"What do you mean by 'space and time'?"

Amelia caught that little detail.

"Where are we? What do you think is this place?"

Orion returned her question with another one.

'That's true, we haven't really thought about that.'

They both realized that.

"We're inside some kind of magic right?"

Orion nodded to Amelia.

"I feel like I've seen this somewhere."

Karteira placed a hand on her chin, but then looked at Amelia.

Amelia looked at her with a questioning look, until she finally understood.

"The portal to the fairy realm!"

She turned to Orion.

"Is this place a new realm?"

Orion shook his head and explained.

"Yes and no. I don't know everything about this place, but I know that it isn't a new realm."

He continued.

"To begin with, this is not a world I have created. This place exist 'because' of the void element."

He saw on their face that they didn't understand.

"Imagine it like this. The fairy realm was created by the tremendous power of a Remnant. I know Tiohr-nam said she was too young to create one, so she used a proxy, the ring, but it doesn't change anything."

"The difference between this place and a new 'world', is that this place exist in an empty spot. It wasn't created from scratch. We are simply walking in a broken part of space. The 'space' here defines our position in the world."

"We are nowhere currently. We are in an empty spot, a void."

The girls were shocked.

"But how does that work? How does time work in here? How are we able to move, breath and speak if it is supposedly non-existent."

Amelia managed to understand what Orion said, but even then, so many questions kept coming.

"It is simple, really. Since I manage that element, and that I accessed this place with it's help, it adapts for me."

"That's way too convenient."

Karteira brought a hand to her brows, tired of this.

"Magic is convenient in every ways. Imagine sleeping without a roof above your head at night. Imagine the bad food you would be eating without fire. Of course magic adapts around us."

She blinked a few times. As someone that couldn't use magic, it was easy to understand how convenient it was explained like this.

"That makes sense. Now that I really think about it, I think only you two use magic for something else than fighting. There shouldn't be anyone thinking outside the box like you."

This time, it was Orion's turn to look confused.

'Are we that weird? I was sure it was normal to use magic like this. I've taught Amelia how to use it how I thought it would be the most useful, but I guess that isn't normal to begin with?'

Orion remembered that these ideas came from seeing his father's devices that worked with magic.

Perhaps, if Reon had not been born with lightning magic, he would not have created devices that works on electricity, but that would lead to so many problem in history, it was too hard to even grasp how different such a world would be.

Amelia stared blankly in the distance.

'I find it terrible to only use our elements for taking lives. We've learned more things creating everyday life situations using my elements since leaving Auro.'

A silence fell around them, all thinking about something of their own.

Orion broke the silence at one point, changing the mood.

"Alright, let's go find a place to build that house."

The girls nodded, and followed him.

They walked until the wall of this space appeared in front of them. A sort of haze stopped the ground from walking forward.

"How about this spot?"

Orion pointed a bit on his left.

"We should built it a bit further from the border, but that looks fine."

Amelia nodded.

"Then, I'm going to scare you for a second."

"Why?"

Orion closed his eyes, and released ninety percent of the feeding toward the void magic he was using to maintain the place.

The space darkened, the air grew still, and a slight rumbling noise was heard around them.

Amelia and Karteira stood still, looking around them. Since he noticed them beforehand, there was no panicking in their actions this time.

Orion opened his eyes, and a sphere of void element formed above his right hand. He began to diffuse it into the air without wasting a single second.

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Even him didn't know how long the space had before completely closing on them.

Pulsing particles appeared all around Orion. It was denser than the light and dark elements, so it fell faster toward the floor.

"Absorb."

The ring absorbed the void particles successfully.

"Amelia, your turn."

Orion explained how to diffuse magic on the way to the edge of this space, and had time to get the hand of it.

She nodded, and did something that would normally be impossible.

Five spheres of different size appeared in front of her. Water, wind, earth, lightning, and fire. This was their size from largest to smallest.

Even though fire was the smallest, you could still understand how powerful it was. It is the most powerful element in the world, and is also the rarest.

For that reason, it is almost impossible to control it's power.

Amelia is slowly familiarizing with it's power by using it each day, but some time is needed before her last dagger can be formed.

The five spheres began to dissipate, slower than Orion managed too, but he wasn't going to criticize her, this was a really difficult process, and she was doing five of them at the same time.

He silently waited until all spheres completely disintegrated, and lifted his right hand above his head.

"Absorb."

Like before, the ring swallowed the particles, and its magical storage became full.

"You will become the core of this place for now."

The ring was shining brightly. The amethyst crystal embedded on the silver ring began to pulse like it did when Orion first saw it, and it slowly flew higher after sliding off his finger.

It stopped ten meters in the air, and a spell activated, releasing a constant flow of elements in the air. A protective shield appeared around the ring, most likely one built in by Reon, as if this was supposedly one of it's use to begin with.

The empty space began to stabilize again. The light returned, the rumble stopped, and the breeze caressed their face.

"That is done. I only have to check from time to time, and when it's getting lower, we would simply need to replenish its storage."

He was satisfied with this outcome. Everything worked perfectly so far. He released the small amount of void magic used to stabilize this place. There was no need to manage it personally anymore.

"You should be able to build a house without it ever crumbling. That is, unless the magic storage is depleted."

Amelia walked away, and began her work. Since there was no wood, and that it wasn't part of her elemental set, she had to make one from rocks. Or that was the plan.

