The Flower of Separation

Now that she thought about it carefully even when Lucas stayed with the Empress, he came to see her. He only answered her questions regarding the Empress, he never brought her up. She felt heat creep onto her cheeks when she realized the misunderstanding.

Lucas leaned down and whispered in her ear. "Your the only one I care for stupid."

"Th-" Lillian immediately hit him with the free hand that was not holding onto the sword.

Lucas laughed. "If you have that much fighting spirit, go stop that-"

Huh? Lillian looked towards what Lucas was pointing at and saw a large, white glowing mythical creature in front of Zushi. She only sighed when she saw it.

"Why is she so troublesome?" .

"You're not free to blame, it seems you provoked her too much."

"She was annoying me." Actually she wasn't mad at the Empress, but with Ramon's behaviour she knew she could use the Empress against him. It was a game, but the moment Zushi went berserk she no longer found it fun.

Moreover, her gaze fell on the Empress blue butterflies. "Lucas those things."

"They are like your red spider lilies, except they feed on the Empress soul."

"So that'S why I sensed something bad."

"She is probably clueless though. In ancient times people used these butterflies as a tool of war. They could directly harm the enemy without even lifting a finger. Empress Olivia managed to tame them but realized they were far too dangerous so she sealed them away." Lucas clicked his tongue. "That creature too was sealed. To think the Zestra family unsealed two forbidden creatures."

The Zestra family, it seems she will have to seriously pursue the monastery incident. She felt that the Zestra family knew why things ended up that way that day.

They watched as the mysterious creature started shooting beams of mana, and in seconds half the trees in their area of the forest fell. The destructive power is a lot, but she observed it a few minutes. It seems like it will take some time before it can use another large attack.

The creature started to mutter a string of letters, no a chant but in an unfamiliar language. It headed towards her and Lucas. Lilian raised the red coloured sword and Lucas took out his magic staff.

"I dislike her."

"But you need her?"

"It seems so." She took one last glance at Lucas before she charged towards the creature from the right side. Lucas did the same with the left.

"Raduzhnyy svet."

She dodged all the different multicoloured beams of light. This is a first for her seeing such a strong light power.

"Pierce through, Tenra." A stream of red sharp multicoloured red swords appear in the air and she aimed it towards the large creature but the impact was minor.

Lillian tried a few more spells out but it did no good. It seems using normal magic will do no good. If it were the past her it would have caused her great distress, but she is no longer a child. Unlike back then she has more weapons at her disposal, she has become one of the most powerful people in this Empire.

This next move will be risky, it is the first time using it since she mastered it. But Lucas did give her the okay .

"Connecting to the forbidden arts." Lillian started, as a diamond shape appeared around her, red diamonds and silver dangling down, almost like stars and yet a single touch was deadly.

"Confirm user identification."

"Ageha Lillian."

"User approved"

"Synching with the grimoire." Lillian said, a huge screen before her shows up. 'Name'

"Kinsho Mokuroku."

At those words the red pendant around her neck glowed and disappeared into her body.

Several numbers, at a constant speed flashed before her and a smirk appeared on her face. "Synched complete"

Another sword appeared in her right hand, but unlike the plain sword on her left. This one had a gorgeous red coloured hilt with golden engravings, on the sword itself there were several roman numerals on it as well. She now wore a gorgeous red coloured cloak with white fur linings, in the center a ruby coloured gem.

She lifted her hand up in the air, and the space was completely covered in numbers. "It's a real shame really, you mid-tier monsters being used so easily. But unfortunately we don't really have the time to be dealing with you right now."

Lillian didn't waste anytime. "Sword of Manjushage." Red flowers started to fall from the sky, no from the heavens replacing the numbers.

In ancient scriptures, these red flowers falling from the heavens would mean an upcoming celebration. The scriptures made it sound like a beautiful thing. But when one reads further they would discover that the upcoming celebration they speak of is death. A celebration of death, when the flowers fall everything in the surrounding will die.

The forbidden grimoire Kinsho Mokuroku, in another language they would call it the index of forbidden texts. A list of books with forbidden knowledge. High level magicians over the time used these books as a weapon, and turned the forbidden knowledge into deadly magic.

With the sword of manjushage, and the forbidden grimoire. Lillian closed her eyes and she started to read the ancient text out loud. The sword of manjushage should have killed the beast, but her gaze fell on Zushi.

'I need to restrain that one.'

She continued to read and eventually something drew her attention. It was something she had never read before. But the title caught her attention. 'Art of the devil.' Lillian decided to use it. Although she could see all the books in her mind, it is rare for a particular one to catch her attention. She extended her hand out in her mind and the book flashed red.

Lillian didn't understand what happened but when she next opened her eyes, it was all over. Zushi was unconscious and the strange light around her had vanished. Lucas was helping sir Ramon but they were bickering too.

Her thoughts broke off when Teo appeared behind her and tapped her shoulder.

"I would advise against using that."

Despite his vague sounding terms she understood what he just meant. Lucas told her it was okay though. However, Teo appears to be from the future. Is it possible that he met her in the future? Lillian knew better than to ask direct questions. It would be bad if she messed up time.

Teo must understand that too and despite his explanation's he kept everything brief.

Lillian nodded. "Were you hiding?"

Teo pointed to the tower up the hill. "The miss over there told me to check things out but there was no need since your companion already dealt with everything."

Her gaze fell towards Lucas. Of course he would, she knew Lucas very well. The fact that he had to endure the last three days was a miracle. Normally with his impatient attitude he would have just blown the entire forest. The forest, she looked at her surroundings and surprisingly enough there was no damage from her sword of manjushge.

How unusual, normally any signs of life would wilt away. Is it because of the grimoire?

*unedited*