《Plane of Darkness》


 Chapter 1- The beginning

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    ¡°It is time.¡±


    ¡°But Master Inoxion¡­¡±


    ¡°NO EXCUSES! Do you have any idea HOW LONG I have been waiting to do so ever since the Creator came by and create such a havoc by forming the other Elemental Planes in this realm?¡± ¡°Yes, your humble servant understand the history. However the Light is taking another strategic move against our favour. He suggests that¡­¡±


    Before the little creature finishes his ¡°Suggestions¡± to the Great Darkness, he was impaled by a strike of crystal-like object, through the soul of his. The shadow fell to the ground, his shape slowly dissolves and was consumed by the Great One.


    ¡°I will not repeat this again. I want all of the Necromancy Sector to move. NOW! I DO NOT WISH TO SEE ANOTHER SCENCE AS SUCH!¡±


    The 9<sup>th</sup> Lord immediately moved away from the scene. I heard him mumbling about lack of enough Condensed Shards to revive the Necromancy units as he rushes outside the room. Screams soon followed as he disappeared from the room.


    ¡°He should have understood that any lack of substance can be given by Me. The audience need not worry of him, I merely scratched his Soul to remind him this. Whispering behind my back is a terrible habit that any of you should not own.¡±


    A great sigh of relief came from the crowd.


    ¡°The Great One. I wish to speak.¡±


    This came from the 8<sup>th</sup> seat. It was Lexy, the ruler of feelings. Jealousy, Anger, Envy are all under her strings. Any form of living with these feelings can be controlled by her strings.


    ¡°Permission Granted. What do you wish to discuss?¡± ¡°The 4<sup>th</sup> Lord, Cyrix, he is invading my land. I wish the Great Shadow will settle this once and for all. Fear is a feeling and yet it is separated from my control, why is the ruler of fear ranked above many other rulers here when he is also but another feeling? He is using his power as the 4<sup>th</sup> Lord to take over more land for himself, that Broglosish Mogntinide!¡± ¡°Not true, my Lord. We have spoken many times on this. Fear is something essential for the Darkness to grow and to feed on. Fear is what drives Darkness forward, other feelings only supports us, giving us the control over them.¡± ¡°Quiet, you sly fox! Don¡¯t you argue! Why then are you taking over my land?¡± ¡°I am not.¡± ¡°You are!¡± ¡°SILENCE! KNOW YOUR PLACES!¡±


    The room became silent. The two Lords sat down.


    ¡°Lexy, as Cyrix have clearly stated this, Fear is essential. In many of the other sources of Darkness Power, fear is needed to grow them. Ask the 12<sup>th</sup> Lord, Nightius. He rules the Dreams of others, and we only bring one dream to everything: Nightmares. Nightmares brings about Fear, and we capture Fear to empower ourselves. We use Fear for many spells, potions and many other things. Your position is as important as anyone sitting in this room. All 25 lords are given a purpose; soon the 26<sup>th</sup> will join us, and to bring about a new field in Darkness we have never seen before. If you all are still to argue over such pointless subjects, you should know the outcome. For your land, Lexy, I¡¯m doubting you are stating the truth. You have lied to us, all of us, many times. You should also know I can see how time speaks the truth, I can call the 3<sup>rd</sup> to show us how it really turned out.¡±


    Lexy showed signs of fear as the Grand Master spoke about using the Time Progion. She stayed quiet for a few minutes and her face shows she has given up.


    ¡°True, Lord. I will not do so again.¡±


    The Grand master shakes his head. He brought out a flask of greenish liquid and showed it to Lexy.


    ¡°Lexy, you should remember what the Agreement states, don¡¯t you? You need not to answer, for it is of no importance. However, I need to take my position as the Judgement in this Plane. Lexy, take the Trial and let it decides your fate.¡±


    I have seen this happening many times before. The last time this happened was when the previous 5<sup>th</sup> Lord, Ruler of Mythical Creatures, fought with Lexy. Every time the Grand Master has to step in to settle out fights within. Ever since Lexy took the position of 8<sup>th</sup> Lord she has been fighting over position and power, wars often break out and the Grand Master do not like this. After getting tired of resolving such issues every time He set The Agreement on wars and battles. The Agreement states If war and battles occur within the Plane and is not due to the influence of Light, any party responsible of it will undergo the Trial, and let Trial decides whether the party loses its¡¯ soul or live. The Trial is a very complicated process that I will not describe, however the main even in this Trial is that it involves the Potion of Trial, recipe known only to Him. Drinking this will grant the user either immense power for a short time or instant death, but likelihood of receiving death over the other is higher.


    Lexy has underwent this Trial many times, more than I can count and she has always be lucky so far. Due to her luck, many of the rulers are starting to brew the thoughts of the Grand Master favouring Lexy due to her being the only Female ruler in the Plane of Darkness. However I know this is not the truth. Most of the beings in the Elemental Plane are Souls of creatures and most of them are humans like me. There are some, though, that are not of any types of beings. Grand Master is an example, The Creator is another. All of these are not of any beings known to any, they are not bounded by Time and Space, and they have no identity except of what they wish to be. Most importantly, they have no such things as feelings. That also means, grand Master has no such ability to favour others due to their gender or other fields, it proves that what the others speaks of are untrue.


    Lexy took the potion of Trial, she first smiled as there were no effects as she finished it. She handled the empty glass back to Grand Master and sat back to where she was.


    She was wrong about the aftermath.


    The moment she sat down her face started to decay, her smile begin to vanish from her face and slowly the entire body was enveloped by a greenish mist. Everyone looked at her, I can also see grins creeping up on some faces. Lexy finally has received the Word of Death through the Trial, after so much luck she had she deserve something greater than this. The Grand Master looks unpleased as well, perhaps he is thinking on the same minds as I do. I¡¯m connected to Him through the Contract and also due to my bloodline, so it is reasonable for Him to.


    None spoke a word as we awaits the mist to clear, a white soul drifts out from it. The Grand Master stretched out His hand and capture the soul, He then stuff the Soul in a glass bottle.


    ¡°She deserve this fate long ago, but somehow the Trial made favour upon her, and it happened more than once. She will not be as others who have their soul destroyed by me, but I will prepare a new punishment for those as such. You have my words, all who sits here.¡±


    Some whisperings can be heard from the 25 seats and silence followed.


    ¡°Now we move on to something more serious. Since you all have seen, the 8<sup>th</sup> position is now empty thanks to the past ruler being a perfect failure. It is time again to renew the positions of 25 Lords in the Plane of Darkness.¡±


    I start to hear different rulers whispering on shuffling themselves to a higher position than they are now. Apparently they have forgotten the few important notes of being a specific ruler of the specified position.


    ¡°Now. We all know the rules of specified rulers need to follow upon. I need to show all of you something first. Innight, it is time to show yourself. Please explain everything to them, I¡¯m tired after dealing with Lexy.¡±


    I heard my name being called and instructed an action by Grand Master. I moved from the behind of His seat and present myself to the other 24 Lord of the Plane of Darkness.


    ¡°I¡¯m Innight. A human that is bound to Lord Inoxion as signed by the Contract and by relation. Before any of you ask, I will explain everything as Master wished to.¡±


    There is some disturbance within the seats from where I am. I understand what they are thinking. The Grand Master does not simply allow anyone in the Meeting Room, or otherwise known as Gathering Room unless they are either allowed entry to deliver commands, or they are of great power that they are able to hold a seat within the 25 Rulers of Darkness.


    ¡°I was initially similar to any normal human, believed in the false illusion that Light has granted upon the Physical Realm. As I grew older, however, I find discrepancies within the results of what I asked for and get in return. I also found something was calling me, a sound that I have not heard before, in the back of my mind. I followed the instruction the voice gave me, and discovered the truth of the ¡°Religion¡± was nothing but a false illusion created by the Light in this place in attempt to strengthen their numbers. I sacrificed my mind, my left arm and most of my blood for more information and to earn respect for the voice after the voice revealed its¡¯ identity. It was Lord Inoxion who saved me from the Deepth Chambers that the Lights has placed upon that Realm.¡±


    ¡°After I sacrificed so much, I knew I had signed the Contract. We are now bound by it, and I gave Lord Inoxion the usage of my mind and soul. After I signed the Contract He told me the reason of why He came onto the Plane and why me instead of billions other candidates. He told me of the story of the Elemental realm and Physical realm and many other stories. Most importantly, he told me a secret of His past. This, He told me, I have to ensure complete secrecy until the time comes by for me to complete the story. This is the time for me to reveal the past.¡±


    ¡°Back before the Creation, Master Inoxion exist in the vast Void that envelops Everything. He was alone in The Void with His entire self intact. If you are intelligent enough you should be able to guess what is the entire story, if not, please listen on. Then at a point of Time, The Creator came into existence. A problematic matter, The Creator was, It felt that the Void is too empty, and decided to bring liveliness into the Void. A poor choice. Ignoring Master Inoxion existence, The Creator brought upon the 5 Elements into The Void, ignoring Darkness. Master Inoxion was disrupted by them as they interrupted the long silence He has always enjoyed, and also the fact that another type of Special Beings exist in Everything annoyed Him. He soon found that The Void is no longer as it was, and because the Creator ignored Master, there was no place for Darkness to hold within the Everything. And since Light illuminates the Void and enables the Creator to see His Creations, he let Light to be the centre of Everything, and He called this place the Elemental Realm, a place where the 5 Elements exist and each element holds its¡¯ respective creatures within the Plane of its¡¯ own.¡±


    ¡°Master was in a blaze of fury when He heard this. The Creator finally took notice of Master and remembered that Darkness came before he existed, overseeing The Void for countless timelines and infinitely long. He let Master to be the other Element that resides in the centre of the Elemental Realm, beside the Plane of Light as Master is a representation of Darkness of The Void. Master is still unhappy over the fact that the other elements are created within The Void, but since Master also has His place in the Elemental Realm He decide to let this matter slide, for now.¡±


    ¡°Now we all know Light is an enemy to us, the Creature of Darkness, but there is actually a reason behind it, not because it is natural. When The Elemental realm was created, all the Elemental Creatures are only seeking for one thing: Power. The more power you have, the greater the amount of followers you will have in the Physical Realm. I will explain about the Physical Realm later. The only way to gain power is to grow and expand their boundaries beyond what they have, either by excavating through The Void, which is a dangerous unless you are a Void Elemental or Creature of Darkness, or by conquering the territory of the other Elemental Planes. Wars and fights often broke out between the different elemental Planes because of this, but Master did not start any fights, partly because He has the greatest power within all the Elementals as He existed before any of them did, all regions of The Void is under His power, even though His Plane is considered small as compared to many. The other reason is because He knows that a tint of Darkness always exist within the heart of beings in the Physical Realm, there is no need for Him to gather more supporters, just let the Darkness within their hearts grow and eventually they will become a member of Darkness.¡±


    ¡°Most Elementals are intelligent enough to realise Master is much more powerful than they are, and they stayed away from the Plane of Darkness, so they remain neutral to us. The Element that exist right beside us, however, feels that it should be the centre, not sharing it with us. The Creator still exist back then, not interrupting since He feels there is no need to as these battles will often break out within creations and new introduction of objects. Such battles stabilise the future relationship between the Elemental Planes, or so he thought. Light was the second strongest element in the Elemental Realm at that time, first being us, the Darkness. But in the eyes of the Light, they are the strongest as it has the largest portion of size relative to others, while Darkness is one of the weakest. They begin a battle on Master, at that point in time most Elemental Planes has their own Creatures created, while Darkness only contain Master Himself, this gave Light an indicator that Darkness is weak and hence they started the attack.¡±


    ¡®I was there on the day of the battle. Some of you may be wondering how am I there since I¡¯m a mere human, I will explain this soon, let me continue the story. The army of Light came in thousands, a brilliant and dazzling sight to my eyes, blinding me. ¡°How disgusting those creatures are, forgetting they were born from the Darkness itself and wanting to dominate over us,¡± Master told me. As the Light¡¯s army reach the edge of Plane of Darkness, a wave of The Void washed out the army and consumed them, I see them losing the bright aura with them and they turned gained a Dark Aura in return, their shape were twisted into various forms. This was the creation of the first few Creature of Darkness. The thousands of Light¡¯s army slowly turned into thousands of Creatures of Darkness, our numbers became far greater than theirs and they have no choice but to retreat. That was the first time battle between the Light and Darkness happened, and very little records is left about it, the Light twisted this story and told their new Creatures and Servants that those were spies sent by Darkness to convince them that Darkness is evil, when ironically the true evil is themselves.¡¯


    ¡°Of course, seeing how Master fought in the battle against Light the other Elements that intended to fight us had nullified the idea, and Light was not satisfied with the result. They begin to send spies to find a method to infiltrate the defence set by Master, little did they know what will happen to those spies at the very end. Master let the spies in on purpose and he set up a trap to capture them, forcing them to reveal their true identity. Master tortured them until He squeezed out all the details He can find about Light, and He let them off on one condition: Do not speak to The Light about them telling Master about Light¡¯s secrets, if they did not follow this condition, the curse He inflicted on them will activate, killing everyone that listened and heard about this, including themselves.¡±


    ¡°As we all know, in the Elemental Realm, if you get killed you will vanish entirely from existence, your soul will be extinguished of its¡¯ energy and you will cease to exist. So this is a great cost for the spies, and they were set free. Just minutes after they left I observed the Death Symbol hanging in the Plane of Light, I knew immediately that the spies were not able to obey the instructions given, and through Clairvoyance I see millions of souls were flying towards Plane of Darkness. Now, most of you do not know this, but Master can consume souls before they are extinguished and vanish, this also grows His strength. The sheer amount of souls being consumed by Master at that time was massive, I was also allowed to have a feast with Him due to far too many souls were present at the time. Be patient, I¡¯m coming to the part of describing what I¡¯m actually is.¡±


    ¡°The Creator took notice of what is happening in the Plant of Light and he traced the origin back to us. He feared that we will eventually grow into a threat that will destroy the other Elemental Planes, hence he formed 2 new Elemental Planes that has now ceased to exist, Chaos and Order. He diverge all his powers to the 2 Elements to ensure they can overthrow us when required, but he forgot that Master is not a Creation of His, and he underestimate His power. Master can create as the Creator did, but He is satisfied with the way things are before the Creator stepped in and create the havoc you see now, Master can do many other things but he was satisfied the way things are before all this mess came by, that is how powerful our Lord Inoxion is.¡±


    ¡®Back to where I was, The Creator launched a full scale attack on us, with all the Elementals against us. Chaos and Order, this two Elements, are not what I, and all of you here well, have seen before. Chaos Element is just like Poison Waters, except it turns everything it touches into new Creatures one never seen before and it obeys Chaos commands. ¡°This Element has great potential if it falls under our commands. We just have to win this battle first and we will settle on how to get this Element under our control.¡± Lord Inoxion told me. Order was an Element almost identical to Light, except it has some influence on The Void nearby. When Creatures of Order comes near The Void, it seemed to erase the Void¡¯s existence of that location. This is something that Light cannot do. ¡°We might have some trouble on this one. We will have to observe this Element further before we can launch out an attack on them. This Element can become a potential ally of Light and I will NOT allow this to happen.¡± Lord Inoxion stated.¡¯


    ¡°The fiercest battle ever recorded or seen happened before me, Master wiped out the 4 other Elementals at a fast speed to such a low number that they are forced to retreat or their entire Plane will be destroyed and become ours. Only Light, Order and Chaos were still attacking, Master is getting exhausted as Order is protecting everything and it gets more difficult to strike any targets when they are little left, Chaos is always creating more targets and it appears to be protecting a Core within the army, but it is too difficult to strike it with Order around. Within 6 hours, Master exhausted all his power with the 3 Elements still at full strength. The Creator saw this and he tried to destroy Master with all his might, I positioned myself right in front of Master and took the blow. I survived the attack, and the Creator severely weakened himself through this. I performed Trasquilitic Denecta on him, destroying the Creator. The moment Creator was destroyed Order suddenly lost their power and was overwhelmed by The Void within the Plane of Darkness. Light saw this and quickly fled, leaving Chaos as the last opponent. I found a location that originates the Creatures of Chaos and isolate a purplish sphere from there, the Creatures of Chaos suddenly all started to melt away into The Void. We finally won the battle, but at a cost.¡±


    ¡®¡±That was foolish, Innight. As a piece of Shadow, and a Special Being, you should not have done that. Even though you are same as me, if not stronger, you should not take that attack. You should know what is the consequence of doing so, I would need you to rebuild this entire Elemental Realm, you could help out in ensuring the entire Elemental Realm is in proper position and if you can, reconstruct the entire Elemental Realm to be at least peaceful place where no war or battles should ever occur.¡± I remembered Lord Inoxion told me so.¡¯


    ¡®¡°I know, and I will return here one day. I may not be able to recognize you and the history of events that has occurred, so when the day arrives that you should see me again, revive the Shadow you see now. Try to keep the entire Elemental Realm under control, and if you need to, raise rulers within the Realm to help you out to strengthen us. I can be sure that Light is not going to be delightful from this event, and they will not end the fight anytime sooner, as far as I can see on the Time.¡± I replied to Him.¡±¡¯


    ¡®¡±Indeed. I also heard from the spies that they are setting up a new base in the Physical Realm, something about using the emptiness of Human¡¯s soul and create a false illusion called ¡°God¡±. Your soul will be banished there for a few thousand years before you will be reformed as Human, your powers will remain but you cannot use them. Since you won¡¯t have any memories of this Timeline I will have to find you and trigger your memory back, you are also likely to fall for the trap that Light has set, I will see what I can do when that point of Time is reached.¡±¡¯


    ¡®¡±Well, looks like my Time is up. To the Fixed Point in Time that we will meet again, Lord Inoxion.¡±¡¯


    ¡®¡±Farewell, Innight. When the Point arises I will pay the Physical Realm a visit. It seems that is an interesting place as well from what I¡¯ve heard.¡±¡¯


    ¡°That was my history. After that I knew about nothing that happened in the Elemental Realm, and I had no memory of the History that I had went through, until Lord Inoxion came and rescued me. This is my story.¡±


    I heard some of them whispering of doubts whether my story is the truth. Indeed, I myself initially did not believe what the Grand Master told me since I was but a mere human. Yet I always feel something is hidden within myself, a power signature stronger than anything I have felt before. It is true that Special Beings retain their power even when they are banished and reformed into other life forms, but they are usually unable to use their powers as it will be sealed until another Special being comes by and breaks the seal.


    As I think about what will happen next, the grand Master rose from his seat.


    ¡°Now everyone has heard about him, let us start the discussion on the reshuffling of the positions. As always, we use a test through your strengths and see where you lie. Innight will not be participating as he has yet to unseal the powers he holds. He will be by my side as an assistant until I can figure out how to break his seal.¡±


    Everyone seems to be in agreement on this order that Master has given. As everyone drew out their source of weapon, an alarm sounded. This means Light is delivering its¡¯ daily round of battle towards us again.


    Except the alarm sounded familiar. It sound like an alarm clock rather than the Ghoulish chime we often hear. I wonder is it because all I¡¯m seeing now is a dream?


    ¡°Innight! You are not going to be late for school again are you?¡± A familiar voice came from a distance away.


    No¡­ This can¡¯t be. All this is only a dream, I cannot accept this fact. I have little chance to escape this stupid reality that has been forced onto me, why can I not have the chance to stay away from it forever?


    I felt a blow on my head. The images of the Grand Master and the other rulers turned blur and vanished, a bright ray of Light broke out from The Void, I¡¯m forced to open my eyes to see who delivered this surprise.


    ¡°Morning, Innight. Now can you please hurry up? Everyone is already dressing up and on their way to school!¡± The face of my ¡°Friend¡±, Maningson, dropped into my field of vision, with his disgusting face beaming.


    I only replied one thing.


    ¡°Shut up, you just ruined my entire day.¡±


    All that before was just a dream, I still cannot believe that. Maybe there is a hint of whatever that had happened left here somewhere else, I will look for it once I return, but now I have school to attend to.


    ¡°That alarm clock of yours is useless, Innight. You never wake up according to it, you either wake up so early that everyone is still asleep or so late when everyone is going to school!¡±


    ¡°Quiet, Maningson. You have ruined my entire day so stop ruining everything else.¡±


    Sometimes I don¡¯t understand why do I still tolerate this ¡°Friend¡± of mine. He is complete failure, a walking presence of pure nonsense of the entire Human population. There is not one day that goes by without him giving me nonsense to destroy my mood for the entire day. Just his presence irks me, and the worst is that we are roommates, which gives him more chance of disturbing me throughout the day. If I can, I would have cleaned up this mess that Luck has created by chance, but I lack of the power to do so.


    It seems I have forgotten something very important, I have yet to introduce myself. My name is Innight, a male human, 18 years old, currently studying in a highschool known as Rescendant High School. Just as many students do, I have the same fixed routine for nearly every day, different from others is that I live within the school with my roommate, not with my parents at home. There are reasons that caused this to occur, but it is unimportant now. The same situation applies to my roommate, but unfortunately for me he is not someone I could get along with.


    As we walk along the corridors of the bunks, I saw many who were just dressed and get ready to move to school. I immediately guessed this was a joke from Maningson, I turned around to get my revenge on him but he had vanished. He may be nonsensical, but in terms of common sense and basic intelligence he seems to be perfectly fine, which produced his disgusting character that many hate.


    I sighed. I took out my booklet and record down a reminder to get my revenge back sometime today on him, once that is done I took a stroll towards my classroom. As others slowly stream into the classroom I took notice if any of them wore the Sign, a symbol that identifies themselves as the member of Darkness, then I remembered this Area belongs to Light, showing that is a foolish move. Yet I feel someone is watching me, as if they knew my identity as a member of Darkness. I may need to observe a few targets just in case.


    The class started as normal, ended as normal. The break then came, I took advantage of this time to look for a teacher, named Mister Lavinsky, who first introduced me to the Elemental Planes and the rituals associated with them. I first head to the Occult Research Room, normally Mr. Lavinsky does his study and practises his magic there. This room was created because of the abnormal amount of supernatural and Elemental magic is observe in our school and students are interested to know more about these. The principal initially denied the request but after parents begin to send their request in as well the Principal agreed to build this room.


    I found the room, but it is locked. This is common as such rituals are not meant to be interrupted, furthermore many people who do not believe the existence of the Elemental Realm will find his actions strange and mock him, to indicate we are a friend to him we developed a system for identification. I knocked on the door twice, said ¡±Nightius¡± and knocked the door another 3 times, followed by my name and told him I have to tell him what I have seen this morning in my dreams.


    A crimson red glow came from the room and diminished, I heard footsteps coming towards the door and locks being opened, the door then swing open and in front of me stood my favourite teacher: Mr. Lavinsky.


    ¡°Well, Innight, you are always welcomed to meet me. Come in first and we will discuss what happened.¡±


    I followed him into the room and stared at the floor. A magical circle that I recognize is there, within the circle I see the symbols of Darkness drawn with it, there were also blood stains on some of the regions.


    ¡°Excuse me, Mr. Lavinsky, but what are you trying to do before I interrupted you?¡±


    ¡°Well Innight, you do know that Element of Darkness is the strongest within all the Elements in the Elemental Plane, and they often require work to be done here to recruit more member of Darkness for the future. I¡¯m a follower of them, and often I need to replenish my supplies of Magic. This magic circle is a form of communication between us and them.¡±


    ¡°Indeed, but I know this circle. This is actually used for sending object through the Realms or for signing contracts. Mr. Lavinsky, are you¡­ Never mind, that is not my point here today. I need to tell you what I have seen today morning.¡±


    I spent the next 20 minutes describing what I have seen in my dreams to Mr. Lavinsky. When I finished, he seemed to be surprised.


    ¡°I see¡­ So this means your dream is likely to be true and will come true in some point in Time. You followed my path into the study of the Elemental Realm and performed the Forbidden Rituals that I forbid you to. I¡¯m still furious upon that incident but if the rituals did do their work, I should have done it long ago, I have already destroyed all documents relevant to it. If my memory serves, what you see is probably going to happen somewhere along today to tomorrow, but before that I have to tell you something as well. The rulers of Darkness told me Light is doing something here tomorrow, they will be coming here as well to observe and disrupt them if necessary. If your dreams are true, then be prepared, tomorrow will be a rough day for everyone.¡±


    After Mr. Lavinsky told me these, the bell rang. I have to bid farewell to Mr. Lavinsky and return to my classroom. I cannot focus on the lessons after what Mr. Lavinsky told me. His last sentence echoed in my head over and over again, making me worry greatly on what will happen tomorrow.


    End of lessons and finally time to head back to the dormitory. Maningson continued to bombard me with all his nonsensical might but I ignored him, Mr. Lavinsky do not give warnings to anyone unless it is a very serious matter, great enough to cause widespread damage. That night I went to sleep with uneasiness in mind.


    When I woke up, it is already morning. I looked around at my alarm clock, it gave a nonsensical reading of time, and the reading is worded using strange symbols that I don¡¯t understand. I looked at the surrounding, the entire dormitory is empty, and screams were coming from outside the dormitory. I drew up the window near my bed, and saw the sky coloured with Crimson, Magical circles are appearing from various places outside the dormitory with Creatures I¡¯ve seen before appearing from them.


    I quickly realised what is happening. The event that Mr. Lavinsky described is happening now, and it appears that the Creature of Darkness is protecting this dormitory, judging from the amount of barriers being set up here. Some distance away I can see a gigantic portal with numerous Light Creations pouring out of it, and they are heading in the dormitory¡¯s direction. On the ground I observe the carcasses of various students and Creatures, some are currently being slaughtered by the Creatures of Light.


    Suddenly my room¡¯s door flew open and in shot Mr. Lavinsky. He rushed in and quickly sealed the door with a spell.


    ¡°Mr. Lavinsky! This is the event you have been telling me isn¡¯t it? What is exactly happening here?¡±


    Mr. Lavinsky took a few deep breaths to cool himself down, then he told me:


    ¡°Indeed this is the event. The Light were here to find the Piece of Shadow that has been reformed as human, they knew that if Darkness laid their hands on it they will complete their strength to back how they were back in the war against The Creator. The initially just wanted to cleanse the Piece and turn it into a Piece of Light, however after it backfired and the Piece corrupted their cleansers, they then changed their plans to destroy it instead. The Darkness heard of this news after I reported to them yesterday and decide to launch an attack here as they know the Piece is here. Their job today is to drive the Light away from this location and cause them to lose their position on this location. They will come back to claim the Piece and take it back to where it belongs after they have driven back the invasion.¡±


    ¡°The current situation is that both sides know the Piece is in this very dormitory and the Darkness is using all its¡¯ force to protect from the Light getting their hands on it. Light, on the other hand, is trying its¡¯ best to infiltrate the Darkness¡¯ defence, many people have no idea what is happening in this dormitory and went out, all those are now souls that will take theirs paths in the Elemental Realm. Since none of the sides, even myself initially, have any idea which human is the Piece, the Light is killing every student they can find while Darkness is protecting everyone with its¡¯ best abilities. Even with that, Light is gaining an advantage as this is their territory. I want to help the Darkness, but the commander told me to protect everyone in this dormitory instead. You are the very last person surviving in this dormitory, the others are either already dead or they reached the school, which is safe from this attack since it has no interest to both parties now. You must be the Piece, judging by the situation and your dream¡¯s prediction, so I need to protect you with everything I have.¡±


    ¡°I see. I also see my clock is running wild, did the Light tried to reconfigure the Timeline and Spatial definition here?¡±


    ¡°It appears so. When I initially entered the dormitory my clocked also went haywire, I used my various measuring equipment and all showed signs of abnormality. Light was trying to prevent anything else from disturbing them for this invasion, but Darkness was prepared after what I told them yesterday, they got in before Light tried to distort the Time and Space within this region and got themselves a few portals before Light has the chance to disable them. This probably wouldn¡¯t end anytime sooner until either side completely exhaust their strength, luckily since Time is distorted in this region we wouldn¡¯t have to worry about being late for classes or lessons. Unfortunately as well, this means we will have to suffer complications like travelling through Paradoxes created by such an event.¡±


    While I¡¯m talking with Mr. Lavinsky, chains of explosions and screams came from outside the building. I can no longer tell the difference between reality and ideality, this scenario is supposed to be idealistic, yet it is happening in the real world now. If the beginning of my dream has come true, this also means¡­..


    ¡°Mr. Lavinsky¡­ This was in the beginning of my dream, if this has come true, this must mean that the rest¡­¡±


    ¡°Agreed.¡±


    A blinding light came from outside the window, it was then tainted by crimson and it vanished. A magical circle started to form in the middle of the room. A dark purpled coloured circle, this must mean that Darkness has driven Light away and won this battle.


    Out from the circle a human stepped out. I recognize the face, it is the 7th Ruler of Darkness, Ringulus. Ringulus is also known as the Ruler of Void, Lord Inoxion assigned him to ruler over the entire Void Elemental Plane which is under control by the Darkness Elemental Plane.


    ¡°Good work, Mr. Lavinsky, or should I say, Nightius?¡±


    I cannot believed my ears. Mr. Lavinsky is Nightius? The 12th Ruler of Darkness, who controls over the Dreams of others and twisting them into Nightmares? I must have been blind to not see something so obvious.


    ¡°Don¡¯t say that, Ringulus, especially not when we are in the presence of my favourite student. There is nothing now to hide though, now that he knows he is the Piece we are looking for.¡±Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.


    ¡°Mr. Lavinsky¡± took out a piece of Dark Crystal and threw it into his mouth and chew it. His greyish coloured hair turned red, his wrinkles on his face melt away, his hands turned into fangs. These are characteristic of only Nightius have. He was borned with abnormal human features, his eternal life of despair caused him to turn towards Darkness as the source of comfort, and Darkness eventually accepted him as one of the rules of Darkness. He is now the ruler of Dreams as he strikes Fear within others, but others do not show fear until he creeps into their dreams.


    ¡°Now what should we do, Ringulus? We cannot just take him away now, look at all this casualties here and the damage incurred. We have to clear up this mess and also report back to the Master.¡±


    A Magical Ring of Communication suddenly opened up from the middle of the room. A deep and dark voice came from it.


    ¡°Does this thing even work? Nightius, Ringulus, if you hear me, reply!¡±


    I felt a shiver down my spine. Suddenly I feel the need to move closer to the circle, so much that I started to walk towards it without control. Ringulus quickly took hold of me before I moved any further.


    ¡°Yes, we can hear you well. We won the battle and found the Piece, he is very eager to meet you now, but there are far too many casualties and the battlefield is in a mess. What should we do now, Lord Inoxion?¡±


    I was right. That voice belongs to the Great Shadow of the Dark, the Void before Time, The Creator of Creation. I¡¯m looking forward to the day I meet him, and finally leaving this disgusting world of Light.


    ¡°I¡¯m reaching the place soon. Do not do anything until I arrive. The Light is not going to back off so easily, they are bound to return soon with greater force.¡± The circle then closed by itself, the three of us were silent for the next few minutes.


    A huge magical circle appeared in the sky, the symbol in the middle signifies the Darkness itself.


    The Great Shadow of Darkness has arrived.


    A strange being that most would have never seen before descend from the Circle, behind him is a massive building. I would guess that is Lord Inoxion and his entire Castle. He must have thought that he would need many items to fight against the entire army of Light and its¡¯ rulers, should they appear.


    As soon as the building touched the ground, Nightius broke the seal he placed on the door, he grabbed my hand and rushed out the dormitory.


    ¡°Lord Inoxion! I¡¯m glad you have arrived!¡±


    Lord Inoxion seems unpleased for some reason as I can feel a dangerous aura being emitted by him at that moment. Nightius seems to be unaware, however, of this fact.


    A red soul seems to form between the hands of Lord Inoxion, he grasped it tightly. Nightius suddenly collapse to the ground, howling in pain.


    ¡°How imprudent. I told you not to do anything and what did you just do? The Light have left us surprises before and I¡¯m relieved that they did not leave behind anything for spying on us. If they had you would have just ruined all the efforts you took to protect the Piece.¡±


    Lord Inoxion then turned towards me.


    ¡°I see¡­ So that is how it all came to be. Innight, if that is your name, you have already know why I came here, who you are, and what should be happening next, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    I quivered a little. All the images that went through my mind where coming true, one after another. This is something I would have not expected to see while I¡¯m alive. A dream that is to come, a reality that has yet to be.


    ¡°Yes, my Master. The picture is not complete but the timeline is intact. I do wish, however, to ask for but one little favour. Can Master please grant me a potion recipe and the stabilizer? I need the recipe for ¡°Forgoing Memory¡±. I need the potion to destroy one of my arch-nemesis¡¯ memories about myself.¡±


    Master¡¯s eye begin to flinch, this is a sign that he is thinking and weighting the decisions.


    ¡°I will grant you the items that you wish to have. We need to brew these potions as well to sprinkle over this entire area so people will forget what they see here today. I never thought the Light will take action so quickly on this matter, I initially decide to leave you here longer, but since they are intending to bend towards destruction, you are too dangerous to be left here with the seal still on you. I need to stay here and ensure Light lose their control over this area before I can leave. I will not be taking you now since they are more important matters on the Elemental Plane itself I have to take care of. I will come back soon to take you once I¡¯ve settle out the matters over there.¡±


    With that, He took out a scroll that appeared from his hand and gave it to me. He then turned himself towards his castle. Before he took a step, he told me this:


    ¡°Also, I¡¯ve just broke the first layer of the seal. You should be able to perform simple magic now, this should allow you to build your own stabilizer.¡±


    He then vanished into his castle.


    Nightius crawled up from the ground, he seems to have recovered from the torture that Master gave.


    ¡°That hurts. Lord Inoxion is sometimes too forceful on his punishment. Just send me to the Endless Whirlpool is better than this form of punishment.¡± Nightius said as he crawled up from the ground.


    ¡°Either way, it teaches you a lesson, Nightius. Innight, we have to protect you for the moment until we are sure that Light has lost this place completely. We will do some cleaning up of the area here later and for your school, Nightius will do something about it.¡± The speaker is Ringulus.


    ¡°Indeed. I expect something to be done here, we can¡¯t possibly leave all these carcasses around for everyone to see, and some are bound to have seen the whole incident and survived. Experiencing Paradoxes and Spatial disruption is probably lesser of a concern compared to this. We should try to clear up this mess as quickly as possible, I¡¯ve no idea how long this Field Light created will last, when it breaks the complications will arise, we have little time to lose.¡± I replied.


    Progression was quick. I cleared up the mess within the dormitory to ensure it doesn¡¯t look like a battlefield. Nightius and Ringulus removed the carcasses lying around the entire filled around the dormitory. Master is, all the while, conducting spells within his castle to ensure the Field is intact until our work is done. I can hear him doing so even without being near Him.


    ¡°Innight. What are you doing? Get back to work.¡±


    I immediately stopped gazing at His castle and went back to clearing up. All of a sudden a bolt of blinding light crashed from the sky and struck on Master¡¯s castle. I quickly rushed to the window facing His castle. Luckily Master always keep a barrier around it so the castle is unharmed, but the bolt of light kept striking from the sky, making me suspicious of this to be an action by the Light. After another few strikes the thunder strike in the middle of the field and open up a magical circle, the circle shone brightly, so bright that it blinds my eyes, I managed to see the symbols on the circle before it starts to shine.


    I was right again.


    The light begin to fade and I took a glance of the visitors Light brought this time. These were three humans standing there, rather than the usual creatures that they often bring about.


    ¡°The Grand master of Darkness, Lord Inoxion! We, the Holy Trinity, wish to speak to you!¡±


    I nearly vomited. The Holy Trinity is a false image produced by Light to convince humans in the Physical Plane into believing Light as the ultimate Goodness and Darkness as their eternal enemy. How dare such illusions wish to speak to our Greatest Ruler in the entire Elemental Realm! Master will not meet with any other members of the other Elemental Planes other than the Rulers. The last time a General of the Water wished to meet Master, he was nearly destroyed by Master by making such a foolish request.


    A sinkhole of The Void was created beneath the feet of the ¡°Holy Trinity¡±, pulling them into the ground. They struggled and used their staffs to dissipate the sinkhole, but to no avail. The Void is the only weakness of the Light, and is strongly associated to Darkness, even though Light can dissipate our Darkness, it fails to dissipate The Void. We often use this weakness against them to ensure the Light do not go beyond our boundaries. Master¡¯s voice then came from within the castle:


    ¡°Fools. You are but illusions created for making the humans a puppet for the Light. You are in no position to call out my name and definitely not to meet me. Call out to your rulers of Light, they are the only ones that I will talk to. If not, I¡¯ll let this sinkhole swallow you all. That will make my job on the Physical Plane in the future easier anyway so there is no lost for me.¡±


    The Holy Trinity then cried out: ¡°The 5 Lords of Light, please stop hiding! The Evil One only wish to speak to you all, and if you refuse we will die!¡±


    I chuckled. Who knew that the Rulers of Light are as such? Light always claims itself to upright justice, a signature of how good is to be, always does things that are the best for the general audience, and all the rest of goodness, this move that they have taken is definitely proving their claims wrong. Pathetic.


    Five figures slowly formed near the sinkhole, all human-like. They begin to pull the Holy Trinity out of the sinkhole, but to no avail. Suddenly the sinkhole dissipates on its¡¯ own, and the Holy Trinity were ejected out from it. They quickly teleported themselves out of here.


    ¡°I believe this is the first time we have ever meet, Rulers of Light. May I please ask you all to introduce yourselves?¡± Master said this as he appeared outside the castle.


    ¡°Very well, if you wish so, Evil One. I¡¯m Luricerite, the Representor of Light, also known as the Grand Ruler of Light. Beside me are Remius, Plurisia, Aganos and Fluriun. We are the five rulers of the Light Elemental Plane, out motive here today is to know about your intention on The Piece and to know slightly more about the Darkness Elemental Plane, we came in peace and hope to resolve this issue peacefully as well.¡±


    I guffawed at this speech. Luckily I¡¯m in the dormitory, which is far away from the scene, so no one takes notice of me, but I felt Master giving me a pinch from the dark. Light always claims to come in peace and resolve things peacefully, every time, even when they are resolving issues with other Elemental Plane. However it will never end up to be a peaceful solution, a battle is always guaranteed whenever an agreement needs to be made with the Light.


    ¡°Not quite right. I remembered many rotations of the Time Progion, and 3 or 4 rotations ago, when the last time I visited the Light Elemental Plane there were 6 rulers, and you were not the Grand Master. Where is the Grand Ruler Resika, the incarnation of Light?¡±


    ¡°Thanks to The Piece, she was corrupted and overcome by Evil. We had to banish her to The Void to prevent her spreading the corruption within our Elemental Plane. What happened to her thereafter we have no idea, but we have gathered news that she is currently in the hands of yours, Evil One.¡±


    ¡°That is to be expected. The Piece is a part of myself, you cannot change something that is of Darkness in nature and is also a Special Being.¡±


    ¡°That is not the issue we wish to discuss. We want to know your stand on the Piece and why do you wish to take your stand. We also want to know our enemy better so we also want to know your rulers of your Plane.¡±


    ¡°You should know my stand on The Piece very clear by now. After all that had happened just moments ago you should know what I¡¯m about to do. I¡¯m taking The Piece and reform it to back to how it used to be. It is also a Special Being and it needs to be treated with respect, same goes for your Ancient Creature of Light, Luricerite. I have 25 rulers in my Plane of Darkness, when The Piece regains its power, it will set itself as the 2nd Ruler of Darkness, giving us 26 rulers in the future.¡±


    ¡°So that is how it is, Evil One. Unfortunately after The Piece corrupted our Grand Ruler we are not able to forgive such a tool of Evil. We have to destroy it to release the soul of our corrupted leader.¡±


    ¡°Impossible. The Piece is not something for you to destroy upon. It is same as me, and has lived as long as I do. Going against The Piece is identical in going against me. If your information is correct, I can trace the soul and recover your leader and release her soul. If you insist on destroying The Piece to do so, I¡¯m afraid I have to take the worst possible action.¡±


    ¡°We knew your decision will be placed on this, but after what The Piece has done it is hard to forget the incident. May we suggest an alternative that gives us some form of control and punishment to The Piece¡­?¡±


    ¡°I have my decisions set. There is no change to be made. End of discussion. Learn to be magnanimous towards others. Is that not what your Ancient Creature taught you, Rulers of Light?¡±


    I can sense a fight breaking out soon in the region. Light seems to be finding ways to break me, if not to eliminate. Master, on the other hand, is only thinking of protecting me from being attacked or harmed by the Light. When two opposite ideas exist and one of them happens to arise from a party of Light, a fight, battle or even war is guaranteed to happen.


    ¡°And so it is. But such Ancient Creatures forgot how as Time moves along, each rotation of the Time Progion new ideas and minds appear while old ones fades from existence. Its¡¯ ideas are long of something in the past that does not apply to us. It appears, then, we have to settle this with a method that never gets old.¡±


    And I was right again. This can be a bad thing, since battles between Light and Darkness is often large scaled and if the Field does not contain the power within this region, the entire city can easily be wiped out. I suddenly heard a rustle from the closet near the door, I went over to take a peak in it, and guess who did I find hiding inside?


    ¡°Hello¡­. Innight¡­. What is happening here? Why is everyone getting killed?¡±


    That idiotic moron. Of all times to hide in that closet and trying to scare me, why now?


    ¡°Louren Maningson. How stupid can you possibly get? This is not the place for you to be and definitely not the right time either. If you want to stay alive please keep yourself rooted to the spot and don¡¯t make any movements. I don¡¯t want you to tell anyone anything about this once you get away from this entire incident alive, do you understand?¡±


    ¡°Yes Innight. But why and how and who and¡­¡±


    I slammed the closet door shut. Now it is not the time to argue and entertain him with his questions. Once Master and the other Lords left I will have to ensure he forgets everything that happened here, he definitely would have eavesdrop the conversation I had with Nightius, Ringulus and Master, I must not let the secret out or more trouble might arise after this.


    First I need to see how Master is planning to deal with the Light¡¯s rulers.


    A battle is definitely going to unfold in this region, but it is going to be restricted. First is because most magic doesn¡¯t work in the Physical Realm due to the lack of a Mana Network, only spells independent on Mana can be performed here. The second reason is the damage from conducting such magic is often dangerous and large scaled, the only form of barrier preventing the damage from spreading out into the surroundings is The Field set up by Light some time ago. If the fight gets out of control and breaks the field, the sheer amount of power is more than enough to bring the entire city into oblivion. This brings me to one conclusion: The battle is going to be simple and quick, as the field is getting fragile and may start to break any moment.


    ¡°We will do just a very simple battle here to determine the outcome of our discussion. We don¡¯t want to break this field and destroy anything here, do we?¡±


    ¡°Very Well. We shall proceed with your decision.¡±


    I see Master and the Rulers of Light taking out their own weapons through a Magic Circle. They are using weapons to fight this battle, which lowers the risk of breaking the barrier by a significant amount, as long as Master doesn¡¯t use the magic locked within the weapon it should be fine.


    The battle begins. Five rulers of Light against our Grand Master, Master is outnumbered, but this does not diminish our chances of winning. I decide to leave Master fighting while I interrogate Maningson. I need to know how much he have overheard and what is his belief on the situation now.


    I heard some mumbling from the closet, I opened it and saw Maningson is curling up like a ball inside. I pulled him out of the closet and slapped him until he uncurled himself and showed his face, all white and blank. From his eyes I can see signs of Fear and Dread, I need to ensure he doesn¡¯t do anything stupid from now on, judging from the amount of noises I¡¯m hearing from outside the dormitory.


    ¡°Maningson, get a hold of yourself! You wouldn¡¯t be killed here, not unless you do anything stupid! I need you to answer some questions!¡± I screamed into his ears.


    That blanked face of his suddenly sprung into life.


    ¡°Uh¡­ Innight? What is going on here? I must know!¡±


    ¡°Quiet! From this moment I want you to answer me as truthfully as possible and you must NOT leave this room at all cost! I will answer your questions later but I need some important information on you first!¡±


    I questioned him on how much he actually overheard, he told me that he heard everything that Nightius and Ringulus said within the room, he also overheard the voice of Master. This can be a problem later on, if I do not resolve the issue of him overhearing our plans and he gets captured by Light.


    I spent the next 20 minutes on trying to explain to him on the current situation.


    ¡°So¡­ You are what they called ¡®The Piece¡¯? Are you going to kill me because you are evil?¡±


    ¡°No, I¡¯m powerless now. I have 7 magical seals placed within myself, only when one of such a seal is broken a part of my true self is released with the magic sealed within, I will only turn into the real Piece once all the magic seals breaks. I have no intention to kill you as you do not pose any threats to us, yet.¡±


    Suddenly a purple ball of magic broke into the room. I quickly rolled Maningson and myself away from the spell. It touched the closet and the closet disintegrated into dust. Whoever did that probably is unaware there are still some people here.


    I took a look outside through the hole the spell created. It appears that it was a spell casted by Master but was deflected by the Rulers of Light. I can see a barrier shielding the five Rulers of Light, it appears to be made of very powerful Light magic and is highly unbreakable. I suddenly hear Master speaking to me through magic.


    ¡°Innight, are you affected by the spell? These betrayers seems to have woven a strong barrier using Light magic, it deflects any weak magic I throw at it, I wanted to use stronger spells but that can potentially break the barrier.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m safe. Though I wish I could use magic, I¡¯m not being particularly useful here. Also, Master, I¡¯ve found a little bug that overheard us. Once we have driven the Rulers of Light away we have to see what to do with him.¡±


    ¡°The seals are preventing your use of magic. If only I knew how to break them you can then help us out. I will personally see the bug later. Innight, I¡¯m going to use Insigma, stay away from any openings in the room.¡±


    I pushed my bed to cover up the hole the spell made and closed the windows. Insigma is an anti-magic spell, it works in by allowing the enemies to breathe it the spell, disabling their ability to perform magic. If the spell is strong enough, the spell can even disable the movement of the enemy. The most important thing about this spell that when it is casted it is not visible to the enemy as no magic circles are formed.


    I felt a tap from my back, it was Maningson again. I explained the need of doing all the actions and told him to hold his breath when I signal him to. Just as I finished explaining I felt a blow of magic flowing into the room, which is a sign of Insigma. I quickly signalled to Maningson to hold his breath and I did the same. I heard another blast came from the outside and felt something of great magical power faded. I hold my breath for another minute before I start to breathe normally again. I moved aside the bed and took a peak at the situation outside, Maningson lean towards the window.


    The barrier that the Rulers of Light put against themselves are destroyed, instead they are trapped within a dark sphere and immobile. It appears that Insigma worked and disabled the barrier, Master seems to be sending all of them back to the Elemental Realm to win the battle.


    ¡°You have won this time, Evil One. You have earned your right to this place now, but this will not be the last time you will see us. We shall meet again soon.¡±


    I heard this message echoing around the field as a crack opened in space and the dark sphere floats into it. Hopefully this is the last time we have to deal with the Rulers of Light in the Physical Realm. Master turned and warped into our room.


    ¡°So¡­ you are the little snoop that hid yourself and heard everything. Pleased to meet you, I¡¯m Lord Inoxion, the Grand Ruler in the Plane of Darkness.¡±


    Maningson looked a little shocked, I understand why he would feel that way. Most people associate Darkness with purely evil thoughts, and if anyone overhears the plan of Darkness they will be killed almost immediately. In reality this is definitely untrue, evil is a result of falling into Darkness, but evil is not equal to Darkness. My guess on Master is either he recruit him to be under us or to cleanse his memory on this issue altogether.


    ¡°So you are the boss behind all of this? I need to ask something, are you going to kill me?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m not responsible for the events today, the Light is the responsible party. I refuse to kill anyone without a very good reason, just overhearing our secrets doesn¡¯t make you a thorn at our side and you will be spared from death, but I still need to deliver a punishment for overhearing us when you are not a member of Darkness. I will give you two choices. Option one, you will becomes a part of the Darkness and follow our orders. This is the simplest path and you will need not to suffer anything other than the often battles we have against Light. Your second option is to allow me to eliminate all your memories of today¡¯s event, you will suffer from a gap in your memory bank as a result. Furthermore you will have yourself targeted by the Light as they have noticed you, I do not know what Light will do to you as they are far more evil than I am, that may sound as a hypocritical statement but it is not.¡±


    Maningson walked around the room, possibly weighting the decision. I hope he can become a member of Darkness, as that means I will have someone to talk to about the things in the Darkness Elemental Plane. On the other hand, if he decides to have his memory wiped, he can become a tool by the Light as Light knows how close he is to me, and that makes him a potential danger if left unguarded. Maningson stopped moving, and said,


    ¡°I¡¯ve decided to go with option one.¡±


    I¡¯m glad he made this decision. I now gained a friend that we can talk on everything we know.


    ¡°Very well, you have made your choice and will not be able to revert it. Open your hands.¡±


    Master took out an amulet and placed it in Maningson¡¯s palm.


    ¡°What is your name, the friend of Piece?¡±


    ¡°Maningson. Louren Maningson.¡±


    ¡°What a horrible name, dragging our form of Darkness in shame. I shall give you a new name with your new form. Close your eyes and stand still.¡±


    Master formed a magic circle under Maningson, the amulet in Maningson¡¯s palm begin to glow crimson. Master begin to chant these words:


    Today you will leave your previous identity as a human, you now fall under as a servant of Darkness. You will leave behind all your previous names you have been called, and summit yourself to your new name as Luthriel. Forget and remove all the previous Lord you have served, and only serve under my name: Lord Inoxion. You will swear complete loyalty to the Darkness, and refuse anyone who wish you to betray us. I now shall awake you from the Darkness you hide within, into your new form: Luthriel!


    Dark purple strips of magic cocooned Maningson, now better known as Luthriel, as Master spoke the lines in The Conversion. When the strips of magic fell off, Luthriel appeared in his new form. He still remain his base as human, but his eyes shone with red light, he wore a dark armour on himself, holding a dark sword in his hands.


    ¡°I feel¡­ different. I feel a large amount of power flowing through myself. Is this the power of Darkness?¡±


    ¡°Indeed, servant of Darkness. You are currently of one of the lowest rank in the Darkness Elemental Plane, I¡¯ve only given you a sparkle of energy from Darkness myself. As you prove yourself to be capable and loyal you will rise in position and gain more in power. Make yourself useful enough and maybe sometime in the far future you can earn yourself the capability to earn yourself a seat for the 25 lords of Darkness Elemental Plane. Now if you please, please transform yourself back to normal, we cannot have any member of Darkness showing their true self to any human here.¡±


    The transformation of Luthriel came undone and his human form appeared. I can see the sign of Darkness on his left hand, shaped like the Alpha symbol. (¦Á) He is now officially a member of Darkness, I need to teach him everything about being a member of Darkness and how to behave in this Realm.


    ¡°Now I¡¯ve done my work here, I have to leave. Innight, I will be looking forward to the time I can take you back, the same goes for you, Luthriel. There is a reason why I have to leave both of you in this Realm now, Light is plotting on something that we are still unsure about and your job is to figure that out. This entire planet ¡®Earth¡¯ is created by Light to create more armies of Light, staying here might give you chances of knowing more information on their plans. Innight, teach Luthriel about the Plane of Darkness and how we work. I need to leave now, the students are returning soon.¡±


    Master disappeared into his Castle when he finished speaking. The entire Castle started to float into the sky, a magical circle begin to form in the sky and the castle flew through it, the magical circle then dissipated. Master also did this just in time as after the magic circle vanished, the Field begin to crack and shattered into pieces which melted into nothingness. I can also hear laughter and chattering coming from distance, I pulled Luthriel into our room. I spent the entire night teaching everything about the Plane of Darkness to Luthriel, we are lucky that rooms in dormitories are restricted to 2 person per room and no one came by to take a look at us.


    That night I can¡¯t sleep. First reason is because I have got myself a new friend, and he is one that I can speak to about anything from the Darkness Elemental Plane. The second reason is because of something master told us. In the middle of my teachings to Luthriel, Master suddenly activated my Calling Crystal. He told us, through the Crystal, that there is also another member of Darkness in our class, and to make things more interesting, the member is a female. We are supposed to try to find her and communicate with her, she has found some important information on the plans of Light and she also does not know our existence. She lost her Calling Crystal and master is unable to contact her, nor is she able to perform any spells to form a connection between here to Master¡¯s location.


