(6 months and 15 days after Klada Disaster)
[Lynn's POV]
Soon, 2 weeks has gone by in the blink of an eye as I spent a painstakingly long time researching about the giant rift up at the sky.
The reports that Kyrielle found interesting connects the rift's origin with Chronos Ignis, the God ranked magic of Baal from almost 4 decades ago.
However, while it is helpful that it might be a lead on the rift, in truth it is not that much useful at all because no one knows how to cast Chronos Ignis... Not even me.
It doesn't help that the last time I've seen it close up is four decades ago, nearly an entire life span ago. I've forgotten almost every single detail about it.
That's why our 'research' has turned into a 'forceful' analysis of the rift with a secret technique of mine.
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(2 weeks ago...)
"-Sigh... Even this with this lead, no one actually knows anything about Chronos Ignis. We don't have any useful information at all in the end... No clues, no references, no nothing."
"Stop whining so much, I'm sure we'll find a way sooner or later!"
"If only I can have the enthusiasm of a young teenager like you...."
"Well look at you, spoken like a true grandmo-"
"....." I glared at Kyrielle with bloodshot eyes, daring her to finish the sentence so that we can start a second sparring session since last month.
"-whoops, I said too much. Pretend I didn't say anything haha!"
"Sigh.... If this continues on, you'll never be able to make it back home."
"Well, I can wait... Aha!"
"Did you get an idea?"
"Yes... You have your God ranked magic technique 'Reversal' right?"
"Yes.... And?"
"Can you use it on the rift and sort of make it... disappear?"
"That's not possible! There's just no way it can be that simple- hold on a second... It could work actually!"
"Really?!"
"But it's not the way you think it is. I can't just reverse the rift and tell it to go home... This is because Reversal is a technique that requires the user to have at least the basic understanding of the spell that they are trying to reflect. The reason I could reverse Chronos Ignis was because that I had actually be hit by it once before when Baal shot me 40 years ago-"
"Please speak in a language that I can understand."
"...Ahem. My point is, I can force my body's Mana into the rift and analyze the mana's layout, intensity and configuration to learn it like how you learn a normal spell. By doing so, I should theoretically be able to reverse the effect of the rift just like you said, after I understand it's structure of course."
"Oh... That makes sense actually. Well then, good luck!" Kyrielle says as she heads out of the research room...
"Oi, where are you going?"
"Where? To the inn of course!"
"Aren't you going to like... help out or something?"
"What can I do? That rift is at least hundreds of meters up the air and you can hover for indefinite amount of time with your flight... I can't. I can't even stay afloat for longer than half an hour!"
"You... You heartless little brat... But you are right. This is something I must do by myself..."
"Well, I suppose the least I could do is to give you emotional support. Go for it Lynn!"
"I don't feel motivated by your speech at all...."
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And so, that was how 2 weeks of my time went by in the blink of an eye.
Nothing of note happened during these days. Fast forward to the present, I'm currently sitting in a restaurant with Kyrielle during my lunch break.
"-right when I was ambushed by the two boars, Kentwood jumped down from the wall and slammed his spear into one of the boar's head! It was crazy how strong that old man is!"
"Ohh... So that's how you met him and also how you have a tailor custom made you that scarf huh?"
Kyrielle has a red colored scarf on her neck.... It looks expensive because the fur is smooth to touch but durable for uses. Besides, it's a custom made item so it's bound to be expensive. Very expensive.
"Mmn! Does it look good on me?"
"It looks great. The color suits your hair's color."
"I think so as well. But still, it's hot to wear this in a warm place, so it might only see more use when I'm back in Ataraxia, where the climate is colder."
"Makes sense."
Suddenly, someone tapped on my shoulder from behind.
"Umm... Excuse me miss, are you perhaps the Magic God Lynn?" It's a human girl... Roughly 16 years old, a young adult.
"Yes I am."
"Oh... I was surprised because you looked so young!"
"Well, my body doesn't age... at all. So, what do you need?"
