Chapter 2_The Entity [Oneshot]

Yep, it's going to be two chapters.

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Nobody talks on the rest of the way. They just seem to want to get as far away from the massacre as possible. Without any more stops along the way we arrive at Kalem.

It's a big city with great grey walls that seem to surround the whole city. In the middle a couple of buildings stand out but I can't make out anymore as the walls block my sight.

A line of people has formed in front of what seems to be the main gate. A checkpoint. I've always hated those kind of things. We stop at the end of the line and wait for the time to pass.

"Are you hungry Leo?" Firo asks me. I'm not hungry. But I have appetite so I answer smiling.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! I wanna eat porridge again"

"Aww, we don't have porridge right now, but I can give you some dried fruit if you want to"

dried fruit.... I am so in.

"YAAAAY!" I go full twelve year old girl on her and she hands me a green fruit. It looks a bit like an apple but after the first bite I cry again. It's a new kind of sweetness that fills my mouth.

It must be quite the sight because two small children in front of me look at the fruit in my hand jealously.

"You're not getting any" I tell them with a mean look. No way in hell am I going to share something new.

They turn around to what seems to be their parents and I can hear them asking for fruits.

I start laughing out of delight. Firo starts smiling too. I think she likes me as a small sister of even a daughter. I like her.

After what seemed like an eternity of waiting we finally get to the start of the line. A grumpy guardsman looks at the group and asks us for identification.

Without saying much Aris and Selen hand him their stat-cards and he instantly clenches up.

"Welcome to Kalem madams we're happy to see mythril adventurers coming to here at any time."

"Thank you. Do you need the other cards too?" Selen asks while putting her own card back into her pouch.

"That will not be necessary. Only if they cause trouble."

"Good. Let's move" we walk past the guards that look towards Selen with admiration.

I wonder.

"What's a mythril adventurer?" I ask them. I'll just have to feign the ignorant twelve year old again.

"Oh you don't know?" Don asks me, happy being able to talk to me it seems.

Of course I don't know what the fuck it means. Otherwise I would not have asked.

"It's the ranking system. It goes from copper up to adamantium. Mythril is the third highest rank anyone can achieve."

Wow Selen and Aris seem to be famous. Time for some admiration then.

"Woow so are you two famous?" I ask them.

"Mythril is not so uncommon nowadays. We're just one of many right now." Selen answers me. Wanting to cut the whole thing off.

Fine. As we walk past a market place I smell dozens of new flavors seeping into my nose"

"Firoooo can we eat something?" I ask her while drooling a bit.

"No, we need to check into the guild first. You need a stat-card. Then we can go eat something if you want to."

Fuck. The stat-card. I forgot about that.

I'll have to pull a stunt to work around that one. Well. I think I'll just put on a limiter then. It's annoying since it limits me to just the things of the level I set.

After a small walk we arrive in front of a tall building. It really looks more like restaurant. The room we move into is brightly lit with a counter in the middle. There a young woman with long black hair is talking to more people in adventurers clothing. It looks really stereotypical to me. Again.

The group just walks up to the counter.

"Hey Eve, we finished the quest, the spiders nest is burned down. On the way there though we found this girl, her name is Leona. Also there was a grey alpha. Together with its whole pack it was slaughtered. We don't know what did it but it was way stronger then the alpha. You might want to send somebody to investigate that." Selen obviously doesn't give a single fuck about the other Adventurers in front of her. But they just back of silently.

Screw being one of many. She is famous, that's for sure.

"The girl riding on Galen's shoulders?" Eve the counter girl asks.

"Yeah it seems she lost her stat-card. It might be difficult to get anything done without it so we ask if you could make a new one."

"Sure, we can do that right now."

Well, I'll need to put a limit on now. I concentrate on my thoughts for one second and suddenly I feel my strength leaving me. It's the aftereffect of sealing my power. Getting everything back is worse though.

Eve walks up to Galen. "you can let her down now"

Sure enough I he lifts me on the ground.

