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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Although, I'm still confused." Kay said aloud, in the same place he had been sitting throughout the whole reading. "You said that we were going to fight on a Battle Royale to decide the next king… if so, how the bloody hell no one remembers such an event?"
The woman, Zera, hummed and smiled in satisfaction. Looking towards Kay, she answered, pleased by the inquire nature of her new disciple.
"Well, that's quite simple. After the Battle Royale the winning team, composed of the apprentice and the Arcana, both use a powerful artifact to erase the commoners memories of the battles that will take place in the entire kingdom."
Kay's eyes widened.
"What the hell?! The royals always had such a thing?!" He yelled. If they really had a way to erase an entire kingdom memories of an event, the things that they could do and get away with it… Kay's gulped just by thinking about it.
"Don't scream. The landlord here hates all kind of rattle." Zera scolded him, sensing a chill run down her spine when remembering how scary her landlord could get when she was angry. "Anyways, yes, that pretty much exists. Though, it works differently from what your thinking."
"How so?" the youngster asked, unsure of the answer.
"Well, to put it lightly, the MMS doesn't work by just erasing memories. If it did, it wouldn't be as efficient as it is, since there would always be questioning people who would see that part of the public memories were erased. In other words, what we do is simply placing the masses and they're common sense under a spell, an illusion spell that affects everyone who lives here. I won't go into the details, but the fact is, we change they're memories of what happened in the war to something that could explain all the destruction and something that everyone accepted as the norm. Such as the Mega hurricane that happened 40 years ago, or the Giga Earthquake that destroyed almost half of our kingdom a century and a half ago."
"Wait… so what your saying is that… all of those natural disasters that happened in our kingdom history, all of that destruction were the result of this event?" He asked, mouth agape. In reality, now he was beyond scared, since he didn't knew how to even fight correctly, let alone survive against these kind of beings.
"Yeah, that's pretty much it in a nutshell." She answered truthfully with a smile. It soon, however, faded when she saw the downcast look on Kay face. "W-well, don't worry about it. I will train you so that you can fight off against them! Not only that, but those catastrophes only happens from time to time… I doubt that we would have mages powerful enough in this generation to cause such large events."
Kay perked up at this… if this was true, then he wouldn't need to worry about fighting off a hurricane or running at an earthquake. But still, there was something that he wanted to know. He knew how magical instruments worked, and while it was pretty surreal that an instrument that could place an entire populace in an illusion existed, he also knew that, no matter how powerful the illusionist were, it couldn't place someone who had illusion resistance in an illusion without an absurd amount of Mana.
And since Amynistrad was a rather huge kingdom, he also knew that the amount of Mana necessarily to place all the people in the area in an illusion, for at least a year or more, was absurd. Not only that, but those who had Mana enough to create a calamity ought to have at least basic illusion resistance. It was just normal for powerful mages to develop some sort of resistance towards magic attacks… so, how does the losers didn't already spelled the beans out?
"You know, something is still bugging me… how can this system exist if there will be losers in this Battle Royale? How come people so strong had fallen in this illusion?"
Zera's smile faded. She truly didn't want to reveal that so soon, but the youngster in front of her was just too smart for his own good.
"They don't. They don't fall under the illusion and they don't talk about it… all because this Battle Royale is a fight to the death." The seriousness that the black-haired beauty said that had spoke volumes, and Kay found himself serious just as well. "In this game that you'll be playing, you either gain so much power that the entire world bows towards you, or you die trying." She looked at Kay with sad eyes. She knew that, no sane man would agree to that, not without any guarantee to survive. "I would understand if you want to go back on your word, and I won't ever bug you again with this…"
"Who said I'm going back?" The young man said, earning a surprise glare from Zera. "Sorry to disappoint you, but no one has ever believe me as you did… so I will answer to your expectations, even if it kills me… I won't disappoint you."
For the first time in an eternity, Zera was surprised. All the others candidates she ever called, all turned they're back on her. Knowing that, for the first time in her existence, someone was ready to fight for her, die for her, made her heart flutter a bit, and just for a single instant, she blushed.
However, she soon regained her composure. Smiling like the teacher she was, she stood up, and went towards the center of the room.
"Well, if you really don't want to die in the preliminary phase, I suggest for us to get moving and begin your training." As soon as she said that, Kay smiled, excited to learn magic. Understanding however where this was going, another trip with the teleportation circle.
As soon as he understood that, he gulped. His body was still feeling the last trip, but he wouldn't let that stop him. Kay wanted to learn magic more than anything, and, as such, he was going to make whatever sacrifices must be made.
Walking forward, when he was close enough, the familiar light made itself known in the room, and soon, the familiar nauseating feeling was worsened tenfold.
With all that, Kay threw up the moment the light subsided. After recovering a bit, he looked to where he was.
The rock walls with antique runes inscribed on them, the stalagmites on the floor and on the top of the cave, and the putrid and nauseating smell of corpses… there was only one type of place that could hold all of those elements together in this world.
"A dungeon…" Kay said, a dread feeling founding it's way towards the bottom of his abused stomach. "You… you can't mean…" He looked at Zera with complete despair on his eyes, and she smiled sweetly to him. A fake sweet smile.
"The first part of your training is rather simple… conquer this new dungeon that I have fond, and go to the bottom floor, there you will encounter knowledge, and knowledge is power… for your type of magic that is."
As soon as Zera said that, the black-haired beauty used the teleportation spell once again, and left the young man in the dungeon, with only his guts and thirst for power to help him on that journey.
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