The Palace of the Demon King, a huge building solely built for the demon king himself. A place of luxury all demons yearn for. Tiabishi was brought to the palace by the princess as her guest.
She slept on giant bed with red bed sheet and curtains attached to it. The room was huge compared to the previous locations she slept at. It had two giant sized mirrors on the opposite side of bed set up against the wall.
About 23 women in maid dresses barged in and cleaned the room without even breaking a sweat. While they were about to wrap up, they heard Tiabishi groaning in her sleep.
"She looks like she in pain?" one of the maids noticed the painful expression she was making.
"Maybe she is just having a bad dream…"
"Yeah that could be it."
"You know what? I heard she killed a demon single handedly."
"Oh, I have heard that too!"
"So then why is the princess letting her stay here as a guest!?" Some of maids started to show fear and curiosity regarding her stay.
"Good poi-"
"You guys are awfully rude to my guest." Princess leaned on the door frame and overheard the conversation the maids were having. "Want me to kill you guys or something?"
The maids' expressions stiffened in fear as they felt the murderous aura leaving her body. Few even fainted just from the intent they felt while some froze then and there.
"Mhm…You don't have to do that, you know?" Tiabishi woke up. She rubbed her eyes and yawned as she got off from the bed. "They were just curious."
"Oh, you woke up?"
"Yeah, where am I, by the way?" Tiabishi looked around and got fascinated by the interior design of the room.
"In the demon castle…elf."
Tiabishi smiled and walked straight to the princess. She raised her hand and reached out for a hand shake.
Princess sighed and just nodded. "I won't shake your hand until you defeat me."
Tiabishi pouted. "Hmph! You meany!" She then sighed. "But I accept that challenge"
They both smiled as their fire for rivalry grew.
But that heated moment didn't last longer.
"Yo sis! You seen my book somwhere? That about the orbs?" Dobrota barged in clearly pissed off as he couldn't find his book.
"Oh, that one? Well I used it as a fuel for the fire in the morning." she clearly joked about the situation. But Dobrota couldn't see through it. He fell on his knees, broken and frozen in pain and suffering. "M-my…book…" tears fell down his eyes. "Nooo-!!" a split second later, his eyes turned into flamed. His anger knew no bounds but his standing and power couldn't let him do as he wished. Truly saddening it was to see his pitiful self growling in pain. In the end, he just cursed her a bit and left crying. "I will never forgive you, sis!!"
But as one would expect, the sister…princess herself couldn't tolerated his attitude and left after him to beat him up.
Meanwhile Tiabishi enjoying the show, laughed to her heart's content.
A few minutes later, all the maids had already left the room and a man with black eyes and red pupils came in. He had huge horns, a bigger than Dobrota. What he wore was nothing ordinary but royal clothing itself, red clothes with black strips and golden lines.
"Father, I want a new book." Dobrota also came back after surviving against his sister.
"Hmm? But why is your sister screaming like crazy?"
"Well…nothing much." He replied.
In truth, Dobrota burned one of the dolls owned by his sister…favorite dolls to be exact, which obviously was the reason for her screams. Dobrota took revenge for his book; his actions were truly worth applauding for.
"Okay then." The demon lord starts conjuring some mana, creating multiple small pillars in his palm. "Pillars of creation…Endless book!" the pillars connected with each other with string of blue colored mana resulting in a bright red light shining at the intersection creating the Endless Book.
"Here you go" he handed over the book to Dobrota.
Dobrota took the book and walked away.
"Son, you may be forgetting something?"
"Really…father? Your beloved daughter just threw my book in the fire this morning."
"Fine, whatever." He sighed. "Anyways, I think introductions are still due…I am Reayop, father of my beloved daughter and owner of this palace. People know me by the name of Demon lord Reayop! It's nice to meet you."
"The pleasure is all mine, sir. I am Tiabishi, a friend of your daughter." She bowed before him. "Thank you for letting me stay here, sir."
.....
It was early morning, the stars Ra and Surya rising up and shined just above the horizon. The sky was still covered with beautiful stars and the moon that was slowly setting down.
Achlys and his crew rested in a quiet ally. Lecia used her gravity magic to warm everyone up.
