My redemption

Once, the greatest magician and alchemist of all time wrote about the human mind, "Time is greatest mischief creator. When you want it the most, it runs away and when you want it go away it comes all the more closer." 

Arya came to understand that fact, when he began teaching Eliza when Lord Mathers ordered Arya, the chief librarian of the a ruined library where no one came anymore. Arya found his first friend beside the library books.

Time used run away when he was with her, hours passed in minutes, it was fun. Then came the time they were seperated, then hours began to feel like weeks, and when Dia appointed herself as Eliza new mentor, his life was left poisoned.

Arya knew it must have Dia Mantha who had seen Arya's actions and his intentions, and made Eliza further education under her own jurisdiction. She was watching everything, there was nothing he could hide but today he snacthed the reward in front of her eyes. 

「Your actions made a lot of noises in today's court.」Muse was even praising him, today.

"I give the promise of my daughter's hand in marriage, if you are able to find and free the grave of one who can save us. The time you have is very limited, I suggest you go and get ready to leave, while the court will continue speaking on other matters." 

Arya left the hall and ran back to his chambers in swifted way he knew. He and began to list all the things that he needed to save, began to pack his bags for his trip. There wasn't much he wanted to take with him. 

"You really surprised me there." a familiar voice called to Arya. In her dress, Dia Mantha sat on the window. 

"Did Sir Zoltan make a clone for sitting at the council meeting?"

"No, my real self is sitting at the council. I just want to know how did you convince the king to get the reward for your worth. The entire hall is ringing with shouts and words against you." 

" You already know, Lord Mathers has the ability of telepathy, so he had little conversation in my head and luckily is worked out for me. And it is not like he will change his mind, once he makes it up. I suggest you think more about the how you will manage the attack."

"It is not like the world is ending in just 3 months. From what I know, we can definitely defend against the attack of the north."

"You can but that what cost? Can you re-make the seal of the north on your own? It would shave off our entire wizard force and warlord's powers. If worse if yet to come after this, how do you think the kingdom will fare when an even bigger danger?"

"Fair enough. But how do you think you will find this grave of yours? In fact, you never your abilities inside the kingdom. What are your abilities with just with one orb of power?"

「Natural Ability: Nature's Touch」

Energy leaked through Arya's hand as he casted his ability. The room lighted for a second, and blazing star energy surrounding Arya disappeared soon after.

"I don't see any difference in this room?"

"You have to feel the difference. My ability is much more subtle for a clone like you to realise maybe the real you would."

"Enlighten me."

Arya explained how his ability was grow extremely small spikes in the any form of stone in his surroundings. The spikes touched all the things in that area and Arya could differentiate between the touch of each of the things. 

"Since, the orbs of power tend to be underground. I cast my ability in a area and see if the anything underground in that area."

"So, I think you mean volume. Your ability must swap between area and depth? I mean with just one orb I can't hope you having a large area and the depth too."

Arya just gave a nod at that words, her mind was quite sharp to deduce more about Arya's ability.

"Damn! That must mean when you go orb hunts. You just go each place near a forest or, river and then use for ability to find an orb. That must take hours at once, now I understand why you were out for months sometimes."

Arya work was just plain exhausting, he had walk by an entire mountain and forest just scanning for orbs of power in each and every place for just one orb of power. It was long and annoying, but the thing he hated the most was...

"How did you not find a orb of your own? They say that there 20 orbs of power for each warlord who was born in this world. You have just 1, then where are the others hiding? In your... 21 explorations, you found 29 orbs of powers for many different warlords. And yet, not a thing for yourself?"

"Yes. Not a damn thing for me, just finding thing for other people, and causing them to gain respect and reputation for what? Them shaming me the very next day for being the weakest. People like you, Dia, are just ignorant fools who live while being lost and drunk in your own power. There was not just-" when Arya turned around, Did had already vanished and only the curtain were swinging in the air.

She had probably seen him, using her ability. She could see everything that light touches in the city anyway. There was much more she and the other warlords could do, but they couldn't save the world.

"The only who can save the world is me. God has given me this as my redemption, this is my legacy." Saying this to himself Arya began to pack is bag even more enthusiastically before his good night sleep.

"If a assassin comes to finish me off tonight. You would protect me wouldn't you, mother."

「 I believe she definitely would.」

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