“Wake up, Innight! You are going to be late for school!”
Back then, before I had known about this entire mess between the Elemental realms and about my true self, I’m just another simple and normal human. I go to a normal school, I have parents, and I have everything that a normal child will have.
“Mmmm... Mum, just 5 more minutes….”
“No more. You already had all those countless extra 5 more minutes. Get up now!” Saying this, my mum tugged around my blanket and pulled me out from it. I stood up lazily and wandered down the stairs of our house.
Back then, I lived in a house, tugged snugly in the depths of the neon coloured buildings of the small island named Singapore. My life is not what you will call as a perfect life but it was sufficient for me. I was happy and my heart is full of light back then.
Dad was busy reading his newspapers while having his breakfast. All I can see is his two arms, one holding onto the newspaper and the other grabbing the serving of breakfast with a spoon. I scooped my breakfast into my mouth and slowly chewed on it.
“You need to hurry up, Innight. You will really be late for school if you don’t hurry up. Don’t forget we don’t have a Transporter because how poor we are!”
“Oh I know that. Next time just prepare a small serving of breakfast. I don’t need to eat so much anyway.” I said this as I carried my bag and ran out of the house.
“Don’t forget to come back early today!” A sound came from the house. I ran out to dark alley that our house resides in. I stopped just at the exit of the alley and sighed.
We don’t have as much money as many other families do. While others get to enjoy the benefits of the advanced technology in the year 2850, we are restricted by the ancient unwanted technology of early 2000s as they are the only technology we can afford and no one wants them except the Antique shop. Because of how poor we are, we live at the very bottom of the society, where the dumps are. I have to travel a great distance from my house to school, from the very bottom of the city to the top.
I begin the run up the highway, the dump trucks passed by me. One took pity on me and asked where I was going. I mentioned to the driver I am going to the WWW middle school.
“WWW middle school? You must have very good grades or good connections to get in there. Here, hop on. We are just about to get the trash from there as well.”
I was respected for getting into such a school. However, due to the poverty cycle we dropped ourselves into, I have no friends as I cannot hang out with them since I have very little money to do so. Ah, money has so much influence back then. Such is a relic of the past.
”Here, lad. Hop off.”
“Thank you so much, Mister!” I said this as I rushed off into the school. I quickly run into the school, up the stairs and towards the hall.
“Just in time.” I said this as I rushed in line with my class. The bell rang. The morning assembly came by and went. We all had our classes and as always, I am alone as always. The final lesson of the day then comes by.
I excel to be the best in all classes, and I have done so, but because of my status and my level, I’m always alone. That might have contributed to my cold character and level of mistrust towards others.
We were in the middle of our last class of the day when an alarm sounded throughout the entire city.
“Attention to all citizens. There has been a detection of Abnormality on the Astral diagram. An asteroid is heading towards this city. Please evacuate to the nearest shelter.”
Everyone panicked, only I kept calm. This is common in Singapore in those years. Somehow there is a tendency for Singapore to attract all those Asteroids from falling onto the city. However, never would I have known the fate of the world is about to change when that “Asteroid” fell onto the earth.
We all soon moved into the shelter. Just after the doors closed another announcement came.
“Attention to all citizens. The asteroid has mysteriously deviated from its’ collision pathway. You are free to exit the shelters and resume your activities.”
Since school was over by the time we left the shelter, we immediately left for home. I ran back down the highway back to my home. It felt pleasant and on the halfway down the spiralling highway, I found an abandoned scooter, slightly dented, but still usable. There is no tags on it so I assumed it was thrown out here and forgotten by the owner. I took it and scoot all the way back home.
“I’m home.”
That’s when another announcement came.
“Attention to all citizens. The asteroid has changed its’ course and is heading towards the city again. Please evacuate to the nearest shelter.”
“Ah, no worries for us. The entire huge city of Singapore up there acts against a shield against us. So even if the asteroid strikes, it will crash on the top of the city and not affect us.”
Oh how much I regret on that decision. Had we followed the announcement my parents might have survive the incident. You will soon know what exactly happen to them both, read on.
We stayed in the house.
“By the way, why did you asked me to come home early today, mum?”
“Ah, I’m going out with your father to buy some ingredients for your cake tomorrow. We need someone to be at the house as a keeper.”
“You could have said so earlier.”
“Well, you are busy rushing off this morning, so I don’t have time to explain to you.”
“Alright be off then. I’m busy so I wouldn’t leave my room.”
They both waved goodbye to me and left the house. Just minutes after they left a huge crashing sound rang from the heavens. That must be the asteroid crashing into the upper city. Just minutes after the entire ground shook, and a huge crashing sound came from outside my house. I threw up my window to take a look, and just outside my window is this huge chunk of rock. A boulder, to be precise.
That rock was the beginning of all the change humankind is about to experience. Goodness knows why did that rock land onto this Physical Realm, but now that I recall the incident, it must be a plan of The Avatars.
When I was just about to throw down the window, I felt a strong wave of power expanding from the rock itself. It infiltrates my mind and disrupt my thoughts, it drives me to the edge of insanity, and it fills my minds with endless nightmares. I can hear other people that lives nearby screaming, possibly under the same effect as I do. I can still struggle to keep this form of madness in check, unbelievable to myself either. Then a blinding light emitted from the rock before an explosion followed.
When I came to, my house is in ruins, no surprises here. What I am surprised, is I see puddles of blood everywhere, with traces of human remains. I suspect that the rock caused them to blow up in blood puddles. I found a few cuts on my arms and legs, but nothing too serious there. The entire dump region is in ruins, everything as far as I can see is in ruins. The blast from the rock must have reduced everything into this state. Then I saw two upper body that I recognize.
It is my parents. The blast must have cause their upper body and lower body to be separated. I wanted to cry, but then I remembered what my father said:
A man must never cry, under all circumstance. They must not cry to ensure that they can be relied upon everything.
But then what should I do? In this scary world I now don’t have anyone to rely upon but myself, even if the whole city comes back into operation again, I won’t be able to have a normal life again.
“Huh? Who are you?” That was a girl’s voice.
I turned around, the speaker is a small blonde hair girl with a pair of blue eyes.
“My name is Innight. Looks like the city is in ruins now. We should be together now to ensure safety. What is your name, little girl?”
“My name is Nectilius. What happened to you, Innight? Where are your parents?”
“They are dead. Do you see these upper body of human? They belong to my parents.”
“I’m sorry that I asked you about this.”
“Don’t be.”
Then at once the wave of energy began emitting from the rock again, this time more intense than ever. I can see Nectilius is in pain as well. When it stopped, the rock opened up and figures came out from it. They look human, but they have a dark purple aura hanging around them. I tried to approach them, but a wave of power swept over me and pushed me away from them.
“Look, a human. Let’s ask him about this place.” One of the dark figures pointed at me and said this.
“Look here, human, we have no intention to harm you, may I ask, where is this place exactly?”
“What are you people? You don’t look human.”
“We come from what you humans will consider as a story: The Void.”
The other person whispered to him something. He nod a few times.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, human. Allow me to introduce ourselves first as we are the guest in this Realm. We are the Void Elemental from the Void Elemental Plane. At this very moment, all our kind is spreading across this planet of yours to invade your mana pool. We have no intention to harm anyone. May I know where on this planet of yours are we?”
