At first, Loop was confused by the words that had come out of Quinn's mouth. There were two possible reasons he could be acting like this. Either Quinn was just pretending not to know or when Brandon entered the hospital, he was still alive at the time. Meaning Quinn thought Brandon was still alive after attacking him.
 
"Look I promise I'll keep your secret, I know you attacked Fei because of what happened at the weapons hall, it had to be you. Who else would attack him and have gauntlets like you? So you decided to go after Brandon next after taking down me."  Fei explained. "Look I just want to continue living in school as normal, I don't want any drama. I don't know why you're hiding behind that fake power level of yours but please, I just don't want to get involved and I'll stay out of your way."
 
Quinn was trying his best to process the information he had just been told. Right now a student had died. To be honest, he wasn't really sure what the process or punishment was for a student's death and at the same time, he didn't want to find out.
 
If the other students were to learn about the attacks on Fei and Brandon, they would naturally assume it might have been Quinn wanting payback. However, the one thing that would make them doubt that, was the fact that he was only a level 1 student.
 
Right now, only Loop knew his secret, so it was no wonder Loop was afraid of him. With all this information, for now, Quinn felt it was best to play along.
 
"You don't have to worry." Said Quinn, "Like you said you were only protecting your friend and you didn't actually do anything to hurt me during the combat class. As long as you stay out of my way, I will stay at of yours."
 
"Thank you," Loop said as he bowed down and left the room.
 
After Loop had left there was a thought lingering on Quinn's mind. Just who did kill Brandon? Was their anyone in the school that had a grudge against him? They had only been at the school a few days and the school purposely made sure no one knew each other before sending them here.
 
It was hard for Quinn to come up with a suspect, all he knew about Brandon was what had happened at the combat classes. If a petty person like him was able to plan an attack like that, then perhaps he had made many enemies already.
 
 
After finishing his talk, Quinn headed to the canteen to catch up with his other two roommates but when he entered the canteen. Instead of seeing Vorden and Peter sitting together like usual. Vorden was sitting on his own and there was no sign of Peter.
 
Quinn quickly grabbed his food and decided to sit next to Vorden.
 
"Hey, aren't you worried about the second years coming to attack you?" Vorden said.
 
"From the looks of it people will continue to bother us anyway, so we might as well live how we want." Quinn replied, "Hey so where's Peter, didn't you two come here together?"
 
"You're looking in the wrong places," Vorden said as he pointed in a different section of the canteen.
 
The two of them were sat in the low-level section where the level 1 and twos would usually sit. This was where Peter would usually come to join them as well. But the direction Vorden had pointed in was the higher-level tables, the level 4 and 5 tables and sitting next to them was Peter.
 
"What is he doing over there? Are they targeting him?" Quinn asked.
 
 
"Who knows, when Peter entered the canteen, he looked and me and said, I'm going to hang out with some new friends I made the other day. I asked him if he needed help and he said not to worry."
 
As the two watched Peter hang out with the others though, it seemed like he was getting on with them well. He wasn't being asked to grab food or carry their things like the other lower power levels in other groups.
 
"Well maybe we should just keep an eye on them for now, it doesn't look like he's in trouble and we can always ask him about it later."
 
Just then though as Quinn and Vorden were busy eating their food at their table. Another tray of food was slammed down.
 
 "I hope you two don't mind but I have come to join you," Layla said as she sat down.
 
As soon as Layla sat at her seat, she couldn't stop staring at Vorden and the same was true for him. In the middle of the two was Quinn. He could feel the heat and tension in the air with both of them and he didn't have a clue what happened.
 
"So I see that hole in your leg healed up nicely," Layla said
 
Vorden face started to twitch slightly.
"Hahaha, what are you talking about, sorry my name's Vorden I don't believe we have met," Vorden said pulling out his hand for a shake.
 
"You are crazy if you think I'm going to shake your hand and you're just going to pretend nothing happened are you?" Layla then turned to Quinn. "Quinn can you not see this guy is crazy yet?"
 
"Don't call me crazy," Vorden said slowly saying each word.
 
 
"Hey, hey, I think you both need to calm down," Said Quinn feeling like any second now the two were going to clash in the canteen. "I don't even know what happened between the two of you, please explain?"
 
"This Crazy boy attacked me when I went to your room last night, look," Layla said as she pulled down her uniform slightly to reveal the red marks on her neck. "I keep telling you Quinn, he's dangerous, leave him."
 
Vorden was visibly shaking at this point but it was hard to tell if it was with anger or something else.
 
"I said don't call me Crazy" And again just like last time. Vorden slowly said each word, one by one.

The human Race is at war with the Vicious Dalki and when they needed help more than ever, THEY started to come forward. 

Humans who had hidden in the shadows for hundreds of years, people with abilities. 

Some chose to share their knowledge to the rest of the world in hopes of winning the war, while others kept their abilities to themselves.

Quinn had lost everything to the war, his home, his family and the only thing he had inherited was a crummy old book that he couldn’t even open. 

But when the book had finally opened, Quinn was granted a system and his whole life was turned around. 

He completed quest after quest and became more powerful, until one day the system gave him a quest he wasn’t sure he could complete. 

"It is time to feed!"
"You must drink human blood within 24 hours"
"Your HP will continue to decrease until the task has been completed"

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Staring at the night sky, Lucien sought his own Host Star using the astrology meditation.

Searching in the vast and spectacular sky, soon Lucien located a star in a distance which somehow he felt familiar with. The star was not very bright, seeming like a newborn one. 

Extending his spirit, Lucien approached the star. Under the guidance of meditation, little by little, Lucien started connecting his spirit with the star.

Suddenly, like a string being plucked, Lucien’s soul shook and started vibrating fiercely. Knowing it was the hardest but also the most important part in the process, Lucien quickly reached out his spirit again to grab the almost broken string between the star and himself.

Gradually, the thin string started shining bright as the stars, and gradually grew stronger. The vibrating slowly disappeared. With a last sudden vibration in the end, an image of the star showed up in his soul.

