Anastasia was shocked to see that the Prince is at the Zumka town.
"Is that you, Sia?"
Theodosius is the traveler and the man who called him was Lantis. She abruptly recalled that they were sent to the frontiers, where Zumka town lies.
"Y-yeah, but please don't tell anyone!"
The prince chuckled, he was happy that she was there and at the same time, worried. There was an ongoing war and who knows? Lusitania might strike anytime. Anastasia has yet to summon the Salamander. If Lusitania strikes and they don't have a spirit to match the water spirit, Undine, they'll be doomed.
"Come with me, we don't have time to spare. This town is in danger." He held her hand and ran as fast as he can. Anastasia tried to utter but Theodosius can't hear her because of the screams.
"I'm with Cassian! He will be worried!" But Theodosius didn't hear anything, he was focused on what's going on next.
Meanwhile, Cassian was worried about Anastasia. While he was lounging at the inn, he heard a lot of screams and all of the townspeople are in chaos.
"Excuse me-"
"Run, young man! a merchant was slaughtered by the traveler! it was just in time and the next we knew is that an army from Tristanios is attacking!"
It made him more worried, what if something happened to Anastasia?
Anastasia was planning to summon a spirit to find Cassian but she couldn't. She doesn't have any spirit left to summon.
"ANASTASIA!!!!"
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Asi, Seraphim, and another two young ladies are having tea in the garden. Asi became so comfortable with Seraphim to the point that they became friends easily.
But she didn't know that Anastasia, who is wary of Seraphim, has a strategy to annihilate her.
"You are like the rumors, Lady Anastasia." The chancellor's first daughter, Ivona Cressman said. She is one of the transfer students that was picked, along with Seraphim and Anastasia.
"Certainly! And same as you, Lady Seraphim, you're not that troublemaker like they say." Lady Thalia Rolfe said, the Marquess' second daughter. She was one of Cassian's classmates.
Asi is happy, knowing that once Anastasia went back, she will have a lot of friends. Then, she will not be stuck together with Anastasius and Cassian.
"All of you are extremely elegant, I'm really glad that I had the chance to have a tea with you today." Asi, who is now pretending to be Anastasia.
"Well, it was all thanks to Lady Seraphim who invited us."
Four of the young ladies are enjoying tea, there are no classes today and all of the students are ordered to practice magic by two's.
"There you are, Sia! wanna play with us?" Anastasius entered the garden with Cassian (Barak), Dan Rolfe, and Jay Sherrington.
Barak is already exhausted inside, he wants to go to bed and rest. Barak is a lightning spirit, if he will use it, then he will show his lightning powers.
Unfortunately, Cassian is a prominent shapeshifter at the academy. In the past few months, Barak has already learned to have both defense and offensive magic.
"What kind of game?" Thalia asked, she was the younger sister of Dan Rolfe.
"Well, we will fight by two's, just as they instructed. We need to decide a partner first." Jay asserted.
"Then, my partner is my little Sia!" Anastasius happily said and grasp his arms at Asi's shoulders.
Asi and Barak glanced at each other, they are both nervous and pleading that Anastasia and Cassian would be back early.
It continued and all of them got a partner.
"It's decided!"
Anastasia & Anastasius Castilla
Cassian Yietz & Jay Sherrington
Seraphim Silva & Ivona Cressman
Dan Rolfe & Thalia Rolfe
They decided that the sibling's team will participate first. Many students had stopped practicing and all eyes are on theirs. It's the five students that were selected who are fighting! All of them are too young to enter the academy, it's only customary that anyone will be expecting their power.
"Oh my, we gonna see the prince and princess fight!"
"Hey, don't call them that!"
"Nonsense, Dan Rolfe is way better than Anastasius."
"We'll see about that!"
"To be honest, Lady Anastasia can beat the Rolfe siblings. No matter how we see it, she is a royal. Only she and Prince Theodosius have two magic attributes."
"Too bad, Anastasius haven't yet discovered his second magic attribute."
"That just shows how superior Anastasia is!"
"But still, Young lord Dan is a spatial mage, he can win it easily!"
"With the support of Lady Thalia, they will be unstoppable!"
"Yes, Lady Thalia is indeed a beauty with a strength!"
Numerous statements of students can be heard, but Asi, who is pretending to be Anastasia is quivering. She can't fail right now.