She began to innovate. She wanted a good house, something that wasn't rough, bad looking, and of low quality.

"Orion, come help me, you know a lot more than me about that."

He and Karteira walked to her. She had her five elements floating above her hands.

"I want to create things, but I don't know how. You've read a lot of books right? I don't want to use rocks or compacted dirt anymore."

Orion began to think, while Karteira gave her the first material that came in her mind.

"Why don't you use bricks? Orion said that it should be possible to create with a variation in the earth element."

"And I said that this wasn't proved. I have no idea if we can even create variations in an element."

Amelia turned around.

"What do you mean by variation? Is it changing it's properties or something like that?"

Orion nodded.

"In a way, yes. Are you able to bring sand out of the earth element?"

Amelia looked at the earth element, and sand began to fall on the floor in large quantity.

"I can with no trouble."

Orion continued.

"Can you create gravel now?"

'So that's what he meant by variations.'

She closed her eyes and focused on the earth element.

'Creating a variation, meaning the different forms of a component forming the earth element.'

'Does it work the same as my water?'

She imagined the same process that she learned about when her water and wind evolved to their intermediate level.

"How do you make bricks?"

Having her eyes still closed, Amelia asked. Orion answered her question.

"You need to create clay. Don't worry though, if you can't make it, we can create bricks with mud too. They are a bit more fragile, that's all."

'Clay is a type of soil right? Which means that I should be able to link it to dirt. If I change the properties of dirt, to that of clay...'

*splash*

A pile of wet grey substance dropped to the floor in front of them.

"..."

Orion was speechless. Amelia managed to create clay, showing how impressive her control over her element was.

"How do I make bricks with that?"

He returned to his senses, and walked in front of her.

"You want to create a mold of this size."

Amelia created a mold like Orion said with rocks.

She placed the clay inside the many molds, and waited for Orion's instructions.

"You need to heat it. With a strong flame at that."

Sweat formed on her face.

'Do I really have to work with fire?'

Orion noticed her hesitation.

"If you don't want to, you don't have to. You still have trouble dealing with it isn't it?"

By 'it', he meant the orphanage fire.

She nodded, but still decided to try.

"Tell me how much fire I need."

Magic began to be fed to the fire element, something that usually happened by small amount, mainly for cooking.

This was the first time Amelia was using that much fire.

A cloud of fire appeared on top of the molds, heating the clay.

"More, heat it up."

She focused on bringing more heat out, making the fire hotter. From a bright red cloud, it became yellow.

Amelia kept doing this under Orion's careful observations for ten minutes.

"This should be good. You can stop."

He crouched and touched the mold.

"It's too hot to manipulate, let's wait a bit."

They waited until the bricks became colder. Orion broke one of the mold and gave the grey block to Amelia.

"That's a brick."

She grabbed it, and looked all over the brick.

"If it's just that, can't I just create it from rock variations?"

Orion blinked a few times, and laughed.

"If you think you can make it, then try. It would save us effort and time."

And just like that, a mountain of grey bricks appeared in the span of thirty minutes, enough to build a house larger than Kamala, with at least three floors.

"Amelia, that's way too much."

Karteira was laughing without stopping at an exhausted Amelia.

"Stop... laughing!"

Because they are so close, and because they are both an important friend to each other, they began to have fun arguing with each other.

Of course, they weren't saying anything harmful or getting in a bad mood. Orion wouldn't permit that.

Earlier, while Amelia was creating the bricks in great number, he took out the hourglass he kept in his pocket. He looked at it the whole time until she was done.

'I know I said that the void element controls time, but that was something I said instinctively. Now that I had time to look at it, it seems to be true.'

The grains of sand were all frozen, or that was what he thought at first. In reality, they were moving at an absurdly slow pace.

He realized that time was still moving forward, but they weren't affected in this space.

'Magic is convenient, she said. She is right about that.'

Orion smiled, remembering Karteira saying that earlier.

'I'll have to play with it a lot to understand how it works.'

The void element was something even Ego didn't knew, so only himself could pierce it's secret.

He heard Karteira talking to Amelia, and turned his attention to them.

"So what are we going to do with this pile of bricks? How do we build that house?"

Amelia turned to Orion.

"I just have to imagine what kind of house I want, right? I'll let my element take over the building, and focus on transmitting it my plan."

Orion nodded. This was what he explained to Amelia and Dramia before.

Amelia closed her eyes, and began to imagine what house she wanted. Though she had already an idea to begin with, now she had to think of the details.

The earth element reacted to her thoughts and began to affect the bricks in front of her. But out of nowhere, another one of her element reacted. She began to feed it magic too, just to see what it wanted.

Water began to flow from the water sphere. It formed a rock sized water ball, and stayed like this.

Orion and Karteira were silently watching everything.

'She has control over her elements like no one else. She will become extremely powerful in the future, so perhaps it might be best to keep an eye in case she ever loses control.'

Another element reacted, this time, it was completely unexpected. A curtain of fire began to fall from the fire orb.

'I will trust you. You have done so much and yet I keep avoiding you, I'm sorry.'

The fire sphere began to shine brighter and more vividly.

But it wasn't the end, the wind element, followed by the lightning element also began to react.

'What is happening? Are you all looking forward to creating a house?'

They weren't conscious about it, they simply reacted to Amelia's strong feeling toward this project.

So, after all the elemental spheres moved in various positions, the creation began.