"ok, if you'd all just go to the office, Selen you know where it is, just lead her there. Advent will take care of it." Eve tells us smiling at me.

telling us to move on Selen leads the whole group up some stairs and towards a wooden door.

Without knocking she just opens it, just to find a middle aged muscular man sitting in front of a desk smoking a cigarette.

"Advent, we need you to make a card for us."

Advent, the man looks up in surprise.

"Now if it isn't Selen. When was the last time I saw you around here. And with the whole gang too. Oh my. Did somebody accidentally have a child on your travels?"

Wow.. I don't like this guy. but I'm breathing hard from having to go up the stairs. Did I maybe overdo it with the limit?.

"She's none of ours. we picked her up on our way back from the spiders nest. Her parents probably died in one of the burned down villages and we need you to make a stat-card for her."

"sure, I'll just need a drop of blood then. I can start instantly after that" leaving the small talk he just goes into business instead.

wait. they need my blood?

I don't like giving anyone my blood. che

"Hey Leo, this will only poke a bit." Firo comes up to me with a small needle.

Fuck no

I try to walk away but bump into Galen that just holds me in place.

"I don't want that" I croak out.

"Leo, if you endure this we'll eat lots of stuff in the town. It'll be over quickly, don't worry about it."

Shit.

fine. I extend my hand towards her and I feel a small pain in my finger. I hate limiting. It makes me vulnerable. A small drop of crimson blood stays on the needle as Advent puts it on an empty card. Instantly words form on it writing all my secrets down. I really hope I limited myself enough to not rise suspicion.

"Here you go little lady" Advent hands me the card. I hold my breath as I read the lies.

Stats:

Skills:

Limit

Fire magic

light magic

Language comprehension

Magic comprehension

Fragility

...

wow... I think it worked too good. All of my skills are gone only the magic I gained by looking at Aris remain. The limit skill is bad too. It could potentially blow my cover but it's too late now.

"Can I take a look?" Aris of course instantly wants to know what they look like.

I just hand the card over to her.

"So I was right. over 400 mana. You're something special little girl."

"che" Selena isn't amused it seems.

"We can't leave her like that. With that much mana at lv 7 she'll become a big risk if unchecked."

"She even has a magic comprehension skill. I'm not sure what it means but if I had to guess she can probably easily learn magic." Aris adds

"What's the Limit skill?" Haiden shut your mouth.

"No clue. I've never heard of that one before. Maybe she can limit the movement of some people."

Advent states dispelling any thoughts towards the real meaning of limit.

"Well, it would be wise to hide her stats from now on, though if anyone really wanted to know them they'd use analyze on her."

Wait I can hide my stats?

"Hey Leo, concentrate on your stats and imagine ???. Let's see if it works." Don tells me.

I do and look back down at the card

Stats:

Skills:

???

wow... they could've told me that before.

I put the card into a hidden pocket of my dress and release my limit again. I can't stand to remain this weak.

I shouldn't have done it. The shock of my power hits me like a truck and I instantly puke on the wooden floor. Then I collapse from the shock.

I wake up on some kind of couch. Firo sits next to me worryingly.

"She's awake!" she shouts and then "Leo, you suddenly collapsed. How are you feeling?"

Like after a night of drinking too much. That's what I want to answer. then I notice that I'm not wearing my dress right now, instead I'm covered in a blanket.

"WHERE IS MY DRESS?" I ask with a menacing voice. Well. As menacing as a twelve year old can sound anyways.

"Your dress? We needed to check you up so Aris took it."

I'm pissed.

Really pissed.

"I want my dress" I say in my whining voice.

"Hey, don't cry, we'll get you lots of beautiful clothes. You don't seem to be doing that bad right now."

"I dun want clothes I want my dress." I start crying. If that Aris did something with my dress I will destroy this whole city.

"I'll get Aris, you just stay here." Firo says. Then she quickly moves out of the room and I can hear her shout for Aris.

After a few moments the both of them come in Aris with my dress in hand. She looks disturbed.

