Okay. Let me get this straight. I made this as a full series from a mobile phone and corrected it using the tools I have. Free time has been scarce and PT takes most of my time along with re-entering college.
ZnT x Minecraft with some own theory right there.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION AND MADE BY A FAN. BOTH SERIES BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPANIES ESPECIALLY MINECRAFT. ALL NEGATIVE REACTIONS, VIOLENT COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Steve was having a duel with a skeleton underground. Both are in full armor and is having a hard time to kill each other. Steve was silent, unflinching and determined. He was not gonna die here.
-o-
Lillia was cursed to be a skeleton forever. To kill in the night is her creed as to survive the deep of the night. She was in a deadlock with the man who freed her mates but she still doesn't want to go. The legend among the skeletons won't go down quietly. She was still sane and alive despite her appearance.
-o-
Louise's turn was next on the summoning ritual. All of the students are now waiting on what will the Zero summon. An animal? A magical being? Nothing? They expect nothing out of her as all of her spells just ends up with a bang, but this time the portal had opened.
-o-
A sparkling diamond blade clashed with burning arrows. Both armors sparked and gleamed among the barren desert. To win is to survive another day and there is no third option. But there was something that cut off the fight. A green portal under the two. It sucked them like quicksand and both sides felt that resistance is futile. Lillia was taking the opportunity to fire some arrow but Steve just reflects them with precise swings. It was a deadlock and both sides sigh into their green demise. Both sides took their time to look at each other before their heads was sucked in.
-o-
Louise was shocked on what she summoned. Two commoners. Both are in a sparkling blue armor but they are of different gender. The two clashed their glares among each other. The crowd was teasing her again. "Louise summoned not just a commoner, but two of them!" Laughs flowed out of the crowd. "How much did you pay them, Louise?" Another word came from the crowd.
"Miss Louise, shall you?" Jean Colbert spoke.
"Yes sir." She said the spell to lock the contract among familiars and masters, then she kissed both the man and the woman. After a short while, the two felt extreme pain and cried out.
"You insolent fool, what did you just do?" The woman spoke as she grabbed Louise by the chin. "You may have removed my curse but I won't take that as an excuse."
"Let go of the girl, you skeleton." The man spoke. "I am your opponent, so face me. En garde!" The skeleton fired off an arrow before smacking the man with her bow which was countered by a precise blow from a blue sword.
"Control them, Louise!" Colbert spoke. He was right, she should stop them to let them see she was their master.
"Stop! As the command of your master, stand down!" She was insisting force. The two was in a deadlock when she shouted. The two looked at her.
"You? You little insolent girl will be our master? Haha, I found that funny." The lady laughed. "But do not interfere against out duel."
"There will be no duel against the man."
"We should take this seriously, we must join forces if we are to survive, skeleton."
"Do not call me skeleton for I have a name."
"But what is it?"
"You tell me your name first, warrior."
"I call myself Steve for I do not know my real name since then."
"Lillia de Lilliac is my name. Forced to survive under a curse by a witch. You may call me Lillia."
"Umm, hello?" Louise cuts in.
"Oh, the little brat." Lillia spoke. "Who art thou?"
"Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, your master."
"I shall owe you my greatest thanks for removing the curse that was placed on me. The name's Steve."
"I do not accept you as my master but there's nothing wrong if I search for a new purpose. Lillia de Lilliac." She added upon what Steve said "Let us know each other well." They spoke in unison.
-o-
As the night falls and as the students went into their rooms, the duo was trying to know each other behind Louise's back.
-o-
"So, you are a scholar that was cursed into a skeleton by a witch near a swamp?" Steve summarized the story of Lillia.
"And you don't know you past and you were silenced since you woke up."
"Seems like it."
"Wait, why are there two moons?" Lillia stopped dead in her tracks.
"Wait, what?" They were both dazed at the sights that beheld them. "Overworld, Nether, The End. That's the only places I've been to and none of them have two moons."
"And that leads us to the question of where are we." Lillia added.
