COI C16

The sphere starts to glow fire red where the three witnessed a failed attempt. None of isekai citizens saw it but the Horsin themselves. The bright flames opened out a man burst in flames drowned by it like he was oiled on and set on fire. The Agathean man was in flame, for a short moment and faded as the flames back to the sphere. Amazed by such a sight, but couldn't grasp what happened. He flashes himself back up on his feet with the attitude of won't backing down.

"A fire bird comes out from the oak and set me a blaze. My magic didn't have an effect on it"

First bursts in suspicion

"Then it is a fantasy world"

"NO!"

The Agathean man burst out in rage and spout some nonsense.

"Weiylu! I got attacked by a weiylu"

Second heard that name before and remembers a myth.

"An extinct bird? Haw, take care of them while I head out to get something"

He rushes out from the room and cast his spell to where he is needed to go. His sudden exit brought notice by the other teachers and rushed to the magic room.

"Is there something wrong? I saw someone rushing out in a hurry"

They saw the Agathean man frustrated and have no idea what they saw. The Agathean man was burnt and only those who saw him was in flames but now he returns to normal.

"He was testing the sphere and got into a fight inside . . ."

"What? did he actually got it to work?"

". . . and probably test the fights too"

The Agathean man checks his bodies for any burnt but the feeling was too great as he traumatized by it.

"The burns! I can still feel it through my body"

"Then we should bring him to the infirmary, and check it out"

The teachers bring him to the infirmary where it is empty. They brought a medical doll to check on him, and the results show.

"Body conditions are normal . . . Health Conditions are normal . . . Psychological conditions are in conditional pain, please call a psychologist if the patient’s condition remained"

"I'm fine, the sphere is always supposed to do that"

"The simulation room supposed to be for training, not giving a trauma effect"

"A what room? nevermind, I have tested so far, and I confronted a strong monster by surprised and burned me alive"

Some of the teachers called out to the staff and report the incident as the Agathean man was forced to lie down in the infirmary. First and Haw was called to hold off the project and report what they have seen and explain to the principal. She comes to supervise the incident and listen their story.

"The simulation is still ongoing, and reports from the Agathean that he got attacked by a monster. In the settings of that world, all of its law of nature is still under testing"

The principal is summarizing what First should been going through, yet she has some doubts.

"Probably magic's effects won't work on this world. I don't know why the agathean can't interact with his abilities on a monster"

While they are explaining during the situation, more and more people come to the incident. Hearing about the Agathean man was burned from the simulation room and caused a mental pain, Quail gets her attention as she rushed inside.

"Thean, what in the hell are you doing inside of the sphere?"

"And what sadistic line of "hell" would that mean?"

"You! Just spill it out"

Second made it back to the magic room, but was stopped as the door was locked.

"What? Lock? Where are they?"

"Oh, it's you, Thean was send to the infirmary. Did you saw what happened to him?"

"Yes, please take me there. I can explain him about his incident"

The teacher brings him where the infirmary is as it is surrounded by other teachers hearing the Agathean issues.

"Wow, even the principal is here. Will you handle it on your own?"

"Yeah, thank you so much"

"No problem"

Second send his wisp went inside the infirmary where he has space to teleport into. In luck, he quickly teleported.

The wisp was not seen by anyone due to its glow can't outshine the natural sun, and second's magic helps it glows brighter as he teleported into the infirmary.

"Aaah, oh second . . ."

The principal had her head over those names

"Please used your professional names. I won't stand playing games. It doesn’t matter how your bio data won’t be needed as long you’re under the pebblechips"

First respectfully responds

"My apologies principal, Secius (Second)! did you fine something?"

"Yes Won'ies (First), I have found something what Thean describe as Weiylu"

The translation didn’t manage to recognize it as they mispronounce them. Second opens the book to be written in Elven Language, as none of them will ever read its information except for the citizens and their devices. The pictures he believes to be identical.

"Thean, do you recognize this image?"

"That's the one, but how?"

Second has figured it out, but discredit by his own skepticism. Everyone around them is curious and want to see.

"Then this creature was in the legends, not a mythical creature"

"Secius, what do you mean? Are these monsters extinct or something?"

"You mean extinct animals, why yes, any idea what this creature is?"

"He said by the name "Weilyu"”

“I thought it was some folklore coming from the elves, this bird who exiles itself from the Alga's light and naturally rest on trees that can withstand it"

First knows nothing about this mythical creature, and Haw stood silenced to hear what second describes it.

