Chapter 64: 59: Let There Be Light! (Part 2)
That system message could at least shed some light on Vivian's shift in personality but to Logan, he didn't see anything like a system message and his anger was justified, unlike her actions.
"Well, less than a couple of minutes now." He said and cleared the way to Vivian.
"That's a good moment we are missing." She said and turned to the sky while inhaling as much as she could from the fresh breeze and letting it out.
Logan let go of the trap door and turned to the sunset with Vivian. He looked at the endless sky and the beautiful mountainous clouds in heaven before smiling and turning to Vivian.
"If that's your way of getting out of trouble…" He spoke and got closer to her.
"It is not… WAH! LOGAN!" Vivian wanted to reply before finding herself carried off the ground by one arm.
"… it is working, Princess." He said.
"Oh!"
A bit of an awkward moment as her knight seemed a bit bolder than he usually is but Vivian didn't hate it one bit.
He opened the trap door with his left foot and in a very swift fashion, jumped toward the ladder and slid down on it with her beside him to the attic beneath them.
Watching that scene from the other side of the street on the highest story in Alba's fashion house was Valentine, who kept staring at Vivian in the midst of him explaining how that strange pastry was made to a middle-aged female professor. He was dazed for a bit and his eyes shook but he suppressed those emotions knowing that he was undeserving of many things from the direction he was looking at.
Back in Vivian's building, Logan landed on the fourth floor and put her down on safe ground.
"There is another sunset tomorrow but now is the time to take your first step into the real world, Princess. Make your name reach that sky." He said and turned her around by holding her shoulders.
"Logan…" She called before turning her head sideways to him.
"Yes, Princess."
"Stay close to me."
"I'm not going anywhere."
Feeling his large rough hands on her thin shoulders, Vivian breathed in and stepped forward. She reached her office, which was already packed with people, including Professor Bellfield and his family as well as the senior executives of ViTech. Those who were speaking quietened down and those who were sitting stood up for the Director of ViTech as she walked into the room.
"Ladies and gentlemen. It is time." She stopped, spoke, and then walked towards the balcony of her office.
Logan, Oscar, Voros, and Jane walked behind Vivian but as she wished, Logan was closer than the rest right by her side. As they stepped onto the balcony, Professor Bellfield and his wife and children followed them and stood a bit to the right with the professor on the lead like Vivian and his wife a tad behind him.
On the opposite side, many people flowed to the main balcony of Alba's fashion house, and on their lead was the illustrious Isabella De Clare wearing one of her wild fashion dresses that radiated in bright yellow.
The sunset was finally upon the city and the city workers who would light up the gas lamps in Parker St. were nowhere to be seen. Vivian and Isabella could see the street getting darker 50 meters to the north and 50 meters to the south just as agreed with the city hall.
The people flowing through this important street in the city didn't mind at first but then the traffic started to flow slower and a signal was given. From the gates of ViTech and Alba's, two lines of employees started to flow to the opposite side of the street and the traffic stopped for the sudden influx of people. These people were carrying cylinder containers the size of medium cooking pots.
And then…
"Chantatio!" Isabella whispered and walked closer to the rail of the balcony, somehow everyone started noticing her right away as she stood in a spotlight of her own. As she spoke, her voice boomed and filled the street, "Fellow Arcurians! Ladies and Gentlemen of the metropolis of the world, I bid you welcome."
"It's the Madonna!"
"Lady Isabella!"
"Seven Saints! My prayers were heard!"
The reaction of people looking towards Isabella is as priceless as ever. People would always mix their speech and thought bubbles when that hot brunette enters the scene but today, she was extra special.
"In the name of ViTech for Technologies and the Moore Conglomerate as well as Alba's fashion house, we extend to you the first fruit reaped from the prosperous tree that is ViTech. Tonight, we celebrate the genius of a man who will bring light to our world like nothing before…"
As Isabella kept heating the crowd which completely halted the flow of the street and now everyone was looking at her, but from behind Vivian's group, a very short man walked through the tall people and reached Vivian.
"Clear the way, those stairs… they almost killed me! Why so high?!"
The small man, with a large head and cartoonish facial features, approached Vivian and he was recognized by many in this place, so they let him through.
