Chapter 2:
Misty never heard the screams of a blade, up until this moment she didn't even know it was possible. Sure she saw in a book one time that people usually talk with their weapons but she never understood the meaning behind it. The sword didn't seem like it even belonged to Phase to begin yet for some reason it was responding to the strong aura he was releasing.
"Just what the hell are you?" Delect asked breaking Misty out of her trance watching both Phase and the sword. She didn't understand the knight commander's question and as if to answer her question Phase had responded.
"Bored." Was Phase's response, by this point the knights who had been rushing to the scene ran into the training area following all of the noise and they were able to see Delect barely stop Phase's sword from cutting him in two. Delect groaned painfully as Phase attack had a lot more power behind it than he had been expecting. But the shock didn't stop there as Phase parried the sword out of his way and then proceeded to kick Delect back. It was a shock that Resonance wasn't just some flashy skill, it enhanced one's capabilities by 20 times depending on the level of mastery.
Delect came back at Phase faster than before and unlike last time he had been fully looking out for all of Phase's small movements. Their swords clashed more and more with a smile spreading across Delect's face and he never had a chance to fight like this before. He felt like his back was constantly against the wall and like every little move Phase made would end him. That's what excited him. The thrill of overbearing death.
"Sword skill and lightning magic." Delect voice rang out as he picked up speed once more with him taking the lead and Phase going on the defensive having to block but he misread one of Delect's slashes as he turned it into a faint. "Triple slash." He spoke and as he brought his blade up three wind slashes flowed cutting through the ground and even through the shirt Phase wore exposing his muscular upper body and even spraying blood all over the place. "I'm not done!" Delect yelled as lighting surged in his eyes. "lightning magic level 8! lighting wolf shower!" He yelled as 5 wolves formed from nothingness all having their bodies constructed from pure lightning and rushing to attack at various points on Phase's body.
"COMMANDER!!!!" Misty yelled out because this was supposed to only be something like a demonstration, but now it looked like a complete battle.
"You don't have to yell." Phase's voice was calm as he looked over to Misty their eyes meeting for the first time since the fight started. "Anyway. I seemed to have never said my full name." He spoke the wolves were all over him biting against his skin but their lightning fangs were doing absolutely nothing to him. Even the wounds from the triple slash didn't even look to be there anymore.
"Phase D. Whisper."
Misty didn't understand why the man before her shared the same name as her. It took her far too long to wrap her head around it so, Genesis spoke up.
"Like us, he is also your father." She said it so nonchalantly that Misty couldn't even refute what she had just heard.
The knights who heard the name also fell silent and even the knight commander lowered the stance he had been taking up until that point. Near the hole in the ceiling were other knight commanders and even knight captains who had been planning on intervening if Phase or even Delect took things to a higher level since Phase still hadn't used his Resonance, it meant that for Delect to do any significant damage he'd have to use his trump card. At that point, they were going to step in and stop the fight but now the situation changed.
"Remain star-struck like that and I really will kill you." Phase said as he simply flexed his muscles and even spun his katana in front of him cutting through the wolves his muscle flex didn't harm. When he grabbed the blade once more the surface of the blade was full of cracks all over but Phase didn't seem to have a mind. Delect even noticed them but that didn't come from their clashes.
'The sword can't handle his power! He is breaking it by just letting his power run through it!' His thoughts were right on the money. Phase's aura was what was breaking the katana so he had to stop feeding it his power or else just standing there would have eventually shattered it.
That incident in which she had met her father for the first time and even her sister had remained with Misty to this day almost a year later. Now she waiting to take the practical exam for the Royal Academy since she had managed to pass the written exam a few days prior. That exam had stressed her out because she was never good at studying and luckily she had tutors who helped her diligently dispute her resistance.
"Hey." Misty heard a voice she hadn't heard in a year seeing Genesis walking up behind her. Both she and Genesis had been born months apart from one another making their father someone who didn't know how to keep his hands to himself. At least in Misty, he seemed that way but Genesis said he had something called a harem. Though she didn't fully understand it, Genesis had said it so casually that time too that Misty could only give up and just accept that how it was. "How do you think you did on the written exam?"
"I think I passed. I mean I hope I did or else that would be very awkward. You?"
"Hard to say. I mean I hope I passed." Genesis said holding a plate with strawberry shortcake on top of it that she used a fork to eat with. "They tried to take my food away so I had to punish them." Misty could only laugh nervously at the way Genesis said she punished teachers of the royal academy. She had heard the rumors a day before but didn't believe a possible student would dare risk their enrollment over something like food but she had just met the culprit.