Chapter 136 - Stay

"Good. Remember to activate your rune; you need to say its spell name. While you can do it silently, it will not be as effective as saying its name. Watch."

I point my finger at the tree next to me and activate the twinkling star. Instead of my usual two dozen lasers of death, there are only ten of them. While they have the same power, the amount of lasers of doom released is reduced by more than half.

"Now watch if I invoke its name. Twinkling Star!"

After I said that, the tree got obliterated by my spell.

"As you can see. Name matters when activating the spell you want to use. That is why in the Suikoden world, a Silent spell is really annoying for the mage. Now you try. I already conjure a training dummy for you."

"Yes."

"Okay~"

Eli and Ginerva walk forward and begin to activate their rune. Ginerva has the rune called Mother Earth Rune, the upgraded version of your regulated Earth Rune. This rune is perfect for support and offensive. Its increased defense buff is handy both for the user and the one receiving that buff.

Elizabeth, on the other hand, takes the Thunder Rune. Thunder rune is the upgraded version of the Lightning rune. If Mother Earth Rune is a support with a little bit of offensive rune, Thunder rune is a full offensive rune.

If Fire and Rage rune consist of AOE attack, Lightning and Thunder rune is the rune for a single unit attack.

"Vengeful Child!"

Ginerva is the first one to activate her spell. However, instead of attacking the training dummy, I conjured five swords made of stone appear around Eli and disappear after a few seconds of circling her.

"Gin Gin, what is this spell?"

"Um, it says that it will protect me or my ally from any magical spell one time. Not only that, but it also reflects it back to the caster and doubles it."

"Hmmm. Eli, do you mind if I test it?"

Eli shakes her head and says.

"No. Go ahead."

I nod my head and silently cast expelliarmus to her, but instead of her getting thrown away, I feel something hit me right in the ċhėst, and the next thing I know, I'm soaring through the air.

"Big Brother!"

"Isaac!"

I sit down on the ground and shake my head. I can feel that force. Even though I did not put it all into that spell, I can still feel it—what a frightening spell. I don't think it will work against a non-direct spell-like my Twinkling star. While I'm the one casting it, it did not come from me. I think that is how it works, but I did not want to test it.

It was too risky.

"Are you okay?!?"

"Are you alright?"

"I'm doing fine. Lucky for me, it was just an Expelliarmus spell rather than a lethal spell. Anyway, your spell is working great. Good job!"

"Hehehehe~"

"Now, Eli. It is your turn."

Eli nods her head and activates her rune.

"Rainstorm!"

After she said that, I could see the cloud above our head begin to darken, and after a few seconds, a bolt of lightning struck the training dummy I created earlier. After striking the training dummy, the cloud began to change into its normal state.

"Woah! Big sis Eli is so cool! You are like, 'I choose you,' then Woosh and then Kaboom!"

I chuckle at what my sister said. She has a unique way of describing something. I walk toward my sister and pat her before saying.

"That is really good, Eli. Are you good? Your rune did not use your mana reserve, right?"

"No. Not at all. I was inquisitive how the rune did not use my mana."

"The runes of this world are… unique. The True Rune is considered the Gods of this world, and the rune we use is the descendant of that said rune. Your thunder rune is the descendant of the True Lightning Rune, is the one that governs lightning and the atmosphere of the world. Mother Earth Rune is the descendant of the True Earth Rune, the rune that governs over the earth and the plants. Because the rune we use is the descendant of the Gods, they have their own energy we can use."

"I see. If this rune is the descendant of the True Rune, why can we use it? The True Rune will be mad at us, no?"

"Well, they are not exactly the descendants of the True Rune. They are more of a crystal formed from the energy of the True Rune. Only a few runes directly come from the cracked pieces of the True Rune like my Star and Darkness rune."

"I see."

"Even then, it was like not even one percent of the power of the True Rune."

"Wait. Wait. Wait. You tell me that your Darkness Rune that can summon the First Grim Reaper of our world is not one percent of its parent power?"

"Yes. Soul Eater rune is a world-breaking rune. It can kill the universe if it wants to. While its name is Soul Eater rune, it governs life and death. It can create life as much as it can bring death to the other."

"That is…"

"Broken? Yeah. At least, that is what I get from asking the people of the Suikoden world. The game did not really tell us how powerful True Rune is, but they imply that True Rune can destroy the world at the very least. That alone makes them a very powerful rune, no?"

"That is… Yeah, that is very powerful."

"Yup. Anyway, let us continue our training, shall we?"

~Three hours later~

"For today dinner is Sunday Roast. A Roasted Beef, Roasted potato, Yorkshire pudding, Peas, Baby Carrot, and a Gravy. Please enjoy."

For today's dinner, I really want to eat some English dinner dishes. At first, I wanted to make a full English breakfast this morning, but it looked like my mother, and my Grandmother-in-Law did not want something heavy, and a Full English Breakfast is anything but light breakfast.

I smile a little when I see others enjoying my cooking. After we finished eating, we decided to go to the living room to have some family time together.

"Isaac, where will we go next?"

I look at Eli and say.

"I don't really know. Do you have something in mind?"

"Hmmm. How about staying here? We did not need to go to another world to have a vacation, right? And I think others agree with me."

"Very well. I guess we can stay here and have our vacation here.. I also want to see the other island across the sea."