The Magician Of Sound

Not a single person opened their mouth at this point. They were curious about what he found in his journey, especially anything linked to the Protector.

Only Kai seemed to be bothered with all of this. No one thought anything weird about what he said earlier, but he remembered Rapakha calling him the child of sound. He didn't know why but Rapakha said those magic words that the mermaid told him.

"Hmm… Where should I start?" Rapakha thought for a moment. "I will start with myself first and the journey. In the past, I traveled to many countries and saw their progress with my own eyes. However, I noticed something was wrong.

"When I traveled in the past, I only sensed magic power coming from a selected few. Even when I went to a big town, I could sense a few people having a ridiculous amount of magic power, but they weren't aware of it."

"Do you mean you had magic power in the past?" Kai furrowed his eyebrows.

"That is correct. In fact, we were born with it."

"Then how could we don't know about it for thousands of years?" Kai asked again.

"It's because you were not aware of it. Only a selected few were aware. And only less than one percent of those people could utilize magic."

"But now all of us here can use magic. In fact, all humans can use magic in the present." Kai tilted his head. If a magician was that low, he couldn't imagine why there was this much difference. After all, Rapakha said everyone was born with it, no matter in the past or the present. Hence, it wasn't logical to have this difference.

"Yes. But I said it didn't I? I said only less than one percent of them could utilize magic. Shouldn't you think about why these people could use their magic?" Rapakha smiled.

"Ah!" Kai widened his eyes as his body shook. "Is there a trigger?"

"Correct. I give you ten seconds to think about the trigger. What kind of trigger does a human need to realize this magic power?" Rapakha nodded.

The group looked down, thinking seriously. Suddenly, Michelle thought something as she said with an unsure tone. "Magic?!"

"You are half correct." Rapakha smiled. "It's Magic Power. You need to be aware of that magic power and absorb a certain amount of magic power to stimulate and awaken the magic power inside your body."

The group opened their mouths in amazement. They never expected such an answer.

When everyone was thinking about magic power, Kai had another thought about it as he muttered in a volume everyone could hear. "If that is the case, then the day where magic power spread all over the Earth was the day where humans could use magic? Still, the history and this fact are not aligned… Did I miss something?"

"A smart child. It's because of poisonous substances in the air." Rapakha gave him a clue. If Kai's brain worked like this, he would certainly figure out what he meant.

And it turned out he was right. The moment he said "Poisonous", Kai immediately took the hint and exclaimed. "Pollution!"

"Yes. Although I have been spending my time in slumber this whole time, I can still learn the matter of the outside world. In fact, I had assimilated with this island, so I could listen to the people in the town. And I learned that the poisonous substance was called pollution.

"I checked it a few times from my own Rapa Nui people and noticed that this pollution seemed to clog up the flow of magic power in your body. And for those who were born before the apocalypse day… Their magic power was frozen by those substances."

"So, that's why the first generation couldn't use magic. And it's lined up with the history where their children turned into magicians." Kai nodded, feeling amazing after hearing the truth. Even Carissa drew a cold breath. They had researched this matter for a long time, but to think the answer was like this.

"Yes. Take a look at the Earth's condition right now. How much pollution does it still make every year?"

"It's not that much to the point it can be considered minuscule if we compare it to the day before the apocalypse," Kai answered.

"That's right." Rapakha smirked. "After their children were born, the magic power started purifying them and avoided absorbing pollution. Of course, since they still used those things that produced pollution in the early stage, the children would slowly grow weaker and weaker when they became an adult.

"It was due to the intake of the pollution. And let me predict this since I didn't know many things about the continents… I believe there was a period where the children slowly got stronger and stronger as people started relying on magic power instead of those things that produced pollution.

"And at this point, there is little pollution in the air, giving the perfect environment for magicians to flourish. You might have realized this, but there should be a time where humans could live longer and longer or the people retained their appearance for a period of time… With the Earth slowly being purified, this would happen."

Kai and the others blinked their eyes a few times. Carissa nodded and confirmed his information. "That is true. There is a period of time when people start relying on magic power instead of fuel. Although at that time they only thought the magic power was more efficient like nuclear energy but without radiation, that kind of period did exist."

Kai couldn't help but chuckle. "That is really funny. To think the truth is like that…"

Tasha looked at Kai, who slowly leaned on his chair and turned to Rapakha. "Then does it mean if we can use this magic power to make the Earth free of pollution, we can reach the peak?"

"You got the concept right, but the reality is not. Your generation has reached the peak. It is impossible to have free pollution because even in the past, people used fire to cook and other stuff that produced such a thing. It was just your generation that was the worst and forced the Protector to act." Rapakha suddenly dropped a bomb when answering Tasha's question.

The moment they heard Protector, they couldn't help but rise from their seats, looking at Rapakha with fierce looks.

"Haha… You don't need to worry. The Protector has existed for an unknown period… Before I explain this, what kind of Protector did you meet in the past?"

Kai immediately answered. "A mermaid and a dolphin… I am not very sure about the dolphin. But after that, I killed a seahorse. And my group and Isabelle's group managed to take down a crab."

"Huh? You killed a Protector? Are you not joking with me? Although I know your attacks are very powerful, it's still not enough to kill a Protector. They were monsters capable of massacring billions of human lives and causing natural disasters." Rapakha was confused and surprised at the same time.

He recalled his encounter with the protector, and the only thing he could think of was how to run.

"Yes. I didn't lie."

"Didn't lie?" Rapakha paused for a moment before murmuring. "Wait… Were they the new generation of Protectors? If that was the case, I can understand why they could die in the hands of them…"

"Why did it sound so scary when it came from your mouth?" Kai tilted his head in confusion. If the protector could do something like that, humanity would have been wiped out a long ago.

"No. I think they are the next generations. The protector I met in the past was from the previous generation. It could be said they were the true protectors of this world… As much as I want to talk about this, I will hold it since I will talk about it in my story at some point."

Kai nodded. "I understand. It seems we are not talking about the same protector. Still, can you answer one question from me first?"

"Sure."

"What kind of protector did you meet?"

"I met a whale, and she originated from the Pacific Ocean… The exact location was unknown, but my speculation was between this island and South America. She visited this island to take my people when the magic power was released into the air. Well, this is not important, since I will tell you about what happened to this island later.

"What I want to say is her ability. With a single burst of water, she could destroy the cliff that separated this island from the sea. Not only that, the entire island shook when she struck the island with her head. And these were coming from her physical strength alone.

"If she utilized magic power too… Single magic might cause rain that would last for a month, or her burst might turn into a huge typhoon in the sea. Ugh, I once fought against her to protect the people of this island, but I lost within a few moves."

Rapakha shook his head in disappointment.

The others also took a deep breath to calm their heart down. They even lost to Rapakha in a single move, but if they needed to fight against the one Rapakha spoke of… They didn't want to think about it.

Kai also sucked the cold air as he could never expect that much difference between the protectors he fought and the one Rapakha spokeof. It just made the human so tiny.

Even so, he also noticed another thing that made him curious. "Wait… I think we once had something happening in that location…"

"What are you talking about?" Michelle furrowed her eyebrows.

"I am talking about the bloop sound. The original location was around that area before it was considered an accident because of the ice, but when we arrived at this, I couldn't help but feel this incident linked to the one Elder Rapakha mentioned a moment ago."

"!!!"