"You're in Tristan's Academy of Magic." Louise replied.
"Tristain?" Both replied in unison.
"Why, have you two never heard of Halkagenia? Founder, bless me." And the two shrugged their heads in the question. "What a bunch of uneducated commoners." Her comment angered Lillia.
"I am not uneducated for I have read, leaned and put into use 6000 years of knowledge! I am a scholar of the Royal family and I know that magic existed back then and I know what happened to our own planet with my own two eyes. You are just an insolent little brat that only lives by her pride. I saw thousands of proud denizens to just die of on their own. Pride won't feed you nor keep you alive in battles and war. Pride is just an abstract reasoning for the simple-minded. I find you not worthy of my service if this manners are to keep up, lass." Louise then was furious and dazed on what Lillia said. "I need to cool off somewhere." Lillia walked out of the corridors, with anger and resolve.
"Woah. Tough times." Steve added.
"Hmm! Let her be. Come, familiar. Follow me."
"We have our own names. If you value your life, you will respect us." Louise saw Steve's sword just a hairbreadth away from her neck. "All knights have their own code. And mutual respect is what I value more than pride. I will though follow you for I have to repay you gratitude but if you do not respect our codes, then..." Steve precisely cuts of a single strand of strawberry-colored hair from Louise. "...the next one will silence you. Forever."
"O-okay." She was stuttering as they arrived at her room. There was a bed, a dresser, a cabinet, a window and a pile of hay. "You may take the night off." Her legs was shaking as the two broke her proud demeanor. As Steve left the room, she quickly slumped into her knees. "Dear Founder. I summoned killers."
-o-
Lillia de Lilliac was born into British royalty but she did not cared about it. A fateful travel in the Amazon by 2009 A.D. led her into a series of events that cursed her into the immortality of a living bone. At first, she did not cared but as time passed, she did not aged nor her wounds have healed. She was banished from the Royal family but received funding from her close niece. She became a scholar in the Max Planck institute for Astrophysics and many other different universities of science. Her knowledge was vast and she had known of true occult. She was a zombie herself and her consciousness was trapped under her bones. But all things changed as the start of the seventh millennium came into. The Yellowstone erupted resulted into major eruptions around the world causing the mass evacuation to different colonies around the Milky Way. She was one of the people who did not cared for her survival. Superheated gasses removed her flesh of her bones. But soon after, the Earth was turned into a power generator for a nearby warp ring, which then collapsed under its own problems, leaving the Earth in a Dyson Sphere. A specie of Testificate was placed there along the terraformation of the Dyson Sphere. Soon after, she found her way to the Dyson Sphere or the Overworld as they called it. Magic was there but some of them are just applications of science. The End was a separate dimension created from the Warp accident, and the poor people there were mutated with time and space. She was the few remaining people in Earth-1.
-o-
Lillia was angrily walking down the corridors. She had just removed her diamond armor and she was just now wearing a dress made of bones and cobwebs. There he saw a blonde guy hitting on a girl. They had different colored capes and it looks like he's failing on what he is doing. The blonde turned to her. "Hey!" Lillia then turned to him. "Yes, you. The one who the Zero summoned. Come give us some drinks." He ordered but was soon replied by an arrow above his head.
"Piss off." Lillia then walked away. The two were scared when she left and it embedded a bit of fear and anger in the boy's heart. As Lillia walked along, she bumped into a girl in a maid dress making the girl drop the laundry she was carrying. The maid was calm and different from the others, like a sevant. "Oh, dear me. I must have dozed off."
"Sorry, sorry." She was apologizing like she had a guilt complex.
"No worries it is my fault that I was not looking on my path." Lillia was comfortable on the girl's aura. A friendly and kind demeanor, different from her summoner. "Let me help you with that." Lillia crouched down to help the maid pick up the laundry she dropped. It took a minute for them to finish and Lillia wants to break the ice. "Hello, my name is Lillia de Lilliac. What's yours?"
"Siesta from Tarbes, miss Lilliac." They were now walking along the corridor.
