Snippet #2274397

Hagen looked at himself in the mirror. He had had a hard time falling asleep. He kept thinking about how he should start out showing his strength. Two options kept getting to him. First there were the option of the class system; through tests a person could show how strong they are. It's more like a rank system rather than a normal magic class system. The second option is a mock battle, either with a group or a strong person that already has a high rank in the class system. But no matter how much he tried to make a plan, he couldn't see himself in it. Hagen wasn't a person that just jumped into battles to show his strength, so there weren't really any other option than going through the class system. But then he might have to show some of the spells he'd rather keep hidden.

He put on his robes of the Holy Order and went out the door. What he hadn't thought about was the fact that the Holy Order was an organization of elite light wizards, and even if it wasn't the most known organization in the world, it was rather famous for their strength. Hagen didn't realize the attention he got while walking through the streets. He was thinking of the tests the headmaster would put him through. Walking into the courtyard he suddenly realized that a lot of people stared at him. Some lessons had already started but there were a lot that didn't have classes until second or third lesson. A group of five wizards walking around, looking for a target to beat up and claim their name, saw Hagen as well.

"Hey you! Holy fucker scum. What are you doing in our city?" One of the guys shouted as he stepped closer to Hagen. He had a jacket with the word Vulcan embroidered on the shoulder. Surely the leader of the group. "Have you come to challenge the mighty Vulcan?" The smallest of the guys asked from behind.

"I am sorry to say that I do not know anyone by the name Vulcan and I would appreciate if you could speak nicely to me instead of barfing like a loose dog." Maybe this was Hagen's lucky day, many things could be said about the group, but their leader did actually seem strong even though he was an ass.

"What did you just say holy fucker scum? You want me to beat you up?" People had taken a big distance to Hagen and the group. Many of them already knew what was going to happen, Hagen was from the Holy Order and people would talk about a wizard beating one from the Holy Order.

"No, I said..." Hagen didn't get to finish his sentence before he was sent flying by a rock. He flew two meters before getting hold on the ground again. "If that is how you like it then come at me, but do not regret your own decision."

"He's mine!" Vulcan roared and began channeling another spell. But before he could cast it Hagen cast one of his fastest spells "Blinding Light." An extremely bright light emitted from Hagen and everyone around the courtyard was hit by an instant blindness as if they had looked directly into the sun for far too long. "You fuck!" Vulcan snarled as he sent another rock flying into the building in front of him. While his enemy was blinded Hagen ran into a good distance of the group. The beauty about the courtyard was the fact that he was able to move freely around and still be in touch of the sunlight. This distance should be perfect. "Your going down! No one pisses me off without feeling pain!" Vulcan shouted "You guys keep him distracted while I channel that spell." The four other people did as they were ordered by their leader and began channeling a variety of different spells. Hagen kept a calm expression on his face as he watched his enemies getting ready to attack.

"Smoke screen!" a guy with a gas mask hissed as he spat out smoke from the mask. The smoke concealed the group and in the matter of seconds Hagen could see lightning sparks emit inside the smoke. Perfect
"Able to strike as firmly as wanted,
whatever the aim it would never fail.
And never fly so far from hand,
that it would not find its way back.
A weapon only a true god worthy!
Mjölnir!"
As a lightning was send from the smoke cloud a light struck down from the sky, directly through the lightning, cancelling the spell, and into the ground making a big explosion as it hit the earth. Dust was thrown in every direction. The smoke screen disappeared and as the dust fell back to the ground Hagen was revealed standing still with a hammer of light flying around him. "As my old master told me; perfect offense is perfect defense" He then pointed at the guy with a gas mask "Crush!" The hammer was send from Hagen's side into the stomach masked man, sending him out flying into another right behind him. The hammer disappeared immediately after the impact, and the two guys had both passed out from the hit. "Two out, three to go."

The two guys in front of Vulcan looked at each other with regret in their eyes. Vulcan was standing behind them channeling his spell "What the hell are you waiting for!? Attack!!" He roared. One of them turned towards Hagen again, lightning sparks appeared around him. "So it was you who dared to attack me."