“Do you have a world map? You are currently on the South East Asia region, on a small country named Singapore.”
“Singapore. I see… Fellow human, you might want to alert the other humans around this region. We are about to initiate an invasion in this area, to take over all of your mana pool. We have no intention to harm or kill anyone. However, there might be waves of magic disturbance around the area as we harvest from your mana pool.”
I took the hands of Nectilius and ran off.
Ah, back then I was so young and knew nothing. What could have made any adult believe a 10-year old child’s story about invasions? No one listens to me then since who on earth will believe the words of a 10-year old? They all laughed at my story and stroked my head, telling me to go back home. My home is in ruins, I don’t have anywhere to go now. That is when the invasion started.
The entire sky was suddenly covered by clouds, thunder struck everywhere. More waves of powers struck everywhere, I can see people literally exploding into puddles of blood and flesh. The image is permanently scarred into my mind, I could never forget how it actually happened. That weapon that they are using to kill us, without the enemy making a physical contact, is deadly to humankind. They can potentially destroy the entire city by doing so.
Yet they mentioned that they are not intending to kill anyone. So could this be a side-effect of them entering into our world. They mentioned they came from the Void Elemental Plane, which is definitely not something of this Universe. I will have to find a rescue centre to rest our feet first, we cannot keep wandering around with all the dead bodies around like this. We wandered into an abandoned shop, ignoring all the dead bodies and puddles of blood, we decided to take a rest first.
We were in a television shop. I decided to switch one of them on. The first thing that appeared on the screen is a news report.
“Breaking news! Strange purple creatures are invading the city and destroying everything that comes near it! Our city is under attack! In the middle of the dump the asteroid is thought to be the source of this invasion, but no one can approach it. We have also reports that the same attacks are found everywhere in the world, is this the end of world? Ah, they are coming! We-“The news is then cut off by signal static. That probably suggest they are killed by the invasion or they simply exploded into chunks of flesh and blood under the stress of the power wave.
Whichever it is, it does not matter now. Our highest priority is to stay hidden and survive until they are done with their business of… what was it again? Ah yes, extracting our “mana pools”. Whatever that is. Outside a cloud of purplish creatures pass by, I signalled Nectilius to stay silent and hidden while I approach the door to take closer look at the creatures.
They look like spiders, perhaps the nearest creature I can describe. On top of the spiders there lies an upper-human body. So they are considered as human, I guess? More other creatures passed by but they are too fast for me to grasp a look on how they are like.
Strange to others, instead of feeling disgusted or fear, I feel attracted to these creatures. Well, back then I wouldn’t have known the reason why, but now I know. Since I’m the Grand Ruler of the Void Elemental Plane that would make perfect sense.
Soon the creatures left the street. I grabbed Nectilius by the hand and moved out to the street.
“Where are we going, Innight?”
“To the upper city. The upper city is likely to be unaffected by the waves spreading out over the region here so there are likely to be people that we can rely upon there. Once we reach there, we will go separate ways, you go look for your parents, while I will survive this on my own.”
“Aren’t you going to help me out?”
“You have a bright future compared to me. I live in the dumps with a poor family background, while you yourself, with all those frilly cress that you are wearing, signifies you came from a rich family. You have a bright future even with all this invasion happening, while I am uncertain on how my future will turn out to be. It will be better if our paths never crossed again, I will be despised by your family if I met them. Now, let’s move.”
I took Nectilius’s hand and run up the spiralling highway. At the halfway point, we encounter a small cluster of the Void Creatures (That was what I called them back then)
“Hey, human, come play with us.”
I don’t want to go against them. They can kill us through ways we don’t even know so it would be wise to not anger them. I move toward the creatures.
They held up a strange purple glowing dice, I stretched my neck and find them playing a board game.
“Human, if you win we will give you a special gift, if we win you have to tell us about your city.”
“Alright. How do you play this game of yours?”
“Simple. This is a 12-sided dice, this-“They handed me a chess piece shaped like one of their creatures. “Is your game piece. This game board is the playing area. We just started a new game so we are all on the same spot. If you have noticed, this game board is shaped like your city. So every action done on the game board will inflicted on your city itself so be careful.”
I played with them a little while. In the midst of the game, Nectilius accidently knocked over two towers, trampled over a reservoir, and broke a few trees. I still won the game despite all that.
“Here, human. This is a book we have in our library. In it describes about the Elemental Realm and about us: The Void. Treasure it well, you wouldn’t find a book like this in any library of your world.”
We bid the Creatures farewell and continue the upward climb on the highway.
I still have the book that those Creatures gave me. It introduced me to the world of the Elemental Realm before I even have any method of contact to them. It wasn’t until I met Nightius before I manged to find a way to communicate with the Elemental Realm. I am still thankful that I had the book during that time. However, the worse of the invasion has yet to come yet.
We then reached the top of the city. We were greeted by piles of dead body arranged in a criss-cross manner at the gates. I spotted a Creatures arranging the dead bodies and I scurried up to it. I was repelled by the aura hanging around them.
“What are you doing? Didn’t your leader told you to not kill anyone?” I screamed at him.
“We are deeply sorry for this. Apparently our waves of magic is too powerful for you humans to handle. We never knew since we have never come to a Physical Realm before. We could not revive them as we are not powerful enough. We will repay this later with something only we are able to do.”
“Never mind. Let us pass through the gates.”
“Sorry, but our leader is currently extracting the mana from the mana pools inside. We are instructed to keep humans away from disrupting the process. We will allow you to pass through the gates once we have received instructions to do so. Ah, wait a second please-“
The Creature took out a red crystal and whispered to it. I waited for them to finish.
“The leader said he is done with the extraction. We will leave your Realm, right after we leave behind a gift as compensation for the damage done. You may now walk through the gates.”
We entered the gates together. We have not seen any human carcasses anywhere but puddles of blood are visible. It is clear that some of the humans tried to fight back as I can see weapons lying all around. However, no matter how powerful our weapons are, it is useless against Magic, which is on another level of power altogether.
“This is where we part, Nectilius. You go and look for your parents. If they are dead, come to the Harbour, and wait by the gate there. I will be at the harbour looking for survivors, since it is the best hiding spot amongst this ruins the city is in now.”
“The government should not have given the safe notice until they really ensure that the asteroid is of no other abnormality. Also the wave of magic is killing countless amount of people. How is Singapore going to rebuild itself after this incident? Nectilius, you should go now, your parents should be dead worried about you. Goodbye.”
Saying these, we parted ways. As I searched the harbour for some resources for my dinner, I found many more carcasses and some Creatures still loitering around. Then in the middle of the harbour I found a giant blue sphere floating there. That is when an announcement was given.
“Attention to all humans. We are delivering a globe of pure mana to you as a compensation for taking so many lives in this operation. You may use it to your own free will. This will be located in your harbour, if you will excuse us, we will have to leave now.”
The Creatures that were around the region left for the asteroid, probably their spaceship. I stood watching the orb of mana, I stretched out my hand to touch it. It felt wonderful, it feels like something is travelling through the blood vessels and circling around my body.
Then the whole ground shook. A huge creature made up of the rocks, with same purplish aura that the other Void Creatures, appeared and begin destroying more of the already destroyed city.
