Chapter 6

[Asher] (My…my body…it feels heavy…)

Asher who fell unconscious after the crystal event has just woken up. But as soon as he did, he could feel something is off with his own body.

[Asher] (Could it be that the transformation was a failure?)

Since he just woke up after a deep sleep, he could only open his eyes half way and is still slightly drowsy. The only thing he can see right now is the canopy of his bed.

[Asher] (It feels like something is…holding me down.)

With his drowsiness slowly seeping away, he then looks at his chest where the mysterious force that is pushing him down is coming from.

[Ifca[ “…………………hmm………”

[Asher] “P—princess?”

It was Ifca; she was lying down on top of Asher’s bare naked chest while sleeping peacefully while having a bit of drool dripping from her mouth.

[Asher] (No wonder it was also hot…Ah, she’s drooling…)

With those thoughts passing through his head, he lay at his bed without moving as he continue to watch his younger sister’s face as he gently stroke her head.

But while he enjoys himself by stroking Ifca’s silky and smooth white hair, his door suddenly made a clicking noise and the door slowly opens.

As he watches the door opens, he quickly recognized the person who was carrying a tray with the certain food that Asher taught Emma the head chef and the other maids and the very person how is carrying the tray is the woman who sent Asher into this foreign world.

[Asher] “Hey Deloria, I guess the thing I should be saying here is ‘Good Morning’, huh?”

[Deloria] “S—Sir, your awake.”

Seeing Asher awake almost made her drop the tray, but she quickly gripped the tray and placed it on the table that is placed on the middle of Asher’s room, she then makes her way towards the laying Asher.

[Deloria] “It’s good to see you finally awoken Sir Asher.”

As she gets closer to him, Asher noticed her reaction was a little to panicked, so he askers Deloria in a quiet voice, so not to wake up Ifca in her sleep who is still on top of him.

[Asher] “I’m starting to get a little worried here, so can you tell me how long did I pass out?”

[Deloria] “Well, you were asleep for 2 days.”

[Asher] “T—two days? Wow, that’s a first for me, never really slept that long before.”

[Deloria] “If you still need rest, please lay down while I inform the others that you are awake.”

[Asher] “Alright, thanks.”

With Asher’s thanks, Deloria walks to the door. But before the she steps out, Asher quickly called out to her.

Asher suddenly remembered the crystals and raised his body.

[Ifca] “………..hmm!?...”

[Asher] “Hey Deloria about the transfo—Ah, sorry about that princess.”

Due to Asher suddenly raising his body, Ifca rolled backwards; luckily the bed is abnormally big so Ifca didn’t hit her head on its frame.

[Ifca] “……..Brother…….Person…?”

[Asher] “Morning Princess, sorry to wake you up like that.”

Without saying a single word, Ifca quickly crawls and made her way to Asher. She then spreads her arms and hugs him. Though one would call it a hug, Ifca not only has her arms around him, but also her legs, or in other words Ifca is wrapped around him.

[Ifca] “………….Brother Person…….awake…”

With Ifca’s actions, Asher was able to tell that she was really worried about him, so he once again strokes her head and apologized.

Deloria, who is watching them with gentle eyes, reminded Asher what he was going to ask. Though Deloria somewhat knows what he was going to ask, she still reminded him anyway.

[Asher] “Oh right, the thing I want to ask is, did my transformation fail or maybe it didn’t even work to begin with.”

Deloria paused for a second and then gave Asher a small smile that felt like it had a slight tease inside it.

[Deloria] “I’m not really sure how to say this, but I think you should see for yourself, Sir Asher…well then if you’ll excuse me, I shall call your mother and father as well as your sister, well then.”

But before Deloria left, she looks at the cabinet while still carrying that teasing smile.

[Asher] “Wh—what the, she could’ve just said it straight to me…”

With his head getting confused and bothered, he stood up and made his way towards the cabinet that Deloria was looking at and opens it.

By the way, Ifca is still clung on to him.

