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Night, the Great Forest, Magic Mine:
The Great Forest is home to many Beasts, and a place where elves hang out during the day. This place is also the Mining Center of the Humans. During the night, Beasts are more active, especially the pack of the Lunar Wolf.
The place was littered with dead Knights, a caravan was attacked, the Magic Cores inside were destroyed. A lone man standing in the midst of the remains of the Battle.
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Tower of Magic:
This place is where the Magic Council governs the lands of Humans. The Tower of Magic isn't the only place where the Magistrates and Elders are, there are three more towers. The Tower of Greed, manages the business affairs internally and externally. The Tower of Justice, manages the crimes and judgement for the Sinners.The Tower of Creation that is a secret except for a few Elders and the Magistrates. Although every city has leaders that governs them, the Magic Council still has greater amount of authority. The Magic Council is separated by 3 ranks, The Magistrates-they are the ones who have the final decision on everything. The Elders-they are people who have great affinities for magic and insight, they are the ones who carries out the will of the Magistrates they serve, they are also the Guardians of the Tower they are appointed. The Magic Knights- the lowest rank in the Magic Council, they are people who have great potential and thus given special training that is only available at the Magic Council, they usually capture Sinners or escort the Elders,
Magistrates and special artifacts such as Magic Cores of Sacred Beasts. Although they are the lowest, they can rival 5 veterans of Magic at once.
The Elders have currently called for a meeting to discuss about the attacked caravan, yesterday at night. They also haven't stopped others from seeing, causing the rumor to spread like wildfire. Since they can no longer do anything about it, they have called a meeting instead.
Meeting Hall, Tower of Magic:
"The supply of Magic Cores available is getting lower"
"We didn't have any supply for the past months because of that "NightBlade" "
"We have to cope up with lower grade cores for now, until we complete the final Circle"
"Yes, and when that time comes, even the NightBlade can't stop us, we might even win against those High Elves if we use it wisely"
"How is "He" anyway?"
" He's still waiting for our command to strike"
"Elder Shou, why don't you help?"
"It would be my pleasure"
"Commence it after class, nobody else except her friend should be with her at that time"
"Don't fail this time" a man said, his clothes were much more expensive than the other Elders, a Magistrate.
"Yes, your Excellency"
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Varsandra, The Magic Academy:
Students were now paying more attention to the new rumor.
A group of commoners are currently discussing it.
"Hey have you heard, the NightBlade has attacked again"
"He succeeded again this time"
"Do you think he is at the Revolution's side?"
"I don't think so, he killed at least 13 generals of the Revolution, even if he wanted to side with them, I don't think the Rebels would even let him"
"Why do you think he doesn't pick a side?"
"Well, we don't know what's going on with his mind"
"Maybe he's crazy" a Noble said.
After hearing the Noble, the students dispersed. They were afraid they would offend the Noble and get beat up as the result.
Kaito was also listening to the students around him, even though it looks like he doesn't care.
"Why do I hear that rumor every now and then?"
Kaito said as he continued on his way. He again encountered Kairi on his way.
"We need to talk" Kairi said.
"I don't have time"
"Every time I talk to you, I always end up getting more questions to answer. This time you'll answer every question I ask"
"Like I said I don't have time, besides, why would I do that?"
"I'll beat up myself" Kairi replied.
Kaito suddenly laughed for a while before stopping.
"You're becoming like her more and more" Kaito said.
"What?"
"Nothing"
"Hey!"
"You said you want to talk right?, stop by my house this day"
"Really?"
"I won't back at my own word, ask until you knock yourself out" Kaito said but again, with a changed tone.
"Okay" Kairi replied but at the same time, thinking about Kaito's second personality, which is the complete opposite.
Kaito suddenly glanced back.
"What's wrong?" Kairi asked.
"I thought I saw something, maybe it's just my imagination"
"Maybe it is"
The two of them then went on their way.
"Interesting, someone can sense me at this state?, he must be special" a voice said in the dark.
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Classes had start. Kaito is silent as usual although he gets quite a bit of attention now.
Teacher Anne, the usual teacher, had announced that starting from tommorow, Kaito and Kairi would receive special training from the Academy to prepare them for the Selections. The Selections is the second part of the Tournament, in which each representatives of each Academy in every city would compete against each other. The top 5 shall be selected to fight at the Holy Competition this year. They have to select the students carefully as the Holy Competition is only held every decade and the Humans are currently in third place and is falling behind the High Elves. As the classes ended, a flock of students came to Kaito asking him if the rumor is true. Kaito only ignored them as he went on his way outside the classroom. Nobody blocked him as they were afraid that the rumor might be true and end up getting beaten up.
"Even if he is stronger than every one of us, he shouldn't treat us like we didn't even exist" a male student said.
"Yeah, you're right" another answered.
"He should have at least answered our questions" a female one added.
"But have you considered the fact that you did the exact same thing to him before he exposed his strength?" a girl's voice clearly said.
The students quickly looked back at who said those words but didn't see anything nor anybody. The voice was new and probably belongs to the new student at the next class.
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Night, the Academy:
"I've got something else to do, I'll meet you at your house" Kairi said.
"Good, make sure you don't leave me hanging" Kaito replied.
"Come on, I'm not that kind of person"
"I know, I'll wait for you"
The two then parted. Kaito continues to walk and stop by one of the doors in the hallway, he enters the door and searched the whole place, he found a letter in one of the pile of garbage.
The letter contains:
"Good, it seems like I succeeded luring you away"
"F*ck" Kaito then immediately went to the Academy's entrance where Val was supposed to meet with Kairi. She might knew where Kairi went, that was faster than searching the whole Academy.
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