Back then, I was terrified. They already mentioned that they are redrawing from the city and leaving in peace, so why did they initiate another attack on the city? If they continued, this city will never be able to recover from the shock. I wanted to do something to help, but I was so weak then.
Anger and hatred boiled up in me. They killed my parents, destroyed most of the city, and thinks that still isn’t enough? Come in peace and intends to kill no one, all nonsense to me. I wish I had the ability to cast magic and end the invasion. That is when I felt a great amount of power flowing from the orb towards myself. I wanted to retract my hand from the orb but it felt stuck to it. An immense amount of power begin to build up within myself. Strange thoughts begin to invade my mind, heat begin to build up everywhere. I lost that mind and consciousness soon after that.
What exactly happened after that, I can only guess. I suspect all the mana in the orb caused the seals hidden deep within myself to be flooded by magic, so much that it gave way and was lifted temporarily. This is only a guess though, and whatever actually happened will always be a mystery to me.
When I finally consciousness and opened my eyes, the entire city is destroyed completely, without a trace of any buildings remaining. There were no signs of the huge creature in sight, crowds of people gathered around myself. They must be the ones who stayed in the shelter despite the announcement. I crawled up from the ground, my whole body ached. I took a glance at the blue orb, the sphere is empty. I must have consumed all of it while I was unconscious.
“He-He-He’s a monster!” Someone from the crowd cried.
My whole body aches and I can’t think since even my brain hurts. What do they mean? Is the invasion over?
“Here is the boy! Mummy, Daddy, hurry up!”
That voice sounds familiar. If I can recall, that must be…
A pair of blue eyes appeared and starred at me.
“Thank goodness he is still alive. Here, mummy, daddy, this is the boy who brought me back up to the town area.”
“Are you sure, my dear girl? He destroyed the entire city of Singapore together with that other monstrosity!” A man’s voice sounded out.
At that point in time I was shocked. *I* destroyed the city? But I’m just an ordinary human! It is good news that I destroyed the other Creature, but how did I destroy everything else?
“Argh. It hurts so badly.” I turned my head towards the parents of Nectilius.
I starred at the parents of Nectilius. Her father looks like is in his early 30s, wears a suit, with sea blue eyes, just like his daughter, in one of his hands he is carrying a yellow laser gun, clearly for his protection. Her mother looks very young, probably just over 25. She has long blonde hair and also has a pair of sea-blue eyes.
“I guess you are the parents of Nectilius? My name is Innight.”
“Indeed we are. We are grateful over the fact that you guided our daughter towards to our location from the dumps. However I represent the Ministry of Education since I am the Minister, and you caused a great amount of damage to the city itself. Unless you can do something to repair the city, I’m afraid we cannot repay the debt.”
That was when something strange happened. I have no idea on how to cast a spell back then and my seals were reactivated again so it should be impossible for me to cast any spells. Yet it happened.
A deep, dark voice spoke in my mind at that moment. Overclock: rewind. I raised my hands and repeated it. From the ground the buildings reappeared from the nothingness, every single building that has been destroyed during the invasion rebuilt themselves. I was amazed that I can do that.
“Now I have rebuilt the buildings and I have repaired the damage done. You can thank me now.”
The parents stood there in awe. Then they turned their attention towards me.
“Very well. Ask for your reward. You saved my daughter from various trouble, I am deeply grateful of that. Ask for anything that you want, as long as it is in my power.”
“All I ask is simple. Give me an eighth of your entire fortune and I will not bother you again. I would not stay in a rich person’s house as it will be extremely uncomfortable for me and it will create a bad reputation for you as well.”
“If that is your wish, we shall grant it for you. Please give me your bank account number, I will have it done before nightfall.”
I took out a pen and a piece of scrap paper from my pocket, wrote down a string of numbers and gave the paper to the father. During the entire process the whole crowd stared at the both of us.
“Very well. Nectilius, say thank you to your saver. We won’t be meeting him again as he belongs to the lower end of the society while we are of the higher up sin the society ladder.”
Nectilius waved goodbye, then the family turned and left the harbour. After that I passed out again due to the immense pain. Nobody came to help me but it does not matter to me, I will have to survive on my own someday so this will be a test for me.
Ring………
I woke up. All that I have described before was a dream of mine. A description of a dream of my past, about the Invasion Disaster. Shaking my head, I shook the three girls sleeping beside me.
*groans* “its 6 a.m. already? I wanted to sleep more…” The three of them harmonized and mumbled.
“Wake up, the three of you. There is school for us today. You don’t want to be late for first day of school don’t you?”
Saying these, I pulled the girls out of my bed. They all rubbed their eyes and crawled up from the ground.
Let me introduce myself first. I’m Innight, a 19 year old boy. One year ago, I met the Grand Ruler of Darkness Elemental Plane, which is currently my Master, learnt my true identity as a Piece of Darkness itself and was involved in the whole mess of the Elemental Realm. We fought off various attempts of Light invading the school, turned our normal human school into a magical school, and even faced a dangerous enemy of my past.
In the midst of all this chaos, I have met a few friends. There was Luthriel. He was originally a roommate of mine, I always thought of him as an annoying human character, he later unwittingly saw an operation performed by my Master and was forced to be converted as a member of the Darkness. He was later killed during a battle in our Darkness Elemental Plane between us and The Void Creatures. He later revealed to me, after his death and through a letter, that he used to be a member of the Light Elemental Plane, but was stripped of power after refusing to help our in one of the operations involving the kidnap of me. He will be remembered in my heart forever.
The next is Time. She gained her powers over Time during the Invasion Disaster that I have just described. The others met her first. She first appeared during an event that my seals are lifted and my true self is revealed, she helped in preventing my true self from destroying the entire Existence. She helped us in various places using her powers over Time and shadows. She was killed during an invasion that Light started against the school but I revived her using my magic. She currently is one of my wives, verified by my Master and the other 24 Rulers of the Darkness Elemental Plane. This is still a secret from the rest of the school population, because humans don’t get married that early in life, it will cause a huge commotion, in addition giving me more attention when I already have a good popularity boost in the battle against the invasion of Light.
Then there are the twins, Nicki and Charlotte. They are members of the Light Elemental Plane and are of Archangel Level, but after being treated by me in kindness, they abandoned their duty as Archangels and fell in love with me. They fell into the same fate as Time did, and were both slain during the invasion, I also revived them. They are the other 2 wives of mine. Similarly to Time, this is verified by the Rulers of the Darkness Elemental Plane, and is also kept a secret from the rest of the school with the same reason.
After the recent incident of the Light Invasion, I gained a reputation of being the most powerful magic caster in the school itself. This isolated me from the rest of the school population and also prevented me from entering any fights initiated by others. There has also been no magic abnormality ever since I have removed the carcasses of The Creator and stopped the Light Invasion, thank goodness for that. Every problem seems to have left after the Light Invasion, so I guess I have graduated from there in peace.
There used be another girl that get along with us. Her name is Aquis. She used to be a spy working for us, the Darkness Elemental Plane. She was the one who initially discovered that Luricerite, the Grand Ruler of the Light Elemental Plane, was planning to excavate the remains of The Creator, and worked together with us in many of the operations. However, in the last Light Invasion, Luricerite revealed to us that she was a spy for him instead, and she has been revealing my secrets all to him. He also revealed that he is holding her parents as hostage, so she is forced to do this job. After the Light Invasion, she vanished from the school itself. Master and I intended to rescue her parents but they vanished from the dungeons of the Light Elemental Plane as well. So currently we have no idea on her whereabouts and how is she doing now.