Drawing the power from the star greedily, Lucien continued tempering his soul and spirit until his soul felt “swollen”. Then he switched to element meditation to improve the interaction and strengthen the bond between his spirit and the elements. The stronger the bond was, the faster one could cast the element-specific spells and shorten the cooldown (CD) in general.

Lucien finally opened his eyes when he started feeling extremely tired deep in his soul. They were full of excitement and ecstasy.

“Even when I’m not practicing meditation, I can still feel my Host Star in my soul. And if I focus more, I can even feel that there’s a star shining afar in the sky that is connected with me. I can feel the power of the star…”

But soon he felt confused, “Wait… I came here by mistake. I don’t belong to this world, so why would I find my Host Star of Destiny here? Theoretically speaking, if someone dies, that person’s star would gradually dim until it finally disappeared. But the star I felt just now… It belongs to me, the real me…Xiafeng.”

Lucien could not figure it out at the moment. 

Also, from the notes, Lucien learned that a sorcerer or sorceress needed to use specific magic to measure other people’s spiritual power. Only those who just broke through to a new level could be detected in a direct way, without using any magic, due to the instability of their power.

Of course, magic that could hide one’s power existed.

After taking a very short break, Lucien opened the notes with great excitement. He couldn’t wait any longer to see what magic spells were waiting for him.

Since he now had the Host Star of Destiny, Lucien could master all three apprentice spells in the School of Astrology, which were relatively powerful among those of similar level from other schools. But for now, Lucien’s power was only enough to cast the spells two to three times before his spirit was exhausted.

Different levels of apprentice were accessed depending on how many spells an apprentice could cast before exhausting his spirit. An apprentice in training could cast up to five spells, while and intermediate doubled that number, and an advanced doubled it again to cast no less than twenty spells before running out of power. That was to say that, for now, Lucien could only use up to five spells of apprentice level consecutively. As for the Astrology magic, probably only three. When feeling exhausted, one needed to rest or take magic potions to help his or her power to fill up again. 

The three spells of apprentice level were: Horoscope (basic-level), Eyes of Stars, and Disarming Loop.

Among them, Horoscope was the best-known one. Even the basic level required lots of knowledge to understand the movement of stars and tell the precise moment to tell the fortune. It took the witch several years to barely understand some of them, but her predictions were often inaccurate.

While for Lucien, the most challenging part was to find a crystal ball made of pure and precious Morning-light Crystal. He had no idea where to find one. The witch’s crystal ball came from her family, but it was taken away by the church.

As for the astrology-related basic knowledge, which the witch found very complex, Lucien realized it was basically just celestial mechanics of high-school level, but it was described in a messy way.

However, Lucien could not explain with his current knowledge why a star would have something to do with a person’s fate.

Picturing himself in the future sitting in front of a crystal ball and casting spells, Lucien felt thrilled. If he wore a black sorcerer's robe, Lucien had the impression he would look more like an evil wizard.

“Eyes of Stars”: An hypnotism magic. The caster needed to have the person staring at his eyes.

“Disarming Loop”: Lucien’s understanding was that the magic could use the gravity from the stars and build an about twenty-centimetre thick loop, in which the gravity could be controlled. It was a magic mainly used for defence.

Lucien decided to start by protecting himself ㅡ he would learn Disarming Loop.

Besides, the other spells all required other materials. For example, Eyes of Stars needed Night Star (a type of herb) as its reagent. And almost all the Element-specific spells had similar requirements.

Although Lucien could also learn magic from other schools, his meditation technique would make it easier for him to start with Astrology and Element.

Keeping himself focused, Lucien cast the strange spell in a low voice, trying to search for the power in the hanging string connecting the star with his own Host Star. He felt his spirit started vibrating with the casting. It was possible to feel the gravity from the star!

Hurriedly, Lucien tried to shape his spirit according to the simple magic pattern in the notes. However, before the pattern was created the combination of his spirit and the gravity ceased. Lucien had failed.

After five failures, finally his efforts were successful. An almost invisible loop of soft light fell down on the table, surrounding a previously lit candle. Controlled by Lucien, the candle flame was suddenly constrained, and in the next second soared up in the air. After two minutes of practice Lucien stopped.

Crossing his fingers, Lucien bit his lip thoughtfully. “I’m not able to create a big difference in gravity. The loop might be barely enough for people to lose control of their weapons to some extent, but not strong enough to disarm them completely. After all, it’s just an apprentice spell.

“And it takes me too long to cast it. If I practice more, I should be able to create the loop within three seconds.

“Anyway, it is my first magic.” Lucien was glad that he could master Disarming Loop in such a short time, while it took the witch more than a month.

“The witch explained in the note that the difficulty came from the the fact that she couldn’t understand why would the stars lead to the chaos of the Earth Element, so she had no choice but to practice over and over again without knowing the reason. But I know the reason behind ㅡ gravity. It seems the saying also works here in this world: Knowledge is power.”

Recalling the whole process, Lucien tried to reduce the casting time. “I felt the spell just created a certain frequency and then made my spirit start vibrating with it. What if… I just remember and follow the specific frequency and skip the spell?”

The answer was yes, but it definitely required a spiritual power control of a higher level. After a long time of practice Lucien was exhausted and he had to call it a day, but by then he had reduced the activating time (no casting since there was no spell needed now) to a bit more than three seconds.

“I need more practice tomorrow. And… I’ll try to find some common materials for magic potions…” Lucien’s brain was not working properly due to his sleepiness.

Even if a sorcerer or sorceress didn’t aim at being an alchemist, the process of learning from creating magic potions was still very significant. 



"A falling star has brought the chaos. The throne of fate has lost its master. The nonbeliever who walks in light and darkness will make his debut."
In this magic world, knowledge is power.

