Blessing of Mother Earth

"Uhm... Can't they hear me? I thought I got connected to everyones mind earli...Oh wait! There, I can feel a response in Mexico, Italy, China, England... The response are steadily rising. 1 million, 2 million, 4 million..."

I was stupefied.

(It must be counting the number of survivors.)

I looked around me and saw that they were all raising their hands. I also raised mine. The so-called 'Mother Earth' finally finished counting after a while.

"2.3 billion... That's only 1/3 of the population."

'Mother Earth' murmured in a low voice but we still heard it clearly.

(1/3 of the population? There's still that many alive, huh? I imagined that it would be just barely hitting 1/4... It must be because of everyones mind being calm, it gave us the ability to react at the situation.)

Mother Earth continued on its announcement.

"Well then... I'll keep the explanation short because i can't keep up the connection for too long. I just got out of a seal and breaking out of it drained a lot of my power. I am trying my best to stop the other worlds from connecting to ours but because I'm in weak state right now, I can only keep them away for around 2 years..."

Her explanation was too long, so to summarize. The elemental guardians and spirits will wake up in a while after she's free, they will give us blessings to use the elements. We'll be using it to defend our world. And it seems like there are more worlds coming to invade us.

We can just ask a elemental spirit or guardian to know more later. The mind connection was actually draining Mother Earth.

"That will be all for now... And I'll wish for your success..."

It suddenly got quiet. I looked at the others and told them to get back to rest. By the way if you're wondering, we took the clothes worn by the dreads leaving them with only their undergarments... so the girls who got their clothes stripped off are actually wearing clothes.

It looks like girl 4 and girl 5, Julia and Erial the ones who were raped, can't sleep properly because of the trauma. So the other girls embraced them to make them fall asleep. While I fell back to sleep in Athena's bosom- well... was about to. When suddenly I heard 'Thea let out her voice.

"Eh?"

I asked worriedly.

"You okay?"

She immediately responded while getting immersed about something in her mind.

"Hm? Uh...yeah, just listening to Mother Earth right now."

"Huh? But I can't hear it?"

I looked at the others and they shrugged their shoulders.

"I don't hear anything either." "Me too." "Nothing here."

While I was asking if they heard something, 'Thea raised her voice.

"Eh?! I..is that true? Yo.. you'll give me your blessings..? Ah! No way...huh? I carried your blood? He...hey! Wait.. Ahh!!"

She suddenly held her head, seemingly in pain. Me and Athena caught her. I looked at her and asked in worry.

"What happened?!"

Athena was also looking in worry. Althea was breathing roughly it feels like the pain from yesterday was happening to her again. It hurt me seeing that. Althea did not reply and instead...

"Status."

When she blurted that out, light suddenly covered her hands. She touched her hands on the floor. After the light went out, we could see a line of texts written there. The others were startled by that. They came closer to read the texts.

(Althea Celestine)

[Magic Power 2000/2000]

-Mother Earth's Descendant-

Blessing of Mother Earth (Level 1)- it has the ability to learn all elemental blessings of the same level.

"Whoa! This is a status! I always read this type of things in mangas and novels!" - (Male classmate 4)

"There's even magic powers?! Now this is starting to feel like a game." - Jarell

I asked 'Thea.

"So, what did Mother Earth said?"

"S..she said that I'm her descendent and I carried her blood. She gave me her blessing which has the ability to use all kinds of elemental skills if it's in the same level. There's also about the Elementals, it looks like they can only give blessings to those with affinity. And also she said that she'll contact me again later if she has the time."

"Hmm... to think that you're Mother Earth's descendant. We don't know yet if its a good thing or not."

I nodded at her explanation. Everyone already heard what she blurted when she was still listening to Mother Earth, so they kinda already got the gist of it even if she didn't explain it.

"Why would it be bad, huh? Isn't it a good thing that she now has powers?"

"That's right. If you think about it we can only acquire blessings that we have an affinity in. It means we can only use the blessings that we are given, meanwhile 'Thea can use all of it. Now we have a person who is strong at our side."

The others also agreed to what Almond and Carol said. But Athena already realized the hidden danger that was in my words and explained it.

"And that's why it could also be bad. 'Thea is the descendant of Mother Earth, she may become an important piece for the war. It would not be surprising if they will start targeting her. Think about it, the leader of the dreads might focus their forces to try and capture her."

Everyone fell silent after that and the atmosphere turned serious. I was getting awkward because of the atmosphere. I tried to think of ways to break it.

I became excited after knowing about a status exists so I started summoning it.

"...status."

The other boys also started calling for the status excitedly after hearing me do it.

"Status!"

""Status!""

That serious atmosphere was gone. Everyone was happily waiting for it...but, only one was shining and the others did not. It was only my hands. I reached at the ground and there my status was written.

"Weird...why didn't it work for us?" "Yeah! It's so unfair." "What's happening here?! Doesn't it just appear after saying status?"

They looked at their own hands and then looked at mine.