Chapter 13: Power

"There's a reason why instead of giving the titans immortality we choose to make their power be inherited by a new person, because power corrupts all, no matter who"

~King Arthur Pendragon

Amerie's POV.

The girl, I gave her the nickname Ria, she's a trained fighter at birth, she excels in multiple kind of swordsmanship, though she does not know anything about the Pendragon's style of swordsmanship, it seems even the Son of King Arthur don't know it, the Bastard Son of the King, Mordred.

I've been teaching her a lot, about defense as their military seems to only focus on offense and that's not how we fight, it's been a few weeks and so far I couldn't feel anything sinister about her, maybe it's time to give her the trust she deserves, and Marwin also told me she can also be a candidate to the new Titan Knights. and when it comes to behaviour, she's not really that different to a normal girl, just a bit shady when it comes to how she talks to other people, maybe that's just how their culture are, I remember Rei being much worst than this I mean Rei literally tried to kill us, maybe she's destined to have her power.

"Uhm can I ask you something? ma'am?" She asked me

"What is it?" I said

"Well, I've been wondering, can I use sacred powers as well?" She asked

Sacred power? oh yeah that's what they call authorities are, is it wise to teach a person from an enemy's den?

"Yes you can, Authorities can be controlled by anyone with life, not just Humans, animals, Plants or even an entire planet can use authorities, it is a gift given to all living being in the entire universe, unlike Titans who can use 100% of their authority, people with no genes of the original titans can only use 1-20% authority, a person's authority is limited to that person's power of will and the energy they have when they were born, it can't be trained to make the power grow but you can train to use it efficiently, that's why agents here uses what we call the Authority suits, it enhances one's physical ability by channeling their inner energy to the suit making it function as an exoeskeleton"Kuya Marwin said as he barged in the conversation.

"Kuya! why are you telling her that? is it really wise to teach her such abilities?" I said

Marwin just smiled at me as he usually does and said.

"trust and regret rather than doubt and regret, Leonel thought us that, if she did something bad with it then we'll handle it, but if we want her to help us it would b wise to teach her how to control authority, she is a mist so her affinity to using authorities should be stronger than normal agents" Kuya Marwin said.

And he smiles again, but as soon as he is over with his words his frown returns, just how is itfo him to smile for a few seconds? just how broken is this person? we were talking about teaching this young girl to control authority and I can't stop thinking about what's going on with Kuya's mind, that fight in umahon, he lost, I don't believe it's because of the damage in his brain that he sustained during the war.."Authority's strength relies to the user's will to fight" he lacks the will he used to have, and if he doesn't he could've easily destroyed Mordred, I mean, this is the guy that ended Dratos, The Knights Leader, will sheer force and strength he wielded the excalibur even though he wasn't a chosen knight, the strongest man alive, is he? losing his grip to his powers?

"You can teach her how to use authority, I'll be gone for a while, I need to sort something out back home" He said as he once again leave the side of the knights.

There he is again leaving, with just a few words, all I can think of now is, will he ever return again? will he be leaving for many years again?

"will you be returning? kuya?" I said out of thoughts.

"Don't worry I'll be back, just needed to visit someone" Kuya Marwin said

When he said that I instantly knew who was he talking about, we'll atleast i know he'll be back.

"What about Markus? what will he do then?" I asked

"He'll be training with his knights, Amerie? Markus is a good kid, you can trust his judgement, I can feel something about that kid that I haven't felt in a while ever since Rei Passed away" Kuya Marwin said.

This is the first time he mentioned Rei after her passing, that's a good thing I guess he can freely say her name now.

and after that we started Authority training, Markus, Amy and Ria joined the training, Margarette and I started training them.

Margarette thought them first how to harness the Authorities from their body, aside from Markus who can freely use energy from outside his body, he was a bit easy to teach but he couldn't seem to conjure fire as Fire is the natural authority of King Arthur.

Amy has no problem as well, she is my daughter she has the genes of the titans, while Ria has easily learned how to control her authority, or rather how to cover her entire body in Authority, covering one's body with authority can protect them in any physical attacks but can only defuse a bit of force from Authority attacks.

Authority is a force of nature that is naturally around us, all matters contains authority only living being with affinity to Authority can control them depending to how their will will conjure them, there are different kinds of Authorities. So far we only know 3.

Common Authority and Absolute Authority.

Common Authority is the kind of authority that everyone that has life can control

Absolute Authority is the kind of Authority that is being passed on from one person to others.

Titans has the ability to control absolute Authorities, and absolute Authorities are special, examples are

King Arthur's Authority of the king (The ability to give one person genes of the titans)

King Arthur's Dragon Authority (The ability to conjure fire, scale strong skin and strength of a dragon)

Lancelot's Authority of the Cold (Ability to control and conjure Ice)

Merlin's Authority of Truth (Ability to read one's emotion and control emotion)

Gawain's Authority of Time (Ability to travel through time/see through time)

Bor's Authority of Warriors (Ability to be precise/wield in every thing that is made as a weapon)

Galahad's Blacksmith's Authority (Ability to conjure any blade weapons and master them instantly)

Guinivere's Nature's Ability (Ability to control force of nature such as earth)

Percival's Sword Master's Authority (This ability is special as it makes the wielder perfectly control his weapon, faster, agile and stronger)

There's some knights that has two authorities, for example is kuya Marwin with Lancelot's and Percival's authority.

