The next day Kojo and the others sat in the gardens of the palace. Kojo had managed to tell them everything that had happened with the exception of the attack by Maven. Every time he got to that part the girls would cut him off.
He sighed just as Eden poured him a cup of tea .
"The rate at which things are going we'd better get stronger. The first that are appearing nowadays or not only crafty but strong. We don't even know what their true intentions are. Then there's this whole Supreme Enchantment thing "
" I've read of something like that in the school library about beings who'd attained transcendence awakening abilities that could end the laws of existence but I don't know how true it is." Adriana said.
" Well it seems like a really cool thing to have. Do you have one Sasha?" Lin asked.
" Who me? No. Why do you ask?" Sasha said with a mouthful of food.
" Well you were one of the only Elites in the world." Lin replied.
"Elite?" Kojo questioned.
( The elites are the top ten strongest people in the world. They have been ranked due to them being so extraordinarily powerful they can destroy the world.)
" What rank were you Sasha?" Kojo asked.
" I was rank six but I've probably dropped to seven ever since you beat me. The ranks are constantly changing. A rank 7 can shoot up to rank 2 if they perform feats greater than said rank two and vice versa."
"Do you know the others?" Rey enquired.
" Hmm. Well I guess. Starting from the bottom;
10. The Unseen.
He or she is a swordman that wanders the savage lands. Im saying that because know ones ever seen them and lived to tell the tale.
9.Aphraxad.
Some dude who spends all his time in a cave. Head like a boring guy. He wouldn't fight me until I threatened to destroy his cave. I can tell he was fight me seriously which caused me to get bored and leave. He has the ability to affect darkness. It's said he once covered the entire world with darkness just because it was too hot."
" I don't remember that." Adriana said.
" That's because it happened over 59 years ago." Sasha replied taking a sip of tea.
" Next is the Goblin King.
He's a swords man like me but uses flames to an unfathomable degree . His flames are so hot they can burn your very soul. I was able to rise the rankings by killing that Wraith dragon that appeared at our border but now I have to drop down to his level." Sasha whined outinge her head on the table.
" Um I don't think it's a big deal. If you want I can forfeit-" Kojo said trying to comfort her but she sprang up and hugged him.
" I'm not bothered as long as its darling. Besides the rankiyare constantly changing with new people being added and some being taken out." Sasha said rubbing her face on him.
" O-ok. So who are the others?"
" Well there's me at rank 7 and you at 6. Ranks 5 to three remain unknown. All that we do know is that they are living cataclysms with power cable of ending the world and even going beyond that they're so much of a threat we don't even know who falls under which rank."
Sharone ,Koniko and Lin tensed up.
" Do you know Thier names?" Rey asked.
"The Blood Princess, Vampire.
The Beast of the white flame, Demihuman.
The Gale of Wailing and Dispair."
The table fell silent for a while.
( Suspicious)
" Huh?"
" Rank 2 is.... Uh,some dude who has the ability to mess with names. I don't remember his name. I never really got to fight him though. Meh,it's probably not that important." Sasha said brushing it off with the wave of her hand.
" After all,all of the Elite are capable world enders were only arranged on how impressive our accolades are."
" So who's rank one?" Kojo asked, curious.
" Who else. The archsaint of the church of undying light ,Yukio Hayashi. Ok us being in the same level applies to everyone from rank 10 to rank 2. She's on a whole different level. Even I wouldn't be able to fight her." Sasha said with a laugh.
" So about the existence of these Supreme Enchantments. How do we get string enough to acquire them?" Sharone asked changing the subject.
" Well they are extremely rare." Lin said.
" Based on what Kojo said it's so rare entire centuries can pass without a single awakened." Koniko said.
" Uh um,about that. I have a Supreme Enchantment." Rey said timidly raising his hand. They all turned and stared at him.
" Huh?!' the exclaimed in unison. They then bombarded him with questions like how,why and when he got that ability.
" Guys calm down. I don't know how to explain myself. The only thing I know is that I awoke with the power , Resonance Amplification.I thought it was weird for me to awaken such an ability but it falls in line with what we just talked about. I thought you knew about it Kojo since you were the one who healed my magic circuits. I did end up with a couple of youte abilities so I thought this was your doing."
They all turned to look at Kojo.
" What of course I knew." He said giving a nervous laugh.
" Sysia when did this happen?" He thought.
( I was going to tell you that you awakened a remarkable abilities you basically gave away a broken ability like it was nothing.)
" I thought those were copies."
( There were copies but that was the only exception.)
" Kojo can you help me awaken one too." Adriana pleaded. "Any way you can,I'll do anything."
Kojo didn't know what to say.
" Listen I didn't actively give they ability to Rey."
( You did though)
" Shut up. "Kojo whispered he then cleared his throat and continued.
" His awakening was purely on him so if you want to know the how and the why,you should ask him." Kojo quickly diverted all attention to Rey. The girls pounced on him and began asking all kinds of questions. Kojo let out a sigh of relief.
Eden observed the conversation from a small distance behind Kojo within the summer hut. Unknown to everyone he actually possessed a Supreme Enchantment. His ability, Chaos Theory,enabled him to manipulate probability manifesting one out of the endless options where he had the advantage or changing it outright. That and him possessing the Urrsyn, Kaleidoscopic eyes that enabled him to see all uncertainties pertaining to an event. Wit this he should have outmatched and defeated Kojo but he'd somehow manged to negate his abilities.
He smiled remembering their first encounter During their fight he was sure he'd killed Kojo thousand of times yet an improbable situation would come up at the last second and he'd escape. H d specifically aimed for his head but somehow severed only his arm which Koji them decided to use as a weapon detonating it. This situation began long before they fought even during his fight against Saleem.
Eden knew very well how powerful Supreme Enchantments are so he kept quite thinking that it was Kojo's intention to keep hidden than fact that he had helped Rey awaken.
" As expected of master." He said with a charming smile looking at Kojo with admiration and he was right to come to that conclusion.
In their world , Supreme Enchantments where the ultimate expressions of strength and were so potent that the only way to counter one was with another more powerful one.
Sysia was disappointing . If she had a physical body she'd shake her head but all she could do was sigh.Sysia too came to the same result. She wanted to tell Kojo that his ability, Universal Negation, which rewrote what he believess as impossible according to his to be negated was one of those abilities but she decided against it.
(Kojo was too ignorant of things and it's time I taught him a lesson about self awareness.
(You know what,I think I'll let him suffer for a bit longer) Sysia thought to herself.
" Anyway this serious talk is really boring me." Kojo said stretching them slumping on his seat. He noticed the king and queen walking through the garden with their daughter Klara. Billiam he got a brief glimpse of Billiam scrubbing the hallway and looking at his parents with pleasing eyes before the door closed shut.
Kojo smiled as he'd just had an idea.
" Ok" he said sitting upright.
'Hmm?"The others looked at him questioningly.
" How about introduce you to the concept of sports?" He asked.