It’s the 22th of Gemini. It has been two weeks since the whole angel thing. Just now the girls are healthy again, it was a long two weeks.
All 3 of them were affected by something called Overcharge Weakness. It’s the name of a sickness that only happens to people who have their mana overflow their natural limit for a long period of time, with long being an hour at least.
They almost couldn’t leave the bed, eating was as exhausting as running and they couldn’t maintain their circulation normally. Everyone in the house took turns taking care of them, even Jack and Jackelinne came once but most of the time it was me. I feel bad for all of this but even with things as bad as they were I think they were better than the alternative.
I would probably have tried to burn the angel inside me or explode myself in the worst case scenario and who knows what that would have done to the area around me.
If there is one good thing about all of this is that the mana circulation system of all the girls is completely open, now they just need to circulate their mana themselves and things will start to go automatically for them.
Another thing that this situation showed me and Monica is that a little stimulus over a great period of time is better than a big one all at once. Not even a few hours after we finished putting them in bed I was starting to fall asleep. I was more tired than I thought and I couldn’t leave for more than a minute or two or the girls would start to scream in pain. Monica got my attention and guided me to the bathroom where she shoved the dildo of her magic strapon on my ass and said that I would have to do that as this entire situation would not give her the time to take care of me. She said that she would take care of things if they went out of control but told me to hang on. She was a little too happy with my situation but she was also worried about the girls so I let that slide.
Luckily for both of us it worked. Moving around with a dildo in your ass will make you cum a lot as it seems. The worst part of all this was keeping a straight face when the girls were conscious enough to understand the world around them. The idea of doing something that people absolutely couldn’t find out kinda excited me a lot but taking care of them was a priority so my mind was balanced out. By the end of those two weeks going around with a dildo in my ass felt like something I did all my life. I don’t know if this was a good thing but let’s think it is.
During this time I also got a little more friendly with Ice Cream. He now can come inside the house as he obeys the commands of me, Sophia and Monica. The other maid is mostly doing outside jobs so Ice Cream didn’t really interact with her. I learned that she has a husband and two kids around 10 years old each and that she was a survivor of some kind of small war and that’s why she is so worried about people who look dangerous to her. Also that in her hometown knowing the full name of someone meant that you trusted that people to a high degree so even revealing part of her name would mean that she trusts me somewhat as with just that I could find the rest if I so choose and that would be really bad from her point of view.
I help all 3 girls dress up and we go down to have lunch. They finally will be able to eat something on a table again. They are still a little weak but you can see the fire in their eyes, especially Alfina, she wants to play.
Sophia hunted down a wild pig in the forest south. Looks like some pigs from a city or two away managed to escape their farm and managed to survive with some of them making their way here.
Jack also sent a lot of vegetables, the kind that he personally takes care of. This was some sort of payment for what we did so we accepted it.
Monica and the other maid got the hang on how to fry meat so we are eating fried pork along with lots of vegetables. Fried food is not really that healthy but getting good oil is so hard that not frying it would be a shame when we have it.
The food was pretty good, the girls ate a lot, almost as much as everyone else. I guess good food makes you want to eat more independently of how sick you are.
After lunch I spend the rest of the day helping them get back on their feet as well as making sure that they can circulate their own mana. At night my prediction came true and they didn’t need me to sleep peacefully. The problem is that they liked the idea of sleeping together and didn't want to move back to their rooms. Sophia and Monica didn’t really care so they all now share a room and we have two empty rooms again.
In the morning as we are eating I remember some things and start to question the girls.
“Maxia and Zelfina, what are your blessings and curses if you have any?”
“I don’t really remember the name of my blessing but I can know if someone is sick.” Maxia says.
“I am also in the same situation, I can’t really remember the name, it’s not something that really comes up in normal conversation but I can identify forged documents by looking at the letters of the document. If I know how a person writes, if someone tries to pass as him I can tell.” Zelfina says.
“I guess we should go to the church to look at all of you just in case. I also have to see if they can take a look at Mira.”
“Who is that again?” Maxia asks.
“The big sword.”
“Why?” Sophia asks,
“She has a pretty powerful curse on her that I have no idea what exactly it is.”
“Shouldn’t you have taken a look at this before?”
“I can’t use the curse so it wasn’t really on my mind.”
“Well, let’s hope you can’t. If you gain the ability to use curses at will we will have a lot of things to do that both of us don’t want to.”
