This might not be surprising but I got woken up by an energy wave. I looked around and it seemed Gregory had already got up. I stepped outside. Paul was casually roasting marshmallows over a campfire while Cecelia and Charlize were arguing with Hera and Philip, well actually more with Hera, Philip was backing up Hera but not helping much besides that. Their daughters were sitting next to their earth hut looking depressed. I didn''t see Paula or Uraya, nor Gianni and his girlfriend. Raishin was trying to cheer up Charlize and Cecilia''s daughter while Gregory was also roasting marshmallows. I didn''t see Ted either.


    Good morning. I looked toward Boshi town, and as usual, it was continuously getting nuked. As is potato village.


    I expected to be more noise, maybe some crying, screaming, or the like. Paul, Paula, Ted, and I did our best to explain the situation as well as possible. It isn''t easy for them but this is the situation we are in now. They just need time to get over this,


    “Hey, uhm this might be a bit late but we apologize for chasing you and being a bit too obsessive.” This apology which doesn''t match the previous timelines starts causing my intuition to send off more alarm bells. We accept the apology, it is water under the bridge so please don''t talk about it


    “Uhm, ok, are you sure?” Charlize and Cecilia seemed apologetic. I hope they don''t think that we nuked the village because of them. Yeah, I''m sure Greg will feel the same. Greg sticks up his thumb with his mouth full of marshmallows.


    “So, what do we do now? We can’t leave this barrier and our town is well…” Cecilia looks at the [Solar stream]. Gregory stands up still chewing his marshmallows. We can make a better settlement with earth magic. The daughters approach.


    “Does this mean that we have to repopulate, us with Gregory and Agnis?” Gregory and I get shivers. I would rather not. I will politely refuse.


    “Girls we promised to not press this any further with them. They won’t have a choice anyways now that you are the only girls left from their age range.” Maybe my intuition was ringing alarm bells because of this fact. I can volunteer, it is not like you have much of a choice now! He is right you know. Right, Uraya is working on a magic circle to create a proper settlement. Agnis, we need to go do some shade hunting, some have been spotted in the forest several kilometres away from here.


    “Hey, could we join? We need to keep ourselves distracted from our situation.” Charlize and Cecilia offered to join. Sure, it might sound rude but try to keep up.


    “Uhh ok.” I started to circulate nature energy, took out 3 tails, grabbed Gregory, Charlize, and Cecilia, and dashed off starting with an [Accel step].


    “Whaaa!”


    “Ooh, this is soft.” I continued speeding up. Hey, Agnis. Hmm?


    I think you forgot to take off your shoes. Shit! At that moment my shoes vaporized.


    Nooo! My favorite pair! Gregory facepalmed.


    I guess I have to temporarily add big rocks and boulders to my archnemesis list. Why is that?


    They are shoeless kick unfriendly! You make no sense. Shades at 2 o clock. I weaved between the trees approaching them. Gregory bound them and sucked them in the shadow with [Shadow bind] and [Shadow meld]. I lit a [Flash bomb] to eliminate the shadows. We decided to go back to the basics. This combo wouldn''t be harmful, except maybe to the eyes.


    There are a lot of shades, can you 2 try to use magic that minimizes the damage to the environment? Preferably control skills that don''t do damage, or else we might get something like that. Gregory points at the continuous nuke on Boshi town.


    “Ehh, sure, we still have to... Get used to these new identities of you…” That is fine, take your time, as long as you don''t use high damaging magic it should be fine. Another [Shadow meld] [Flash bomb] combo. The wind picked up and it bunched up the shades. The floor froze and made shades slip to one spot.


    Hey, you can scale those attacks up, Greg pull mana out of me and give it to them. Sure. Thousands of shades get slipped and blown to our location while Gregory [Shadow melds] them and I use [Flash bombs]. The shades start to thin in number. We get a bit closer to Boshi town and even though it is supposed to be quite hot here neither Gregory nor the two mothers seem to react.