"Please just call me Lillia." Lillia had a stroke of genius on the girl's name. "Wait, Siesta is a word that corresponds to a short nap from where I came from. Well, that rings a bell."
"Mom had spoken that my grandfather came from somewhere else, though, I am not sure where."
"My summoner told us that we are on the kingdom of Tristain on Halkagenia. Can you tell me more about this?"
"Why sure, miss Lillia."
"Just Lillia."
"Okay, Lillia."
"That's more like it. Shall we?"
"Let me please start." She gave a little cough to clear her throat."Halkagenia was found by the Founder, named Brimir, and gave its way of ruling. From the churches to the royalties. We are in the bottom of the pyramid as we are the commoners."
"Medieval ruling."
"Most of the nobles have magic and are unfair to some of their servants." They were now in a nearly fountain.
"Slavery and human injustice."
"What are you talking about?"
"Nothing."
-o-
Little did Steve know, Lillia knows his past. He was an experiment to be disposed of but his guardian dropped him in Earth just to keep him alive. He was injected with nanobots to be a prototype super soldier but his intelligence and pacifism was considered as an obstacle by the ones who made him. In desperation, the guardian deleted most of his memories, including his pacifism but not his intelligence, for him to survive the Overworld. But it is true that a silence curse was placed on him by a witch Testificate.
-o-
"Ah! Mister. The one from this morning." Steve called on mister Colbert. "Could you fill in the blanks for me?"
"Sure, why not."
"Okay. So I am in Tristain in Halkagenia."
"Yes."
"Some parts of my memory is telling me that I need to know the government and how things work. Could you fill me in."
"Okay. So here it goes..." Colbert started his lengthy but brief and unbiased explanation. This also covered a good bit of war crimes made by nobles which angered Steve. "...And that how we live in here. Oh, could you please show me your right hand?"
"Here. It had some markings after it was singed."
"Hmm, seems a bit odd. Well, let me copy that." Colbert then dishes out a pencil and a paper to copy the runes on Steve's hand. After it was finished, he then takes off to the forest and make shelter.
-o-
Louise was sleeping soundly, but in her dreams she was not. She saw black skies and black spires. She also saw towering black creatures and a gigantic black dragon. And then, a voice spoke to her. "Hmm, a human traversing via her rapid eye movement. Intresting." She saw the dragon perched in front of her eyes. "We rarely get visitors here, and the last visitor killed me. So, what brings you here." She lacked the words or the courage to speak. "Afraid, I presume. Well care not. For I have learned my lessons on my aggressiveness to humans. But, I digress. I feel the presence of my blood and the Wither's on your veins. What could this mean?" The dragon stared at her for a few seconds then looked at the east with its neck up high. "You should wake up now. The sun is rising." With those words, Louise quickly sprung up out of her bed, shivering and in cold sweat. She looked at the window and it was morning again. She cared not for what is around her but she cared more for her dreams. A prayer for the Founder is what she recited for a few minutes before changing into her new set of clothes. She saw her last change of clothes on the ground beside her bed giving her a reminder of her two familiars. The killers that she summoned. After that thought, she felt a bit light-headed before passing out.
-o-
"All done." Steve placed a small pot on the border of a cobblestone house in the forest near the academy.
"Hmm, better than nothing." She then looks into her inventory. A small device which transforms her stuff into zeroes and ones and vice versa. Steve has one too. "Can I use your workbench?"
"Well, sure."
"Thanks." Lillia then starts making a leather dress. "We should learn their ways if we are to survive longer here. Survival is what we search and entertainment is just another want."
"I agree."
"Care to go back to the school with a truce?"
"A truce it is." Then they both shook hands. They returned to school an hour after sunrise. Lillia was now donning a black leather dress and Steve was wearing his cyan shirt and blue jeans. They went to Louise's room and knocked on the door before opening it.
