The next second Aldin turned his face to see his parents who had their jaws dropped. Without a word Aldin flew to them, flexibly manoeuvring everyone in his way till he got to them.
Sylvia and Lark moved forward welcoming the hug and they embraced each other. They stayed that way for a couple of seconds.
"Aldin!" A scream came from the side of the room. It was Zack, he came running towards Aldin.
He hugged Aldin.
"Why did you abandon us?" Zack said as Aldin embraced him.
"No I did not, I gave you the best masters you could possibly have, they'll help you become strong, Don't you want to get stronger quick," Aldin said.
Elio walked toward Zack.
"Young master Zack, don't worry, you'll meet Aldin a lot," Elio said to Zack who stopped pouting and broke off the hug.
"Look what I can do," Zack said and he made an image of Aldin in his hands," Everyone apart from the three beasts was shocked.
"That's amazing," Aldin said, rubbing Zack's head.
"He learnt it all on his own," Elio said making Aldin even happier at Zack's achievements.
"Who are these Aldin," Sylvia asked.
"These were my students, Zack, Mars and Isabella," Aldin said pointing out each one of them separately. When he looked at Isabella she looked stunning in her black dress. He and Isabella stared at each other with intense eye contact and stood that way for a couple of seconds before they both snapped out of it.
"Nice to meet you all, my name is Sylvia Randell, Aldin's mother," Sylvia said, proud to be Aldin's mother.
"And I am Lark Randell, Aldin's father," Lark said. Xander who looked at them could see how different they were from each other, only he knew the truth but at the same time he had no significant similarity to Strix making Xander doubt what he knew.
As people were chatting the knight had snuck out and set up the backyard, After giving the signal to Xander he sat down.
"Everyone, lets head to the backyard," Xander said.
People walked out to the backyard and found everything set.
"Thank you," Aldin said hugging his master.
"It's no biggie, it is the least i could do," Xander said.
Strix went over to Aldin's parents.
"You must be proud of your son, he has grown well," Strix said and the men behind her nodded.
"Indeed, he has always been the best thing that happened to our lives." Lark said which got the approval of his wife.
Meanwhile Aldin had continued looking at the ring in admiration of how beautiful it was.
The ring's name was 'sky's weight' and was very ancient, with ancient power in it. Aldin out of curiosity poured in mana to the ring, and an overwhelming pressure came upon all those who were in the backyard. It only lasted for a second before it disappeared.
When it settled down everyone looked around to check whether everyone was alright but they froze when they saw Aldin. He had shrunk and looked to be at least thirteen years old..
Little Aldin was looking at his hands in shock, he was smaller and his clothes were sagging on his small body but his features were still the same, the slit in his eyes was still there, his hair was still a mixture of white and black, his hands were still partiallly clawed and his hair now got to the bottom of his feet. Using forgemastery he was able to reform his clothes to fit him perfect and the exceed clothing made him a sweater.
"What happened to me?!" Aldin freaked out and asked.
"You just used the ring's ability, and now it will take alot of time before it gets it's power back," Strix said.
"What did the ring do?" Sylvia asked worried.
"It just rebuild Aldin's body to make it much more powerful, but it also made him look his age. The ability is just meant to restore the body to it's best condition but I do not know why it made him small," Strix said sending a look of curiosity towards Aldin.
"Does that mean I am strongest this way," Aldin asked and now his voice was significantly deeper and sounded like a tiny roar.
"Yes, I wanted to tell you earlier but you found out anyway. What a genius," Strix said and Xander immediately felt the question coming along that made him display worry on his face drawing the attention of the two men following Strix who gave him threatening stares that kept him from acting up or even attempting to moving a muscle.
"Would you like to follow me, for a year I will train you and you will grow stronger than you could possibly imagine," Strix said.
Aldin gave it some thought before giving a clear answer.
"No, I want to stay with master," Aldin said running to Xander.
