Chapter 4 – Born & Awakening

The next day after the big surprise from his parents.

During his private lesson, Lola checked Lute homework. But today, their place for lesson was completely private. It was Wallen’s study room.

“Good! No problem at all. Then how about we increase our lesson time a little bit and I will teach you other things as well. Also I have promised to share something new with you for today.”

“Yes!”

Lute became excited that he could learn other things too.

“Fufufufu, be patient, child. We start our arithmetic lesson. How to add, minus, multiply and divide. I will teach otherworld knowledge which they called digit value. I hope you can keep it up.”Lola challenged him.

So their lesson began, because of that he was feeling happy. The progress of the lesson ran smoothly. When he learned about the number, digit value, addition, subtraction, multiplication. Even at the earlier stage,he was slow after figuring out but he asked and practiced the lesson before proceeding to the next stage.

“*sigh*, all done. Why did Lola Sensei’s lessons suddenly become harder today? I am already near my limit…..”

“Well,  it is also one of my hardest methods. Seems you can handle it.”

“Are you serious? Well, at least I can hear something new and this time was fun but please spare me from learning many things in the same day.”

“Fufufu, I will keep that in mind,” Lola chuckled.

Lute just sighed when he saw Lola just kept teasing him. After he drank some water that had already been prepared for them. Lola started talking…

“Ok then. Why did I choose this room? Do you know the reasons?”

“I do not know why but I heard from Papa that this study room was special. It likes like there is a special barrier in here.”

“Yes, that’s correct but I will detail it more. This was called a magical barrier that focuses on preventing any information from being leaked out during important meetings and other situations that require the use of this barrier. Also this barrier has a time limit but if we use some man-made artifact it will work forever unless it is broken and needed to be repaired or replaced.”

Lute just listened while waiting patiently.

“The reasons I choose this room is because what I will share is actually top secret in the world, which every empire and kingdom hide and destroy the evidence of its existence. Actually I cannot reveal it but for some reason I will to tell you only.”

“I am excited but isn’t this really dangerous?”

Lola just giggled at his question.

“Fufufufu, do not worry about it, I received permission for this from your father and in fact, he’s the one asking me to share this with you.”

“Papa did? Why?”

“We know you can keep a secret. You are quite mature for your age, I can tell that.” Lola explained.

“But that does not make any sense.”

“Surely you know that your family is famous in the empire, right? This information will help you when you succeed your father,” Lola informed him.

“Let’s hear it out then.”

At last Lute just gave up asking for more questions and became quiet to listen to what Lola said.

“Fufufu, good boy. Ok, we are going to talk about Omnitrodium. What is Omnitrodium? It is the strongest metal in this world. Which is also one of the reason why the world is at war. Our first king decided to hide or destroy the evidence about this metal. No one knows where it is. Even if they knew the existence of Omnitrodium, they still cannot find it.”

“I see, then if they find it, won’t that be dangerous?”

Lute was doubtful because there would be some king or high rank noble who would try to take it. But why?

“No, they still cannot find it. If they found it, there will be a problem. During the alliance 500 years ago, the king of Arezel Kingdom, right now The Great Arezel Empire, decided to destroy any related info about the artifact and facility to produce that metal. So right now even if they found it will be useless unless they have the artifact or facility that can produce it. Some file of that metal still exists because they know it was important but it was heavily guarded.”

“That means that metal was useless. I’m not interested in it.”

“What an impatient kid. I’m not done yet.”

“Then I will just listen.”

Lute’s mood suddenly fell because the metal he was hearing about seemed useless.

“I didn’t say it will become useless but there is some rumor about there is still one facility that exists for this Omnitrodium. But until now there is no one who has found it yet……”

“Really!?!? Then what can Omnitrodium do anyway?”

“Seriously, wait until I’m done talking. Next time hear it out until the end. *sigh* Continue back. Even if they found the facility, Omnitrodium is also hard to be found and the details are not well known. You need to find these 2 things before you can proceed to process this metal.”

Lola did not answer him directly but told there would be a problem even if they only found one of the two things

“You asked me what Omnitrodium can be used for, right? It was the same as any other metal. Weapon, armor and other ills. You can even build a wall to keep the country protected from monsters. That’s not all. The power of this metal is too powerful; even they can make Otherworld weapons too or make something that cannot even be achieved yet. This metal can turn the world upside down.”