Today is the first day we enter the Rescendant College, which is connected to our old high school in the same hierarchy. However, what is different from it, is that it is not a magic school. It is just like any normal human school. So, in here, we will not be experiencing any magic casting. At least that means everything starts anew here. Well everything except the fact that me, Time, Charlotte, and Nicki are married and are all magic casters.
I went into the kitchen and prepared breakfast for the 4 of us. The 3 girls clambered onto the dining table and yawned.
“What’s for breakfast, Innight?” That should be Time.
“Be patient. He needs time to cook. Same goes for you, Nicki.” That must be Charlotte. She is the oldest among the three and is acting well as a good older wife.
“Yes, be patient, I’m preparing French toasts with bacon and fried eggs today.”
“Yay!” The three of them cried.
In 15 minutes time, I produced the breakfast on the table. We started eating. I begin my lecture on them as I eat.
“Now, the three of you. Remember we are in a normal human school now, all forms of magic is forbidden, no matter the circumstances. Do not leak out any information about our high school is a magic school and please do not gain any unwanted attention. I had enough attention in our high school for being the person stopping the entire Light Invasion and being the most powerful caster in the entire school. I wanted to start all over, as a normal human in the society.”
“Uh-huh.” The three replied while munching on their breakfast.
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“If possible, try to look for which industry you all intend to work with, in the future when we enter the society’s workforce we have to work to earn a living together under the same house.”
“But, Innight, why don’t we just leave the Physical Realm and instead live in the Elemental Realm? We could all live in the Darkness Elemental Plane. We betrayed our Plane and our Grand Ruler is gone, Time has a property of Darkness, and with the continuous peace now in the Elemental Realm, we should live there!” Charlotte asked.
“Do you think it will really last forever?”
“Eh?”
“Judging by how The Unknown has placed the curse on all the Creatures of Existence, and how Luricerite turned out in the end, do you think that this peace will last forever? After the incident of Luricerite and The Unknown, I doubt the war between Light and Darkness is going to end anytime sooner. The next Grand Ruler of Light is likely to carry the same mentality as Luricerite did and start the war of Light and Dark again, it is only the matter of time when. The Curse of The Unknown is purely evil, and Greed is one of the very many evil. Being powerful is one thing, but Greed will push the person’s wants even further, I won’t be surprised if the next Grand Ruler of Light is going to follow what Luricerite did. That is why I intend to stay in the Physical Realm: To avoid any battles with the Light. I should have mentioned this before, I hate fighting. With us out of the Magical High School we can avoid any contact with the Elemental Realm, though I will still contact with Master every now and then since he is my Master, after all.”
’A question, Innight, how did Lord Inoxion became your master when, in terms of power, you are far greater than him?” Time asked.
“Well look at the time! Hurry up the three of you, we are going to be late! I will answer your questions after when we come back home.”
I rushed the girls to finish their breakfast, and washed their dishes afterwards. The four of us then rushed out of the house while I locked the door.
“Luckily we still have time, we can walk to school and talk at the same time.” I said.
As we walked along the road to school, the four of us talked.
“So, to continue my question, how did Lord Inoxion become your master when you are so powerful?”
“If you have studied the history of the Elemental Realms very well and very thoroughly, you will have noticed that there is a gap between the Creation Point and order and peace in the Elemental Realm. During the history gap is where I created the Elemental Planes and where I reduced myself into a Void Cube and hid within The Void. I did so because I wanted peace greatly and decided hiding in the Void is the best option. That is when Master Inoxion begin signing a contract with the Creatures of The Void, claiming everything within a certain region of The Void under his control. I was, luckily or unluckily, happened to be in that region. The Creatures of The Void found me before Master does and has claimed me to be their Grand Ruler of their Void Elemental Plane, so that is why I’m the ruler of their Plane. After Master discovered me in my true form, I was forced to serve under him. I was slightly unhappy that I was disturbed by something else, but I’m glad that he is not a warmonger. Due to all this, he became my Master since I’m bounded by the contract. Not that I’m unhappy about it.”
“Another question, is there any other Creatures of similar power to you, that is, of Infinity Level magic?”
“I really wanted to answer NO to that question, but the truthful answer is, YES, there ARE such Creatures. There are the Avatars of the Elemental Planes and the Ancient Beasts. Both these Creatures were formed as a result of my meddling with The Unknown, and I couldn’t bear to destroy them. They were so young back then, little flames of magic swirling around in The Void, but then they become a problem. What actually happened later I shall not talk about it, I shall leave it to your imagination. All you need to know is The Avatars are vanquished and sealed, the Ancient Beast are all asleep in another Dimension.”
“I want to know more about the Ancient Beasts, Innight.”
“Maybe someday, not today. It is a long story, so now is not the right time to describe it. I can give you a sneak peak of how they are though. They are warmongers, all of them. They, together with The Creator, have thrown the entire Existence into chaos. It costed me great amount of power to put all of them into a deep sleep and trapped them in another Dimension. You should hope to never see them in your life.”
“Oh, Innight, look. We are here.”
We arrived at the gates of the school building. The area it covered is so great that we cannot describe how large the school area is. The entire building is coloured in light blue with a light touch of silver. Everything is high-tech around here, not like our old high school. The buildings all give off an electric feel, everything feels different from what we have always been through before. We all stood before the gates, we don’t know how to enter because the gates are all locked by electricity and the other students entered by using a card. We stood there for another few moments while watching the other students entering the gates, and that is when a female student took notice of us and approached us.
“Are you new students?” She asked.
“Yes, we are to reach building D6 of the school compound but we cannot enter the gates.” I replied.
“Ah, that’s why. The main gate is open to all visitors and of course, new students as well. This is a side gate which is only open to our own school’s students. You have to walk all the way left of the school compound then you will find the main gate.”
“Alright, thank you for your help.” I answered.
We begin walking along the parameters of the school compound, we met many other students in the midway, and I overheard their conversation that they are new students, heading to the same spot as well. Once we crossed the gates and reached the inside of the school compound, we decided to take a look of the school map to figure out a way to reach building D6 from the main gate. That is when we found out to reach there, we have to take a hoverbus.
“Such a pain. We can just use ma-“ Time wanted to say something, but I immediately put my hand over her mouth.
“I did mention before we are in a normal school right now. No using of such words as well. We will board the bus, let’s see… where is the nearest bus stop?” I traced my hands on the map looking for the nearest bus stop.
In 5 minutes time we were on board of the hoverbus. We were squeezed around as there were many people on the bus as well, we almost couldn’t breathe at all with all the people aboard the bus and we held onto the poles dearly as the bus swung left and right. Finally we reached the stop where building D6 is located, in region D. We exited the bus with the same crowd of people that board the bus and we all headed for building D6.
When we entered the building, we found that it is a large auditorium and there were many people already sitting inside. We each found a seat and sat down together. We waited in silence as the auditorium is filling up.
“So this is how college is like, well nothing is to be afraid of in the world of the Almighty Queen!” someone beside me mumbled.
