Zeeta and the Wizarding World
Towards the Next Journey

[Aurora's palace, when the battle was over after six hours.].

The main nobles have regrouped, and Ashley has already regained consciousness. What he first felt was a sense of annoyance and shame on himself. How not, he who shook as the Grand Duchess actually fell earlier than the tough and brave children, even he was just a burden. He wanted to immediately correct this fatal mistake as soon as possible, but the situation was very unsupportive. He stayed longer in the palace to hear everything that was happening and planned their steps together.

Maisie who was still in the form of an owl also felt the threat to the forest, the Great Magic Forest, and Aurora had disappeared. He lowered his protective field and asked Alicia to postpone the return of the people from the magic dimension, considering they still have to negotiate, because surely Alicia will be focused on dealing with various kinds of problems that arise afterwards, as well as other problems, such was the doubt, anxiety, and fear his subjects felt about what the palace would do after this "temporary" victory.

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[In the meantime, on the way home Crescent Void, Klutzie, and Siren.].

“Hey,” said Danny, “I only realized after everything calmed down again, but ... where is Novalius? Isn't he with you?”

“Ah, if Novalius...” Marcus hesitated to tell him. The eyes of Colette and Mellynda, who do not want to see Danny or Gerda, make both suspicious.

“Hah? What happened?” ask Danny.

“Tell me, Marcus,” timpal Klutzie.

Marcus took a long breath. “Actually...”.

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When Marcus, Colette, Mellynda, Klutzie, and Novalius were about to be teleported with Alicia's butterfly magic, Klutzie uttered something that instantly ignited Novalius' emotions.

“Wait a minute, Queen Alicia. Let me talk for a minute,” Klutzie said.

“What's up?” ask Alicia, “soon, her battle—“

“I know. It will be short.” Klutzie looked at Novalius. “People like you who are fixated on power differences and soon forget the main purpose of all the struggles you have been doing are the ones who will fall the fastest—no, you will only be a burden to your own comrades.”

Novalius frowned. “Hah? What do you mean?”

“You don't understand...? Haaa. All right, I'll shorten it so that even monkeys can understand.

"Leave. You'll just be a burden to us.”

Klutzie's words instantly made all around her shocked, even Alicia herself.

“I have joined the Spirit of Yggdrasil, and in this mode, I can feel which movement is different from usual. Anywhere, same with life. And that life must have been affected by the way the owner thought. Whether the person is strong or weak, bermana big or small, there is always a difference that allows the Spirit of Yggdrasil to judge what kind of person deserves to be helped— example is I san Zeeta, which is the Seed of Yggdrasil.

“How, do you understand now? I won't reveal what you've thought before, but if you realize you're wrong, then stay. If you feel objection and want proof, then wait until we get back. I'll serve you. Just chill. Danny and Gerda were commoners who were much more worthy of being called nobles. They will definitely protect what to protect.”

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“Even though you are a prince, but your tongue is sharp too!” respond Danny to Marcus' story. “Why can you behave like that even though Novalius is older than you?”

Danny's question invites Klutzie's laughter. “Hahahah, are you kidding me?”

“Hmm?”

“It is precisely because I am a Prince, old or young, that I must deal fairly. I looked at Zeeta as a strange princess. She did not emit her aura at all as a Princess. She was not so graceful to be called a Princess, but she remained precious as a Royal Princess. You feel so too, ‘kan ... Danny's in love with Zeeta?” Klutzie teases Danny at the end of the sentence he whispers.

Danny immediately reddened as soon as he heard it. "A-a-a-what do you mean? D-don't joke! Even though you prince turned out your humor was pretty good, yes, ha ha ha ha!"

“I don't know what you're whispering to her, but...,” timpal Gerda, “we're like this thanks to Azure and Melly's sister. They taught us the importance of a friend to be cherished before he felt he was abandoned. Zeeta is easily lonely, timid, and whiny. We can't leave him alone. Because that's....

“I am so grateful that my wish was realized, I could spend more time with Zeeta!” the sincere smile from him made everyone there smile along.

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“Heeeehhh ..” Danny took his breath. “By the way, we've been walking for fifteen minutes, but it feels like it's been an hour! No one can use teleportation magic, huh?”

“Whispering, know! If there is, it must have been done from the beginning!” exclaim Gerda.

“Relax, I just asked! How about you, Siren?”

“Not for now,” Siren replied, “for someone who can't control his emotions, where I get drained. I even avoided using that magic since before leaving so that my mana was saved enough to fight Suzy, but this child was precisely..”.

“Ahahahah Klutzie scratched his non-itchy head. “Sorry, everyone...”.

“What Suzy .... has really lost, Siren?” ask Mellynda.

“HAH?!” Colette was the most surprised among them. “Even after receiving my magic like that?!”

“Yes. But, he must have received a fatal wound. Both me and Klutzie, we are quite satisfied with this result for having repaid his deeds to us some time ago.”

“Oh ... fine, if that's what you said...” Colette's calm back.

Marcus glanced at Klutzie, he had something on his mind but he did not reveal it. Then, not long after, Zacht appeared before them over Alicia's envoy to pick up.