"Lady Vivian, an honor to meet you, it is I, Irapos the Marvel." He introduced himself, bowed, and returned to bant again from the stairs he climbed with great difficulty.
"Mr. Irapos. The honor is mine, we met at the last auction I've been to." Vivian greeted the man with a smile and a nod.
This Irapos the Marvel was none other than the Humanling (Halfling) auctioneer from the De Clare auction house from that night, the one who sold Vivian the painting of Morris de Brosa.
"Oh, you remember Irapos. How marvel!" The man said in a theatrical manner before noticing that Isabella was ending her speech, "Hurry, your hand."
"You're the third to ask." Vivian offered Irapos her hand and looked toward Logan whose face was a bit cringing before quickly averting her gaze.
"Runica!" The Humanling laid a spell on Vivian's hand and then chanted a little bit before letting go, he then turned to her, "Once Lady Isabella introduces you, feel the Spellmark I put on you and say Chantatio."
"Chan…"
"Nope! Don't say it just yet!"
Irapos stopped Vivian from making a mistake and she immediately nodded.
"… and without further ado, I present to you the young lady who supported that genius vision from behind the scenes as she is the fittest one to introduce it. My Director of ViTech… as well as…"
"Not daughter-in-law! Not daughter-in-law!"
"… as well as my best friend in the whole wide world, Vivian Moore."
As Isabella pointed to the opposite side, all heads turned to heed her command, and then…
"Chatatio!"
Vivian spoke the word.
Just like Isabella, she was enveloped in an aura of glamorous light, a spotlight of her own. She felt that she was the most confident person in the world and as she was going to speak, her voice felt like it was going to be heard far and wide.
"My favorite line from the Scripture of the Seven is the very first line in the Book of Athena: At the beginning, there was Darkness." Vivian said and looked across the crowd to finally spot the carriage of her Father as he was stepping out from his carriage among the crowd to watch his daughter, she smiled and continued, "Then the Lord said, let there be Light."
Just like how she was enveloped in light, Professor Bellfield also received a spellmark from Irapos the Marvel and came into the spotlight as well. With his right, he reached out to the lever fixed on the wooden rail…
"And there was Light!"
Parker St. entered the annals of world history by being the first street to be lit by many light bulbs and on top of both ViTech and Alba's, two large boards were illuminated as well, each of them with the logo of their respective organization.
The light warmed the street and the people looked in wonder as the street lamps, which were inactive for all that time, were now lighting up a strange color that filled the vision of many.
Lord Julian Moore watched the light bulb nearby and a smile appeared on his face as he never even expected to be surprised half as much as he is now. Vivian brought light to the world even if she was only a sponsor to the genius who made it.
The people cheered as Vivian announced the establishment of Professor Bellfield's company. The servants who were already crowding the streets started opening the lids of the pots they carried and a cold sensation came out as they served cones of pastries in the shape of a light bulb, made with a yellow ice cream ball covered in a sugar cone, courtesy of Isabella's partnership with Vivian as business associates.
But the light cast in those streets didn't only extend 100 meters wide or 5 stories tall, many people who had fallen to darkness came out to the light. Some with envy in their eyes, some holding a broken piece of a resistor from Vivian's signboard, and some marching to snuff out this light before it is cast on their darkness.
Another man who was a victim of their darkness stood among the crowd, watching Vivian from the very beginning and not worshiping Isabella like the rest, he was disheveled, depressed, and reeking with alcohol.
He watched as Vivian spoke and just the light Chantatio that enveloped her was enough to grasp him by the heart, but then the light that was cast on the world cleansed him from inside and burned the depression within him.
"Vivian… Bringer of Light!" He blurted.
From his pocket, he took out a silver-like coin, a special coin, a Mithirl coin.
He held close to it and for the first time in ten days, which felt like an eternity to the man who was once a respected member of the First Royal Academy's faculty, the man felt like a part of him was put back in place.
Vivian, that child, a dear person to his heart. She brought him light in the deepest of his heart, now he will take that light, shape it into a blade, and then drive it into the dark heart of an empire.
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Here's the spell card of the first cantrip Vivian ever cast, even though it was just a spellmark.
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