I turned my head around. It came from a crimson haired girl, she has a pair of turquoise coloured eyes, the strange thing about her eyes is there is a plus sign in the iris of her left eye, a negative sign in the iris of her right, just like a battery.
“Ah, you overheard my conversation? Be grateful that you get to hear the voice of the Almighty Queen herself!”
“Huh? What Almighty Queen? You are nothing but a normal human.”
“How dare you violate me like this? Don’t you know the Almighty Queen herself?”
“No. Who is that?”
“Hah. Her name is Alicia Omi, the only daughter of the President of Singapore himself! She is gifted in all fields and is termed the ‘Perfect Girl’ by all others. She always held the highest position in the school itself and has always excelled in everything. Now that you know her, you should bow your head towards her!”
“No thank you. Everything begins anew here. Whatever achievements you have in the past is voided in the new school. You may be used to be this ‘Almighty Queen’ but that does not mean you will be in this school. You will earn my respect when you have topped out in this school itself. For now you are just a random student in this school.”
“How dare you! You – “ Then she went silent. She cannot argue back because what I have said is completely spot on. I know she has great authority over the school itself, but with my magic, I can instantly destroy it without too much effort. Even without using magic, she wouldn’t be able to authorize the movement of her father’s power without being called a baby that relies on parents, so she wouldn’t be able to exercise her authority over me, she will have to earn it. Whatever it is, I hope she isn’t going to be in my class, if she is, she will be a pain to handle.
That is when I realised the auditorium is full. The entire front stage suddenly is filled with white, thick smoke. I begin to sense magic on the stage, which surprises me. I thought this school is a normal school, not a magic school! What could this mean? I really wanted to get back into the human society without the involvement of magic and the rest of the mess of Elemental Realm. The smoke cleared and a woman appeared on the stage.
She appeared to be over 70 years old, with long white hair streaming down her shoulders, she has a walking stick in one of her hands, but she is not using it to walk around. Her eyes, yellow coloured, looks old but has a twinkle of youth within them. Even though she looks human with all sides, I can detect traces of magic residing deep within her, they are weak but they are there. This means the principle is a magic caster herself. I hope this does not mean that this school is a magic school. I have had enough of the mess in magic in high school and I don’t want another repeat.
“Hello, students.” She begin speaking in a very old voice, but with a touch of energy sprinkled on top. “Hello and welcome to your new school of education. My name is Mdm. Lillie, I am the principle of the Rescendant College. Firstly, I will likely to warmly welcome all of you making your way into Rescendant College. We produce students worthy of entering the various Universities of Singapore and also overseas’ Universities. We are pleased that you have chosen this school as your next level of education.”
“In this school, we believe that all students has the potential to perform well, your presence in this auditorium right now proves that all of you are capable of doing well for all your exams. We have many success stories of our students becoming good lawyers, doctors, and other high ranking jobs in the society. We believe that, even if you perform badly now, you are capable of performing much better than what you already had.”
“We also believe in giving second chances. This is why, if you have a bad history record in your high school, we can forget about them and give you another clean canvas to paint on. We believe that deep down, everyone has a kind heart and will do what is right, not what that is popular. We hope that you will enjoy your two years of education in the school. I shall not drag on this speech any longer as I suspect all of you are excited about the orientation camp. We will inform you on how we distribute you into different classes during the middle of the orientation camp. Now I shall let the Emcees take over.”
The principle then stepped down from the stage and went through the exit door. She left behind traces of magic as she walked by. She definitely did this on purpose as a professional caster would not leave any traces behind to prevent others from detecting them. Why though, that is a question that I would like the answer to.
A pair of Indian girls climbed onto the stage. They wore black shirts along with the school blue skirt, they seems to be filled to the brim with youthful energy, which usually is a sign of trouble to me. I am very inactive, I don’t like sports, I hate being active, my stamina is naturally low, and I have endurance issues. This is going to be a nightmare.
“Hello everybody! We are the Emcees for the orientation camp! My name is Sunguitar!”
“And I’m Satra!”
What a comedy duo they are.
“We hope that everyone is ready for the orientation camp! It is going to be full of activities that grants you excitement and happiness, everyone, please participate in all the activities with your greatest effort!”
Greatest effort. My foot. All that is going to come out in the end is a bunch of noisy children messing up everywhere they go. I will try my best not to get too involve with them. The best method to do so is to maintain a cool position and avoid participating too much in the activities.
“Now, you might be wondering how we are going to play with a huge group like this. We have already divided all of you into 4 large factions, and each faction is further divided into 4 sub-groups. From left to right of the auditorium, the factions are labelled as Candor, Abnegation, Amity and Dauntless.”
I should give them 100 points for Creativity. They copied the name of the factions in a particular movie and used it here. They could have come up with more creative names or even use Name Generators to do so but no, they are too lazy to do that.
“So first off, we are to teach you cheers…”
I guess I don’t need to describe what happened after. They spent two whole hours going through cheers and I have to act as if I I’m following or else I will get picked out, since I sit at the first few rows. I hate it, absolutely. I always hated people being extremely lively, it appears to be childish, in my opinion.
And I hate children.
After the nonsense about cheering is over, we were briefed by various teachers from various departments. All of them gave us talks about the various subject that we will be choosing from, the topics covered, and the examination format of the various subjects. We have the three big branch of Science with Mathematics as an accompaniment, the Humanities of Geography, History, Literature and Economics, all under H2, short for Higher 2. The same subjects were offered for H1 as well, short for Higher 1.
From all of these choices, we are to choose at least 3 H2 with 1 H1 subject, together with the compulsory Mother Tongue and General Paper. These will be the subjects that we will be taking for our final paper in the school, the ‘A’ Levels. I thought deeply and thoroughly about which subject I intend to study while the talks are going on. The 3 other girls must be doing so as well. All the while the “Almighty Queen” is giggling at all the talks and talking among the other students. No respect at all.
Then come lunch break, we all left the main building and gathered at the canteen. There were 20 different stalls and a gigantic Gold Ruberg Machine operating in the back. I watch how the machine operates. The stall owners handled the dished on the tracks of the machine with a number, then the tray works through its way through the machine and landed on the students that holds onto the number of the dish.
Talk out automation.
Packet lunch begin dropping down on parachutes onto our table. I looked up and saw drones flying in from various sides. I opened up mine, it was filled with fried rice. Nice dish, but I can’t eat it.
Because it is filled with prawns. The very ingredient that I’m allergic to.
I pushed away the packet and mumbled to myself. “I can’t eat this. I’ll just have to starve myself.” The leader of our group, a white haired girl, stopped by me.
“What is it? Aren’t you hungry?” She asked.
“I can’t eat this. It is cooked with Prawns, and I’m allergic to it. No worries though, I can go about a day without anything to eat. I wouldn’t die.”
“You can’t do that! You will need energy to go along with our activities! Here, have some money, order something from the food stalls, you can’t go about the day without having lunch!” She cried.
I took the money and went up to one of stalls labelled “fried noodles” and placed my order there, then I went back to my seat. In a couple of minutes time a metal pipe stretched out from Gold Ruberg Machine behind us and my fried noodle is delivered to me. I begin chomping on it in delight. That was when someone came by and snatched the group card away.
