"Shall we?.." Jay said to us holding the door open.
"Sure lets go!" Helen smiled walking out.
"So any ideas where we might be headed today?.." Jay asked.
"No idea." Helen replied as all three of us made our way to the dining hall.
"Ohhh Emilia ... you can have your Scrying orb back." Jay said to me holding out the orb.
"Thanks." I replied putting it into my bag, "If you want to use it you can always ask!" I said to him.
"Thanks, I will." He replied with a giant smile.
"Hey guys!" Daisy and Grace greeted us as we exited the dorm room.
"You guys are drenched!" Helen said noticing their hair was soaked with sweat.
"Yeah we got a little too competitive." They replied with a laugh.
"Yeah Grace is surprising agile and swift." Daisy said.
"Well not wanting to be a racist but Elves are generally more agile and dexterous then the rest of us." Jay added.
"You're not wrong..... besides Daisy what you lack in agility you have in strength, my God how do you even pack so much strength in such a slender figure." Grace replied.
"Aren't you two gonna be too tired for class?.." I asked Grace and Daisy.
"Nah I'm sure we'll be okay!" Grace said giving grace a smile and nod.
"Yeah we will be fine." Grace said with a smile.
"Don't you guy's want to take a shower before class?.." I asked.
"What's the point we gonna have Training, we gonna be sweating anyways." Diasy replied.
"True true….. I never thought about that." I agreed.
Entering the busy dining hall, surprisingly we seemed to have managed to grab the exact same seats we had for dinner last night. "Can you guys believe it?! I think this is the exact same seats we had last night! Completely free and open!" Helen said extremely happily.
"Yeah.... no idea why everyone left these seat empty." Jay said looking around seeing if there was anything suspicious going on, "Emilia...?..." He said quietly focusing on something further away.
"Yeah?.." I asked looking at the same direction he was.
"Do you know those groups of girls looking at you?..." He asked.
"The group of three girls looking at me weirdly and waving?.." I asked feeling awkward and not sure how to react.
"Yeah...." He replied.
"I have no idea... who they are....." I said to him.
"Yeah no idea who they are.... but they are defiantly looking at us…...." Helen said also looking at them.
"I'll just wave then go back to eating food." I said giving a small wave and turned away from them.
"Well that was weird....." Jay said.
"Yeah... by the way.....are there newspapers?.." I asked.
"Ohh yeah.... you just have to ask a robot..." Jay answered holding his hand up for a few seconds then returned to eating. Soon enough a robot arrived to him waiting for a response, "Can we have two copies of Arcadia Today please." Jay asked the robot.
With a nod it opened its chest cavity pulling out two crisp rolls of paper handing it to him and walking off.
"Here you go Emilia." He said handing it to me.
"Ohhhh awesome!" I said reading the headline." Says here the Goblin raids are becoming more frequent and larger....." I said reading the front page.
"If it gets really bad I wonder if they will deploy first years?.." Grace asked looking excited.
"I hardly doubt that.... would be way too risky....." Jay replied.
"Wait?.... Why would we be deployed?.." I asked surprised.
"We are technically students, but we are just glorified soldiers, so if Arcadia needs us they will request us for support or deployment to deal with situation too dangerous for normal soldiers." Grace explained.
"Ohhh my god…." I replied in shock.
"Wasn't you there during the Wyvern attack?.... the swarm was too large for the cities defences to deal with so there was a request for help." Helen added.
"Ohhh I see..." I replied feeling a little uneasy being a glorified soldier.
"I still don't get why they don't deploy first years! I've been in scrappy fights and encounters before!" Grace replied.
"Yeah but... there's a difference between small scraps and a full blown war...." Jay replied.
"Yeah you're right…. it is way too risky to send First years.... I think majority of first years aren't combat ready." Helen agreed with Jay.
"Yeah I don't think I'm currently ready to be deployed." I added.
"I suppose you guys are right….. but I would like to be at least considered." Grace said.
"What else is on the news?..." Daisy asked.
"Hmmm...." I replied reading further into the newspaper.
"Well to be honest I'm pretty sure Paul can handle any goblin attack...." Jay said to grace.
