Not An Early Bird

"Ugh... I'm so sleepy...." Stella groggily opened her eyes.

"What time.... what time is it?"

She seemed to ask someone subconsciously.

But no reply came.

"I had a dream.... But I can't... remember..." She closed her eyes again to sleep a little more.

Just a little.

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Two hours later.

Stella slowly opened her eyes again.

"Sigh. I had overslept. Why didn't I wake up?

Was someone supposed to wake me up?"

Stella got off the bed.

"What time is it? ....Oh. This world doesn't seem to have clocks yet. Weird, they should've had something like this already. I only heard a bell ring once in a while yesterday."

[Accessing the planet's rotation speed, Calculating the star's vector....]

[It's 11:46 AM] the voice from [Gaze of ######] spoke.

"Oh, I woke up that late?

Not my fault." She shrugged her shoulders.

She tidied her dress and hair.

Her long silky silver-white flowed freely down to her hips. She never liked tying up her hair.

Stella was wearing a blue t-shirt with a black thin sweater on top and a red-black skirt.

Her clothes were certainly peculiar, and out of place in this world.

However, she had a gold-white robe with a nice texture on top of everything.

So she hadn't drawn any extra attention because of her clothing.

Stella felt quite familiar with this robe. Though she couldn't remember anything about it.

She had put away her robe while sleeping.

But she put it back on after waking up.

She glanced at the robe and used [Gaze of ######] to find some information about it.

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[Item: Wanderer of Gold-Chalk

Grade: - <Permission Error>

Effects:

• Can blend in with the attire of any world and culture. Will never get dirty or torn, but transfer them to the clothing underneath. Indestructible, yet does not reduce incoming damage when worn.

Description:

• A unique and mysterious robe that you feel familiar with. Its Gold-White color and peculiar pattern give it an air of regality. Its texture is smooth like exquisite chalk, making it extremely comfortable to wear.]

Stella was astonished by seeing the information about this robe.

'Wanderer of Gold-Chalk? What a peculiar name. And it could blend in anywhere? Can I be a princess in a royal castle and a beggar in the streets wearing the same clothes?'

[Yes.]

The voice of [Gaze of ######] confirmed her theory.

'Wow! This thing is awesome.'

However, she still felt quite familiar with this robe, despite knowing its weird ability. As if she used this already for a long time.

She looked around the room to find a note on the table. She opened it.

[Hey big girl, You're quite the sleepyhead. I tried to wake you up in the morning. But no matter how much I called or pushed, you didn't wake up. My study class starts quite early on so I had to go without you.

I made breakfast, it's on the dining table. After you finish eating, come to the Church. Or you can just explore the house and the surroundings for today.

I'll come back in the afternoon.

-Anne]

Stella's mouth twitched.

'Big girl? Mocking me, huh? I'll get you back for this.

But she actually made me breakfast, despite knowing I won't eat that...

Oh well... At least she's quite considerate.'

She went to the dining room to sit.

Then took out a piping hot burger from her food boxes in her sub-dimension.

A mouth-watering fragrance started emitting from the burger.

Stella couldn't wait anymore as she dug into it.

'So good!!!! I can't get enough of this.'

She felt herself floating in the heavens.

As she munched on it, she took a look at the sub-dimensions that she had created. But she was stunned to realize how many of them she had.

'Aiya, I created too many of them. Most of them are sitting ducks. But I can simply erase them if I want to.'

Stella could create sub-dimensions in her consciousness at will, an infinite amount of them. Their size could be adjusted easily too.

She could control its time flow and the environment.

It could be a sub-dimension with frozen or flowing time, it could be a sub-dimension with vaacuum or air-filled environments.

She could mix-match these attributes to create sub-dimensions with vacuum and frozen time which were very useful to store items that'll go bad easily.

Or she could also create sub-dimensions filled with air and time flow to store the usual objects that need air. But she couldn't speed up the flow of time....yet. She could feel that it was entirely possible if she had a basic mastery over her [Time Authority].

However, that doesn't stop her from storing live objects. She could make people disappear without a trace and bring them back even before they realize with a sub-dimension filled with air and frozen time.

Or, she could kill someone cruelly by sending them into a sub-dimension with no air and flowing time.

Technically, she could store the entire planet if she wanted to, but she couldn't spread her consciousness to cover the planet entirely. She had to fully envelop something with her consciousness to store it.

So her current plan was to strengthen her range of consciousness.

'But how do I do it? I should be able to spread my consciousness if I master my [Space Authority].

Or maybe I can forcibly take over the surrounding laws to act as my consciousness....

Hmm....why not do both?'

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"Lynette."

"Y..yes? Wh.. What is it?"

"I've heard you've been slacking off a little too much lately?"

"N..no! I'm studying hard, Saintess Lavonne."

"Really?" The saintess gave Lynette a meaningful gaze. "I hope so. Despite your high salary, working part-time in another place... Addicted?"

"N...no, Saintess." Lynette meekly replied.

"Oh. Take care of your teeth."

Saintess Lavonne slowly left the class.

"Phew! I thought I was going to die from suffocating! She's terrifying." Lynette slouched on her chair.

"Hehe. you deserve it. You've slacked off too much. Don't get on her bad side. I've only seen her angry once, but let me tell you, you don't want to stay anywhere near her during that time. Let alone be the focus of her anger." Anne scolded Lynette.

"So, you're parents... did they give up?" Anne asked her.

Lynette frowned.

"No. they're still sending me letters, trying to get me back home to arrange my marriage. But I'm not going back."

Lynette was originally from a nearby kingdom called Neer in the Avelon Empire.

As she was close to coming of age at 14, her parents started to look for suitors for marriage.

But she didn't like this decision as she felt she needed to do something significant with her life, not fade away in the chores of a household.

So she ran away from home. Went from a different town to town to finally come to the capital of the Avelon Empire.

She always wanted to visit this place. One of the grandest and most prosperous places on the entire continent.

She found her calling when she saw the Church of Healing, which focused on serving people.

She wanted to serve the people in their needs, and get a place in their hearts in the form of gratitude.

She finally fixed her resolve when she met Anne and got to know her tragic fate from Saintess Lavonne.

From then on, Anne had another person to lean her shoulders on. Another person to help her scars heal.....