A Seer's Endeavor

As soon as he saw the vision that he had seen a year and half ago, play out in real life, Aren had many thoughts in his mind.

Even after knowing all of this, from start to the ending, this still happened. Katty was still about to be killed. In the same place, in the same position, by the the same ogre and witnessed by the same person.

Where had he gone wrong? Did his attempt did nothing at all, his fight with others, his ceaseless searching and even his warning, all lead to this?

So it had been an arrangement. A cruel arrangement where a chance or luck decided everything. With the accumulated fate of others, the river of destiny arranged the fate of every being.

Only then Aren understood what Claude had said at that time. That everyone's fate was decided the moment they came into existence. Even being born was due to fate!

Then why? Why had he had seen her die at that time? There had to be a reason. A reason due to which he could save her.

These questions had already formed in his mind when he took the senior evaluation test.

Although he appeared to be hopeless, he still had something which could give him the answer to his question.

That rune!

Despite the fact that he didn't know what type of rune it was or if it even had a name, Aren knew that the rune he'd engraved in his spiritual space was the root to everything.

Because of it, he became a seer. Because of it, he saw that vision and also because of it, he felt that he should save Katty.

Then, the way to save her should also be related to this rune he had!

After being confirmed that he was a seer, Aren had started pondering. If spinning the rune in clockwise direction let him to see the fragmented visions of someone's future then what would happen if he spinned it in anticlockwise direction?

He had decided to test it out and the outcome he had got was still fresh in his memory.

Time. Time had gone backwards! Not just for one or two second but for whole 10 seconds. He couldn't believe it that time. However, at that time, he hadn't attempted to advance his rune and his spiritual power was still low, so the backlash was equally powerful.

He had fainted immediately and hadn't woken up for a whole of 96 hours. It was only thanks to his body and mind which had tenacity exceeding normal humans did he survive the aftereffects of that reckless action of his.

Since then, the spinning of rune, especially in anticlockwise direction, had become a taboo for him as well as his greatest secret.

Now, half a year had passed and the time had come, to use the rune again and see if he could save her.

This was the change he had managed to make! If in his vision, there was total hopelessness on his face then now a shred of hope had appeared, which would make his attempt successful.

As he willed the rune to be spinned counterclockwise, the six vertices of the hexagram star enclosed in a circle all lit up at the same time. Immediately, the rune turned into a shining disk which rotated in direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock.

Aren's vision was now filled with the violet coloured disk. With no one noticing, in the real flowing time spectrum, a minuscule part itself folded and joined the moment 10 seconds ago.

Aren eyes, in which the miniaturized version of the same rune had appeared for a brief moment, again showed his purple irises.

As he gained his sight again, which was now not blocked by the violet-coloured disk, Aren saw that the scene of that ogre swinging his club down on katty had changed.

Now what he saw was that the ogre was still charging towards her.

Aren knew that he had gone 10 seconds back in time so as soon as he regained his vision, he rushed at Katty, while withstanding the stinging pain that he started feeling in his head.

Whoosh!

He directly appeared beside her and as he held the suprised katty in his arms, he moved some distance away from the ogre.

The Ogre captain who had just managed to come near his prey was dumbfounded at this sudden turn of events. It only managed to see a black shadow appear from other side which took his prey and dissappeared.

Stopping his already raised club up in the air, he looked ahead of him and saw that a black figure was holding his prey.

Aren, holding Katty in a princess carry, instantly put the girl down when he saw that they were already noticed by the Ogre. He quickly took out a spiritual power recovery potion and not paying attention to the pouting little girl who was standing up from the ground, gulped down the whole potion in one go.

"Katty, cast a water sphere on that ogre!" he said while holding his head with one hand, trying to recover his spiritual power in this time of emergency.

Though she was angry at Aren because he so suddenly threw her to the ground, due to which her butt was still hurting, She still did as he told her to. For now, she had to deal with the ogre. She could teach the ''bad big brother'' a lesson later.

Hurriedly, turned the page of the spell ''water spear'', which she had prepared to cast, to the page of ''water sphere'' and started chanting the incantations.

Maybe it was because Aren was there, she was now calm when the ogre again charged at her.

Before the ogre could reach near her, she, with her spirit of a blue ring aptitude apprentice, had already finished casting a water sphere.

''Invocata Sallaur: Water sphere!"

As her voice rang out, according to the gathering principle of lesser magic, water elements gathered around the charging ogre and formed a sphere of water, enclosing the monster inside it.

"Hurgggh!..."

The Ogre groaned in discomfort and disapproval when he found himself suddenly bound by water appearing around him. However, as he punched against it, although his punch was rebounded, he felt that the barrier of water had lessened.

"This brute..." as he saw the Ogre freeing himself from the water sphere actually using brute force, Aren's facial expressions which had warped due to pain again changed.

That was a water sphere cast by a blue ring aptitude apprentice! How much strength did he have to actually break its binding effect using just brute force?

However, within that time he had also managed to recover most of his spiritual force. So at least, the job of water sphere was done.

"It broke free!" Katty exclaimed as she looked at the ogre. Aren, without turning his gaze from the monster, stretched his hand at the girl beside him and said.

"Give me all scrolls you have."

As katty heard what he said, she suddenly put on an expression of ''being extorted'' which was of course ignored by Aren. In the end, she had no choice but to ''willingly hand over'' her scrolls to the big brother beside her who was now ''treating her bad''.

'Huh? Wait these are...' As Aren held the scrolls given by katty, he noticed that these scrolls looked a little... These were his scrolls!?

'How did this girl get these?' Aren had this question in his mind but when he saw that the Ogre was already madly rushing forward at them he put it into the back of his mind, focusing on the battle.

Actually, this ogre had really become an eyesore for him. Ever since Aren saw the vision until that time when he saw the ogre trying to kill Katty, this monster had always been his source of worry.

So when he got these twenty something enchanted scrolls each having near rank 1 power from Katty, he had already decided to ''generously blast'' this brute with several offensive spells at the same time.

'Oh there are other ogres too... heh, sadly you came at the wrong time.' As he saw that there were ten to twelve smaller ogres charging behind that ogre as well, Aren inwardly sentenced them death.

When the Ogres had came at his attack range, Aren, under the sad gaze of Katty which turned into that of astonishment the next moment, tore three ''magma ground'' scrolls simultaneously and cast them at the incoming ogres.

That was not all! Without paying any attention at the Ogres who were suddenly suddenly devastated by the lava spewing out from the ground, He again tore the scrolls of spells ''whirlwind'', ''flame chains'' and ''wind vortices'' and activating them, sent them forth at the Ogres.

'Now for the finishing move...' Lastly, Aren took a red scroll which was a little longer and thicker than others and tore it apart. Then immediately, he held katty by hand and backed away several tens of meters rapidly.

Suddenly, all fire elements near the surrounding area started gathering in the skies above the Ogres and...

Rain of fire!

As burning fireballs fell from the skies, the land in which the Ogres were turned into a burning hell of fire and magma. Coupled with the wind spells he had cast earlier, this rain certainly had more power than in the spell Fernando casted.

The next moment, the ogres who had great strength started crying in agony like abused children. That also included the rank 1 ogre captain. With his strength and vitality, although he would also suffer some damage, he could still survive this attack if he could get away from the area of effect of the spell in time.

However, the moment he thought of such a brilliant plan, several chains of fire appeared around him and bound him to that place.

Now, from below, that magma ground was coming while from above, fire was raining. Even with his thick hide, the hunting captain of ogres wasn't sure if he could survive this.