"Bell will be fine," I said to Hestia as I picked some books from my bookshelf through a portal connecting to my personal dimension between dimensions. 

"But it's been hours since he's been at that restaurant!" Hestia said as she looked at the door of their underground home. "It's already dawn!"

"He has Lucien with him," The faint smell of iron slowly approaching the church instantly connected me to a golem I made on the church to act as a sort of security camera. "He's back and he-," 

Before I could finish my sentence, Hestia disappeared. 

"Injured..." When it comes to Bell, she can get pretty terrifyingly unhinged. Casting a spell to open a portal to my vault, I pulled out some potions and closed the portal before going up the stairs.

0-0-0

So, he ran away just like in the Anime, huh? Well, it will help him grow and with Lucien looking after him. 

"But why do I have to go with you?" I asked Bell as I walked with him, dressed in an enchanted set of the Adept version of the Mantled college robes, hood, and shoes. A pair of fingerless gloves covered my hands as I walked beside Bell, my wooden Mage staff resting on my back.

"I need moral support!" Bell said as he led me to the location of the Hostess of Fertility. 

"If the owner beats you up, I'll laugh at you," I said heading inside the restaurant. 

"AH! IT'S THE GUY WHO DINED AND DASHED!" An anime catgirl shouted, looking at Bell. Wait... if she is a catgirl, I wonder if she'll get addicted to moon sugar or skooma. Nah, I don't want to Breaking Bad my new life. 

A powerful illusion? 

Noticing a mass of magic approaching nearby, I turned my focus on the second floor of the restaurant. Holy shit, that's powerful. A powerful glamour and her life force... it was pretty ancient. 

Holy shit! How old is she?! Is she a pedophile?! Bell is just 14! 

"Oh, this is Ren, he's a member of our Familia," Bell looked at me... why do I feel cold? Turning in that direction, I saw a beautiful young woman around my age, dressed in the same uniform with golden hair and pointed ears. 

Quick! Act normal and casual!

"Hello there~," Fuck! I used the flirty tone and what the fuck?! She shivered, glared at me, and inched away!?! Shit! I might be OP in magic but damn it! I suck at socializing. 

"You smell funny, nya~," The brown-haired catgirl said. CRITICAL HIT! The black-haired catgirl's eyes widened after taking a sniff and I could see her tense up a bit. Huh? 

"You girls go inside," a giant... woah! She looks like she can snap me in half... Well, it is nice knowing you, Bell. 

Listening to the conversation, I tried to use some spells to check the surroundings. Huh? There are some people nearby keeping an eye on this building. 

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I made a lot of money! Haha! I knew setting up shop on the first floor would be profitable. Well, now that I have a lot of money, it's time for me to relax! I can hit up the entertainment district or bet on the stock market a portion of my current earnings... the possibilities are endless! 

I can open up a spy network! I need a steady source of information. 

"Excuse me," A melodic voice said. 

Oh yeah! I can make my own Blades faction! I can have Lucien Lachance advise me. 

"Excuse me~," 

Wait... does that mean I will be Jauffre or Caius Cossades? Wait... but I am a mage. 

"Excuse me," 

Am I... the Zurin Arctus? The Imperial Battlemage? Well, I'm not a lich or undead. 

Quickly side-stepping a hooded figure, I held my wallet, hidden by a glamour to look like a rock, and I could feel the smile on my face. 

Is that charm magic being cast on me? Well, not my problem. I am immune to magic! Atronach, baby! 

A beautiful face appeared in front of me. 

Hell no! 

I have seen enough YourTube videos about what's happening in the West. 

"Excuse me," I said as I side-stepped the beautiful woman while casting two spells at the same time, an illusion spell to make a thought projection of me go in another direction and an invisibility spell to make me unseen to the naked eye. 

Oh! I can grow my own mushroom tower! 

I'mma Telvanni this shit! 

Just no slavery involved. 

Oh yeah, it's all coming together now, but first! I need to buy some new clothes and give something to Hestia, a new dress will do. 

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'Interesting, he ignored my charm,' A beautiful woman covered in a black robe thought as she caressed the cheek of a monster that looked like a gorilla. 