“If we get it, it will be bad if it fall into the wrong hands. There are too many possibilities but one of it is that the war will be started until they get that metal.”

“That’s correct, so what will you do if you found it by yourself?”

“I bet I will keep it a secret for a while. Even If I found one, the problem will keep appearing one after another. If I got both at the same time, which is a way to produce the Omnitrodium to make stuff. I will keep that a secret too. But that’s also a problem. Maybe I can report to the Emperor, but that will not solve the problem because there are also bad nobles. It’ll be more troublesome than this. Ugh, so heavy… I don’t know what to do.”

Lute was having trouble finding an answer but Lola….

“Hahahah, you also have trouble thinking about it, but don’t worry about it since you still a child. Like you said, there will be a bad noble even for a king or emperor. The war will be started if it falls to the wrong hands.”

“Wooa, this thing is so scary”

“Well, even they found this, it’s not like they can’t produce it right away.” Lola added

“Why?” Lute asked.

“Because the condition of Omnitrodium is that it must be produced by the otherworlder with their uniques ability.” Lola said with teasing tones.

“Ehhh…just it?”

“That’s all i can share. the rest… is too early for you”

“Thanks, Lola Sensei!” Lute said.

Then the class ended.

 

Today was where Rosalin needed go back to school. She only had a two days of holidays left before the school started again. So Lute decided to go to her room.

*knock* *knock*

“Come in.”

“Excuse me.”

When he entered the room he saw the bag had already been settled by the maid and Rosalin was already in her uniform school. After he closed the door, Rosalin hurried and hugged Lute.

“I will miss you all again, uuuuuu. I hope that I can always go back home but the school was too far and takes 1 day to travel. Uuuuuu.”

Lute stroked her head and said.

“There, there. Be patient. I know you can do it and later I will enter the same school as you too. So please wait.”

“Yes!”

After they parted a little bit, Rosalin asked him something.

“Lute, can we do that again?”

“That? Do what?” Lute asked.

“This,….”

She put her index finger to her lips, showing what she wanted to do while her face turned red.

“Ah, ok.”

Lute still did not know what his sister was doing but Rosalin knew this was called a kiss. Both of them hugged agan and their lips met each other.  After a few seconds.

“Hehehehe thanks. I will do my best. You too, Lute.”

“Ok, good luck. If you have a problem feel free to send a letter.”

“I will do that then.”

Both of them went out of the room There Elizabeth, Sheila and Wallen were waiting for them. Rosali started hugging each of them.

“Take care of your health and focus on your studies too, Rosalin.” Elizabeth told her.

“Stay healthy and I will watch Lute for you,” Sheila teased.

“Hahahahaha, if you have time, please come back home and do not hold back if there is a problem in your school. Tell me, ok.”

“Yes, thank you very much. You guys, please take care too.” Rosalin said as she turned her eyes to Lute.

After the maid was done putting the luggage in the carriage, Rosalin rode it and then the carriage moved. She waved her hand ather family until they couldn’t see her anymore.

Oh well i need to finish the homework too.

 

The time flowed, each of them did their own work. Today was Wallen’s free day so he stayed home for while.

Evening……

“Haaaaaaaa!!”

Lute and Wallen were sparring in the training ground. Each time his slash was blocked, Wallen noticed there was something different from their usual training before.

“Ho, today you seem energetic than usual,”

“Ah, *pant*…..really?……*pant*….”

“Yes, something happen? “

“Nothing happened. Just Lola sensei taught me useful knowledge.”

Wallen could guess a few things over what Lute meant….

“This will be the last one. Come!”

Lute dashed and jumped, then swung the wooden sword again but suddenly…

“Yaaaaaaa!!!”

“What!?”

What he saw right now was the wooden sword having a light glow around the sword.

That’s!? Don’t tell me?!

He knew this. It was sign of unique skill awaken.

Wallen unconsciously used his skill to block the sword. When both wooden swords clashed.

*bang*

*crack*

Lute’s wooden sword broke while he was still in the air. The momentum sent his head toward his father’s wooden sword.

“Ouch!”

He fell down and sat up, holding his head. There was a bump on his head.

“Damn, hang in there, Lute. I will take you to Sheila!”

