"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."~ Albert Einstein~
"Beware! I want an office!''
" Excuse me, I want to take my child to school."
"Beware! Someone crossed the street!"
" Sorry, I bumped into you."
"Excuse me... "
Some people move from one place to another; they are all busy with themselves, and some sacrifice their lives to meet the needs of others.
There is no freedom; everything seems to have entered into a system that has been formed for a long time from the lifestyle of modern society, so that their freedom is taken away but not felt.
The birds in the sky, the fish in the pond, even the cat in front of my window, they have the freedom to do whatever they want.
"I'm jealous of these people."
As soon as I picked up my phone and opened social media, as usual, I found war news in several countries. I began to think that the world was just starting to get tired.
Some news reports corruption, some report natural disasters, some report environmental destruction, and some report crimes.
So much bad news on social media spreads easily, some of which is even fake news and has no credibility or truth, but people want chaos or believe chaos is their lifeline, which causes this news to become more popular and famous to get the attention of many people.
"I don't understand people on the internet."
I put down my phone and headed to where my pc was, where I was going to play the game that I had recently bought on the recommendation of my friend, who told me to play it.
I've already purchased and finished the download and installation; I just have to play this game.
"Scarlett Butterfly Chronicles"
It is a Yuri game where women use mysticism as a kind of magic if they use common knowledge, but men can't use it, so they are often minor characters and NPCs that are not so prominent, while mystical women are portrayed as so beautiful and powerful that they have ruled the government for a long time.
The setting is the Victorian era, where the industrial revolution occurred, where magic and technological development went hand in hand to build a better life, even though there was still crime.
I play as a young girl from the British kingdom named Inara Zephyra Everard-Lumos, a noblewoman who is very talented in light magic. She will be the protagonist, meet some great women, and make them her lovers.
In this game, same-sex marriage usually occurs because the value of a beautiful and talented woman, especially in mysticism, is more valuable than that of men, and some mystics can give birth to many children through mysticism alone, so that the existence of men in this world is not so useful.
But I don't care about that weird and absurd background, I'm just here to enjoy my free time as a human to play games without being distracted by anything or the hustle and bustle of the world, here I'm going to be dissolved in the intensity of this game...
A few hours of playing, that I don't even remember how long I played, every fight journey I understood everything, especially the mechanics that have a parry and counter attack system that is quite familiar in this era of games, until now, and the progress of the story is running without any obstacles too...
As time went on, several missions in completing my character Inara became strong and had a deep interaction with the surrounding Heroine characters, although not to the maximum, but enough for some romantic scenes that I got...
I did it pretty quickly, as soon as it was the middle boss, because I wanted to rest, even then I got some high-level items and weapons, even though I had to sacrifice time to increase my liking with the heroine, but I didn't care and would stick to the battle...
Eventually... I beat him...
I stretched my arms and straightened my back. Finally, I was relieved to have defeated the boss, because of the fights and the length of my gameplay, I started to experience fatigue, so I had to sleep for a while.
"Ugh... I'd better take a break before..."
I said that I hadn't finished saying, while slowly closing my eyes and entering my sleep phase.
~
"Have you slept yet, honey? You still haven't found peace? What if just a break in my world, maybe it will make you find the answer to that."
~
"Finally, the seventh selection match began, where we welcomed the prospective students of the mystic class of a lineage of light chosen by the Luminous Goddess and the owner of the power of light, Inara Zephyra Everard-Lumos!"
"Then the opponent he has to face is a man who tries to enter Kai von Salvador's Mystic Tower!"
After the match host said this, some derogatory words and scorn came out from several prospective students and students as well as the professors, except for one, namely the Headmistress.
"Get ready!"
The female referee in black and long blonde hair raised her hand perpendicularly.
"Start!"
After the referee's hand is lowered, the match begins.
Zephyra began to cast mystics with her head down and her body leaning forward, one foot back, and the sword on the right side facing back,
"Fragor luminis, disperse the darkness! Per tonitrum lucis, frange vincula!"
(Crack the light, shatter the darkness!
With the thunder of light, break the shackles!)
"Beat Attack: Shatterlight"
Zephyra advanced at full speed using both of her thurkle swords while using mystical light to speed up her movements.
"I think the guy is unlucky"
"I bet he's already squirming in his pants"
"He's going to collapse soon, just wait"
"An instant win for the Everard-Lumos house! To the Goddess!"
"To the Goddess!"
Let's smash your dreams. I used my mystic around my hand as fast as I could, then...
"Weird!"
