After hugging her charming body for some time, my hands unpremeditatedly arrived at her curvy ass. I rubbed it and pinched them on my whim.
"Wait... aah! I am still dirty; wait till I take a bath." She sensually said while whimpering under my touch.
Now that I remember our situation, am I not hugging a blood-smeared body?
I slowly got off her and gave a peck on her pouty lips.
"Okay. Let's go. By the way, my name is Noir. Noir Keithstone." As I pinched her nose in jest, I suddenly froze. How come I know my name? And now that I clearly think about it, I don't have any memory of the last twenty years, which seems to be the age of this body, but I could tell what is what. Like the person standing in front of me is a woman, and I can have sex with her. It all seems natural, but I don't remember about my personal life. It's as if someone erased my memories. Is it the owner of the voice?
"Okay!... Noir?" I heard Elize's voice, which pulled me out of the realm of thinking.
"It's nothing. Let's go. I don't know anything about this world, so that I will be relying on you." I smirked, patted her bottom, and walked towards one of the female bodies whose clothes were at least intact.
"What are you doing?"
"I can't go out without clothes, right?"
"Well then, you don't need to take their clothes. I have some with me."
"You mean yours?" I looked at her weirdly.
"No. Not mine. Geez." She shook her head and pushed her left hand. A ring on her thumb shined, and a set of female cloth materialized in this air the next instant.
"Wow!" I must seem like a country boy to her, but the magical show surprised me.
Once again, I was overcome with wonder as to why I thought it looked cool. I really had to stop thinking too deep at every subconscious thought and action; otherwise, I will be spent mentally very quickly.
"It is really a space ring?" I touched it unintentionally, marveling at the intricate carvings.
"Yes." She didn't mind and explained to her otherworldly lover patiently. "It's called Spacial Ring. Mostly only novels and influential people are wealthy enough to own one of these. And even amongst them, mine is of the best. It was gifted to me by my mother on my fifteenth birthday. If you want it, you can have it."
"No no no it's fine. You should keep it." I smiled charmingly, well as charmingly as my average face could get but apparently, that was more than enough for a maiden in love.
A couple of other dead girls also possessed the Spacial Rings but Elize told me that I cannot open them since they can only be opened by their recognized master or you have been an accomplished Cosmo Magician who should also excel in Enchantment to forcefully break it.
She also told me that she knows someone in the capital who can do it but it's better to hide it for now so we don't get suspected of that small massacre that took place earlier. By the way, Elize ruthlessly burned all those women without batting an eye to clear any leads. By burning their body, their aura signatures also died and although there was residue there, it will dissipate in due time, we just have to make sure no one went there. I was once again reminded of how lucky I was to have the gift and not fall victim to this crazy woman's coldheartedness.
"Elize, can you tell me more about this world like how you can use magic, are there levels and things like those." Right now I was sitting on the side of a lake watching Elize calmly bath her naked body without shame.
"Okay. Let's start with the basics."
"First of all, you should know that not everyone can become a magician. They are people who have been chosen by the world itself."
"Chosen by the world?"
"Correct." She waves her hands and suddenly I saw a wave of ethereal butterflies coming out of her body and surrounding her. The white butterflies looked very beautiful as they danced around her body in joy.
"What are they?" I stretched out my hand and touched one of them which dissipated as soon as it comes into my contact.
"They are called Magic Spirits, they are born out of everything that is present in this world. And also congratulations, if you can see them that means you have what it takes to become a magician. You are also chosen by this world." She said joyfully.
"Really? Then what's the next step?"
"Next step is to find the element you are blessed with." She paused for a second and a translucent spherical ball about 15 cm in diameter appeared in her hands. She threw it towards me and said, "try to concentrate on it while touching it."
"Okay." I held it on my palms under her expectant gaze. I closed my eyes and focused on the ball. As I did, I felt something 'switch on' inside me before I held Elize's shocked yell.
"No way!"
I opened my eyes and looked at the ball. Right now, it was giving off a dazzling aurora lighting. I glanced at open-mouthed, awe-struck Elize and questioned, "is it that bad?"
She just looked at me for a time before simply getting out of the lake and suddenly jumped on top of me. I then felt a pair of pillowy-soft lips coming into contact with my chaffed one. Palming her face, I reciprocating the kiss back, our tongue intertwined inside her mouth as I sucked on her silky-smooth, sweet tongue slowly, savoring every drop of saliva she secreted while she did the same. Before the kiss got too passionate, I pushed her a bit and said, "what was that for?"
"Noir... you have an affinity with every one of four Basic Elements. It hasn't been seen for over a thousand years. Even I, who is considered a prodigy in this continent only have an affinity with three of them. Most magicians only have one, and people with two are said to be top class geniuses." She sounded happier than me as she speeds through the explanation.
I, on the other hand, was happy but not too much.
"I see. But there are more elements, right? You mentioned Cosmo Magicians earlier."
"Hmm. As I said you have a complete affinity with Basic Elements which are Pyro, Aqua, Aero, Terra. Pyro relates to Fire; Aqua to Water; Aero to Wind and Terra to Earth. But... after these Basic Elements, there are four more elements. We call them 4 Pillars of Existence. They are Holy, Dark, Cosmo, Chrono. Holy related to healing; Dark to evil; Cosmo to space and Chrono to time. People who have Holy affinity was regarded as Saints by Light Church. They are considered to be the purest of people who can sense the wonders of the world. Heh." Suddenly Elize let a cold sneer as she said that.
"Obviously this is nothing but a farce, although some of them are pure as saints, like Priestess Angelina, but I have seen tons of hypocrites who hide behind the face of the church to commit evil deeds. Nonetheless, because Light Church's sphere of influence covers the whole world, even though many nobility is dissatisfied with them, no one is able to shake their existence for ten thousand years!"