Fierce Battle

(Ellora's Viewpoint)

Today nothing happened, but since morning I felt something strange about this park, I don't know what but since this morning it was like something was bothering me.

I don't know what, and who, it's just that my gut feeling says something will happen.

Well, let it be sooner or later something will definitely happen.

I just have to wait for that moment to come.

I'm Ellora Evernoir, I'm 11 years old and I have a little brother who just entered the same school as me a few weeks ago, he is my cute little brother and the person I love most in this world after my parents.

Although we are not biological siblings but I don't have any problems about it, I'm sure he already knows everything because he is a very smart and fast learning child, surely his curiosity is also great.

Until now he hasn't said anything about this relationship to my family either, there must be a reason, he surely wants there to be no awkwardness whatsoever between us as a family, really a cute little brother, I really like him as a cute little brother.

Lately he has a friend named Fenris Corvin, I don't think he is a bad person, in fact he seems to respect me and my little brother, maybe because he learned a lot about magic from my brother? Well who knows.

His hair is silver and it's very cool, for a boy his age he's pretty handsome, but I don't like boys who are younger than me, Teehe.

By the way I also have some close friends who always follow me, they also seem to be reluctant to me for some reason, even though I just want to be friends with everyone, I know my character is not so good at socializing, I'm not good at talking in front of people, it's hard to keep the topic of conversation when talking and I prefer to stay silent rather than doing anything.

I'm not that perfect, I'm also a human with many flaws.

But everyone looks up to me and expects more, which makes me a bit pressured. I don't like being praised or looked up to.

I don't want to reciprocate anyone's expectations or hopes for me, I'm not perfect and I also need to learn if I want to know something.

But my mom and dad didn't expect more, they knew it would only make my life harder, I love them both.

It's just that I don't understand my brother, Archemidas Evernoir.

He brought with him a female android that was so much like a human, it even had emotions and could act on its own.

Where did he get it, and why was it so obedient to him? Until now I didn't understand, when I was trying to find out about the strange things in this world I found some information.

Quantum Artifact...

An object that is very ancient, even thousands of years old and the number is not few and scattered all over the world, I don't know the exact number, maybe tens? Or even hundreds?

According to the information I read, it can erase the laws of physics and make the unreal become real. It's really something beyond human reason.

But the information about the Quantum Artifact was very limited, it was even very difficult to find it on the internet.

Then the phenomenon of my little brother's magic that was out of control the other day also made me confused, why did the hole in my brother's leg that even penetrated his leg could heal completely without a trace in a matter of minutes?

Healing magic alone cannot create a drop of blood! It can only cover the wound by creating something similar to skin to temporarily stop the bleeding, nothing more than that.

I know, there are still many strange things and phenomena that I still don't know and learn about, but I didn't expect such a strange phenomenon to exist...

But for now I'll just leave it alone, after all Arche is my cute little brother, there's no way I'll turn him into an experimental subject, never!

Obviously, I can't let Arche get hurt...

"Ah, sis El good afternoon, are you here for lunch too?" said Arche.

"Uhm," I replied while giving him a small nod.

I really don't like talking about unimportant things, usually if there are questions I will answer them with sign Language only, because talking is tiring, I don't like it.

By the way, these days I like to visit the school garden, the place where Arche and his friend Fenris usually practice magic, I like to see someone practicing to develop something, and I see that Fenris has potential as a wizard even though it's not that big.

I usually spent my free time in the library playing on the internet, but maybe I should change things up by visiting my little brother once in a while.

"Good afternoon Arche's sister!" said Fenris while bowing to me.

Actually, I don't like to be respected by anyone, but if I say that to him, maybe his judgment of Arche will change, he might underestimate him later.

So, as her big sister, I must maintain my dignity in front of my little brother and his friends.

Every now and then Fenris would ask me about magic, and I'd answer directly by modeling it, I'm not good at teaching someone and explaining it by talking, it's very troublesome.

