The Arcane Guardians Chapter 14: Chapter 12: And Then There Was Light

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Gaius spent the whole week poring over the endless tomes in President Benedictus’s personal library. Given normal circumstances, he would be completely beside himself with delight to devour the buffet of arcane knowledge displayed so enticingly in front of him. But not this time. The Sorcerer visited the library every day with only urgency in his eyes, intent to finish the previous day’s book and move on to the next. He was being unusually worried for a little girl that he had never met before, to the point where he was neglecting his main mission for her instead. Still, wasn’t that why he joined the Guardian Council in the first place? To save those in need? According to what he had heard from Cleric Nerva, the Angelo Syndicate had been recently obsessed with conducting some sort of experiment to grant Metas the ability to wield magic. Not only that, but the President had ordered Warlock Vulcan to eliminate the syndicate for some reason. Gaius’s suspicion of his leader deepened upon hearing that. If it were true, Vulcan was being oddly passive about this mission. Hell, the only person who seemed to be doing anything about the Angelo syndicate was Felix, and it was only because his sister had been taken by them. So why doesn’t Vulcan seem to care about his direct orders from the President? Why doesn’t Vulcan seem to care about an innocent girl in danger? Was it because he was secretly in cahoots with Titus Angelo? Or did he have other things planned that didn’t involve the Guardian Council? Gaius snapped another book shut and focused his magic. Flipping books and musing pointlessly was taking him nowhere. He needed a more direct approach. Can’t believe I’m using True Vision for something like this. Arcani filled Gaius’s eyes as he scanned the library, searching for the book that would most probably help his cause. The magic guided his vision and landed on a thick book that read ‘History of Arcani’. Confusion flooded the boy. Why would a history book be relevant to his situation? Gaius shrugged, putting common sense aside as usual and flipped the tome open. He squinted. Not even True Vision could decipher the numerous scrawlings and strikethroughs over the printed text. Whoever vandalised this book clearly did not agree with the author. A familiar name caught his eye. “General Theodore Faustus, the first Warlock and… original Magi?” Gaius muttered to himself. Years of Social Studies lessons had taught him that General Theodore was merely a heroic figure who led a vastly undersized army to a one-sided battle and still won. But Arcani was discovered years before his rise to power. Why did the handwritten scribbles claim that he was the founder of magic? The boy flipped the pages, hastily reading through an extremely abridged version of history about how the General’s betrayal of his Meta friend gave rise to Magi-kind via a demonic being named ‘Abaddon’. Gaius reached the end of the printed text quickly, and found himself reading an entirely handwritten continuation of the story. “—Abaddon, growing ever more powerful, continued to demand more and more inhumane sacrifices from him. The general knew that he would not be able to meet its demands, and Magi-kind would eventually be crushed under the weight of his sins. Working secretly with the most powerful Magis in Surone, they inscribed a counter spell drawing on the collective power of the world’s Magi to seal away the demon permanently. The lengthy spell was embedded in three tomes—” The word ‘three’ was underlined. “—and sealed behind a wall of Arcani embedded into the books. Fortunately, General Theodore and his advisors managed to complete the incantation right before Abaddon found out about their contingencies. A fierce battle ensued, and the demon was finally banished from the plane of the world, but not before separating the tomes and scattering them. Should the three tomes be united once more, the final spell can be completed, and Abaddon’s gateway to Earth will be destroye