    Hey, just say so when it becomes too hot. Hmm, now that you say that it doesn''t seem to be any hotter here. Can you get closer, I will tell you when it’s getting too hot.


    “Is this a good idea?”


    “Aren''t you curious Cecilia? We’re this close to what Greg described as a [Solar stream] but it doesn''t feel hot at all.” It still looks like a solar stream to me but it has no temperature, how odd. We reached the edge of the enormous crater. I looked over at potato village but the nukes that were dropping on it still had their original temperature. Gregory and I threw some shades into the blast and they vaporized.


    How peculiar. How does this feel to you?


    To me, it looks identical to Raishin’s original [ Solar stream] but without the temperature and it looks like it would do damage. Hmm, it feels the same to me but the temperature suggests otherwise. Right, If I show signs of mana corruption can you pull the mana out of me? Wait what! I put my hand in the blast.


    No damage, it is a stream of mana but it doesn''t seem to do anything to me. Greg puts his hand on my shoulder.


    It doesn''t look like anything in your body is getting disturbed by this. He puts his hand in the stream too.


    Again, I’m baffled, I have no idea what is going on.


    "Does this mean we can rebuild Boshi town here?” Hmm, our constitution is a bit different from humans, Agnis can you prepare an illusion to undo something I don’t need to but I will pay attention, go ahead. Can you try touching this stream? We can handle whatever happens.


    “Uhh, I don’t know…” Cecilia took a step back.


    “I’ll do it.” Charlize boldly stuck her hand in the stream. “It feels a bit warm like a ray of sunlight.“


    "Huh?” Cecilia put her hand in the stream too. “You’re right!” Gregory looks at me. I’m out of ideas. Same here, nothing here made sense anyway.


    Let''s see if I can capture this with frost magic. I freeze a net out of frost magic and hold it in the stream to catch the energy and it melts.


    Well, that is interesting, this is lost magic. So, is this caused by the weird stuff that is happening or is this what normally happens when Raishin uses [solar stream]?


    Well, we never stuck around for his solar stream so I have no idea. There is only one way to figure out. Are you out of your mind?


    I thought you already accepted that I am! Let''s get Raishin! I grabbed my passengers and dashed back to the camp.


    Hey! Agnis! Wait! Think this through! I did! He can just drop it on ash potato village!


    But that place is getting nuked continuously! Moreover, we have a breakdance match in 2 hours!


    “You what? We are in a dire situation and you are going to a breakdance match?”


    “Isn''t that a bit inappropriate?” Look what you''ve done Greg! Ugh…


    “Explain yourselves!”


    “I’ve misjudged you…” Ooh, yes! That’s it! Good job Greg, that is correct! You misjudged us! We’re terrible people!


    “You have a good reason for it right?” Ehh no? Give up Agnis, they’re not buying it.


    What can a nine-tailed spirit fox do these days to lose trust?


    “I guess stopping putting so much effort in freeing this town and even sacrificing the few lives you have?” You told them? Why not?


    You are going to walk the rest back to the camp! Noo! I apologize!


    Hmpf. I dropped everyone off at the camp, including Gregory.


    Remember! I''m doing this for myself and my buddies! I don''t have a real attachment to this village!


    “Sure, sure, every teenager goes through a phase like this.” I’m not a teenager! Well in our races we’re like 1 or 2 years old so you’re not wrong there.


    Ugh, have it your way! Raishin! Stop him! Gregory, Cecilia, and Charlize piled up on me. Let me go! I got [Shadow bound].


    You guys suck, aren''t you guys curious? I am but there is a time and place.


    Time: now, place: ash potato village. You are ridiculous.


    “Potato village?” Oh yeah, there is some cultist village somewhere under that mountain. They only fed me potatoes so I nuked them.


    “How could they do that to you, everyone knows you hate potatoes.” I know right?! Please don''t encourage him!


    What is Ted up to? Practicing his breakdance.


    Why? Why? So that we can win?


    Why don''t we just cheat? We’re battling a mole, he is blind, and as long as it looks like he is breakdancing we can convince him that Ted was way better. Well, I''m sure Ted won’t agree to that.


