[AN: Krishna 'Calla' Ragnarok

For people who do not know, or do not know it truly: Ragnarok is an 'event' in the Norse Mythology. It is akin to Bible's Apocalypse where the world 'ends', though it true meaning actually translates to 'Deaths of Gods' or 'End of Gods'. Ragnarok possesses special 'blessing' known as 'Omen of Destruction' which greatly enhances her power to 'Destroy'. Anything. Everything.]

AN: I'm quite tired right now, did a re-edit this twice but I think I need to get some sleep. There might be more errors than usual so please forgive me!

Testing new formatting that I came up with

Legend:

[???: dialogue]

[???: "thought"]

[???: *action/sound*]

[--???--: talk in consciousness/telepathy]

***

[--Lily--: I'll make a Hero out of you!]

Green eyes were full of doubt as he watched the girl who announced that sentence with a cheerful voice.

***

[Time: Early morning]

[AN: From now on, while on the outside he will be referred to as Vorst, but inside he will be called Marc]

In the elevator there were two children standing. One male, one female. Vorst, as it was him, was completely relaxed, on the other hand Mersa who he was accompanying was fidgeting the whole time.

[Mersa: I-It's a nice weather t-today...]

They were indoors, going up in the elevator. Besides this early in the morning sun didn't even rise yet. However since he already received the links he was obviously aware of her feelings.

[Vorst: Indeed, seems like it's going to be sunny...]

***

As nature dictates, the stronger one rules over the weaker ones. Even after the introduction of the concept of Society it was overthrown by 'guns' especially the last 'disintegration railgun' which showed a true supremacy of 'Power'. But there was a main problem with 'guns', they were detachable. One day you were wielding the 'gun' while on the other you could find yourself on the other side of the barrel.

Everything changed with Photon Core, now equipment was only a support, the real power lied in the crystal core itself. Sub-races categorization was divided according to the 'natural strength' which in other words was a potential. For example a Wolf Mid ranking race would need to train several decades to achieve 10 HST, while the White Wolf would pass that step in mere years.

The structure of the Photon Core was similar to a  miniature galaxy. With crystal core in the center the nano-photons converged in orderly fashion making a shape of the disk.

The size and thickness of the disk measured aptitude, or what Marc was referring to as potential. Here comes the power of hybrids - they had two disks which in other words meant double power gain rate!

The size and color of crystal core in the center was the measurement of individual's Power. The bigger core the more powerful one was.

***

Both children were on their way to test the aptitude. One must know that an aptitude test was incredibly costly. For the Power test they just needed to scan color and size of crystal core to get results, but the disk surrounding it was a complete different thing, it wasn't solid at all... Enough said, cost for one procedure of aptitude test would be able to feed a family of five for ten years. Today they were doing two of those...

[Mersa: Vor-chan...]

[Vorst: Yes Mersa? *BAM*]

White Wolf Princess hit knocked him on the head.

[Vorst: Why... *massaging sore place*]

[Mersa: I know that Vor-chan has problem with his memory...]

Namely Marc had no memories of Vorst. None. Zero. Nil.

[Mersa: ... but at l-least please c-call me Mer-chan like you used to!]

Red shade descended on her face.

[Vorst: Got it, Mer-chan.]

[Mersa: Uh-huh.]

Radiance that came from her smile showed her happiness..

[Vorst: ... Mer-chan, you wanted to say something.]

[Mersa: Oh... Um... Huh... Eto...]

11 years old male showed a prime example of patience as he watched as wolf girl was mumbling away for a while.

[Mersa: I-I-I-I wanted to s-say... I thought about it a lot. I think. I... I-I think I'll have to go ahead.]

Vorst didn't got a thing from this. First his language skill wasn't completely perfect yet, besides that he had absolutely no context information. No wonder multiple big '?' literally popped above his head. That didn't escape the careful eyes of his conversation partner.

[Mersa: Uuuuu how dense can you be?! I-I was talking about class! I think it's time for me to do this seriously and advance in ranks...]

Having her power levels advancing without any trouble little girl grew complacent. The black scorpion incident was like a bucket of cold water, she realized how weak she was, especially compared to Rankers. She understood that the way she was right now she would even lose to most adults. How could she protect him if she was so weak?! Therefore she decided to leave him behind in order to gain Power to protect him...

[Vorst: I see...]

[Mersa: ...]

Marc in fact wasn't dense at all, from a glance he noticed that it was a tearing choice for her. For last six years she spent her days with him... What's more now she was additionally also charmed by those serious Emerald eyes...

[Vorst: ... It's sunny today, from now if it's sunny why won't we have lunch together outside?]

Hearing that she quickly nodded as great mood washed descended. Vorst not only accepted her decision but also proposed a way to get together. As doors of the elevator opened she walked out with light step while happily humming some song. Vorst silently followed.

