17 Punishment Room

Azuka gulps, "I'm never ready for any interrogation," Jenna smiles even wider. "This isn't an interrogation silly, I'm just evaluating you." Jenna widens her eyes and stares right into Azuka's eyes. Her eyes begin glowing only for a few seconds, it was not long enough for Azuka to really make great detail of it. What was that, Azuka thought, he supports his head with his left hand as his perception of the world spins and blurs. "What the hell did you do to me," he asks in a stern manner.

"Azuka, I did nothing to you," Jenna catches Azuka before he falls to the ground from the nausea. "This room must be under a spell that gives anyone inside snap," Jenna hides her smile as Azuka groans to a massive headache. "What- is snap," he barely says. "Don't speak now Azuka, you should preserve your strength. Snap is a term we use around here, it's for whenever someone goes insane to the intense magic they force into our minds," Jenna says.

So that's why I had that dream, Azuka thought. "Showing people that...its disgusting," Azuka surprisingly said without any problem catching Jenna off guard. Are the effects of my magic wearing off? No, it shouldn't be this quick. It's probably just a slip up. Jenna activates her magic once more. Causing Azuka to groan louder than he was before.

Azuka seemed to lose consciousness shortly after, so Jenna drops him in the middle of the room. She then knocks on the door leading out, multiple times, after about a minute a knight comes and opens the door. She walks out locking the door behind her. "Did you bring the, the, what's it called again?" Jenna puts her finger to her bottom lip, "Hmmm..."

The Knight besides her digs into his armor pockets, rummaging for something, he finally pulls out a ball, the size of a Giant's hand, it glistened with dust and sparkles on the inside. "The magic item that you requested ma'am," the Knight said handing it over to Jenna. "Oh! Thank you, I didn't even know Knights had pockets!" She accepts the ball gracefully and immediately gets to work. She sits down with her back against the door of the Punishment Room. She then begins to infuse her mana into the ball, the Knight leans in closer to Jenna to see what was going on.

The inside of the ball soon began sparkling, the dust within began to break apart. As bright as a star, Jenna thought, she closes her eyes and concentrates. The bright light protruding from the ball nearly blinded the Knight, however it slowly becomes dull as the light changes from a white to a green color. Jenna opens her eyes, which has already been glowing since the color change, and looks intensively at the ball. She explodes with excitement, "I can't believe I'm using a Giant Weapon again! Well, it may just be an item, but it's a weapon in my eyes!"

The Knight backed away from Jenna and curiously stares at the ball. Inside where the dust had dissolved from were live footage from inside the Punishment Room. "Ma'am, what is this magic item?" Jenna keeps her eyes locked on the ball, but replied back to the Knight with great interest.

"As you may know, Giant Weapons are weapons created by Giants and are giant in size. Only a Giant can wield such a weapon. The ordinary power of a Giant Weapon isn't that great in itself, but with a Giant's infused mana it can show off its true power. Like my sister; I mean Jugann, with her weapon it is just an ordinary sword, but with her infused mana it becomes a lance. The same thing happens with Giant Magic Items, this ball that I'm holding lets me view anyone who is under my magic as a Ghost. This is the perfect way for me to evaluate him, now we must wait for him to wake up and-"

As Jenna says this Azuka begins to get up, the Knight besides her who was dozing off was caught off guard when Jenna shrieked, waking him up. "Sorry, did I wake you," she says in such a soft, soothing voice, almost like a mother, however her face seemed to be filled with rage. The Knight knew he had messed up and attempted to make peace, but it was quickly brushed away.

"You know, I find Gods so fascinating, they have so much potential, but most don't even try to get an increase in power," Jenna says closing her eyes to better connect to the ball.

Azuka manages to get up on his two feet and look around, "Where did that weird girl go?" He scratches his head as he realizes that his headache had gone away. He turns around to fully examine the area around him, up and down, right and left. "Its pure white," Azuka says aloud. He once again takes multiple turns, after returning to his original direction he is met with a punch to the face. He is knocked down to the ground. "Yo, boy," the voice was distorted, but recognizable.

Azuka looked up and saw a shadow figure of his master. Azuka gets up and stares at it, he squints his eyes and turns around, and starts walking to a corner to sleep with his hands behind his back. "You aren't real, MY master would never visit me for anything." Azuka walked quite a distance from the shadow as it appears right next to him, Azuka barely blocks as the shadow delivers a punch so hard that Azuka goes flying to the nearest wall. He bounces off of it, hurling toward the other side of the room. After bouncing off the other wall he bounces back toward the Shadow, which delivers a right overhand on Azuka once he was close enough.

Knocking Azuka into the floor, stepping on him so he does not bounce up. "Whatever you are, you hit just like him." Azuka struggles to speak and get up with the Shadow's foot on his back, it digs more into his back the more he struggles. "It pisses me the fuck off that you fight and look like him!" Azuka explodes in flames causing the shadow to quickly hop away from him. Azuka gets up with flames surrounding him and anger in his face. He ignites both of his hands and puts his hands up in a fighting stance.