    We can''t really afford to lose this one, can we? Gregory sighs. You have a point… I break out of the shadow bind with frost magic.


    The mole can feel our presence by our weight and weight distribution, so he won''t be able to accurately gauge how well Ted can breakdance as long as he tries. Is it that simple? It is that simple.


    “Can we join?” Charlize and Cecilia’s daughters asked. Ehhh. I don''t see any issues with that, we are not fighting the mole. Yet.


    “Yaay let''s get ready Leah!” Who is Leah?


    “I’m glad, you’re still the same.” Charlize’s daughter smiled and pulled Cecilia’s daughter into a hut. You do know that we have to get them on board in cheating now, right? Shouldn''t be hard right?


    I don''t think I''m very persuasive, you handle that. You just don''t feel like talking to them, do you?


    It is good that you catch on quickly! I patted Gregory’s back as I went to get Raishin and Ted.


    Hey, slackers time to go! I entered their hut and saw Ted doing some breakdance moves while Raishin seemed to give him tips.


    Is it time already? I’m not ready yet! Doesn''t matter you will do fine! I grabbed Ted and dragged him out of the hut.


    Wait I need 15… no 10 more minutes! This is breakdancing not a nap, there is nothing you can really improve in 10 minutes! Troll, villager C let’s go.


    “Wait where are we going?” They are coming too? Well, Greg decided that so they are his responsibility now. Hey!


    Alright, all on board the Agnis express is going to leave soon! Wait you aren’t going to…


    I’m doing exactly that! I still need to get rid of some mana! I grabbed everyone with my tails and dashed off.


    Hmm, it doesn''t feel so bad when you''re dashing without augmentations. I’m going a bit slow here because Greg, these chicks'' mothers, and I did some shade wiping here, I want to make sure nothing is echoing here. Echoing?


    The repeats of those nukes we dropped left and right, I''m calling them echoes. Sounds reasonable. Hehe, do you get it? Sounds? Echo? I dropped Ted.


    Wait wait! I’m sorry! I used [turning leaf] and grabbed him again with my tail.You deserved that. He should have left you behind.


    “You guys are funnier than I remember.” Wait who are you? Did I grab the wrong chicks?


    “What?! I know your memory is terrible but this is ridiculous!” He is just messing with you; he remembers who you are just not your name… and possibly also not your face…


    “Then what does he remember?” Trust me I want to know too… Hey guys! Do you want to walk there or something?! By the way Raishin we need to test something after we own this mole. Wait our team has a mole?


    Yeah, I suspect one of these chicks is the mole. So, what do we do?


    Do you see that light beam?


    “Hey, we can hear you guys! Don''t drop us in that light beam!” the troll started thrashing. Oh no, all that thrashing is making me lose my grip! My tail is slipping!


    “Nooo! Don''t drop me!” Stop messing around. Gregory smacked me.


    Meh, we’re almost there. I jumped into the cave.


    Wait! There is water down there! I dropped down and used [turning leaf] on the carpet.


    You made his carpet wet… He has a bigger problem after I beat him with my breakdancing skills! Hey did you tell the chicks, Greg? Yup, they''re on board. Yet again we enter the living room and the mole is rapping again.


    “I see you have come with an audience, are they the jury?” Yeah, we 3 will be the judges.


    "Oh, a new voice and you brought? Hmm, similar size but lighter, 3 girls? You have an odd voice for a girl though, you also might want to make sure you eat well.” I cleared my throat and fixed it to sound more feminine. I’m sorry, I had something stuck in my throat.


    “Oh, that is a cute voice.” Everyone looks at me in shock and surprise. I act like it is normal. What the fuck Agnis? Shouldn''t you be focusing on your match? I asked with my feminine voice imitation. The race of deception… checks out but it''s still scary. Gregory mumbles. Hey, teach me that later! I sat down and Greg and Raishin sat at one side and the troll and villager nr 52 sat on my other side.