All of the researchers that were inside stopped as they curiously watched this duo. One of them an absolute peak in terms of talent, on the other side the in their eyes worst, completely hopeless case. Although they had no idea why the Alliance was wasting the money on the 'powerless' potential test they received their orders, and they will execute them...

***

Principal had results of two tests in front of him. There was also an communicator channel open.

[???: 10th LST...]

[Principal: During last two days she did nothing but cry and her power grew two ranks. Also the results are obvious, her White Wolf aptitude output beat the previous record by 10%, while her Elf's output increased by 20% and rivals that one of Claire-sama.]

[???: Yes. That child is definitely irreplaceable. She is gentle and talented, a perfect candidate.]

[Principal: In comparison the 'powerless'...]

Man looked in resignation at the numbers on the paper of Vorst's results.

[???: Useless... His level fell all the way down to 1st LST, his aptitude output... fell... I thought it was at a rock bottom, I never would have imagined that there was a level below THAT.]

[Principal: Hmpf. Also. That thing that you were waiting for. It happened.]

[???: !! You mean?]

[Principal: Yes, she decided to advance leaving him behind.]

[???: ... *smile*]

[Principal: She might have done what you are waiting for but not everything went according to your predictions. She didn't dupe him.]

[???: ... *smile froze*]

[Principal: I talked to her about Athena's Institute proposition but she said that she won't leave him here. *a wide grin was on his face*]

[???: The alliance council already decided to move her to Athena's Institute.]

[Principal: The alliance council can bark as much as they want, it's her decision to follow or not. Or do you seriously want to 'force' an UHigh/UHigh Hybrid against her wishes? You know alliance's rules, and with her capabilities if she wishes to join Crimson Empire the consequences will be on you...]

[???: Heran's Principal! Are you threatening me?]

[Principal: Oh, no, of course not, I'm just wildly hypothesizing aloud.]

[???#2: We need her in Athena. The black scorpion incident showed that Heran is not an appropriate place, it can't safe guard her. Besides I don't know what's the big commotion about? Just let the 'powerless' join the Athena.]

[???: What are you talking about?! Athena is an all girls school!]

[???#2: Though it's true that Athena's student body is completely made of school girls, as Athena's Headmistress I do not recall our Institute having such rule that forbid accepting boys. Isn't that right Heran's Combat School Principal?]

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[Principal: Hmm...]

[???: Wait, wait, what do you mean Headmistress? You know Heran's Principal?]

[Headmistress: Hmm,if my memory is not failing me roughly 700 years ago Athena also had one male student enrolled... Didn't it Heran's Principal.]

[Principal: ... I see... ... Yes... I do seem to recall such rumor.]

[Headmistress: But of course the difference was that boy from 700 years ago was an outstanding genius, so outstanding that our Institute broke our tradition that time to procure him.]

[Principal: ...]

[Headmistress: Too bad after great contribution in defeating the Elzeath Empire he was severely wounded in decisive battle and... passed... away. Right? Principal?]

[Principal: ... Seems like it.]

[???: ...]

[Headmistress: Oh, also with arrival of the White Wolf Princess our Institute will need higher security. I'd love to hire a high Power person, can you introduce someone to me Principal?]

[Principal: ... No, I'm afraid I don't have that many connections...]

[Headmistress: Too bad, as a head of elite school you should have worked on that. Ah! I just remembered someone. He will be perfect...]

[Principal: ... "I have a really bad feeling about this"]

[Headmistress: A Ranker.]

[???: A Ranker?! Wow! Who is he?]

[Headmistress: Haha, his name is not known at all but I know his capability very well.]

[Principal: ... "No... No... No..."]

[Headmistress: Coincidentally he has the same name as that war hero we talked about haha.]

[Principal: Haha~ Such coincidence... "This old hag..."]

[Headmistress: Well, Mr. Mistglan also owes me a favor so he won't be able to refuse. Luckily a position of a teacher was recently opened~ Coincidences~]

[Principal: ... May I know what happened to previous teacher?]

[Headmistress: Oh, Mr Edwing won in lottery and suddenly decided to retire.]

[Principal: ... So lucky... "AS IF THAT HAPPENED!"]

[Headmistress: Right~ That reminds me, I heard a rumor that you, dear Principal, decided to retire from Haren.]

[Principal: Yeah. I... I also won a lottery...]

[???: ... "Headmistress sure is scary... And who would have known... *realization -> shudder* I-I raised my voice at a Ranker...*cold sweat*"]

***

Two days passed since the day of aptitude test.

The truth was the night before that day Marc decided to explore his Photon Core. As usual an genius when it came to magic sense. He instantly arrived at a conclusion.

Everything was WRONG.

