Ultear has just agreed to assist Citrine with his promise to repair some of the damage the Dragon Incursion the previous night had produced.
Due to its elevation and line of sigh over the majority of the city, Ultear suggested that they head to the arena grounds used for the Grand Magic Tournament to facilitate their plan.
Half way up the large staircase the hooded pair stopped to survey the area.
"The Dragons sure did a number on this place" Ultear said with a sigh, she knew how much of a pain it would be to fix, even with her magic.
"Well there is 1 advantage to where we are. It seems no one else is around, so we should be able to get this done relatively quickly." Citrine responds while looking out across the city below.
"It's good to see this place peaceful again, reminds me of my last visit" Citrine said letting out a small sigh towards the end.
This puzzled Ultear a bit especially the reference to 'last visit' "So if you don't mind my asking, what did you do for 400 years" Ultear asked, probing for more information to know her saviour a little more.
"Oh, I guess I skipped over a lot of it..." Answered Citrine, while looking up towards the clouds overhead. "But I did have a family"
"Eh?" Ultear said in completely surprised by the answer given.
"My mortal existence it was a brief moment, travelling to reach my destination in time... But I was extremely happy then" Citrine said as a single tear rolled down his face
"But that's a story for another time" Citrine added as he looked at Ultear who could only look back at him confused but with a feeling of jealousy in her chest.
"But right now we have a job to do" Citrine remarked as he turned to Ultear.
"Ultear... regardless of power requirement, how much of this area do you think you could fix... realistically of course" Citrine asked.
Ultear knew it would come to this so she had been surveying the area as well leading up to the question.
"Well I can repair entire connected sections of damage. So if there was say, an entire street destroyed I could repair that street in a single instance no problem... However, if I wanted to fix say 2 rooms in 2 different buildings on opposite sides of that street I would have to choose one or the other." Ultear responded before quickly adding "At least they would need to be fixed separately."
"So connected sections?... No problem! We can treat the location that each of the Dragons were previously at as separate instances. Any destruction in the area is effectively connected due to the Dragon's body knocking down walls and destroying the road" Citrine responded.
"So 7 dragons 1 of which was in the air 90% of the time, means 6 locations ignoring the gate plateau itself as that was cleaned up earlier by the royal guard. That leaves 5 locations to repair" Citrine nodded agreeing with himself.
"Ok, all we need is line of sight of the locations and from our vantage point here we can see three of the five, so let's start with those first. But we will need to move in order to cover the last two" Ultear said agreeing to the task laid out before her.
Citrine's eyes changed colour from purple to a deep blue as he analysed Ultear. "Your high magical capacity is impressive" he remarked.
"What is the deal with your eyes any, I noticed they were yellow in the house, but while we were walking here they were purple, and now they are blue?" Ultear wondered
"It's my ability as a Dragon, I retained my Dragon Sense for my human body, I'm just used to it really and it is quite practical."
"Right now my Blue eyes allow me to see your complete magical characteristics I can see your time magic capacity as well as the total capacity you have, effectively I'm looking at your mana pool and the way the magic occupies that space" Citrine remarked.
Ultear continuing her query "I see sounds pretty useful, so what's the deal with Purple and Yellow?"
"Purple allows me to see the magical essence in living things, it's a little more general then reading mana and it's more used for tracking when looking for someone or something with a particular type of magic. For example how I found you at that house, your magic is rather unique so it was easy to spot in the city; I simply went to the house where your magical essence emanated from."
"As for Yellow, it is more a combat sight. It allows me to identify weaknesses in something but for the most part the vision is similar to human sight with some enhancements to quality like night vision and also I can magnify my cortex allowing me to essentially zoom in on target locations." Citrine responded but not before adding as a joke "But also because I have yellow hair my yellow eyes make me look cool"
Ultear almost face palmed at the last remark but was satisfied with the answer up to that point.
"OK, what does my high magical capacity have to do with the job?" Ultear said getting back on track.
"Ah, well because we are in such an isolated area I'm going to feed you some magic, but to better do so I'm going to release a few seals on my magic to increase my throughput. If I simply ran with my safe 5% it would take a while to get the task done, but with your rather high capacity you should be able to handle about a 20% release of my seals without too many downsides... but I'll go with 15% as it would be more than enough also it should reduce your nausea." Citrine grinned.
