Things….hadn’t gone as phe first problem was when Amelia had sehe phone instead of merely monit it, she was fused as to where the thing had e si had her Te it, and she didn’t remember making it. When it popped owork and she didn’t reize it the girl had summo with the reverse teleport. The device…

  Was normal, besides the point that it had deleted all its tent when the master key hadn’t been reized. All that Amelia mao salvage icture of Elizabeth and her parents. Amelia only found records of Elizabeth of course, but none of Jack or Catherine.

  No records from [The Ameri Crusader] or [The Stardust Explorer]. Of course that had been a problem too.

  “We know that you are voug for this…but you o uand our position too. We ’t just let someone who has access to our teology like that go. Even if that one is a lone girl who just woke up from a a. What if she had more? This is a breach of…” The [Prophet] kept speaking. And to be ho, I was surprised how [My Hero] even allowed the woman to live.

  Every sed that I ending listening to her was one more sed I wao punch her face, and she k. What she didn’t know was the depth of my power, this [System] made her think that everyone was on the same pying field.

  She was wrong.

  “I quit. Would that be enough for you to leave Elizabeth alone?” I finally said after getting tired of her tirade about security.

  “...You ’t just…” [The Warlock] started speaking, he was still rec from the wound on his arm. I would miss him, he was merely misuood. Even for someone of that family, he was someone who just got friendly with the wrong kind of people.

  “Wait.” The [Prophet] spoke, “Do you think we allow someone of your caliber to just roam around? We need guarahat-”

  The [Prophet] was aiming for the leadership of anization, now that [My Hero] wasn’t around nor was Catherihe spot was tested. her [The Beast Master] nor [The Sniper] wahe spot, same could be said of [The Monk]. That left very few people as didates.

  [The Elementalist] was busy with his work on Izanami.

  [The Traveler] was adamantly refusing any responsibility.

  [The Tinkerer] would not leave her boratory if that tion.

  [Shadow Pact]...had not been avaible since [Advent].

  That left me, [The Prophet], and [The Warlock].

  “I will not run for leadership of this anization. The only reason I was even here is gone, so you either take my word for it or try to stop me from leaving.” I said while standing from my chair.

  “Little Jenna…or not so little anymore. I am sure Julia will be happy if you just sign a tract or something….you know how it is….Just….” The more [The Warlock] spoke the more his voice was turning lower and lower.

  “A tract?” I smirked at that this was why [My Hero] never liked the Italians, they lived and died for those stupid tracts. “Sure!”

  But this would be a good moment as any, the [Prophet] smirked as she brought a piece of paper, some kind of a scroll from an a civilization with thousands of history behind it, that or she made it using the skin of some girl who was far removed from civilization to ensure her purity. Some poor soul whose arms got severed, eyes removed, toracted, and was kept away from the sun and smog of civilization.

  The devious ways of the Italians were like that. It robably tied in with curses and blessings or something. Not that it would matter.

  “Just sign here, it is a standard tract, it will make sure that you behave and not do anything untoward civilization. The usual stuff.” [The Prophet] spoke while the trad a quill.

  She took the quill and wrote her name on it. As she started writing her he quill tried to take trol of her [Mana], she let it. Her name [Jenna Lewis] was being written in golden light. She could see the smile and greed in Julia’s eyes, she could feel the s trying to get ahold of her.

  And all it took was a flex of her power, she hadn’t even o el the power of [The Ameri Crusader], no. All it took was to tap into the power of one of the minuardians] of another realm and the s broke, she felt the mana that had tried to tie her down rebound, and the quill, scroll, and everything iween bursts in azure fmes.

  “Pfft” Followed by the muted scream of [The Prophet] as she puked blood, it seemed that she had tried to use her own [Soulscape] as the way to tie her. The pitiful thing.

  “Are you okay Julia?” Jenna asked as she looked down at the woman whose eyes started bleeding as she tried to wrestle back her own mana from rampaging. “Do you require assistance? I could [Inate] a [Healer] to help you…Or perhaps a [Scribe] to go into the trad see what went wrong? Or perhaps…”

  Jenna said as she kneeled down beside her, no other member of [The Twelve] was ag. Not even [The Warlock] could move as she was letting her own mana rampage a down on everyone.

  “I could solve all these problems by crushing this little head that thought that she could do whatever she wished because [The Ameri Crusader] and [The Stardust Explorer] left?” She felt the interference from [The World] as Julia’s eyes seemed to unfocus as she spoke. “ht, you ’t even uand me like that. Fine, just because [Odyssey] granted you some [Wishes] does not mean she endorses you. And trust me [Framework] has no love for you either. This I guarantee.”

  “....what do you want.” Julia, [The Prophet] spoke with gritted teeth. Her eyes full of hatred.

