"Brother," the White Family Patriarch's brother called out. "How's the boy?"
"He'll survive but whether he could become a mage or not remains unknown," The White Family Patriarch replied unhurriedly.
"Ah…" The White Family Patriarch's brother didn't know what to say now. As the head of the family, the White Family Patriarch naturally hoped that the next patriarch would be one of his children. But so far, Aya didn't show anything amazing aside from her physical strength while Evan has already awakened their family's magic inheritance. Now, Aren's body was so weak that it was unknown whether he could become a mage or not.
How could the White Family Patriarch be calm?
The White Family Patriarch sighed deeply. "It's not your fault. The elders will take care of them. I'll be in your care on the battlefield."
No matter what, there was nothing that they could do now but to follow through with the original plan and go to the battlefield. They would try to win the war as fast as possible so that they could come back and stay with their family.
The White Family Patriarch looked at his son once more.
No matter how worried he was, he knew that there was nothing that he could do. Aren had to be strong by himself.
…
The ghost appearance in two different locations almost at the same time caused alarm bells to ring in many people's hearts.
At the beginning, the Fourth Head of Wansu City was not too worried about the ghost.
After all, they have seen that these shadows could be sealed into the scrolls. The problem was that they would continue to erode the scroll so two people had to take turns guarding and strengthening the seal on the scroll.
This was by no means easy.
But so far, the Fourth Head of Wansu City didn't have any other methods to deal with these ghosts.
And aside from sealing these ghosts in the scroll, there were some of them that were sent to the laboratory for experiment. After all, they have to figure out the strength and weakness of the ghosts if they wish to make a good use of these ghosts or to deal with them.
At first, everyone thought that the ghosts were very docile.
No matter what was done to them or anything, the ghosts would not fight back and only walk around here and there. It seemed that the ghosts were trying to head in some direction but the directions often changed, so they have no clear clue about it.
It was just that the problem of the ghosts were clear.
They're immune to physical attack and even the magic couldn't harm them too much.
This caused many headaches.
And when the Fourth Head of Wansu City wanted them to do more experiments, one of the researchers did something that seemed to provoke these ghosts.
The ghost suddenly started killing people. Several researchers in the laboratory died because of it. If not because there were enough people standing on guard to seal it in time, the ghost would have escaped and killed even more people.
From then on, they knew that these ghosts were not just some docile creature they could study at will.
It was also very dangerous.
Now that there were already several ghosts appearing, the Fourth Head of Wansu City had to hold meetings with several high ranked people in Wansu City and also some other important people. The most important matter at the moment was to make sure that these ghosts would not cause so much harm on them.
There were too many ghosts.
Considering the sacrifice needed to capture these ghosts, they might not be able to control all the ghosts that appeared in the world.
Something had to be done.
With the war and the ghosts problem, the Fourth Head of Wansu City could be said to be extremely busy.
If he could say, he just wanted to rest.
But these ghosts' problems would not be solved on their own. Someone had to promulgate laws and various restrictions to make sure these ghosts would not wreak havoc.
In this way, many policies were made.
Considering that many powerful magic warriors had to be dispatched for the war with Xunsu City, the Fourth Head of Wansu City had to think about how to divide the people. If he was not careful enough, it was estimated that they would lose everything and nothing could be gained.
But the war had to happen.
The Fourth Head of Wansu City sighed deeply.
He hoped for the best.
…
The next day, many people departed to the battlefield.
Aya watched from the city wall as these people departed along with Evan. There were also many other children like them who were watching their family members leave and they didn't know what to feel.
Both her father and Evan's father left for the battlefield. Her brother was left in the care of the elder because her mother had passed away. Many other children were also left either to only their mother or to the relatives if both parents were going to the battlefield.
For example, the Green Family Patriarch left with everyone. His son was staying with his crippled cousin who couldn't go to the battlefield anymore. There were also a few people left in the Green Family to protect them in case another ghost appeared.
The ghosts' matter was indeed very worrying.
But the good thing so far was that the ghost was very stupid. It didn't fight back and seemed to only move around stupidly before it was sealed.
In this way, they could be relieved by leaving their family members behind for the war.
But everyone was naturally trying their best to win the war as fast as possible. Even if they knew that there were people who would protect their family members, they didn't feel reassured if they were not there.
"Evan, are you going back?" Aya asked.
"No, I'm going to train with Leon," Evan replied. "Do you want to come along?"
"No." Aya shook her head.
She couldn't practice effectively with Leon and Evan. The two of them were far weaker than her in terms of physical strength.
As for magic?
Aya had rich experience in fighting and didn't really need to train it for the time being. What she needed the most was to gather more mana and increase her physical strength.
There were two ways to increase mana.
One was through daily meditation, which Aya had done until she was bored to death. The second one was through potions or some natural resources. The latter was more difficult and the former was also difficult because only high ranked alchemists could make it. Moreover, the materials were also not easy to find.
'But I happen to know a cheap recipe to make potions to permanently increase one's mana pool.' Aya thought about it and decided to go and try.
Oh right, her magic elements were fire, wind, water, earth, light, and darkness.
She strongly suspected that her own talent was merged with this body when she came here because how did these elements that originally opposed each other coexist peacefully?
But Aya didn't concern herself much with it.
The problem was, she originally didn't have any water and light element, so she didn't know any magic spells related to these two.
There were too many elements to use and Aya didn't know how to choose.
It felt rather distressing.