Half the Fallen Angels
Episode 40: Arcana, The Land of the Full Color Pendant

Morning time....

Several hours had passed since Devan set foot on this fairy land, after he had long walked straight over the vast expanse of white clouds as far as the eye could see.

Devan just walked straight, keeping his pace without the slightest bit of attacking let alone turning. He remembered a message from Isla, which Isla also heard from an angel holding a lightning whip earlier.

(.." (..."Up ahead is Arcana, the city where the fairies live. Just walk straight, and do not need to complicate yourself."..)

Until then, from his view there appears a white cloud cumulonimbus, which soared high from a distance.

"Possibly there Arcana...."

("And I planned to go straight to Rayyana, but who would have thought I was going to another fairyland. Hmmm, I hope there are vehicles, roads, or the like that take me directly to Rayyana.", Devan hoped inwardly.)

Suddenly, visible in her eye sling, a colorful fairy magic aura faintly passed through her. The magic aura flew in the wind from the front straight with Devan's steps.

("Could it be from that rising cloud?....Where possible, obviously it's still pretty far away.")

Devan continued to walk straight, but once in a while the magic aura of the elf again appeared before him, even clearer and more frequent.

Before long, Devan looked a little far in front of him, standing a house. The house is located on the left facing right, from the point of view Devan is located.

Seeing this, Devan sped up his steps almost to run towards the house, and shortly after, he arrived.

The fairy house was white, but not as white as she had seen in Rayyana.

The house is not big, but it cannot be said to be small. Long from left-right, the roof is dark in the form of a convex wide front-back, except the front roof that is parallel to the entrance is flat in the form of an 'v' upside down like a roof in general.

The most different is the part of the wall that is not innocent. There are several colored crystal stones that stick irregularly. And in that corner of the convex roof, there was a chimney from which it gave off the aura of colorful fairy magic.

("So where it came from, the fairy magic aura I saw earlier."), the little mystery that Devan had been curious about was solved.

Shortly after, from behind the door came out a white-haired woman along with a golden-yellow-haired male elf.

"Shia-shia, when yesterday I asked to bring a blue color, even you carry a blue color that is too old" said the male fairy as she stepped out in front of the white-haired woman.

"Hehe, I'm sorry sir, I think this also includes the color blue.", respond to the white-haired woman while walking backwards in front of the male elf.

"Yes it does include blue anyway,,,,", suddenly the elf man stopped his sentence. His gaze shifted towards Devan.

"Hm?", the white-haired woman also reacted to the silence of the male elf. Then the woman looked back following the direction of the male fairy.

"Waaah... There is a manaaa" said the white-haired woman.

"Very rarely yes, there are humans who visit here", said the friendly fairy man.

"Eeee, good morning", said Devan awkwardly as he raised his hand to the two of them.

"Hm", muttered the white-haired woman while nodding firmly. "Good morning too, man", he continued, smiling to the brim with his eyes closed.

"Yes. Good mornin. Where are you going, son of man?", replied the male elf while asking Devan graciously.

"What are the soaring clouds of Arcana?", asked Devan, pointing at the direction in question.

"Yes. There's Arcana City."

"I want to go there. How long does it take to get there?"

"Walking?", the fairy man and the white-haired woman looked at each other for a long time.

"Alright Lishia. I'll buy that dark blue pendant. But as a condition you have to take the human child to Arcana" said the friendly male elf to the unraveling white haired woman called Lishia.

Devan then sees an object like a prism-shaped crystal held by Lishia.

"No-no sir, this is the wrong item, so I will return it and exchange it for the right thing. And about this human child without the master asking for it, I will still deliver. Hehe", said Lishia slightly laughing at the male elf.

"No-no, you'll drop him off at my request. I'll still buy that pendant."

"No-no sir, this is the wrong item. So it can't be sold. Hehe."

"Come on Lishia, I don't have a problem with...."

"No need to bother sir, hehe---"

"Eeeee.".", Devan interrupted slowly.

("I haven't decided yet.")

"I don't need to be escorted, I'd better walk" Devan said.

