Unsure why they were suddenly acting this way, I picked up the quill and sat there for a moment before writing down a classic poem: My life. It was just something I kind of makeup on the spot that rhymed and had a rhythm. I thought about it for a second to write a literal classic poem one did come to mind. Then, I decided to write down a little of my life for some odd reason, focusing on my subconscious fears. So I began to write my story down with a twist. I decided to ask myself a series of questions as I did not know how to write anything. I noticed each scroll borrowed something, so I decided to write down my fears as the power source for this enchantment.
‘: Gather around. I'll tell you a story about all my fears and doubts and the demons that follow me in my dreams. Have you ever played hide and seek with your demons when you were asleep? Have you ever looked into your own darkness? Asking, was this the right path I chose for my life? I am talking about all the toxic tales where you're up late at night thinking, feeling sometimes you are drowning in a never-ending ocean of doubt. That's why you go out when the sun goes down. You would rather be alone than have your, and your hopes dreams destroyed. Fear is what controls us now. Let banish those thoughts. There will always be a brighter day if you look to the other side but will you live to see it? Learn to control your fear.' Then as I lifted the quill of the parchment paper, the scroll began to glow. I yelled, slapping my hand down onto the scroll down ‘: Awaken.:’ this time, I activated the scroll with tears in my eyes. Then one of my fears jumped out of it. It was a spider that jumped out of the scroll as it looked around and began to spout a steady stream of water out of its mouth at my face before being sucked into the bow. The symbol patch of a spell I remember while playing as an Elementalist called Splash appeared on the bow. As I went on to call this enchantment ability effect.': Waterpulse.:'
Seira and her father both picked up and then looked at the bow. As they examined, I could not hear what they said while whispering to each other for a few seconds, and then they slowly began turning their heads like a few zombies towards me. While they both looked at me, they had on their face the scariest look I had ever seen on two elves, be it in video games, shows, or now in everyday life. I slowly backed away, backing up into Reena, bumping into her chest, spinning me around her. She then got in between the Elves and me and started calling Jacosta over, saying, ”I think we need to go. They got a crazy look in their eye’s Jacosta.”
Her father, the first I saw, snap out of it, zoning back to reality. The man then went on to say, “That was the first time I have ever seen a Master enchanter work on a scroll in front of me in all my years.” Seira turning to her dad, I heard ask him now, “Wait, he is a Master?”
To which I noticed her father began nodding his head up and down, and then he turned and asked me, ”Please allow me to be your student.”
Seira, after hearing that come from her father, shot towards him, looking at her father; she angrily told him, “Hell no, If anyone is to be his student, it will be me. Besides, your far too old, and he clearly only likes in his company woman, not old creepy old elves."
I could not help but agree with her on that note; still talking to her father, I listened to them arguing again before Seira said, "Besides, he’s even kissed me and groped me. We are practically a couple at this point.”
Everyone's jaws were wide open. Reena stepped aside, allowing the elves to walk forward again; looking at her, I could see she was angry as she looked away when we made eye contact, as I kindly refused the older man and turned to correct Seira. I said to her,
“Hey phrasing, the woman being key here, Reena is 19 and Jacosta’s 17... And you are....what a 14-year-old girl?”
Seira looked shocked at my response, like I should have known her age. I could tell what I said bothered her as she was clearly self-conscious about her size as she responded, saying one word, ”27” I could not help but look at her, then Reena, her and then Reena.
I could not help but laugh as she was apparently fully grown, yet she was still tiny. If I had to have guessed it, she would have maybe passed for like 14. As I tried my best to hold it in, I could not any longer, especially after she told me her age, and I busted out in a little laugh. Even her dad laughed after seeing me giggling. Then, everyone in the room I was in watched Seira get red in the face, and she stomped towards me, grabbing me by my collar and said out to me in anger, “HEY, I AM 27...AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, SOME DUDES LIKE SMALL GIRL’S”
I could see after she said that she covered her mouth and then her face in embarrassment as she released my shirt. I assumed she just realized what she was actually screaming about at me. Probably thinking out of everything to get mad over.
Once she stepped back and then covered her face getting angry, I turned to thank Seira’s father for the offer and said, “Thank you, but. Well, we should really be on our way.”
