Meeting

Arhi : "Thanks my King for the trust and time you've given to me. But before I begin, thanks to my king Herrick , and of course my mother." Everyone nodded to her as a sign of your welcome.

Arhi : "I've been trained to be diligent and gentle with my mother since I was kid, my current power and strength are not as strong as my king and my mother of course. But one time when I trained my bow skill, I noticed when I shot my arrow with power infusion, we know the arrow will be improved a lot. In comparison when I shot without power infusion, it hit the center of the target. The arrow does not pierce through the target. But with power, it can pierce."

She proceeds to raise her right hand and show us her gold power. (Reference: looks like casting small fireball in hand).

Arhi : "This is our power we discover, this power will be gotten more powerful often by how old we are. Yet we cannot improve it by any means, we can only use meditation as recovery whenever we lost our power. However..."

She proceeds to raise her left hand and show us something familiar within us. It's life essence, or we call it the final power. (Reference: looks the same as a small fireball but white color). Everyone shocks after looking at it.

Arhi : "This, is life essence that I cast in a small amount. The difference between the final power is that this one is a small amount of it, and I can control how big or small I need to use this power. Then, with a really small amount of life essence..." She begins to reduce the size of the life essence on their left hand.

Arhi : "And combine it with the power we have..." She brings closer and closer the life essence and power. Then the life essence enters the gold power on the right hand and begins reacting. The life essence now is inside the gold power, and the size is probably three times bigger.

Arhi : "As long I am holding this in my hand, my life essence is fine, and I can absorb it back into my body." She closes her right and the power is just gone.

Arhi : "I haven't tried this discovery since to control my life essence, I've trained myself a lot by meditating differently. Usually, we meditate with our power to recover, but we can also meditate using white power, but probably and I'm sure this is only for controlling white power only, not even recovery." She pauses a little bit then turns right into my father's chair.

Arhi : "My king, I can teach this if needed in the next war." She bows to my father.

Elric : "Your discovery was well-done and surprisingly had the potential to improve our kingdom's power. You can sit down. For now, we need to finish our discussion. Then if you have anything to say you can say it, other than that, I give the time to Mr. Gemun ." She nods and sits down.

Mr. Gemun sees her sit down and understand the assignment, he stands up.

Gemun : "Thank you for the time my king gave for me." while bowing to my father, my father nodded.

Gemun : "Also thanks to my queen and young queen for the discovery." while bowing to the queen.

Gemun : "I had another piece of information that helped, but not much. Before the meetings begin or more specifically before my king asked me to be his candidate about 5 years ago, I'd been reading quite a lot about the history of the war from time to time. We know that the final power is always used in the final moment and from the Luna family. However, we actually can help the sacrifice with other person help by holding their hands. By doing this, the amount of pain and risk will be likely halved and shared with the other people as long they are holding hands. And we can hold many and many hands at the same time, but of course, we cannot do that for a reason. The first reason is we actually have a hard time fighting while holding hands, and if we are caught and our hand is forced to loosen, the effect of final power will be short off disabled, and the power multiplier goes back to normal, and the life essence was wasted 50% or more for nothing." everyone understanding this theory, then he put his hand inside his cloth and pick up some sort small note. The color is almost turned brown, really looks like an old not. then he put that not on the table.

Gemun : "This is a ritual word, to extract life essence from person to person." everyone was shocked after hearing it.

Cira : "What did you say?"

Elric : "Calm down, this is why our meeting is very secret. Let him finish first." Mr. Gemun hears the statement and nods to my father.

Gemun : "As I said before, this is a ritual word, to extract life essence from person to a person. And you will see there's nothing and just plain word. To perform this ritual, we need a tiny bit of blood from a victim person to someone who likely wants their essence to be extracted, then the person who starts the ritual says these 4 words in this chronicle language. (Read in the Japanese language). And the reason I bring up this one is there is something I realize about this chronicle word." he begins to point out the word.

Gemun : "There's no word said about light and dark here, which means there's a high possibility this can be used either for humans or demons. And also, I've been reading a history of some wars before us, and it says the power of the high-rank demon seems never to fade even their low-rank demon died so much. Not like us as humans. During the previous war, the total of dead people is not much compared to the total of low-rank demons, but we always have one of our best powerful people to be sacrificed. It's seeming like the high-rank demon using this ritual to recover their life essence by any means." he begins to put the note back into his cloth.

