LUCIAN landed on the ground, butt first. "Aw.." He groaned as he rubbed his painful rear.Jucel landed more smoothly, doing a full turn before landing on her feet. "S-Sorry for that," she said as she helped him up. Lucian stood before he quickly scanned the field around them. They were in an open field, anyone could see them if they were just going to walk across the road."Where are we?" Lucian asked. His blue eyes were alert and narrowed, ready for any danger that might come to him."We're i-in a secluded field of Graire Province," she answered. He turned to her questioningly, and she pushed the rim of her thick eyeglasses up her nose. "You.. y-you were ready to kill me. I needed to bring you s-somewhere you can't use your p-power. You can't invade my mind, ei-either."Lucian inhaled sharply and tilted his head. His eyebrows are scrunched while his hands on his hips. "You seemed to know my powers more than I do." Why would I invade your mind when I can't even look through it the mome
THE night was high. The moon shone upon the river that ran from the Diana Province to Galenus City. There are few residents going back and forth but most of the stores in the market were already closed.Along the banks of the river in the city, two figures were walking. One of the figures bent down and traced the hand on the ground. The other stopped to watch the actions of its companion."Do you see the blue light?" a drawling accent came from the bending figure. Jucel Greyn looked around once more before she stood.Lucian Liu furrowed his eyebrows, his handsome face scrunched in concentration. "All I see is the ground with stones around."Jucel laughed a little bit, covering her lips with the back of her hand. "I forgot that you need to see beyond what's seen.""Beyond what's seen?"The silver-haired woman nodded then she pointed at the ground before them. "You saw the floor of this place as normal, nothing happened to it, right?"Lucian nodded quickly. He stepped back in alert when
IT HAD been five days since the group stayed at the new house in Graire Province.Chloe quickly felt comfortable living with Lucian's friends. Barbie was like a nagging mother of the group, keeping all of them moving. Jucel seemed to adjust pretty well, too. Although there were times that she would just stay in one place and read books rather than goofing with them.The house had two floors with a small balcony. A pavilion was located in the front yard with a small set of outdoor coffee tables and chairs.The area was wide, fenced with bricks and stones. The backyard was enough to set up a training ground... which they did. Lucian had put an archery range. They also made posts that will serve as their dummies when they practice close combat.The province in Graire was surrounded by fields and trees. The back of their new house has a forest that led to an open field.Their house was a little far from Krystalline Academy, but it just motivated Chloe to jog from the house to the school. L
AFTER the interrogation, Chloe Liu received more attention from the Krystalline students than before. In a bad way.She was walking alone that day. Jucel was nowhere to be found and so were Lucian and his friends. She went to the Opall tower to look for him when a group of second year Kryst students approached her. They were all males and good-looking so they attracted many eyes from the girls in the surroundings."Are you Chloe Liu?" one of the men inquired.Chloe looked warily at the one talking. "Yeah. Why?"The male smirked. "Are you a relative of Lucian Liu in some sorts?"Chloe straightened her back and stared at him with furrowed eyebrows. "Well, yes. I am his younger sister."The other male from the back tapped the shoulder of his friend and moved him away from Chloe. "Back off from her, guys. She's off-limits." He offered his hand to her. "I'm Sean Olair."Chloe looked down at his hand, searching for anything that might harm
IT WAS a free day for the group of Lucian, but the house was buzzing with activity.Lucian, Clive and Blaise were preparing the carriage while Jared and Zabdiel were cleaning the frontyard. Lucian clapped his hands to get rid of the dust before turning to the pavilion when he saw a blur of blue moving around. He stopped in his tracks when he saw Jucel carrying a book, arranging the tea sets and chairs before walking out of the pavilion and entered the house."Hey, Lucian! Can you hand me the rope?" he heard Clive shouting from above the carriage. He quickly shook his head and went back to work.Lucian decided to go to the market together with the whole group to help in the Lewelyn family business. It's also a great way to keep an eye on the witch that Jucel was chasing after without the suspicion of the others."Mr. and Mrs. Lewelyn provided us the help in paying for the house through Barbie and Zab. It's just fair that we will help out to pay their kindn
PRINCE CIARAN made his way to the top of the fortress. Theo and Tara were following behind him.There were seven men standing at the watch tower, all of them facing at different sides. They turned to him and bowed to their knees when they saw the prince coming in."What's the situation here?" Ciaran asked as he moved to the window of the tower and looked around.He was with the commanders assigned to the Land of Deirdre, discussing about the possible enemy that invaded the land. When the soldiers called for his attention, he was perplexed.The watch tower was designed to face the land of Vestia and it was seventy miles away from the Helengrein post.The leader of the team stood and pointed at the direction of Vestia. "Birds from the area of Galenus showed some disturbance, liege.""Flocks of them?" Theo asked as he walked to the other window."Tons of them," the officer-in-charge replied. The door to the watchtower opened and a Kryst
SHE opened her eyes to see a clear blue sky behind the autumn leaves. Autumn? How long did she lose consciousness? Chloe thought in panic."Dana? Dana," a voice of a male called out from below.She turned her head to a young boy. She realized that she was lying on one of the branches of a tree, her arm rested under her head. The young boy was familiar. He's wearing a yellow and green bandana around his head and his clothes were tattered and old. Did she knew this guy somewhere?"What?" she replied in a bored voice. Chloe remembered that this body with a name Dana was the same General Dana Rein, the famous 24th Blood Star, who died 50 years ago to protect the Kingdom of Demetrius from Illinor.But she noticed that the whole place seemed peaceful. Was this after the war? Impossible. General Dana would be dead after the war."We're not supposed to slack off. We have to go now." The boy looked worried. And Dana seemed unfazed.She turned back to
JUCEL Greyn rushed to Chloe's room the moment she heard Barbie and the others exclaim Chloe's name.Her friend was there, sitting on the bed while listening to the chatters of the people around her. When they heard Jucel coming in, they all turned their heads to her and she blushed in embarrassment."H-Hi," Jucel stuttered."We'll prepare some food," Barbie announced and started to push Blaise and Zabdiel towards the door. "Now, off we go, you boys.""Stop pushing us!" Zabdiel protested but he followed his sister's orders. Kieran and Clive followed after them not without saying their goodbyes to Chloe.When the door closed behind Jucel, the silver-haired woman smiled. "W-We thought s-something happened to you."Chloe smiled in a sheepish manner. "Sorry for making you guys worry.""Are you really okay, Chloe?" Lucian asked. He was still suspicious of her whereabouts for two days. "You were out for two days. We tried to look for you but