Usually when I teach Arche, he'd understand immediately when he sees me practicing magic in front of him, but not Fenris, he always looks confused, and asks me how to do it.

Luckily there was Arche who always explained my every practice to Fenris, as expected from my little brother! He really understands me, hehe.

Then I remembered my sense of terror this morning, I felt it again.

A bad premonition of scary terror like being around this park, but why? And what?

As I was deep in thought about this vague hunch, someone tapped me on the shoulder.

"El, the time is up, let's go back to class," one of my friends said suddenly.

"Ah, that's right," I replied while looking at the screen near the school that signaled the end of break time.

"It's time for the second lesson, Arche go back to your class," I continued.

Whatever it was I still didn't like this bad feeling, it wasn't that scary to me but I felt a disaster coming from something I felt.

As I was on my way to class with my friends, someone called out to me in a loud voice.

"Sis Elloooraaaa!"

When I looked back, I found Fenris running with sweat all over his body, it seemed like he was panicking.

Then where is Arche?

"There's a monster at the back of the garden! Arche is holding it back, please help us!"

What! Arche is fighting monsters? What is this kid talking about?

But from the pale look on his face and the tears already in his eyes I can't conclude that he's lying.

He was serious!

"Where is he?" I asked.

"At the back of the garden, outside the fence sis!"

Without thinking I immediately ran in the direction that this boy was pointing, I didn't think about anything at the moment, only the figure of my brother was imagined in my head.

Arche, Arche, Arche!

No one will harm my cute little brother! I won't forgive whoever it is!

"Flow."

"Wind Blast!"

The Flow spell can only last a maximum of 10 seconds for now, and I'm developing it so that it can make me float for at least 1 minute, although it's very difficult, with my current ability I can only float for 10 seconds but that's fine.

I was able to create a pushing force by concentrating Wind Blast on my back leg and leaning my body slightly forward.

Instantly I was pushed with a fast repulsion force towards the top of the school fence, and magically I was still afloat, the launch time from where I was standing was only about 3 seconds, meaning there were still 7 seconds for me to search for Arche's whereabouts from above.

And sure enough, when I saw Arche sitting against a tree in a terrible condition, my blood boiled and I couldn't control my emotions for a moment.

I've never been this angry before, I'll kill the person who did this to my cute little brother!

Then I saw someone in front of me, no! It wasn't a human.

A demon?

Do demons really exist?

Am I not looking at it wrong?

I don't care, I'll eliminate that demon right now!

I cancel Flow's spell slowly and my body lands right behind that horrible demon.

Just for a moment, I felt terror piercing my heart as I looked at it, its body was black like a rock, was its skin hard? Can I penetrate it?

I don't care anymore, I'll do anything to eliminate this bastard!

"LASER BEAAM!"

Huh! Not that hard apparently, my Laser Beam could still penetrate its body, and I had predicted it wouldn't fall with just one laser strike.

Even though the laser had already scorched the side of the forest and melted every tree along its path, I had looked around this forest and there were no people, so my laser definitely wouldn't hit anyone.

The demon turned and faced me, but I didn't flinch!

"What are you doing to my little brother..."

I'll wipe you out of this world, demon!

"KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!"

His voice scared me a little, but that's okay! I didn't even flinch a little.

It dashed between the trees with incredible speed, even though there was a hole in its chest but it didn't seem to make its movements slow down.

Then I turned my gaze towards Arche who had fainted and seemed to be regenerating.

This is safe... Alright...

This demon is just circling around dashing between the trees, it's not attacking me, why?

This place is in its favor, I should find a wider place.

"Wind Bla-"

"!!!"

Just as I was trying to cast a spell, something came towards me at an incredible speed right in front of my face, it was the demon's hand!

I didn't think it would attack me directly but its movements were easy to read.

I reflexively ducked and dashed to the side of its body, then I grabbed its stomach, and cast a spell there.

"Electric!"

It felt like I was holding a rock, the texture was so hard.

Even though I had zapped its body with high-voltage electricity until it emitted black smoke, it could still move, though not as fast as before.

