Episode 129 – A O (2/2)

The last lines in the diary reverberated inside Nelaira’s head like an endless chorus of buzzing bees

I can feel Ca back frantically Yet, I fear it is too late

Chills racked Nelaira’s hunched up forretted her decision to postpone the execution of her orders This knowledge wasn’t so that flipped her world views upside down Soer her life if anyone found out

Yet, she couldn’t think about her own predicament, for her

This reatest calamity we have faced after the outbreak

After the outbreak…

Nelaira’s heart pounded hard against her ribcage

After…Outbreak…

AO!

The realization hit Nelaira like a haers…! They measured time from the outbreak of Ink!

But the Ink…!

The Ink appeared the same year the ere halted!

AO was no different from their own AW

The year 1430 AO on the diary entries…

…was 16 years ago!

As she sat there, under the bright ht, covered in cold sweat, Nelaira was too absorbed in her horror to notice theon a monocle in her peripheral vision

A ret

For had her vigilance not dropped that night, perhaps the fates of her squad and her would have been different

Ashar, Thursday, 30th of August, 1449 AW

As Kiel waited for Elaru’s practical exam to start and then finish, he attempted to replicate some of the spells in his book on spell replication, however, his mind was simply not in it

No matter how he tried to concentrate, to not let his mind wander, it was a futile effort

Sometimes he would think about the opponents he had faced, other times, he would think how eon was

So ords of Zor Arite, other ti inside his mind would be of Arion Urwin and Elaru Wayvin

Sometimes, his body would shi+ver as if he could feel the excruciating pain of electricity coursing through his muscles, other times, a flash of Elaru’s aura would h his li and instead started hts faded away one by one

He forgot about the pain of being burned and electrocuted, both of which he had experienced before After all, he used to be Rhur’s favorite practice duic

He put his curiosity towards the Replica Dungeon, Gods and divine artifacts to the back of his ate the about Zor Arite, for the life and death of that person had no relation to hihts was Elaru

And she wouldn’t go away

It didn’t help that she was sitting next to him for the majority of the ti to take her practical exa about his problem

“What the… ? Why are you back already? Did you rele question blurted out incredulously, and the result was…

“…and then I just knocked them out easily” Elaru finally finished her self-satisfied narration of how she passed her practical exam and turned to face Kiel’s unamused deadpan expression

It wasn’t that he found her retelling boring, no, on the contrary, it was rather huh when he compared it to his own 30implications…

“Why is it that you are familiar with a crew of pirates?” Kiel uncere her a penetrating look

Co up in the next episode:

“Papa, Wade and I…we’ve spent last 18 years searching for so the most or hope to becoht about the future I’ve always been concentrating on the present”

“And you think youfor here in Muni?” Kiel probed

As soon as his thoughts entered that dangerous territory, Kiel shook his head and diverted his attention to another tangential thought: “What about your mother? What happened to her?”

But then, as it that Elaru seemed to revere her father if the man used her ability when he needed it and left her to other people to take care of when he didn’t?

It really was a common occurrence in the noble families Most of them married for benefits instead of love

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