Huh…While you seek something, sometimes you seek a different thing with the biggest connection to what you desire. From trying to find the barrier of mana to knowing the poems of my tradition have gotten into this world.

"What were thou trying to say, Darya? (What were you trying to say, Darya)" asked Lilith who was so confused…

"Just forget it, I am just astonished by what happened…"

"Of course, humans shall be surprised by mine magic…(Of course, humans will be surprised by my magic…)" Lilith seemed proud of herself, her head was so big right now…

"Actually……I am not impressed by your magic…."

Lilith's pride quickly turned to confusion as my words sank in. "What doth thou mean?" she asked, her tone shifting.

If I tell her, this thing will not be over, the first thing I want is how Varania dragon form can fly at supersonic speed without any sonic boom, now look at us, we are talking about anything, and just for one day, it takes long time.

There was silence around us for just a few seconds, until Lilith asked me again with a curious tone and the same face that I hated, a curious face. In those few seconds, *clap I clapped my hands and said, "This is the last time, I follow your curiosity, the reason why I was impressed is not your magic, but rather how you chant the magic…"

Lilith's eyes widened in shock, "Wait, what doth thou mean by the chant?"

"The words you use, do you recognise it or not?"

"No, like I hast quoth, this chanting had been written for generations, so the meaning of the chanting lost 'i these generations… (No, like I have said, this chanting had been written for generations, so the meaning of the chanting lost in these generations…)"

Immediately, I opened my inventory system to find paper and a pen. After I took them, I said to her "Tell me, how do you chant it? How do you spell it?"

She started to write it on the paper, soonly I recognised the word, the alphabet word.

Geni munggah tumiba kang agung,

Tatwa tumandha krida saka kula,

Kalbu tumandha suwung kanthi wisesa,

Wujud pambudidaya pambudiyo,

Reading it felt strange because it was another world, such as this language in this world, the Javanese language shouldn't be here. She passed the paper to me. While holding the paper, Lilith's head was beside my hand, as if she were waiting for me to tell her what the hell these words were.

I wanted to test her to see if she knew about the Aksara. So I decided to write the first word, Geni with aksara, it became ꦓꦺꦤꦶ. Would she recognise it? I asked her about the word. Her face was so confused that she called Varania to look closely at the word. Both of them didn't know about the word of aksara. Knowing this meant only the elf that studied the word, even Lilith. As Aella told me, Lilith was older than her and didn't recognise the word. Why Lilith doesn't understand the word? She is older than Aella, and maybe the oldest creature in this world.

She said with a curious tone "Enlighten me, Darya!!!".

Again, I told someone about aksara, which same as I told Aella and Noella about aksara. I told her about the basic word, the pasangan, and everything that was so basic. However, I didn't tell her about murda and swara, and all the words from the chanting consisted of all that.

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"Thou are marvellous, darya. And yet , I still do not understand the meaning of the chanting… (You are marvellous, Darya. However, I still don't understand the meaning of the chanting…)"

"Ah yes…I can tell you that…The first line, Geni munggah tumiba kang agung. It means fire rises, falling from greatness. It symbolises fire's powerful and majestic nature, which rises and spreads widely. Tatwa tumandha krida saka kula. It means essence responds, creating power from within me. This line speaks about Tatwa means spirit or inner essence, which responds and generates power within the individual. Kalbu tumandha suwung kanthi wisesa, focuses on the word kalbu which means heart. The heart embraces emptiness with wisdom, which means the heart accepts and understands emptiness, achieving a state of wisdom and clarity. The last line, Wujud pambudidaya pambudiyo, manifesting the essence of the spirit's work, it reflects the manifestation of efforts and pambudidaya or endeavours, as the embodiment of spiritual work and energy. There you go, the meaning of your chanting, about harnessing the power of fire and the inner spirit, reflecting themes of empowerment, wisdom, and manifestation."

"What about the chant from Varania?" asked Lilith.

I don't want to tell her because it will be so much to explain, so I will summarise it. I said, "It's just a verse about a shield and dragon, where Varania chanted about the power of the dragon and that it would shield her from any harm. It symbolises protection and strength, where it symbolises a dragon, and that's Varania."

"Thou art not explaining for each verse?"

"No…Maybe, you can find it with your own, as now you know what word your chanting uses. Now, I want to go back inside." I walked towards the stairs of the tree…

As I was walking, Lilith called me, "Darya!"

I turned around, and suddenly, a ring tossed right into me, at once I caught it. It was identical to the ring she had given me before, "Is there something or some creature inside this ring?" I asked her.

She answered with a grin, "There is no creature inside of that ring. That's the real ring. The ring I had granted thou ere, hold, but for a gimmick one. (There is no creature inside of that ring. That's the real ring. The ring I had given you before, just a gimmick one."

"So what is the big deal about this ring? Besides, the gimmick gave me a freeloader."

"Like I had quoth ere when our first meeting, the ring would say to mine acknowledgement thee, and as thou hast that ring, I shall wot where thou are. I know not what I want to grant thou, as I had granted thou mine eyes, so I granted thou the real ring (Like I had said before when our first meeting, the ring would tell my acknowledgement to you, and as you have that ring, I will know where you are. I don't know what I need to give you, as I had given you my eyes, so I gave you the real ring.)"

It's a GPS tracker, then. As the ring was on my fist, I clenched it and took it into my pocket. I said to her, "You don't need to give me anything. However, you still owe me some sums."

She smiled, and all of a sudden she jumped high into the sky. I felt a bad feeling about this, and I turned to Varania. The feeling was right; Varania quickly jumped like Lilith. I could see both of them were so high in the sky. At once, Varania transformed into her true form of a dragon, her wings spreading wide as she soared through the sky. Lilith stood on her head. As they flew off into the distance as lightning struck, I realised I still didn't know how the hell that giant lizard didn't create any sonic boom with that speed.

I turned around my back at the stairs. What a troublesome day because of those two! And now I need to take these stairs…

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The next day, I did as usual my morning stuff. However, as I tried to cook something, suddenly I heard something somewhere inside. I tried to seek whereabout the sound was. First, I went to the front door, and I still could hear it. Slowly, I walked towards the back, and the sound grew louder. However, I still couldn't see or find anything for the sound. The sound was so light, like a whisper of a breeze or rustling leaves, it wasn't just like that; the sound had a melody in there, like a flute or harp. It echoed through the rooms and to other rooms. However, I felt it was like tinkling laughter. As I walked towards the back, the source of the room was not in there but changed to the front. The sound seemed to be playing a game of hide and seek or cat and mouse with me. Again, I walked to the front; the sound changed to the back. Yet, while I was in the middle of the room as I tried to walk to the back, I heard a humming sound. It was a soft, soothing hum that was like a hummingbird flap but softer. The mysterious sounds seemed to be leading me in circles, never revealing their true source.