iii. anew.

*** please read i. Prologue and ii. a reflection first. if not, you might not understand what is inside here. thanks.

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"Years ago, I passed one of my sacred elixirs down to the Elder of Creativity. And from that elixir, he empowered three new elders, each to take charge of one third of the populace:

the populace of Reptilia, now led by a high and mighty UpperClassMan;
the populace of Jepsia, now led by a calculative and meticulous one who had a sleight-of-hand;
the populace of Prosia, now led by..."

All eyes were pointing in my direction. Apparently, they had all anticipated his answer.

I rose to governance of Prosia just a week ago, when the elder, in his traditional violet velvet cloak and cape, passed upon me an enchanted scroll, and remarked,

"I am much honoured to pass on this duty to you. However, the weight of governing a populace is a great one, and only one as weighty as I can govern this populace, which is of the greatest number. I now entrust you with this responsibility."

Unrolling the scroll, many secret curses, hexes and buffs known only to the elders were made known to me. My already burgeoning spell repertoire grew even bigger.

"as you all know, the populace of Reptilia, with their orange banner, has a small contingent of impeccable alchemists and mathematicians, the largest and smallest being two feet apart. Green Jepsia has the benefit of one genius who knows almost all of the incantations of the elders, and one who is versed in the dark languages, speaking more than a dozen tongues, including Chinese (to communicate with the new Elder of Accountancy). Prosia is a populace with dark powers, as almost all Prosians were able to generate an Electro-Magnetic Oscillation at will, easily decimating the other populaces and clinching the inaugural Best Populace Championship."

"it now falls on to this three to keep up the country, and protect us against the impending doom that will befall us..."

a gasp was omniscient upon the onlookers. but i knew, indeed, a dark force was rising...

(to be continued)