Chapter 4 : Sanc Adiet

"Fonclanc" is known as the largest plains in Kaltcio, although 1/5 of it is the metropolitan city known as " Sanc Adiet". The fire arts user especially those who are very talented and strong are able to become royalty, and they have ruled the country through this city, the capital for many generations.

The city is divided based on the livelihood of the divine arts user, the upper tier buildings are reinforced with divine arts user thus boasting quite a considerable amount of strength. The imperial palace is an amazing 10 storeys high. The middle class and below have sightly reinforced buildings which includes a protective wall.

In the centre of the city there is a high protective wall surrounding the 'Noble district' where all the nobles live, as the area was build on a hill, the wall seems much larger. A wall stands between the 'nobel district' and the 'middle class district', followed by the 'commoners districts' at the outskirts.

The middle class district is build similarly to the noble district, the streets are build from higher ground to lower with a wall that partition the different classes of people, with the mind of the powerful overlooking the commoners. As the commoners district are also in a higher location than the plains, they have already started expanding the town by lining up new cobblestone roads.

Basically the buildings should be gradually rising towards the centre of the city, but due to some confusion in the development policy for a period of time the skyline of the city is distorted. In the outskirts of the city, there are reinforced buildings for the artless, these are some benefits for being a commoner here.

The "Volance Palace" stood above all in the noble district. As the city and palace kept expanding and developing, the original structure of the palace is no longer there, part of it are buried under the stone pavement, forming a underground labyrinth.

The royalties lived near the peak, the walls and roofs in their residences are embedded in decoration with the same materials as the crystals, allowing the room to bathe in the sunlight's radiance.

In one of the room on the upper floors of the palace, there is a young girl dress in a luxury red dress, she threw the book onto the table as she was sitting on a artisan chair shaking her legs in boredom.

"Boring, I am bored" (Crimson Princess Violet)
"Princess, that is improper."(Kreilov)

Her interlocked hands placed behind her head, she who is sitting crossed legged and rocking on the chair was non other than the crimson young princess, the one who was standing next to her and always getting hit on the head is her exclusive guard cum educational clerk name Kreilov.

"Please stop, this is not lady-like."(Kreilov)
"Since I have nothing to do, and there isn't anyone looking anyway."(Crimson Princess Violet)

'Boring ~ Boring' while rocking on the chair is the princess of the flame skills : Violet Volance, standing next to her is Kreilov who was frowning, as he hold the back of the chair down to prevent her from falling.

"Booo-"(Crimson Princess Violet)
"No booing. Princess I wish you would be more self aware of the duties of being a royalty."(Kreilov)

As one of the person who is standing on the apex of the flame skill people, "O powerful and sublime noble, constantly splendor that must not cease to existence" or so, as Violet dig her nails in boredom, while ignoring Kriel's nagging.

"The bureaucrats around Dad are all pitch black on the inside, they look similar to the evil god statue."(Crimson Princess Violet)
"Evil god statue?"(Kreilov)
"The Black Statue that is enshrine in the shrine of the artless."(Crimson Princess Violet)
"Princess, you are a noble descendant of the Flame god, you should not be speaking of the things regarding the low born."(Kreilov)

Violet's face became disgusted, and Kreilov was frowning while nagging.

"I want to see Grandpa Zeshald."(Violet)
"..................."(Kreilov)

Violet who wanted to see Kreilov plain face frowning in front of her, purposely started a topic about Zeshald. He had not been visiting this remarkable palace for the past few years, though he was a very good companion for Violet during her childhood.

"You should not be starting a topic about the weird person."(Kreilov)
"Why not? Zeshald is a master of the water skills, did you not know that he even surpassed our palace elites of the water corps?"(Violet)

The "God skills guard corps" is a group responsible for the patrol and security of the city and palace, within it is a special elite corps which protects and works for the palaces official. The "Water corps" are composed of the elites that excels in water arts healing. By the way, Kreilov is the captain of the "Fire Corps" in charge with protecting the royalty.

"If Princess kindness towards him is being gossip around, people might mistaken it as he is princess's
favorite. A person like him likes to invite calamity." (Kreilov)

".... .... hmmm Zeshald isn't such a weak person."(Violet)

Violet who begin to pout as she turned her face away.

