"hmm, So you get messaged from a God directly. That must keep your head busy." he thought about his own connection to the divine and the annoyance it had caused him since becoming one. The obligation that came with it. Even down to walking the path they set before him. He nodded and appreciated the man's diligence to a cause and service. It reflected back at Kaz for what nearly his whole life had been about. Service to a cause and then to the angelic forces.
"Thanks," he said about Zek's enthusiasm around the little crystal. Kaz rubbed the crystal. he could hardly feel it anymore and often forgot that it was even there.
"I'm sure you have a skill set just as impressive," he deflected away from the talks about him.
"Unfortunately, he was released from his prison and a group of strong mages has already joined his side. From what it looked like they were former Fairy Tail members." The man turned away to ponder the tragedy of it all. He looked just like he Kaz did lost in thought about the turmoils of the world. He wasn't sure how he would take the news about the former guild members now standing on the side of evil.
"The guilds will need to mobilize even faster to deal with it. People are in training now to become the next dragon slayers."He listened intently, wondering just how a new god is made and how they came to worship him, but that was a far deeper question than was probably needed.
"meditate for ten years... I suppose for an elf that is not so alarming. That must have been difficult, but to be able to speak to a deity. Worth it, I suppose."
"100 years! That's not so short of a time for an elf. How could that have happened?" The wind mage quickly dismissed the first question when the boy brought up his dead parents and tribe. He put a hand on the man's shoulder,
"I'm sorry about your loss. It's not easy to lose even one person and a whole tribe is terrible. I too lost my family and my tribe in a single night. It will be a hard road but you can make it. Honor who they were." The more he spoke the more he thought about his own home and the namesake that he took from his clan and wait he was doing to bring them honor. He had been so consumed with all the world's problems he forgot his mission the thing that gave him meaning in the first place.
Kaz searched the man's eyes as he recounted his divine mission and his purpose for seeking him out.
 "A knight in a game of chess," he repeated wistfully and turned his attention to the sky. That was all he ever was. A piece of something to be moved around. To serve the knights, then to be directed by the angels. All the while the world kept taking from him...or maybe he just kept giving until he was just a conduit of duty.
"But what about you...what is it that you want in this world. Ezekiel."
"You don't seem like a kid to me. You seem like a capable mage, and Fairy tail and Fiore are lucky to have you." Zek kept talking about Aizo choosing Kaz, and the wind mage leaned forward resting his arms on his knees, tired by the dealings of the divine. The man wanted to know more about him, which only reminded the mage that he didn't know all about himself and that his parents were still missing or dead with an unknown story.
"I'm still figuring that out myself." he replied in a more esoteric way to the question of where he was from, equating it to his parents more than the physical location.
He smiled again at the carefree and forthright nature of the life mage. Standing up, Kaz looked at the night sky one more time. He let out a small sigh,
"About me huh? I'm just a wind mage raised in a small village. I've used my magic to bring destruction and to protect the people I care about and the innocent. I was forced to become a Nephilim and my path had been set for me for a long time," he looked back at Zek,
"If there is anything to know about me now...It's that I'm finally ready to define my own path and live for me." He didn't speak in a bitter way about, he accepted the life that he led, but was ready to end his service.
"But maybe this was all wrong. There comes a time when a journey must come to an end," he smiled.
"If your deity sent you to find me it was for one reason. To tell you that you are ready. I know you are not a kid, because you are the next protector of Fiore." All the talk only served to make the wind mage realize how much he needed to be free of the influence of the divine and what fate it had for him.
"The only thing worth knowing about me now...is that my parents went missing a long time ago. And it's time for me to unravel that mystery and do justice to them." He put a hand on the man's shoulder.
"Take care Ezekiel. You will find your path. Use your strength to defend Fiore if that's what your heart guides you to do. I have no doubt that you will be great at it. And that the people will rejoice in having you at their side. But this time...I'm taking myself off the chessboard of others.He stepped back and wind picked up around his feet to take him airborne,
"It was nice to meet you Ezekiel. Stay true to the path that you choose. He wanted to apologize to Adriana for walking away, but it was something he had to do, made more apparent by all the events and conversations with the people around him. His heart was no longer here.
-Exit-
- Spoiler:
Sorry for the abrupt turnaround and for leaving the guild in such a way. But I've decided to leave the site. Take care of FT."