The boy looked down at Astra in a condescending way, sending more chains her way.
Astra tries to keep dodging as much as the can but the chains are moving too fast which resulted in her being slammed right into a building.
The minute she regained herself and tried to escape tiny chains broke out from the side of the building tying her down.
"It's really hard to believe that someone like you could possess so much mana."
The boy walked up to Astra slightly lifting up her chin.
"All that power and cant use it....truly a sorry sight."
Astra pulled her face away. As a reward for that Astra was punched in the gut and he adjusted her face again this time holding it tighter.
The chains started to glow and Astra started to feel immense pain.
"Don't worry....I'm just draining your magic, it won't hurt for long.... you'll be dead when 70% of your magic is gone..."
Lumi tried to help her friend but the boy wasn't fazed by her attacks.
Astra looked up to see a bright light coming in their direction.
At this point her consciousness was lost.
Almost in a blink of an eye The boy moved out of the way of the attack with Astra in chains behind him.
Looking up he saw the collector floating mid air with a book floating in front of him.
"A tome? Has your magic gotten that weak old man?" The boy mocked while staring daggers at the collector.
"Mind your tongue boy!" The Collector kept shooting beams of light at the boy who dodged every single one of them.
The collector went to shoot another beam of light at him.
The boy to his surprise didn't even move; he looked at the beam with a smile and put Astra infront of him.
The Collector's eyes widened and with no hesitation made a mirror of light in front Astra to block the attack.
"hmm... is this your new prophecy child?"
The collector was out of breath and slowly descended to the ground where he fell to his knees.
"it would be a shame if I just-..." The chains around Astra tightened.
"Don't!" The collector shot a ball of light from his palm with all the strength he had left but it was slapped away by the chains.
"I'm surrounded by weaklings.." The boy stared at the collector in his pitiful state and decided to send him flying into a building by hitting him with his chain magic.
Before the dust could even settle The boy began to slam the area in which the collector had fallen repeatedly causing dust and depree to fly everywhere.
"I feel stronger." The boy smiled. "Man! your mana sure is something." The boy turned to Astra.
"Imagine how strong I could be if I drain all of it."
Astra was still conscious from the pain being around death's door herself.
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"heh- had enough yet?" Kai taunted Noelle.
He was covered in wounds and burns from his own flames.
Noelle didn't look too well either, struggling to keep her form.
There were flames all over the battlefield and Kai seemed about ready to end it off.
He manifested a bow out of flames and aimed an arrow at Noelle.
He kept shooting arrows at her but she dodged all except one which got stuck in her shoulder.
"Boom-" Kai whispered to himself and the arrow exploded in Noelles shoulder causing her arm to fall off.
Noelle tried stepping back and with the power that she had left she raised over 100 icicles to pierce Kai.
"It's been fun." She said sending every single one of the icicles his way.
Quickly using his power, Kai managed to control all the fire on the field and turn it into a giant shield melting the icicles that were coming his way.
Before she got time to respond Kai threw the shield at her but she dodged it easily.
Kai smiled and the shield turned into spears and without Noelle knowing it pierced her all of them.
Noelle fell to the ground unable to process what just happened before she was turned into ice and melted.
Kai played on the ground tired and beaten.
"...I hope Astra's alright... if you don't mind.. I'll rest here for a while." His eyes slowly shut and he fell unconscious.
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"Astra...Astra!"
Astra woke up to the calling of her name.
Though she wasn't in the place she remembered being.
She looked around and saw a tall man with a crown on his head and a huge beard.
"King Alexander..."
The king nodded proudly with a smile.
"I see you've gotten yourself in quite a predicament." The king looked at Astra.
"yeah..." Astra rubbed her elbow and looked away from the king.
"Don't be discouraged Astra... just out your trust in the books and all will be answered."
Astra looked at him confused.
"You are the child of the prophecy Astra you were chosen."
"I was... Chosen."
Astra had a small glimpse of Lumi when she saw her in the alley way that one night.
"Yes Astra. Now let the books guide you to your destiny!"
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The two books Astra had in her bag started to rise into the air and every one of the inscriptions started to glow blue. Writings that weren't even there before started to appear and Astra was awoken.
Her eyes turned the same color as the book inscriptions and she easily broke out of the chains.
The boy was in shock.
Astra slowly descended to the ground with the two books.
Book number 4 the book of prophecy
and book number 1 the book of new beginnings.
'What the hell is going on her mana just spiked! Tomes aren't supposed to raise your internal mana!" The boy felt the wait of the mana being produced by Astra and didn't know if he could beat her even with her lack of knowledge.
'one rookie hit and it's over for me...'he smiled
"Finally the fun I've been looking for!"