"Louise!" Lillia rushed to pick Louise up and she checked on her pulse. "Thank god, she's fine. She just passed out but from where? Exhaustion? Fear? Anxiety?" Lillia felt then a surge of a familiar aura. It was a mixed aura. A human, the Ender Dragon and the Wither. All coming from Louise. What does this mean, she had thought. She could not bring herself to tell Steve that Louise is far more different from what they have expected. After a few seconds, Lillia asked her some questions which checked for concussion and other diseases. She concluded that it was just exhaustion. Maybe she was exhausted from summoning us, placed in addendum by Lillia. "Well, as a doctor of many fields, you should take a rest from your lessons as it takes toll on your body."
"That's great, as we second years don't have any classes to bond with our familiars."
"Well, you should retire to your bed or take a breather in a garden."
"You sure about this, Lillia?" Steve interjected.
"Yes. My curse lifted my limitations of human knowledge."
"Guess that, being cursed had some of its benefits." Louise now added. "I would rather go eat breakfast due to some nightmare."
"Hmm. A third option could be fine. Could you talk about this nightmare." Lillia wants to know. "Pretty please."
"Sure. It was a place where the skies are black and the ground is yellow. There were black spires and towering black creatures and a dragon! A dragon. It stared and it looks like it was talking to me with all the words like rapid something movement."
"Rapid Eye Movement, is that it?"
"Yes, that. But how did you know?"
"It was a term for the dreams that we have. It is classified by the fast movement of our eyes while sleeping."
"In other words, please."
"Your eyes move really fast when you dream."
"That dream is familiar to me. It's like the End." Steve, the one who killed the Ender Dragon, spoke.
"It is the End." Lillia added. "You are volatile, Louise. Your powers are monstrous so if we can change our pact to a mentor-apprentice relationship, you might be able to contain and use your powers properly or else, it might lead to the demise of this whole world. Will you accept my offer?"
"No. For I must keep my pride as a noble."
"Suit yourself, but as a reminder, we will kill you if you power goes berserk and we shall take full responsibility for it."
"I will try not to." Louise then had a question. "Where did you slept?"
"I built a house nearby." Steve replied.
"In the middle of the night?"
"Yes."
"Where did you got the tools?"
"I always have them."
"How do you carry them?"
"With this." Steve shows her an inventory module.
"Here, take one." Lillia gave Louise one from her pocket.
"You had spares?"
"Only one."
"Wait, how does this work?"
"Just use it like a wallet."
"Just like that?"
"Yeah."
"Can we go to the dining hall now?" Louise spoke.
"Okay." Lillia then replied. Chills now fill Lillia's spine, it is like an animals primal instinct. Louise is a much more powerful creature but Lillia can still tame her power before she destroys herself. She sighed. She must be a mentor to save this world.
-o-
They were now at the dining hall. It was vast, it was medieval and it is boring for Lillia. "You are to stay outside. Just like the other familiar. Please don't kill any."
"Okay." Louise now entered the dining hall as Lillia replied. "Have anything there?"
"Bread, golden apples, enchanted golden apples, baked potatoes, golden carrots, all full stacks, and three stacks of pork chops."
"Let's just stick with pork chops." Then the duo ate. It was a short meal but it still filled their stomachs. "I really love the taste of food."
"What's in your inventory?"
"Uhh, let's see. Lava buckets, water buckets, books, ink sacs, feathers, six bows and do not even try to touch them, a whole stack of arrows and some resources like diamonds, obsidian, iron, gold, Redstone and some TNT and random stuff."
"Wow."
"Don't ask, don't tell."
"Okay. We cool?"
"We cool." Lillia had never thought of protecting Louise but in this scenario, her death maybe the death of this world. Steve although only searches for a purpose. A purpose of protection, creation and enlightenment. They had different goals but they now decided to serve only one master. Louise was now in front of them. "What's up, doc?"
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Well, follow me to the garden as we shall retire there."
"Sure." They are now on their way to the garden.
-o-
Lillia was now writing something in a book. It was all the facts she had garnered from Siesta. She was also using a pair of glasses. "Capes tell their year level, same medieval royalty system, the name of Tristan's queen is Henrietta, and what else?"
