My Blood Wizard System
Students wandered below in small clusters, more curious than alarmed at figures appearing on the terrace out of thin air.
Celeste’s boots met the academy stone. The air here tasted sharp—sea on wind, and underneath it, the tang of old wards. The courtyard spread below, a mosaic of paths and marble that would soon be the center of something ugly if she did not move quickly. Her HUD flared with an alert: high-watt magic signature detected, direction variable, probable demigod. The same shard Ketsukagami had shown her stretched into a scene now alive with motion.