I'm so angry! I'm really so damn angry!
This week, I bought 20 ores and all of them had nothing! I lose over a million this way! But I tolerated it!
I knew I was unlucky, but I didn't know that I was this unlucky! This damn Hong Dali! This pest who keeps interfering with me! I finally managed to get in touch with him, but he actually asked me to go and develop a barren land, develop a barren land! What is there to develop there! I really wish to send him to see Stalin!
I didn't come to Hebei province just to get a pain in my balls, this place is really pretty good.
But now, I didn't manage to buy the land, I don't have any construction to do too, how am I supposed to live now!?
He is really revolting against me, I really wish I can cut away his stick that's a hindrance to him, then send 700,000 people to fu*k him together! To fu*k him together!
In his heart, Li Yuanshou hated Hong Dali until he wished he could kill him, but he didn't dare to show it on his face. Therefore, his expression now was quite interesting. "This, Young Master Dali, developing that barren land… Is there any value?"
There was only a main road on that piece of barren land. Develop housing estates there? Who would be so silly to buy a house there? Even if people wanted to squander, they wouldn't squander in such a way!
"I have no idea too." Hong Dali's face was full of innocence. "But there isn't anywhere else to develop in the city!"
"This…" Li Yuanshou's face was full of tears. This period, he barely sold any of the houses he constructed because everyone wanted to buy houses at the West Fourth Loop. Yet, he didn't have any land there, so he was quite depressed. "Then, Young Master, the fee for the construction team…"
"About this, we will pay on the spot." If it was just spending money, Hong Dali was best at doing this. "Let's just settle the fee on a weekly basis. For this aspect, you have to ask Xiaoyi. I don't really know about such stuff, I only know how to spend money."
These words from Hong Dali caused Li Yuanshou to almost want to strangle him alive.
Your ability to earn more as you spend more is really… You are really causing such a setback to people!
However, regardless of other things, since Hong Dali said that he won't delay the wage payment, that he definitely won't. Since my construction team doesn't have anything else to do now, I might as well just develop that barren land with Hong Dali. The luck of this Young Master is always very amazing—I just saw that for myself. Maybe something good really will happen if I follow him?
Thinking up to this point, Li Yuanshou hurriedly asked, "Then, Young Master Dali, do you have any specific plans? That piece of land is really quite big, its range should be at least 7 to 8 kilometers. If we just develop it directly like this—the crucial part is, I don't know what I am supposed to build!"
If there's nothing to build, how am I supposed to develop it?
"That's true." Hong Dali touched his chin and thought for a while. He asked, "Then, get me a map for me to take a look."
"OK!" Being the director of a housing estates company, he always had a map with him. Li Yuanshou directly took out the map of Tianjing City's West Fourth Loop, found a table and lay the map on it. He carefully smiled and said, Young Master Dali, this is the map of the West Fourth Loop. Please take a look."
"Hm…" Hong Dali looked at the map like he was really interpreting it. Then, he asked, "Which side is East?"
Li Yuanshou directly collapsed…
"This side." Wiping off his sweat, Li Yuanshou pointed at the various locations on the map. "This is the West Fourth Loop, this is Ye Lai Xiang, this is the Sports Stadium, this is Fengyuan Lake, this is the highway to Tianjing Mountain…"
"Oh, I understand now!" It was simple now that he had landmarks to refer to. Hong Dali pointed at the outer area of Tianjing Mountain. "I'm building a school here. Near the school, I will also need to have places like eateries, canteens, stationery shops and such, don't you agree?"
Since those were near his school now too, Hong Dali naturally just stated those things too.
"Yes, you are right." Li Yuanshou nodded. "Then, shall we build a commercial building near the school?"
"Buildings can wait, my school's style is slightly special." Hong Dali shook his hand. "Don't rush into constructing buildings and such, help me to advise on what I need first."
"OK." Li Yuanshou nodded. "I'm good at that."
"Then, let's construct a commercial street for daily use here first." Hong Dali laughed and said, "Construct it next to the school's castle wall."
"If we construct it near the school, it will definitely be easy to rent out…" Speaking up to here, Li Yuanshou felt that something was wrong. "The school's castle wall!?"
"Yup." Hong Dali smiled and said, "My school is built according to… the scale of a castle town."
Li Yuanshou: "…"
What the heck! This is the first time I am hearing a school built on the scale of a castle town!
Are you planning to revolt?
"Building the school like it's a castle town…" However, very quickly, Li Yuanshou realized something. "Young Master Dali, are you planning to directly build a city on this barren land?" If even the school was a castle town, then there definitely must be a lot of buildings near it!
"Huh? A city!?" Hong Dali mumbled and looked at the map again. The more he looked, the brighter his eyes were. "It really seems quite suitable…" Saying so, he hurriedly asked Tang Muxin who was beside him, "Xinxin, do you think it's a good idea if I just directly build a city here!?"
Tang Muxin: "…"
Are you seriously intending on building a city?
Tang Muxin frantically said, "Dali, are you really joking this time? A city! An entire city! How much will that cost!"
"Not a lot, right?" Hong Dali started counting on his fingers. "The land should be brought over soon, and this Director Li is into constructions, it isn't a problem for the school too… It really doesn't seem to need a lot of money!"
As he counted up to here, Hong Dali felt that he had finally found the goal for his life!
I want to squander! I want to squander on a large scale! I want to squander on an enormous scale!
I want to build a city in this world! A city like Dubai from my previous life! I even want to build a city better than Dubai! I shall become the first mayor of this city!
"I have decided!" Hong Dali laughed loudly and said, "I'm going to build a city on this piece of barren land! I shall make this city the most luxurious city on the whole planet! I'm going to build an eight-star hotel! I'm going to build an airport! I'm going to build a high technology science fiction city! I'm going to let the police in this city drive Prayer Angels to go and catch thieves!"
"This city, it shall be called Tian Di!"
Brouhaha! By that time, I shall be the first mayor of Tian Di City! By that time, my statue shall be placed in the center of the city!
Once Hong Dali said this, everyone around face-palmed—Young Master is going to squander again!
This time, he is going to squander very heavily! He wants to build a city!
The police in the city will even be driving Prayer Angels to catch thieves—huh, will there even be thieves in such a city?
Although the others were thinking that way, Li Yuanshou almost cried out in happiness instead—how much construction work will that be! From now on, I shall decisively work for Young Master Dali!
Therefore, Li Yuanshou nodded, bowed and smiled. "Then, from now on, I shall call you Young Master too. I see that this is how everyone calls you…"
"OK!" This Li Yuanshou reminded Hong Dali of building a city, so he should be rewarded. "You can pick one of the jades that I got just now. Oh right, you can't touch those that I like!" Since it was all just attributes that added Agility, Reflexes and such, and he couldn't sell them too, he might as well give it away to others!
Li Yuanshou instantly felt that he was going to faint from happiness! This happiness came too suddenly, he could barely accept it!
His company was just worth a few hundred million in total, and it was mostly fixed assets. It was considered good if his company could have a profit of tens of millions a year. However, Hong offered him a jade worth millions just like that. Li Yuanshou was deeply grateful, it was worth calling him Young Master. "Young Master, then… I shan't be courteous with you. I promise! I shall only work for Young Master alone from now on! I will offer the lowest rate for all of your constructions!"
At the side, Lao Deming heard all of their conversations and was really impressed!
Who said that Young Master is foolish and rich? Look at his techniques in buying over the hearts of people. If the construction is really all based on the lowest rates, not to even mention a city, just the cost saved from constructing a few large buildings will be enough to buy ten jades like this!
Yet, this Li Yuanshou still feels very grateful to the Young Master. Sigh, just a casual move from Young Master and he already earned such a marvelous result!
Impressed! I'm really impressed!
Very quickly, Li Yuanshou picked a jade that was not bad and placed it beside him like a treasure. Even his eyes were happy—of course, his enthusiasm for work increased too. "Young Master, look. Your school is here, right? Then, there definitely needs to have all kinds and sorts of shops nearby. So, we will need a commercial street. Then, with this commercial street, we will also need people. Therefore, at the surroundings, why don't we build a few flats first."
This time, he really regarded Hong Dali as an intimate friend, really one of his own people. He considered everything for Hong Dali. "Think about it, we can prepare these flats over here first. Then, we can sell it after this land is slowly being developed. There will definitely be space for appreciation."
"Yup." Hong Dali nodded. "How much will building a living quarter need?"
"About." Li Yuanshou did a simple calculation. "If the land is yours, then just the construction cost alone will not be a lot. 30 million will be enough to build quite a nice living quarter."
"Oh, this is good!" Hong Dali directly nodded. "You can decide on how to do it yourself. I want the best, the highest grade! Choose the best golden spot, hire the best designer! If we want to build, we will have to build the highest-grade condominium! Things like broadband, optical cables, satellites, and whatnot, install everything that can be installed. Then, build a top-grade clinic that's open 24 hours. It only has one feature, and that's expensiveness—seeing the doctor there for just the flu will need to cost ten thousand or so! The surrounding neighbors must be driving sports cars that are at least half a million and above! If you drive a Jaban car there, you will be embarrassed to even say hi to your neighbors!"
"OK, good!" Li Yuanshou followed the principle of not minding how large the matter was and just viewed it as a spectator. He furiously nodded. "This idea is good!"
Tang Muxin was so angry that she wanted to kick him!
She hated people who added oil to the fire the most!
However, carefully imagining the things they said, it sounded quite cool!
At this time, Hong Dali asked again, "So according to you, what should we build there?"
"As for this…" Li Yuanshou looked at the map. "If we want to build a city, there are a lot of things related. At least, a new city will need to have a symbol. It can be a building, or it can also be a human. Basically, there must be a symbol."
Once he mentioned a symbolic structure, everyone instantly looked at Hong Dali.
Was there even a need to ask? Who else other than this "Mascot of Tianjing City" could become the symbolic person of this city!?


