About two in the morning, 41 wakes up hearing a small noise on his side. He turns to his side and see 21's bed empty, he looks to the door of the room and sees the last ray of light fading with the closing door. Half asleep, he got up and went to the door, 21 was walking down the corridor. He was going to call him but 21 turned the corner before he could open his mouth. 41 was almost sleepwalking, he looked to his bed once more, closed the door and started do follow 21, he was dragging himself around trying to reach 21's fast pace. After going down two flights of stairs, 21 reached the passage that goes to the outside of the castle right in front of the arena and went straight to the outside building. 41 got lost and ended up in the square lawn area, he went around the castle a few times until he passed through a portal in the library appearing in the forge. He had never used that entrance before, he went to the one that he was used to and jumped outside the hole. He decided to go back to his bed but when he passed in front of the arena's door he saw a familiar face in there training.\\
—What are you doing here?\\
21 was using the enchanted dome of the arena to simulate a small room with a chair inside, there he was training how to use the wind element. He looked surprised at 41.\\
—What are You doing here? This hour children should be in bed.\\
41 entered the room.\\
—Why are you training so late in the night?\\
—It is the only time I have, with all the classes…\\
—Don't you sleep?\\
—I can sleep later. Why are you not asleep?\\
—You woke me up when you left the room.\\
—Oh, sorry…\\
—It's all right. — 41 saw what 21 was training. — Since when can you use wind?\\
—For about a week now. But I can't… use properly. — A small breeze formed in his hand.\\
—It looks good for me.\\
—How am I going to use this in combat you dumbass?\\
—Raise dust of the ground, I don't know — He said laughing.\\
21 ignored him.\\
—Talking about combat… Why you haven't used magic in the combat class? You just made Exoutius use her magic. Maybe if you two had used at the same time, that first attack would have been enough to kill her.\\
21 kept looking down to his hand in silence for a couple of seconds.\\
—What about you? Why you haven't used your magic?\\
—You know that I can use only ice magic. How am I going to use that at a long range?\\
—Throw some ice rocks at her, I don't know.\\
…\\
—I have been working on something, but it is not ready yet.\\ Actually, we could say that… I've been only thinking… about it.\\
—What is it?\\
—It's a secret.\\
—If it's a secret, why you told me about it?\\
…\\
—Fair enough.\\
He approached 21, lifted his hand and started to focus, he stood in the same position for a couple of seconds. 41 was extremely focused in what he was doing, with one hand he held his other arm trying even more but nothing was happening. 21 did not knew what to do when he looked to 41's face, he could see his veins popping up. \\
—Hey, stop. It is getting weird.\\
—Don't interrupt me.\\
A small bar of ice started to appear above 41's hand, slowly, the bar was taking shape and turning into a small sculpture. 21 was surprised at what was going on, the more he looked at it, more he realized what the sculpture was becoming. 41 finished and showed 21's little ice sculpture.\\
—Look, it's you. — He said with a smile from ear to ear.\\
—Wow, that is amazing. How you did that?\\
—Remember in the first elemental class, when I made that crystal, totem thing. This is the same but I've been training turning it into different shapes. \\
—Not that I want to belittle your work, it is really cool, but… how are you going to use this in like… real combat, life… situations? \\
—I don't know yet, but I'll find a way. Do you want it?\\
21 took the little sculpture in his hands and started to look more at it. The little piece of ice was incredibly cold, he could not bring himself to hold it for more than a few seconds in each hand.\\
—Hold it! — He screamed to 41 who was laughing at the ice dancing in 21's hand.\\
His hands were about to freeze so he left the ice crystal fall down on the ground.\\
—Hey! There is no need for that.\\
—Holly f… — He was shivering in pain. — This thing is too cold, what the hell.\\
41 got the ice on the floor.\\
—It is not that cold — He could hold it normally. — Stop making drama.\\
21 approach his hand to the ice again.\\
—It is really cold, I can feel it from here. That is not normal ice… ice is not this cold.\\
—Really?\\
—Can't you tell the difference?\\
—No\\
…\\
—You are disturbing my training — 21 said with a straight face.\\
—Oh, sorry… But it is kind of your fault I'm here.\\
—You can go now.\\
—I think I'm going to keep training here… with you.\\
—No, you won't.\\
—You inspired me, besides, you was the one who woke me up — He said smiling. 21 sighed. — And I don't have any other time to train, just like you.\\
—Fine. But stay outside this room, and do Not interrupt me. \\
—What?? We need to train together. Let's have a friendly fight.\\
—No. I will train elemental magic and you… I don't know, and don't care.\\