    “Alright do you want to start or shall I show ya how a gangsta moves?” No, it''s fine, I got this. I won’t be breaking a sweat dancing you out of the competition. Booo! Bad pun!


    Shut it! Kyaaa, so rude!


    “Hey now don''t go bullying that girl!” But! I shoot a mean grin at Ted.


    I swear this guy… You never fail to surprise us…


    “Your voice is so cute! How do you do that!” Eh? I always have something in my throat I just cleared it out that''s how! Ehehe.


    “What more can you do?” I can run really fast if you don''t stop bullying me! Raishin help!


    “Hey, missy if they are harassing ya I can step in and help you out!” Ooh, how reliable! Maybe I will take you up on that! Show me what those big strong mole muscles can do! You really are pulling out the stops… Hehe, this is interesting! Let''s see where this goes! Ted and the mole face off.


    Hey guys, if you need music, I can play something for you!


    “Oooh, she can even play an instrument, what a cultured lady.” What string instrument would you like? I can’t do piano though.


    “I guess, you can’t play this but it''s worth a shot gimme ya best rock with an Electronium guitar!” Hey, Greg? What is an Electronium guitar? I only know what a guitar is. Uhh, just amp the sound with lightning magic?


    What color? Does it matter?


    Yes? Wait, does it?


    I guess I''ll become a rocker girl and give a demonstration! How many pointless things did you practice? I took out my wires and put up an intricate setup. Normally I would be fighting while playing [Boss music] but I’m not doing that now so back to my roots. I took out my tails and started [Tail dynamo].


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    This is what it sounds like with white and yellow lightning! I played the wires and it sounded perfectly clean. Oooh, that sounds good!


    Here with blue lightning! The sounds turned a bit more vintage. Ooh, I like this one.


    Purple lighting! The sound coming out turned a bit throaty with some reverb. Hey, maybe this isn''t a useless skill after all!


    And now! The sounds started sounding like a cello. Woops, silly me, I made a mistake.


    “This girl is multi-talented yo!” And now my favorite with red lightning! I started going ham because red lightning created this beautiful bass sound.


    “Oh, my this is amazing! I see why you’re so interested Kanna!”


    “Yes! turn up the bass baby! Let''s start this breakdancing contest! After that could we maybe make a mixtape with your bass skills?” Hmm, maybe, If you win, I will consider it! Hey! Why are you motivating him? Agnis, you’re a demon.


    Calling a frail lady, a demon, how unacceptable! Hey, Greg, he is totally killing this act!


    Alright, guys! When the music intensifies it is time to start! I amped up the bass. Ted and Molerock started breakdancing on the beat. The girls were cheering, Gregory seemed to enjoy it and Raishin was enthusiastic. I could see Ted put a lot of effort in his breakdancing it is just… Molerock is better, he probably does this everyday while Ted only started yesterday or something. There didn''t seem to be a great difference between them though, which would make this deception even easier.


    “Hey, don''t you feel bad deceiving this mole? He seems quite nice.” Troll leaned over and whispered. Well, we can lose and let chaos continue if that is ok with you.


    “Ugh, fine…” I started the outro because Ted seemed to be getting tired. Physiology can be interesting sometimes; Ted could physically fight for over 2 or 3 hours without getting really tired but after breakdancing for 3 minutes he was sweating beads and seemed exhausted. I finished the outro and everyone clapped and cheered. I dropped all the magic I had running. I had some surplus but I might be able to get rid of it later when I will go make sure that ash potato village is properly vaporized.


    “Huff, puff, that music made this sure intense, so missy who won?” Hmm, girls what do you think? Mr. Mole was good, but Ted seemed to have put more soul into it.


    “Hmm, I agree, there seemed to come more effort from Ted.” Troll agreed with me, her deception seemed on point although we weren''t exactly lying, Ted was really being a try-hard, I guess the troll picked up on this.


    “Hmm, I think it’s a tie but it seems the other two already made their decision.” Oh, villager β did something smart here, credit where credit is due.