[Asher] “Whoa…did I just get a tan?”

Since it was his own body, he quickly noticed the difference.

After noticing his slightly brown skin, he then checks his own height and body.

[Asher] (Though Ifca is in the way, I can still see that my body mass is still the same and my ears are long and sharp like my Mom’s…but…)

After checking his height and body, he steps closer to the mirror and then said.

[Asher] “What’s with these lines?”

With lighter shade of skin lines that goes down from his lower eye lids, going down to his cheeks, neck, shoulders and then back.

[Asher] (The effects of the change maybe? Or maybe some sort of weird sunburn?)

He then follows the lines on the mirror with his finger tips and then noticed another change.

[Asher] “What’s with this white star?”

He then noticed the white star shaped color in his hair. He wanted to confirm if it was really his hair so he pulls one strand.

[Asher] “Ow…yup that’s my hair. But why is it star shaped? Feels like I’m some sort of retro superhero. Heh… and all I need now is a cape.”

Feeling a bit embarrassed with his hair, he slowly turns around while giving up on his appearance.

[Asher] “…………Hm?”

But as soon as he turns around, he noticed blue lit particles falling behind him.

[Asher] “A Firefly maybe, not its not…where did this come from?”

When his curiosity got the best of him, he tried to catch the blue light but it quickly disappeared into thin air.

With a small sigh, he once again tried to make his way back to bed, but to only notice more blue lit particles appearing behind him.

He quickly turns around, spun his body and came to realize something.

[Asher] “These blue light things are coming from me.”

He then stop and look at the mirror and check his back and found where the blue lit particles are coming from. But not only that, he also notice that when he moves to right from left, the blue particles seems to flow out making it look like a blue shining scarf.

[Asher] “Did Mom also have these? I didn’t see any when she changed into a Djinn.”

Seeing as the blue particles are flowing out from inside him, he thought that there might be more changes that he couldn’t see from the outside.

[Asher] “Might as well check it out, but where can I move freely. Though this room is huge, there’s a chance I might break something.”

As he pounders for a solution, Ifca who amazingly continued to cling on Asher’s body mumbled, while having her face still buried on his chest.

[Asher] “I’m sorry princess, what was that?”

[Ifca] “…………….Knight People’s………training…….ground…”

[Asher] “Really? That’ll be great, mind showing me the way?”

[Ifca] “*Nod*………….don’t mind……..”

With a place where Asher can freely do as he wants, he decided to go to the training ground with Ifca showing the way.

But before he does…

[Asher] “Hey Princess, can you get down for now, I need to put on a shirt.”

[Ifca] “……………………………………….Ok…”

With Ifca leading, Asher made it the knights training ground in about 5 minutes.

At a platform made out of solid stone that stretches about 50 feet in width, stood Asher.

[Asher] “Haaa…Hmmph!”

*Phoom!*

[Asher] “Hyaaa!”

*Swish*

[Asher] “Phew…”

Ifca, who was sitting a few steps away, watch over her older brother’s strange movements. Though she knows what a punch and a kick is, what she is seeing right now is completely different.

Every punch his brother makes made a booming like sound and his kicks are swift and sharp. So she walks closer to Asher, who stops moving, and tugged on his pants.

Seeing never before seen movements, made Ifca’s curiosity tingle.

[Asher] “Hmm? What is it Princess?”

[Ifca] “……….that……….what was it?..........”

[Asher] “That? Oh, you mean ‘that’, well it’s called Martial Arts. Have you ever heard of it before?”

[Ifca] “*Shake*…………….No…”

Asher was supposed to be surprised hearing this, but after seeing his surroundings, he easily came to a conclusion.

[Asher] (I know I’m not from this world, but Knights and soldiers are supposed to be training right about now, but I don’t see a single person here.)

He then walks closer to a corner where the practice swords and spears are kept.

[Asher] (Not to mention the practice gear, they all have cobwebs and cracks. That could only mean that these things haven’t been touched for quite some time now. So I’m guessing that this Kingdom, or even the world, might have no knowledge of Martial Arts.)

