Agnisotra: Origin Tails

Day 5: I woke up from an energy wave at 6:26. Ah shit here we go again I got up, took a shower, and changed out of the clothes I was too lazy to change out yesterday. I opened the door to head out but something scared the shit out of me so I slammed the door.

“Good morning sweetie! Can you open up” What are you doing here?!

“How rude, I decided that because our last date got ruined to spend a day with you!” Should you be spending whatever time you have to freely move around with me?

“Why not?” I open the door and get met with a hug Noo! By the way, my body still hurts! Wait it doesn't hurt?

“Hehe, my hug nursed you back to health!” Ugh, my headache is just getting worse though.

“I even have some nutritious food for you!” Hey, where did you take that from?

“Hmm? I’m sure you can use dimensional magic too.” Yes! But I don't take things out of my cleavage!

“Do you want me to put it back?” No! Maybe I should just accept the fact that I will never get rid of this headache.

“You should make sure to eat well! I’m sure you haven't eaten properly!” Azu bent over and handed me the food. I took the food because I realized I haven't eaten anything in 2 days because of those stupid potato villagers. Also, I can’t go on a date with you, I have a lot of stuff I need to do.

“That is fine! I will accompany you!” Uhh, you don't have to.

“Are you trying to dump me already?” Ugh, you know what, do as you like.

“Yaay! I will burn anyone who stands in your way!” Uhh, sure why not? I didn't feel like dealing with anything troublesome now so I guess this works. And with a blue-haired god-slapping killing machine locking arms with me, I headed out.

Hey Agnis, Whoa who is that babe? Hmm, I didn't expect you to get a girlfriend out of nowhere. Ugh, guys, meet Azu, Azu this wild guy is Raishin, this overly serious guy is Gregory, and this guy who looks like he just thought of a stupid pun is Ted.

“Hi, guys! I’m Azurra Mist, the witch that is imprisoned here, since the barrier is weakening and I get more and more freedom I decided to say hi.” Are you single? Uhh, hey What an introduction, Hey, I’m Gregory but you can call me Greg.

“Yes, Raishin I’m single but I'm waiting till Agnis makes a decision!” Wait what? Shouldn't you go do witch things after we break the barrier? And I'm too young for you!

“They probably forgot that I existed so I’m free to go wherever and whenever!” What about Paul, Paula, and Uraya?

“They have their lives, I have mine!” But what about my headaches?

“Do you want a kiss on your forehead?” No! Because you will give me some more stupid overpowered magic that I can only use if I want to destroy the world!

“Come on! Destroying the world together sounds fun!” I like my world not destroyed! You know what? I give up, you two are perfect for each other, You get my blessing.

Hey, we don't! You seem to be getting along fine. I guess there is a trend, to be super strong you need to be batshit crazy you guys seem to have that in common. Hey, I’m not crazy!

“Hey, I’m not crazy!” Stop copying me!

“I’m not copying you! We’re just in tune with each other!” Nooo! Great now there are 2 Agnises. At least that means that we are certain to succeed now. I circulate more nature magic to keep my headache under control.

Just wait Greg, when you find a crazy chick, I'm going to do everything in my power to get you together. Gregory shrugged. Do your worst! So, what is on the schedule, things have been hectic later.

We need to wrap up the things with the tablets, deal with the cultists, and destroy the root.

“Tablets?” Yeah, these. I took the two tablets I stole, ehum borrowed from the cultist, and showed them to Azu.

“Oh, if you bring all of them in front of the root you can deal with all those at the same time." We looked at each other. That's easy, eh?

“Well, if you don’t know that it could cost you a whole day.” Whoa, look at her being useful.

“Hey! What do you mean? I was useful when I heal…” I covered her mouth. Ehehe yeah, my bad, thank you Azu. Hey, Agnis, why didn't you let her finish her sentence?

Ehm, well you know, I might or might not accidentally poke her chest. So lucky! Tell me how did it feel! I smacked Raishin.

And this is the reason why.

“Ooh Agnis, so bold to say that without reservation, it was supposed to be a secret” Azu made an overly exaggerated shy gesture. Maybe I should've told my buddies the truth instead of increasing my headache. Maybe I will die because my head will explode from this headache. Right, so that means we have a lot of free time. Wait don't say that!

“Ooh, date time! Let’s go!” Azu grabbed my arm and dashed off while dragging me. Help! We will always remember you. I will continue your legacy. Have fun! Gregory said with a grin.

Assholes! I tried to slip away in stealth and leave a clone at my place but Azu noticed instantly.

“Ooh, you want to play hide and seek?” No! But I would just prefer to play ‘hide’ All my years of experience in escaping was useless against Azu. Maybe this was a test to push my skills far and beyond. If I could escape from her, I could escape from anyone.

“Hey look there is that kid again!”

“Wow look at that babe! That surely isn't his girlfriend, right? Maybe it’s his sister!”

“Hehe, do you guys want to know what? I will grant this kid the priceless position to become the brother-in-law of the amazing Dunkey Hurado!” Great, these clowns again. “Sup kid, is this your sister?”

“It’s not kid, his name is Agnis, and I’m not his sister” You know what, maybe if I don't say anything, things will work out and my headache doesn't get worse.

“How about you ditch him and come have some fun with us?” Uh oh, Donkey why would you say something as cliché and stupid as this?