"Lightning blade!" The guy shouted and ran towards Hagen while a sword of lightning formed in his hands. "I'll take you down!" Don't they ever learn? "Blinding Light." The guy were just in front of Hagen as he was blinded for the second time. He ran into the small crater the hammer had made earlier and fell. The lightning blade dispersed as the caster lost focus. Lying beside Hagen the guy looked up "I'm sorry, I-I give up!" The guy was shaking while looking up at Hagen. "Get out of here." The lightning guy got to his feet and ran away.

Hagen looked towards the place where the group was standing earlier, but only one person was left; Vulcan. The last one must have run away as the lightning guy had lost. Vulcan started laughing insanely "Who needs people! I am strong enough to beat you myself!" He was standing with both his hands held high. Above him, an orb of earth had formed, while Hagen fought his subordinates, with the size of a house. "Actually I had thought that I wouldn't have had to use this spell, only a few people have seen my strongest spell! The ultimate ARMAGEDON!" Vulcan unleashed the orb directly into the sky. In the matter of seconds the orb had disappeared out of sight.

The earth below Hagen started shaking. Hagen had read about this spell. It was a rather destructive spell and it would surely make a lot of causalities, he had to stop it. It wasn't a channel spell however, so he couldn't stop the spell by attacking the caster. There was only one way, he needed to fight fire with fire.

Holding his hands out in front of his chest he started casting a spell:
"Gather!
O river of light that's guided by the Gods!
Shine!" Three small orbs of light appeared around Hagen.
"In order to perish the fangs of evil!
Divine Orbs!" The orbs expanded and

Hagen looked up and saw Vulcan's spell erupt. Rocks with the minimum size of footballs were falling from the sky, with such a speed that they were burning like meteors. Hagen held out his arms, the three divine orbs levitated into position; one on his right, one on his left and one above him. This is going to be a close call Hagen clapped his hands together.
"Sweep away the darkness
Light Barrage!"
Multiple beams of light fired from Hagen's hands going straight for the meteors. At the same time as Hagen fired his spell the three divine orbs copied the spell and tripled the number of beams Hagen unleashed. As the beams hit, the meteors crumbled and fell as harmless dirt. But there were too many meteors for Hagen to handle and he had to let some pass through and hit the ground, but he tried to let those through that would make minimum damage to people as well as buildings. But it got harder the more he got; since the dust created a screen making it impossible to see the rocks.

People that saw the battle wouldn't be able to tell what happened, it was a chaos of light and rocks flying everywhere, making explosions and creating craters. One of the last rocks hit Hagen's left arm, breaking it and throwing him to the ground. As the dust screen faded Hagen stood up, his left arm hanging from his body.

"Let's end this now Vulcan!" Hagen pointed his palm towards Vulcan.
"They are one people, have one language and nothing will be withheld from them which they purpose to do." A circle of light appeared under Vulcan, "What the hell is this?"
"Tower of Babel!" The light emitted under him, creating a tower of light with Vulcan on top. It was going up way too fast for him to react to the situation. He could only watch as he went further and further up, into the sky. When the tower was the same height as the buildings around the courtyard, Hagen turned his hand into a fist. The tower stopped and began cracking and fading. Vulcan fell from the top of the tower into the ground where he had been standing through all the time of the fighting.

"When you attacked me, I didn't mind too much. But you pissed me when you cast a spell that could and would bring casualties, without a good reason." Hagen turned around to the people that had seen the fight. "Have the courage to say no! Have the courage to face the truth! Do the right thing because it is right! These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity!" He kept turning his head as he held his speech; facing a variety of different people around the courtyard and inside the buildings. "Join me and together we will change humanity for the better! Try to stop me, and I won't hold back as I did to this individual! Together we can create a world where every man and woman can truly call themselves happy! And where everyone has the right to rule over their own life!" With these words spoken Hagen left the area and went into the woods where he had been the night before. The adrenaline rush he was in from fighting and speaking out to everyone made him forget the pain in his left arm. He hoped that this would start the whole thing he and Adion had talked about. Maybe I didn't show enough of my strength for someone to start following me... Let's see what happens before I take another step.