Shatter! Crack!

  I was telling the truth though, the world, the one I was, it really did collapse. For brief moments the entire place cracked and shattered right before my eyes. It was as if everything was made of glass, the sofa, the walls, the ground, the dimension itself, everything was made of a fragile glass. When the collapse happened right in front of my eyes, I was also sent to the real world, to the real room that I was supposed to be mere moments ago. But oh boy, what’s in front of me is sending shivers down my spine, way more than what Miranda did and even the Crystal Whale when it was singing its death song.

  A young woman sitting down in the chair to my left is now somewhat in front of me. Mind you, I have my back towards the balcony and right in front of me there is the chessboard. This should be enough to give context to where this cute monstrosity is standing, sitting in this case, and to where I am. This young woman is maybe between 18-20 years old. She also does not seem to be that tall as her feet barely touch the ground, although the chairs sure are a bit too tall. I would say that she’s between 145-155 centimetres tall, in other words, smaller than your average woman. Even with her small size, her presence is keeping me on my toes as her own magic energy seems to be crushing everything and anything, myself included, from how heavy it is and from the sheer amount she has. She might as well be the beauty and the beast at the same time. She is a sight to be seen and yet, your worst nightmare. She’s the forbidden fruit, one that you should never mess with and one that you have to appreciate from afar. Let me describe what she looks like then, maybe by doing this I can calm down a bit. Imagine the Hero crumbing in fear before this petite young lady.

  Unbelievable.

  She’s looking directly at me, with her head slightly tilted sideways and with a soft smile on her face. The front of her hair caresses her cheeks as gravity does its thing to it. She has a Hime hairstyle but what calls more attention to it, is how her hair looks. It has a platinum-silver colour to it. It also looks smooth to the touch but at the same time it seems strong and well taken care of. The Hime Hairstyle makes her platinum-silver hair descend down her back, stopping just shy of the end of her back. At this very moment I also noticed that it sparkles from time to time, and it seems to be random, as there is no pattern to it. All of this is thanks to the monstrous amount of magic she has.

  A soft and smooth face complements well the hair, her eyes are not big at all, but they are sharp with a dark golden colour to them, one that also shines thanks to her magic. Her eyelashes are long but thin, easily telling me that she takes care of them. Her eyebrows seem to suffer the same fate, they are long, thin and smooth, showing off again that she takes care of herself. She has no makeup at all, and to be honest she does not need it as I do think it would ruin her true beauty. Her skin is pale almost as if she’s a ghost, her lips are small but they have that silklike feeling to them, one that is smooth and with a darkish red tone to them. The rest of her body seems to follow the trend but since she’s sitting down, I can’t really say much. It’s not because I can’t take my eyes from her own eyes, as I’m worried that she might do something!

  Nah, I’m not scared! You are! Shut up!

  But enough of this, the moment I fully process what is in front of me and when I remember who I am, who I truly am, it’s when I listen to my instincts screaming at me.

  Step! Woosh! Magic noises! Barrier noises!

  As fast as I can, I back off until I unconsciously hit the wall to my right, close to the exit. That sure was one hell of a back jump as I even cracked the wall by quite a bit from the sheer force of the impact. In that moment not only I surrounded myself with a powerful barrier, I also got ready to intercept her if the case arises. I have two spells, one in each hand ready to be thrown at her. In my right hand I have a Majestic Great Fireball ready to set off and in my left hand, I have a Leviathan Blast, also ready to set off. If my Hell Blast could decimate an entire city, Leviathan Blast for example, can do the same, just three of them instead. The other one is for other reasons, if these two spells hit her two massive explosions will follow it. The first one is thanks to the spell itself while the second one is the reaction from the spells colliding with each other. First the Majestic Great Fireball will do its thing, consume everything and anything with its blazing hot flames, ones that reaches 5000 degrees, followed up with an explosion that could easily destroy a capital city with it, an SSS rank spell in other words. Then the Leviathan Blast will be thrown next, it will hit the Majestic Great Fireball and an explosion will follow it. An explosion caused by the blazing hot flames being quickly cooled down by water, a steam explosion in other words. A perfect plan if I say so myself. Sure, I will get hit by the steam explosion but hey, nothing can be perfect, that’s why I have the barrier up.

  “Humph, you sure are overreacting, aren’t you? You wanted to see me, didn’t you? Or are you regretting it already?”

