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

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

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

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

FEW days after the incident, the Krystalline Academy went back to normal. The Teacher's room in the Rubi Tower was repaired and the students went on without the knowledge of what Chloe knew.Not even Lucian and his friends.Lucian stood at the back door of the house, leaning at the frame and crossing his arms as he watched his sister train close combat alone with the training posts. He was quite surprised that Chloe asked if she could take some time alone every after classes to train close combat.Usually, they would gather around and play something. This only made the others train, too.Only Jucel Greyn was not into honing her powers. Instead, she was always sitting close to them whenever they train while reading a book.Now, Jucel was sitting on the grass under the tree near Chloe's spot as the latter trained. And here was Lucian, standing from afar and observing Jucel's actions.The silver-haired girl was reading that brown book again, he