Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 13 — New life(4)
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Selena Argaient, a third wife of the king, and also the eldest daughter of the famous magic family, Argaient.
Selena is one of the rare and powerful magic knights. Based on the profile written in the book about him, a lot of achievements that he recorded whether it was about the field of magic, the field of politics, or in the battlefield.
When in the field of magic, he greatly contributed by forming one of the divisions with the strongest military power of Medeia, Magic Division of Medeia Palace.
Since ancient times, the Argaient family has always played an important role in the magic field of Medeia Kingdom. The Argaient family always had talented family members and was able to select talented magicians from the common people so they had a very strong army in the Medeia Kingdom.
Although Selena comes from the Argaient family, she still founded the Magic Division of Medeia Palace which is able to threaten the position of the Argaient family that has been rooted since the beginning of the establishment of the Kingdom of Medeia.
He thought that the existence of the Palace Magic Division was a necessity in the advancement in the field of magic. Given the division, Selena expects that the division will help the Argaient family when difficulties hit the kingdom.
In addition to the field of magic, Selena also made many achievements on the battlefield. Selena is a rare and very powerful magic knight. Magic knights alone were already rare, but Selena was even very powerful.
He had his own Knight Unit led by him while still on the battlefield. The knight unit was famous throughout the continent for its strength. Even Selena, has the nickname ‘Queen Perak’ when she was still on the battlefield.
But he still had to marry the king and retire from the battlefield. She became the third wife not because she was too bad than the other wife, but because Selena was too adamant to be on the battlefield. Selena has even helped the current king in gaining his position as king and helping to defend him with Selena's power.
That's why Selena was given the privilege. When he had to marry the king, he could marry the king at the time he wanted. Selena married the king when she was over 60 years old.
However, despite being over 60 years old, Selena still remains youthful. She looked like a young girl in her early 20s. That youth is what shows how extraordinary the strength of a Selena Argaient.
Now, Selena Argaient, who was known as the Silver Queen in the Battlefield, again showed her incredible strength in front of everyone.
“In this way, the problem is resolved,”
Selena patted both her hands lightly, clearing both her hands of the dust.
“Excellent...”.
The entire room could not cover their shock. With the extraordinary appearance displayed by Selena, everyone inevitably felt awe and amazement at the incredible power Selena possessed.
‘Awesome.... I know that my mother is strong and special from the profile of her in the book, but I did not expect that she would be this strong.’.
Luminas was greatly amazed by the power possessed by his mother. He often read profiles and biographical accounts of his family and their origins in the library, but he did not expect that his mother was more amazing than he had read in the profile.
‘Then, surely my father is also more extraordinary than what is written in the book.’.
Luminas would not want to think like that. Because of the appearance that was beyond expectations from Selena, Luminas also became highly expectant in other family members.
Due to the everyday appearance that her mother showed her at all times, Luminas always thought that the thing written in the book described her was just something exaggerated.
Who would have thought, that her mother who displayed a good and silly mother appearance would show another incredible side like this.
When Luminas was admiring her mother's prowess, suddenly just—
“LUMIII MY DEAR CHILD!!”
After showing the appearance of a cool and graceful woman like that, Selena suddenly cried loudly while hugging Luminas tightly.
“I-mom..”
“HUAAAA, DEAR LUMI, ARE YOU OKAY?!!”
Selena released Luminas from her arms and turned to clutching Luminas' shoulder hard and shaking Luminas' body firmly.
“A-I'm fine mom! It is precisely my mother who is now hurting me!”
Luminas felt dizzy from the violent shaking made by her mother.
“A-ah, I'm sorry! I was so worried to see my sweet little daughter!”
Selena then let go of her tight shoulder grip.
Luminas who felt dizzy from being violently shaken, immediately fell to the floor.
“K-you're okay, my daughter?”
Looking at Luminas who had fallen to the floor, Selena put on a worried expression.
“I'm fine mom, look at me unharmed,”
Luminas woke up and showed that there were no injuries to his body.
“By the way mom..”.
“Iya? What's the matter with my daughter?”
“WHY IS MOM BACK LIKE THIS?!”
“Eh??!! What's wrong with your mother?!”
“Why did mom go back to being silly like this?! Where did my mom look like?!”
Luminas was furious and shouted at Selena.
“Ehhh? What stunning looks? Your mother has always been like this,”
Selena said that while putting on her ridiculous expression.
“Have it, forget it. By the way go where this mother?”
Luminas, upset by the sudden change in attitude from her mother, immediately discussed something else.
“Y-yes leader—, I mean Her Majesty the Queen. Where have you been? And what exactly happened?!”
The witch Yarez had witnessed all these events from the beginning, but she did not understand anything about the situation. He also asked Selena a question.
“Where did I go? Ummmmm... Yes it is, anu... I of course went to do the important thing!”
Selena's face was full of sweat, her eyes that could not look straight at them, like she was lying. Then he snorted and crossed his arms as if there was nothing wrong with him.
‘Lying...’.
‘Hide looks once...’
Selena who was flooded with incredulous gazes from the two people in front of her instantly shifted the topic.
“Ah by the way, about the crystal ball held by Luminas!”
‘She wants to switch topics..’
‘Very visible that he does not want to discuss this..’.
“Yes, mom. What the hell is going on? I was just following the instructions of the palace witch Yarez but suddenly something like that happened,”
“Yes, Your Majesty! I-I just ran the attribute test procedure as usual! Didn't you already know me since you recruited me who was a young member of the Palace Magic Division?!”
When she said that, Selena gave off an unhappy look and an unpleasant aura.
“Hmm? Didn't you already turn eighty—“
“It looks like you really want to die huh?”