"I have to squander; otherwise, won't it be a waste of my parent's talent at earning money?" Hong Dali answers a reporter's question matter-of-factly. 

Just after the interview ends, Hong Dali opens the Great Prodigal System's interface and looks at the various good stuff displayed in it. Stroking his chin, he mumbles to himself, "I just need to squander 200 billion yuan more to exchange for the blueprint of the core technology, Engine Destruction, found in the strongest humanoid mecha weapon, Neo Granzon. Looks like I'll have to work harder!"

"I want to splurge! I want to squander!"


The questions I've been thinking about has been on my freaking mind for some time and is distracting me from focusing on the class. It's taking more effort to concentrate on the classes than to solve the problems. Anyhow, it's breaktime and I open up the lunch box. Inside I find some sandwiches, what's with me and sandwiches? Even I don't know the answer to that question but, I do know the answer to some other questions. I quickly eat the sandwiches and drink some water to not choke on it. I wrap up my lunch box and I go to the roof of the school building.

I go to the roof because it's a secluded place and I can be at peace and think for a while. It has been my 'go-to' spot since the whole thing, for thinking of answers on 'restart'. I take my notepad that I keep in my pocket and try to think of the solutions to the questions, let's start thinking. Why did this start in this year of my school? So as far as I know, this started at the first day of my second year, and I had been restarted to the very first day of school, so it has something to do with what changed from first year to second year, most probably. So it may be changes associating with someone or something but it was known to me only at the first day of school. Second one, Why did it occur in our class? This could mean several things but a certain possibility has caught my interest. It is that, if it occurred in my class and it certainly did occur several times, then that could hold the possibility of the people associated or involved in the phenomenon and I can narrow down the people and find who might be causing, effected, changing or involved in this whole thing. It is a theory but I like the odds of it and I am somewhat optimistic about the fact that it could give me some vital information, something that I might be missing at the moment.

 The fact that I have interacted with my classmates has helped me gain information to get the idea of who would be involved, by disregarding people who might not change their routine even if I make a change, like an NPC in video games. This truly is strange, I feel like whoever or whatever is making this happen wants something specific or a set of specific decisions and changes be made by me or in any way possible, for now atleast it's me I think. Okay onto the next question, why did I restart to the first day of school? It might be because something needed to be changed, but then why not do that in the first place? I mean when the seats were changed I wasn't aware and it didn't restart to the first day of school and after Mr.Tobi's class I experienced the P.E. . Maybe I wasn't supposed to faint and maybe I wasn't supposed to make noises or do anything except answer the question in Mr. Tobi's class. It could be that, the phenomenons where making me get accomodated with the pain that accompanies the 'restart', so that I get comfortable with it, it could explain how I reacted at first in comparison to how I reacted later on. But then it could've taken place at any other moment instead of constantly occuring in Mr. Tobi's class, so that proves the theory of me getting accustomed to the pain, wrong.

