I was confused by the phrase that appeared on my hand. "The Blade of Arthur Shall Remember you"? I didn't know what that meant at the time. But, I just took it as a refusal.
So, I went back to the blacksmith to buy the dagger of growth. I was still pretty happy about getting it for only around 5 silver stars. Normally a blade like the dagger of growth would cost around 5 golden stars
When I was walking out empty handed I came across the guard again.
"Ha, what did I tell ya, I told you that you wouldn't get it." The guard said with a annoying smirk on his face.
"yeah yeah". I rolled my eyes and just continued ignore his other insults
On my way to the black smith, I crashed into this mysterious girl. She wore a cloak covering her entire body and a hood to cover her head but I saw her face a little, she wore glasses and had black eyes and some black hair flowing out of the hood.
"Oh, sorr-" before I could apologise she had already ran off. That was pretty weird. But I had thought nothing about it at the time, so I had just continued walking towards the blacksmith.
"Hey old man" I called out to the black smith while I was walking in.
"Oh hey kid, came here to get the dagger?"
"Yeah, 5 silver stars right?" I said while handing him the money.
"Alright, here you go." The blacksmith replied while handing me the dagger and taking the money.
"Okay, thanks."
"Hey kid, you sure you want that dagger?" The black smith asked. "That dagger is a pretty bad one I don't think it's even worth that much."
Well if only he knew this was worth way more then that. I kind of felt bad too.
"Yeah, I'm sure. I will be on my way now"
I needed to test out the dagger first. I needed to see it's capabilities, so I went to the training grounds next.
While heading there, I crashed into another guy fully cloaked and hooded too. I could see some of his black hair and brown eyes he also had a scar on his right eye and it seemed pretty big.
"Hey kid watch where you're going." The mysterious man said whilst walking away.
"Oh, sorry."
This time I thought it was pretty suspicious, two cloaked guys and stuff, but something like this didn't happen around this time my past life, so I just brushed it off and headed to the plains to test my dagger.
I walked out of the gates and saw these plains, I looked around before seeing the place with rocks and trees and and some things tied up to the trees hanging down. That was my training grounds that I had made back in my past life.
I walked over there and it was pretty far so it took a few moments. But when I arrived I set my book of Arthur Pendragon down and some other things and took out the dagger of growth.
I started by pouring aura on with (aura is basically the energy that is emitted out of one's spirit or soul which also determines their power level based on their colour and quantity) into the gem of the dagger.
I started feeling every part of the dagger as if it was a part of me. I could choose the area to pour aura into and grow it's size at will.
I started by pouring aura to every part of the dagger in order to grow it into the size of an actual sword. Next I realised the weight of the sword stayed the same. It was like I was still holding the dagger.
I swinged it around a bit, it was light weight, so I could swing it pretty fast. Next, I tried slashing it at some of the hanging wood pieces. I got momentum and took a hack at it. To my suprise the wood pieces easily sliced in half like butter.
I don't know what the black smith was talking about but, this blade was pretty good. It probably needed aura to be poured in to do this and the others didn't so they probably figured that this not worth their time.
I needed to keep experimenting with this so next I tried to pour aura into the blade only and it's overall size increased and the weight again stayed the same and was very light.
After that I focused on the tip of the blade and after a few tries, the blade extended and only the length not the width so it would be useful for long range and the weight again stayed the same.
I would need to test out something else now, I tried to increase the width and size of the blade as well as it's weight almost turning it into a metal bat.
I thought of the dagger as play dough, my aura affecting its shape and every particle of aura added would increase its weight like gas being compressed and to fit more and increase the overall weight.
There was one simple reason I did this, the sharpness of the blade alone wouldn't cut it, no pun intended. Edward's sixth labour would practically be immune to swords so I needed an alternative to destroy these iron and tough feathers.
The sixth labour of Hercules, Stymphalian birds. These birds had iron like tough feathers a bronze beak and poisonous dung. And when Edward uses it he would have iron and tough skin with sharp bronze of his hands which could produce poison and also his wings made out of iron were also poisonous and toxic.
Then it hit me. Even if I couldn't study about Edward I could still learn about Hercules' twelve labours and see what they could do and try to come up with counter measures for all of them.
I would come back here and try to increase the weight and experiment later first I needed to go get a book about Hercules. So I grabbed my stuff shrinked the dagger back to its original size and headed for the library.
When I went into the city, I don't know why but, it felt kind of off like something was wrong. I brushed that feeling aside to get to the library as fast as possible.
I approached the library and came Infront of it. I walked in to see someone else, not the usual librarian Clair, infact it was a man who had long black hair that covered his right eye. He was tall and I pretty good looking.