“Why?”
“Curses are almost impossible to actually make if you are a normal mage.” Mess adds.
“So what? I have to inform the King or something?”
“Yeah. It’s actually a crime to put a curse on others here. Worse if it is a permanent one.” Sophia explains.
“... Aren’t all curses permanent?”
“No.” Mess says.
You learn something new everyday. After this talk we all go to the church where we request the priest to take a look at us using the scale.
Everyone is ok but we all have a curse called Unfit Host. The priest has no idea what this is but I think it’s about the angel. Probably something Mess did to us. By what he said he has some sort of protection against angels so I would not be surprised if this is his doing.
Alfina never had herself read by the scale, she also didn’t come into this world like a normal kid as far as I know so I was expecting her to have no blessing but she has one. Keeper of Secrets. The priest explains that she will be able to remember any secret she hears as long as she doesn't talk about it to people.
I ask the priest to take a look at my sword but the scale only works on living things. If I want to have a look at Mira I need to find a blacksmith good enough to craft her again, the priest explained to me.
After that we quickly go back to the mansion where I begin to train these girls.
“Listen up! Until now your training was just the warm up. You will become what you want to be and I will make sure of that.” I say in a commanding voice.
“YES MA’AM!” They shout in response.
“First lesson. Never, ever, under absolutely no circumstances run out of mana if you are in a dangerous situation.”
“Why?” Maxia asks.
“When normal mages run out of mana they just get really tired, right?”
“Yes.”
“Well, if you run out of mana you will blackout.”
By the looks of their faces they understand the danger of getting knocked unconscious.
“Second lesson. The faster you make your mana circulate inside of you the more powerful it becomes. Also there is the possibility that you will start using a spell even if you don’t want to, so try to maintain the speed low.”
“Are you doing that right now?” Zelfina asks.
“Yes, if I let my mana flow in it’s natural state I would be on fire right now.”
“Third lesson. All 3 of you are now one of the most powerful mages in the world but don’t let that go to your head, there are plenty of people out there who can absolutely crush all of you. You can have pride in the fact that you are able to do what you do but never think you are superior to everyone in every way.”
“So I can shoot sparkly balls like Mess does?” Alfina asks.
“I don’t know, I have no idea how to check what you can do. I was going to ask him for some help in a few moments.”
“So what do we do?”
“All of you can move the mana inside of you, right?”
They all nod in agreement.
“Try to make your mana circulate your body as fast as you can while you walk around the house.”
“Ok.” They all say as they do what I told them. I then enter the house and go knock on Mess's door.
“Who is it?”
“It’s me, I need a little help with something.”
“What?” He says as he opens the door. His room is organized with the exception of this desk which is filled with papers everywhere.
“How do you identify what kind of magic someone can use?”
“You… Now that you are asking me this I have no idea. A priest told me what I could and couldn’t do. I tested everything and what he said was true.”
“So there is a spell that shows what people can do?”
“Probably, I was very young so I don’t remember everything.”
“Any ideas?”
“I actually just had one and it will probably help with my research.” he says as he leaves his room. I follow him outside where we wait for the girls to come back.
When they come back their faces show that they understand that maintaining a fast circulation is hard when you are moving.
“Mess will try something to help us find what all of you can do.”
“Don’t worry, it’s not going to hurt.” He says.
“So what are we going to do? I know I can use Healing Spell because I tried to use a healing rune and it worked.” Maxia asks.
“I can use all the basic elements so I will first create a small piece of this element and all of you will try to move it using your mana.”
They all nod in agreement.
Mess created a table where he could leave what he created away from him as he didn’t want to have mana infused on him.
First he creates a small candle flame that doesn’t move due to the air around it. No one is able to move besides me who moved it just to show that you can do it. By just circulating your mana you have an effect on the elements you have an affinity with if they are near enough.
After that is water. Maxia is able to move the water a little. The other two couldn’t.
Next element was earth and all of them managed to move the pebble that Mess created just a little bit. They all probably have some affinity with it but it’s borderline none.
Wind came as the next choice. Mess created a small tornado that we could see due to the dust around it. No one managed to affect it.
Thunder was the next. Mess created a small lightning that stayed in place and no one besides me managed to affect it. I took a small shock from it as it moved to me.
Next two were light and darkness. Mess created a small ball of both elements. Alfina managed to move the light ball as freely as she wanted and Zelfina managed to move the dark ball in the same way.