  Either I’ve made myself look like a fool or she’s enjoying my reaction a bit too much. She says this gently but at the same time I can sense and hear the sheer coldness of her tone of voice. To make things worse for me, she has a sly smile on her face, one that as I said before, seems to be amused at my reaction. Something about her is off, something about her is throwing all my logic down the drain, and at the same time, it’s making all my instincts scream to get out of here.

  The amount of magic she has is beyond terrifying, I do believe she has more than I have, a Hero mind you, and yet, I don’t feel any hostility from her.

  “Who are you?”

  I damn well know who she is, but fear is starting to creep up in my mind and ends up letting out this question without my permission. Seriously, you cannot fathom what I’m feeling right now. The air feels heavy, suffocating even, if she wanted, she could end me in this instant and couldn’t do anything to prevent it. This is a fact, not a speculation, and yet just as I said, even with this I still don’t feel any bloodlust from her, hatred, anger, nothing at all. Maybe, just maybe, I can actually talk to her and get everything solved without needing to shed any blood.

  Young Woman- You should’ve made the connection by now. Not only that, someone requested you to come here, I more than doubt that they didn’t tell you how I look at the very least.

  “You’re right, I was tasked to come here, so that we can discuss business. But unfortunately, my hire didn’t tell me your name and how you look. He just said that, I have to take care of the owner of this castle.”

  With the utmost stoic face and tone of voice that I could think of, I say all of this but to be honest, with the barrier up and the magic spells ready to go off and kaboom at any moment, I don’t know how effective that attempt was. I’m not trying to intimidate her or anything like that, so I hope that was not the impression that I transmitted to her.

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  Young Woman- Is that so? Alright, I will introduce myself then, after that, we can get down to business;)

  Softly and elegantly, she gets up, slowly walking up to me. Her footsteps do not match the vibe she has, in fact, they are quiet and gentle like. Huh, I was expecting her to be more dramatic. Anyway, she stops walking once she’s a meter or so from me. A little close but she’s not stupid or anything like that. She knows well who I am and at the same time she knows how much of an edge I am. If she ends up over stepping it might lead to something that none of us might want, a battle, one that will end one of us if not the two of us. That is just how strong she is and how much of a threat she is even to the Hero himself.

  Young Woman- I am the creator of those you see outside, the ones that you called “Crystal monsters”. I’m the ruler of this place, the one that is fighting against the Shadow Calamity. I am the empress of everything that you see here.

  “I am The Void Queen.”

  Just like an empress would, with a soft gentle smile on her face, with her sharp eyes staring directly at me and with an elegant posture she says this, she affirms this.

  “The Void Queen you say… Isn’t that a title rather than your name?”

  Ups, I casually let out this question to her without even thinking about it. There is a reason she went ahead and did all of this, said all of this and hid her true name. And yet, here I am casually questioning her motives for such actions. However, to my extreme surprise she simply shrugs it off, softly laughing at my question leaving me confused as I did not expect this reaction from her.

  “S-So, you were the one who summoned those Crystal monsters? Or should I say Void monsters since you are The Void Queen?”

  With a little bit of embarrassment from her laughing at me, I ask this question about the Crystal monsters. Even though she claims to be their ruler, I still have no clue how they appeared here. As far I am concerned, they might as well come from the same place as her.

  Void Queen- Hmm, close but not there yet. I in fact, created all of them rather than summoned them.

  “You created them? All of them!? Even those two giant ones!?”

  Oh crap! This is bad, my man! Wait a second, does that mean that the Crystal Whale was also created by her? However, that’s not the worst of it, Miranda is the one that makes it far worse. She said that she was created by her empress, by The Void Queen.

  Crap, crap, crap!

  This is far beyond a bad situation!

  This is a damn nightmare in reality itself!

  Just the thought that someone capable of this is right in front of me is literally sending shivers down my whole damn body, forget the spine, everything is trembling thanks to this! Seriously, some of them are S, SS and even SSS rank monsters for crying out loud! The A- rank ones, the Royal Crystal Knights are more than enough to raze a small city if an army of them decides to invade it! The shark and the giant ones, those two are something else, they don’t need a whole army to do so, a small group of them is enough. Now imagine both the Crystal Whale and Miranda… This woman is far too dangerous, she’s easily at the level of the Demon Lord and myself. No, she’s above that. She has a tremendous amount of magic energy but that is not what makes her above me and the Demon Lord, it’s the ability to create such complex and strong monsters. Maybe it’s a characteristic from the Void itself, maybe a special ability in other words? That can explain it, not really... The only thing that I know is that she's The Void Queen, in that sense I will not doubt her at all.

