To the Underworld and Secra's friend!

I woke up and it's already noon. Vivi and Kiel already left for their training with Edith and Vex. I rushed myself to the training ground inside the castle to train with Zee. The King and five elders are watching Kiel in awe. I wonder what happened, and I look at Kiel. Ohh she's holding Briyzkiel and doing massive damages in the training ground. Aireen says,

"Th-that is Briyzel?! And that's the horn from Slyph's head?! How is that possible? Well, Briyzel alone can indeed do calamity spells without any core. But you manage to pull Briyzel from the ground and put that horn as a core for Briyzel?! Such a tremendous amount of power. With that, you can kill us without a sweat."

Kiel replies,

"It's no longer Briyzel, I named him Briyzkiel!! And Briyzkiel only accepts my commands. Nobody can use this Rod other than myself. Mwahahaha"

Their jaws are dropping. Out of curiosity, I asked the 5 Elders who is the strongest among the five of them. Aireen reply,

"Hmm that should be Enix, she reborn three times already, and she keeps getting stronger every time she reborn. With her current power, she almost equal with Horned Slyph. The second strongest should be Ragond, and third is Athan, and the fourth is Vaywr, and the last one is me."

The four Elders shook their heads, and Enix reply,

"Even we are stronger in strength, but Lady Aireen's magic is beyond our reach. She can destroy a whole Kingdom by just singing."

That's scary... After we finished training, we go back to eat dinner together. Zee asks,

"Did Cipher came by?"

Aireen replies,

"No, but Ragond sense her presence and picked her up on his way back to Jaque. Then Ragond took her to the Underworld."

Ragond replies,

"She is still scary as usual. Has something happened to her?"

While we are eating lunch, Zee telling them what happened to Shive. After Zee told them, Aireen replies,

"Waah, so that's why she is back to the Underworld. Well, we are not surprised at all. That is Cipher alright."

After we have done with our lunch, Kiel continues training with Vex and Secra, while we are preparing for our journey to the Underworld tomorrow morning. Vivi and I bought some meat and vegetables. Zee, Edith, and Den looking for a new carriage. Vivi asks,

"Val, are you okay with this?"

I reply,

"What do you mean?"

Vivi says,

"Your parents must be worried about you, and we are going to the Underworld. I'm a bit scared because it's Demon territory."

I reply,

"Well, I also can't stay quiet when my friends are the victim and we are the ones to blame for what they did to us? I promise I will protect you and Kiel with my life, and I mean it."

Vivi just smiled and nodded, and our conversation continued. It's already night and we all go to sleep early, because we have to go early in the morning.

The next morning, we said our goodbyes to King Saas and the five elders. The elders said they might visit us in the Underworld. We're on our way to the Underworld, Zee said it will take 2 days from here.

2 days have passed. Kiel is practicing on the whole journey and she finally mastered the Holy element, but she hasn't mastered the Darkness element. The reason is, some say that once you mastered one of the Holy or Darkness elements, you can't master the other, it's said that you're against the law of this world. Kiel is bummed about that, but Secra says,

"There's a reason why we trained you to master the holy element first. Once we entered the Underworld, you can master the darkness element."

Of course! The Underworld isn't Asertia, it's a different world. Hearing that from Secra, Kiel jumping in happiness. We are at the bottom of the mountain, it's a huge mountain and we can't even see the top of it. I ask,

"Are we going to climb up the mountain?"

Zee replies,

"Nope, well... if you want to try, then sure. If you want to meet DEATH himself."

I swallowed my saliva, and we're sweating when Zee said that. So behind this huge mountain is the place where The Genesis and the 13 Rulers with their armies fought DEATH. The fallen empire territory, huh... Edith says,

"Don't worry. We didn't feel his presence anymore, so there's nothing behind this mountain. Only corpses and their belongings. Vex made the other side of the mountain and beyond that, uninhabitable. He cast Eternal Blizzards Flames. It's so cold it burns your body."

Kiel looking at Vex in awe. Seems like Kiel wants to learn that spell from Vex, but Vex shaking his head and pat Kiel on the head. Then I ask,

"So if we are not climbing the mountain, where are we going? This is a dead end."

Zee is pointing at Vex. Vex approaching a stone that looks like a door, and cast something. Suddenly a huge portal appears on the stone, he bows and his arms pointing to the portal, telling us to get inside. We all get into the portal. The Underworld. It's very different from the Earth. The grass is weird, the plants are weird, the trees are weird. The world is surrounded by mountains, compared to the mountain we just saw earlier it is way smaller than in here. The sky is dark red. Zee said that in here, the sky is red at night, and green in the morning. Zee and the others changed their appearance back to what they're used to be after passing the portal. We continue our journey, Zee said it will take a month or so to reach the Demon Capital City Mönrel where Shive's live. On our way to Mönrel, Secra says,

"Zee, can we visit the Valley of Mist? I think the evil spirits are taking interest towards Kiel."

Zee nod and Kiel asks,

"Valley of Mist? What's that?"

Secra replies,

"It's where the evil spirits live, also I want to meet my old friend in there."

Secra is smiling gorgeously. We arrived at the Valley of Mist. Like its name, it's covered with thick fog. Then Secra plays her harp, and suddenly a bright light appears in front of us. A pale skin woman with long grey hair and transparent wings on her back, flying towards Secra and hugging her so tightly. The pale skin woman says,

"Arches! It's been a long time! I miss you so much!"

Secra replies,

"Tessera! I miss you too. By the way, I brought someone that might interest you. These children are, Val Belliot, Viviette Leyhem, and Kiel Farhan."

Tessera, staring at each one of us. She says,

"Hmm hmm, you are right. These children are quite extraordinary, you want me to teach them Dark Arts? Oh let me introduce myself. My name is Tessera Blackburn, I'm the first evil spirit. I live for hundreds of thousands of years."

Secra is smiling and nodding. I ask,

"Dark Arts?"

Tessera nod and says,

"Yes, it's a forbidden art that I found and have been learning a lot about it since then. The one and only master of this art is me. Basically, I will teach you the power. The stronger you get, the stronger the other practitioner will be, and vice versa, so we are helping each other. The point of the Dark Arts is, you learn the true meaning of Darkness itself. The more you understand about Darkness, you'll know the truth about all of these worlds. If you can withstand the training of course, and I only have four disciples The Demon King himself, Zest, Edith, and Cipher. Since Arches brought other extraordinary younglings. I'm kinda interested with the three of you."

We all nodding and Tessera continues,

"Kiel Farhan, the daughter of Ailla Destiche and Endre Farhan. The master of the Six Elements. The Owner of the Divine Arcana Briyzkiel. The Master of Manipulation. One of the Heroes of Beast Kin. The Genius... For 15 years old, you already have so many achievements. I believe you also want to master the last element and become Elementalist?"

Kiel's eyes are glimmering in awe, while nods repeatedly. Kiel asks,

"How do you know a lot about me, Master Tessera?"

Tessera laugh and says,

"It's a secret! And you called me Master? Hahaha, this little cutie knows how to melt someone's heart huh? Well, I'm sure you all are here because Arches asked Zest, and I didn't see Cipher with you. Meaning, you all came here to meet her, correct? Then, let me join you all and teach my new disciples about Dark Arts while we're going to the Demon Capital City Mönrel."

We are back on the journey to the Mönrel Capital City. Tessera, even though she's an evil spirit. There is nothing evil about her. She's like Secra, a beauty with kindness in her.