Judine was a calculating person, someone many feared catching the eye of when they were doing something wrong. She had connections all throughout Forsivo, and many of which were freelance as well.
They were all paid well, and so they respected Judine to the fullest possible level. The web of connections however always lead to most Prosecutors feeling useless and their payment unnecessary. After all, when the judge knows everything there is to know of a case, what good are the lawyers?
However; Judine never allows a case without a prosecution to follow through, for she knows full well despite how tight her webbing is, it has the silk that isn’t a trap, stuff that bugs can move atop without getting stuck.
Therefore both lawyers are required. Sometimes the evidence seems overwhelming against someone, but the defense and their own web of connections catch something Judine missed. And that’s why her wrathful nature was proven wrong.
Sometimes, upon the defense’s opening statement, she could deduce that nothing was useful to be brought up, nor was something capable of being proven would be brought up making a mockery of her court.
Those were the cases that gave her the title of Judge of Ruthlessness, especially with how much crime her predecessor, Marxillious, let people get away with as a judge of corruption and greed.
59 - Agility
As Clara was getting her personal lesson from Kishtan, Judine was curious, moreso in the level of Kishtan’s Analyze. And she used her own analysis to view the system screen of the dragon while he was giving… something or other to Clara.
Judine, despite being so academically well versed wasn’t even going to try to delve into the conversation those two were happening, and it would appear Bariton had regained his ability and is forcing Shammus into being flustered.
And of course, the system page.
Name: Kishtan
Class: Hm? Shouldn’t you be looking Elsewhere?
Level: 1500
EXP Required: Not yours to know lass.
1,325,692
Stats:
POWER: 331,423
AGILITY: 331,423
CONSTITUTION: 331,423
MAGIC: 331,423
HEALTH: Doesn’t the System give you the formulae?
MAGIC: You can figure it out yourself Judine.
EVASION: I believe you can
MOVESPEED: And puzzles are always nice.
REACTION SPEED: Wouldn’t you agree?
SKILLS:
[Hidden]
[Hidden]
[Hidden]
[Hidden]
[Hidden]
[Analyze - Common - 99]
…
TRAITS:
[Hidden]
[Dragon]
[True Sight - Mythical - 99]
[Database - Rare - 99]
…
Judine takes a step back as Kishtan simply shoots her a light glare, the silver eyes reflecting her almost perfectly in them. She coughed at the expression Kishtan gave her, and Kishtan let out a light laugh before continuing to teach Clara.
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Pallad walked up to her, with a simplistic question, “What’d you see?”
Judine shook her head at the question, and noted just… How low leveled he was compared to them. And yet- He was able to hide his skills from her Legendary [Atomic Recognition]. And she could only guess that it was due to this [True Sight] ability she’d never heard of before.
She glared at the system screen before closing it, and then she stepped back. “The dragon is a low level, we could probably win, but he knows how to move at his max speed unlike us. And he’s able to hide his skills from my Legendary ability in the Analysis tree.”
“Hm, scary indeed.” Pallad said looking at Kishtan fill up the second chasm with glass, and then with a light thank you from Clara, he much more quickly filled up the other two. The glass was interesting too, it wasn’t the glass made from the glassing of the ground, instead it was nice and clear.
It wasn’t burnt at all, despite it looking poured with how it dipped up into a meniscus; and it looked unnatural in how it was poured, having solidified with the meniscus. It shouldn’t even have a visible wettability angle.
But Kishtan ignores that as he stands. “Alright, so you guys can all move… Well beyond the speed of sound… But I want all of you to move at maximum speed for 1 full second. All at once. Align yourselves at the start of Pallad’s crater.”
After a few moments they had, not just yet stepping atop the glass. Kishtan told them to face the mountain range. “You all have reaction speeds at least mostly equal, but you are definitely mostly all faster than me. So I’ll go up ahead, and simply fire a flare up in the air that you’ll definitely be able to see.”
Kishtan simply shot some ambient mana up into the sky; which was… quite visible, especially since the trail of blue and purple following what seemed to be a secondary sun was bright enough to make the sky darken.
“That’ll be the signal for you to go.” Kishtan said, his face lit up by the colors of the mana before the star exploded in a supernova of rainbow mana. An odd color compared to the true colors of mana, potentially it was every attuned color?
