Age of Heroes

MIKAEL DEVONHURST

He smiles in happiness today. After a few weeks searching around this area finally he has some progress with the search for Levitia Disk

One of the disk is found in one of the villages near the city of Acro. It is an abandoned village where many of its inhabitants have migrated to the prospering villages and cities of the Vermont's.

He was excavating an area among the abandoned wells after he made his research extensively. He has consulted the ancient books and even put together the ancient lore and finally decided that he need to excavate the area around the wells of this abandoned village

Because according to his research Alan Shadowstrider and the Great Hero Levitia scattered about fifteen disk here in Alan, twenty in Vern, ten of them in Vangua, and five in Seren

Then as he researches deeper on Seren it reveals something more interesting.

Seren has the Sharp Mountains created by the First Generation but it also serves as tomb for the Radiant Rulers of Seren.

Mikael believes there is a mystery there and it might hold the location of the other five disk.  But since he did not plan to go to the Seren anytime soon, he soon focused on his task

In the wells after much digging he also found a skeleton guarding the disk. The skeleton seems to have a ring in his finger in the design of seven pointed stars.

And in his decaying shirts is a badge with the design of an arrow, with rose slithering around the arrows.

'What is this?' he said the first time he saw it. He then examines the ring and found out it is casted off from Enochian steel

After that discovery he hired a few of the people in the cities to help him with the excavation.

It also helps that when he met Lady Julia she approved of him, excavating around her son's land and acts as his patron.

The family of Vermont's it seems, maintains a kind reputation among the common folk and the high nobles, by being the patron of art and knowledge.

He has to ask for permission to excavate if not he might get captured by the authority and his identity revealed.

As he thinks of this, a worker voice brings him back to his current situation.

'What is that my lord?' the common folk, the workers that he hires asked pointing his fingers to the corpse ring.

Mikael shake his head.

'Don't know but surely it is something of great importance. Bring the skeleton into the tent.' They nodded and quickly moved the skeletons to the tent.

He need to try to examine the bone.

He never cares much about medicine and its study but it does not mean that he is ignorant of its principle.

'And this circle disk?' they ask

'Well, brought it too.' And there is excitement in Mikael voice when he talks about the disks.

He could see the scribbles glowing in the sun like an illuminated word, inviting anyone to decipher its mysteries and enlightening itself on the mysteries of the ages.

But for now the skeleton begs his attention. he returned to his tent and begun examining the skeletons.

He then formulates a few theories.

'This is a formal burial, probably for this S1' He noted it in his mind.

He names the skeleton S1 to make his work easier. Formal burial often includes grave goods such as food and weaponry and decoration.

The bones have some kind of short sword beside his hip, and the ring and necklace, might show that he belongs to some organization.

Mikael then check the eye socket of the skeleton. The shape of the eye socket indicates the skeleton is male. He also checks signs of sickness of poisoning by examining the bones.

There is no bubbly texture to the bones, no increased porosity he mused.

He then looked at the skeleton hip.

'Nodules are formed there. May indicate the constant use of load bearing strap for carrying wood or water' He said to himself, his eyes are trained intently on every part of the skeleton.

He gestured to one of the workers who can write to approach him.

'Record everything I say.'

He takes a notebook and a quill and begun writing Mikael observation of the skeleton.

'Subject S1. He is tall.' And the workers write it quickly

The length of his thigh bone enables him to calculate the height of a person to whom it belonged, because one medical journal he found, written in Demon Language translated from an ancient manuscript of the Lost Generation, who in turns translated from the First Generation have this kind of knowledge

The First Generation does not leave many of their writing behinds but their language is understood by the Lost Generation.

One could say, humanity evolved language comes from the Pure Tongue, the language spoken by the First Generation.

Many thousand years ago, it states that the relationships between the lengths of leg and arm bones and overall height are more or less constant for humans.

Multiplying the length of the femur by 2.6 and adding 65cm will give the height of a human of either sex.

Then after finished examining the bones Mikael turned to the disk. The disk was carved with images that showed a…. King?

The image of that man wears no crown but it shows that people kneel before him while the man showed his hand into the air and one spear seems to fall from the sky.

Linguistic is not his profession but there are words that he can read thanks to a dictionary that compile some of the known words of the Pure Tongue

He can read Praesident. No, no…he corrected. He then reads it again.

'President of Unified Land'

AETHRO CAEPRET…No, Wrong again. The words are a little different but he can read this. President of Unified Land, Aero Carlingian and his Cabinet.

President? What's that? Another term for King? And who is this Aero? Then it hits him while he looked at the spear in the background of that man and the finger that he points.

Mikael eyes widened

'Could it be? Could this be the First Generation Wrath?' He asks himself. He then quickly holds the disk, trying to read the other scribbles yet he could not understand it.

But he is eager to know.

It was like he is at the verge of solving one of the most enduring mysteries of this world and the only obstacle was the fact he couldn't read the ancient language of the First Generation

His eyes brightened, and his hearts beats faster like he is falling in love as he looked at the disk with renewed hope and the promise it holds for knowledge and their understanding of the world.

'Aero Carlingian!' he muttered

Is he the one who orders the Spear of Doom to rain upon the Xenos Empire turning it to a desert?

Who is he? Is there more? He could not help but be excited. He is overjoyed.

Mikael always believed that finding the Disks would reveal more about Levitia secret or what he learned from the Three Wise Men of the Sea but now maybe it different than what it thought.

Could it be the knowledge that the Three Wise Men of the Sea imparted on Levitia was the secret about the First Generation.

Maybe what he learns is the history of the First Generation.

What stopped the Great Hero of Humanity when he crossed the Bridge of the Blessed Lands? Why does he persecute anyone who knows of the stories of the Lost Generation?

So many questions that need to be answered and maybe his Disk hold all the answers. At this time, he could no longer hold back his excitement. Mikael summoned the worker's leader to come to his tent.

Then he immediately ordered them

'Tell your men that we need to bar off this site from other visitor so that the site is not disturbed.'

The foreman hearing this then asked hesitantly

'What if the Lady came?'

Mikael sighed

'If the lady came who am I to stop her.' He said helplessly

The foreman nodded. Thinking of the foreman concern, Mikael then see the need to send the lady a letter detailing his miraculous discovery.

This may change everything.

Everything.

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Anyone notice something? hehehe/ Read Age of Adventure for someone who dont get the reference.