“Hmm, I won’t come with you but I can have some fun with you.“ The bullies smiled thinking they succeeded. I am sure that an almost 3000-year-old witch who can easily fight a god or 2 has a different definition of having fun than some random 14-year-olds.

“Aah! What is going on!”

“It is fun, isn't it?!” Azu made fountains sprout from under the bullies launching and keeping them in the air. Hmm, I was worried about nothing. “Hehe, can I play with your tails now?” Uhh, maybe later, certainly not in public I’m starting to think that she might be an old witch but she seems like a kid inside, sometimes. We relaxed a bit at Boshi lake.

“You won't escape us this time!” A [Wind blast] approached. I wanted to dodge it but it got cancelled halfway. “Who is this vixen?” Vixen? I looked around.

Phew, she isn't here.

“Who are you calling a vixen?”

“You of course! Stay away from Agnis!” I need to do something; this is going to become ugly.

“Charlize, do you recognize that woman? I have never seen her before."

“Me neither!” The mothers shifted to attack mode.

“You two need to cool off!” I saw a brief flash of a magic circle. If I didn't have eyes as good as mine, I would have never spotted it, It was there for several milliseconds. To most people, it would look like she didn't create any magic circles. Azu is scary. Anyways she turned the mothers into frogs. How very witch-like. Azu looked me, who was in thought, in the eyes. “You are impressed, aren't you?” Uhh, yeah, so what are you going to do with them?

“They can go for a swim” She made some waves wash the 2 frogs away. “Don’t worry, no sea monsters will attack them, I put a ward on them.” There are no sea monsters in a lake… Azu looked at me.

“So cute!” Another deadly hug. I felt an energy wave and had a bad feeling. I looked around Boshi town and the shades started to appear again. Did they go on holiday and just return? Anyways I had an idea that I had earlier but totally forgot about. I am going to try and weaponize my illusion layers. These illusion layers are centered around Boshi town and its outskirts. They aren't centered around me. Which means that I lose them when we escape from Boshi town. So, I want to use them as much as possible. Also, since much stopped making sense lately, I couldn't really use them. They only work on death or if I have a good grasp of the situation. Also, those stupid isolated spaces bypass them because my illusions are again centered around Boshi town and not myself. It feels like someone is trying to defeat me and use loopholes and cheats his way there. I ran off toward the shades.

“Agnis wait!” These shades were still the kind that couldn't be interacted with. Now let's test to see if this works. The shade approached me. I shattered 10 illusion layers and successfully put a debuff on the shade. It approached me and started to make swiping motions. I backed off but the shade popped out of existence. What just happened? I did the same with 3 more, nothing happened until they started attacking and then they took a lot of damage.

“What are you doing?” I think I found a new overpowered skill; it reminds me of a game where you can cause opponents to do damage to themselves. It was called [Confusion].

“Ooh, try it on me!” Uhh, I’d rather not use it on you, I also don’t want to get attacked!

“I will use an attack that will make you charmed by me for 5 minutes!” No! No charm attacks! Please no!

“I will slow my magic circle down so you can react!” Ugh, if she is going to use a charm attack, I have no choice. I shatter 50 layers and place [Confusion] on Azu.

“Ouch! That hurts!” Ugh, it doesn't seem to stop the attack. I tried my best to resist the charm attack. I shattered 10 layers to undo the fact that she cast the charm attack on me. “Aw, I wanted to see what happened if you got charmed by me. How about you shatter more illusions or I attack multiple times?” If you use something else than a charm attack sure. I have had bad experiences with charm attacks. I discovered early in my life that this is one of my weaknesses I can’t fix. Viridian’s daughter, Hisui used to use them a lot on me. And that is one of the reasons why her name causes me to shiver.

“I will just use [water bubbles]. They are weak and activate multiple times.” You know I can also just test it on those shades that are clawing at you but seem to do no damage.

“Oh!” She ran away from the shades and stood behind me. “Save me!” You don't need saving! Those shades were clawing at you for 2 minutes and you didn't even notice! I shattered different amounts of illusion layers on the shades but they didn't seem to take damage because they weren't attacking. I looked at Azu and pushed her at the shades.

“Hey!” They clawed at Azu and the ones that attacked the fastest took the most instances of damage, the ones with more illusions shattered took more damage per attack. “That was mean!” I will make some ice cream for you later, please bear with it.

“Ice cream? Azu tilted her head. You will see later. I tried something else. I discovered that I could shatter illusions to also land CC effects but they cost a lot of layers. So far, I could only use [Confusion] in a normal setting where I didn't have 7 digits of layers waiting to be used. [Confusion] needed a minimum of 3 layers and could go as high as I want. The cc needed at least 50 layers. I could already undo certain events by shattering layers, the amount depended on the strength of the effect and the area affected. Azu’s charm attack was strong so I needed 10 layers to undo it. On weaker opponents, this amount drops.

I could also do damage with this but this didn't seem to work on the shades. Azu told me to test it on her and she said that the ]Confusion] hurts way more. I burned some illusion layers on practicing with [Confusion] and Azu did some cheerleading. We decided to stop when we weren't putting a dent in the shade population anymore. Azu tried some things but she didn't seem to know what kind of skills would affect the shades. For now, Gregory was still the fastest and safest way to deal with them.