"Umm, miss. Have you seen where sir Gramont is?" The girl last night had asked her.
"Oh, the blonde?"
"Yes."
"Third table from the tower, second table from the main building. Second person, clockwise."
"My, what accuracy. I thank you for that." After that, the girl left and as Lillia was looking at the girl, she saw her slap the Gramont guy. The slap was so powerful that she winced. She then smirked and tried not to laugh.
"You reap what you sow, boy." She then turns back to her book. "Okay, where was I? Oh, a break." Lillia loved cake and tea as a mannerism from the Royal Family and as she saw Siesta, she called her instantaneously. The maid went near her and asked for what she wanted. "Cakes and tea for the three of us. Don't worry, I'll give you something later."
"Yes, miss Lillia."
"And don't forget to call me Lillia." The maid went on to her business. Lillia was glancing to the oral arguments that garnered everyone's attention except for Louise and Steve who were busy learning the basics of the inventory system.
"Yeah, press this then pull it out like this." Steve then pulls out an enchanted diamond pickaxe from his inventory system.
"Wow! Let me try." Louise then pulls out a block of iron from Steve's inventory system. "Woah, heavy." She grunted to the weight of a cubic meter of pure iron. Steve then rushes to place it back before it crushed Louise's toes.
After a good while, Lillia cannot suppress her urge to laugh anymore and that resulted to a good dose of laughter which shamed the boy even more.
"You! Familiar of Zero! You have shamed me more than my pride could handle and now I, Guiche de Gramont, challenges you into a duel." The blonde guy who called himself Guice veered to Lillia's chair. After Guiche had declared his challenge, Lillia laughed even more.
"You to challenge me? Then I shall give you a handicap."
"Hey, aren't duels illegal?" Spoke Louise.
"Only when it's against nobles." Replied by a random student. The reply was soon followed by cheers of people who wants to see a duel.
"There shall be no duel by the master's command." Louise was now furious and worried about Guiche more than Lillia.
"Don't worry Louise, this is just another walk in a park for me." Lillia, who was now standing up, used her hand to make Louise focus on her. "Trust is one of the basic foundations of any relationship, and please do trust me on this." Lillia's words shifted Louise's emotions. "I do promise not to go hard on him." And those few words convinced her.
"I now agree." Louise's argument went invalid by those words.
"So, what is the handicap now, commoner?" Guiche attracted most of the attention.
"A wooden sword against everything you have." And the conditions broke his proud demeanor.
"What!?"
"Are you scared little man?" Lillia had fun taunting him and is proven effective. Both in fighting and in shaming. "Hey, two-timing mama's boy, are you scared that you want to return to your mother?" Laughs now filled the air.
"You! I shall regain my pride. Let us start the duel now!" That marked a start of a fight. Students pulled the chairs and tables away giving space for the duelists. Siesta had just arrived with the cake and tea when she saw Lillia preparing in a nearby cottage for the servants. She was wearing a skin-tight set of armor which glowed with faint light.
"What's happening, miss Valiere?" Siesta asked as Steve picked up a cake from her tray.
"I wish that she doesn't kill Guiche with a wooden sword." Louise's words were filled with worry about the opposing faction. "My familiar started a duel with sir Gramont." She picked up the cake and started eating it.
"Oh my!"
"That's really overkill and you look very sexy on you suit." The duo was now conversing.
"Ha, just give me a wooden sword and I shall smite thee with his own wrath." There was enthusiasm along with her words. Steve then gives a wooden sword, plain and untouched. "It's time for some blunt force trauma." Lillia said before taking the tea out of the tray that Siesta placed when she went by Lillia's side and took a short sip and smiled. "The tea is perfect. I want to know how it's made."
"Are you sure about this, Lillia?" Siesta was full of worries for Lillia.
