A month turned into two then three. Without realizing it, Sierra had stayed in North Alania for over than four months. All the attentions that she got started to go down bit by bit, meaning that Uncle Ten’s wife became disappointed. There were a couple of soldiers and merchants who flirted with her, only to be ignored coldly.
She definitely didn’t have time to entertain some people, especially those who were younger than her by hundreds of years. The words of her being a master of Blessing also spread around, even reaching the neighbouring towns. There were some rich children who begged her to be their teacher. She only snorted as she always answered, “You’re mistaken. I’m not a master at all. If you have that much money, it’s better for you to go to the academy.”
The rumours must happen after she unwillingly helped the city to maintain their array months ago. She did it half-heartedly since Gray and Leon bugged her too much. &
“Sierra! Sierra! Look!”Leon excitedly called for her name. She smiled faintly as she saw that he could gather a great amount of wind, making the leaves twirled in the air. Now, they had trained for six months. It amazed her how amazing their progresses were.“Don’t strain yourself,” she spoke shortly, trying hard not to praise the boys. She didn’t want to look too soft when teaching. Then, she turned her head away, staring at another boy who looked so confidence while meditating. Slowly, Sierra could see that Gray was summoning his power.It wasn’t stable, but at least he could make something out of his power. It appeared in thin air and a gold light started to turn into a ball. It was a hard thing to do, but for a month, Gray finally could create it into something. “Ohh! OH!!”However, the golden light quickly dispersed into nowhere. “You’re lack of concentration, kid.” She stated t
It was early in the morning and someone had knock into Gray’s door. With a yawn, he asked, “Who’s there?”“It’s me, Aunt Mila,” she spoke gently. Of course, Gray was familiar with this aunt. She was Leon’s nanny. “Aunt Mila! How are you?” He smiled widely as he welcomed the guest. However, the old lady didn’t take any step, staying at the door.“I’m fine,” she smiled faintly, “I’m here because young master is… sick. So, he can’t come here for the meantime. He hopes that you’d bring this matter to Lady Sierra too.”Gray blinked a couple of times. It was really unusual for Leon to absent because of sickness. He remembered when they were kids, even though Leon was sick, he would lie to come out and rest here. He said that no one would take care of him, so that’s why he crashed into Gray’s house every time he was sick.Still, he
“Sierra,” Gray called the other quickly. “What is it?” She didn’t even bother to turn her back as she walked to her inn. “Why don’t you see Leon’s mother?” He asked hesitantly, “Um… I know this is too much to ask, but this had happened before and after my master directly talked with her-“ “I’m not your master.” Sierra cut her coldly, frowning as she stared at the boy. “Also, Leon had made his choice to continue his father’s business, it makes sense if his mother mad at him for ignoring his study.” “… You know he didn’t make that choice,” Gray stared at his feet. “You said so yourself, that Leon’s path was decided by his parents not him.” Sierra rolled her eyes; she never realized that this boy had such a good memory. “Fine, I’ll change my words. I’m not staying here forever, so there’s no use of me intervening with someone’s family.” She didn’t want to continue this meaningless conversation and thus, quickly disappeared at alleyway. Gray purse
The search went on and even people from neighbouring towns came to North Alania. Their only objective was to find the missing girl. Having no interest towards the case, Sierra only trained the boys every day.However, a week after that, another young girl went missing.At first, people didn’t pay much attention to it. Since the second girl came from a poor family, they could only ask for help from the mayor. Fortunately, being in the border meant that soldiers were stationed not too far from here.Mayor Charles needed to write a long letter to request an official investigation from the nearest army. He also sent another request to the capital.The second missing girl lived with her old mother; they said that nobody wanted to marry her as she was poor and ugly. The old lady would pray every day in the centre of the town, crying to the gods to help her poor baby.Sierra saw her on the third day and shook her head. No gods would help her for som
The crowds who were marching bravely a minute ago, now coward in place as a wall of fire surrounded them all. People was screaming as they had never seen such powers before.“Help!” A woman voice was heard, shrieking through the noises.“Mommy!” A man cried out loud, dropping his spear down.Sierra, the caster, didn’t seem disturbed at all as she glared at those rude townsfolks. Who told them to accuse her without any proof?!However, she suddenly felt a strong grip on her wrist. “What?” She asked nonchalantly.“Sierra, stop it,” Gray pleaded, “They’re afraid of it.”The silver hair woman saw that the heat made the boys’ forehead dripped with sweats. She glanced at the crowd, people were kneeling and hugging each other for fear of dying. At that moment, she knew when to stop.With a snap of her slender fingers, the fire was vanished - as if it never happened
“So, what’s our plan?” Asked the boy with hazel eyes.“Yeah, we need to act fast! We only have three days to investigate,” said the other boy with black hair.The centre of the attention only sat as she crossed her legs, ignoring the two eager persons. “Um, Sierra?” Gray waved his palm right in front of Sierra’s beautiful face. Inhaling a deep breath, she finally spoke, “I told you this is not a play thing.”“We know,” Leon stepped forward. “But we’re still going to help you no matter what.”Sierra stared at him fiercely, clearly, she was unhappy that Leon skipped his class today. Leon cleared his throat as he stammered, “G-Gray, say something!”However, just before Gray wanted to open his mouth, Sierra raised her hand. “Fine,”“Stop giving me more headache, will you? If you want to help, then prove it. I’ll give you
Now that it was his turn, Leon flawlessly reported his investigation. “I went around the market and overheard an interesting coincidence about those missing girls. All of them used to suffer from various illness when they were kids. D- does it count as information?” Sierra nodded her head. As expected, living in a small town had its own benefits. You didn’t need to exhaust too many energies to find something useful. “Great. Now you’ve done your parts, let’s talk about this again tomorrow.” “Eh?” Gray was surprised, “Sierra, you’ve told the townsfolks that you’re going to solve this in three days! We can’t just sit idle like this,” The silver hair woman snorted, obviously, she didn’t need to be reminded. She didn’t bother to answer and the boys stared at her dumbfoundedly. Then, she picked the hairpin and observed it closely. “The dark energy is so weak,” she glared at Gray, “If you’re affected by this then it means you need to train harder.”&n
“Huh? What does it mean?” Gray mumbled in confusion. Unlike his friend, Leon understood right away the meaning behind Sierra’s words. His respects for her increased until it reached the peak. Smiling widely, he followed that cold woman, like an excited puppy.“So, does it mean that you’re planning this with Uncle Ten?” He asked.“I only ask him to bring the foods at a certain time,” Sierra answered, “He’s a smart man, even without me explaining, he understood my intention directly.”“Uncle Ten?” Gray’s face looked like he was in disbelief, “How come you’re asking him for help and not us?”Ignoring the boy, she rolled her eyes and scanned through the night. “We can’t stay open like this,” she turned her back to Gray, “Show me the place where you found the hairpin.”Since the situation turned serious, the boys didn&rsquo