Project: Mage - The Frugal Mage

In Australia, New Zealand, and those nearby regions around the Australian continent. Everything has been turned into a great wilderness and danger, where no human can live, just creatures. The region was divided into four different parts, each area had a different level of danger. The lowest level was the outside of the continent, the deeper a person venture, the more dangerous it became.

The creatures that inhabited the Australian continent were much more powerful and ferocious than normal and the concentration was much higher.

This area became known as the Death Zone 1, as it was the most dangerous place in the human world, the second was the Amazon Rainforest, and the third was the Sahara Desert.

In Europe, the continent was divided into three groups. Eastern Europe dominated by Mother Russia, the extreme cold at the site has gotten much worse than before. The place is almost uninhabitable on the surface, humans had to live underground. All creatures that live in the country are made of ice or withstand this type of heavy climate.

In the other part of Europe is the European Union Nations, it is the current European Union, the countries are still the same with the addition of many other new members. Some places in Europe have become large nests of wild beasts and hideous creatures.

After the United Kingdom left the European Union more than a hundred years ago, the United Kingdom became a single country. The old countries like Wales, Scotland and Ireland no longer exist, only the New United Kingdom. As in other countries, some locations in the UK have turned into a giant field for the habitat of wild beasts and dangerous creatures.

The Middle East has become a large nest of ants, the desert sands have dried up and showed a gigantic anthill, the anthill extends through the ancient territory of the Middle East. In addition to the ants that live underground, there are still many other types of dangerous creatures that live on the surface. This location was one of the Death Zones, Death Zone 4.

In Africa, the Sahara Desert expanded until it met the Congo Forest, which also expanded and engulfed several countries around it. Some parts of the desert have been transformed into territories with large volcanoes that release giant fireballs.

The center of the African Continent has become uninhabitable for humans, only creatures can live in these places. The rest of the continent came together and formed the Sahara Federation. The countries of the north and south of the African Continent.

In Asia, some countries that are in the southeast were flooded, those countries were close to the desert, but for some reason, a great mountain range emerged and the place was flooded. Mountain ranges surround this area of ​​Asia as a large circle.

The flooded area covers the countries of Central Asia to part of western China. After several years after the big change, China completely dominated Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Taiwan Island in particular, as the site, was surrounded by extremely dangerous sea beasts, but some materials on the island made it very valuable for China.

Mongolia has become a great monarchy ruled by the emperor, but part of the desert has covered many areas of the country.

South Korea and North Korea unified and formed the Korean Empire. The same thing happened in Japan, which became the Japanese Empire, but they still had the prime minister alongside the emperor. India and the countries of South Asia, countries like Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and others, formed the Great Alliance of the South.

Countries that were islands have major problems because of the sea beasts that attack cities when heavy rains occur.

And finally, frozen places like Antarctica and Greenland. These two locations have become some of the places uninhabitable by humans. The weather was much colder than before and the ice-covered both places like a big bubble of ice.

After the great change, Antarctica thawed more than half of its territory and this increased the water level of the world. Many countries have disappeared after being submerged by water. Dozens of years later, Antarctica started to freeze again.

Because of all the things that happened in the human world, almost half the population was killed by natural disasters or killed by the creatures.

To prevent more people from dying, the remaining world leaders created a peace treaty to reduce tensions among the population. After the treaty, the governments of each country created a project called: Project Mage.

The project was to create and train young mages so that they were the new army of countries, but the project had flaws, there was no one with experience to teach mage to control their powers or cultivation.

Thirty years after the project was created, the first results arrived. The first generation mages grew up to be a great mage, they who taught the second generation and so on.

To show the skills of the magicians, countries created competitions to test students, the most famous being the Olympics and the University Competition.

These two competitions still exist today.

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Zeng Wu explained briefly about the changes that happened in the world after the big change. A lot of things have changed after hundreds of years. The students needed to study a little about this to be prepared if they were to travel to another country.

The history class lasted a few hours and was very tiring and boring. After class, Liu Yang met Liu Xia and Xiao Mei in the cafeteria, Su Cheng also joined them.

While the group ate, they heard gossip about them, mainly from Liu Yang and Liu Xia. The couple was the hot topic of gossip, as their performances went beyond everyone's imagination, especially Liu Yang, no one imagined that he was hiding his cultivation.

Although they were gossiping about Liu Yang, none of them dared to speak to him, as everyone felt ashamed of their previous actions. They all called Liu Yang trash and that he was too weak to be in school.

So was Liu Yang's peaceful days in the first year of high school.

The days passed slowly, the practical classes were tedious for Liu Yang and Liu Xia, the two spent a great deal of time in the library. Students who had complaints with Liu Yang were quiet and did nothing against him.

