[Inside the Inner Realm]
- What did you say?
- I said let's start Inner Realm Mastery training.
- You want to start training in order to master your Inner Realm?
- Yes!
He starts laughing.
-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- What the hell...Something's funny? Mind explaining? Since I don't understand what's so funny.
He calms down.
- You are a comedian arent you?
- No, I'm not.
- Alright there are two reasons why this is funny. First, do you really expect me to accept training you, did you forget how pissed I am at you?
- Good point, but still not enough.
- Second, you have something else you need to deal with.
-What are you talking about?
- Did you forget that something inside of you has been sealed?
I can see that he's serious. His usually annoyed and pissed-off face is nowhere to be found. This time his facial expression is relaxed and his eyes exude complete seriousness.
- What exactly has been sealed inside of me?
- Wrong. Nobody sealed anything inside of you. It's actually parts of you that have been suppressed and sealed multiple times.
- Multiple times?
- There is more than one seal.
- How many in total?
- A total of four seals have been imposed unto you and one of them has been undone.
- What was the first seal sealing?
- Your demon blood.
- Riiight. I totally forgot about that. So what do the seals have to do with me mastering my Inner Realm?
- Along with whatever else was sealed some of your abilities were sealed.
- Soooo?
- When your demon blood was unsealed it also released one of your abilities, I suggest that you learn to control it before you try mastering your Inner Realm.
- What was the ability released... Is it dangerous?
- It wasn't released. It was awakened. It has always been laying dormant inside of you or more like inside of one of your eyes. Dangerous is an understatement what was awakened is the eye that contains the power of destruction itself: Interitus.
- Eye that contains destruction? What exactly is Interitus? What do you mean by destruction itself? You need to explain more. All that I got was that it is extremely dangerous.
- Interitus is...
- Is.....?
- Anything more than that and a Causality Trial will probably be activated. All that you need to know is that it was awakened. It is extremely powerful and if you don't know how to control it, it'll go rampant. You wanted to know if it was dangerous well you got your answer it's dangerous as long as you don't have control over it.
- Where is Bright?
- I'm right here.
I can hear his voice coming from the sky. I lift my head up and what I see is an angel falling from the sky.
" What the hell is going on?"
Booooom! That's the noise that resulted from his failed landing along with a lot of dust.
- Oops! Sorry! It's been a long time since I've used my wings. I'm a bit rusty with the landing and I ran out of Prana when I was in the sky so my wings went poof and disappeared.
- What!? why are you rusty at flying?
- You fought a lot of demons right? asks Bright
- Yeah... What does that have to do with your wings, your rusty flying, and your landing?
- Did you know that Demons and Angels are exactly the same the only difference is in our nature.
- Nature?
- Yeah while Angels are beings that love to stick to the rules Demons are true to their desires. In simpler terms, they just do whatever they want regardless of the consequences.
- Anyways, kid it's time for you to head back it's already been 10 hours since you entered your mental strain is quite impressive but you're at your limit.
- Limit?
As soon as I finish the word my head started ringing, then the ringing turned into pain as if someone was constantly hitting my head.
- Told you, didn't I?
Dull put his hand on my chest and push me. I open my eyes and I'm back in the outside world.
" Damn it! My head hurt like crazy and it's worse now that I'm outside my Inner Realm."
I touch my phone screen which lights it up and I check the time.
"It's midnight. Bright you're not that bright. Instead of one minute here equals one hour there it's more like ten hours there equals one hour here. Everything is so peaceful it seems like the spies/assassins that were sent undercover here have no intention of making a move for now."
I close my eyes and go to sleep.
[In the morning]
- Young master it's time to wake up.
My sleep is light maybe it was because of the war but one of the things I developed in the future is insomnia. It's not that I couldn't sleep it's more like the slightest sound was enough to wake me up so I wasn't able to sleep.
" Was it because of yesterday's events? I was able to sleep. My insomnia has become weaker. Normally the sound of his steps, and his shoes touching the floor would have been enough to wake me up but it didn't. Sure I woke up immediately after hearing his voice but my symptoms arent all gonna magically disappear after a night of good sleep."
I get up, dress up, open the door, and in front of me stands Roan. He lifts his head up and looks at me with an expression full of surprise but at the same time, he seems happy.
- What? I'm eight you know. I can get dressed by myself.
- It's nothing young master. While I am surprised I am also pleased to see that you've grown so much.
He takes out his handkerchief and starts his usual acting and jokes
- Sniff..Sniff. There might be a day when you will throw me away because I would be of no use to you anymore. Aaah, how time has passed quickly.
- Will you stop messing around with me?
He starts laughing.
- Sorry young master. I just truly am glad that you've grown out of your shell.
I smile.
- No need for excuses. Roan, you are the person I trust and care for the most.
" I won't let you die this time, I promise."
- You're family is waiting downstairs for breakfast.
We walk down the stairs and head into the dining room.
- Good morning, Father, Mom, Yoann, Jynn
They all look at me with a smile and they each answer my greetings with a good morning Noah. We all start eating.
[twenty minutes later]
- What do you intend to do today Noah. asks Yoann
- During my fight with Darius I noticed that my body wasn't keeping up with the movements I had in mind, resulting in quite a few missteps and I also need to do some physical exercise my body took at least ten percent of the damage from my own spell. What about you?
- I've got to go to school. You only graduate from the academy when you reach twenty-one years old after all. Still got three years left to do.
- But brother do you really need to keep going to school, you've already acquired the King's Sword title. Didn't you learn everything you could learn from the academy?
-It's because of the graduation ceremony. Answers Jynn.
- Graduation ceremony?
Fayrak Academy has always kept the graduation ceremony a secret. Nobody knows what happens there all that we know is that after the graduation ceremony, it is said that some are able to have a breakthrough to whatever problem they may have.
- You didn't notice, did you Noah
- Noticed what?
- I've hit a bottleneck. I haven't been able to forge my sixth mana heart
- I already told you you don't need to rush it Yoann at your age I was still at my fourth mana heart. Says my Father. I swear you don't realize what a feat it is to have forged five mana hearts at your age.
- Did you hear about Darius, Father? Aks Yoann
- Yes he finished forging his sixth mana heart. What does that have to do with you
- Isn't it obvious? He is gonna laugh at me because he passed me!
" Whaaaa. I didn't know the Wind Sword was so immature."
- Anyways we gotta go Yoann it's time.
-Goodbye, you two. Says Leyah.
They both leave.
- I'm gonna go to the training ground. Thank you for the food!
I get up and rush to the training ground.
" I have two weeks until school starts. If my body is not ready then I already will be at a disadvantage against the other kids."