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Floating off the ground was Maria as she closed her eyes after muttering some incomprehensible words that seemed to resonate with her surroundings. Almost immediately after closing her eyes, strong winds began to blow out around her with her in the center, space began to displace under her feet and if you looked closely, you would notice that it looked like transparent lines were flowing out from her feet moving to the ground and moving into the floor, and then a queer looking white circle grew out from the spot that the lines entered the ground from and then it grew bigger with symbols appearing within and lines started to spread from it and stretch out across the beautiful and aesthetically furnished living room, reaching the walls it began to creep up it quicker and quicker, looking through the walls you could still see the lines stretching across the flooring of the passage outside the living room and stretching across everything, stretching all over the house and to even a little way round outside the building if you looked at it from across the street. Then the lines stopped and began retreating into the house, but before retreating completely into the house, it stopped at a point where it was like under the walls of the house and as if it was glued there. At this point, from both inside and outside you could see the walls covered in odd looking symbols and then everything suddenly vanished. And like nothing happened, Maria floated down to the ground, opened her eyes and looked towards Kasali who actually happened to have been standing there throughout the entire spectacle, looking at Maria like what happened was nothing odd, he opened his mouth to speak, "the lord would be proud to see the stage you've reached now, I could sense the miniscule manipulation of laws within that existed within your elemental spell circle, although it can't be manifested outside the circle, it is already showing its prominence". "I don't need him to know that at this point, so let's keep it that way", Kasali shrugged and said "I can't even contact the other side, so there's no way for him to know this". "That's better" she said and waved her hand releasing a wave of energy and a voice sounded out "Familiar energy signature detected, pleasant morning Maria, how have you been doing?" "I've been doing fine Aisis, thank you for asking", "what do you want me to do for you at the moment Maria?". "I'll be taking Ijin with me to receive his full legacy inheritance, hence we'll be leaving earth and the house won't have anyone present for probably a very long time so I would insist you initiate total lockdown but don't complete the sequence just yet and wait till we've left, and also start to transfer your consciousness into Ijin mental landscape and assimilate completely with him, remember to only leave a shred of consciousness present within the Layk mansion control core to manage any unexpected events and to maintain the state of the mansion, understood?". "...you do know that the whole sequence of total lock and assimilation was basically part of the fundamental procedures inputted into my consciousness right?", Maria just shrugged "I just wanted to make sure everything went as planned, no intended offense ". "Ha… she still hasn't gotten over it", one flaw he had known Maria to have in huge amounts was the fact that she tended to be a bit bossy even when she wasn't the boss, making sure a conscious self didn't forget something?, that's baseless argument. But it was what they all coped with, even Aisis, so they had already gotten used to it. "whatever you say Maria" and the voice faded away. "what's for breakfast?",
"Avoid"
Chiing!
A sharp light was given off from the surface of a dagger moving at a fast speed, the destination, Ijin. He could actually see it, but that didn't stop it from flying towards him. Moving in response to the dagger flying to his direction, the dagger was thrown so perfectly well from an angle hard to see and was sure too pierce the heart if it connected, but surprisingly the guy didn't look panicked, taking a step backwards and leaning his upper body backwards he paused a bit and waited till the dagger was almost in front of him and then almost like a kungfu movie he twisted and met the body of the dagger with the tip of his knuckles changing the trajectory of the dagger, causing it to barely fly parallel to his body and thus hitting the wooden wall by the other side of the stairs. Oddly enough, when the knife point happened to come in contact with the wall it disintegrated like it was a mere mirage. From a viewer's paused angle of vision the scene looked pretty comical as Ijin looked like he had his body's orientation displaced with his chest and face facing the back while the two people in the living room looking towards him had impressed expressions, different from the angry and horrific emotion you would expect to see on them. Then everything started moving again while Ijin turned back to the front, a hand dropped slowly down to its side.
"Your reaction seems to have dulled just the tiniest bit, if you were quicker, you could have totally dodged it" the instigator of the sudden attack spoke up, stroking his beard like it was nothing much.
"Hmm now while I am impressed with the fact that you could fend off such an attack, I am also rather curious as to why Kasali decided to check ur combat sense in a way like this, care to explain hm?" with a raised eyebrow she turned to look at the old man who was frozen in his stroking posture. "Ahem… well as you saw it is was a just conjured illusion to stimulate his young blood, it has never really hurt him before. He can't just train in the usual manner, after all no one in this time and age does things in the usual manner any longer".
"*sigh*, I must admit sweetheart it's not a bad method, at least it seems to aid you in developing your phenomenal abilities just like your father… anyways you'll be busy training and experiencing the life you've been locked out from ever since so you don't need to bother. Today's the last day you'll be living here for a while, so you should try to get the last view and whiff of your favorite places before you go. Now normally every recruit who gets enlisted into the legion isn't allowed to bring any other person along, but of course since you're a special case you are allowed to bring a few in, and since I see you only have two close friends I'd recommend you bring them along, don't worry about being restricted by their parents I've spoken to Mrs. Grey and Mr. Ade, they have no problem and I quote "dumping them in our hands" since I let them in on a little intro about the legions. I also noticed that they both have unique talents and the Greys come from a long line of retired assassins, so they won't have any problem fitting into the legion. That's what I have to say for now anyways so you go grab something outside and don't come back till it's late".
The expression on his face went from angry to sad to confused until he finally spoke up "I'd certainly do all you said but I really want to have a bite of the breakfast combination you always make when you come around, I could eat lunch and dinner outside later on". Looking up to his with a bright smile "I guess you could, you're looking a little skinny, I thought Matilda's food was a close substitute for mine but it seems you don't eat that much". "Well I do mom, but Kasali seems to have seduced her and so she favors him more over the meals:", "the hell?!" Kasali suddenly busted out with an angry face "I'll be grateful to God if she could even speak without belittling me for once, don't put me in a such a manner with her, it sullies my name". After both mother and son laughed at the obvious style that the housekeeper and Kasali use to express themselves Maria spoke up "Where is Matilda anyway? I haven't seen her since yesterday…", "she's probably cleaning the house one more time before we go, she's obsessed ". "hmmm is that right, okay lets go and eat anyways"