When I returned I saw that Aria already killed the king. At first, every elf started screaming and running chaotically in every direction when they saw me. They kept shouting "Dragon! Run for your lives!", but once I took my loli appearance again, Aria managed to somewhat order them that it's alright.
"So you managed to take the throne, huh?"
"Yes. And it's safe to assume that you also managed to eliminate the guardian. I truly am grateful, lady Milla."
"I guess there is still one more thing to settle."
I turn my head towards the shity prince that was lying unconscious on the ground. He is a part of this mess too.
"Do you want to kill him? I shall not object to your decision."
She is right. I so want to kill this bastard. But… no. Killing him would just make Lorina sad. After loosing her sister, and now her father because of Aria… this jerk is the only blood relative she has left. If you're wondering about Lorina's mother… Aria did mention that the elven Queen passed away 50 years ago. They say it was a natural death, although with these guys you can never be sure. The king might have lied to them to hide the truth. But that's not the issue now.
"Aria, do elves have some sort of prison or a dungeon?"
"There is an underground prison. You wish to imprison him?"
"Yeah. Death is to good for him. Let him rot for the rest of his life."
"As you wish."
Aria snapped her fingers and 2 elven knights came and started to drag the sandbag prince off somewhere.
"Aria, there is one more thing I want to ask of you. Do you think you can get a doctor or a healer to look at Lorina? She's in very bad shape."
"Although there will now probably be lots of internal affairs because of my ascension, and I also want to take care of moving the dark elves back… I can't ignore your request. So we will tend to your friend first."
"Thanks!"
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Me, Sue and Felicia were waiting in a room inside the royal tree. Aria prepared it for us, while Lorina was assigned to a different room. At this point we just had to wait. I mean after all, her state was caused by elves so it would seem only natural that they should be able to fix it. Eventually after 3 hours, Aria came after us.
"So… how is she? Is she going to be alright?"
"She is resting on the third floor, however… her condition… it's just not very good. Those scumbags have left the brainwashing slime on her for far too long… to the point that now she keeps getting turned on. I really don't know how she managed to last that long without giving in to her urges. It's probably due to her loyalty for you."
"And… how do we cure her?"
"Sadly… I don't know. She won't let any male near her and our female healers don't know what to do. This was a dark secret kept by the royal family after all."
I doubt my Phoenix Tears would work either since this is a similar situation like the one with Shiori. Darn it. This is another predicament…
"Aria, wouldn't she calm down if we just relieve her urges?"
"That isn't a solution. Elves have low fertility. So when it comes to making babies it takes quite a long time to properly impregnate a woman. Hence the slime was created to maintain that intoxicated arousal state for a long time. I am afraid that even if you try to relieve her… it would only be temporary."
This is starting to get annoying. Last time I had to ask Tenebria for help. But… I wonder… maybe I can handle it myself…
"Aria, please take me to Lorina. I might be able to fix her."
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Aria guided me to the room Lorina was in. She was in a very bad condition. Sweating all over, rubbing her legs and fondling her breasts. Needless to say the bed sheets were wet.
"Lorina… it's me. Can you hear me?"
"Milla… it hurts… it's so hot… I endured for you… but I feel… my mind is going crazy…"
"Hang in there, Lorina. This nightmare will be over soon."
I extended both my hands towards Lorina and concentrated. I recalled my encounter with Death. His aging magic… it was similar to particle acceleration. Glad I paid attention in class. He made the molecules and atoms vibrate at tremendous speed cause the aging process. While this isn't exactly time travel… I should be able to do the same, but in reverse. If I super vibrate Lorina's particles and combine that with a backwards spell maybe I can reverse her time…
And it started a green magical circle formed with various runes on it, alongside a clock hand that started to spin counter clockwise. The runes. Lorina's body was starting to glow and emit ghostly after images. One after one...
"No way! You can even manipulate time!?"
Aria was shocked, but I couldn't afford to answer her… this thing… is really hard and is sure taking a toll on my body. I think only 3 minutes passed, but it seemed like an eternity to me. The 10 days that Lorina suffered… I reversed them. I reversed the time on her body and managed to bring her back to her old self.
When it was over I immediately crashed on the floor. The mana drain was on a whole other level. I felt incredibly tired.
"Milla, are you ok?"
To my surprise, Lorina was actually the one that got off the bed and supported me.
*Pant… pant…*
"Yeah… just tired… but what about you?"
"I have no clue what you did to me, but it worked. I feel normal again! Like my old self! Thank you… I really can't thank you enough for what you did for me!"
"I'm just glad you're safe…"
That's the only thing that matters to me. Lorina is part of my family too now and a very important friend. Anyone that tries to hurt my friends will get burned eventually.
"I think I want a nap… is it ok?"
"Yes, lady Milla. Have a nice rest."
And with that… I feel asleep in Lorina's arms.
Hadn't Tenebria said that the soul of a mortal could only endure having his time reversed in an hour at most? Did she lie again, or was what Milla did a new variant of the time reversal spell?
What did Aria think when she realized that Milla was a dragon?
Was I the only one who expected the prince to be castrated?
Thanks for the chapter
Milla is a dragon now. She's stronger than any humanoid mortal.
Well, Aria is blind so she can't see her, only feel her. Same Milla, no need to be scared
@Waxford But Lorina is not a dragon and Tenebria was referring to the target of the time reversal, right?