    The night pass by uneasily for me, I sensed a trace of magic in the background of the room. I hope that this is only the left over traces over Master¡¯s magic and not anything else. Tomorrow I have to trace down this girl in my class who is a member of Darkness, she is supposedly a spy for us and she wouldn¡¯t show her Sign openly like most of us do. This may make the job more difficult that I predicted it to be.


    The next day I begin to take notice of the movements of the girls in my class. According to Master, she is currently in danger because Light seemed to have identified her as a member of Darkness and is beginning an attempt to eliminate her. We have very little time to find her and protect her, because according to Master, they are going to strike within the next 2 days and they may strike anytime. I¡¯m starting to feel glares from the girls because of my action, I¡¯m feeling that I will receive more hatred from the girls by the time I found the member of Darkness, but I have to do the necessary.


    I¡¯ve placed tracking crystals on various girls to track their movements and observe their actions, but none seemed to be out of ordinary. I wanted to do a spell that analyse their mana movements to determine whether they are members of Darkness, however I cannot even perform a single spell due to my seals. Luthriel is unable to perform any spells as well as he is still far too weak to perform spells without a mana pool, I just have to use my crystals to identify the target. This is going to be a hard mission.


    Another day passed without anything new to discover. Luthriel also found nothing knew even after scouting around the documents of the teachers and asking Nightius. She appeared to have hidden all information about herself very carefully, as even Nightius knew nothing about her. Nightius warned us there seems be a surge in Light magic around the region, meaning something very powerful is approaching. He also told us that such a spy lacks of enough mana resource and power to perform any spells, so often once they get into any trouble they are unable to get out, thus often spies are a one-time job.


    Nothing really happened the next day until around afternoon. At the strike of afternoon, I felt traces of magic around the area and it amplified. A wave of spell suddenly swept over everyone, when it stopped, everyone except me, Luthriel and a girl sitting two seats in front of me froze solid. It seems to prevent any interventions to any human uninvolved with their operation, they performed a spell that stopped anyone that lacks of magic power. I¡¯m both pleased and worried about this move they take. I¡¯m pleased as it simplified my task on finding our member of Darkness, I¡¯m worried as this means we have almost no time left before Light attacks all of us, and we are powerless to defend ourselves.


    The girl looked surprised as she see us still capable of moving even under the Light¡¯s spell, I took a good look at her. Golden hair, her heights is around my shoulders, green coloured eyes. She looks like any other human, except I finally see the Sign that she has been hiding all the time. She has been hiding it inside her eyes, a tricky place to find.


    ¡°Who are you? Are you members of Light? Don¡¯t¡¯ come near me!¡±


    She seems to be feared that we are members of Light, which is perfectly understandable. I hold up my left palm and Luthriel¡¯s, showing the Sign. Luthriel transformed into his Darkness form to further prove it.


    ¡°Worry not. You should know this Sign. I¡¯m The Piece that Lord Inoxion have been searching for, and this is Luthriel, a new member of Darkness. We are instructed by Lord Inoxion to look for you, member of Darkness, to give you a Calling Crystal and to retrieve the information about Light.¡±


    She seemed to cool down a little after seeing the Sign.


    ¡°I¡¯m Aquis. You have to help me drive back to Light forces before I can give you the information. All our lives are in danger now.¡±


    ¡°Truth to that. However none of us can perform any magic. Luthriel lacks of a magic pool to perform any magic, and even with one his range of spells is very limited. I¡¯m unable to perform a single spell as my seals prevents me from using them, and I have no idea how to break any of the seals. We are really out of options now, and we don¡¯t even have power to retaliate. I will have to try to contact Master if he can help us, but I doubt he will be able to, judging by how problematic Light is at the Elemental Realm right now. We will have to do as much as we can with our power.¡±


    Just as I finished, explosions came from the walls of the classroom. Various fantasy creatures like unicorns appeared in front of us and some servants of Light appeared before us. Humans-like figures covered by blinding amount of Light, they are of the lowest rank in the Light Elemental Plane. They should be easy to dispel, judging by the amount of power they hold, as long as they don¡¯t come in large numbers.


    ¡°Luthriel, I felt a mana pool nearby, try connecting to the mana pool and eliminate these enemies.¡±


    Luthriel closed his eyes and soon he begin to blast the enemies left and right. I hope Light only sent these enemies, if they sent any stronger units we won¡¯t be able to hold out. Unless I can find a way to lift my seals we might not stand a chance against any stronger units.


    Just as I thought about this a huge hammer blasted into the room. I immediately recognized the symbol carved onto the hammer, it belongs to a Paladin, we are in real trouble now. Paladin are stiff creatures, they have very high resistance to any magic, and their tough armour prevents any physical damage done on them. They excel in performing Light magic and are capable of destroying anything with their hammer. The hammer flew back outside the classroom, I was about to take a look at the Paladin when a magic circle appeared in the room and it belongs to The Light. Out stepped a human figure covered in white robes. It¡¯s a Mage, a Light mage to be precise. He must be the strategist for this battle.


    ¡°Well, well, well. What do we have here? All members of the Darkness. We have our spy over here, The Piece of Shadow that is completely powerless, and a newly entered member of Darkness. What an interesting group we have here. My name is Merlin, I¡¯m one of the generals in the Light Elemental Plane and I¡¯m the boss of the entire troop here.¡±


    ¡°Enough with the small talk, Merlin. What do you want?¡±


    ¡°Be patient. We have a simple choice for you to choose from, that will decide your fate. The first option is we will destroy The Piece here, but everyone else will get to live. The second option is we will erase the memory of this spy, hand over us The Piece, that member will get to live. The third option, everyone will die here, or until you defeat us, which is impossible for you. The fourth and most lenient choice, we will convert all of you into a member of Light, and we will destroy The Piece together.¡±


    ¡°I knew it would come to this. So this is, in the end, a trap just to eliminate me?¡±


    ¡°How clever! Yes, this is our plan. You can decide, The Piece, in which way do you wish to die.¡±


    Aquis and Luthriel wanted to speak, but I held them back.


    ¡°I will go for the first choice. Spare the rest. If you want me then let this be it, but do not drag anyone who is not relevant into this operation.¡±


    ¡°How magnificent. This spare us from more problems.¡±


    A magic circle appeared under me, chains came out from it and bound me to the ground.


    ¡°And now¡­ Time to say goodbye to your friends. No one from the Darkness should ever be spared, as how our Rulers all said!¡±


    I received a shock. Merlin is once known in Legend to be a fair and righteous wizard, how can he fall to be such a despicable person as the Rulers of Light is?


    ¡°You are weak, The Piece. Light is always supposed to be the ones that extinguish Darkness. Darkness is the purest form of Evil and must be completely destroyed with its¡¯ core. We Light aim to conquer Darkness and extinguish the very last shadow you Darkness cast. As long as Darkness exist the entire Existence can never be pure, Darkness must be destroyed! And of course, since you all are a member of Darkness, you will all be destroyed!¡±


    I should have known. Any being that has fallen under the influence of Light will have the same mind set as they do. Just as I¡¯m thinking about this, Merlin chanted something and a beam of white light shot towards Aquis, she screamed and cried, eventually she became silent. I thought I saw a dark red orb floating into the staff Merlin is holding, that must be the soul that she has, Merlin must have extracted her soul and use it to power himself. Such evil intentions under those fake words of his, this is how all Servant of Light behaves.


    ¡°She is supposed to die in a much gruesome way. I have extracted her soul and will purify it, you should thank me for doing such a wonderful job to save her from the evil that all of you are tainting her. We will give her a new body, a much more beautiful one, with her soul purified, she will get to live a joyous and wonderful life, not rotting her life away in those disgusting Castle of yours.


    ¡°You do not¡­ humiliate us! We came into existence far before Light even saw its¡¯ birth, and we even let all the other Elemental Planes to have a share in the Elemental Realm. It is you Light who were greedy of power!¡±


    ¡°You are weak, The Piece. You could not even stand up against the weakest member of Light, let alone me. You could not even protect a single friend that you have! You have no say in such topics! Who came before in the Timeline matters not! In this Timeline, power is the most important! Those that are the weakest deserves to be wiped out, and you, The Piece, is weak, so you will be destroyed! If you want to prove me wrong, defeat me then! Wait, you are weak, so you can¡¯t!¡± This followed by a series of laughter from himself and the other Creatures of Light.


    He is right. I¡¯m weak. I¡¯m weaker than the weakest unit in the Darkness Elemental Plane, I have absolutely zero capability to perform any spells and I have very little physical strength. And yet I¡¯m called The Piece that holds more power than anyone will do. I could not even protect my friends against the single attack that Light delivered. What am I to call myself The Piece when I¡¯m weaker than the weakest? Here this Servant of Light is killing all my friends and humiliating us, I cannot stand this, yet I cannot do anything. The amount of hatred grew in myself, I wish I could kill such a fool who dared to trample upon us.


    I suddenly see the 7 seals within myself appearing before my sight, all of them suddenly breaks. I felt a huge surge of power within myself and I begin to transform. Merlin stopped laughing as I turned into a fearsome form. I can see myself through the reflection on the windows. My black coloured hair turned Crimson, my hands turned into claws, vampire fangs hang around my mouth and a black pair of wings appeared behind me. The chains that bounded me shattered and the magic circle dissipated.


    ¡°Hm... Maybe I underestimated you a little. But you are still weak, you will never be able to defeat me! Haqious!¡±


    Streams of white light came from his staff and binds on me. I immediately ripped it apart.


    ¡°No¡­ that should not be possible! Not even a high ranking member of Darkness has ever broke that spell before!¡±


    ¡°Thanks to you, Merlin, you have really angered me this time. I¡¯m not giving up until I¡¯ve slaughtered every single Creature of Light here. You will pay for what you have done with your soul.¡± I said this in my new, deep voice.


    ¡°Never! Hacuixia!¡±


    A magical circle appeared under myself and immediately white light swallowed me. I took out my right hand and absorbed all the magic from it, weakening the power until the spell fades.


    ¡°Are you done now, Merlin? Now it is my turn to give you a glance what my weakest spell will do.¡±


    Merlin dropped onto the floor and quivered. I love how the look of fear on his face seemed to be.


    ¡°Glenoxven.¡±


    Nothing happened for the first few seconds, Merlin started to break into a smile when he suddenly vomited blood on the floor. His eyes and mouths started bleeding, his four limbs withering and diminishing.


    ¡°How could this be? Light should always triumph over Darkness, never the other way round! What have you done to me, The Piece?¡±


    ¡°Nothing much, Merlin the fool, you have just seconds to live. I have shortened your life span of eternity into just a few minutes and soon you will be left with nothing but your soul, and rest assured, I will not let your soul rest in peace that easily.¡±


    Merlin¡¯s body begin to twist into a disfigured manner as more blood poured from his eyes and mouth, screams walloped the room. In just a few seconds his entire body rot away into nothingness, and a white orb flew out from it. I stretched out my hand to capture it and I consumed it. The staff shattered into a thousand pieces.


    ¡°Now¡­ for the rest of the spectators here¡­ Ruination.¡±


    All the other Creatures of the Light wanted to flee, but they are rooted to their spot, a magic circle appeared from the centre of the class and out stretched thousands of purple hands, each targeting a single Creature of Light and pulling them into the circle. Not before long the entire army of Light was wiped clean.


    Aquis seemed to have returned her senses. Her soul was returned to the body the moment I killed Merlin and broke his staff. I turned around and looked at her, both her and Luthriel showed signs of fear on their faces.


    ¡°Aquis, you are back. Here are the Calling crystals I¡¯ve promised to give you. Luthriel, get more information from her, I have more important jobs to do.¡±


    I took out some crystals and threw it to her.


    ¡°What are you up to, Innight?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m The Piece, made for destruction and reconfiguration of Existence. I exist longer before anything that you know, do not underestimate me. Now it is time to reconfigure everything you see here once again to how it is supposed to be.¡±


    I¡¯m losing myself. At that very moment I yearned for death and destruction, I hear screams echoing in the back of my mind and I love it, never wanting them to stop. I¡¯m certain at that moment I¡¯m under the influence of my true self, and I¡¯m unable to think normally.


    ¡°Innight, stop! The Light¡¯s army has been defeated, you can stop now!¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ve remembered now, what I¡¯m supposed to do. Every rotation of the Time Progion I¡¯m supposed to destroy the entire Existence and recreate a new one. I am to overlook the entire Elemental Planes and remain the integrity of the Darkness Elemental Plane. I am Darkness himself, not Lord Inoxion. Lord Inoxion is a result of Darkness and my power. I¡¯m placed under the seals after I saved Lord Inoxion from the Creator and now I return to where I am. It is time for the world to reformat once again, and it shall start from here!¡±


    I created a magical circle around the school itself. That is a destruction spell, capable of wiping out everything within the circle itself. As destructive as it is, it consumes the user large amount of power, so much that it can potentially kill the user. However I seem to have infinite amount of power stored within myself, so much that I have no trouble keeping up the power consumption. The entire sky turned crimson and the sun turned black, strange dark creatures begin appearing from all around the places. I laughed insanely as I perform the spell, objects begin to melt away into nothingness as time passes. Aquis and Luthriel shivered at their positions and froze at their spot.


    A magic circle with the Sign of Darkness opened up in the middle of the room, out stepped Master. Aquis or Luthriel must have used the Calling Crystal to inform him of the situation. Master appeared surprised to see such a large scaled destruction spell performed.


    ¡°Innight! Stop it! We are not supposed to do anything until we have learnt what plans they are up to!¡± Master shouted at me.


    ¡°Master, do you know of my purpose? Every rotation of the Time Progion I have to destroy the entire Existence and recreate a new one in its place. I have to do so to ensure that the Timelines and different dimensions do not exhaust the Mana flow and it gets recycled every time. I am already 3 rotations behind for Recreation, I have to perform it now, starting from this school. No worries, all members of Darkness are immune to this spell.¡±


    Master start to take a move and wanted to cast something, but I saw it with the back of my head and froze him.


    ¡°What is this, Innight? I¡¯m your Master in the Darkness Elemental Plane!¡±


    ¡°You are my Master, indeed, but that is restricted within the Darkness Elemental Plane. I never belonged to just the Darkness Elemental Plane. I came from The Void within The Gap, I belong to nothing, but you choose to take myself in. Since The Void has the closest association with Darkness I took up your offer, but I have always known for the better that I will have to perform my job when the time is right. That time is now!¡±


    ¡°Innight, you shouldn¡¯t!¡±


    ¡°It is too late, bare your hate against fate for landing yourself in this moment.¡±


    Suddenly I felt my power is being restricted, I faintly see the seven seals appearing again. My spell came to a halt, felt all my power drained from myself, and my transformation came undone.


    ¡°I will be back again¡­ Just you wait, I will finish whatever I need to do the next time I awaken¡­¡± I spoke these last words before I lost consciousness.

 Chapter 2 - The Arrival of Time

    When I came around, school is already over, the orange sunlight shone into the classroom and onto my face. When I turned my head around, I see Luthriel, Aquis, Nightius and Master Inoxion standing beside me. I felt headache hammering in my head constantly.


    ¡°That hurts. What actually happened just now when I lost myself?¡± I asked them.


    ¡°You transformed. Apparently the seven seals on you were lifted after Merlin attacked all of you, and you revealed your true form. Your power is incredibly strong and overwhelming, it even overpowered my magic. Your will seems to be bent towards the destruction of the entire Existence and recreating another in the process, the reason is something about the recycling of mana flow. You set up a destructive spell around the school itself and devoured quite a few rooms, all of us were frozen and unable to do anything to stop you. You could have easily destroyed the entire Existence with that power of yours, luckily the seals reactivated again soon after and you were stopped. Your magic is dispelled after you fell unconscious and we went to fixing up everything before disabling the Light¡¯s magic, of course we covered our presence from all the humans here.¡± Master Inoxion explained.


    ¡°You were so powerful. I cannot imagine what could have happened if your seals are not reactivated back then. We need to know what the factor is that cause those seals to be lifted to prevent another incident as such from happening again, and we may not be so lucky the next time round.¡± Nightius said.


    ¡°I cannot explain this, but it seems my mind is being controlled by something else. I kept hearing screams in the back of my mind, and all that is in my mind is destruction of everything and fear of others. I have very little control over my movements, however that was enough for me to give Aquis the Calling Crystal. I also need to figure out how to control that power appropriately if the seal is lifted again.¡± I replied in a weak voice. Using that power seemed to have drained my physical strength severely, I barely have energy to move myself.


    ¡°This is a bad place to discuss anything, let¡¯s move to your room, Innight, Luthriel. We will further discuss this topic once we have are there.¡± Nightius said.


    As I barely have enough energy to move, Nightius shifted me into my room and everyone teleported there instead.


    ¡°Alright. We need to find out what is the factor causing the seal the break and how to reactivate it once it does break. I have created a barrier around the room so it will prevent anyone from accessing the room itself.¡± Master Inoxion said.


    ¡°First thing first, we need to know what exactly Merlin did to trigger the seal to break. If you please, Luthriel or Aquis, either of you need to explain it. Innight looks to be severely weakened after that transformation. Please try to explain as detailed as possible of the events that occurred up to the point Innight transformed.¡± Master said.


    Luthriel and Aquis repeated the entire sequence of events that occurred, they were interrupted when they reached the point where they described Aquis¡¯ death.


    ¡°So Aquis, your soul were trapped by Merlin at that time? And I guessed Merlin continued to drop him into despair, am I right?¡± Master asked.


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°This is my guess. The seals are only temporarily lifted when Innight is experiencing great despair. This acts as a form of revenge to those that went against him, and this seal is reverted back once he gained his revenge on them. This is only a guess so I could be wrong, but I think it is safe to assume this is the case for now. We need to perform a few more things before I leave, I need to train Innight in controlling that power of his if it ever happens again, I also need the information that you have gathered, Aquis.¡±


    ¡°I will not allow Innight to transform again, after that dangerous incident. However, I will need to analyse the seals that lies beneath him, I will need you, Innight, to show us the seals. That will allow me to break the seals one day and hopefully allow to use your power for us. However I also need you to train your power, to ensure that you will not go berserk as how you previously did.¡±


    ¡°Are you sure about this, Master? I still retain the memory when I have transformed, I am unsure how will I go against my fate as a weapon of destruction, as I fear one day I may need to reach the point of doing so.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m definite about this decision. If that day has to come we will see how the battle travels. Now can you please reveal the seals, Innight?¡±


    ¡°As you wish, Master Inoxion. Vdoxcina Reqium!¡±


    Six magical circles of seals appeared on my body, one is missing.


    ¡°Only six? I remembered there are seven seals. What happened to the seventh seal? Is it broken?¡±


    ¡°It appears to be the case. I can feel power flowing within myself even though I¡¯m exhausted after the transformation just now. I have no idea how did it happen though.¡±


    ¡°Never mind that, we have to be careful of you using any magic though. If each seal locks a portion of your power, knowing the power that you hold just now when all the seals are lifted, one seal alone is still going to be very powerful. Also, we need to know when the transformation can occur from the breakage of seal, we will then be able to predict when to restrict your power.¡±


    Master took out a piece of parchment and drew the seals onto it, he analysed them for a while before saying ¡°I have no idea how to break the seals. They are all composed of very ancient text and even those that I could understand are highly encrypted. If I cannot understand the language the seal is written with I cannot figure out a way to break it. Innight, you have to help us by regaining your memory of your knowledge in The Gap. I predict these symbols are of the language of The Gap, which I have no knowledge of, only you will know. We will need you to figure this out as soon as possible.¡±


    I allowed the seals to vanish. Master stood up and spoke to Aquis, she gave him a green sphere, around a palm size. Master took it and hid it under his armour.


    ¡°I have done my job here. Innight, heed my words, do not engage in any dangerous acts. If your seals were all lifted again I have no idea what will happened and I would not be able to stop you.¡±


    Master teleported away after saying these words. Nightius and Aquis bid us farewell as they walked out of the room, but not before Nightius disabled the barrier. Only Luthriel and I were left in the room. The sky outside has already darkened into night time, we both laid down on our beds and I turned off the lights.


    ¡°Today has been a crazy day! First we discovered another member of Darkness and she is a girl. Then we fought a wave of Light armies, the girl gets killed, and you revealed your true power, wiping out all the members of Light in the process. You then decide to destroy everything and recreate the Existence. Master came by to stop you but even He is powerless. You nearly destroyed the whole school and intended to destroy the entire Existence, luckily your seals reactivated and stopped you. So much events happened in just two days of me joining the Darkness, I wonder if I could see anything more?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m dead tired after today, Luthriel. Other than the event of me revealing my true self, the other events you have saw are nearly daily occurrence that we all members of Darkness, get to experience. I need to rest to rebuild my strength. After these two attacks Light has lost its power over here so we can be sure they won¡¯t attack us again anytime sooner.¡±


    The next day we met up with Aquis. We are supposed to find out information from her and help out on her mission but yesterday was a mess so we had no chance to. From what she told us, Light is planning to recreate the Creator as well, as they found a fragment of the Creator¡¯s magic. Luckily for us, they have little idea on which kind of magic to use for recreation and they lack of the knowledge and power to do so. However it is because of this they are trying to kidnap me, they are trying to extract the knowledge of mine and knowing I have no magic capability due to the seals I¡¯m completely vulnerable. After yesterday¡¯s incident they are likely to change their plans, though, after witnessing such dangerous power it should deter them from doing anything foolish for some time.


    The day passed peacefully, it seemed abnormal to have a day of peace after two great incidents happened. When school ended and I wanted to return to my dormitory, someone called me.


    ¡°Hey, Innight? Do you have a moment?¡±


    That came from my class chairman. He is what you will tag as a ¡°perfect student¡±, always the first in class in academics, good in sports, have great communication skills and often surrounded with friends, his looks are also perfect so often asked by many girls to go out with them. I detest such creatures, they just put up a perfect looking profile of themselves but deep down they are rotten to the core. This may make me sound hypocritical as I¡¯m a member of Darkness, but as previously mentioned, those that are Darkness themselves are not evil.


    I replied ¡°Yes¡± to him and he asked me to follow him to his room for a short conversation.


    ¡°I need our help, Innight. You are the only person I can talk about this. I understand that you are busy¡­.¡±


    ¡°Just cut to the chase will you? I don¡¯t have the whole day.¡±


    ¡°As you wish, Innight. I have overheard this from others, you appear to be interested and is doing study on the Occult, am I right to say that?¡±


    ¡°Correct, but what does that have to do with you?¡±


    ¡°I need your help from your knowledge of the Occult. I have recently received an object from one of the girls around myself, and I suspect it may be a cursed object. After I received the object I have been experiencing various strange events occurring around myself, seeing odd-looking creatures around the school. I don¡¯t want to throw away an object that a girl gave me as I fear to hurt her feelings, so I need you to help me to identify whether this is a cursed object and if it is, what I should do to lift the curse.¡±


    I snickered. He and many others often targeted and isolated me because of how I involved in the works of Darkness Elemental Plane. I¡¯m a stranger in the class and often I¡¯m non-existent in their eyes. I have gave up talking to anyone in my class because of how they always treat me and now he wants me to forget all about it. Impossible. I will need him to pay a price before I will do him a favour.


    ¡°I can¡¯t help you, not that easily. First thing is because you always disbelief all my studies on the Occult, even though large amount of people went after it. I am unconvinced that you are willing to perform any rituals that can lift the curse as your level of belief on the topic of Occult is so little that it is almost non-existent. The second reason is I cannot forgive you that easily for completely isolating me from everyone in the class using your power, and the reason is because you hate anyone that studies The Occult. Do you have any idea how much pain I suffered without a single soul to talk with? Of course not, Mr. Perfect! Always surrounded by friends, chased after by girls and always have someone to talk to, and that is how you are. What about me? I¡¯m always alone. Foolish Maningson has left, and now I don¡¯t even have someone that performs their nonsense on myself! I will not be helping you, not after all that has happened!¡± I shouted back at him. He cringed for a moment, I can tell he is regretting all his actions that he had performed in the past on me. This is how I exact revenge on my target, it is tough to bear all the pain that others have forced upon you, but I always convinced myself to bear with it because I know the wind will eventually change for me. I enjoy this moment of sweet revenge as he kneeled on the ground and bowed.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Innight! It is all my fault. Please forgive me! I really need your help on this, you are the only help I can seek!¡±


    I decide to forgive him for now. I will seek more revenge when the time is right.


    ¡°Fine. I will make an exception this time to your case since I find your case to be intriguing. Show me the object.¡±


    He quickly got up from the ground and hold up a little glass bottle. Inside the battle contains a little statuette of the class chairman himself, surrounded by a certain liquid that constantly changing colours. I can sense a reverse flow of magic on the object itself, indicating the object is cursed. Also, many layers of curse is placed on the object, each are interlinked to another through some way or another. These curses produced a magic field around himself and this allows him to able to observe any Creatures of the Elemental Planes. I will need to lift this curse a soon as possible but due to the interconnectivity of the curses this will take some effort.


    ¡°You have an interesting object. I will take this object for tonight and see what I can do about it. Do note that I am only helping you because you are an interesting case for me to discover. Meet me again tomorrow in the class at five, I will be reporting to you the result of my works.¡±


    I went back to my room, Luthriel was already waiting for me there. I sighed and explained to him what the class chairman wanted from me.


    ¡°So Mr. Perfect got himself a cursed object. Innight, judging by what you have described, we have to lift these curses before he gets tangled up in the business of the Elemental Planes. From his personality he is most likely going to fall under a member of Light, and we will not want any member of Light to be anywhere near us.¡±


    ¡°Indeed. Luthriel, avoid disturbing me for the next few minutes. Help me put up a barrier around the room.¡±


    I drew a magic circle in the middle of the room and placed the cursed object in the middle. I begin conjuring a potion and took out six empty crystals for the ritual, I waited for the potion to finish brewing before I start the ritual. I first drip some drops of the potion on the five sides of the star in the magic circle, and I placed one crystal near one of the sides. I begin to chant the Spell of Removal.


    ¡°Tsuni esadio menoxis esoda. Nxveiu luricis morxev ryxis Cano Dsylsia Cyanix Menivium Concruxim Nuosic Actesium Menagite¡±


    The circle glowed blue and the bottle glowed violet. Streams of magic flows out from it but the magic circle prevents them from overflowing outside. I see six small purple magical circles surrounding the bottle itself, all interlinked with green chains in between. This is a very old form of magic, belonged to The Void, I¡¯m doubtful whether I am able to break this magic as I have very little memory on the Old Magic of The Void.


    ¡°Innight¡­This¡­¡±


    ¡°Correct, even you should know about this. This is an old form of Void magic, so old that even I myself have very little memory of it. Had I break all my seal I might be able to remember this form of magic and maybe break it. I will have to try all that I know about this, and I may injure myself by doing so. The Old Magic of The Void is very powerful and deadly, and all the curses requires sinful acts to be lifted, to make it worse the curse is encrypted, just as how my seals are. I will have to try, though.¡±


    I tried to decrypt the curse first, to simplify the job for myself, I have very little success after two hours, and the clock in my room stroke ten. I decide to take a risk and involve the magic I have.


    ¡°Magical Incarnation unlock.¡±


    I activated the magic I have released from the first seal and put it through the encrypted curse. It took another thirty minutes before I finally discovered the start and end point of the encryption and I found the key to decrypt the curse.


    ¡°I understand the curse now. This is The Curse of Night. The receiver of this curse is doomed to wander around in night for eternity and nightmares will always haunt him whether he is dead or alive. If the receiver disregard the curse and wander in the day, his appearance will change according to how long he stayed in the sun, until he finally transforms into a Creature of The Void. The curse also torture the receiver endlessly through various images and sounds, gradually pushing the receiver into madness. This curse is a complicated curse that contains six other minor and small curses interlinked and crossed together. Normally this curse is only performed by The Void, but after The Void came under Darkness¡¯ control various caster capable of performing Old Magic faded away. If this is here it means those caster are returning.¡±


    ¡°Amazing, Innight. Now you have to just break this spell and we can rest.¡±


    ¡°Sadly this is not going to be simple. Each separate minor curse requires different forms of sacrifice to break them. I will need the youth of a new born child, eyes of the closest friend, screams from a pair of parents, heart of a girl in love, a spine from the only child of a rich and the happiness of the elder. These are all difficult ingredients to be found and I will need one of each to break the curse and lift it. Luthriel, I will need you to gather the ingredients for me, I will look for them as well, we will all meet back here by midnight. We don¡¯t have time. Magical Incarnation Disperse.¡±


    When I returned back to the room it was already 9 minutes past midnight, and Luthriel was waiting for me.


    ¡°You are finally here, Innight. Someone tried to barge into the room, and the attack form is magical. Luckily the barrier held and the person went off, I¡¯m unsure if it was Aquis but she must have understood why. I¡¯ve got the youth, the spine, the happiness and the heart. Did you get the rest, Innight?¡±


    ¡°Good work, Luthriel. Actually I¡¯ve retrieved all the six items required so I wouldn¡¯t need your ingredients, but I will just keep it just in case in the future we will need it again.¡±


    I pounded every item into fine dust and poured them into the empty crystals. I then use magic to move the crystals the purple magic circle, allowing each crystal to land on one magic circle.


    ¡°And now we have to wait for the crystals to drain out the curse, if all goes well the curse should be dispersed.¡±


    Slowly the purple magic circles vanished as the crystal started to glow purple, soon the 6 magic circles disappeared and the streams of magic vanished.


    The large magic circle stopped glowing. I took out the bottle, no signs of magic flow is visible on the bottle. The object is now cleanse of the curse. I collected the crystals and threw it into my potion flask, they dissolved and I finished the potion.


    ¡°We are done, and we are way past our bedtime, I don¡¯t think there is even any use to even sleep now. Luthriel, you can disable the barrier now. Let us talk until the sun rise.¡± I said.


    ¡°Innight, why did you just drank the potion with those crystals? Wouldn¡¯t you receive the curse yourself?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m special. Remember what I have said? I¡¯m a Creature of The Void that live in The Gap, I lived longer than anything you can image and I control the recreation of Existence. I¡¯m different from all the other member of Darkness and I feed on magic of various forms, even curses. Doing so strengthens myself.¡±


    The night went past quickly as we talked. The clock ringed at seventy 20, I prepared myself for another day of school.


    The next day I gave the bottle back to Mr. Perfect.


    ¡°Here you go. There was a curse place on your gift and it was quite a strong one, I have lifted it for you and it should give you no problems now. You will need to understand you were lucky that you approached me sooner, if you have shown me this any later the curse would have consumed you and turned you into something else. Be grateful to me for saving you.¡±


    ¡°I thank you greatly, Innight. Please call me Hactus, if you please. I will correct all my mistakes I have previously done to show my gratitude.¡±


    ¡°As you wish, Hactus. If you indeed find one day interested in the teachings of Occult, inform me. I am always looking for more people interested and are willing to research on such a topic.¡±


    We part ways to our seats and did not talk to each other for the rest of the day. I begin to rethink on the incident of the cursed object. The girl that gave Hactus definitely remained as human form, this means that either she had the cursed item for a short period of time, or she knows the curse of the item, or she is the caster of the curse. Whichever is the option, I need to keep an eye for the girl. She must have association with The Void¡¯s old casters to have gain such an object, I will snoop around Hactus to find who that girl is and survey her.


    Break time came. 5 minutes later, I stood up and started to walk towards Luthriel for a chat, when suddenly a group of the boys surrounded me.


    ¡°You are Innight? We have an order from Hactus to be friends with you, occult guy. Be grateful that he is willing to send us to be your friends.¡±


    I kept silent. I knew the better of the boys. They endorsed themselves within nothing but the lewd things, always detested by the girls due to their lewd and gangster-like behaviours. I distanced myself far away from them as much as I can as they disgust me. I would rather be friends with the girls than with this group of boys.


    ¡°Are you mute? Thank us properly! Thank us for being so kind hearted, or else you wouldn¡¯t have anyone to talk with other than that weird guy!¡±


    They pushed me around, just as they would have done to any others that they bullied. I remained silent and kept a straight face. If I spoke anything they will use it against me, which is how a gangster like them works. If I act they will take it as an account of defence and attack me, they can also use my act of defence as an excuse to attack me by lying to the teachers I attacked them first. So, either way I have little choice but to wait for them to have their fun and leave me alone.


    ¡°Hum, such a useless insect. Speak! If not I will show you how we offer our forms of thanks!¡±


    I still remained silent. Getting beaten up without counterattacking or putting up any acts of defence I would save myself from any potential problems I might land into. I have been keeping a clean record on my school profile and I will not want to get it stained by anything.


    ¡°Mindless creature.¡±


    The tallest and most well-built boy punched in my face, breaking my glasses. I heard a few gasp from the people around. There is still fifty minutes before any teacher will arrive to assess the situation, before that happens I have to hold the grudge up, I will get my revenge on them one day, but not now. I flew, crashed against the wall and crumbled there. A punch then followed, straight onto my stomach.


    ¡°Heh, weakling. Do you seriously think anyone will save you? That weird friend of your is plainly useless, Hactus is not around to see this, no teachers is going to be here for the next fifty minutes. If you don¡¯t fight yourself you will suffer hell!¡± Another punch was delivered after this speech, blood started tickling from my mouth.


    ¡°13.¡± I whispered.


    ¡°Eh, what is it that you say? Speak louder!¡±


    ¡°Thirteen. Do any it more than that and you will suffer the consequence.¡±


    ¡°What kind of big shot crap are you giving me?! I¡¯m going to give you more than that! Such weaklings have no position to argue! If you want to show you are strong fight back then!¡± A kick landed itself on my face, I¡¯m certain my skull receive a crack after that impact caused my head to smash against the wall.


    I¡¯m not in my state of mind now, I can feel my true self is being awakened. Those words didn¡¯t come from myself as something within myself is speaking. This is bad, if something isn¡¯t done quickly and the seals undo themselves the entire school will be destroyed in seconds.


    More punch and kicks followed and found their way onto myself. I licked the blood tickling from my mouth, and as the thirteenth blow landed on myself I saw the six seals appearing before my eyes and one of them broke. A magic circle appear before myself and I begin to transform again, and I can see various signs of fear creeping up on the face of all the people in the class, Luthriel and Aquis froze at their spot. The boys stopped attacking me all at once.


    ¡°You have gone a little too far this time, fragile human. Magnosis!¡±


    A ball of red spell flew towards the leader of the group, he was blasted across several rooms before the spell faded.


    ¡°That is only the few of the weakest spell I can cast, I have weakened the spell by a few million times of its¡¯ original power. Those of the lowest birth should not be facing themselves against someone like me. Just because I¡¯m not reacting does not mean I¡¯m weak, it is only me testing your sixth sense, which almost all of you here are lacking. Remember this well, foolish creatures, I hope I do not have to resort to doing this again. I curse all of you will never see the day of Light again, those who does will disintegrate into nothingness. Only when you understand the truth of this world this curse will be lifted.¡± I finished the curse in a cold voice, I managed to suddenly take control of myself and forced the transformation to undone itself. I managed to see only 5 seals left on myself before the transformation came undone.


    The bell rang, signifying the end of break. Everyone is still frozen at their positions, I don¡¯t blame them. I have to scream ¡°Hello¡± for all of them to come back to their senses.


    ¡°Ha¡­ very funny, Innight! Curse? Such things don¡¯t exist! Look, I¡¯m standing in the sun, nothing...¡± One of the boys in the group moved towards the window with the sunlight shining onto himself and said this. Before he could finish his sentence, a magical circle with the symbol of The Void appeared under him, his entire body lit on fire and in seconds his entire body disintegrated into nothingness. Gasps came from everyone in the class, some girls even screamed. Well, at least this taught all of them an important lesson on not bullying the weak.


    ¡°What is happening here?¡±


    Our Maths teacher walked in with Hactus and saw the damage in the class. No one said anything about it and no one can explain the disappearance of one of the classmate. Luthriel used magic to whisper to me, ¡°You really messed up big time this round. Luckily it seems you managed to control your power this time to prevent any widespread damage. However with you destroying the classrooms, showing everyone your true self and placing a curse on everyone in this class, we might get more problems in the way,¡±


    ¡°I will have to see how things turns out. I¡¯m grateful, however, on the fact that they caused the second seal to be completely lifted and I¡¯m able to stabilise the power. Help me report to Master Inoxion on this matter.¡±


    Class ended late, everyone stayed within dark corners in the class when I left the class for my dormitory. I intent to leave the curse on them as they will soon entangle themselves within the matters of Darkness and Light as long as stay in this class so it will be a good time for them to find out the truth of this Realm.


    When I opened the door of room, Nightius and Master Inoxion is already waiting for me inside. I know what to expect from the both of them, after hearing Luthriel¡¯s report no one will be stupid enough to ignore the danger of myself. Aquis and Luthriel both entered the room as well.


    ¡°You should fully understand what brought us here, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Of course. That was not in my power to control the movements of other humans and I had tried my best to hold the magic in, but it is too powerful.¡±


    Nightius shook his head.


    ¡°This can¡¯t do. Now the word that you are of something not of human has spread around the entire school and I have to bear with it. They claimed it is spirit possession due to the activities involved in doing research in the Occult studies, which is rubbish. They are now trying to use this reason to force me to close down the room, which I will definitely go against it, I will need that room as our meeting place. Innight, you really have brought us more problems faster than we could solve it.¡±


    ¡°Innight, it appears we need to either fully lock you into a permanent human entity to stop the seals from being lifted every time, or we have to eliminate of forms of those lower human forms. I doubt I can fully lock those seals as I don¡¯t even understand any of the magic used in the spell to begin with. I will leave this incident untouched this time as I highly doubt any human will be foolish enough to approach you after this incident.¡±


    ¡°One more thing, Master Inoxion. Apparently one of the seal broke again. I suspect each seal breaks when I am under despair, and each seal takes an increasing amount of despair to break. Also I have managed to keep the power under control so the problem should not accelerate at this rate.¡±


    ¡°I suspected it. That would be enough for this session. Innight, before I leave, I need you to answer me why did you place such a curse on them?¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t say too much on it. However I think there is something about The Void involving themselves within the class, it is only a matter of time before the truth is out itself and it is never too late for them to get entangled within the matters first.¡±


    ¡°There are? I didn¡¯t detect any form of Void magic around this area and I thought they have always kept their behaviours proper.¡±


    ¡°Yes. I found a cursed object that was casted with the Old Magic of The Void, which I have thought that no one knows how to perform it now. I have heard the object came from a normal human girl, and I¡¯m doing some investigations on this matter. It could not just be coincidence, cursed object that powerful could not have stayed with a human without any consequence, and from what I have gathered the human looked normal.¡±


    ¡°I see. This matter may be more complicated than we imagined. If The Void is indeed involved within this entire matter we might have to be careful on how we move from now on, especially when it is of Old Magic. Innight, please continue investigating on this matter and also remember, Light is also planning to recreate a Light-based Creator which we have to prevent at all cost.¡±


    Master took his leave. Nightius sighed.


    ¡°Innight, you really have to be careful on how you behave now. I supposed that you cannot be blamed for what happened today, since those others started the fight and you didn¡¯t retaliate to prevent getting into trouble. However as more problems pops up and with your level of power you have to be wary on how you behave. Also, I overheard another student just got obliterated for going against your curse. Your rumour might continue to get worse, you should try to avoid getting too much attention and keep your profile low now.¡±


    With that, Nightius walked out of the room. Aquis and Luthriel both start talking.


    ¡°Innight, what is on your mind when you put that curse? We are also affected is as well thanks to you!¡¯


    ¡°Calm down, both of you. Obviously I will not let that happen to both of you, if you have not noticed, you both already knew the truth about this Realm. The curse does not work on both of you as a result.¡±


    ¡°I have overheard some of the other girls going head over heels over you though, after watching how you blew that bully straight across the room. You looked cool, really.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°Some boys appeared to have started the idea of being your underling and to learn how you performed that magic of yours. I told them they wouldn¡¯t be able to learn anything but they ignored me.¡± Luthriel followed.


    ¡°This can¡¯t be good for me. I don¡¯t want crowds to suddenly follow me wherever I go. I also need to keep a low profile to snoop around and identify the target of interest, especially on the girl who gave the cursed object. Not to mention I need to keep an eye on any activity Light intend to do around this region, if it happens.¡± I replied.


    ¡°Whatever it is, I will leave it to tomorrow, and I need to sleep. Aquis, go back to your own room before they start another new rumour about me. Try to avoid giving away any information about me to anyone, remember, the last thing I want is a group of followers.¡±


    Aquis left the room and when I¡¯m just about to turn off the lights, a knock came from the door. I went over and opened it, a blonde haired girl with a pair of blue eyes is standing in front of the doorway. Her black long hair straightened down so long that it nearly touched the floor.


    ¡°Um¡­ Are you Innight? My name is Nectilius. I¡¯m here to see how you are doing after that incident during the break.¡±


    ¡°Yes I¡¯m Innight. Why are you worried about that matter? I wouldn¡¯t tolerate people who bully others just because they look weak, I did received a few injuries but I have very quick healing abilities, those injuries were already gone.¡±


    ¡°Ah I see then¡­ I admire you, Innight! Hopefully we can become friends! Good night!¡± She said these and flashed me a smile before rushing off. I have gathered information from Hactus before, this Nectilius is the girl that gave him the cursed item. Why did she approached me so quickly when everyone is still trying to recover from the shock? I guessed that she must be really enthusiastic about seeing myself, which should be the best explanation.


    The next day I kept feeling people staring at me. During the break I decided to give myself a breather and visit Nightius, and behind me a huge group of people stalked after, they hide themselves very well but I can sense them. When I arrived at the room, I suddenly felt a wave of Light magic swept over the place, I immediately raised an alert to Aquis and Luthriel through magic.


    I touched the door and found various seal of Light was casted onto it. I¡¯m starting to get anxious, Light has never outright use magic without ensuring there is protection around. Placing seal on a room that is commonly accessed, allowing waves of magic to ripple and disturb the various lifeforms that lives within the school without control, this is not something Light will often do.


    I turned around to look at the crowd, they were all squatting down as they cover their head in pain. This is a result of human interacting with uncontrolled wave of magic. If I do not find the cause and stop it, it will kill them, or if they are lucky, they will undergo a transformation into other creatures that feeds on magic. Whichever route it turns out, they will be killed, and I will not let that happen.


    I analysed the seals on the door, there are at least 4 different casters that set the seals on the door as the magical signature of each seal is different. Often this is done to ensure others have problems breaking the seals as such seals often interlink and to destroy one seal individually is not possible. To break this seal I have to figure out the signature of all the seals and break all of them at once, this is a simple task to me as I have dealt with much more complicated spells before.


    I tried doing a reverse reading on the spell and figured out the signatures and the individual starting and endings of each seal. I forced my magic onto the seal to overload the restriction placed on the seal and the seal all break at once. I flung the door open and see Nightius bound in a magical circle and magic is flowing out from it towards somewhere else, two creatures of Light were standing guard there. I immediately blasted the two guards straight out of the window and begin analysing the circle.


    This circle is a spell executed for extraction of magic. What I¡¯m intrigued is not why they perform it here, but where are they intending to use the magic on. I decide to send a tracking crystal on the flow of the magic movement to investigate what Light is up to, at the same time I attempt to force the spell out of control. Nightius suddenly fidgeted a little from his position.


    ¡°Nectar¡­Under¡­Creation¡­Time¡­.Prevent¡­¡± Fragments of what I thought to be a sentence came from him. I do not understand what he meant by then, as his life is in danger now and it is more important to disable this spell first. This spell is the cause of the wave of magic that is running amok, and it is also the link Light is using to create a form of connection between the Elemental Realm and Physical Realm. I cannot force the spell to break through overloading the control as it may potentially destroy Nightius as well. I have to disconnect the source of mana for this magic to stop the spell safely, but to do that I will need to enter The Gap, which is dangerous without anyone watching the situation here.


    ¡°Innight! This wave of magic..!¡±


    Luthriel and Aquis managed to rush here, just when I needed them now, perfect timing.


    ¡°Both of you, I will need your help. I need to enter The Gap to view where the mana flow of this spell is and disconnect it from there, only then Nightius can be saved. Both of you need to keep a lookout from anyone attempting to break in and keep an eye on the stalkers outside. Any moment they may start to transform, do not hurt them, and only lock them down if absolutely necessary. I want to have the least casualty as possible in this event.¡±


    They both nod their heads in agreement. I prepared a transport spell and entered into The Gap, the world became purple and I could no longer interact with any item of the Physical Realm. I see various streams of mana flowing everywhere around myself, mainly from somewhere outside the school and from somewhere beneath the school. I traced the source of mana for the circle to be outside the school, it makes me curious why is there mana flow coming from beneath the school but this is not the time to investigate now.


    Strange creatures wander around The Gap as I flew towards the source of magic, some of them reminds me of the other Void creatures we have in the Void Elemental Plane. I found several pillars connected to the mana flow I am analysing, and a General of Light is guarding those pillars. I exited from The Gap to sneak up onto him, but he spotted me first, I was flung from the exit I created and onto the stone ground.


    ¡°Who are you? How dare you interfere with our operations of Light?¡±


    Chains of Light were forced onto me and tied me up. I¡¯m powerless against Light spells if I¡¯m not in my true form as the amount of magic that I need to counter these spells are great and I lack of them. Even with two out of the seven seals are lifted I still lack of enough power to counter it, I¡¯m now in trouble.


    ¡°Looks like we got him this time.¡± A familiar voice came from behind me and a blinding figure appeared before my face. It is Luricerite, the Grand Ruler of Light.


    ¡°Luricerite. The Grand Ruler of Light. Someone that holds such great powers should refrain from showing themselves to others even in the Elemental Realm. What has caused someone as important as you do to appear at such a place?¡±


    Luricerite smiled. He took out a sword of that is made of pure light and pointed it at me.


    ¡°Innight, the Piece of Darkness. You have done plenty of damage here to show how dangerous you are as an enemy against us. You have even single-handedly killed one of my strongest Generals, Merlin, and almost attempted to destroy the entire Existence, using only but the very tip of your power. I have to use my own power to ensure that you don¡¯t attempt to break out of our grasp again.¡±


    ¡°I figured as much. How much information have you gathered through your spies, I wonder?¡±


    ¡°Not too much, but whatever that you have done on a large scale I have records of them. Now you have asked your questions, I need to ask mine. What are you hiding from us, The Piece? You should not hold power of such scale and you should follow your Master¡¯s commands but you went against it. What is your real identity?¡±


    ¡°I have no intention to tell you that. You have something else on your mind that you require me, which is why you have constantly tried to set traps to capture me.¡±


    ¡°You are observant indeed. Now can you please allow us to destroy you? ¡±


    A magical circled with Darkness symbol inscribed within appeared before us, Master Inoxion appeared from it.


    ¡°I have been informed by Aquis and Luthriel about strange waves of magic appearing within the school itself so I came here to have a look myself. I did have some suspicion that you Light is involved in this matter, I don¡¯t know why would you openly show yourself this time but it doesn¡¯t matter. Hand The Piece back to me or else I will risk another battle here.¡±


    ¡°You know my answer, Evil One. I¡¯m also wanted to try out something new I have created and this is my chance.¡±


    Each of them drew out their respective weapons and start to fight. I watched them as they threw spells around the field, at the same time I felt presence of magic instability, and I suspect some people must have been affected by the wave of magic and has transformed. Time is clearly running out for us, if those creatures are not controlled or killed they will consume other human¡¯s spirit and drain their life force. I just have to wait for Master to clear of Light and free me before the entire school turns from a human school into a school of monsters.


    Suddenly Master fell from the heights and crashed to the ground. I felt his magic is heavily weakened to the point that it mirrors that of a human, it is nigh impossible for Master to drain his magic to this point as he have not perform any high level magic. Unless, of course, Luricerite used Insigma. If he did use Insigma then we are on the losing side and I will be taken away by Light.


    ¡°How does it taste like, Evil One, to be hit by the same spell you did on us previously? I have secretly casted it the moment you tried to communicate with The Piece, now your magic powers as just as weak as a human, you cannot stand against us now. Can you please back off now? We will return you The Piece once we have extract the information we want. Be thankful that we are letting you off even though we could end your reign in the Elemental Realm right now.¡±


    Master crawled from the ground and stood up. He is now heavily drained of magic that it is impossible for him to counter any attacks Luricerite throws at him, he should back off to save himself, but according to his character, he would rather sacrifice himself than to let me be taken by Light.


    ¡°Come to think of it, you are recruiting people from this school itself, isn¡¯t it, Evil One? You are dragging more people into your Realm itself and I suspect you have hidden many spies within this region itself. I have even heard of you intending to set up a new base around here, now as Light ourselves we cannot allow that to happen, can we?¡±


    They can¡¯t be serious about this. If my guess is correct, their aim is to destroy the entire school here, but why? We never intend to create any bases around here, though it is true that we have sent many spies into this school itself, but it is because this location is one of the gathering places for Light for all their high levelled operations. They must have other reason for destroying this school, but what is it?


    ¡°Innight¡­¡±


    Master moaned. I detect the level of magic within him is not going to give him enough strength to do anything at all against them.


    Luricerite opened up a portal and threw Master inside.


    ¡°Back to where you should belong, Evil One. We will send you image of our result once we have done our work.¡±


    Turning to face me, he left a grin on his face, I saw his eyes twinkling with plots to harm me.


    ¡°So I¡¯m wondering, The Piece, how did you manage to kill off Merlin the last time. Is it a power burst, or is it a potion? Or was it additional help from something else?¡±


    I kept silent. Telling the truth will only make my situation worse, my only hope to escape is to trigger the transformation and wipe out Luricerite and his general, to do that I need him to force despair onto myself.


    His feet suddenly landed on my face.


    ¡°So how is it, Innight? What is the secret behind the event? I can do this method of torturing all day until you speak. Don¡¯t even think about escaping us, I have already sent Flying Eyes to check on you, all your movements are tracked by us. Until you fully answer me, you will stay here with us. Your Master is not going to be able to help you anytime sooner.¡±


    He said these as he twist my head around with his feet, I felt pain, but there is little of what I could do about it. After a few minutes he started stomping on my stomach instead, I felt blood gushing up my body and I vomited them out. His voice gets louder every time he torture me, until it became so loud my ears begin to ring. He then ordered the general to start pouring liquid Light onto myself.


    Since I have the nature of Darkness itself, Light is my greatest bane of existence, it burns me greatly, to the point of feeling as if it removes my flesh altogether. There is no words that can describe how Light burns through myself as I experience it. In liquid form Light does not bring the slightest harm to me, but it still burns through my nerves.


    ¡°You are a stubborn one, aren¡¯t you? Doesn¡¯t matter, we are here to destroy this ridiculous place and that is our only aim here for now, we will bring you back for further interrogation.¡±


    I thought about my friends in the school itself. I may not show any favour towards them as well but it took me so long to find people that I can finally talk to, and now I¡¯m going to lose all of them?


    The seals appeared before my eyes again, all of them breaking at the same moment. I felt the energy surging through myself again, and the transformation occurring as well. I can see the grin vanishing from the face of Luricerite as I transform, he tried various spells on me but all were reflected.


    ¡°What kind of witchery is this?¡±


    ¡°Luricerite, this is of no witchery. It is a tiny fraction of my true power that I have always kept it hidden. I do not wish to use it under most circumstances but it appears that you leave me with no choice.¡±


    I waved my hands, which are now claws, over Luricerite¡¯s head. Long purple chains came out from magical circles that formed around him and attached on him. The same thing happened to his general that accompanied him. He tried to break free from it but to no avail.


    ¡°What have you done to me, The Piece? What is your intent?¡±


    ¡°Nothing much, really. I just need to seal you properly and send you back to where you should be. Worry not, the chains will unite itself over time. Don¡¯t try to break from it, these are formed using Old Magic, which you definitely have no knowledge of. If you struggle too much it will start absorbing your mana, and you should know what happens when you lose mana.¡±


    I opened up a portal and threw the both of them towards it.