*Sigh* I don't really know, I'm tired. At this point, I may be answering my own doubts but even then, it could be some sort of lead and besides, it makes me less worried since I would be making progress instead of doing nothing. If I made the right changes, in 5 days I could advance to the P.E. after getting past Mr. Tobi's class and if not, then I might have to keep on living this loop until I've solved it or worst case I won't be able to solve and would be stuck in this loop.

I shouldn't think about negative things. Focus! Be more positive! Be optimistic, you're going to succeed. With that I put my notepad back in my pocket and go to my classroom, the bell should ring any minute now and I should hurry. I get to my class and take my seat. Looking at my watch, I notice that I have a minute to spare. I take my books and get ready for the next period. I just hope this whole messed up thing ends.

Time never plays right.
My name is Akira Tsugaki and for the last few weeks I have experienced days that were longer than it should be, fixing what had already happened, for her.

I wish to go back to the so called normal life, to the days when there were only 24 hours but before that I need to make things right.

The idea of an important clue to their investigation at tge end of the giant line made Luna and Lena keep on going. The others weren't convinced about the reason, but they didn't have any important stuff to do, so they kept following. What bothered them in the situation in which they were could be a hidden trap. What the twins were searching for was any type of useful information for their mission. They mostly searched for information on their father. To their eyes, it was missing in their investigation, mostly because they practically knew who their mother was. The line's shimmering started to fade as they were going on, and they assumed the line would get thinner until the end. As their hypothesis confirmed, the line started to get thin. They didn't know what it meant, but Luna had already took pictures of the line for Caro to analyze it.

"Finally! The end of the line." Jo said harshly.

"We'll see what this hides." Lena said impatiently.

When the line got as fine as a fine point pen, they started to see the end of it.

"Nothing?!" Luna said angrily.

They all started watching it. The end of the enormous thing had apparently no secrets to it.

"I can't believe this!" said Madd, barely woken up.

"Hey wait! Look at it closely. It looks like someone spilled gas! You know, when the air is all blurry? It makes some kind of particles clouds. It's weird. Take a picture." Lena discovered.

"Good job. Now we just have to get back to Aria." Madd said.

***

Caro started analyzing the pictures Luna and Lena took on The Marathoner.

"They might be linked with X.A.R.A., we never know." Jo suggested.

"It's not impossible. But the question is : Why is it  there?" Caro asked.

"That's the thing. We have no clue." Lena answered with disappointment.

"I'll analyze it so we can be sure it's not a threat and rest assured, even if it must be there for a reason." Caro suggested.

"We'll discover that in no time..." Madd said enigmatically.

***

After their exploration, they were all back to school except for Caro and Luna. Lena had to go back to rest.

"Okay, well I'll go take a little nap and I'll try to join you after." Lena informed them.

"No problem. See you!" Madd left with the boys.

Meanwhile, Caro was just starting her searches, but she already had some ideas about the line. She had discovered it was a strength bar. It went from an opposing end of the network, which was really far from Aria, and it would make a loop when all the strength is showed. By that discovery, she also learned that the ocean was shaped as a sphere. It's just like a real ocean. It's gigantic, but there is an end to it. Now she had to confirm the hypothesis that X.A.R.A. showed his power in the bar, and what would happen the loop completed.

***

"What you discovered is surely important." Jo said with an interrogation tone.

"Y-...Yes... It's a key information." Caro said, unsure how to respond Jo's weird tone.

"We'll have to keep on searching." Luna assured her friends.

They went to the cafeteria to eat. The school was repainting everything in there, but they trusted the students, surprisingly. Like every single other school, they had to repaint something ugly with something uglier again. After lunch, Luna and Caro would go back to the factory for more information on the strength symbol.

Four friends find a big secret hidden in the factory neighboring their school. They are all interested in that secret, but it reveals to be very dangerous for humanity. 

What will they do to keep the world safe?

"Hi Charlie," I said back at the station.

I noticed Draco limping toward his father and looking around.  I quickly ducked using Charlie as a shield. 

Charlie was a rarity in the wizarding world - a butler.  With a house-elf, I considered it kind of redundant but also oddly responsible.

You see, since my parents were never around, I would either be left to my own devices or to the care of Hoopy.  So, having Charlie was actually oddly responsible for a pair of rarely present wizarding parents.

"Hey there young man," Charlie said in a pleasant tone.  "Have a good term?"

"Yeah, sure", I said trying to guide the man toward the exit.  I peeked over his shoulder.  Lord Malfoy was not looking pleased.

Had I inadvertently started a blood feud?  Honestly, I didn't really care, but I would feel a little guilty if Peabody's parents were murdered because of me, even if I could undo it all the next reset.

I managed to steer him into the crowded station and sighed in relief.  I waited patiently in the back seat as he drove us to one of our properties in London.  Charlie wasn't comfortable with apparating.  There were, unfortunately, no floos connected at the station.

I reached in the fridge for a bottle of soda and popped the cap off.  "So, tell me about Hogwarts," Charlie said as he drove the car.

He tried.  He really did.

"Great.  Failed to cast half the spells despite knowing the material.  Hounded by Slytherins.  The usual."  Stuck in a time loop.  Killed a psychotic woman then was tortured by an OP madman.  And now I got to repeat it all...yay.

"Even if your magic isn't the strongest, there's more to life than that," Charlie said.

He had a magnificent mustache.  I wondered if that was a requirement for butlers.  This was a template conversation.  There wasn't any more to my life, though.  Just the loops.  And getting stronger.

"You have your runes.  I think there's potential there.  You just have to believe in yourself," Charlie said.

This guy.  So cheesy.  "Sure, Charlie.  I'll be the unicorn."  Charlie must have been a muggle-born because he actually bought me a motivational poster that said just that.

"Any plans for the summer?"

"Oh, just working in my lab, I think," I said.  Charlie always made me feel like a broody teenager.

"You should really get out more, Master Peabody.  Meet some girls," he said.

That was really the last thing I ever needed to do unless I could find some cougar somewhere with strange tastes.  He always worked hard trying to cheer me up, but I wasn't a broody teenager.  In my case, saying no one really understood was true.  How many people transmigrated then ended up in a time loop?