Turning around with the ladies I came with, we started to leave, but as we were, Seira ran after us, and I could hear her clearly say while our backs were turned, “Oh no, please don’t go so soon. You never told me your answer for being my Enchanting-Master.”
I did not want to be mean, but at the same time. I was not interested in leading her on. I turned around, catching her while she chased us. Grabbing her shoulder, I said to her, kneeling a little to be eye to eye, “No, I cannot be your Master,”
After I said that, Seira began to ball her eyes out in front of me, which caught me completely off guard. Reena even looked a little disappointed in my answer, and I could see Julious walked up shortly after and began to pat his daughter on the back, trying to comfort her. As Seira cried in front of me, she continued to say, “I am not giving up. You will be my master. I’ll do anything!” I could feel this look, and when I looked over to her dad, he instantly gave me this look as if she would say something sexual for me to refuse; I then told her, “I had a crazy idea just now; how about making a guild, would you be willing to join?” Again, catching everyone off guard in the room I was with, and nobody said anything for a few moments until Jacosta was the first to reply and say, “I would, Azurith.”
Reena then shortly after I could hear agreeing to join, saying to me,” You would not need to ask me twice Azurith,” I thanked Reena and Jacosta, saying, “I knew you two would be interested right away,” Next, turning my attention back to Seira, I asked her again, “Well, what do you think Seira, If you agree to join me, I’ll become your master and teach you whatever it is I can about enchanting. We will together learn why it is you can only perform certain enchantments and then proceed accordingly. Do you accept?” Next, I really tried and focused hard on the idea of sending out an agreement or mentor-ship like you would in Gepot. Though it was not as simple, It eventually worked. Hopefully, like how the games mentor-ship worked, more or less I hoped she could see it when I sent her an apprenticeship request to my job class, Enchanter. I could see Seira stood there thinking, unable to decide, as she continued to stand saying nothing, thinking whether or not to accept the invitation she was given. If she did this, she would have to agree with what I had asked for her to do in return to learn enchanting, and that would mean if I did somehow make a guild, she would have to join me. Standing there, I waited patiently until I began to get annoyed with Seira. At first, she wanted to be my student, and now she was having second thoughts?! Turning to her, I followed up and said, “If you think I was lying or joking around with you, I wasn’t. I would appreciate it if you either accepted this or you did not. Everyone here does not have time to wait for you while you stand there all day and make up your mind. Jacosta, Reena and I have to sign up for the tournament now.”
Seira did not say anything back to me after I said that and continued to think to herself. Fed up, I turned around to walk away. Then I heard her frantically yell out in my direction, “Just wait, will you? Okay, I will accept your offer,”
My bluff worked; I looked back, I reached out with my right hand expecting her to take it, and as she walked over towards me, she had a sour look on her face. Eventually, seconds passed after I reached out, and she took my hand. Once Seira took my hand completing our agreement, both parties agreed that the mentor-ship deal worked. Now, as we shook hands, the insignia of the Enchanter we had on both of our hands started to glow very brightly and shine through our gloves. After the small light show in the room, what followed was a magic circle that formed on the floor between the both of us. It started expanding outward till it surrounded both of us before retracting back and disappearing on the spot it appeared from. Seira’s father, Julious, then started to ask her, “So you made up your mind, you will you be joining them then on their journey to create a guild, or will you?”
Confused, I continued to listen as Seira said to her father, “Yes, father, And I also promise when I someday become a Master, I will return and teach you everything I learn from Azurith the Demon.”
So formal... Now I looked over to tell Julious, “Hey, I don’t plan on taking anyone away from the city they were born in. This is where everyone lives, after all, and I like it here. I saw there was more than one guild in the city here. Why can we not create one here?”
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Julious then replied to my question rather straightforwardly, “Unless you are willing to take down the entire guild here and then their leader, this city is already spoken for and has a guild. They would not allow another one to reside in the same city, let alone a Demon’s guild. You can create mutual allies like you mentioned the two guilds here did, but normally, those are of the same race. For example, the Geroleo Knights and Royals branches are both Elven and Human race guilds respected Nobel.”
