Chapter 94 - Guide

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

Surprisingly, only one regular flower turned into a moonflower, hence why in the past Ken stopped in the middle of his fight with Klein to check out the flower that caught his attention.

But this fact was something Ken will have to find out for himself as Klein doesn’t know of it either, along with him not noticing this flower.

Ken reappeared at the entrance of the village looking all serious and taut, people stopped to look at their human friend in curiosity, Ken realized he was still in his undergarments and flushed deep red.

Despite his appearance looking like an angel of death -with his scythe and all- clad in white, hair dropped down and a flawless face -femininely handsome-, he still flustered about not dressing up properly for others to see.

He ran fast towards one of the cave holes he can take to enter his master’s cave, one unique function of the caves is that anyone who can use teleportation is able to teleport out of the caves but not into the caves.

As such, the only way to get inside is to use the cave entrances. Ken flew to the center of the cave where his parents and… Everyone else, his friends, masters, and other important figures of the valley are present near the edge of the circular river, all prepared with their clothing and weapons, those in human form’s case.

All the mountain lions are slowly walking outside of the cave through the hole which Ken came out of.

Everyone looked at Ken’s outfit and can’t help but feel funny at Ken’s get up, he still hasn’t bathed yet and still in his nightwear. Ken landed near the group, turned invisible only to reappear behind the group.

He used water and wind magic to bathe himself by covering himself in a sphere of water, the wind magic created distortions inside so as not to clearly see what he is doing, he hastily cleaned himself and put on his battle suit, strapped his scythe to his back, and tied his hair to a pony tail with a spare ribbon he always carries.

While all this was happening the group had slowly turned around noticing a fluctuation at the back and there they saw the distorted figure of Ken preparing himself, just as everyone had fully turned around to watch him the water bubble popped in a gracious manner of water slowly seeping down to the ground.

Ken noticed the wet ground, he controlled the water out of the earth without carrying mud, formed a stream that directed itself onto the river. He looked unto the group and saw as they were all gawking at him, or at least Cloud and Rain are.

The rest had a slight amusement in their eyes at the display. Even when changing clothes he still makes it look majestic, White thought beside Ken.

“The demon army’s near.” The atmosphere of leisure broke in an instant at what Ken said.

“How near?” asked Klein.

“About 900 meters away from the entrance of the village.” Everyone felt their breath stuck between their throat, who would have known that the demon army was this close to their place.

“And there seems to be a more powerful demon that came out of the third demon gate, far stronger than the demon we fought yesterday.” Ken added, this piece of information caught the attention of the adults, they each looked at one another knowing full well what their course of action will be.

“But no worries, I froze them all in place.” Ken smiled softly at his statement getting a sense of accomplishment of what he had done. The adults however, stared at him wide-eyed.

“Ho-How were you…” Alfred didn’t finish what he wanted to say, getting all confused and flustered at what his son said.

“That’s not possible.” said Saber looking straight into Ken.

“O-Oh, is that so huh…” he mumbled to himself. “But I did froze them Master Saber.” He desperately said, still with respect to his master.

“I can show them to you.” Saber raised an eyebrow at that. Klein sighed, he knows the extent of the power of those demons, especially that one Ken mentioned earlier, he can’t help but feel torn between two sides, was he going to believe Ken or not.

Ken watched as his master’s face change in mood affect him, but he wouldn’t back down now, he knows that he froze the army, so he’ll show it to them.

“Arcane Magic: Mass Teleportation.” He did not spare anyone a chance to retaliate or rebuke his statement and straight out teleported all of them to the cliff he was at minutes ago. His friends are all but confused of the situation, added with the sudden teleportation made their brains spin as they weren’t able to digest the information that easily.

Why is that whenever Ken is talking with the masters or adults in general, they are all in a different world, we can’t understand, thought Wilbert, steadying himself. Allen, disagrees otherwise if he’d hear Wilbert’s thoughts, as he too was well informed by his father of the matter,

But not of this stronger demon, his face scrunched up in concentration, scouring for his memories of any chance his father had talked about such a topic with him, but he found nothing similar of the sorts, he reverted back his attention to the people conversing at the moment.

What?! What is this?! Allen thought, as he come face to face with a transparent purplish wall in front of him, the students had the same thought as they marveled at the height and largeness of… this… thing.

Even the adults were not spared of the domineering height of this seemingly thick and tall wall.

“Ken, what is all this?” asked Lyn walking to the side of her son.

“I made a wall made out of transparent material made by arcane magic mother, so that when my ice spell is over, we’re able to slow down the advance of the demon army.” said Ken his tone monotonous, free of that cheerful ring that Ken always has.