"From tales of Agatheus City, it tells other forms of creatures that never uses magic and lived among its natural abilities. Like the Weiylu, the fire birds emitted heat from its body and can fly in flames. Its heat forced someone to matched the same temperature as the bird can bear"

The Agathean man heard him and gives his clarification of it.

"Then the bird put me into like some molten steel huh"

If this is the same legend, therefore, coming from that book means real to the sphere.

"Is there anything about that it can ignored magic Second?"

The teachers can't believe a different version of a phoenix, and they still need to discover this world before getting into problems like Thean.

"I don't understand elven writings, and I only remember through folklores by my neighbors"

Soon after they dispersed, when the agathean man finally rest in the infirmary. Many teachers talk about it for the entire day or so. Only the principal and the entire team, who are doing the sphere project, are in the room.

"When will the four come to school, Quail?"

"They took the day off after the incident. The sphere has caused Andui and Reya a lot of experience"

The principal asks Haw where she sees the progress they are making. She heard the sphere has its miraculous uses, and the dangers it contains. The Agathean should have been burned alive, but the sphere won't let that happened and just plain illusion, from what she knows by Andui's proposals. She turns to the man who brought the recommendation of it all.

"Haw, in what stages are you in right now? I heard that you are rushing to finished it"

"There was a changed of plan of how big it is"

"How so? Then come to my office to explain more further details. Today's job will be on hold until Thean recovers"

The Agathean man, keep sensing of the burns he felt. Making Quail questioned her motives between harassing him or pitying him. The two who are with him are figuring out about the creature. She later says a word to him in empathy.

"How's it going, Thean?"

"Never experiencing something of disbelief without using magic for the first time"

Sigh by her changed of tone. He acts in overjoying himself with his work, and what's more she sees him remained or more persistent than he was before.

"Quail, I know people like you are not used to have a long agonizing pain . . ."

"I already have when I entered to your world" " . . . but not long enough that you actually survived in those situations and tell your stories"

Quail realized that everyone is gone except the medical doll watching over him, or they forgot about it and left it here. She sits down and have another chat with Thean.

"The principal won't let you leave, and so try to recover, ok?"

"Sure, and why all of a sudden change of attitude?"

"I have my own reasons to make, and I decided to hear your story. I have nothing better to do because of your incident"

The Agathean man as he lied down and he flashes himself to sit on the bed instead.

"Again with the . . ."

"I will give you one story for the day, but only we should remain we were before the incident"

"Like you can change my mind"

"Gladly"

Through his magic bag, he pulls out an orb that is smaller than the sphere they work on. Fits in the size of a small marble, where he added a little of it.

"This tiny sphere contains the testimony of old power, you can only interact but has nothing among the rest you felt from the magic forces surrounding it"

"What are you trying to tell me?"

"You can't understand me when I tell you my story, but it will explain how I got my powers from"

"Touch this orb, and you will only interact with it. It will never fully answer your questions but enough what you needed to know about my powerful abilities"

She stares at the tiny orb fits by his two fingers to hold it.

"What am I supposed to do when I got in?"

"Interact with it, make up some stories but never mention who. Lastly, do not let that "monster" know that it is in an illusion"

She is not sure of that kind of idea but wanting to hear his side of the story gave herself a doubt. She touches it anyway and the orb and everything surrounds her faded in a different scene, the faded environment around her returns again in a different color of tint by night.

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She saw what Thean expected to see, a monster, in her eyes would think it could be a demon lord. The demon lord didn't react but remained still as she watches it. She then speaks to it.

"Hello?"

It turns and started to move, by its voice sound so heavenly from a tone of a father figure should have recognize. But She only sees it as the demon lord.

"I am only a messenger or a story teller, why are you here as you look threaten?"

"I'm Quail, what are your motives in this realm"

The demon lord acted all respects and no loose words, and give her a quick answer.

"I am an offeror of forgotten powers, from the heroes once used as they fall to their own rights"

Forgotten powers, Quail starts questioning it carefully.

During that time as her mind put into the dream, her body remained in the real world. The Agthean man carries her in his arms and put her to bed, then used the medical doll to check her conditions.

". . .Body conditions are normal . . . Health Conditions are normal . . . Pyschological Conditions are in slight chance of anger"

After the check up, he got a little concern on her well being.

"Does she hate me, or that Daemos? Guess I'll wait and see"

The Agathean man stays where he is on the other bed and take a nap, while the unconscious woman let herself interact inside of Thean's orb.

