What Agatha knew about the [Galaxidae], [The Nine Stars] and whoever Elizabeth wanted to fight, that was one tempting offer to give, especially given the circumstances.

  Elizabeth had planned to fight them one at a time and extract the information in whatever form she could, but that would have been one messy fight, for sure. And getting the information...well, she had planned to experiment with her Dragon Eyes to manage that.

  She hadn't expected for free data at least.

  "So? What do you have for me?" Elizabeth asked to Agatha as the words settled down.

  Agatha was offering information, then what was that information?

  "Well, first of all...What do you know about the Galaxidae?" Agatha asked as an answer to her question. That was rude.

  Who answers a question with a question, really.

  "They are the family of Evangeline and seem to be interested in politics; they married one of their members to Rossie's father in an attempt to broach into a broader area of influence." Elizabeth said remembering what little she knew, "Also they seems to be a group of cultists."

  That last was important because they had attacked Reginald, and in turn made her make Sebastian.

  "Hmm....Cultists huh...that is actually a good way to see them," Agatha nodded her head, "Just never tell them that to their face."

  And she added that with a smirk, and a shake of her head, so Elizabeth had hit the nail in the head huh.

  "The Galaxidae is one of the ancient families that have survived through time, war, and famine and kept their reach across nations. There is no place that hasn't been touched by them." Agatha started by summoning a book from one of the bookshelves at the back, "They have touched each nation and culture in the same way."

  "So they influence nations after all, damned cultists," Elizabeth said shaking her head.

  "No, they never openly spoke or tried to make things to their way." Agatha answered as she opened the book, "Instead, they merely record and write what happens. They are historians."

  The book had pictures of important moments throughout history. Pictures and paintings of kings and war rooms, presidents and photos of the congress, all with the same thing on them.

  A person, be it a man or a woman. Dressed in a white robe writing, each picture or photo had them, all at the back of the image, all writing and none showing their face.

  They hid their face, be it with the hood of the robe or with a top hat, but they never showed their face on the pictures.

  "Really? They just wrote?" Elizabeth said while narrowing her eyes in suspicion.

  "I find that hard to believe, considering what I heard from my own Mother." Rossie said from the side.

  "They won't earn anything like this, and if so. How could they survive through history if they are merely recording what happened, they would either need to tamper the records to match what the winners of said wars wrote. You speak of them as if they stood in every conflict, right?" Rena added, "Then that means that their recordings would differ depending on the side they stood with, the winners decide history after all."

  That was a fair point from the lovely (And hot) Rena.

  Winners win, and they decide what goes into history. Unless they had access to Akasha, there was no way for them to make sure their recordings stood true. And as far as Elizabeth knew, it wasn't till the [System] came into place that people could actually interact with that woman.

  "That is easy, actually," Agatha said, bringing another book, "They didn't release their recordings to the world at large and merely kept writing."

  That...was stupid. They claimed themselves to be recorders of history and yet didn't share what they recorded?

  Why do it in the first place then?

  "Are...are they dumb?" Elizabeth felt weird saying that, she was, after all. The prime example of how to be a bimbo...or was anyway.

  "They are...different, unlike most ancient clans they didn't want power or political might, they wanted just to record things for posterity. No one knows where their library is or why they wanted that. But that is what they did." Agatha said, bringing more and more books that recorded the presence of the Galaxidae. "There are rumors that if you see one of them with an open book, then something important is about to happen, and most thought of this as mere urban legends... Till your Mother came around anyway."

  Agatha brought another book and opened, this one had a title that made Elizabeth greatly interested in its contents.

  [The Advent of Magical Girls]

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  "See... they congregated on a spot for weeks, people in the know started to get antsy because of that. The Galaxidae didn't say why or when it would happen, they merely continued staring to the sky..." Agatha brought a newspaper at the side too, or a part of it, "Till the sky broke and a girl dressed in a style of clothing that no one had seen before showed up."

  On the black and white photo stood...a young woman, she looked barely older than Elizabeth when she started coming to the MPI. Actually, she may look younger, but it was hard to narrow down how old she looked there.

