The Duke of Aztris approached Gaius and grabbed Gaius' face, lifting him off the ground. "It will be better if I crush a worm while I can, and idiotic revenge will draw even more to my armadi-" Gaius interrupted the duke by thrusting a dagger between the duke's ribs. The duke's incredulous look at Gaius made him feel good, but before Gaius could celebrate his victory a loud laugh was heard.
"Hahahahah....spectacularly spectacular Austin." Gaius felt numb as he saw the duke turning to smoke and appearing across the dining room.
"How naive you are Austin, thanks for brightening my day." The duke muttered an earth element restraining spell, stone chains rising from the ground and restraining Gaius's fallen body.
"You have an Austin storage bag. You know from the beginning I knew you weren't ordinary....before you even walked through the gates my eyes were already on you. And then you run over my son with your idiot horse." The duke looked deep into Gaius' eyes and said "You came from Fryt right?....That slut had the courage to make a devil's spawn, she broke the rules and I'm going to make her suffer for it, imagine that the expression denial on his face when he saw his territory taken, and his son tortured"
A whirlwind of thoughts invaded Gaius's mind, at that moment he was deeply blaming himself for not listening to Lyria. He didn't even want to think about what was going to happen to them, or the duchy.
Admond ran to Gaius and began to break the chains that held him. After almost half an hour he finally broke the chains and released Gaius.
"Run Austin, don't go back to the Duchy of Fryt....suppose he won't exist anymore. My father has a deep hatred for vampires, although he never saw my grandmother killed herself after being rejected by my grandfather. She said he had been bewitched by the witch Fryt". Helping Gaius up Admond apologized for his father and apologized for luring Gaius into this trap.
Without hesitating, Gaius threw himself out of one of the windows and activated the air element spell. Gaius closed his eyes and started trying to remember the map, going in one direction Gaius exploded into the air going forward without looking back.
Gaius flew for days, the landscape below him becoming a blur. He had been using up his excess mana for days on end without stopping, his vision gradually darkening until he lost consciousness and fell in the middle of a road like a meteor leaving a small crater. Gaius ended up interrupting a caravan's path.
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"Aaaghhh, what a scare what happened we're being attacked?" asked a young woman. She had long white hair that reached her lower back, light blue eyes, and a face that looked as if it had been carved out of ice.
"No young lady, something seems to have fallen from the sky hitting the road ahead."
"Hmmm...could be a treasure. I'll go check with you."
The young woman wore a pale blue dress that seemed to have slight traces of frost on the fabric, ward walked slowly towards the crater with a line of guards in front of her.
Reaching the edge of the crater she saw a scene that made her open her mouth slightly. A young man a few years older than she was lying at the bottom of the crater with his upper body bare, and the pants he was wearing were in rags.
"Young lady he seems to have passed out from exhaustion of mana. What shall we do with him?" Asked a soldier taking the girl out of her torpor. "Put him in my carriage. After that we will continue towards the gym." She said before turning around and walking to the carriage.
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When Gaius opened his eyes he saw a red upholstered ceiling. Sitting up, Gaius found himself facing a beauty, her cool beauty too touching for him to maintain an emotionless face.
"My name is Adria Lastar, 2 princess of the Lastar Kingdom. What is her name?" She started.
Gaius felt he was going to go mad, because he always had to cross paths with the important figures of the realm.
sigh "My name is Gaius Fryt, son of the Duchess of Frytz" said Gaius sharply, already preparing spells to escape.
"No need to prepare spells, I won't hurt you. I know what happened between you and the Duke of Aztris, unfortunately I'm sorry to let you know that my father approved the Duke of Aztris' attack request." She said regretfully "The Duchy of Fryt has already been taken by the Duke's forces in conjunction with the Marquise of Strinder. The territory is now under the banner of the Aztris and the Strinders."
"Damn I screwed it up..." said Gaius clenching his fists "Aren't you going to kill me or something?."
"No Gaius, no...I'm on my way to Lozrat's magic academy. I think you should know that Lozrat's empire has a good relationship with supernatural creatures. The academy is a place of freedom will be good if if you decide to join the gym, there will be more people like you". Gaius had already read things about Lozrat, the most striking things were the two vampire families that inhabited the empire as nobles. "And if it's any comfort to you, the Aztris attack had been planned for years, you were just an excuse for the duke to carry out his plans for revenge."
"I think I'd better stay at the gym until my mom gets back," muttered Gaius. "Amazing thank you Gaius let's stay together and take care of each other!" She said giving a beautiful smile.
The trip to Lozrat would take months, Gaius talked to Adria, hunted, practiced swordplay with the soldiers and helped in battles against monsters and bandits who dared to attack the caravan.
-Booommm-
"Aaarrghhhhh"
"HELP HEL-"
"ROUND FAST ALARM!!"
"MOVE THE PRINCESS ALERT FROM BLACK LEV-"
Gaius jumped from the roof of the carriage where the princess resided. Looking up he saw a giant of almost 15 meters tall, his body was made of lava and dark stone. The trees around the road were on fire, soldiers screaming for help in desperation.
The only magicians in the caravan were Gaius and Adria. Adria quickly joined Gaius, Adria was shocked at the sight before her.
"How can this happen?? Why is there a black rank elemental here?!?" She asked in confusion.
"This is no time for questions." said Gaius breaking free of his daze "We need to escape while the elemental is distracted. Can you use air magic?!"
"No I just learned water and ice magic" she replied.
'Damn!'. the thought Gaius. "Well, no problem, I think I can carry both of us"
Gaius carried Adria like a princess, flexed his legs and jumped into the air with Adria in his arms. He conjured small tornadoes in his feet and at the speed of a bullet passed through the elemental.