1 Yang Guifei - The Blood Bell
I strutted together with Iris past the souls in line as they stare holes at me. I opened the door ignoring the guys inside. They were immediately dismissed.
"Sup! So are you gonna tell us or what?" I smiled
"I see that you have come regarding the recent matter." My old pal said
"I mean, It's not like I'm complaining or something, but what the heck Adon!" I sat at my usual chair.
"I was going to call upon you but you were given *those jobs*." He sat at his stone chair.
"And what are *those jobs* and why was *those jobs* given to me exactly?" I said in a calm manner. I have been receiving *those jobs* and what I mean are mediocre matters that were supposed to be handled by the others.
"There has been a lot of dimension rips.." He started
"Yeah, obviously," I said as a matter of fact.
"And we've been losing seamsters and seamstresses..." He then paused again.
"Because...?" Just tell me the whole already.
"That's a matter that I cannot explain, yet." He said as he clasped his hands together.
"Look Adon, you can't keep on calling me a seamstress and throwing *those jobs* at me, because I'm a system. I'm supposed to construct orders and arrangements, not sew and fix." We systems travel through newly built or about to be built dimensions and help them flourish, Improve their evolution and come up with how things will go, we test run new aspects of reality by living in them and going through them. Seamstresses or seamsters, on the other hand, fix broken dimensions, they sew rips across different realities. I have made an exception of accepting "some" big problems. And now, it seems that they are just dumping it on me.
"I'm not mad about how simple and easy the issues I'm currently given, I'm bothered by you guys dumping it all on me," I said
"I'm very sorry Elle, There have been problems and this will be the last task that I would give you and you will be back to your usual cycle,"
"Mhmm." I rested my chin as I stare back at him.
"I just need you to find 5 Seamsters or seamstresses and another system to go with you."
"And why did I suddenly become a recruiter?" I raised an eyebrow.
"You're the only capable one." He said.
"How so? There's Emil, Corette, Anne, and many more systems. You may even call on Bastet and the others." I said
"Oh no, no, no. Not my mother." Iris stated in horror, Bastet was really strict on her. I ignored her anyways and continued our conversation.
"You have to do it. You're the only one." Adon stated.
"And why is that?" I asked.
"That, I cannot explain, because for you to find out."
"Wow. *clapping* Such a mysterious man."
"You just need to find souls that have developed in a certain way as you fix ripped dimensions. They need to have had experienced the most gruesome, emotional, or painful experience throughout their lifetime." I just stared at him blankly. So he is dumping it all on me.
"You do know my answer to that, but-" I was cut off before I even finished my sentence.
"I'll grant you three requests." Ah, That's my guy.
"You really do know me." He just rolled his eyes and waited for me to continue.
"I get privileges of course; The first one would be, I get to use magic...in any dimension." Including the non-fantasy or non-magical books of course.
"You know you can't do that"
"Oh please, we all know that you can make an exception." I smiled mischievously. After a few seconds he finally gave in.
"Only on certain levels. You cannot, absolutely cannot show anyone specific types of magic in certain realities." I already know what you mean, I don't need a rulebook for that.
"You know that I'm responsible enough for that Adon. I'm the longest being that exists here beside you guys." If you know what I mean.
"The second one; Do not give me any more of those cliches, dumb, and easy books, because I swear that instead of sewing it... I'll DESTROY it." I cannot handle any more of those. Not only the cliche type but the books that have garbage for the plot.
"I understand your hatred, That was completely on our side." He said
"And last but not the least." I pondered for a while. I only thought of it on the spot really.
"I'll think about it," I said and stood up. "Tata Adon!" I left the premises with Iris following behind me.
"Now that the matters have been settled, we need to get going," I told Iris. She changed and returned to her feline form. I sat back in my domain and waited for the notifications to flow in.
*DING!*
*DING!*
*DING!*
"Go with Human creations please," I said.
"2 eastern and 3 westerns are currently available. "Iris said
"Eastern, I got sick of western already." She summoned the book and sat on her seat.
"There's one called the *Emperors love* which was about emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty and consort Yang Guifei. The next is *the dragon's lover* which is ab-"
"Let's just go with the first one." I said
"This is history, we'll be changing a reality's history, It would take long." Iris said.
"I already knew it would take long of course, I prepared myself for that."
"Oh well. So you'll be Consort Yang Guifei or Yang Yuhuan. You'll be married to Prince Li Mao and get stolen by the emperor Xuanzong."
"How old is the emperor?" I asked while playing with my hair. Iris flipped the pages to look for it and her face scrunched.
"Ew!" She shouted.
"Why? Is it some old bastard?" I asked
"He's 53! Almost four times her age!!"
"That sounds disgusting." I said in an uninterested voice.
"It is! Remember Florante and Laura!?" She slammed the book down.
"Yeah...? Uhh, the Kingdom of Albanaya? Alanya?" I totally got that wrong huh. I can't really remember anymore.
"The very first ones that you had."
"And by first you mean hundreths?"
"No! 50s!"
"That's why I don't remember."
"You used to cry and sulk a lot. You get sad especially those times."
"I did?" Wait, I do know that I got attached somehow on my early days but to cry? Are we even possible of feeling that?
"Anyways, It's disgusting." She flipped the book open again and continued.
"So you have to make her wish come true and prevent her from going through the same fate."
"So I answer prayers now?" I sighed.
"Seems to be." She then flipped another page and a ringing sound hit the floor when something fell out of it. I sat straight when I saw what the object was. Sh*t...
"The blood bell?" We mumbled in sync. The blood bell only shows itself to higher ranking Seamstresses and seamsters. Even if you're a high ranked one, it rarely shows itself. It only does when external forces beyond the dimensions capabilities affect its reality. It may be caused by an unbalance in the natural forces present. It is used to navigate the cause of the unbalance by making noise only the user can hear.
"Necromancy?" Iris said.
"That's a high possibility, but Adon would have known of it already." Necromancy can only ne used by the soul reapers and sometimes the systems when granted a special case. I grabbed the book from Iris and and searched the whole page.
"The blood bell came out of this page..."
