"Check this out, mom! FIREBALL!" Heather shouted loudly as soon as we arrived back outside of Mephisto Pheles's tower. She held up her hand towards me and a fireball the size of a basketball came hurtling towards my face! She didn't use her wand and I didn't sense the use of any Eldritch magic either.
"Eeeep!" Asia yelped in panic and ducked behind me.
I casually swatted the fireball away with my hand when it reached me. I rubbed my forehead. Heather, please be mindful about throwing fireballs around when other people are nearby." I scolded her.
"Sorry about that." She said while rubbing the back of her head. She grinned at me. "That was cool though, right!? I used magic without a wand or Eldritch energy!"
"That was cool." I told her before turning towards Mephisto. "I take it you taught her a bit of human magic? Thank you for that." I said to him.
"It was nothing but a simple trade. She let me study some of her wand spells and I taught her some basic human magic spells. Ones that require the least amount of calculations." He replied casually.
Heather's face scrunched up. "Human magic here relies so heavily on math! What kind of heartless monster came up with that idea?"
"That would be Merlin." Mephisto responded with a shrug. "He was a fun guy, pretty strong too. His biggest flaw though was that he couldn't keep it in his pants. The guy gives Genghis Khan a run for his money with how many descendants he has in Britain."
"Eeew, gross! TMI, Mephisto!" Heather exclaimed.
"I'm planning on heading back with Heather if you're both done trading magic." I told them. "Where's Vali by the way?" He was supposed to be sticking around and guarding Heather but the guy wasn't here.
"He ran off to go and try to find some dead dragon's hoard." Heather replied with a shrug.
"What?" I turned to Mephisto hoping he could give a better explanation than that.
Mephisto explained that the Welsh Dragon, Albion's enemy, was from a nearby land, and his treasure hoard had never actually been discovered. Vali was bored and wanted to go exploring to try and find it.
"He's wasting his time if you ask me." Mephisto said casually. "I've lived in this land for over a hundred years now and I even tried to find it myself a few times. It's probably already been looted. What a shame. Before his death, Ddraig was rumored to have robbed Tiamat of most of her treasures."
That was more than a rumor from what I know. Why else would she keep killing all of his hosts off?
"I guess we'll have to wait for him to come back then…" I muttered.
Azazel would be mad if I just ditched his foster son in another country. Especially one so close to Angel territory where he could be killed. Vali is a direct descendant of their sworn enemy after all.
"I can practice this cool ice spell while we wait." Heather said. "Cmon, Asia! You should try to. You need to know some protection magic!"
Asia came out from behind me and looked nervous. "I don't like hurting people and I'm not very good at math, but I'll try."
"Don't worry, it's easy! Just watch this! ICE SPIKE!" Heather held up her hands and a small icicle formed above her palm. She aimed it forward and tried to launch it…The icicle instead fell directly onto the grass below and didn't move.
Everyone awkwardly stared at her for a second before Heather turned her head in embarrassment. "D-don't judge me! That was my first try!"
"That icicle was cute and I'll be able to always have cold drinks in summertime if I learn it. Teach me!" Asia said excitedly. She ran over to Heather who started explaining the math behind the spell. Asia was nodding her head up and down throughout Heather's explanation and I had no idea whether she was actually following or not.
"When Vali gets back, there's something I want to talk to you about." Mephisto said as he took a seat next to me. Right as he fell backwards, an elegant armchair manifested directly under him.
My Rinnegan temporarily manifested and I used Creation of All Things to make my own chair. I took a seat next to him.
"Genuine creation magic? Been a while since I've seen that." He commented. "Anyway, like I was saying, there is something I would like your help with as an outsider here." A table with a full tea set appeared between us. He poured himself a cup before handing me one as well.
"Thank you," I said while taking a sip. "So, what is it?"
"About a week before you came here, the sensors in my tower detected a massive surge of temporal magic! Someone attempted to and possibly succeeded in sending themselves, or at least their soul, to our current time." Mephisto wasn't able to tell whether they were from the past or future, but the obvious guess was they were from the future.
"Interesting…" I said. "Tell me more."
Quest Started: Investigate the temporal anomaly…
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