"You are here, yet entered a world you don't know. What do you ask of me?"

Quail gives a thought about this demon lord, in all of a man's body but its head is nothing but distorted skull. Nearly relevant to see as a goat's head without the horns and its mouth moves where its lower jaws moved up and down, seeing the side of its jaw detract up and down instead of a normal lower jaw moving in an arc but literally up and down.

"I was given by one of your people who can use his ability like a magicswordsman"

"Ah yes magicswordsman, one who yield with magic through its weapons"

The demon lord quickly answered her without any stopping, it is actually interacted without any hesitation.

"Taken from the past heroes who can use that kind of ability, hundreds of them in the past generation or so, taken their souls of power and keep it through our demonic heritage"

"Wait! Did you take away their powers?"

"Yes, only to the dead. They will be forgotten any other way, and many dare to receives its powers"

"Can anyone used it?"

"Limited from what they know, remembering both the difference of the original or the replica who can master it to its limits, but others won't be able to master some important parts"

Quail is getting to understand that Thean was asking for power with this demon, but she can't truly grasp in a class called magicswordsman.

"Then do you know anyone, who were received the power"

"Yes, I kind only tell you one popularized demon, Hivites, the one who has the power to interconnect those lives transfer to this world for tragic reasons"

Lady Hivites Douhula, the city states leader of Agatheus City. Quail knows her back in the day of the celebration of staying in the city, she does not like it whatsoever and wanted the people of isekai to leave this apocalyptic world.

"Lady Hivites, the lady of Agatheus City"

"Well now, the lady of some city. Anyhow, she took the power of someone who fell for its ambition to leave this world. Taking the knowledge to herself brought the way to return them back"

The demon lord was starting to stare at Quail as it moves around her so steadily.

"During the final year of the era where Heroes and Demons to put the end of everything to that final day. The day it Falls . . ."

Quail stares at it where it moves around her hearing its words that it sounds grudges the fall era. It looks undefined of its expression and the tone only gives its deceptive fatherly words, yet she doubted it.

"Hivites was the first to take away the powers of the forgotten heroes, and soon us all demons can take their powers as well. We give her time until we found them. They still want us gone. That is the only example I tell you in regards of power blessings who will wish from us"

Quail started to doubt and immediately ask.

"Did she the one who summoned us here?"

Laughter from a sweet fatherly voice where the demon showed its sincerity.

"If it were true, then she would have done it years ago. According to the tragic tomes who was summoned here. It was they who entered, not summoned. Now today, it is still a mystery for us that many kept summoned so many lives into this world"

Quail stops there and couldn't ask anything else. She knows already there is the only way, but wanted to know any variety of leaving this world.

"Can some people escape on this world by themselves?"

"That should not have done repeatedly, we demons are too wise to let anyone in and out as they please, we can also take anyone as well if our greed desired it, and one thing you should know that we never care their world view unless it’s ours"

Remembering what Thean said to her that it only interacts, made her bit happy from this demon's honesty. Back to Thean's abilities, she still wishes to know its secrets.

"Then you know someone who has the power of the magicswordsman"

"Yes, states their name who was blessed by it"

She stops and remember Thean was not his real name, and to her surprised that the demon is observing her without any reply to it.

"I see, you are here for secrets and the one who gave you didn't mention about it. Then it is time to stop here, I have realized I can't reach you personally, an illusion, I can't tempt you to have power"

It started moving in reverse where it once walking around her, now it moves backwards. Reversing back to where she comes in.

"Wait, what's going on?"

"I only tell you what you ask be quick or the reverse will fully put you back out where you came from"

She thinks quickly of any dangers that is beyond her belief, from Rebellion to the unrest of the city. The demon is now backing out from walking in circle around her and moved back away as the smokes reverse its way back in.

"How dangerous is Lady Hivites is?"

"She is not a threat, her people are"

She wakes up where the time she saw the demon faded back to the night. She saw Thean sleeping on the other bed while the medical doll was watching over her. She picks herself up and started to kick him until he wakes up.

"Ouch, hey you're awake"

"Where did you sent me?"

The Agathean man saw her reaction in all sweaty and angry, he was thinking about her hating him again.

"I sent you my power's origin story"

"No I did it differently"

". . ."

He didn't react and give a long stare at her with a serious face.

"You catch on how it can interact quite directly. Let me guess, you ask the demon something that will benefit you and the demon realizes itself that it won't actually have a deal with you right?"

"No, it figured itself out . . .?"