  Void Queen- But of course, while you were able to see and play with a few of them, there still are a few that you still haven’t seen but we talk about that later. Let’s get down to, as you said, business instead.

  And she casually shoves another important piece of information up my beautiful rear like it’s nothing. Another few of them that I haven’t seen!? WHAT THE HELL!? What can it be- Oh no, I just remembered something from the newspaper and from Miranda… This really is bad.

  “The Dragon and Miranda sister…”

  Yep, I have forgotten about that Dragon and the possibility never crossed my mind. To confirm what I said, almost to myself mind you, she only flashes at me a prideful smile, one that tells me that I’m right. Right after this, she raises her left hand and points to the chair to my right, offering a seat with it. To be honest, even with all of these dramatic revelations there is not much that I can do about right now. Sure, I can fight and defeat all of them, but if she’s still standing then, more of them will come. I will accept her offer to dialogue, after all, I still have to feel any hostility from her so I will actually have a seat. Before doing that, I did remove my barrier (at least the big one I had, I’m still keeping a few layers on top of myself, you know, just for precautions) and deactivated my two spells. As I’m sitting down, she does the same thing, but let me tell you, she does so quite elegantly. Well in fact, I still haven’t talked about the way she’s dressing, right? Still missing a bit of information about her, so here’s a quick rundown.

  I said that she was between 145-155 centimetres and I was right, she seems to be 153 centimetres to be extremely precise. She’s also for the fit side with decent features, although, since she’s smaller than average, it ends up making her features modest. You know, those badunkores at the front and that kabow right behind her, yes, you know damn well what I mean. I’m a man of culture, so of course I noticed those.

  Moving on!

  With a long dress, one that fits her extremely well, easily showing off her curves, it ends just past shy of her knees and surprising in a frilly way, something that you wouldn’t think someone like her would have. Said dress covers everything that needs to be covered really, however it does stop shortly after her shoulders leaving the rest of her arms exposed to the world, her extremely pale and smooth arms. I would recon her entire body has the same features and care as her face, but that’s for another time.

  Not really.

  Said dress has a few decorations here and there, they look elegant but the thing that attracts the most are the star ornaments on it. She has a few of them throughout the dress, on each side at around the waist she has something similar to a belt and on the sides said stars are present there. But the biggest star is at the back, at around the end of her back is where it is located to be more precise and with it, a ribbon, one that has laces on both sides that go all the way down stopping short before her ankles. Ah, I almost forgot, but her shoulders, where the dress ends, in this case it also ends the same way as below, in a frilly way that is. Another thing that surprises me are the flower details on her dress, I would say it seems like a Periwinkle flower but I’m not an expert so, don’t count me on that. Anyway, she does have a few of them that protrude out of the dress, a small one right in the middle of her chest, two of them at the end of the dress but both on each side corresponding and a big one at the back of her head, one that seems to be supporting her hair in a way that creates a small portion detached from the main one. The colours of the dress fit her well, extremely well even, the main part of it is actually a soft but dark brown colour, with a few pieces of it the same colour as her hair, while the stars and the flowers are a golden colour, a dark shade at that, one that is very similar to her beautiful eyes.

  The ribbon on her back is the same soft dark brown while the majority of the dress in the back is actually the platinum-white although there are a few stripes here and there in the same brown as the ribbon that do break the contrast, or it would create it? Although her arms and hands are exposed, ones that are slender and her hands are like her lips, silklike from how smooth and pale they are, her pulses for example, the same does not happen. They are covered by what seems to be a glove, but one that does not cover the hands? Actually, it does cover the middle finger and the top of her hand but that’s it. What the hell is that? It fits her nicely and it has a small flower on it, on the top of course, but what is the purpose of that?

  Moving on, her legs are not exposed at all, with leggings covering everything and I would say they are ones that go way up until her waist, but that’s just my speculation as I cannot see anything above her knees and to be honest, I more than doubt she would show me, not that I would refuse if she wanted to. However, as I said, I am a man of culture, so she first needs to take me for dinner before all of that.

  Ahem! What am I even saying?