Ch.30 Harmony

Malpetios felt that he couldn't take Q'ill's questions anymore and tried to redirect the conversation. "Oh, I killed them all, isn't that great!" Q'ill stopped her question machine gun, thank God!

"Dear, you got them all? It shouldn't have been so easy..." She felt my confusion and said, "remember that I said having more than a few mages is unnatural. There is a commander here, one strong enough to force mages to act as cannon fodder."

Malpetios looked confused, mages were so important? They are very annoying and have a lot of tricks but the soldiers can use skills that are almost identical to spells.

"I know you don't think much about them, since you have killed so many of them. Mages, however, are the backbones of armies. The Mage Academy gathers the talent from all the social classes, slowly polishing them into the nation's strength."

"Before the Church came, the ruler of the land was the strongest mage bloodlines. The Church rose to power by secretly helping one of them raise a 'God Blessed' King, while the rest of the mages became Nobles. Gaining political power, the Church used it to increase their activities across the nation, saving the commoner's from their pain, poverty, and slavery increasing the livelihood of its people."

"This was originally not a problem and the mages tolerated them, that was till the Church showed its fangs. Thru an unknown method, the church made commoners into priests where mages required years of knowledge or inborn talent the priest only needed to worship their god, gaining power from their prayers. Their power was called Faith and was argued by the Mage Counsel to be an Element."

"The Church did many things to increase their favor with the commoners, from killing mages that experimented on them to rallying them to overthrow stubborn nobles. In the end, they compromise thru the King by forcing them to swear loyalty while the nobles created the Mage Academy and Council to protect its mages."

"The mages invading you are only rank two, so they are not yet worthy to be given the lowest noble rank." Her face turned serious, "this can only mean a rank four individual most likely a High Mage or Knight it's here. We might get lucky if it is a Knight, they won't care too much and are most likely here for the sake of appearances. Mages on the other hand are extremely protective of their own, mostly due to how the church dealt with them before they supported the royal bloodline."

Malpetios nodded, "that sounds dangerous but I can't do anything about it. I can only protect myself and I have no one to help me, well apart from you Q'ill." She smiled sadly and was about to say something, however.

Malpetios could feel movement from the maze, " what?" Focusing on it he saw a wall of wind around what remained of the army. "Dam they're alive, I forgot that that mage can do that bubble of Wind blades..." Q'ill seems to remember something and said, "can you explain the spell to me?"

After a quick explanation, she grimaces. "that's a third rank spell (Breezy Shield), you said he used it before, right?" I nodded, and she continues, "I see no reason why a third rank mage would not just simply waltz thru your maze. There is only so much a few rankless Poison Ivys can do, even your rather impressive wolf cub, it cant jump more than one rank and suppress him."

"Your Dungeon is truly incredible, I honestly thought we would have already been dead by now." her voice became small as she said, "I wished the Fairy Army would have come to save you, treaty be damned." She started to cry, Malpetios hurriedly said, "don't worry, I won't die so easily. I know you and me can tell that they already know I was gonna be born a Prismatic core, they simply choose to ignore that."

She looked panic and said, "d-dear that's not it, is just that the jewels are being attacked they can't come here and a..and..." She realized that I could tell what was really going on and did not know what to say. Malpetios continued, "you know I have memories of you from when I was still a child. I hear you saying that someone sent you here to die, that and what you have already told me about not knowing how a Prismatic Core is born paints a clear picture."

Q'ill face turned pale but did not want to show it. "They abandoned the both of us, we only have each other now. I know you are trying to be strong but it is ok, we won't hope for some random hero to show up and save us or the Fairy army to remember that I am some 'worlds child' or whatever." Malpetios looks at the crying Q'ill and comforts her as she did him.

"No matter what we do now let's do it for each other okay? Let us promise that no matter what the world throws at us no matter how ugly, we can surpass it by depending on one another." She laughed while crying and said, "that is what I said to you before (sob), you rascal I should be the one soothing you not the other way around you know he-he (sob)."

I was happy to see her let out the feelings she kept locked inside her, for better or worst we are together for the rest of our lives. While I comfort her I felt the mages make it to the Balance Scale room, sadly for them my puppy may only be rank one but it can still affect the rest of them.

The Puppy simply ran ahead paralyzing the soldiers killing them one at a time. I tried to get the Scholer again but he seems to be on full alert, his Mana Field blocking the Puppy's Dark mana from affecting the mages and some of the soldiers. At this moment what Q'ill said hit me, these mages are far stronger than I give them credit... especially the higher rank ones.

After some trial and error, they made it to the ninth room, the scholar looking grim probably from using up all his Elemental Mana. The short ten minutes supplying about twenty thousand Elemental Wind, at least now I know what his affinity is.

He-eh, even if your strong can you get past my puzzle room? I hope you like building snowmen if not well the weather is so delightful, so stay, forever!