"Oh I don't need anything! I just wanted to thank you by myself..."
"Thank me?"
"Yes. My grand father used to a be a slave that worked in the Bostnia Continent... And the reason that he was able to regain his freedom from the demons is because you were the one who pushed for and even successfully abolished slavery!"
"Oh! Your grand father was someone who I freed huh?... Haha, I see... I see..."
"His last wish before he died 2 years ago was to be able to thank you personality... He was extremely grateful for you, and you were indirectly someone who gave birth to me and my father since our generation would never have happened should grandpa remain as a slave."
"I see. I'm... I'm very happy to hear that."
"Mmm! As thanks, let me pay for your lunch!"
"There's no need to! I didn't-"
"Our entire family is extremely grateful to you. If you can't accept my thanks, then please do it for my grandpa... It was his last wish for us to thank you properly afterall."
"I see... I suppose I'll accept your thanks then."
"Good. Waiter! How much is it for this table?"
After the girl paid for our food, she left the restaurant with a satisfied look on her face.
"...You seemed happy."
"...I didn't abolish slavery because I wanted some reward or anything. I did it because I felt responsible to... But hearing someone thank me so personally like this do makes me happy.... Somewhat."
"Huhuhu..."
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing. It's just that you looked cute. In the end, you are still a human."
"I look cute huh?... I never would've thought that I'd hear that again in my life."
"You looked pleased, am I perhaps hitting a soft spot? Are you still a young 17 year old girl, just like your appearance? How cute!"
Shut up Kyrielle, don't make fun of my young appearance.
"Tsk!... Lunch is over, let's get back to work."
"Hey, why are you ignoring me?!"
After eating lunch with Kyrie, we headed to the town hall once again.
"So, how goes your analysis of that rift?"
"In that rift, I sense a distortion in space itself.... Nothing that I have ever seen before, it's like a teleportation spell. The rift itself repels my hand even if I try to shove it directly inside. It doesn't stop me from pouring my Mana into it though, in fact I think it is actively absorbing my Mana. It's like it's sucking up Mana from it's surroundings..."
"I see..."
"But it wouldn't be long before I finish analyzing it and reverse it's effect like you said. Just a few more days and I'm sure that I'll be able to do it."
"Good, we are all counting on you."
"Leave it to me. Oh, here we are."
We reached the front gate of the town hall as we were talking... A guard was waiting for us at the entrance it seems.
"(You are finally here, Magic God. The prime minister has arrived in the city, and he wants to meet with you to discuss things regarding the rift...."
The prime minister?... That guy who I saw in the negotiations?
"(...What does he want with me?)"
"(Like I said, he wants to discuss something with you. Follow me, I'll lead you to his room.)"
"(I see.... Kyrielle, you can go now if you want to.)"
"(Okay. See you tonight.)"
"(See you. Now then, let's head off.)"
Being led by the guards, I entered the town hall heading towards a fancy room. Inside the room is a few more demon guards with the prime minister Gerhard sitting in the middle, behind a desk.
"(Good afternoon, Magic God. I trust that we need no introductions correct?)"
"(Yes. Since you aren't a king, I don't have to use any formal words with you so let me just speak boldly... What do you want?)"
"(Not particularly fond of courtesies are you? Well, I'll get straight to the point as well. Can you remove the rift up there?)"
"(I can. In a few more days.)"
"(That is good news.... But what about the origin of that event?)"
"(....Based on my personal analysis on the rift, it is likely that it is caused by a large amount of mana being supplied from somewhere unknown. The rift itself is actually made entirely out of Mana and is also constantly sucking Mana out from it's surroundings, almost as if a crest that is preparing to cast a spell.)"
"(....I see?...)"
....This guy can't understand even the simplest explanation that Kyrielle can understand easily?
"(Ahem.... So, in summary the rift might be a spell casted by someone, somewhere, and is gathering Mana to fuel itself. For what reason, we don't know.)"
