I watched as Amity was escorted to the giant mansion near the middle of the city. I could see some of the guards, the older ones, specifically, were a little anxious around her, while the younger ones bore more confused faces than anxious ones. If I were to guess, they didn't know her, and why she would need this many guards accompanying her.
While I didn't have access to [Mathematical Cortex] to be able to count them at a glance, I could still do it manually. In total, they had fifty guards, most of them being younger humans and cat and dog people, the older ones were mostly elves and the human who seemed in charge.
I watched as they crossed the gates that closed behind them, a dozen guards standing in front of the gates to stop anyone else from coming in.
The gates were metal grids, so it was possible to see inside them, but there was no way in, at least in this part of the mansion. Although I doubted that anywhere else would be easier. I was sure the walls around the mansion were filled with runes, and a check on the magicule levels confirmed it, even though I couldn't know what specific runes were used.
"Thinking about runes makes my head hurt a little," I said out loud. Remembering all those days I've spent reading and reading the books about runes the mage's guild has was giving me a small headache, so I changed my focus.
"Think, Denaru, think. What can you do to make her notice you?" I was thinking out loud, trying to come up with ways that she would be able to take notice of me. "Maybe some temporal energy?"
I used [Time Manipulation] to gather temporal energy in my hand. It was harder to do in my current form than my true form, I wasn't entirely sure as to why, considering the skill is the same. The sphere of temporal energy was almost visible to the naked eye, and I saw that a few guards noticed me and were approaching.
Unfortunately, the gathered temporal energy in my hand triggered the temporal strand wrapped around me, causing everything to revert back and the loop to reset.
I was back in the bed inside the inn's room, looking at the ceiling.
"Fuck!" I shouted. "There goes my only chance. I don't know what I did differently to be able to replicate her arrival. As far as I know, I won't ever be able to recreate the conditions for her to come back."
I grabbed one of the pillows and pressed my face against it. I had all the time in the universe, meaning that if one thing happened by chance, it would eventually happen again, the problem would be whether I would still be sane after so much time had elapsed or not.
I transformed into the cat person form I had, the pain from the transformation was just a dull pounding on my soul instead of the burning pain from before. Curious to see if it meant anything, I checked my status.
Name: Denaru Theris
Age: 0
Species: Ouroboros Dragon
Lv. 12
Status: Soul Burned
HP – 10.000/ 13.250
MP – 5.000/ 2.000 [16.000] + 0/1,5E10
SP – 3.548/ 16.000
Strength – 4.156N [6.500]
Defense – 4.156N [6.500]
Magic – 4.250 [13.000]
Magical Defense – 3.500 [9.600]
Dexterity – 5.000 [7.000]
Stealth – 4.156 [6.500]
Precision – 4.156 [6.500]
Titles -
[Temporal Resonance Synchronization]
[Otherworldly Soul]
[Living Paradox]
[Magicule Channeler]
[???????????????????] 3/7
My eyes widened a bit. My attributes had improved a little, and my MP and HP also increased a bit. I really hoped this meant that my soul burn was healing on its own and not something worse.
I got up from the bed and looked at the food that appeared inside of a temporal bubble at the start of the loop.
I approached the table and picked up one of the side dishes, biting into it and seeing if I would have a reaction, but nothing happened. I sighed in relief. After that little explosion accident, I thought I wouldn't be able to eat anymore, because every time I thought about it, I could feel my stomach churn and my nausea increase.
Nothing happened, so I took the opportunity to eat the breakfast the Gods had prepared for me. If it were appearing every time the loop reset, I would take it.
After eating, which took me an hour as my mouth was smaller now, I left the building, trying to redo my steps from before, but unfortunately I wasn't exactly in a good mental state to be able to remember where I went to.
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The storm raged outside of the shield, occasionally hitting it, the energy contained in those bolts being redirected to the shield and then to the outside. I decided to give it a shot and began walking around aimlessly again, not forgetting to use the [Multi-Layered Barrier] to keep the mental mage out of my mind.
I eventually ended up in a commercial district, and I looked at what they had in store. Mostly some trinkets for people to use in their homes, a few potions, food stuff, a few jewelry places, but that was it.
Suddenly I heard the biggest thunder from the storm. I didn't know exactly what triggered, but when I looked and saw the clouds being dispersed by powerful winds, I knew she had arrived.
I ran towards the gate I knew she would be coming from and when I got there I saw people and the guards that were posted there looking at the sky. I took a look as well and saw Amity floating high in the sky, moving her hands and sending wave after wave of high-velocity winds that could be seen to the naked eye.
I honestly didn't know if this was a good idea, probably not, but it was better than just waiting for Jack to appear and kill me, or the underworld trying to use me as a slave or something. At least I know I could have a chance of talking her out of whatever she wants with me, I hoped.
In the last loop, I didn't watch it much, but now, observing her, I could see why she is called a Calamity. She is dispersing the entire storm with simple movements of her arms, and doesn't even seem tired, more so bothered than anything.