After pondering for a while, he looks at his younger sister who, is still holding on to his pants, Asher then found his other answer as to why this world has no Martial Arts and gave Ifca a smile and once again stroke her head.

[Asher] “So that’s why.”

The answer that Asher thought as he looks at Ifca’s innocent face is no other than Magic.

Ever since the founding of Magic, the people of Terrafis thought of nothing but to improve their magic, thus making the concept of fighting with weapons almost obsolete.

Though knights and soldiers as well as Adventurers tend to carry swords, spears or even bows, they are mostly used in cases where they ran out of Mana or it’s the last resort.

But by the time Diana is transported into the world called Terrafis, the development of magic came to a halt, thinking that all they needed to know about magic has already been discovered, so claimed the Magic Association.

As for punching and kicking, those can only be seen in disputes inside bars between drunk men or a fight between children, so the people of this world has no idea what a ‘Stance’ is or the basics of punching, kicking and even swordplay.

Asher honestly thought that it was a bit of a letdown and gave a quiet sigh.

[Asher] (But thinking about it won’t change anything and how I see things, it doesn’t look like this world progressed in a bad way. But then again, I haven’t really seen anything beyond these castle walls yet.)

After thinking about the lack of Martial Arts in this world, he then moves on to another matter he just noticed.

He slowly raised his right hand, which was gently stroking Ifca’s head just now, then he open and close his palm while he stare in surprise.

[Asher] (Though I couldn’t see it from the outside, my body definitely changed. I can feel that my body became lighter and my strength even increased.)

As he thinks on just how far does his new body go, a voice that he knows ever since his childhood called out to him and beside her is the man she will soon wed.

[Alfern] “It’s good to see you in good health, Ash.”

[Diana] “Hey there, so the son that made us all worried is finally awake, so…how’s your body doing?”

[Asher] “I guess you could say I’m doing alright, but that would be an understatement.”

[Diana] “So I guess you feel it to, huh?”

Both Diana and Alfern walk closer towards Asher and Ifca. But as soon as they did, Alfern suddenly bombarded him with question full of worry. Questions like if he’s feeling any discomfort or any pain in his body, Asher’s mother on the other hand walks behind him and patted the mark on his back where the blue particles coming from.

[Diana] “What’s up with this, why is it spitting out these blue stuff.”

[Asher] “Mom, can you not say that, you make it sound weird.”

[Alfern] “Actually about that…”

Without finishing, he walks behind him and slowly tried to catch a blue lit particle on his hand, but it faded on his palm within seconds and then continued.

[Alfern] “I believe this blue light is his Mana being released.”

[Asher] “Eh, no way…will I be ok?”

[Diana] “You mean Ash is gushing out his Mana? That sound wrong and bad in the same time.”

Suddenly, Asher and Diana thought of something bad, like a coconut gushing out its juice. But Alfern quickly replies and said that he will be Ok, since he doesn’t seems to be in any discomfort.

[Alfern] “Actually, having a body like yours is something I have never heard of before. We Djinns are a race that creates Mana within our bodies, but we still have a limit. Yours on the other hand creates Mana endlessly, which is very amazing.”

[Asher] “Is that so…”

After hearing from Alfern himself that he is Ok, he then made a quick jog around the platform confirming once again about his body. While doing so, Diana and Alfern notice the blue mana particle started to extend.

[Diana] “Wow, when he runs it kind of look like he has a cape on.”

[Alfern] “Your right and it also has a beautiful blue shine to it.”

After making a few turns, he then jogs back to Diana and the others.

[Asher] “I knew it, not only by appearance but also my inner body changed as well.”

He then started to hop on the spot while having curious thoughts about his own body.

[Asher] “But I wonder how far did I change?”

[Diana] “Hehehe, I knew you’d be curious. So how about it Ash, you want to do it? It’s been a while hasn’t it?”

With a smile full of energy and beauty, she gave out a challenging aura and looks at Asher straight in the eyes.