    ¡°However, I warn you, Luricerite. Do not dare to create any problems to my school ever again. The next time you try to do this, I will not hold back and will destroy you completely.¡±


    ¡°Remember this, The Piece. We will be back!¡±


    The portal closed once Luricerite and his company vanished form the sight. A seed of pain started growing in my mind, accompanied with it are unintelligible sounds. This is a bad sign, it means any moment I will lose control of myself and my true self will be awakened. I have to prevent that from occurring at all cost. However I¡¯m slowly losing myself, I cannot control over the devilish thoughts invading my mind.


    ¡°I... can¡¯t¡­.lose¡­control¡­ not when so many people is in trouble¡­.Have. To¡­disable¡­wave¡­¡±


    My mind begin to run wild. I start to lose control over my body. I have no control over anything that happens once my true self is revealed and allowed to run wild, I knew that it is of a destructive nature, always hunger for blood, indulging into chaos. I have no name for the other side yet, but it is dangerous and if allowed to let loose, it may obliterate the entire Existence.


    That is how powerful it is. At least, that is what it has said before when it has awakened once during the fight with Merlin. I cannot allow it to run loose in this situation. The magic waves in the school is still not stopped, any moment humans inside will start dying. If such situation is still not controlled it may start to spread. I can¡¯t keep myself awake anymore, my sight slowly dwindles and in just seconds, I lost consciousness.


    A girl with black dress with orange frills stood under an apple tree just outside the school. She has one right red tinted eye visible, the left eye is covered by her long black hair. She appears to take no interest of anything that is happening around the area, other than keeping an eye on Innight.


    ¡°Interesting¡­ So this is how Zealus is now. He is sealed in this human vessel named Innight and is prevented from awakening. He is very late of his job of reconfiguring this world by many rotations of Time itself. The members of Old magic of The Void is looking for ways to forcefully awaken Zealus, The Light intends to eliminate Zealus altogether. While at the same time, I want to be with him, I want to be at his side forever to eternity. However, to do that, I will need more Time first. I have to fight off two parties of significant power if I were to protect Zealus in his current state and my Time is insufficient to put up a fight with them. Ah, but first, I should transfer into his school first and do more observation on him.¡±


    ¡°Overclock. Separation.¡±


    As soon as she spoke, she split into two. Both looks just as similar to another.


    ¡°Now then, me, please look after Innight for me.¡±


    ¡°Of course, Me.¡±


    ¡°Remember to replenish your Time if it runs low.¡±


    ¡°Of course, Me.¡±


    Black clouds flowed over one of the girl and transformed her dress into the high school uniform Innight is in. One of them stayed under the tree, the other begin walking towards the school.


    ¡°Now then, we better start helping out to clear up whatever mess Light is making and attempt to stabilise Zealus before the situation gets out of hand.¡±


    Saying these, the girl slowly sank into her shadow.


    ¡°What is Innight doing? He is taking so long to trace back the source of this magic wave. People are already starting to faint under the impulse of magic being spread around the region. If he does not stop this waves of magic disturbance on time there will be irreversible effects on everyone around here. What¡­¡±


    Aquis stopped speaking because suddenly both she and Luthriel felt an even powerful wave of magic swept over the region. The sunlight stopped shining through the windows and it appears a shadow just covered the entire school. The waves of magic disturbance stopped almost immediately. Both of them rushed towards the window and saw the sky turned crimson, with the sun coloured black. This is a sign that Innight has unlocked his full powers and is running rampage.


    ¡°This¡­is bad. We are ants in comparison to the near omnipotent powers of Innight. Even if we ask the Grand Master of Darkness he wouldn¡¯t be able to stop him at all if Innight is at his fullest power. We have to hope there is enough time for his seal to reseal itself before he really does destroy this entire region.¡±


    ¡°Ouch that hurts.¡±


    ¡°Lord Nightius! You finally woke up!¡±


    Nightius climbed up from the ground and sat down. The magic circles that bounded him earlier has vanished, and he appears to be heavily drained of energy and is exhausted.


    ¡°I briefly remembered that Luricerite and his general attacked me and bound me with Extraction magic. After that I went unconscious and I have no idea what happened, care to explain to me what happened?¡±


    ¡°Actually, this¡­¡­.¡±


    They both went over the event that happened and report the situation now. Nightius nodded his head.


    ¡°Well I see. There is actually nothing that we can do right now to stop Innight. His power is way above any of the Rulers of the Darkness Elemental Plane, not even our greatest ruler, Lord Inoxion can do anything about it. We only have to hope time is in our favour and it reseals him before the situation spirals out of control.¡±


    A huge purple ball of energy blasted through the walls and flew into the middle of the room. It exploded and blew everyone away, flinging everyone onto the walls.


    ¡°That must be one of Innight¡¯s attacks. The power that attack holds is far greater than anything I have experienced. Why is there absolutely nothing that we can do?¡±


    ¡°Actually you have.¡±


    ¡°Who goes there?!¡±


    From the shadows of the room a girl climbed out from it. She wore a black dress with orange frills and it is evident she is not any normal human. She appears to be unaffected by the waves of magic disturbance and she randomly popped out from the shadows in the room, which is something that normal humans is unable to do.


    ¡°Ah, excuse me from the rude intrusion. My name is Time, Lytheria Time. I have been observing all of you for some time already and I have found it necessary to step in to help out this time. All of you are currently under my field of power, I casted a spell that covered the entire school region and that absorbs Time from anyone that falls under the shadow created by the spell. This spell also cancels out any other forms of magic weaker than it.¡±


    ¡°Absorbs Time? I have never heard of such magic before! Time is not an element in the Magical Realm and cannot be restricted by magic!¡± Nightius cried.


    ¡°Ah, is that so? Hee hee hee. Time is not an elemental in the Magical Realm, for that you are correct. However, Time is an invisible field that surrounds and shape the Space around, with enough power one can have the ability to control it. It is of no surprise that you are unaware of magic that is in relation with Time, such magic are so powerful that they causes one¡¯s Time to be consumed. Due to such price paid for using such magic, it is not used by others unless they have indefinitely long amount of Time stored within themselves or they are able to replenish Time by absorbing it from others everyone now and then.¡±


    ¡°And what is your intended purpose? Why are you helping us?¡±


    ¡°Nothing in particular. I only wanted him, Innight. I desire for him. He is eternal and is both creation and destruction. I myself is similar to him in such ways. However to do that, I need to free him. He is bounded to this human world and human vessel, my aim is to free him from this world and bring him to where we should really belong. In this current state he is in it is not going to help me to reach my aim any sooner, so I decided to help all of you out.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t trust her very much, Lord Nightius. If what she said is true, she can be a very dangerous target. Manipulating with Time is a very dangerous ability, if she stops Time there is absolutely nothing we can do about her.¡±


    ¡°I feel we should trust her, Aquis. She appears not to be an enemy, also we will need as much ally that can keep Innight under control, together with the fact that she appears to be more knowledgeable on the past of Innight we cannot afford to lose her.¡±


    ¡°If that is what you say, Lord Nightius.¡±


    ¡°Just so all of you know, I trapped Innight in a Time Cubical. Within Time flows as per normal, however Time experienced within the Time Cubical is significantly slower than outside of it. That will buy us some time before Innight breaks out of it. Innight also have the power to twist Time so we have to hope that the Cubical holds until his transformation comes undone.¡±


    As they speak, the sky suddenly returned back to the evening sky. A wave of energy blasted through the building and all went silent.


    ¡°Looks like this time we are lucky. His transformations seems to have undone itself.¡± Nightius spoke.


    ¡°Looks like my job is done here. I bid you all farewell, until Time allows us to meet again¡­¡± Time stepped into the shadows of the room and vanished.


    ¡°Such a strange character. I hope we won¡¯t meet again.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°We should not waste any more time here, we should check out Innight now.¡±


    ¡°Right.¡±


    When I came to my senses, I saw four familiar faces looking over myself. They belonged to Nightius, Aquis, Luthriel and Master Inoxion. I looked around the school, and saw a huge crater in the place of where one of the school buildings should be before.


    ¡°That was me¡­ Isn¡¯t it? As I guessed, it is too powerful.¡±


    Master Inoxion nod his head.


    ¡°We were lucky. Someone came by and tried to seal you in what she called as a ¡°Time Cubicle¡±, which slows down your experience of Time significantly compared to us. That bought us some time for the seal to reactivate and seal you back in. She disappeared later, however. She called herself Time, Lytheria Time. She showed some form of interest on you, Innight, and wanted to help out in sealing your powers. She said something about herself desiring for you, no idea what that means but I hope this means we have ourselves an ally. She has the powers to control Time, from what she has been doing.¡± Nightius explained the situation to me.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.


    ¡°Also, take a look at yourself, Innight.¡± Master Inoxion said.


    I raised my hands, and saw both still retained in the claws like formation, this can only mean the transformation did not come undone. I tried undoing the transformation through my own will. The claws begin to reform and turn back into human hands.


    ¡°I see¡­ So I¡¯m gaining control over this power of mine. This is good news. I would need this great power to fight off the invasion Light and the users of Old Magic brings in. I cannot afford to let myself loose and destroy my allies with my enemies.¡±


    ¡°Yes, this is good news. But the bad news is you destroyed one of the school buildings. We can repair this, but unless we can manipulate Time, we are unlikely to repair everything back to its original state before tomorrow.¡±


    ¡°Well, I can manipulate Time, but I¡¯m unsure whether I am able to do it with the seals on now. After this activation I felt a gain of new power even with the seal still in place. Should I try it out?¡±


    ¡°We really have nothing to lose, do it, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Overclock, Rewind.¡±


    I created a green field around the crater and mumbled these words. A whirring sound came from the field as the building rebuilds itself from the ground. The field disappeared once the building returned.


    ¡°That is useful. It looks like for every seal that is lifted, you get to use more of your original powers back.¡±


    ¡°This is far from enough. I still have a limit on the number and amount of magic that I can cast. I can only cast this magic associated to Time once a day or so as it consumes large amount of mana. These seals gives me a recharge timer and a limiter for any use of magic, which are a nuisance if we did get into a fight or even a war with other creatures.¡±


    ¡°Innight, Lord Inoxion, something to take note. Luthriel, Aquis, this matter concerns both of you as well. Apparently the waves of magic has caused some changes in the students within the school. It appears that the wave of magic has resulted in the normal humans obtaining special powers. They turned special beings now, and all of the student population within the school is affected. Lord Inoxion, we have to do something about the students here now. Innight, you need to help me observe them and try to keep their powers under control.¡±


    ¡°This should not be a problem, Nightius. I have relations to the headmaster of the school itself, and he should also be aware of the situation now as he is also someone of great power. We need to do a change in the entire teaching system of the school itself, Nightius, be prepared to teach them about the Elemental Realm and the world of magic.¡±


    ¡°Also, one more thing. Keep an eye out for the girl named Time. I suspect she has relations to the Time Progion itself. There are very little people that has power of Time itself, Chronos and you, Innight, are the only ones that I knew that are able to manipulate time to your own advantage, and you should know that I have knowledge over the entire Elemental Realm. She seems a little suspicious to me.¡±


    Saying that, Master and Nightius both teleported away. Me, Aquis and Luthriel went back to the dormitory and we gathered in my and Luthriel¡¯s room. When we reached the dormitory, it was in a mess, there were craters and holes in the walls and books all around, screams and shouts came from everywhere around, flashes of light bounced around the entire dormitory. It appears that everyone is testing out their newly founded powers on others, and some are already using it to fight others.


    ¡°I hope of all the powers here there isn¡¯t one that is as powerful as yours, Innight.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°Indeed. Not to mention it would be troublesome if they use it for misdeeds.¡± I replied.


    When we entered our room, we found our room in such a state that I would describe as being trashed by a hurricane. I¡¯m not surprised by the state even though our rooms are locked before we left, by chance there is definitely someone having the power to open the locks in the population, it is only a matter of time before our rooms are unlocked.


    Also the boys who I defeated just yesterday would want revenge over what I did to them, it would be obvious that they would come by and trash our room completely. I, however, am surprised by the fact that our room is still in one piece.


    As we cleared up the room, a girl came by. She has one red tinted eye visible, the other covered by her long black hair. I went on my job, but Aquis and Luthriel froze on the spot.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong, both of you?¡±


    ¡°She¡­She is the girl that we both were talking about, Innight!¡±


    ¡°What?!¡±


    ¡°They are right. Nice to meet you, Innight. My name is Lytheria Time, call me Time. I¡¯m a new student in this school so I¡¯m just wandering around. The entire place looks really lively to me. Is the evening always that lively?¡±


    ¡°Time, before I answer you anything, I want you to answer me one question.¡±


    ¡°Yes, and what could that be, Innight?¡±


    ¡°What are you exactly?¡±


    ¡°Ahhh. I¡¯m unsure whether you know this, Innight, but magic has reaction to human, and the powers that they gain in response is in accordance to their state of mind. The weaker the state of mind the stronger the power they gain. I was one of the very first humans that was affected by the waves of magic during the Invasion Disaster.¡±


    My mind was broken as my parents were killed as they are unable to handle the waves of magic, my friends all abandoned me as I was odd in their minds, and I was alone in the entire city that was destroyed with no one miles around. When my mind became stabilised, I discovered I have the ability to manipulate Time, I also gained the ability to controls shadows to my own will. So I will say, I¡¯m human, but with the power of Time and Shadows.¡±


    ¡°Very well. I shall then answer your question. The dormitory is lively during the evening, but never as lively as you see it now. You should have noticed yourself, there has been a swept of wave of instable magic in this area hours ago and everyone in the school has gained new powers. Everyone is busy trying out their newly gained powers so it is of no surprise that it is so lively now. Let me give you warning, though, your powers are considered as highly dangerous, so don¡¯t use them on anyone.¡±


    ¡°Of course, I myself am aware of that. However I cannot guarantee that when someone try to attack me, for example right now.¡±


    A beam of yellow light flew by the room and shot right through Time. Blood begin flowing from her chest where the beam of light went through, she crumbled to the floor.


    ¡°Time!¡±


    Both Aquis and Luthriel screamed. However, the smile on Time¡¯s face never fade from the moment she told us the attack was incoming up to now. I still ponder the reason why when suddenly a shadow appeared under Time¡¯s body and the body sunk into it.


    ¡°Well, well, well. I knew such things will happen. Hello again, everyone.¡±


    Aquis and Luthriel both gasped. Suddenly Time¡¯s head popped out of the wall of the room from a shadow, she then stepped out of it.


    ¡°What¡­but¡­you just¡­¡±


    Both of them were at loss of words.


    ¡°Hee hee hee. That was only a copy of mine. I did mention that I can manipulate Time didn¡¯t I? That was a clone of mine from a different time axis. I already suspect an attack will eventually find its¡¯ way into the room so I used a clone in my place instead.¡±


    ¡°So, Time, and I hope I am talking to the real Time, what is your intention to be here?¡±


    ¡°As I have previously mentioned, I¡¯m here just for a walk.¡±


    ¡°I doubt so. You took measures to track down my identity and even attempt to help us out. You must have something else in your mind.¡±


    ¡°So you guessed it. As I have previously mentioned, I live a life of loneliness, even now, as this power caused me to be distanced by others, and there are others who tried to hurt me because of this power, despite me not using it at all. They appeared to gather information about me when I was bullied by others, when I¡¯m forced to use my powers.¡±


    ¡°Now I¡¯ve finally found someone who suffered from the same fate. He also holds a much greater power compared to me. I want company of such a person, who understands me. And that person, is you, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Time, you are telling only part of the truth, I can tell. You have the energy signature of Old Magic of The Void. What is your relationship with them?¡±


    ¡°I really can¡¯t hide anything from you, Zealus, isn¡¯t it?¡±


    ¡°Zealus?¡± We all three mumbled.


    ¡°That is your real name, Innight, your true form that is sealed within this human vessel.¡±


    Clouds of mystery and distrust begin to build in my mind.


    ¡°You knew my past? Who are you exactly?¡±


    ¡°Oh, looks like my Time is running out, I can¡¯t stay here any longer, I will need to recharge my Time to resume my clones. I will answer your questions, Innight, but not today. Until then¡­¡±


    Time begin to grow transparent, she then stepped into a shadow and vanished again. I tried to catch her, but my hand went right through her body.


    We were speechless for a moment.


    ¡°I really can¡¯t tell whether she can be trusted. She seems to be extremely knowledgeable on my past and has relations to members that knew Old Magic. In addition, she seems to be toying us around the entire time, she has never showed her true self and is using her clones to perform her duties.¡± I broke the silence.


    ¡°Should I report this to Lord Nightius?¡± Luthriel followed.


    ¡°It would be better to. She seems to be an ally, judging from her movements, but she seems to hide more truths and motives behind us. We cannot fully trust her and have to issue everyone a warning about her. She will not be targeted but she will not be warmly welcomed. Until she fully reveals her character and all her secrets, we cannot trust her fully.¡±


    We cleared up the entire room and sent off Aquis through a portal as it is too dangerous to walk through the walkway. A knock came from the door when we just sent off Aquis. I went over and opened it, it was Nectilius.


    ¡°I¡¯m really sorry!¡± was the first sentenced she said when my eyes set on her.


    Question marks were floating on the top of my head when she said that.


    ¡°What do you mean, I¡¯m sorry? You haven¡¯t done anything wrong.¡± I asked.


    ¡°I was the one who struck your visitor. I was only doing a test run of my powers but it gave unexpected results and bounced off the walls. I¡¯m really sorry for killing your


    When I came around, school is already over, the orange sunlight shone into the classroom and onto my face. When I turned my head around, I see Luthriel, Aquis, Nightius and Master Inoxion standing beside me. I felt headache hammering in my head constantly.


    ¡°That hurts. What actually happened just now when I lost myself?¡± I asked them.


    ¡°You transformed. Apparently the seven seals on you were lifted after Merlin attacked all of you, and you revealed your true form. Your power is incredibly strong and overwhelming, it even overpowered my magic. Your will seems to be bent towards the destruction of the entire Existence and recreating another in the process, the reason is something about the recycling of mana flow. You set up a destructive spell around the school itself and devoured quite a few rooms, all of us were frozen and unable to do anything to stop you. You could have easily destroyed the entire Existence with that power of yours, luckily the seals reactivated again soon after and you were stopped. Your magic is dispelled after you fell unconscious and we went to fixing up everything before disabling the Light¡¯s magic, of course we covered our presence from all the humans here.¡± Master Inoxion explained.


    ¡°You were so powerful. I cannot imagine what could have happened if your seals are not reactivated back then. We need to know what the factor is that cause those seals to be lifted to prevent another incident as such from happening again, and we may not be so lucky the next time round.¡± Nightius said.


    ¡°I cannot explain this, but it seems my mind is being controlled by something else. I kept hearing screams in the back of my mind, and all that is in my mind is destruction of everything and fear of others. I have very little control over my movements, however that was enough for me to give Aquis the Calling Crystal. I also need to figure out how to control that power appropriately if the seal is lifted again.¡± I replied in a weak voice. Using that power seemed to have drained my physical strength severely, I barely have energy to move myself.


    ¡°This is a bad place to discuss anything, let¡¯s move to your room, Innight, Luthriel. We will further discuss this topic once we have are there.¡± Nightius said.


    As I barely have enough energy to move, Nightius shifted me into my room and everyone teleported there instead.


    ¡°Alright. We need to find out what is the factor causing the seal the break and how to reactivate it once it does break. I have created a barrier around the room so it will prevent anyone from accessing the room itself.¡± Master Inoxion said.


    ¡°First thing first, we need to know what exactly Merlin did to trigger the seal to break. If you please, Luthriel or Aquis, either of you need to explain it. Innight looks to be severely weakened after that transformation. Please try to explain as detailed as possible of the events that occurred up to the point Innight transformed.¡± Master said.


    Luthriel and Aquis repeated the entire sequence of events that occurred, they were interrupted when they reached the point where they described Aquis¡¯ death.


    ¡°So Aquis, your soul were trapped by Merlin at that time? And I guessed Merlin continued to drop him into despair, am I right?¡± Master asked.


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°This is my guess. The seals are only temporarily lifted when Innight is experiencing great despair. This acts as a form of revenge to those that went against him, and this seal is reverted back once he gained his revenge on them. This is only a guess so I could be wrong, but I think it is safe to assume this is the case for now. We need to perform a few more things before I leave, I need to train Innight in controlling that power of his if it ever happens again, I also need the information that you have gathered, Aquis.¡±


    ¡°I will not allow Innight to transform again, after that dangerous incident. However, I will need to analyse the seals that lies beneath him, I will need you, Innight, to show us the seals. That will allow me to break the seals one day and hopefully allow to use your power for us. However I also need you to train your power, to ensure that you will not go berserk as how you previously did.¡±


    ¡°Are you sure about this, Master? I still retain the memory when I have transformed, I am unsure how will I go against my fate as a weapon of destruction, as I fear one day I may need to reach the point of doing so.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m definite about this decision. If that day has to come we will see how the battle travels. Now can you please reveal the seals, Innight?¡±


    ¡°As you wish, Master Inoxion. Vdoxcina Reqium!¡±


    Six magical circles of seals appeared on my body, one is missing.


    ¡°Only six? I remembered there are seven seals. What happened to the seventh seal? Is it broken?¡±


    ¡°It appears to be the case. I can feel power flowing within myself even though I¡¯m exhausted after the transformation just now. I have no idea how did it happen though.¡±


    ¡°Never mind that, we have to be careful of you using any magic though. If each seal locks a portion of your power, knowing the power that you hold just now when all the seals are lifted, one seal alone is still going to be very powerful. Also, we need to know when the transformation can occur from the breakage of seal, we will then be able to predict when to restrict your power.¡±


    Master took out a piece of parchment and drew the seals onto it, he analysed them for a while before saying ¡°I have no idea how to break the seals. They are all composed of very ancient text and even those that I could understand are highly encrypted. If I cannot understand the language the seal is written with I cannot figure out a way to break it. Innight, you have to help us by regaining your memory of your knowledge in The Gap. I predict these symbols are of the language of The Gap, which I have no knowledge of, only you will know. We will need you to figure this out as soon as possible.¡±


    I allowed the seals to vanish. Master stood up and spoke to Aquis, she gave him a green sphere, around a palm size. Master took it and hid it under his armour.


    ¡°I have done my job here. Innight, heed my words, do not engage in any dangerous acts. If your seals were all lifted again I have no idea what will happened and I would not be able to stop you.¡±


    Master teleported away after saying these words. Nightius and Aquis bid us farewell as they walked out of the room, but not before Nightius disabled the barrier. Only Luthriel and I were left in the room. The sky outside has already darkened into night time, we both laid down on our beds and I turned off the lights.


    ¡°Today has been a crazy day! First we discovered another member of Darkness and she is a girl. Then we fought a wave of Light armies, the girl gets killed, and you revealed your true power, wiping out all the members of Light in the process. You then decide to destroy everything and recreate the Existence. Master came by to stop you but even He is powerless. You nearly destroyed the whole school and intended to destroy the entire Existence, luckily your seals reactivated and stopped you. So much events happened in just two days of me joining the Darkness, I wonder if I could see anything more?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m dead tired after today, Luthriel. Other than the event of me revealing my true self, the other events you have saw are nearly daily occurrence that we all members of Darkness, get to experience. I need to rest to rebuild my strength. After these two attacks Light has lost its power over here so we can be sure they won¡¯t attack us again anytime sooner.¡±


    The next day we met up with Aquis. We are supposed to find out information from her and help out on her mission but yesterday was a mess so we had no chance to. From what she told us, Light is planning to recreate the Creator as well, as they found a fragment of the Creator¡¯s magic. Luckily for us, they have little idea on which kind of magic to use for recreation and they lack of the knowledge and power to do so. However it is because of this they are trying to kidnap me, they are trying to extract the knowledge of mine and knowing I have no magic capability due to the seals I¡¯m completely vulnerable. After yesterday¡¯s incident they are likely to change their plans, though, after witnessing such dangerous power it should deter them from doing anything foolish for some time.


    The day passed peacefully, it seemed abnormal to have a day of peace after two great incidents happened. When school ended and I wanted to return to my dormitory, someone called me.


    ¡°Hey, Innight? Do you have a moment?¡±


    That came from my class chairman. He is what you will tag as a ¡°perfect student¡±, always the first in class in academics, good in sports, have great communication skills and often surrounded with friends, his looks are also perfect so often asked by many girls to go out with them. I detest such creatures, they just put up a perfect looking profile of themselves but deep down they are rotten to the core. This may make me sound hypocritical as I¡¯m a member of Darkness, but as previously mentioned, those that are Darkness themselves are not evil.


    I replied ¡°Yes¡± to him and he asked me to follow him to his room for a short conversation.


    ¡°I need our help, Innight. You are the only person I can talk about this. I understand that you are busy¡­.¡±


    ¡°Just cut to the chase will you? I don¡¯t have the whole day.¡±


    ¡°As you wish, Innight. I have overheard this from others, you appear to be interested and is doing study on the Occult, am I right to say that?¡±


    ¡°Correct, but what does that have to do with you?¡±


    ¡°I need your help from your knowledge of the Occult. I have recently received an object from one of the girls around myself, and I suspect it may be a cursed object. After I received the object I have been experiencing various strange events occurring around myself, seeing odd-looking creatures around the school. I don¡¯t want to throw away an object that a girl gave me as I fear to hurt her feelings, so I need you to help me to identify whether this is a cursed object and if it is, what I should do to lift the curse.¡±


    I snickered. He and many others often targeted and isolated me because of how I involved in the works of Darkness Elemental Plane. I¡¯m a stranger in the class and often I¡¯m non-existent in their eyes. I have gave up talking to anyone in my class because of how they always treat me and now he wants me to forget all about it. Impossible. I will need him to pay a price before I will do him a favour.


    ¡°I can¡¯t help you, not that easily. First thing is because you always disbelief all my studies on the Occult, even though large amount of people went after it. I am unconvinced that you are willing to perform any rituals that can lift the curse as your level of belief on the topic of Occult is so little that it is almost non-existent. The second reason is I cannot forgive you that easily for completely isolating me from everyone in the class using your power, and the reason is because you hate anyone that studies The Occult. Do you have any idea how much pain I suffered without a single soul to talk with? Of course not, Mr. Perfect! Always surrounded by friends, chased after by girls and always have someone to talk to, and that is how you are. What about me? I¡¯m always alone. Foolish Maningson has left, and now I don¡¯t even have someone that performs their nonsense on myself! I will not be helping you, not after all that has happened!¡± I shouted back at him. He cringed for a moment, I can tell he is regretting all his actions that he had performed in the past on me. This is how I exact revenge on my target, it is tough to bear all the pain that others have forced upon you, but I always convinced myself to bear with it because I know the wind will eventually change for me. I enjoy this moment of sweet revenge as he kneeled on the ground and bowed.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Innight! It is all my fault. Please forgive me! I really need your help on this, you are the only help I can seek!¡±


    I decide to forgive him for now. I will seek more revenge when the time is right.


    ¡°Fine. I will make an exception this time to your case since I find your case to be intriguing. Show me the object.¡±


    He quickly got up from the ground and hold up a little glass bottle. Inside the battle contains a little statuette of the class chairman himself, surrounded by a certain liquid that constantly changing colours. I can sense a reverse flow of magic on the object itself, indicating the object is cursed. Also, many layers of curse is placed on the object, each are interlinked to another through some way or another. These curses produced a magic field around himself and this allows him to able to observe any Creatures of the Elemental Planes. I will need to lift this curse a soon as possible but due to the interconnectivity of the curses this will take some effort.


    ¡°You have an interesting object. I will take this object for tonight and see what I can do about it. Do note that I am only helping you because you are an interesting case for me to discover. Meet me again tomorrow in the class at five, I will be reporting to you the result of my works.¡±


    I went back to my room, Luthriel was already waiting for me there. I sighed and explained to him what the class chairman wanted from me.


    ¡°So Mr. Perfect got himself a cursed object. Innight, judging by what you have described, we have to lift these curses before he gets tangled up in the business of the Elemental Planes. From his personality he is most likely going to fall under a member of Light, and we will not want any member of Light to be anywhere near us.¡±


    ¡°Indeed. Luthriel, avoid disturbing me for the next few minutes. Help me put up a barrier around the room.¡±


    I drew a magic circle in the middle of the room and placed the cursed object in the middle. I begin conjuring a potion and took out six empty crystals for the ritual, I waited for the potion to finish brewing before I start the ritual. I first drip some drops of the potion on the five sides of the star in the magic circle, and I placed one crystal near one of the sides. I begin to chant the Spell of Removal.


    ¡°Tsuni esadio menoxis esoda. Nxveiu luricis morxev ryxis Cano Dsylsia Cyanix Menivium Concruxim Nuosic Actesium Menagite¡±


    The circle glowed blue and the bottle glowed violet. Streams of magic flows out from it but the magic circle prevents them from overflowing outside. I see six small purple magical circles surrounding the bottle itself, all interlinked with green chains in between. This is a very old form of magic, belonged to The Void, I¡¯m doubtful whether I am able to break this magic as I have very little memory on the Old Magic of The Void.


    ¡°Innight¡­This¡­¡±


    ¡°Correct, even you should know about this. This is an old form of Void magic, so old that even I myself have very little memory of it. Had I break all my seal I might be able to remember this form of magic and maybe break it. I will have to try all that I know about this, and I may injure myself by doing so. The Old Magic of The Void is very powerful and deadly, and all the curses requires sinful acts to be lifted, to make it worse the curse is encrypted, just as how my seals are. I will have to try, though.¡±


    I tried to decrypt the curse first, to simplify the job for myself, I have very little success after two hours, and the clock in my room stroke ten. I decide to take a risk and involve the magic I have.


    ¡°Magical Incarnation unlock.¡±


    I activated the magic I have released from the first seal and put it through the encrypted curse. It took another thirty minutes before I finally discovered the start and end point of the encryption and I found the key to decrypt the curse.


    ¡°I understand the curse now. This is The Curse of Night. The receiver of this curse is doomed to wander around in night for eternity and nightmares will always haunt him whether he is dead or alive. If the receiver disregard the curse and wander in the day, his appearance will change according to how long he stayed in the sun, until he finally transforms into a Creature of The Void. The curse also torture the receiver endlessly through various images and sounds, gradually pushing the receiver into madness. This curse is a complicated curse that contains six other minor and small curses interlinked and crossed together. Normally this curse is only performed by The Void, but after The Void came under Darkness¡¯ control various caster capable of performing Old Magic faded away. If this is here it means those caster are returning.¡±


    ¡°Amazing, Innight. Now you have to just break this spell and we can rest.¡±


    ¡°Sadly this is not going to be simple. Each separate minor curse requires different forms of sacrifice to break them. I will need the youth of a new born child, eyes of the closest friend, screams from a pair of parents, heart of a girl in love, a spine from the only child of a rich and the happiness of the elder. These are all difficult ingredients to be found and I will need one of each to break the curse and lift it. Luthriel, I will need you to gather the ingredients for me, I will look for them as well, we will all meet back here by midnight. We don¡¯t have time. Magical Incarnation Disperse.¡±


    When I returned back to the room it was already 9 minutes past midnight, and Luthriel was waiting for me.


    ¡°You are finally here, Innight. Someone tried to barge into the room, and the attack form is magical. Luckily the barrier held and the person went off, I¡¯m unsure if it was Aquis but she must have understood why. I¡¯ve got the youth, the spine, the happiness and the heart. Did you get the rest, Innight?¡±


    ¡°Good work, Luthriel. Actually I¡¯ve retrieved all the six items required so I wouldn¡¯t need your ingredients, but I will just keep it just in case in the future we will need it again.¡±


    I pounded every item into fine dust and poured them into the empty crystals. I then use magic to move the crystals the purple magic circle, allowing each crystal to land on one magic circle.


    ¡°And now we have to wait for the crystals to drain out the curse, if all goes well the curse should be dispersed.¡±


    Slowly the purple magic circles vanished as the crystal started to glow purple, soon the 6 magic circles disappeared and the streams of magic vanished.


    The large magic circle stopped glowing. I took out the bottle, no signs of magic flow is visible on the bottle. The object is now cleanse of the curse. I collected the crystals and threw it into my potion flask, they dissolved and I finished the potion.


    ¡°We are done, and we are way past our bedtime, I don¡¯t think there is even any use to even sleep now. Luthriel, you can disable the barrier now. Let us talk until the sun rise.¡± I said.


    ¡°Innight, why did you just drank the potion with those crystals? Wouldn¡¯t you receive the curse yourself?¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m special. Remember what I have said? I¡¯m a Creature of The Void that live in The Gap, I lived longer than anything you can image and I control the recreation of Existence. I¡¯m different from all the other member of Darkness and I feed on magic of various forms, even curses. Doing so strengthens myself.¡±


    The night went past quickly as we talked. The clock ringed at seventy 20, I prepared myself for another day of school.


    The next day I gave the bottle back to Mr. Perfect.


    ¡°Here you go. There was a curse place on your gift and it was quite a strong one, I have lifted it for you and it should give you no problems now. You will need to understand you were lucky that you approached me sooner, if you have shown me this any later the curse would have consumed you and turned you into something else. Be grateful to me for saving you.¡±


    ¡°I thank you greatly, Innight. Please call me Hactus, if you please. I will correct all my mistakes I have previously done to show my gratitude.¡±


    ¡°As you wish, Hactus. If you indeed find one day interested in the teachings of Occult, inform me. I am always looking for more people interested and are willing to research on such a topic.¡±


    We part ways to our seats and did not talk to each other for the rest of the day. I begin to rethink on the incident of the cursed object. The girl that gave Hactus definitely remained as human form, this means that either she had the cursed item for a short period of time, or she knows the curse of the item, or she is the caster of the curse. Whichever is the option, I need to keep an eye for the girl. She must have association with The Void¡¯s old casters to have gain such an object, I will snoop around Hactus to find who that girl is and survey her.


    Break time came. 5 minutes later, I stood up and started to walk towards Luthriel for a chat, when suddenly a group of the boys surrounded me.


    ¡°You are Innight? We have an order from Hactus to be friends with you, occult guy. Be grateful that he is willing to send us to be your friends.¡±


    I kept silent. I knew the better of the boys. They endorsed themselves within nothing but the lewd things, always detested by the girls due to their lewd and gangster-like behaviours. I distanced myself far away from them as much as I can as they disgust me. I would rather be friends with the girls than with this group of boys.


    ¡°Are you mute? Thank us properly! Thank us for being so kind hearted, or else you wouldn¡¯t have anyone to talk with other than that weird guy!¡±


    They pushed me around, just as they would have done to any others that they bullied. I remained silent and kept a straight face. If I spoke anything they will use it against me, which is how a gangster like them works. If I act they will take it as an account of defence and attack me, they can also use my act of defence as an excuse to attack me by lying to the teachers I attacked them first. So, either way I have little choice but to wait for them to have their fun and leave me alone.


    ¡°Hum, such a useless insect. Speak! If not I will show you how we offer our forms of thanks!¡±


    I still remained silent. Getting beaten up without counterattacking or putting up any acts of defence I would save myself from any potential problems I might land into. I have been keeping a clean record on my school profile and I will not want to get it stained by anything.


    ¡°Mindless creature.¡±


    The tallest and most well-built boy punched in my face, breaking my glasses. I heard a few gasp from the people around. There is still fifty minutes before any teacher will arrive to assess the situation, before that happens I have to hold the grudge up, I will get my revenge on them one day, but not now. I flew, crashed against the wall and crumbled there. A punch then followed, straight onto my stomach.


    ¡°Heh, weakling. Do you seriously think anyone will save you? That weird friend of your is plainly useless, Hactus is not around to see this, no teachers is going to be here for the next fifty minutes. If you don¡¯t fight yourself you will suffer hell!¡± Another punch was delivered after this speech, blood started tickling from my mouth.


    ¡°13.¡± I whispered.


    ¡°Eh, what is it that you say? Speak louder!¡±


    ¡°Thirteen. Do any it more than that and you will suffer the consequence.¡±


    ¡°What kind of big shot crap are you giving me?! I¡¯m going to give you more than that! Such weaklings have no position to argue! If you want to show you are strong fight back then!¡± A kick landed itself on my face, I¡¯m certain my skull receive a crack after that impact caused my head to smash against the wall.


    I¡¯m not in my state of mind now, I can feel my true self is being awakened. Those words didn¡¯t come from myself as something within myself is speaking. This is bad, if something isn¡¯t done quickly and the seals undo themselves the entire school will be destroyed in seconds.


    More punch and kicks followed and found their way onto myself. I licked the blood tickling from my mouth, and as the thirteenth blow landed on myself I saw the six seals appearing before my eyes and one of them broke. A magic circle appear before myself and I begin to transform again, and I can see various signs of fear creeping up on the face of all the people in the class, Luthriel and Aquis froze at their spot. The boys stopped attacking me all at once.


    ¡°You have gone a little too far this time, fragile human. Magnosis!¡±


    A ball of red spell flew towards the leader of the group, he was blasted across several rooms before the spell faded.


    ¡°That is only the few of the weakest spell I can cast, I have weakened the spell by a few million times of its¡¯ original power. Those of the lowest birth should not be facing themselves against someone like me. Just because I¡¯m not reacting does not mean I¡¯m weak, it is only me testing your sixth sense, which almost all of you here are lacking. Remember this well, foolish creatures, I hope I do not have to resort to doing this again. I curse all of you will never see the day of Light again, those who does will disintegrate into nothingness. Only when you understand the truth of this world this curse will be lifted.¡± I finished the curse in a cold voice, I managed to suddenly take control of myself and forced the transformation to undone itself. I managed to see only 5 seals left on myself before the transformation came undone.


    The bell rang, signifying the end of break. Everyone is still frozen at their positions, I don¡¯t blame them. I have to scream ¡°Hello¡± for all of them to come back to their senses.


    ¡°Ha¡­ very funny, Innight! Curse? Such things don¡¯t exist! Look, I¡¯m standing in the sun, nothing...¡± One of the boys in the group moved towards the window with the sunlight shining onto himself and said this. Before he could finish his sentence, a magical circle with the symbol of The Void appeared under him, his entire body lit on fire and in seconds his entire body disintegrated into nothingness. Gasps came from everyone in the class, some girls even screamed. Well, at least this taught all of them an important lesson on not bullying the weak.


    ¡°What is happening here?¡±


    Our Maths teacher walked in with Hactus and saw the damage in the class. No one said anything about it and no one can explain the disappearance of one of the classmate. Luthriel used magic to whisper to me, ¡°You really messed up big time this round. Luckily it seems you managed to control your power this time to prevent any widespread damage. However with you destroying the classrooms, showing everyone your true self and placing a curse on everyone in this class, we might get more problems in the way,¡±


    ¡°I will have to see how things turns out. I¡¯m grateful, however, on the fact that they caused the second seal to be completely lifted and I¡¯m able to stabilise the power. Help me report to Master Inoxion on this matter.¡±


    Class ended late, everyone stayed within dark corners in the class when I left the class for my dormitory. I intent to leave the curse on them as they will soon entangle themselves within the matters of Darkness and Light as long as stay in this class so it will be a good time for them to find out the truth of this Realm.


    When I opened the door of room, Nightius and Master Inoxion is already waiting for me inside. I know what to expect from the both of them, after hearing Luthriel¡¯s report no one will be stupid enough to ignore the danger of myself. Aquis and Luthriel both entered the room as well.


    ¡°You should fully understand what brought us here, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Of course. That was not in my power to control the movements of other humans and I had tried my best to hold the magic in, but it is too powerful.¡±


    Nightius shook his head.


    ¡°This can¡¯t do. Now the word that you are of something not of human has spread around the entire school and I have to bear with it. They claimed it is spirit possession due to the activities involved in doing research in the Occult studies, which is rubbish. They are now trying to use this reason to force me to close down the room, which I will definitely go against it, I will need that room as our meeting place. Innight, you really have brought us more problems faster than we could solve it.¡±


    ¡°Innight, it appears we need to either fully lock you into a permanent human entity to stop the seals from being lifted every time, or we have to eliminate of forms of those lower human forms. I doubt I can fully lock those seals as I don¡¯t even understand any of the magic used in the spell to begin with. I will leave this incident untouched this time as I highly doubt any human will be foolish enough to approach you after this incident.¡±


    ¡°One more thing, Master Inoxion. Apparently one of the seal broke again. I suspect each seal breaks when I am under despair, and each seal takes an increasing amount of despair to break. Also I have managed to keep the power under control so the problem should not accelerate at this rate.¡±


    ¡°I suspected it. That would be enough for this session. Innight, before I leave, I need you to answer me why did you place such a curse on them?¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t say too much on it. However I think there is something about The Void involving themselves within the class, it is only a matter of time before the truth is out itself and it is never too late for them to get entangled within the matters first.¡±


    ¡°There are? I didn¡¯t detect any form of Void magic around this area and I thought they have always kept their behaviours proper.¡±


    ¡°Yes. I found a cursed object that was casted with the Old Magic of The Void, which I have thought that no one knows how to perform it now. I have heard the object came from a normal human girl, and I¡¯m doing some investigations on this matter. It could not just be coincidence, cursed object that powerful could not have stayed with a human without any consequence, and from what I have gathered the human looked normal.¡±


    ¡°I see. This matter may be more complicated than we imagined. If The Void is indeed involved within this entire matter we might have to be careful on how we move from now on, especially when it is of Old Magic. Innight, please continue investigating on this matter and also remember, Light is also planning to recreate a Light-based Creator which we have to prevent at all cost.¡±


    Master took his leave. Nightius sighed.


    ¡°Innight, you really have to be careful on how you behave now. I supposed that you cannot be blamed for what happened today, since those others started the fight and you didn¡¯t retaliate to prevent getting into trouble. However as more problems pops up and with your level of power you have to be wary on how you behave. Also, I overheard another student just got obliterated for going against your curse. Your rumour might continue to get worse, you should try to avoid getting too much attention and keep your profile low now.¡±


    With that, Nightius walked out of the room. Aquis and Luthriel both start talking.


    ¡°Innight, what is on your mind when you put that curse? We are also affected is as well thanks to you!¡¯


    ¡°Calm down, both of you. Obviously I will not let that happen to both of you, if you have not noticed, you both already knew the truth about this Realm. The curse does not work on both of you as a result.¡±


    ¡°I have overheard some of the other girls going head over heels over you though, after watching how you blew that bully straight across the room. You looked cool, really.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°Some boys appeared to have started the idea of being your underling and to learn how you performed that magic of yours. I told them they wouldn¡¯t be able to learn anything but they ignored me.¡± Luthriel followed.


    ¡°This can¡¯t be good for me. I don¡¯t want crowds to suddenly follow me wherever I go. I also need to keep a low profile to snoop around and identify the target of interest, especially on the girl who gave the cursed object. Not to mention I need to keep an eye on any activity Light intend to do around this region, if it happens.¡± I replied.


    ¡°Whatever it is, I will leave it to tomorrow, and I need to sleep. Aquis, go back to your own room before they start another new rumour about me. Try to avoid giving away any information about me to anyone, remember, the last thing I want is a group of followers.¡±


    Aquis left the room and when I¡¯m just about to turn off the lights, a knock came from the door. I went over and opened it, a blonde haired girl with a pair of blue eyes is standing in front of the doorway. Her black long hair straightened down so long that it nearly touched the floor.


    ¡°Um¡­ Are you Innight? My name is Nectilius. I¡¯m here to see how you are doing after that incident during the break.¡±


    ¡°Yes I¡¯m Innight. Why are you worried about that matter? I wouldn¡¯t tolerate people who bully others just because they look weak, I did received a few injuries but I have very quick healing abilities, those injuries were already gone.¡±


    ¡°Ah I see then¡­ I admire you, Innight! Hopefully we can become friends! Good night!¡± She said these and flashed me a smile before rushing off. I have gathered information from Hactus before, this Nectilius is the girl that gave him the cursed item. Why did she approached me so quickly when everyone is still trying to recover from the shock? I guessed that she must be really enthusiastic about seeing myself, which should be the best explanation.


    The next day I kept feeling people staring at me. During the break I decided to give myself a breather and visit Nightius, and behind me a huge group of people stalked after, they hide themselves very well but I can sense them. When I arrived at the room, I suddenly felt a wave of Light magic swept over the place, I immediately raised an alert to Aquis and Luthriel through magic.


    I touched the door and found various seal of Light was casted onto it. I¡¯m starting to get anxious, Light has never outright use magic without ensuring there is protection around. Placing seal on a room that is commonly accessed, allowing waves of magic to ripple and disturb the various lifeforms that lives within the school without control, this is not something Light will often do.


    I turned around to look at the crowd, they were all squatting down as they cover their head in pain. This is a result of human interacting with uncontrolled wave of magic. If I do not find the cause and stop it, it will kill them, or if they are lucky, they will undergo a transformation into other creatures that feeds on magic. Whichever route it turns out, they will be killed, and I will not let that happen.


    I analysed the seals on the door, there are at least 4 different casters that set the seals on the door as the magical signature of each seal is different. Often this is done to ensure others have problems breaking the seals as such seals often interlink and to destroy one seal individually is not possible. To break this seal I have to figure out the signature of all the seals and break all of them at once, this is a simple task to me as I have dealt with much more complicated spells before.


    I tried doing a reverse reading on the spell and figured out the signatures and the individual starting and endings of each seal. I forced my magic onto the seal to overload the restriction placed on the seal and the seal all break at once. I flung the door open and see Nightius bound in a magical circle and magic is flowing out from it towards somewhere else, two creatures of Light were standing guard there. I immediately blasted the two guards straight out of the window and begin analysing the circle.


    This circle is a spell executed for extraction of magic. What I¡¯m intrigued is not why they perform it here, but where are they intending to use the magic on. I decide to send a tracking crystal on the flow of the magic movement to investigate what Light is up to, at the same time I attempt to force the spell out of control. Nightius suddenly fidgeted a little from his position.


    ¡°Nectar¡­Under¡­Creation¡­Time¡­.Prevent¡­¡± Fragments of what I thought to be a sentence came from him. I do not understand what he meant by then, as his life is in danger now and it is more important to disable this spell first. This spell is the cause of the wave of magic that is running amok, and it is also the link Light is using to create a form of connection between the Elemental Realm and Physical Realm. I cannot force the spell to break through overloading the control as it may potentially destroy Nightius as well. I have to disconnect the source of mana for this magic to stop the spell safely, but to do that I will need to enter The Gap, which is dangerous without anyone watching the situation here.


    ¡°Innight! This wave of magic..!¡±


    Luthriel and Aquis managed to rush here, just when I needed them now, perfect timing.


    ¡°Both of you, I will need your help. I need to enter The Gap to view where the mana flow of this spell is and disconnect it from there, only then Nightius can be saved. Both of you need to keep a lookout from anyone attempting to break in and keep an eye on the stalkers outside. Any moment they may start to transform, do not hurt them, and only lock them down if absolutely necessary. I want to have the least casualty as possible in this event.¡±


    They both nod their heads in agreement. I prepared a transport spell and entered into The Gap, the world became purple and I could no longer interact with any item of the Physical Realm. I see various streams of mana flowing everywhere around myself, mainly from somewhere outside the school and from somewhere beneath the school. I traced the source of mana for the circle to be outside the school, it makes me curious why is there mana flow coming from beneath the school but this is not the time to investigate now.


    Strange creatures wander around The Gap as I flew towards the source of magic, some of them reminds me of the other Void creatures we have in the Void Elemental Plane. I found several pillars connected to the mana flow I am analysing, and a General of Light is guarding those pillars. I exited from The Gap to sneak up onto him, but he spotted me first, I was flung from the exit I created and onto the stone ground.


    ¡°Who are you? How dare you interfere with our operations of Light?¡±


    Chains of Light were forced onto me and tied me up. I¡¯m powerless against Light spells if I¡¯m not in my true form as the amount of magic that I need to counter these spells are great and I lack of them. Even with two out of the seven seals are lifted I still lack of enough power to counter it, I¡¯m now in trouble.


    ¡°Looks like we got him this time.¡± A familiar voice came from behind me and a blinding figure appeared before my face. It is Luricerite, the Grand Ruler of Light.


    ¡°Luricerite. The Grand Ruler of Light. Someone that holds such great powers should refrain from showing themselves to others even in the Elemental Realm. What has caused someone as important as you do to appear at such a place?¡±


    Luricerite smiled. He took out a sword of that is made of pure light and pointed it at me.


    ¡°Innight, the Piece of Darkness. You have done plenty of damage here to show how dangerous you are as an enemy against us. You have even single-handedly killed one of my strongest Generals, Merlin, and almost attempted to destroy the entire Existence, using only but the very tip of your power. I have to use my own power to ensure that you don¡¯t attempt to break out of our grasp again.¡±


    ¡°I figured as much. How much information have you gathered through your spies, I wonder?¡±


    ¡°Not too much, but whatever that you have done on a large scale I have records of them. Now you have asked your questions, I need to ask mine. What are you hiding from us, The Piece? You should not hold power of such scale and you should follow your Master¡¯s commands but you went against it. What is your real identity?¡±


    ¡°I have no intention to tell you that. You have something else on your mind that you require me, which is why you have constantly tried to set traps to capture me.¡±


    ¡°You are observant indeed. Now can you please allow us to destroy you? ¡±


    A magical circled with Darkness symbol inscribed within appeared before us, Master Inoxion appeared from it.


    ¡°I have been informed by Aquis and Luthriel about strange waves of magic appearing within the school itself so I came here to have a look myself. I did have some suspicion that you Light is involved in this matter, I don¡¯t know why would you openly show yourself this time but it doesn¡¯t matter. Hand The Piece back to me or else I will risk another battle here.¡±


    ¡°You know my answer, Evil One. I¡¯m also wanted to try out something new I have created and this is my chance.¡±


    Each of them drew out their respective weapons and start to fight. I watched them as they threw spells around the field, at the same time I felt presence of magic instability, and I suspect some people must have been affected by the wave of magic and has transformed. Time is clearly running out for us, if those creatures are not controlled or killed they will consume other human¡¯s spirit and drain their life force. I just have to wait for Master to clear of Light and free me before the entire school turns from a human school into a school of monsters.


    Suddenly Master fell from the heights and crashed to the ground. I felt his magic is heavily weakened to the point that it mirrors that of a human, it is nigh impossible for Master to drain his magic to this point as he have not perform any high level magic. Unless, of course, Luricerite used Insigma. If he did use Insigma then we are on the losing side and I will be taken away by Light.


    ¡°How does it taste like, Evil One, to be hit by the same spell you did on us previously? I have secretly casted it the moment you tried to communicate with The Piece, now your magic powers as just as weak as a human, you cannot stand against us now. Can you please back off now? We will return you The Piece once we have extract the information we want. Be thankful that we are letting you off even though we could end your reign in the Elemental Realm right now.¡±


    Master crawled from the ground and stood up. He is now heavily drained of magic that it is impossible for him to counter any attacks Luricerite throws at him, he should back off to save himself, but according to his character, he would rather sacrifice himself than to let me be taken by Light.


    ¡°Come to think of it, you are recruiting people from this school itself, isn¡¯t it, Evil One? You are dragging more people into your Realm itself and I suspect you have hidden many spies within this region itself. I have even heard of you intending to set up a new base around here, now as Light ourselves we cannot allow that to happen, can we?¡±


    They can¡¯t be serious about this. If my guess is correct, their aim is to destroy the entire school here, but why? We never intend to create any bases around here, though it is true that we have sent many spies into this school itself, but it is because this location is one of the gathering places for Light for all their high levelled operations. They must have other reason for destroying this school, but what is it?


    ¡°Innight¡­¡±


    Master moaned. I detect the level of magic within him is not going to give him enough strength to do anything at all against them.


    Luricerite opened up a portal and threw Master inside.


    ¡°Back to where you should belong, Evil One. We will send you image of our result once we have done our work.¡±


    Turning to face me, he left a grin on his face, I saw his eyes twinkling with plots to harm me.