"How is this working? Like gravity magic for heating?" Achlys asked out of his curiosity.
In this world, Gravity spells are one of the strongest magic spells a mage could learn. This magic is quite rare even amongst the top tier magicians. One needs to at least have a certain level imagination to even think of using gravity magic spells that way.
"Don't be stupid human, why would she answer your idiotic ques-" Crevial gets kicked in the back of her head gets flown across the ally.
Without a second of hesitation Lecia kicked her and then turned to Achlys to answer his question. "We know that everything has a certain limit to how close they can get or be put together with gravity magic." She picked up a rock and demonstrated how the spell worked. "As the objects gets close to each other, there is a certain point to which there is no heat generation due to the forces and fields between them, but after this certain point which I call as 'Threshold Force', the objects starts to get torn apart or merge depending on the type which is caused by the force that gets applied to it. The loss of energy in this process is just the heat that we experience right now."
Just as she was about to end her lecture on gravity magic, Crevial returned after getting kicked in the head. "You are so mean, Lecia."
"It was your fault. You were yelling at my husband."
Achlys sighed as he face palmed and lied down. "I am not marrying you, Lecia."
"Hmph!" Lecia pouted and debris around her started to orbit faster. "This all is entirely your fault Crevial!" she kicked her in the head again.
....
the chained one in her own house lays in her bed shaking left to right sweating as she is having a nightmare
There was a small island located in the middle of the Biostic Ocean. It had less vegetation and a huge beach. But that was not the main thing about the island; it was the giant facility that was situated there.
"That day…eighteen years ago…the sun shone brightly through clouds and the waves were weirdly calm. It was as if the silence was pointing out to the storm that was coming." A woman reminisced her past. "I remember people saying that a storm was approaching…but I do not remember any hitting us." She continued with her story.
The facility was for experimenting beings of this world no matter the race. There was this one room that every being stayed away from, it was called the "The White Room". Anyone chosen to be experimented in that room knew his fate was sealed. Even getting tortured by the goblins was a blessing compared to the hell faced in that room.
She could feel the shivers going down her spine. "I, Lisare, was once chosen to be a subject for that room…even now I cannot forget the time I spent in that heinous room. There I was named as E1; I was used for the future of the world."
Her facial expressions showed true despair. She continued with her story. "I wasn't the best…but I was the strongest. My ability lets me manipulate my emotions making them into a weapon of my choice…I was weapon only meant to hurt people. But I wanted to stop…I was tired of all that killing and hurting people. So I did what I should have done a long time ago…I ran away."
Her hatred was not for the people but for the way everyone got treated differently because of their gender, race or how useful they are.
"Be the evil everyone needs or be the good that no one needs. We all have a purpose in our life. Live for that and die for that." She reminded herself of the lines she used to repeat during her days as a test subject. "This world being unfair is injustice."
...
Lecia and Crevial sat next to each other while the rocks orbited around them providing them heat.
"Why is his tattoo glowing?" Crevial got confused from the glowing design on Achlys face.
"This is his marking." Lecia caressed his face. "He is training in his sleep right now."
"Training in sleep??"
"Yes, the first wielder of the order of swords is training him. He does it every night."
"Who's Cryo?"
Lecia showed an irritating face. "A failed bird, he does nothing but use his puny ice magic."
"Interesting…" Crevial imagined a small bird that uses ice flakes with a big smile
.....
In Achlys' Mind Realm,
"Two thousand four hundred eighty four…two thousand four hundred eighty five." Breathing heavily, Achlys swung his three meter long iron sword with a hard clang on the ground.
"Five more to go, C'mon boy!" Bellona encouraged Achlys as he was swinging his sword meanwhile doing the same thing but with an even bigger sword.
"HARGH!" he swung his final sword for the day. "When am I gonna learn the next order?"
Bellona stopped her exercise and replied "Someday, first you need to strengthen your first order. Right now, you can only destroy a normal church with those skills."
"Fine, I understand." He sighed.
Bellona hit Achlys in the head. "Let's train your first order!"
Achlys rubbed his head and replied with an annoyed expression. "Annoying woman." And he got hit again.
