I look on at the scene, completely baffled.
In front of me, an epic battle is happening. Between two elven mages who are candidates to become Archmage.
The weird thing is that I recognizes one of the mages. The handsome elven mage was the student of the High Archmage Elanna Caemfaere who I hookwinked the other day to make princess Aelene feels more comfortable with magic.
After all, if her own uncle tells her magic is cool, she will agree right? Well, that is not a good plan, but anyway.
Currently, they are completely disrupting my assassination attempt. Putting down my piece, I silently withdraw, attempting to leave the scene, the mages battle and Shio for another day.
All I know is that this starts from a lover spat.
I don't know who the female elf is. I haven't met her before, though I distantly remember that the High Archmage has a female disciple who fell down from the sky the other day, however, I haven't seen her face.
It is creepy man. Her skin is pale, however, she has black hair that is not typical of the elven race at all to complete the Sadako look. If she lets her hair down and start staring at me crazily, will I have only 7 days left to live?
Her partner though, I recognize him.
I recognize him as a fellow man of taste. I mean, I recognize him as being like me. I mean he is married.
The fact that he is married and then has the gall to date another woman in broad daylight means he has the same bravery as me.
Damn, he is stupid.
Everyone knows only me get away with it. Hirrim Tahromiane comes from a branch family of the Lunarii, technically, he is also Aelene Lunarii's brother, however, the family tree is too complicated. He is definitely related to Iachrim Lunarii though, Aelene's elusive uncle.
A few hundred years ago, the Lunarii has a pair of brother and sister, Iachrim and Celmanwe.
Everyone agreed that Iachrim has the best qualifications to be king, even I agree, he has good lineage, academic record, powerful magic and even has experience in leading battle, however after a lot of powerful people fought to get Iachrim onto the throne, he changed his mind at the last moment.
Iachrim decided to study to become a High Archmage because magic is cool and told every of his supporters to instead get his sister on the throne instead.
Iachrim's sister, Celmanwe, is Aelene's mother.
I of course know all about it the moment Iachrim comes back from my source and his description from a few centuries ago.
I intended to use his magic enthusiasm to get his niece to love magic too for Aradon's sake.
Imagine my surprise when that very same student of the Archmage drops down from out of nowhere to stop the lover spat.
While Iachrim was talking, he signals for Hirrim to slip away. He is a good cousin.
The two mages then exchange words. The female mage grew increasingly angry, before words stop working and firework happen.
Using that opportunity I slip away before the mage conflict grew anymore, leaving a confused Shio.
Idiot, even after I told him the story about the dark forest. Even though I wittily criticize his inability to adapt to chaotic situation, he never learns.
Imagine my surprise when I took three step before my vision was filled with purple.
Everything stops. I can't move.
I think time has stopped. The only purple magic in the game are time magic, unique to the Elven Archmages associate.
As quickly as it starts, the timestop stops and everything resumes as normal. While everyone looks around confused, idiots as they are, I move faster.
I have some respect for Iachrim, now I really respect him. What he is doing, I think, is synchronizing the timestop with magical discharge. I know the archmage has AoE timestop magic. In game, they are only used on enemies units. However, now that I have seen it first hand the last time I and Aradon tried to take them down as enemies combatants, I realize that they can be used as temporary invincible defense too.
The fact that that archmage apprentice use an invincible defense on everyone says something. I don't know what, but it says something. And no one even understand it.
While I was trying to leave, some one pulls me back, causing me too look over my shoulder.
It is Te Celsa's apprentice.
"Wait, you-"
He was staring at the unfinished game state. To me it is finished though.
I raise an eyebrow with certainty. For a while, Shio looks at me. Then, he lets me go, slamming down on the board in rage. While two godlike mages are in the background still having an argument.
I shake my head while leaving.
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Meanwhile, a certain Student, let's call him A is having the fight of his life. Today, again his master is leaving to visit the Ranger order as an excuse to see her son. However, it is really serious. Today, his elder disciple is having her big date. However, his master on the other hand is adamant about going to see her son and leaving the matter to him.
This causes him to act like a stalker for more than half a day.
"You are creepy, elf." A human kid saw and called him that. A human kid. He would never live it down if anyone heard about it. However, he has to endure.