"Um, are you the new librarian? Where's Clair?" I asked him.
"Yes I am the new librarian, as for Clair she took a leave to attend some urgent matters."
Yep, just as I thought, she was probably taking care of something else, so he filled in for her. I didn't think much of it and headed to the second floor to find the book of Hercules and the 12 labours.
I went to the greek mythology section to find the book. I came across many, Zeus, Hades, Poseidon and even Chronos the god that blessed me. I had a gut feeling telling me to take that book of Chronos so I took it and continues to search for the book of Hercules.
I found it, Hercules and the 12 labours. I took the book and went to a nearby table to read it. The book mentioned the 12 labours that was sent to Hercules or Heracles at the time to perform and complete by the king of Mycenae, Eurystheus
There were only 10 labours at first but after Heracles completed them, Eurystheus decided to give Heracles two more since he refused to count the 2nd labour and the 5th labour due to him getting help from other people and nature.
I decided to read the rest of the book and the 12 labours when I got home so I went back to the first floor, to see Clair back, that's when I Clair was back and something seemed to be wrong.
"Clair? Have you been here this entire day?"
"Yeah, of course, why?"
Shit, something was really wrong.
"Nothing, also just these two books."
"Alright."
I acted like nothing was wrong but inside I was panicking and screaming with so many questions.
The moment I got those books I ran out of there and decided to go back to the hilltop spot to clear my mind.
Something was really wrong and i thought about it, about the two cloaked people the suspicious male librarian and the scars of one of the cloaked people's right eye. The male librarian's right eye was covered with his long black hair.
Then it hit me, Edward??? No there's no way but, they all looked similar all three of them with similar features like the scar, eye colour, the hair, they were all similar. But there's no way right. "Was Edward really at Gyrofil this early??" I wondered to myself.
On the way to the hilltop I kept seeing cloaked and suspicious people in the city. Even if they were Edward's men they wouldn't be stupid enough to attack head on in the city with all the guards and soldiers inside.
I figured they might attack the outskirts first to lure them there and attack the city, yes that's right, that's what he has always done.
Wait right, The outskirts. After remembering that I lived in the outskirts I rushed out of there immediately even before I arrived to the hilltop. I went there as fast as I could.
When I turned into an alley and made sure no one was there, I used my telekinesis to lift myself up and flung myself to where the outskirts were. Using the telekinesis I was also able to fly so this way was faster and I got back there in no time due to some measures and adjustments I made to my flight.
When I was levitating above the outskirts and observing from above I noticed nothing out of the ordinary. But still, I had to keep my eye out just in case they decided to attack.
All the walking had taken up a lot of my day and it was almost sunset, so I decided to just go home. I slowly flew down and started walking back.
Even inside the outskirts I noticed some shady and suspicious people, these weren't wearing cloaks or anything like that but I just sensed something wrong with them. So I decided to keep an eye on them.
I couldn't just go and declare they were enemies and apart of Edward's crew, people would just think I'm crazy or something and ignore it. I couldn't just attack them out of nowhere that would make me look like the bad guy.
If Edward's going to attack sooner then expected even I can't do anything alone. He was too strong for me. And I can't really do much with my telekinesis either, I haven't trained it much in this life and the relic, I can't even use it yet.
(More on relics, relics are the gifts of god's and need to be awakened to fully utilise them but even if not awakened it can be used but not a lot of it's power and the relic is just a mark or a crest on one's hand in Zeit's case it's like the gears in a clock.)
There were some guards and soldiers stationed in the outskirts but they were probably no match for Edward. Damn it, I couldn't think of any ideas.
Wait, the inside guards and soldiers will be notified the moment the attack occurs, and some stronger soldiers like generals or lieutenants might be a match for him. So I just need to stall time.
I could probably do that sending every elemental attack back to him, for his close range physical attacks I can only block it, dodge or just keep running to stall time.
I could manipulate the ground and the matter around him to better my odds, like trapping him and pushing him away.
Huh, I was already Infront of my doorstep. I didn't even realise that I was just walking lost in deep thought. And darkness had already taken over the sky.
I walked in and yelled "mom, I'm home."
"Welcome home Zeit, I haven't prepared dinner yet so you can just wait in your room."
"Okay, thanks mom, call me when dinner is ready." After I replied my mom just nodded.
Far away in the outskirts, inside a bar. The suspicious guys from earlier were causing trouble. And when they had enough. Fire, lightning, intense wind and cold icy winds started erupting from their bodies.
The citizens in the bar started running out screaming, when all of a sudden, all the elements retracted.
Then they all released like a bomb sending the elements everywhere and blowing up the entire bar.