I forgot to mention something here, for each group, we were assigned with what they call as a “Group Card”. It is essentially a cardboard, with our Faction Yellow, Dauntless Red, Abnegation Blue and Amity Green. Since I belong to Candor, we have a yellow cardboard and since I am in the 4th group, it is decorated with the word Candor 4. We also have a Faction Flag that we are to secure, the colours assigned to each Faction Flag is the same as the card.
There is also a point system that I forgot to mention that they explained to us during the cheering session. It is mentioned that we have to keep our Card and Flag secure with us at all times, because they worth a certain amount of points, and the organizing committee will try to steal it from us. Every time they managed to steal it from us, they will deduct a fixed amount of points from the total amount of points that each Faction have. These amount of points will determine the wining Faction at the end of Orientation Camp, which is in 2 days’ time.
So, after this explanation, you will understand that if the card get stolen, the blame will be placed on the careless fool that guards the card. Unfortunately that happened to be me, and as I have described previously, someone pickpocketed the card away from me. I fear for the amount of blame that will be placed on me.
“Haha. So how useless this boy is indeed! So much talk but performs nothing at all.” That was Omi, the Almighty Queen. I knew she is bound to say these words, since she is known to pelt others with insults to break their dignity.
I can feel all the gazes finding their way onto me, along with hatred. No one spoke a word about it, but I can feel they are angry at me. All except Time, Charlotte and Nicki. They have a sense of empathy instilled within themselves. The leader came over and said: “Don’t worry, it happens every now and then, don’t take it too much.” But I know better, since I can read his mind. Deep down, he is scolding me using all the foulest language you can think of.
After lunch, the talks on the subjects continued. It went on for another good 3 hours, then activity time came. We played a game of Capture the Flag in the school football field, and it rained. Being sane, I stayed out of the game since I know I cannot run well and fast enough. The game carried on despite the rain and it continued until after a thunderbolt nearly struck someone.
Finally it came, the time for the first day of Orientation to end. Following the point system. Our Faction claimed the last position, losing to the Faction in the 3rd ranking, which is Amity, by a mere 10 points. I can already read the minds of others that they blame that this is happening because I let someone stole the card. The dismissal that I was longing for finally came.
“Today was fun, don’t you think so, Innight?” The three of them harmonized as we walked back home.
“No. Not at all. I hate it. The entire Camp is a stupid rip-off of the movie “Divergence” if you haven’t notice. I would have enjoyed the subjects talk if it wasn’t for the ridiculous “Queen” sitting beside me ruining the atmosphere. I only look forward to the time where we are introduced to the CCAs, whenever that is. Whatever games that they are planning, is all sports based or cheering based, which are nonsensical, in my honest opinion. Heavily biased, if I may say so.”
“Why so? Everyone loves sports.” Time asked.
“I’m very weak physically. It is a genetic disease that I have, I cannot train to improve my fitness because whenever I tried to do so, it ended up really badly, with me fainting. As such, I’m physically weak and I hate sports as a result. Besides, have you seen me training myself? I’m too busy for that.”
“Besides all this, don’t you find the principle to be a little strange?”
“You have realized it as well, Time? She appears to be another magic caster, and she purposely left behind traces of her magic when she left. She must be testing us, to see if there is another magic caster in the group of new students. She probably will be addressing us again tomorrow and will give us hints on how to notify her. We will see what she has in store for us tomorrow.”
I unlocked the door and turned on the lights. The girls stayed in the living room while I entered the kitchen to prepare for dinner. After dinner, the girls went to have their bath first while I called Master.
“I hope you have had a good day, Innight.”
“No. Not really, Master. It was awful. I still don’t understand why people wants to be all lively and excited over something like this. So childish, not like how an adult should behave.”
Master chuckled.
“What’s so funny, Master?”
“You are becoming more human the longer you stay there, but your personality never change.”
“Ignoring about me, Master, any new updates for me on your side?”
“Ah yes, there is. The mess over new Grand Ruler of the Light Elemental Plane has settled down. They have decided the next Grand Ruler to be Remius. Currently, he has not struck us with any attacks, which is something that I am grateful of. However, judging by how you told us about the curse of The Unknown, I know it is only a matter of time before he follows the path Luricerite did.”
“Also, we have tried entering the remains of the Infinity Seal, and found an entire new Realm inside there. We cannot even describe about the things we have seen in there, as they are not of this world. Space and Time don’t operate the way they are in that Realm. You might want to come and visit this Realm one day if you have the time.”
“Innight! We are done with the bath!” The three girls shouted.
“I need to go for my bath, Master. Any important updates for me? If not I need to be off. I need a good rest before facing the new nonsensical activities they have in plan for us tomorrow.”
“Yes there is. Watch out for the people around you, Innight. Words has come to me that the members of Old Magic of The Void has connections to the school itself. We do not know much about that gathering of people, and their aims. All we do know is, however, that they aim to do something to you, the true form of you, that is. Also, the Styx cult that you have met in the Nightmare of Nicki, we have traced down records of them. Their last appearance happened to be in your school itself, so we figured that they must be hiding in your school, waiting for something. With The Unknown dead, though, they should not be around anymore, but just be careful in case they are.”
“Alright, I understand. Goodnight, Master.” I turned off the Calling Crystal. I then head for the bath.
As I sit in the bath, I kept thinking. A strange principle that is a spell caster and careless allowing her presence to be detected. A gathering of people that intentions is unknown and is connected to the school. A strange cult with dealings with The Unknown and its last appearance is the school itself. There are too many abnormalities to be a coincidence. It almost seems as if someone is tugging behind the strings and playing out a puppet show around me. I wanted to have a normal life for a short period of time, but it looks like my work with the World of Magic has not paused yet.
First, I will need to figure out who exactly this principle is, and which Elemental Plane she is working for, since she has considerable power in the school itself. This will take the highest priority as I will have to know whether she is going to any an enemy or a bystander. Next, we need to read up on the history of the CCAs here, whether there is a CCA that has dealings with the Occult. That will give us the largest clue that we will be able to have on the dealings of the Styx Cult and the Gathering of Old Void.
I exited the bath, feeling refreshed and went to my room. The girls were all busy watching television in the living room so they are not in the room at the present. This gives me some space to practise my magic.
“Eden: Dimension Pocket!”
I used my magic to open a dimensional pocket in the room. If you have no idea what a dimensional pocket is, let me explain to you. Dimensional pocket is a small pocket of space created by the caster, separated from the original dimension. It exists in the same spot of where the spell is casted, but in a different dimension. This Dimensional Pocket lasts as long as the castor wants, or when the dimension is unstable and collapse upon itself, swallowing the caster inside into The Void. Yes, it is a spell that can backfire and kill the caster itself, however it is restricted to only those of Lord level magic casters.
After an intense amount of casting, I decided that it was enough, and disabled the pocket. That was when the 3 girls came in.
“Had enough of television?” I asked them.
“The show was boring. There is nothing interesting on the television right now. Anything interesting going on, Innight?”
“No. There isn’t. Just read the books I have retrieved from the Forbidden Library to pass the time.”
“…”
The next day arrived with the rise of the morning sun. I have to drag the 3 girls from the bed again to wake them up, and I prepared the breakfast as well. Soon we were on the road to school again, and just like yesterday, we took the hoverbus, and is squeezed by the huge crowd taking the same bus at the same time.