"Then, it must mean it is connecting all what you said. Leading you trying to prevent it from my warnings”

Quail never thought about that before, and for Thean knows about demons. This not the first time, and it is impossible to make a deal with them unless they are in need.

"What mistakes did you make when facing that demon?"

Quail asks him as she is now worried about him with his ties

"Telling myself that demons are monsters. Corrupting this orb, I made it with only to meet it under the right ritual. It will reset again, when the fake demon starts to realize the ritual is not ready or the client brings something else"

"I did ask him about the magicswordsman abilities"

"What did it tell you?"

"It answers directly, and it claims there is someone like that"

The Agathean man slams his face with ice magic as it solidifies and crushes to his face, and Quail was surprised by the breaking of ice instead of a slap. He quietly whispers to her

"Do you know anything about demons?"

"Yes"

"Then ours had legends about the importance of names, don't try asking that again unless it’s their kind"

He picks up his tiny orb and returned to his bag.

"Hey, would you let me used it again"

"Not in the slightest, I thought you want to know my origin. Why do you wanted to know more from that demon?"

She had regretted to ask him, and seeing her a bit anxious as he don't care any of this.

"Just say it already, I just want to end it already of being nice here"

"I just ask about the powers origin instead"

"Yeah, demons can inherit someone else's powers of the forgotten. There's likely . . ."

"It mentioned about Lady Hivites . . ."

"Then what's so special about her. She failed to convinced your people to leave"

Her head shakes quickly and stares right at him with a serious face as she frustrated how easy for him to know this stuff without treating it how important it is.

"Don't you see!? The powers she had"

"I'm from Agatheus City, I know her authority to bring you and your people back home. She is not dangerous, but her people are"

"Just like the demon said to me"

He sigh . . . he sits next to her while she sits with him and pondering of herself.

"I'm getting to make you more worried than I have given you the orb, just stay what we were before. It's like one of your videos within the devices. The demon can't lie since I made it myself except when the ritual is made. So please made up your mind already"

Quail turns herself to bed and quietly sleeps. The Agathean man had enough that he begins to leave. Quail spoke to him

"I never thought that you change my mind"

"The difference is because we talk too normally, I have nothing against that"

He left as she stays to take a short nap. In her train of thoughts

"He hates demons, I like to know who he hated. He was so calm about the demoness Hivites, I shouldn't judge her from that demon. I guess I'll be worried more on her people"

The Agathean steps out and the teachers come rushing at him. While he is going to talk about everyone's concerns as he thinks

"Demons, they are truly the honest race with all painful intention. Also, it is because there will be no consequences when they did it"

Haw walks out from the principal office, as he met Agathean live and well.

"I was sent to the prime teacher. Did she want something from you?"

"It's about the progress of the project, she is going to get strict for any incident to occur"

"Alright, see you later then"

The agathean man walks into the office, as for Haw goes to the cafeteria. Second was handling on the cooking, with the sea monsters caught from south of the city’s sea shore. He has recipes to make them luxurious taste through what the city has to offer. A few citizens were trying to master in making monster dishes, and Second was the cook back in Agatheus City.

"The students would be in awe when the school is back"

"What would have thought that one of the teachers can actually cook monsters"

"Me neither, and the size of these monsters can be a good substitute and reasons for hunting missions"

First was tag along to their conversation.

"Sure, but the variety of meats are too small to comprehend"

"Won'ies, we eat only from our livestock"

"I never mention how you eat, but these monsters won't stay long when they knew they are being hunted down. The hounder elks are smart creatures as they hide within the forest"

"Then he could cook other stuff instead"

Second overheard and responds to them

"It's ok Won'ies, they never eat this good before"

The cafeteria turned into a feast where many teachers should have head home, but they stop by here to eat. It's free for them to eat here because of Second's cuisine. First is having lunch with them talking about the incident, Second is behind the kitchen making the foods at the best of his abilities, and Haw taking up a tray and have some.

"Hey Haw, good timing. The teachers mentioned Quail sleeping inside the infirmary. Would you bring her lunch to her? or better yet have lunch with her"

"Is she in need having a company second?"

"Nothing much, talking says its good having trust. I know it won't work on you but still"

While they are busy, Alche comes along heard them about Quail.

"Oh, I would bring it to her, Haw, you would continue on the project. I want to know more about your progress"

"Alright Alche, here, this is her favorite sweets. The teachers kept pestering me to make one after all that incident"

"How sweet of you, but how about Thean?"