“What a surprise.” I say.
“What?” Mess asks me.
“I was expecting anything but darkness on Zelfina. She doesn’t have the vibe of a dark mage.”
“Darkness is a strange element. It deals with gravity and fear.” Mess explains to me.
“If she can still fear in the hearts of her enemies that will be good.”
“Glad that this worked but I have no idea how to check the rest.”
“What else there is to test?”
“The 50 or so unique affinities.”
“I will look for something to help with that later.”
“If you find anything, let me use it too. I want to see with my own eyes what I can and can’t do.”
Mess dispel everything and go back to his room, leaving me alone with the girls again.
“Looks like we found your basic elemental affinities at least.” I say to them.
“I can create light, right?” Alfina asks me.
“I didn’t expect to also be able to use water.” Maxia says.
“Why darkness?” Zelfina asks, a little apprehensive.
“Like it or not, all 3 of you have something new to do now. It’s part of you so accept it.”
“Zelfina, go grab your rapier and do basic stabs while you maintain your mana circulation at a high speed.” She goes inside to grab it.
“You two need to find how you will cast spells.” I say to Alfina and Maxia.
“What do you mean?” Alfina asks.
“Mess used runes to make his spells take form. We need to think what we want and move our body in a way we feel appropriate to cast the spell. Look at this, I can’t create fire if I let my hands stay like this.” I say while making finger guns.
“Why?” Maxia asks.
“Probably because my hand, while in that form, makes me remember something I don’t like.” I don’t like guns in general very much.
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“So if it is a motion that is positive to you, you can make something happen, but if it is negative, you probably can’t, right?”
“Something along those lines. Also giving your spell a name and saying it makes it more powerful.”
“Unicorn!” Alfina shouts as she puts her hands forward but nothing happens. “It didn’t work.”
“You probably don’t have enough mana for that yet if you even can do it.”
“What is an unicorn?” Maxia asks.
“A horse with a pointy horn in the middle of it’s head.” I didn’t expect to have to answer this.
“They are magical.” Alfina says.
Maxia takes a few seconds to imagine it. Zelfina comes back and begins to do what I said.
“Now let’s start with the basics. Imagine you mana going outside of yourself and taking the shape of the element you can use. It should just be a ball of it, it shouldn’t be able to do anything else besides exist as it is.”
They begin to concentrate and little by little a small ball of light and water appears in front of them only to vanish as they lose concentration and air. Looks like they are holding their breath to use the spell.
The training continues until I feel that their mana is almost over. They managed to hold it for the entire afternoon. Zelfina also made a little progress. I could at times feel her mana. She didn’t really use hers that much but she was physically exhausted.
As the night begins to hit they enter the house and go take a bath. I am left there alone feeling glad that my explanation on how to use magic works. I can’t make a ball of lightning that doesn’t hurt me so I was wondering if they could do it with water and light.
If Zelfina manages to have her mana circulating at full speed while fighting she will be able withstand the stress of a fight and still be able to make important decisions most of the time.
I take this moment to let a little bit of energy out. I close my eyes, take a deep breath and let my mana flow through my body without stopping it. I can feel static and some fire forming around me but not too big, probably because I am calm. Then I feel someone grabbing my butt and instinctively I turn around to slap whoever did this.
“Hello.” Monica says to me as I stop just short of hitting her.
“Why did you do that?”
“Do what?”
“You grabbed my butt.”
“I did no such immoral thing.”
“... What do you need?” I say, a little bit annoyed.
“Don’t set the grass ablaze.”
“...ok.” I can’t really respond any other way.
After that she enters the house and soon after so do I. During dinner I start a small talk with Sophia.
“Is there some kind of public library in the kingdom?” I ask.
“Why do you ask?” Sophia asks in response.
“I need to find information about unusual monsters, creatures and beings as well as books about magic. Your library has some good books but most of them are story books telling the same thing pretty much.” In a world with magic, creating impossible tales is quite difficult. Most stories bow down to person X needs to do Y thing and need Z item if they aren't a mix of historical facts and fiction. The ways change from book to book but most of the time the protagonist needs to accept something about reality that he either didn’t know, didn’t care or didn’t like. I feel like most stories are told to make people know their place in relation to the greater powers of the world or tell an otherwise boring story in a more epic way.
“The Queen has a library of her own. There is also the Royal library but I don’t think even you wouldn’t be able to get access to those two.”