After hearing the taking down of a whole guild, I began to think, ': That sound’s a lot like city control with a mixture of guild wars mechanics.:' Now thinking back to his game.’ Dale, while playing as Azurith In the game the World of Gepot, with the help of his guild, the guild controlled at one point the city of Darkon with the Celestials at full strength it was in their glory days. However, they lost it during the game's hype and lost guild control of the city when a rival guild attacked them. The guilds waged a bloody war throughout the streets and air it resulted in both parties losing many guild members until the Celestial’s could no longer afford to lose any more members. Dale, as the leader, made the call to pull out of the city to save everyone who was left.:.'
Zoning back to reality, I snapped out of it, and then I went on to answer Julious question, “Yeah...I do not think this city will work... I can’t imagine they would allow us. From what Reena and Jacosta have told me, they are not fond of any of our races. Does anyone know any cities without a guild?”
Everyone shook their heads ‘no,’ no one but Julious had ever left the city in their life as he went on to tell me, " I was educated about some cities in the world," I listened as he went on to say next, “There could be still a few cities closer to the border with the Land of Night, I suppose. But, unfortunately, they are constantly being attacked by other guilds in the area whenever they establish, plus the monsters. So the city is usually overrun with problems as no one ever can stop them and fix the issues. So I would ask maybe some of the Knights next time you see them if they know of any cities around that area that exist still it would be a lot safer.”
After hearing that, I began thanking Julious for all the information. I could not help but then begin to bow my head before I then said to Julious, “Until we meet again, take care, old-timer.”
I could hear the laughs of a happy old man as the only thing Julious said back to me as we walked out the door was, “Please take good care of my daughter Seira for me, I know sometimes she can be a bit much, but she really is a sweet girl once you get to know her.”
Yelling back now when the ladies exited the door, I replied, reassuring the humble old Elf, “I assure you, Seira will be a Master-Enchanter the next time we meet unless it’s super soon.”
Now close the door as I exited, the ladies and I were back outside, and it was mid-day now; not too much time had passed. I saw various people were talking loudly throughout the magical district now, and it was hard to think or hear. I tried to ask Seira a question turning towards her. I faced her and asked, “Hey, why did you hesitate inside?” But it was so busy and loud outside Seira never heard my question, as she started to yell back, “WHAT?” Shaking my head, I made a hand gesture to say get on with it. We began following Seira, who started leading us towards the Arena again from the magical district. We headed there now for the sign-ups for the triples tournament; Jacosta began to tap me on the shoulder as we walked. I had lowered my head for her since she was short. Jacosta started to say quietly into my ear, “Psst, hey Azurith. Were you serious about creating a guild? Where did that even come from? I mean, that was so random...!?” Shaking my head as to say ‘: Yes.:’ I went on to tell Jacosta, “Yes, we will have to find a city that has no guild though to make this happen. I will tell you later, and I am pretty sure Arthur could help us if we ask him. I am sure he must know of one city, and once we win, we will ask him!” I lifted my head back up and walked forward, turning back briefly, and I felt the sudden urge to pat Jacosta on the head, who was jumping around excited about the news. When I did, I could see her face turn red, and only moving her eyes, she looked up. It was the most adorable thing ever. I began looking at her back, and I did now just begin to notice the previous battle-damaged to her and Reena’s armour. There was in various spots visible damage with holes through their armour. Once we were somewhere quiet, I told the girls, “Hey, I just noticed your armour is damaged; after we sign up, let us get it repaired at a blacksmith.”
I looked at Jacost and Reena while they spun around looking at each other's bodies and then noticed that their armour was ': Holey.;' Reena went on to say in a seductive tone of voice while approaching me, “Oh my, you are right, Azurith.” Now leaning over, Reena started pointing to a spot showing me the shot pierced her armour during our arena fight. When she leaned over, I could see down her armour and shirt. Blushing a bit, I then cleared my throat as I continued to look. Not wanting to be rude, I told Reena, “Hey, so that you know...When you lean over like, this, I can see down your top. If you are fine with this, so am I.” Reena quickly shot back when she could see my face was bright red, and where I was looking was her chest and not the damaged spot; I could hear her say next, “How do you find a way to make everything always weird.”
Laughing, I told her, “Because I am weird, I suppose!” Seira continued to just hang out in the background, and I felt she needed to get involved a little more with the group. Paying attention to her now, I started to say, “As my apprentice now and soon to be hopefully a guild member,” I then followed up. At the same time, I leaned over towards her while wrapping my arm’s around Seira waist; I said to her, “What should your first duty be as my apprentice?”
