When Erica and I entered Merlin's room, she almost immediately spat out her drink from sudden shock.

"Uh...are you alright?" Erica awkwardly asked.

"You made 50 mana veins?!" Merlin exclaimed.

"What?!" Erica exclaimed. "I only have ten!"

Well, I had my help.

"I'm awesome." Loki commented.

"Don't you have Clairvoyance?" I asked. "How do you not know?"

"I have to actively use Clairvoyance." Merlin stated. "It's not something that just goes on in the background."

"Anyways, now that you both have created some mana veins I can start to teach you about your new tiers." Merlin stated.

"By permanently injecting some of my own mana into you, I was able to give you a piece of my own power." Merlin continued.

"This is possible due to the link between magic and the soul. Basically, I gave you a slight piece of my own soul. If I only gave you mana, then it wouldn't be permanent." Merlin added.

"Is that okay?" Erica asked. "Cause that sounds dangerous."

"Sometimes." Merlin stated. "It's only dangerous if you have a small bit of soul. Because once you give away all of your soul, you become a hollow husk of what you once were."

"But you don't have to worry about that!" Merlin then said, lightening the mood.

"Erica, your tier is called Clairvoyance. It's a watered-down and weakened version of my own, to the point where they are barely similar." Merlin stated.

"Your Clairvoyance should, just at the moment, give you visions of future important events every once in a while. It's random, and not too useful at first." Merlin continued.

"There isn't really anything you can do to train it right now, you just have to keep making mana veins and working on how you manipulate mana. Eventually you'll learn how to manipulate the Clairvoyance and slowly make it stronger." Merlin explained.

"However, for Ken, we don't need to wait. You can start with yours. But first, let me explain how Amplification works." Merlin stated. "In simple terms, it's temporarily increasing the power of an attack."

"Isn't that the same as Erica's enhancement?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Nope!" Merlin replied, popping the p. "Erica's enhancement is physical-based. Amplification is magical based. Erica can't increase the power of her water element temporarily, but she can increase the power of her punch, or her sword temporarily."

"Amplification however allows you to temporarily increase the power of magical-based attacks, or other magical-based powers. You could increase the power of your fire, or some of your other tiers." She stated.

Wow...that sounds powerful.

"That sounds awesome." Loki commented. "With your new mana veins and this power, you might be able to set a whole city on fire!"

Why would I ever set a whole city on fire?

"I dunno. But in case you need to, now you can!" Loki replied.

...Yay?

"So how do I use Amplification?" I asked.

"It'll take a little practice, but you'll need to think about enhancing a power. It's difficult since you need to know exactly how the power works in order to amplify it." Merlin stated.

I lit a small flame in my hand, staring intently at it. If I wanted to enhance it's power, I'd want to increase how hot it is.

With Loki's help I already have the power to create plenty of flames. Now I just need to make them hotter. So that they can burn anything.

Enhance. Enhance the blazing heat from the fire. Make it hotter, more powerful. Let it roam free.

"Amplification." I muttered.

The flame started to glow brighter. It became a lighter red before it started to go even further, starting to become blue.

"Holy shit." Merlin muttered in surprise. "You actually did it first try."

"Heh." Loki chuckled in my head. "You're a prodigy at magic."

What?

"Ken, you just did magic." She stated. "You combined your natural magical flames with Amplification to make them even hotter."

Merlin examined the blue flames, narrowing her eyes and analyzing them.

"You didn't just temporarily make them hotter. You've made them permanently hotter. Of course, you could always degrade them, but..." Merlin explained.

"Wow! Amazing Ken!" Gasped Erica with stars in her eyes.

"You're a prodigy at magic." She stated. "The last person who was this talented was..."

"Never mind." She replied, shaking her head. "It looks like I won't have to teach you much about Amplification if you can grasp it so quickly."

I dispelled the blue flame in my hand. They were now as hot as Aoi's, judging by the color. Maybe I can actually defeat her next time.

I don't appreciate her trying to hurt my girls.

Wait wh-

"Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I think it's time for you two to do something that will greatly help Erica." Merlin stated.

"Me? What are we doing?" Erica asked as she pointed to herself in confusion.

"There's an artifact in this island that I haven't seen in years. I haven't been able to obtain it since I'm cursed to be stuck in this tower. It's connected to that sword of yours." Merlin teased, a smirk on her face.

I immediately knew what we were doing. We were going to get an incredibly strong item that will greatly help Erica in the future.

"Avalon. The sheathe of Excalibur." Merlin stated.

"No way?!" Gasped Erica.

"Yes." Merlin nodded. "Avalon is an incredibly strong defensive item that will help you in the future. However, you and Ken need to get it since I'm stuck here in this tower."

"Where is it?" Erica asked.

"There's a cave to the North of here." Merlin stated. "It's in there. However, be warned that it's inside a trapped dungeon."

"Why is it in a trapped dungeon?" I sighed.

"We hid Avalon there before I was sealed inside this tower." Merlin mused. "We had it trapped and placed a spell so that only the worthy may obtain it."

"I'm sure that Erica is worthy." Merlin stated. "So, what do you two think?"

Erica and I glanced towards each other. We didn't even need to speak to know what we were going to do.

I wasn't sure what Erica's motive was since she doesn't know about the Demon King yet, but I want to get that so she will be safe.

With Avalon's incredible healing capabilities, it should easily keep Erica from dying. It would take something extremely powerful to kill her while she has it.

And I don't plan on letting the Demon King even get near her.

"You two should go tomorrow. Rest for the remainder of today so you're prepared for tomorrow." Merlin stated.

"Alright!" Erica nodded, starting to leave.

"Oh, and Ken, wait a moment please." Merlin added.

Erica narrowed her eyes towards Merlin.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything~!" Smirked Merlin.

"You better." Growled Erica as she descended through the trapdoor and left the room.

"So, what did you want?" I asked.

"This big sister has one request. Make sure you keep her safe." Merlin asked.

"Of course I would, who do you think I am?" I replied.

Merlin giggled. "Just as I expected. I await eagerly for you return. I have so much to teach you~"

"Okay then..." I replied, sweatdropping.

Avalon, here we come.

AN: I tried drawing Ken. Just as I thought, it didn't turn out too well 😂