    ¡°So I¡¯m wondering, The Piece, how did you manage to kill off Merlin the last time. Is it a power burst, or is it a potion? Or was it additional help from something else?¡±


    I kept silent. Telling the truth will only make my situation worse, my only hope to escape is to trigger the transformation and wipe out Luricerite and his general, to do that I need him to force despair onto myself.


    His feet suddenly landed on my face.


    ¡°So how is it, Innight? What is the secret behind the event? I can do this method of torturing all day until you speak. Don¡¯t even think about escaping us, I have already sent Flying Eyes to check on you, all your movements are tracked by us. Until you fully answer me, you will stay here with us. Your Master is not going to be able to help you anytime sooner.¡±


    He said these as he twist my head around with his feet, I felt pain, but there is little of what I could do about it. After a few minutes he started stomping on my stomach instead, I felt blood gushing up my body and I vomited them out. His voice gets louder every time he torture me, until it became so loud my ears begin to ring. He then ordered the general to start pouring liquid Light onto myself.


    Since I have the nature of Darkness itself, Light is my greatest bane of existence, it burns me greatly, to the point of feeling as if it removes my flesh altogether. There is no words that can describe how Light burns through myself as I experience it. In liquid form Light does not bring the slightest harm to me, but it still burns through my nerves.


    ¡°You are a stubborn one, aren¡¯t you? Doesn¡¯t matter, we are here to destroy this ridiculous place and that is our only aim here for now, we will bring you back for further interrogation.¡±


    I thought about my friends in the school itself. I may not show any favour towards them as well but it took me so long to find people that I can finally talk to, and now I¡¯m going to lose all of them?


    The seals appeared before my eyes again, all of them breaking at the same moment. I felt the energy surging through myself again, and the transformation occurring as well. I can see the grin vanishing from the face of Luricerite as I transform, he tried various spells on me but all were reflected.


    ¡°What kind of witchery is this?¡±


    ¡°Luricerite, this is of no witchery. It is a tiny fraction of my true power that I have always kept it hidden. I do not wish to use it under most circumstances but it appears that you leave me with no choice.¡±


    I waved my hands, which are now claws, over Luricerite¡¯s head. Long purple chains came out from magical circles that formed around him and attached on him. The same thing happened to his general that accompanied him. He tried to break free from it but to no avail.


    ¡°What have you done to me, The Piece? What is your intent?¡±


    ¡°Nothing much, really. I just need to seal you properly and send you back to where you should be. Worry not, the chains will unite itself over time. Don¡¯t try to break from it, these are formed using Old Magic, which you definitely have no knowledge of. If you struggle too much it will start absorbing your mana, and you should know what happens when you lose mana.¡±


    I opened up a portal and threw the both of them towards it.


    ¡°However, I warn you, Luricerite. Do not dare to create any problems to my school ever again. The next time you try to do this, I will not hold back and will destroy you completely.¡±


    ¡°Remember this, The Piece. We will be back!¡±


    The portal closed once Luricerite and his company vanished form the sight. A seed of pain started growing in my mind, accompanied with it are unintelligible sounds. This is a bad sign, it means any moment I will lose control of myself and my true self will be awakened. I have to prevent that from occurring at all cost. However I¡¯m slowly losing myself, I cannot control over the devilish thoughts invading my mind.


    ¡°I... can¡¯t¡­.lose¡­control¡­ not when so many people is in trouble¡­.Have. To¡­disable¡­wave¡­¡±


    My mind begin to run wild. I start to lose control over my body. I have no control over anything that happens once my true self is revealed and allowed to run wild, I knew that it is of a destructive nature, always hunger for blood, indulging into chaos. I have no name for the other side yet, but it is dangerous and if allowed to let loose, it may obliterate the entire Existence.


    That is how powerful it is. At least, that is what it has said before when it has awakened once during the fight with Merlin. I cannot allow it to run loose in this situation. The magic waves in the school is still not stopped, any moment humans inside will start dying. If such situation is still not controlled it may start to spread. I can¡¯t keep myself awake anymore, my sight slowly dwindles and in just seconds, I lost consciousness.


    A girl with black dress with orange frills stood under an apple tree just outside the school. She has one right red tinted eye visible, the left eye is covered by her long black hair. She appears to take no interest of anything that is happening around the area, other than keeping an eye on Innight.


    ¡°Interesting¡­ So this is how Zealus is now. He is sealed in this human vessel named Innight and is prevented from awakening. He is very late of his job of reconfiguring this world by many rotations of Time itself. The members of Old magic of The Void is looking for ways to forcefully awaken Zealus, The Light intends to eliminate Zealus altogether. While at the same time, I want to be with him, I want to be at his side forever to eternity. However, to do that, I will need more Time first. I have to fight off two parties of significant power if I were to protect Zealus in his current state and my Time is insufficient to put up a fight with them. Ah, but first, I should transfer into his school first and do more observation on him.¡±


    ¡°Overclock. Separation.¡±


    As soon as she spoke, she split into two. Both looks just as similar to another.


    ¡°Now then, me, please look after Innight for me.¡±


    ¡°Of course, Me.¡±


    ¡°Remember to replenish your Time if it runs low.¡±


    ¡°Of course, Me.¡±


    Black clouds flowed over one of the girl and transformed her dress into the high school uniform Innight is in. One of them stayed under the tree, the other begin walking towards the school.


    ¡°Now then, we better start helping out to clear up whatever mess Light is making and attempt to stabilise Zealus before the situation gets out of hand.¡±


    Saying these, the girl slowly sank into her shadow.


    ¡°What is Innight doing? He is taking so long to trace back the source of this magic wave. People are already starting to faint under the impulse of magic being spread around the region. If he does not stop this waves of magic disturbance on time there will be irreversible effects on everyone around here. What¡­¡±


    Aquis stopped speaking because suddenly both she and Luthriel felt an even powerful wave of magic swept over the region. The sunlight stopped shining through the windows and it appears a shadow just covered the entire school. The waves of magic disturbance stopped almost immediately. Both of them rushed towards the window and saw the sky turned crimson, with the sun coloured black. This is a sign that Innight has unlocked his full powers and is running rampage.


    ¡°This¡­is bad. We are ants in comparison to the near omnipotent powers of Innight. Even if we ask the Grand Master of Darkness he wouldn¡¯t be able to stop him at all if Innight is at his fullest power. We have to hope there is enough time for his seal to reseal itself before he really does destroy this entire region.¡±


    ¡°Ouch that hurts.¡±


    ¡°Lord Nightius! You finally woke up!¡±


    Nightius climbed up from the ground and sat down. The magic circles that bounded him earlier has vanished, and he appears to be heavily drained of energy and is exhausted.


    ¡°I briefly remembered that Luricerite and his general attacked me and bound me with Extraction magic. After that I went unconscious and I have no idea what happened, care to explain to me what happened?¡±


    ¡°Actually, this¡­¡­.¡±


    They both went over the event that happened and report the situation now. Nightius nodded his head.


    ¡°Well I see. There is actually nothing that we can do right now to stop Innight. His power is way above any of the Rulers of the Darkness Elemental Plane, not even our greatest ruler, Lord Inoxion can do anything about it. We only have to hope time is in our favour and it reseals him before the situation spirals out of control.¡±


    A huge purple ball of energy blasted through the walls and flew into the middle of the room. It exploded and blew everyone away, flinging everyone onto the walls.


    ¡°That must be one of Innight¡¯s attacks. The power that attack holds is far greater than anything I have experienced. Why is there absolutely nothing that we can do?¡±


    ¡°Actually you have.¡±


    ¡°Who goes there?!¡±


    From the shadows of the room a girl climbed out from it. She wore a black dress with orange frills and it is evident she is not any normal human. She appears to be unaffected by the waves of magic disturbance and she randomly popped out from the shadows in the room, which is something that normal humans is unable to do.


    ¡°Ah, excuse me from the rude intrusion. My name is Time, Lytheria Time. I have been observing all of you for some time already and I have found it necessary to step in to help out this time. All of you are currently under my field of power, I casted a spell that covered the entire school region and that absorbs Time from anyone that falls under the shadow created by the spell. This spell also cancels out any other forms of magic weaker than it.¡±


    ¡°Absorbs Time? I have never heard of such magic before! Time is not an element in the Magical Realm and cannot be restricted by magic!¡± Nightius cried.


    ¡°Ah, is that so? Hee hee hee. Time is not an elemental in the Magical Realm, for that you are correct. However, Time is an invisible field that surrounds and shape the Space around, with enough power one can have the ability to control it. It is of no surprise that you are unaware of magic that is in relation with Time, such magic are so powerful that they causes one¡¯s Time to be consumed. Due to such price paid for using such magic, it is not used by others unless they have indefinitely long amount of Time stored within themselves or they are able to replenish Time by absorbing it from others everyone now and then.¡±


    ¡°And what is your intended purpose? Why are you helping us?¡±


    ¡°Nothing in particular. I only wanted him, Innight. I desire for him. He is eternal and is both creation and destruction. I myself is similar to him in such ways. However to do that, I need to free him. He is bounded to this human world and human vessel, my aim is to free him from this world and bring him to where we should really belong. In this current state he is in it is not going to help me to reach my aim any sooner, so I decided to help all of you out.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t trust her very much, Lord Nightius. If what she said is true, she can be a very dangerous target. Manipulating with Time is a very dangerous ability, if she stops Time there is absolutely nothing we can do about her.¡±


    ¡°I feel we should trust her, Aquis. She appears not to be an enemy, also we will need as much ally that can keep Innight under control, together with the fact that she appears to be more knowledgeable on the past of Innight we cannot afford to lose her.¡±


    ¡°If that is what you say, Lord Nightius.¡±


    ¡°Just so all of you know, I trapped Innight in a Time Cubical. Within Time flows as per normal, however Time experienced within the Time Cubical is significantly slower than outside of it. That will buy us some time before Innight breaks out of it. Innight also have the power to twist Time so we have to hope that the Cubical holds until his transformation comes undone.¡±


    As they speak, the sky suddenly returned back to the evening sky. A wave of energy blasted through the building and all went silent.


    ¡°Looks like this time we are lucky. His transformations seems to have undone itself.¡± Nightius spoke.


    ¡°Looks like my job is done here. I bid you all farewell, until Time allows us to meet again¡­¡± Time stepped into the shadows of the room and vanished.


    ¡°Such a strange character. I hope we won¡¯t meet again.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°We should not waste any more time here, we should check out Innight now.¡±


    ¡°Right.¡±


    When I came to my senses, I saw four familiar faces looking over myself. They belonged to Nightius, Aquis, Luthriel and Master Inoxion. I looked around the school, and saw a huge crater in the place of where one of the school buildings should be before.


    ¡°That was me¡­ Isn¡¯t it? As I guessed, it is too powerful.¡±


    Master Inoxion nod his head.


    ¡°We were lucky. Someone came by and tried to seal you in what she called as a ¡°Time Cubicle¡±, which slows down your experience of Time significantly compared to us. That bought us some time for the seal to reactivate and seal you back in. She disappeared later, however. She called herself Time, Lytheria Time. She showed some form of interest on you, Innight, and wanted to help out in sealing your powers. She said something about herself desiring for you, no idea what that means but I hope this means we have ourselves an ally. She has the powers to control Time, from what she has been doing.¡± Nightius explained the situation to me.


    ¡°Also, take a look at yourself, Innight.¡± Master Inoxion said.


    I raised my hands, and saw both still retained in the claws like formation, this can only mean the transformation did not come undone. I tried undoing the transformation through my own will. The claws begin to reform and turn back into human hands.


    ¡°I see¡­ So I¡¯m gaining control over this power of mine. This is good news. I would need this great power to fight off the invasion Light and the users of Old Magic brings in. I cannot afford to let myself loose and destroy my allies with my enemies.¡±


    ¡°Yes, this is good news. But the bad news is you destroyed one of the school buildings. We can repair this, but unless we can manipulate Time, we are unlikely to repair everything back to its original state before tomorrow.¡±


    ¡°Well, I can manipulate Time, but I¡¯m unsure whether I am able to do it with the seals on now. After this activation I felt a gain of new power even with the seal still in place. Should I try it out?¡±


    ¡°We really have nothing to lose, do it, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Overclock, Rewind.¡±


    I created a green field around the crater and mumbled these words. A whirring sound came from the field as the building rebuilds itself from the ground. The field disappeared once the building returned.


    ¡°That is useful. It looks like for every seal that is lifted, you get to use more of your original powers back.¡±


    ¡°This is far from enough. I still have a limit on the number and amount of magic that I can cast. I can only cast this magic associated to Time once a day or so as it consumes large amount of mana. These seals gives me a recharge timer and a limiter for any use of magic, which are a nuisance if we did get into a fight or even a war with other creatures.¡±


    ¡°Innight, Lord Inoxion, something to take note. Luthriel, Aquis, this matter concerns both of you as well. Apparently the waves of magic has caused some changes in the students within the school. It appears that the wave of magic has resulted in the normal humans obtaining special powers. They turned special beings now, and all of the student population within the school is affected. Lord Inoxion, we have to do something about the students here now. Innight, you need to help me observe them and try to keep their powers under control.¡±


    ¡°This should not be a problem, Nightius. I have relations to the headmaster of the school itself, and he should also be aware of the situation now as he is also someone of great power. We need to do a change in the entire teaching system of the school itself, Nightius, be prepared to teach them about the Elemental Realm and the world of magic.¡±


    ¡°Also, one more thing. Keep an eye out for the girl named Time. I suspect she has relations to the Time Progion itself. There are very little people that has power of Time itself, Chronos and you, Innight, are the only ones that I knew that are able to manipulate time to your own advantage, and you should know that I have knowledge over the entire Elemental Realm. She seems a little suspicious to me.¡±


    Saying that, Master and Nightius both teleported away. Me, Aquis and Luthriel went back to the dormitory and we gathered in my and Luthriel¡¯s room. When we reached the dormitory, it was in a mess, there were craters and holes in the walls and books all around, screams and shouts came from everywhere around, flashes of light bounced around the entire dormitory. It appears that everyone is testing out their newly founded powers on others, and some are already using it to fight others.


    ¡°I hope of all the powers here there isn¡¯t one that is as powerful as yours, Innight.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°Indeed. Not to mention it would be troublesome if they use it for misdeeds.¡± I replied.


    When we entered our room, we found our room in such a state that I would describe as being trashed by a hurricane. I¡¯m not surprised by the state even though our rooms are locked before we left, by chance there is definitely someone having the power to open the locks in the population, it is only a matter of time before our rooms are unlocked.


    Also the boys who I defeated just yesterday would want revenge over what I did to them, it would be obvious that they would come by and trash our room completely. I, however, am surprised by the fact that our room is still in one piece.


    As we cleared up the room, a girl came by. She has one red tinted eye visible, the other covered by her long black hair. I went on my job, but Aquis and Luthriel froze on the spot.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong, both of you?¡±


    ¡°She¡­She is the girl that we both were talking about, Innight!¡±


    ¡°What?!¡±


    ¡°They are right. Nice to meet you, Innight. My name is Lytheria Time, call me Time. I¡¯m a new student in this school so I¡¯m just wandering around. The entire place looks really lively to me. Is the evening always that lively?¡±


    ¡°Time, before I answer you anything, I want you to answer me one question.¡±


    ¡°Yes, and what could that be, Innight?¡±


    ¡°What are you exactly?¡±


    ¡°Ahhh. I¡¯m unsure whether you know this, Innight, but magic has reaction to human, and the powers that they gain in response is in accordance to their state of mind. The weaker the state of mind the stronger the power they gain. I was one of the very first humans that was affected by the waves of magic during the Invasion Disaster.¡±


    My mind was broken as my parents were killed as they are unable to handle the waves of magic, my friends all abandoned me as I was odd in their minds, and I was alone in the entire city that was destroyed with no one miles around. When my mind became stabilised, I discovered I have the ability to manipulate Time, I also gained the ability to controls shadows to my own will. So I will say, I¡¯m human, but with the power of Time and Shadows.¡±


    ¡°Very well. I shall then answer your question. The dormitory is lively during the evening, but never as lively as you see it now. You should have noticed yourself, there has been a swept of wave of instable magic in this area hours ago and everyone in the school has gained new powers. Everyone is busy trying out their newly gained powers so it is of no surprise that it is so lively now. Let me give you warning, though, your powers are considered as highly dangerous, so don¡¯t use them on anyone.¡±


    ¡°Of course, I myself am aware of that. However I cannot guarantee that when someone try to attack me, for example right now.¡±


    A beam of yellow light flew by the room and shot right through Time. Blood begin flowing from her chest where the beam of light went through, she crumbled to the floor.


    ¡°Time!¡±


    Both Aquis and Luthriel screamed. However, the smile on Time¡¯s face never fade from the moment she told us the attack was incoming up to now. I still ponder the reason why when suddenly a shadow appeared under Time¡¯s body and the body sunk into it.


    ¡°Well, well, well. I knew such things will happen. Hello again, everyone.¡±


    Aquis and Luthriel both gasped. Suddenly Time¡¯s head popped out of the wall of the room from a shadow, she then stepped out of it.


    ¡°What¡­but¡­you just¡­¡±


    Both of them were at loss of words.


    ¡°Hee hee hee. That was only a copy of mine. I did mention that I can manipulate Time didn¡¯t I? That was a clone of mine from a different time axis. I already suspect an attack will eventually find its¡¯ way into the room so I used a clone in my place instead.¡±


    ¡°So, Time, and I hope I am talking to the real Time, what is your intention to be here?¡±


    ¡°As I have previously mentioned, I¡¯m here just for a walk.¡±


    ¡°I doubt so. You took measures to track down my identity and even attempt to help us out. You must have something else in your mind.¡±


    ¡°So you guessed it. As I have previously mentioned, I live a life of loneliness, even now, as this power caused me to be distanced by others, and there are others who tried to hurt me because of this power, despite me not using it at all. They appeared to gather information about me when I was bullied by others, when I¡¯m forced to use my powers.¡±


    ¡°Now I¡¯ve finally found someone who suffered from the same fate. He also holds a much greater power compared to me. I want company of such a person, who understands me. And that person, is you, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Time, you are telling only part of the truth, I can tell. You have the energy signature of Old Magic of The Void. What is your relationship with them?¡±


    ¡°I really can¡¯t hide anything from you, Zealus, isn¡¯t it?¡±


    ¡°Zealus?¡± We all three mumbled.


    ¡°That is your real name, Innight, your true form that is sealed within this human vessel.¡±


    Clouds of mystery and distrust begin to build in my mind.


    ¡°You knew my past? Who are you exactly?¡±


    ¡°Oh, looks like my Time is running out, I can¡¯t stay here any longer, I will need to recharge my Time to resume my clones. I will answer your questions, Innight, but not today. Until then¡­¡±


    Time begin to grow transparent, she then stepped into a shadow and vanished again. I tried to catch her, but my hand went right through her body.


    We were speechless for a moment.


    ¡°I really can¡¯t tell whether she can be trusted. She seems to be extremely knowledgeable on my past and has relations to members that knew Old Magic. In addition, she seems to be toying us around the entire time, she has never showed her true self and is using her clones to perform her duties.¡± I broke the silence.


    ¡°Should I report this to Lord Nightius?¡± Luthriel followed.


    ¡°It would be better to. She seems to be an ally, judging from her movements, but she seems to hide more truths and motives behind us. We cannot fully trust her and have to issue everyone a warning about her. She will not be targeted but she will not be warmly welcomed. Until she fully reveals her character and all her secrets, we cannot trust her fully.¡±


    We cleared up the entire room and sent off Aquis through a portal as it is too dangerous to walk through the walkway. A knock came from the door when we just sent off Aquis. I went over and opened it, it was Nectilius.


    ¡°I¡¯m really sorry!¡± was the first sentenced she said when my eyes set on her.


    Question marks were floating on the top of my head when she said that.


    ¡°What do you mean, I¡¯m sorry? You haven¡¯t done anything wrong.¡± I asked.


    ¡°I was the one who struck your visitor. I was only doing a test run of my powers but it gave unexpected results and bounced off the walls. I¡¯m really sorry for killing your visitor. I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry!¡±


    ¡°No worries. Besides, she didn¡¯t die. She anticipated that she would be in danger staying outside the corridor so she sent a clone instead to talk to me instead. I was surprised that the attack came, though. I have received words from higher ups that there would be a change in the education system of the school, it would diverge from normal academics into teaching about the Elemental Realm and performance of magic/powers. Soon this situation would improve, or at least I hope so.¡±


    ¡°That eases my anxiety. Good night, Innight and Luthriel.¡±


    That night I kept thinking about her, that girl named Time. She knew of my past that even I myself don¡¯t know, and is associated with Old Magic. Worse of all, she has powers of Time and Shadows. With these she can be of trouble if they decide to attack me or any of us while my seals are still intact.


    It was very late before I finally went to sleep.


    visitor. I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry!¡±


    ¡°No worries. Besides, she didn¡¯t die. She anticipated that she would be in danger staying outside the corridor so she sent a clone instead to talk to me instead. I was surprised that the attack came, though. I have received words from higher ups that there would be a change in the education system of the school, it would diverge from normal academics into teaching about the Elemental Realm and performance of magic/powers. Soon this situation would improve, or at least I hope so.¡±


    ¡°That eases my anxiety. Good night, Innight and Luthriel.¡±


    That night I kept thinking about her, that girl named Time. She knew of my past that even I myself don¡¯t know, and is associated with Old Magic. Worse of all, she has powers of Time and Shadows. With these she can be of trouble if they decide to attack me or any of us while my seals are still intact.


    It was very late before I finally went to sleep.

 Chapter 3 - The Magic Security Team

    When I woke up, the noise around the dormitory has subsided. It almost feels like the school is back to normal once again.


    Except it isn¡¯t.


    As I woke up Luthriel and both of us were ready to go to school, sounds of magic being fired started ringing in my ears. As I would have guessed, it wouldn¡¯t be long before the students start to ¡®test¡¯ out their powers again. I generated a shield around both of us to reflect any attacks that might reach us while we both walked out of the dormitory.


    The lessons of the school has definitely changed. Master Inoxion must have tweaked the system within the school using his own network. This school could be a useful place for the gathering of potential recruits for us, however we have to teach them first, about how to control their powers properly, and the knowledge of the Elemental realm, since they are going to entangle themselves within the matters of it soon.


    Break time came. After the lesson on new school rules people begin to restrain themselves from playing around with their powers. This is a relief, but I knew that there are bound to be people who are going to go against the rules. As I was thinking about this, the group of boys that I defeated two days ago came up to me.


    ¡°Hello, Innight. We have come to return the favour you gave us back then. Prepare yourself.¡±


    Suddenly, without any warning, my entire body flew right onto the wall. I did not gain any injuries but I felt as if several invisible hands are holding me up against the wall. I cannot retaliate as I¡¯m severely weakened after casting the Time spell yesterday and am still recovering, I can only perform basic attack and defence spells, which are useless against an opponent that is capable to control others.


    ¡°Now then, Innight, fight back. You have shown us how powerful you are, now let us test each other out to see who is stronger.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t have time for you bunch of power hungry creeps. Let me go this instant.¡±


    ¡°Now, now, Innight, there is still plenty of time to spend to do whatever that is on your mind. Play with us for a little while more.¡±


    As he said these, I felt the gravity of the surrounding being intensified by a magnitude as the invisible hands are lifted away from me.


    ¡°What is it now, Innight? Aren¡¯t you powerful enough to defy other powers of the Elemental Realm?¡±


    I¡¯m surprised. How did they know about that? Only members of Darkness and Light, with the addition of Time herself, knows that my true powers were of level of omnipotence as they experienced it.


    ¡°We would like to see your power, Innight, entertain us!¡±


    I am unable to lift my head to see who is the caster, but I can feel one of them is casting light based spells on me, which burns through my skin.


    I have the capability to cast a sealing magic on all of them to lock up their powers, but I¡¯m unsure whether it is enough to lock up a power as great as the caster of the object manipulation. Nevertheless, it would be a good option to try it out.


    ¡°Fermion. Helvensker.¡±


    A magic circle appeared under the group of boys. I observe flows of magic being absorbed into the circle from them.


    ¡°What is this? My power seems to be weakening!¡±


    ¡°Bastard! What have you done?¡±


    They said these as they crumbles to the floor, I begin to feel the gravity field returning to normal.


    ¡°Nothing much. I¡¯ve placed a lock on your powers. If you have no idea about it I will tell you this: I have much greater knowledge of magic compared to any of you here. If you have the power but lack of the knowledge, you are powerless against the most knowledgeable people that lacks of power. You are still far too early to fight against me.¡±


    ¡°A lock?!¡±


    ¡°Yes. Magical locks are difficult to be lifted, and the methods of lifting them differs according to the caster. Until you have lift the lock, you are unable to use any of your powers. Go and do more research to figure out how to lift them, or try to defeat me in a battle.¡±


    ¡°You¡­!¡±


    ¡°Now if you excuse me, I need to meet someone else.¡±


    I walked away from the group of boys and out of the classroom. I need to find Time first. From what I¡¯ve gathered, she is transferring to our class today, but she has been given special permission to stay in the library for the first few hours of school today. I went to the library and found her reading a book on the tables.


    *Ahem* ¡°Time, I want to talk you to for a while.¡±


    ¡°Ah, if it wasn¡¯t Innight! Nice to meet you again. You may ask any questions you have, I¡¯m free now.¡±


    ¡°Time, as I have previously mentioned, I notice you have the same energy signature as the Old Magic. What is your relationship with them?¡±


    ¡°Well, Innight. I first have to inform you that I am not your enemy, and nor are them. I do share a similar goal as theirs, which is to awaken the real identity hidden in yourself. I merely burrowed some power, to be precise, Time, from them to sustain the clones I¡¯ve made for myself. Every time I run out of Time I burrow it from them, or else I would have resort to extracting Time from other humans, which may result in problems. Naturally this caused me to share the energy signature of members of Old Magic.¡±


    ¡°Sustain your clones? What are you up to?¡±


    ¡°Nothing, Innight. My power of Time manipulation is wanted by many and I¡¯m hated by many as well. I have done many things in order to gain information about you, I rarely appear in my true self as I¡¯m constantly in danger of being killed. Just yesterday you have saw how dangerous it was to wander around without a single form of protection. Even the me that you are speaking to right now is a clone of my real self.¡±


    ¡°What do you know of my past?¡±


    ¡°To answer that, Innight, you will have to ask them, the members of Old Magic of The Void. I only knew about your identity through them and I have gathered information that you once lived in The Void in The Gap, and carried on the role of destruction and recreation of the Existence.¡±


    ¡°Interesting. I would have to find a way to contact them and know more about it. Time, you are welcomed to drop by my room when you feel free to talk to me.¡±


    ¡°Eh? Are you sure? Didn¡¯t you just set me on your unwelcome list just yesterday?¡±


    ¡°I decided to lower your danger level. Since you have no intention to harm anyone it would be the best. You also appear to have intention to help us so I can regard you as an ally.¡±


    ¡°That would be a wise choice to make. One more thing, Innight. Light is up to something. As an ally of yours and the Old Magic, I need to inform you that they are extracting something from beneath the school. However, that object is sealed with multiple layers of Old Magic, which is delaying them from obtaining the object sooner.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m unsure what is the object they are looking for and why they are hunting for it, but they appear to be diverging a large amount of resources for it. I¡¯ve tried using my clones to trach them down, but they were erased by a certain stronger magical source.¡±


    ¡°Can¡¯t you use your power over Time to stop them in their place?¡±


    ¡°I have a limit. I¡¯m already using up a significant amount of Time to try to keep my clones in place. I could use City of Devouring Time to extract Time from them and stop them, but I could be discovered if they capture my clones and traced back to the origin of my magic.¡±


    ¡°I see. It can¡¯t be helped then. I will contact you if we need your help. Goodbye¡±


    ¡°Goodbye.¡±


    I returned back to my classroom. The boys that I¡¯ve just defeated were still grumbling over the loss of their powers. Some of the students were fiddling with some of the equipment that the teachers brought in, accidently releasing some forms of magic.


    Time came into the class. No one seems to take any notice of her, even though she has a dark aura surrounding herself, and waves of magic ripples out of her. The dark aura is likely to be a result of her interaction with members of Old Magic, the ripples of magic is due to her immense power over Time. Luckily, such ripples of magic are of different wavelength compared to the ones that could damage a creature.


    The bell rang, signifying the end of break time.


    Lessons carried on as per normal, with only a few accidents of magic disruption. Time performed well in all the classes, earning herself praises from the teachers and everyone else. The boys that had their powers locked up failed to find a method to lift the lock I placed on them, one is because there is no lesson on spell casting today, and another is because even if they ask, I highly doubt the teacher will be able the lock I¡¯ve placed on them. Soon the school bell rings for the last period.


    I walked along with Aquis and Luthriel to my room. When I reached there, Time was already sitting in the middle of my room.


    ¡°Time, please stop giving me surprises like these. One day you are going to give someone a heart attack.¡±


    ¡°Ah, I¡¯m just following your suggestion of meeting you after school.¡±


    ¡°You had your fun didn¡¯t you? Taking the first place in everything that we do.¡±


    ¡°Of course I have to. I have played with magic with so long I have great knowledge about it, also I have help from members of Old Magic, that should be no surprise to you.¡±


    ¡°I have question for you, Time. Where is your real self hidden?¡± This came from Aquis.


    ¡°Ah. For that question I cannot answer you. My life is dependent on it. Even though I know that you all have no means to harm me, I fear that others who also have the ability to manipulate Time can trace back and identify this conversation. If they happened to be of my enemy I may be put in danger. However, I can tell you that I hide myself in a manner that unless someone has the power of omnipotence they wouldn¡¯t be able to discover me.¡±


    ¡°That means¡­ Only Innight is able to know your location.¡±


    ¡°No. Innight doesn¡¯t. Zealus does.¡±


    ¡°Ah yes, how could I have forgotten? Innight¡¯s powers are sealed. With those seals still intact his powers are greatly restricted.¡±


    We went on and talked for a while longer, Time left in the middle of our talk as she mentioned that she has to reduce the number of clones due to her insufficient Time.


    ¡°A day that passes without any inference from Light. This is uncommon to occur. While I would like to say that Light has given up on taking back their territory, knowing them, they are most likely to be doing background works.¡±


    ¡°Indeed. Time have also informed me that Light is attempting to extract something below the school compound, and they are doing this very quietly and slowly so they wouldn¡¯t be detected. I ponder about the object that they are extracting but we don¡¯t have enough information on their plans yet.¡±


    ¡°Innight, Aquis, incoming message from Lord Inoxion.¡± Luthriel interrupted us.


    ¡°Turn on the communication crystal. Accept the request.¡± I instructed him.


    Luthriel took out a purple crystal from my cupboard and put it in the middle of the room, then he sprinkled some magic over it. A magical circle with the symbol of Darkness appeared under the crystal and a hologram of Master Inoxion appeared.


    ¡°Finally got through. Innight, listen closely to this piece of information I¡¯m delivering. The Darkness Elemental Plane is currently under attack by unidentified creatures and we are trying our best to push them back beyond out boundaries. Chronos is currently buying us more Time as we speak to allow us to build up soldiers for counterattack.¡±


    ¡°However, there is something of great concern that we have figured out from a general of theirs. They are planning a second wave of attack over the entire Physical Realm, and their starting point is at your school. From what we have gathered, they have already started to send soldiers over there and they are blending them in into the student population. We still haven¡¯t figure out their reason of attack and which elemental they belong to, but this is irrelevant now.¡±


    ¡°Innight, please be on the watch out and inform Nightius or me if you spot any suspicious activity. Remember, this time we are fighting against something of unknown power so don¡¯t try to tank it out, especially when you are so vulnerable.¡±


    Saying that, the hologram vanished and the magic circle dissolved.


    ¡°Looks like we just got more jobs on our hands.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°I agree. This time round we are dealing with something of a larger scale, and we don¡¯t even know the intended purpose behind the attack.¡±


    ¡°Why should we worry about it so much, Innight? There is nothing we can do about it. You are also powerless to defeat the invaders in case they do attack.¡± Luthriel lied down on his bed.


    ¡°The problem is this school is a ticking time bomb. People can be brainwashed into other people¡¯s tools, and the students here, who are far too inexperienced in this type of situation, can easily be brainwashed. The last thing we want is for our soldiers and allies turning against us.¡±


    ¡°Luciferrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!¡±


    Someone screamed and a girl flew into our room, then landing on my bed. I immediately identified the girl as Nectilius.


    ¡°What do you think you are doing?!¡±


    Nectilius climbed up from my bed, and stared in my face for a few moments.


    ¡°AHHHHHHH!¡± She screamed in my face. ¡°Hide me, please, quickly!¡±


    ¡°Why?¡± I asked.


    ¡°I will answer you later, just hide me now! Quick, or else I¡¯m in for a world of pain!¡±


    ¡°Well that¡¯s fine with me. Luthriel, open up my personal cupboard and throw her inside.¡±


    ¡°That wouldn¡¯t work on him! He has¡­¡±


    ¡°I know what you are about to say. All-seeing eye. I have magic that prevents that power from seeing certain things. Now unless you want to be discovered by him in 5 seconds time, please go in.¡±


    I locked the cupboard after Nectilius went in. A boy with grey hair and a pair of sea blue eyes ran into our room almost immediately after.


    ¡°You prankster! Where did you hide?!¡±


    He then noticed us.


    ¡°Hey, you three! Where did you hide that girl named Nectilius?¡±


    ¡°She was eaten by someone. You wouldn¡¯t be able to see her any time sooner. If you haven¡¯t heard of The Eater, you should do more research on it. This school is beginning to attract more abnormalities after the waves of magic transformed everyone. Start to learn about the magical creatures.¡±


    ¡°Innight, you must have played a trick here. Stop fooling around and tell me the truth!¡±


    ¡°Oh. I¡¯m that famous now? Never knew that. About Nectilius, yes I admit I lied a little, but you will never be able to find her, that is the truth.¡±


    ¡°Gr¡­ Remember this! I¡¯m too busy to deal with you now but I will come for you one day, Innight!¡±


    ¡°You are welcomed to challenge me anytime you like.¡±


    ¡°Gah!¡±


    The boy rushed off. I open the cupboard and dragged Nectilius out from it, her face looked frozen and stiff, probably from fear.


    ¡°Hello? Nectilius? Are you alive? The chaser is gone now and he probably wouldn¡¯t be back so soon. Can you now please explain what have you done to cause him to react like that?¡±


    Nectilius¡¯s face twitched for a few seconds before she returned to normal.


    ¡°Ah, thank you very much for helping me out! You saved my precious life from being lost to that hideous man I couldn¡¯t find any way to repay my thanks.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t really mind saving you, but can you please explain why are you hiding from him?¡±


    ¡°Uh, I was practicing my magic in my own room when that boy suddenly interrupted me. He flung the door open and screamed at the top of his lungs, which surprised me. Allow me to explain, my magic needs me to be 100% focused or else it will backfire, when the boy interrupted me my focus was dispelled. The spell ended up attacking him and it caused him to lose his eyesight for a few moments.¡±


    ¡°Then it is nothing serious. So why did he..?¡±


    ¡°The problem is that the spell rendered him powerless, and it took me a few moments to break the spell. He flew into a rage when he found out he was blind because of my spell and refuse to understand the situation. He swear to kill me as a result and I therefore ran off.¡±


    ¡°To kill you just because of that? How low level of tolerance does he have? Also, don¡¯t play around with your magic if you know that you cannot be disturbed. Next time don¡¯t use your magic unless you are very sure that no one will disturb you while you are practising it. You can get into ten feet of trouble if you do that again.¡±


    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m sorry about disturbing you, Innight. Please allow me to stay in your room a little longer, until he has cooled down.¡±


    ¡°Fine. Aquis, get her a cup of coke and bring more snacks from the cupboard.¡±


    We begin to talk about how the school has changed, and I taught everyone the origin of magic, about the history of Magic, and told them some stories of the origin of the Mythical Creatures. The sky begin to grow dark and eventually night time arrived.


    ¡°He should be calmed down by now. I really thank you, Innight, for letting me stay here.¡±


    ¡°No problems. You are welcomed to drop in anytime. Just don¡¯t come in when my door has a sign hanging outside.¡±


    Nectilius waved goodbye and left the room.


    ¡°Such a troublesome company she has, don¡¯t you agree, you two?¡±


    ¡°Innight. Do you think that Nectilius is doing this on purpose? That is, looking for you?¡±


    ¡°I concur. Innight, she seems to be targeting you for some reason or another. It is obvious.¡±


    ¡°I understand this. I suspect she is working under the members of Old Magic and they intend to do something about me. I will do something about her, but not when there is a bigger matter at hand. Now, Aquis, it would be wise to leave now. You are reporting for a new mission tomorrow aren¡¯t you? You will need some rest.¡±


    A girl crept out from the shadow outside Innight¡¯s room. She was accompanied by another few copies of herself.


    ¡°Hee hee hee. Zealus is busy indeed, isn¡¯t he, me?¡±


    ¡°He does look that indeed, me.¡±


    ¡°Since he is busy, we should also be busy, that makes sense doesn¡¯t it, me?¡±


    ¡°Exactly, me. To the next phase of our plan, we better call them now. To work, me.¡±


    ¡°Aye, me.¡±


    Suddenly the door of Innight room opened, Aquis stepped out of it and her eyes come into contact with the girl.


    ¡°Time! What are you doing here with your clones?!¡±


    ¡°Alas! This is not the best time to meet now. I will see you again.¡±


    The girl vanished into the shadow with her clones.


    ¡°That girl, she is also up to no good. Having power over shadows and Time makes her a dangerous person to approach. Furthermore, she has connections with members of Old Magic, and her personality itself is complex beyond measure. We will never know what her intention is. We can still treat her as an ally, but we need to keep a close eye on her.¡±


    I raised my level of alertness for the rest of the night. Master came by in the middle of the night to investigate the girl, but he could not detect her anywhere in sight, not even her clone is present within the town.


    ¡°I suspect that girl named Time. She appears to have her own intentions in approaching you, at the same time working together with members of Old Magic. I dearly wished I have the power of omniscience to know what she really is and her real motives to transfer here.¡± Master told me the next morning after I woke up.


    ¡°*Yawn* I have the same doubts as you do, Master. I would do some investigation around the region. I feel there would definitely be someone having powers of omniscience in the school itself, if I can find who is that then I would be able to answer this question.¡±


    ¡°*Yawn* Eh? Lord Inoxion? What brought you here?¡±


    That was Luthriel.


    ¡°I¡¯m here on a business to deal with the girl named Time. She appear to not be around here now, though¡­¡±


    ¡°Ah, so everyone is awake here!¡±


    The door of my room opened and to my upmost surprise, the speaker was the last person that I would ever expect to turn up: Time.


    ¡°Time!¡±


    ¡°WHAT?!¡±


    Master Inoxion appeared to be absolutely flabbergasted. I do not blame him at all.


    ¡°Uhm, Innight, may I ask a question? Who is this person in this darkened armour?¡±


    ¡°This is not the best time to explain now, Time. We are going to be late for school if we stay here any longer. Master, please stay in this room for now, I will bring her here when school is over. Luthriel, hurry up and get dressed.¡±


    On the way to school, I asked Time:


    ¡°Time. Where did you go after you met me last night? I cannot detect your presence anywhere.¡±


    ¡°Hee hee hee. I did told you I have associations with members of Old Magic didn¡¯t I? I went to meet them yesterday night at a meeting place that is at a different axis of dimensions.¡±


    ¡°Really, Time, I¡¯m starting to mistrust you if this is how you behave. Can you at least act in a way that is much more predictable and traceable?¡±


    ¡°Tee hee. I have my own reasons to act as such. I cannot reveal to you the reason why I do so, you are free to come up with your own explanations.¡±


    ¡°Time. After school today meet me in my room. The person you saw this morning wants to meet you. He wanted to meet you since yesterday.¡±


    ¡°Eh? His intention isn¡¯t to hurt me, isn¡¯t it? I haven¡¯t hurt anyone here yet!¡±


    ¡°No. He won¡¯t. I can guarantee that. As long as you remain harmless and you have no intention in harming any of us, me, Aquis and Luthriel, you are safe from any attacks from our Plane.¡±


    ¡°Your plane? You meant the Darkness Elemental Plane?¡±


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°That is strange. You belong to The Void, which is the element of creation before any other elements are formed. Why do you join the Element of Darkness instead?¡±


    ¡°That is a long story. I will let my Master explain that to you.¡±


    Break time came. The same group of boys that taunted me yesterday surrounded me again.


    ¡°Innight! Fight us proper this time! No tricks allowed!¡±


    I shoved them a look.


    ¡°As I have mention countless times, I have no intention to take any of you on. There is no good that would come out of fighting anyone.¡±


    ¡°There is something good that will come out of this! We gain fame throughout the school! Right now you stole the spotlight for placing the curse on all on us and destroying this very classroom. WE envy that, and we want to take that role from you!¡±


    ¡°So that was why you all are so persistent. Sadly, I have no intention to take any of you on. I¡¯m busy, so please move away.¡±


    ¡°That will not happen. You must either defeat us or accept defeat before we will let you pass.¡±


    I have already generated most of my power back after using the Time spell two days ago. I can try another Time spell on them to stop this nonsense once and for all, but there is no guarantee whether they would be able to clean up the mess after I use it. Regardless, they would not stop pestering me and I would need to give them a small hint of my true power.


    ¡°Since you invited me to show you your place, let me grant you your desire. Overclock, Rewind.¡±


    A clock with its complete 12 roman numerals appeared under the feet of the group of boys, the hands of the clock turning anti-clockwise. The boys started to grew younger as they stand on the clock.


    ¡°I did mention no tricks! What did you do?!¡±


    ¡°This is not a trick. I perform a simple Time reversal spell on all of you. I have told all of you again and again not to disturb me and your ears appears to be not working or you have an underdeveloped brain that caused you to be unable to think rationally.¡±


    ¡°Cheater!¡±


    ¡°It is you who are too weak. Go and do more research and practice more spells before coming back to face me again.¡±


    I pushed aside the now 10 year old boys and walked away. I heard various insults being thrown towards me but I choose to ignore them. Then the leader of the group appeared before me again.


    ¡°Nitrix!¡±


    A small green globe appeared in his hands, he tried to fire it onto me but it exploded in his face. He begin to shrink until I couldn¡¯t see him anymore. I took out a magnifying glass to search for him, and found him raising his fist and throwing more curses. I took out a crystal and placed him inside, then I transferred the crystal to his seat. I then went to the group of boys.


    ¡°If you will not listen, you will be punished. Let me give you all this last warning. The next time any of you cross my path again you will not get away alive.¡±


    I went off to look for Time. I found her in the school library again, this time round she was looking around a magic book named ¡°Forbidden Magic of Time¡±.


    ¡°Are you reading on how to improve your control over Time, Time?¡±


    ¡°Hee hee hee, indeed Innight. I need to improve my extraction of Time from others.¡±


    ¡°A question, Time. Why are you extracting Time from others? I know you will need Time to keep your other clones active, but why are you using so much clones?¡±


    ¡°Tee hee. That is a secret.¡±


    ¡°Well I will not delve into it if you intend to keep it as a secret, but at least give me your promise that you will not bring any harm, using your clones, to any member of the Plane of Darkness.¡±


    ¡°I can promise that.¡±


    Suddenly our surrounding begin to blur and everything turned into strange creatures. My communication crystal begin to heat up in my pocket, I took it out and connect the line.


    ¡°Hello? Is this Innight?¡±


    ¡°Yes. And who might you be?¡±


    ¡°Innight, this is Nightius. Something has happened to the school. You should now be able to figure out that the entire school has undergone a transformation, everything has turned into dreamy like. We suspect a student is involved in this incident. Innight, I¡¯m busy stabilising the influx of sudden soldiers of Light over the region, so I cannot help you identify the source of magic. Innight, you have to find out the source of magic and disable it before it ingests everything into this world of illusion.¡±


    ¡°Understood. Should I call upon Aquis and Luthriel to help?¡±


    ¡°Better would be. They know very basic magic but a little help is better than none. If you excuse me I have to cut of the communication now, they are advancing towards the school.¡±


    The crystal stopped glowing. I begin to move out of the library but felt a tug behind my shirt, I turned around and saw Time making a sad face to me.


    ¡°Can¡¯t I help out?¡±


    Her face looks like she is going to cry any moment. That face she makes is going to break my heart any moment, I just cannot stand it. I sighed.


    ¡°Alright. Even though I have not been given the permission to take you on with this mission, seeing that you have cooperate well with us so far I decide to give you a chance to prove my trust is right.¡±


    With this her face broke into a smile.


    ¡°Yay! Let¡¯s go off right now! To find the course of this abnormality and resolve it!¡±


    With that she ran off. Without me. I sighed.


    ¡°Well, knowing her, she will bound to pop out of the shadows somewhere again later.¡± I said to myself.


    ¡°Well you are right!¡± Time popped out behind me.


    ¡°GAH! Stop giving me heart attacks like this!¡±


    ¡°Sorry! So should we look for your friends now?¡±


    ¡°That would be our first goal, but look at the surroundings now.¡±


    As I speak, the floor dissolved into nothingness and outside the door is nothing but an empty void.


    ¡°Eh? Looks like we are disconnected from the school.¡±


    ¡°Right, Time. It appears that we are floating within The Void, but I¡¯m unsure whether it is The Void within The Gap or it is The Void in the Physical Realm. Both behave very differently and I¡¯m unsure how are we going to get us out this mess.¡±


    ¡°Innight! Are you there?¡±


    I¡¯m surprised. That sounds like Aquis and Luthriel. How did the both of them access this place that is floating in the middle of The Void?


    ¡°Aquis! Luthriel! Where are the both of you?¡±


    ¡°Look up!¡±


    I looked up. At the ceiling a portal is visible and both of their heads were visible.


    ¡°How did the both of you figure out I¡¯m here? And how did you access here?¡±


    ¡°We were informed by Nightius about your location. We just opened the door and found the whole library as it is now.¡±


    ¡°Ah, I see it now. The magic is disorienting Space. No wonder everything looked out of place. Time, quick, hold onto my hand and let¡¯s get out of here before the Space here twists even more.¡±


    Time grabbed onto my hand and we both flew out of the library through the portal.


    ¡°Innight, why are you helping Time?¡±


    ¡°She is on our side now. She has intentions to help us out so I decide to give her a chance. We have more important matters on hand now, like to find out this source of magic abnormality.¡±


    ¡°You are right, Innight. Before Nightius disconnected us, he told us that he found the traces of magic originated from the school assembly ground.¡±


    ¡°You meant the soccer field?¡±


    ¡°I think so. We have to first attempt to exit this crazily disoriented place first.¡±


    ¡°I have an easier way. But I would need both of your help. As you have probably saw, I lost most of my magic after using Time magic on the boys just now. I need to refill my magic in order to help out in this situation, both of you should have mana crystals right?¡±


    ¡°Yes, we have a chest full of it, what about it?¡±


    ¡°Get me the chest of mana crystals. I can perform a simple spell to convert all that mana crystals into magic. Using those I can refill all my magic and even give it a large boost.


    ¡°Wait for a moment.¡±


    Aquis opened up a portal and pulled a chest from it. She opened it up, inside were crammed with bright blue crystals.


    I drew a magic circle and placed the crystals in the middle of the circle. I allowed the flow of magic to mingle with the crystals, the crystals glowed and after the light diminished, the crystals turned transparent. I felt my magic restored fully.


    ¡°Alright, Aquis, keep those crystals and let us find the source of this abnormality!¡±


    We walked around the school building and tried to find the main exit, but every single doors and hallways seemed to have disconnected from its¡¯ original location and re-joined to another one. It begin to feel we are walking in a shifting labyrinth, never able to find the exit.


    ¡°This is never going to end. Spaceframe, disintegrate!¡±


    The entire school shook and the hallways and doors all faded, which then was replaced by its¡¯ original form.


    ¡°What did you just do, Innight?¡±


    ¡°I broke the magic holding the disorienting space in place. We need to hurry though, it consumes a significant amount of my magic and I cannot use it too often. We should hurry to the exit before the space start to disorientate again.¡±


    We have no trouble finding the exit after I dispelled the magic. However, the moment we opened the door, we were flooded by soldiers of Light.


    ¡°Timelord, Consumption!¡±


    Shadows appeared under the feet of the soldiers and hands appeared from it, dragging all of them into the shadows.


    ¡°Time! What are you doing to them?¡±


    ¡°Hee hee hee, nothing. I¡¯m consuming them. Be thankful that I¡¯m helping you out.¡±


    ¡°Yes, yes, Time, we appreciate it. Now we really should find the source of all this. From my analysis of the flow of magic, it is indeed coming out from the field.¡±


    We headed out to the field, and we found a giant bubble surrounding a student inside. At various point of time small bubbles break away from the giant bubble and floats away to somewhere else. We were all in awe of the situation.


    ¡°This is the source of the entire magic abnormality, but how do we resolve it?¡± Luthriel broke the silence.


    ¡°Easy. I have to apply Insigma to stop the magic and force the magic to break down. That would clear up the abnormality.¡±


    The student seems to have noticed out presence. She turned towards us and delivered a wave of bubbles towards us.


    ¡°Quick! All of you! Get behind me! Acastic!¡±


    A circular barrier generated around us ad blocked out the bubbles. When the bubbles touched the ground the ground dissolved into nothingness.


    ¡°Insigma! Hopefully she breaths in the spell!¡±


    She still flung waves of bubbles towards us, when suddenly she stopped, and her bubbles begin to dissolve and pop, eventually the giant bubbles popped as well and she fell to the ground.


    ¡°We did it! Now just to seal her magic. Ganteuis!¡±


    The entire surrounding turned back to normal as I felt her level of magic went down. She opened her eyes.


    ¡°Who are you? Don¡¯t hurt me! I have done nothing wrong! I will hurt you if you come any closer!¡±


    ¡°We are not going to harm you. You were instead the one who started all this mess. What is your name?¡±


    ¡°Dreanite.¡±


    ¡°Well, Dreanite. May we ask you what lead to all this mess?¡±


    ¡°A group of boys surrounded me and wanted to take my power. I activated my magic to fight them back.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s all? Did you know what you done caused great problems to the school itself and to everyone?¡±


    ¡°But I did it to defend myself! Are you going to harm me too?¡±


    ¡°And you attacked us when we haven¡¯t done anything to you, that is not an excuse, and NO, we are NOT going to harm you. However, you are not able, and permitted, to use any form of magic for the next entire week. Now if you please excuse us.¡±


    I walked away, I heard she shouted ¡°Dream Nexus!¡± but to no avail. Then that was followed by another few attempts, when it finally dawned on her that she is unable to perform any spells, she started crying. I have to harden my heart and remind myself she tried to attack us so I cannot sympathize her. The communicating crystal started to heat up in my pocket again, I picked it up and connected it.


    ¡°Hello? Innight, are you listening to this?¡±


    ¡°Yes, is this Nightius?¡±


    ¡°Yes, Innight. We fought off the invasion. We saw the surroundings have returned to normal, so you must have successfully resolved the abnormality. That is good news. I¡¯ve been thinking about something, Innight, and I want to tell you about it.¡±


    ¡°And that is?¡±


    ¡°I want to start up a Magic Security Team, and you will be the leader of it. With all the students here, and some of them unable to control over their great powers, this type of situation is bound to happen very frequently and the teachers are unable to disable them, like what has happened today. I want your opinion about this.¡±


    ¡°Sounds perfect to me. The only request I have about this idea is I want Aquis, Luthriel and Time in my team.¡±


    ¡°Good. I will suggest this to Lord Inoxion and I will update you on his response.¡±


    The crystal stopped glowing and I put it back into my pocket. I did a stretch.


    ¡°Now we have cleared up the abnormality, we should investigate whether there is any damage in the school.¡±


    ¡°That wouldn¡¯t be necessary, I¡¯ve checked the school using my clones while you are still busy talking with your Nightius. There is a few missing students that must have been swallowed by the Space distortion, but other than that no damage done.¡±


    ¡°We were lucky this time. Space Distortion is a dangerous ability to be dealt with, luckily she has not yet mastered her spell or else I couldn¡¯t have dispelled the distortion so easily.¡±


    We went back to the school, the teachers announced that since there has been an event today we are given a holiday today. The four of us went back to the dormitory and met in my room. Master Inoxion was already waiting for us inside.