—The best way to train how to apply magic in combat, is applying that magic in combat.\\
—I'm not training applying in combat, I'm just training.\\
—Training just for the sake of training… It doesn't sound like something you would do.\\
—You barely know me.\\
—I guess I don't. I thought you was going to be this brave and fierce warrior, but I guess you are just a coward.\\
21 gave a despiteful look to 41.\\
—Are you really trying to taunt me?\\
—Was it working on the little chicken?\\
He went back to his training.\\
41 walked way to the other side of the arena, he created in his hand a small rock of ice and threw it on 21's head, who looked at him angry.\\
—Ohhh, soooorry, I was training here at my spot and lost control of this rock.\\
21 went back to his training. 41 prepared another rock and threw it again, 21 did not said anything, he walked close to the arena's door, lifted his hand and created a wall in the room he was training, he stared at 41 and entered the room once more. He started to try using the wind element once more, in his hand he could form a small gale, if he tried to use a bigger amount of mana he would lost control. 21 was continually increasing the amount of energy he was giving to the little wind in his hand to see how much he could use without losing control, it was a slow process. Suddenly, a giant rock made of ice and dirt crashed into his wall, making a loud noise and a giant hole where it got stuck. 21 left the room howling in anger.\\
—What are you trying to do? Kill me…\\
—Ohhh, soooorry. I lost control again. — 21 sighed in absolute anger.\\
—Fine, let's fight. — 41 got excited — If I kill you, you will stop bothering me.\\
—That's fine. — 41 said getting ready, doing squats and stretching his arms.\\
21 stood still looking at him. When he finished, he looked at 21 and smiled. He immediately charged towards 21, who stands still in his place, as 41 was getting closer, 21 was lifting his arm as if he was preparing for the impact of 41's punch. When 41 was about to attack, he felt a sudden pain in his chest, he looked down and saw 21's hand piercing the middle of his chest. The image of 21 in front of him started to break up in a cloud of black smoke, and the real one behind him started to pull his hand out of 41's chest, who felt down on the floor staring scared at 21. He was not able to talk, 21's attack pierced a part of his lungs and his windpipe.\\
—And with that… I believe you lost. — 21 left his friend in the ground agonizing in pain and walked close to the glass again. The door appeared and 41 left the room staring at 21 with a scared face.\\
—What was that?\\
—If you excuse me, I need to train.\\
—You need to explain to me what you did first.\\
—We have an agreement. \\
—You disappeared… right in front of me… and then… What??\\
—There is a book in the library about, misleading spells and techniques to erase your presence.\\
—Did you turned invisible?\\
—Yes.\\
—Since when you can do this kind of stuff?\\
—It is been a while now. Did you thought you was the only one training some secret techniques? — 21 grinned to 41 — Now, if you excuse me, I'll go back to my training. You can stay here if you want, but don't interrupt me.\\
41 stood there for a while trying to process what happened.
In the second combat class, the cavaliers quickly positioned themselves in a planned formation. Right in front of Haamiah was Prospounae followed by 21, Exoutius and Sotíel behind him and Amniela on 21's side. Behind the golden soul, was Asphela and 41, this last one a little bit to Asphela's side, on Haamiah's left side, Thysíla and Tius were blocking the way, and on the right were Onami, Layla and Adam. Haamiah stood still for a while, thinking about her possibilities. Amniela, Adam, Tius, Sotíel, 41 and 21 are the ones going to the communication classes, by sending constant pulses of mana in a certain frequency they can give simple commands like attack or retreat, and that is what Amniela does. The signal reaches 41; he starts to walk towards the Cavalier that looks at him over her shoulder, her eyes started to shine red once more and 41, for a quick moment, hesitated. He starts running towards her and she prepares the axe for an attack, she swings the axe horizontally leaving a trail of lava, 41 avoid the attack by sliding on the dirt, he approaches her and pull one of her feet, she loses balance. When 41 made his first movement, Asphela was preparing herself, when he pulled Haamiah's feet she grabbed her armor's sword and charged at the Cavalier. She flashes right above Haamiah and deeply wounds the Cavalier in the shoulder, Asphela keeps going forward until she reaches Prospounae. He was holding the giant lion shield preparing himself for the impact, when Asphela is about to crash in the shield, she turns back to her normal form and lands with both feet in the shield. Prospounae absorbs the impact and pushes her forward, she turns into lightning once more and jumps from the shield, using the impulse provided by Prospounae she charges into Haamiah again.