"I am happy that I can train you, you know." Said Bellona while hitting him again.
After a short break, Achlys grabbed a sword from the graveyard of hundred of words sticking out of the ground.
"Choosing Darplonce…you have got a good eye." She was impressed by his instincts. "But that sword is annoying to wield at times."
"How is this sword fighting back in my mind??"
Bellona smirked and crossed her arms. "Your mind is my mind and with connections of my experience with these swords, I can show you how they really are."
Achlys sighed and lifted the sword. He fought against the resistive force applied by the sword.
Bellona vanishes from Achlys's view and kicks him on the side "hnngg" Achlys grunts as he faces her way swinging the sword from the left
bellona blocks with her own sword and overpowers him as she sends him flying with a sword push "more power Boy" she yelled dashing towards him jumping up and kicking him down
she grabbed his arm and threw him in the air "catch!" she threw her sword towards him hoping he blocks it
he spins in the air and dodges the sword and threw his sword towards her grabbing her sword she threw "try more Bellona!!" he shouted pointing the sword down and dives down
(for short context in his mind is no wind or air resistance)
Bellona catches the blade and holds the blade close down in a striking pose with Achlys coming closer like a comet and explodes into mist 50 meters away from Bellona
"find me Bellona!" he laughs
bellona appears in the mist next to him and hits his blade disposing of the mist and slamming him down in the ground "ow ow ow" he said rubbing his back but running to the left with more blades coming out the ground
"hm? got a plan meathead?" she shouts landing on the ground watching him grabbing blades and throwing it towards her "i like your way of thinking but no." she said blocking the blades and marching ever so closer
"why is my first order so strong! its like they said in history books 'the sword never backs down' " he said charging towards her and holding his blade to the left of his body
"ORDER ONE!HORIZONS!" he shouts with all his might with his blade shining red and slashing towards bellona "use them more! idiot!" she said blocking the attack with ease and punching him in the guts
he pukes blood and sends into the castle in the far distance "ugh... that hurts... well didnt you say those backgrounds are nothing but fake?" he asked in annoyance grunting with a smile
she comes closer walking and laughs outloud "a joke was that but this castle was my old home so i feel like i have the right to destroy it" she said appearing infront of him in a tenth of a second and punching him again in the guts sending him to the west main tower
the tower falls down with achlys's green golden eyes shining between the rubbles and smoke "thathurt..." he stated standing up fully
he runs inside the castle with bellona smiling and walking slowly after him "hunting games are not the ideal fighting type..." she kicked a wall over and sees Achlys running out of the room she kicked in "dont make this any harder!" she smiled but then her arm starts to bleed
"using... mist slash against me?" she touches her blood and it heals instantly
"keep in mind in our minds we are weaker."
she walks closer to him swinging her blade without effort
and with that swing she splitted the castle in two with Achlys jumping up the upper side of the building that got cut off
"i saw that boy!" she jumped towards the uppert building also and sheathed the blade with the building exploding in pieces and Achlys emerging out of it
Achlys stabbed a piece of the wall and swung it towards bellona as the piece flies off the blade in her direction
she breathed in and out with the wall cutted in million pieces "try harder boy! you know those easy tricks wont work on me" she appears behind him
he explodes again into mist with piece next to him but the mist blocks her view
she snaps her fingers to dismiss the mist but Achlys is gone and the piece cut in two
she grins widely and lands on a other piece and vanishes with a strong shockwave emiting from where she stood "dont hide boy! It will not help you" she grins more appearing infront of Achlys
they both stood under the flaming ball of blue colours "you are exhausted..." "how can you tell?" he answered inmideatly
"well with your fast reply and the colour of the flaming ball" she said calmly kicking him in the head but he blocks in time before her leg could touch him
he grabbed her leg and lifted his sword up "you wouldn't dare!" she laughed
"order one! full moon!" he shouts again swinging his sword down with a blue light emiting from the sword
the sword connects with bellona's sword pushing her away with achlys following her slowly
she stood up facing Achlys as they both stare each other in silence
bellona wearing a wicket grin and Achlys staring serious