  “Nothing plicated, you [Will not] attempt anything towards Elizabeth Starbright. And you will let me go, not that you stop me…Not a single one of you has any ce of hoping to stop me. There was only a single reason I was not the number one of [The Twelve]” Jenna said as she let the mana that had been crushing down on those here go. “[My Hero] was here, so he was the number one. But since he left…there is nothi for me here. He made [The Twelve] because it was ve, not because he needed us. And so I will do the same…If I ever need help I will make use of you. But till then…”

  She left the words trail as she left, the only movements behind her were the sound of nails digging into the floor. Jenna did notice that [The Beast Master] her, the monster robably barely moved from her [Mana], and that meant that in turn [The Elementalist] was just fine.

  Not that she cared, she had more important things to do. Namely…go find her baby sister.

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  Her baby sister was doing quite fine, she had fought against a monster on its own, some kind of [Hero] that seemed to have a few [Echoes] feeding and keeping his [Soul] in one piece, she had almost gone and crushed the i whearted increasing his [Authority], but her baby sister went oep beyond and cast an isotion barrier.

  Somehow her baby sister had mao pull a demi-po this world and isote herself and the arena, if it had been anyone else then she may have mao hide her pns. As, “[I pierce eternity.]” Jenna Lewis was not anyone else.

  So she was able to see the full frontation, how Elizabeth dealt with that [Wannabe Hero], how she used the [Echos] that she was summoning and fusing into her [Minions], most of those were beyond salvation.

  Mere fragments of perished souls, it was a wohat the girl was able to tame them and put them under her work, something not even she as [The Juggernaut] had been able to do. But that was her baby sister, the girl was doing quite well. Even if she made her scream when she dove into the [Soulscape] of the [Wannabe Hero].

  That was ballsy, if Elizabeth had been a man, she would make a wonderful successor to their father. And she wouldn’t mind marrying her, but she was way busier on something else, the fact that Elizabeth had even mao do such a thing.

  That wasn’t possible, not even Catherine could do such a thing, and she had brought forth the spell and theory that allowed them to peer into the [Soulscape]. The [System] had made it easier true, but the basic theory was brought by [The Stardust Explorer], and even she could barely see what was the basi of the [Soulscape].

  Some could tamper with them, some could peek at them. Very few could ihem, but Elizabeth wasn’t nearly enough in that spot to be able to do such a thing… A.

  Her baby sister did it, she infiltrated a [Soulscape], and made it in such a way that the idiot she was fighting didn’t notice it. Nor the fact that he was fighting an [Echo], grahe [Echo] he was fighting was closer to a living thing, the [Soul] seemed to be ret. Was Elizabeth into [Neancy]?

  She would o give her the talk ter.

  It took her around half an hour to finish whatever she had dohere, but when she finally emerged back she did it with great fa this point the [Echo] she had left had fully materialized into her previous form. If her link from Amelia into the wover databases was to be trusted, this [Echo] was from Aurelia Vitelius, a spy sent by the Italians. They didn’t seem to remember sending it and had attributed it to failed unication, but sihe asset had died they didn’t delve too deep into it.

  She knew better, it robably a pn by Julia to get close with Elizabeth, well, she succeeded iing close. But if she was seeing it right, the girl was tied to Elizabeth in some level that she was scared to even think about. Most [Echos] were resonant remnants that rippled from their in world.

  Their in was based on some far-removed reality. But this girl? She was resonating with the darkness within Elizabeth. And then there was that, her baby sister had returned from within that [Wannabe Hero] with half an [Echo], ohat she ate. Not only increasing her own [Authority], but also stripping part of it from the bug. That made one of the students iands have her mana shift in some weird way, as if it had started being nourished.

  Looking closely she could see a couple [Echos] of former lives barely f around the red-haired girl who was being used as a stool by a pink-haired one, if her info was to be trusted, it was one Rossaline Singh, the girl who had taken care of Elizabeth st year. Who…didn’t have anything surrounding her besides the [Echo] of her [Shift]. Weird.

  Either the girl was sure of who she was, or she had dealt with her own [Echo] already. She didn’t have time to deal with that, the filth tile, worse. It seemed as if her baby sister was finally gettied.

  So she started preparing, she would e with her full might to make arance worthy of their father. Yes, perhaps she could even use his line? “Everything is okay, for I’m here.” Yes, it would be awesome!

  ………….except. Elizabeth had one more ace hidden under her hand.

  “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?!?!?!?” Elizabeth summoned…an hoo-goon.

  Somehow her baby sister summoned ay that made her feel weak, she…she might eveo summon her full might to deal with something on that level, and Elizabeth summo? To deal with that kid?

  Girl? You used a frig o kill a mosquito! What in the holy might of [The Ameri Crusader] is wrong with you?!?!?!?

  That gave her a headache so sihat was dealt with Jenhe arena and walked to the dormitories, she would wait for her at Elizabeth’s apartment. No wait, too stalker behavior. In the end, she decided to wait in the waiting room.