I thought Aria had something like a magical version of Daredevil's sonar vision, or Rimuru's magical perception, but it looks like I was wrong, right?
Even without this, she must have realized that Milla is a dragon by her people screaming "dragon". What I want to know is what she thought at the time if it was something like "That explains a lot...!" or "...Milla really is a box of surprises huh!" for example. Changing the question. What did Aria think when the elves called Milla a "dragon"?
@Gin0001 um no. It's not the target of time reversal. It's the caster
@Waxford But then why did Tenebria say she couldn't reverse Lorina's sister's time?
@Gin0001 I don't have any right to assume, but I mean, aren't gods not really aloud to affect too much, and I mean, time reversal is big, to reverse ten days, she used all her mana for one problem, imagin reversing more than 10 years or so, like with that much mana just use it to destroy the demon continent and everything on it, it would be affecting too much for a god (not that she would want to do that, also, my memory isn't the best so I might have forgotten some things.)
@Gin0001 think yourself. Milla was tired after reversing 10days. In Melina's case the humans experimented on her for 10 years. Rewinding 10years is too much even for the current dragon Milla.
@Waxford And as for Tenebria, could it handle reversing 10 full years?
@Gin0001 Yes and no.
Yes she has the power to do it. But I prefer to think of the lore like this: Tenebria can freely manipulate time in her own dimension. She can also manipulate the worlds' time but, only like 1 minute or so. Think of her power being limited like Whis from dragon ball super. Any more would break the rules of gods not being allowed to interfere directly. And finally, if you truly need to use time magic more than a minute you got to ask permission from the God of Time (which Milla didn't). I don't Wanna go to deep here in it. More will be revealed later, including why Death was able to use it with no consequences in comparison with Milla who has to answer to the God of Time
@Waxford I understand.
What did Aria think when the elves called Milla a "dragon"?
@Gin0001 "She's still our ally, you know? It's the same loli"
Something along the lines
@Waxford I know this and that Aria recognized her immediately thanks to her sense of mana. But what I want to know is what she thought when she found out that Milla's real race was a dragon and how surprised she was behind that poker face, you know?
If you can't tell me now, could you please do an extra chapter with Aria's POV and her honest thoughts about Milla?
@Gin0001 nope. You'll just have to imagine it yourself
@Waxford ...OK.
Tenebria means "vast and deep darkness" in Italian, right?
@Gin0001 Umm... Don't know. Maybe.
I picked the name from a game I used to play a year ago. Epic seven. There's a character there called Tenebria... Thought it sounds spooky and respectable enough to use
@Waxford When I went to google I found this page about the meaning https://educalingo.com/en/dic-it/tenebria
But I admit it is surprisingly lucky that you chose a name that matched it so much without even knowing the meaning.
@Waxford If I were to name some demon goddess I would probably end up using one of the following names:
Kurohime (Black princess), Kuroyuki (Black snow), Kuroyukihime (Black snow princess), Kuroko ("Black, child", or "stage assistant in traditional Japanese theater"), Kurogane (Black steel) and Kuroshinju (Black pearl), Yami (Darkness), Yomi (Underworld), Kuro (Black), Kuroyuri (Black Lirio), Kurobara (Black Rose), Kurotsubaki (Black Camelia), Kurotsuki (Black Moon) , Hitsugi (Coffin), Chiyo (Thousand Nights), Kokonoyo (Nine nights), Yoru (Night), Koyoru (Night child), Kokuyōseki (Obsidian), Nero (Black in italian), Yoruko (Night, Child) ,Yorutsuki (Night, Moon), Yoruichi (Night, One), Kuroi (Black, Chloe), Kuroe (Black, Chloe)
https://japanese-names.info/?s=yoru ; https://japanese-names.info/?s=kuro https://japanese-names.info/first_name/himeko/ ; https://www.behindthename.com/name/yoruko/submitted ;
https://www.behindthename.com/name/yoruichi/submitted ; https://www.behindthename.com/name/kuroi/submitted
; https://www.behindthename.com/name/kuroe/submitted
But I admit that "tenebria" still seems to sound better, it is more rare and it is also easy to remember.
@Gin0001 wish I knew that much japanese. Always wanted to study it to at least... Speakable anime watching level. Writing and reading... Yeah that's another story. Lack the time and a proper learning guide/course though
@Waxford I know how you feel. I know how you feel. After all the little I know about Japanese is thanks to the notes of the translators of novels, anime, manga and google...
From the names I mentioned, which ones were your favorites?
@Gin0001 dunno. Don't think I would use any of them for a god name. Maybe regular human chars... But for gods it feels weird (unless the action on a novel is actually placed in Japan. On an isekai Japanese would feel weird to address gods)
@Waxford Well, I can't deny that. But if you stop to think the same goes for "tenebria" since it is Italian. So in the end it's a matter of taste, right?
@Waxford is the god of time thing from maou gakuin futekigousha?
@Xyastolfoe Umm... Never read that one. Might look into it. And no. My vision of God of Time will be more like well... A male version of Kurumi from Date a live combined with more ZA WARUDO.
i too expected him to be castrated.........shame it didint happen
@bonk.exe Yes, it's really a shame, since he deserved to suffer a lot more.
Although these days, I wonder what would be worse for him between being castrated or given away as a s*x slave to a gay orc couple. What do you think?
@Waxford Well that explains death he didn’t have a soul he was undead if I remember correctly