The Diamond Limbo is an extremely powerful weapon; it has a long history of great achievements conquered by its users, it has a lightning nature just like all of its previous users and Asphela. But the new cavalier does not feel comfortable using a sword that heavy, when she is in her lightning state, she does not know how to swing the sword properly and ends up not moving it, just leaving it in the same position she was holding before she started the charge.
She attacked Haamiah once more, but this time her sword was not in the right position, she passed above the Cavalier once more, but the attack did not landed, she crashed close to her starting place. 21 asked Amniela to send Adam the signal to engage and so she did. Adam started to run towards Haamiah, Thysíla saw that he started to engage and followed him. Haamiah saw the two cavaliers onslaught, she quickly kicked 41 away and jumped in the air, trying to reposition herself outside the wheel that surrounded her. In that moment, a fireball from Exoutius encountered her and sent her close to where Asphela landed earlier. All of the other cavaliers moved close to the location maintaining the original formation. Asphela and 41 had already stood up and were moving forward again with Adam and Thysíla. Haamiah got up and smiled, with her wounded arms she grabbed the axe once more and smashed it against the ground creating a giant dust cloud, all of the four cavaliers closer to her disappeared in the cloud. Prospounae was going to get closer to it to help them, but 21 said to him to wait and see what was going to happen, they can hear what sounds like the clash between two metal pieces. Suddenly someone is sent flying from the cloud, Exoutius immediately shoots at it, killing what they would discover as Adam later. After a long time, the dust starts to settle and they can see 41 on the ground writhing in pain, Asphela behind Haamiah trying to hold the Cavaliers axe and Thysíla with her sword piercing Haamiah's belly. Asphela's hand slipped and the axe cut Thysíla in half.
Haamiah immediately grabbed Asphela and threw her away, she turned to 41 in the floor and starts to attack him frenetically; he rolls away as she attacks the ground. Tius was the one closer to him, he runs to help him by blocking one of Haamiah's attacks and holding the axe. 41 quickly gets up in the meantime and sends a message to Amniela asking her to tell 21 and Exoutius to be ready to attack. Haamiah swings her axe in a way that throws a little bit of lava in Tius eyes, what makes him back off, she kicks him far away. 41 looks behind him and sees Asphela standing up preparing herself to attack again, Haamiah keeps attacking ceaselessly while 41 tries to think what he needs to do. During her attacks he remember the fight he had with 21 where he was the one charging and attacking. One of Haamiah's attacks makes her axe get stuck in the ground for milliseconds, 41 sees the opening and a quick look to 21, who immediately understand what he meant, he turns to Exoutius and tells her to prepare herself for the attack and vanishes. 41 is dodging most of Haamiah's attacks, some of them are spilling lava into him, slowly damaging the saint. Suddenly he hears a thunder sound, Asphela is about to charge. He makes a small ice rock and smashes in his hand allowing him to hold on the melted edge of the axe, at the same time Haamiah feels something piercing her abdomen close to where Thysíla sword is, when she looked down she saw 21's hand there smashing some of her organs. Before she could react, the Diamond Limbo lacerated from her left shoulder to the middle of her spine, she dropped the axe and 41 threw it away. Just to be sure 41 pulled 21's hand away and threw Haamiah in the air, from far Exoutius exploded the rest of the Cavalier.\\
—Did we win right? — Asphela asked when she got up.\\
The cavaliers stood in silence for a while, until some organs of the cavalier fell in the floor, 41 saw it, lifted his arms and started to scream happily. 21 sat down on the floor and took a long breath while all the others were laughing and celebrating. After a while, 41 opened the door and Haamiah passed through it, all the cavaliers got out of the arena.\\
—Congratulations. It was a good idea to limit my possibilities. You guys need to make the most of the numbers you have, it was good today but it needs to get a lot better. Next week it is going to be harder, I'm going to use parts of my armor and more techniques so… Be prepared.\\
In this tone the class ended, the cavaliers were happy and excited about their first victory, a few were talking about the fight they just had and others were thinking about what to train next. Asphela was thinking about her armor, how to better use it, how to move efficiently and how to attack precisely, she knew that if she had hit the vital points of the Cavalier on her first attack, they could have eliminated her without any deaths on their side. She kept thinking about it during lunch until dusk.