“Let me guess, forbidden stuff.”
“Something along those lines if I remember right.”
“Then can you do me a favor?”
“What?”
“Contact the Magic Institute and ask someone to come and appraise the girls.”
“That can be done.”
After that we finish our food and everyone is getting ready to sleep. The other maid had to leave early today so I am helping with the dishes.
As soon as Monica and I finished putting the dishes on the cupboards she walked straight at me and grabbed my boobs with boths of her hands and fondled them for a few moments before stopping and continuing like nothing happened. I was stunned by this.
“Why did you do that?”
“Did what?”
“Don’t get funny with me.”
“I am not. What did I do that made you look a little frustrated? Perhaps I didn’t wash one of the plates properly?” She says, 100% serious.
“Look, if you want something from me just ask.”
“I shall keep that in mind.” She says as she goes upstairs to her room.
Alfina, Maxia and Zelfina can all sleep by themselves now so I finally am able to sleep in my own room.
In the morning as I am changing clothes she comes into my room unannounced, grabs my butt for a few seconds, really feeling it, and then picks the dirty clothes in the wash basket like normal. I can see a small smile on her face as she does that of me. I get the feeling that she is playing with me and that I shouldn’t do anything in return for now. Most of the time my instinct told me something, following it turned out to be the best choice.
After breakfast I inform the girls to continue yesterday’s training but to take it slowly today. “Move around a little, talk with each other and really think about what you want to do with your magic.” I say as I go into the office with Sophia to help with work.
During the morning a group of adventurers came to get the letter I asked Sophia to write. I give them a few coins so they don’t forget about it. I never saw these people before so they might not have this as a priority and are just doing this request along with something else.
Also during the morning, on a few occasions, Monica would come to the office like she usually does to bring some tea or paper to Sophia and pinch me where she could, usually my boobs.
Is someone else possessing her? Or did she finally embrace her naughty side? Whatever this is, is giving me a weird feeling. At least it’s not as bad as people pointing guns to you while you are working so I think I can live with this.
During lunch Monica sat beside me. She spent more than a few minutes caressing my legs.
After that Maxia and Alfina were dismissed from training. I told them to focus on increasing their mana by maintaining its circulation at high speeds but not as fast as they could or it would begin to be used while doing whatever they wanted if it was possible.
Zelfina is with me in the living room and I will begin to teach her some things about battle that she will probably find useful.
“Ok Zelfina. Let’s say you have an army attacking your army. Who on the opposing side should you focus on taking care of first?”
“Their general?”
“No.”
“Their strongest fighter?”
“No. Last chance.”
“Their mages?”
“No.”
“Then who?”
“Their support troops.”
“Why?”
“If you can’t eat or be healed, once you are out of the fight you are out. What’s important in a fight is not if you are stronger than your opponent, it is if you can win. You can win a fist fight without throwing a single punch if you block or dodge his attacks long enough.”
“How?”
“Do you think attacking doesn’t take energy?”
She stops for a second and understands what I am saying.
“But I remember my dad saying that defending takes more energy than attacking.”
“That is true but you don’t need as many people defending as you need attacking if everyone in the battle is at the same level.”
“What do you mean?”
“Let’s say you are defending a castle in the middle of a glassplain against a thousand spearmen. If you manage to stop their supplies or just reduce it enough, you can little by little dwindle the attacker numbers while in the safety of the castle. You could also just do nothing and sit on your supplies if you think there is enough.”
“In this situation the enemy soldiers would start to get desperate and become easy to take care of, right?”
“Yes. Either that or they retreat and that would count as your victory.”
“I never thinked about things this way.”
“Since you say you want to command you need to be able to see what is a priority. I am just giving a general view of it. In the field things are chaotic and something that is right in a situation can be fatal in another.”
“Any examples?”
“You can probably defend a castle but not a boat by just doing nothing.”
“Ok.”
“Another important thing is that troops are people. Don’t treat them like objects.”
“That is a given.”
“You have no idea how wrong you are.”
“Why?” She asks me angrily.
“If there is one thing I know is that sooner or later, if you participate in enough battles as a commander of troops you will start to see your soldiers as just things.”
“How can you be so sure of it?”
“Because it’s better to send something to their death than sending a person to their death.”
She takes a few seconds to understand what I am really saying.
“Unless you plan to never lose even one person, ever, you need to be ready to ignore death around you in one way or another.”
“To think my dad has this kind of weight on him.”