'Him, alongside that boy... a pure soul, and someone immune to my charms,' a small smile formed on her face as she looked at the monster. She said her order to the beast under her powerful charm. It is natural, her charm is the strongest tool she has in her arsenal that was not sealed away in this realm. 'A pure soul and a powerful mage... I want to see them grow,'

0-0-0-0-0

I looked at the clothes inside the store. I forgot something very important... I have no fashion sense. I only put on the clothes on top of the rack or prepared my Dremora butler! Wait, why is the ground shaking? 

A crack formed under my feet and...

shit! 

In an instant, lightning covered my form and everything around me became slower. My custom spell, speed force, a full body enchantment, turning it into lightning and allowing me to move as fast, if not faster, than light depending on the amount of Magicka I put on the spell. 

"Tiid!" Using the first word of the slow-time shout, reality itself slowed down for me. A psiijic spell would be more reliable but it will take a while to cast that. Moving as fast as I could, in these 12 seconds. In an instant for others, all the people inside the store were now outside and a powerful forcefield the size of a cube surrounded the entire store as my slow-time shout ended. 

"Is everyone okay?" I asked the people from the store. 

"What?" 

"Huh?"

The ground shook and from inside the store, a huge serpentine, plant-like monster appeared. Focusing on the barrier designed to contain organic, non-living material, I activated the offensive feature of this barrier. In less than a second, the monster was crushed into a small cube the size of a plate, killing it effortlessly. 

Before I could relax, something flying on the side caught my eye. 

What the hell? Aiming for the figure. I formed the spell and compressed it into something similar to a bullet. "Slowfall," Combining the spell with a harmless yet faster lightning spell, the spell reached its target, eliminating the damage that person would have received from that fall. 

"Lefiya!" 

The monsters are increasing, huh? 

"You people should go to the guild!" I said to those beside me while forming a magic circle under them. A simple modified recall spell to one of the few locations I marked. A safe area in front of the guild house. 

"Well, let's have fun," Forming a connection to some Daedra I bound to weapons, able to damage spirits in their purest form, a pair of spears formed in front of me while I held the Mage staff I had. 

Activating a spell to allow me to fly, I looked at the dungeon city of Orario after covering my body with a simple chameleon spell. Aiming at all monsters' weak spots with the use of a detect life spell to find them, I used the Telekinesis spell on my bound spears. Two streaks of storm Atronachs bound in the form of spears streaked across the sky, poking holes all over the monster, appearing only as blurs to all regular humans on the ground just as a powerful spell froze them all. 

"That was powerful..." Looking at the monsters, they looked like they were frozen in time. Aiming my hand at the sky and focusing on the deceased monsters specifically. "Soul Trap," A spell designed to take the souls of deceased creatures and seal them onto soul gems.  While it did not seem like I had soul gems, I had my Dremora servant procure some perfect Varla stones capable of housing up to Grand-level souls from some Ideal masters in the realm of the Soul Cairn. Say what you will about the Ayleid, but they were masters in using Aetherial fragments. 

Black souls, the specific souls that my spells target, are the souls of non-sentient beings such as animals, monsters, and Daedra. Out of the numerous dead monsters, I only got the plant-like monster's souls. 

All souls are commodities. Sending one soul to the Ideal masters for a month is a good enough payment for the Soul gems. Man, did having magic make me a monster? Well, I don't really-

Wait, that's Bell and Hestia! 

Found them! 

How cute. Landing on a nearby rooftop and removing the Chameleon shroud, I observed the sight of my adoptive little brother and our boss that presence... that's the same one Lucien felt. I'm not sure what this will do but. A warning should do. 

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The goddess of Love

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"Let's play again next time, Bell," How amusing. Every challenge he goes through only serves to polish his pure soul. I want more, I want to see more. 

Is that a butterfly? 

A blue butterfly landed on my hand before transforming into a sheet of paper in crude hieroglyphics. 

WE KNOW

How interesting, it seems like this pure child has some unlikely connections. Is he a detriment or a benefit to his growth? 

"Ottar," My sworn shadow and current escort for the damage. 

"Yes, lady Freya." 

"Have some of our members keep an eye on the mage living with them." 

"As you wish,"