10/11/998:
It was on the tenth of November when I was called to the elders council. It was a cold day since the winter started in between the late September and begun it's arc on the mid October.
It was Thursday night when the message when sent. It is Alphia who sent them to me, apparently they need a team of a mission. The interesting part about this was that the mission is directly taking place on my next destination.
"The Asteroid kingdom."
I stared at the letter in my hand and gazed at the map which displayed the country of the Asteroid kingdom. In terms of size and popularity, I would say "they don't the match the other countries I have been on."
Since the other counties have been reported to have at least five million to seven million on average count within every year. Plus, it is also said that each country gains fifty thousand members each year.
Sighing for moment, I relaxed my body then started rearranging my thoughts. "Since this wasn't part of my plans it completely messes up my schedule."
But even I knew knew that I had visit that country one, the main problem was when I would visit. Maybe, if Mary didn't exist in this world I may have been already been there. In truth, saving her was both a blessing and a curse.
I got to save her and keep her happy, and in turn she brought me happiness even meeting with new people that weren't human beings. But, on the down side we both saw a woman who literally dead by her own son's hand.
Well, it is not like I would have done anything to her, in the end death was inevitable. No matter how much you try to outrun death, it will always be right next to you and the moment to slip up you die immediately.
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Late to the party:
As the two moons appeared in the night sky. The great being stood at the roof or as people would say it the up of the mountain. The reason why they called this is that the building of which the heavenly saviour are staying in for the moment is a tall and large building that covers the castle.
For the kingdom, they saw it as a tower which would be useful in case a war broke outside and they would have battle them from both in and out. To the people that was a great idea but why did they build it? There wasn't any war going around any more, the last one finished within twelve hours but that was even fought by teenagers, plus they don't even know.
The shira invasion during the forest exam.
The being through his power summoned Peter, the new recruit that was brought in over three months ago.
Peter walked in the room with graceful steps, upon reaching him he bowed down in respect and spoke up.
"I am here your greatness!" With a well mannered speech he had mastered over the three months he narrated.
The being sighed and walked to his chair then sat down.
"Peter, I summoned you here to get information out of you. Do not bother lying, because if you do you are going to end up where you put all the six hundred people you killed in the past," the being said as he watched him carefully.
Peter closed his eye, he perfectly knew the position he was in. If he lied he was going die and if he chose to come back here, I would send him where he belongs.
"I know my place your greatness... You may ask anything you want and if it is within my knowledge, I would answer correctly." Peter said.
"Alright now that is what I want to hear."
"Tell me. Don't the spirit village usually send the people into human society to observe and gather information. Even in some occasions, going on missions there too."
"Yes. You are correct, but there are details that must to taken into consideration. One is that if the mission is above S rank, then they would send some high level warriors to complete it but they would still send some soldiers to aid them if need be." Peter explained the process of selecting a team to him.
"Alright, sit there. We are going have a long conversation." The being said.
With a respectable nod, Peter walked up and grabbed a chair that was standing near the corner of the room. Peter didn't know what sort of questions were going to be ask so he braced himself for any situation he didn't know the answer to.
"Do you know the exact location where the lady who guards the village lives or anywhere she might reside if the spirit tree didn't exist?" The being asked.
Peter thought for a second, in his mind he did know where lady Stella lived but didn't know where exactly she lived in that tree.
"She lives the spirit but she mostly spends her time with a elders or at Rial's house but that is even on rare occasion. The most I ask say is that maybe she just sleeps in the spirit tree to regain strength after the day."
Peter's explanation did make sense he didn't know spirit live.
"Precisely, spirits does sleep a lot to regain their strength but they don't waste much time on sleep too. They would absorb energy from anyplace where charkra could be found and harvested, then accumulation begins." The being narrated.
Accumulation is a process where spirit gather enough charkra to convent into magical energy, which then transferred into the spirit's body. Or for other instances, when the spirit is unconscious the owner could transfer some of his magical energy to the spirit through their link as master and spirit.
"My guess is the same as yours. One of the people used the same process to regain his strength after a rough journey. But, it will forbidden since it destroys the character they built around the village: Hard work."
"Hey... What if we say we wanted to destroy the village would you give us all the necessary information and attack foundation we would need?" With an expressionless void around his face they being narrated.
