Episode 1 : Mysterious Place

“So where am I?” A man asked, his cold violet eyes penetrating through everyone's soul. He is clearly on guard with the three other men whom he had never met.

“How am I supposed to know?” A boy who seems to be the youngest out of all of them dared to answer back, this audacity received a direct stare from the violet eyed man. But the boy seemed to not fear him and looked back with his enchanting blue eyes.

“This lordship have an idea, so if anyone would bother to listen..” A man with pointy ears, more commonly know as an elf, offered an answer. Hearing this the violet eyed man shifted his attention to him and said: “Continue if you could, your greatness”. As a mighty person himself, this violet eyed man knew how great and mighty elves are, they are on the same height as dragons though they're more likely the ones you would meet compared to a dragon. (A/N: But it's still rare to meet one, a high blood at that)

“As it interests you, I would continue. Before let us confirm my idea, shall we?” His green eyes shined in delight. It's quite rare for him to meet such kind human. “Hm, this emperor, is more than curious” The violet eyed man then claimed himself an emperor, shocking the blue eyed one. It would be a shock indeed if you find out that the person you fought with was higher than you on title.

On the other hand the green eyed elf seemed not surprise. He could clearly see the faith of a mighty emperor leaking from the man. “Well then, have all of you perhaps experienced death right before this magical encounter?” Asked the elf as his brown flowy hair fluttered in the air.

[A/N: I'm jealous of the hair ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽]

"I did" One of the remaining two silent man before answered. His black eyes visibly flared from the mere mention, anyone could clearly see that however he died, it was not good. Well, dying itself isn't good to begin with.

“Oh, forgive this old elf for mentioning such matters” The Green eyed elf immediately stood up and bowed with his right arm on his chest. His brown hair slipped out and covered the side of his face. The sudden movement caused everyone's surprise, it was clearly stated in fairytale books that elvens are beings that are as high and mighty as dragons, they were created even before dragons were. So clearly their attitude were described as either arrogant and fierce or cold and unyielding. So you can't blame anyone to be surprised when they see a high elf bowing.

[A/N: Don't ask me why such seemingly might people read fairytale's, alright. They were kids too once]

“Honored elf, there is no need to bow to this young magician!” As a fan of fairytale's, this ‘young’ magician values beings like a mighty elf. A while ago the reason why he never spoke was because he was in awe of the pointy eared man but his fantasies were broken when ‘death’ was mentioned.

The elf once again spoke, “Hm, I apologize once again. How about the others?”

The violet eyed man's voice followed after the elf, "I am Aldric Eymilius Alcibiades, the emperor of the Cibiades Empire. I greet everyone, as for his greatnesses question, I do think I died before coming here" Said the emperor and then bows lightly.

"I am Lucius Alexander Anugus, the crown prince of the Anugus Empire, my fourth brother poisoned me and I died is what I suppose happened next" The blue eyed man stop playing with the water and introduce himself. He was then followed by the black eyed man.

"I am Cyiel Ethan Syrria, the Archimage of Syrria Kingdom. I'm not a royal before anyone asks” The man immediately clarified. It was pretty common for people that he meets to ask him if he's a royal since he has the empires name as his last name. “Then what may you be, archimage?” The Anugus prince asked directly (with no shame whatsoever). “I am an orphan whose talents were discovered by the royal magicians who later took me in and raised me. With their knowledge and my talent I rose to the 2nd highest position a magician could get, I became an archimage and I also received the empires name as my own which may have triggered my death later on” The archimage sighed with disappointment written all over his face.

Unlike the greeneyed elf, the Anugus kid did not apologize. He mentioned his death and so did almost everybody else so he thinks that everyone's death matter is normal around them now. While the archimage as a room reader already knew this and didn't take it offensively when the Anugus kid kid asked: “How did you die?”. Though unlike him the others were rendered speechless.

Despite this being a sensitive matter, he answered the younger quite fondly. Meeting such brave, curious, and cute young kid (A/N: Compared to his age) is definitely rare.