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This is because all of this occurs due to his cousin's sin, and by relation, it is his sin too.
200 years ago, during a certain elf's certain maiden years, a certain Student A was introducing his cousins to his colleagues at the academy. However, what he didn't know was that the bastard was only using his hospitality to get to know 'magic beauties', because of his fancy.
And that idiot of an elder disciple of his was the easily infatuated type.
Afterward, while their master was consoling their eldest sister, a certain Student A had to endure all the punishments the female population of the academy dished out after seeing what happened to a certain Student B.
200 years later, he still has to clean up.
After hearing about his cousin's marital status, his eldest sister's temper started to flare, and that was when he has to intervene.
And now this happens.
A certain Student, let's call her B, wants to beat him up. He has to fend her off. But wait, there is more. Because Student B's power is a one in a generation monstrosity, just her accidental discharge is enough to destroy a neighborhood or two.
So, everytime, a discharge happens, he synchronizes her discharge with his AoE timestop field.
Everytime a discharge happens again, he deploys his timestop field to stop collateral damage.
Everytime his eldest sister is about to hit him, he deploys a personal time stop field if he can't stop it while deploying countermeasures if she approaches and starts to actually beat him up.
In the event that he tries to turn her into a temporal statue, the moment that she can feel it, as a greater prodigy, she would react faster than him and disrupt his attempt to overcome her magic resistance with a bolt of magic that can destroy a large building.
Why, oh why do the sins of the past haunt him so.
All the while this is happening, the youngest of the disciples, let's call him C, is looking at the scene from far away. Coward. He knows he can't even last 5 seconds with their eldest disciple. And so, the responsibilities lie with student A.
Alright.
Alright then.
A man has to die standing. As a familiar elf starts to leave the scene, suddenly Student A has an idea. That elf has a great idea too, while everyone was confused, he correctly identify the closest city gate to get out of the vicinity of the city.
That is why, while he is verbally dueling with his eldest sister, he casually moves toward the boy. Suddenly, he points at the eldest.
"That's it. I have had enough of your antic. Today, I will prove that I am a man, you and me, we will duel. But not here. Let's move out of the city. That boy there will be the judge."
A certain student, let's call him A said with all the bravado of a prince who would be king.
Deep inside, he was resigned that he would lose. He even knew that he would lose badly.
Meanwhile, the elf looks at him with a complicated look.
'Help me.' The two men exchange a secret message.
"I want to be a judge too."
In the crowd, suddenly a feminine voice sounds out.
A certain Student, let's call him A, looks on horrified as his little quarrel has drawn a very familiar unwanted attention.
He looks to the left and saw the one person he doesn't want her to see him lose the most right now. His niece. Who is somehow in civilian clothing. He will have a talk with her later. However, not now. He probably doesn't need that talk either because behind his oblivious niece is the second person who he doesn't want her to see him lose the most. His sister.
That is to say, the current queen who appears to have not been noticed by his niece. The woman looks on at him with an expectant look.
Meanwhile, there is a half-elf raising her hands up and down rapidly as if trying to appease to his sister, as if that would change anything.
Oh. Oh damn. He really can't allow himself to lose today then. This is the one day he can't lose. If he has lost all the 99 times they duel, then this must be the one time he won't lose.
At this moment, he looks toward his little judge to make sure that they don't *ahem* escape.
However, even the little judge seems to be shocked at something. He was so shocked that he drops his bag.
Suddenly, Student A also becomes shocked.
In the crowd, a certain elf is looking at the appearance of the princess and the queen with slackjawed. That elf looks extremely familiar. So familiar in fact that he is the exact mirror image of the Student's master. It is his master's son.
Today, instead of staying at the order, knowing that his mother is visiting, to escape from his mother's smothering, Aradon has actually sneaked out and followed his friend without his friend's notice. However, when he saw the princess in the crowd with her mother, he became so shocked that he drops his disguise.
At that moment, a diplomat from the human kingdom, a very important person that can return to the human kingdom and tell the king what the elven kingdom looks like also appears. Strangely, he appears from right behind Andarel. He looks at everything in an extremely concerned and confused gaze.
For his part, the elf that Student A has taken a liking too suddenly run toward one of the building and punches a wall.