My Second Life in Another World

Chapter 205: You Just Had to Ruin It

"Is it their raw power? Their Smarts? Their talents? Their upbringing? Their Surroundings? Although these are key points but they aren't the main reason, The best way to measure how strong a person is their passion," Haru said softly. It was something his father told him before.

"As long as you have the Passion to continue on improving you will be stronger than anyone, If you don't have a drive or goal to which you want to achieve you won't be able to able to get better, And this doesn't only apply to physical strength but other aspects as well," Haru said while looking at Zenobia who understood what he meant.

She had a goal, It was to make the greatest artifact the world has ever seen, But she stopped herself from getting more powerful in order to stop gathering attention to herself, By doing this she had bottled up her potential making her progress stagnant.

After losing her family she was thrown out at a young age, In the outside world which was big and scary to her, she concluded that no one will save her so she will have to do it herself.

She changed from the naïve child to a rational thinker whose only goal was to survive anything that got in her way was deemed irrational and she got rid of it immediately even if it meant bottling up her own feelings so that she had to steal from other children or kill someone, she did so to survive one more day.

But after loitering around for two years living on her own she met her teacher, who took her in and introduced her to blacksmithing because he felt deeply sad seeing her, A 9-year-old child having those cold and calculating eyes that only looked at what the value of the person or the thing in front of her was.

'I am going to be the Best Artisan ever,' Zenobia remembered the words she uttered the first time she picked up the Hammer, The pure joy she felt about the thought of bringing her Ideas to life changed her greatly as a person.

Even when she wasn't able to make a proper sword just seeing herself improve brought her happiness, she had the warmth of the family in her teacher who treated her like his own child, and later she had a little brother that she viewed as her own without even having blood ties to him.

But after her teacher's death, she was left alone again, Left in the cold heartless world to not only look after herself but also her little brother, at this point she was already quite famous across Sapin for her works.

After years of training and facing the world her pure dream was molded into something else entirely. She felt like she achieved it after becoming the best on the continent she was able to protect her little brother and herself from the people who always wanted to take advantage of them.

In exchange for a peaceful life for herself and her brother she chose to stop moving forward to pursue her real dream, this was one of the reasons she felt disappointed in herself when she looked back at her younger self. She left her passion behind and turned to rationalism again.

Her dream changed from 'Being' the best to searching for the person who she wants to be the best for because it looked impossible, But she had already come too far to stop doing things differently.

'I thought I will live out my life without ever achieving it,' Zenobia thought while looking at Haru, after she met the lances she was disappointed, to say the least even more disappointed from the time she met the royalties, She was sure that she may die without ever achieving her dream which made her more distant from people and herself.

But after meeting Haru she knew that she was only deceiving herself. She could still learn and grow more without worrying about the world, Even if there wasn't someone who could've used her weapons now.

There would surely be one in the future, There was much more she could do and improve herself to become worthy enough to make Weapons for someone like Haru.

"Oh! Also…." Haru paused bringing everyone's attention to him as they waited for him to say more.

"…This only works if you have plot armor, otherwise the main antagonist will swat you like a fly before you even begin your journey, Will and Bullshit ain't helping you if you're dead," Haru said making Hae-in facepalm as Queresha smiled wryly.

[E/N: These are words added to make things a little light-hearted, As Ed was certain most of the people won't understand what he wanted to say, plus this Fic is more light-hearted and comedically inclined, which isn't done in a good way according to the writer himself, I guess Daft might his only fic will deal heavily in the philosophy and ideologies, And add to the unreleased Cote fic that only has 3 to 4 chaps to it. So don't worry about the words above if they don't make sense, It is just Ed rambling because of a high fever,]

"You were going so good till you decided to do that," Hae-in sighed heavily and Haru didn't understand why she was acting like this even Queresha who normally agreed with him on everything didn't know how to support him.

"Anyway Zenobia," Haru said making Zenobia look at him.

"Do you want to improve?" Haru asked with a smile.

"Yes, I want to become the best," Zenobia said with a pure smile her gentle demeanor that she used to hide away from the world vanished for that instance and she felt like she can certainly do it now, She can, No she will achieve her dream for sure.

"Then you will be joining Queresha from now on, As I said as long as you have the passion to improve nothing can stop you," Haru said with a smirk and Zenobia nodded.

"Then I'll go and take a bath," Haru said as he walked out of the room leaving the three behind.

After the bath they ate dinner with Zenobia and then went to sleep, Zenobia stayed for the night at Queresha's request who wanted to tell Zenobia about her discoveries in the Relictombs.

While everyone was having fun at Haru's house, Deep inside the Beast Glades in one of the dungeons two figures were visible.

"Well looks like they failed," Melzri said with a shrug as she read the message on the parchment and looked behind her to see a woman who was sitting on a rock.

"Sigh* At times like these that I don't understand if I should be happy or angry at how incompetent these people are," Seris said with a sigh, they have been looking around the beast glades to find any tracks of the Beast that their sovereign asked for and they found nothing literally nothing.

So they moved to the next task, which was to kidnap Zenobia, They weren't averse to getting her directly but it might cause some damage since they had to bring her along without any injuries or their head would fly off, They didn't know why Agrona favored Zenobia so much even while she was a human.

But they can't ask about it and hatched a plan to get her younger brother which was her only weakness; They were certain that if they could get that kid in their hands Zenobia would follow without saying anything.

And even this failed; now their only choice was to go to Xyrus and bring the siblings along with force.

"Haha, But there is another news stating the presence of two humans who are stronger than the lances, I wonder if they are strong enough to entertain me a little," Melzri said with a laugh.

Seris, however, didn't answer her back instead, she was busy with her own thoughts.

'If we take Zenobia back then I won't be able to do anything, The construction will speed up and there will be no way for me to stop the destruction that will follow,' Seris was thinking of a way to stop the war from happening altogether, The addition of Zenobia would take the war to a greater height and increase the losses even further.

'It may even bring that day closer, I don't want Alacrya to be destroyed,' Seris thought seriously, This was the biggest problem if she wanted to stop the scene she saw in the Relictombs.

"Scythe Seris is something bothering you?" Melzri asked.

"No I was thinking about how to take Zenobia without leaving any clues behind, Since the Dwarves have failed we will have to take matters into our own hands the humans aren't really helpful either, But I think the strong person mentioned by the human king and Dwarves side is the same," Seris said plainly and Melzri nodded, If this wasn't an order that came directly from The High Sovereign they wouldn't have to be this careful.

'But the addition of two powerful humans who are stronger than the lances is intriguing, Let's see If they prove to be useful in my plan or not,' Seris thought while closing her eyes to formulate a plan in which she can take Zenobia peacefully while wasting as much time as possible. So that she can redo her plans for the future.

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