"Go out with your friends," he continued.

I grunted noncommittally.  

I heard a rasp.  It sounded like the last gasp of a dying man.  I looked around for Hoopy.  I mean, he was pretty creepy, so on sheer principle.  

"Do you hear something, Charlie?" I asked.

"Hear something?"

Like a creepy, breathy, rasp of a dying man.  If I said that, it might sound crazy.  The sound went away.  "Never mind.  I think I just need some rest," finishing off the rest of my coke.  

"Very, well sir."


-----------------------------

I hovered in the sky above the World Cup grounds.  I covered my firebolt in a camouflage solution.  It would only last a few hours, but in the night it was more than enough to conceal the broom.  Also, I wore my 24-hour invisibility cloak.

The summer months went by in a blink.  Good to my word, I spent the time in my lab or training.  At the end of my last run, I was able to cast ten stupefies in a row.  At the beginning of this run, I managed five.  Down from my peak, but an increase from when I originally started.

But throughout the runs, I really did seem to be getting stronger.

In the beginning, I couldn't even cast the spell at all. It just sputtered out.  

My first run, I didn't know I was in a loop at all.  I avoided the Battle of Hogwarts altogether.

I always figured I would be like the characters in the books I read, leaping into the thick of things.  Of course, I also had hoped if I ended up in another world, I'd have some kind of cheat.  I bought a plane ticket to America.  

The wizarding fight wasn't mine, after all.  I had already died once.  I'd rather just make the most of this new life, even as a near squib.  Any amount of magic was more than I'd had before.  

I thought of going somewhere different.  I could go to Asia or a tropical island.  The truth was I was just homesick.

I reset mid-flight.

My second run I had a few ideas about what was happening.  After all, I'd seen Groundhog Day and The Edge of Tomorrow.  I'd read Mother of Learning.  I already had gotten a second life when I took over William Peabody.  This was, what, a third chance?  

I spent my time much like before, but I stuck around for the Battle of Hogwarts, mostly hiding.  I ended up getting drawn into the fights, if not just to help people in need.  I didn't accomplish much.  Iris still died.  I still reset.

The third run I ditched school altogether.  The library was a great resource, but other than that, the school was too limiting.  Plus I was sick of it.

Dying was purely an accident.  I was already obsessed with runes at that point, but I thought potions might be another path to power.  As long as you were a good brewer and had the right ingredients, magical power didn't come into play much at all.  Even with my parents' wealth it wasn't enough when I needed rarer and rarer potions ingredients.  I took it upon myself to go adventuring in magical wildlands.

I, unfortunately, didn't make it back.  

My fourth run, I decided I needed a goal.  I knew the Battle of Hogwarts was pivotal so I decided to make an appearance there.  I trained harder than ever.  I would go in, wands blazing and beat back the death eaters in true protagonist style.

I found out that the death eaters in this world were far more capable than their book counterparts. 

The fifth run, I decided by hook or by crook I would take down at least one high profile death eater.  A boss battle of sorts.

Surprisingly I managed to defeat Bellatrix.  She was a nasty dueler.  She had the speed and power and sheer fearlessness.  I took advantage of the element of surprise and some dirty tricks to win.  The only downside was that kind of tactic probably wouldn't work in the long run.  I'm sure it wouldn't work on Voldemort.  I would need more than parlor tricks to overcome that sheer power.

I'd spent an extra eighteen years or so in this world.

It really didn't seem that long.

I'd always dreamed of how cool it would be to be able to repeat a day.  To get a really perfect day.  I got to repeat several years.  It made it harder in a way.  It was hard to take advantage of any specific fore-knowledge, especially when every time things ended up being slightly different.

Major events happened but with slight alterations.

In the world there are just so many variables at play in any given moment, I guess the world is bound to change ever so slightly.

Occasionally I contemplated just going berserk.  Maybe start stealing everything I could get my hands on.  Or beating Malfoy to a pulp.  Or just winning the lottery and living a loop in depravity.

I wasn't quite there yet.  I liked the idea of the loops.  But I didn't like the unknown factor of the reset.  If I was right, and Iris survived, then what?  Could my loop continue?  Would the reset move?

Or would my loops end?

I couldn't know.  As it was now, I could better myself.  I could at most have short-lived fun.  I couldn't really live a real life, though.  It's not like I could start a family or something.  Do things normal people do.    

I only had a sliver of life. Not a full life.

If anything, if I got sick of it, I might just go travel the world.  The snake did have quite a few scales left, after all.  I counted once.  There was definitely something like two hundred scales on the snake.  

So for now, I focused on what I could accomplish.  Little goals.  Changing little things.  Like saving Molly Weasley.

Like stomping on death eaters at the World Cup.

I pulled a thermos from my moleskin bag and poured myself a cup of coffee.  I had to come early before they stopped the port-keys.  I'd been flying since nightfall.  I really had no idea when the attack actually happened.

This loop was actually the first time I'd come here.  The sound of a rasping man made me freeze.  I suddenly felt cold.

The rasp sounded again right next to my ear.  Hot coffee scalded my hand.

"Shit," I cursed as I steadied myself on my broom, my cup falling to the ground far below.  I didn't think anyone was under me.  I didn't hear any cries of outrage.

The wind blew ruffling my invisibility cloak.  It was probably just the wind.  The wind blowing the car before, and now the wind blowing my cloak.  Or I was losing it.  Maybe I really did need to go on a break this loop.

In the camp below, fire shone in the distance even as I began to hear the screams.

I just had to complete this next project, then I would take a vacation.  I sighed.  I'd never tried facing such a large group at once.  The riot was the same as in the book, but also much different.

For one, Fleur and her sister were never the same after.

(Dropped) A guy finds himself in Harry Potter, but it isn't quite the world he remembers from the books.  Girl-who-lived?  Living parents?  Non-fugly Voldemort?  Even with more retries than Bill Murray and Tom Cruise combined, can he figure out the perfect run?
Edit:  I intended for this story to be 80% action and 20% comedy.  Instead, it's 20% action, 30% angst, 5% comedy and 45% plot holes.