When Idiofyel is not around, Caliel is the Cavalier responsible for the Forge in the red castle, he works repairing equipment, teaching saints and veteran cavaliers and even creating weapons and armors. Ever since he entered the Cavaliers he was a stressed person, but, in the last weeks, his stress have been reaching astronomical levels. In the forging test at the RDPE, the cavalier needs to repair a random piece of equipment that was worn out during combat, within a time limit. Every day, 41 is going to the forge, to train repairing equipment, so far he could not fix anything he tried. The first time he went to train in the forge he grabbed one of the big swords, placed it in an anvil and smashed it with a hammer, Caliel exploded in anger when he saw. He took the sword and gave to him a small knife to train, every day since that, he tries to repair it but so far, there it was no improvement. Caliel gets close to him and show what is he supposed to do, the cavalier watches him try carefully, when the saint fails, he starts to get angry until the point he starts to scream with him, 41 screams back and leaves the forge in anger. He always comes back in the next day.
The next day after the second combat class Asphela went to the forge with a big request in mind for the cavaliers there. From the library, she entered the forge a little lost, looking around to find someone that could help her. As soon as she entered, she heard two people shouting in one of the sides of the forge, she looked at it and saw Caliel with a hammer in his hands screaming at 41, who was screaming some unintelligible noise back to him. Asphela approach them and kept calling Caliel until one of them noticed her.\\
—Oh… Hi, what are you doing here? — 41 asked.\\
—Hello, I came to talk to you. — She said turning to Caliel.\\
—With me? What do you want? — He said in a menacing tone, she flinched a little.\\
—I… need your help… with this. — She summoned her sword.\\
Caliel stared at it for a couple of seconds in silence and then burst in happiness.\\
—So You are the one chosen by Asphela, — He said laughing and tapping strongly in her shoulder — Nice to meet you. I heard that one of the saints this year got this armor and now I am finally meeting you. You don't come to my classes do you?\\
She got a little embarrassed while Caliel was loud laughing. He tapped her in the shoulder again and said:\\
—Don't you worry… The last Asphela didn't liked forging too. I guess this armor have a very specific type of cavaliers. — He laughed once more as if was talking to an old friend — So, what do you need?\\
She lifted the sword and placed it on top of a table.\\
—I need you to destroy this sword and make me a new one.\\
—Excuse me? — Caliel asked cleaning his ear.\\
—I want another sword. I don't like this one.\\
…\\
—What? — 41 screamed.\\
—Are you out of your Goddamn mind? — Caliel screamed — This is a Legendary Sword, full of history and…\\
—It is trash. \\
…\\
—Get out of my forge. I'm not going to do it. — Caliel said extremely serious.\\
—But… I can't use this sword, it is really bad.\\
—I'm not going to destroy it. This is the Diamond Limbo, one of the most famous swords in the world. I can't destroy it.\\
—If it's not helping to user of the armor it doesn't matter how famous it is, it still useless. — She said to him making Caliel stay in silence for a while.\\
—If he does not want to do it… — 41 was pulling the sword towards him — I can try it.\\
Caliel tapped his hand away.\\
—You are not doing anything until you finish the knife I gave you. — He sighed and turned to Asphela — Listen, I can't destroy it. But I can make you a new weapon from the material in excess of your armor. — She was confused — Can you summon your helmet please?\\
She touched the gem in her necklace and the Asphela's helmet appeared in her head, she grabbed and placed in the table.\\
—If you want, I can saw off this horn and make a weapon for you, it has plenty of material here depending of the size off the weapon.\\
—But if you do it won't you destroy a legendary horn or something. — 41 joined the conversation again. Caliel gave him a very angry look, he walked away.\\
—A lot of the attires, like horns and ornaments, are used in armors as extra material reserves. During wars, they can use that to repair other parts of the armor with the same material as the rest. — Caliel said to her — So do you want me to do it?\\
—Yes.\\
—Ok… First what kind of weapon are you thinking of?\\
—Well, I'm not sure… Probably a sword, but way lighter… I don't know… something like it.\\
Caliel sighed once more, lifted his body and started to walk.\\
—Follow me please.\\
Asphela went behind him across the forge, 41 started to follow them. Caliel stopped walking and stood still in front of an empty wall for a couple of seconds, Asphela confused looked at 41 who was approaching them. They could hear the cavalier proclaim some words but could not understand his mumbles. A small hole with a vertical bar at the end appeared in the wall, Caliel put his hand on the entrance and turned the bar until it was horizontal. The red stone bricks crumbled and gave way to a long corridor with torches on both side. They walked all to way to the end where another big wooden door was, Caliel got close to it and did the same thing.\\
