Zeeta and the Wizarding World
It's like Pandora's Box

Zeeta who had just been taken away by Aria to the Great Magic Forest to carry out her training for seven years, was greeted by the face of a fairly muscular Elf man with long black hair tied together by one. “Megir, Aria. He has to duel with me,” he said.

“Are you kidding me, Lloyd? He just came,” Aria replied, still trying to protect Zeeta.

The elf named Lloyd clutched Aria's shoulder and took it off. While Zeeta is confused as to what she is doing, Aria is on standby for impact by making cotton-shaped magic. Aria soared into the air, then bounced to the right.

“A-what happened?!” inner Zeeta.

Aria soon comes out of the cotton magic that manages to protect her. “Be careful, Zeeta! He was the strongest Elf after Elder Hugo!” his screeches.

“E-ehh?!” Zeeta takes distance from Lloyd.

Lloyd smiled. “Taking distance after knowing the difference in strength. Good, you have basic knowledge of the fight. But .. I told you, this is a duel. If you don't come near me, how can you hurt me?” he said it with confidence.

“Not no no. Even though you said so, what's the reason I should duel with you?” ask Zeeta.

Lloyd and the other Elves who witnessed it were asked questions.

“Are you stupid? That question would be of no use if I answered. Think for yourself while you focus on me!” Lloyd stomps her feet. The roots of the tree around Zeeta began to move and brutally attack him from all directions by sharpening the tip. Zeeta glanced from wherever the sharp root directions were, and she was still able to dodge them with the zigzag style and speed augmented by her magic.

Lloyd smiled. “That's how it should be. Don't disappoint me, because you're holding Catastrophe Seal, aren't you?”

“Hei!” pekik Zeeta, “what should I do so that I can win this duel?”

“Of course beat me. That's even if you can!”

“Then ...” Zeeta rode and regulated her breathing. “I start!” he pulled his left leg back and bent his right leg—baba-aba to throw himself.

“While, I si—“ Lloyd was wide-eyed when Zeeta suddenly appeared under her stomach just after she blinked. With Zeeta's right hand tightly clenched, Lloyd's stomach was punched and her body twisted thirty degrees to the left. The impact of the blow made him spit out blood and slammed instantly on the ground.

“Pocus magic on the soles of my feet, it makes me move fast. My punch is also the same exercise concept. This has been taught by my teacher Ashley, it's just .. only this time I really practice it... hehehe..” Zeeta scratched her non-itchy head. “Are you okay? Do I need to heal your wounds?”

Lloyd was still at a loss for words with this little girl. He then wiped the blood in his mouth with his hands and stood back up. “Tua! I can't hold back my strength if it's like this. He's serious, I have to be serious too!” screech while looking to the right.

“Eh? There's Uncle Hugo in this crowd?”

Hugo's figure came out from behind the crowd, an innocent-looking pretentious face with his fake smile. At that time, Hugo had a serious face. “Do not hesitate or you will die!”

Hearing this, Zeeta immediately moved away from Lloyd. Not long after, the sky of the Great Magic Forest turned into a night sky filled with millions of stars. Zeeta also finds out if Lloyd's mana size is constantly increasing and there is no sign that it will stop.

Before Lloyd took action, he said, “Elf is an isolated race, either from Humans or from fellow magic creatures. Therefore...”.

Lloyd suddenly disappeared into smoke, which certainly made Zeeta surprised and pay more attention around with all her strength. Right, left, bottom or top corner, he was trying to figure out and guess where Lloyd would turn up.

“Zeeta, don't use your eyes!” shouted Aria.

“Eh..?”

‘Fssshhhh’

Smoke gushed into his eyes and made Zeeta scream for a moment. Even so, he did not allow himself to fall to the ground, but instead treated the eyes and around his eyes that turned purple with magic from his left hand.

“So, yes.... Elves can change their shape to whatever they want, but I really didn't expect that you could turn into smoke. He tries to find out where Lloyd is by luring him to talk, but the result is nil. He actually received further attacks by feeling the ties in his ankles and hands then followed by several hard blows from the fist on the chest, abdomen, and ended the attack by elbowing Zeeta's left thigh.