"Of course there is someone I need to defeat and I am not stopping at anything. I would get my girl and that is that!"
The great smiled. For the first time he had gotten a third capable ally, one whose intelligence though is low at least comes close to it. But, at the same time he began to wonder how much smarter are Rial and Max compared to him.
No, no, no. I am way above those penny humans, they can't be my level I am god and they are not. That is just that, nothing more. These were words from the great being.
"And concerning the Max rescue mission. What happened to it?" Peter asked as it has been three months but they haven't made any moves.
"It happens that we are short on budget and need more money to run operation so that mission concerning will have to wait until the heroes arrive in this world or I should universe." The great being said.
"Huh... Universe! What is that?" Peter asked.
In this world, the furthers distance they have gone through with space is the moon. The level of astronomy they have reached is the travel to the first moon. This information was taught to me by Mrs. Celia, she information me about this during my time at the academy.
Ever since that trip, they have focused more on learning about the planet before even attempting to the to go back to space. The first time, they could only bring some moon rocks and some materials. So, the term universe hasn't been touched nor seen by a living person in this world. Well, except the beings who were part of the first creature of god.
"The universe is the term used to describe the level of tier we live in." The being said.
Though it wasn't lie it wasn't the truth either: The universe describes the level of galaxies one celestial body can hold. Which indirectly makes it a tier since there are billions of universes that could hold more galaxies then many others.
"Ah... sure, if you say so..." Peter wasn't sure what he felt but he knew that he was being lied to, but he chose to ignore since if he persisted he would gotten him made and that is the last thing he wanted to do.
Without reassurance Peter walked out of the room. The great being stared into Peter's heart and formed a new plan.
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Mission:
13/11/998:
Finally Monday has arrived. I walked through the village while greeting everyone I could see on the way. By my side Alphia and Aishia both held my hands like children being walked by their father, like was the same feeling I felt.
That is how normal people perceive this right?
"Rial why did you accept the mission that takes almost three months to complete. You would have taken a short one you know?" Alphia asked.
I gave a confused gaze, so did Aishia.
"The fact that you don't know generally surprises me. First, you know that my last name is Karasuki so if you put two and two together what do get!"
Aishia looked at Alphia who seemed to have taken a sudden interesting in tilting her head. Without a moment to miss, Aishia followed the rhythm of her head tilt. Suddenly, I was walking with two head tilting girls. I sighed deeply and began to quicken my steps but due to both girls holding my hand it became quite difficult.
After some distance of walking we finally reached the council of elders. We walked in to see only Mistress Dorothy and Mr. Emmanuel.
"Hello Sir Rial! How was your morning this early, was it good, perfect or kind of good but really annoying?" With a cheerful attitude Mistress Dorothy said.
"It was really good. Besides I live with the world best room mates so all my morning are very great from the moment I wake up," I said.
Though I didn't have any emotion on my face my words seemed genuine enough to calm down the elders. As they immediately took out the files needed to started the missions.
"What is mission about?" Aishia asked she placed her head on my shoulders.
Alphia seemed jealous but she still somehow kept her professional demeanor.
"This mission is about giving an important file case to the king of the Asteroid kingdom. To be brief with you, about a year ago they offered us an alliance but since we didn't want anything to do with humans that time we thought of refusing but we also knew that we could be attacked by
another kingdom and we wouldn't have any ally to help, so we kept it unanswered." Sir Emmanuel explained the situation.
"Huh!"
"What.. How?"
"When did this happened?" Alphia was trying to figure out when all this went down.
Since I am member of the Karasuki by default they would listen me to, but if I wasn't going then they would have send other candidate most likely.
"Alright, when is my departure date?" I asked the elder.
"You can leave around Monday but you start by picking three kids who have been approved by the council as elite warriors." the elder said.
I thought for a bit. "Hmm! Elites huh, this is going to be hard."
"Can't we just go with him?" Alphia asked.
"You are going with him. But what the council is requesting is that some of the kids need outside experience."
"Alright," Alphia sighed deeply.
After a moment I selected three individuals whom will follow me on the journey to my home country.
"I can take Alin, Julia (a friend of Alin) and Aria." I said.
"Looks like you are prepared to go on Monday. Aren't you?"
"Maybe."