  Unlike Elizabeth, the girl in the picture...was very petite and...less...

  "Hmm...hard to think of her as your Mother Eli-Eli. She doesn't have... as much as you going for her." Rossie said looking at the picture and then to her.

  Unlike the figure she was used of her Mother, the girl there didn't have as much on her chest after all.

  The girl was dressed in the usual Magical Girl style that Elizabeth was used, but the article described a weird girl wearing a fitted bodice in pastel colors, a celestial blue adorned with laces and sparkly accents.

  A jeweled brooch on her chest tied with a ribbon and a mini skirt that was too short and yet somehow was impossible to look under. High tight stockings and a pair of boots that got all the way to her knee, puffy and short sleeves, and long white gloves.

  And finally, there was a cute golden tiara with a star in the middle to finish her.

  "The people didn't know if she was crazy or what, but the fact that she was flying and had multiple types of powers made her different from the people with powers of the time." Agatha said bringing another article, this time her Mother stood against a man that seemed to be roughly on his thirty. He was muscular and behind him stood a squad of soldiers with their weapons trained on her Mother.

  While behind the now older girl stood a group of girls dressed like her but with staves raised high against the armed men.

  "And the government didn't like her. The fact that they couldn't find her on any database, nor the girls that she kept bringing from...somewhere, they thought of her as dangerous. But the fact that she was helping keep the world safe couldn't be contested." Agatha said showing pictures of Mother helping in disasters and protecting civilians in war scenarios.

  "And the Galaxidae stood in each moment recording?" Elizabeth said finding in interesting that every one of these had been recorded.

  "Yes, every one of these events was recorded thanks to the Galaxidae. Same with your Father." Agatha said showing the pictures of Papa too.

  It was at that moment that Elizabeth's brain made a sudden realization, "...How are these still here? Didn't the [Advent] erase all the evidence of my parent's time on the mortal plane?" Elizabeth said grabbing the closest book and reading it again.

  It didn't have their names, of course, but it had a pretty good description to match them, and while they didn't have their name or code name. She could match those description with them easily enough.

  "This is what makes the Galaxidae so dangerous," Agatha said nodding at her question, "They have...means to keep the information, we aren't sure how they did it, but they managed to keep some information of the world pre [Advent]."

  That was...dangerous. It meant that they managed to either sidestep or outright dodge a [Divine Decree], granted. Mother wasn't the most...thorough one. But even so, the fact that they managed to keep this much...

  "Wait, then they knew who my parents were all this time?" Elizabeth suddenly asked, this would change many things on how she approached things.

  "Not quite. Your parents didn't leave much about their normal life for the public, or at least there isn't any mention of the Mother of Magic having a daughter." Agatha said shaking her head again, "Besides you are overestimating what they managed to keep, at best what I found are stories about a powerful magical girl and a mighty Hero."

  "I see...so they know things, more than they should. But not as much as I fear?" Elizabeth asked then, if they only knew some things, then they wouldn't be a problem on that front.

  "About right, they know more than they should. They probably know more about our Magic System and Power system than anyone else. But how much and how much have they applied is anyone's guess." Agatha said, shrugging, "What you must be aware of is that they have skills designed to glean information. The base ward used here to gauge your strengths was made using their works as a base, so depending on how easy it managed to pierce your defenses..."

  "I lowered those; I allowed the ward to read me," Elizabeth said before Agatha could say anything else.

  "...be that as it may be. You need to be ready for them to read you, how much information you manage to keep to yourself could be the key for your victory." Agatha said in a more somber tone, "I can give you some wards that have been able to stop intrusion from some members of the Galaxidae before, but I can't guarantee them working against members higher on their ranks."

  And sure enough, Agatha brought a couple scrolls and handed them to Elizabeth. Opening Elizabeth found some versions of privacy and security nodes, which were interesting applications of such concepts, some feeding fake data while others merely redirected the investigation away towards other parts. As if to make the mana find other information first and then merely adding the fake data when it was returning.

