Living Life As A Game: Through And Through

She walked past the looks of horror and shock that were directed at her from those that had seen her literally run over the water, and eventually a line of communication was established. "Ay, I"m here at uh…" Elizabeth covered her phone with her shoulder and turned to one of the locales to ask, "Excuse me, Miss, what is the name of this pier?" Albeit rough, her j.a.panese was fluent.

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"H-hinode Pier…" Looking as though the world would collapse right then and there, the young woman Elizabeth called to respond as her body shivered. "Thanks," Elizabeth said, waving the woman goodbye as she returned her phone to her ear and said, "Right, I"m at Hinode Pier~"

"Wh- Nevermind, just come to the address I"ll text you…" Kurt hung up the phone and within five seconds, Elizabeth received the text he spoke of. As she was less than a dozen kilometers away from the marker her phone"s GPS pulled up when she clicked on the address, Elizabeth only moved slightly faster than a car as she made her way over to meet with her father. After warping the s.p.a.ce around her, she took to the roofs of the building along the pier before she entered the downtown area of Tokyo.

With skysc.r.a.pers now taking up most of the land area, Elizabeth descended back to the ground and walked among the people as she was only a couple hundred meters away from the building marked on her GPS. Even when she deactivated her Spatial Shift to reveal her camouflage, as she was surrounded by a veritable tide of people walking along the bustling streets, no one found it odd for her to just suddenly appear; it was hard to draw attention when there were hundreds of people walking in every direction.

Alas, even with the end of the journey in sight, Elizabeth was met with a distraction as the people around her entered a panic. "Are you f.u.c.king serious? I just got here…" Whilst shaking her head, Elizabeth eyed the ma.s.sive Hawk Beast whose cry had struck terror in the hearts of all the regular people around.

"Che! Stupid beast, you can only blame yourself for this…" With a ma.s.s of fire manifesting in her hands, Elizabeth suddenly had the idea to test out an ice incantation-powered spell. With the small orange flame in her hand being snuffed out and the image of a spear-shaped armament of ice appearing in her mind, Elizabeth spoke, "Ice Spear."

Her face only grew a bit red as she a.s.sured herself that no one bothered with her humiliating act of chanting while their lives were at risk, while a ma.s.sive two-meter long rod materialized above her shoulder. This being the first time she had tried this self-made spell, it took a whole second for the Ice Spear to materialize — it took even longer than normal as it appeared outside of being in contact with Elizabeth. Moreover, since it was the first time Elizabeth used a long-range attacking spell in such a manner, her aim was poor.

Even as the Ice Spear took off as fast as an arrow fired from a bow, it only managed to skewer through the Hawk"s left-wing; bringing it down to the ground. "Mhmm… I can"t wait to get back to cultivating," Elizabeth said as she materialized her Chaosbright Armament and annihilated the Beast"s head.

After making quick work out of the Hawk"s death energies, she put the corpse of the beast in one of her storage talismans and carried on to the meeting spot as this was only a small distraction in the grand scheme of things; arguably, it was. Yet, to the regular civilians who saw a young teenage girl cast magic and savagely hunt down the monstrous Hawk Beast, this easily turned into one of the most memorable moments in their lives.

However, no one approached the white-haired crimson-eyed demon and she finally managed to make her way into the luxurious Noriyoshi Hotel. Upon entering, Elizabeth made her way over to the empty reception area and pulled up her phone to call Kurt again. With his help, the receptionist ended up guiding her over to the designated meeting room. Elizabeth was taken up to the tenth floor and after pa.s.sing by one room, she found the spot.

After thanking the receptionist and seeing her leave, she knocked on the door and was immediately greeted by Kurt, "You know, for someone who"d rather die than leave the house a couple months ago, you sure are pretty outgoing."

"Oh?" Elizabeth walked through the door and was taken over to a place she could sit down when they started their discussion.

"Seriously… It took you, what? Three and a half hours to cross half the world and you even took the time to help out with a Monster attack." As the highest-ranking combatant on the planet as well as the figurative joint-ruler of Earth"s Martial Society, it was no surprise that he already knew of Elizabeth"s actions from just a little while ago.