“Every time we take the bus, I feel like I might die of suffocation.” Nicki complained after we take off from the bus.
“Well there isn’t much we can do about it. The school here itself is too large to navigate on foot so we have to use the bus service here to move around. We could get a hovercar, but to use it we will need a license, and those things are very difficult to get. Thanks to all the traffic control policies the government is using these license are getting harder and harder to get every year. We can also think of an electric bike, but are you sure that you all can maintain one? They require constant maintenance and they need to be recharged, which is going to build up a high electric bill. Remember, we are not earning any money yet, all the bills are accounted for by Lord Nightius, and I do not want to incur any problems for him.” I explained.
“Then we could just use the old metal bikes, can’t we, Innight?” Charlotte chirped in.
“That is possible. It will train your muscles as well, the only question is, where do they stop their bicycles?”
“There.” Nicki pointed at a row of bicycle racks near the entrance of the building D6. There were a few other electric bicycles parked there.
“Oh. Alright, I will get some of the old bikes of the past once we get back home and we all will ride them to school tomorrow. This can serve as a form of physical training for myself as well.”
We then went inside the auditorium and found the same seat as yesterday. The annoying “Almighty Queen” Omi isn’t here yet, so I get to enjoy a brief moment of peace and silence. I closed my eyes and thought about the why I came here.
This is a normal human school, as far as I know, I have did my research before deciding to come here. I wanted to come here for a variety of reasons. One, this school is one of the top best colleges in Singapore. By entering a good school I will have a brighter future and hopefully a good profile. Two, this school is connected to our high school, by going to the same school under the same hierarchy I can avoid all kinds of complications during the enrolment. Thirdly, this is one of the very few schools that I know that has an Occult based CCA. I always wanted to interact with other humans and see their view on how the World of Magic is like. It is unlikely that any of them will actually know the truth, but it is interesting to see from different viewpoints.
Then I sensed there was magic casted once again. I opened up my eyes and saw the principle standing at the stage. Beside me the “Almighty Queen” Omi is sleeping, which is a great thing for me, I can earn some silence during the talks.
“My new students,” she begin. “Welcome back to your second day of school. Today you are invited to have a tour around the school compound together with viewing with the various CCAs. You are reminded as well that you are to select your subject combinations before midnight of today. I shall not intend to delay your moments of excitement any longer. I shall take my leave now.”
The principle stepped down from the stage, and that is when a whisper came into my ears.
“Those of you that can hear me, find me in building B5 during your break time. I will be waiting for you there.”
I took a quick scan over the entire auditorium. No one showed signs of being surprised, it may be because that no one is a magic caster so they could not hear it, or it may be because they themselves are magic casters and already know the principle is magic caster herself so they are not surprised that she is able to do so. I whispered to the three girls that we will be going there together later. They nodded in agreement.
The day started with the exact same thing, with showing us the current Faction rankings and giving us the Faction Flags and Cards and the cheering. I can still feel the hatred some people have over me over what happened yesterday over the Card incident.
Then came the tour. Because of how large the school compound is, we are only touring around the buildings in region D. From what they have mentioned, they are 5 regions, each regions correspond to each main subject, Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and The Arts subjects. Each region has 5 different buildings, one is the staff room, one is the lecture theatre, or auditorium, one is computer room, and two are for classrooms. For the Science regions, there is another building assigned as laboratory. Region D happened to be a Science Region, and is Biology, which happens to be my favourite subject. We are not allowed to enter building D3 and D4 as those are classrooms blocks and the older students happened to be have lessons there. In the middle of the tour, I allowed the card to be stolen once again.
I’m such an airhead.
After much scolding from Omi and the leader, the lunch break finally came. Today’s lunch is white rice with cabbage, steamed egg and beef. I ate everything but the cabbage because it is cooked with prawns, once again. I then gathered Time, Nicki and Charlotte and took the hoverbus to Region B.
On the way there, I spoke to the 3 girls.
“Remember, do not let any others know that we are from the Darkness Elemental Plane. After the entire mess of Luricerite, we have gained a bad reputation in the Elemental Realm. Granted, we are the strongest Elemental Plane so they will not dare to say anything bad against us, but still keep it a secret, tell them that we work for the Void Elemental Plane, which is somewhat close to the truth.”
We then reached the building. When we opened the door and went inside, we found it to be another auditorium. There were already some people sitting inside there, we approached the front row’s seats and sat down there. In a few moments later, white smokes appeared on the stage and traces of magic become visible. The principle then appeared out from it.
“Well, well.” She begin. “Look at all the people we have here. Wonderful. I expected more people but this will do.”
“Can you explain why you have gathered us here?” Someone shouted.
“Look, my students. This school is much more than you would discover on the surface. On the surface, we are a reputable school, much deep down, we are a training school for magic casters.”
“But magic casting is useless in the current society!” Someone cried.
“That is going to change someday. Right now my job is to discover the survivors of the Invasion Disaster and sieve out the magic castors. We have a company that is sponsoring us which are involved in the research of magic. Your final destination as magic casters in the society is to enter this company. They will provide support for you as they conduct experiments with your magic.”
Such a company exist? We might try to enter such a company, since we can train our forms of magic while earning an income. I have never heard of this company before, probably it is because they will be called as maniacs if they allowed others to know that this is what the company do.
“Anyway, my new students. You all are here is because you are potential good magic casters. We are to train you to become real magic casters of the future. Because in the near future, all the technology of the current society will fade, and magic will reign.”
“How do you know all this?”
“That will be a secret, my dear student. Now I have gathered all of you here for one purpose. I need to show you your special schedule, separate from the other normal humans. You are to not attend the orientation camp any further, but to come here for the rest of the 2 days. For today, I will need all of you to demonstrate your powers. Before doing so, introduce yourself by providing your name and state which Elemental Plane you work for.”
Everyone in the room went up once and showcased their specialty in powers, all of them worked for either Fire, Earth, Wind or Water, none of them worked for Light Elemental Plane or Darkness. All of them were just very basic powers to me. From conversion of matter to voice amplification, none of them are impressing at all. Then when it came to Time’s turn, she sent her clones flying everywhere and draining other people’s Time so much that some people actually died. I have to step into revive the people and apologize for her behaviour, but the principle only smiled.
The next person that came up after Time was the “Almighty Queen” Omi. I myself is interested to know what powers she holds as the “Almighty Queen”. Can’t be all that strong if she is only someone that comes from a human source and when she belongs to a rich family.
If you haven’t read the first book, you will not understand why I said that, for the sake of those that have forgotten or have yet to read it, I shall explain it here. I have stated previously, during the Invasion Disaster, there were waves of magic spreading out throughout the city. Many people were unable to handle the wave of magic and exploded into chunks of flesh and puddles of blood, i.e. they died. However, among those that managed to survive, some of them gained the ability to cast magic. The level of is dependent on how much psychological damage were done on their brain since young, the greater the damage, the more powerful their magic will be. For Time, she gained the powers over Time and Shadows after surviving the Invasion Disaster, and that probably meant she had a thoroughly dreadful life. I will not pry too deeply into that. Thus, for someone like Omi, she is likely to have very weak powers.