As the storm was starting to fade, I heard the sounds of the soldiers marching quickly towards this gate, and after a few seconds, they appeared. The older one ordered for the gate to be opened, while the other soldiers were dispersing the crowd that was starting to form.
"I'm sorry, kid," one of them said to me as they started to gently push me a dozen meters or so from the gate. "This is official business, go back to your mom, okay?"
That small comment struck me like a knife piercing my chest, but I didn't say anything, just kept staring at him and at the opening gate.
The parts that connected the gate to the rest of the wall glowed before it started to slowly open up by sliding upwards into the wall itself, leaving just a metal fence gate in its place.
Through the fences, I saw Amity landing just outside the gate, with an annoyed expression on her face. I saw the soldiers moving outside to meet her, but unfortunately, I was too far to be able to hear them, even with the [Heightened Senses] my transformation should have provided me, although I think I never actually used it before, I don't know.
As I waited for her to come, I saw as the guards stopped anyone from getting too close. This would be a problem for me if I wanted to get near her. I needed a plan– or did I?
There was the easiest way possible for me to get her attention. I wouldn't even need to move a single muscle, I mean, after the fact, that is.
I was talking about my true form, of course. She had already seen me, and would probably recognize me if she saw me, it hadn't passed that much time for her, after all.
The problem was that I couldn't transform right there in the middle of the crowd, I was sure I would be killed the moment I started to grow. I needed somewhere a little isolated.
The confusion happening around me meant the mind mage following me was probably reporting back to their boss, I had a few minutes free of him, and I was going to use it.
I walked quickly into an empty alley around three corners into the more poor areas of the city, finding a more hidden alley. I walked in and the moment I was out of the public eye, I triggered my skill.
The pain was a dull pounding on my soul, but I had already felt way worse and would manage.
It took a couple of minutes for the transformation to be complete, a far cry from the various minutes that I had to endure the transformation, it was clearly an indication that my soul burn was healing.
Back in my dragon form, I walked towards the main street, where Amity and the soldiers were walking, as well as a bunch of people just looking at them.
It didn't take long before someone noticed the large reptile almost their size and screamed, making more people look towards the scream, see me, and scream as well.
A few moments after that, there was a line of soldiers in front of me.
"How did a wyvern get past the gate?" One of them asked another.
"How did the detection not pick it up?" Another one asked.
"Oh, it's you," I heard Amity's voice over the scream of the people and shouts of the soldiers. She walked towards me, but when a soldier tried to stop her, one of the younger ones, she just pushed him aside with a wave of her hand, she didn't even touch him, she just waved and he was moved like an invisible hand had grabbed him and placed him to the side.
Seeing this, the one in command shouted for the soldiers in front of me to open a line, which they did without questioning, allowing Amity to walk uninterrupted to me.
"Why are you here? Did you teleport before I teleported? Why are you here? Did you see any explosions around here recently? Why are you here?" She bombarded me with questions the moment she was a meter away from me.
"Uhmm. Hi" I started, I was going to say more, but Amity just shouted a hello, then repeated the same questions again.
"I fell out of your teleport," I answered honestly. At this moment, I didn't care much if she knew about me. It was not like I could do much against her in the first place, I only "escaped" her before because her teleport sent me to another place, because I had absorbed the spatial energy from it.
"Huh? That shouldn't be possible. I projected it to stop this after Lilith kept slipping away whenever I tried to make her visit me," she said, looking at me with a confused expression.
"It just sorta happened," I said. "One moment you pulled me to your magic circuit, and the next I was falling out of the sky."
"That still shouldn't be possible. I foolproofed it, you know? Lilith kept finding mistakes in my spells whenever I tried to get her to visit me, so I spent a few centuries adjusting them to make it impossible to escape them," she explained. I didn't know who this Lilith was, but they got my condolences if they had to evade all her kidnapping attempts.
I just shrugged in response to her. Now it was my moment to ask a question, the question that would tell me what I needed to do in the next loop, if it so happens, to make her appear again.
"But anyway," I started. She stopped thinking and looked at me. "Are you visiting the city?"
"Visiting sounds nice," she agreed and nodded with her head, but then quickly shook it. "But no! No visiting time. I'm on a very important mission. I need to find the source of the origin magic near here."
"Origin magic?" It escaped my lips. How did she know of that? I had used it so long ago–no, this is from my perspective, it shouldn't have passed that long from the normal flow of time. But how would she know of it?
"Oops, I said too much. Ignore that part, will you?" She said with a smile that showed no room for denying what she said, I would ignore it or else suffer the consequences, that was what that smile made me feel.
"O-okay. So, you're visiting this city, I assume?" I changed the subject slightly, going back to the same question I had already asked her.
"No, I just felt something coming from this city and decided to see what was happening," She answered.
"Something?" I questioned.
"No, can't talk, promised Athor I would not talk about it!" She made an X with her arms, and I could only stare at her.
What was happening here?
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