—It's a spell. — 41 whispered to Asphela.\\
—What?\\
—He is reciting a spell. He is opening the door be reciting a spell on it, these are probably cursed or sealed doors.\\
Caliel finally opens the door allowing the cavalier and the saint to look inside it. 41 eyes were shinning.\\
—Is this… the armory?\\
It was a giant warehouse full of extremely long platforms and incredibly tall shelves, in the platforms were shields, boxes, rocks and many other things they did could not identify. In the shelves 41 saw some magical artifacts, Shiva's grenades and others he learned about in his classes. Caliel walked with them until they reach the end of the main hall, from that place they could see another small hall to the left and a small corridor in the right. 41 looked to the left and saw a big chest close to the wall at the end of the hall.\\
—What's that? — He asked Caliel pointing to the chest.\\
—It is where we keep some especial armors.\\
—These are the ones that we tested that day right?\\
—No those where other ones.\\
—What?? So there are armors here that I did not tested? Can I go see them? Maybe the one that is going to choose me is in there. — He said already walking to the chest.\\
—Come back here. These are not usable armors, most of them are cursed, broken or corrupted. They are spoils of war that a saint should not get involved with. The reason we are here is this. — Caliel gently touched the wall in front of them.\\
The whole wall crumbled down and a wide variety of weapons emerged in front of the red bricks. It was like the first class they had with Haamiah, but with ten times more things to look at.\\
—Look at those and tell me which one you want.\\
Asphela showed no emotion at the sight she witnessed, contrary to her, 41 looked like a child in a festival, his eyes dazzled at every single new weapon he saw. His started to touch and take them from the wall, Caliel was picking the ones he would left in the ground and placing them at the right spot. It was a really tall wall, 41 could jump all to way to the ceiling and grab the ones there but Caliel was not able the put them back, 41 grabbed a sword looked at for a while and quickly jumped to the next one. Asphela looked the sword on the floor and took it in her hands. It was an extremely long rapier, almost the same size as her, it had a simple guard without many ornaments and the base of the blade was much larger than the sword point. She called Caliel and said:\\
—That's the one I want.\\
—A rapier? Ok… Do you want to look at other types of rapiers or do you want one exactly like this?\\
—It can be one like this…\\
—Ok.\\
—Can you make a little smaller thou?\\
—Yes, no problem.\\
—And can you make a little prettier too?\\
—Fine — Caliel said laughing.\\
They left the armory, while Caliel uttered the words close to the door, 41 was calmly standing behind him. They entered the forge once more and sat down by the table were the Diamond Limbo was. Caliel grabbed some paper and started to write something in it, he asked Asphela about the precise dimensions she would like in her sword, which element he should built it in and some other questions about the design, 41 did not took his eyes from the Diamond Limbo.\\
—I will start this afternoon. It will probably be ready… in like… three or four days. I ask this one to tell you. — Caliel grabbed the outline he drew and Asphela's helmet. — Wait here, I'll be right back.\\
After Caliel was out of range, 41 turns to Asphela and says:\\
—Sooo… are you going to use this one too? — He asked pointing to the one at the table.\\
—Probably not. It is too heavy to attack in the speed I want.\\
—Cool… cool, cool… and… what are you going to do with it?\\
—I don't know, leave aside I guess.\\
—So you won't need it?\\
—No.\\
…\\
—Give it to me.\\
She looked at him, and then at the sword.\\
—Ok.\\
41's eyes shinned like never before, he rushed and hugged her until her feet were no longer touching the floor. She smiled. When he returned her to the floor, she said.\\
—I think you are going to need this too.\\
Asphela summoned armor and took off the belt that used to hold the sword. 41 put on the belt and then attached the sword to the small hooks in the back, he hugged her again. As soon as Caliel finished sawing the helmet's horn he went back to return the helmet to Asphela, when he saw 41 with the Diamond Limbo he screamed.\\
—What the Fuck is going on here?? Why is he wearing that?\\
—It's his now.\\
—What?? Did you gave the sword to him?\\
—Yea, I was not going to use it…\\
—You can't just give the Diamond Limbo to him.\\
—Is it forbidden?\\
—Well… It isn't… but.\\
—I don't see why not.\\
—I know you don't want to use the sword — He got closer to her and whispered — But this is the Diamond Limbo, a Legendary sword held by some of the most remarkable Cavaliers in history. Are you sure you want to give it to him?\\
They looked at 41, he was failing to put on the belt she gave him. Asphela looked back to Caliel and said:\\
—I think he will be fine.