Jenna gets excited again and opens her eyes, looking at the Knight, "He is using his flames, but it feels kinda weak, but definitely feels like he trained it. That explosion though seemed to be a desperate move, it's not really effective in real battle, more like a last ditch effort. Hey Knight, what do you think?" The Knight is surprised that she asked him a question, "Well-" Jenna interrupts, "It was rhetorical idiot!" The Knight shuts up, It didn't sound rhetorical, he thought.

Jenna turns back toward the ball and closes her eyes again. She sees Azuka getting a beating by the shadow, Azuka keeps his arms up to block the shadow's barrage of attacks. "I don't like how he just keeps blocking, but his durability is so high that he can withstand this," Jenna stops smiling and pouts. I have to focus more, she thought. The shadow stops attacking, Azuka notices this and rushes it for a flaming punch right in its face. The flames from Azuka's fist erupt out once it makes contact. The air seemed to have been swayed by the punch, "It didn't even react, what the hell is this thing."

Azuka hops back and puts his hands up once again preparing for another attack. He waits but the shadow doesn't move a muscle. After a minute of waiting the shadow begins to wriggle around, it becomes disjointed whilst shaking intensely. Azuka looks away and holds his mouth trying not to throw up. However he burns his mouth with his flames. How the hell do I even, before Azuka could finish that thought he gets blown away. He somehow stops himself by digging his hands into the floor. He attempts to catch his breath and looks up at the Shadow, that has transformed into a slimmer version of Azuka's master.

Jenna smiles once again, "That punch worried me a bit, he can't actually fight, its like all he did to get to where he is today is by overwhelming his opponent. Not like I got here today by that. Now, let us see how he deals with long distance attacks. Get ready, Shadow!" The Knight wakes up and clears his throat, "Ma'am, are you sure you should be using that much magic. I have been able to suppress the output of magic, but you are outputting too much for me. Too much that I would actually have to stay awake to suppress, the Knight thought. The other knights will be coming soon, this is meant to be a discreet operation. We can't have the other knights finding out."

Jenna clenches her fist. Tch! "Whatever, I got enough info anyway, I just wanted to see how far he can go." Jenna's eyes lose their glow and the ball reverts back to being filled with dust and sparkles. She hands the ball back to the Knight, who quickly grabs it and puts it in his pocket. The Knight bows and brings out his hand for Jenna to grab, "I will take you to the King to report your-" Jenna walks past the Knight and looks down the hall where multiple knights gather at the end of the hall.

The Knight is frozen, scared by how swift Jenna got past him. Jenna stretches her whole body, "I've been stuck in this stupid dungeon for a while, I feel like getting a bit of a stretch." The Knight finally gets up and looks back at Jenna, he gulps with the pure presence of her. I heard that she was powerful, but what am I looking at here? This is the younger sister of Jugann, the Knight thought.

"Hey, Knight, pass me your sword." Jenna says looking back at the Knight. The Knight unsheathes his sword and throws it to Jenna who catches it and turns back around at the same time. The knights down the hall unsheathe their swords and grips it. Jenna inspects the sword she was given, she then inspects the knights in front of her. "I guess that all of you knights are level 3 knights," Jenna says eyeing everyone. "That information is classified to knights only, who are you," one of the knights in the front of the group says.

Jenna slowly walks forward holding out her sword. She then begins to infuse her mana into it. "It's because I am an ex-knight, and I was qualified to join a squad." She smiles as she starts swinging her sword, however it breaks apart before she could even get a good swing off. She adapts a blank face as she inspects the sword again, after a second of looking she throws it back to the Knight behind her.

"My sword!" the Knight says on his knees crying over his sword. "Looks like I infused too much mana, sorry!" As Jenna apologizes with her back turned, one of the knights rushes at her, however she dodges grabbing the knight's shoulder, turning back, "You attacked me recklessly, it would have been smarter to attack me as a group, it would have been a 15 on 1." The knight grips his sword harder and attempts another swing, Jenna grabs his sword with ease. "Who cares if you are level 5 or above! It's my job to-"

Jenna chops the knight's helmet, the amount of force she exerted caused the knight to get knocked out by the vibrations. Jenna picks up the sword the knight held and allows the knight to fall. She inspects the sword, "Do you know why Knight levels are classified," she asks the other knights. She holds the sword in a lance throwing position, most of the knights take a step back and gulp. She grins, "It's the fear of the unknown," she infuses as much mana into the sword as possible and throws it at the group of knights.

An explosion is created, producing smoke throughout the whole hallway, blowing a hole through the wall at the end of the hallway revealing the outside. Once the smoke cleared, the Knight was sitting on the ground scared for his life, Jenna was laughing hysterically as all the other knights laid on the ground unconscious. She soon stops laughing and starts choking on the smoke thats everywhere. She then walks down to the end of the hall, stepping on the bodies of the knights, and looks to her left. That is the way to the bathroom, she thought. On her right was a wall, she then looked forward, "Damn, I forgot about that outside wall, if I tried to go over it, I'm surely to get hit by another Knight. I can't even go all out or my sister might get involved. Then that will be too much of an annoyance."

She looks back at the frightened Knight and smiles, "Hey knight, please take me to the King."

Jenna, high level 6 Knight.