Alice and I were trained thoroughly by our future selves until we/ drop in the last few hours before the Mana's Calling starts. Lei borrowed Alice’s body with half her power to detect the phenomena, she then returned in the Timeless Domain.
"...So it's really starting now, eh?" Sei said, shrouded by unease.
"Yeah, a few minutes from now. But something doesn't add up. I tried to track the source of the calling but it just stopped at one point. Even with the All Seeing Eye and Magic Perception, I did not determine the true source of the calling. It's like something is restricting me from doing so,”Lei replied while trying to figure out the true nature of the calling.
"I figured, even the Magisensors in the THA ended up in a dead end too. Even though with such powerful technologies and the most skilled awakeners specializing in perception, even the outside of the observable universe were a matter of months to be explored and documented given a fast technological growth of the THA,” Sei mentioned.
"Two minutes."
"Hey, Miss Alice- I mean Miss Lei, how does it feel like to transform into an awakener?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Well, first, you will feel a sense of fullness because of the energy. Then that energy will overflow and start to fuse with your body. There are many elements that could fuse with you. Some of it would directly bring physical changes on your body right away. That change requires a full process of body reconstruction or metamorphosis. Every bit of your physical body will undergo a process of destruction and recreation. You won't even be able to comprehend the pain that you'll be feeling in that process, unless I would help you to do so. The process can also be influenced by certain things, like this training the both of you just got through." (Lei)
"47 seconds..." Lei said, tapping his feet
"Well, will you help us then?" I asked again.
"Yeah. So get ready, I'm going to set up the spell now. I can't interact directly in the real world as you kids will be the ones receiving the Call. Even if I am the most powerful awakener, a phenomenon that defies reality isn't really reachable for me, at least not yet." (Lei)
"Yeah, go Alice, go!" Sei cheered from behind.
He has no way to currently help but watch from the sidelines. He's just standing there, dumbfounded on what would happen next.
[Magic Circle Activation]
[Magic Transfer, Core to Circle]
"Pain Nullification."
[Pain Nullification]
"My body, it feels light. Like all my fatigue was gone in an instant,”Alice looked at me wondering if I was experiencing the same.
"Just 3 seconds more..." Lei counted in anticipation.
...
"It's starting!"
An unknown beam of light struck down the Earth from the skies. As it spread at the surface and was absorbed by certain beings, including some people, it also began to be absorbed by the Earth itself.
All who bear witness of its arrival could only admire its magnificence.
"The power is out!!"
"Hey James, why are we glowing all of a sudden?" Jessie freaked out in the sight of his brother glowing.
"Woah, what the- This is? Why are we floating in the air?!" James shouted out of surprise.
"Is that water surrounding you?!" Jessie witnessed his brother be surrounded in a ball of water.
"...Why are you on fire all of a sudden?!"
"I don't know either!! But, it somehow feels warm for me..."
"Yeah, obviously. It’s fire Jessie. Well in any case, I'm not suffocating at all, what is this?!"
Meanwhile...
"Um, I don't know what's happening, but a think a large chunk of the beam just now... was absorbed by me,” Alice mentioned upon noticing the phenomena.
"It's just the same as last time, but the size of it got drastically bigger than what I had to absorb, this is a good sign,” Lei clarified, feeling a sense of satisfaction.
"Hey, Seiya, you okay right there?" Sei asked me.
The world’s shaking, wait- no. It was just me. I suddenly felt dizzy as I witness Sei look at something with utter confusion.
"Huh? What is that?!"
A second beam of light struck down exactly where I was. This one was particularly smaller that the first one, but the light and energy it emitted were entirely different from the first one.
"Another beam? This isn't the Mana's Calling, this is a completely different energy!" Sei shouted, as he looked at Lei.
"But I was certain that only one beam was approaching, and this didn't even happen in the past,” Lei explained sharing the same expression as Sei had.
"It seems to shine the colors White, Black, Red, and Violet,”I interrupted.
"Huh? Isn't it the same color as the other one?" Alice answered.
"You can't see the different colors?" It looks like Sei could also see the other colors.
"Yeah, even with my perception spells,” this is rather surprising as Lei also can’t seem to see them.
"But should we stop that thing before it hits the Seiya kid?" She then asked, worried about what might happen.
Sei’s eyes widened, as he realized something.
"It seems to act like the first one, to be absorbed. In this case, the whole thing would be absorbed by Seiya. Let's just standby if anything bad happens,”
"All right..." Lei calmed down a bit now.
As the second beam approached me it sped up even more, like it was being chased. And like a droplet of water going down on still waters, it created a shockwave.
"...What happened?"
"It was… completely absorbed in an instant,but he lost consciousness,” Lei exclaimed.
"I need to see what happened!"
"No, wait! The energy was absorbed instantly. It might be unstable in his body, so interruption is out of the question,” Lei prohibited Sei from switching with me.
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"What would you do if you had the power to defy your fate?" (█████)