Gemun : "I am concerned about this one but, we as a human can decide whether to use this ritual or not. For now, I will hide this note first and wait for the time if someone might be wanting to use this method. Since I'm still not sure about the risk of a human using this ritual."

Herrick : "Mr. Gemun is right. Let's just say this ritual is for the last of the last-man-standing strategy. Sounds right?"

Elric : "Then what are you will going to do with that old note."

Herrick looks at Gemun and Gemun also looks at Herrick eye to eye, seems they know they will ask this question.

Herrick : "We're not sure, probably seal it, or save it in the hidden place and not throw it for now. The fact that this note cannot be a crafter or even wroth by anyone. That would be such a waste for sure."

Cira : "So you said this note cannot be crafted, then where did you find this from."

Gemun : "I found this while clearing the dead body of the demon and our people after the war before. It's near the low-rank demon body, inside their pocket."

Cira : "That's rare, I never thought there would be something interesting from a demon body."

Elric : "Thank you Mr. Gemun , we will think about this note later on."

Gemun nod and finally after a long talk he sits down, I see his breath just come out very long.

Elric : "Then the last information will be from my son, it's your time."

After my father permits me, I begin to stand up. Then I bow right in the middle of Mrs. Cira 's chair and Mr. Herrick chair.

Grel : "Thank you Father, and my king Herrick , and my queen Cira . It honors for me to meet you here."

Before this meeting, I'd been reading quite a lot about Luna's family power. It's written every kingdom has its unique power and cannot be copied. Luna's family has the power to improve their magic and heal. The only power we cannot use but at the same time the only power we want to learn. And that's also become a reason this family was targeted all along with demons since the beginning. Now this family was gone, and just leaving a trace by someone's note and book they wrote from each of individual memory. Then I find something really interesting and told my father about this one. And my father decided to make a meeting because of this. Now I got to tell you this reason.

I put my hand on the table.

Grel : "There's still one of Luna's family."

Everyone looks at me with serious looks, except my father, who just closed his eyes.

Herrick : "Are you sure?"

Grel : "Yes, and I found this from the memory of some people, and they wrote their memory into a book. On some pages, they mention one of the Luna family, they have a modest life, and the mother giving birth to a twin girl. One of the girls was born normal and beautiful, then there's the other girl born with a different condition. She's blind, her eyes white like snow, somehow the books say she's beautiful with that eye. The problem is, this family believes if they are born or have a blind eye, they need to put her into a basket and let it flow through the river. Luna's family believes some myth, it says a blind girl will be part of the revolution, by letting them flow of sweeping voice. This book was written 35 years ago."

Gemun : "Pardon my intuition, but I need to read the book you mention so I can confirm if this is real information. May I ask the book later young king?"

Grel : "I can do that later after the meeting."

Gemun : "Thank you very much."

Cira : "Luna's family power is just something else, and on top of this family has some kind of knowledge we might miss. Probably there's something hidden behind their power we don't know yet."

Elric : "It is true, the power from the Luna family is absurd. If my current age gets compared to the last family during the war, I was nothing. I don't even get how they can have such power before getting old."

Herrick : "Our kingdom always asks the same question, it has already become a story for our family. Every descendant from time to time tried to persuade the Luna family to talk about the secret of their power. They always refuse it. The reason is every person can control and use their power. Not something like I wanted to hear but..."

Arhi : "But we still have time to rest right?"

Suddenly the atmosphere became quiet...

Herrick : *Put his right slipper and then throws it to the ground like a mad lad. "Bruh, I should just drink my beer right now." Then proceed to walk away to the exit room.

*With an awkward smile. Yes, this is always actually happening like pretending nothing will happen in the future. And yes, the main reason my father is inviting me is not because of the meeting. *Looking at the queen stands up and walks out to the exit door. It's just because of her... *Looking at my father, yep, he already locked his eyes.

Gemun : "Young prince."

Grel : *A bit surprised expression. "Yes?"

Gemun : "Can I borrow the book?"

Grel : "Ah, yes, it's in the library, on the table, there's only one book on it. You should know it immediately. If my guard not allowing you to enter, just say your behalf of me, and say 253. It's my today security code."

Gemun : "Thanks young prince, I'll take it back when I finish reading it." He proceeds to walk away to the exit gate.

*Looking at my father's chair, His missing.

Grel : *sigh. "Seems like there's only me here right now"