[Asher] “That’s true, it has been a while so I don’t mind and we get to see how much we change too.”

While Alfern and Ifca wonder on what they are planning on doing, Diana left to change her clothes while Asher did his warm up.

Since this world has no knowledge in Martial Arts, what they’re about to see is something they would keep in their memories.

Finally returning after changing, Diana is now wearing her usual exercise clothes with her new white hair tied up in a pony tail. Dressed in a two piece, a black and yellow sports bra and cycling shorts with the same colors and pattern. Wearing such tight clothes made her ‘Boom, Squeeze, Boom’ figure show.

[Ifca] “……………Father Person……staring too much…”

[Alfern] “Eh!? O—of course I’m not, what a—are you talking about?”

Even the king of the kingdom couldn’t resist Diana’s beautiful figure and tried to hide his face by looking the other way, avoiding his daughter stare.

[Alowey] “Father, I know that Mother has a very alluring figure, but please restrain yourself.”

[Deloria] “……………………………”

But neither did he know that his other daughter, Alowey was also standing beside him. As for Deloria, she merely stayed quiet while having blushed cheeks.

By the way ,Alowey and Deloria meet Diana on the way so they decided to head to the training ground together.

[Alfern] “No wait, I—I could explain...I was just…”

While the King tries to explain his slightly perverted expression to his daughters and servant, Diana and Asher stood at the middle of the platform.

[Diana] “So, how long do you want this to be?”

[Asher] “As long as it takes, not like we have anything better to do.”

[Diana] “Yeah, I guess you’re—”

But before she even finishes her sentence, she instantly disappeared from where she stood and is now in the air and gave Asher a vertical kick coming to his left side of his face.

[Diana] “—right about that one!”

But…

[Asher] “…Always the impatient one, aren’t you Mom?”

[Diana] “I’d prefer you’d call it a loving surprise from Mommy.”

[Asher] “Hehe~ yeah, right!”

While Diana is still in mid-air, Asher blocked her kick with both of his arms and then pushed them a side.

While still in momentum when he pushed her forceful kick, he made a turn while jumping and also did a kick in mid-air, aiming towards Diana’s right rib while still in the air.

[Diana] “Hmp!”

But just like Asher, she blocked the hit with her left arm and pushed his kick opposite direction, which lifts her body and my using the force of Asher’s kick, she spun once and made a right kick aiming for Asher’s left shoulder.

[Asher] “Gnn!”

But once again, Asher was able to block her kick by using left arm, but with the force of Diana’s kick Asher, who was still in the air, instantly drop his feet to the ground.

*Crack*

Anyone could see how heavy Diana’s kick was, seeing as Asher’s feet dug an inch into the hard stone platform. If anyone tried to block that kick, they would most definitely brake. But Asher is different, not only did he withstand the kick but he also did it with a single arm without even flinching down.

While remaining in the air, Diana lifts her left leg and tried to stomp on Asher’s face, but he quickly blocked it with his right arm. Seeing as they don’t have any option of attacking, they both jump away from each other and quickly made their stance.

[Deloria] “A—amazing…”

Asher’s personal attendant couldn’t take her eyes away from both mother and son.

Deloria, who was known not only as the royal family’s personal attendant, but also known as one of Vetala’s strongest dark and ice mage, is amazed seeing such fast and strong movements without the use of magic.

[Deloria] (No, to be more precise…I don’t even think any spell can make someone move as fast as Sir Asher and Lady Diana.)

With feelings full of awe, she continues to watch the two with clenched hands.

But of course Deloria isn’t the only one who is having those feelings.

[Alowey] “Wha—what in the world? How can they move like that?”

Alowey, as well as her father and younger sister had their eyes glued to Asher and Diana’s movements and blows. Especially Ifca, who usually has bored like eyes, are now wide open.

But while the Royal family and Deloria continue to watch over the bout between mother and son, the castle soldiers as well as the passing by maids got curious with the loud banging noise and started to gather.