“Either that or he is just a bad person.”
“He isn’t a bad person.”
“If you say so…”
I then spent the rest of the afternoon telling her about my numerous battles so she could have a feeling on how the battlefield is.
After dinner, when I was preparing to go to bed, Monica came to me in my room and started to play with my boobs for a minute or so. I was ready to do something but I kept getting this strange feeling from her so I let her play with me a little and she soon went away like she did nothing.
During the night someone left me 5 gold bars and a ruby the size of my hand near the window. I almost had a heart attack seeing those things. They are probably the payment for the assassination of the Mammon guy. I was also expecting a letter or a message but only the goods were there.
Gold itself is not something very rare in this world but high quality gold is. These bars are very high quality, they emit a faint aura of mana that show they are almost 100% pure. The ruby is just big but bigger gems tend to fetch good prices. I will hold on to these items as they can be useful later on. This gold will only go up in value if things stay as they are now.
After breakfast and Monica’s hands, I go train the girls as Sophia is going to take care of things in the city.
During the training as I was helping all 3 of them a portal opened in the front of the house. We all went there.
“Hello.” I say.
“Greetings. I come at the request of our leader to help you I believe. You are Lucia, right?” The man in a purple robe asks me. He has purple short hair, dark blue eyes and a plain face. He is around 170 cm tall.
“Yes, I need help finding what kind of spell these girls can cast.” I say while pointing to them.
“A simple request as it was informed then.” He says.
We all move back to the backyard where he uses a spell on them as soon as they are ready. He didn’t even bother with presentations, he was here just to do this and will probably go back soon after.
“You need everything besides the basic elements, is that right?”
“Yes, if it is possible.”
“Ok… The girl with pink hair can use purification and healing magic. The Small elf girl can also use taming magic and the last one can use weakening magic.”
“What about me?” I ask. He quickly uses the spell on me.
“You… Ahn? Well, that’s new.”
“What?”
“New is not the best word for it. It is probably better to say I am surprised. You can use ancient magic.”
“What is ancient magic?”
“Legends say that was the magic that the gods gave to the first mortals so they could survive the harsher world of the old.”
“Any reason why nobody uses that anymore?”
“Because you can’t teach ancient magic. That is also the reason the institute is going to send a letter saying that they will stop trying to copy you.”
We are all surprised.
“May I ask why?”
“Like ancient magic, you can’t teach spells. We probably will use what you found out to increase our mana but only that. Our leader is in the middle of finding a way to make the ones that underwent the process able to use runes again. If not for your letter he would probably have forgotten you existed until he finished.”
“...Can you send a message to Maxoiliodas for me?”
“What shall I inform him?”
“I am disappointed in him and I need books on magic and I am willing to pay or work for it.”
He looks at me confused for a second but accepts it. Seconds later he opens another portal and probably goes back to that castle.
“Well, at least we know what you can actually do now.”
“What is purification?” Maxia asks.
“What is weakening?” Zelfina asks.
“What is taming Lucia?” Alfina asks.
“If purification has its own category and isn’t part of healing, it probably has something to do with healing or cleaning things that can’t be healed normally. Weakening probably means you can make someone weaker, either physically or mentally with your magic. As for you Alfina, you will probably be able to make animals and monsters do what you want.”
“I will make a horse become a unicorn.” She says, really happy.
“I don’t think they will be able to do something they can’t normally do, so calm down a little.” Better not give her false hopes.
“Ok, so how do we train this?” Maxia asks.
“First you should focus on actually being able to manifest your element. If you can’t do the most basic of basic things then the hard things will be impossible.” They can actually materialize things but not maintain them. If I create a fireball, as long as it is in contact with me, my mana doesn’t actually go down. If I cancel the spell I also don’t lose mana. All of them when they use mana, it's gone, so that probably means they can’t fully materialize it and some mana is being lost in the process.
We continue for a few minutes with me instructing Maxia and Alfina to make sure that their mana only goes towards their ball and keeping an eye on Zelfina to make sure she isn’t just stabbing the air.
Then another portal opens. Did that guy forget something?
“What do you mean by disappointed? Who do you think you are sending this message to me and asking for books?” Maxoiliodas appears from the portal and he is pissed. Also looks like he didn’t sleep for a few days. The girls are stunned.