"EEh?. Hmm well if you don't want to be ushered in" said Lishia.

Suddenly the male elf patted Lishia's back softly as she spoke.

"What's okay??. Hmmmm.", muttered the male elf while shaking his head.

"Eeeeeeee..!"

"Son of man, you better ride with him. From here the Arcana does look, but in fact it is very far away. If you walk, even a day is not necessarily up" said the fairy man.

"Really?", Devan made sure.

"Hm-hm", Lishia nodded twice.

"Alright then, I'll take the ride."

("Rump? What do we want to ride?", Devan throws a glance from the point he stands, but does not appear to be a vehicle or the like to ride.)

"Hm, good then. You're lucky to be a human child, Lishia happened to be the one who brought the order here, if with her, to Arcana it could be only a few minutes.", said the fairy man.

"Hihi, yes sir, the servant may be tomorrow I will drive him."

"Hm. It doesn't matter."

"Alright then we leave", Lishia also said goodbye to the male elf.

The male elf only nodded once with a friendly smile.

"Come on!", take Lishia.

Lishia also walked away from the fairy house. Devan followed from behind. And after a few steps, Lishia stopped.

He stood straight, his feet straight ahead...

Then, Lishia raised her palms forward, then she was rippling in the wind slowly over her palms.

The wind slowly grew, until when Lishia's small palm was not enough to fill the growing wind, she separated her palms.

So the palms of Lishia now stretched out, forming a great wind rippling before her.

Devan was silent at the sight. He saw a colorful aura emanating from the white haired woman, making Devan know that Lishia was activating fairy magic.

("This white-haired woman. turns out she is a fairy" Devan said in his heart.).

Devan looked at Lishia from behind, her white hair flying in the wind. There was also a white circle whose light was shining above his head.

Lishia's long-sleeved white dress also shook, as well as her long skirt moving left-right exposed to the wind in front of her.

Then, the wind in front of Lishia slowly had a color as white as a cloud, then turned into smoke, which then again slowly the smoke solidified but not stiff, it stretches like the body of a wide stingray.

Finally the wind stopped, and became a thin cloud in the form of a flying stingray that floated there.

"Let's go up.", take Lishia to Devan with a faint smile.

"Hm", muttered Devan once.

Lishia and Devan are riding on a thin cloud in the shape of a stingray. They jumped small, then a small wind appeared that surrounded Devan and Lishia's bodies.

For a moment Devan looked confused.

Then Lishia again spread her hands slightly high on both sides, with her palms facing upwards.

After that, the wind came slowly from behind them. Slowly... slowly... increasingly fast.

"Ahahaha, how is the human child, flying with this so fast right?", said Lishia turning to Devan while laughing happily. He seemed to be enjoying the wind that was beating on him, making his white hair decompose flying by him.

"Hm", Devan smiled nodding at Lishia. "It's much faster than walking" he added.

"Of course, if you walk a day is not necessarily up, hehe. By the way, human children, we have not been acquainted, right?"

"My name is Devan Aria. Just call Devan."

"Vevaan. Okay Devan. My name is Alishia, call Alishia, Lishia, or Shia, it's easy for you."

"Then, just Shia.", jawan Devan was brief.

"Hm", Alishia nodded with a smile.

Then Alishia was silent.

("Any... why do I suddenly feel something strange about this Devan?", bathin Alishia.)

Devan was also silent, he looked behind Shia and only realized the absence of wings on his back.

Because of that, Devan remembered the truth Luna said by Zivan,

(...."“Little Luna was also a target during the war. It was because she was the daughter of Artemis, the power of Artemis would definitely go down on her daughter. Artemis is dead and Luna is safe, but Luna has to lose her wings, become a fairy without wings, she will not be able to fly forever.”.).

("The tree before me looked different, white itself, as well as wingless as Luna....

I'd better not ask him anything about his past, somehow, fearing that my curiosity might hurt him.", Devan nodded, turning his back on his face and looking at him.)

"Oi Devan!", suddenly Alishia called out breaking the silence.

"What do you need to come to Arcana?"