    “I see, so I lost huh? That was unexpected but enjoyable. Too bad that I won’t get missy to play bass for my mixtape but oh well!” He seems to be taking this well. Well, the next challenge is a digging contest, as a mole, he has a huge advantage.


    “Hey, sorry for asking but why did you guys agree to these stupid challenges? Agreeing to rap, breakdance, and out dig this mole?” Troll raised a good question. Yeah, why did you do that? Ted and Gregory look at Raishin. This smartass agreed to the terms before hearing them. Classical Raishin.


    “I feel like this small trip allowed us to get you guys better than the last 5 years…”


    “Yeah, they are… interesting…” We walked toward the exit. I saw the mole pick up a guitar in the corner and try to play and rap. Hey, guys, go on without me, I think I’m going to help the mole a bit with his mixtape. Are you dying? Agnis! Are you ill?


    You guys are asses. Don''t forget we need to try something after Raishin! Sure! I walked over to Molerock.


    Hey, Mr. Mole, I have a spare 30 minutes, I can play some bass for you. Molerock looked up from his guitar and looked happy.


    “Ooh thank you missy! Let''s start right away!" We jammed a bit and the Mole seemed to have some device running on Electronium to record sound so he could work with whatever he did with it. This is the first reasonable... Ok, maybe he isn''t that reasonable but he seems alright, guardian. I headed over to the camp. Raishin let''s go! Everyone gave me a weird look. Haha, Agnis you can change your voice back now.


    Oh shit!


    “What is going on?” Philip asked. Gregory will explain! Let''s go Agnis! Wai… We teleported to the Umbra mountain range close to where the ash potato village is getting nuked.


    So, what are we testing? I point at the solar stream.


    I thought you guys banned me from using that. That is true but there is one thing you see, that light beam you see there is doing 0 damage now, moreover, it melted my frost element, meaning it is, either way, stronger than me or it is lost magic, I''m leaning toward the latter. Now I don''t know if this is lost magic created by everything going to shit here or if it''s part of your [Solar stream] so to test this out. Please nuke that mountain next to potato village with [Solar stream].


    With pleasure! So, can you like use my eyes to use it this time? There is no point in calling it on yourself and wiping us out in the process.


    Uhh, I''ll try. I linked my eyes with Raishin.


    Ugh, your eyes are always so hard to use, how do you deal with seeing all this shit all the time. Got used to it. I don''t know what else you need so just get rid of the filters you don''t need, or I can do it for you.


    Uhh, I don''t know! Right, not surprising, let’s see if I would want to do something like your [Solar stream] I would use these. I sifted through the filters and only activated those that were needed like locking on to a space, determining the output needed to blast through the mountain, what radius would be needed to blast the whole mountain and corrections needed due to the rotation of the planet, disturbances in the atmosphere and the like.


    Aagh my head! Can''t you just do the ones you always do when we do this during battle? This is different just bear with it!


    So, do I do this? That is too far, you will nuke the neighboring country and start a war, although I might already did something like that.


    Oh, I see a big crater burning in blue fire, did you miss too?! Raishin, focus, please!


    Uhm so I think I locked onto my target but this outline shows a different location. Yeah, it is correcting for all the variables If you aim there it will hit your target.


    Ohh that is useful. Only on stationary targets, now you need to set how strong you want it.


    Wait you can tweak that too? Well, you won''t have trouble with this but there might be a possibility you won''t be able to punch through the mountain to the desired depth and this is telling you how much mana or mana control you need to pour in it, just ignore the mana control requirement you can just brute force it with output. Just shoot!


    Right here we go! Nothing seemed to happen but my eyes were telling a different story.


    Oooh, there is even a timer till impact. Yeah, 521 seconds, eh? Good to know. Guess we can chill a bit before this nuke vaporizes Ash Potato Village’s neighbours. Just a question. Do you know what kind of special things you can do as a lightning tiger?


    Hmm, I don''t think I have to be that careful in those mana-heavy environments like you guys. Yeah, I guessed as much.