The days passed slowly ...

Beyond the School Competition, there were no more events for the rest of the year. Thus, students just kept going to classes and returned home, some stayed until after the hour to use the school's training devices.

A few months passed quickly, it was the end of the year and almost Christmas. People were on the streets buying gifts while walking with friends and relatives.

During the time that passed, Liu Yang and Liu Xia trained diligently every day. Their cultivation slowly increased while training in the illusion array, the two gained more combat experience with each passing day. Nightshade showed up a few times to flirt with Liu Yang.

Xiao Mei, Song Jia, and Xie Xinyue made periodic visits to Liu Yang's home during that time.

The month of December came quickly, schools went on vacation, students returned to their homes, while some stayed at school.

On the twenty-fifth of December, Liu Yang, Liu Xia, Xiao Mei, and Song Jia released all their worries and drowned in lust, they played until the 30th, as Xiao Mei and Song Jia had to come home and spend the New Year with their family.

But the days of peace did not last forever.

On January 2nd, Liu Yang and Liu Xia had a date that day, the two were walking through the city streets hand in hand. Liu Xia's beautiful and refined appearance attracted the attention of everyone on the street, she was wearing casual clothes, but still, anyone was attracted to her, men and women. Many men were envious and jealous of Liu Yang because he was holding hands with Liu Xia.

The couple visited shopping malls to buy clothes and many other things, the female attendants were delighted to see a girl as beautiful as Liu Xia in their stores, they decided to choose the best clothes for her.

The meeting lasted a few hours before the couple returned home. But halfway, something happened.

"Darling, are we going to take a detour?" Liu Xia spoke casually. The sky was already getting dark and people were already returning to their homes. Currently, the couple was close to their home.

"Yes," The couple turned and reached a dead end on the street in front of their house.

"Aren't you tired of spying on us for so long? You can show up "Liu Xia spoke casually, it seemed that she already knew that they were already being followed by someone.

"Miss, I apologize for my unkindness" A shadow appeared from the ground before taking the form of a person dressed in a suit and wearing a hat, but his face was covered in darkness. It was possible to know that he was a man because of the male voice.

"Are you here to find out about the two pieces of equipment of the God of the Elements?" Liu Xia asked. Nightshade had long since realized that the couple was being followed, she fixed her attention on that person.

"As expected of you. Yes, I am here for the two pieces of equipment of the God of the Elements. " The man did not hide this fact because it was useless.

"I have very bad news, but my husband sold his magic equipment to the European Union Nations, and I gave my magic equipment to someone else" Liu Xia spoke honestly.

"I see ... It seems that I was late" The man spoke in a discouraging way, but internally, he was happy.

"Can you leave now? We want to go home "

"I apologize if I bothered you both, I'm already leaving" A shadow covered the man's body before sinking to the floor.

"Honey, are we going back?" Liu Yang did not know whether the man had left or not.

"Yes, let's go back and talk about it" The couple walked for a while before getting home.

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In an abandoned building on the edge of the city ...

A shadow appeared in a dark corner before taking on the shape of the man from before.

"How was the approach?" A person appeared in the darkness and asked, was he wearing casual clothes, but because of the darkness, his face was not shown.

"I was shaking with fear. If I said or did anything wrong, I was already dead. I think it's much easier to rob the USNAF military than to be around that couple. "The man in the suit shivered when he remembered the little conversation he had with Liu Yang and Liu Xia.

"Are those two kids that scary?" The man in casual clothes asked skeptically.

"They are not dangerous, what is dangerous is the bodyguard that protected the couple. I felt like I was in front of a prehistoric beast, despite not seeing who he or she was or where that person was, I still felt his heavy and murderous aura. "

"I see ... It seems that the rumors are true ..." The man in casual clothes murmured.

"Did you manage to discover anything about the two pieces of equipment of the God of the Elements?"

"Yes, one was sold to the European Union Nations and the other was given to someone else"

"It seems that the two were smart to do that. Did you manage to find out who received the other equipment? I think the couple must not have given it to another country, the second equipment must still be in the country. But with whom? "

"This is a little difficult to discover. Can we put this matter aside for now? I want to leave this country soon, that person still makes me very scared "

"Yes, we are going to the Sahara Alliance. Get ready and meet me at the airport "

"Yes"

After they finished talking, the two men knelt and began to pray.

"The great power of the Lord protects us from all evil. The Power of the Elements lives in each one of us. Long live the Lord of the Elements. "The two prayed before leaving.

That was the prayer that showed the identity of the two, they belonged to the Return of God Sect.