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"I heard that teacher is heading to town, will he be bringing him together?"(Auntie Bahana)
"Yes, Yusuke is going along. The house will be empty for 3 days."(Sun)

Sun while chatting with Aunt Bahana was carrying a basket full of lala fruits at her house, as she wanted to trade for some dried meat.

The lala fruits which Sun have brought over had tasted specially customized by Yusuke, the fruit normally have a limpness and over ripen feeling that comes with its sweet taste, while the one Yusuke customize retains it's stage of freshness and crunchy consistency, thus being very popular with the villagers. In fact, it's one of Sun's Favorite food.

"Oh really. Come to my house during meal time."(Auntie Bahana)
"Umm, Thank you."(Sun)

The truth is Bahana have already thought of Sun as her real and cute daughter. While listening attentively to the usually quiet and shy Sun talking about the opposite sex, Bahana was sighing deep inside her heart knowing that it will still take some time for her to adapt.


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"Hmm, this is pleasant."

The wagon which was customized by Yusuke became quite a pleasant ride while traveling on the highway. They are currently on a highway which is link straight from the village of Rufk to the city of Sanc Adiet, the distance needed to travel by a horse drawn carriage is about 1 day.

If one were to travel at the break of dawn they would be able to arrived in the evening. On the horizon ahead of the highway, dyed in hazy beige color was the city as it appears in sight.

"At first, I thought it was a mountain."(Yusuke)
"Hohoho, well it's close enough."(Zeshald)

Zeshald who was holding the reins of the carriage, begin to explain the city of Sanc Adiet to Yusuke who is currently sitting in the back. Due to an increase in population, the city expanded too rapidly and due to the king wanting to oversee the expansion, from the palace to the noble districts all have been elevated to show reverence, thus the current shape of this city.

"The old city is being buried under the current city."(Zeshald)
"ehhh ~"(Yusuke)

Zeshald nodded happily in knowing that I was interested in the history of the city.
They had arrived to the city earlier than expected, as a result Zeshald used his water arts to wash away the fatigue from the horse, and combined with the special carriage which was modified by Yusuke, they were able to travel without breaks.

"Hmmm. The street stalls in the market might still be opened now, want to take a look?"(Zerald)

After parking the wagon at an empty slot, he went to the nearby skilless hangout to hire a lookout. These people earn their keep by watching over the horses and carriages for merchants who came to stop by the town. This is one of the benefits that these skilless get by living in the outskirts of the city.

"Ehh! Sir this is ... ..."(Skilless Bellboy)
"Hiaz Unfortunately, this is all I have on hand now."(Zerald)
"......."

Zeshald shrugs and hand over a yellow crystal to him, as the charges were far too high for him, the local artless begin to panic.
Normally for a bellboy to look after a carriage or horse 1 green crystals is more than sufficient a reward, but currently Zeshald's green crystals have all been turned into red crystals, thus the lowest currency he have in his bag is the yellow crystals. Seeing that he was getting 3 times the normal reward, the local artless bellboy was fired up.

"Isn't that some great fighting spirit?"(Yusuke)
"Because to them it's quite a fortune"(Zeshald)

I lift up my hood that was wearing over my eyes, while I questioned Zeshald, he replied with an aloof  answer. The hood that I was currently wearing was prepared in order to hide my hair color. Although there is the option of dyeing my hair, but it seems that dyeing of the hair seems to be against the law.

Although they are able to identify the presence of god skill, as my features are different, there might not be people who would want to touch me without a second glance. From an outsiders perspective I looked like Zeshald's servant.

As evening falls, the two of us begin to search around the main street stalls to check if there is any treasure worthy of purchasing. The street stall market is the commoner's district specialty, due to a huge main road they are able to sell all sort of assortments, thus being crowded with lots of people everyday.

To open a street stall on the main street is decided by the commoner district but the time limit is until sunset, while in the middle class area and above in order to do business, you have to purchase the rights of a store holding.

The noble districts are filled will luxury stores which are mainly filled up with custom made clothes and ornaments. The restaurants there will also deny entry to those who are not dress appropriately.

