Chapter Fifty-Seven."Your Migfa Wine is here." The tavern owner announced. He took the Migfa Wine from the kitchen staff and handed it towards us.Before I could reach the wine bottle, Zen beat me from getting it. He tool the wine bottle the tavern owners hand and look at me.Beautiful emerald eyes were stern and full of vigilance.Okay fine.Just chill Zen. You don't need to be so tense and serious. I know we really need to get out of this place.Zen was eager to leave this place, and I understand that."We will be taking our leave now." I said as I stood up. The unfinished dishes were sitting pretty at the counter table.I took out a Nar and slammed it at the counter.“Hiccup!” The tavern owner couldn't help but flinch and be surprised by the loud sound."Thank you for the wonderful steak," I smiled and said my thanks. Truly, it was such a good steak. For a shabby looking tavern, they have good food.Zen held the wine bottle firmly and put it closed to his body. It was natural as m
Chapter Fifty-Eight.After the short food tasting across the market place. We found ourselves to be a pigeonloft.Outside was covered with different birds in different cages."What are we doing here? You're going to buy a bird?" Zen could help but asked in confusion.I laughed and shook my head. "No. I am here delivering a letter to a..." I suddenly stopped speaking because I cannot find the right word."That's it?" Zen repeated.Wait Zen, let me think the right word first. Should I call Hilbert a friend? But do we have the same views of each other? He might not see me as a friend but a business partner. Well, both of us know we are on the same page. Profits and benefits are the reason why we are in contact. A partner in business.I smiled and said, "to a business partner and friend."Because I am a feelinger and assuming person, I will address him as a friend. And it's not like Zen knows who Hilbert is. I will not be ashamed of my assumption because Hilbert will know this.Zen nodde
Chapter Fifty-Nine.Zen cursed loudly and wiped his mouth and lips."Eww." I muttered in disgust as I gently wiped my face covered with red bloody wine."What kind of wine is that!?" Zen shouted and glared at me. I winced at what he said because I really didn't know.I know he tastes like water. I glared and Zen slightly lifted my hood to wipe my entire face."I do not know? That's why I told you to taste it!?” I uttered in a distasteful tone.Zen stared at me as if I had gone mad and he slowly shook his disbelief. "Taste it if you like," he said as he shivered, probably remembering the awful taste of the wine.He took out a handkerchief and spread his tongue out. He dabbed his handkerchief to his tongue as if he was cleaning it, trying to get rid of the lingering taste.I just rolled my eyes and looked closely at the cork. The cork is a bit bigger than I usually see and a bit softer compared to others. No wonder Zen pulled it off easily even without a cork opener.Zen looked at me an
"Who are you!? What are you doing here?" The man in his forties asked aggressively.He jumped a little because of the depth of his voice and grabbed Zen's arm because of the man's strange lookAre the shop owners here really like this? This is such an ad quality customer service! If I had to rate this store I would definitely give the owner a perfect negative star!Why are we being asked who we are, customers if it's not obvious."Are you there outside the door? You are blocking the way!” it shouted again. I almost couldn't help but roll my eyes.Why do they always say that we are in the way? It's not! Thankfully it was Zen who handled the talking. Maybe if it's me, I'll yell at the owner, 'why don't you let us in first! We're buyers here!' hmmp maybe I'll buy our whole shop..."We're here to buy a book, a cook book."The shop owner looked at us from head to toe before he sneered at us, and then he frowned and flicked his hand. Shooing us away as if we are some kind of animals."To th
Wednesday night, five minutes to eight. Me and Zen are currently taking the route in an alley behind Bravehearts Bar. We are currently finding the Kerl ingredient shop, and what we asked this afternoon said that we can easily find it when we pass behind Bravehearts.It was late when we got back to the time we agreed on with Rita and Vice Captain Illiad, we were late, that's why we got angry with Rita. We almost became abodos because of his anger. Even just recalling about it makes me shiver, Rita is so scary sometimes.We continued walking until we saw a fairly large shop, in front of it was a placard with a word 'Kerl' written in cursive. Not bad actually, it doesn't look creepy. You wouldn't think that this is where the black market gathering takes place.Zen took out two iron masks that could only cover half a face, a mask that Vice Captain Illiad brought for us. We immediately put it on and finished the first step of our disguise.Zen looked at me and asked, "are you nervous?"I i