Lyn glanced at her son and felt around the area using her magic to assess the wall in front of her. Her eyes widened in surprise as she not only found out that this wall was made of so much magic, but also because she found out that it’s strength is hard to pinpoint making it seem like an ordinary wall to anyone who’d check it.

It shouldn’t have come to a surprise for her since she knows the talent her son holds, but nonetheless, this sight baffled her. Something caught her attention by the side of her eye and turned to the right, there she found a flower floating in mid-air, the color of white with a green stem.

“Then, what’s this?” she asked while approaching the floating flower in a few strides, Ken following her behind.

“It’s a moonflower mother, I’m using it to power my spell so that it’ll last about 24 hours on the army.” said Ken beside, but one word caught her and her husband’s attention.

“Son, did you say ‘moonflower’?” asked Alfred, body tense, his eyes blinking furiously.

“Yes father, why?” Ken titled his head to the side slightly. Lyn and Alfred looked at each other, then at Ken, entering into deep thought.

A few seconds later.

“I’m not sure if we should talk about this here.” Alfred glanced wearily on everyone, the others slowly sprouted worried expressions at him. “Lyn, what do you think?”

“I’m not sure too dear, this had only recently been added to the parchment, we don’t know how everyone will take it.” Ken was utterly confused, what does it have to do with the prophecy? He thought.

“Is it regarding Ken?” asked Klein, snapping everyone out of the trance, as they all turned to look at him.

“Yes.” She confirmed, everyone except Rain, Cloud, Raze, Riven, and Trun were curious as to what is new on the parchment, the five were just utterly confused as they do not know what the others are talking about.

“What does it say mother?” Ken asked. Alfred took out a folded piece of worn-out paper from one of his pockets and gave them to Ken. Ken unfolded the paper and read the content, his eyebrows furrowed.

”Can I read it out loud?” he asked, his parents looked at one another wearily, it looks as if they had a silent conversation with their eyes. After awhile Alfred and Lyn nodded at each other then at Ken.

Everyone watching at this interaction cannot help but feel lost, who wouldn’t be when this family is talking in puzzles.

“ ‘The moonflower will be your guide, treading trials through out of sight. Must you not nurture the plant, death is what it will grant. Should you go and use its powers, be prepared for all that growls, for its power may be enormous, it’s destined for a greater purpose. WMsn olovoe.’ “ recited Ken.

He observed the expressions of the people in front of him, anticipating what and how they’ll react, he doesn’t know what to feel only that he’s trying to keep his exterior calm, he already knows that he used quite a huge amount of power the moonflower had, so what now?

‘More importantly, what are those initials supposed to mean? No, I should not be worried of that, for now, I have something else to do.’ He thought.

“Anyways, Mother, Father, what did you guys think of this?” he asked.

“We haven’t really thought much about this matter since we’d only read it once when we went out to gather herbs, and as you know, we always carry the parchment of prophecy with us all the time, given the situation, we weren’t able to ponder much about it.” said Alfred.

“Then, we’ll find a way to decipher the message of the new prophecy together but first we have to tackle this pressing matter at hand, how does that sound?” said Ken.

“I agree, we have to focus on other things for now.” said Lyn, took back the parchment from Ken, folded it and put it back on Alfred’s pocket. This two really has such a unique way of interacting, thought Ken.

“Son, other than the moonflower, what have you done to your ice spell that even the demon you speculate to be far stronger than all of the monsters here got also affected by your spell?” she asked, turning to her son.

“You’re not gonna scold me for using the moonflower?” Ken asked.

“No, not today, but we’ll do that later.” Lyn said, with a look in between casual and seriousness.

“Uh… Okay, um, I used arcane magic to lock away their powers for the same duration, so they wouldn’t be able to break free from the ice, even their physical strength I had also weakened with a curse.” He said. His parents nodded at him, thinking of how good his decision was.

But the others think otherwise, they were all shocked out of their wits, even his childhood friends and their parents, to know what Ken had done to this demon army in front of them.

“Other than that, I had also specifically timed the spell to only last up for 24 hours, while any resistance of any sort would be negated by the spell.” Ken added, that made the minds of the people around them, blow into millions of particles, nah just kidding.

“But why did you do so, son?” Lyn asked.

“As I said before, I found a far stronger opponent than before, so I made an opportunity to give us more time to prepare for their assault later, plus they were all nearing the village, I had to act fast.” Ken said.

“That’s a good move, other than the part that we adults have been preparing for this confrontation with the demons of the past, we didn’t speculate that there will be someone stronger than the one we fought before.” said Lyn.

“Did you check their strength mother?” Ken asked.

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