“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

“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 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

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

“What should we do?” Leon asked his friend. They were on alert, weapons in their hands, as they finally realized they had lost one of their companions.Gray didn’t answer Leon as he gripped his sword tighter, “Sierra? Come on. We’re sorry for forgetting to use our power. Now that we’re fine, you should come out and join us.”There was no reply from the darkness, only the sounds of their pounding hearts. After that, Leon exhaled his breath, “Should we go back? I’m worried about her,”However, the hazel eye boy calmly answered, “We should continue, Leon. I just remember Sierra’s words about testing us. Maybe this is it.”He didn’t wrong, Leon thought. Sierra did say she wanted to test them, it’s just that it was kind of cruel of her to leave them alone in the forest, without saying anything.“It’s Sierra, what can we say,” Gray laughed a little