WHAT!?I looked at the attendant who was still panting heavily, trying to recover his breathing.How can that be!? There are heretics here?! Almost everyone tensed and started to panic. The only one who stayed calm with us was Mr. Eye of Notorary and Zen. They were calmly assessing the situation.I clenched hard the five diary pages in response. My feelings are all jumbled up but maybe thanks to the serenity pill I wasn't trembling nor panicking. I am just feeling shocked and quiet irritated.The type of irritation when things don't go well as planned or unexpected elements coming through your way that you can't counter.I hate that feeling.Before my thoughts got deep on thinking to fix this problem, and large warm hand pulled me closer to the right. When I looked up I saw Zen looking at me."Stay calm, they're not here yet. They're still outside so don't worry." he sternly reminded.I immediately nodded. Mr. Eye of Notorary glances at everyone of us before calmly saying, "calm down
I was rooted on the spot. I stared at the man who's bald and was holding his greatsword with one hand, letting it rest on his shoulder.Why is he asking us!? I was confused and dizzy from all the running."You won't answer?"Then, if he's asking ask us if we part of the Gardener's...My eyes widen in shock I finally realized something.That only means he's a heretic! I wasn't sure because it looks like a warrior because of what it's wearing, more like an adventurer warrior because of his leather armor.'Also watch out!'I suddenly heard Droon shouting inside my head, and in a blur motion Zen who was beside me was now in front."Run!" Zen shouted as he blocked the incoming attack from the big guy. As if time slowed down, everything went into slow motion. The dead night was still silent, and no sounds could be heard when the greatsword clashed with the steel sword.Clang!“Ugh!” Zen groaned as he tried to block it.I was taken back by the impact and was slightly pushed back.“Damn!” I c
Chapter Sixty-Four.Third Person's POV.Arnold son of Ren, father of Dorothy, was an experienced tribe warrior from the southern side of the continent. He was a proud warrior of their tribe, a tribe who values their strength more than anything.Arnold who was in the state of adrenaline, lifted his empty hand and brushed his head."HAHAHAHAHAHA"After laughing for a minute, Arnold finally stopped laughing. He raised his right hand and slightly wiped the tears that formed in his eyes.It's been a while since he had that kind of laugh. Thus to say, what he encountered was very interesting.Looking at the young blood in front of him, he was reminded by a small fraction of a dear memory. Upon arrival on this small village, he only had one goal in mind. It was to steal the seal artifact placed in the underground Sawan gate of the Church of Earth Mother.He has only one goal, that is to serve his God, his lord and savior. By completing his mission he may have some redemption, but things ch
Chapter Seventy-Three.My hand trembled after reading that last passage of the diary entry. I didn't realize my breathing stopped for a few seconds until I felt that the oxygen around me wasn't going to my lungs.I tried to calm down and tighten my thoughts and feelings. Soon, my breathing calmed down and for once again I tried to read the last part of the entry one more time.I don't even know why I am feeling nervous. My body just shivered on its own and started trembling.I don't understand what's wrong. But instead of focusing on this detail I decided to read the entry. It was as if I was reading a forbidden knowledge, or I was spying on Senior Janice's secrets.For the last time I breathed a sigh and ironed my heart.“Elemental spirit! Isn't that amazing!? I heard and read from the records here in the magic tower that almost half of the Archmages last hundred years ago did have a contract with elemental spirits!But the problem is, encountering them just once is very rare! They s
Chapter Seventy-Two.After taking another sip of my wine, I drop the glass and put it on the table. Breathing in for a second and two, and making sure no one was really around me.I immediately sat down on the bed and traced a circle in front of me. The dark space soon opened and revealed some things.I didn't look at or touch the sword, instead I took the papers at the bottom. Grabbing the yellowed stain papers, I arranged them and placed them above the queen size bed.I pick up the very first page near me."4th Month of Gold (March). Why are my friends so stupid? I've repeated myself so many times. Don't be fooled by those people from the magic tower! They are scamming us! Thinking that the key to fully control our mana and have our mana core strengthen is by forcing to manipulate the mana around us. Which is very stupid if I may say.The key thing about mana control is not about grasping them, but digesting them! It's nothing about tapping powers, but being one with our attribute!