"Do not worry for me but worry for the enemy." She said before giving her teacup to Siesta. The crowd was cheering and Lillia entered the combat area. Her skin-tight suit showed off the curves of her body making most men dazed and most women jealous. "En garde!" Lillia spoke as she place her sword near her face. Guiche quickly send out six golems made of bronze from his anger, little did he knew that anger was blocking out most of his cognitive thinking. Two of the golems tried to thrust both of their lances to Lillia only to be replied with a back flip. One more golem tried to tackle her mid flip with its shield. Lillia then stops at a handstand and grabs the incoming golem with her two feet and pulls its body down to the two golems in front of her. She felt that the golems were lighter than most appliances and quickly deducted that the golems were hollow inside. As she stands, a golem came slashing down with its broadsword. The speed of the attack was slower than she expected allowing her to move out of its path and tear it in half. The three that fell down have just stood up and the two more with their short swords punched her square in the gut. Apparently, a fully toned eighteen year old body was still not enough to prevent her from flinching. She lied down and saw one of the lances aimed for her head at stabbing range. Euphoria did not blocked her reflexes, only her pain. She quickly kicks the golem away from her and stood up with a jump. The golems surrounded her and Lillia felt the need to finish the fight before the fuzz steps in. The shield golem was first to make the move and was gladly replied with a parry then a diagonal slash which is then followed by a short sword golem that was stabbed backhand by the wooden sword. Apparently, Lillia could muster enough force for a wooden sword to pierce five inches of bronze without breaking it. The two lancers came into play and tried to stab her like a mirror. Lillia then parried the lance on the left side and slid past the other by twisting her body. She then sucker punches the golem that she recently stabbed which then stumbles upon the unmoving one. The parried lancer was still trying to regain its stance when Lillia kicked the incoming lance from the other which then caused it to stab it before being decapitated and disemboweled. Two golems remained and retreated back to Guiche's side. "Forfeit now, little man before I humiliate you more."
"Never!"
"As you wish." Lillia then moves for the kill like a shark in deep waters. Throwing her sword to one of the golems destroying it fair and square then pulls out the sword to cleave the other one in half vertically. Her empty hand then reaches for Guiche before she dealt the mortal blow to the remaining golem and she flicked her index finger to Guiche's forehead as she delivered the finishing blow. Guiche stumbled like a leaf and then he felt the near broken wooden sword's hilt on his forehead. "You lose." Lillia, who was holding the wooden sword by its edge, was humiliating the last bit of pride from Guiche. She then removes her sword from his face then lends out a hand to help Guiche stand up. "You have potential. Don't waste it." The crowed cheered as the teaching personnel came in. The fight may have only lasted a minute but it retained as a beautiful dance to many. Siesta was told one of her mates to fetch her a towel and a pitcher of water after the fight. She saw the fight as a gleam of hope to them commoners against the nobles. "I love to feel the feeling of pain again."
"What? Did the fight shook your mind loose?" Louise commented.
"No."
"Why did you said that?"
"I never felt pain for about many millennias until now."
"Wow."
"Ah, Lillia." Siesta came in like an assistant in a boxing match. "Please use this towel and here is a glass of water."
"Thank you, Siesta." Lillia then wipes her sweat and drinks the glass of water before going in the cottage again and return to her other set of clothes. Siesta was with her as Louise was explaining to the professors and Steve is not allowed to be there for obvious reasons. Lillia was sitting in a chair when she gave Siesta something. It was another inventory system that she planned to keep along with her. "Friendship starts with trust and with trust comes unrequited gifts. Use it like a wallet but it can contain most of the items large or small. And inside of it is my gift for you. My extra set of enchanted diamond armor, one hundred twenty-eight of gold and sixty-four pieces of diamond. Do not worry for that was in there before I gave it to you and that is just spare change for me." Well, Lillia got all of her stuff from mining shafts, dungeons and strongholds. "You better buy your own sword as it will be suspicious to others that we have the same sword."
"Why buy a sword?"
"You will be my apprentice due to some possible unforeseen consequences."
"As you wish, master."
"Just still call me Lillia."
"May I ask something?"
"Go ahead."
"What kind of sword shall I buy?"
"Buy an iron sword that you can carry with your two arms. Even if its rusty."