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Zeeta who is training with Ozy is showing the results of his training so far . With her enemy a shadowy creature that was previously delayed to fight, Zeeta fights her with a piece of Ozy's wood. He said that a stick of wood was enough to mediate the two runes that Zeeta had learned, Thurisaz and Raidho, only if Zeeta is able to regulate the amount of flow of mana nature and convert it to Rune appropriately. Without divulging even the slightest bit of the abilities of his artificial being, Ozy only paid attention to how Zeeta would cope with this situation.

“If Ozy told me to wear runes, it means that the creature in front of me is not an opponent that can be overcome with just ordinary magic. No... not necessarily like that..” As Zeeta was deep in thought, the three shadow creatures extended their arms to tie Zeeta's legs and pulled her to the ground and managed to injure her chin and cause a moment of dizziness.

“Sial! I should have been able to avoid it with Raidho!” inner Zeeta, “so this is what Ozy means I need an intermediary to write Rune?” When he was about to use his wooden trunk to write the rune, both of his wrists were also tied with additional arms that appeared like additional branches. Responding to this, Zeeta glances at Ozy, and she finds a grin from him. Suddenly, Zeeta feels underestimated.

Zeeta stared at the wooden trunk stuck between her index finger and right thumb. Soon, the trunk glowed blue, then flew away by itself. “Raidho!” inner Zeeta, who became the command for his trunk and immediately wrote ‘Raidho’.

As soon as it is written, Zeeta directs her trunk to touch the letter. Next, by imagining Thurisaz in his head, the trunk immediately wrote it down on Zeeta's body at the speed that Raido had augmented. It all happened so quickly and caused a small smile for Ozy.

After feeling the effect, Zeeta clenched her hand and spread it out. He also did the same to his feet, and made the three shadow creatures break like jelly and spread out in all directions, including Zeeta himself.

“Iiieeewww, what is this?” Zeeta felt very uncomfortable once the jelly fragments touched her body. “It's sticky, slimy, and .. ugh ... smell!”

Just as Zeeta wants to obliterate the shards with her magic, suddenly….

‘GUBRAK!’

“Eh...? My body suddenly...” Zeeta's view is yellow.

“You failed,” said Ozy from a distance, “you did not use mana nature, but mana yourself, let alone you poured it in large quantities. If you weren't you, you would be dead! Zeeta, you still have a lot to practice!”

Zeeta training is still long to enjoy the results....

Then, after Zeeta begins to regain her mana, Zeeta recalls something she completely forgot how important it was. With his face still looking a little pale, he asked. “Ozy ... You said this place is isolated from the outside world, ‘kan? But ... why can I know what happened on the battlefield before?”

Ozy looked at Zeeta's eyes, then answered him. “Yes, if who is inside this is a creature like Aria, or your friends.”

“Hah? What does it mean?”

“You are the owner of the power of the moon, feeling what happens to friends or strangeness in nature at a certain distance, is not impossible. I also do not understand how you can do it, while I, I am a Giant. Earth tells me what happened.”

Zeeta recalls feeling the same way when the Hollow that first attacked Aurora came. What nature feels, it feels. However, it actually raises a question mark again for him, why only certain times he is able to feel it? Ozy even stuck about it.

“Use this time for you to rest, and don't think about it excessively, then immediately return to training!” ozy.

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After the return of the Crescent Void was welcomed by the Queen and the King, as well as the main nobles, Klutzie and Siren immediately set foot to fulfill his promise to Novalius. Alicia who knows it can only smile and be deep, “Young time, eh?”

Maisie had returned to her original form and Luna was also present in the same space. They are ready to negotiate. “Before we start, let me say one thing,” said Ashley, who asked a question. “I feel ashamed as the Grand Duchess who is only a burden to you. I should have done more, but it's always been like this. Not only this time, when Rowing happened, and Hell Hydra I was just a burden to you guys. L'm....

“Feel better to leave this department.”

Everyone was wide-eyed and the first to try to undo Ashley's intentions was Luna, who was certainly not expected by anyone there. “Shift your intentions, Man.” She changed her form into a half-cloak girl. “Crescent Void can get this far because of your efforts as well. Even if you judge it as meaningless, with you having teleported Danny to the front line makes everything change.

“A small action, can always change the situation of the battlefield, even if it is expressed as ‘the presence of stones on the road, can subvert even a giant.’

“Your action is not everything as a general, but your mind is also included in it. Your plan of letting Klutzie down to the battlefield after training in Axel's dungeon room, is one of your services.

“In addition, if you step down from your post, you will be the one who will be troubled to face Zeeta. Without you, he would not have found the facts of his mother, the meaning of being a princess, and his current life.”

“That's right!” Hellenia hoarding, “without Madame Ashley, we can't get this far!”

“I agree,” timpal Rey, “thank you Mistress, I can present here as the main noble.”

“Although sometimes Mother is hard, but hard it is one form of your assertiveness as Grand Duchess,”.

“I am still just serving as the main noble, but I also feel how important your presence in this kingdom, Madame Ashley,” added Zacht.

“I don't really understand, but you're Zeeta's magic teacher, ‘right?” Danny without burden said it, “then, he who is a crybaby would still want to learn more from you!”

“Da-Danny, how you speak..!” Marcus is overwhelmed with Danny.

“Everything..” Too emotional with the situation, Ashley shed tears. “Thank you!

“Alright, then, there is no need for us to delay again, let's discuss how we plan ahead!”