    Uhh, I can run out of physical stamina but I don''t think I can run out of mana unless I try really hard. Yeah, we noticed that…


    I just don''t use mana, why use mana if I can just make electricity out of thin air? Good point, shouldn''t you be able to do that with fire too?


    Ugh, I just can''t get that right, I still have to use mana to use wind or fire. Anything more?


    I don’t know… Well, that is fine, when we get home, we can ask our moms all about this.


    Yeh… Hey, what do you think happened to Hourai? Hmm, all this time stuff made me think. Also, the spirit sisters that I sent to the spirit world had 2 years pass when for us only a night passed. What if they got into trouble, but time started flowing differently there than here? I’m sure that our mothers wouldn''t hesitate to come and get us when they fix the situation there. But what if only 1 minute passed in Hourai since we have been gone? If 1 minute is 5 years here how long will it take before they come and get us? 10 Hourai minutes? An Hourai hour? A Hourai day? I don''t want to scare you, but this thought came up in me after all this. I also don''t want to think about this but what if Hourai got stuck in a void, or even moved to a different dimensional plane? I recently discovered that for a nine-tailed spirit fox, I don''t know anything about dimensions and time stuff… There might be more scenarios that could be plausible but since I don''t understand enough of this stuff, I can''t even come up with them…


    So that is why we haven''t been picked up yet… It might also be this stupid prison, I vaporized a mountain before the time loop started, why hasn''t anyone from the outside come and investigate it, It is close to the border, It could have been the start of an enemy invasion. It really seems nothing here is getting out; nobody might even know what is going on here in Boshi town.


    So, you think they might be looking for us but can''t find us because of this prison? Look at that Raishin! I pointed at the mess we made, craters and magic raining down that kept getting echoed over and over. Do you think our mothers or even anything else wouldn''t notice if stuff like this happened for almost a whole day? Rock and his people managed to get here in one day from some important corporation so if they can get here in a day, something that is curious can.


    Hmm, well it’s a prison so nothing should be able to get out right? I guess, if this prison can hold Azu, it surely can keep anything in that''s weaker than her, which means everything happening here. But your [Solar stream] came from space. It should have been noticed right?


    I don''t know. Nothing makes sense here, it is hard to use my illusion layers if I don''t understand what''s going on…


    Oh right, you still have a gazillion illusion layers right? I have to find a better way to weaponize them. Since I already spent the mana for it, it could be a good way to deal with shit here without being afraid that an echo will nuke the whole town. I still haven''t found anything that does meaningful damage.


    Layers, eh? Just like an onion! Make an onion! And do what makes the shades cry? Can they even cry?


    Uhh hey, when you shatter your illusions, it looks like the whole uhm air becomes made out of glass and then shatters, and you shatter your enemies to pieces with that? What? Like, use illusion shards or something?


    Uhh, that''s not what I meant but illusion shards sounds interesting. Hmm, I guess I could try that. Thank you. But this sure takes a while to fall, surely doesn''t feel like it when you have a million things to do.


    So, what''s the deal with you and Azu? Ugh, nothing.


    You can tell me! There is nothing to tell


    How far did you go with her? What the hell? I didn''t do anything, moreover, there is a big difference in age!


    Not really though? Aren’t you, me, Azu, and Greg in the same age range? How come that even you know about this?!


    The power of intuition! Ah yeh, the uselessly overpowered intuition of the six tails. I guess it helped us a lot.


    Nice try don''t change the subject! I''m not changing the subject!


    So, tell me! Or give me tips! You know more about chicks than me what tips could I ever give you?


    I don''t know that''s why I''m asking you! Oh, it’s coming!


    Changing the subject again! Oh, it''s coming. We looked on as a stream of light and fire descended from the heavens and vaporized the mountain. I turned on the sunshade function in my eyes.


    Vaporizing a mountain is so therapeutic. I know right?


    So, for how long is this going to blast the mountain? Beats me. …


    I don''t know why I’m surprised by that answer. I saw a shadow ripple. Gregory appeared out of the shadow with Ted and the 2 chicks.


