49 The pull

Zayne stood on the beach, directing fire to a rock. This is the rock he cut using compressed fire from one of the cliffs. 

Robin kept the rock afloat. Zayne applied one of the furnace spells he had in his arsenal. 

Credence and Prudence stood on either side of Robin, with their hands out in ultra power throwing style, but god knows what they are directing towards the hot blob. 

Dolce stood in front of Zayne, and shouted 'Ultra power ', as lightning left his fingers and touched the hot blob hanging in the air. 

Slowly, the blob became a sphere, then a peanut, then, two spheres. The upper sphere glowed golden, the lower one glowed bloody red. 

The golden sphere moved out of the forge, slowly expanding to change shape to a rectangle. Then, the rectangle cooled down to form a glass pane. 

' Cool ' 

Credence and Prudence exclaimed at the same time. 

" Again ! " Credence said, rushing to carry back one of the granite stones to themselves. 

" Uncle, can we put this on the live streaming platform ? " Prudence asked. 

" Not yet. " Zayne responded. 

Robin shaped the red orb into a tall rod, which is then passed over to the side, with the twins keeping up the heat. 

After some time, the pipe had cooled down enough, and the twins placed it to the side. 

By this time, the stone held by Robin had melted into lava, Dolce happily applying current to the molten mixture once more. 

The twins joined once again, pouring fire energy into the stone, concentrating on the rock. 

This time, they separated the lava blob into light golden and dark red spheres in half the time. 

Once more, a glass pane and long rod were made. 

Despite doing it for the tenth time, the children still found it funny and interesting. At some point, Zayne almost zoned out. 

After the twentieth time, all of the children were a little tired, so Zayne asked if they wanted to have lunch. 

There were sandwiches on the table, with a fresh charm on them. 

As they ate the food, Children all stopped after their first sandwich. 

" What about dinner ? " Prudence wondered all of a sudden. 

" Sister said if she doesn't come back in a day, we have to cook by ourselves. " Credence answered. 

The children all turned to Zayne, then retracted their hands which were reaching out for sandwiches. 

" Let's save them for the night. " They said to each other. 

" Hey ! you little twerps ! I can cook ! How dare you look down on me ? " Zayne exclaimed, tickling Robin and Dolce into submission. 

However, the children still wanted to save them for the night. 

" It's alright, brother. You can just hunt more, and leave the cooking to sister Claire. " the twins consoled Zayne. 

" I can make sandwiches. " Robin remembered during this tussle. 

" Traitor ! " Zayne mocked him, tickling his waist. Dolce and Robin both were clinging to one of his arms each. 

Robin laughed with the tickles, but after the tickling was over, he still patted Zayne on his head. 

" Don't worry, Big brother. Robin is really good at making sandwiches. " he consoled Zayne. 

" Alright. Then I will depend on you. " Zayne said, laughing. 

In the end, the sandwiches were saved for dinner. 

So, Zayne took all the kids to the beach. 

There was one more bait ball in the oceanic dungeon. This time around, Robin raised the gigantic water drop up, and the fishes started jumping out of the bait ball into the ocean. Fearing they will lose their prey, the children all directed their powers into the bait ball at the same time, electrifying, burning and killing all the fish in the baitball beyond recognition. 

Several small lights emerged from the dead fish only to enter the children. 

The drop full of half cooked fish fell into the ocean. 

Immediately, the water surrounding it became muddy, with lots of fish, shrimp and crabs rushing to grab food. 

Robin watched the commotion silently, then all of a sudden, he swung his hand like a fishing hook. 

A gigantic fish rose from the water, then pierced the beach with it's super sharp nose. It was a king sized Marlin. 

' Oh ! " 

The children shouted and applauded. 

One more swordfish rose from the water, piercing the ground besides the marlin. Followed by two more Marlins and another swordfish. 

After that, they left the commotion behind, returned to their home with fishes in tow. 