    ¡°Innight, I allow the formation of the Magic Security Team, however I do not trust this girl named Time. I have a list of questions for you, Time. If you can answer them well and up to my standard then I will allow you to stay with Innight, if not please do not approach any of our members of the Darkness Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°As you please. Can we start now?¡±


    Master Inoxion started asking a list of questions. They ranged from simple questions like: ¡°Where do you come from?¡± to complicated questions like: ¡°How much is your knowledge on the magic of Time?¡± Eventually the list is exhausted.


    ¡°Innight, I¡¯m satisfied with her answers. She is allowed to interact to any of us. Do you have any Elemental Plane that you intend to work with, Time?¡±


    ¡°No. And I do not intend to work with anyone.¡±


    ¡°Well if that is your choice, we will not force you to join out forces. Time, you are now allowed to interact with Innight and meddle in our affairs. I will let Innight to teach you all about our Elemental Plane. Innight, teach her properly about everything.¡±


    After saying these, Master Inoxion left through a magical circle.


    ¡°So, I have been given permission by my Master, you are allowed to interact with us and meddle in our affairs. Time, you need to learn about our Elemental Plane first. Here, this a knowledge crystal, inside contains the teachings of the Darkness Elemental Plane. Put it at your forehead and it will release the knowledge stored within the crystal into your mind.¡±


    Time took the crystal from my hand, but instead of placing it on her forehead, she opened her mouth and swallowed the crystal.


    ¡°What are you doing?! I still need to keep that crystal for future recruits!¡±


    ¡°Ah, I¡¯m just extracting the contents of the crystals. Here you go.¡±


    A transparent crystal appeared in her hands. The contents has completely been drained from it.


    ¡°You¡­ I really have no words to describe you. Now I have to waste extra resources to refill the crystal.¡±


    ¡°Tee hee.¡±


    I shook my head and took the crystal back from her.


    ¡°Whatever. Time, now you know about the Darkness Elemental Plane, I need you to do more research on the members of Light Elemental Plane, which are our greatest enemy. You need to know absolutely everything about them because from Nightius¡¯ report, they have planted a surprise for us here and we don¡¯t know when they will attack. You have to know their weakness and their methods of attack at the back of your hand.¡±


    ¡°Yes Innight.¡±


    The afternoon went by quickly as I explained about our history of the Darkness Elemental Plane and Light Elemental Plane to Time. Nightius called in later again through the communication crystal.


    ¡°Innight. There has been a discussion in the staff room, they decided for the next entire week it will be a school camp.¡±


    ¡°Interesting. What led to this?¡±


    ¡°It appears that they think all of you need a break after so many events, however the bigger goal is to resolve the problem of your name popping up everywhere.¡±


    ¡°I suspected as much. Well I would really need to find a way to stop my name from appearing everywhere. So tomorrow the whole camp starts?¡±


    ¡°Yes. I don¡¯t have the information on what will happen during the camp but we can guarantee it will be enriching.¡±


    ¡°Alright, thanks for the update. Then what about the Magic Security Team?¡±


    ¡°It was approved. Tomorrow you will be given the badge to prove yourself, we will also announce this tomorrow to the student body.¡±


    ¡°Understood. Will Master Inoxion watch over the entire camp?¡±


    ¡°Negative. Lord Inoxion told me that he is busy with meeting with the other Masters of the Elemental Plane, he also needs to visit the Ancient Beast of Darkness.¡±


    ¡°That is just as expected. Remember to update me if you figured out anything about the surprise Light left for us.¡±


    Time and Aquis left my room soon after. I played around with the crystals I hoard up myself with Luthriel until around 10 o¡¯ clock. Then I turned off the light and both of us went to bed.


    In the principal¡¯s office of Innight¡¯s school, a group of people is meeting up inside. All of them wore purplish robe and have a mask over their faces.


    ¡°Member 7, what is your report on situation of Zealus?¡±


    ¡°He has not noticed anything. Currently he still has 3 more seals to break before he truly awakens.¡±


    ¡°Good. Remember, we are to wait for Light to break through the security before we can step in and protect Zealus.¡±


    ¡°Leader, what about his current master, the Grand Ruler of Darkness Elemental Plane, Inoxion?¡±


    ¡°We need to set up events that help to break the seals without causing trouble for ourselves, this will avoid our detection by him. Remember, our goal is to reawaken Zealus from the human vessel named Innight, and we will want as little problem to deal with the Darkness Elemental Plane as possible.¡±


    ¡°Leader, what about tomorrow onwards? They have a camp and they would not be in the school.¡±


    ¡°Member 2, 4 and 10, prepare a vehicle to transport all of us to their venue under the cover of some other teaching partners. Member 3, 7 and 8, bring along the instruments. Member 5, 6 and 9, the three of you come along with me for the entire duration of the camp.¡±


    ¡°Roger that.¡±


    The next day I, Luthriel, Aquis and Time, was presented in front of the whole school with a shiny crimson badge, on it was written ¡°Magic Security Team¡±.


    ¡°So, from today onwards, please avoid using Magic in the school grounds unless it is a fixed battle or a practise session. If any of you failed to adhere to the rules, the Magic Security Team is allowed to intervene the situation and stop any of you using magic.¡±


    We left the stage and went back to our respective classes.


    ¡°Now, we have something important to announce. Because of the recent incident and various other reasons we have decided to organize a school camp. Our intention of the camp is to reinforce your knowledge on the Magical world and to stabilize your magical skills. As this is a school event, we will¡­¡­¡±


    ¡°Innight, what do you intend to do in the camp? You are already knowledgeable and strong.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m also part of the organizer of the entire camp. I will be the one teaching about Magic and overseeing the whole event. Of course, I will participate in some of the activities for fun.¡±


    The days passed quickly. The day for the start of the camp finally arrived.


    Our first stop of the first day is what humans called Area 51, we travelled using a large dimensional portal that the teachers set up, and I travelled along with Nightius to help out with him. We explored the inner region of the Area and learnt about the works of other creatures in the Existence.


    Of course, there are bound to be some troublemakers and they played around with some of the strange equipment. They caused some of the regions of Area 51 to be connected to some other regions, and that made me deduce that the equipment causes space distortion. We had to use magic to break the space distortion to prevent anything else from accessing the Area. We end up apologizing to the people in charge of Area 51. Even though they mentioned they expected it to happen, I cannot help but to scold the students that played with the equipments.


    The next place we visited is within a Rift of alternate dimensions, it is a museum of magical items. We taught the students about the power of such artifacts and the danger of using such things. We also get the chance to handle and use some of the weaker and less dangerous artifacts. Again, some of the students, in fact, the exact same ones that caused trouble before tried to access the other artifacts.


    They even tried to break one of the artifacts containing the soul of an Ancient Beast. Luckily we managed to find them and stop them before they attempted to do so. We gave them another scolding and I was tasked to overlook them.


    We then went to book in at a hotel located in the Elemental Realm. The whole school have lunch there. After lunch, we broke up the students according to class, and 2 teachers follow each class. I¡¯m one of the supervisor so I am not assigned to any class, but since I¡¯m supposed to help out Aquis, Time and Luthriel I volunteered to follow the class us four are in.


    Our class followed seven other classes and entered the Water Elemental Plane. Everyone was warmly welcomed and the Creatures of Water showed us around the Plane. We had interesting activities prepared by the Creatures of Water, like solidifying and liquidifying objects with Water, creating life with Water, and using water to form other elements. As a farewell gift, all of us were allowed to keep a Seal of Water, which allows us to call upon a Water Spirit. We then gathered at the hotel as the night rolls in, the crimson moon of magic rose upon the horizon as the cyan sun of magic sets below the horizon.


    ¡°Did everyone enjoyed themselves?¡±


    ¡°YES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!¡±


    ¡°Good. All of you will have the chance to visit all the Elemental Planes except the Elemental Plane of Void, which we have not received permission for. Have fun and learn as much as possible, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience being with the Creatures of the Elemental Plane, do not waste it.¡±


    ¡°Understood!¡±


    ¡°Now have your dinner and go to your rooms. Tomorrow you will get to visit another Elemental Plane for the whole day, enjoy yourself to the fullest. Remember, lights off at midnight and don¡¯t use magic here!¡±


    ¡°Yes!¡±


    ¡°Innight, what is our schedule for tomorrow?¡±


    ¡°A secret. If you beg enough I might tell the three of you.¡±


    ¡°PLEASE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~! ¡°


    ¡°Alright. Tomorrow do not show off your water spirits, we are visiting the Fire Elemental Plane. You should know that they are enemies of each other, so do not show any water magic in front of them. I will remind all of the class tomorrow about this.¡±


    Then came the dinner and bath time. There were some argues during dinner time about the separation of food, as some people demanded more servings while others demanded lesser. I have to step in and resolve the issue of separation.


    Then there are boys who tried to sneak near the girls baths during bath time. I had to give them a long lecture about being respectful to the girls, I cannot believe I have to teach these boys like little children about a topic like this.


    At around 1 in the morning, I was woken up by the staffs of the hotel. Apparently there was a fight between the elements in the area nearby the hotel, and we have to set up a barrier in case they try take the fight into the hotel. I was forced to stay up the rest of the night and keep an eye on the elementals fighting there and alert the other teachers if they come near, luckily nothing happened.The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    Breakfast time came. At that time the fight has already ceased, and I felt tired as I don¡¯t even have the chance to sleep at all. Another fight broke out during breakfast time on the same topic of food distribution, I allowed the other teachers deal with the situation.


    ¡°Alright, everyone, please follow your teachers to the assigned Elemental Plane for the day. Please behave yourselves and do not use magic!¡±


    ¡°Yes~~~~~~~!¡±


    I took the class with Aquis, Time and Luthriel towards the Fire Elemental Plane. We were warmly welcomed by the Creatures of Fire, and we first were let to visit the Pillar of Fire that fuels the fire in the Elemental Plane of Fire. We were then allowed to have a look at the lair that the Ancient Beast of Fire once lived in. Before we had lunch, we were shown around and allowed to read some of the materials in their Forbidden Library.


    We then had fire based food for lunch, it was spicy and it burned my mouth for every spoon I eat but I know I couldn¡¯t ask for water to cool it down. I secretly use water spell in my mouth to cool it down instead. I felt bad for the others as they don¡¯t know how to do that and unless they love spicy food, they would find this experience torturous.


    After that horrendous lunch we went on further touring around the Elemental Plane of Fire. We even had the chance to meet the Grand Ruler of Fire, which gave us each a piece of Fire essence as a gift. We then left for the hotel soon after.


    The same routine occurred for the rest of the day, everyone had dinner at the hotel and people fought over the food. I have to catch another few group of boys sneaking towards the girls¡¯ room during bath time, and I have to force a sleeping spell on some boys who were still active past midnight.


    The next day passed quickly. We visited the Wind Elemental Plane and received a Bag of Winds as a gift. The same few things that happened the days before happened again and I¡¯m starting to get a D¨¦j¨¤ vu feeling that everything in the morning and night kept repeating itself.


    ¡°Time, Luthriel, Aquis, tomorrow we are visiting the Light Elemental Plane. Do be wary of your surroundings and do not let anyone know that we work for the Darkness Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°Roger that.¡±


    The next day came quickly. The guards of the Entrance of the Light Elemental Plane warmly welcomed everyone but I can feel the guards staring at me and whispering something behind my back. I know that Luricerite has already showed every creature in the Light Elemental Plane about my existence as I¡¯m considered as a dangerous unit to them.


    It is a dangerous move to enter the Light Elemental Plane but Nightius has told me I would be safe, Luricerite will not do anything as he has signed a contract of promising safety. That makes me wonder how he got the contract to be signed since Nightius couldn¡¯t have went to the Darkness Elemental Plane alone.


    First we were led to the Tower of Light. We have the opportunity to meet Luricerite, which is a bad move for us.


    ¡°Welcome, children of the Physical Realm, to our glorious Light Elemental Plane!¡± Luricerite¡¯s voice rang down the long hallway in his throne room.


    ¡°We are pleased to meet you, Grand Ruler of Light, Lord Luricerite.¡± The teacher accompanied with me greeted him.


    ¡°A good day to you, Luricerite.¡±


    ¡°Well, well, well. If it wasn¡¯t The Piece. I have been informed to not take action against anyone here, so I will not create a scene here. However this does not mean I will allow you to perform any of your acts here. I will keep an eye on you as long as you are here. The same goes for your friends within the crowd.¡±


    ¡°You need not worry about that.¡±


    ¡°Now, children, I have a gift for all of you, it is a feather from the wing of an Archangel. It will provide you the protection of Light.¡±


    A general of Light came forward and gave everyone, including myself, a feather, I kept it in a pocket.


    ¡°If any of you wished to join The Light Elemental Plane in the future, bring the feather along and I will grant you a high position in the Plane. Now if you will please excuse me, I have other work to do.¡±


    Luricerite waved at all of us and disappeared into a portal. We went a tour around the Tower of Light and taught about the long history of how Light Elemental Plane came about, and the records of the endless battle between Dark and Light. Of course, all of these were stories that were twisted accordingly to shape Light into the hero of the story. The students were taught accordingly to the truth of the story so they should be able to distinguish that this stories here were a biased one.


    Or at least that is what I thought it to be.


    We were then led to visit the Armoury, which showcased all their different weapons. I see many of the student¡¯s eyes shone, but all of these are common to me as I have fought and saw all these weapons at least once before.


    Next is lunchtime. We were seated at a long table in the Heavenly Palace. A chef accompanied us at the table, he had white feathered wings growing out behind his back so he must be an angel. Food were served to us in separate dishes, all of them were delicacies that I have not seen before. I hate to admit it, but they taste far better than our own special dishes in Darkness Elemental Plane.


    After the lunch, we headed to a special location they called it as ¡°Labyrinths Cube.¡± They said that they are having a game with us inside this place. Apparently they have placed a Seal of Light in the middle of the Labyrinths Cube and whoever gets to the centre of the cube first gets the prize.


    From what the Creatures of Light organizing the event said, this entire cube is a maze-like labyrinth. Once you enter the labyrinth it is hard to get out again, as the maze continuously change as time passes. What makes this Cubs dangerous is not the constantly changing appearance of the maze, the real danger is the players inside will undergo distortion themselves, in both Time and space wise. Anyone inside will age differently depending on which side of the cube and the distance of the player from the centre of the cube, and according to the same conditions, the person in the Cube will also come under the effect of molecular manipulation. This can be a dangerous game if I and the teachers are not around to reverse the effect of the Cube.


    We spent the entire evening playing the game. Time has the advantage playing this game as she can summon numerous clones of herself, so it was no wonder that she was the first to reach the centre of the Cube and won the game. I and the accompanied teacher had to heal a couple of students that were affected by the Cube¡¯s magic. The Creatures of Light that guards the Cube certainly have a good laugh on the reactions the students have when they finally emerged from the Cube itself.


    After the game in the Cube, we went for one last visit to the Magical Centre of the Plane. We saw how the Creatures of Light experimented with new magic spells in the Centre. For some of the rooms, I, Time, Aquis and Luthriel is not allowed to enter as we are members of the Darkness Elemental Plane, which I can perfectly understand. We then left for the hotel soon after.


    ¡°Alright, tomorrow is the last day of the school camp. Everyone, please remember we have a reflection after the entire camp, so please reflect upon this entire school camp and tell us where should we improve it so we can tweak it for future generations.¡±


    ¡°Yes~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!¡±


    Finally the day I was waiting arrived: The visit to Darkness Elemental Plane. I can finally show them around the Plane that I have devoted myself my whole life in, I can also sense the excitement that Time, Aquis and Luthriel is hiding. We approached the gates of the Darkness Elemental Plane. Master Inoxion and his other 24 Lord¡¯s statuette situated at the front of the gates greeted us.


    As the gates of the Darkness Elemental Plane opens, I saw Lord Inoxion standing right in front, giving everyone a big bow.


    ¡°Welcome, everyone, to the Elemental Plane of origins, The Darkness Elemental Plane!¡±


    I heard some other mumblings from the students. They have been brainwashed after the wrongs teachings given by the Creatures of the Light Elemental Plane yesterday, so they would be questioning the truth and reliability of master Inoxion. Master Inoxion will have a plan to deal with that later.


    ¡°I¡¯m Lord Inoxion, the Grand Ruler of the Darkness Elemental Plane. I have taken a free day off to guide all of you around my Plane, please enjoy yourself around.¡±


    The first location of the tour is the Castle of Darkness in the middle of the Darkness Elemental Plane. Master Inoxion went through the Art Gallery in the Castle and explained the history of the Darkness Elemental Plane. There were questions raised against Master Inoxion about the real truth, they explained that Creatures of Light told them about their side of the story. Master Inoxion rebutted the argument that Light has always been an enemy of Darkness and they will twist the truth in order to shape themselves as the ¡°Good¡± character.


    The students nodded. Whether did they internalize the information is another matter altogether, but what Master Inoxion did is sufficient, for now.


    We then went to our Magical Armoury. Different from the Light¡¯s armoury, instead of magical weapons, ours is filled with bottle of different sizes, each having different contents.


    ¡°What are these? Grand Ruler of Darkness Elemental Plane?¡± One inquisitive student asked.


    ¡°Ah¡­ These are my proud creations of magic. We extract magic from The Void and condenses them into these liquid you see here. All these bottles contain spells that are condensed in their purest form, just one drop of the liquid is many, many times more effective than the spell being casted by any powerful mage. Only we, the members of the Darkness Elemental Plane knows how to do this. Light is capable is creating weapons from Magic, we Darkness are capable of using Magic to create more magic, that is, amplifying them.¡±


    ¡°Why don¡¯t the both of your Grand Rulers work together instead?¡±


    ¡°That, my dear child, has a complicated reason behind it. If you have listened closely to the lesson I have gave just now on the history of the Darkness Elemental Plane, you would have realised that we never start out any attacks on any other Elemental Planes, but Light has always been the ones starting a war against us. If you want to know more about it, you can learn more if you intend to work for our Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°But we heard that you are evil.¡±


    ¡°Ah, of course people have this misconception that Darkness is evil. This is incorrect. Evil operates on a different Realm from us. If you have no idea, there is another Realm that exist within the Existence. That is what we call as the Astral Realm. In there is where the Mana Elemental Plane and many other Planes of Energies, lies. We currently have no access to this Realm but the things within that Realm are capable to reach ours. Evil lies within there as well and we have no connections to it.¡±


    Then we had lunch. After having tasted the dishes yesterday from the Light Elemental Plane I secretly told Master Inoxion about it. Master Inoxion told me that he has plans to deal with it, which made me wonder what he is up to.


    ¡°Now, children of the Physical Plane, I need you to understand the basis of our Elemental Plane. Different from Light Elemental Plane, everything in this plane is made of Magic. Hence, I have to seek your understanding that your lunch will not be of anything that you can actually view as edible. Rest assured, they still perform the same function as any other Physical food substance and taste similarly as well.¡±


    The elementals came in and served us lunch. The first was a plate with purple glob.


    I knew that is going to happen. We never had any pretty looking dishes in the past and I doubt Master is going to retrench the chef and replace it in such short notice.


    Then an alarm sounded. It interrupted us in our middle of having lunch. I knew what is happening but the others do not. Master Inoxion clapped his hands, the elementals immediately withdrew from the room.


    ¡°I¡¯m afraid I have to leave you children to yourselves for a few moments. Let Innight explain to you what is happening now. Now if you please excuse me.¡±


    ¡°Innight? What is this?¡±


    Everyone in the room, except Aquis, asked me.


    I sighed. I should have seen this coming.


    ¡°The Creatures of The Void! It is time to reawaken our ruler! He has been sealed into the body of a mere human but we will find him!¡±


    A huge roar came from the audience, a huge crowd of Creatures of The Void, all black and transparent.


    ¡°Today we shall storm the Castle of Darkness! We will find him back and reawaken him from the human he is!¡±


    Another roar came from the crowd.


    ¡°And we shall slay him! For he is no longer worthy!¡±


    More roars came.


    ¡°So now, let us go! TO THE CASTLE OF DARKNESS WE MARCH!¡±


    ¡°So there is an invasion in the Darkness Elemental Plane now?¡±


    ¡°Yes. I am 99% sure that it is another daily attack by the Light Elemental Plane. They do this every day without fail, attacking us during sunrise, noon and sunset every day.¡±


    An elemental rushed into the room.


    ¡°Innight! Lord Inoxion wants to meet you, right now! Emergency!¡±


    ¡°All of you, STAY IN HERE! Master does not call for me unless it is really an emergency. The situation outside is likely to be dangerous and by moving outside, the invaders are likely to treat you as one of us and will attempt to slaughter you. I will set up a barrier around here.¡±


    I took up a magic booster from the assisting teacher and carried it with me outside. I pulled along with me the Darkness Elemental.


    ¡°Bring me to Master Inoxion!¡±


    ¡°Yes sir!¡±


    Master was at the top of the Castle.


    ¡°You are dismissed now, Elemental.¡±


    The elemental retreated back into the depths of the darkness of the Castle.


    ¡°What did you call me here for, Master?¡±


    ¡°Something strange is happening. Look over to the right, at the artificial Void Elemental Plane.¡±


    I looked over the direction Master Inoxion is pointing at. Creatures of The Void is pouring out from there and attacking our Creatures of Darkness.


    ¡°That cannot be right. The last time I visited the Void Elemental Plane there isn¡¯t that much Creatures of The Void. Also, we have locked down on their weapons to prevent them attacking us.¡±


    ¡°Right you are, Innight. The thing is, I have discovered a portal in the deeps of the Void Elemental Plane. I suspect it is connected to the real Void Elemental Plane, the real Void Elemental Plane that lies within The Gap. We need to discover the reason behind their invasion and shut off the portal.¡±


    ¡°Alright, so what should I do?¡±


    ¡°Innight, I need you to awaken your powers. Can you turn into your original form? I suspect that they would listen to the original Grand Ruler and will hopefully stop the invasion.¡±


    ¡°I can try.¡±


    I shapeshifted into my Zealus form.


    ¡°Good. I need you to show yourself to those Creatures of The Void ad find out their reason for invading us. If possible, command them to stop the invasion.¡±


    ¡°Alright.¡±


    I flew out to the middle of the battlefield. The battles stopped suddenly and the Creatures of The Void all cried ¡°It is him! Our Grand Ruler!¡±


    ¡°May I ask a question to all my servants there?¡±


    ¡°Of course! Our Master!¡±


    ¡°Why are you fighting the Darkness Elemental Plane when you have swear complete obligation to the Darkness Elemental Plane?¡±


    ¡°Another ruler that took your place ordered us to! He wanted to slay you to become the new Grand Ruler of the Void Elemental Plane!¡±


    ¡°You say what?! Who dares to challenge me?¡±


    ¡°It is I!¡±


    A huge Creature of the Void appeared before me. A shot of Light arrow suddenly flew towards me without warning, just before it hit me someone appeared in front of me and took the shot instead.


    ¡°Luthriel!¡±


    ¡°I¡­ appeared¡­ just in time.¡±


    ¡°How did you¡­¡±


    ¡°I have prophetic vision. I can see¡­ into the future.¡±


    ¡°Why did you take the shot instead? You don¡¯t have the ability to alleviate Light! I¡¯m immune to Light based attacks like that!¡±


    ¡°That¡­ that is not the reason why. The arrow is dipped in poison. The poison can destroy magic.¡±


    I gasped. ¡°That means, you are¡­¡±


    ¡°Heh. Guess I¡¯m useful for something after all. It is great to have met you, Innight, and experienced everything together. It is time. For me to leave.¡±


    After he finished speaking he disintegrated into dark particles and it flew away into The void.


    When I woke up, the noise around the dormitory has subsided. It almost feels like the school is back to normal once again.


    Except it isn¡¯t.


    As I woke up Luthriel and both of us were ready to go to school, sounds of magic being fired started ringing in my ears. As I would have guessed, it wouldn¡¯t be long before the students start to ¡®test¡¯ out their powers again. I generated a shield around both of us to reflect any attacks that might reach us while we both walked out of the dormitory.


    The lessons of the school has definitely changed. Master Inoxion must have tweaked the system within the school using his own network. This school could be a useful place for the gathering of potential recruits for us, however we have to teach them first, about how to control their powers properly, and the knowledge of the Elemental realm, since they are going to entangle themselves within the matters of it soon.


    Break time came. After the lesson on new school rules people begin to restrain themselves from playing around with their powers. This is a relief, but I knew that there are bound to be people who are going to go against the rules. As I was thinking about this, the group of boys that I defeated two days ago came up to me.


    ¡°Hello, Innight. We have come to return the favour you gave us back then. Prepare yourself.¡±


    Suddenly, without any warning, my entire body flew right onto the wall. I did not gain any injuries but I felt as if several invisible hands are holding me up against the wall. I cannot retaliate as I¡¯m severely weakened after casting the Time spell yesterday and am still recovering, I can only perform basic attack and defence spells, which are useless against an opponent that is capable to control others.


    ¡°Now then, Innight, fight back. You have shown us how powerful you are, now let us test each other out to see who is stronger.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t have time for you bunch of power hungry creeps. Let me go this instant.¡±


    ¡°Now, now, Innight, there is still plenty of time to spend to do whatever that is on your mind. Play with us for a little while more.¡±


    As he said these, I felt the gravity of the surrounding being intensified by a magnitude as the invisible hands are lifted away from me.


    ¡°What is it now, Innight? Aren¡¯t you powerful enough to defy other powers of the Elemental Realm?¡±


    I¡¯m surprised. How did they know about that? Only members of Darkness and Light, with the addition of Time herself, knows that my true powers were of level of omnipotence as they experienced it.


    ¡°We would like to see your power, Innight, entertain us!¡±


    I am unable to lift my head to see who is the caster, but I can feel one of them is casting light based spells on me, which burns through my skin.


    I have the capability to cast a sealing magic on all of them to lock up their powers, but I¡¯m unsure whether it is enough to lock up a power as great as the caster of the object manipulation. Nevertheless, it would be a good option to try it out.


    ¡°Fermion. Helvensker.¡±


    A magic circle appeared under the group of boys. I observe flows of magic being absorbed into the circle from them.


    ¡°What is this? My power seems to be weakening!¡±


    ¡°Bastard! What have you done?¡±


    They said these as they crumbles to the floor, I begin to feel the gravity field returning to normal.


    ¡°Nothing much. I¡¯ve placed a lock on your powers. If you have no idea about it I will tell you this: I have much greater knowledge of magic compared to any of you here. If you have the power but lack of the knowledge, you are powerless against the most knowledgeable people that lacks of power. You are still far too early to fight against me.¡±


    ¡°A lock?!¡±


    ¡°Yes. Magical locks are difficult to be lifted, and the methods of lifting them differs according to the caster. Until you have lift the lock, you are unable to use any of your powers. Go and do more research to figure out how to lift them, or try to defeat me in a battle.¡±


    ¡°You¡­!¡±


    ¡°Now if you excuse me, I need to meet someone else.¡±


    I walked away from the group of boys and out of the classroom. I need to find Time first. From what I¡¯ve gathered, she is transferring to our class today, but she has been given special permission to stay in the library for the first few hours of school today. I went to the library and found her reading a book on the tables.


    *Ahem* ¡°Time, I want to talk you to for a while.¡±


    ¡°Ah, if it wasn¡¯t Innight! Nice to meet you again. You may ask any questions you have, I¡¯m free now.¡±


    ¡°Time, as I have previously mentioned, I notice you have the same energy signature as the Old Magic. What is your relationship with them?¡±


    ¡°Well, Innight. I first have to inform you that I am not your enemy, and nor are them. I do share a similar goal as theirs, which is to awaken the real identity hidden in yourself. I merely burrowed some power, to be precise, Time, from them to sustain the clones I¡¯ve made for myself. Every time I run out of Time I burrow it from them, or else I would have resort to extracting Time from other humans, which may result in problems. Naturally this caused me to share the energy signature of members of Old Magic.¡±


    ¡°Sustain your clones? What are you up to?¡±


    ¡°Nothing, Innight. My power of Time manipulation is wanted by many and I¡¯m hated by many as well. I have done many things in order to gain information about you, I rarely appear in my true self as I¡¯m constantly in danger of being killed. Just yesterday you have saw how dangerous it was to wander around without a single form of protection. Even the me that you are speaking to right now is a clone of my real self.¡±


    ¡°What do you know of my past?¡±


    ¡°To answer that, Innight, you will have to ask them, the members of Old Magic of The Void. I only knew about your identity through them and I have gathered information that you once lived in The Void in The Gap, and carried on the role of destruction and recreation of the Existence.¡±


    ¡°Interesting. I would have to find a way to contact them and know more about it. Time, you are welcomed to drop by my room when you feel free to talk to me.¡±


    ¡°Eh? Are you sure? Didn¡¯t you just set me on your unwelcome list just yesterday?¡±


    ¡°I decided to lower your danger level. Since you have no intention to harm anyone it would be the best. You also appear to have intention to help us so I can regard you as an ally.¡±


    ¡°That would be a wise choice to make. One more thing, Innight. Light is up to something. As an ally of yours and the Old Magic, I need to inform you that they are extracting something from beneath the school. However, that object is sealed with multiple layers of Old Magic, which is delaying them from obtaining the object sooner.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m unsure what is the object they are looking for and why they are hunting for it, but they appear to be diverging a large amount of resources for it. I¡¯ve tried using my clones to trach them down, but they were erased by a certain stronger magical source.¡±


    ¡°Can¡¯t you use your power over Time to stop them in their place?¡±


    ¡°I have a limit. I¡¯m already using up a significant amount of Time to try to keep my clones in place. I could use City of Devouring Time to extract Time from them and stop them, but I could be discovered if they capture my clones and traced back to the origin of my magic.¡±


    ¡°I see. It can¡¯t be helped then. I will contact you if we need your help. Goodbye¡±


    ¡°Goodbye.¡±


    I returned back to my classroom. The boys that I¡¯ve just defeated were still grumbling over the loss of their powers. Some of the students were fiddling with some of the equipment that the teachers brought in, accidently releasing some forms of magic.


    Time came into the class. No one seems to take any notice of her, even though she has a dark aura surrounding herself, and waves of magic ripples out of her. The dark aura is likely to be a result of her interaction with members of Old Magic, the ripples of magic is due to her immense power over Time. Luckily, such ripples of magic are of different wavelength compared to the ones that could damage a creature.


    The bell rang, signifying the end of break time.


    Lessons carried on as per normal, with only a few accidents of magic disruption. Time performed well in all the classes, earning herself praises from the teachers and everyone else. The boys that had their powers locked up failed to find a method to lift the lock I placed on them, one is because there is no lesson on spell casting today, and another is because even if they ask, I highly doubt the teacher will be able the lock I¡¯ve placed on them. Soon the school bell rings for the last period.


    I walked along with Aquis and Luthriel to my room. When I reached there, Time was already sitting in the middle of my room.


    ¡°Time, please stop giving me surprises like these. One day you are going to give someone a heart attack.¡±


    ¡°Ah, I¡¯m just following your suggestion of meeting you after school.¡±


    ¡°You had your fun didn¡¯t you? Taking the first place in everything that we do.¡±


    ¡°Of course I have to. I have played with magic with so long I have great knowledge about it, also I have help from members of Old Magic, that should be no surprise to you.¡±


    ¡°I have question for you, Time. Where is your real self hidden?¡± This came from Aquis.


    ¡°Ah. For that question I cannot answer you. My life is dependent on it. Even though I know that you all have no means to harm me, I fear that others who also have the ability to manipulate Time can trace back and identify this conversation. If they happened to be of my enemy I may be put in danger. However, I can tell you that I hide myself in a manner that unless someone has the power of omnipotence they wouldn¡¯t be able to discover me.¡±


    ¡°That means¡­ Only Innight is able to know your location.¡±


    ¡°No. Innight doesn¡¯t. Zealus does.¡±


    ¡°Ah yes, how could I have forgotten? Innight¡¯s powers are sealed. With those seals still intact his powers are greatly restricted.¡±


    We went on and talked for a while longer, Time left in the middle of our talk as she mentioned that she has to reduce the number of clones due to her insufficient Time.


    ¡°A day that passes without any inference from Light. This is uncommon to occur. While I would like to say that Light has given up on taking back their territory, knowing them, they are most likely to be doing background works.¡±


    ¡°Indeed. Time have also informed me that Light is attempting to extract something below the school compound, and they are doing this very quietly and slowly so they wouldn¡¯t be detected. I ponder about the object that they are extracting but we don¡¯t have enough information on their plans yet.¡±


    ¡°Innight, Aquis, incoming message from Lord Inoxion.¡± Luthriel interrupted us.


    ¡°Turn on the communication crystal. Accept the request.¡± I instructed him.


    Luthriel took out a purple crystal from my cupboard and put it in the middle of the room, then he sprinkled some magic over it. A magical circle with the symbol of Darkness appeared under the crystal and a hologram of Master Inoxion appeared.


    ¡°Finally got through. Innight, listen closely to this piece of information I¡¯m delivering. The Darkness Elemental Plane is currently under attack by unidentified creatures and we are trying our best to push them back beyond out boundaries. Chronos is currently buying us more Time as we speak to allow us to build up soldiers for counterattack.¡±


    ¡°However, there is something of great concern that we have figured out from a general of theirs. They are planning a second wave of attack over the entire Physical Realm, and their starting point is at your school. From what we have gathered, they have already started to send soldiers over there and they are blending them in into the student population. We still haven¡¯t figure out their reason of attack and which elemental they belong to, but this is irrelevant now.¡±


    ¡°Innight, please be on the watch out and inform Nightius or me if you spot any suspicious activity. Remember, this time we are fighting against something of unknown power so don¡¯t try to tank it out, especially when you are so vulnerable.¡±


    Saying that, the hologram vanished and the magic circle dissolved.


    ¡°Looks like we just got more jobs on our hands.¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°I agree. This time round we are dealing with something of a larger scale, and we don¡¯t even know the intended purpose behind the attack.¡±


    ¡°Why should we worry about it so much, Innight? There is nothing we can do about it. You are also powerless to defeat the invaders in case they do attack.¡± Luthriel lied down on his bed.


    ¡°The problem is this school is a ticking time bomb. People can be brainwashed into other people¡¯s tools, and the students here, who are far too inexperienced in this type of situation, can easily be brainwashed. The last thing we want is for our soldiers and allies turning against us.¡±


    ¡°Luciferrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!¡±


    Someone screamed and a girl flew into our room, then landing on my bed. I immediately identified the girl as Nectilius.


    ¡°What do you think you are doing?!¡±


    Nectilius climbed up from my bed, and stared in my face for a few moments.


    ¡°AHHHHHHH!¡± She screamed in my face. ¡°Hide me, please, quickly!¡±


    ¡°Why?¡± I asked.


    ¡°I will answer you later, just hide me now! Quick, or else I¡¯m in for a world of pain!¡±


    ¡°Well that¡¯s fine with me. Luthriel, open up my personal cupboard and throw her inside.¡±


    ¡°That wouldn¡¯t work on him! He has¡­¡±


    ¡°I know what you are about to say. All-seeing eye. I have magic that prevents that power from seeing certain things. Now unless you want to be discovered by him in 5 seconds time, please go in.¡±


    I locked the cupboard after Nectilius went in. A boy with grey hair and a pair of sea blue eyes ran into our room almost immediately after.


    ¡°You prankster! Where did you hide?!¡±


    He then noticed us.


    ¡°Hey, you three! Where did you hide that girl named Nectilius?¡±


    ¡°She was eaten by someone. You wouldn¡¯t be able to see her any time sooner. If you haven¡¯t heard of The Eater, you should do more research on it. This school is beginning to attract more abnormalities after the waves of magic transformed everyone. Start to learn about the magical creatures.¡±


    ¡°Innight, you must have played a trick here. Stop fooling around and tell me the truth!¡±


    ¡°Oh. I¡¯m that famous now? Never knew that. About Nectilius, yes I admit I lied a little, but you will never be able to find her, that is the truth.¡±


    ¡°Gr¡­ Remember this! I¡¯m too busy to deal with you now but I will come for you one day, Innight!¡±


    ¡°You are welcomed to challenge me anytime you like.¡±


    ¡°Gah!¡±


    The boy rushed off. I open the cupboard and dragged Nectilius out from it, her face looked frozen and stiff, probably from fear.


    ¡°Hello? Nectilius? Are you alive? The chaser is gone now and he probably wouldn¡¯t be back so soon. Can you now please explain what have you done to cause him to react like that?¡±


    Nectilius¡¯s face twitched for a few seconds before she returned to normal.


    ¡°Ah, thank you very much for helping me out! You saved my precious life from being lost to that hideous man I couldn¡¯t find any way to repay my thanks.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t really mind saving you, but can you please explain why are you hiding from him?¡±


    ¡°Uh, I was practicing my magic in my own room when that boy suddenly interrupted me. He flung the door open and screamed at the top of his lungs, which surprised me. Allow me to explain, my magic needs me to be 100% focused or else it will backfire, when the boy interrupted me my focus was dispelled. The spell ended up attacking him and it caused him to lose his eyesight for a few moments.¡±


    ¡°Then it is nothing serious. So why did he..?¡±


    ¡°The problem is that the spell rendered him powerless, and it took me a few moments to break the spell. He flew into a rage when he found out he was blind because of my spell and refuse to understand the situation. He swear to kill me as a result and I therefore ran off.¡±


    ¡°To kill you just because of that? How low level of tolerance does he have? Also, don¡¯t play around with your magic if you know that you cannot be disturbed. Next time don¡¯t use your magic unless you are very sure that no one will disturb you while you are practising it. You can get into ten feet of trouble if you do that again.¡±


    ¡°Yes, I¡¯m sorry about disturbing you, Innight. Please allow me to stay in your room a little longer, until he has cooled down.¡±


    ¡°Fine. Aquis, get her a cup of coke and bring more snacks from the cupboard.¡±


    We begin to talk about how the school has changed, and I taught everyone the origin of magic, about the history of Magic, and told them some stories of the origin of the Mythical Creatures. The sky begin to grow dark and eventually night time arrived.


    ¡°He should be calmed down by now. I really thank you, Innight, for letting me stay here.¡±


    ¡°No problems. You are welcomed to drop in anytime. Just don¡¯t come in when my door has a sign hanging outside.¡±


    Nectilius waved goodbye and left the room.


    ¡°Such a troublesome company she has, don¡¯t you agree, you two?¡±


    ¡°Innight. Do you think that Nectilius is doing this on purpose? That is, looking for you?¡±


    ¡°I concur. Innight, she seems to be targeting you for some reason or another. It is obvious.¡±


    ¡°I understand this. I suspect she is working under the members of Old Magic and they intend to do something about me. I will do something about her, but not when there is a bigger matter at hand. Now, Aquis, it would be wise to leave now. You are reporting for a new mission tomorrow aren¡¯t you? You will need some rest.¡±


    A girl crept out from the shadow outside Innight¡¯s room. She was accompanied by another few copies of herself.


    ¡°Hee hee hee. Zealus is busy indeed, isn¡¯t he, me?¡±


    ¡°He does look that indeed, me.¡±


    ¡°Since he is busy, we should also be busy, that makes sense doesn¡¯t it, me?¡±


    ¡°Exactly, me. To the next phase of our plan, we better call them now. To work, me.¡±


    ¡°Aye, me.¡±


    Suddenly the door of Innight room opened, Aquis stepped out of it and her eyes come into contact with the girl.


    ¡°Time! What are you doing here with your clones?!¡±


    ¡°Alas! This is not the best time to meet now. I will see you again.¡±


    The girl vanished into the shadow with her clones.


    ¡°That girl, she is also up to no good. Having power over shadows and Time makes her a dangerous person to approach. Furthermore, she has connections with members of Old Magic, and her personality itself is complex beyond measure. We will never know what her intention is. We can still treat her as an ally, but we need to keep a close eye on her.¡±


    I raised my level of alertness for the rest of the night. Master came by in the middle of the night to investigate the girl, but he could not detect her anywhere in sight, not even her clone is present within the town.


    ¡°I suspect that girl named Time. She appears to have her own intentions in approaching you, at the same time working together with members of Old Magic. I dearly wished I have the power of omniscience to know what she really is and her real motives to transfer here.¡± Master told me the next morning after I woke up.


    ¡°*Yawn* I have the same doubts as you do, Master. I would do some investigation around the region. I feel there would definitely be someone having powers of omniscience in the school itself, if I can find who is that then I would be able to answer this question.¡±


    ¡°*Yawn* Eh? Lord Inoxion? What brought you here?¡±


    That was Luthriel.


    ¡°I¡¯m here on a business to deal with the girl named Time. She appear to not be around here now, though¡­¡±


    ¡°Ah, so everyone is awake here!¡±


    The door of my room opened and to my upmost surprise, the speaker was the last person that I would ever expect to turn up: Time.


    ¡°Time!¡±


    ¡°WHAT?!¡±


    Master Inoxion appeared to be absolutely flabbergasted. I do not blame him at all.


    ¡°Uhm, Innight, may I ask a question? Who is this person in this darkened armour?¡±


    ¡°This is not the best time to explain now, Time. We are going to be late for school if we stay here any longer. Master, please stay in this room for now, I will bring her here when school is over. Luthriel, hurry up and get dressed.¡±


    On the way to school, I asked Time:


    ¡°Time. Where did you go after you met me last night? I cannot detect your presence anywhere.¡±


    ¡°Hee hee hee. I did told you I have associations with members of Old Magic didn¡¯t I? I went to meet them yesterday night at a meeting place that is at a different axis of dimensions.¡±


    ¡°Really, Time, I¡¯m starting to mistrust you if this is how you behave. Can you at least act in a way that is much more predictable and traceable?¡±


    ¡°Tee hee. I have my own reasons to act as such. I cannot reveal to you the reason why I do so, you are free to come up with your own explanations.¡±


    ¡°Time. After school today meet me in my room. The person you saw this morning wants to meet you. He wanted to meet you since yesterday.¡±


    ¡°Eh? His intention isn¡¯t to hurt me, isn¡¯t it? I haven¡¯t hurt anyone here yet!¡±


    ¡°No. He won¡¯t. I can guarantee that. As long as you remain harmless and you have no intention in harming any of us, me, Aquis and Luthriel, you are safe from any attacks from our Plane.¡±


    ¡°Your plane? You meant the Darkness Elemental Plane?¡±


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°That is strange. You belong to The Void, which is the element of creation before any other elements are formed. Why do you join the Element of Darkness instead?¡±


    ¡°That is a long story. I will let my Master explain that to you.¡±


    Break time came. The same group of boys that taunted me yesterday surrounded me again.


    ¡°Innight! Fight us proper this time! No tricks allowed!¡±


    I shoved them a look.


    ¡°As I have mention countless times, I have no intention to take any of you on. There is no good that would come out of fighting anyone.¡±


    ¡°There is something good that will come out of this! We gain fame throughout the school! Right now you stole the spotlight for placing the curse on all on us and destroying this very classroom. WE envy that, and we want to take that role from you!¡±


    ¡°So that was why you all are so persistent. Sadly, I have no intention to take any of you on. I¡¯m busy, so please move away.¡±


    ¡°That will not happen. You must either defeat us or accept defeat before we will let you pass.¡±


    I have already generated most of my power back after using the Time spell two days ago. I can try another Time spell on them to stop this nonsense once and for all, but there is no guarantee whether they would be able to clean up the mess after I use it. Regardless, they would not stop pestering me and I would need to give them a small hint of my true power.


    ¡°Since you invited me to show you your place, let me grant you your desire. Overclock, Rewind.¡±


    A clock with its complete 12 roman numerals appeared under the feet of the group of boys, the hands of the clock turning anti-clockwise. The boys started to grew younger as they stand on the clock.


    ¡°I did mention no tricks! What did you do?!¡±


    ¡°This is not a trick. I perform a simple Time reversal spell on all of you. I have told all of you again and again not to disturb me and your ears appears to be not working or you have an underdeveloped brain that caused you to be unable to think rationally.¡±


    ¡°Cheater!¡±


    ¡°It is you who are too weak. Go and do more research and practice more spells before coming back to face me again.¡±


    I pushed aside the now 10 year old boys and walked away. I heard various insults being thrown towards me but I choose to ignore them. Then the leader of the group appeared before me again.


    ¡°Nitrix!¡±


    A small green globe appeared in his hands, he tried to fire it onto me but it exploded in his face. He begin to shrink until I couldn¡¯t see him anymore. I took out a magnifying glass to search for him, and found him raising his fist and throwing more curses. I took out a crystal and placed him inside, then I transferred the crystal to his seat. I then went to the group of boys.


    ¡°If you will not listen, you will be punished. Let me give you all this last warning. The next time any of you cross my path again you will not get away alive.¡±


    I went off to look for Time. I found her in the school library again, this time round she was looking around a magic book named ¡°Forbidden Magic of Time¡±.


    ¡°Are you reading on how to improve your control over Time, Time?¡±


    ¡°Hee hee hee, indeed Innight. I need to improve my extraction of Time from others.¡±


    ¡°A question, Time. Why are you extracting Time from others? I know you will need Time to keep your other clones active, but why are you using so much clones?¡±


    ¡°Tee hee. That is a secret.¡±


    ¡°Well I will not delve into it if you intend to keep it as a secret, but at least give me your promise that you will not bring any harm, using your clones, to any member of the Plane of Darkness.¡±


    ¡°I can promise that.¡±


    Suddenly our surrounding begin to blur and everything turned into strange creatures. My communication crystal begin to heat up in my pocket, I took it out and connect the line.


    ¡°Hello? Is this Innight?¡±


    ¡°Yes. And who might you be?¡±


    ¡°Innight, this is Nightius. Something has happened to the school. You should now be able to figure out that the entire school has undergone a transformation, everything has turned into dreamy like. We suspect a student is involved in this incident. Innight, I¡¯m busy stabilising the influx of sudden soldiers of Light over the region, so I cannot help you identify the source of magic. Innight, you have to find out the source of magic and disable it before it ingests everything into this world of illusion.¡±


    ¡°Understood. Should I call upon Aquis and Luthriel to help?¡±


    ¡°Better would be. They know very basic magic but a little help is better than none. If you excuse me I have to cut of the communication now, they are advancing towards the school.¡±


    The crystal stopped glowing. I begin to move out of the library but felt a tug behind my shirt, I turned around and saw Time making a sad face to me.


    ¡°Can¡¯t I help out?¡±


    Her face looks like she is going to cry any moment. That face she makes is going to break my heart any moment, I just cannot stand it. I sighed.


    ¡°Alright. Even though I have not been given the permission to take you on with this mission, seeing that you have cooperate well with us so far I decide to give you a chance to prove my trust is right.¡±


    With this her face broke into a smile.


    ¡°Yay! Let¡¯s go off right now! To find the course of this abnormality and resolve it!¡±


    With that she ran off. Without me. I sighed.


    ¡°Well, knowing her, she will bound to pop out of the shadows somewhere again later.¡± I said to myself.


    ¡°Well you are right!¡± Time popped out behind me.


    ¡°GAH! Stop giving me heart attacks like this!¡±


    ¡°Sorry! So should we look for your friends now?¡±


    ¡°That would be our first goal, but look at the surroundings now.¡±


    As I speak, the floor dissolved into nothingness and outside the door is nothing but an empty void.


    ¡°Eh? Looks like we are disconnected from the school.¡±


    ¡°Right, Time. It appears that we are floating within The Void, but I¡¯m unsure whether it is The Void within The Gap or it is The Void in the Physical Realm. Both behave very differently and I¡¯m unsure how are we going to get us out this mess.¡±


    ¡°Innight! Are you there?¡±


    I¡¯m surprised. That sounds like Aquis and Luthriel. How did the both of them access this place that is floating in the middle of The Void?


    ¡°Aquis! Luthriel! Where are the both of you?¡±


    ¡°Look up!¡±


    I looked up. At the ceiling a portal is visible and both of their heads were visible.


    ¡°How did the both of you figure out I¡¯m here? And how did you access here?¡±


    ¡°We were informed by Nightius about your location. We just opened the door and found the whole library as it is now.¡±


    ¡°Ah, I see it now. The magic is disorienting Space. No wonder everything looked out of place. Time, quick, hold onto my hand and let¡¯s get out of here before the Space here twists even more.¡±


    Time grabbed onto my hand and we both flew out of the library through the portal.


    ¡°Innight, why are you helping Time?¡±


    ¡°She is on our side now. She has intentions to help us out so I decide to give her a chance. We have more important matters on hand now, like to find out this source of magic abnormality.¡±


    ¡°You are right, Innight. Before Nightius disconnected us, he told us that he found the traces of magic originated from the school assembly ground.¡±


    ¡°You meant the soccer field?¡±


    ¡°I think so. We have to first attempt to exit this crazily disoriented place first.¡±


    ¡°I have an easier way. But I would need both of your help. As you have probably saw, I lost most of my magic after using Time magic on the boys just now. I need to refill my magic in order to help out in this situation, both of you should have mana crystals right?¡±


    ¡°Yes, we have a chest full of it, what about it?¡±


    ¡°Get me the chest of mana crystals. I can perform a simple spell to convert all that mana crystals into magic. Using those I can refill all my magic and even give it a large boost.


    ¡°Wait for a moment.¡±


    Aquis opened up a portal and pulled a chest from it. She opened it up, inside were crammed with bright blue crystals.


    I drew a magic circle and placed the crystals in the middle of the circle. I allowed the flow of magic to mingle with the crystals, the crystals glowed and after the light diminished, the crystals turned transparent. I felt my magic restored fully.


    ¡°Alright, Aquis, keep those crystals and let us find the source of this abnormality!¡±


    We walked around the school building and tried to find the main exit, but every single doors and hallways seemed to have disconnected from its¡¯ original location and re-joined to another one. It begin to feel we are walking in a shifting labyrinth, never able to find the exit.


    ¡°This is never going to end. Spaceframe, disintegrate!¡±


    The entire school shook and the hallways and doors all faded, which then was replaced by its¡¯ original form.


    ¡°What did you just do, Innight?¡±


    ¡°I broke the magic holding the disorienting space in place. We need to hurry though, it consumes a significant amount of my magic and I cannot use it too often. We should hurry to the exit before the space start to disorientate again.¡±


    We have no trouble finding the exit after I dispelled the magic. However, the moment we opened the door, we were flooded by soldiers of Light.


    ¡°Timelord, Consumption!¡±


    Shadows appeared under the feet of the soldiers and hands appeared from it, dragging all of them into the shadows.


    ¡°Time! What are you doing to them?¡±


    ¡°Hee hee hee, nothing. I¡¯m consuming them. Be thankful that I¡¯m helping you out.¡±


    ¡°Yes, yes, Time, we appreciate it. Now we really should find the source of all this. From my analysis of the flow of magic, it is indeed coming out from the field.¡±


    We headed out to the field, and we found a giant bubble surrounding a student inside. At various point of time small bubbles break away from the giant bubble and floats away to somewhere else. We were all in awe of the situation.


    ¡°This is the source of the entire magic abnormality, but how do we resolve it?¡± Luthriel broke the silence.


    ¡°Easy. I have to apply Insigma to stop the magic and force the magic to break down. That would clear up the abnormality.¡±


    The student seems to have noticed out presence. She turned towards us and delivered a wave of bubbles towards us.


    ¡°Quick! All of you! Get behind me! Acastic!¡±


    A circular barrier generated around us ad blocked out the bubbles. When the bubbles touched the ground the ground dissolved into nothingness.


    ¡°Insigma! Hopefully she breaths in the spell!¡±


    She still flung waves of bubbles towards us, when suddenly she stopped, and her bubbles begin to dissolve and pop, eventually the giant bubbles popped as well and she fell to the ground.


    ¡°We did it! Now just to seal her magic. Ganteuis!¡±


    The entire surrounding turned back to normal as I felt her level of magic went down. She opened her eyes.


