"Hehe, two young masters who aren't protected, if i hunt you I'll be rewarded heavily"
The one who said this was a youth, Ren estimated that he's around 18 years old, the youth had black hair and green eyes, he had a thin figure
Elias opened his backpack and picked a kitchen knife, then he ran toward the youth
The youth didn't simply stand there, he started retreating while creating fist sized fireballs and throwing them toward Elias, Elias knife was covered by a faint layer of red light, Ren recognized it as Elias battle aura
Meanwhile, Ren went to Lena and asked her
"Aren't you going to help him?"
Lena bit her lips and said
"I will just be a burde- Wait, aren't you supposed to be panicking ?"
Ren tilted his head and asked
"Why ?"
"W-well, seeing someone who's creating fireballs from nothing and wants to kill us, shouldn't your reaction be 'What's happening here' ?"
Ren didn't answer Lena, he was analyzing the battle that's occurring right now
One was constantly retreating and shooting fireballs, the other one is using his nearly none existent battlw aura to cut the incoming attacks
A sight like this in Ren past life can be considered as two kids training or playing
But what picked Ren attention is the youth standing in there, not even a day passed when magical power came back, but there's already someone using magic, Ren could guess that the youth in front of him isn't a mage, after all, even if he was taught magic since he was a kid, he won't be able to use magic without mana, and any offensive spell require a entire day of practice to familiarize oneself to it, and on top of that, Ren couldn't see any runes or magical circles being used
So Ren came to the conclusion that the youth in front of him isn't a pure blooded human, he most likely possess some salamander or fire elemental bloodline
Ren started thinking of a way to defeat the youth in front of him without using some flashy spell since Ren wants to maintain a low profile
Ren crouched down, he placed his hand in the ground then he contacted his ring and created magical circles inside the ring
'Earth gathering'
In the eyes of others, Ren just casually picked up a pebble, but the more attentive would notice that there wasn't any pebble at where Ren crouched
Ren looked at Lena and said
"As someone who likes videogames and fantasy stories, rather than saying 'What's happening' i prefer ' It finally happening'"
'Stamina drain, hand of the archer ' Ren chanted in his mind
Ren threw the pebble, it hit the youth head, the youth turned and looked at where the pebble came from by instinct
"You-"
Before he managed to talk, He was kicked by Elias, the youth was thrown and rolled a few times before stopping, then he spate blood
the youth hurriedly created a person sized fireball and threw it toward Ren
"Ren!" Elias shouted
"Hahah! I can't kill you but i can kill your friend!" The youth laughed madly and said
The fireball went toward Ren, but the more it advanced the smaller it became
When it arrived at him, it didn't even have the size of a finger and finally disappeared
"""huh?""" Everyone except Ren was stunned
'it's the salamander bloodline, without stamina they can't generate flames,sigh, and here i thought I'll get the chance to investigate a human who poses a high ranking elemental bloodline' Ren thought to himself
"I-Impossible! Why it did nothing! You should have died! Y-" Elias didn't give him the chance to continue talking, he punched him and knocked him out
"Hello? uncle, yes i am in there , eh? wait no! that's not it! we were attacked okay? hurry up!"
Meanwhile, Lena was speaking in her mobile
Elias went toward Ren, he smiled bitterly and said
"That was risky"
Ren smiled back and said
"It better than watching you being beaten"
"You- Sigh, normal people would be panicking or trying to run away"
"Thanks" Ren said
"It wasn't a complime- forget it, let get to the main point" After saying this, Elias had a serious expression in his face
"Remember what you felt this morning when we were at our way to class?"
Ren nodded and said
"Yes, i felt sleepy"
"That's ri- I am not talking about that! i meant you said you felt like you were drowned or something like that, you're following me?"
"uh-huh" Ren nodded
"What you felt was a mana surge, you see, thousands year ago, there was mana all over the world, supernatural and superpowers were common at that time, but a day, mana disappeared and all of that vanished"
Ren was interested, he really wanted to know what happened after he died
"Why did the mana disappear?"
"That...No idea, well, back to the main subject, now that's mana is back, people using magic and other superpowers wouldn't be a surprise, you could say that we are in a new era, and the ones who have advantage are the clans, almost every clan have records from the era where mana existed, also, people who managed to feel mana means- eh? wait a moment"
Elias picked his mobile and checked something, Ren managed to get a glance of it
"And here i thought you were knowledgeable" Ren said in a teasing tone
Everything Elias just said was in a message someone sent him
"Cough cough, there is no way for me to remember everything! let go back to the main subject again, people who managed to feel the mana surge are either people who are talented in magic and often came in contact with artifacts that contains mana, or people who have a huge talent in magic , me and lena are from the former while you are in the later, the clans will probably make a move soon, when that time comes, i hope you can join our clan"
"I see, but aren't you forgetting something?"
"What is it?" Elia asked
" We aren't allowed to stay out the school after a certain hour, and there's someone knocked there, oh well i guess your clan will take care of that, I'll be going back to the dorms" Ren said, then he started walking away
"I feel like he ignored everything i said" Elias muttered