The Worthless Servant Who Awakened the World Eater

Chapter 4:The Test Designed to Break Him

Elias' hands trembled and the crystal grew red.

In the test courtyard, there was some soft rumbling noise.

“See this, even the crystal is embarrassed of his lack of ability.”

Arms folded across his chest, Kael Veyron was leaning on the test stand. His uniform was edged with a silver lace, and Elias in front of him was a man in a rough uniform, but his wrists were not at all spoiled yesterday, and were in the morning sunshine.

Master Orwin said to me to place my hand on the crystal. The longer the better – the more suspicious!

Elias swallowed.

The young magi of the Veyron clan encircled him, and laughed aloud. A number had come from afar to demonstrate their abilities. Others had been paying a visit to see his humiliation.

There was no one that would have been surprised at this.

For 17 years, Elias had been considered "useless" in all aspects. He was no magician, there was no notable family and he could only be a slave to his masters.

It wasn't so different though, since he had found the room under the west wing and sealed it.

He could still see the old symbol, under his bloodied hand.

It was his softest voice that he heard.

Finally,

He was still able to see the black crystal in the darkness.

Restated Kael's question: “Are you going to touch it or do you need somebody to hold your hand?”

Laughter erupted.

Elias put his hand into his mouth.

He knew that it was expensive to get angry in the Veyron family. An unruly servant might not be fed, might not be paid a day's wages or even more valuable!

He had learned something else however.

The norm was not to get it done safely – it was the exception.

He put his palm on the crystal.

There was no indication of anything for several seconds.

Master Orwin sighed. As predicted, no one found any attractions.”

“Maybe the crystal has now fallen in the hands of a more needless person than itself,” Kael responded.

More laughter followed.

Then Elias felt it.

He had a slight tremor in his hand.

His eyes widened.

There were delicate silver lines dancing behind the crystal's surface in front of them. These extended around his fingers and then went back into the stone.

The vibrations increased in size.

Elias attempted to take his hand out.

He couldn't.

He sensed some tug on him in the crystal.

Not his flesh.

Something deeper.

A chill percolated up his arm before a feeling of heat like it was radiating from the middle of his chest. He was aware of there being one terrible moment in him where his eyes opened.

The crystal was turned off.

It then returned to its normal colour.

All was silent in the courtyard.

Master Orwin rushed over and checked out the device.

Why, what was that?” whispered one of the students.

Kael's expression hardened.

After a few seconds, Master Orwin replied, "Nothing. “An anomaly to the normal behavior of the crystal", "an old instrument".

“But the light—”

“Enough.”

The students were struck with silence at the sound of the master's silence.

He glanced at the crystal, and mumbled a diagnosis spell. On its surface it was engraved with blue symbols.

No magical affinity.

No measurable energy.

No anomaly.

Everything looked normal.

Elias had a feeling that he had this experience.

However, someone else had witnessed it.

A servant's person in dark colored clothes, set his writing tablet at the corner of the courtyard. His eyes never strayed from Elias.

He was not a joker like other people.

As soon as he had turned his head away, the crystal became dull.

When he happened to glance at the clock while on site, he recorded the time, the colour and the time that it happened.

Elias turned his gaze in his direction and the man shut the tablet.

They glanced at each other's eyes.

Then the man opened his eyes, and he went through the east gate.

Elias was feeling cold in his tummy.

Who was that man?

You coward! Get rid of the hand, Master Orwin,” he said, “you coward!

Elias pulled away.

He was pretty much in two.

The master said 'F-class, F-class. If no magic connection is found, then perform task(s).

Kael stepped closer.

“F-class?” He laughed. Well, generous isn't it? Any broken broom will do.

Eyes closed up to Elias'.

He wished to hit Kael. He asked himself how it could have slipped through his fingers, too.

He wondered, why does the crystal 'respond' to him?

He didn't say anything however.

Keeping his head bent, Kael moved his head toward him.

Servant, remember this day when you were before all the household and you made it clear to them what I always told them: You are nothing.

Elias stared at him.

A black crystal appeared to him under the West wing, for a moment.

He envisioned his fingers to get the peculiar energy back.

But, what would Kael say if he knew? And he wondered.

Master,” he replied to him silently, “I will remember.”

Kael's smile faded.

Perhaps he thought that she would come to a standstill or say sorry?

But Elias was at work with his enterprise.

When Lyra caught up with him in the servant's corridor, he was half way through.

“Elias.”

He stopped.

She looked around, took hold of him and dragged him into a blank unused area.

What was it you saw out there?

“Nothing.”

“Don't insult me.”

Her eyes turned to grey.Her gray eyes shut,

So I did see the colour of the crystal change and I did see the colour of your hand change and after that I saw the colour of Master Orwin's hand change.

Elias had been observing her face and had been learning about her face.

There were some children in the house, but Lyra was special. But she was of the lower class, she was very clever, but too insignificant that one word of accusation from the Veyrons could ruin her future.

To help him was treacherous.

He didn't understand why she continued to do it.