Is it possible that creature can't use magic? Or was it just that he was saving his magic for later?

"KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKK!"

Again it screamed, was there a sign from it's scream, was it calling their friends? Or is it just their instinct?

I don't know much about this creature, I've never seen it and I've never read about it on the internet either, lacking information about your opponent when fighting is a disadvantage!

I wasn't in a favorable position at the moment.

I decided to run towards the forest, deeper and deeper, and the demon was still chasing me, good.

Arche is nowhere to be seen, and the school fence is also only slightly visible, it seems to be safe.

Alright, time to end this!

"Wall!"

I concentrated the control of the magic atoms to form a 3-dimensional rectangle, I created a protective space to shield myself.

The demon darted towards me and smashed its body against my spell, but its efforts were in vain, even this wall didn't budge an inch, as I concentrated everything on this wall.

Well, in here I can concentrate longer...

I concentrate the flow of magic atoms in my hand and imagine a blue ball of light.

And that ball of light, I threw out 14 pieces around this protective room.

I don't know exactly where the demon is because it's surrounding this protective room while attacking it from all directions, so I just scatter the balls of light in all directions as well.

*Bzzzz* *Bzzz*

A light as big as a pencil appeared from the ball of light that I threw earlier, its shape was now like a glowing sea urchin, instantly the scene around me was very bright filled with lights from my magic that blindly in all directions released light as big as that pencil.

Actually, Arche's magic experiment the other day that almost harmed him intrigued me a little, I tried to imitate his magic and sure enough.

It turned out to be plasma-type magic.

It was just as expected from my cute little brother.

He could even create plasma structures that could classify the ground with a single strike.

After the plasma light from my magic slowly dissipated, smoke billowed around my protective room, making me unable to see the surrounding area.

But I already don't sense any presence around here, has it run away?

I canceled this barrier magic then the smoke began to slowly dissipate.

I saw that the ground and trees were all hollowed out, even rocks were also hollowed out until they penetrated the ground, frightening magic.

If I hadn't cast that protective spell earlier, I might have met the same fate as these hollow trees, just thinking about it makes my knees weak.

Then I looked around me, and I found the demon.

It still moved, but its body was filled with small holes, even its legs and wings had separated from its body.

I'll end your life right now!

"Laser Beam..."

Then the demon stopped moving, its head hollowed out and melted, how ridiculous.

Well, at least it's safe now I guess?

I hope so, after all I have to check on Arche soon.

I hope he's okay, please!

I ran as fast as I could towards the Arche I left behind, and I saw that he was still sitting by the same tree, thankfully.

But there was someone there with Arche, could it be Fenris? No, he's too big like an adult.

Now what, after the demon then what!

"Don't touch my little brother!" I snapped at the stranger.

"Hmm?"

He started to stand up and sure enough, he was about 2 meters tall! Even I had to look up to see his face, but I still couldn't see anything.

"Calm down young lady, I'm not your enemy."

"...."

"There's no need to be so cautious, I intended to help you guys, but it looks like it's too late."

"You killed the demon, didn't you, miss?" he continued.

"...."

"Well, let me introduce my name is Nero Beryl, I am a Royal Paladin from the kingdom of Aurelius, and I was sent here because there is a demonic radiation signal around here."

"But it's quite impressive that a young lady like you could kill such a troublesome demon," he continued.

"Please stay out of my way, I don't need to know about Royal Paladins or anything else that comes too late to do its job."

"Alright alright, at least take this, miss."

"Envelope? Why are you giving this to me?"

"Anyway read it later, you won't regret it."

"...."

Royal Paladin he said? No kidding.

Do all Royal Paladins always arrive late for their duties? I even killed a demon while waiting for him to arrive, how ridiculous.

I continued past that person and walked towards Arche, he was still asleep.

Then I saw Fenris running towards us with a worried face and a teacher with him.

Thankfully, it looks like this is over.

At least I'll read this envelope later, I'm also curious about the contents of an envelope from a Royal Paladin.

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