[Soldier # 1] “H—hey, isn’t that his highness, King Alfern?”

[Soldier # 2] “Y—your right, what is he doing here?”

[Soldier # 3] “Wait, even Princess Alowey and Princess Ifca is here.”

[Soldier # 4] “Even Lady Deloria.”

[Soldier # 5] “Wait, isn’t that her highness, Lady Diana? What is she doing in the training grounds?”

Soldier who were on their way towards the inner training ground to train their magic, made a detour after hearing sounds coming from an area that is mostly empty and found the royal family.

[Maid # 1] “Hmm, isn’t that Sir Asher?”

[Maid # 2] “Your right and he’s with Lady Diana. I guess they’ve succeeded in becoming Djinns.”

[Maid # 3] “But isn’t Sir Asher look different from a normal Djinn, though I haven’t really seen a lot of Djinns before.”

[Maid # 4] “Ah…the other Royal families are there too.”

[Maid # 5] “But more importantly, what are they doing on the training ground?”

The maids who were about to take care of the curtains as well as the bed sheets and blankets, also heard the noise that Asher and Diana were making and walked over to the closest window to take a peek.

With such large number of people gathering, most people would be able to notice and stop what they’re doing, but not for Asher and his mother Diana. Both mother and child didn’t leave their sights to each other and kept their guard up.

[Diana] “It wasn’t enough for a complete warm up, but I guess it’ll do. So what do you think, should we get serious?”

[Asher] “It is about time.”

While holding their pose for about a minute, the first to attack is Asher. With his sudden movement, they could only see the dust cloud that came from the strong step he made.

[Solder # 1] “Wh—what the hell!?”

[Maid # 1] “Sir Asher disappeared!”

Though what they saw that Asher’ figure disappearing, they instantly saw him inches away from Diana, which made them gapped in surprise once more.

[Asher] “Moon Destruction Method: Art # 34—”

Making a strong stomp with his left leg, the ground cracked under his feet and clenched his fist while aligning it on his waist.

And then…

[Asher] “—Javelin! ”

As if shooting a cannon, Asher drove his fist straight in such a strong way, that the soldiers who are watching could slightly feel the wind blowing.

[Diana] “Moon Destruction Method: Art # 15—“

After doing 3 back flips, she then ran forward and did a summersault with her legs raised up in the air.

[Diana] “—Guillotine!”

With her sharp slicing kick rushing downwards and finally reaching the ground, not only did the stone platform crack, but her kick also made a slashed dent.

Asher quickly avoided it by doing a back-flip, but—

[Asher] “Wha!?”

As soon as his hands landed on the ground, Diana made a swift kick with her left leg and hits Asher’s arms. Normally one would lose his or her balance, but Asher quickly rotates his body and successfully managing a side-flip.

But Diana’s attack wasn’t over; she knew that her son would be able to stand again, so as soon as Asher lands safely, she quickly dashes over to him, jumps, did a spin air and gave him another kick aiming his left shoulder.

But Asher didn’t dodge or even block the kick; he opens his right fist into an open palm and slaps the kick to another direction and then made a straight punch with his left.

Diana then bends backwards and uses two of her legs and kicks then upwards, attempting to hit Asher’s chin, but Asher did the same and bends his body backwards.

Thus resulting both of them doing 3 back-flips, gaining distance for the both of them.

[Diana] “Looks like you haven’t neglected your training, having all those jobs, I thought you’d forgotten about them already.”

After saying so, Diana puts her stance down and then gave Asher a confident smile.

[Diana] “It’d be boring if we do the usual spar, which is why when you where having your nice little nap, I learned how to use…’IT’.”

[Asher] “Do you mean…you learned how to use ‘IT’!”

[Diana] “Yes, I finally learned how to use ‘IT’!”

With the spectators having nothing but questioning looks, they continued to watch the Mother and Son having their own weird conversation.

[Alowey] “Ah, could Mother be talking about her learning how to use magic?”