Those familiar with Xiao Xuan turned pale upon hearing that, as if they'd seen a ghost. In two or three seconds, an uproar started.
Undoubtedly, the local people knew nothing about Jiang Chen. He was a stranger to them.
Most importantly, they didn't see any fight loops on his sleeves, which meant he was a nobody in the Middle State.
"Miss Li, I'm sorry, but it'll be my job to kill this guy. I'll take his dead body to the Tai Yue School."
Xiao Xuan's smile was fading from his face, his voice extremely cold. There was nothing warm there.
Li Yaqin didn't speak. She only nodded calmly.
The disciples of the Tai Yue School made way, happy to see Jiang Chen suffer.
Xiao Xuan waved his sleeve. The nine fight loops embroidered in fine silver threads were rather eye-catching.
Jiang Chen had learned what these things meant.
It was similar to the Dragon Rise List. The color and number of the fight loops told a person's level.
The most basic was a white fight loop.
When one had gained nine white fight loops, they would receive a copper fight loop.
In the same way, above the copper fight loop was the silver, and then the golden.
With this information in mind, Jiang Chen knew more about the strength of Xiao Xuan and Li Yaqin while sizing them up.
From other people in the city, he had also learned that people with silver fight loops were already regarded as strong performers in the Middle State, since there were only a few people who could get golden loops, and they were the strongest people in the state.
"I know nothing about you. The only thing I know is that you're dead meat."
Seeing that he had nothing on his sleeves, Xiao Xuan showed his disdain in his look.
For a Cloud Eight like Jiang Chen, it would be easy to get white or copper fight loops, but he didn't do so, because he thought that only silver fight loops or better were good enough for his state.
But people thought he had none because he couldn't get silver ones and didn't want others to mock him for copper ones.
"Bring it on if you want to die," Jiang Chen said casually.
His bad day wasn't over yet. He wouldn't mind letting more blood smear his blade.
"Huh." Xiao Xuan smiled coldly. He raised his right hand and a sword whooshed into it.
As soon as he grasped the sword handle, he and the sword became one. They formed a sharp light.
He was as cruel as Hu Fei. Without even knowing Jiang Chen's name or background, he intended to kill the latter.
"How great the Nine Great Forces are."
Jiang Chen laughed. He waited there, doing nothing, when his rival's sword was thrust over. He didn't even touch his sword or knife.
However, at the crucial moment, he closed his fists tightly. The phoenix blood in him boiled, and the dragon force accumulated.
He exerted the first variation of the dragons' martial arts techniques to the fullest. Like two burning furnaces, his fists caught the radiance.
It was unbelievable that he had caught the blade of a magic sword with his bare hands. It was absurd to the bystanders, but there was one man who didn't find it absurd—Xiao Xuan.
It was true that he was holding a sharp sword. However, facing Jiang Chen's fists, he felt like he was jumping into a volcano.
Without injuring his opponent, his blade started to melt. The radiance of Jiang Chen's fists became more and more brilliant. He could see nothing more than that.
When the fist power had finally been released, the others were feeling the same as Xiao Xuan.
They saw his sword fly out of his hand and him fly off the ground, spitting up blood.
Soon, his body froze suddenly up in the air. It turned out a hand had grasped him by the throat.
"What… what do you want to do?!" Gazing at Jiang Chen's face so closely, Xiao Xuan somehow felt frightened. He was especially disturbed by his deep look.
"To kill you," Jiang Chen answered.
"Stop!"
Two Venerables in charge of the protection of the Lonely Moon City showed up as quickly as they could. They flew into the air and surrounded Jiang Chen, but they didn't attack him, because he still had Xiao Xuan.
They were two gray-haired old men, old but strong and as sound as bells. The energy they were emitting was as magnificent as mountains.
"The two Elders of Sword and Mystery." Someone in the Lonely Moon City recognized them. People were very surprised. Although they knew there were Venerables in the city, they hadn't anticipated that the Infinite Sword School would send such important elders.
"Release Xiao Xuan. Don't bring yourself more trouble!"
"I'll give you enough time to finish a cup of tea. Release him, and the Lonely Moon City will stay out of this."
The two elders spoke one by one, both in obviously threatening tones.
"I hate others that threaten me the most."
Jiang Chen flew into a rage. He closed his fists tighter and tighter. Like a beautiful but fragile vase, Xiao Xuan's neck couldn't take it anymore. It was broken with a crack.
Before his death, Xiao Xuan had opened his eyes extremely wide, as if he couldn't believe it was real.
Before this day, he had been planning to go for the golden fight loops and advance further.
Before he had attacked, he had intended to show off to Li Yaqin and prove his skill.
However, all of this lost its purpose as the darkness fell.
"Gosh!"
Watching Jiang Chen strangle Xiao Xuan, not only the Lonely Moon City, but also Li Yaqin and others in the air were given a good scare.
The disciples of the Tai Yue School, who apparently weren't a match for Jiang Chen, felt panicked. They told themselves to be careful.
This guy could have been a maniac.
However, it soon occurred to them that they didn't have to do anything.
The Two Elders of Sword and Mystery simmered with rage. They wouldn't forgive Jiang Chen by any means. If Jiang Chen had killed Xiao Xuan before they had shown up, it would have been their fault, since they hadn't acted quickly enough.
Nevertheless, Jiang Chen had waited until they had come into the air, until they had spoken, to kill Xiao Xuan.
How arrogant he was! He had challenged their dignity!
"I'm not in a good mood today. This is the second person I killed. I don't mind killing a third, a fourth, or even a hundredth."
Facing the Venerables' rage, Jiang Chen didn't chicken out. Instead, he looked up at Li Yaqin, then said in a cold voice, "If you want to court death, bring it on!"
"Stop being so arrogant!"
"Go to hell!"
The Two Elders of Sword and Mystery couldn't put up with him anymore. Regardless of the gap in their states, they attacked him together. It looked like a competition between them.
Of course, their attacks were irresistible.
Jiang Chen stood there, still. In fact, as a Reaching Heaven State, it wouldn't work even if he moved. However, a shining brochure flew out of his clothes.
Azure Demon and the black dragon both dashed towards the two elders.
"Gosh!"
The sudden change shocked everyone once again. The black dragon aside, Azure Demon looked like an inviolable majestic god.
Even the two elders were struck dumb. With their states, they felt the same thing that average people on the coast would feel facing a tsunami—a deep helplessness and fear.
No matter what they did, the tsunami would swallow people, just like Azure Demon and the black dragon's attacks swallowed them.
When it happened, the two elders had no way to resist it at all. They were heavily injured.
"If you want to fight, I'll fight!"
Jiang Chen drew his sword out of its sheath. Dashing towards Li Yaqin, he said, "Show me how strong a person with golden fight loops is!"