“I was expecting you to be able to crack how my spells work so we could teach everyone how to use it. If you are just going to use what you learned to increase the mana of people, magic will be out of the grasp of a lot of people that would benefit from it. Also the fact that Alfina can’t learn magic if you teach her another way.”
He looks to the side and sees that Alfina is now able to use magic.
“I guess you managed to awaken the girl but it will be all for nothing.”
“What do you mean?”
“Your magic, like ancient magic, can’t be passed down. Also, anyone who awakens to it is unable to use runes if they never used them for some reason.”
“And just because of that you gave up? I can do what you do with fire using a fraction of the mana you use. Imagine what you could do? You have 10 times the mana I have, if not more.”
“But then I would burn everything that took me to where I am now. I am the sum of the magic knowledge of everyone before me and I will pass it to the next person. You don’t know the hardships we have to go through to study magic. A single rune has more time put into its research and creation than you have years of life. Also those without talent shouldn’t use magic, they will taint it.”
I get angry. It’s like saying that people who can’t use spells since birth shouldn’t have the chance to actually do it. Talent is not the capacity to do something, it is the ability to do it.
“Then why did you say you would train Alfina if she managed to use spells? You are smart enough to have known that I would make her do what I did.”
“I feel for the girl but I have no hopes that she would actually awaken. Also the fact that she can’t learn from me was only discovered about a month or so ago.”
“Why didn’t you have someone tell me this when you found it then? I could have done something else for her.”
“I have no reason to report to you.”
“You came here just to bitch about a message, you could have told me.”
“No, I came here to say that as of now I declare it illegal for you or anyone to teach your way of casting spells.”
“WHY!?” I shout at him.
“It’s too dangerous. Runes have a system on them, what you do is too abstract to not be dangerous. If someone with a high amount of mana and without training was born able to do what you do, the damage would be incalculable.”
“If people could just have been born this way wouldn’t someone else besides me appear?”
“They all could probably have killed themselves for all we know.” He then faces the girls who are very afraid of him. “I hope all of you learn something from her because as of now all of you are banned from the Institute.”
It takes a few seconds but Alfina finally gets what is happening and begins to cry as she runs to the mansion. I was so angry with him that I forgot that she was here for a moment.
“Maxoiliodas, this is war. I will make you beg for me before you die.”
“Don’t think that just because The Crown is with you now that they will be later. The King is sure to understand the risks of your ways and you will lose the protection you think you have.” He says as he goes back to his portal.
I wanted to say a lot of things to him but Alfina comes first. I didn’t realise but I am on fire and with my hair red. Maxia and Zelfina are afraid of even coming near me. I calm myself as much as I can, which is not much as my hair is still red.
Monica and the other maid are looking at me waiting for an answer but I ignore them and go to Alfina’s room. As I open the door I see that she is crying under the blankets of her bed.
“Alfina, come here.” I say as I sit on the bed. She quickly jumps on me and continues to cry.
“Can’t I go home now?” She asks me between sobbings.
I could lie or tell sweet nothings but I know that kids are not dumb, expecially her.
“I don’t know.”
“Why!?”
“I don’t know.”
She begins to cry uncontrollably again. You can only receive so much bad news in your life as a child. I had my past experiences to help me when I was younger but Alfina is pretty much the same age she was.
“Alfina, I am not good with magic so I can’t teach you what you want and looks like no one else will either. But I promise you this, I will do my best to help you with this.”
“What do you mean?”
“You want to go back home, right?”
“Yes.”
“All we need to do is to find a way, it doesn't matter if you do it or not. As long as someone can send you there, it would be ok, wouldn’t it?”
She nods in agreement.
“Until then you have to promise me one thing.”
“What?”
“You have to train really hard. Also study a lot.”
She nods again.
“Did you go to school?”
“Yes…”
“Did you like it?”
“A little.”
“Do you think I am a good teacher?”
“Sophia is better.” I can’t do anything but laugh. Sophia is indeed a better teacher than me. I stopped trying to teach Alfina how to read and write a while ago and Sophia took over for me. She only teaches her for an hour if not less and she is learning way faster than with me.
Alfina also lightens up a little with me laughing. She still is hugging me but the crying is stopping. I hugged her too.
Maxoiliodas was always an oddball to me but his way of thinking is wrong. He never even tried to see where this road I opened goes. As soon as the fact that he would have to change vehicles he decided that it was not worth it.
For all we know my way of using spells could jump this society decades into the future. He will pay for what he did. He will beg for me to teach him.