"(I see... Is it a possibility that it might be a threat to the security of our nation?)"
"(That I don't know. What spell is it, or what effect it has, I won't know. I just know the layout of the rift, that's all-)"
'Boom!!!' Suddenly, an explosion happened.
It was so big that it shooked the entire floor.... It's not your typical monster attack, it is simply too powerful. Too TOO powerful.
"(What was that?!)" (?x)
"(Hmpt.... This might be troublesome.)"
Did Kyrielle just blow up the city or what? No one other than her could've had enough fire power to do it after all....
"(....Guards! Protect the prime minister, I'll go check it out.)"
I quickly ran out of the townhall... The first sight that caught my glimpse left me completely speechless.
"(What the hell is that...?!)" What I saw was a giant floating piece of land right on top of Creimland....
"(A floating piece of land?...)"
It was then and there where I saw a bright purple flash right on top of the piece of land.... A very familiar purple flash that I'd never forget.
Why?... It is an extremely powerful fire's color. A fire that would destroy entire cities because it's temperature is just that hot. A fire that even I will not come out unscathed if I was hit by it....
"(No way!... It's!-)"
"(What's going on here, Magic God?!)"
"(Get the hell out of here! It's a fire magic!)"
"(What fire magic? What is that-)"
"(It's a God Ranked Fire Magic! Now get the fuck away before you get hurt!)"
Eight fold chanting... Black Spears.
Crush all the Black Spears into a small orb in front of my hand. Form the small orb into a sword shaped weapon....
'....Boom!!!' The purple flash from the castle fires out directly at me...
Black Blade End.
'Boom!!!' And I returned fire with my God ranked magic.
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[Kyrielle's POV]
After I walked Lynn back to the town hall, I headed off for the library in order to read some books...
'Boom!!!'
It was then all of a sudden, the rift up at the sky tears right open into a black colored window.
"What in the....?" A portal?!
It was then... Like a scene straight out of a fairy tale... A giant pile of land floats down from the dark window. At the angle which I am in, I could see that on top of the land is a castle... A floating castle.
"(What the hell is that?)"
"Hey hey, I'm not seeing things am I?"
"It can't be... A floating castle?..."
The surrounding people were confused as well...
It was then, one surprise after another, I saw yet another familiar light shining from the townhall's direction... A dark and red light, the dark element magic.
Why... It's Black Blade End.
"That means... The castle are enemies?!"
'Boom!!!'
A loud explosion was heard, a violet colored projectile was seen flying from the castle and aimed down towards the town hall where Lynn is at.
'Boom!!!'
Another explosion sounded... This time Lynn fired out her magic up towards the violet colored projectile. It's Black Blade End, one of her strongest magic ever.
'Boom!!!' The black colored beam hits the blue colored trail of projectile and as a result, an extremely huge explosion happened. So huge in fact that it might not have lose to the likes of nuclear energy explosions....
A huge wave of air was knocked out from the resulting explosion, hitting the city and knocking almost every window out and blowing away roofs like it is paper.
'Bwuom!...'
"Urgh!... What power!" That was two God ranked spells clashing!
"Hey! Look at the castle! There's something flying out!"
It's... It's a dragon!
One... Two... Three.... Ten dragons.
The dragons all flew down from the castle... On their legs are some sort of box, and once they flee to a reasonable height all the dragons released their boxes and dropped it down onto the city. The boxes deployed parachute and slowly lowered themselves into the city's ground....
"Roar!!!" (10x) All the dragons dropped their luggage and started to strafe very close to the ground...
'Bwuom!' (10x) From their mouth, they sprayed out a breath of fire, bruning everything caught in the stream of fire.
"It's an attack! Everyone run!"
"Tsk!..." They are burning every thing! If I don't do something then the city would be destroyed before long.
Dragons huh? I've never actually fought any dragons before but I guess this is part of my job as an adventurer as well!
Thruster Flight!
'Bwuom!'