"I-i-"

"Haa let me guess!", suddenly Alishia interrupted.

"You.... Would you like to order a pendant?"

"Huh yeah?"

Alishia also faced Devan, looking at her confused face.

"Making a pendant?, looking for a pendant?, umm... stealing a pendant?......", Alishia said one by one while watching Devan's face look still clueless.

"Hoey, the latter where possible, and also why is it all about the pendant?...."

"wait around. Let me guess.. umm", Alishia watched Devan from top to bottom, and then Alishia was glued to a blackened bracelet on Devan's left wrist.

"Haa.. fix this pendant!.", said firmly Alishia as she grabbed Devan's left hand and raised it right in front of her eyes. "Can??".

"Pendant?..".", Devan's gaze also looked at the bracelet he was wearing. "Haaa.", finally Devan was just mumbling assent.

("This bracelet, since when did it become black?", asked Devan inwardly.)

"Haaa.", Alishia also imitated Devan's muttered tone just now. "It doesn't sound convincing, it looks like my guess was wrong."

"So you just said pendants, it looks like in Arcana that stuff is so popular."

"of course... You see, Arcana is a land of fairy pendant producers."

"Ooh, really?"

"Ha?, so you don't know?, hehe. Good though. Soon you'll see for yourself, how Arcana. heee."

At that time, Devan became curious, about the Pendant Country that Alishia said.

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A while later....

Devan and Alishia finally arrive near the cumulonimbus cloud that soars high into the sky.

Now around Devan, many colorful auras thanks to fairy magic coming from up there were spreading in the air.

Alishia also slowed down the speed of the clouds of stingrays, because around them many fairy houses were standing at a distance.

The fairies waved at Alishia, and Alishia also returned a wave of their hands.

Devan also saw some of them also gave a passionate wave to him, but Devan was hesitant to reply.

"Devan we'll fly up, Arcana's driveway is up above."

The clouds that Devan and Alishia were riding rose upwards, continuing high until the end of the wall of clouds that soared into space.

Until the height of their flight has passed the height of the cumulonimbus cloud, mak seen the land of Arcana.....

A vast circular plain, as well as various forms of fairy houses hidden behind its height.

After Alishia entered the country, the more she looked beautiful...

The plains formed winding down streets, then various fairy houses stood on flat sections of clouds at their edges.

From above, the house looks neatly arranged which meanders around the square. And getting to the middle, the plain of the country was getting lower, however, in the middle of the lowest plain, the white building of the Palace was the largest of the other houses.

Alishia and Devan land, then set foot on the Arcana Country...

"Welcome to the Land of Arcana, O son of man", said Alishia with a warm intonation.

However, Devan did not respond, he was too washed away by the beauty of the country. A colorful fairy magic aura, spread throughout the land, coming from several points under the cloud footing of the land. Even its cloud footing, scattered various stones of various colors attached to it.

Arcana is a colorful country.

However, for Devan there is something more astounding than that.

It was a welcome Devan received by the residents of Arcana at the time.

"Whoa, there is a man, welcome to the Land of Arcana, O man."

"Well, there's rarely a human child coming here."

"Welcome son of man.may be at home in Arcana yaa."

"Hey, Shia.. serve your guests well yooo."

"Hay man, good luck in our country. Brother Lishiaaa. I hope you will be able to accompany him."

Some fairies waved their hands to welcome Devan and Alishia happily, Alishia was busy with a grim smile in response to the welcome of the residents.

While Devan, he finally did not hesitate to receive the welcome of the elves of the people of Arcana. At that time, he remembered the first time he arrived at Rayyana....

(....Sometimes Luna waved to them, and they then replied to her. However, when they saw Devan, they did not care and flew away.

...

There were also some fairies who also waved at Luna, some were glued to Devan in surprise. As usual, Luna enthusiastically greeted them, whereas Devan, she tried to smile waving, but was ignored. Even if it is reciprocated, the fairies appear half-and-half.).

("When in Rayyana, let alone welcome, even Luna's own friend stared intently at me....

Is... The fairies in Arcana are indeed different from those in Rayyana?")

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