“HUAAA, FORGIVE MY NOBLE IMPOLITENESS!”
The old witch Yarez immediately kowtowed and banged her head on the floor.
[Exposing the attributes that Lumi has]
“Hmmm okay, about what happened... Yarez, explain to me everything that happened earlier,”
“Good Your Majesty. First, I am only carrying out the duties of Her Majesty the Queen as usual. Her Majesty the Queen called me here to test your daughter's magic, and I did the magic testing procedure as usual,”
“Continue,”
“Good. The things that happened next were senseless events that I had never experienced in my entire life,”
“Genesis does not make sense?”
“True, the first incident was where the magic crystal ball suddenly went berserk. The crystal ball was suddenly whichever was concentrated forced in and the crystal ball became uncontrollable,”
“Uncontrolled concentrated mana? Wouldn't magic crystals attract mana only if the magic crystals were given mana? And magic crystals only absorb mana according to the magic capacity ability of the user?”
“That's right, Your Honor. Then the second strange incident happened, suddenly the magic crystal ball that wanted to explode due to overcapacity, and then, it suddenly turned black and absorbed all the magic earlier as if it had no magic absorption limit,”
Hearing this, Selena became silent.
“After the crystal ball blackened, the crystal ball suddenly broke and flooded around with an ominous strange black energy,”
Yarez.
“Strange black energy?”
“True, the black energy exuded an unpleasant feeling. After the black energy encompassed the entire room and its occupants, the black energy suddenly shook violently,”
“....”
“The black energy released a piercing cold slowly. At first it was just like winter, but over time the cold temperature became lower, to the point of reaching a dangerous level and being able to freeze a person. Then after that Her Majesty the Queen came and saved us all,”
Yarez ended his explanation.
Hearing Yarez Selena's explanation became speechless. He seemed to be lost in his thoughts.
“I guess, I found out about the thing that happened,”
“!!!”
“!!!”
Luminas and Yarez had surprised expressions.
Seeing Selena deduce something based on that incident so quickly, proved just how much experience she had.
“Before that, I'll ask you something. Was at the time of the test, the attributes Luminas had were those of water, wind, and earth?”
“!!!, That's right, your majesty. The lights that light up on the crystal ball before blackening are blue, green, and brown,”
Hearing Selena guess accurately, Yarez became convinced that Selena was already aware of the problem.
“This is just my guess, but this might be accurate. As we know, in addition to pure magic, the attributes inherent to the whole world there are 4, namely the attributes of water, earth, fire, and wind. Seeing that Luminas has the ability of 3 attributes other than fire, I can surmise that it is the result of Luminas' error trying to combine 3 attributes at once,”
“!!!!! Then..”
“True, my daughter Luminas is trying to merge those 3 attributes into a crystal ball. Originally Luminas might have been able to combine all three attributes and bring out the ice attribute, but Luminas failed to control it. Eventually the energy went wild and uncontrollable. Isn't that right, my daughter?”
“.... That's right, mom,”
Although Luminas felt that it was not true, Luminas still confirmed the statement from his mother. That's because Luminas doesn't know anything about what really happened, so it could be that his assumptions were wrong and his mother's opinions were right.
Hearing Luminas and Selena's statement, Yarez couldn't hide his shock. His eyes were wide open and his mouth was open. Since Yarez was old, he usually did not show much surprise.
Because of the experience he had, rarely something that could surprise him, one of the other reasons he was also rarely expressive was because of his already sagging skin. But because this time it happened so amazing, he inevitably became very expressive and showed his true emotions.
‘Combine 3 attributes on its maiden magic test... It even had an incredible amount of innate mana... Princess Luminas..’.
“PRINCESS LUMINAS!!! YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF HOPE FROM MEDEIA! I AM SURE YOU WILL UNITE THE ENTIRE KINGDOM ACROSS THE CONTINENT AND SURPASS THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR ANCESTORS!!”
Yarez prostrated and banged his hammer hard on the floor. It proved how sincere his words were towards Luminas. He felt that with the innate talent that Luminas had, he was able to achieve things that no great person in history had ever achieved.
Hearing Yarez's heartfelt statement, Selena smiled. He felt that his daughter was also very extraordinary.
‘Well, I might know and keep the real reason a secret. Regarding the black energy I also do not understand too much, but if it is in accordance with my true guess..’.
“KYAAAAA THE CUTE LUMIKU IS AMAZING!!!
Selena jumped up in excitement and hugged Luminas very tightly.
Heard the words and hopes of those who depended on him. The expression of Luminas became bitter. He felt more and more guilty to them because he hid the real thing to them and pretended like he was doing something like his mother's opinion.
But Luminas was unable to show his true emotions. In his old life as Nielson, it had been almost his entire life that he lived while showing his false emotions. So pretending this time is an easy thing for Luminas. But after his death that restores all his emotions, also living as Luminas for 3 years was enough to make it as a human. So that he can not completely eliminate the uncomfortable feeling of having lied to them.
“Mother, witch Yarez. Me...”
‘A-me...’
“I will try to meet the expectations of all of you!”
Luminas put on an adorable expression of her spirit and enthusiasm.
“KYAAA MY DAUGHTER, YOU ARE INDEED SO GREAT, AND CUTE!!!”
Selena hugged Luminas even tighter, and swiped her face against Luminas' tender cheeks.
“As expected of the great lineage of King Medeia and also the Argaient family. You are so great! I am humbled to witness this great event that will become history!”
Yarez rose with tears in his eyes, beating his chest hard.
‘A-I don't actually know what happened,'
The little face of Luminas that was as white as snow was wet with sweat from being flooded with guilt.
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