Which he recieved from two different occasions.

Common Authorities differs from one person to another, depending on how they will conjure them, sometimes common authorities can be stronger than an absolute authority depending on the wielder.

I mastered Both Common and my Absolute Authority, Gawain's Time Authority serves me wellin my previous battles, I can see all possible outcomes, 5 seconds in the future, tho my accuracy depends on how accurate my prediction is, I have to think constantly which of this outcome I'm seeing real-time has the higher chance of happening.

Margarette on the other hand is special, since she already knew how to use ESP before she became a titan, she fused the teachings of ESP and Authority to make an entirely new absolute Authority, she calls is the Rift walk Authority it enables her to jump from one point to another in a small area, combining that with Merlin's latent powers that was passed onto her.

Meanwhile...

UNIC Office

Noah entered the building with Agents following him close, he was in his usual blue robes and sword in his hips.

Everyone looks at him, amazed, these people knows him as a hero, and most of them are young.

"Director! what owed us for y[our visit here?" The UNIC Officer said

"I need to see the head" Noah said.

"Sure, this way sir" The officer said

A few moments later, Noah entered the Unic Head's office.

The Head of the UNIC stood up in shock to see such important figure in his office, but Noah's stare has given him the Idea that Noah is here for serious matters.

"Good Morning President, have you heard of what happened in Japan a few weeks earlier?" Noah asks as he sat down the chair directly infront of the Head of UNIC.

"Yes I've read the reports, what made you come here without any notice?" The president said

"The weapon the Empire took was reportedly made by the joint venture of the UNIC and the United States government, I know you have nothing to do with this but I want every information you have in this matter, the project is called, the project 2n" Noah said

"Oh yes, unfortunately I was not yet the head of UNIC then but after getting the report from thee Cold Titan I immediately dugged up our archives, it's weird but some of the documents are dated from 60 years ago, even before your greatness gazed upon us all, it seems the project 2n has been going on for quite a while and was halted due to the efforts of our great Hero the Cold titan, don't worry Director, Titan? hoho, can't seem to figure out what to call you" The UNIC head said

"Just call me Noah, anyway that's all I have to tell you, please do your best to uncover anything, if we can't trust our own kind who can we trust then?" Noah said as he went out of the room

Riafe's POV

It's been a while since I was integrated by the Titan Inc, I feel like they trust me a lot, Ms. Amerie and Margarette can feel my aura as what Markus told me, and it showed them purity in my soul, am I really that pure? or it's just what I want to show them? why am I here? I'm done with giving them all the information I have, aren't I useless?

"Watsup!" Markus positively greeted me as I walk down the hallway going to the training room.

"Hey, you're on your way to training as well?" I asked, I don't know something about this guy really felt comfortable, and I heard he's the new Lord Arthur too.

"Yeah, Noah told me they have a gift for us three" Markus said

as we were walking Amy jumped out of the corner and with her outgoing voice she said

"WOOOH! we're getting gifts!!!" She said, this girl is too jolly, I don't know why

Markus tapped me in my back and said

"Hey! I can feel anxiety all over you, you're a part of the group now, so please do smile, I've seen you smile the first time you used your Authority and your smile is beautiful" Markus said,

what's this feeling? it feels like my heart pumped like a hundred times for a second there, what's this feeling?

Amy whispered to me "Probably inlove, I can read extreme thoughts, I can't read every thoughts but I can read strong thoughts and I read yours because it was strong" She said as she blink her right eyes to me.

"Hey? what was that? what were you talking about?" Markus said, totally clueless

"Wait? you can what???" I said as I realize what she just said, this girl can read thoughts?

"Well, not everything but yeah I can, somehow? I don't know how it works though, mom said it's something I was born with since I'm a Titan born or something?" Amy said

As we arrived in the huge training room, the lights in the far end of the room was turned off, Amerie, Margarette, Noah and Joshua was there waiting for us.

"Goodmorning guys, I know the past few weeks has been a bit busy with all the attacks and the training, Markus has decided and we accepted his decision not as Titans but as your mentors, please tell them Markus" Amerie said

"So yeah, Marwin told me to think about it and I have made up my mind, the time is at the essence as what the Titans told me, I need knights in able to unlock the Excalibur's calling, and I was given a go signal to choose both of you to be my knight" Markus said

Wait? me? a mistenial citizen? a Titan knight?

"Wait? are you sure? I'm a Mist, you're sure?" I said, a bit surprised.

"Ria, let me tell you something, do you know the Dragon's sword?" Margarette asked

"Yeah, she's the strongest warrior next to Amerie in the 7 Titans, is that right?" I said

"Well, her name is Reian, just like you she's a mist, and not just any mist, she's Mordred's Daughter, a genetically Engineered mist made to destroy the world, but her heart said otherwise, despite being made to be the destruction, she choose to be a hero, just like you, you were raised to be a warrior to be an enemy, but a few weeks ago you chose to help us, endangering your own life, and you trusted us and in return we trusted you, Markus wanted you to be one of his knights" Amerie said

"Let's start the Ceremony of Power" Noah said

So this is it, my day has finally come mother..I will make you proud, I have found a new family.