“Ggghhkk!” erang Zeeta tried to endure the pain. Lloyd reappeared afterwards.

“He deliberately targeted one of my vital points in order to prevent me from doing an impromptu attack, right…? It seems like he is really just trying to test me... no, maybe his own training has already begun…?

“There is no point thinking about it all. I also have to avenge this attack and prove what

all I can do!”

Zeeta remembers something she asked her mother a while ago.

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“Hey, Mom..., Catastrophe Seal it uses magic, ‘kan?” asked Zeeta, when she and her mother were both in a private hot spring. The calm atmosphere there, as well as the sound of the water flow, plus the heat of the water relaxing the body, is a good time to ask this. They sat side by side, showing that the bond between mother and child was already tight.

“As far as I know, anyway, yes,” Alicia replied. His relaxed body made his face smile.

“Mom already knows, if this earring has mysterious powers that let us see the past ... 'right?”

Alicia nodded.

“Is it strange if I say I don't see the past, but my own ancestors?”

Alicia immediately looked up and turned to her daughter. “A-what did you say?!”

“Uh.... I'm sure their name is Clarissa, and then I also met Velvet.

Alicia immediately clutched her daughter's shoulder instantly after hearing those two names. “What did they tell you?!”

“I-it was about not giving up and they guided me to wear Catastrophe Seal!”

Alicia held her chin while thinking.  “Can they also use that holy weapon?”

“No, they said this weapon can only be used by me.”

“Why?”

“Hmm.... I am the Yggdrasil Seed and I am me!” Zeeta smile.

Alicia tried to digest carefully what this child meant. “Oh,” inner understand, “so yes. You've grown, yes...” He also smiled.

“But ... which makes me doubtful, why do I only feel the side effects of using it once? Luna said, if a human other than me uses it, after wearing it, he turns to ashes. But I, only felt pain all over my body, and it was because I was already the Yggdrasil Seed back then.

“In addition, when I was dealing with Fairy, the effect it released was incredible, but it did not exhaust me or anything. I wonder, what exactly is Catastrophe Seal..?”.

Alicia was silent for a moment, trying to give the answer she was able to give to her beloved daughter.

“Tell me. Do you feel so dependent on that weapon?”

Zeeta frowned. “No...I do that only if I'm desperate and the lives of many people are at stake. But, when dealing with Lucy, I had time to take her out but she could easily stop her.”

“Then what you have to do is simple. Who you are facing, what your situation is during the fight, remember this one thing; believe me if you are able to do it. Because a little doubt on yourself, will make your magic can not bring out its full potential.”

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Zeeta smiles, which makes Lloyd nervous. But as toyed with, the misgivings turned confused when he saw Zeeta chewing, which was not even in his mouth.

Ignoring it, Zeeta blows. As when Ashley was about to activate the loudspeaker magic from the front of her mouth, Zeeta made a magic circle in front of her mouth. The blow that passed through the magic circle made some light blue gum balloons.

“A-what is this? What are you doing, Zeeta?!” squeak Lloyd.

“Hehehe Zeeta paints her smug smile. “Although you are the strongest after Uncle Hugo, if you don't know what this is, I can also repay you, even with my eyes closed.”

“A-what did you say?!! You underestimated me?”

“Oh? Then, why don't you just try to destroy these magic?”

“Cih...” Lloyd was doubtful.

“How ... thrilling, yes? Something you don't know is haunting in front of your eyes. Is it going to explode? Broken to pieces? Or maybe something else?

“There's no way you could have known that you didn't see him first. Just like Pandora's box, right? Hehehehe.

Aria who saw Zeeta's behavior could only laugh a little. “Basic... can-can...”.

But all that didn't last long when Hugo ordered Lloyd. “What do you doubt, Lloyd? I told you, if you had any doubts, you would die!”

Zeeta realizes Hugo's words were suspicious, but she lets him. He also doesn't respond when Lloyd will slash all of his balloon magic. “Booom,” he said slowly.

‘SPLART’

The sticky rubbers tightly bound even to the point of not being able to move a single finger across the Elves that were there, except for Zeeta.

Responding to what his opponent was doing, Lloyd tried to do something with his high self-esteem. “Heh. Children's magic like this won't be able to defeat an Elf like me. I stay melted—“

“’I just melt or freeze this magic. That way, this magic must be easily broken’.

