Discovering Summerland

Chapter 20

School of Sorcery
Jerastus 19, 2196
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GEORGIA
Georgia Kaye Alas

"Just how many names do you have now?"

A brow shot up on Zorell's question. Hindi naman niya talaga ako tinatanong, he's just mocking me for having so many identities because of my circumstances. I couldn't be who I truly am in both lands.

But Haden Zorell was no different from me. One day, he becomes a knight. The other days, a doctor, farmer, merchant, beggar, and what ever else. Now, he was a professor in 'his' office at the School of Sorcery.

It was a place where only the elite could enter. Dark magic, spells, and necromancy are taught. Most of the powerful members of each tribe attend there. Hm, I remember I was almost admitted there at such young age- only if that incident didn't happen.

I watched Haden as he unrolled a dozen scrolls and laid them almost atop each other on his long table. He said he was looking for clues. 'Di niya mismong sinabi sa'kin kung ano, pero makikinabang din daw ako roon.

Haden Zorell has been loyal to Valdemior ever since he was a child. He's been trained well to be a shadow. "Hindi ko alam kung ano'ng koneksyon mo kay Master, pero 'wag kang mag-alala. Hindi kita pababayaan gaya ng utos niya," he said before.

Natatandaan ko ring isinumbat ko sa kanya ang nangyari noon, when they framed me. But his excuse was, "Iyon ang inutos sa'kin."

I didn't bother telling him I was his master's daughter. I just think it would make no difference for a dog who only knows his owner.

"Bellisima... Bellisima..." Paulit-ulit niyang binanggit ang pangalang 'yon. I bet he's looking for records of that person.

Napatayo na ako't sumulyap sa iba pang mga scrolls at sinubukan ding hanapin ang pangalan. The scroll was full of spells and names who made those. May iba pang nakalagay. Figures, solutions, graphs.

Until my eyes fell onto one familiar name.

"Ito!" "Finally!" Sabay naming sambit ni Haden at may tinuro sa mga scroll. Nanliit ang mata ko at lumapit doon para silipin kung ano'ng nakita niya.

'Aurora Calytrix Bellisima.'

While mine was 'Exiquel Four Bellisima.'

Wait... Four? Bigla kong naalala ang nabanggit na pangalan sa'kin ni Lucifuge noon. "They are Zero and Four," tukoy niya sa dalawang frozen entities sa Fortress. Could this Exiquel Four be the same Four as we know?

Nanliit naman ang mata ko habang pilit na binabasa ang spell na nakasulat sa kanyang itaas, pero nabigo ako dahil ang ilang mga salita ay nabura na sa tagal ng panahon.

I glanced at the other one, from Aurora Calytrix- but all that was there were two words: Medeis Regno.

"This is enough," saad ni Zorell at tinago na ang mga scrolls. "I remember their names, all that's left to do is trace their activities here in this school or any records that could lead to their heirs."

"The Bellisimas... they're the bloodline who, according to the records that we have, are the ones who have first travelled back and forth the land of Summer and Fall before Warlock Valdemior. We believe that their bloodline is also capable of controlling the orb. They might have been the ones who attached them to the borderline."