgiven and she will give them blessings again.

    This earthquake, they believed is the sign of her forgiveness and descent back to their world. They believed that she will once again gift them with a saintess that will save their religion from total ruin.

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    Location: Vlaelmundr, Sanctuary of Dragons

    The earthquake that spanned the whole world has shaken the sanctuary of dragons. Though almost every race was in panic, the dragons weren''t. With this phenomenon, what they saw was hope as that familiar massive mana wave can only come from someone from Eieneos.

    They were desperate for the continuation of their bloodline. For the last four centuries, not even one dragonling has been born to their race. Dragons live far longer than any of the other races. They have been waiting patiently but they know in their hearts that only a marriage to an Eienean will let them see the birth of a new dragon.

    If the prophecy that a new heir will come and Eieneos will open again has come true, would the new empress be gracious enough to forgive their sin of indifference during the last war?

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    Location: Freyheimr, Land of Elves and Heralds

    Just like the dragons, the high elves have felt that familiar mana fluctuation which caused the massive earthquake. If the dragons felt hope, the high elves and the heralds felt an extreme dread.

    Most of the high elves and heralds that joined that war four centuries ago, were dead. The current elves and heralds were still young then but they still remember how those tagged traitors experienced a slow gruesome death. None of them were unhurt and no amount of healing or medicine could save them.

    There were a lot of deaths then but like a curse that wanted to make sure their existence will be snuffed out, the high elves and heralds have also stopped producing children. The high elves which are divided into different factions based on their elemental affinities (light, plant, wind, water and earth) were only finally able to give birth to an heir for each faction about 175 years ago after using up tons of resources, lives, and elven mana. They fear that once the heir in the prophecy descends, the first thing that she will do is to annihilate this new generation of high elves as well as every single elf in existence. sea??h thё ηovelFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    The Heralds share this same dread. Their numbers are now less than a hundred. They have also lost their capacity to fly due to the very low mana in the human realm, their wings have all painfully dissipated from their backs. All of those that survived the war lived miserable lives with huge scars in their backs from where their wings used to be. There was not a single female that lived after the war so giving birth to new heralds became impossible.

    Their race is still strong in terms of magic and physical capabilities but what use is it if they could not have offspring to pass the torch to. They were too proud at first to marry other races. Some of them were a bit luckier than the high elves since one or two children were born during the first century when that curse affected the whole world.

    After that first 100 years, not a single child was born from their race and like a curse, the females died one by one and no matter what they did they came to this desperate position they are now in. With the new heir, will she even help them or will she just watch them die one by one till none was left of their race?

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    Location: Lyartaim, Land of Beastmen

    The eldest person who is also their gifted seer has come out of seclusion all of the sudden this morning. For the longest time, he was deemed as a madman ever since he prophesied that Eieneos will open once again. That was more than 200 years ago but there weren''t any signs of it happening so eventually, eveyone lost hope and he lost his credibility.

    Not less than an hour from the time he appeared, an unprecedented earthquake shook the entirety of Lyartaim. Instead of hiding, he couldn''t help but scream repeatedly with joy, "She''s here! The heir is here! The prophecy was real! We are saved!"

    At first nobody cared about what he was saying, but eventually somebody paid attention. The elders of the race were the ones that approached the seer first to clear up their confusion about what is happening as of the moment.

    It was not that they do not believe in their seer. It was just that, it has already been more than 200 years. Several generations have lived and died since then but nothing happened so they lost hope. Life has been extremely hard since they were kicked out of the world tree realm. If the prophecy was real, is this their chance to finally leave this life of hand-to-mouth existence?

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