It was beautiful none the less, and Kishtan went off towards the mountain range. Of course, Bariton had plenty to say. “Well then, I’m gonna take it it’s also kinda a race, huh?”
“I think it’s to teach us control, Bariton.” Judine spoke, looking out over the mountains. The light went off quickly, and they all shot off. Judine felt the wind ionize against her skin, but her constitution simply prevented all damage.
It was splendid to go so fast, as she saw every single thing pass her by. Her teammates were slightly faster; based on how she was staring at all the guy’s backs. Probably just how they distributed their stats.
The second lasted ages, it felt more like a full minute as they all stopped. Shammus had pulled the furthest ahead, with Bariton shortly behind him and Pallad between those two. And Clara and her were both in similar areas.
Kishtan was in between the five of them, and the shockwaves they all released onto the earth carved the mountain range to dust. But Kishtan nodded in response. Judine looked at him and Kishtan simply shrugged.
“Alright, now I want you guys to all stop in the same area. Move at your maximum speed, we’ll learn how to not destroy the entire world when moving later. Go in that direction, and stop upon the beach.” Kishtan pointed North East from where they were, the mountain range no longer in the way to the coast.
The water battered along the coast and it was definitely more than a few kilometres away. Maybe a few seconds at max speed. The party all decided to move onto that effort; and of course they all stopped way too far off the coast, and fell into the water.
The environment changed a good amount, especially since within the water they found a city under the sea in a bubble. It was a quite big effort to stop without destroying the city immediately, and of course Shammus had failed to not collide with a tower.
The shockwave that followed was enough to not just level the city, but destroy the very land that they were atop of. The bubble was practically completely emptied by the time Kishtan got in. “Alright, so… you failed that time,” were the only words the dragon gave the team.
“How about this, try to get from this end of the bubble, to that end?” Kishtan offered, seemingly worried. He checked his scroll and frowned lightly as Judine looked over at it. It said they were on floor 47.
Judine nodded along with Kishtan. “Yes, let us simply try again.” Judine turned towards her party, facing the destruction a single collision had caused. The ionized water before the entry was still refilling. “We will get it eventually!”
The party all cheered, except for Clara who looked upon the hellscape they created in terror. Clara probably could sense all the life they extinguished from stopping, and Judine walked up to her.
“It’ll be okay Clara. We can do this, and please remember this.” Clara looked up at Judine during Judine’s speaking. “The tower is here to mess with us. Slow us down so we can’t complete the quest to clear out Floor 100.”
Clara nodded solemnly and turned to face the still burning crater. The two lined up, and while Judine was slightly faster than Clara, the two worked together to try and stop before exiting the bubble.
Turns out the shockwave of afterwards, the shot ringing out in the air as the pair broke the sound barrier instantly, wasn’t enough to slow them down enough to leave the bubble. The bubble broke as Bariton and Shammus tried the same thing, alongside Pallad’s fifth shockwave leaving practically a massive tear in the seafloor.
It even parted the sea itself, the sky the same hue as before as the ground opened up beneath all of them. Judine struggled to control her descent as Bariton caught her. Shammus caught Pallad and Clara with his own wings of inverted light.
The wings sounded melodic as they descended softly further down alongside Kishtan who now had a few more scales than before, and was about a kilometer long. His scales were a deep purple, much more obvious when not transposed onto skin.
“Alright, you guys are going to try this again, and I hope we don’t get to floor 50 too soon…” Kishtan glared at the party, as they fell into not a cavern but another sky. This floor was surrounded by mountain ranges that looked nigh-infinite.
“Those sadly aren’t infinite, and we can’t test the size of these planets because the system doesn’t create planets except for insane personal projects of it.” Kishtan landed with a thud that shook the earth. The party was much more stable as it shook now that they knew they too shook the planet with every maximum move they did.
Kishtan’s upper lip curled slightly. “Simply just move to the mountain range. Stop before getting between the mountains.” Kishtan’s instructions sounded simple enough, but as the sound barrier broke beneath the party, they worked together to stop well before the mountain range.
The ionized air pushed them forward just a bit more, as the vacuum they were tearing across the sky pulled them back a few meters. The mountain range was thoroughly destroyed, leaving nothing but magma there. But they all finally stopped before the target. Kishtan flew over towards them and landed with the same earthshaking thud, staring at the destroyed mountain range.
“Remind me to teach you guys personal control.”
