1 Delia's disappearance
prologue chapter 1.0
The Imperial Valley is a strong kingdom who dominates the entire sea of Novaria and a kingdom located in the sea of Halcyon also known as the first sea.
Most feared kingdom amongst the seven seas it's been rumoured that this kingdom produces talents which makes this kingdom very strong.
Amongst the Imperial Valley there is a thing that everyone is afraid of.
And that is the group of Imperial Fleet, the strongest individuals of the kingdom are said to be part of the imperial Fleet.
Even the most dangerous of people are afraid of this group no one dared to get in their way.
If you do get in their way the luckiest thing that could happen to you is getting out alive with one of your limbs dissipated.
One individual stands amongst the rest of this group and is said to be a member of the pillars that served the order of the seven seas, others call this individual by various nicknames.
Desolator, Bane of darkness, the storm of the sea, Fleet Admiral, and mostly known The Monarch of the seas.
He who faced countless battles shows no signs of weakness. Everyone who fought this individual could only say that he is an absolute monster.
A young looking man who looked like in his early twenties stood in front of the ship wearing a white coat and a Blue steel staff at his back called Bō.
A sailor who is dressed in a red sailor suit can be seen approaching this man who seems like he had some business with the person.
"Fleet admiral, sire I got some urgent news."
"Speak"
"The Golden Creed Fleet wants to meet with the fleet admiral"
"Tell them to get in here if they want my audience"
"Yes sire, I will now take my leave"
"..."
My name is Elridge. I am the fleet admiral of the Imperial Valley Navy unit And one of the seven pillars of the seven seas and the guardian of the first sea. I'm also known as the monarch of the sea.
Despite my young looks I'm already in my mid thirties. Many mistook me as a sailor in the ship if I don't wear my uniform.
"The sea looks the same as usual" A large ship bigger than the imperial valley ship can be seen going near the ship of the imperial valley.
A bridge of glass magic can be seen connecting the two ships together alongside a fine dressed man walking down the glass bridge that was put with magic.
"If it isn't Eldridge long time no see" A guy coated in gold approached the fleet admiral and greeted them as if they were an old acquaintance.
"Please be formal and yes long time no see"
"How have you been your appearance hadn't changed much since our first time meeting but your attitude did" the guy wrapped around his arms on the admirals shoulders
"Hands off the fleet admiral" A mass of well armed personnel surrounded the both of them pointing their weapon threatening the man In golden coat
"Put your weapon down it's an order and leave us alone for the time being"
"Yes sire" the armed personnel quickly withdrew their weapons and withdrew as ordered by the fleet admiral.
"Let's move somewhere else first" the both of them moved at the deck hand of the ship
"What brought you here Adam I'm sure you have something in mind for wanting my audience"
Adam the guardian of the Nimbus sea also known as the sixth sea, one of the seven pillars of the seven seas known as the king of gold and one of the richest person in the entire world.
Adam smiled "As expected of you Elridge your still wise as ever fine I'll get to the point"
Adam gave off a serious look as if it's a big deal.
"Lately there has been an abnormal activity in the Orelian sea large waves and heavy storm are occuring nonstop in the centre of the Orelian sea"
"Isn't it natural occurring? And the Orelian sea it's the fifth sea and it's known for its bad sea condition so isn't it normal? And Delia's the one who's maintaining the weather there what exactly happened"
Adam gave off an uneasy expression. "The problem is that the one who's maintaining the condition of the sea went missing last week"
Elridge eventually gave off a shocked expression alongside in his reply "Wait Delia is missing? How?"
"Everyone had the same expression even I was surprised when I heard about it from Denver"
"How did Denver know about the disappearance of Delia?" Elridge is in utter disbelief of Delia's disappearance
"Delia casted Link on Denver to save him before so it gave connection to both of them Denver noticed the disappearance of Delia when the connection got cut off"
"Make sense Denver really did a good job on informing everyone as soon as possible"
"Yeah that's why Denver wanted us to gather on his place to discuss the details"
"Alright since i'm also heading to the third sea to do some business I'm gonna follow right away you can go first and inform them that I'm gonna be late by a day"
After some discussion the two bid their farewell and Adam went to the fourth sea where Denver resides and Elridge went to the third sea to deal some business on the third sea.
A day had passed and Elridge had his business of hunting the wanted criminals of the third sea.
"Fleet Admiral, everything is cleared, everyone is being detained."
"Good job, you guys can go back first I'll be going to the fourth sea and tell the emperor there's an urgent matter so I'll be taking my absence"
"Thank you fleet admiral, we will inform the emperor"
The fleet under Elridge eventually headed south back to the imperial valley while Elridge went alone and headed south east where Denver place is located.
Elridge eventually had trouble sailing due to the unsettling weather on the border of the third and fourth sea.
A kraken ascended I'm the sea near the border of the third and fourth seas.
"Tsk this beasts"
A staff flew in an instant to the krakens forehead delivering a death blow eventually the staff travelled so fast in the far skies clearing the tainted skies revealing a blue sky.
