Mana: Before The Rise

Two years had passed since Rachel left the world making, Miyu more and more reluctant to work. But, still doing so.

Right now, she was dead asleep on the soft sofa in the Viscount office. Ella had entered without knocking she was used to the eldest Sister habits as she quickly poured a cup of coffee on the table. Miyu rubber her eyes and drank her cup, as she glanced at Ella. The girl had been on a frugal streak lately.

She has been wearing homemade clothes, the Viscount family may have come down on hard times, but it wasn't to the point that she needed to make her own clothes. Miyu was baffled at this, but Anastasia just laughed and told her she looked good.

And then the young women just started helping the servants clean and cook and help take care of the random chores around the house.

Miyu didn't know what to do as she watched the women continuous degrade herself down to a servant. It got to the point where Anastasia started calling Ella 'Cinderella', although making fun of the girl. Miyu that it was still an iconic name and sighed.

While Marine, hadn't taken too well of the Viscounts death and her miscarriage. She had been somewhat closed off and just in general sad, but she seems to had lightened up with the new animal addition 'Lucy', the little cat has been keeping her company.

Anastasia wasn't to much of a bully to Ella, but she would more then often call Ella an eyesore more then once during the day.

Miyu pushed her hair behind her head and leaned back, after she finished her work, she stayed up late to read another novel. After finishing her cup, she fell back asleep, Ella looked at her step-sister before leaving the room.

Eventually Miyu got up and went down to breakfast to join the rest of the family, Anastasia was oddly quiet, but she had a somewhat flushed face. Marine had a smile on her face seemingly content.

Before Miyu got a chance to sit down she saw darkness surround her making four large question marks. Rachel stared at Miyu who's suddenly returned.

"You got lazy and failed somehow didn't you" was the first thing Rachel said to Miyu after an awkward silence.

"I did get lazy, but I don't think I failed"

"Efin?"

[She didn't fail but she didn't pass either, the world kicked her and the original Gloriosa came back and finished the task herself. Therefore, it was completed just not by Miyu."

"…."

"….."

"So, you did get lazy"

Miyu shrugged her shoulders "I want a break. So I'm going to sleep." She climbed onto the couch-bed and seemingly passed out.

"Well, I suppose I should Continue moving on then." Rachel said lightly as she was holding what looked like a tablet made of water.

Rachel lead a group of her followers to a newly formed natural world, 5 of them became blessed and 2 became task-takers. But her people have been prospering for a long time, Rachel had released Lalya from her service a long time ago.

That girl had disappeared afterwards.

But eventually others popped up in that world. They where inhuman races and oddly enough they all had different color of bloods and started to separate as such. Rachel decided to use her dormant vessel Anna, in case conflicts arise.

And like she though they did, Rachel frowned.

[Is anything wrong]

"Anna…. No, that girl doesn't call herself that anymore. Anyway, the other races in that world started to wreak havoc causing the world to become unbalanced and started dying off. That girl was able to stop the conflict, but she had to went back into a dormant state to feed the world her power to stabilize it.

My followers are now left powerless and without a leader, and if I interfere things will be much worse. That world could collapse."

[So what are you going to do]

"I can't do anything but, wait. Even if I send servants there the result will be the same as if I was already there." Rachel tossed the tablet that quickly dissipated and returned to the fountain. She thought about her three servants that she had sent off to do missions. Out of the three only Hel, failed. As for Ana, she had been released and Atlas had returned to her service.

"Elfin let's move forward"