"Girl where did you get this dress from?"

I don't even bother to answer that. Instead I jump out of bed and snatch it away from her hands.

"Why did you take my dress awaaaaaay!?" I keep up my childish act as I jump into it almost completely naked.

Aris looks at me in disbelieve.

"Girl, you might not know what it means but this dress cannot be analyzed. Even by a master with "Analyze X" At his disposal. I ask again. Where did you find it?."

Well, I did make that dress to endure even supernovas so it's no wonder that it would be durable.

Firo steps in for me though.

This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

"Wait, you took away her dress to analyze it? Why did you do that? It's hers nobody else's!"

I like Firo.

"I did not mean to bring it to Master Reinwald. But after failing to analyze it myself I had to. He's unable to analyze it as well. Even with the title of he can't figure out anything of this dress."

I need to think of an excuse quickly. I start crying to gain some time.

"Hey hey, don't cry little Leo" Firo comes towards me and hugs me.

"Why did you have to shout at her like that Aris?"

"Che. I'm sorry little one but this is really important. Do you remember where you got this dress from?"

As Aris apologizes to me and gets on her knees before me I still don't have any good explanation so I just answer.

"An angle gave it to me" with a proud voice.

yeah not the best excuse but I had to say something.

Aris eyes open wide in shock.

"An angle? Are you sure? But why? Why would an underling of Reseth give such a valuable thing to a little girl. We need to go to a temple and ask the priests if anything is going to happen."

fuck I think I just messed up badly

"What does that mean?" Firo asks.

"It means that that dress is an artifact of the church and that only they can analyze it."

wait what?

"I dun want to give my dress" I say in a whiny tone.

"It doesn't matter, we need to get this analyzed now."

Aris is getting on my nerves. Ah well. maybe I'll get to meet one of the so called gods.

It seems Selen and the others went out to buy things when I fainted. Without hesitation Aris takes me by the hand and pulls me outside of the room.

I just follow although I am a bit annoyed.

The three of us walk out of the adventurers hall and along multiple houses until we get to a huge dome like building.

Inside Aris walks up to a person wearing clerics clothes.

"My name is Aris Firewalker. I need to talk with the highest ranking priest you can find now."

Her harsh commanding tone catches him off guard but her reputation seems to go far so he just nods. Although Firo has to wait outside he leads us through the hallways. Firo waves me off with a reassuring smile. Aris is still holding my hand and I pull myself away. After three more hallways we get into a big room filled with people. They all seem young and in front of them a shaved bald old man wearing a big hat is holding a talk. Our guide walks up to him and utters something into his ear.

"This will resume later. You are all dismissed. Have a nice early break."

With those words he simply steps down his podium and walks towards us.

"Aris Firewalker I hope this is important. If not it would severely damage your reputation."

"It is. Please let us talk somewhere more private."

"Very well. Follow me then."

Another while later we sit down in front of a table facing the man. His name is Thisirius. What an annoying name. He's high priest of that god Reseth. Aris tells him what she thinks is the truth and he instantly looks at me with shocked eyes.

"You say an angle gave it to you? Do you remember what it looked like?"

For fucks sake. I have to make up even more

"He was big and had this flaming stick."

I'm just describing some of the guardians of earths God before they died.

"A seraphim?!?!" He shouts now.

fuck

"A seraphim gave you this dress? Please I must examine this."

"No" I simply say. I don't want to give up this dress anytime soon.

"You don't need to take it off."

"oh then you can look at it" I say kindly.

Without another word he turns around and opens a hidden door on the other side of the room. He then inserts his hand into the wall. After a small amount of time he pulls it back again. This time with a shard of glass in hand. Well, a big shard of glass.

Looking through it he looks at me.

"Oh by Reseth's grace. This can't be."

"What is it!?!" Aris instantly asks

"These stats are impossible. It's just not possible." His voice gets more silent and he leans back in his chair while sweating. He just hands Aris the shard and I can see just what exactly this world thinks of my dress.