“Anyone having the name of the empire at their own, specifically being granted by the emperor or the church, possibly but almost impossibly by a god himself could and definitely has the right to the throne. In my position, it seems that the emperor do like me a little bit too much for the comfort of the crown prince who later on recruited my only disciple. This foolish disciple of mine put a magicians poison on my beloved drink causing my death under the orders of the crown prince” Long story short. “That's quite similar to my death oh wow” The Anugus kid looked at him cheerfully. Though such matters probably isn't something you should be happy about.

The Anugus kid never fails to render all of them speechless. Sigh.

“Skipping everything else, would your greatness share anything to us?” Emperor Aldric looked at the middle age looking elf near him. “Oh yes, I apologize, I forgot my own introduction for a moment. I am Saphfine Indigo Elaven, Grand duke of the Northern Elves” He bowed a little with his right hands on his chest. “Though hold up, I might have closed myself off on my tower but I sure do know all the empires under Cencia and Lapis continent” The Syrria archimage suddenly voiced out. His words did make the others realize, they do not know each other which is weird because as high people of their empires they should know each other and what's more they don't know each other's empire at all. The thought brought quite the stir to the group of four men.

The elven grand duke observed them for a few while before deciding to tell them his ideas. “According to the private ancient imperial elven records, the place where our realms are on was once called the ‘land’. They said some tales about this ‘land’ once being merge until something caused the whole separation of this huge land” The Grand dukes face became stiffer with every word as if he is remembering something not quite well.

While everyone was confused, the Syrria archimage stared at the mighty elf continuously. Almost too continuous to the point that the grand duke felt that it's starting to burn holes into him. “Can you continue now, your lordship?” Cyiel asked as he stared holes onto the older. “Ah, yes! But now it's called ‘endless realms’. So my original idea was that we all were sucked into this dimension as we died in our original realms.” The duke finished. Anyone having such persistent eyes fall on them would try to make long stories short. (A/N: Sometimes even elven does)

“I died on a expedition by falling off a cliff” Emperor Aldric said with furrowed brows. Yet again another man who is obviously betrayed. (A/N: Like no one would really believe an ‘emperor’ who have a lot of guards died just by a simple cliff fall, how'd you even fall my guy? Your an emperor! Surely someone would be there to help you in the 1st place.)

“Why would you even mention that, sire?” Lucius looked at him weirdly. He knows he said that the death matter is common now a few words a while ago but the silly grudge in his heart just cannot be contained any longer.

“Well, everybody has talked about their death so I thought I should share mine” Let's just say that the emperor of Cibiades empire feels a little bit left out. “The Grand duke haven't” Lucius looked at him with his silly little anger. “Hold up there kid, do you have something against me?” Aldric gazed at him with resistance, people would think that they're in a bad relationship. “Well you had something against me a while ago” The Anugus kid defended, well as we all know kids keep their little grudge deep inside.

“For heaven's sake that was a while ago kiddo-” Just as he was about to scold the younger more, the grand duke spoke up.

“I died on the hands of the elven emperor, they used a successor to fight with me after taking permission on having a duel, before anyone asks a duel is something that my elven empire does for successors or possible successors who are getting more power to fully inherit the highest position on their place. They used this as a distraction as the emperor shot me from behind” The eleven grand duke lowered his head as he played with a fallen leaf from somewhere. “It feels like he's an important person to you, your lordship, I mean the emperor” For mere seconds the eyes of a grand duke and crown prince locked.

The crown prince's body shook as the gaze broke, surely there was something else with the grand duke and that emperor aside from being subordinates. The heavy emotions hidden within those emerald eyes were something he knew, a feeling of betrayal. ‘Wait- are all of us perhaps all betrayed to death?!’ The Anugus kid can't help but think.

The interaction between the four was cut off when a sudden voice echoed in their ears. "I sincerely apologize to all of your excellencies for interrupting, I am-".

...To be Continued!...

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...Goodbye!...

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