Chapter 47: Baptism

As the moon vanished beyond the horizon on that night, the magic circle Getsuga had drawn, begun shrinking, returning back to its origin, and bringing along with it all the souls, phantoms and life energy it had captured.

Getsuga experienced an unprecedented growth. All of her energy channels were open and nourished to their peak states, not a single one left unattended. She was filled to the brim with energy and overflowing.

Not even the artifact, the necklace with the dragon shaped pendant was spared from the blessing, it was heavier and now has a glossy finish, compared to the state it was in when she first found it. Even the designs and markings on it seemed to be more elaborate.

The reaper, her spirit was looking even more defined, as the bones that once were its hands now had a smooth and pale skin covering it, and underneath the robes now had the distrint figure. The face was still hidden behind a mask, but now the reaper had black silky hair flowing down to its shoulders.

Her Phantoms had now increased both in numbers and quality, however only one of the once illusory shadows now had a form, like Asuka and Haruta. This phantom was Lautaro.

Asuka and Haruta had their looks improved and even their nether quality increased, in comparison, if they were like paper previously, then the current them could be said to be plastic.

Lautaro now had a full body armour and a broadsword hanging behind him.

Without even sparing a glance at her creations, Getsuga called up her status screen.

Name: Getsuga Townsend

Titles: The moonfang, Drifted soul, Patricide, ???

Rank: B+

Stats

Phy: C

Agi: C+

En: A-

Aff: A

Sen: B+

Soul points: 32184

Origin: Nether

Arts: The Moon Reaper

Dark Sorcery

Shop unlocked

Note: About to undergo baptism, find a safe spot to begin ascension.

"Whew"

She let out a breadth of relief, her goals had been met with the least effort possible, and now she just had to find a safe place to undergo her baptism. Her origin made it impossible for her to undergo a safe baptism in the city so she had to leave.

While Getsuga was a little bothered about having to.leave so soon after arriving, she knew she had no choice but to leave, so she stood up, dusted her outfit, before leaving the city.

On such a cold and quiet night when everyone was hiding away for safety, her footsteps echoed across, and the wind carried her laughter across to the ears of all those who were listening.

That was how the rumour of the witch of calamity began

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Araceli should have been relieved after sending Ramona to check on the location Gamora, but months had passed and she didn't receive a confirmation from her dragon partner.

Not even sending people from her side to where Gamora should have existed brought any returns. Getting to the location was dangerous enough and after their efforts all they found was a barren land in the middle of a forest.

While Araceli was worried she wasn't able to contact her partner, it didn't stop her from laying down the next plan of action for her happily ever after. However, even that was starting to hit an obstacle.

She wasn't sure why, but she was enrolled at a magic school at the elven continent, a third year in the mighty Hyperion Academy. When she discovered this fact she had to start taking actions using that as her base.

In her countless regressions, one of the chief instigators of chaos and conflict was the human race but at the moment there was nothing she could do about it, the city she was schooling at was soon going to become a battleground of the aid human race and she had to ensure things didn't go wrong, for all their sakes.

Luckily for her, the her before regression had already made arrangements and had infiltrated the city on all sides, now she just had to cash in and dictate the flow.

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Araceli arrived in the Elmsworth on the public air transport.

It was an airplane she had taken from one of the major cities on the drawven continent.

While the location of the headquarters of her organisation, The Watchers, kept them hidden and secured from the rest of the world, as her countless regressions have proven, it still had a major problem of cross continental traveling.

Not even the members of the Watcher, knew where the headquarters was located as it could be accessed only through specific portals that were scattered all over Kreatia.

When visiting the headquarters they would go through ateast three different warps, and that's not counting the distance they had to cover by air first.

After a long and draining ride, Araceli finally made it to the United City of Elmsworth, the hub of knowledge and interspecies cooperation as it was advertised.

The tower of Eli, popularly referred to as, "The Mage's Tower", was located in this city, or atleast that was what was told to the rest of the world. Only a branch of it was located here, and the location of the true tower was in a hidden dimension on the other side of the world.

It also served as the location for the world's greatest academy, "Hyperion Academy".

These establishments were the reason the city was referred to as the city of knowledge. All the races, with the exclusion of the dragon race, could be found in this city.

It was on the elven continent, the place widely recognised as the most peaceful place in the world, and only came into being, a hundred years ago.

The events of the devil of Holmes, forced the world to re-evaluate the danger levels of the sects that were scattered, hidden around the world and how much power they held, as they couldn't tell just how many freaks on the same level as the devil were lying around in their sects.

There was an urgent need to create a body with just as much potential to train powerhouses that each race could call upon when needed, and that was how the Hyperion Academy came into being.

All the major kingdoms and empires around the world banded together to finance the establishment of the Hyperion Academy, the area it would be located was redesigned and built and would eventually become the United City of Elmsworth.

It wasn't wrong to call it an academic city, as it housed two of the greatest academic institutions in current history, the tower of Eli, and the Hyperion Academy itself.

The project took an astonishing period of 20 years to be completed and when it did the city became its own autonomous region.

Elmsworth had its own ruling system, its set of rules and its way of doing things.

The city could be divided into three segments,

The Hyperion Academy

The Tower of Eli

The City

And the unofficial underworld.

But this wasn't the time to explain about this.

On arriving in the big city, Araceli completed all the procedures and got into her apartment in the academy. According to the information she had gathered, she was a third year student in the Academy.

After tons of meetings with the academic staff and the council, as the youngest member in the history of the academy to become an ascendant, she finally had some time and peace all to herself.

It was time she found out about the situation of the city, the underworld to be precise, the informant had sent hq a message, a message that was in no way a good sign, and it was time Araceli got a handle on the situation in Elmsworth.

With a little manipulation, at the dead of the night, Araceli left the academy.

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If someone asked Getsuga,

"Your actions in the city on that night, a month ago, was it worth it?"

Without even a thought

"Hell yes it was"

Would be her reply.

After she left the city, she found a cave deep into the forest, she killed the beasts that resided inside it without any effort before she took it as her temporary home.

Using her nether to bar the entrance and summoning her spirit along with its phantoms, to guard her, she fell into a deep meditation.

Nether poured out from within her and the artifact around her neck, enveloping her like a cocoon, before her body started undergoing changes.

This process took a week, and when it was done with her, branches broke out from the cocoon, extending towards the four creations, doing to them as it did to their master.

After an additional three weeks, the process finally ended and Getsuga woke up from her trance.

She definitely wasn't the same as she was before the baptism, she could tell that much, she didn't even need her status screen to tell that much.

Sometime during the baptism process, her phantoms and her spirit had merged back with her, which explained why she was alone in the cave.

After taking a deep breath, she took down the partition, before heading out of the cave, her senses picked up a familiar life signal, and for some reason, she wanted to meet that person.

After a short sprint, which covered more distance than any mage should be able to, Getsuga found her face to face with Irene, the young lady she had saved.

"I'm so glad I finally found you"

Irene finally said after getting over the frights of the dark elf appearing out of nowhere.

"I was going to give up, if I didn't see you today, so I'm glad I did"

Getsuga nodded and kept looking at the petite woman.

Just like the first time they met, Irene was dressed in a business suit, one that looked way out of sight in a forest.

Taking Getsuga's nod as confirmation to keep talking, Irene finally made her request

"Would you please join us?"