"Are we going to sell the stuffs we brought over, here?"(Yusuke)
"Yes. Although there is a store up there that I am acquaintance with, but it will be abit troublesome in explaining where I got these items."(Zeshald)

Tomorrow we will secure one of the street stalls in the morning, we will put up a sale for the clothing, shoes and wool from the livestocks that we have brought over, and using the funds we will get some daily necessities before heading back home.

Up until recently, Sun broke had some of the cutlery dishes, so Zeshald was looking at the pottery stall directly across the street, but he unexpectedly felt a strong wave of divine arts presence.

"Did something happened?"(Yusuke)
"Uhmm..."(Zeshald)

As I glanced towards the direction in which Zeshald was looking at, from the cracked amongst the crowd, I glimpsed upon a group of people wearing vibrant armor. Apparently from time to time, this group of people known as "God skills guard corps" will appear near the vicinity of the entrance of the city, as they are patrolling around to give the city a sense of security, and it seems like they are a prideful bunch of people.

"What are they?"(Yusuke)
"Are related to the Royal officials something like "honorable ninjas"."(Yusuke)
"Honorable ninjas?"(Zeshald)

Like some lord in line of procession forcing a conspicuous march on these "Honorable ninjas", I realized I just pulled a Tsukkomi. Zeshald nodded in acceptance when he understand why I called them"honorable ninja".

The divine arts users are able to feel the presence of other divine arts users. As a part of the one year plan of festivity the royalty order the citizen to reveal their power, most of the city dwellers have followed suit, thus it is easier to discern those who are from the royal family. Therefore, those who tried to hide their presence will be found immediately.

Although it is not known to many people that within the same palace structure, these "honorable ninjas" which Yusuke mentioned, are people who are brought up since young in the royalty to "you are to show respect and honor to this personage", thus trying to hide this person's status is virtually impossible.

The term "Honorable ninjas" of the royalty comes from the royal guards who are protecting a certain person who came to the commoner district, someone who is on a sightseeing excursion, thus the general public does not need to kneel in obedience.

"Well, those who live in the noble districts rarely comes down to the commoners streets ---- thus this might be bad."(Zeshald)

As Zeshald was explaining about the band of honorable ninjas, I felt a unpleasant feeling coming over and thus giving a wink to Zeshald.

"Let's quickly get away from here."(Zeshald)
"Eh, ehhhh? Why all of a sudden"(Yusuke)

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"Princess, it's about time to return to the palace...."(Kreilov)
"Don't be a spoil sport, the streets are still lively ain't it not."(Violet)

Violet who was walking along the main street during the evening loop around to check out one of the main street stall, escorting her was a few 'honorable ninjas' as her entourage. It seems like there was something interesting that was attracting all the commoners to the stalls, its also because she felt a familiar divine arts presence. Thus, coming to a halt and surveying the surrounding.

"That is.....!"(Violet)

The willful princess Violet suddenly came to a halt, as her entourage who were escorting her begin to be suspicious of her sudden halt, without any warning she dashed into the crowd of people. Stunned by her unexpected behavior, Kreilov snapped out of it and immediately chased after her.

"I found you Zeshald!"(Violet)
"Hiaz...."(Zeshald)
"Oooo What!"(Yusuke)

Zeshald who was hurriedly pressing Yusuke to get out of this location, was suddenly being surprised tackled by a girl on his waist. The redheaded twin tail young girl was wearing a tall red dress had a strong aura surrounding her,

"Princess... ... this person is getting old already."(Zeshald)
"What are you saying, when you are always going to different faraway places and always have a habit of traveling all around the world."(Violet)

Krielov the attendant from the "Fire corp" who finally caught up with the princess, recognized Zeshald and begin to pull a bitter face.

He was not happy the moment he saw Zeshald. Krielov is serving the current king 'Fire wall King' who is also known as Esvobus Volance of the 18 generation, who had an old relationship with Zeshald, although due to some unforeseen circumstances their relationship have turn sour.

"Do not get involved with Zeshald" King Esvobus warned, and to exercise restraint if they any of them sees him around.
Charmed by the powerful skills that King Esvobus wield, Krielov who is a loyal subordinate of King Esvobus had a slight discontent about it. He said to the king, "My King is Zeshald holding onto some shortcoming of yours?"