"Start!" Jay started the game, he was also excited about who will win.
"Sia, I want you to summon your wood spirit first, she will distract Dan and your lightning spirit will strike everything."
"What..?"
"Do it, I will stop Thalia from supporting him."
Asi cannot summon, she was the spirit! if she didn't do something, everyone will doubt her.
"Sorry brother, but I have another plan." She said and dashed to Dan and hit him. Unfortunately, he opened a portal and closed it, making her leg wounded.
Everyone was screaming in excitement, they can't believe that Dan, manage to wound the summoner that everyone is proud of.
"Can you walk, Sia?!" Anastasius is worried, but Dan didn't give him a chance to and so, he strikes back with a large scale of the portal that will soon whack.
"Murus ignis!"
Anastasius cultivates a pillar of spiraling flames around him. The fire arises from Anastasius' feet to a certain height, which reduces the possibility of him being attacked from anywhere. While being inside, he checked the leg of his sister who can't walk.
"I will never forgive him! lemme get back at him!" The protective elder brother is furious, he stood up, and his hair revolt with the complete body that is filled with fire.
"Please halt, brother. Just give me a time, I will summon my spirit." Asi held his hand to stop him. Luckily, his body calms down, making the fire on his body disappear.
"But-"
"Do you trust me?"
Anastasius hesitated at first, he was very worried about his sister but he knew that nothing good will happen if he didn't believe his sister.
"Okay, I will detract them but be sure that you can eliminate the two of them with that plan of yours, my little Sia."
Asi smiled, Anastasius wasn't that bad after all. She already has a plan and excuses for anyone, she knew that everyone will suspect it.
With that, Anastasius relinquishes the fire barrier where Asi was and holds Dan and Thalia with his might.
"I didn't know you were that protective of your sister, young lord."
Every time Anastasius hits Dan, he gradually recovered because of his sister's magic.
Anastasius knows that he should get rid of Thalia first before Dan. It's two versus one.
"You may be protective but sorry to say, you both lack trust and communication," Thalia said.
"Indeed. Now, sorry to do this but we have to regain our family's honor." Dan Rolfe added and summoned a big portal and pointed it to Anastasius.
Spatial magic can be either used for offense or defense. Spatial mages like Professor Hayden are supporting, while Dan's spatial magic is offensive. That's the difference between the two.
Anastasius tried to dodge it but he can't, Thalia used her roots magic, which can heal someone continuously when the roots are envelope to the person.
Thalia is a root magic user that can heal and it serves as a big support to her brother.
The fire barrier that serves as a protection to Asi has now been gone, an enormous wind penetrated the whole quadrangle and the surface started to tremble.
"It's an earthquake!"
"Calm down, okay?"
Asi was the one who controlled it, she revealed her powers to everyone. Everyone was in awe while looking at her, in which she's chanting something.
"Spirit of the woods, I grant thee, help me eliminate my enemies!"
The grounds are replenished with spiky grounds, in which Dan carried her sister and dodge it. Unfortunately, the winds that soars separated them from one another.
"Thalia!" Dan tried to reach his sister's hand but it's too late, Thalia was hit by a rock and lose consciousness.
"Brother Nate, are you alright?" Asi quickly went to Anastasius who is laying on the floor.
"Now that's my sister!" he happily said and hugged her.
The whole students are cheering and shouting the two siblings' names.
Asi and Barak looked at each other, it's all up to Barak now.
"My, my! how did you do that, Lady Anastasia?" Ivona quickly went to her, she is surprised at the summoner's power.
All of them looked at her, they want to know-how.
"I borrowed my spirit's power, the wood spirit. When I borrowed it, I can use its power whenever I want to. Since the wood spirit is wind and earth user, I can use it too." She explained, Anastasia can do it promptly. It means that she can use different elemental powers but it takes a lot of mana and takes years to master.
It is way too early for a young girl like Anastasia.
"Wow! can we see the wood spirit? please, summon it!"
Luckily, everyone's attention rapidly moved to Thalia and Dan. Anastasius assisted Dan to carry his sister to the infirmary.
"And now, the next fight will be Seraphim Silva and Ivona Cressman versus Cassian Yietz and Jay Sherrington!"
Asi giggled to make Barak at ease because she knew that they will get caught if something went wrong.
"We can do this, Cassian." Jay Sherrington mumbled.