"Thanks, I guess. It was a bit annoying that I had to take out that pitiful Soldier Stage Hawk out myself, but I"m guessing it"s still not feasible for the public to be secure against monster beasts…"

"Right. We were initially alright when after the Celestial Phenomenon changed the world. However, with the regular wildlife growing so quickly after they evolved, it"s grown to the point where cities are being threatened."

"Well, it"s to be expected, right? I mean, Monsters are quite blessed in the sense that they can directly ingest spiritual herbs and materials unlike us humans, who need things processed and refined. It wouldn"t be this way if more people were pract.i.tioners, but I guess it"s hard to change a society in such a short amount of time…"

"About that… Would you be willing to teach Mages yourself, or is that out of the question."

"Myself? Listen, I"m still not exactly a people person, so there"s no reason I should waste my time for random people when they can just figure it out themselves through…"

Having raised his hand to get Elizabeth to stop, Kurt said, "Very well. You don"t have to if you don"t want to. In fact, just a short while ago I wouldn"t have bothered to ask you about this. But after seeing what you did to that Hawk Beast, I thought it was worth a shot to ask."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Well, it"s just that only after Martial Pract.i.tioners reach the Spirit Realm do they unlock long-range attacks like that icicle spear you used. Before I just chalked Mages up to being like Pract.i.tioners only without the drawback of galvanizing their life force, but it seems there was more to it if they can be like you and launch those long-range attacks while still in the Mortal Realm."

"Ok?" Elizabeth asked, clearly not getting the point as Kurt spoke in a roundabout manner.

"See, It"s not the same learning from a person than from a piece of paper or jade slip. So, I doubt anyone will try picking up the information you left behind when there are hundreds if not thousands of pract.i.tioners around that could teach them in person. If you"d offer yourself up to teach then just maybe, we could get the first generation of Mages up and running and that path of cultivation could become popular… But it"s fine if you don"t want to busy yourself with this. I can always…"

"Fine… I"ll do it…" Elizabeth groaned as she thought that "teaching" could probably fit into her interests.

"Wh- Really?! I mean, you of all people should be able to see I"m just trying to guilt-trip you… Normally, this kind of manipulation would just roll off you like oil on ice."

"Yeah, yeah, I really don"t care much for the sanct.i.ty of Mages or whatever, I just realized I could fit in teaching Mages while I cultivate my Spells. Besides, if Zoey is to become a Mage I"ll have to do my best to teach her since she certainly won"t be as perfect as can be without a proper role model to look up to."

"alright then. When can you star-"

Without bothering to let him complete his thought, Elizabeth said, "Ah-ppa! I have conditions!"

"Well… What are they?" Kurt shook his head in self-depreciation as he had seen this coming from a mile away.

"Condition One!" Elizabeth grew serious as she started, "I will only teach those I want and to pick these people, I want you to set up an audition of sorts. Condition Two! I"m only wasting one day a week on actually conducting a cla.s.s. Condition Three! I don"t care where you set up my teaching grounds, but I want there to be a large field available for spell casting practice."

"Um… Is that it? Those are all pretty easy conditions to fulfill."

"Yeah, yeah, that"s it. Now about the audition…" Elizabeth went into detail about what kind of process she wanted for picking students.

To summarize, she wanted at least one person in the cla.s.s for every type of elemental affinity. She didn"t care what their background was, so anyone from the heir of a legendary Martial clan to the homeless could apply for the audition. But females, or those with superior affinities for Yin, were to be prioritized, as one of the most important aspects of a good mage was how able they were when it came to managing their spirit. Males would obviously have a chance during the audition, but like the relationship between Martial Pract.i.tioners and females, only the very best would thrive.

Kurt and Elizabeth scheduled the initial estimated time for the audition to be in three days. In the time between, a campaign for those interested in learning about Magic and the path of Mages would spread through the news and the internet. After discussing Elizabeth"s new teaching position, the subject changed to the Spirit Veins Elizabeth had come to trade-in. After an hour of browsing around for things she might need, Elizabeth traded away two Spirit Veins.

Well, she decided to trade away two Spirit Veins, but the moment to actually give them up would only come when the materials she was trading for arrived. With the meeting"s objectives completed and a lot of downtime required for anything worthwhile to happen on Earth, Elizabeth teleported back to the Shadow Realm. A million units of Time Magic may sound like a lot, but to her, it only amounted to twenty percent of her energy reserves.