If he compared it to a room then that room was full of thrash. He immediately got to work and threw it all away. That's how his crystal core lost most of it value and the main reason that his result showed the beautiful 1st LST. What he noticed was 'purity' of nano-photons, and he only collected the most 'pure' nano-photons. After one night of meditation he gathered a bit of those extremely pure particles which made the aptitude flow triple - imagine a disk made of water which was flowing towards the center - with speed increased it got compressed thus becoming thinner and covering less space thus showing an lowered aptitude output...

[--Lily--: I said low key, but I never knew that Lord Marcdrak would go this far for me! Fufu~]

[--Marc--: Hm... *He did it because he felt an urge to, it was just an side effect but he wisely choose to keep silent*]

In fact two days after his level core is already an close to 2nd LST, but his potential power right now was comparable to Mid Tier sub-class! But of course no one was interested in measuring the 'powerless' one. The real hot topic right now was the White Wolf Princess that just broke through and achieved 1st HST.

[Mersa: Aaan~]

[Vorst: ... Aaa... *nom nom nom*]

That's right, at this very moment young Vorst was being fed by Mer-chan, while all of the boys in the surroundings were throwing death glares at him but green eyed boy sat there unfazed.

[Mersa: Vor-chan, why did you bring three lunch packs?]

[Vorst: Mer-chan, as boys grow they need to eat more.]

[Mersa: Oh? Though the lunches for boys are already bigger anyway...]

In fact the method Marc was using to absorb the pure nano-photons was very energy inefficient, it would cast away millions of particles that were sucked in high speed only allowing one or two among them to 'enter'. It was a slow growth in the beginning but boasted an exponential curve!! As his core grew the attraction power of it would grow multiple times compared to an normal core.He also asked Mersa about it but it seems like only he is capable of recognizing the purity...

[Vorst: ... Actually I really liked it when Mer-chan fed me so I bought more.]

[--Lily--: Lies~~]

[--Calla--: Half-truth I'd say.]

[Mersa: *Blush* A-ah! *Blush level 2* I-I see... Then let me help you with a second one! Aaan~]

Glares from surroundings also leveled up!

***

[Time: That day, late at night.]

Marc was sitting on the bed with relaxed expression. He just finished using the runic system to set up an automatic filtering system. With it he won't need to concentrate on absorbing the nano-photons. It was a very handy method, however that method also used the nano-photons to secure, maintain and nourish itself - right now it was actively limiting his actual nano-photon pool by more than 95% Of course with time as his core grows the ratio will decrease but right now...

He tried to sleep but somehow he couldn't fall down into slumber... His body needed it, it was tired, and was also in the age where sleep was an essential part for it development... But he couldn't... Actually in the past three days he couldn't get a second of sleep... Since coming to this world... That was bad...

His body was already refusing to move, he felt the paralysis taking over but his mind stayed sharp as ever... Remember, how did you slept in the past 40,000 years? Damn, there was nothing in particular... What was different?!

[--Lily--: Can't sleep?]

Marc immediately showed himself in the throne room.  With a sigh he sat down among the violet cushions.

[--Marc--: I don't get it. What's wrong...]

[--Lily--: I can show you what's wrong.]

Showing a bewitching smile redhead maintained the eye contact. For a while he found himself hopelessly immersed in the depths of those azure eyes.

[--Marc--: This is not a time for jokes Lily.]

[--Lily--: I'm not joking...]

As she said that her hands moved towards her dress. Bit by bit she undid it...

[--Marc--: Lily? Loki...]

Several days ago Calla moved girls to their respective rooms, so right now he was sitting in the middle of the throne alone. On all fours with the movement similar to a cougar that was sneaking towards its prey she closed in to Marc.

At first he wanted to rebuke her, but somehow... His movement dulled...

[--Lily--: Fufu~ Seems like Lord Marcdrak didn't noticed it himself but he is no longer able to sleep alone anymore...]

Now he wanted to refute such ridiculous claim but seeing his mind in this state... he simply had to accept it.

[--Lily--: Though young boys are not my type, I'll provide service since it's Lord Marcdrak.]

Saying that she finally reached him, and as she extended her arms to hug him her her dress completely fell off.

[--Lily--: Such thin arms... You need to start to build some muscles Marc, I miss old Marc's embrace...]

[--Marc--: Duly noted... Yaaaaawn...]

[--Lily--: Marc. There are no curses here...]

[--Marc--: ...]

[--Lily--: In this world you can become anything. There is no need for you to be a Demon Emperor anymore... Nor be bound by that contract.. Nor..]

[--Marc--: Lily... I was never forced. It was my decision to do it all, thus my duty to oversee it to the end.]

[--Lily--: But in this world you can become anything. You can even become a Hero! No... I'll make a Hero out of you!]

Marc looked at her eyes full of doubt... Sleepiness was overcoming him.

[--Lily--: Can I?]

[--Marc--: Yawn~ Just do as you please.]

[--Lily--: Hehe.]

And while watching Lily's sweet smile his consciousness cut off.

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