    ¡°Who are you? Don¡¯t hurt me! I have done nothing wrong! I will hurt you if you come any closer!¡±


    ¡°We are not going to harm you. You were instead the one who started all this mess. What is your name?¡±


    ¡°Dreanite.¡±


    ¡°Well, Dreanite. May we ask you what lead to all this mess?¡±


    ¡°A group of boys surrounded me and wanted to take my power. I activated my magic to fight them back.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s all? Did you know what you done caused great problems to the school itself and to everyone?¡±


    ¡°But I did it to defend myself! Are you going to harm me too?¡±


    ¡°And you attacked us when we haven¡¯t done anything to you, that is not an excuse, and NO, we are NOT going to harm you. However, you are not able, and permitted, to use any form of magic for the next entire week. Now if you please excuse us.¡±


    I walked away, I heard she shouted ¡°Dream Nexus!¡± but to no avail. Then that was followed by another few attempts, when it finally dawned on her that she is unable to perform any spells, she started crying. I have to harden my heart and remind myself she tried to attack us so I cannot sympathize her. The communicating crystal started to heat up in my pocket again, I picked it up and connected it.


    ¡°Hello? Innight, are you listening to this?¡±


    ¡°Yes, is this Nightius?¡±


    ¡°Yes, Innight. We fought off the invasion. We saw the surroundings have returned to normal, so you must have successfully resolved the abnormality. That is good news. I¡¯ve been thinking about something, Innight, and I want to tell you about it.¡±


    ¡°And that is?¡±


    ¡°I want to start up a Magic Security Team, and you will be the leader of it. With all the students here, and some of them unable to control over their great powers, this type of situation is bound to happen very frequently and the teachers are unable to disable them, like what has happened today. I want your opinion about this.¡±


    ¡°Sounds perfect to me. The only request I have about this idea is I want Aquis, Luthriel and Time in my team.¡±


    ¡°Good. I will suggest this to Lord Inoxion and I will update you on his response.¡±


    The crystal stopped glowing and I put it back into my pocket. I did a stretch.


    ¡°Now we have cleared up the abnormality, we should investigate whether there is any damage in the school.¡±


    ¡°That wouldn¡¯t be necessary, I¡¯ve checked the school using my clones while you are still busy talking with your Nightius. There is a few missing students that must have been swallowed by the Space distortion, but other than that no damage done.¡±


    ¡°We were lucky this time. Space Distortion is a dangerous ability to be dealt with, luckily she has not yet mastered her spell or else I couldn¡¯t have dispelled the distortion so easily.¡±


    We went back to the school, the teachers announced that since there has been an event today we are given a holiday today. The four of us went back to the dormitory and met in my room. Master Inoxion was already waiting for us inside.


    ¡°Innight, I allow the formation of the Magic Security Team, however I do not trust this girl named Time. I have a list of questions for you, Time. If you can answer them well and up to my standard then I will allow you to stay with Innight, if not please do not approach any of our members of the Darkness Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°As you please. Can we start now?¡±


    Master Inoxion started asking a list of questions. They ranged from simple questions like: ¡°Where do you come from?¡± to complicated questions like: ¡°How much is your knowledge on the magic of Time?¡± Eventually the list is exhausted.


    ¡°Innight, I¡¯m satisfied with her answers. She is allowed to interact to any of us. Do you have any Elemental Plane that you intend to work with, Time?¡±


    ¡°No. And I do not intend to work with anyone.¡±


    ¡°Well if that is your choice, we will not force you to join out forces. Time, you are now allowed to interact with Innight and meddle in our affairs. I will let Innight to teach you all about our Elemental Plane. Innight, teach her properly about everything.¡±


    After saying these, Master Inoxion left through a magical circle.


    ¡°So, I have been given permission by my Master, you are allowed to interact with us and meddle in our affairs. Time, you need to learn about our Elemental Plane first. Here, this a knowledge crystal, inside contains the teachings of the Darkness Elemental Plane. Put it at your forehead and it will release the knowledge stored within the crystal into your mind.¡±


    Time took the crystal from my hand, but instead of placing it on her forehead, she opened her mouth and swallowed the crystal.


    ¡°What are you doing?! I still need to keep that crystal for future recruits!¡±


    ¡°Ah, I¡¯m just extracting the contents of the crystals. Here you go.¡±


    A transparent crystal appeared in her hands. The contents has completely been drained from it.


    ¡°You¡­ I really have no words to describe you. Now I have to waste extra resources to refill the crystal.¡±


    ¡°Tee hee.¡±


    I shook my head and took the crystal back from her.


    ¡°Whatever. Time, now you know about the Darkness Elemental Plane, I need you to do more research on the members of Light Elemental Plane, which are our greatest enemy. You need to know absolutely everything about them because from Nightius¡¯ report, they have planted a surprise for us here and we don¡¯t know when they will attack. You have to know their weakness and their methods of attack at the back of your hand.¡±


    ¡°Yes Innight.¡±


    The afternoon went by quickly as I explained about our history of the Darkness Elemental Plane and Light Elemental Plane to Time. Nightius called in later again through the communication crystal.


    ¡°Innight. There has been a discussion in the staff room, they decided for the next entire week it will be a school camp.¡±


    ¡°Interesting. What led to this?¡±


    ¡°It appears that they think all of you need a break after so many events, however the bigger goal is to resolve the problem of your name popping up everywhere.¡±


    ¡°I suspected as much. Well I would really need to find a way to stop my name from appearing everywhere. So tomorrow the whole camp starts?¡±


    ¡°Yes. I don¡¯t have the information on what will happen during the camp but we can guarantee it will be enriching.¡±


    ¡°Alright, thanks for the update. Then what about the Magic Security Team?¡±


    ¡°It was approved. Tomorrow you will be given the badge to prove yourself, we will also announce this tomorrow to the student body.¡±


    ¡°Understood. Will Master Inoxion watch over the entire camp?¡±


    ¡°Negative. Lord Inoxion told me that he is busy with meeting with the other Masters of the Elemental Plane, he also needs to visit the Ancient Beast of Darkness.¡±


    ¡°That is just as expected. Remember to update me if you figured out anything about the surprise Light left for us.¡±


    Time and Aquis left my room soon after. I played around with the crystals I hoard up myself with Luthriel until around 10 o¡¯ clock. Then I turned off the light and both of us went to bed.


    In the principal¡¯s office of Innight¡¯s school, a group of people is meeting up inside. All of them wore purplish robe and have a mask over their faces.


    ¡°Member 7, what is your report on situation of Zealus?¡±


    ¡°He has not noticed anything. Currently he still has 3 more seals to break before he truly awakens.¡±


    ¡°Good. Remember, we are to wait for Light to break through the security before we can step in and protect Zealus.¡±


    ¡°Leader, what about his current master, the Grand Ruler of Darkness Elemental Plane, Inoxion?¡±


    ¡°We need to set up events that help to break the seals without causing trouble for ourselves, this will avoid our detection by him. Remember, our goal is to reawaken Zealus from the human vessel named Innight, and we will want as little problem to deal with the Darkness Elemental Plane as possible.¡±


    ¡°Leader, what about tomorrow onwards? They have a camp and they would not be in the school.¡±


    ¡°Member 2, 4 and 10, prepare a vehicle to transport all of us to their venue under the cover of some other teaching partners. Member 3, 7 and 8, bring along the instruments. Member 5, 6 and 9, the three of you come along with me for the entire duration of the camp.¡±


    ¡°Roger that.¡±


    The next day I, Luthriel, Aquis and Time, was presented in front of the whole school with a shiny crimson badge, on it was written ¡°Magic Security Team¡±.


    ¡°So, from today onwards, please avoid using Magic in the school grounds unless it is a fixed battle or a practise session. If any of you failed to adhere to the rules, the Magic Security Team is allowed to intervene the situation and stop any of you using magic.¡±


    We left the stage and went back to our respective classes.


    ¡°Now, we have something important to announce. Because of the recent incident and various other reasons we have decided to organize a school camp. Our intention of the camp is to reinforce your knowledge on the Magical world and to stabilize your magical skills. As this is a school event, we will¡­¡­¡±


    ¡°Innight, what do you intend to do in the camp? You are already knowledgeable and strong.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m also part of the organizer of the entire camp. I will be the one teaching about Magic and overseeing the whole event. Of course, I will participate in some of the activities for fun.¡±


    The days passed quickly. The day for the start of the camp finally arrived.


    Our first stop of the first day is what humans called Area 51, we travelled using a large dimensional portal that the teachers set up, and I travelled along with Nightius to help out with him. We explored the inner region of the Area and learnt about the works of other creatures in the Existence.


    Of course, there are bound to be some troublemakers and they played around with some of the strange equipment. They caused some of the regions of Area 51 to be connected to some other regions, and that made me deduce that the equipment causes space distortion. We had to use magic to break the space distortion to prevent anything else from accessing the Area. We end up apologizing to the people in charge of Area 51. Even though they mentioned they expected it to happen, I cannot help but to scold the students that played with the equipments.


    The next place we visited is within a Rift of alternate dimensions, it is a museum of magical items. We taught the students about the power of such artifacts and the danger of using such things. We also get the chance to handle and use some of the weaker and less dangerous artifacts. Again, some of the students, in fact, the exact same ones that caused trouble before tried to access the other artifacts.


    They even tried to break one of the artifacts containing the soul of an Ancient Beast. Luckily we managed to find them and stop them before they attempted to do so. We gave them another scolding and I was tasked to overlook them.


    We then went to book in at a hotel located in the Elemental Realm. The whole school have lunch there. After lunch, we broke up the students according to class, and 2 teachers follow each class. I¡¯m one of the supervisor so I am not assigned to any class, but since I¡¯m supposed to help out Aquis, Time and Luthriel I volunteered to follow the class us four are in.


    Our class followed seven other classes and entered the Water Elemental Plane. Everyone was warmly welcomed and the Creatures of Water showed us around the Plane. We had interesting activities prepared by the Creatures of Water, like solidifying and liquidifying objects with Water, creating life with Water, and using water to form other elements. As a farewell gift, all of us were allowed to keep a Seal of Water, which allows us to call upon a Water Spirit. We then gathered at the hotel as the night rolls in, the crimson moon of magic rose upon the horizon as the cyan sun of magic sets below the horizon.


    ¡°Did everyone enjoyed themselves?¡±


    ¡°YES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!¡±


    ¡°Good. All of you will have the chance to visit all the Elemental Planes except the Elemental Plane of Void, which we have not received permission for. Have fun and learn as much as possible, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience being with the Creatures of the Elemental Plane, do not waste it.¡±


    ¡°Understood!¡±


    ¡°Now have your dinner and go to your rooms. Tomorrow you will get to visit another Elemental Plane for the whole day, enjoy yourself to the fullest. Remember, lights off at midnight and don¡¯t use magic here!¡±


    ¡°Yes!¡±


    ¡°Innight, what is our schedule for tomorrow?¡±


    ¡°A secret. If you beg enough I might tell the three of you.¡±


    ¡°PLEASE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~! ¡°


    ¡°Alright. Tomorrow do not show off your water spirits, we are visiting the Fire Elemental Plane. You should know that they are enemies of each other, so do not show any water magic in front of them. I will remind all of the class tomorrow about this.¡±


    Then came the dinner and bath time. There were some argues during dinner time about the separation of food, as some people demanded more servings while others demanded lesser. I have to step in and resolve the issue of separation.


    Then there are boys who tried to sneak near the girls baths during bath time. I had to give them a long lecture about being respectful to the girls, I cannot believe I have to teach these boys like little children about a topic like this.


    At around 1 in the morning, I was woken up by the staffs of the hotel. Apparently there was a fight between the elements in the area nearby the hotel, and we have to set up a barrier in case they try take the fight into the hotel. I was forced to stay up the rest of the night and keep an eye on the elementals fighting there and alert the other teachers if they come near, luckily nothing happened.


    Breakfast time came. At that time the fight has already ceased, and I felt tired as I don¡¯t even have the chance to sleep at all. Another fight broke out during breakfast time on the same topic of food distribution, I allowed the other teachers deal with the situation.


    ¡°Alright, everyone, please follow your teachers to the assigned Elemental Plane for the day. Please behave yourselves and do not use magic!¡±


    ¡°Yes~~~~~~~!¡±


    I took the class with Aquis, Time and Luthriel towards the Fire Elemental Plane. We were warmly welcomed by the Creatures of Fire, and we first were let to visit the Pillar of Fire that fuels the fire in the Elemental Plane of Fire. We were then allowed to have a look at the lair that the Ancient Beast of Fire once lived in. Before we had lunch, we were shown around and allowed to read some of the materials in their Forbidden Library.


    We then had fire based food for lunch, it was spicy and it burned my mouth for every spoon I eat but I know I couldn¡¯t ask for water to cool it down. I secretly use water spell in my mouth to cool it down instead. I felt bad for the others as they don¡¯t know how to do that and unless they love spicy food, they would find this experience torturous.


    After that horrendous lunch we went on further touring around the Elemental Plane of Fire. We even had the chance to meet the Grand Ruler of Fire, which gave us each a piece of Fire essence as a gift. We then left for the hotel soon after.


    The same routine occurred for the rest of the day, everyone had dinner at the hotel and people fought over the food. I have to catch another few group of boys sneaking towards the girls¡¯ room during bath time, and I have to force a sleeping spell on some boys who were still active past midnight.


    The next day passed quickly. We visited the Wind Elemental Plane and received a Bag of Winds as a gift. The same few things that happened the days before happened again and I¡¯m starting to get a D¨¦j¨¤ vu feeling that everything in the morning and night kept repeating itself.


    ¡°Time, Luthriel, Aquis, tomorrow we are visiting the Light Elemental Plane. Do be wary of your surroundings and do not let anyone know that we work for the Darkness Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°Roger that.¡±


    The next day came quickly. The guards of the Entrance of the Light Elemental Plane warmly welcomed everyone but I can feel the guards staring at me and whispering something behind my back. I know that Luricerite has already showed every creature in the Light Elemental Plane about my existence as I¡¯m considered as a dangerous unit to them.


    It is a dangerous move to enter the Light Elemental Plane but Nightius has told me I would be safe, Luricerite will not do anything as he has signed a contract of promising safety. That makes me wonder how he got the contract to be signed since Nightius couldn¡¯t have went to the Darkness Elemental Plane alone.


    First we were led to the Tower of Light. We have the opportunity to meet Luricerite, which is a bad move for us.


    ¡°Welcome, children of the Physical Realm, to our glorious Light Elemental Plane!¡± Luricerite¡¯s voice rang down the long hallway in his throne room.


    ¡°We are pleased to meet you, Grand Ruler of Light, Lord Luricerite.¡± The teacher accompanied with me greeted him.


    ¡°A good day to you, Luricerite.¡±


    ¡°Well, well, well. If it wasn¡¯t The Piece. I have been informed to not take action against anyone here, so I will not create a scene here. However this does not mean I will allow you to perform any of your acts here. I will keep an eye on you as long as you are here. The same goes for your friends within the crowd.¡±


    ¡°You need not worry about that.¡±


    ¡°Now, children, I have a gift for all of you, it is a feather from the wing of an Archangel. It will provide you the protection of Light.¡±


    A general of Light came forward and gave everyone, including myself, a feather, I kept it in a pocket.


    ¡°If any of you wished to join The Light Elemental Plane in the future, bring the feather along and I will grant you a high position in the Plane. Now if you will please excuse me, I have other work to do.¡±


    Luricerite waved at all of us and disappeared into a portal. We went a tour around the Tower of Light and taught about the long history of how Light Elemental Plane came about, and the records of the endless battle between Dark and Light. Of course, all of these were stories that were twisted accordingly to shape Light into the hero of the story. The students were taught accordingly to the truth of the story so they should be able to distinguish that this stories here were a biased one.


    Or at least that is what I thought it to be.


    We were then led to visit the Armoury, which showcased all their different weapons. I see many of the student¡¯s eyes shone, but all of these are common to me as I have fought and saw all these weapons at least once before.


    Next is lunchtime. We were seated at a long table in the Heavenly Palace. A chef accompanied us at the table, he had white feathered wings growing out behind his back so he must be an angel. Food were served to us in separate dishes, all of them were delicacies that I have not seen before. I hate to admit it, but they taste far better than our own special dishes in Darkness Elemental Plane.


    After the lunch, we headed to a special location they called it as ¡°Labyrinths Cube.¡± They said that they are having a game with us inside this place. Apparently they have placed a Seal of Light in the middle of the Labyrinths Cube and whoever gets to the centre of the cube first gets the prize.


    From what the Creatures of Light organizing the event said, this entire cube is a maze-like labyrinth. Once you enter the labyrinth it is hard to get out again, as the maze continuously change as time passes. What makes this Cubs dangerous is not the constantly changing appearance of the maze, the real danger is the players inside will undergo distortion themselves, in both Time and space wise. Anyone inside will age differently depending on which side of the cube and the distance of the player from the centre of the cube, and according to the same conditions, the person in the Cube will also come under the effect of molecular manipulation. This can be a dangerous game if I and the teachers are not around to reverse the effect of the Cube.


    We spent the entire evening playing the game. Time has the advantage playing this game as she can summon numerous clones of herself, so it was no wonder that she was the first to reach the centre of the Cube and won the game. I and the accompanied teacher had to heal a couple of students that were affected by the Cube¡¯s magic. The Creatures of Light that guards the Cube certainly have a good laugh on the reactions the students have when they finally emerged from the Cube itself.


    After the game in the Cube, we went for one last visit to the Magical Centre of the Plane. We saw how the Creatures of Light experimented with new magic spells in the Centre. For some of the rooms, I, Time, Aquis and Luthriel is not allowed to enter as we are members of the Darkness Elemental Plane, which I can perfectly understand. We then left for the hotel soon after.


    ¡°Alright, tomorrow is the last day of the school camp. Everyone, please remember we have a reflection after the entire camp, so please reflect upon this entire school camp and tell us where should we improve it so we can tweak it for future generations.¡±


    ¡°Yes~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!¡±


    Finally the day I was waiting arrived: The visit to Darkness Elemental Plane. I can finally show them around the Plane that I have devoted myself my whole life in, I can also sense the excitement that Time, Aquis and Luthriel is hiding. We approached the gates of the Darkness Elemental Plane. Master Inoxion and his other 24 Lord¡¯s statuette situated at the front of the gates greeted us.


    As the gates of the Darkness Elemental Plane opens, I saw Lord Inoxion standing right in front, giving everyone a big bow.


    ¡°Welcome, everyone, to the Elemental Plane of origins, The Darkness Elemental Plane!¡±


    I heard some other mumblings from the students. They have been brainwashed after the wrongs teachings given by the Creatures of the Light Elemental Plane yesterday, so they would be questioning the truth and reliability of master Inoxion. Master Inoxion will have a plan to deal with that later.


    ¡°I¡¯m Lord Inoxion, the Grand Ruler of the Darkness Elemental Plane. I have taken a free day off to guide all of you around my Plane, please enjoy yourself around.¡±


    The first location of the tour is the Castle of Darkness in the middle of the Darkness Elemental Plane. Master Inoxion went through the Art Gallery in the Castle and explained the history of the Darkness Elemental Plane. There were questions raised against Master Inoxion about the real truth, they explained that Creatures of Light told them about their side of the story. Master Inoxion rebutted the argument that Light has always been an enemy of Darkness and they will twist the truth in order to shape themselves as the ¡°Good¡± character.


    The students nodded. Whether did they internalize the information is another matter altogether, but what Master Inoxion did is sufficient, for now.


    We then went to our Magical Armoury. Different from the Light¡¯s armoury, instead of magical weapons, ours is filled with bottle of different sizes, each having different contents.


    ¡°What are these? Grand Ruler of Darkness Elemental Plane?¡± One inquisitive student asked.


    ¡°Ah¡­ These are my proud creations of magic. We extract magic from The Void and condenses them into these liquid you see here. All these bottles contain spells that are condensed in their purest form, just one drop of the liquid is many, many times more effective than the spell being casted by any powerful mage. Only we, the members of the Darkness Elemental Plane knows how to do this. Light is capable is creating weapons from Magic, we Darkness are capable of using Magic to create more magic, that is, amplifying them.¡±


    ¡°Why don¡¯t the both of your Grand Rulers work together instead?¡±


    ¡°That, my dear child, has a complicated reason behind it. If you have listened closely to the lesson I have gave just now on the history of the Darkness Elemental Plane, you would have realised that we never start out any attacks on any other Elemental Planes, but Light has always been the ones starting a war against us. If you want to know more about it, you can learn more if you intend to work for our Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°But we heard that you are evil.¡±


    ¡°Ah, of course people have this misconception that Darkness is evil. This is incorrect. Evil operates on a different Realm from us. If you have no idea, there is another Realm that exist within the Existence. That is what we call as the Astral Realm. In there is where the Mana Elemental Plane and many other Planes of Energies, lies. We currently have no access to this Realm but the things within that Realm are capable to reach ours. Evil lies within there as well and we have no connections to it.¡±


    Then we had lunch. After having tasted the dishes yesterday from the Light Elemental Plane I secretly told Master Inoxion about it. Master Inoxion told me that he has plans to deal with it, which made me wonder what he is up to.


    ¡°Now, children of the Physical Plane, I need you to understand the basis of our Elemental Plane. Different from Light Elemental Plane, everything in this plane is made of Magic. Hence, I have to seek your understanding that your lunch will not be of anything that you can actually view as edible. Rest assured, they still perform the same function as any other Physical food substance and taste similarly as well.¡±


    The elementals came in and served us lunch. The first was a plate with purple glob.


    I knew that is going to happen. We never had any pretty looking dishes in the past and I doubt Master is going to retrench the chef and replace it in such short notice.


    Then an alarm sounded. It interrupted us in our middle of having lunch. I knew what is happening but the others do not. Master Inoxion clapped his hands, the elementals immediately withdrew from the room.


    ¡°I¡¯m afraid I have to leave you children to yourselves for a few moments. Let Innight explain to you what is happening now. Now if you please excuse me.¡±


    ¡°Innight? What is this?¡±


    Everyone in the room, except Aquis, asked me.


    I sighed. I should have seen this coming.


    ¡°The Creatures of The Void! It is time to reawaken our ruler! He has been sealed into the body of a mere human but we will find him!¡±


    A huge roar came from the audience, a huge crowd of Creatures of The Void, all black and transparent.


    ¡°Today we shall storm the Castle of Darkness! We will find him back and reawaken him from the human he is!¡±


    Another roar came from the crowd.


    ¡°And we shall slay him! For he is no longer worthy!¡±


    More roars came.


    ¡°So now, let us go! TO THE CASTLE OF DARKNESS WE MARCH!¡±


    ¡°So there is an invasion in the Darkness Elemental Plane now?¡±


    ¡°Yes. I am 99% sure that it is another daily attack by the Light Elemental Plane. They do this every day without fail, attacking us during sunrise, noon and sunset every day.¡±


    An elemental rushed into the room.


    ¡°Innight! Lord Inoxion wants to meet you, right now! Emergency!¡±


    ¡°All of you, STAY IN HERE! Master does not call for me unless it is really an emergency. The situation outside is likely to be dangerous and by moving outside, the invaders are likely to treat you as one of us and will attempt to slaughter you. I will set up a barrier around here.¡±


    I took up a magic booster from the assisting teacher and carried it with me outside. I pulled along with me the Darkness Elemental.


    ¡°Bring me to Master Inoxion!¡±


    ¡°Yes sir!¡±


    Master was at the top of the Castle.


    ¡°You are dismissed now, Elemental.¡±


    The elemental retreated back into the depths of the darkness of the Castle.


    ¡°What did you call me here for, Master?¡±


    ¡°Something strange is happening. Look over to the right, at the artificial Void Elemental Plane.¡±


    I looked over the direction Master Inoxion is pointing at. Creatures of The Void is pouring out from there and attacking our Creatures of Darkness.


    ¡°That cannot be right. The last time I visited the Void Elemental Plane there isn¡¯t that much Creatures of The Void. Also, we have locked down on their weapons to prevent them attacking us.¡±


    ¡°Right you are, Innight. The thing is, I have discovered a portal in the deeps of the Void Elemental Plane. I suspect it is connected to the real Void Elemental Plane, the real Void Elemental Plane that lies within The Gap. We need to discover the reason behind their invasion and shut off the portal.¡±


    ¡°Alright, so what should I do?¡±


    ¡°Innight, I need you to awaken your powers. Can you turn into your original form? I suspect that they would listen to the original Grand Ruler and will hopefully stop the invasion.¡±


    ¡°I can try.¡±


    I shapeshifted into my Zealus form.


    ¡°Good. I need you to show yourself to those Creatures of The Void ad find out their reason for invading us. If possible, command them to stop the invasion.¡±


    ¡°Alright.¡±


    I flew out to the middle of the battlefield. The battles stopped suddenly and the Creatures of The Void all cried ¡°It is him! Our Grand Ruler!¡±


    ¡°May I ask a question to all my servants there?¡±


    ¡°Of course! Our Master!¡±


    ¡°Why are you fighting the Darkness Elemental Plane when you have swear complete obligation to the Darkness Elemental Plane?¡±


    ¡°Another ruler that took your place ordered us to! He wanted to slay you to become the new Grand Ruler of the Void Elemental Plane!¡±


    ¡°You say what?! Who dares to challenge me?¡±


    ¡°It is I!¡±


    A huge Creature of the Void appeared before me. A shot of Light arrow suddenly flew towards me without warning, just before it hit me someone appeared in front of me and took the shot instead.


    ¡°Luthriel!¡±


    ¡°I¡­ appeared¡­ just in time.¡±


    ¡°How did you¡­¡±


    ¡°I have prophetic vision. I can see¡­ into the future.¡±


    ¡°Why did you take the shot instead? You don¡¯t have the ability to alleviate Light! I¡¯m immune to Light based attacks like that!¡±


    ¡°That¡­ that is not the reason why. The arrow is dipped in poison. The poison can destroy magic.¡±


    I gasped. ¡°That means, you are¡­¡±


    ¡°Heh. Guess I¡¯m useful for something after all. It is great to have met you, Innight, and experienced everything together. It is time. For me to leave.¡±


    After he finished speaking he disintegrated into dark particles and it flew away into The void.

 Chapter 4 - The appearance of Archangel

    Rage bubbled up within myself. My best friend, one that I could talk to, is gone forever. I saw one of the seals is gone as well. The amount of anger I felt cannot be described with words, my mind was set only to kill the Creature of The Void which shot the arrow.


    ¡°Tsk. Missed. Well, never mind, I can always fire another one whenever I like. Now fight me, Zealus! Entertain me with your power!¡±


    ¡°I SWEAR I WILL KILL YOU!!! ABSOLETE: ANNIHILATION!¡±


    A magic circle with the symbol of Light appeared under the Creature of The Void. The other Creatures edged away from it, a huge beam of light emitted from the circle and devoured him. Its voice screams out the last words before it was completely obliterated:


    ¡°You have not seen the last of me, Zealus! I will destroy you one day and claim your position!¡±


    Eventually the entire Creature disintegrated.


    ¡°NOW THE LOT OF YOU GET OUT OF HERE BACK TO YOUR PLANE! IF I SEE ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN I WILL VANQUISH ANYONE WHO INVADES THE PLANE OF DARKNESS! ALSO TURN OFF THE PORTAL OR ELSE I WILL COMPLETELY OBLITERATE EVERYONE INSIDE THE PLANE!¡±


    The various Creatures of The Void quickly evacuated from the Plane of Darkness and back into their Plane of The Void. I sensed the portal being forcefully shut off. I flew into the Plane to confirm that they did not leave a crack of the portal being left. The entire audience of the Creatures separated like Moses walking through the Red Sea as I flew across the Plane. I found no evidence of any trace of the portal left.


    ¡°NOW ALL OF YOU BE SILENT AND FOLLOW YOUR CONTRACTS! IF SUCH A THING HAPPEN AGAIN I WILL DESTROY EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU HERE! WITH THE ACUTAL ELEMENTAL PLANE AS WELL!¡±


    Then I returned to the Castle of Darkness. Master is waiting for me at the top of the towers.


    ¡°I see what you did there. Great job clearing up the mess. Now we should return to the dining room and continue your lunch.¡±


    ¡°We should, yes. It is sad that we have a sacrifice but I guess it cannot be avoided. I will stay in this form until we leave the plane just in case the Creatures of The Void tries to stir up trouble once more. I suspect that the Creature you have saw who caused all this trouble has more of his followers within the plane who will take up his position and stir up trouble in the near future. With me around, though, they should not take any stupid moves.¡±


    When we reached the dining room, it is in a state of mess. The students were running around and casting various spells around the room, the accompanying teacher has collapse in a corner, unconscious, for unknown reasons, but I suspect she possible came into contact with a stun spell. Master Inoxion clapped his hands, all the spells froze in space.


    ¡°Now, now, children, let us not get too excited. This is not a battleground where you are supposed to fight everything you encounter. Now let us continue your lunch which has been interrupted.¡±


    The students focused their attention not on Master, but on someone else. That is Me. Possibly because they saw my transformed form, which has signified nothing but trouble before.


    ¡°It would be better that I stay in this form because of reasons, why is it so you all do not need to know. Anyway, why did Luthriel left the room?¡±


    ¡°Oh yeah, where is Luthriel? He told us that he is going to the toilet.¡±


    ¡°That idiot¡­¡­ He¡­¡­ would not be returning. Something¡­¡­. Unfortunate¡­¡­.. Happened and his soul took off to the Death¡¯s Realm. We will suffer from a loss of someone with connections to the Darkness Elemental Plane and a good magic user. May he be reborned as someone with the same potential in the future.¡±


    We continued the lunch in silence. No one dared to speak a word, even Master remained silent through the entire duration of lunch, and the silence is only slightly disrupted by the footsteps of the Darkness Elementals walking into the room and leaving. Before lunch ended, Master whispered to me:


    ¡°Innight, we will be performing a funeral for him. It will be conducted at this night, at 12 midnight. You are invited, but not forced, to attend. He is an important piece on the Chessboard, on Board 1, as the Bishop, since he can see into the future.¡±


    ¡°I wouldn¡¯t be attending. I still need to keep the students in check. Also, it pains me to see his picture anywhere.¡±


    ¡°I understand. I will inform Necrov about him and find a time for you to talk to his soul.¡±


    Master stood up and clapped his hands, 12 Darkness Elemental gathered in the room, each carrying a different artifact on a tray.


    ¡°Now, my children, we have a gift for you, but only 12 out of the 26 of you, excluding Innight, Aquis and the teacher, will get them. You must be thinking of getting them now, I expect. Now, had it been other Planes, the way to choose it is through a battle of death, I do not favour that kind of method. I prefer using much calmer and less primal method. This is how I will choose the children getting the artifacts¡­¡­¡±


    All 29 of us stood in front of the huge door that master has led us to.


    ¡°Alright, my children, this is my personalised Dungeon, which I like to call it the Infinity Dungeon. I have placed the artifacts throughout the dungeon. You have to fight off the monsters that spawns in this dungeon naturally and navigate through this dungeon using your brains. Be warned, I have traps that is placed all around this dungeon so if you trigger a trap, it will deduct your hp bar as shown on your golden bracelet I have just given you. Once the hp bar reaches zero, you will be automatically teleported back to this starting point. Now, once you go through the door, the game starts. You have 5 hours, have fun inside!¡±


    In just less than 3 minutes, Time came out of the dungeon safely, on her hand she carried a stopwatch made of Dark Matter. No surprises here, since she can make use of her clones and try out all the paths of the dungeon, and since she is a user of Time and Shadows, she will seek out the artifact that has relation to Time and Shadows.


    ¡°What does this artifact do?¡± Time asked Master Inoxion.


    ¡°You have good eyes, Time. That artifacts enhances one¡¯s control over Time itself and it is powered by Dark Matter, which also grants the user to manipulate Dark Matter itself, which is scattered throughout the Existence. You can keep it for your own usage, Time.¡± Master explained.


    By the end of the 5 hours, only 7 out of the 12 artifacts were taken. The rest of the students either failed to reach the location of the artifact on time or they ran out of health to continue.


    ¡°Well, my children, this is the end of the tour around our Darkness Elemental Plane. I hope you have found this experience to be as fruitful and interesting as I do. Please do consider joining forces with out Plane when it is time for you to diverge in your study. We even offer study in the Void Elemental Plane, since we are connected to it. Remember though, you will need to fight off invasions of Light everyday if you do intend to join us in the future. Goodbye for now, my children!¡±


    Master Inoxion waved goodbye at us in front of the gates that stood on the border of the Darkness Elemental Plane. The students who had the artifacts were excited and begin trying out their newly gained powers. I have to put a temporary seal on all of the artifacts to prevent them from using their powers too often.


    ¡°Alright, students! This is the last night of your camp! You should have gathered enough information about the Planes you wished to work for in the near future. We hoped you have enjoyed yourselves as well. Remember that you need to go to sleep at midnight and don¡¯t use magic!¡±


    At midnight, my seals activated again and reseal my true power. I heard many sounds coming from the Darkness Elemental Plane, which is the nearest Plane to our hotel. That is probably originating from the funeral Mater Inoxion was talking about. I couldn¡¯t sleep with all the sound ringing nearby from the Plane, so I decided to have a walk around the hotel. As I walk down the corridor of the 2<sup>nd</sup> floor Girls dormitory, I found Time walking there.


    ¡°Couldn¡¯t sleep, Time?¡±


    ¡°Well, yes and no. I¡¯m intending to recall my True self from within the other universe in another Timeline. Do you want to see how I truly am like, Innight?¡±


    ¡°Well I don¡¯t have anything to do right now, so why not?¡±


    ¡°Alright then, I have to warn you though, my true self isn¡¯t what you consider as pretty and sane.¡±


    I stayed silent while Time stood still in the room with her magic circle, in the form of a clock inscribed with roman numerals, tick under her. The hands of the clock slowly wound from 3 (III) to 12 (XII). When both hands of the clock reached 12, the clock opened up a dark portal and swallowed Time. A girl with an orange frilly dress rose out of the portal. She looked at me, I saw her right eye is a normal red tinted eye, but what that is out of place is her left eye. Her left eye holds an inorganic golden clock, complete with the both hands.


    ¡°Now what do we have here? An image of the Grand Ruler of The Void? How splendid.¡± She spoke.


    ¡°You can call me so, Time. Now may I know why did you call your true self into this Universe when you have never done so?¡±


    ¡°Tonight is a special night. A night where the gatherings of strange creatures galore from various sources from the Existence. I am the organizer and the party will not end until I allow Time to flow again.¡±


    ¡°When did you stop the Time?¡± I suddenly realised Time has stopped flowing.


    ¡°Ah, that is a great secret. You should not ask a woman her secrets¡­Zealus.¡±


    ¡°What is this party that you mention? I have not heard of anything like this before. And how did you know of my true name?¡±


    ¡°That, my dear friend, is because you are frozen in Time itself whenever the party starts. You were not as powerful before as now, the power you have now allows you to resist my power of control over Time.¡±


    ¡°I have asked this before, I will ask this again. How did you come to know about me?¡±


    ¡°I lived for as long as you do, for many eternities and undying no matter how long Time passes. On one occasion of the Existence recreation, I found you destroying Existence itself. Since I can read the Timeline from the past to the future, I figured out you are as the same as I do, even much more power, but basically have same powers, which is control over Time. I have always been alone since nothing can resist my immense power over Time itself so when I found you, I figured that you can be my friend. However before I can reach out to you, you left. You were sealed by the Ancient Magic of The Void and I find that you were reborned as an ordinary human. So I decided to find you, now it finally happened. Do you accept me, Zealus?¡±


    Loneliness. She is trapped in the prison known as Loneliness. This is the same prison I was trapped with as well. I was lonely because of my immense power as Zealus and Creatures of The Void is the only living object that I interact with. Even as human I carried along myself with bad luck and it follows me wherever I go, this caused me to not be able to have any friends for my social circle. I perfectly understand the feelings of one who is locked within such a prison, so I can empathize with her.


    ¡°Of course I agree to your request, Time.¡±


    A smile sprouted on her face.


    ¡°I am eternally grateful for you, Zealus!¡± She hugged me and begin crying.


    ¡°Now, what about your party? Where is it held and how long do you intend to last it for?¡±


    Time did not answer, she continued crying in my arms. I pat her head softly to calm her down. It has been a while since I had contact with another girl, so I am slightly troubled and have little idea of calming her down. Her crying soon subsided and she looked up at me with her odd eyes of hers.


    ¡°There now, my dear girl, you are no longer alone now. Now do you mind telling me about your party?¡±


    She wiped her tears away.


    ¡°Yes, about that. You are to come with me to the party, since you are now connected to me. Together we will dance in the party until we are satisfied, to the ends of Time!¡±


    She then vanished.


    ¡°Oh, I will come to pick you up later, Zealus, for now let me construct the party room and invite our other guests first!¡±


    Is that Time acceleration? I thought to myself. I continued my little walk around the hotel, seeing everyone frozen in Time. Just how big is her field of time control? Then I remembered the artifact she has received from Master Inoxion. That might have increased her capability of magic. A hand suddenly grabbed me from a portal that just appeared and pulled me into it. When I was through the portal, I saw the hand belongs to Time, and we are at the middle of a blackened room.


    ¡°Welcome, Zealus, to my Party room, created as a separate dimension separated from any Universes and Timelines. Everyone here, say hello to Zealus!¡±


    ¡°H¡­Hello, Grand Ruler of The Void Elemental Plane, Zealus.¡±


    ¡°Hello to everyone. I am currently in human form as I am still placed under the seals of Ancient Magic of The Void.


    I cannot see any Creatures in the Darkness itself but I can sense them. From the source of their mana flow, most are from various Elemental Planes, others are mages from other Universes, signified by their abnormal mana flow.


    ¡°Now then, everyone, please enjoy yourselves to the maximum. Remember, this party can last for as long as I intend it to last.¡±


    ¡°Yeah~~~!¡±


    A gathering of people sat in the middle of the artificial Void Elemental Plane.


    ¡°One of our members failed us. This is atrocious. We cannot afford to lose any more members just because we are not careful in our plans. Our machinery is not fully functional as well so we cannot activate it for our plans. Everything is failing and falling apart, we need help to ensure the machine is done before Zealus activates himself again.¡±


    ¡°Leader, so what should we do now, while waiting for the machine to be complete?¡±


    ¡°We should consider the option of reliving all of his seals for now as the most important job. It is the perfect time to slowly draw out his inner-self to proceed with the current plan.¡±


    ¡°Power grid wise?¡±


    ¡°We have to abandon it. We will find another method to do so. We will meet again the next time the moon is full again. Number 9, prepare a funeral for number 6. We will attend it during our next meeting. Let us disband now.¡±


    We had a great time in the party. I get to meet people from the alternate dimensions and understand how magic in their dimension operates. I also get to interact with Creatures of other Elemental Planes, which allowed me to further understand how their Planes operates. During the whole duration of the party, Time grabbed onto me and refused to let go, this made us look like lovers. Well, not that it matters to me, it felt nice to have a girl clinging to you anyway. Warm, tender and fulfilling, it fills the endless Void that my heart contains.


    ¡°I hope all of you had enough fun for tonight! Look forward to our next meeting when the Planes align again!¡±


    After Time said these, a blinding light grew from the middle of the dark room and enveloped everything. After it faded I find myself and Time back at the corridors of the hotel again. I felt the Time is flowing once more. Time is still clinging onto me.


    ¡°Um, Time. You should really go back to sleep, also you should hide your true self.¡±


    ¡°I know, but later it shall be.¡±


    Time left my arms and walked towards the girls¡¯ dormitory, her orange frilly dress dragging out behind her, and she slowly melt into the shadows.


    I breathed out a sigh of relief.


    ¡°I cannot get used to how Time behaves sometime.¡±


    I continued walking down the corridor and listening for any sounds. I can still hear the faint murmuring and chanting from the Darkness Elemental Plane. I then reached the main lobby of the hotel. The staffs were all asleep and all was quiet. Suddenly something caught my attention. I have kept a good picture of how the hotel¡¯s main lobby is like because of my mistrust on this location since it has relation to the Light Elemental Plane. The grandfather clock in the room has been noticeably moved from its¡¯ original position. Also, the hands of the clock is not correct. My Time Crystal shows the time now is 12:35, however the hands of the clock both points at XII.


    I suspect something is going on under my notice. It may be just because the clock holds a hiding place for the staffs of the hotel but I do not fully trust them. All of them are Creatures of Light and thus I won¡¯t be able to trust them as much as I would if they are of other Elemental Planes. However to reveal the secret I will need more clues. I begin flipping around the notes the staffs have.


    Nothing. All the notes contains are daily records of activities in the hotel itself. There is nothing of the sort that mentions about the clock. I guess I will have to test it out myself, there is only so many combinations of the hands of the clock that I can try. I begin turning the hands of the clock, I have to put a spell to silent the clock to ensure it doesn¡¯t chime.


    When the hour hand of the clock reached V and the minute hand reaches XII, a clicking sound came from inside the clock. It begin moving itself in a circular motion around the room and spiralling inwards to the middle of the room. Once it reached the middle of the room the circular path the clock took all sank downwards into a stairway, taking down the clock as well into the Darkness of the stairway. The staffs stirred in their sleep and mumbled something. Hopefully they will not awaken before I figured out the secret of this clock.


    I walked down the stairways that just appeared. On the walls there were strange paintings. For some, it painted a picture of the Ancient Beast of Light, for others it painted the Grand Ruler of Light. All the paintings seemed to be painted for many eternities ago, and all paintings are moving. I continued gazing at the various paintings as I walked down the stairway. At the very end of the stairway, I felt a wall blocking my path. I can feel a spell casted over the wall so it must be a fake wall to cover up whatever secret that it is hiding.


    I instantly analysed the spell and broke it. The wall disintegrated. Behind the wall is a dark tunnel lit by white flames. I walked through the dark tunnel and at the end of the tunnel is something I never expected to see.


    At the end of the tunnel is a colossal room, decorated like a nest. Eggs of various size and shape surrounded the sides of the room. At the middle of the room a huge machine is overhanging, it seems to be pumping mana and magic into the eggs itself and sorting them out. Every few moments, a new egg pops out from beneath the machine and the machine arrange it to fit in the room.


    ¡°Right. Slowly back out¡­¡­¡± I told myself.


    Then the machine must have spotted me. For all of a sudden metal pipes and wires crept towards me. I casted a barrier and flew upwards, the metal pipes and wires flew upward and begin to surround my barrier. I start flying out of the room and up the stairs. When I flew out of the stairway the stairway begin retracting into the walls and the opening begin to close. The floor just managed to close in time before the wires managed to catch up to me. The clock rewound back to its¡¯ original position.


    I was stunned at the situation. My breath was quick and sharp. What was that? I thought to myself. That was not something that I have ever known. That is definitely a plan by Light since all the paintings there are associated with Light, but why? And what is their intention behind those things? It looks like those eggs hide Creatures inside, but what exactly? Time is running short. I need to report to Master before Time runs out.


    Then the clock chimed 6 times. The staff awoke from their sleep.


    ¡°Ah, what is it that you are doing here, The Piece?¡±


    ¡°Nothing. Just having a walk around the zone.¡±


    They cannot be trusted. This entire hotel has a secret to be unfolded. I need to uncover it as soon as we can, I do not trust what that is hidden underneath here to be safe.


    I hurried back to the gathering point for the entire school. I¡¯m still shocked by secret hidden under the hotel. Everyone has already gathered and the Principle is delivering the speech.


    ¡°¡­And so, we conclude our 5 day trip to our Elemental Plane. I hope everyone have figured out which Elemental Plane they intend to work for in the future. Now we shall dismiss everyone by level and class.¡±


    I returned back to my class of 3-A. Time, with her usual school uniform, was standing beside Aquis.


    ¡°Time,¡± I whispered. ¡°You are using your clone self and hiding your true self again, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°Right.¡± She whispered back.


    ¡°Good.¡± I continued. ¡°Something big is about to happen, sometime in the near future. I need you to keep yourself safe before then.¡±


    We board the bus and travelled back to school. When I went back to my room, I found an envelope waiting for me on my bed. It was a white envelope, I tore open the envelope, and inside it was a letter with a small and white circular object. I took a glance at the sender. It was from Luthriel.


    Strange. I thought. He should be dead and unable to interact with the Physical realm and his soul should still be bound to the Death Realm. How did he send me a message?


    I begin reading the letter.


    Innight. If you are reading this it is highly likely that I am dead and my soul is captured by the Light Elemental Plane. I need you, first, is not to inform anyone about it. My soul is likely to be held captive in one of the experimental chambers. If anyone finds it they will destroy all evidence of the chamber and you will never know what they are actually planning behind. You might be wondering how I knew all this, this is one of the few reason I sent you this letter. I will arrange the content of this letter in this manner: How I knew this, why did I approach you and claimed to protect you, and how did I send this letter to you.


    Firstly, how I knew this. Before I got myself involved in all the mess of the battle of the Darkness and Light Elemental Plane, I am actually an Angel in the Light Elemental Plane. This may sound something shocking to you, but I am tasked to overlook you under human form, and I lost my status as an angel when I failed to help out in the operation to flush you out from the school population. I have grown to be fond of you so I didn¡¯t want to hurt you, because I know what they have in store for you once they have captured you. I was stripped of my power and became a normal human. That is how I came to join the ranks of the Darkness Elemental Plane since I decided to join your side to help you out instead.


    Next, why I am helping you out. The Light Elemental Plane has set up a plan to resurrect the Creator on their side. They have discovered the site of the death of Creator, I lack of the authenticity to have access to the knowledge of where the site is, so you have to figure that on your own. They are currently uncovering the remains of the Creator and have a plan to recreate it in the form of Light. However, they are currently lacking of a few things to put their plan into action. They lack of enough power, magic and mana to reassemble and awaken the Creator and they also lack of the knowledge to reassemble the pieces together.


    They only know of very few Creatures that have such immense power to do so, hence their first target is you. You have the knowledge of the Existence over many eternities and you have immense power, though sealed. You are currently in human form so they can easily capture you without any problems. They intend to capture you, then either convince you to turn to their side, or forcefully use magic to convert you to their side, so you can contribute to their plan and make their plan a successful one. You must quickly regain your powers, Innight. Just moments before I write this letter, I have secretly visited the experimental chambers and found that they have succeed without your help. They have already constructed a robot that have the powers of the Creator that can create any Creatures it is programmed to. They are about to launch an all-out war against the Darkness Elemental Plane and only with your true power you are then able to stop it.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    Finally, how did I managed to send you this letter. I have contacted the Rulers of the Darkness Elemental Plane, to be precise, Nightius, to keep this for me. I have to conceal the letter with a white envelope and using a Purification Orb to prevent any Creatures of Light destroying this letter. I have told Nightius to send you this letter if I indeed get killed.


    You might not have known it, but Luricerite has secretly hidden many spies in the school itself. All instructed to keep an eye on you. Also, this is a rumour that I have overheard, but it seems that Luricerite is cooperating with the Rulers of the Void Elemental Plane, I do not know what his intent is, but it cannot be of good intention. Keep an eye out of things, I suspect more deaths will occur after me if you don¡¯t figure out how to defeat that monstrosity. Be safe.


    -Signed, Luthriel


    I knew something was on. That room I saw under the secret room must be the room that they kept their machine called ¡°Creator¡±. All those eggs are creations that the machine has created. Knowing Luricerite, that machine must not be the only one that they have. If they have discovered the remains of the Creator, they must be using it to sustain the continuous creation of the machines. My first objective is to first discover WHERE that place is. Discovering and disrupting their supply chain will first terminate the creation of the machinery. Only after I can stop their supply then I can figure out how to destroy them. The question is, how much time do I have left before the Light Elemental Plane attacks with their creations? Where is their first target?


    *knock knock*


    I hid the letter in my drawer.


    ¡°Come in.¡± I shouted.


    The door opened. Time and Aquis walked in.


    ¡°Innight, we have been informed that we are to shift our rooms to yours, starting from today.¡±


    ¡°HUH?! What kind of absolute nonsense about you sprouting?¡±


    ¡°That was an order by the Grand Ruler of Darkness Elemental Plane, Lord Inoxion. He is concerned with after the attack of Luthriel and he has received words that Luricerite has hidden many of his armies within this school itself. He is worried that we might be attacked by the Creatures of Light, hence he wanted us to be safe by letting us stay together.¡±


    ¡°Alright then. However I really need you to behave yourselves, you both are girls and being with the same room as I will guarantee problems, so please try to prevent showing that we are staying together.¡±


    ¡°Um, but it was announced just now over the System.¡±


    ¡°AH! THIS IS GOING TO BE TROUBLE!¡±


    The next day, instead of receiving stares from everyone in the school, there were excited about something. In front of the Noticeboard, a group of students gathered there. I¡¯m curious of what is there and I squeezed my way to the front of the Noticeboard. What that is attracting the attention of the students is a Notice. I begin reading it.


    ¡°After the trip to the Elemental Planes, we need the students to develop the potential to work for the Planes. As such, we are starting a system of Rankings in the school itself. How does it work? You are allowed to challenge students in the school anytime you wish to other than during lesson time. You can win the battle by destroying the school badge, or rendering the other side unconscious, or having them forfeit. Gain yourself fame and glory by winning the 1<sup>st</sup> place spot in the school! Students that enters the top 10 of the rankings will earn themselves a special dormitory room and royalty treatment. The higher your rank, the better your rewards! For starters, the rank now corresponds to how well you have performed academically, but it will be updated as soon as the first battle starts. Have fun and battle well!¡±


    I can feel all the eyes staring at me. I have the highest academic score at magic casting, potion brewing, and magic history and knowledge. Because of these, I will be the one holding the rank 1 position in the school right now. It wouldn¡¯t be long before someone challenges me to a battle.


    ¡°Innight! I challenge you¡­¡±


    ¡°No! I challenge you!¡±


    ¡°No, I¡­¡±


    ¡°No! ...¡±


    As I have expected.


    I ignored them and head for my class. Let them fight among themselves. I thought. I will need to drag this out as long as possible, in order to conserve mana and magic in case Light attacks.


    In that afternoon, 3 different individuals challenged me. I accepted them because I think need to showcase a fragment of my power to deter others from challenging me. I took all of them out in less than 5 seconds, and they all scrambled off in fear. Time and Aquis were both challenged as well and they won all the battles. At the end of the day, I still sat at the 1<sup>st</sup> place, Time sat on 2<sup>nd</sup>, while Aquis¡¯s position is around 200<sup>th</sup> to 250<sup>th</sup>.


    ¡°Time, you need to be wary.¡± I told Time when we get back to our room. ¡°I suspect this ranking system is more than what it is on the surface. Don¡¯t lose any battle.¡±


    ¡°No worries. I have control over Time, remember?¡±


    ¡°Right¡­¡±


    Our room is transformed into a king¡¯s bedroom when we returned. This must be the benefit for having the 1<sup>st</sup> place in the school itself. I don¡¯t know how the 2<sup>nd</sup> place is treated since Time and I are staying in the same room under the instruction from Master Inoxion.


    ¡°Innight, I challenged you!¡±


    ¡°This again? Lanette: Oblivion!¡±


    Small bullets of Void flew towards the school badges and broke it before the two girls could even react.


    ¡°Now off with you.¡±


    The girls ran away, crying.


    ¡°You too, Aquis, you are at the middle range of the ranking system. You should not get into trouble anytime sooner since there is still a long way to the bottom list. I have no idea what will happen to you if you reach the bottom of the list so don¡¯t lose your position. Avoid challenging others to keep your rank in check.¡±


    Some people crept near our room. I can hear them scratching against the door.


    ¡°Now what are the lot of you doing here? Challenging me?¡± I asked.


    The group trembled.


    ¡°N-no. We are challenging Aquis.¡±


    ¡°Whatever. Aquis, go ahead, it¡¯s your battle. Don¡¯t you dare to lose.¡±


    ¡°Yes sir.¡±


    In just a couple of moments the group of people were flung towards the wall of the corridor.


    ¡°Now if you excuse me. I need to continue my talk with Innight.¡± Aquis said.


    The group scampered off.


    ¡°Check your rank now, Aquis.¡±


    She took out a tabloid and turned it on and started swiping it. That tabloid was distributed to all of us this morning, it is used to check the rankings.