    Why is it so hard to track you down? Sorry, it''s a habit, what are they doing here? Greg has 0 resistance against polite requests.


    Ugh, so I came here to discuss something. If it''s about the [solar stream] Raishin already cast it as you can see.


    It’s not about that, firstly I want to stop you from nuking something because you will probably need that tomorrow to blast a hole in the ground… Oh! Right! Thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot!


    And secondly, my shadow is saturated from all the energy that I''ve absorbed over the past 4 days. It barely scratches the minimum needed for abyss magic, now here is the problem, do I keep this in case that goddess appears? In that case, I won''t be able to block anything with my shadows, or do I release all the energy here?


    “Hey, what is abyss magic?” Hmm, it is kind of a sure kill magic, If you get killed by that you can’t revive or reincarnate, you get turned into energy which is returned to the world. As far as I know, only shadow cats can use it but it costs an enormous amount of energy. Currently, it is our best shot against a god. But there is no point to it if we die beforehand because we lack your defensive skills. I’d say blast that mountain. We don''t even know if you can get a clean killing blow in with it. Hmm, that is fair, what do you think Ted and Raishin? I agree with Agnis. Me too! Right, I''ll just drop it on what Agnis calls, potato village. Gregory did something to his hammer and launched it at the location where Potato village once stood. A large shadow emerged from his hammer and he used [Liberation]. A dark obsidian-looking structure formed out of shadows and blasted ash potato village.


    “So do you guys do stuff like this often?” What stuff?


    “Blowing up mountains and stuff?” Ehh not really. Normally these guys are more behaved but a lot of weird events happened.


    “There was a blue fire pillar several days ago, was that also done by one of you?” Ehh, yeah that was me.


    “I can''t believe that our mothers never came home injured, maybe except from when she had that cut on her arm, but it explains why she could never catch you guys!” Well, they are tough opponents if we stick to our elements and human form. Troll and background character 14 look at our ears and tails.


    “Hey, can we touch…” Hey, Agnis it stopped! Well, it did but it didn''t! Yeah, this is what I’m looking for, Greg are you done blasting? Yes, I grab everyone with my tails and teleport over to the beam of light.


    “Hey what are you doing! I don''t want to die!” It is the same, Ted can you put your hand in it? My hand? Your paw also works. Ted looks at me and puts his hand in the light beam.


    It… it does nothing? Oh, it does something! I made a net out of frost magic and held it in the beam of light and it melted.


    What?! It’s lost magic, on the same tier as my frost magic and Greg’s abyss magic.


    What does it do? No clue, Raishin do you have any idea what it does? Raishin looks at it. He seems quite focused. He looks up.


    I actually have no idea haha. Why am I not surprised? Don''t you know what this might be Greg? Well, I''m aware that nine tail foxes and three-tailed cats have roots in lost magic, I don''t know if six-tailed tigers have it. By the way Agnis, your frost magic isn''t from your nine-tailed fox side, isn''t it? You should have some other lost magic. Uhh, I think chaos magic right, you guys should have it too, right?


    I don''t have any… That''s not an issue you''re a bear!


    How is that supposed to help? Pass.


    You can’t pass this question like it''s a game! Ha! But I just did! Deal with it! What does it do though?


    “Let me feel too!”


    ”Leah, wait!” Apparently, this person was called Leah and she put her hands in the beam.


    “It feels like sunbathing!” Troll also put her hands in the beam. So, we don''t feel anything but these girls and their mothers feel like they’re getting hit by a sunbeam or something. It doesn''t seem to be an attack, although we have baseline better defenses than humans. But this is a really weak attack even more so by Raishin’s standard. Yeah, he doesn''t know how to hold back so the only conclusion is that this isn’t an offensive spell.


    Does Raishin even know any non-damaging spells besides his glitter? Uhh, as far as I know, he doesn''t. Nope, just my glitter!


    “You can make glitter?!” Don''t bother troll, that glitter gets you zapped by powerful lightning skills.


