Chapter 94 - The General is Sent on a Mission (Part 1)

  A few days had passed since we discovered a strand of silver hair on my head, and Professor Adrihna had returo the academy. My small silver streak wasn't something that would catyone's attention from afar, but up close, it stood out against my bck hair. Silver hair was something exclusive to a single race, and you know whie I'm talking about—the High Elves. I had to cut those strands to avoid drawing too much attention. My hair was starting to grow longer, and they were being quite noticeable.

  My mother, Aunt Margie, and Adrihna had to have a versation about my situation, and I learned once again, but this time in more detail, that even on elves were not parable to High Elves. on elves were desdants of the tter, but from millennia ago, and their race had since mixed with humans. Later on, they mixed with other on elves when the kingdoms divided. That's why, even with their pointed ears and different elemental mana, they were sidered a different race from the High Elves due to the millennia of interbreeding among themselves, while the High Elves remained within their own race. I had a High Elf as a close aor, which meant I had more High Elf blood than a on elf.

  The color of my silver strand was lighter than Professor Adrihna's. Hers was a silver-gray, while mine was a bright, silver-white. When I asked her about it, she hesitated a bit before expining and simply said it was something I ied from a retive.

  "I'll be twelve soon," I said as I looked at myself in the mirror, examining my hair. "Then I'll only have three years until I ehat magic academy."

  That pce was something that marked the lives of many mages due to the friendships formed there, and part of me remembered my time studying at Agoge, the academy in Sparta, though it was not something children should experience.

  I looked at my bed, now monopolized by Cyl, and sighed.

  Now she has this habit of sleeping with her wings spread...

  "You're a real pain to sleep with, you know?" I pined, but her sn indicated she had no iion of waking up to give me any attention.

  Chloe is progressing a lot; I'm happy with the magical advas she and Kinue have made. Our friend has only two more years with us, and then we won't see her until we ehe academy.

  Theoretically, I already had magical knowledge, albeit different. In my previous world, I became a General of Aura and ter became a God when I absorbed divine essence. Seeing the growth of the two makes me proud because they are just children, while I... am someone much more experienced with magical powers.

  I left the room and closed the door. I was heading to train—or rather, to watch Chloe and Kirain.

  It's a pity I 't always train with the thunder element at the level I want... or I'd cause some serious damage.

  Chloe Evenhart:

  I was in my room, trying to pick out the best clothes to wear, but I just couldn’t decide on anything.

  Nothing looks good on me...

  I wao impress Nate, but it was hard to make that oblivious fool notiything. My solution was to get really good at magid he would praise me when I showed him what I had learned. But then the idiot would go on and on about battle strategies reted to what I had shown him, pletely ign my iions.

  He's so dense... I wasn’t doing it to get better in battle. I wao impress him...

  During this time, I was getting really good with swords, but my mom told me that my true talent was in magid that I should focus on it since I’m a rare Fused Element Summoner. I trained making golems with Aunt Katie and practiced ice magic with Mom. We wao ehe academy with some advanced skills so we wouldn’t embarrass ourselves.

  I believe we’re already quite advahanks to our assassin training, but even so, I want to get eveer.

  Magic has allowed me to spend a lot of time with Nate. We’re always together, spending hours training and developing spells and magic styles since we share the wind element. Over these years, sihe professor introduced us to magid taught us to better trol mana, it’s opened our minds to uand our strengths and weaknesses.

  With Kinue's help, it’s been much easier for me to ask questions whenever I wao secretly show off to Nathan. My friend has bee better than me in bat, thanks to her race’s natural ination toward being warriors, but I excel in my summoning abilities.

  I sigh and, in the end, decide to go as I am to our ke room where we train.

  Nathan Evenhart:

  I was sitting on the grass, watg Chloe practig her magic while Kinue was engrossed in a spell book she received as a birthday gift from Professor Adrihna. Mages could pass oeags by sealing the knowledge of a spell in a paper using a teique called a ‘Magie.’ It ossible to learn the spell from this rune, but you first had to train your mana to uand it.

  “This one is the ‘Great Water Arrow,’” Chloe said, trating as she jured a massive arrow that floated beside her before shooting off at high speed.

  “Very good. you turn it into an ice element?” I asked.

  “Of course!” An enormous water arrow formed and then froze solid. She aimed it, and it flew into the wall, shattering into pieces upon impact.

  Chloe is really good.

  Naming the spell is almost mandatory because in the heat of battle, it's easier to remember how to manipute your mana to cast it. The more named spells you have memorized, the better. There are elemental spells that are well-known, like ‘Fireball’ or even the ‘Wind Barrier’ that I’ve used. These are on spells that anyone learn or develop on their own. We learn more spells, and the knowledge of a spell holds the way to manipute mana.

  Mana behaves almost like a nguage. When we speak a spell or use it, we’re actually shaping our mana as if we were writing something. Casting a spell isn’t something random; it requires true study and knowledge of your mana to execute it.

  Chloe seemed to have gotten tired and sat down beside me.

  “Nate… I ask you something?”

  I looked at her. “Sure, if I a, I will.”

  Chloe looked away, her face turning slightly.

  “If… if… if that girl at the party asked you to dance, would you have?”

  Girl at the party? Is she talking about Ryan’s daughter?

  “What girl?!” Kinue asked, closing her book.

  “A girl at the prince’s party invited Nathan to dance.”

  I was surprised by that.

  “That was two months ago… I didn’t even remember that.”

  “Well, I remember!” Chloe said.

  Both of them stared at me.

  “Would you… would you have danced with a girl?” Kinue asked.

  “He would have!” Chloe decred.

  Suddenly, I became the bad guy… what did I do?

  “No. Definitely not.”

  Chloe turo me with wide eyes, surprised.

  “Really? I liked hearing that…” she said.

  “Yeah, why would I dance? I wouldn’t dah anyone if I could avoid it.”

  She huffed and stood up.

  “Holy shit, Icarus…” Athena muttered.

  What? Did I mess up? I was just being ho, why would I dance?

  “I don’t uand, Chloe. Did I do something wrong?”

  “No… you didn’t,” she replied, a bit curtly, as she went back to practig spells.

  I noticed she seemed a little irritated, so I left her alone.

  I think I messed up…

  “Did I do something wrong?” I asked Kinue.

  “Maybe, but I’m gd you firmed you wouldn’t dah anyone… for now.”

  I decided to let it go and started practig with my wind element. I was w on simple spells since I wao improve my trol. Wind is a very ued element, but it’s actually extremely useful for me. It has a lot of applications, and I easily ter most elements just with wind alone.

  On top of that, c a lightning bolt with wind is key to the secret behind geing Zeus’s Spear or even that advanced spell that lets me create a giant lightning whip.

  ‘Sm!’

  The wooden door suddenly burst open, and Sifu entered quickly.

  Kinue and I jumped, and I immediately deactivated my magic. Even Chloe lost her tration.

  “Did something happen?” Chloe asked.

  “Don’t worry. I’m just here to fetathan.”

  “Me?” I asked, surprised.

  “Let’s go! We don’t have time,” the monk said, already heading out.

  I looked at Chloe and Kihey were as clueless as I was, but Sifu was always calm and didn’t usually act like this. I quickly got up and ran after him, leaving them behind.

  I caught up with Sifu. “What’s going on? Why are you in such a hurry?”

  The mo walking briskly.

  “Your aunt has summohe Legacies, and you’re included as well. We don’t have time to waste. It seems there’s been an i on our nds.”

  “An i? What kind of i?”

  “I don’t know, but we o gather immediately.”