The Villainess Will Obey Her Destiny? HELL NO! (HIATUS)

Chapter 11 Penalty Vow

Val above ↑ He has copper- coloured eyes. Will be giving a separate chapter for other characters' introduction later^∆^

Selene and Alex were sitting for last 10 minutes staring at the cube that was given by Val for them to solve. There strange figures drawn on the cube's six faces which were divides into 25 parts. Basically it was a 5×5 rubiks cube with strange symbols etched on it instead of colours. Alex was staring at the cube intensely for a long time as though trying to remember something. Then he suddenly gasped and said I remember these symbols are the letters of one of the seven ancient languages!"

'Languages?' Selene was confused, if that was the case shouldn't she be able to translate it? But no matter which angle she looked at it they only looked like weird symbols to her. She snatched the cube from Alex side and looked carefully at each symbol present on the 150 squares of the cube. After some careful observation, she realized that there were actually 6 groups of letter whose structures were quite identical to each other. She started to solve the cube by imagining each type of language's symbol as a particular colour. In her past life she was an expert in solving cubes she passed her time waiting for her target by trying to break her previous record. Still it was hard since she had to imagine the cube to be a normal one. She managed to solve the cube in 10 minutes, quite slow according to her standards but then again the cube she was solving was unique too.

Once she got the right positions she placed the cube in front of Val for him to judge having a confident smile on her face. But Val gave the cube back to Alex and Selene with a smirk on his face and said "Read and tell me what is written on the cubes faces."

"Wasn't this a test of wit?" Alex asked he was not good at understanding and memorizing foreign languages, hence he always struggled in ancient languages class. Also in the classes they always taught the basics and never more than that so it was not possible for him to comprehend the words written on the cube face. He knew that Selene had not started to learn the ancient languages in her course so he was not that hopeful about passing this level. Dispirited he laid back on the chair looking glum. After all he didn't know was that the current Selene had a power gifted from the gods of this world to aid her learn the languages in seconds.

Selene smiled knowing that translating foreign languages was her forte, she sat up and started to look at the faces of cube. After looking at them for a minute she started write something one one of the white paper lying in front of her.

"There you go." Selene said submitting the paper to Val with a smug smile on her face. Val looked at the paper and surprise flashed through his eyes, Selene actually did translate the words on the cube's face. The words were not even connected into making a sentence, hence she couldn't have translated it unless she actually knew the language. But he had seen Selene's previous class timetable and knew that she was not taking any classes for ancient languages. He looked curious and opened his mouth to ask but then shut it thinking it would be more fun to find out himself.

"Mhmm...You two have passed this round too, I had specifically looked for you two's weakness and had found this with much difficulty, all efforts gone to waste. For the last round we will go to the outskirts of the forest. Come let's get going." Val said.

"Alex said that there are seven ancient languages, but there were only six on the cube. What about the seventh one?"

"Well if you would know about the seventh one, then you are qualified to enter the magic tower for experiments under ancient magic. But remember it is one of the hardest language one can encounter in this world. Even magicians like me have a hard time to deal with it easily."

"So if I can decipher seventh ancient language, I can perform ancient magic?" Selene asked.

"Yes but that's not a dream a kid like you should have now, come now." Val urged again, Selene hesitate for a while because of Anna's warning not to go to the forest after what happened last time but went after Alex and Val anyways thinking that Anna will scold her severely atmost.