The war of gods left the earth no winners, but a broken world.
Thousands of years later, the soul of the God of war created a new world from the ruins.
Nine reincarnations for the same one belief.
A youngster looked up at the starlit sky with his sword in hand.
Monsters, demons, evil persons…Whoever had the nerve to damage this world would end up dying.
To see how a youngster got onto the top of the world little by little, inherited the soul of the God of war, and defend his own world!

Many of the White Day High's students have gathered around the school's gymnasium. Now was the time for Lucas to prove his Godly Potential. All the students made their wild guesses on the outcome of this show.

"You know what? That Lucas Martin was just a tranferee from our opposing school, Aspho High!" a student whispered to her friend.

"For real, that boy became cynosure all of the sudden! He also got Winter into a pulp!! I guess Principal Lyns was backing him. Mr. Vacio also went here to get him back at Aspho!!"

The gymnasium was left crowded, rumbling with their loud cheers and voices! "All of the students.." the emcee shouted with a microphone. "..please be quiet and welcome a student that will prove his very skills! Let's all welcome a Fire Starter with his spoken Godly Potential, Lucas Martin!!"

The whole stage rumbled, with almost deafening screams. Everyone booing Lucas, stating he can't prove it. Many shouts were heard, stating their support and dismay.

Lucas finally stepped inside the stage, finally facing the whole crowd. "Lucas! Lucas! Lucas!" the crowd became aggressively stronger. Booing and cheering almost left Doll and Moon deafened at the sidelines.

"You know what, Moon? I was nervous about this?" Doll stood at the middle of the crowd, with Moon on her right. Lucas looked at them and smiled. "How can he prove it..?"

Moon sighed, the crowd was quite deafening! "Lucas was a surprising man. Maybe, you will be shocked at some point.." Moon whispered. "I am a bit nervous, too. Let's just watch."

"Prove to us your Godly Potential," the emcee shouted. "Lucas Martin!!!"

The lights on the stage gone aggressive. The light directors playfully danced the lights and focused it at Lucas. Lucas started by setting his hands on fire! "Whoooaah!" many of the students were left shocked. He jumped and glided towards the very crowd. With his arms and hands burning, he settled the now-low hull-a-hoop raging with fire.

The ring of fire now finally at his assumed location. Lucas —with his arms still burning— rushed towards the loop and psssed it safe and sound. He landed nicely, shocking Mr.Vacio on the panel. Principal Lyns was also there. She was glad at what she was seeing.

Now, he laid his hands on the burning loop. The directors pulled the loop upwards and it flied with Lucas. Being elevated, Lucas swirled and bunged and the loop many times, each has a flamboyant. Many other significant students were watching there, especially Winter. Steel, Zanc and Maru were there too. Nath, Ghaile and Scottie were all scattered.

Lucas swung and swung holding an elevated loop. But Lucas was just starting. He bursted his whole body with fire!! "Lucas called it FireMan!" the emcee announced. Almost everyone were excited at what will happen next. Lucas proudly blasts amazingly blinding fires and fireworks along the whole above head area of the gymnasium.

Lucas then blew fire from his mouth! Doll and Moon were really shocked. It was obviously new to Doll and Moon. The careless Lucas that was being excelled now became an intricately careful one. Lucas carefully done each of his every move. Even his breathing was planned professionally. As Lucas continued showing his power, the lights suddenly gone off.

Murmuring of dismayed students were all over heard at the gymnasium. "Now.." the emcee grimly announced. "let's turn off our Celsius and Fahrenheit counter" he continued. "From now on, let's count for Lucas' Kelvin!!"

A circle of fire was seen at the stage. It was still pure black at the place. "Fire supplied us heat," Lucas was heard. He was like speaking at a microphone. "It also gives us energies." he continued. "I will use that energy, to make you all be shocked!"

Musics with exciting tune were all played. The rumblings lessen and all of the eyes were just staring at a small circle of fire from before. Until the lights opened, showing Lucas amazingly raging with fire. He even showed levitating them on the air. Multiple cardboard enemies appeared and Lucas defeated them with one assault. He showed his battling skills.

True gargantuan students appeared, circling Lucas in a horrifying manner. Those multiple men swiftly come from behind Lucas while gripping their bats, and begin to assault him with multiple blows with those heavily weighted bats. Lucas notes their strengths and mentally states that, "They were, in fact, strong.." As they continue to battle it out, the gargantuan men retaliated.

"We will determine if the glory bestowed upon Lucas was worth honoring.." they spoke. "We were from Aspho High to ensure your lost." this statement drove Lucas to keep pushing. No one knows that it was out of the plan! But Lucas tried his best to win this rate.

 Both talented men show no signs of backing down; delivering multiple attacks at a quick pace one after another. Once again Lucas was amazed at the fact that those men were extremely powerful, even without dropping a single sweat. If things continue like this, Lucas cannot ever prove his Godly Potential.

When Lucas Martin was being expelled at the Aspho High due to his newly discovered Fire Starter skills, he was forced to transfer to White Day High along with his cousin Moon Martin.

When they meet many friends, and when they find their respective skill-classes, a news was announced afterwards.

The White Day High will participate at the annually-held competition: The Division Skill Tournament!

Every Class decided to partake, that ranges the possibility to its maximum state.

Lucas and Moon, along with their friends were luckily selected. As training time comes, the bonds of the handpicked group strengthens.

What will be the outcome of this game, after they found out that they will face their past classmates from Aspho High??

Will they be able to forget the past, or will they be able to fight for the present???

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