------------------Elise POV------------------

Life in the palace went as usual: training, raise the stat and some more training; after the leveling system kicked in, I could no longer only train my stats, because even after gaining all and ten the extra stats, my experience bar was a little more than half full, so I needed to level up the mastery over my skills to finally become level two.

I'm now twelve years old and I finally reached level nine, but lately the other royals are beginning to look at our way.

The first time, they went to bully my sister, I could feel her pain and rage when images started flowing through our bonds; some of our sisters with their entourage of nobles spotted her on the way to the royal library and started to insult and order their little servants to throw stones at her.

It seems that every noble has a personal maid/butler of the same age that will serve as their lifelong servant and as the head of the servants when they become of age. It's a system to instill in the servant the same mentality of the master.

I could feel my sister starting to gather mana when Eric appeared from the library and sent our sisters and the nobles away... I don't think they'll ever know how much their death neared them that day, I also thought about visiting them that night, but in the end I let it go, it wasn't worth the disturb.

After that, our sisters told about us to their brothers... I hated how they looked at us, they didn't even bothered to hide their lecherous glares; it was disgusting and if I was still my old me, they wouldn't have seen the next day.

However if something were to happen in the royal palace, the first ones who will be blamed would be us, no matter who really did it; and we can't fight an army with only three people.

Not yet.

Returning to today, I unconsciously felt something out of place within myself, like if someone poked at me but no one is around me, it's quite the uncomfortable feeling.

"Sister, sister, take a look at our 10th sense skill, my brother's soul is no longer flickering, it's growing more powerful since three hours ago".

Ah, that's what it was... why are tears flowing slightly flowing from my eyes? Also, I can't stop myself from smiling. Is it finally time for him to reincarnate? Why so late? Will we be able to meet again?

My mother is looking at me with a strange look, but what can I do? I'm so happy in this moment. I face-dived in my mother's embrace as it's the only thing able to calm me in this moment.

-What is it dear? Why are you so happy?- asked mother while petting me; in the distance I could feel the temperature raising through my bond with Julie... did she develop the fire affinity somehow? I developed the ice affinity, so it should be possible for her to gain another affinity.

-I can feel that my most important person has just begun his road to meet with me, so I'm happy- I don't know if mother will think I have an imaginary friend, but I don't want to lie to her about Jack, still I'll not tell her about the skill.

----------------------1 month later, Julie POV-----------------------

Lately I met my sisters and brothers more and more and tey always say mean things to me; I read a book in the library that says that humanity is the best race in the world, while all the others are lower than tem; halflings in particular are despised by every race.

I don't know if that's really the case as Eric and mother never bullied me, but I can understand that most humans think that way. They always say that I am ugly and go away; they don't throw stones at me anymore after I sent back a fire ball which disappeared in the horizon... I wonder where it fell, it had 3/4 of my mana pool inside.

Still, they call me ugly without reserves, but once I looked in the mirror I could only see my cute reflection... though my breasts started to form way too early; I'm already quite developed, while my sister's breasts are not even half of mine.

I think it's for this reason that sometimes my sister becomes irritable and force me to train with her.

A month ago I felt my brother soul starting to grow bigger and bigger, after reaching level ten before my sister, I choose the summoner class hoping to be able to summon him, but it never worked. Once I even summoned a demon trying to imitate my brother.

I'm sure he'll never do something like that again after the permanent curse I gave him before sending him back; no one imitates my brother to cheat people and escapes without a punishment. I hope he'll reflect on his actions while keeping my brother's form in the place where he comes from, hopefully other demons will not treat him too badly.

Today a slight earthquake happened in the palace, but people from this world seems to not know about earthquakes, they took it as a declaration from the Gods that they were enraged for something... this until someone noted that all the temples of the earth Goddess changed.

It was quite the event, we could hear the praises of the common people to the Goddess from the palace, it seems that because this Goddess was always a strange one, sometimes she would bless, sometimes everything would die in the field.

When she bless a weapon, then the weapon would be almost indestructible, but if said weapon caused too much bloodshed, then it would kill the owner; no one knows how to please this Goddess, and now someone managed to build a temple to her liking.

Eric said that something like this never happened in our short term history, he said that the one who made this temple should be a world renowned architect, so I asked mother and sister if we could go and take a look to the temples.

We went to a temple only known to few of the royal family, they use it to perform various ceremonies in order to ask for the ; they say than when the Goddess gives it, the harvest is triple the normal amount.

As we neared the temple, a strange sense of familiarity surged inside of me, like a sort of deja vu; though I can't say I remember this kind of building, I'm pretty sure I already saw it somewhere... I wonder where.

While climbing the stairs, I mentally insulted whoever made this temple so big; if it was smaller, then I wouldn't need to climb so many stairs.

At the top, we found an engraving above the door which said: -THIS IS THE TEMPLE OF THE EARTH GODDESS, FROM NOW ON ALL MY TEMPLES WILL HAVE THIS DESIGN, AND EVERY NEW TEMPLE MUST RESEMBLE THIS FOR AT LEAST 80% THEN IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY REDESIGN ITSELF, FAIL TO DO SO AND A CURSE WILL BE PLACED ON THAT LAND-.

-Oh? It seems that the decided her temple's design at least, the other Gods already did it eons ago if we take for true what books say- informed us our mother -I wonder who is the lucky person who built this temple, he should get a from the Goddess.

-What is a mother?- asked Elise

-With a you can ask a small wish to the God that gave it to you and he will make it come true, but if you're too greedy the Gods will not grant you wish, sometimes they also punish those who asked for something too much or outright evil- I answered; sometimes reading books does help you.

As we entered in pantheon, I could see a multitude of statues, but my eyes were fixated on the one in the centre, after some time I contacted Elise through our bond: "I may know who created this temple".

The reply came in less than a second: "it can't be, do you mean...".

"Yes, the statue in the centre it's me when I was little", as I said that, I sent her an image from my memories to her; "and the only one who would put a statue like that in a temple can only be my brother... he just arrived a month ago and he has already made friends in high places".

At that my sister couldn't stop herself from laughing, and some people glared at her in a bad way.

After our visit, just before exiting the pantheon, as no one was looking something told me to turn back, and as I did it my statue smiled and winked at me. Some kind of powerful force entered in myself as I left the temple.

The Goddess recognized you and granted you the earth affinity, she also invited you to play with her once your brother comes back.

What can I say? As expected of big brother.