I don't know what the hell is going on here but you are not going to destroy the cities when I'm around!
'Roar!' As one of the dragons flies by, I turned my thrusters towards it and chased after the dragon.
'Bwuom!' I chased after the dragon with my normal flight mode, catching up not long after.
The truck sized dragon turns it's body around and swung it's tail at me right when I catches up... I easily dodge the tail swipe by just flying upwards instead.
'Fwoosh!'
"Leave this city!"
Double Combustion!
'Boom!!!' I slammed a dropkick right into the body of the dragon, with the boost of my thrusters and the combustion magic the dragon was blown up and thrown down towards the city...
It dropped... Down towards the streets where I could see two childrens standing at, and it's going to hit them if I don't do something.
"...Oh shit!"
Super Speed Mode!
'Bwuom!!!' I bursted down towards the falling dragon...
'Thud!' And right as it was about to hit the two childrens on the street I kicked the dragon backwards, knocking it back a bit which dropped the dragon on an empty area on then street.
'Thump!'
I fired off my brakes and landed on the street safely....
'Thud!'
"Eek!!!" (2x)
"Are you two hurt! Are you fine?!"
"We... We are okay!"
"Good! Where are your parents?!"
"We don't know!"
"Tsk...." Losing your parents in a disaster like this... it's no good.
"Don't wait for your parents, get out of the city first as this is very dangerous! You'll die!"
"O-okay!" (2x)
"Kyrielle!" An Old Man called out from behind....
"Woods!..."
"What the hell is going on here?! Where is Lynn?!"
"I don't know! Last I saw her, she was at the townhall and she fired off a spell of her own towards the castle!"
"I checked, she's not at the townhall anymore!"
"What?!..."
Where the hell are you Lynn?! Where are you when we needs you the most?!
"(Your friend flew off towards the castle.)"
Following from behind Woods is a demon... The saint ranked mage that researched on the rift alongside me and Lynn.
"(She what?!)"
"(She left only a message... she told me to tell you NOT to follow her or else you'll die. She said that you'd be able to take down the dragons yourself...)"
"(That woman seriously left 10 dragons for me to take care while she went up there...)"
"(Just before she left, she seemed extremely angry and released a very dangerous mana aura... I'd advice you to listen to her for once.)"
"(Lynn is going serious?... Is the enemy really that strong?)"
"Hey, what did this guy says?"
"Keep quiet for a moment and let me think!"
Lynn went up to the castle by herself... She told me not to follow her because I'll die. This must be how dangerous this actually is huh...?
She said that she'll leave the city to me... So she wants me to guard the city in her stead...
If she's taking so much priority in the castle itself does that mean that she felt that someone or something up there might have the capacity to actually beat her?... Even back then during her fight with Aamon, she seemed calm...
Argh! I don't know anymore!
"Hey another dragon is coming towards us!"
"Roar!" When I looked up at the sky, a dragon is there with its claws extended ready to crush down at us...
"(Teritory Expansion!)"
'Boom!' The demon mage casted a barrier magic, and the dragon slammed right into the barrier cracking it in the process.
"Nice guard, demon! Hah!"
Kentwood jumped up from the floor, and with his spear he jabbed right into the dragon's exposed stomach.
"Roar!!!" Blood started to spill out of the wound as the dragon roared in pain.
"(Now get back! Electric Zone!)"
'Bzzz!'
The demon casted a lightning spell... But he didn't fired off any spell. No, he used his electricity magic on the shell of his barrier, electrifying the dragon that has it's leg stuck in the barrier.
"Roar!... Gro..."
'Thump!' The dragon soon loses strength and dropped backwards onto the floor.
"Hah!" Woods dashed out of the barrier's range and stabbed his spear right into the dragon's throat, killing it.
"You two..."
"(You aren't the only one who can fight here.)"
"(I see....)"
"Kyrielle, I don't know what is on your mind, but you must share it out with us so that we can work together."
"Woods... Lynn flew to the castle by herself, and she trusts us with things on this side."
