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[At the Demon kingdom castle]
[Aries point of view]
Yesterday, after a brief talk with the scholars from the Demon kingdom, we were told to take a rest after the long journey, as they need time to examine the corpse of my doppelganger. I thought Druser will then talk to me about the two traitorous princes, but instead, he told me to rest and he will tell me later on. For now, I'll comply, even when he himself know that the two traitorous princes, which is his elder brothers, are plotting something. I can't imagine he will comply with them, but...
(Motra prove me wrong, he/she is one of the last person we would suspect to do something sinister, and yet...) [Aries]
I don't want to suspect a fellow old friend. It's painful to do that, and it's unsettling and put a heavy toll on my mind, but I wonder. No. I don't think so. Unless my successor also complying something behind our back, then the chances are miniscule, I hope so
(I'm just tired and overthinking about it, that's all) [Aries]
~Knock~
"Please, come on in" [Aries]
A knocking on the door force my negative train of thought to stop, as I greet the new paladin as well as Htilorez coming to visit me
"I just come to accompany her and have a little chat, but you seem tired. Should we leave?" [New paladin]
"No. It's fine. Just overthinking something" [Aries]
For now, let just stop thinking about it, and I should listen on Htilorez final thought on one of the devil commander corpses
"I do think that the devil you brought yesterday is your doppelganger, but at the same time, something feel amiss about it" [Htilorez]
""And that is??"" [Aries, New Paladin]
"It's like, it's a completely different entities from the usual devil or doppelganger that I come to know thus far" [Htilorez]
Now that's interesting. I wonder what will she tell us. I should probably call Druser and the other right now
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After leaving Estel for quite some time, we finally got back home, only to be leaving soon once again. It can't be help, time is of the essence and every second we spent doing something unproductive, the devil will move to bring about the destruction of the world
We come back home late last night. While Grandpa Claude and Sis Rafiah greeted us with smile and hug when we enter the orphanage, the other siblings are still asleep during that time, and now, first thing first after breakfast
"I'm off!" [Charlotte]
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"Ehh!"
"Come and play with us a little Sister Charlotte!"
"Do you want to leave us so badly?"
"No it isn't that, I promise" [Charlotte]
I have a very good reason not to play with them, and that is because of the sea serpent project. The model of Achalasia that Qudus, Erinmorlin and other scholars help to make, it finally finished! That means, right now is the best time to actually test out whether the Sea Serpent Project is doable or not
"Don't disturb her, and get ready! It's time for you to go to the school!" [Rafiah]
"BUT!"
"NO BUT!" [Rafiah]
Sis Rafiah shut all of them down, which causes them to try and gain the favour from Grandpas Claude and Filvisar. Both the grandpas do consult them rather nicely, until they reluctantly give up and start to get ready to go to the school. I'm sorry all of you, but I promise you I'll play with all of you to your heart content before leaving this afternoon
Leaving with the other (except for Rean, Kara and Mara who is sleeping in their respective houses), we quickly went to the R&D department and there, the very first thing that Mrs Lisa reacted to is
"Both of your mana! It starting to resemble Aries's mana!" [Lisa]
""Really!!"" [Kara, Mara]
"Believe me, I have been with your mother for long time, so I know my elder sister much more than anyone else" [Lisa]
Kara and Mara seems happy. Maybe because they're starting to resemble Mother Aries more and more. Well, Karon also got the blessing from the cute holy beast, but no one praising him for that. Poor poor Karon, let me praise you
"?" [Karon]
And Karon started to show his confuse face when I tried to praise him. Guess it's just unnecessary for him. Weird. Don't he like it when someone praise him? Getting a sincere praise from someone should make someone happy
"So you have came. Well, even though you heard it from Princess Nurhaliza before, I should probably summarize what we had done when you're conquering the Beast Challenge Dungeon" [Qudus]
"That's for the best" [Karon]
"Well..." [Qudus]
Qudus start to explain step-by-step regarding the complete model of Achalasia that they all created. I can see that they pour in every ounce of their sweat, tear, passion and love into this project. They meticulously crafted this model, from the commoner house, to the castle, and to the orphanage. There are even model of citizens and monster of varying species as well. The big structure like the floor of the dungeon or the castle, even the doll, all of it, all of it are so detail, so details in fact that I swear to god that they actually look very alive!
"I see. Congratulations Mr Erinmorlin" [Karon]
"I still have a long way to go before measuring up to you and your father" [Erinmorlin]
"Wait! Does that mean, Mr Erinmorlin can use dwarf racial magic now as well?" [Farhah]
"Indeed I can, albeit I am still struggling" [Erinmorlin]
Now that's new! Who would have guessed that Mr Erinmorlin manage to use puppet magic! Each one of us congratulate him for achieving so. I think Princess Nurhaliza purposely left this one out to surprise us all
"Well, how about you watch this" [Erinmorlin]
Demonstrating the function of the model, the model
"It started to move!" [Elise]
"I guess this is because of your puppet magic?" [Singa]
"That's correct, but, that's not all" [Erinmorlin]
"Knowing you, there will always be more" [Zerolith]
"And always more in a positive manner" [Savel]
He brought out two magic core filled with his mana, giving one to Mr Flinar and one to Rean. Rean, understandably, confuse by it, but once he see what Mr Flinar do with it
"I see. With this, even someone without puppet magic can control the model" [Rean]
"Pretty cool right, now then, how about we jump onto the next part" [Qudus]