    ¡°Let¡¯s see. 250<sup>th</sup>.¡±


    ¡°You still have a long way to go, Aquis. Try to work your way up the ladder.¡±


    The night passed with ease.


    *The next day*


    ¡°So, Ms. Yuri, what is the Existence?¡±


    ¡°Good question, Foruis. If you have studied about humans¡¯ science you should have known about Omniverse, where it is the collection of all universe, including the true universe, the parallel universes, and the reverse universe. We-¡±


    We were in the middle of a science lesson when the explosion occurred. I immediately felt the presence of a spell casted by someone hidden under the explosion. The teacher fainted and all of the sudden the girls ganged up on all the boys, locking them under spells. Even Time and Aquis is under the influence of the spell. I floated upwards into the air and casted a powerful barrier around myself. The girls begin launching all kinds of spells but to no avail. Eventually they gave up and rounded up the boys and teleported them to somewhere. They then left the classroom.


    I need to find the source of magic. Most likely someone is manipulating with the minds and actions of the girls and causing them to act as such. The caster of the spell is also most likely rendering the teachers unconscious. It is my job as the leader of the magic Security Team to stop the source of magic. I first did a tracing of the magic, and it traced back to the 2<sup>nd</sup> floor classroom in the D-block, where the explosion occurred. I begin my teleport to there.


    When I arrived, I saw a beautiful girl sitting in a golden throne in the classroom. She has long sea-green hair, sea-blue eyes, a doll-like figure, she has a teddy bear in one of her hands and she is wearing a crown. She stroke her teddy bear she is holding and commented:


    ¡°Now, now, Freddy, no worries. The evil boys have been decimated.¡±


    ¡°Now, may I ask a question on what you are doing, my ¡®queen¡¯?¡±


    She looks surprised and looked around the room.


    ¡°Above you, ¡®Queen¡¯.¡±


    She looked up and found me.


    ¡°Why are you still alive? My cute servants, destroy this boy immediately!¡±


    A few girls rushed into the room and started firing spells towards me, but to no avail.


    ¡°Ah you stupid girls! Let me deal with this idiotic boy! Rewrite!¡±


    Suddenly I felt my mind is being attacked by strange ideas, I managed to block them out with my strong wave of magic. It appears she has mind influencing magic. This explains why she has control over the girls of the entire school.


    ¡°Why won¡¯t my magic go through? WHY?¡±


    ¡°You should know who I am. I¡¯m Innight, rank 1 of the entire school and the leader of the Magic Security Team. Little magic tricks like what you have just used has no effect over me.¡±


    ¡°Ah this is why I hate boys! All disgusting, annoying creatures! All boys are worthless, a sore to my beautiful eyes! Get out of my way, Innight! I want this school to be a place for beauties, not for disgusting creatures like you!¡±


    I shook my head.


    ¡°I afraid I cannot do so. It is my duty to preserve peace in the school and manage the correct usage of magic. You have violated the rules that the school have set so I am afraid that I have to lock you down.¡±


    ¡°You will not! Gabriel: Protection!¡±


    A blue barrier appeared around the ¡®Queen¡¯. I immediately realized she has the power of an angel. She must have associated herself with the Creatures of Light to gain such power. No matter, I can break through this kind of low level magic.


    ¡°Excrition: Insigma!¡±


    The barrier immediately shattered, yet the girls around her did not regain their senses. This meant her magic is on the level of an Archangel, which contains too much magic in order for Insigma to shut her down. This raises her danger level by a slight amount, but it is not so high that it becomes something I cannot deal with.


    ¡°Freddy, help me!¡±


    The teddy bear in her arms hop onto the floor and grew to human size. It begin firing spells, weapons and various other things towards me, but to no avail. All were disintegrated before they can touch me.


    ¡°Freddy, move away! Durandal!¡±


    A sword that shone so that I had to cover my eyes, appeared in her hands. It is decorated with jewels of Light and has feathers of Angel covered on the handle of the blade. That is Durandal, a holy sword that can only be used by Creatures that have their level of magic reach the level of an Archangel.


    ¡°Eden: Hymn of Light!¡±


    A huge beam of light that is emitted from the sword walloped me. I can feel the overwhelming amount of Light magic stored within this attack. However, no matter how strong she is, and no matter how powerful Durandel is rumoured to be, it cannot defeat me so easily, the Creator and Destroyed of Existence himself.


    ¡°Now that should erase this ill-mannered bug!¡±


    ¡°Or is it so, my ¡®Queen¡¯?¡±


    ¡°Why won¡¯t you just get rid of yourself, you¡­ piece of trash?¡±


    ¡°Why have you came to hate boys so much? They have not done anything wrong, granted, some are mischievous, but many are nice creatures.¡±


    ¡°Shut up! You are incurring impurities to my ears so much that you should deserve death right now!¡±


    ¡°Looks like you will not listen to reason. In the world of Magic, power speaks the most. I will show you where you actually stand against us.¡±


    I waved my hands over the entire group of girls and her Freddy. Immediately the girls went back to normal and her Freddy turned back to normal size.


    ¡°What just happened here?¡± One of the girls asked.


    ¡°All of you girls better move out of here. If everything goes well you are just going to see some casualties, if worst come to worst, you are likely to see bloodstains everywhere in your class. Don¡¯t scream, nothing has happened. Yet.¡±


    All the girls rushed out of the classroom, screaming.


    ¡°What HAVE YOU DONE?!¡±


    ¡°I broke all of your spells. That is an easy job for me. I am the Creator and Destroyer of Existence, my power is way stronger than all of the school population added together. Know your place, ¡®Queen¡¯. Now please stop all your controls over all the other girls in the school, if not I¡¯m afraid I have to fight you head on and render you unconscious to disable all your spells.¡±


    ¡°No way! I will rather die than to let the boys wander out here!¡±


    ¡°Then let me apologize in advance. Lanett: Phurilex.


    A ball of Void flew from my hands towards the girl. She attempted to cut it with her Durandal but with no effect. It grew and enveloped the girl.


    ¡°Now, you stay in here while I ask you some questions.¡±


    ¡°No way am I answering them! You will get nothing from me!¡±


    ¡°You know, I do not like to hurt girls. Girls are nice and beautiful creatures, sometimes acting a little spoiled like a princess, but that makes them cuter. I do not wish to hurt a cute creature as such, but if refuse to listen to reason, I have to treat you like an invader, I have to resort to using torture. I will tear out every single piece of living flesh from that body of yours if I have to. Since you force me to, I will do it.¡±


    ¡°What¡­ What do you intend to do to me?¡±


    ¡°Answer my questions, then I will not need to resort to violence and torture.¡±


    She looked on the ground for a few moments.


    ¡°Alright. Ask away.¡±


    ¡°My first question: Why did you lock up all the boys?¡±


    ¡°I never like the boys. I was always teased by them because of my beauty. Ever since young, I was bullied by them, they tainted my heart greatly and left a scar that will never be erased. I always wanted to erase boys form the world to prevent anymore incidents like me happening and to make the world a better place.¡±


    ¡°Do you even know that humankind need both male and female to co-exist in order for the survival of the species?¡±


    ¡°Huh?¡±


    I gave her a long lecture about the reproduction of humankind. Her face blushed when I finished the lecture.


    ¡°I¡­ I never knew. I always thought¡­¡±


    ¡°Now that has been cleared up, you should recognize the importance of males in the humankind society. Now, this may sound strange coming from me, but not all boys are as what you have seen. Granted, most are mischievous and childish, they love to inflict harm onto others and bring many problems to everyone, but not all are as such. I, myself, love to interact with girls. I think they are the most beautiful creatures of the entire Existence, and you know that I have seen many creatures due to my age and my true nature. Sadly, I¡¯m feared by others due to my immense power and of the status I hold. I only interact with one girl thus far, she is named Time. Granted, she isn¡¯t what other boys consider as a perfect girl, but to me she is wonderful. A girl, to me, is the greatest gift the Existence can bring to me.¡±


    ¡°So not everyone is trying to harm me?¡±


    ¡°Of course not, silly. What is your name?¡±


    ¡°Charlotte.¡±


    ¡°Well, Charlotte, somewhere down in life you will find someone who will be able to appreciate you. It will happen eventually, just ignore the others, I know you have been scarred by boys in the past, but remember, they are other who have suffered more than you did. Do you think I have a good past just because I have this great power? I fear I have to answer that it is not the case. Because I get to live for as long as Magic lives, I have seen many tragedies, went through rounds of betrayals, heartbreaks, isolations and many other tragedies. I have suffered much more than any other human have went through, I also had extremely bad luck with everything so failures come to me often. Believe me, it is not something that you will want to experience.¡±


    ¡°Really? You suffered so much?¡±


    ¡°I did. I reincarnate as human so many times that I have lost count the numbers of times I have went through hell. Every time it happens my heart dies a little inside, my minds lost its grasps on everything, it can even become so painful that I want to die. However, even with all that, I survived. Charlotte, you can survive through this. Remember, there will be someone that will be able to appreciate you for who you are, and are admiring you in secret. Even when it seems the world is against you, I am available for support.¡±


    Charlotte¡¯s face blushed, so did I. I cannot imagine that I said these words to a girl.


    ¡°So, uh, can you please let me go now?¡±


    ¡°Ah, sorry, Yes. In a moment.¡±


    I waved my hand over the ball of magic that surrounds Charlotte, immediately it shattered.


    ¡°You might want to clear up your throne, Charlotte. The teacher and the other students are already sneaking outside the door, eavesdropping everything we are saying here.¡±


    ¡°Huh? When did they?!¡±


    ¡°Just 4 and a half minute after I broke all your spells, the teachers have all awoken and the girls informed them about the situation here. They immediately rushed over here after that. No worries, teachers over there, I¡¯m just having a little chat with Charlotte. No form of bloodshed occurred here whatsoever. Can you all please leave us alone just a little longer?¡±


    A few shuffling noises occurred at the door. Then there was silence.


    ¡°Charlotte. I recommend you to work for the Darkness Elemental Plane. It is the Plane that I works for in my past Timelines. By working for them you can also get the chance to meet me more often. You can also meet my other friends that works with the Darkness Elemental Plane as well. They will not harm you, I can guarantee that.¡±


    ¡°I will consider this. Thank you for saving me, Innight.¡±


    ¡°No problem. That is my job as the leader of the Magic Security Team. It is also my responsibility as a man to save a girl from trouble. Drop by my room anytime you like when you want to have a chat with me.¡±


    I opened the door, a hill of students tumbled down into the room.


    ¡°All of you, I did mention that to not eavesdrop the conversation we have. Now I have to erase your memory.¡±


    ¡°Sorry! We don¡¯t really meant it! Please don¡¯t erase our memory! We swear that we are not going to mention a word to anyone!¡±


    ¡°Are you sure?¡±


    ¡°Yes!¡±


    ¡°Fine. I guess I will take your word for it. If I do hear any rumours spreading out in the school I will trace every single one of you down and erase you from Existence.¡±


    *Gulp* ¡°Yes sir.¡±


    I walked back to my classroom, only to realise Time and Aquis were pouting.


    ¡°Innight, when had you got into a relationship with another girl?¡± Time asked.


    ¡°I did not. Why are you making that face?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t you know why? I am the only girl you ever need in your life! Why did you gain yourself favour of other girls?¡±


    ¡°Huh?¡±


    That is when I found Charlotte sitting on my desk.


    ¡°Charlotte! Why are you here? You should be back in your class!¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m here for my support! Innight, lend me support! I cannot stand those boys in my class bullying me again!¡±


    ¡°Again? Here, I give you this.¡± I handled Charlotte a small blue crystal.


    ¡°What is this?¡±


    ¡°This is a Calling Crystal, you can use this to communicate with me. It can also project a person¡¯s image in the form of a hologram. If you need support, call me using the crystal, you can see me with that, try to avoid calling me during class though.¡±


    More gazes from the other students were directed towards me as I talked to Charlotte. That is most likely because of how pretty Charlotte is, she is just like a doll herself, so beautiful and fragile looking, with her height just reaching my shoulders. I should consider myself lucky for being able to attract such an adorable character.


    ¡°Thank you so much, Innight!¡±


    She then left the classroom.


    Break time came. I have to fight another wave of challengers who still failed to understand how weak they actually are. The same thing also goes for Time. If this continues we will have to fight everyone in the school once for them to properly understand how powerful we both are.


    ¡°Who in here is the bastard named Innight?!¡±


    That came from a girl with black hair with crimson red eyes, she looks similar to Charlotte and are of similar height, the only difference is her eye colour and hair colour.


    ¡°It is me.¡± I raised my hand. ¡°Another challenger?¡±


    ¡°How did you dare to interact with my sister?!¡±


    ¡°Eh, I don¡¯t even know what you are talking about. Wait¡­ are you the sister of Charlotte?¡±


    ¡°Yes, I am her younger sister, my name is Nicki! How dare you, a disgusting creature of male, touch her beautiful skin and move her delicate heart? I swear I will annihilate you!¡±


    ¡°I assume you are going with a challenge are you? Let me warn you that I still hold 1<sup>st</sup> place in the school and it has not changed despite waves of challengers fighting me.¡±


    ¡°That does not matter! I have the power of the Archangel! I will make you regret for your actions!¡±


    My eyebrows moved. Does this mean that Charlotte and this girl, Nicki, have connections to the Light Elemental Plane? I will have to find out this eventually.


    ¡°Let us begin, Zafkiel: Dreamite!¡±


    Everyone around me except Time crumbled to the ground. It appears to be a sleeping spell, causing others that are of lower magic power to fall asleep.


    ¡°Why?! Why did my power of the Archangel does not cause you to fall under my spell?¡±


    ¡°I have an incredible amount of power, unmeasurable by any standards. You do not need to know how did I get this power or where. Now your place, human. You are not comparable to me in anyway. Now, for the finishing move, Karok: Orbital Shriek!¡±


    A black arrow shot from my hands into the badge of Nicki. It instantly broke.


    ¡°Now that¡¯s the end of the battle. Please leave.¡±


    ¡°Y-Y-You haven¡¯t see the last of me. Heed my words, stay away from Charlotte!¡± She cried as she left.


    ¡°You just earned yourself more trouble by interacting with the girl, you should heed her advice and stay away.¡± Time said.


    ¡°Need not. The spell I just casted also cause everyone to be repelled from her and her spells are weakened by thousand fold. She would not be able to cause any more trouble after this. Also, I suspect Nicki is the one causing Charlotte more trouble than relieving it. Furthermore, both of them have Archangel powers, which are considered as very rare users as most human will not be able to hold the powers of an Archangel. I need to gather more information on how did they gain such powers. They might have, no, they definitely have, relation to Light Elemental Plane. I need to know their connections. They may have news that will be useful for us.¡±


    ¡°You are right when it comes to this type of things. Very well then. We also need information about the moves of the Light Elemental Plane.¡±


    Break time ended and lessons carried as normal. I went back to my room, Time and Aquis went to get their snacks. Then the group of boys that attacked me various time before appeared before my door.


    ¡°You, Innight, fight with us!¡±


    ¡°I have repeated this time and time again. I am not inclined to start a fight with any of you. Nor are you strong enough to fight against me at your current states.¡±


    ¡°Just SHUT UP AND FIGHT US!!!¡±


    A bolt of light flew towards me and I waved at it. The spell is then deflected back at the caster, stunning him.


    A barrage of spells flew around the room. I deflected all of them back to their respective casters. Blood begin to spill around the room. Apparently they ignored the few rules of the school of not using spells that can hurt others. Well, not that it matters, they cannot harm me.


    ¡°Damn it, why won¡¯t it hit? WHY WON¡¯T ANY OF THEM HIT?!¡±


    ¡°I am the Creation and the Destruction. My age is far longer than the Existence. My power is incomparable to anything you ever know. You will never be defeat me.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t make me laugh! There is no such thing in the entire Existence! No books have ever recorded anything like this and we have studied everything in the library!¡±


    ¡°You are still unknowledgeable. The library of our school does not cover everything. There are two libraries that contain the knowledge of the Existence, to which you have no access to. One, the Eternal Library, which is isolated from everything, and known to be floating within The Void of The Gap. Second, the Forbidden Library, which is located in the Darkness Elemental Plane. Any other libraries within Existence has much lesser knowledge covered by it. I have read through every book in both libraries, which made me much more knowledgeable than any of you here.¡±


    ¡°SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR I WILL END YOU HERE, INNIGHT! OUROBOROS!¡±


    My eyebrows raised a little. That is a forbidden spell and is not taught to any because it has a great cost when casted by the user. Not just that, the spell may backfire and be casted on the user instead.


    A magical circle with the symbol of Infinity appeared under myself, I felt my magic is begin placed under seals and strings of light bounded me to the ground, a dragon made of light then shot out from the circle and consumed me. The boss of the group begin laughing like a lunatic.


    ¡°FINALLY I WON! I DEFEATED THAT USELESS CASTER! NOW I CLAIM THE PLACE OF RANK 1 IN THE SCHOOL! I AM THE BOSS OF THE SCHOOL! I?¡°


    ¡°Do you really think it will end so easily?¡± I interrupted his announcements.


    ¡°WHAT?!¡±


    The dragon burst into pieces. The flesh disintegrated and I flew out of the crater the magical circle created.


    ¡°Ouroboros. The magic of Infinity, approaching the power of a Lord level Light spell. I have no idea you have the power to cast it, let alone to maintain the spell for more than a second. I sense a large amount of magic flowing from you, surpassing the level of the teachers around here. Who is backing you up?¡±


    ¡°I AM NOT OBLIGED TO TELL YOU ANYTHING! DIE! RAGNAROK!¡±


    ¡°It is time to put all this nonsense to an end. I do not wish to hurt anyone but you have no intension to do things peacefully. Your mind has also shattered which gives me no purpose to grant you mercy. Also, you are far too weak to perform Ragnarok. Destroyer: Shatter.¡±


    The magic circle that is slowly growing underneath the boss shattered and broke apart.


    ¡°DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!¡±


    He screamed as he casted all kinds of spells towards me, all were considered Lord Level spells. None of them even did a scratch on me. I did a scan on his brain, he has incurred permanent brain damage and has become a lunatic. If I do not kill him now he may become a problem in the future.


    ¡°You, The Boss, I do not know your name, or in fact, anything about you. However, your mind has completely shattered, and you no longer have the capability to perform as a normal mage. I have to, regrettably, say this: you have to die here.¡±


    ¡°YOU WILL DIE FIRST BEFORE I DO!¡± he screamed while still maintaining his casting speed.


    ¡°Exculsion: Death¡±


    A black magical circle with the symbol of Darkness appeared under the boss feet. Black miasma surrounded him and consumed him, his last screams can be heard throughout the entire dormitory and everyone rushed towards my room to have a look. Girls screamed as they saw the corpse of the various students of the destroyed group, boys have a feared impression left on their face. This will leave everyone a scarred memory implanted in their minds. I heard some of them informing a teacher of the situation.


    In minutes a group of teachers came, they ignored me and begin cleaning up the scene. Some of them tugged the teachers and tried to file a complaint on me, but with Triview crystals placed all around the school the teachers should have saw what actually happened. Even if they don¡¯t, Nightius have the authority to keep them all silent until he further speaks with me to clean things up. No one spoke or moved as the teachers cleared up the scene.


    ¡°Mr. Rakan, Innight just killed a group of people! Shouldn¡¯t he be expelled from school for this?¡±


    ¡°We will explain everything during tomorrow¡¯s assembly. He will not receive any form of punishment.¡±


    ¡°But¡­¡±


    ¡°This is an order from our higher ups. We are instructed to follow it. We cannot do anything else.¡±


    I looked at the crowd, there were whisperings around them. I cannot exactly decipher what was spoken but they ranged from saying I¡¯m a bloodthirsty monster to saying I have connections to the higher ups of the teachers. Whatever it is, I have killed people, and that is undeniable. However that was in both self-defence and to eliminate a potential problem.


    That night Nightius came to visit.


    ¡°Honestly, I understand that the group leader went insane and may have become a problem, and those dead students are a result of them using dangerous spells, but you could have use simpler ways to dispose of them, at least don¡¯t leave splatter of blood everywhere.¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t help it. I can only think of that spell at that moment. Then again, if I used Devourer it may have caused magic instability due to the nature of the spell. Anyway, he could have joined the other Cults if left untreated. That may eventually balloon into a problem that we have to face later in the future.¡±


    ¡°*sigh* I guess you are right. That is the job of the Security magic Team anyway, to resolve all problems of magic. I will resolve the issues of this case but please, Innight, avoid leaving any injuries inducing spells and if you have to, clean them up before anyone sees it.¡±


    I explained the details to Aquis and Time when both of them returned.


    ¡°Ouroboros? But isn¡¯t that spell Lord Level? Not anyone can use it! Only you and Time and the some teachers here would have the capability to cast the spell!¡±


    ¡°Which is why I¡¯m finding this strange. There is definitely something hidden behind our backs. There has been the recent spell and power outbreaks, and people that are capable of casting high level spells appearing, I suspect something is going on. If we just have more information¡­¡±


    ¡°There you are, Innight!¡±


    That was Charlotte. She jumped straight into my arms.


    ¡°Charlotte! Won¡¯t Nicki, your younger sister come and cause me trouble for this?¡±


    ¡°Just ignore her, Innight. All I need is you! I love you, Innight!¡±


    ¡°NOOOOOOO! SISTER!!! HOW CAN YOU IGNORE ME!!!!!!!?¡±


    ¡°Uh oh.¡± I said.


    Nicki popped her head out from the doors of my room.


    ¡°Get away from her you disgusting animal!¡±


    ¡°Stop it, Nicki! He¡¯s my lover, don¡¯t do anything to him or I will be forced to pin you down!¡±


    ¡°Now, the both of you¡­¡±


    ¡°SHUT UP! Don¡¯t you bastard dare to disrupt our heavenly conversation!¡±


    ¡°Now you are just being an insolent creature.¡± I whispered to myself.


    ¡°Sister, have you forgotten how incorrigible males are? They are pointless, terrible, always aimed to hurt others.¡±


    ¡°He¡­ Innight is different from the rest! He saved me from my deepest point. He cared for me, he is immensely powerful too. He can protect me. He is different from the males that we have always encountered.¡±


    ¡°It is a disguise! He can turn when you are not looking at him!¡±


    ¡°I trust him. He could have destroyed me when he trapped me in his Prison spell but he choose to convince me and let me go.¡±


    ¡°ARGH! It¡¯s useless to argue with you. I will knock some sense into you, sister!¡±


    Then both of them flew outside the window, in blast of lights, one black and one yellow. Each blast of light is clashing against the other.


    ¡°Innight, shouldn¡¯t you go and stop them?¡±


    ¡°Impossible. They have to settle out themselves. My intervention will only delay this start of the fight. Only when they have settled out through the fight will they be able to understand each other more clearly. I can only intervene when both of them exhaust their powers.¡±


    The twin lights still clash in the sky. I can hear them still arguing as they fight. There is nothing I can do to resolve them. With each clash, a wave of magic disturbance spread throughout the school. I cast a barrier to shield the school from receiving it. I used Enchanted Eye to view the battle up close.


    ¡°You never understand! Innight is not like those males we have all experienced! He is not even human! He understands the pain of loneliness and hence I can connect with him! I want to be him!¡±


    ¡°You don¡¯t need anyone other than me! We sisters have loved each other deeply and will never betrayed each other! Others cannot be trusted!¡±


    ¡°Gabriel!¡±


    ¡°Zafkiel!¡±


    I saw a flail appearing for Charlotte, and a sword for Nicki. That must be the materialization of their Archangel powers, as I see those weapons are points of highly condensed magic powers. The weapons clashed and clang as the weapons cross paths. At the same time, spells of various kinds were fired against the sisters.


    The lessons carried on with the sisters still fighting outside. There are no problems as my barrier can shield any attack and waves of magic disruption. The only catch is I cannot sustain the barrier for infinitely long, with the seal still intact, I can only keep the barrier up for a maximum of 8 hours. If it drags on any longer I will need to maintain my flow of mana and magic with an external source.


    When the school is over, I can sense that the sisters are drained of power and are laying on the ground.


    ¡°Time, Aquis, go back to the room first. I need to attend to the sisters.¡± Saying these, I went outside and onto the school field.


    I sighed.

 Chapter 5 - Nightmare

    When I reached the sisters, both of them were crouching on the ground, mostly due to tiredness. I put my hands on both of them.


    ¡°W¡­what do you think you are doing to me, you disgusting creature?!¡±


    ¡°Be quiet for a moment. Ariel: Healing Waters.¡±


    A magical circle with the symbol of water appeared on my palms and I feel magic if lowing between me and the sisters. They have most of their magic drained due to all that battles. Ariel is a healing angel, with the powers of water, Healing Waters is what he uses to heal others. From myself, I allowed my flow of magic to flow towards and replenish the sisters lost magic. It felt wonderful, the soft movement of magic through the tips of your fingers, travelling through the magic circle, and filling up an empty vessel.


    I can feel he powers of the sisters slowly returning as their magic slowly fills up. When I¡¯m done, I disconnected myself from the sisters. Both of them turned their heads towards me.


    ¡°Why did you help me? Aren¡¯t you going to hurt me when I¡¯m weak?¡±


    ¡°Why should I? You are a beautiful girl, an adorable lifeform. Nothing can beats the feeling of approaching a beautiful girl and touching her. I will not hurt a girl unless she has no intention to listen, go against orders and disrupting peace. Of course, I will not even think about killing them. They are just too adorable for me to end their life. Now I think I need to clear things up. I am not hurting your sister. She is clinging onto me because of how she has always suffered from interacting with others. I¡¯m just helping out to resolve and support her.¡±


    ¡°W-What? So you really h-have no intend to hurt anyone?¡±


    ¡°Of course not, silly girl. Have I even initiated a challenge against anyone to climb my ranks? I did not. I never wanted to hurt anyone. If you have heard my story as The Piece in the Darkness Elemental Plane, we never start a war to overthrow the other Grand Ruler of the other Elemental Planes, even though with our power and status in the Elemental realm we could easily do so. We are known to be peaceful loving creatures. We are the ones who were attacked by Light Elemental Plane first, we are only defending ourselves.¡±


    Tears started rolling down the cheeks of Nicki.


    ¡°What is it? Don¡¯t cry. I cannot bear to see a girl cry.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s¡­It¡¯s because¡­wah!¡± She burst out crying.


    ¡°There now, nothing bad happened. No worries. Good girl.¡± I comforted her by patting softly on her head. Charlotte looked at me, face full of expressions but not saying anything.


    ¡°So, Innight. Do you think that is the end of the fight between the sisters?¡± Aquis asked.


    ¡°Definitely. I resolved the issue by giving Nicki a good impression of myself. She wouldn¡¯t be giving us trouble now. The only catch is I think both sisters will be attracted to me, I¡¯m afraid. One is fine, two is acceptable, but three can give a hint of trouble. I like to be surrounded by girls, but when they are in love with me it is another issue altogether. Love has to be weighted and maintained properly.¡±


    ¡°Three girls? Only Charlotte is in love with you, who are the other two?¡±


    ¡°You don¡¯t know this, but I resolved my relationship with Time during the last night in the hotel. Of course, only her true self is attracted to me, her clones aren¡¯t. Isn¡¯t that right, Time?¡±


    ¡°Yes. My clone self now have no affection towards you. My true self though, is highly attracted to you. Though she won¡¯t be able to see you due to the nature of our job. We have a Calling Crystal that allows her to see you from wherever she is.¡±


    ¡°Also, after this incident, Nicki should be able to see my as the same way as her sister, Charlotte, did. This will cause her to be attracted to me as well. That is a price that I have to pay to clean up the trouble.¡±


    ¡°Innight!¡± Two voices came from outside the room. Immediately after two figures jumped right onto me. I opened my eyes and two set of eyes, one crimson and one sea-blue stared at me.


    ¡°Nicki! Charlotte! What are you both doing here?¡±


    ¡°You are my lover, I¡¯m in love with you, so of course I will look for you! We are supposed to be together for eternity!¡± Both of them exclaimed.


    ¡°Huh? But you both must know, you are human! You won¡¯t be able to last as long as I do, since I live for practically Infinity!¡±


    ¡°We don¡¯t care for that! As long as we live we want to be beside you!¡±


    I sighed. I give up. Girls in love are the hardest to sway. I have more important things to do now.


    ¡°Alright, both of you, I have a few questions to ask you about your powers. Please answer for me as truthful and as accurate as you can.¡±


    ¡°Of course, Innight!¡±


    ¡°The first thing I want to know is, where did you get your Archangel Powers? Either one of you answer will do.¡±


    ¡°It just came to us naturally. We didn¡¯t do anything.¡±


    I sighed. That is a definite lie.


    ¡°Both of you need to read up more on Archangel Level magic. Not anyone is able to cast these level of spells naturally without a booster. From what I have known, and I know a great deal of things, Archangel Powers are always given, not derived naturally. Now, I ask you again, who gave you this power?¡±


    ¡°Really, we are not lying to you! One day when we woke up from our bed we found ourselves imbued with this power!¡±


    ¡°Then how did you came to know about it is Archangel level power?¡±


    ¡°We have a faint memory. Someone came into our dream that night and told us that he will give us great power in exchange for us working for the Light Elemental Plane. We agreed the deal and when we woke up, we are as such.¡±


    Hm. Someone came into their dreams and delivered this power. From how the deal is proposed, it is highly likely that it is a Creature from the Light Elemental Plane. The thing is, why? They could have easily transformed their Creatures in the Light Elemental Plane into Archangels, instead of using humans. Does this have any correlation with the Creator that the Light is making? There is too little information now, I need more information to figure out the real reason behind all this.


    ¡°Alright then. The next question is, what is your current relationship with the Light Elemental Plane?¡±


    ¡°If you meant our position, we are currently holding the position of two of the seven Archangels. We are responsible to battle tactics and order the soldier around to carry out our plans.¡±


    ¡°Next question. Where are the other 5 of the Archangels? Are there in the school?¡±


    ¡°T-T-T-T-That is top secret! If we tell you we are going to lose our position!¡±


    ¡°Fine. If you cannot tell me where they are, at least reveal to me are they within the school itself. That is important as it may mean life or death for the school population.¡±


    ¡°They are all scattered throughout the school itself, some are teachers, and some are students. We are told to hide until a signal is given. After that we are to carry out a plan.¡±


    ¡°What is that plan?¡±


    ¡°That is top secret. We cannot tell anyone or we risk losing our power. If we lose our source of power, we might die.¡±


    ¡°I understand now. I need to tell both of you something, try to avoid going too near to me. I am The Piece, a dangerous Creature that currently belongs to the Darkness Elemental Plane. Since both of you are from the Light Elemental Plane, you will come to a day where you have to fight me. I know that you both love me deeply, but both you need to understand we both are from Planes in opposition. I will not hurt both of you when that happens, and I think both of you will not as well, but you will be punished from the higher-ups, while my Master is merciful.¡±


    ¡°We thought about that, we would rather lose our position than to hurt you.¡±


    ¡°Alright. This is all that I have to ask you both. I need the both of you to understand your position. Being a member of the Light Elemental Plane, you are bound to fight with us, the members of the Darkness Elemental Plane. I hope you are able to understand this. Try to avoid interacting too often with me so your higher-ups do not detect anything.¡±


    I then sent away the sisters as I told them I will be meeting my Master in my room, they are not going to be favoured by Master Inoxion if they stayed in the room. Then I called Master Inoxion using my special black Calling Crystal.


    ¡°Hello? Yes, Innight, why did you call me?¡±


    ¡°Master, did you receive the message from Luthriel? I received a message from him and appearing the Light Elemental Plane has succeed in recreating the Creator.¡±


    ¡°No I did not. What did he send you? I know Nightius is holding onto a letter written by him for some time but I have no idea what is written on it. So you receive the letter? Is there something important there that I need to know?¡±


    I read the letter to Master Inoxion.


    ¡°Hm¡­ So it seems they succeed the plan of creation. From what I know, Luricerite has been planning a large scale attack against the Darkness Elemental Plane, and he has been plotting something else behind my back as well. From my last report on our 19<sup>th</sup> Lord, who is currently Lora, told us Luricerite is getting greedier and greedier. He is reported to have a map of the Elemental Realm and have made various markings on all the Planes. I suspect he is going after everything, that is, to conquer and rule over the entire Elemental Realm. However, we don¡¯t have any prove of that yet. Just be careful. From your report he is hiding something under the hotel of the Elemental Realm, I suspect that is one of the many hiding spots of his Creator. Do you think we should raid the place to destroy it and figure out more of the plans he has?¡±


    ¡°No. According to Luthriel, they are hiding all in secret. They have been keeping this plan as a secret for many millennials, and if they are found out, they will destroy all evidence and we will not be able to figure out any more of his plans anymore. We have to carry out our investigation in secret as well. It will be slow, but doing so will ensure that he won¡¯t be destroying all the evidence of him carrying out his plans.¡±


    ¡°Very well then. You have a job, Innight. You have to figure out who are the 7 Archangels and lock their powers before Luricerite carries out his attack, whenever that is. I have a funny feeling that the Archangels holds a special position in his plan. Disabling them should reduce the danger level of his plan.¡±


    Suddenly an explosion took place in the school and the ground shook. I felt a wave of magic just swept past the school, and it is a very powerful one.


    ¡°What happened over there, Innight?¡±


    ¡°A powerful wave of magic just swept past the school itself. I do not know the source or reason, but I suspect the Archangels are behind this attack as it is a really powerful wave of magic.¡±


    *knock knock* ¡°It¡¯s Nightius, Innight.¡±


    ¡°Come in. I¡¯m talking to our Lord Inoxion. Try not to interrupt us.¡±


    The door opened and Nightius walked in.


    ¡°I¡¯m here to report that explosion. It was my student¡¯s fault. They failed to manage their magic casting properly and caused an explosion and magic overflow.¡±


    I and Master Inoxion breathed a sigh of relief.


    ¡°Stop scaring us like this. With all the Archangels and Creators things popping up all over the place, we are raising our security and alert level.¡±


    ¡°So, Innight. Your first job is to discover and find out the 7 Archangels. From my knowledge, their names are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Camael, Zafkiel and Zadkiel.¡±


    ¡°I have already found two of them, they hold the powers of Zafkiel and Gabriel. I need to find out where the other 5 are. From what they have told me, the other 5 Archangels are hiding in the school itself. They are waiting for a signal from the Elemental Planes before they initiate an attack. What attack is it I have no idea, but it can¡¯t be good. I have already neutralized the two Archangel I have discovered so they would not adhere to the plan. But for the other 5 I will need to discover them first before I can do anything.¡±


    ¡°Grr¡­.. Time is what we need, but it is not what we have. We could have Chronos to manipulate the Timeline, but that will mean we will have our time sped up on another occasion of point on the Timeline, which is a hefty price to pay when every second counts now. We need more information as well, which we severely lacks.¡±


    ¡°Master, I have something to report as well.¡± Nightius said.


    ¡°Proceed.¡±


    ¡°Master, there is the implementation of the Ranking system which ranks students in accordance to their battle strength. However, this system was implemented by a suspect in the teachers. It is suggested by a teacher name Mr. Lament. I have always placed my suspect on him being a member of the Light Elemental Plane, since he has been teaching the students nothing but light magic. He himself is also very proficient in magic casting and I detect him having high level of magic.¡±


    ¡°Hmm. Innight, does that teacher teach your class?¡±


    ¡°Yes. Magic casting and mana control.¡±


    ¡°Innight, I want you to approach this Mr. Lament and try to figure out whether he is an Archangel. If he is, try to sieve out as much information as possible from him.¡±


    ¡°Roger that.¡±


    ¡°Now if you excuse me, I need to check out on the armoury.¡±


    The call ended.


    ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go to sleep. We cannot do anything until tomorrow. Goodnight, Nightius.¡±


    *The next day*


    ¡°Mr. Lament. I have something to ask you about.¡±


    I visited the staff room during my break time. I found Mr. Lament alone sitting in the staffroom, reading his spell books. His desk, as mentioned by Nightius, is covered with everything in relation with the Light Elemental Plane.


    ¡°That is rare. For someone as perfect as Innight to ask me a question, I wonder what it is.¡±


    ¡°Mr. Lament, are you working for the Light Elemental Plane?¡±


    Mr. Lament turned to his book and twiddled his fingers. I can sense uneasiness is building within him. That is strange. It is natural for people to ask each other about which Elemental Planes they are working for. This means Mr. Lament is hiding something.


    ¡°Well, Innight, I¡¯m afraid I cannot fully answer your question. I can only say that the Plane I work for is one of the greatest in power in the entire Elemental Realm.¡±


    ¡°I think I know who you work for, Archangel.¡±


    I read his mind, he was shocked, but his facial expression shows nothing. He stopped twiddling his fingers at look back straight in my face.


    ¡°W-What do you mean, Innight, by Archangel?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t lie. The power you own, your constant obsession over the Light Elemental Plane and a pair of invisible Astral Wings. You may be able to fool others, but not me. I¡¯m more than human or a Creature of the Elemental Realm. I can see and sense things that others could not.¡±


    He sighed and raised up both of his hands, admitting defeat.


    ¡°Alright. You got me. I am Uriel, one of the seven Archangels of the Light Elemental Plane. Why did you come to look for me, The Piece?¡±


    ¡°That should be my question. What are your rulers planning?¡±


    ¡°That is a secret. No matter how much you are to torture me I will not let it out. Why do you even want to know about our operation, The Piece?¡±


    ¡°That is my nature. As a member of the Darkness Elemental Plane and the Grand Ruler of the Void Elemental Plane, it is my job to oversee the peace of the Elemental Realm.¡±


    ¡°You won¡¯t be able to do anything this time. You won¡¯t be able to find out all the pieces of the puzzle before He rises again! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!¡±


    Suddenly, he wings turned visible. Blinding white flames started burning through his wings and on his entire body as well. I recognize this. This has happened all the time on the 19<sup>th</sup> Lord, where a betrayer is killed by a secret spell. We still have not figured out what causes the spell to trigger and kill the betrayer, but we have a rough idea that the spell is activated the moment some words are said. Rather than a spell, I will call it a jinx. Soon he is reduced to nothing.


    Time is wasted. We didn¡¯t have any more information than we have started. The only new information is that Luricerite intends to reawaken something. Is it the Ancient Beasts? Is it the Creator? Or is it¡­ The Unknown? Whichever it is, it would cause a magic imbalance in the Elemental Realm, the Light Elemental Plane will gain a power creep and this will lead to them overruling the entire Elemental Realm, which is something I need to prevent.


    ¡°You killed him?!¡±


    ¡°No, Charlotte and Nicki. I think that all Creatures of the Light have this jinx implanted deep within them. If they say something that betrays the Light Elemental Plane, this will lead to their destruction. I will not pursue that much to both of you because of this. I need to find out the other 4 more Archangel and try to expose their plans and imprison their powers to prevent the execution of their plans.¡±


    ¡°Oh, one more thing, Innight. We can tell you the characteristics of each Archangels. That doesn¡¯t violate our trust with the Light Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°Yes, that will be immensely helpful in my search of the Archangels.¡±


    ¡°Zadkiel, he always writes his things in rune language, he writes, read and communicates using the rune language only. Michael, he always leave behind traces of magic wherever he walks to. Raphael, he always seeks for war and fights. Camael, he has a kind heart for creatures.¡±


    ¡°Thank you, both of you. This information can realty help me to find them before we run out of time.¡±


    ¡°Now, let us go and find Raphael. Since he loves fighting, it is definite that he would be the one fighting the most in the rankings. I just need to access the system board to check who is constantly fighting and I will be able to pinpoint who it is.¡±


    We visited the staff room and asked Nightius for access to the history record of the Ranking Board. Hearing the reason why, he immediately opened up the history record for us. I begin scanning the record to see who is frequently looking for fights. After looking over 200 pages of the record, I found two students that have relatively higher rate of looking for challenges. One is named Fulqour, another is named Raphael.


    Talk about an easy job.


    I tracked down the student using other part of the school system, and found him in the 2-C class. When we hurried there, he is busy fighting someone again.


    *Ahem*


    ¡°Raphael. I need to talk to you for a while.¡±


    ¡°Be quiet! Let me focus on defeating this challenger!¡±


    Isn¡¯t he the challenger?


    The challenge ended with Raphael winning. The entire class of his stared at me.


    ¡°So, you wanted to talk to me? Very well, but you need to defeat me in a battle first!¡±


    ¡°Let me give you a small warning, I¡¯m Innight, holding the 1<sup>st</sup> place in the school itself, I have remain undefeated despite rounds of people challenging me.¡±


    ¡°Hah! I, Raphael, holds the 3<sup>rd</sup> place in the school itself! I always wanted to challenge you, Innight, now I have the perfect chance!¡±


    ¡°Time, Aquis, Charlotte and Nicki, set up a barrier, this is going be a nasty fight.¡±


    ¡°I hope you have prepared yourself, human, for I am an Archangel!¡± Raphael said as he


    ¡°That is where you are wrong, I am no human. I am the Grand Ruler of the Void Elemental Plane, named Zealus. I will let you know where you belong.¡±


    ¡°Ah quit the nonsense! Sigmarus: Ice Volcano!¡±


    A crack appeared under my feet, a volcano made out of entirely ice came out from it and blew up the room. I dodged it.


    ¡°Allow me to use a cheat code. Overclock reinforced: Halt!¡±


    A clock face appeared under the feet of Raphael and he stopped in space. I can read his mind. He can resist the power slightly, but only through his mind. At that moment, his mind screamed in rage.


    ¡°How did you stop me in time?! As an Archangel I am unrestricted by time!¡±


    ¡°Simple, I reinforced the spell slightly to match the ability of a Lord level. I can expand the region so that it stops everyone here so they wouldn¡¯t even know that I have done so, but I have decided it would be better to let everyone know how pathetic you actually are when up against a person many times powerful than you do.¡±


    I walked up to him and smashed on his badge. It broke. I unfroze him and he crumbled to the ground.


    ¡°Now, Raphael, I have something to ask you.¡±


    ¡°You cheated! I will not accept that as a victory!¡±


    ¡°Oh. So do you want this instead? Deeron: Soul Lock!¡±


    His entire body suddenly froze, again.


    ¡°What have you done to me this time?!¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t you understand? Soul Lock. I have now control over your soul so you cannot move your body.¡±


    ¡°Unfreeze me! I understand now. I will answer anything!¡±


    ¡°Deactivate.¡±


    He unfroze and gasped for breath.


    ¡°I need to know what is your higher-ups planning and what you are supposed to do when the signal is given.¡±


    ¡°We have constructed an underground laboratory under this school itself. We are creating new Creatures of Light inside there and our plan is to overrun the school itself with these new Creatures once enough of them is made. We, as the Archangels, will destroy the current school order and turn it into an educational school of Light. Now I¡¯m doomed, I¡¯m going to die, I-ARGH!!!!!!!!!¡±


    As I expected, his wings turned visible and white flames set him on fire. The jinx is activated again, I still cannot figure out the cause of the spell but it is irrelevant now. I cannot save him as I don¡¯t even have enough time to analyse the jinx and by the time I can find the starting sequence the jinx has already completed its¡¯ job. Nor could I revive him as I cannot recall a soul from the Death¡¯s Realm without a vessel to put it into. If the body is destroyed I cannot use revival spells to bring the dead user back to life.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    Everyone looked shocked as Raphael slowly burns into nothingness. I can bet on the Infinity Cube that they definitely thought it was me who killed him.


    A scream came from Nicki. I can feel her magic is overflowing and spilling out into the environment.


    ¡°Nicki! Control your magic! If you release it, with someone as powerful as yourself, it will create a world of dreams altogether! I don¡¯t want to go through the trouble to disable it!¡±


    ¡°I-I¡¯m sorry Innight! I cannot control it! AHH!!!¡± She continued screaming.


    This again? What is the cause of this? Something is causing magic instability among the students and caused me trouble to resolve them. I need to figure out this as well with the other plans of the Light Elemental Plane. I suspect someone else is behind all this. It cannot be anyone from the Light Elemental Plane as they would never hurt their own Creatures.


    The space around Nicki begin to distort and crack. The distortion and cracks begin to spread throughout everywhere.


    ¡°Everyone, don¡¯t move from your spot! If you get separated in the dream world goodness know when you will meet each other again! Matter and magic does not work the same way as how the Real World does!¡±


    Eventually the entire space fractured and a blinding light covered everything. I covered my eyes. When I opened my eyes, I see myself in a place which I will like to describe as ¡°Nether¡±. I, Time, Charlotte and Aquis were stranded on a small island of red coloured dirt, surrounded by an ocean of lava.


    ¡°W-W-W-What exactly happened here, Innight?¡±


    ¡°This is what happens when someone loses control of their power, especially when the user is on Arch level. An entire world is created as a result of the power. We are trapped in this world until we can find Nicki and disable her magic. Only then the entire world will dissolve and collapse.¡±


    ¡°But why is the world like this? What is this place?¡±


    ¡°The world creates depends on the users¡¯ magic. Nicki¡¯s magic specialty is on Dreams, so the strongest and most troublesome form of Dream is a Nightmare. That will materialize itself into this world. The closest thing I can associate this world with is Nether, a place where our 14<sup>th</sup> Lord rules, otherwise known as the Underworld or Hell. It looks just like this, a place where fire burns for eternity, the dirt stained by blood so much that it turns red, so deep within the Physical realm so that lava flows. What I¡¯m worried is not about the structure of this world, but what is in this world.¡±


    ¡°Fond them! Found them found them found them found them found them found them!¡±


    I turned around. I see a group of robed people, with the sign of a triangle with an eye enclosed by it on their robes. That is the Eye of Providence, which is believed to be a sign of divine protection by the humans. If they are wearing robes with that sign on it¡­


    ¡°What are you looking for?¡±


    ¡°You! You you you you you you you you and the rest of your friendly fiendish desperate deprived looking friends!¡± The leader, who has his hood removed from his head, screamed as he scratches his head repeatedly and crazily. He has green eyes and dark green hair with strangely pale skin.


    ¡°And may I ask you why that is so?¡±


    ¡°We are informed, by our Great One, that you are interference to our Ordeal! We are to eliminate you here and now!¡± He continued screaming as he pulls his hair out.


    I knew it. A cult. We appear to be the interfering them, we need to leave. Now!


    ¡°Time, Aquis, Charlotte, all of you grab tight onto me. I¡¯m going to get us away from this gathering of cult.¡±


    The three of them grabbed onto my clothes as tightly as they can. I cannot help but to blush a little, as I still cannot be able to withstand the wonderful feeling of a girl sticking onto you.


    ¡°Necrox: Invisibility, Nexctus: Warp!¡±


    The three of us turned invisible and warped away. Just before I warped away I managed to catch some sentences the leader gave to his followers.


    ¡°How?! how how how how how how how how how how how how! How did they managed to get away?! Unacceptable, unapproachable, undesirable, unexplainable!¡± He screamed as he begins to bite his fingers so much that it started to bleed.


    ¡°Find them and kill them! Those who fails will get on the end of my Unseen Hand!¡±


    Unseen Hand? I have never heard of that magic before. Is it a hidden form of magic? Never mind, I will rather not find that out.


    We were to warped to a shore near the lava ocean. The three girls were all panting even though we did not exert any physical strength. That is a result of space warping when the users lack of sufficient magic power. The amount of magic power required for space warping is dependent on how distant the warped location is from the initial point. If even Charlotte is exhausted, it means we are of a decent distance away from the cult now. That will buy us time before they find us again.


    The entire world shook. This is a bad sign. This means that the entire world is unstable and can collapse into nothingness any moment. If that happens, everyone will be swallowed by The Void that exists between worlds. I myself will be unharmed due to my immense power and ability to manipulate The Void, but the others may be swallowed by it and never be found again.


    As the girls catch their breath, Charlotte asked me: ¡°What are those exactly?¡±


    ¡°Those must be the creation of the nightmare itself. From what I see it appears to be a cult of some sort, I don¡¯t know about what ¡®Ordeal¡¯ and their ¡®Great One¡¯ is but it may lead us to some clues where this place actually is and where Nicki is at. Nicki is the centre of this Nightmare and the one that is fuelling this world with her immense magic. This world will last as long as her magic supply to this world is not interrupted. We need to find her before the Time runs out.¡±


    ¡°Huh? But once this world collapse wouldn¡¯t we be able to immediately return to our own Realm?¡±


    ¡°In the World of Dreams, normal rules don¡¯t apply. Since this is a Dream, more specifically, a Nightmare, the Science doesn¡¯t apply normally. In this situation, a fractured world will cause us to fall into The Void that surrounds this surreal world that only exist temporarily. Only if we managed of disconnect the source of this world, it will then dissolve and return all the Creatures trapped inside back to its¡¯ original location.¡±


    ¡°Then since this world is surreal, why are we escaping from the cultist? They cannot attack us, a real object.¡±


    ¡°This is where you are wrong. In the World of Dreams, everything is real in this world and can interact with one another. Also, there is one very important rule in the World of Dreams, something so important that is you forget about it and it happened to you, you will be erased from Existence.¡±


    ¡°What is it?¡±


    ¡°You must not die in the World of Dreams. If you die, your very soul is trapped in the world of Dreams and it will be erased from Existence the moment the world is destroyed.¡±


    ¡°Scary!¡±


    ¡°Indeed. Any injury you incurred here will not be retrieved by your true self when you return to the normal world, but rest assured it still hurts when you injure yourself. Our highest priority is of course to find Nicki in this hellish and nightmarish world, but our secondary objective is to figure out what is the cult about. Since this world is built upon a nightmare of Nicki, this cult must have had something to do about the most dreaded fear Nicki hides among herself. I need to find it out. It may be a real issue in the real world that we have to face one day.¡±


    ¡°But we don¡¯t have any threads on even where to look and what to find, how do we start looking?¡±


    ¡°I can use a tracking spell to find out Nicki. The problem is how we access it without any other creatures looking.¡±


    ¡°They are other Creatures other than the cultists?¡±


    ¡°Certainly. They are all nightmarish looking, so I would not go out of my way to describe how they look. You all should also keep your eye closed to ensure you all don¡¯t get nightmares. Give me a moment while I find Nicki, don¡¯t interrupt me when I do so. I need to concentrate really hard to do so. Artamiel: Locate!¡±


    I begin to see the world in the view of The Void. I can see the Creatures, which I¡¯m going to call them Infernals, everywhere around the world. I can see the cultists wandering throughout the world and searching everywhere. At the very deep and dead centre of the Nightmare, I see a huge building located and from inside I can sense a huge energy source coming from it. That must be where Nicki is located.


    ¡°Innight!¡±


    I know! I can see that!


    ¡°HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! FOUND YOU! FOUND YOU FOUND YOU FOUND YOU FOUND YOU FOUND YOU!¡±


    This is bad. I cannot use Space warp or else it might kill Time, Aquis and Charlotte. I have to fight them head on, but my magic is severely weakened and if I exceed the limit set in this world this world will collapse.


    ¡°Unseen Hand!¡±


    I see purplish hands emitted from the back of the ruler and stretched out towards me. I dodged it, and blast it away with a fireball.


    ¡°HOW?! The power granted to me by our Great One to me, The Master of The Void, should not be visible to anyone but me! How can you see it?!¡±


    Master of The Void? Could it be that they are the rulers of the Void Elemental Plane, which I have not seen for many eternities? If that is true, why are they group into a band of cultist? And what is their relationship with Nicki?


    ¡°How did I managed to see that is something for you to think about. If you please excuse me I will have to stop you here right now.¡±


    ¡°Let us see how you are capable to fight against the Master of The Void! Unseen Hand!¡±


    More of those purplish hands sprouted from his back and stretched towards us.


    ¡°I really have to use this. Sorry in advance, Time, Aquis, Charlotte. Necrot: transquility!¡±


    Black pillars of skulls shot up everywhere. It exploded into dark matter and entrapped the ruler and his followers in black sphere of dark matter. Even Time, Aquis and Charlotte is taken up by the spell.


    ¡°What do you think you are doing to us, Innight?!¡± The three of them shouted together.