It appeared to be "re-activating," he admitted. I said, "Well, I don't know anything else."

What is the unique thing that you have just touched that is special about you?

His heart skipped.

He was on the verge of sharing with her about the chamber, but he didn't.

After that, the observer came to his mind.

This was witnessed by someone.

But Veyrons could have safely imprisoned the black crystal for all eternity if they had known about it. Maybe they want to look at Elias.

He was unable to discover freedom in his life in either of the options.

“No,” he lied.

He was shored up by the searching of Lyra.Lyra searched him.

I'm not sure whether you're a big fat liar,

For me, it's a new experience.”

She was not allowed to smile, she couldn't smile.

So she put her face down on him and his face changed.From there on, she was serious.

“Pay attention! All right, it is right, he's with him at all times, and the records officer who is with him isn't a regular assistant of Master Orwins, he has seen him bringing the senior steward of the estate to him and he does not go with him to the normal tests.”

“Who is he?”

Well, I don't know,” she continued, “but before the crystal responded, he was observing you.

Elias' face drained of blood.

“Before?”

Lyra nodded.

“Which means that he might have been looking for something.”

Or someone.

They were silent, pondering.

Ignored all his life, Elias was a man. He'd assumed that he'd be invisible to them – one of his only protection.

He now began to wonder if it would be better to be seen than hated - for the first time in his life!

“Now?” he asked, “What do I do?”

But nothing is special, go and do your work—don't let Kael get you, don't go to the western wing.

Elias said nothing.

Lyra exhaled sharply.

“Well then, have you experienced this before?”

As he was in the process of answering, he heard footfalls coming through the door of the storage room.

They separated immediately.

There was someone at the door, who was a servant.

“Elias! Stereward is in the courtyard to do laundry.

Then Elias was silent and he went with him.

He could not shake the sensation of itching throughout his body.He was unable to alleviate the itching all over his body.

It was the same vibration that he had felt when he touched the crystal.

It was as if it was from a faraway place.

He removed his hand from the test or it wasn't the time to terminate the test.His hand was either cut off or it was not the time for the test to be terminated.

In the evening, Elias went to bed at the same time as the other servants. Elias went to his bed at nine after all the servants had gone to bed.

When he fell asleep, clapping his eyes he saw the crystal flashing black.

He mused upon Mira, who was sleeping in the adjoining room after a tiring day at work.

He recalled his message of Kael's threat.

He had thought the records officer would take information that would change his life, he said.

Perhaps the only explanation for his lack of known magical abilities was this crystal, if it wasn't something unusual.

It may also be the reason for someone to be spying on him.

Elias was up out of his bed.

He would look once.

Only once.

There was no water in the corridor to the west and it was cool and still. In the light of the moon, narrow windows let out light; over dusty old portraits of the long gone members of the Veyron family.

At the end of the passage there was a hidden entrance to a passage.

Elias extended his hand towards the old sign.

Nothing happened.

He tried again.

He had a burning hot bone in his fingers.

The stone ground and panel of the place.

When he went to the room, he went up and down, sneaking in.

He had left in place the black crystal that he had found.

Did not appear to be alive, but was dead.

Elias approached cautiously.

I don't know what you are, he muttered. However, you did hear me.

There was no reaction from the chamber.

He stretched out his arm towards the crystal.

There was a flash of energy in his hand.

He did turn his head, however, and the power swirled round him like a ghost of energy, swirling in his hands.

The old writing that was on the walls began to glow.

Then they started to light them up, one by one, and discovered symbols which had been concealed under dust for centuries.

Elias was staring at them.

The markings were not an "add-on.

They formed a seal.

In the midst of it was a crystal.

His breathing quickened.

What would you like to store in a can?

The black crystal began to shake again.

It was found to be fractured in a crack, which could be seen on the surface of it.

Elias froze.

The second one broke the first, and flew like a bolt of lightning under the stone and under the ice sheet.

The air grew heavy.

Glowing symbols twinkled.

He was being dragged around from side to side, and the energy of the room appeared to be drawn towards his feet and his crystal tugging at his clothes and swirling the dust around his feet.

“No,” he whispered.

He had been seeking answers.

He wasn't going to knock over anything.

The crystal cracked.

A loud noise, a piercing sound was heard in the chamber.

However, the mesmerizing sealdown did not work out that time.

Beat 1 of Moment of silence.

A small black flame could be seen above the shattered crystal.

It burned without smoke, without heat and without any fuel.

Elias was NOT able to walk.

The flame was directed towards him.

He was also aware of this not being the choice. There was no fire shooting towards the people.

But he sensed its gaze, and knew that it was the old and the living.

It was a quiet and peaceful night.

Not from the walls.

Not from crystals.

In his awareness in his heart.

Now it's the day of the prison Open House!

A black fire blazed, its smoke.Black fire there was and there was fire.

What magic he had stumbled upon he did not know – he was filled with fear, and his flesh shook.

He might have set off a power that had been laying dormant in him.

That which never forgot his name.