Time...

"Ah holy what"? lapiz tilted her head in confusion, "the holy proelia" "she was a great warrior who assisted the war that happened hundreds of years ago" khalid silently thought again while lapiz was perplexed,

"you do know that living for hundreds of years is impossible right" she sighed and brushed her hair "it's not impossible" "people that hold an astonishing amount of holy power or mana gets to live past the boundaries of normal people"

"in the first place there are no boundaries in human life, we can live as much as we want but as the world grows we too get old making us weak, people of these types are able to get past this problem and live for more than hundreds of years" khalid looked around the barrier and then to lapiz

"so it is possible that my mother is hundreds of years old" lapiz started thinking again and suddenly gasped "then if she was the holy proelia, why would she dies soon as i was born" "it makes no sense! A person that strong dies after giving birth to her daughter, and it's not even a death while giving birth" lapiz was tired, the death of her parents never bothered her, living as an orphan she was used to being on her own and not thinking about anything called parental love,

"the death of the marquess and the marchioness…." khalid got silent, he was looking a bit down "that matter is something we have to leave for tomorrow" he suddenly stopped "It's been too much time, let's get outside, hide your face"

khalid opened the barrier, by the time they got out the emperor had ordered everyone in the room to get out which made the hall fully empty "you came out…" "khalid" the emperor was mad, he watched the atrocious act of khalid towards him with no respect as a sin,

"well yes i am back" khalid replied with lapiz on his back

"i see she has calmed down" the emperor frowned

"yes Your majesty" lapiz bowed down to the emperor as politely as she could

"ha"! "you fool's disobeyed the emperor, caused a ruckus in the ceremony hall and locked yourself in a stupid barrier"! he shouted angrily. Anyone could tell that the emperor had a hard time dealing with the guest's and kicking them out.

"Your majesty i sincerely apologize it was an unexpected turn of event where lapiz's life could have been in danger again… that is why i had to step in like that" Khalid explained, although it did no help "OUT"! the emperor again shouted with no hesitation.

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"hmm" Aries was sitting on the carriage, with a red but blackish butterfly in her fingers "well done Ava, go and rest now" that was the familiar Aries contracted with, Ava the goddess of butterfly "that stupid emperor dared to shout at my Ah Ri" "ha"! she scoffed while rolling her eyes "he seems to be wishing for death it seems" Ah Ri looked out of the carriage while staring at the dark sky filled with stars "Ah Ri....."

"i am glad, i got to see you again before i died again"

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"Khalid…" lapiz paused

"i know it's weird to ask, but is this kind of thing normal in here"? lapiz shrugged in confusion.

"of course not" khalid sighed "it was a total mess today, your mana outburst, the contract with a familiar of lord Amphitrite, then passing out and the fact i had to keep you hidden because you fainted and the veil....." khalid kept murmuring in depression while lapiz spent thinking

[there are a lt of facts i learned today, and mostly about my mana.....]

"your mana is special." Caspian said,

"what"? lapiz questioned "your mana is one of a kind that can control space and time, this also explains how she was able to split your soul like that and toss you in a completely different place",

[toss?!]

"Ahem"!

"say, what exactly is this mana you speak of anyway" lapiz questioned, "you don't even know that"?? Caspian thought for a while and started explaining.

[lord Amphitrite created humans to have people to rely on them, however after creating them he realized that even thou humans had the intelligence to build a perfect society for them to live in they were too weak to fight against the monsters, as humans started getting killed by monsters lord Amphitrite felt guilty for them and gifted the humans a saint, that was the very first saint to belong to the world, the humans called her 'Phaedra the pure bright'

however, humans got greedy after seeing Phaedra's amazing powers to annihilate the monsters, they started using and manipulating her for their own gain and finally regarding her as a witch…. lord Amphitrite was mad at what his subjects were doing, however they could not bring themselves to hurt their precious subjects they created with their own hands, as a result lord Amphitrite gave humans strange powers which were called as holy blessings, and mana.

while holy powers strengthened when their faith in lord Amphitrite increased mana could only be increased by defeating monsters, because of these powers humans soon got stronger than before, they built their leader which is now known as the emperor, they invaded monster's dungeon, stole the things the monster stored, and as time passed the humans got smarter and smarter, things like church was made for worshiping the lord Amphitrite and much, much more changes happened

mana usage was distributed to 4 classes, they were 'healing' 'summoning' 'casting' 'time' there were not much people who could use the magic for time and even if they did, it was not that strong well at least if we exclude your mom from it, she was one of a kind a person who wielded so much mana and also has full control of it, she was later known as a legend, The Holy Proelia or Dealla June, she knew the time magic was the rarest and also the most dangerous magic out there, as such she controlled her powers and used it only for the good of people.... well at least until when that incident happened.

To Be Continued...

Lapiz Lazuli