*Knock* *Knock*

"Yes?"

Karteira entered Amelia's room after knocking. She found Amelia writing in a notebook.

"Have you seen Orion anywhere?"

"No, I haven't seen him today. Did you need something?"

She closed the door and walked inside.

"I was going to ask for a sparring match, but if he's not here, I'll simply train alone."

Amelia brought the pen she had in her hand to her cheek, thinking of something.

"I can come with you if you wait until I finish writing."

"If you've proposed, does that mean you are almost done? I can wait."

"Thanks."

Amelia wrote about the progress she made in her book and left the room to train with Karteira once she was done.

~

In the training arena, Orion was working on something.

"Why did he call for us if he's not going to explain?"

Dramia and Drania were watching Orion, who had his eyes closed. His arms were placed as if he were holding something in his palms.

"You don't have to be this angry. If he's here, that means he won't blow up half the realm. Let's wait for him to explain."

Dramia was, as always, cold. Drania on the other hand, was excited to see what was going to happen.

Since he never called the sisters to watch him train, apart from the time he fought Karteira, they were somewhat intrigued.

"It's only been two days, you know? I can't trust him anymore after he destroyed a whole forest."

"You know Tiohr can repair that damage. Why are you even stuck on that?"

As if she had just woken up, Dramia opened her eyes wide.

"I had forgotten about that. I'm still used to Tiohr being weakened."

"Right? You don't have to worry so much."

The cold sister kept looking at Orion with a worried frown.

"Now I'm just scared about what absurdities this man is going to bring to the world."

"But that's the fun!"

She sighed at her sister's excitement.

Just then, Orion slightly crouched and made an audible grunt.

A terrible mass of magic energy gathered in each of his hands.

Two concentrated elemental spheres formed: the light element in his right hand and the dark element in his left hand.

The moment they appeared, a pillar of light enveloped Orion, and the usual change happened to his hair. The gold and silver hues separated his bangs.

"Drania..."

"Yes, this is no joking matter, sis..."

Orion finally opened his eyes, looked at the two spheres of monstrous energy, and turned to the sisters.

"I'm sorry to have made you wait. I needed your help with something."

The sisters reluctantly approached Orion, but he simply smiled at them.

"I know what you think; I won't lose control of it. That's the maximum amount of magic I can create for both of my elements, and I control it perfectly."

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He compressed the ball-sized spheres further, making them the size of a pebble.

"What do you want from us? I'm not sure if I understand what you expect us to help you with."

Orion lost his smile and became serious.

"I'm going to try something dangerous. I need one of you to support me while I work. The other needs to protect the area in case I lose control of the magic."

"What are you going to do? If you asked us, isn't it something absurd?"

"It will be the first time I'll try this, so something will definitely go wrong."

Life disappeared from Dramia's eyes.

"It's only been two days, and now you want to destroy the whole village?"

"No, I have Tiohr-nam's help just in case. That's why I'm here and not far away."

"Sis, you support him while I'll be protecting the village. Are you fine with that?"

Drania made her wings buzz, not letting the choice go to her sister.

Orion looked at Drania and added.

"If I can't contain my magic, I'll send it upward. Kick it with everything you have in that case. We need to send it really high."

"Understood!"

Drania nodded, while her sister simply expressed her discontentment.

*Sigh*

"I guess I have no choice. Don't make me regret coming here. I still haven't heard what you are trying to do, but whatever."

Dramia walked behind Orion and placed one hand on his back. Drania disappeared, using her speed to constantly fly around Orion in case something happened.

'These two are reliable. Let's hope it works out.'

Orion focused on the two spheres in his hands, feeling the flow of magic in his body. He felt how heavy the pressure radiating from the sphere was.

"Here I go."

Orion approached the spheres together and forcefully tried to merge them.

An incredibly heavy aura fell over the surroundings.

It felt like all the air had disappeared in the five meters around Orion.

Powerful gusts of wind scattered in every direction, and black and white sparks flew from his hands.

"Orion! This is stupid!"

Dramia grabbed his shoulders from behind to not lose her balance. She could feel the recoil Orion was enduring through his shoulders.

The two elements were pushing back with tremendous force, refusing to merge.

'Shit, this is bad! I can't maintain my grip on them much longer!'

Orion watched as the spheres changed to their original size. They grew between his palms and pushed with more force with each passing second.