Wallen lifted his son and hurried to the garden where Elizabeth and Sheila were having tea time.

“Sheila! I need a healing spell now on Lute!”

He shouted when he arrived, which made both of them feel weird until they saw what happened to Lute.

“Urgh,” Lute let out a groan.

“My son!!!” Sheila screamed in panic and hurried to his side.

“What is happening, dear!?”

“Just use healing now! I will explain it later!”

Sheila used her healing by touching the injured part without using any voice incantation. The bump decreased little by little until it was completely gone.

“Hmmmmm the pain….gone?”

“Yes, mommy healed you. It’s ok now.”

Sheila hugged him when she saw Lute was ok.

“Then what is happening actually?”

Elizabeth asked with a strong voice while Sheila had an angry face, which make Wallen troubled but he felt obligated to tell them what actually happened.

“Let’s sit first. I cannot tell you anything if you guys don’t calm down.”

“Let’s go, Lute.Just sit on mommy’s lap, ok?”

“Ok.”

All of them sat on the chairs at the table, which had various snacks and tea.

Then Wallen started talking.

“First, I am really sorry. It was my fault. I will explain what happened earlier but please listen to me first.”

“Alright, we will hear you out,” Elizabeth told him calmly.

“Thanks, you guys know that Lute and I are always sparring. Today was different.  We were having a little chat and had a last swing to end the training. During our last clash, before our swords met, I saw a glow in Lute’s sword It was red in color. Then I was panicking and unconsciously used my ability to block it. Then Lute’s wooden sword broke, and his momentum caused his head to hit my sword before I could disable my ability in time.”

After Wallen explained, all of them fell silent for a few seconds.

“Don’t tell me that…..”

“That’s……”

“Yes, there is no mistake. It was a unique ability.”

Both of them were surprised because the unique ability could not be inherited. They received it naturally. Even training could not confirm if they could get it or not. But Lute received it.

“Unique ability?” Lute who is sat on Sheila’s lap looks confused.

“Yes, Unique ability is varied. Each person’s unique ability is not the same. So there is only a record that tells us how to know if the person has a unique ability.” Wallen explained.

“I see,” Lute said in wonder.

“But next time please be more careful.”

“Yes, sorry.”

Wallen just smiled wryly, knowing that it was his mistake too. From there he started training him how to control that ability. For the earlier stage they focused control, which required a user to concentrate on detecting if there was any change. When they realized it, the ability would be canceled and there was no effect on user or the target. Middle stage was the user knowing how to let it out but the problem was either it would release less or more power when they used it. Last stage was allowing the user to get more used to it. They knew what the ability could be used for, ranged, power and anything else. Unique ability was totally vast, which made it hard for people to know except only training helped them know it.

 

The time flowed so fast that before they knew it, Elizabeth and Sheila‘s stomachs had grown bigger. They started having a hard time when they needed to cover their baby weight. Both of them already started participating in less activities. Sometimes Rosalin came back to visit them for a few days. Wallen started always coming back home but sometimes he ended up having work to do.

After a while, Sheila started to go into hospital. Luckily, Wallen had already called a doctor that had handled Rosalin and Lute’s birth.

But she was having a hard time because it was a breech delivery. Doctor and the nurse used their knowledge to get the baby out. Suddenly Elizabeth showed signs of giving birth which the Doctor and Wallen panicked. But the Doctor told him to just lay her on the bed next to Sheila’s and ordered the nurses to call other doctors. Wallen put her down and sat between both of them to hold their hands to support them during labor. Another Doctor was called to handle Elizabeth.

As the operation began, Wallen was told to wait outside. He sat on the chairs but he was unable to calm himself while Lute was just waiting patiently and praying for his family’s safety.

This was also breech delivery, and both mother and child had lapsed into a dangerous situation.

After a while, with their efforts, the delivery was successful. The Doctors managed handled the breech delivery.

Wallen entered the operations room hastily to look his wives’ conditions.

As the Doctor confirmed they are fine, Wallen then looked at his new babies.

“Both were female. Both were sisters. Both side were girls?” Wallen said and laughed in a silly way.

Lute thought he wanted to be a great older brother to his little sisters.

Sheila’s daughter, Olivia and Elizabeth’s daughter, Glacia.

These were the names that had been given to them.

 

Author’s note :

Taara~

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