  The second seemed to be the better option, but Elizabeth wasn't sure about by how much. Nonetheless, "Thank you," Elizabeth thanked Agatha.

  This must be hard on her to do, after all, she was activelly going against one of the world powers, all for Elizabeth... Or well, because her [Godess] had instructed as such, but same thing.

  Most people while found surprised, they wouldn't mind obeying the orders of their [Gos], so the fact that Agatha even entertained [Odyssey] was good.

  "And the [Nine Stars]?" Elizabeth asked next, "They are the more dangerous of the two...at least for now. Since the Galaxidae haven't done anything against me after almost three years of wait."

  "Three years of wait?" Agatha asked confused, "You had a clash with them when almost three years ago? Before coming to the MPI?"

  "Actually it was here, they killed one of my summons and made me replace it with other under their command. Not like that worked for them, I managed to recover my old Summon." Elizabeth said shrugging, "That is why I am searching information about them, my problem with the [Nine Stars] isn't as big, but they may get on the way so I want to check on them too."

  "Why would they even..." Agatha asked while sighing, "This is where your Mother would usually pester me to take a picture or gush about how you look, it is weird not having her breathing down my neck."

  Elizabeth couldn't relate. At all. Or well, she could, but not on a 24/7 setting.

  "I can probably return her..." Elizabeth said trying to take a peek at her Soul, but once more she couldn't find that space where Alice and Chloe lived...And where Mother and Papa were at the moment...

  "No, that's fine...The [Nine Stars] then..." Agatha said taking a second, "How much do you know about them?"

  "I knew most of them were around the levels 60-80 after [Advent]. Just after they stopped being the [Twelve] and moved to be the [Nine Stars]." Elizabeth started with, she had seen the note that Jenna made, "Except for [The Juggernaut] that is, she was already level 99."

  "Hmm....I am not privy to those details, but I doubt many of them were on the low end of 60." Agatha said shaking her head, "But that is beside the point."

  Agatha started weaving mana into the air, and her mana turned into letters, "There are some people with different opinions about who is and isn't part of the [Nine Stars], but these are the most popular ones to be part of them." And so, the words weaved into the air said.

  -The Beast Master

  -The Traveler

  -The Tinkerer

  -The Mother Of Shadows

  -The Elementalist

  -The Monk

  -The Prophet

  -The Sniper

  -The Warlock

  "Others like to include [The Juggernaut] and remove either [The Warlock] or [The Tinkerer]. Others like to remove [The Traveler] and include someone else, but this is the popular one." Agatha said turning to Elizabeth, "As far as I know...The ones you should be wary of are [The Mother of Shadows], [The Prophet], [The Warlock], and [The Elementalist]."

  That was...interesting.

  "Why of them and not of the others?" Elizabeth asked.

  "First [The Beast Master] rarely travels or fights against others; he is mostly standing his ground in a danger zone preventing S-Tier invasion from spilling into our world." Agatha started and showed a picture of a man standing in front of the ocean. "Next [The Traveler] and [The Tinkerer], both are more...civilian focus, we don't have many records of [The Traveler], and we think he is mostly either a message or the one in charge of mobilizing the [Nine Stars] around, like their personal teleporter. As for [The Tinkerer], she has 0 public appearances. As such, they probably will not be interested in you, and if there are weak links, they are two of thems."

  That was...fair, as far as she remembered, the [Traveler] didn't have such presence either.

  "[The Monk] and [The Sniper] however..." Agatha said, turning to the last three names that she had said wouldn't be a problem, "The [Monk] is an ascetic monk, and the last... well, she only targets high-profile civilians. So long you stay away from those you should be fine."

  "Fair enough, then what can you tell me about [The Mother of Shadows], [The Prophet], [Warlock] and [The Elementalist]?" Elizabeth asked. "Shouldn't at least two of those be allies? Since they deal with [Gods], [The Prophet] at least should want to please Mother."

  "That...is more complicated than you think." Agatha said sighing, how complicate could it be?