A Magical Tale: The Peerless Summoner

Helena looked at the middle-aged woman and nodded her head.

She then proceeded to tell her the mission that she took.

"Well, the mission that I selected for my team was to demolish five shrines of cannibalistic witches in the Hotstone and Redsand kingdom." She said.

"What? You and the other young members of your group will face off against cannibalistic witches?" The middle-aged woman asked with shock in her tone.

"Yes ma'am" Helena replied.

"Hmm. I guess I will have to go to the Mission House myself to ask them to retrieve the mission that they gave you or completely change it to another which does not have to do with witches." The middle-aged woman said.

"Ugh!" Helena uttered in a displeased tone.

"Well, ma'am, I have spoken to the Camp Overseer and she has approved of the mission that I selected." Helena said.

"You have gone to meet the Camp Overseer and she approved of the mission that you selected from the Mission House?" The middle-aged woman asked to confirm what she heard.

"Yes ma'am" Helena replied as she nodded her head.

"Hmm." The middle-aged woman uttered with surprise in her tone.

She then looked at Helena and asked "Girl, what's your name?"

"Uhm... Helena. Helena is my name, ma'am" Helena replied.

"Helena..." The middle-aged woman said slowly with a pondering gaze in her eyes.

Her eyes then shone sharply in the next instant and she looked at Helena with a gaze that Helena couldn't understand.

"You are the Chosen One." She said with a light of comprehension in her eyes while Helena nodded her head and smirked within.

Then she really hoped in her heart that she hadn't complicated matter by telling the middle-aged woman her real name.

"This is my very first time seeing the Chosen One." The middle-aged woman said.

She then said further by saying "I never really knew what you looked like all these while. But look at you, still young. However, I am impressed by your boldness and courage, since you want to go into the world to slay those old witches that feed on flesh and organ of children and adults."

"Anyone that really tries to underestimates you is in for it" The middle-aged woman continued with a smile appearing in her face. 

She had surprisingly become soft and gentle when she realized that the girl before her, who was Helena by name, was the Chosen One, the one chosen by the magical universe to lead entire worlds out of the boundless misery and chaos that had totally engulfed them. 

"So, what magical artifacts do you want?" The middle-aged woman asked.

"I don't know. Do you have like a list or something for all the artifacts in here?" Helena asked.

"Certainly" The middle-aged woman said.

She then asked "What level of magical artifact do you want? I am guessing the third-level magical artifact."

"Third-level magical artifact? As in Sky-level magical artifact?" Helena asked to confirm what she heard.

"Yea. Sky-level magical artifact." The middle-aged woman replied.

"Would that really be suitable for me? Since it might suck dry all my Aetha energy once I try to cast two or three magical spells with it." Helena asked.

"Well, probably. But you are the Chosen One. You should still be able to cast ten or fifteen sky-level spells with any of them before getting fully drained of your Aetha energy." The middle-aged woman said while Helena's eyes widened in shock due to what the woman said.

"Ma'am, the ability that you just spoke about now, I haven't awakened it yet. And I don't even feel that I am close to awakening that ability to produce near-inexhaustible amounts of Aetha energy in my Aetha veins." Helena said.

"That means you have been greatly slacking in every areas of your training. You should have long awakened that ability. If I were the chosen one and I was endowed with that ability, I would have awakened it many years ago." The middle-aged woman said causing Helena to gape in shock. 

She then said further "You need to awaken that boundless energy ability thing, girl. Once you do so, very quickly, you will ascend from being an Earth-level spellcaster to maybe a World-level spellcaster. You definitely need to work on awakening that ability"

"Ugh! I will do my best, ma'am" Helena uttered and then said with a confident smile hanging on her lips.

"That's the spirit, girl. I believe you can awaken it soon once you really set your mind to it." The middle-aged woman said.

Then with a single gesture, a glowing prism-shaped crystal appeared before her in the air and remained afloat at that height.

She then grabbed it and gave it to Helena.

Helena accepted it and asked "How do I use it?"

"Just hold it in your hand and try to send your awareness into it." The middle-aged woman answered.

"Okay." Helena said.

She then grabbed the radiant prism-shaped crystal in her hands tighter and tried to send her awareness into it as was instructed by the middle-aged woman before her.

Immediately she did so, a large amount of information suddenly surfaced in her head in the next moment, causing her to feel that her head was swelling. While the great amount of information that had rushed into her head like it were a furious flood, were actually composed of only names of innumerable magical artifacts and weapons for the different levels of spellcasting and then their shocking purchase costs.

"Wow!" Helena uttered with shock in her tone.

She then began to go through the names of the artifacts and weapons for the Sky-level spellcasting stage.