"But before that one quick final range check to ensure no one dies." Citrine's eyes changed back to purple to look for any nearby essence of consequence, the closest being a guard about 200 meters downhill. "OK Coast is clear, guard down the hill will pass out but he will be ok in an hour or so" Citrine innocently exclaimed.
"Ok brace yourself slightly Ultear the initial magical pressure may take some getting used to" Citrine looked over at Ultear hoping all goes well.
"Ok Ready" Ultear said with a small nod
Citrine calmed himself for a few seconds and closed his eyes as he prepared to unlock a few of his seals. Citrine's body was fully engulfed in green fire this was the first time Ultear had witnessed this and couldn't help but be amazed...
But that amazement quickly faded as white lightening began to violently crack around Citrine's position; At the same time a wall of magical pressure struck Ultear suddenly causing her to throw up, she was expecting the pressure but didn't realise the magnitude in spite of Citrine's warning...
A few seconds later the green flames subsided revealing Citrine's form, he stood with his wings extended while lightening arched between them like 2 Teslacoils. Ultear was pretty out of it the first time they met due to disorientation from casting Last Aegis so she had never actually seen this form. Ultear got goose bumps either from Citrine's imposing stature or the simple fact that she wasn't standing far from a human lightening rod.
"Ok let's fix up some of this damage. Oh and I did warn you to brace yourself so it's not my fault you threw up, but that being said you're faring better than the guy laying unconscious down the road." Citrine playfully teased.
"Tch, don't make fun of me" Ultear said with agitation before continuing "Let's get this over with... we should start with the damage near the square, that area seems to be clearly defined"
"Ok, I'm going to feed you my magical power but in order to do that I'm first going to shield you just like last night" as Citrine said this a green shield encased Ultear, Citrine raised his arms placing his open palms onto the shield and closed his eyes.
Soon a white light began to shine from Citrine's palms "Ok ready, start the repair Ultear, I'm counting on you" Citrine calmly said with his eyes remaining closed.
Ultear took a deep breath concentrating on the area, visualizing a cube in her mind encasing her target. A few seconds later bricks and broken tiles began to wiz around at lightning speed in the area; this was much faster than she was used to so it took her a second to compensate.
Ultear began to sweat profusely straining under the pressure, but then she suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of calm, all of the strain seeming to vanish completely. At that moment she noticed a flickering light surrounding her, this was more than the slight green hue the shield had created it was like being surrounded by smouldering white embers as they rose around her body. Within a single minute and without even realising it, she had repaired all 3 sections of damage in the distance.
(What... how did? when did I do this) Ultear thought to herself.
Ultear had subconsciously targeted the other 2 sections of damage instinctively. She had never repaired separate sections before simultaneously even though she could repair large area's there was always a connection between the pieces original form.
"Looks like we are done." Citrine said as he returned back to his original human form.
"Huh... Uhh... Yeah I guess we are." Ultear responded still a little surprised.
"Time to head back, thanks for your help Ultear" Citrine smiled
"Wait? What about the other 2 areas?" Ultear said with a confused look on her face.
"But you have already fixed them?" Citrine said while tilting his head slightly to the side, confused by Ultear's question.
Ultear was slightly shocked by this response "But we had not moved, how did we fix the other sections? I don't even know how I fixed the two sections I could see let alone the two I couldn't"
"Don't underestimate yourself, Ultear" Citrine smiled "Due to the nature of your magic your attention to detail is quite remarkable, all it took was a little magical boost and your brain instinctively repaired the city to the one in your memory."
"So that's why you needed my assistance?" Ultear responded.
"Yes. I lacked sufficient knowledge of the city before the destruction, at least information current enough to prevent... conflict... Citrine said this as he looked upwards towards the sky, reaching forward as if trying to grab a cloud.
"Well I'm glad I could help, after all I owed you one" Ultear said with a smile, proud of her accomplishment.
"Think nothing of it Ultear; you still have much to offer the world... Now let's head back" Citrine said while offering forward his hand.
"Yes lets, we best not remain in the open" Ultear responded as the pair started walking back down the stairs away from the Arena area.