Chapter 72: Knowing more about each other

"We call it the Heaven and Cloud Traversing blade. They are the only special weapon that we use in my race. I was given this by my mom as a gift" Lydia said.

"Oh. That's nice." Helena said.

"Can it be used by any other person apart from the members of your race?" Helena asked without concealing her intention.

Lydia smiled.

"I see that you have taking a liking to my blade. Anyways, I don't really know about that. We can only know if you try it out." Lydia said.

Then she offered the blade to Helena.

"Here. Try it out. Who knows, it could work" Lydia said.

Helena nodded and accepted the blade.

Then she flung it with all the strength that she could muster.

But nothing happened.

"Ugh!" Helena uttered.

"I guess it can't work for me then" She said.

Lydia nodded her head.

"Well, I have never heard of people of other race using our weapons and it would work. Only we have the gift to be be able to access the teleportation power imbued into our weapons" She said.

"Okay. But why did you give it to me in the first place when you know I don't have the gift to tap into that power of teleportation infused into the blade?" Helena asked curiously. She had a feeling why Lydia did that.

"Because you are the Chosen One. I wanted to see if you could tap that power of the blade" Lydia said.

Helena shook her head.

These people be confusing themselves with the Chosen One thing.

"See, I being the chosen one doesn't mean that I would have all the powers in the world. You guys are ruining the concept" She said.

"Haha. Don't mind me. Was just curious to know if it work" Lydia laughed and said.

"It's alright. So, what race are you from because you look exactly human to me?" Helena asked in a perplexed tone.

She was thinking that Lydia was a human as she looked human, but upon hearing her mention 'my race', she became confused and then inquired so she could really understand.

"Yea. I am a human. But half. I am half-Thakira and Half-Human. First of it kind. My mom who was a princess in the kingdom left the kingdom because of her human lover. And when she birthed me and I grew up under her training to a stage where I could be on my own, she gave me one of her many powerful blades and taught me how to use the teleportation power condensed into a core and stored within it." Lydia said.

Then she looked at the blade in her hand and said proudly "I haven't even started using a tiny percentage of it immense power."

Helena looked at the blade from Lydia and asked in shock "The blade can still do more than teleporting and moving through all forms of matter unobstructed?"

"Yea. Sure. But I would be able to use those powers at a later stage. I can slash out into the air at an opponent and the air would become 'sharp', literally. So, an unaware opponent that would be struck by a current of air that carries insane amount of sharpness might be reduced to pieces. Furthermore, I can use it to fly and travel the entire planet on feet at a high speed." Lydia said.

"Wow. Really cool. I wish I had like one of your tribal weapons." Helena said while Lydia smiled.

"It was nice talking to you, Lydia. I wanna resume killing the beasts. What about you? You would leave? Or remain to also kill some of the magical beasts?" Helena asked.

Lydia exhaled deeply.

"I don't really know what to do." She said.

"I would advise that you leave. Since your powers haven't developed to a stage where you would be able to kill the magical beasts that possesses sentience and intelligence." Helena said sincerely.

Lydia looked at Helena with an indescribable gaze.

Then before she could say anything, Helena suddenly said" What if you stick with me? We can kill the magical beasts together"

"Really? You want us to kill the beasts together?" Lydia asked in a surprised tone.

"Yea. We look at each other's backs. I look over yours while you look over mine." Helena said looking at Lydia.

Then she asked further "So, what do you say?"

Lydia thought for sometime.

Then she nodded her head.

"Alright. I am in" She said.

Helena gave a smile.

"Okay. Can you please give some minutes?" She asked.

"Huh? To do what?" Lydia asked in a perplexed tone.

"I wanna breathe." Helena answered.

"You wanna brea...? Okay. You can go right ahead" Lydia said looking at Helena with strangeness in her eyes.

She didn't really understand what Helena meant by breathing.

Then the glow of strangeness erupting from her eyes further intensified when she saw Helena sit on the floor and began to inhale deeply.

"Hmm. I guess this is what she meant by breathing. But what would this do to her? Recharge her powers? Maybe." Lydia asked herself and then concluded in her mind.

So, she just waited and hoped that Helena wouldn't take too long with what she was doing.

After a pretty long time, approximately ten minutes later, Helena stood to her feet.

She had recovered all her expended Aetha energy

"Let's go" She said when she looked at Lydia.

Lydia nodded.

Then they both moved together into one of the many interconnected tunneling routes to another cave where they would resume their deadly battle with any magical beasts that they would come across.

As they walked, Lydia turned her head to look at Helena and asked "where did you get the bed?"

"Well, from one of the caves in here. But it was still in the egg phase when I got it. I had to use nearly all of my Aetha energy to accelerate it growth so the egg would hatch and the bird would appear." Helena said.

"I see. But what are you going to do with it?" Lydia asked.

"Well, I would like to train it as a pet. I would use it as a mount in future. It would be something that I would be able to ride on instead of flying and wasting energy on myself so I could fly. And when I master a powerful transformation spell, I am going to use it on the bird to make it appear more tyrannical than how it would appear in. You know, give it the appearance that would invoke great fear and dread in the hearts of my enemies"