Chapter Seventy-One."Let's go inside." Marquess Bernardo offered and led us inside the mansion. We walked ahead as we made our way to the five story building. When a homeowner enters their home for the first time, they have to personally walk from the gate to the door of the residence. It symbolizes that this is our territory, my future territory.It was some sort of implication that the heiress is back, it was a subtle announcement that I will soon inherit this. And if I was honest, it made my heart tremble with joy and anxiety.I don't like the flow. Something didn't feel right but I couldn't see it, I would just be much more vigilant now. This wasn't necessary, but mother and father still did it.screeeech-The large iron gate with the black crow closed, and our figure started to disappear from the eyes of the outside wall.All of us silently walk on our way until father picks up a question in the road. "How was your trip?" he asked in a solemn voice.I almost flinched but held my
Chapter Seventy.Nina's POV“The southeast really is different.” my eyes reflected a new scenario. It was very different from the busy Capital, but the people and establishment almost looked the same.I saw a mother feeding her son a meal. It reminds me of my mother, my mom from earth.She loved being able to cook and bake meals for her loved ones - thrived on taking care of the children. It was our nature to only be able to produce one child and even that was difficult for them, so Mama and Papa felt very lucky when their little child came along. Then when mother and father's work asked them to transfer in the city, Grandma who of course disagreed immediately. It may be the nature of our family to only have one child, that maybe the reason why my grandma was so overprotective of me and my mother, to be a mother and she'd always wanted a large family."The atmosphere feels mixed up."That was what came out of my mouth based on what I saw out through the window. Rita seemed to understa
Chapter Sixty-Nine.Third Person's POVOk.Ok.Ok.Footsteps could be heard on the late night as shadows and moonlight dance across the mirror space.Thud.A soft thud could be heard as five silhouettes landed on the ground."What the hell happened here?"Under the dim moonlight, the man on front who was wearing a black windbreaker that was shorter than a coat, but longer than a jacket turned around to look at his colleagues.That silhouette was partially camouflaged in the darkness, bathing in the silver moonlight. That silhouette turned around slowly. His eyes are deep, gray, and cold."A battle." he simply answered.The man who has bright blue eyes could help but twitch his eyebrows at how dry the response was. If it wasn't for his friend he would have already smacked the heck out of the man's brain.The blue eyed man just shook his head and walked towards the laying cold corpse. He squats down like a frog before observing the corpse. Two more people wearing the same black windbrea
Chapter Sixty-Eight.I walked slowly and stopped right in front of Zen's bruised body. I squat and dispel the scythe on my hand.There's a lot of blood covering his face, especially on his nose and mouth. I lifted my hand and held it under his nose.Warm air brushed through my fingers.I nodded in satisfaction.Fortunately, he isn't dead yet. But anytime soon, he probably would. And we don't have much time now.My sight landed on the blessed sword not far away Zen, it was laying flat cold on the ground just like its holder."Over there, are you still there?" I asked as I stood up and walked over to the blessed sword.It too a few second before Droon answered, "un... I'm still alive..."I just ignored the slight displeased in his voice. I bent down and reached for the sword. "Can you heal him? We need to get out of here now. I don't want another headache from those Gardeners." I muttered as I raised the blessed sword.Droon snorted, "What do you want… me to do?… Heal someone?… did you
Chapter Sixty-Seven.I jump backwards multiple times before landing in a safe distance. I held my weapon on the other hand, and observed my arms and body.Sticky liquid that smells like rust and iron invaded my nostrils. Deep cuts could be seen but I didn't feel any pain.I was about to wipe the blood when in a flash, a silver sword was coming towards my face. A white glow emanated from its blade.-Woom!As if a bolt of lightning had descended, a bright light illuminated the room and a horizontal white streak of light appeared on my right side. I immediately rolled over before it hit me.Without letting me breath another sword passed through my left side, I tilted my head and twirl my scythe above me to deflect another annoying sword above me."You're pretty heartless do you know that?" He said as he slowly walked towards my direction playing with his greatsword."You just left your partner dying in my hands," he stated with a grin.I look at him blankly, "is that so?"I ready my hand
Chapter Sixty-SixSoon, everything around me started to change. The house, the people, the furniture, everything in my eyes slowly changed. Everything no longer looked like what it was before.Slowly, everything around me started resembling an old television form before. The whole place turned into a three-dimensional space that was painted in black and white.My heartbeat which was beating unevenly calmed down. Following my heartbeat, my breathing became even and I felt all my emotions leaving my body.My whole point of view changed into a familiar background. As if it was deja vu, a familiar background yet I don't seem to remember what it was.I looked at where Zen was standing yet I didn't feel the need nor spare a chance to care about his condition. I no longer cared for Zen. I no longer cared for the heretic who was in the state of going crazy. I no longer cared about anything other than fulfilling my mission.I only had one goal.That is to kill the heretic who seems to know my
Chapter Sixty-Five.Not far away from the place where Marina and Zen were fighting. A dark-skinned humanoid creature with devilish horns protruding from the top of its forehead was sitting on the top of a tree. With one of its legs resting on the branches of the tree and an arm supporting one of its cheeks, the creature had its eyes closed. It had a muscular human body with two bat-like wings attached to its back. From behind its tailbone, a long black tail wiggled around the air.Sensing something, the humanoid creature slowly opened its eyes revealing two deep red eyes that exuded boundless bloodlust.Staring at me who was frozen solid in place Looking at the fight between devil worshipers and the Gardeners, the humanoid-like creature smiled eerily as it looked down on the mess."Ku Ku Ku, what have we got here?" as his attention was attracted to three persons. A young boy with a blessed sword in hand, a heretic with a dark holy sword, and a young girl with a lingering aura of death