On a rather lonely road two figures were sprinting together, both of them had black robes covering their body as well as a hood and a mask covering their head and face as well.
These two were Ast and Anya. After killing Ray, Ast used a lot of truth serum on Tim to find out about Blair family their patterns to hunt someone, the strength of the family, their influence inside the Academies and also many questions about Khan Blair their grandfather, who was the one issuing task to Tim and giving him a level 5 bodyguard.
Ast came to know that Tim was rather used as a puppet and was not privy to much high profiled info, but still he got a lot of useful information as Ast himself was relatively new in this sort of magic based world.
Later Tim also told him about the working of the secret artifact which would relay his info to their father if they killed Tim. Basically it sends a picture of the killer to the designated person, but the prerequisite was that Tim should know the identity of the killer. It wasn't that difficult to deal with this artifact.
But Tim already knew about Ast so for their current predicament Ast just poisoned Tim and left him in a ditch unconscious. He made sure Tim would die, but the time delay would enable them an escaping chance.
"Ast, we are going to be declared as traitors of the family and will be on their hunting list. Are you sure the Academies would accept us?" Anya was a bit worried.
"I will be honest with you Anya, things are a bit difficult especially after we came to know about the Blair family's influence on this Ditri continent(from Tim). But I am sure the Academies won't reject us and from my understanding they would try to deal with us inside the academy so I don't think there will be trouble in short term. But leaving that aside Anya aren't you angry at me. Because of my plans we are out of the family and would be hunted for sure.. " Ast wasn't feeling that good either and wanted to know what his lovely sis wanted from life, because until now he has been dictating their every move.
Anya was the only one he considered as his family but until now he didn't put her wishes into regard while planning things, as he thought he was doing what was best for both of them. But now he was clear that life was going to be difficult and thought he failed to protect his sister.
Hearing Ast words Anya began to laugh a little. " Hehe little bro, you are worrying about the stupidest thing. Tim came to kill us we didn't look for him and you forget every time I am the older one, I am supposed to be the one protecting you. And it never felt like a family anyway. Its you and me against the world, did you forget..? " Anya said with a smirk.
Ast felt a sense of relief hearing her words. He rubbed Anya's head a little and laughed, this annoyed Anya a little." You are right my cute sis, it's you and me against the world ".
Ast took out a white luminescent crystal from his ring and handed it to Anya. "Here absorb this, i will have the other half soon we will be dual elementalist, but remember to only show one element in public the other one will be our secret".
What Ast gave to Anya was a Soul crystal.