500th Time Reborn, A World Only Known By Women: The Karma System

"What did you just do to your eyes?!" Listenia demanded, and I grinned.

"Made them much better," I said as I turned my head and looked out the small window.

My eyes zoomed and focused on a pigeon that was on the peak of a roof of a house near the wall. I raised my hand and pulled the sliding window open.

"What are you doing?" Listenia asked, curious this time.

"Watch down the end of my finger at the pigeon I am going to point at. It is over by the wall," I said as I raised my arm.

My hand was pointed like a gun, and I was collecting Pure Magic in the tip of my finger, converting it to Fire and Air.

Listenia leaned over to look and leaned forward.

"I can barely see it, but what are you going to do? It\'s too dangerous to try to hit it from this distance," Listenia told me as I locked on to my target, and a small display appeared beside my target.

[Pigeon Lvl 0| No Stats Available| No Attack Known]

"Just watch. I wouldn\'t do something to endanger anyone," I said and dropped my thumb.

The spinning ball of air and fire energy fired from the end of my finger. Almost instantly, the energy hit the pigeon, making it explode in a small two-foot explosion that incinerated it.

"What?! How can you be so precise and without a single word?!" Listenia asked in shock, and I tapped my temple on the side of my head.

"The precision is from the runes I carved into the back of my eyes and then attached to my optic nerve to connect it to my sight. I have it for the guns that I plan on making with Gwenth. Now, you get back to concentrating. Do not try to grab the Pure Magic; pull it into yourself. You need to let it come to you if you want to learn how to cast wordlessly," I explained, and Listenia nodded.

"Yes, but I think you should be careful with that kind of thing. Sounds extremely painful. Do you think I will be able to do that?" Listenia asked, and I chuckled as she settled back into my chest.

"In time, but this is just like you say, very dangerous. I must have done it before because I was confident that I could do it. It requires twenty different runes and knowledge of how your eye works. You also have to do it yourself, just like I did," I explained, and Listenia nodded.

"I will not rush something like that, but it sounds like it would make me a much better markswoman, something I lack," Listenia said, her voice getting quiet.

"Really? An Elf that is a natural at everything, but not the bow? Interesting, and I can see why you would be interested in it. If that is something that you want to work towards in the future, I will teach you everything that you need to know and walk you through it when the time comes. Now shush and close your eyes," I said, kissing her cheek, and Listenia cuddled into me.

I drew more magic in, but this time I just used it to relax my body, and Listenia\'s using Earth and Water to make Life magic. I didn\'t realize just how tired I was, and the spell was my tipping point, sending me off to sleep.

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"I think I feel it! What do I do now? Galio?" Listenia said and looked back at him, but the beast had fallen asleep on her.

This creature was unlike anything she had ever met, and it was hard not to consider the creature a beast. It wasn\'t a woman; it was just a man, only part of the word.

"Well, you did have a long day, so I will let you off this time, Master," Listenia said and got up to move Galio to lay on the bed.

Normally, Listenia would be the one to be the big spoon, but tonight she wanted to feel the strong arms that had held her. She wanted to hold the rough hands that had squeezed her neck and made her feel things that she didn\'t know about herself.

Once she was tucked into Galio\'s arms, Listenia took the big hands into hers, much smaller ones, and drifted off.

The sun was going down as Tallia stepped out of the corner, smiling at the cute pair. She held no jealousy or any ill will toward them, but Galio was starting to repeat a common mistake that had been burned into him from a deep betrayal.

The Goddess didn\'t want to do this to the man that she loved so dear, but he had to remember this thing. If he continued as he was, Galio might start having a harder time interacting as he meets the more aggressive races.

If he wasn\'t careful, he could be the one starting the wars, and that was not what Tallia wanted.

"I am sorry, my love, but I need to give you back something that I should have never taken away," Tallia said quietly as she slowly walked over to the side of the bed.

The rainbow-eyed Goddess pressed her finger to the side of Galio\'s temple. Tallia opened up his mind to a memory that would always haunt the both of them.

Tallia was forced to sit back and watch for the last four ninety-nine lifetimes, but this one would be different.

Galio had always been the bravest and hardest working person she had ever had the pleasure of knowing. The first time the two met, it was love at first sight.

Tallia had told him that the only way they could be together was if he could complete five hundred lifetimes. Galio laughed at her and then kissed her passionately.

"Five hundred? Five thousand? Five Billion? If I know that I will always have your love and you will be waiting for me, time means nothing. If that\'s what it takes, then I only ask that you wait for me," Galio had said in a cheerful tone that she had grown to adore after countless years.

This is why it hurt Tallia so much to do this to Galio now.