She looked at Isaa and when the child was about to touch the Eye she stopped her. "It is fine. We will take one of the Eyes with us so we can find new students on our travels." She patted Isaa"s head and smiled at her.
Isaa looked at the Eye with curiosity and then pouted. She wanted to know her abilities. But she will listen to Kendra and not bother with it.
She shrugged and took in one hand Kendra"s hand and with another hand, Xara"s s hand while smiling happily.
Lord Ca.s.sian felt left out and went to Kendra"s side and looked at her pitifully. Kendra signed and took his hand and winked at him while giving him a bright smile. He smiled back and held tightly her hand while turning hand and looked at hundreds of Eyes floating around.
Kendra sighed. She both hands was filled with her family love and she couldn"t take those into the s.p.a.ce bag.
She looked at Elders and saw them one by one using the Eye to check their powers. Two Elders of the Demon race had fire and wind on the tenth point. But it seems they reached the highest they could go.
Masala and the other two had fire and metal and were at eleventh and had the possibility to become the highest and transfer to the next realm.
They knew already about their powers as they had one of the Eyes. But they used it only for those that went high enough to be worthy. That means after the fifth point. If they have the ability to become fifth they get the chance to see their future.
But thinking about it, maybe they lost some of the promising youths that could reach even next realm. If they could check every demon maybe there could be more with high powers.
Lais looked at Kendra knowing the pledge of the Elders." Can we have some Eyes to check the powerhouse?"
Kendra had to admit that it would be quite helpful if they take some of the Eyes."I would like to ask the Elders to take as many as you think is needed. We will arrange the school to be able to implement as many power children as it can, but in the future, I think you could do the same. Write the knowledge of everything you know and teach the children. That is how we will do it. Please take the Eyes. "
The Dragon Elders took only one as they are just a few left in this realm, but Demon Elders took tens of it and talked about who they could give to check the continent.
She looked at Lais and she used her
ring to gather the rest of the Eyes and just smiled at Isaa."Later, I will let you learn about your ability. Have patience and just enjoy being a child. Childhood lasts only a few years. Enjoy it."
Isaa looked at her smilingly and nodded. Everything Kendra says she will do.
Kendra suddenly remembered something. "Father, the cave is important not only because of this. What is the real deal with it?"
Lord Ca.s.sian let go of her hand and put his arm around her tiny shoulders. "We found many marvelous things here. I think some things would be quite interesting for our visitors. Come, our new friends and allies. I think its time for us. Kendra, please summon clouds as we have a long way to go."Kendra waved her hand and summoned instantly the clouds. Demons and dragons were still not used to see such thing so they were still amazed seeing her making clouds and just getting on it as if it was nothing.
They went on and at first, they thought that they will fly around but Xara and Lord Ca.s.sian started sending energy towards sealing. The light started s.h.i.+ning stronger and everyone got a general idea what they planned so they sent enough energy wisps into it.
Soon the light was strong enough to show amazing sight.
The cave was filled with holes but in mid was a flat place that could be used as a training ground or duel room. The holes were filled with water and as it seemed, there were multiple creatures inside. But the way they looked...Kendra"s hair started turning red on the ends.
Lord Ca.s.sian stopped her as he thought she would attack those. "Child, don"t harm them. Those are poor creatures that live in caves. They seem to be disgusting but are quite harmless.""
Kendra shook her head. " I didn"t plan to harm them. I just felt bit disgusted father. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Every creature deserves to live in its own surrounding. If this is their natural habitat, we are intruders. Who knows, maybe in their mind we are ugly as well."
The elders looked at her and saw her serious expression while she watched the creatures tumbling in the mud. It seems this child is really special. To have benevolence even against such creatures that gave her gooseb.u.mps...It was a good decision to come here. This place will be the starting point for every power holder. If their children could learn such benevolence...
Isaa held Kendra"s hand and felt lucky to have met her. Meeting her in this lifetime... Then she thought about the old lady. But father said he will take care of her. Maybe, later on, she will visit her and see if she needs anything.
"Uhm, Kendra can we go and visit old lady before we go?" She looked at Kendra cutely.
Xara found her adorable and started pinching her cheeks. "We will go. We need to see is everything ready for the orphanage. Actually, Kendra, we had an idea about that. We will send into an orphanage only commoner kids. We will check their apt.i.tude before they enter."
Kendra scowled."Actually, people didn"t know about mine or Isaac"s powers as well. What will happen if there are more children like us? Will the Eye recognize them?."
Masala sighed deeply. Such an amazing child was almost lost. "Don"t worry. The Eye can see the future power grid of any child. Be at ease. With the Eye, we won"t miss not even one child with even a little bit of power."
Kendra sighed in relief. At least she can do so much for those power children. "Father no matter power child or commoner. If they have a wish to stay in our city and learn, let them. If some power children or their relatives abuse their powers against commoners, please turn them into commoners as well. There will be a time when I"m not around and I didn"t wish to come back and see the anarchy that was at the time I first came to this place. Please father, please mom."
She looked at them beggingly. She looked so cute that even Isaa was amazed for a moment. Xara"s heart overflowed with love and hugged Kendra tightly.
"I promise you, trust me your father won"t dare to go against my wish." She didn"t hat many chances to hug this child as she is always covered with spikes like a hedgehog.
Kendra hugged Isaa, Xara hugged Kendra and Lord Ca.s.sian saw that and hugged all of them.
Kendra felt uncomfortable but as she felt the love of this family hug she let it go. After all, soon they will depart. Xara"s and Lord Ca.s.sian"s wedding is in a couple of days. She needs to travel with them for a day or two. To check the fief and then the wedding. After the wedding she will stay in the city as long she sends the two love birds on vacation and after they come back she will leave.