Greenbeetle Cloak of Invincibility - 500,000 contribution points

Horn of Rampaging Glory - 750,000 contribution points

Earthly Tempest Blade - 820,000 contribution points 

Sword of Shadows and Nightmares - 634,500 contribution points

Badge of Pestilence and Plague - 555,350 contribution points. 

Helena then pulled her awareness out of the prism after she had seen the artifacts that she wanted to buy.

"Alright maam. I have seen the artifacts that I want to buy. How do I purchase them?" She curiously asked the middle-aged woman who stood in front of her. 

"Just think of the Artifact that you want to purchase. The people working here will receive a transmission of the artifacts that you want to buy. Then they would put the items that you selected in the items menu projected into your mind from the prism into a cart and bring it to you. So, go right ahead and purchase whatever you want." The middle-aged woman said and winked at Helena. 

She then said further "Yea. I will give you good discounts for any items that you will purchase. Or what do you think about it?" 

Helena's eyes widened with happiness. 

"Thank you, ma'am. You are really kind." Helena said with an ecstatic smile hung on her lips. 

Haha! 

The middle-aged woman laughed. 

"Well, it's actually nothing. It's just me trying to get into your good books, you know. I want to be looked down upon with favor by the incomparably powerful Chosen One." She said. 

Helena nodded her head. 

"You are definitely in my good books already, ma'am" Helena said with an affable smile in her face while the middle-aged woman nodded. 

"Give me the prism" The middle-aged woman said. 

Helena gave her the prism while the middle-aged woman accepted it. 

She then brought the prism close to her mouth and began to utter some incomprehensible words at the prism, causing the soft radiance that it emitted to change from light blue to a a deeper blue. 

"There" She said with a smile appearing in her face. 

She then gave back to the prism to Helena who politely accepted it from her hand. 

Once she accepted the prism, she tried looking into the vast content that the prism possessed by sending her awareness into it. 

Then in the next instant, tons of information that comprised of names of items and their purchase costs appeared in her head once again.

She then selected a hooded cloak, a boot, a blade, a sword, a beast bag, a shrinkable artifact storage sack, a collapsible and retractable pair of wings, and a bow. 

As she was selecting the Sky-level artifacts and weapons from the massive items menu that the prism fully projected into her mind, the prism glowed and sent her selections to a huge screen where a particular worker out of hundreds of workers in the Artifact Hall started tending to it by picking the items that she selected from specific shelves and arranging them into a large, enchanted floating cart. 

When she was done with her selections, she then tried to peruse through the items for the Heaven-level artifacts and weapons. 

She was curious to see how much they they would cost to purchase them. 

Xandorra's Enchanted Winged Blades of Pain and Agony - 10 million contribution points 

Igor's Orcslaying Feathered Blade of Gloom and Doom - 5 million contribution points 

Exalted Vanquisher sword - 20 million contribution points 

Blades of Desolation - 15 million contribution points 

Black Supreme Sword of Ancientness - 25 million contribution points 

Stormcrashing blades - 12 million contribution points. 

Stormsweeping hammer - 18 million contribution points

She then stopped and pulled her awareness out of the glowing prism.

'Damn! The Heaven-level artifacts and weapons are insanely cost. It will surely take me years to gather such massive amounts of contribution points if I went for any three-star mission meant for Sky-level spellcasters.' Helena said inwardly. 

She then passed the prism to the middle-aged woman before her who accepted it with a smile.

Then a few moments later, someone walked towards them with a floating cart in her hand.

"Here are your items" The female worker said and walked away.

Helena then stowed away all the artifacts and weapons that she purchased into the artifact storage sack which she also purchased too.

"Alright. Give me your contribution badge." The middle-aged woman said.

Helena nodded her head and unclipped the badge from her outfit and then gave it to middle-aged woman who simply rubbed it against the prism of the base.

"Here. Take your badge back." The middle-aged woman said. 

Helena nodded her head and then accepted her badge which the middle-aged woman stretched at her.

Then when she looked into it, she saw that she had only 1.2 million contribution points left.

"I guess it's those discounts then. Because what I bought should fully exhaust my contribution points" Helena said inwardly. 

She then said to the middle-aged woman before her "Thank you for your great discounts, ma'am. I really appreciate it. Now, I would be able to buy more things." 

The middle-aged woman only nodded her head with a smile in her face. 

"Alright. Won't you get going now?" The middle-aged woman asked.

"I will leave soon. I am just curious about something." Helena said.

"Oh. What's that? Tell me." The middle-aged woman asked

"How come there is a great lot of artifacts and weapons in here for every level that they are almost innumerous in size?" Helena asked with her bright inquisitive eyes.