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CHAPTER TWENTY

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CHAPTER TWENTY

Aria's POV

Three days passed like wind. I have been training, eating, sleeping and repeating everything.

Lucas worked me until my body couldn't take anymore then Kira would take over, teaching me tactics and strategy. How to read an opponent. How to use my surroundings.

I barely had time to think which was probably the point.

By the fourth day, I could hold my shield for almost five minutes straight. I could channel energy without it exploding everywhere. I could even fight while maintaining basic defensive magic.

It wasn't perfect but it was better.

"You're improving," Kira said during a water break. We were sitting on the edge of the training grounds, watching the sun set.

"Doesn't feel like it."

"That's because you're comparing yourself to what you think you should be instead of where you started." She handed me the water skin. "Trust me. You're getting stronger."

I took a long drink. My muscles ached everywhere the kind th
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