Chapter 23 - My Strength is Back
A week passed since I got my personal servants and they have been great help, though I’m still not used to ordering people around nor do I intend to.
Every morning I would drink my medicine and at night I’ll take baths in herbal water while limiting my movements during the day to walking and meditating.
“Here’s your medicine Princess.” [Alissa]
“Oh, thank you.”
Taking the cup, I drank the medicine in it and handed the cup back to Alissa who placed it on a tray and walked out of the room with it.
“Huff… I hate this so much. I can’t do anything at all with the [Weaken] effect on, all I can do is watch Yoichi and Blaze train Gelion and Merilien everyday. I want swing my swords too and practice magic!”
“Haha, I can understand your feelings Princess.” [Laurel]
“How about a stroll then, to at least exercise your body a bit.” [Nym]
“I suppose. But before that I want to check my status, it’s been a while since I last checked. Show Status.”
Status WindowNameHalielGenderFemaleRaceHalf Elf (Variant)TitleTaboo ChildAge10Fame-100Level69Health6,287(+3,332)Concentration3,027(+1,604)Mana9,939(+5,268)Strength2,419(+1,282)Endurance948(+502)Intelligence16,001(+8,481)Wisdom12,101(+6,414)Agility3,419(+1,812)Stamina1,858(+985)Offense3,701Vitality2,371(+1,257)Defense1,450Magic Resist31%Faith0Fighting Spirit867Bonus[Variant] +10% to All Stats
[Taboo Child] -10% to Fame gained (Fame default: -100)
[Prodigy] +43% to All Stats (stacks with [Variant])
x1.3 to All Stats gained
[Elemental Master] +45% to all Affinity
All spells with attribute does 45% more damage
[Seal] ?????
“!”
“What is it Princess? Is something wrong?” [Laurel]
“N-no, it’s quite the opposite. The status condition is gone!! And my some of my stats went up too! See, look.”
Saying so with much excitement, I showed him the screen and his face paled.
“W-w-what! I-I can’t believe it! Princess this is- I’m not imagining it right that Intelligence that’s over 15,000. Wait with an Intelligence stat this crazy powerful, why are you using swords!?” [Laurel]
“Wait what!? She has a stat over 15,000? Are you sure Laurel? I-I can’t believe my eyes...” [Nym]
Hearing what Laurel shouted out, Nym became curious and rushed over to look at my Status Window too.
‘W-what the! How the hell did she even get stats this crazy without the title [Hero]!? I knew she was strong, but to be this powerful… if I find out her secrets to doing this, the Shades are as good as dead.’ [Nym]
“Hey come on now, is everyone who sees my stats going to react like that? And why would I not use swords, I had always wanted to do so since a long time ago.”
“T-this would be the normal reaction Princess, I mean your stats are already stronger than mine and I’m supposed to protect you…” [Laurel]
“Hehe, and to think Princess is already level 69 when she’s just 10. I can’t even imagine your strength when you get older…” [Nym]
“Ohh! Now that my strength is back I want to go swing my swords and practice magic! Come on, let’s go to the training area! I’ll surprise Blaze and Yoichi, hehe.”
“W-wait Princess. Ah, Nym you mind waiting here for Alissa to tell her where we’ll be?” [Laurel]
“Heh. Yeah it’s fine, you better go catch up to Princess.” [Nym]
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I had always thought that the Princess was strong, especially when even Hero Yoichi said that she could match up to a [Hero], but when I saw her [Status Window] I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Her Intelligence stat is beyond that which I can ever hope to achieve in any one of my stats.
Upon finding out that her debuff is gone, she rushed out of the room and went straight for the training grounds.
After telling Nym to wait for Alissa and tell her where we went, I ran after Princess Haliel.
By the time I got there, she was already showing off her stats to Blaze.
“Ah, it's big sis!” [Gelion]
“Oh, you’re right Gelion.” [Yoichi]
“Look, look. The debuff is gone now, so I can train again right?”
“Hah, well that was what I said. Alright, you can resume your training now.” [Blaze]
“Hey Yoichi can you- ah, wait you have to teach Gelion and Merilien huh? Nevermind then, Blaze spar with me. I want to move my muscles and try out a few spells and techniques.”
“Haha, you’re on Haliel.” [Blaze]
“W-wait, are you sure you should be doing that much already when you just got better?” [Laurel]
“Hehe, don’t worry I got this. Besides, it’s good to move my body right?”
I had nothing to say to that so they set up a defensive barrier at the area they were going to fight, to not destroy something while they were sparring.
After that they went and got their sparring weapons, wooden swords.
“Alright, begin!”
Princess sprinted towards Blaze and closed the gap instantly then she swung her sword horizontally, aiming for Blaze’s abdomen.
Blaze responded to that by jumping backwards and and swung his sword vertically as he does so.
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“Oh, still so fast even though you haven’t done this for a few weeks now.” [Blaze]
“It would be bad if I got rusty from just a few weeks, but I certainly do feel a bit sluggish.”
“Heh, is that so. Then try to make it a bit challenging to me too then.[Wind Slash]!” [Blaze]
A gust of wind manifested around the wooden blade and with swift strikes, Blaze sent 4 waves of sharp piercing wind at the Princess.