Somewhere within Krielov was hoping that Zeshald would politely turndown Princess Violet invitation "Come to the palace". The flame corps who sympathize with their captain begin to form a circle around the princess as a form of escort.

"The Sun have already set? You have to return to palace soon, or do you want your father to be worried about you?"(Zeshald)

Dissatisfied by being treated like a grand daughter, Violet placed her hands on her hips and puffed up her face, as she snuggle up to Zeshald's chest, her fingers slowly creep in to hug him.

"I am no longer a kid you know? I still have plenty of things I want to learn from you....."(Violet)

"Well dear me, what interesting secrets would a princess see from a senile old person."(Zeshald)
"! My Princess, this sort of behavior is!"(Krielov)

Violet who childishly tried to use her body as a form of seduction evaded her attendant whom finally caught up to her as she puffed her cheeks up once again.

" I believe I am pretty alluring now. Just wait a few more years my buttocks and breasts will all mature, and I believe that you will not be able to stand up to my ravishing looks."(Violet)
"By the time that happens I will already be a feeble old man."(Zeshald)

Violet groaned at Zeshald who was laughter loudly. Krielov on the other hand was getting impatient. The flame corps were silently carrying out their duties. While standing on the outside of the protective zone Yusuke was watching the course of events progresses around "amazing honorable beautiful granny princess like scenario", as the entourage were all showing a trouble expression.

"Hey you, I am feeling a strange presence coming from you......"(Violet)
"Eh?"(Yusuke)

I was stunned like an idiot after being called out, my voice couldn't seem to come out. As I glanced towards my back, there was a pair of red eyes filled with unyielding aura closing onto me.

Violet who was standing next to Zeshald looks as if she had found a prey, due to an interesting presence that she had never been felt before, as she faced towards me in the crowd. However, Zeshald had stopped her before she could do anything.

"He is scared of humans, if princess were to stared at him so hard I fear he might break down."(Zeshald)
"...... Fuee"(Violet)

Violet who doesn't find it amusing as Zeshald protected this hooded man that possess a mysterious presence, she snorted at him before backing down. Next, she made a feign gesture while flicking her fingers that was pointed towards him.
In a split second, there was a 'Bof" sound and the hood Yusuke was wearing burst into flame.

"Ooo !"(Yusuke)
"Opps! This is bad"(Zeshald)
"Ahahahahah...."(Violet)

Although the fire was immediately extinguished by Zeshald's water skill, Violet's fire skill had made an uproar in the vicinity. Violet was convulsing with laughter as Krielov rushed in to restraint her.

"My Princess! Please restraint yourself, you not display your royalty powers to the commoners so recklessly!!"(Krielov)
"That's what you are talking about!"(Yusuke)

Yusuke whose head was nearly burned, retorted to her attendant as he wanted to remonstrance against this violent, willful, granny-like princess. As one of the commoner will normally not retort against a royal princess's attendant, Yusuke suddenly became Violet's target of interest again.

"Geez, what degree of absurdity is this princess displaying, there is a limit to restiveness."

Yusuke took off the burnt hood and begin cursing while folding the hood to keep it for customization later, without noticing that an erie silence had fell in the vicinity.

"Hey, You...."(Violet)
"What now?"(Yusuke)

"You, the god of calamity....? Have you come and destroy my country?"(Violet)
"Eh?"(Yusuke)

The voice that Yusuke had lost just now had returned. "O no", Zeshald face palm as he looked up into the sky. The Silence which fell in the vicinity as soon as the Royalty pointed out the existence of "the evil god of calamity", it became an uproar.

No one knows what is the identity of the evil god, "The existence of a disaster 300 years ago" that allusive existence is now a reality.

"Hmm, immediately become the god of calamity as said......the great disaster."(Violet)
"Nope, it is not nice to joke on your words."(Yusuke)

Krielov whom immediately evacuated Violet to the rear, begin to give orders to his subordinates as the commander of the fire corps.

"We will catch our enemies for the glory of our master."(Krielov)



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