    “Oh… never mind…” Anyways, Raishin, don''t use this unless it is included in a plan, especially now we don''t have an idea what this does, who knows maybe it buffs our enemies. Ok! I’m sure we’ll need it in the last timeline, that’s for sure. If things are just going to get worse from here, I wouldn''t be surprised if we need it next timeline as well.


    Hmm, I have a question for you girls.


    “Us? Sure, ask away.” I’m sure you 2 are used to fighting together as well as your mothers do, how normal do you think it is that when using wide-range skills it automatically misses your allies?


    “Uhh, if your friends evade it that is normal else wise, I don''t think I''ve ever heard of that happen, we have to make sure we use magic so we don''t hit our friends, our mothers worked hard to master that and we are still learning.” Agnis hear me out, when Ted saved us from that blast, our shields broke yes? I had to cancel it because it was absorbing a lot of energy.


    The thing is Ted got hit by it. Yeah, that wouldn''t have been a problem because I could regenerate it but… It didn''t do any damage to me. What?


    So, I have a suspicion because if you think about it a lot about our group is odd. The only exception I can think of is your fire magic before you got it under control but besides that even though our teamwork is good, we never hit each other with our magic, and if we did it didn''t do damage or automatically avoided us. Also, why are our special racial abilities bleeding over into each other? You can’t be affected much by time-related stuff so only you should be able to remember all this stuff, but here we are. I have a high resistance against curses and all the curses those roots dropped on us aren''t affecting any of us. Wait! We got cursed?


    Well, whenever we kill a root, we get some curses dumped on us. What! Are we going to die? Nah, I think Gregory’s race ability is carrying us here.


    Your race ability is carrying us the hardest here but we don''t know what Raishin’s one is and maybe this is it, which means Raishin’s race ability is carrying us the hardest, or if it isn''t that it might be related to this beam of light. So, what do you think it does?


    I think it causes either one of these or both. So, the first thing is, besides Agnis old fire magic we never hit our allies in a malicious way, when I use wide-ranged attacks I have to put extra attention in hitting you guys instead of that it just hits you. Hmm, same with my frost magic, If I casually freeze the whole town, you guys get left out.


    Secondly, it makes our specific traits bleed over to each other. Hmm, Let''s test it. Do you mind Ted? Go for it! Ted braced himself and I shot purple lightning at him. He took it and it seemed to do nothing.


    Wow Well, only Raishin is likely to hit allies, Ted is more melee focused so nobody is at risk there, Agnis and I have great control but if this means that we don’t have to be afraid of Raishin’s nukes… Hey, Raishin zap me! Sure! He drops a red [Lightning bolt] on me and I feel nothing.


    So, his attacks only become a problem when we try to block it with frost or shadow magic? Seems so and that is all we''ve been doing in the past. What about that sparring match where he fried me?


    Uhh, maybe a loophole? But that''s not important. Hey! Does it work with physical attacks? Ted punches Raishin in the stomach, Raishin flies into a rock wall and seems to be in pain. Ugh! Nope.


    “You guys are insane!” Well, this is useful to know, I just think the only thing we should watch out for is Agnis’ fire and frost magic since it saps mana. I guess your abyss magic too, it doesn''t sound like a good idea to test if we can’t get hit by that... I don''t know why my fire magic is an exception. I shoot a controlled [fireball] at Ted. It does no damage.


    Hey! I fire an uncontrolled [fireball] at him.


    Hey, Agnis this thing is really hot! Owowowow! Ted burst into flames after getting hit by the fireball. I doused him in water.


    That is odd. Well, I guess we can just relax in Agnis’ and Raishin’s nukes now, that takes some stress off.


    Yeah, let''s go back. I will teleport us this time! We got back to the camp. It seemed like I have to correct myself, it wasn''t a camp anymore, it looked like a small village.


    “Hey welcome back! Dinner is ready!” Hera ran at us with a ladle in her hand. The dinner was soup… I freeze-dried the soup and put the soup powder on some food I took out of my dimensional pocket. I was technically still eating the soup. Ted and Greg went out with the girls to cull some shades while I decided to rest