Luckily, their confusion didn’t last long since Alowey quickly found out what ‘IT’ was.

[Alfern] “Now that I think about it, she was busy reading book in the royal library. But to learn how to use her element so fast is impressive.”

[Alowey] “Actually father, mother has done something even more that just learn her element.”

With once again hearing something that gave them even more questions, the royal family continues to watch the spar.

[Diana] “I’m sure you’ll be learning this afterwards, but I’ll tell you any way…”

But before Diana finishes, she started to say something or rather, chant something.

[Diana]

[Asher] “Eh!? No way, you seriously learned how to cast a spell! Ah, I don’t have time for this…”

But Asher quickly realized that he can’t let her finish her chant, so he quickly dashed forward and ready an attack.

[Asher] “Moon Destruction Method: Art # 34—“

But just when Asher is only a few steps closer to Diana, out from the ground…

[Diana] “—protect me with your cold, hard frame—Effri-Wall!>

A wall made of iron

And blocked his way, but that didn’t stop Asher from attacking. He quickly placed his foot on the ground and releases his punch without holding back.

[Asher] “—Javelin!...Hmm!?”

But as soon as Asher’s attack hit, he quickly realized that Diana wasn’t behind the wall she made.

As for the spectators like Alowey, Deloria, the maids and the soldiers, they too didn’t realize Diana was gone because they we’re too amazed on how strong Asher’s punch was.

[Soldier # 1] “Did you just see that? The metal wall…”

[Maid # 1] “The 5 inch metal wall…bent.”

[Alowey] “To make such a big damage to that spell with his fist alone, incredible.”

While everyone is in awe with Asher’s strength, Alfern realized that Asher is still cautious, he then realized that Diana who supposedly behind the wall is no longer there and she is now on Asher far right.

[Asher] (Shit! She knew I was going to use Javelin on her, so she uses the technique’s time laps and the wall itself to get some distance from me!)

[Diana] “Let me tell you one more thing Honey, the reason why they have those words in the end of their spell is because they need it as an image, so that their spells can create forms, like a shield or a spear. That is why…”

She most likely thought it was better to show it that explain how it works, that is why without finishing her words, she started to chant the same thing.

[Diana]

Just like the first spell she casted, a metallic wall came out of the ground in front of her, but the only difference was the distance of the wall is about 10 steps away from her.

Seeing as this is Asher’s chance to counter, he quickly ran towards Diana. But to his surprise, Diana was also running towards the wall at full speed.

[Asher] (Could Mom be planning to use wall for a distraction again?)

While still keeping his guard up, he kept running towards the wall. But since his mother is closest she eventually reached the metal wall she made with her magic.

[Asher] (Alright Mom, so where are you going to pop out from, the left, right or maybe from above?)

Asher was ready to counter Diana’s sudden attack, but suddenly Asher saw something and…

*Swoosh!* *Boom!*

From the eyes of the spectators, all they could see was a flash and suddenly a big cloud of dust burst from the platform.

[Deloria] “Wh—what happened!?”

[Alfern] “Alowey, you said that Diana did something even more amazing, what was it?”

[Alowey] “Well you see Father, Mother didn’t only learn how to use magic—“

As Alowey continue to explain, out of the dust came Asher doing a high back-flip and landed gently on the ground and the cloud of dust soon clears.

*Klang* *Klang* *Klang* *Klang*

[Diana] “So Honey, surprised?”

Diana, who finally steps out of the dust cloud, can be seen. But her appearance has change; the fair skin color she had is now shining silver and from every step, metallic sound echoes through the training ground.

With eyes and mouths wide open, Alowey continues her explanation as she watches her mother standing in the platform.

[Alowey] “She also created her own.”

Hey its me ZYLOS101, sorry for the late post, we had a very strong storm and a tree almost hit my room, not to mention there was no electricity. anyway please forgive me for being late, and please don't forget about to give me comments, as i said i really love reading everyone's comments, they give me ideas. see you guys next chapter!!!