"Uhm, people should we not save this hugs for later. We have guests here and you wanted to show me what is there in this cave." m.u.f.fed Kendra trough all those hugs.
Lord Ca.s.sian started laughing and poked her head. They let go of each other and he took Xara"s hand and flew towards one side of the cave."Actually, when we found this cave we taught about setting the fighting ground here but we found the creatures here and felt bad about them. The cave has multiple entries towards the whole fief. It seems someone used it before as ground to train their people. But now I sealed couple if the tunnels and only I or Xara can open it. One of the tunnels gets deep underground and it has multiple rooms. It seems they kept some people there as we found bones everywhere. We buried the bones and after going to the second tunnel we found mine. We will show you mine now. "
He kept few secrets about the tunnels as the most important thing was anyway true metal mine. Luckily they had clouds that sped up and they were quite fast at the entrance of the tunnel they planned to enter.
Xara sighed. They needed days just to get here as they had to travel around the creatures. "Kendra, when we traveled here we remembered you and the food you constantly were talking about. We set up huge Granary and filled it but somehow it seems that it"s not enough."
Kendra smiled. She already knew that would happen. "Later on when we go up you will show me the Granary and I might have an idea what we could do."
She looked towards the tunnel entrance and felt amazing metal energy coming out if there. While they floated toward the entrance Kendra closed her eyes and saw an abundance of power wisps floating in the amazing numbers out of the cave.
She opened her eyes and started gathering the wisps of metal power as they flew around.
While ago she found out that after the tenth point if power there is no more need to concentrate. It"s just enough to find an abundant place with energy and you can just gather it automatically.
But the deeper they went, the energy density went higher. Only those with metal preference can feel the energy from metal and gather it. Same with any other powers.
Soon they saw the entrance to another big cave and Demon Elders gasped. "The pure nature vein!!!"
What Kendra saw was cave filled with rainbows of colors. All kind of metal, crystals, and veins could be seen around. Isaa stared at one of the s.h.i.+ny stones and touched it.
"The energy stones?"She asked while looking at Xara. She nodded and took off Isaa"s hand.
Lord Ca.s.sian turned towards them and explained. " Long time ago, in old ages, there were power stones that contained an abundance of power. They were there to help people with powers to increase their ability by twofold and let them win in duels. But unfortunately, some of them misused their powers and tried to harm the Kingdom. So we sealed the veins and people forgot with time."
Kendra read something about that in those weird memories. The writer spoke of power stones but just as some ancient tale. She looked around and could feel the energy sealed in those stones. Actually, she was not really interested in them.
"Hyping up your ability to double power could turn your sea of power into the raging storm and you could just implode, or cripple your powers. This thing is good only if there is absolutely no other way. But is good only in an emergency? On end person using it just gives up his own future. I really don"t want to see any if you using such thing." She shook her head and poked one of those.
The energy instantly started surging towards her and she took off the finger fast of it as if she got burned. She really disliked the stones but suddenly she heard a voice.
It was familiar. " Child. Use the stones of power and put them into your s.p.a.ce. You will need them one day. Trust me..." The voice waned and disappeared.
Everyone looked at Kendra. "Mother Oyster?" It seems she tried to grow fast only to be able to be helpful. Maybe she should just put her inside s.p.a.ce and let her grow in peace.
"Who is what is mother Oyster?" Asked Lord Ca.s.sian confused.
Isaa looked at Kendra and explained. "Mother Oyster is an ancient oyster that lived so long that she could even speak. It was her who helped Kendra with s.p.a.ce."
He scrunched his face and rose his eyebrows. "Oyster???"
Kendra thought all this time that it was normal that she spoke to ancients, animals...oyster... But it seems it is not. She sighed.
"Father, may I ask something. On this continent, does everyone speak the same language?" She had a strange feeling about her power.
Lord Ca.s.sian turned towards Kendra. "I was wondering whole time about it, but then thought that they learned a human language after the centuries we lived and worked together. There are even humans in different languages. When you travel it will be quite helpful to travel with Lais. Demons learn and understand many languages.
Lais just smiled. Actually, when she met Kendra she spoke in her own ancient language and realized that this child understood her. Kendra has many secrets as it seems. She definitely won"t need her help.
Kendra turned to the stones and picked some and put in s.p.a.ce. Then she looked at the floor of the cave and saw millions of small stones.
She found it cute and choose to make healing cave in her s.p.a.ce where she could help people that are hurt. She gathered the stones and put in storage she already prepared.
Lord Ca.s.sian saw her looking at him as confirmation that she is done and floated deeper in the cave. They needed a long time and after many turns, they saw another entrance to another tunnel.
But this time the tunnel was long but had the light crystals on the way that gave off enough light. They sped up their clouds and found themselves in another cave. But there were many soldiers waiting for them.
Finally, they are in the cave they planned to enter. Kendra looked around and saw metal power users digging bits of the metal with their own power.
"Uhm, father, how is it possible with this little metal to make so many things? You reinforced the walls, the palace and even made school from this material. But its just bits and pieces..." She was quite confused.
The amount of metal is actually enormous.
Lord Ca.s.sian started laughing. "This little bit of material is actually compressed metal. One small bit can make the whole house and have some left."
This time Kendra almost bulged her eyes out. This material is so amazing. If this existed in her old world may be many things could be different. Or not...
"Go and try using your ability and gather as many as you can. I invite my dragon and demon friends with mental powers to do the same. As much you can gather before using up all your power it"s yours." Said Lord Ca.s.sian and waved his hand to stop all the soldiers.
Soldiers looked at each other and smiled. One of the dragon Elders and two of the demon Elders went to the metal wall and tried to cut the pieces but were quite stunned seeing that such a thing is possible only with great concentration. But how can they concentrate if they had a strange person next to them...