'Master helped me get where i am and I dont want him to get hurt, and if I go there she might forget about the others.' Aldin thought to himself.
"If that is your choice then we will meet you in a year and my students will be stronger than you," Strix said showing her childish side. She was shocked at Aldin's reasoning.
'Is he really trying to end the world,' Xander thought as he looked down at his wonder kid.
"Okay, why don't we continue the party," Lark came along and said breaking the tension in the air between Strix and Aldin.
"Yay," Aldin said as he ran over to the table th held all the snacks and cake, those who had seen Aldin mercilessly kill were shocked to see his cute childish side.
The party went on well as they enjoyed their snacks. They had fun games among each other which all the kids around tried but failed horribly to beat Aldin, especially when they started playing tag, after falling to catch Aldin several times, Zack used a light construct of a wall to block Aldin but Aldin jumped over it and evaded him, Isabella tried converging shadows to catch Aldin but Aldinjumped back to her in an instant and ended up spooking her a little causing her to fall back and land on her ass and loose concentration of her speell breaking it apart and releasing the mana within her control. They kept on trying to cature Aldin but they would all fail at the last moments, throughout the game of tag all the adults had their eyes on Aldin.
In the end the two other kids playing with Aldin lost and were unable to catch ALdin. ALdin was sitting next to isabella who was exhausted and unable to stand.
"Sorry I played to hard," Aldin said in a sad puppy-like tone.
"No need to feel sorry, we had fun," Isabella said as she placed her hand on Aldin's face. They were staring at each other when Lark suddenly walked up to them.
As Lark walked up the the two love birds, Isabella was staring in shock at her son and Isabella, her jaw would have been wide open if not for her being careful around her guests.
"How about you have some fun with your dad over here?" Lark asked.
"Yeah!" Aldin yelled happily.
"Isn't that a bit dangerous," Alastor said.
"What do you mean?" Sylvia asked.
"You might not have seen your son in action but his abilities are in no way human, if you let him get loose, you might end up with no roof over your heads tonight," Alastor explained to which Isabella, Xander and Strix nodded.
"Then what do we do?" Lark asked slightly saddened by the fact he could not play anymore.
"Well, Aldin could make a platform to play on, he is very good at light magic," Xander said.
"Let me see how good you are?" Elio said.' You might be talented but it is just average, you won't compare to my student at the end of this year,' Elio thought.
This was the reason why none of the three had not chosen Aldin as their student. Although he had a massive amount of control, precision and four attributes he was not suitable for them. He could never truly be in tune with any of their elements.
Strix though still kept her eye on him, he was greatly talented and although there was no way she could truly help him, she still wanted to see how far he would get and thus the reason she had been helping him
'You just doomed us all!' Leon thought to himself.
Elio walked forward and made a wall of light it turned invisible and with his hand punched it, cracks appeared in the air which fixed themselves. The wall then tinted slightly to make it slightly visible and then Elio covered himself with it and disappeared, He was now not visible anymore.
Aldin's jaw almost dropped but he was too stiff to do that, Aldin mindlessly walked forward and touched the edge of the light construct, his will left him and got into the light construct and began rummaging through it.
Elio watched in confusion as Aldin tried to get to learn its secret but unknown to him Aldin was seeing everything that caused the invisibility but he just could not understand the process so more will come out trying to uncover the secrets of the whole thing but he was still not able to understand anything.
"Enough of that," Elio said breaking down the light construct and walking down to the ground.
"But I wasn't done!" Aldin said in a loud voice that had a deep tone to it.
His voice seemed to emit a tiny aura meant to scare but it disappeared before it got anywhere.
"You can study that later, even improve it," Sylvia said. She walked to her beloved son and patted him on the head.
Aldin's tantrum went down from his mother's cooing.
"How about I teach you something right now," Lark said and the area around them became darker making only Aldin and Lark visible, as soon as it appeared was as soon as it disappeared, Elio had no time to observe it, he was tempted to ask Xander for an explanation but stood in place.