"Damn it I can't control my strength now my staff is gone, sigh"
Many sea creatures eventually started to appear In Front of Elridge ship but he didn't have any problem with his strength and eventually brushed them off with ease.
A few more hours before the sun sets Elridge eventually reached Denver's place. Anyone can tell that this is a city of trades. Many ships can be seen in the docks near the shore.
Adam's ship can be seen on the southside of the docks and so Elridge set his ship near Adam.
"If it isn't Elridge" a tall woman with red hair can be seen standing near the docks where Adam ship is parked.
"Oh it's ava how have you been"
Ava, one of Denver's secretary and a former member of the research facility of imperial valley, we knew each other for a long time when we attended the same school in the imperial valley.
"Nothing much the same as always, how about you Elridge? How's the life of being the fleet admiral"
"Well same as your answer just hunting wanted criminals when they've caused much havoc around the seas"
"Well enough with the chat I was told to wait for your arrival here so that I can lead you to Denver's place"
"Yeah let's head together there"
The two walked together to Denver's place which is in the centre of the island while having a nice chat about their past.
"Good evening miss ava" maid greeted ava In Front of the gate and opened the gates for us.
"Good work"
"Thank you miss ava"
"I never thought that the hot headed ava can be nice to some people" ava smacked my head afterwards
"Well I've changed after all"
"Changed my ass"
"Elridge is here" *yel*
"Keep your voice down Yel we can hear you" *Denver*
"Yeah Denver's right you don't need to shout everytime" *Adam*
"I'm sorry and also Adam shouldn't I be saying that to you you've been shouting in the gate when you appeared" *yel*
"HUH?! Do you want me to hit you?" *Adam*
"You guys are the same as ever stop it" *Elridge*
"Hi Elridge" *Marie*
"What's up Marie"
It looks like everyone is here except for Delia who is missing.
Yel the youngest out of all the pillars, the guardian of seventh sea the Bronze Cudgel.
Marie the Guardian of the second sea, the marionette.
Adam the king of gold and the guardian of the sixth sea.
Denver the mystic guardian of the fourth sea.
Dianne the guardian of the third sea Chrono, is the second strongest who can compete with me.
And Elridge the guardian of the first sea and the monarch of the sea the strongest of the pillars.
"Can you guys shut up and let's already discuss the matter" *Marie*
Adam and yel eventually calmed down and the meeting undergo.
"As everyone already know that Delia went missing last week" *Denver*
"Isn't it weird how Delia suddenly went missing?" *Adam*
"That's what I also thought it's impossible for her to left and go hiding because she's keeping the weather on the fifth sea balance" *yel*
"It's impossible for her to go hide when the two of us had connection Delia even said that she cannot severe the connection between us because we were bound by a contract of the spirit of life" *Denver*
"I met Delia once before she went missing and it's impossible for her to get abducted out of the blue since she's the third strongest amongst the seven" *Marie*
"My only speculation to this situation is that something stronger that it is unheard of just appeared and abducted Delia" *Elridge*
Everyone nods in agreement to elridge statement.
"But still we don't have any concrete evidence that it might be a thing" *Dianne*
"Still it's not impossible since everything is a mystery" *Adam*
Everyone went silent for a bit thinking what could be the cause of Delia's disappearance.
Denver suddenly felt an unbearable pain in his chest making him fall down to the ground.
"Denver!" *Elridge*
"Step aside" *Dianne*
"Reverse" *Dianne*
Dianne used her time magic to reverse Denver's condition, but it wasn't working.
"Shit it's not working" *Dianne*
"Reverse!" "Reverse!" "Reverse!" Dianne casted reverse nonstop in an attempt to reverse Denver's condition but it was futile.
Denver suddenly held Dianne's hand making her stop casting her spell
"Dianne stop… cough… cough…" *Denver*
"You can't leave us like this Denver" *yel*
Tears can be seen dropping from yel's eyes while looking at Denver's current state.
"The time for.. the contract.. cough.. had come since Delia was gone… and.. severed the contract… cough" *Denver*
Everyone watched as Denver time slowly came because of the consequences of revoking the contract.
"Delia… isn't… dead…" *Denver*
Eventually Denver finally passed out due to the contract of life severing.
"Shit to think that Denver would end up like this" *Marie*
"It's already expected since the contract was severe when Delia went missing" *Adam*
"Let's prepare a burial for Denver we couldn't let his body rot in a place like this" *Elridge*
Denver mentioned that Delia was still alive which is the first step to this investigation and yel on the other side isn't looking good.
Ava can be seen catching her breathe as she rushed and barged the door open.
"What happened?" *Ava*
Ava looked at Denver's lifeless body and didn't gave off any kind of reaction.
"Sigh so it already came earlier as we expected" *Ava*
"What do you mean?" *Marie*
"Denver told me if he passed earlier from the contract he told me to show everyone something and bring his body to that place" *Ava*
Everyone's expression became anxious aside from yel who had a breakdown.
"Everyone follow me and bring Denver's body" *Ava*
Everyone started following ava leaving the room while Elridge carries Denver's lifeless body.