  “Miss?” And while thinking about that she got approached by the staff, “Who are you waiting for…?”

  Right, she didn’t sign anything and just walked here. “I came for my sister, no wait. I’m the legal representative of one of the students and have e to inform her. I just need her sign to take legal custody.” So she answered bringing the paperwork Amelia prepared for her.

  Elizabeth had no legal representative as of now, so she would fill that role. At least till she was eighteen, then she could renouhe right if Elizbeth wished so.

  “...That student is no longer on campus, she seems to have left after the st fight…We are currently speaking with the Teleportation Station sihey don’t have records of her arriving, but we ’t find her in the area…” The staff member said with a strained smile. “Do you…have any idea where she could be? She is needed for interrogation by the current cil of the school…”

  Of course, she didn’t listen to the end of that talk, she could imagine what they wao speak Elizabeth with, either about how she crushed the other student, or how she summoned an SSS+ threat with such ease. She had no time for either.

  Elizabeth had left, so she o track her down…

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  WHERE ARE YOU ELIZABETH STARBRIGHT!?!?!?!?

  This was harder than it was he first stop Jenna made when searg her had been [Avalon], her house was here after all. But after arriving she found nothing. No records of her arriving, no records of ah her description or her [Shift]. Hell, not even any sightings of the other two girls who disappeared with her. Rossaline Singh and Watanabe Rena.

  The first was the girl that took care of her for a year and some, and the other was….the firlfriend of the boy Elizabeth pounded into the ground using an SSS+ Threat. Also, she allegedly crippled his soul, mana, core, soulscape and mind. If she was being ho, for what little she found from him the kid deserved worse…

  It seemed that the school cil wao sell him to the Italians or something, and that was the only reason they were worried, they would get culled. Either Amelia would leak their shenanigans or they would get a visit from [The Juggernaut] or any of the other personas she could inate.

  No, the problem was…”Not here.” Elizabeth wasn’t here. “Merlin? Any clues?”

  The [Eaed behihe image of a sagely old man wearing a weathered robe and a long beard, he looked more like a ghost bathed in light than a human, “No, there are powerful Maricks in this city. And I perceive one of my kirying to hide here. But I have not felt anything close to what you described…Was it a Bade of Shadows bathed in thunder and surrounded by a legion of the dead?”

  “Please don’t make my baby sister sound like some kind of monster or vilin.” This old man always made things look more dangerous than they were. “No wait, one of your kindred? Is someone from your dimension here?”

  That otentially dangerous, [Merlin] was an [Echo] she summoned from the same pce that Catherine had learned magic. Well, a dimension close enough anyway.

  “Not mine, but closer in the same meaning that you could say was a close neighbor. She seems to be house-sitting? She is just sitting there staring in our dire…Oh, she just waved at us.” That was…weird. “Do you want to talk to her? Perhaps she knows something?”

  If she was still w for [The Twelve] or how they called themselves now [The ars] she might just do that. “No, we have more important things to do. If she isn’t making any problems we deal with that ter. My only worry at the moment is Elizabeth, prepare the teleportation spell, we are going to Veritalis now.” She would tour all the tis if needed.

  But she would find Elizabeth.

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  And so Jenna toured all the tis, orag spell at the time, she had traveled far and long. Visited every pce she had access to and a few she shouldn’t have access to anymore. Not that anyone could stop her, the best mage in the world had left. And while she couldn’t inate [The Stardust Explorer] (That woman was weird) or [The Traveler] to use his talents (That family had something wrong with them!). She still had plenty of power and skills to flex.

  In the end, she arrived in Germania st, at this point, she was just pig on straws “Merlin? If you ’t find anything here I’m summoning Mana.” She said to her best mage.

  “You would summon the Fae? Jenna, don’t fall that low. At least try to summon Heimdall first, the Nods are better than dealing with the Fae.” The old man grumbled as he let his spell ripple.

  She was gettiless, this…something wasn’t right, something was naggi the back of her [Power], something was happening and she wasn’t quite sure what. She got this inkling that Elizabeth needed her. And soon.

  “Jenna? Something is happening. Someone rebuffed my spell and seems to be trying to imitate it and try to track me back. The mana seems to have some [Shadow] attribute to it, but it doesn’t feel like what you described, this feeling is closer to a tyrannical dragon.” The old man said, that was…w. Had something happeo Elizabeth?

  “Wait, it has [Shadows]?” Jenna asked back, Elizabeth had a [Shadow] attribute as the main right? And she had summohat weird Dragoy…had her summon gotten out of trol? “Lockdown orad prepare to teleport.”

  “The signal has been lost, but there seems to be some residual energy. There are also some traces of [Corrupted Shadows] oher side of the try, and some faint traces of simir [Mana] to the ohat caused this mana explosion blinking all over the try. Where to Jenna?” The old man said as he maed a map with all the information.