    ¡°I said I¡¯m sorry in advance! I need this spell to lock all of them down. I cannot use any high level spells to destroy them or else I risk destroying this world. At least with them locked down it buys us time to find out Nicki. This spell last for at least 1 whole hour, we can take this time to find Nicki and disable this world for good.¡±


    I waved my hands over the bubble that traps Time, Aquis and Charlotte. The bubble dissolved and released the three of them.


    ¡°YOU! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS! UNSEEN HAND! UNSEEN HAND! WHY DOES IT NOT WORK?!¡±


    ¡°The transquility of Necrot restricts all usage of spells, only someone with a Creator level magic can overcome this spell. Now please stay here while we are off to search for one of our friends.¡±


    ¡°NO! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! You are NOT to find our Great One!¡± He continued to scream as he bit his fingers and blood streaming down them.


    Ignoring him, I pick up Time, Aquis and Charlotte and went off heading to the direction of the huge building that I have discovered during my search.


    On the way I have to cut off a few heads of the strange Infernals as they are blocking our path of advancement. Soon we reached the huge building that I have seen in my sights. It is made of dark red bricks, with several statues of Infernals surrounding the entrance of the building. I pushed the door. It creaked but it opens steadily, slowly swinging inwards. The four of us walked in.


    ¡°Upstairs or downstairs?¡± Charlotte asked me.


    ¡°Give me some time to check.¡±


    I enable The Sight again and view my surroundings. I sense the dense energy source coming from deep below the surface, and that must be where Nicki is located. I cannot see her as there appears to be something blocking my view. Whatever it is, it appears to be extremely powerful and have powers that match nearly the standard of mine. That alarms me, there is only one thing in the entire Existence that has power comparable to mine, and that is The Unknown. I have forcefully sealed that dangerous being with Infinity Magic, the highest and most powerful level of magic. The seal should not be broken even after the end of infinity of Time, how did it managed to get out?


    I quickly returned to my senses and disable The Sight.


    ¡°Found her?¡± Charlotte pressed on me.


    I¡¯m stopped to catch my breath. I have not met someone with the same amount of power comparable to me for so long it is suffocating for me to feel it.


    ¡°Innight?¡± Time asked. ¡°Are you alright? Please don¡¯t die!¡±


    ¡°What do you think I am? I¡¯m not as weak as those other humans you will find anywhere. My current magic level is on a Lord level, so I can withstand most magic. I was shocked, by the presence of something extremely powerful in the room with Nicki. Let us move now to the downstairs. She is there, but be careful, there is something there as well, extremely powerful, comparable to myself.¡±


    We went downstairs, I have to destroy another few Infernals that blocked our way. At the end of the stairway there is a small door with purple tinted glass decorated on the top of it. I pushed it open.


    Behind the door is a large room with a huge yellow sphere floating in the middle of the room. The room looks like a library, with all the bookcases and books around, I picked up some of them, they appear to be sacred texts of the Cult, to which I find the name of the cult to be named Styx Cult. Thousands of mana lines is connected to the yellow sphere. Inside is Nicki, but she is enlarged, a giantess, sitting in the sphere itself.


    ¡°Alright, Innight, this is the source of this Nightmare, kill Nicki so we can return to our world!¡± Aquis said.


    ¡°What are you talking about? We should not kill her. I can save her and cause this world to deactivate without killing her. First we need to wake her up, she is sleeping inside. I will do that, the rest of you watch the doors, if any Infernals wander in kill them off.¡±


    ¡°Understood.¡±


    I stretched my hands out and touched the sphere, I begin reading the magic sequence of the sphere and analysing the magic imbued within the sphere.


    ¡°Nicki.¡± I muttered. ¡°Wake up. To the world of reality and forth comes truth.¡±


    Something came back and muttered these words, it doesn¡¯t sound like Nicki, but as an Ancient voice that I have long forgotten:


    Never thoughts to see you here again, Zealu¡¯.


    A long forgotten voice. That with the addition of his habit of omitting¡®s¡¯ from words that needs it and addition of it to words that does not. That must be¡­ The Unknown. With my current strength I will not be able to battle him. What is his intention here? I need to ask him that.


    Why and how are you here, Unknown?


    Silence.


    You will know that sooner. I shall not disturbs your job here. We will sees each other again in the near future. Adieu.


    ¡°Eh? Where am I?¡± A loud noise came from the sphere.


    That was Nicki. She opened her eyes, her crimson eyes staring right at me.


    ¡°Good morning, Nicki. You are in the World of Dreams.¡±


    ¡°Huh? Why am I as such? Why am I trapped in here? Why am I so big?¡±


    ¡°This is because you are the source of this world. You fuel this world with your magic. You are trapped in this sphere to allow the world to restrict your movement and continue draining your magic to fuel this world. As for your size¡­ I have no explanation why. It does not really matter because everything will be back to normal once we leave this world. Nicki, I need you to focus on draining all your energy back to this sphere. Once you have done that, alert me.¡±


    ¡°Why?¡±


    ¡°I need all your energy to be sealed properly and prevent any magic from flowing back to continue fuelling this world. Only then I can start to cause this world to collapse. A stable collapse will then lead us back to our world.¡±


    I begin looking through the books as I wait for Nicki to retrieve all her magic. Most of them were studies about The Unknown, does this mean that the entire Cult has relation to it? Then since Nicki has an entire world created using these cultists as Nightmares, she must have some met them before. This means this Cult is likely to be real. I will need to know as much information about them as possible before we return. I continue scanning through the books.


    Then I found an interesting book. It contains a record of all the cultist¡¯s rituals, activities and information about The Unknown. This can prove to be useful. I myself don¡¯t have much record on The Unknown either so this could help me fill in the knowledge gap that I have about it.


    ¡°I¡¯m done, Innight.¡±


    I slot the book into my pockets and used a solidifying spell on it to ensure it is kept intact when we exit the dream.


    ¡°Alright, now let me-¡°


    ¡°Innight! The Cultists are back!¡±


    ¡°CRAP! Lock and seal the door, try to delay them for as long as you can! I¡¯m nearly done with the job and all I need is to slowly destabilize the existence of this world, then we can return to our own world!¡±


    ¡°HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU MEET OUR GREAT ONE! WE WILL NOT LET YOU LIVE! EL DORA!¡± The screams came from behind the door.


    I continued analysing the sphere, and found that it is a mixture of spells mashed up together. I cannot find the starting sequence of the spell, so it will be easier to treat the entire sphere as one spell and disable it all at once.


    ¡°Ganteuis!¡±


    The entire yellow sphere begin to crack and eventually shattered. Nicki fell to the ground with a loud thud.


    ¡°Now I need to concentrate to break this world apart, do not let anyone disturb me! Lyrith: Parousia!¡±


    I entered the state better known as Alzelea. In which in this state I can view mana flow and magic sequences. I can also interact with them to change the real world. I begin to severe the ties of the flows of the mana flow in the world. As I do so, I can feel the world begin to destabilize. Then I see the door broken down and the cultists flooding in. I cut off the mana supply to them and then they dissipated. This is likely because they are but an illusion supported by the mana and magic flow from Nicki to them. Once I cut off their supply of magic they are only sustaining their presence with their mana, if I deprive them of that then they will disappear.


    The entire world begin to shake and starts shattering. I cut the final thread of mana supply and return to my senses.


    ¡°Everyone, stay together with me! If we get separated here or trapped here you will be swallowed by The Void and never be seen again!¡± I cried out.


    Everyone crowded around me. The space begin to crack and shatter, blinding light emitted from those cracks and overwhelms us. When we opened up our eyes, we are back in the classroom again. Nicki is back at the original size as well. The students that were entangled in this matter did not return, however. I did not see them when we were transported to the World of Dreams, so they are likely to be swallowed up by The Void during the transportation process.


    ¡°That is an unforgettable experience! I do love to go on such an adventure sometime in the future.¡± Time said.


    ¡°Absolutely not!¡± Everyone else cried.


    I took out my book that I retrieved from the World of Dreams and begin reading it.


    ¡°What is that, Innight?¡± Someone asked.


    ¡°Meet in my room. I will discuss further on what happened today there.¡±


    The 4 of them gathered in my room later. I begin telling them my suspicions of this incident.


    ¡°First, the overflowing of magic of Nicki. Recently there has been many cases of magic spikes and overflowing of magic in the school itself. For magic overflow to happen that often, it cannot be a coincidence. This is also accompanied by the power spike the boys have, the group of boys that persistently wanted to fight me. Something, or someone, is instilling higher levels of magic onto a target and reinforcing their powers. This causes the powers to overflow and create magic instability.¡±


    ¡°Two, I met something in the Nightmare that Nicki has created. Something that I thought that I have sealed away forever to the end of Infinity. That something is what is known as¡­ The Unknown. There is very little records about this Creature, but I can assure you, it is something that you will not want to face. It is incredibly powerful, matching my level of magic. It is better known as the Incarnation of Evil itself. It exists far before I can even count Time, it creates the Astral Realm, which is something that even I don¡¯t even have access to back then. I will tell you more about this Creature when Master arrives later.¡±


    ¡°Third, the presence of the Cult. As I have mentioned to everyone except Nicki, the World of Dreams is shaped in such a way that the objects in the World correspond to the memory of the creator of the World of Dreams. Since the World we created is shaped like an Underworld and the creatures in there are twisted version of Creatures of the Underworld, I can verify that the Dream is a Nightmare. Nicki, you are haunted by your past with an encounter with the cult known as Styx Cult. I need you to tell us as much as possible about your encounter with them because they are very real, and they have relation to The Unknown, which makes them extremely dangerous. Not now, because my Master is about to arrive. Maybe after I have reported my findings to Master.¡±


    A magic circle with the symbol of Darkness appeared in my room. A dark fire lit up from it and from the fire, a dark and intimidating armour stepped out of it.


    ¡°Who is this armoured person?¡±


    ¡°This is my Master. You all should have met him during your trip to the Darkness Elemental Plane.¡±


    ¡°But the Grand Ruler Lord Inoxion should be human! That is what we saw him when we visited the Darkness Elemental Plane!¡±


    ¡°He is NOT human. He is made of purely magic so he has no definitive shape and feature. He just tweaked his appearance to look human so he looks less intimidating and friendlier. What you are seeing now is how he looks like in true nature. He originates from this cursed armour, fuelled by Dark Matter, mana and magic. Because of so much magic is condensed in this armour, it came to live and created my Master.¡±


    ¡°Enough with the self-introduction. Please explain to me, Innight, about this¡­ The Unknown. I myself don¡¯t even know about it, means that it has been around far longer than the birth of Existence. I absolutely need to know about it, if it brings about danger to the Existence.¡±


    ¡°Very well.¡±


    I took a deep breath, and begin to tell my story.


    ¡°To explain everything, I need to go back to the Creation Point, where everything, even myself, originates from. In human science¡¯s history, they termed this Event as the Big Bang, but names does not matter now. The Creation Point occurred around 25 thousand eternities ago, which in human terms is approximately 25 Vigintillion years ago. During that time, my memory is fuzzy, but I can vaguely remember I belong to a weird black sphere, which I will term as ¡®Everything¡¯.¡±


    ¡°Inside the Everything is indeed everything. Mana, Magic, Planar structures, you name it. One day, without warning, this ball of Everything dissolved and everything is allowed to wander everywhere into the endless nothingness. The Void, Mana, Time, Space and Magic were the first few things that were allowed to expand infinitely and cover the entire newly born Existence. The Astral Realm is created at that very moment in time. I saw with my own eyes how the different Astral Elemental Planes are formed. After they are formed there are swallowed by The Void and disappeared, but I can still sense them somewhere within The Void.¡±


    ¡°That is when something appeared. I have no idea that it existed so it came as a surprise. It appeared as a Dragon, closing in towards me.¡±


    ¡°¡¯What are you?¡¯ It asked.¡±


    ¡°¡¯I myself don¡¯t even know. What are you then?¡¯ I answered him back.¡±


    ¡°¡¯I calls my¡¯elf the Unknown, since I don¡¯t even know whats exactly am I.¡¯¡±


    ¡°¡¯Then I will call myself¡­uh¡­Zealus!¡¯¡±


    ¡°We then played around, mangling everything we can find together, eventually we learnt that we can cast magic. We have Infinity Level magic, so we can create spells and cast anything we desire. This is where the Elemental Realm is created. That was the initial creation of the Elemental Realm. So now you know, the Elemental Realm is created as a result of our mischief. At that point in time, there are no rulers within the Elemental Planes. So Master Inoxion was not present during the initial creation of the Elemental Realm.¡±


    ¡°We then observe the Creatures playing around the Elemental Planes, and figured we need a ruler for each of the Elemental Plane. That is when The Unknown decided that he should be the only ruler that governs everything, while I believe it is of greater good that each Elemental Planes should have their own designated ruler. Our first quarrel started over this. In the end I decided to let The Unknown rule over the Elemental Realm to see how well he is as a ruler.¡±


    ¡°How did it turned out?¡± Everyone asked.


    ¡°He was a failure. All the Planes are in a mess. I found that he casted a curse over all the Creatures of the Elemental Realm, he planted the seed of love for war, fights and bloodthirst in all the Creatures of the Elemental Realm. So now you know who was responsible for all the attacks Light brings to us. He loved to see violence, chaos and destruction. In other words, a warmonger. I decided to overthrow his position and secretly planted a Core in every Elemental Plane while he is not looking. The Core blossomed and created a Grand Ruler for every Elemental Plane. Note that Master Inoxion was not the first ruler of the Darkness Elemental Plane, someone else, whom I shall not mention here, is.¡±


    ¡°The Grand Rulers were peace makers. They resolved the violence and war through treaties and peace talks. When The Unknown found out there were no more wars and fights, he went furious. H immediately targeted me and tried to kill me, but I fight back.¡±


    ¡°¡¯I¡¯m the ruler of thi¡¯ Realm! You are not ¡®upposed to interrupts me! As the ruler, I now have the authority to demolish you!¡±


    ¡°¡¯Too bad, The Unknown. Your authority is violated. Please rest in peace.¡±¡¯


    ¡°What happened after was endless battle between me and him. We killed off many in our fights, the Elemental Realm is in a mess. Many were dragged into this battle without an outcome. He cursed every Creature of existence to have a love of battle and fights. That is a curse that even up to now I still have no idea how to remove as it is implanted deep within every Creatures of Existence. I figured out he is powered by the love of wars and battle, so by interrupting his supply, he cannot refill his magic.¡±


    ¡°One day I figured out this is enough. I wanted to reset the entire Existence at that point. The entire Elemental Realm is a wasteland. The Astral Realm, I detected, is in chaos as The Unknown attempted to drain magic dry from the Plane of Magic to fuel his power. That is when I created the ultimate Recreation magic: Ragnarok, to recreate and reconstruct the entire Existence back to its¡¯ original form. I do not want to see the future as bleak as how it is if it continues the way it is so I wanted to perform Ragnarok. However I know that The Unknown will definitely stop me and even if I managed to perform it, he will cause the entire Existence to drop into chaos once again. That is when I have decided to do something to stop his actions once and for all: Sealing him.¡±


    ¡°Even us, Creatures of Creation, still requires sleep every once in a while. After a few eternities of fighting, we both went to sleep for a while. I woke up earlier than he did, so I prepared my seals in advance. I used the Seal of Infinity to seal him up, and to form the seal I created seven artifacts solely for this purpose, which I will call as the Infinity Artifacts. Each Artifacts were fuelled with magic to from the seal. Before I complete the seal, he woke up and found me, but it is too late for him. He cursed that evil will continue remaining in all Creatures as long as he last. Once the seal is completed, The Unknown is completely gone from Existence, sealed in a locked space and a separate bubble of Space and Time from ours. I then performed Ragnarok to recreate the entire Existence. The Infinity Artifacts later came to life, and I decided to assign them each to an Elemental Plane and crown them as the Grand Ruler of the Elemental Planes.¡±


    ¡°So after that is as history recorded in books. This is why when we met The Unknown in the World of Dreams I¡¯m actually surprised. Infinity Level magic is unbreakable as only I am able to perform such powerful magic and break them. If I can hear The Unknown speaking to us in the World of Dreams, it means that the seal is coming loose. I will need to re-seal him again. That will have to take the highest priority, if he is let out there is no telling what he will do to the Existence. Also, since Luricerite, the Grand Ruler of Light is loves raging war against us, The Unknown is likely able to grow in power. Also, I have suspicions that Luricerite have got hold of news of the existence of The Unknown and is attempting to lift the seal. We are out of time.¡±


    ¡°I understand the situation now. Basically, you have sealed this Creature known as The Unknown, which is the one responsible for all the evil we see now. However, you have heard contact from him while you are saving this girl from the World of Dreams, and that leads to your suspicion that the seal is coming loose. You are also worried that The Unknown will collaborate with Luricerite, to fight against us.¡± Master Inoxion gave a summary of my story.


    ¡°Yes. As long as Luricerite is not able to kill you, Master, he will not be able to break the seal. He need to kill everyone to retrieve the Artifact as it is essential a part of them. The Infinity Artifact of Light is retrieved as Resika, the original Grand Ruler of Light, is killed by them. I need to re-seal the Infinity Seal, but I do not need those Artifacts, I will need to gain all my powers back to do so. I do not know how much Time we have before the seal is completely broken or before Luricerite puts his plans, whatever it is, into action. We have a few matters to take care of to ensure the safety of Existence.¡±


    ¡°Indeed. Innight, just focus on finding the rest of the 3 Archangels. You cannot take care of the seals at your current level of magic. We need to read up on this Infinity Level magic that you have used. Can you care to tell us how it is like?¡±


    ¡°Well I¡­¡±


    ¡°Innight, I have forgotten about something. I can contact the other Archangels.¡± Nicki interrupted me.


    ¡°Why did you not tell me so in the beginning¡­. It could have saved me so much trouble. Do it now!¡±


    ¡°Innight, the 3 of them is just outside our room, eavesdropping on the entire conversation we just had.¡±


    ¡°CRAP! This means they are likely to have known everything about The Unknown! They will then transmit this information to Luricerite! Intercept them!¡±


    The girls immediately opened up the door. 3 body tumbled in.


    ¡°Nicki, are these the Archangels?¡±


    ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°Which means¡­I have my job done prematurely for me.¡±


    ¡°What do you mean, Innight?¡± Charlotte asked.


    ¡°Can¡¯t you see? They are all dead. Someone assassinated them without us knowing.¡±


    ¡°Who and why?¡±


    ¡°Let me analyse the body. There should be the traces of magic used for the assassination. Be silent while I do so.¡±


    I poured my magic into one of the dead body to feel any abnormalities. I detected, at the heart region, that there is an outflow of magic through there, and there is a trace of Old Magic of The Void at the wound. This is enough for me to verify who the killer is. I came back to reality.


    ¡°As I have suspected. Only one group of people will do this. They are a gathering of people that worships The Void and attempts to bring my true self back through any means possible, and they will not hesitate to kill anyone that interferes with their plan. They are characterized by their spells, they only cast spells of Old Magic of The Void, which are supposed have disappeared and forgotten by everyone.¡±


    ¡°Aren¡¯t they dangerous?¡± Nicki and Charlotte asked.


    ¡°No. We only aim to awaken Zealus and hope to not injure anyone, but if they interfere with us we are then instructed to kill them.¡± Time answered. ¡°However, Light has been interfering with our plans and recently they have been plotting to kill Zealus as well so we are to eliminate them.¡±


    ¡°How did you know all this, Time?¡± The two girls pressed on her.


    ¡°She is a member of the gathering of the Old Magic. She has records of them and interacts with them on a regular basis. This makes her the best ally we can find in that group of gathering.¡± I answered them.


    ¡°So what do we do with the dead bodies?¡± Someone asked.


    ¡°I will clean them up.¡± I replied. ¡°I will extract their remaining powers from them onto myself. I need regain strength after breaking the World of Dreams.¡±


    ¡°Alright Innight. I will leave you to it. I need you to report to me any suspicious activity if you spot anything again. Now you just have to stop the invasion Luricerite is planning and regain your powers to seal The Unknown. To which we have to wait for it to happen.¡± Master Inoxion said.


    ¡°No, there is more. We need to find out the Styx cult, they have associations with The Unknown which makes them dangerous. They can potentially balloon into a problem that we have to face In the future. I have a book over here that I have retrieved from the World of Dreams that have more information about them and The Unknown. We need to find out this cult and eliminate them before they turn into a problem, especially with that crazy leader that they have.¡±


    ¡°That as well. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave.¡±


    Saying these, Master vanished.


    ¡°Now then. Please move out of the way.¡± I said this to everyone while preforming a spell to destroy the bodies.


    In the Light Elemental Plane, Luricerite is furiously shouting in anger.


    ¡°HOW?! HOW DID ALL MY ARCHANGELS GET ANNIHILATED?! HOW MUCH OF MY TIME IS WASTED BECAUSE OF THIS?! CURSE YOU, THE PIECE! CURSE YOU, THE EVIL ONE!¡±


    He ruffled his hair as he continued shouting. All his servants retreated into the corners of the Throne Room to give Luricerite time to cool down.


    ¡°REMIUS! COME HERE AT ONCE!¡±


    Remius quickly come to the front of Luricerite.


    ¡°You asked for me, The Great One?¡±


    ¡°REMIUS, ACTIVATE ALL THE CREATORS WE HAVE AND BEGIN OUR ATTACK! BRING DOWN THAT RIDICULOUS SCHOOL WITH ALL THE CREATURES WE HAVE!¡±


    ¡°Yes sir.¡±


    ¡°I WILL SHOW YOU, THE PIECE, HOW WEAK YOU ACTUALLY ARE IN OUR ELEMENTAL REALM! I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND DESTROY YOU COMPLETELY!¡±


    ¡°Do you wants my help?¡± A sound came into his mind.


    ¡°Who are you?¡± Luricerite asked.


    ¡°Who am I doe¡¯ not matter. Do you wants to destroy Zealu¡¯?


    ¡±You meant The Piece? Let¡¯s hear you out.¡±

 Chapter 6 - The Unknown

    The next day, when I woke up, the school is already in a mess. My alarm clock shows an unreadable character of Time, written not in rune or any other language that I know. That can only mean one thing: Spatial and Time distortion. Why though¡­ It is a question I would love an answer to. To my surprise, I found Charlotte and Nicki sleeping on the sofa of my room. They should be sleeping in their rooms. I softly patted them on their heads to wake them up.


    ¡°Mmhm¡­ is it morning already?¡± The two girls mumbled in their sleep.


    ¡°Wake up. I¡¯m preparing breakfast for the both of you today.¡± I whispered into their ears.


    The two girls rubbed their eyes and opened them, then stared at me.


    ¡°Now let me ask you girls, why are you in my room?¡±


    ¡°At around midnight, we received news from one of our rulers of the Light Elemental Plane that they will be initiating an attack here. We don¡¯t have much details but we are informed that they will be bringing out their newest weapon, named ¡®Creator¡¯. We wanted to alert you about this attack but we were overcame by sleepiness and fell asleep before we could do anything. We are sorry.¡±


    I patted on their heads.


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry. Even if I received the news earlier it may not have change the outcome. What is important now is I need to know about the situation now, the enemy strength and who the mastermind is.¡±


    ¡°I have the information you need, Innight.¡± Someone walked into my room. It was Time. That must be another clone of hers because the other clone is sleeping on her bed right now.


    ¡°Well provide me the details, Time.¡±


    ¡°The attack began around 3 in the morning. Light created a special barrier around this region to freeze advancement of Time and reinforcements before they started the battle. They have connected the barrier to a gate that allows transfer of armies of Light into the school itself. Currently they have taken over 2 of the main buildings of the school and the teachers are battling against the army as we speak, but with the major threat of the battle on the loose, they have no chance at winning at all. The major threat of this battle is machineries that goes by the codename of ¡®Creator¡¯, which have Creator Level magic and constantly creates new Creatures of Light to battle against us. From what I have gathered using my clones before they are wiped out, Luricerite is sitting somewhere in this barrier and watching the entire battle unfolding itself. I cannot replace the clones as Time is restricted from flowing here. Innight, we better start deriving a plan to begin our counterattack.¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t.¡±


    ¡°Huh? Why? Surely you are able to destroy those machines in a flash!¡± Everyone asked.


    ¡°Haven¡¯t you said so yourself, Time, that these machines are capable of using Creator Level magic? I am not that powerful yet. My magic level is currently only on par of a Lord Level, if I face someone with Creator Level magic I will die! I need to lift at least one more seal in order to be on the same level as those machineries! There is nothing I can do to win this battle this time, the difference in power level is too great!¡±


    ¡°So we are just going to wait here and wait for Luricerite to destroy all of us? Come on, Innight. There must be something that could be done to stop them without fighting them head on!¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know! Without more information about those machinery I wouldn¡¯t be able to figure any plans on defeating those things!¡±


    ¡°At least you are able to assist the teachers right, Innight?¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t! I cannot face those machines without risking my own life on the line! Until we can gather more information, we cannot counterattack!¡±


    ¡°I understand. Innight, I shall try to gather more information about those machinery, until then please be safe!¡±


    Saying these, Time melted into the shadows.


    ¡°Why did you say those words, Innight? You have always been positive on everything that is thrown at us.¡±


    ¡°T-There is something more. H-H-H-H-H-He is back.¡± I muttered these as I curled up in a ball.


    I cannot fight. He is back. It should be impossible. If he indeed has returned the entire Existence is doomed to become a wasteland to fuel his powers. There is nothing I can do to fight against Him, especially at my current magic level. But how did he escape? Even with the seal being loose, it should take him longer to escape from it! Also, Luricerite appears to have allied with Him, which makes the situation more dangerous. What should I do? What can I do?


    ¡°Innight?¡± Aquis appears to have woken up. She stretched herself before continuing: ¡°What¡¯s for breakfast?¡±


    ¡°A-A-A-Aquis. Give me a moment. I will cook up breakfast for the four of you here. Charlotte and Nicki, explain to Aquis what the situation is outside while I cook breakfast for all of us.¡±


    I hurried off to the kitchen.


    ¡°Hm¡­ Pancakes or French toast? Better choose French toast, we just had Pancakes a few days ago.¡± I murmured to myself.


    When I carried the food to the table, the four of them already laying on the table and playing with the forks and knives.


    ¡°Here you are. Next time I wouldn¡¯t be so kind to prepare breakfast for the both of you, Charlotte, Nicki.¡± I said this as I looked at both of them.


    They nod their heads in reply.


    A knock came on the door.


    ¡°Come in.¡±


    A very battle-worn and bloody Time dragged herself in. I immediately rushed over to her.


    ¡°What happened? Time! Answer me!¡±


    ¡°D¡­Drag me to my other clone.¡±


    I followed her orders. I know what she is about to do, transfer memories so in case this clones dies, the information can be retrieved by another clone.


    Time¡¯s hand touched the other clone¡¯s forehead. I can feel magic transferring itself from the injured clone to the sleeping clone. When it stopped, the injured Time fell onto the floor. I can feel her heartbeat stopped. Her shadow opened up and her body sank into it.


    The sleeping Time opened up her eyes.


    ¡°Since the clone that is supposed to tell you about the information died, let me, the other clone, inform you of the updates.¡±


    ¡°Alright. Please proceed.¡±


    ¡°First, these machines are drawing out power from somewhere deep below the surface of this school itself. I tried detecting the pool of the power and found it to be tremendous. So if we managed to cut off the machines¡¯ magic supply from the gigantic pool of magic, we can stop the machines from operating and prevent more Creatures being formed. Then we can stop the invasion and save the school¡±


    ¡°That is good news. Anymore?¡±


    ¡°The next is a bad news. I have detected something very, very, very ancient in the battlefield. I suspect that it is The Unknown. It appears not to be doing anything but watching the battle. Not even God knows what will happen if it sees you stopping the invasion.¡±


    I curled up in the ball, shaking back and forth.


    I can¡¯t do it. I can¡¯t do it. He will kill me since I¡¯m so weak now. Who knows what will happen to the Existence if I am not present to reset the entire Existence. He will turn this entire Existence into a place where he feed to fuel his power so that it exceeds Infinity. Not even I know what will happen if one¡¯s power exceed Infinity Level magic.


    ¡°Well, Innight. Our first job is to interrupt the magic supply of those machineries.¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t. He hasn¡¯t found me because there is a protection spell in this room, the moment I leave here he will find me. And kill me. I will not leave this room.¡± I said this as I continued rocking back and forth in a ball.


    *sigh* ¡°We need our Great Ruler Lord Inoxion to convince him. Sadly because of the barrier we cannot call him.¡± Aquis sighed.


    ¡°Well, let this old man do the job.¡± Nightius came in.


    ¡°Nightius!¡± I cried.


    ¡°Innight. You need to realize something. Time has not found this out because she isn¡¯t able to analyse magic. The The Unknown that Time has found out on the battlefield is not the real one. It is ancient, yes, but the power is significantly lower than a soldier. The magic that originates from that thing is only of a Spirit Level. I would say that it is probably a small spirit of The Unknown.¡±


    ¡°What?! TIME! You made me crumble in fear because of your stupid mistake!¡±


    ¡°I-I-I¡¯m sorry!¡± She cried out.


    ¡°Never mind that now. Now that mistake has been cleared up, we need to focus on our highest priority now: Taking back our school. Nightius, do you happen to have a map of the school?¡±


    ¡°Indeed I do have.¡±


    ¡°Good. Show it to us. I need to plan on what routes we need to take to reach the Basement.¡±


    Nightius took out a large parchment and laid it on the floor. At that moment the whole ground shook. Then an announcement came: ¡°Students, please evacuate from Building C, the buildings¡¯ defence system has lost against the invaders. This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill. Please evacuate from Building C immediately.¡±


    ¡°3<sup>rd</sup> building lost, we don¡¯t have time. Let us see the map.¡±


    I begin to analyse the map and figure out the best route to reach the basement.


    ¡°Innight, why don¡¯t you just use Earth spell to create a hole in the ground?¡±


    ¡°Luricerite has excellent magic detection. I cannot let him know that I¡¯m stopping his plans. We have to approach the target with as little magic as possible so he does not detect us.¡± I answered while continued to investigate the map.


    ¡°Alright. I have figured out a method. But to do this I will need protection magic and invisible magic. We have to sneak into Building A, which has already fallen into the enemy¡¯s hands. Only Building A has stairs that leads to the deepest point of the school. From there we can access the deepest point of the school in the fastest way possible and using as little magic as possible.¡±


    ¡°Understood. Let¡¯s move now.¡±


    We left our room and begin sneaking our way out of the building.


    ¡°Once outside, I will have to use an invisibility spell. It will be very weak and so sound and interactions with the objects outside the field is not muted. Be careful where you tread and don¡¯t make a sound.¡±


    We soon exited the Building D. Outside we can see machines all around, dropping down spheres which eventually hatch into new Creatures of Light. AT the very top of the entire barrier, I can sense Luricerite sitting up there. I casted a spell over all of us, a shadow encased all of us.


    ¡°Now, move according to me. We have to move in a single line, the last person must not leave the shadow or else you will be spotted.¡±


    We walked slowly across the battlefield and under the machines. The last person, Time, almost tipped over and got let out of the shadows, but luckily I saw her and stopped in time. There were in stances that we came very close to the machines, but luckily due to low artificial intelligence they are unable to perform spells to detect us.


    We have been lucky so far. There is no telling what will happen if I run out of Time, or if Luricerite wins this battle.


    We successfully sneaked into Building A without anyone noticing us. We first sneak into an empty classroom, then I disabled the spell.


    ¡°Why did you do that for, Innight?¡±


    ¡°Luricerite is right above this building. He can easily detect my magic if I¡¯m not careful. We have to fight off the enemies we encounter here and destroy them before they are able to transmit any information to Luricerite or any generals outside. Here, use these weapons.¡± I said these as I took out seven swords, all composed of Dark Matter.


    ¡°We have to use Physical form of damage to all the Creatures who obstruct or discover us. Using Physical damage will allow us to escape Luericerite¡¯s radar. Follow my lead, everyone, I will lead all of us to the basement through the shortest path. Remember, no mercy to anyone that spots us, as they will show no mercy either.¡±


    We stepped out of the classroom, immediately we were faced by a Light Elemental. Before anyone could react, Time opened up the shadow under the Elemental and it swallowed the Elemental whole.


    ¡°TIME! I did mention not to use magic, didn¡¯t I?¡±


    ¡°That was not magic. That is a physical attack that I have used in shadows control. It does not require mana to operate the movement. You do have heard of shadow weaving, have you not, Innight?¡±


    ¡°I do. So this is an application of shadow weaving. However, I remember that you cannot cast it too often or else you will lose your own shadow, thereby rubbing your very existence away.¡±


    ¡°Correct, Innight. So I can help to eliminate those that escaped us using this technic, but not too often.¡±


    ¡°That will be useful. Let¡¯s move out now.¡±


    We left the classroom and out to the corridor. We immediately faced a Creature of Light. Nightius took out a bow and fired a black arrow through the Creature. It then bursts into chunks of Light.


    ¡°Who are you? Stop right there!¡±


    I rushed over to the speaker and stabbed the sword into their stomach, then slicing it right through the three Creatures at once. Chunks of Light flew all over the place, and white liquid splattered all over me.


    ¡°We should consider us lucky that Dark Matter can cut through anything as it digest everything into mana. Light wouldn¡¯t even be able to touch them and use them as they are polar opposites, that will kill them.¡± I said this as I put the sword back to its scabbard. ¡°Let¡¯s move. We don¡¯t have time.¡±Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.


    We continued advancing through the waves of Creatures of Light and decimated them without problems. Soon we reached the most bottom floor, and found a half-broken lift standing there.


    ¡°I have never seen this lift before.¡± Someone said.


    ¡°Neither had I. I suspect this lift is covered by a strong layer of magic in normal situations, now that Luricerite has come in and mess up the balance of magic the cover of magic is destroyed, showing it now. I hope it still functions perfectly. If my hunch is right, this lift will bring us to the centre of all the magic abnormality.¡±


    ¡°What do you meant?¡± Time looked at me and asked. The speaker just now should be her.


    ¡°You will understand when we reach the very bottom of the school. If my guess is correct, of course.¡±


    We all squeezed into the small, iron and rusty lift. I pressed the button labelled ¡°Core¡± and the doors closed shut, then it begin its¡¯ way downwards into the depth. The lift creaked and rumbled, but it held and the trip went safely.


    Then the lift stopped and the doors opened. Outside was a beautiful scenery waiting for us. Everything was sea-blue, I can detect everything here is composed of mana alone. Various animals graze upon the blue grassland. It was so beautiful, everyone is stuck in awe. In the very middle of the area a gigantic tree is growing there. We approach it, Time, Aquis, Charlotte and Nicki couldn¡¯t help but to stop and feel up the animals there, I and Nightius have to remind them again and again about the current situation the school is facing. We soon reached the tree, then we found out the tree is growing from a gigantic corpse of a strange man.


    ¡°I recognize this Creature¡¯s face.¡± I said.


    ¡°Who is it?¡± Everyone crowded around me.


    ¡°It is as I have suspected. This is the one responsible for the entire mess of magical instability and the battle that we are facing right now. This Creature¡¯s name is ¨C The Creator.¡±


    ¡°The Creator?! But is he dead and all his remains are destroyed?¡±


    ¡°This is where you are all wrong. The Creator, as you would have read about it, came along with us, The Unknown and me, during the Creation Point. It is much weaker in magic level, possessing only Creator Level magic. It took up the role of creating the entire Elemental Realm after I performed Ragnarok on the entire Existence. However if failed to rule over everything as it does not have an All-Seeing Eye, and blamed the faults of war on my Master. I killed him, while at the same time I was killed as well. From what I remembered, his remains turned into mana, and is used to create the Physical Realm. With all the recent power spikes and magic abnormality I have suspected something is off, which gave me a clue on what is actually causing all this.¡±


    ¡°I initially suspected an outer cause resulted in all the magic abnormalities. However, after receiving several reports that there is a large pool of magic deep within the school and I not being able to identify the source has led me to suspect that the remains of the Creator is hidden under the school. Today¡¯s battle gave me the proof that I need, to sustain a machine with that much power you will need something of the same Magic Level to sustain it, this led to my conclusion. Now we have two options to deal with this remains. One, blow it all up, destroy all the magic present here so that Luricerite can no longer drain magic from here anymore. Two, absorb it and condensed it into a magical sphere and store it somewhere so Luricerite cannot access this pool of magic anymore. Which one do you choose? Be quick, we don¡¯t have time.¡±


    ¡°I think we should go with option 2, Innight. Lord Inoxion might find this pool of magic useful to him as well, so it will be better to safe keep it.¡±


    ¡°Alright then, Nightius. Please help me keep an eye of the surroundings. I need to perform a spell to first disconnect all the mana lines the machines has on this pool of magic before I can condense this ball of magic. Lyrith: Parousia!¡±


    I entered Alzelea state again. I can see thousands of lines stretching out from the tree out towards the surface, I begin to severe them off using magic. Soon all the threads were severed. I returned to my senses.


    ¡°Now it comes the easy part. Fermion: Devastation!¡±


    The corpse and the tree begin to twist and condense into a small sphere. The surrounding animals begin to decay and lose their blue hue, bones of the animals begin to show and mana begin to flow from the environment back into the sphere itself. Soon their entire surrounding turned into nothing but a wasteland, with bare dirt everywhere and bones of the dead animals.


    ¡°He must have been continuously supplying magic into this environment, causing Creatures of mana to grow within this environment. Once he is gone, the life line of the environment is gone and it collapse on itself. Which means ¨C ¡°


    Just as I said these, the entire underground cavern begin to shake.


    ¡°Everyone, hurry to the lift, his place is going to collapse on its own!¡± I said these as I started running towards the lift, everyone followed.


    Except Time. She appears stunned.


    ¡°What going on Time? Hurry!¡± I run towards her.


    ¡°I¡¯m dead, Innight. Someone discovered my true self and killed me. I won¡¯t last more than a few minutes here before I vanish into mana. I need to tell you this, Innight: Thank you for giving me hope. Also ¨C ¡°She put her lips to mine and kissed me.


    ¡°I love you. I¡¯m grateful that I meet you, now goodbye Innight. To another Time where we will meet again.¡±


    Saying these, her body vanished into mana.


    I¡¯m horrified. I wanted to cry but I know I have to hold back my tears, there is something more important on our hands first. Her funeral have to wait. I rushed back to the lift and pressed the ¡°Ground¡± button. The doors closed and the lift begin its¡¯ ascension to the surface. Just seconds after we done that the entire cavern caved in and buried the remains of everything in the cavern.


    Just in time.


    ¡°Once we get to the surface, go out, battle to the death! Destroy absolutely every enemy however you like! We have to revenge for all the damage they have done on our school!¡± I commanded.


    ¡°Yes sir!¡±


    When the lift reached the surface, and opened up the doors, hundreds Creatures of Light were already waiting for us. That¡¯s odd. I thought we had our movements all hidden perfectly.


    Well, it doesn¡¯t matter now.


    ¡°CHARGE!¡±


    Spells of various size, shape and colour blasted towards the Creatures of Light. We fought our way out of the building, and saw our plan succeed. All the machines are disabled and fell to the ground.


    ¡°WE WIN, LURICERITE! NOW PLEASE GO BACK TO YOUR PLANE!¡± I shouted.


    ¡°Not so fast, Innight.¡± Came the reply.


    ¡°WHAT?¡±


    ¡°You do want to know who killed Time, do you?¡±


    ¡°How did you know about her?¡±


    ¡°I have my intel hidden perfectly well against you. Well, you are bound to figure them out sooner or later, so I shall tell you now, it is your partner of the Darkness Elemental Plane, Aquis!¡±


    ¡°AQUIS?!¡±


    ¡°Sorry, Innight! He held my parents captive and forced me to do his dirty work against you, I¡¯m dearly sorry, Innight!¡±


    ¡°I understand. It is all the plan of Luricerite all along to trick us into this battle!¡±


    ¡°Indeed. I want you to feel that you have succeed then killing all your friends all at once dropping you to rock bottom!¡±


    ¡°What did you just say?!¡±


    ¡°Oh, by the way, here is the corpse of your wife.¡±


    He took out the corpse of Time from a portal that just opened up and threw it on the ground.


    ¡°Also, I have a special surprise for you. Bring him over!¡±


    ¡°Roger.¡±


    The Light Elementals around him went into the portal, and what came out together with them is someone I never thought to see in this state.


    It is Master. Master Inoxion is captured by Luricerite.


    ¡°Master!¡±


    ¡°He proved himself to be a difficult target. He almost caught me and could have sent me to The Void if it wasn¡¯t for the help of my new ally.¡±


    ¡°You have a new ally?¡±


    ¡°Indeed. He is someone you know of as well. Hey, say hello to him. Don¡¯t you always want to do so?¡±


    A white dragon head stretched out from the portal. I suddenly felt a chill down my spine. It can¡¯t be, he should not have escaped that easily. I am very confident about my magic that he should not have escaped that easily. This cannot be him.


    Hello Zealu¡¯. Apparently you haves been ¡®everely weakened compared to the la¡¯ts time I have ¡®een you. If you are wondering how did I manages to e¡¯cape your ¡®eal, let me tell you the truths. I didn¡¯t. What you are ¡®eeing now is a ¡®mall portions of my ¡®oul. I still can uses magic in this form, but it will be ¡®everly weakened. Don¡¯t worry, you will be seeing mes very soons.


    That caused the fear within myself to subside a little. I should be able to defeat him with ease, as long as he has not grown in power, also I have to revenge for Time. I will kill them both.


    Suddenly I heard more screams. I turned my head around. The machines killed off Nightius, Charlotte and Nicki. I thought there were deactivated? That can¡¯t be¡­ It is all a trap!


    ¡°You amaze me, Innight. Is that not enough to drive you insane? Then I wonder what will happen if I kill off your master here?¡±


    No. I will not let you do so. I thought. I¡¯m just about to rush over to Master¡¯s side when I found myself trapped in an invisible barrier.


    ¡°Let me out!¡± I screamed. ¡°LET ME OUT!¡±


    ¡°We will, I promised, after we retrieve the Infinity artifact from your master here. Artharos: Desoloth!¡±


    That is Creator Level magic! He shouldn¡¯t be able to cast it!


    That is when I observe that the white dragon breaths magic into Luricerite, this fuels him with magic, enough to keep the spell complete. There is no telling what that will happen if these two collaborate together to rule over Existence. If I do not stop them, the entire Existence will be in a state of chaos. The first thing to do is to prevent him from accessing the Infinity Seal. He should have gathered all the Infinity Artifacts except the Infinity Artifact of Darkness, or else he would not have been so desperate to capture Master.


    Master screams as the magic begin to cleanse the cursed armour of its curse. This will kill Master. Master is only alive because of the curse. It is because of how intense the curse is on the armour, it came to life, giving rise to Master. If they cleanse the armour of its curse, Master will die.


    ¡°NO! STOP IT!¡± I screamed while banging on the barrier.


    ¡°Since you are rumoured to be so powerful, this simple barrier should be nothing to you, right? Why don¡¯t you just break it instead?¡± Luricerite said this as he continued his spell.


    ¡°STOP IT!¡± I continued to scream over and over again.


    With a blinding light from the armour, Master stopped screaming. I can sense no more magic is flowing through the armour.


    Master is dead. The image that all my believes that I have held for years is gone.


    I will kill the both of them.


    The seal begin to circle in my eyes, all of them broke. There is no greatest despair that having your Master, the support that you lie on for years, to disappear. This caused all my seals to be permanently broken, I¡¯m back at full power now. The Zealus that all Creatures of Existence fear.


    I can feel an intense aura hangs around me.


    ¡°Hey, look, The Unknown, he, Zealus, finally revealed his true self!¡±


    ¡°It is wise to not fight him. At my current power, I cannot even touch him or I will evaporate into nothingness. Now that we have the Infinity Artifact of Darkness, we have all the 7 Infinity Artifacts, now head to the Infinity Seal.¡±


    ¡°Right you are.¡±


    Before I could do anything, Luricerite leaped into the portal and the portal closed. The entire barrier that surrounds the school dissipated.


    We have won the battle. But at a cost. Many were injured or even dead. They will be missed.


    I will find you, Luricerite. But after I have fixed the school. After that I will hunt you down. And I will kill you, together with The Unknown.


    The entire school prepared a funeral for the next day to send off the dead and pay respects for them. There were no lessons for the entire day. I was instructed by the principal to fix up the mess using my immense magic. I was award a medal for saving the school and obliterating the enemy force. However I was not in the mood to celebrate. Also, there were rumours that I was the one who caused this entire battle to start circulating the school so I have receive glares from many. The only good thing that came out from this battle is no one dared to battle me again.


    Then, during midnight. My Calling Crystal begin heating up


    Who could be calling me? Master is dead.


    I activated the crystal. ¡°Hello? Who is calling? Don¡¯t say you are my Master, since that will be a lie.¡±


    ¡°Innight. It is me indeed. What Luricerite has killed is a clone that I have set up earlier. I have extracted the Infinity Artifact from myself after you mentioned about the danger of him killing me. I then created another clones of myself using the Infinity Artifact. There is something of great concern to me, Innight.¡±


    My heart skipped a beat. Master is alive? That is a relief. However, that does not change the fact that Aquis is a betrayer, and Time, Nightius, Charlotte and Nicki is dead.


    ¡°Well, Master, have you decided who will fit the position of Nightius?¡±


    ¡°There is no need. Have you forgotten about Revival magic? Nightius may hold Lord Level Magic, but he is still a Creature of Flesh, he can be revived using Revival magic. Try doing that to Time and the other two girls, which will revive them. For Aquis, we will save her parents, but only after Luricerite is dealt with first.¡±


    Of course! Revival magic! I can use it to revive the girls!


    ¡°I have forgotten indeed, all this deaths has cost me to lose the ability to think properly.¡±


    ¡°I will discuss with you those things later, something important has come up, and only you are capable to do this job this time.¡±


    ¡°Ok, so what is it this time?¡±


    ¡°There is a distress signal from the Light Elemental Plane. They have sent a help signal to us. That is the very last thing we expect them to do. We have connected to them and from what they are saying, Luricerite has been missing from his throne for more than three days. The last time they have communicated with him, according to them, he has lost all humanity. He is planning to rule over the entire Elemental Realm and has gone crazy over thinking how, he wanted to collaborate with The Unknown, and the worst, Innight, is this: He plans to combine with The Unknown together to gain his powers while maintaining his position as the Grand Ruler of Light Elemental Plane.¡±


    I shivered at the thought. This will only spell The End for the entire Existence. The Unknown will then feed endlessly on the warmonger¡¯s heart and continue to grow in power while Luricerite terrorize the entire Existence. I need to stop this at all cost.


    ¡°We still have time, Innight. They have told us the last time they detected Luricerite is somewhere in the midst of the Void. He is most likely searching for the Infinity Seal. You have to find him and destroy him before he does find it.¡±


    ¡°Understood.¡± I deactivated the Calling Crystal.


    Never had I heard of a more atrocious plan. Combining with something of Infinity Level magic when the user is only Lord Level, this will definitely kill him. But if it does, The Unknown would have not choose to help him. So this means we don¡¯t have Time this time round.


    I instantly open up a portal to the Infinity Seal and transport myself there. At there I see Luricerite, with the seven Infinity Artifacts surrounding the seal, he is standing at the side of the seal.


    ¡°AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AWAKEN AND BE FREE! THE UNKNOWN! FUSED TOGETHER AS ONE WITH ME SO WE CAN TOGETHER DOMINATE THIS EXSITENCE TOGETHER!¡±


    Too late.


    The seven Infinity artifacts circled around the Infinity Seal and emitted a huge beam of light into The Void. The seal cracks and fractures. A huge white arm reached out from the broken seal, followed by another. A head and shoulder then followed. The head showed a snicker as it appears from the broken seal.


    The Unknown. I can no longer seal him again as all the artifacts are broken, also he will be wary of me to ensure it does not happen to him again. The entire Existence is doomed. I cannot predict what will happen when he is free, when he is merged with the Grand Ruler of Light, Luricerite. He will continuously feed onto the warmonger¡¯s heart and grow in power. He has grown in power while the stayed in the seal so I no longer have the ability to fight him anymore. This spells trouble.


    The head turned around and found me.


    ¡°Ah. What do we haves here? If it wa¡¯n¡¯t¡¯ the Creatures who sealed me in, Zealu¡¯! Nice to meets you again, my friend!¡±


    He isn¡¯t angry? Odd. Something is off.


    ¡°Are you not angry at me for sealing you in?¡±


    The head chuckled.


    ¡°Angry? I¡¯m not capable to do thats when you have gave me a whole new world to plays with! Thank¡¯ to you, I have discovered an entire world for me to feeds my power on. I greatly thank you, Zealu¡¯.¡±


    A whole new world? I did not know that. Unless¡­.Uh oh. Infinity has a whole new dimension that exist with it. This means he have grew exponentially stronger while I kept him in that seal. All while I have stayed the same amount of power for all these eternities. I need to revive the Infinity Dimension one day, judging by this situation, but it would have to come later, it will have to come after I have defeated this Incarnation of Evil.


    ¡°Now is you excuses me, I need to do something extremely important.¡± The head said.


    Turning to Luricerite, the head continued: ¡°Now, Grand Ruler of Light, I promised you to have my power, so I shall give you my reward, but in return you will have to feed me. So I have come to the conclusion to stay in your body. Now, please put out your left hand.¡±


    Luricerite stretched out his left hand. The entire monstrosity begin to shrink and condense into a small sphere of white.


    ¡°Now swallow it.¡± The sound continued. Luricerite followed his instruction.


    I begin to sense magic imbalance in Luricerite. The amount of magic condensed in The Unknown all given to a person of only Lord Level magic will either kill him or turn him into some form of monster. I guess it will be the latter or else The Unknown would not have agreed to the plan.


    The physical shape of Luricerite begin to turn, half of his body swelled and sharp metal pieces begin to sprout from his back, a wing too sprouted behind him.


    But apparently the transformation is too much for Luricerite to handle. He lost all his sanity and magic begin to overflow from him. The level of magic peaked Infinity Magic and begin to collapse itself.


    So that is what happens. I thought. When magic level goes over Infinity Level the Creature collapse and magic devour the being altogether, turning it into mana.


    Screams continued to come from Luricerite. The monstrosity he turned into is condensed and slowly converted into mana at the same time. At the last moment, with a final scream, a blinding light came from him. When it was over, there left a glowing blue sphere. That, I suspect, is pure mana. Something that I myself have no seen before since I have personally never visit the Astral realm before. I picked it up from the ground and put it in my pocket.


    On the screen the end credits rolled. I took off my Virtual Reality headset.


    ¡°That is a good game. Isn¡¯t it, Time?¡±


    Time mumbled something then continued sleeping. I looked at my fingers, the ring shone there, signifying my marriage to the girls. I turned off the television and went upstairs to bed, where Charlotte and Nicki is sleeping. I took out a blue sphere from my pocket and kiss it, before putting it at the side of my bed. I slowly closed my eyes.


    ¡°This isn¡¯t the end, you know, Innight.¡±


    ¡°I know. Master Inoxion. His other 4 Grand Rulers are still there, there are the Ancient Beasts as well. But we finally have a period of peace as they fight among themselves who sits on the position of Grand Ruler, as the Ancient Beasts continues to sleep in another Dimension, and with the destruction of the most dangerous Creature of Existence. We should enjoy it while we can.¡±


    ¡°However you like, Innight.¡± Master replied


    ¡°Alright, I need to sleep now, Master. Good Night.¡±


    ¡°Good night.¡±


    The Calling Crystal cooled down.


    I went to the window to take a look outside. The beautiful Void surrounds the entire house. Just meters away are the Elemental Planes. It wouldn¡¯t be long before another war is brought up between the Elemental Planes of Light and Dark. And if the Ancient Beasts were awaken, there will be a large scale war between all the Elemental Planes. But now, as I have mentioned, we should enjoy the temporary peace in the Existence.


    I walked back to the bed and lie on it and closed my eyes. Slowly I fall into a deep sleep.


    Peace and War will rise and fall, in our beloved Plane of Darkness.


    The End?