These fish were made into filets immediately, helped by Robin's knife work. It has been his homework to help Claire using knives with his powers, so, he is well versed in vegetable cutting, fish deboning and even making fish filets, it seems. 

After that, both Credence and Prudence were good at keeping a gentle fire going, as such, they made a small fire, and there was a ready made spice pack for fish hotpot. That was their second lunch. 

" Uncle ! Can we play now ? " Dolce asked carefully, thinking that they could get out of being grounded. 

" Nope. You are still grounded. Back to the rooms, and don't even think of not taking a nap. " Zayne ordered them. 

The children all grumbled, but .. as soon as their heads touched the pillows, they were out. 

Zayne sighed in relief as he stretched. Now he has some time to put his thoughts in order. 

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Claire can not take one step from where she stood. The mission contract in her head throbbed, weighing on her body like a thousand tons. 

" Just give me a moment. " she said, sitting down where she was, and entering her innerworld. 

The way she solved the contract was to create an empty mission board and connect the contract to this empty mission board in her innerworld. However, the contract has made another connection to the nearest mission board magic circle, which was the one in Deeepsi. 

' These C*nts ! ' she cursed. 

These people touched a wild part of her heart that she usually kept under a tight leash. 

Bloodlust leaked from her as her anger index rose. 

Brie looked at Claire in shock. Even Caspian took a step back in caution. That's the kind of aura she was emitting. 

In side her mind, Claire raged. 

' You rat f**king b**tards ! You wanna duke it out with me ? I , Claire Bassett ! Come ! If ten of you come, I will f**king kill ten, and if a thousand of you come, I shall annihilate your army ! You turds ! You dog poop wanna be critters ! ' The stream of curses did not end. 

Her entire being changed from the gentle starshine to the black purple, the poisonous curse element. The magic, curse and poison orbs which did not even move a bit till today suddenly started vibrating like crazy. 

Claire did not do the entire reverse engineering and destruction because she was strapped for time, and she also had some concerns about the loyalty of Caspian and his brother. 

Now that the rotten leeches behind them have touched her bottomline, she will show them what it means to pick a fight with a witch. 

There is a reason poison, curse and magic is called the demon lord combo. 

She rushed to the mission board. 

' Chaos of the void ' She cast simply, looking at the elements. 

The magic circles are delicate. They can not be made without elements owned by the host. At the same time, to reduce the possibility of a candidate undoing their own mission board, these must be the elements they have the least amount of. 

The core is considered first order, the planets of elements revolving around the core are second order, the planet's moons are third order, and the free floating dust particles are fourth order. A normal person can control their core element, and probably the second order elements. 

For elementals, who own a gigantic mass of mana of a single element like Caspian, Zayne and their litter of siblings, sensing a second order element other than their water or fire is hard. When it goes down to invisible elements of space and magic, it's nigh impossible. 

A contractor will control third order or fourth order elements to inscribe the magic circle in their inner worlds. Usually, this is an element that both the contractor, and the slave both possess. The contractor then will manipulate elements in the slave's own innerworld, and inscribe this magic circle. 

To decode and remove it, the person removing should have all the elements, plus more energy than the contractor. Which is usually impossible for financial and logical reasons. 

Only, they met Claire Bassett. 

This time around, Claire did not even bother to analyze the damned mission board. She simply walked to the board, looked at the first rune, then created a copy of the rune, charged the runic sphere till it had more energy than the runic sphere on the mission board, then just blasted it directly. 

Like that, she blasted off each and every runic circle, cackling like a mad woman, her laugh so scary even the bloody jackals which were creeping up on her ran back in fear. 

Her hair separated into thousand different strands, each twisting around her head like a snake. Her eyes are filled with madness as she pops each runic symbol like a balloon. 

At this time she did not know that her deranged smile was playing on her real life face. 

Brie and Caspian each stood in a different corner, shivering, as Claire giggled like a mad otaku reading limited edition manga with her eyes closed.