“[Stone Wall]!”
The instant Princess shouted that, she jumped a bit backwards and a giant wall came out of the ground to protect her from the rushing wind.
As the sword skill met with her spell, a loud crashing sound could be heard as the wall began to crumble.
“Hoh. Your defensive spells are getting better. I even put my full strength into that and all I could manage was just taking down that tier 3 spell of yours.” [Blaze]
‘Pfft-wah!? That was only tier three!? Ut it was so big! Almost the size and thickness of the castle walls! No maybe it could even be stronger.’ [Laurel]
“Hmm. now that think about it, I could have just used [Eye of the Storm] and absorb that strength to send back to you. Dam I rushed things again.”
“[Eye of the Storm]? A new spell I suppose as I never heard of it befor. Hah, too bad. Strength of the Sun,engulf and empower me in my charge to Victory, [Flame Charge]!” [Blaze]
This time Blaze’s entire body, including the sword, was engulfed in a brilliant blue flame as he launches himself towards Princess.
“Oh! Flashy as always! I’ll use my all as well then, [Water Torrent]!”
Princess was now surrounded by a crystal clear water as she also charged towards Blaze.
In an instant, they clashed with each other than separate only to trade blows repeatedly and send off powerful sonic booms upon each strike.
“...Goodness, I can’t even keep track of their positions anymore… The match with Kiirion can’t even compare to this in terms of pure speed.” [Laurel]
While this exchange was going on, I also noticed that the people around us had stopped whatever they were doing and were just watching the fight.
Even Hero Yoichi, Prince Gelion, and Princess Merilien stopped their training to watch.
“Hoh. Those blade work are well executed you two!” [Yoichi]
‘Haha… as expected of a [Hero], he can still keep up with their movements. I still have a long way to go… even though I’m older than Hero Yoichi, no I can still improve! There is always room for improvement!’ [Laurel]
“Huff huff, it seems I still can’t eat you when it comes down to solely swordplay… Guess that means I’ll have to resort to magic. Everyone get out now! [Frozen Death Blossom]!”
As Princess declared that, everyone including me within the barrier ran out as fast as possible.
Just as we exited its range, a loud explosion could be heard behind us as cold winds blew on our backs, followed by a thick layer of mist.
Turning around, we saw that the carrier was now broken and a large ice flower could be seen encasing Blaze in it.
The flower was surrounded by a 20 ft radius of frozen roots.
“Ahh! I overdid it! Oh no, I even tried to lower its power to only a fraction of what it should be! Not good, [Frozen Death Blossom] cancel!”
‘T-that was only a fraction of its strength!? It blew up a freakin tier 8 barrier!!!’ [Laurel]
As she canceled her spell, the ice began to shatter and fell to the ground, but just as it touches the ground the icicles changed into light particles and floated away.
From out of collapsing flower was Blaze’s body, which landed perfectly to everyone’s surprise.
“Wow!! Haliel that scared me! Such power, phew. Good thing you canceled it, I may have injured someone if I broke out of it forcibly. It has nice power but… DON’T USE SUCH A DANGEROUS SPELL IN A POPULATED AREA!!!” [Blaze]
*SMACK*
“Ow! Okay, okay! I’m sorry, I just got too excited.”
“Oh!!!! That was so pretty big sis!” [Gelion]
“...” [Merilien]
“Huff, that was quite a sight. But it is as Blaze said, what you did there was pretty dangerous. To have such a powerful AoE spell at such a young age. It was not below Tier 8 judging by the power shown. It is probably will end up in the higher Tier 8 category of spells.” [Yoichi]
“Upper class of Tier 8 he says!?” [Soldier]
“Princess Haliel could do such a thing!?” [Soldier]
“Alright everyone, back to training!! Stop slacking around.” [Yoichi]
With Hero Yoichi dismissing the surrounding soldiers, I walked up to Princess and Blaze.
Princess was apologizing repeatedly to Blaze when I got to her side, even though Blaze had already said it was fine a couple of times.
“W-wow Princess, that was even better than the match with Kiirion!” [Laurel]
“Of course, I didn’t use magic in that match. It wouldn’t had been fair.”
‘Wow, it seems as if it's natural to her. And she came up with this too right? I never heard of such a spell as [Frozen Death Blossom]. It is too amazing…’ [Laurel]
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I waited a while before Alissa came back and told her where Princess Haliel went with Laurel.
After I told her about where they went, we began walking to the training grounds too.
As we got there, there was a loud ruckus as many people were watching something inside a barrier.
Looking closely, me and Alissa saw what they were so loud about, it was a ‘sparr’ between Princess Haliel and Blaze.
What I witnessed soon after walking up close to the fight shocked me even more so than their insane speed.
A tier 8 barrier was torn apart by a spell I wasn’t familiar with and didn’t harm anyone as it collasped.
‘W-what!? A spell of that scale on someone that young! It can’t be! She really must have a secret as Lord Dolon said! I need to find it out- but I need to not get caught either…’ [Nym]
“W-what was that!? S-so she is the Queen was right, a normal person can’t be that strong.” [Alissa]
“Huh? The Queen said what?” [Nym]
“O-ah, um. It’s nothing, I was just shocked to see Princess be able to do something like that, hahahaha.” [Alissa]