-o-
Meanwhile, back down the court. "That was some fancy dancing, right Louise?" Steve was there with Louise who was trying to master the inventory system. "Hey, Louise."
"Ah, yes. It was something like a ballet. So graceful and elegant yet deadly. I wonder why her dress was shining?"
"Those are enchantments."
"Magical?"
"Somewhat."
"Fascinating."
"The world is fascinating. It just takes a decent amount of courage to step out of the metaphorical prison that we live in."
"What?"
"It takes courage to walk around and take a look."
"Sometimes, I don't understand you, Steve."
"Well, sometimes I feel like an old man and sometimes like a nomad but technically, I am a nomad when traveling." They both gave out a light chuckle. "Have you ever thought of living in a cottage made of your own hands near a riverbank then having a good rest as you see your creation and the clean landscape up ahead."
"Living like that, yes. Creating my cottage, maybe."
"Try it for yourself. My first house was made out dirt but after sometime I made a full mansion with walls of stone bricks lined with a rare mineral called obsidian which was made by cooling lava."
"Wait, you went near lava and not even or burnt?"
"I don't know why but after sometime I manage not care about it. I even carried it in buckets."
"What? I don't even."
"Well, me to."
"I want to learn how fight like her."
"Why not master magic?"
"I-I have no elemental affinity."
"Wait, let me think about that. Colbert told me something about elemental affinity. It is what element the user can cast, right?"
"Yes, and I don't have one."
"Well, you must have one due to a logical conclusion of how we got here and that is magic and not just lady luck."
"Yeah maybe your right."
"Colbert told me there are four affinities. So let's try to get this straight. Can you move rocks?"
"No."
"Can you create fire?"
"No."
"Control water?"
"Still, no."
"Change atmospheric pressure?"
"What?"
"Create gusts of wind."
"Ah, no."
"Am I missing out something?" That set of words gave Louise a preposterous but plausible idea.
"No that's impossible?"
"What's impossible?"
"There's no way that I could have the lost element! That's why it's lost!"
"Maybe you have found it."
"Only the Founder had that element and it's impossible for me, a simple noble, to have it."
"I read books that showed pictures of our moon and how we walked on it."
"What? That's impossible!"
"It's only impossible if you don't try." Steve saw sir Colbert and called his attention.
"Ah, sir Steve."
"I have to inquire you about this fifth affinity."
"Oh, the legendary affinity of void which the Founder Brimir had used to reconquer the lands from the foul beasts?"
"Yeah, that. Are there books about it?"
"There are many books about it."
"Before you go deep in detail, why don't you tell me one that you recommend?"
"This one." Colbert hands down a book to Steve. Hardbound, almost three hundred pages long and Steve cursed if it was written in fine print.
"Well, I'll check on this later." Steve went back to Louise.
"What do you have there?"
"A book, Sherlock."
"What?" Steve sighed.
"Don't even think about it."
-o-
Later that night, at another cottage in the academy, Lillia and Steve was having a small party among Lillia's victory against Guiche. "No, I don't drink alcoholic beverages." Steve politely declined.
"Well, I'm ain't drinking. I want to savor my life so I need to live healthy." Lillia too was declining to the drinks. She then saw a book that Steve brought. "What do you have there?"
"Oh, this?" He took a sip on his stew before pushing the book to Lillia. "I borrowed it from a professor. Can you read it for me?"
"Sure. What is it about?"
"It's about Louise magical affinity."
"Magical what?"
"Affinity. It's what element the caster can use. Like Blondie early this morning, he has the affinity of earth. Red haired girl had fire as her affinity, and blue haired little girl had wind as her affinity."
"Wait, is Louise any of those?"
"Well, I decided that she's a rare case of difference. I inquired about her using different affinities but her replies are just no. But we have been left out with a plausible conclusion that she have a rare affinity and the details are written on this book."
"Okay, so I got the idea of running a magic based legislate and magical rankings and magic. But taking care of that girl? I can handle that."
"I'll be at the house. See you later."