Looking at me now, slowly adjusting her head, all demonic-like, I pictured her saying, “Don’t make me do it...Anything but that, you creep,” I then continued to say, seeing her look of horror.’ “What's that look for? Why don’t you three enter the tournament instead of me? I am feeling drained and mentally exhausted. So, Seira, you will take my place.” Looking at Reena and then Jacosta, Seira kind of made a sigh gesture I could see her exhale as she then looked right back in my direction and said, “It would make more sense to have Reena sit this one out, and she is practically useless right now for us in combat from what I observed earlier.”
After Seira said that, I could see when I glanced over towards Reena her head was down, Reena then went on to say back to Seira, “I think you are right, and the best move would be for me to sit this one out, Azurith. Until I get better.”
Looking at Reena, I told her, “It is your decision; we don't need to win, but you won't get any better, never trying. I won't make you or anyone else here, for that matter, do anything you don’t want to. I really am fine with watching you three learn how to work together.”
Seira started looking at me, irritated; she began to move her hands upwards, and then quickly, she smacked me right upside the head... While I was recovering I heard, Seira say next, “You keep forgetting how much of a level difference they are to everyone here. Remember the last arena fight? Why don't we do this after we go level or something in a few months.” She did make sense, thinking now about it, and I could not help but agree with Seira. After all, the sisters needed more experience and training, but this was all that was available to them. Unfortunately, this training did not give them any real experience other than PVP combat inside the city. Looking over at Reena and Jacosta, who then looked back at me, who I then looked at next to Seira. Everybody was looking at everyone. It wasn’t until I finally said, “K, let’s do that then, Jacosta will you battle alongside Seira? Reena, you are welcome to sit this one out then if you would like. But please watch us afterwards, we will be only staying one more night while we try to figure out as much information as possible about a city. Once we find that out, we will be leaving this place, and then we shall search for that suitable city for our new guild!” did we stop. Excited, Reena shook her head ‘yes’ and then next she replied, “Okay, I was actually really nervous again so that I will watch. Thank you, Azurith.”
I could tell Seira was just accepting the craziness that would now come for her and her life from this point forward. Now, as a guild member and friend of Azurith the Demon, I knew her life was going to change after having agreed to be my student, and if I succeeded, that babe was going to be my guild member. Seira stood there in the light as it bounced off her black hair. I continued to admire her from a distance, and when she saw me, she did not say anything to me about it. She did ask me, however, “So what will be our guild name be then, huh I forgot to ask, Mr. Azurith, I would love to hear this one...” Looking at her with a sadistic grin, I went on to tell all of the ladies I was with, “We will be called The Celestial’s!!!.”
Seira, I could tell, was unimpressed with my answer as she simply put her hand on her face covering her eyes and mouth, and started to murmur,” Why me, oh god! Are you just not able to make a cool name for anything you name!?” Reena and Jacosta smiled, as next, I saw Jacosta while running over. Jacosta then cheered me up, seeing that comment stung a little, and said, “I like the name. It sounds so bad-ass! Just like my skills name.” With Reena following behind her while also saying towards me, trying to cheer me up, “Yes, then we will be known as The Celestial’s hopefully someday soon.”
I could hear Seira yelling over the two after saying, "Don't encourage him!" After laughing and joking around with them, our group continued to walk through the streets and avoid as many people as possible. Now that they were with Seira, everyone around us started to give her a weird look I noticed while accompanying us. Our group, or should I say I, was getting an even weirder look than before. I could not help but hear as we passed a few people start to whisper in the distance, “That’s the guy? Hmm, huh, really, he is the one to look forward to seeing the fight? The one with the weak girls?”
After hearing them talk down a little to the ladies I was with, I could help myself. I started yelling back at them, “Yes, this is the guy, now scram.” After hearing that, the group began to scatter away from us, clearing away quickly after hearing me shout like that towards them must have been scared. We passed many new locations until we once again arrived at the coliseum-like building. Today outside of the arena, there was an even larger crowd than the day before. After scanning the area, I saw some high-level groups gathering around a different entrance, and I figured that was where we signed up. I once again saw the announcer at the side shouting when we walked up to them, “All combatants, please report over here for sign-ups. Anyone else heads through one of our many doors and has a seat before the arena is full woo! Let us go, guys!!!”