"Yeah.... did you see him annihilate the goblin arm effortlessly during the show?" Daisy added.
"Yeah... I must admit... it was impressive... he was tossing high level spells with easy and amble to manipulate them." Helen replied.
"Manipulate?" I asked curious in what she meant.
"So a normal Sorceress or caster can sling spells…. But a master can manipulate it to their will, like during the wyvern attack summoning a thunderstorm is very dangerous specially over themselves and other…. But he was able to manipulate it to only strike the wyverns." Helen explained.
"Wow.... I see….." I said nodding in understanding in awe at how amazing Paul is and what the hell happened to him after we broke up.... "Hmmmm say's here along with the chaos of goblins there's an increase in Syndicate activity." I said reading on.
"Ohhh dear what are they up to now?" Daisy asked.
"They seem to be offering protection for those who need it...." I answered.
"That's not good......" Grace replied hearing the news.
"Hmmmm I wonder why they are doing all this..." Grace pondered.
"But they are helping people who the State aren't defending…" I said reading into the article.
"Sadly the states resources are spread extremely thin right now so they probably haven't go the man power to assist all cities and settlements… But syndicate protection is not free….. They have their hand in every cookie jar….. So this is just another ploy to gain more strength…." Jay explained.
"Hmmm I guess you're right shady syndicates never do anything for free..." I replied, reading on flipping to a new page.
"I bet they are doing this to earn more influence during the elections.…" Grace presumed hearing the news.
"Says here the increase in refugees are also causing extra stress on food, water and shelter....." I said reading a little into each headline. "There's also something about winter festival....." I said still flicking through. "Ohhh this is interesting.... there's a call for adventures to help in the effort to help protect settlements." I said reading into it.
The familiar bell sound rang in my head, causing us to quickly finish breakfast and make our way to class. "How comes you're not wearing your armour today?.." I asked Daisy.
"Ohhh..... didn't get enough time to change before class I guess." Daisy answered.
"Do you train every morning?..." I asked.
"Yup the one piece of advice Paul gave me was to never stop training practicing and improving." She said.
"That makes sense….. hmmmmm" I replied thinking if I should do the same.
"Shall we?.." Jay asked standing up.
"Sure lets go!" Helen smiled getting up.
"Ohh Emilia... you have incoming..." Jay warned me.
Turning to see him the three girls that waved at us earlier were now approaching. They quickly greeted Helen and jay, walking past them before they could even reply, "Hi..." They quickly greeted me with giant smiles.
"Hey?...." I hesitantly greeted them.
"So I'm Natalie and this is Addison and Lilly." Natalie introduced us.
"Hi?... I'm Emilia..." I introduced myself still feeling abit awkward, "You guys go on ahead I'll catch up." I said to the group that was waiting for me.
"Don't take too long Emilia!" Helen said as they began to walk to class.
"Do you happen to be friends with Paul?..." They asked waiting for our conversation to finish.
"No sorry we are just acquaintances, why?" I lied to them but still a little curious on why they asked.
".... We was wondering if you could get an autograph do us...." They hesitantly asked.
"..... You know what... if I do get the chance I'll try okay?.." I agreed to help them.
They all started jumping in glee smiling, "will you really?!" They asked again almost unable to believe it.
"I can't promise anything.... but I'll try." I reassured them smiling.
"Thank you!" They all thanked me.
"We are gonna head to class now....Cya around." I said catching up with the group.
"Okay, Thank you Emilia!" They said as I left them.
"Hey guys!" I said catching up with the group.
"Yo! What happened with the girls?.." Jay asked.
"Nothing really.... Just wanted me to get Paul's autograph." I answered.
"Ohh cool!" Jay replied.
"So where we off to?" I asked.
"Think we need to go to the Colosseum." Grace said leading the way.
"I'm gonna hate this lesson..." Jay said.
"You me both." Helen said.
"I wouldn't mind getting into shape..." I replied.
Entering the Colosseum we made our way through a tunnel at the 2nd was a set of double doors, Grace opened the doors revealing the Colosseum floor where there were already students ready and waiting for lesson to start.