The air grew heavier and heavier. Something bad was about to happen if Orion stayed in this situation.

Feeling the strange happening, Karteira and Amelia came sprinting.

"What's happening?!"

Fear appeared on their faces, as nothing of this magnitude had ever happened before.

They saw the area darken and brighten rapidly as the air battered everything around them chaotically.

It became hard to breathe, and at the center of it all, Orion was fighting against the source.

"Orion?!"

Amelia immediately began to run toward him, but was stopped by a fairy.

"Stay where you are. This is our job, not yours. If you get closer, there is a chance you will get hurt."

Drania, sweat on her face, appeared in front of them out of nowhere. The moment she finished her sentence, she returned to fly around Orion at top speed.

Amelia stayed in place, unable to do anything besides watch Orion grit his teeth.

The air was ruffling their hair back and forth. Even if she wanted to, there was no way to get closer.

"Let's wait for now. It is most likely another one of his wild ideas."

Amelia turned to look at Karteira, and she realized she was right.

"I shouldn't have been surprised. We'll ask him once he's done."

Karteira nodded, but inside, she was still apprehensive of the whole situation.

Back to Orion. He was reaching his limit.

"What are you waiting for? Release it! NOW!"

But Orion continued, refusing to bend to the difficult task.

"Not yet. I still have control over it. Every second counts at this point! I'll wait until the last second if I have to!"

'You stubborn fool!'

Dramia was cursing him with all her heart. She was in a bad situation, too.

'Wait, I haven't been helping him yet... What am I doing?'

She realized she hadn't supported him like she was asked to.

In this situation, Dramia closed her eyes and let herself feel the flow of his magic.

Orion felt it, and he let her tweak with the raging flow inside him.

'!'

This was worse than she expected. His light element clashed violently with his dark element inside his core. His magical vessels were intertwined, and some even snapped apart.

'If I don't do something, it could create the same situation as Noah! Is it the same thing he tried?'

She began to apply her own energy to appease the raging battle inside of him and repair his broken magical system.

This greatly helped Orion, as he began to grip them harder, forcing them to merge slowly.

While Dramia was exhausting herself, Drania was looking at all of this circling at high speed.

'There's no way this will last any longer... He is at his limit.'

And suddenly, Orion's knees began to weaken.

'Shit!'

He pushed his body further, just not to fall to the ground, and decided it was time to stop.

"Drania!"

With all his strength, he threw the half-merged sphere high into the air. The force was so great that all the surrounding air got sucked up by it.

"Hyaaa!"

Dramia appeared under the half-merged sphere and kicked it with everything she had. She managed to push it further in the air, but it wasn't enough.

She wanted to fly higher, but she couldn't risk getting caught in the resulting blast.

Just as Drania retreated toward the ground, a massive root emerged from one side of the village.

The root shook off the dirt, and in the blink of an eye, it smashed the sphere from below.

Tiohr-nam's Avatar was able to see the whole situation from the left-side window of her room, so she had no trouble hitting the sphere since Orion was located in a perfect spot for her to support him.

The sphere, hit with the full force of a Remnant, flew a few hundred meters high, and when Orion felt it was enough, he cancelled his magic.

*BOOM*

The sky shook. Air crashed down on everyone on the ground, and the trees bent from the shockwave.

The entire realm got plunged into a temporary dark gray light, and millions of glistening stars appeared in the sky.

This was the strangest day in the lives of the inhabitants.

Orion fell to one knee on the ground, his hair returning to normal.

Dramia kept repairing his broken magical vessels in silence, while Drania dropped to the ground. The giant root returned to its original place and, like magic, repaired the damage it had done.

"I was... so close to creating it."

Amelia and Karteira slowly approached the center of the training area and walked to Orion, who was cross-legged on the ground, being protected by the two sisters.

He was looking at his hands as if he understood what happened, yet he looked completely confused.

"Sis, how is he?"

Dramia opened her eyes and looked at her sister.

"Terrible, I'll have to continue repairing his magical system for a few minutes."

"Let me give you a hand then."

Both sisters placed their hands on his back, and they began their work.

"Orion, what have you done this time?"

The sky finally began to return to normal when Karteira asked him this question.

Exhausted and hurt, Orion still managed to speak.

"I tried to create a new element."

Silence fell on the training ground.