Three months have passed since the Labyrinth Accident and still the collecting of the loots inside the Labyrinth was not yet done, even with all the countries hands on deck because the place was just so big. Just last week, the discussion on what will happen with the Labyrinth after the loot were all gathered happen. I suggested to make the Labyrinth as a training ground for the hunters and I will help with its development. Majority of the HA chairmen's agreed and saw what I envision with the suggestion. Much bigger threats will be coming in our way.
Developing the Labyrinth as a training ground will be easy because of Zael. Because of living inside the Labyrinth for a very long time, she learned how to change the Labyrinths ground plan and add additional floors and rooms. She was teaching me, Ceres and Flint how to do it but she get easily distracted or tired because of childlike demeanor. But, just last week, her demeanor change and she is now a teenager, same age as Ceres. I will not forget Ceres reaction when he sees Zael change for the first time because he and Zael were sleeping in the same bed, because Zael wants it
Flashback, 1 week ago
"UNCLE! UNCLE!"-Ceres
"What is it Ceres? Is something wrong? Is there an attack!"- Demetri
"No, nothing like that happen it's just that Zael is gone, her clothes were thorn to shread and some naked chick is now sleeping in her position"-Ceres.
I was about to stand up and go upstairs with Ceres to see what he meant, but the person he was talking was coming down the stairs wearing one of Ceres t-shirt, rubbing her eyes, with messy hair and yawning.
"That girl is what I'm talking about Uncle"-Ceres.
I appraise the girl to see if she's a threat and I was shock to know who she is.
"Ceres, can't you see it?"-Demetri.
"See what?"-Ceres.
"That's Zael"-Demetri.
"Ha? What? That's Zael"-Ceres.
"Yes, it's me, I already gathered enough energy and recovered my mana to the extent that I can return to this state, this is really my current age and look, I just revert to my child-like self because the darkness fragment was feeding of my energy"-Zael.
"Where are you getting the energy you needed?"-Ceres.
"From you, of course, we have now this bond and you are the only one that I can get the energy from"-Zael.
"That is maybe the reason why you are tired all the time"-Demetri.
"I guess, why didn't you tell me about that energy sucking"-Ceres.
"I told you about it, maybe you are so tired that day that you didn't heard me"-Zael.
The two continue talking about it, while I continue cooking there breakfast. I place their plates on the table and called for them to eat first before they go out and buy clothes for Zael, since the children's clothes will not fit her anymore.
End of Flashback
The changes all the people that observe me noticed after I passed out in the Labyrinth continued on happening that even I noticed it now. My body will started heating up that steam comes out from my body and small lights will appear in some parts of my body but after a few minutes the event will end like nothing happened.
Joey invited me to the HA lab so that they can observe and analyze me while it's happening so that we will know that is really happening but we got no answers at all. They can't see what the small lights that appear in my body are. The only anomaly that they saw, is that when this happen my mana is unstable and to the roof and it takes time for it to went back to normal. So, after learning about it, whenever the thing happen again, I did not wait for it to stable on its own and started meditating to control the mana dilemma. I would also ask if Evienne know something about it but she is still asleep, still recovering. What she did in the Labyrinth accident might have really taken a toll on her.
The change of ranking of hunters also happened this last three months, because of the huge number of hunters that needed to do a reevaluation, a whole month was allotted for it. A new rank was added, L-Rank for the S-Rank hunters that has now exceed that level of power. A new level for the strongest.
Since I can use cloning now, I let my clones to do all the other works that I needed to do. Teaching in the Hunters Academy, helping out Joel in developing new potions and many more.
Daya also started teaching in the Academy to spend her free time while recovering. The Academy has expanded and now accept hunters that specifically are water mage type hunters and other hunters that want to learn combat under water. And as always, Kalesi was with her.
Amanda continue on updating me with our investigation about the marked men that keeps on attacking my house, specifically me. What she is sure about the marked men that they are either military or military criminals which gives us a conclusion that someone from the military was in contact with the darkness fragment and the main culprit is good in hiding himself. The other thing that we don't know yet was what it wants from me.