The whole stadium was shocked, even Zephyra was also shocked, but the headmistress just smiled, and it sucked.
I had expected her to attack directly with a Beat Attack to attack my blade and knock me off balance. Still, I had anticipated by simply layering the part of the sword that would collide with the mystic and around the entire palm and wrist, as well as the soles and ankles, to stop the attack and maintain the position of my stance.
"Damn, then"
She repeated the same technique but from a different direction of attack, so it made me confused to guess the direction of the attack, but it was useless because my reflexes were very good...
After a few attacks, she didn't work; she tried to replace her attack technique with another attack technique that I hadn't seen in the previous game, such as...
"To Aurora, transfixio inimicum! Per lumen veritatis, cadat hostis!"
(Spear of Dawn, pierce the enemy!
With the light of truth, take down the opponent!)
"Lunge Thrust: Spear of Dawn"
The Lunge Tusk with the Forward Leg Thrust to accelerate and strengthen the thrust of the attack to the one vital point which is the chest, I just need to rotate my ankles and dodge, so that it makes her pass me then I counter her attack with my right hand and she holds with the blade of her sword she does The Recover to return to the standby position with a step back and a blade in front of the chest.
"You're strong enough, Kai von Salvador, but how long can you survive my next attack?"
"I don't know, no one knows"
"Tch", she clicked her tongue and started to get into a fighting position.
She lifts her sword and starts to conjure the mystic again. This time, it seems like she won't fight with a sword and rely on magic alone, or maybe fight with both, as she has before, as expected from the protagonist.
"Sidera caelestia, gladii lucis! Per fractalem coeli, formate exercitum! Sicut stellae in aeternum, vincite tenebras!"
(Heavenly stars, be the sword of light!
With sky fractals, form an army!
Like an eternal star, defeat the darkness!)
"Stellar Blade Choir"
Thousands of swords of light came out of her mystical circle and targeted me. The light was so bright that it almost blinded me because of the mystical sparkle; the entire audience, from seniors to even prospective students, was all so amazed by the bright light.
"Then... Enable... Aetherische Ocular Rekonstruktion "
I read it... Scan it... reconstructing it... mimicking the structure...
The pain started to feel in my left eye, I endured the pain and tried to understand the mysticism of her, after a split second, I knew everything...
" Copy... Stellar Blade Choir" (Snap)
Instantly, thousands of swords appeared from my mystic but not white glow like hers, but were blue.
The headmistress smiled at him. The audience was shocked by their presence; even Zephyra couldn't have guessed that her family's technique would be imitated by another noble, more precisely, a man in front of her.
"What the hell is that! It's cheating! He must be cheating!"
"That's right! There's no way a man can use such a mystic!"
"Stop the Match!"
A lot of sounds disturbed my hearing, but it didn't matter because it was just a passing wind.
"I don't know what you're doing, but I'm going to destroy you for tarnishing the mystical Everard-Lumos family. Go die!"
Thousands of zephyra's light, mystical swords began to move forward, attacking towards me at high speed.
"Go ahead..."
My thousands of mystical swords also moved forward at the same speed, but since I stored more mystical mana from them, I was able to increase my attack speed a bit.
The mystical swords of the two of us collided with each other, resulting in a flash of fast light that was quite dazzling to the eye. Some of the spectators looked uncomfortable, but it wasn't my problem as long as I could win.
"Ugh..."
Zephyra started to lose her balance due to exhaustion and then her composure was lost until she exerted all the mystical mana, but I still increased the speed a little more until Zephyra couldn't keep up and some mystical swords scratched her body causing injuries, some mystical circles shattered behind her and she started to release drops of blood because she couldn't bear the weight of mana and the wounds she got but forced herself to remove The mystical sword, until...
"Enough! Kai von Salvador! Declared the winner!"
Zephyra had already lost consciousness; she had subconsciously run out of mystical sword circles behind her, but she didn't give up and continued to stand until she fainted while standing and holding both swords in both hands. What a beautiful pose.
After a while the academy's medical members came and brought her to use mystical levitation, Zephyra's body was really in a deplorable state, even so I was quite appreciative of her for her persistence and passion to fight, as I expected from my favorite protagonist, I started to remember the cover of her character in the game A Beautiful Warrior and I managed to defeat her...
"I beat the protagonist, yes, I'm sure this will be big news in the two empires, and I can't possibly ever get calm, because... Nothing Peace in This World"
(https://imgur.com/a/ximer6C: Ilustration Inara Zephyra Edvara-Lumos)