Omi closed her eyes and mumbled her spell. Then suddenly, I felt something is controlling me. My hands and legs won’t obey my instructions. The same thing went for everyone else in the auditorium. So this is her power, to control over the flesh of others. Not something impressive enough for me, her power signature is not powerful as well, probably up to a General level at the most. I broke myself away from the spell using Insigma, the principle probably sis the same thing as she appears to be free from the spell.
Finally it is my turn. I want to surprise the entire crowd using an Infinity Level Magic, but something that is not dangerous in nature as well. Then I decided to just bind up everyone using The Void, that kind of spell is likely to peak Lord Level magic at the least, which will showcase my strength in magic.
“Good afternoon to everyone here, my name is Innight. I work for the Void Elemental Plane.”
I paused for a moment. Then casted Void: Viral pixel.
The entire room is then enveloped in The Void, no one could move and speak and everything started glitching out like a glitched computer program. I turned around and saw the principle unable to escape the spell as well. This is a Lord level spell, so if she is unable to break it but is able to break Time’s, Charlotte’s and Nicki’s, her level of magic is probably on the far end of Arch level. I disabled the spell, everyone crumbled down onto the floor, even the principle, gasping for breath.
“Impressed?” I asked her.
“Ve…Very. How strong are you exactly, Innight?”
“That is a secret. However I can reveal to you that I’m more powerful that anyone you could have met, on Earth itself or in the Elemental Realm.”
The principle shot me a look of fear and dread. I can sense that she is afraid. Afraid of how dangerous I am if I am allowed to use magic in the school compound.
I wandered back to my seat. The principle continued to gasp for her breath for another few moments, the same goes for the others.
“We…Well, this concluded the test drives we have. You should re-join your Factions to view the CCAs in the school and decide which one to choose from. We will gather back here again tomorrow for your allocation to the 4 house, Garnet, Sapphire, Onyx and Zircon.”
We then took the hoverbus back to region D and walked back to building D6. Just as we sat down, the principle appeared in the auditorium. She most likely used teleportation spell to move around places that fast, is she not afraid of others knowing that she is a magic caster?
“New students,” She begin. “Now is the time for you to have a glance of our wide variety of CCAs we offer in our school. Do remember not to cause a scene and you are to choose your CCA before the end of the orientation camp. Have fun for your evening. Once the time reached 5 you are allowed to leave the school compound.”
As we wandered around the region, I took a look at all the CCAs, none of them really caught my eyes, and majority of them are sports based. Then one particular CCA caught my attention, it was as signboard writing “Occult Research Club”. I read the signboard. It says that it has only one CCA session per week, and it is recruiting anyone that has interest or knowledge of the Occult.
That sounds perfect to me. I pulled Time, Nicki and Charlotte over to the signboard.
“This sounds interesting. We could all come together and discuss on the Elemental Realms.” Charlotte mentioned.
“Indeed. I don’t need to physically strain myself either.” I said.
“Let’s go take a look at where their booth is.”
When we found it, it is in a completely dark room. I used magic to view the room and found three people sitting inside.
“Hello?” I wanted to strike a conversation but the silence continued.
Then I analysed the mana flow of the humans, then found that their mana have been heavily drained. I quickly took out some mana crystals and placed on their foreheads. The mana flowed from the crystals into their body. I can sense they begin to awake.
“Huh? Where are we?” One person exclaimed.
“We saved you. What in the world of Gilead are you doing?” I asked.
“We tried out a ritual. Do you see the magic circle on the floor? That was what we were doing.”
“Seriously you people are idiots. You have no idea what you are doing. That could have killed all of you if I did not arrive here on time.”
“You knew what this is?”
“I do. And I know that you should not try this out unless you are a magic caster. But that’s beside the point, I want to know about your Club.”
“Ah yes. We are the Occult Research Club, every week we meet up once, on Wednesday. We discuss and perform rituals to know about the unknown entities in our world. We also exchange our information with other Occult Clubs out in Singapore as well. That is all we do in this club.”
“That information is enough, let’s go.” I took the hands of Time, Nicki and Charlotte and left.
Then I stopped, and reminded them something before I left: “Don’t perform any random rituals, some are so dangerous that will bring the world to an end.”
We took the hoverbus after the clock tower in the distance struck 5. Surprisingly there were very little people boarding the bus today. I suspect most of them probably left way before 5. Well, the school cannot track them so they can do however they like. I sighed.
As we walked back home, we took a small detour and went to an antique shop. From there we brought 3 metal bicycles and we cycled home.
When I opened the door, I hear noises from the living room. I took a peek and saw Nightius sitting there.
“What are you doing here, Nightius?”
“Nothing. I’m here to see how you are coping at your new school.”
“There is no need to do so. I am coping perfectly well at the new school, you do not need to check up on me.”
“But Lord Inoxion requests so, I cannot go against his order.”
“Why does he care so much about me in the human world?”
“Who knows? Anyway if you are fine, I guess I should go. Did you children brought something?”
“Yes. Just bicycles though.”
“Oh. Thought you bought some food. Never mind then. Bye Innight.” Saying these, he opened up a portal and walked through it, then it closed.
I cooked up a storm for dinner and we had bath after, then it’s time to sleep. I thought about the principle. She has connection to a named company that experiments with magic, is of Arch level magic, and is intending to train all of us magic caster into stronger casters. On the surface it sounds like she is helping us, but I can’t help to feel that there is something hidden beneath. After going through the entire mess Luricerite made I have come to trust people even lesser, so probably it is just my imagination.
I closed my eyes and fell into sleep.
Inside the building D6 of Rescendant College, a gathering of people is sitting on the stage. All of them are wearing purplish robe and have hoods covering their faces.
“Are you sure, leader?”
“Positive, my follower.”
“Then what shall we do?”
“Nothing at the moment, my followers. We are to establish the Ordeal, but not now yet. Our first job is to complete the machine. How far is the progress on creating the machine, Member 3?”
“I say we are nearly complete, we can begin the testing tomorrow.”
“Good. Good. Good. That is being diligence. Remember, we are to keep track of Zealus’s movement and complete the machine before he realizes it. At the same time, we need to find out the seals where He is being kept and free him from His imprisonment.”
“Leader, we have an update regarding Him-” One of the Member started.
“WHAT?! HOW COULD YOU HAVE ANY UPDATE FROM HIM! I AS THE LEADER I AM THE ONLY ONE HE TALKS TO, NOT ANYONE ELSE! THAT IS MY AUTHORITY AS THE LEADER OF THE GATHERING AND THE STYX CULT!” The leader screamed and begin to punch the Member repeatedly in the face.
“Leader…” The Member continued after the leader stopped punching. “He is dead. He tried to combine with the previous Grand Ruler of the Light Elemental Plane to gain a body of flesh, then his magic overflowed and he is reduced into pure mana.”
“NO! THAT COULD NOT BE! OUR MASTER THAT WE OUGHT TO SERVE CANOT DIE THAT EASILY!” The leader yelled.
“We have yet to prove that to be true. We will have to interact with Zealus to know the truth. He is the Creature who sealed our Master and he is rumoured to be the Creature that saw this.”
“Well, Member 6, asked him thoroughly about what actually happened when you have the chance to interact with him! If he is dead, we will have to find his remains and revive him! If not, we shall turn to the Ancient Beasts instead!”
“Understood, leader.”
“You are dismissed!”