"He is going to be busy on the sphere. I was wondering that cooking inside there might have the taste of those other extinct animals"

"I would love to hear that, but it might force you out"

"Always test the sphere, I breathe the nature of it . . ."

They continue talking and let Haw be on his way.

Sometime later, Alche opens the door to the infirmary where Quail still resting on the bed. Alche's new eye piece lens and check on her.

"I know you are awake, I have my teacher's surveillance lens"

"Alche, why are you here? Is it already lunch?"

"I know I've been worried on Thean, but you in the infirmary makes it stranger than him lying here"

Quail gets up and see the tray he is bringing to her.

"Did they bring me a cake?"

"Second bake it . . . laugh* I love how his name causes so many confusions"

Quail picks up the cake but Alche slaps her hand.

"Uh uh uh, it's desserts, first have your lunch"

The tray contains food made of a sea monster, however the slice it portrayed other some slice meat, but it is hard to see as meat than fish.

"Second is becoming popular as a cook, even a limited of spices he can use the chemistry set like some new forms of flavors"

"Are people like him really can make scarce food taste good?"

"I don't know, but magic has its ways"

The two eats their lunch, for the time being, she started to remember about the demon and how Thean has some problems with them. Guessing from her that this race never been seen entering the city and only Lady Hivites herself as the only demoness to set foot on this city.

"Hey Alche, have you ever met with the demons"

Alche coughs a bit and took a drink of water.

"Cough* ahem . . . Sorry Quail, well . . . demons have their own way of life. You might know them as magically demonic, I know I can’t describe it, these are different kinds of demons"

"Are you sure? they look like some demons from earth though"

"Yes, because it is the depiction of what we thought. Those demons are far more dangerous than you think"

"Dangerous? How could you know them without even meeting one?"

"I'm not surprised that you started to care for them, please just ignored it"

Alche was a bit nervous and have no idea who they are, but he only heard by someone.

"I only heard it by an elf during our quest outside of the city. What's his name again? Right, it's Elyrion"

"An elf? does he knows about demons?"

"He only gives me a few points about them. They are both Life and Death of this world, they can reincarnate again when the time is come. Demons are very patient race. They can return like some anime about demon lords returning back from the dead"

"Then what can they do?"

"They were never once being the creator of everything but steals someone's powers or knowledge. It's better to meet them only a few times or never at all, will make everyone envied their existence"

Quail heard him the same thing by the demon who was at Thean's orb. Powers of the forgotten, and Thean said it was normal for demons to acted that way. Alche continues on while she thinks.

". . . I just want it to be some rumor, but Lady Hivites in Agatheus City was the first who acknowledged the mayor to leave this world and the only demoness to actually showed her succubus form. The rest of the demons didn't show their demonic form"

"What's make them show their true self? Is there anything meaningful to them?"

"Demons hide their true motives, it's better meeting them a few times than always. That's what Elyrion said to me"

Quail gets herself in a mysterious predicament and drove her attention about demons. Alche wakes her out of that conscience as he flickers his hand with a loud sound magic.

"Quail, you've got lost or something. I won't telling the others about demons and so do you"

"Why not?"

"It is best not to, and besides, when you actually did something to them. They will come back and ruin the rest of your future or your soon to have children"

Quail kept the idea of what Alche said, and hope she won't cause trouble. If it was true then Thean was not the only one or his family to come across with these demons personally.

"By the way, I'll give you an advice when you come across them"

Alche pulls her to him as he whispers to her ear.

"Always remember the bible, and pursue it as an example to expel those demons"

Alche pushes himself away from her, picks up his plate, and places back to the tray.

"You can have the rest of the cake, and I don't like your way with sweets"

He left her with the cake, and picks up her utensils. As she picks up the cake, and slice it up and see a melting cream coming out of it.

"ICE CREAM CAKE!"

Shout of joy coming from her, and frustrated at the same time.

"Alche, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

The cake is melting and the layers of flavors are mixing in.

Alche heard her as he only replied to himself.

"Have some manners Quail, it's just a cake"

He left with the tray back to the cafeteria. Quail disappointingly picks up the cake, and taste the melted ice cream

"It's still good"

Happily eating the cake, as she resting in the infirmary. Alche goes back with the other teachers.

"Do you think Quail should be alright, Alche? We thought cheering her up would be best"

"I get it what you said, but I thought it was something else"

"What do you mean? Is this just cheering her up after her retirement as an adventurer?"

Quail Tweets, she has her secrets and even more so somewhere in her adventuring days.