Ava lead them to the corner of a room in the villa looking at it, it is clearly a dead end.
Ava casted a spell on the wall making a root came from the ground forming a circular frame.
Suddenly a green portal was formed and shocked everyone.
"What's this?" *Adam*
Adam's eyes are delighted to see a portal forming from a root.
"Just follow me" *Ava*
Eventually everyone went into the portal.
Everyone was enticed by the interior of the place that they were in.
"Put Denver's body in that shrine" *Ava*
Elridge went and put Denver's body to the shrine and slowly backed off looking to what could possibly happen.
A strong light can be seen emitting from Denver's body releasing a very strong energy.
"Kugh Denver's mana is spreading" *Delia*
"It's too strong it's slowly pushing me away" *Adam*
Elridge and Dianne stood straight and looking by it he seemed not bothered by the strong mana releasing from Denver's body while everyone struggles to maintain their balance.
Eventually the mana from Denver's body dispersed and everything went back to normal.
"As expected of those two they are not bothered by the mana outburst" *Marie*
The shrine suddenly crumbled and revealed something unpleasant.
"As expected Denver hide it but I didn't expect him to put it in here" *Elridge*
A black ominous orb can be seen on the ground where the shrine crumbled.
"It's Elgeros core" *Dianne*
"Elridge Denver said that you should grab the orb since you are the only one who can sustain around Elgeros core" *ava*
Elridge stepped forward to Elgeros orb and grabbed it.
When Elridge grabbed the orb he was suddenly transported to a pocket dimension where the soul of Elgero resides.
"Well well well if it isn't Elridge" a tall figure can be seen sitting on a throne in a clear white space.
"Elgero"
"Yup to think that you can still remember my name after that final clash we had if it wasn't for that alchemist I would have killed you on the spot"
A muscular man with four horns can be seen approaching Elridge.
"If your talking about Denver he just died recently"
"Aww you don't have to tell me that but it's a good news for me for that man to finally die"
Elridge punched Elgero on the face, sending him flying across the space.
"Your punch is still as strong as ever" Elgero recovered in an instant negating all the damage he received from Elridge.
"Consider it as a pay back from Denver and my greetings to you"
Elgero teleported In his throne smiling.
"Well looking that you are here giving me that wasn't your main purpose for coming here right? And your the only one who can come here because when anyone aside you touched that orb they will die"
"Fine I'll get to the point, do you know what happened to Delia?"
"Oh that blue haired gal It seemed like he disappeared didn't she?"
"Do you know something about it?" Elridge clenched his fist making it clear that he's really angry about Delia's disappearance.
"Calm down buddy I don't relate to that gal's disappearance I can't even interfere on the outside world because I'm just a mere core right now thanks to you"
"Looking at your reply it looked like you knew something"
"Well I do but I couldn't just give you the information without a price you know" a sinister smile can be seen on Elgero's face.
"I know that you won't give the information for free tell me what's the price for it"
"Your life"
"Tsk would you really think that I would sell my life for a mere information"
"Well if you don't want to then no information for you"
"We'll be it if I can't gain something in here then I'll just destroy your core and leave it like that I would just figure it myself"
"Then do it, it's better for me to disappear for real than stay in this room I'm tired of staying in here anyways"
Elridge walked back revealing a door Infront of him.
"Wait your gonna seriously destroy it?"
"..." Elridge stayed silent and reached for the door knob
"Wait I was joking don't destroy my core I will tell you"
Elridge hands stopped and started to look back at Elgero.
"I'll tell you everything I know just don't destroy my core"
"If you could have just said that earlier, tell me everything you know"
Elgero explained everything to elridge and made his eyes wide open and became very angry smashing the floor making it crack.
"Oi don't do that your gonna destroy the core"
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Dianne's pov.
It's been an hour since Elridge came inside the core.
It might not be like it since he's just standing there holding the orb but his consciousness is inside it.
"I wonder what's he doing inside"
"Let's just wait maybe he would bring out information after" *Adam*
After a few minutes of waiting the core can be seen having a little cracks.
"What's happening if the core is broken when Elridge is still inside he would be stuck there forever" *Ava*
"Just trust Elridge"
Looking at the current situation Elridge is in great danger but we gotta trust him and if we came close to him we could die because of Elgeros core.
Not soon after Elridge came back to his senses.
"So what did you get from h-"
Elridge just walked past me while emitting strong blood lust making everyone shiver.
Adam came to me and whispered "he must be really angry"
I whispered back "let him be"
"Everyone prepare a burial for Denver and I'll leave the seven seas to all four of you. I have some business to do" *Elridge*
Elridge eventually walked out of the portal first with Elgeros cracked core.
Eventually everyone did what Elridge told them while Elridge left to sail the seas with Elgero.
A year had passed by and everyone heard a lot of news about Elridge. Eventually a year had passed and none had heard about Elridge and made everyone worried.
A decade had passed and the seat of the pillar had been filled in with new individuals from each respective seas and maintaining the order of the seven seas.