"I see. I'm no good with flying creatures, but the dragons deployed multiple soldiers down from the castle. I'll handle those foot soldiers with the help of the adventurers, so you mages should prioritize fighting the flying things!"
"I see!... Well then, I'll trust you to watch my back from the enemy mages while I watch yours from the sky."
"Good!"
"(As for you... Please acompany this old man and help him out! They need a mage like you to handle the foot soldiers!)"
"(Got it!... I'm a saint ranked mage and I know you are one too, but would you care to listen to one bit of advice from me?)"
"(Which is?)"
"(I noticed that your spells are extremely powerful but you do a lot of collateral damage. My advice is to focus your attack into one small area and use it like that, don't fire your spell out as if it's a missile, use it like a spear or an arrow instead. Focus on precise control over power, your attack will be even more accurate and precise than before!)"
"(Focus on precision over power.... I don't understand, but I'll keep that in mind!)"
"(Very well. Good luck, you are the only one who can fly, so you have to bring down those dragons by yourself!)"
"(Understood.) Woods, bring this guy with you and he'll help you out with magic!"
"Okay!"
"Now... Let us commence our emergency quest!"
'Bwuom!' I fired off my thrusters and took to the sky once again...
"Roar!!!" (3x) Immediately as I did so, three dragons set their eyes onto me and flew at me.
'Bwuom!' I fired off my thrusters and flew directly away from them as they chased after me.
Hmm... Precision over power huh?... What does Lynn do for precision when I fought her last time?...
She blocked my sword with a magic sword made out of Black Spears... I know I can use my katana to slash at those dragons but it won't last long before it'll break if I use it like that...
...Thats right. I'll just copy Lynn's move and spawn out a magic sword myself.
I casted a small Forbidden Sun in front of my hand as I flew with the three dragons chasing after me....
I closed my eyes and imagined the Forbidden Sun turning into a longsword.... A longsword shaped like the one that father has.
I squished my hand, and forcefully crushed the ball into a sword shape. I successfully made a fire sword.
"...Hah!"
I controlled the blade to fly besides me, and I shot it off at the dragon behind me.
'Boom!' The fire sword imbedded into the dragon's head before blowing up with a small explosion and killing it.
"It worked!"
I don't have a name for it... But no matter!
I summoned two more fire swords on each of my hand, and turned around as I flew forward.
"Hah!"
I flung the two swords flying at one of the dragon... It dodged the first sword while the second sword impaled it right at its body.
'Boom!' (2x) When I give the signal, the two swords explodes in small explosions, making it less likely to hit something or someone when I misses my spell.
"Hahaha! This work wonders!"
'Roar!' The final dragon turns around and tries to fly away from me...
I conjured two fire swords once again on each of my hand....
"There is no escape!"
'Bwuom!' I fired off my thrusters and chased after it, easily catching up to it.
With two fire swords seemingly acting like physical swords, I chased after the dragon. The dragon stops in place and turns around, then it swiped it's leg at me trying to slice me up with it's claws.
'Tink!' I blocked the scratch from the dragon with my two fire swords. Flying over it's leg, I slashed my two fire sword at it's exposed neck.
"Hah!"
'Slash!' (2x)
With my momentum bringing me away from the dragon, I turned around and threw my two swords at the dragon's body.
'Stab!' (2x)
Detonate!
'Boom!' (2x)
"Grah!..."
Regaining balance from turning so rapidly as I fight the dragon, I slowed down and hovered mid air with my thrusters.
"Phee... that's five dragons down now."
I looked around the air, and there's only 2 more dragons left. It seems that the other mages in the city has took care of a few of the dragons already.
While taking a breather, I looked up at the castle on the sky...
"Lynn...." Everyone is counting on you right now... You definitely can't lose no matter how strong the enemy is!
Now then, it's time to hunt the last two dragons!
'Bwuom!' I bursted forward again, flying towards the remaining two dragons.
(Chapter end)