Chapter 13 The Powerful Artifact weapons

"Huh? What happened? Where did she go?" Sora looked around confused as he finished putting Michiko back to her feet letting her rest from whatever madness had happened to her in that room.

He along with Kuro were now the only one helping their teacher Michiko as you see a little less then a second ago they had also had the help of Akane Takashi's younger sister to help as well however as they were nearly finished and brought her at a bench where they were going to put her down Akane started to shimmer and vanished out of reality almost as if she was not there to begin with.

Seraphina Darkwoods, a member of the Darkwoods noble duke family, was one of the people applying to be part of the great Ethos Magical Academy and so she had been here now on her way to begin the entrance and evaluation exam.

Staring around she had kept keeping an eye on Takashi seeing how strong and somewhat brutish he was, clearly preferring to use brute strength and seemingly not caring much for manners and such however she had also been keeping a equally if not a closer eye on Takashi's sister Akane as she seemed to be the opposite of her brother and in her opinion much much more dangerous in many ways.

As she watched the heroes' antics she wondered about a few things, until she saw it.

As the tree heroes were holding their teacher and representative. Akane started to vanish into thin air she started to shimmer at first almost as if slowly being erased until there was nothing left.

She recognized the ability to be reality warping the ability to bend reality itself to one's wim and do as they pleased.

Meanwhile back in the room Vivie Flameheart stared at the two heroes before motioning for them to take a seat with a wave of her hand, as she did this another chair appeared around the table right next to the first one.

Taking their seats Takashi gritted his teeth looking at Vivie's face as Akane smiled while sitting down as well.

"So then great Hero Takashi and hero Akane would you happen to know what you both have in your possessions at this moment?" Vivie asked in a welcoming but strict tone.

"Of course I know what my great shield is, I wouldn't be using it unless it was a weapon fit for a great person like me. After all, I am a great hero!" Takashi bostfully spoke, leaving Akane to stay silent.

"Now then would you like to tell me about how you managed to get the powerful weapons or artifacts?"

"I went to the bastion's keep and took it out of the ground making me the shield Echo Bulwark's new rightful owner and the one who shall wield this great weapon."

"I see hmm." putting a hand under her chin Vivie went in a thinking pose Vivie thought about it for a second before speaking once again. "Let me give you a little history lesson. That shield, the shield; Echo Bulwark was used by a powerful man in the past war one hundred years ago before this very school was created in this kingdom." Once more waving her hand she created some tea and snacks from using another one of her abilities much like her reality manipulation this ability was simply known as "create" as the name applies she could treat essentially anything she wanted while.

"Back then when the war against the demons had been at its peak when the demons had made a full scale attack on our kingdom as you know four great heroes stepped up to the demons protecting the kingdom and are now known as the the four great noble dukes of the north, south, east and west."

"They had become known as such thanks to their stepping up the demons were stopped and they had gained considerable power in the kingdom, those great heroes however were not only ones to have appeared at this time as you see in this time there were others such as myself Vivienne Flameheare the great royal court magician also known as "the walking magical disaster" at the time and your teacher Iruji also known as "crimson heart" at the time thanks to what he had done, one of those things being he had teamed up with me and together we defeated the previous wielders of those two powerful artifact like weapons.

"At first the two previous wielders had been on our side however later on in the ending stages of the war, both of them switched sides and so i had to kill the previous wielder of Echo Bulwark while i did this Aruji killed the previous user of the infernal crown of Aegis."

"Really now? Why didn't they take them down sooner? Weren't they a problem in the war when they switched sides?"

Smiling a little Vivie sighed "the kingdom certainly wanted to however there was a problem, no matter how many soldiers they sent even when the two were separated they could not kill the two powerful warriors let alone when they were both together it was all but impossible."

Taking a deep breath Vivie continued "were me and Iruji not to have stepped in when we did the wielders of those two powerful artifact like weapons; Echo Bulwark and infernal crown of Aegis would have been able to once more turn the tide of the war and bring a army of demons upon us."

"How?"

And so Vivie continued explaining what had happened one hundred years ago After those two great fighters had fought us and they had lost and brought down with their respective armies those great artifact like weapons were once again brought into the hands of the Skotótopia kingdom however after many years no one could use those weapons and eventually the infernal crown of Aegis's great power started to leak out more and more and eventually the land itself started to change, creating a massive volcano this volcano had so much power that the very magma in it reached into and destroyed and infinite number of dimensional spaces with every example of space before it being merely an infinitesimal slice of a higher dimensional space up to the reachless height of archetypal infinity and beyond all the way up from aleph nulls to omega numbers of infinity all the way to inaccessible cardinals and yet the very ground of the planets boundless strength and energy was about to hold this powerful magma being seen as standing on a outerversal scale of existence, with merely a drop of this magma being strong enough to destroy any amount of fifteen dimensional existences up to infinity and even beyond, and so no one was able to reach the artifact let alone try to take it for themselves.

And as for the great shield Echo Bulwark

It had been left at the very edge of the kingdom where it had been formerly a battlefield however as the years passed many tried to claim it for themselves but they all failed not even managing to pick up the shield let alone wield it.

However much like the infernal crown of Aegis's great the shields power started to leak out into the land as well as the entire surrounding areas the Echo Bulwark created a equally if not more powerful dimensional space up to and beyond the reachless height of archetypal infinity and then even further all the way up From aleph nulls to omega numbers of infinity all the way to inaccessible cardinals However, the many strong and powerful beings who had decided to stay in the land to try to take the shield for themselves in doing so as they realize that their stay here would be for much longer then they had expected they had changed from small personal tents to bigger ones and shared ones even some tents for public use.

And eventually it would evolve into a small city then a big town and eventually it would grown into the biggest big one city sized kingdom as the place grew and grew the place flourished but corruption quickly set in at first it was small but soon it grew and grew eventually things like slavery was seen as a normal over there especially for things like beastman, demi humans, demons and any other races they managed to get their hands on. However not all of the surrounding kingdoms were happy with this, some of them teamed up together and declared war against the kingdom, however the kingdom was full of powerful people from soldiers, adventurers, and even retired warriors and assassins and many more and so they were able to hold back the many armies until powerful adventure known as "the builder" could come in and build the place up from scratch using varrriers powerful artifacts and mana stone found from powerful creatures, dungeons, ruins and many more places the builder made the massive wall impenetrable walls which while not as high as the sky it the walls had a barrier affect on it as well which made it so that anything thrown at it could not penetrate the wall and if one were to do so then they would need to be outerversal level attack at the very least, all of this was powered by the power of the shield and so with this new impenetrable defence they were unable to attack the kingdom any longer the kingdom lived and over the years the war had stopped completely and some of those kingdoms who wanted to destroy it in the past no longer wanted to anymore, not because the citizens didnt want to but because the nobles and such of the kingdoms had been now using the slaves and fell into the coruptions of their neibor kingdom and even leading to some of the coruption to go into their very own kingdom while not nearly as much it now existed for them as well.

"And so I ask you this once more, how did recently summoned heroes like yourselves get such great artifacts?"

Author note:

One fact about Vivienne Flameheart is that while her name is Vivienne she goes by Vivie on most occasion thanks to her not the best memory at time and that name being much more easy to remember than her real name but she uses Vivienne Flameheart for official things such as if she were to send a letter to the king.