"Fufufu, remember, what did I make the magic circle for?”

Zeeda laughs at Lloyd. At the same time Zeeta is detached from the root bond that gives the red mark.

“Why?! Why doesn't my magic work?! What ... why ... no, I have to make myself breathe first, otherwise—“

Zeeta twirled her right index finger as she walked closer to Lloyd who was tied to the ground with a stagger. The index finger pulled again the rubbers that blocked the breathing of the Elves.

“Agh! I thought I was going to die!” said Elf A.

“Suddenly once, I got surprised!” connect Elf B.

“Zeeta fucking... did he forget I was here, huh?!” inner Aria.

Shortly afterwards they were silent for a moment when they saw Zeeta staggering close to Lloyd. Zeeta gives a hole in Lloyd's rubber-covered nose.

“Rather than temporarily stopping the opponent's movement and giving him time to think, making him panic instantly is a step that makes you excel instantly.

"This is also the result of my training with my teacher. The difference is, back then it was an artificial magic creature, so I had to think twice for this success rate.” He then opened Lloyd's mouth.

“Whispering! I haven't unleashed my abilities! I can use all the elements and can win this duel easily! I demand you to re-match!”

“Uhm. It is possible, but ..” Zeeta unbinds her entire rubber band and just obliterates the candy ball. “This time is one-empty. I won!” Zeeda threw her sweet smile.

Lloyd was surprised what he saw first was not a proud and arrogant face for his victory, but a relieved and warm smile. He was also surprised to see that his opponent's legs had not been healed by his own magic, even though it was an easy thing.

“Cih. Bitter once.” Lloyd got up and cleaned the stains on her clothes. “I'm leaving, Elder.”

“Thank you, Lloyd,” reply Hugo smiled.

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After the duel ended, Hugo invited Zeeta and the inhabitants back to their residence. “How is the Elf's residence?”, is the question that comes to a head when Hugo leads the way into the Great Magic Forest even deeper. Yes, he had been here once, but it was only for a moment, so he simply beat up with high expectations. Of course, this trip was made after Zeeta had treated her own injuries.

Giant tree after giant tree passed. The blue clumps also continued to traverse, but there was no sign of the existence of the Elf village board. Zeeta who was getting tired finally asked. “Hey, Uncle Hugo, hasn't arrived..?”

“What do you mean?” Hugo asked back.

“Eh…? I asked, when do we get to your residence?”

“I told you, what do you mean? Look around!”

Zeeta's confused. Want him not to see. “E-eeeehh…? Since when?!”

The waterfall that launched the pink water, rainbow that became the ribbon in the waterfall, a simple house made of trees around which has a fence, unique animals such as fire-horned deer, and a, the golden-haired bear, and several firebirds perched on the trunk, made the first sight of Zeeta glitter and exceed his expectations.

“Welcome, in the land of the Elves, Grandtopia!” exclaim Hugo.

Zeeta's eyes didn't stop shining, not even with her lips. The Elves who saw Zeeta's reaction also smiled.

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In a house with a special uniqueness in the fence and windows with a unique pattern engraved there, there are Zeeta and Hugo speaking four eyes with a lighting of blue lanterns in the corner of the ceiling. It's a serious matter so Zeeta has to listen to it carefully.

“To be honest I didn't suspect about what happened to your kingdom recently. I'm so sorry,” Hugo said, opening the conversation.

“As Lord Princess Twenty-First, I thank you for your condolences, Elder Elf Hugo,” Zeeta replied with formality. Hugo smiled.

“Let's discuss the main topic. You will be training here, but there are some things we need to get straight.”

“What is it?”

“The woman named Lucy gave a deadline of seven years, but you will not train that long here.”

“Eh...? Why?”

“Remember, the flow of time here is a few hours slower than the outside world. This is one of the magical embodiments of someone we, the Elves, consider like mother.”

“OK.... Then..?”

“More precisely, you will be here for six years and eleven months. And within that time frame, there's a target you have to reach.”

Zeeta nodded, ready to hear his next words.

“Mastering Catastrophe Seal absolutely!”