"See you later, too." She left after finishing her food then retired to the library. She saw the red-haired girl who called herself as Kirche.
"So, where are you going, familiar of Zero?" The girl asked.
"None of your business. As a matter of fact, what is your reasons for staying up late?"
"Nothing."
"Then I shall take my leave." "Wait, wait, wait! I have an offer for you. Serve under me and you shall receive more gold than your master pays you."
"Gold? Well here you go." She took out a block of gold with a volume of excatly as one cubic meter. "I have no deficiency in money." Lillia then takes the block of gold and goes on her merry way, leaving Kirche with a surprised expression.
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Steve was on his way to his house in a forest when he have heard a loud scream. He ran and saw two girl being robbed by seven bandits. One of them was in a hood and there was a girl trying to defend her. Well, duty calls. He wore his blue armor and dished out a sword. With the element of surprise in his hands, he stabs one of the bandits square in the chest then pulls it out. The other dazed bandits rush on to him. A loud bang was heard. One bandit had his head turned into some chunky salsa and another one received a stump replacing his right hand. Four more remain. A bandit mage casted a spell which was considered lethal by many, and the spell was named Pressure Well for obvious reasons. Steve did not feel pain as he had dived the deepest of waters in search of clay, pressure was just there to hamper his speed. Meanwhile, the musket woman was covering her ears as pressure increased in the area and so did the other bandits. A small mistake on the risk that the mage took as Steve went to town by the means of a judge, jury and executioner. Beheading all the enemies as the pressure had risen enough to make ears bleed. He then pulls out a diamond hoe which he used to impale the remaining bandit mage. From the bottom of his head and into his cerebrum, the hoe managed to hold him tight as Steve threw him to the ground. Damage report, one severed arm, five decapitation, one impaled. "You okay back there?"
"Thank you, stranger. What do you want as a token of appreciation?" The hooded figure spoke.
"Both of you at your respective homes. And do not stray from the beaten path."
"Not materialistic, shall I say. Fine, then we shall retire back to our homes." The musketeer replied as they left. Steve went on his merry way and started to sleep.
-o-
"Oh, its you again." The dragon spoke. Louise was back in her dream again or what her familiar called as the End.
"Why am I here?" She now had enough courage to speak.
"For that I don't know and for how is the same. You are here for a purpose and the right person at the wrong place can make a difference."
"Can I speak my feelings to you?"
"Please do."
"My familiar is better than me. In physical, mental and psychological matters. I am just a good for nothing Zero."
"My, a Zero is a special in many ways. It retains its qualities when tried to modified and it's the only number that can alter another number into it."
"Thanks for cheering me up."
"Hmm, I feel the presence of magic along you. Why not try to do some of it?"
"It's futile. I can never do magic."
"Never say never." Louise sighed and tried to cast a fireball only resulting into a violent explosion mid-air.
"See, all of my spells just end up in an explosion."
"Hmm. Why not hone you explosion into a weapon?"
"Hey, that's a good idea!"
"See, never say never. Hop on my back, the night is still young." Louise then rode the dragon on its searing hot mane. "This is the End. My domain in the fabric of space and time. Untouched and untarnished. Just like a clean gem."
"Wow, this make me a pitiful being."
"Care not for you are special. The blood of strength and wisdom flows in you veins. You are His counterpart and you shall be Her."
"Who is this He?"
"He? He is Herobrine. A god among humans and a human among gods. He kept the stability of the universe on his hands and he is much more powerful than most being but he bleeds. A skeleton managed to wound him badly but he escaped with ease as he teleported. That is why we do not worship anyone. Gods don't bleed and we do." They landed on a spire.
"Wow. He is so powerful yet weak."
"His pride became his weakness and the skeleton managed to use it with its will."
"I shall savor this lesson, dragon."
"Call me Emma the Ender Dragon. And you are?"
"Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière."
"Hmm, I shall call you Lou, are you okay with that?"
"Yes."
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Meanwhile, in a library, Lillia was really angry. "How am I supposed to read this?!"
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