  Amelia had told her about the vilin running rampant in Germania, it seems that Maximilian had go of trol after the advent. The man had mao wrestle part of his memories, some aspect of his power had made it so he synched with the [Echo] he was before [Advent]. But his mind hadn’t survived intact.

  She would feel bad for him if not for the fact that the man had wao attack Elizabeth during the [Advent]. The man deserved what he got.

  “We will iigate the smaller traces first, then the bigger o. If Elizabeth shows in the [Divination] spells then tell me at once. While we wait for her appearance we will che those blips.” Was the decision Jenna came to.

  She summoned [Hermes]’s boots and [Icarus]’s wings, and so she was en route to the first spot. She would find out what this was about.

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  And so, she e the try findis of a girl whose description matched Elizabeth…And Elizabeth…

  To be precise they matched two of Elizabeth’s shifts. At the same time. They seemed to teleport all over the pce, and Maximilian was after them, she found some recs thanks to Amelia’s help. Having [The Tinkerer] as help had made everything easier.

  “Jenna? Please…if you stop Max…he isn’t right, we o help him…” Even if Amelia seemed to want to help [Shadow Pact].

  “I…will try okay, he tried to harm my baby sister before. I promise to at least listen to him and try to make him reason, but if he attacks me…I will defend myself. That is the best I give you Amelia.” So Jenna answered her friend.

  “....Just…don’t kill him okay? I know that you aren’t happy with us [ars] after what happened. And I’m not sure if I fully return the memories of those two, I barely keep my memories when speaking with you. But…Just be safe okay. Even if you are the stro… Be safe.” And the e was cut. Amelia was an…iing case.

  She wasn’t able to leave their base now that Catherine had asded, the dimension was being anchored into this reality by her own effort. It was funny really, they cimed to be [Nine] but one was out of order, and the [Prophet] wasn’t leaving the UN while trying to cim the throne.

  The [Elementalist] was likewise tied to Izanami most of the time, and the same could be said about [The Beast Master] who was keeping the rift at bay alohe Traveler] was hard to track at best, and probably dead at worst.

  Really, they didn’t have as much might as they cimed.

  “There is your target.” [Merlin] spoke bringitention to the streets as they teleported once more. Oreet, she could see a pair of girls speaking happily while walking, a blonde and a bck-haired one.

  Both looked like Elizabeth, well, one more thaher. But she knew of those tearances. [The Shadow Empress] and [Elemental Weaver], the [Vilin] shift, and the [Magic Girl] shift.

  A…her was Elizabeth, not really. The [Echos] preteo be humans, but she could see their true nature even if no one else could. They even spoke with two [Magica Girls], and she could see the [Shifts] of those girls walking with them, as [Echos] stig close to them trying to keep them safe.

  But it wouldn’t matter to her, she could banish those easily enough. So she teleported above them and spoke to them as she released her mana and [Authority] to teach them the differeween the sky ah.

  “And I want to know what is happenio make two not S-Tier entities be able to remember about [The Ameri Crusader] and his wife.” And that was what mattered to her, no one had mao recover their memories from pre-advent, ahese two barely B-Tier girls got them baot even the [Beast Master] the one closest to her in power had mao do such a thing.

  Perhaps she o be more polite? “No, I don’t think I will be doing that. Or tell you what.” So she eled some of [Hermes]’s speed and sat hem, close enough that they could hear her well, but not close enough to be felt as a threat. “I will answer your question if you answer me…What are doing two [Echoes] walking as nothing, and how did they get those bodies.”

  And that was the most important thing, she o know. The bck-haired one was using Elizabeth’s body. She cared not for the blonde’s body, but this [Shadow Empress]? She was using Elizabeth’s body as if it was nothing.

  She could see Elizabeth’s face behind her disguise! Her Baby Sister was right there! And this girl uppeteering her body as if nothing!?!?! If it wasn’t Elizabeth’s body she would have crushed her! Perhaps she could do that to the blonde girl mimig Elizabeth’s body? She seemed to be close to the Alice girl. “And more importantly…How did they get those bodies? And where is Elizabeth Starbright?” So she would let them answer, she could at least hear their versiht? “So? What will it be? Will you expin where you got those [Bodies]? Just because you look like my baby sister doesn’t mean I will not restrain myself. [My Hero] asked me to look after her. And you parading around using that appearance….”

  Hope they had a hell of a good expnation.

  “Merlin? Prepare all the truth-seeking spells. Hathor? I may need your help, get Anubis and his stupid judgment of truth ready too.” She summoned several [Echos] at the back of her mind. She would get the [Truth], and when she was done…

  Either she would have information about her baby sister…Or she would o pull a few favors…Amelia might have something that could pull the truth from a mana brain. And if not she was [The Tinkerer], she could make one.