Ashton hurried back in the direction of the places that he just left, it wasn’t long before he was heading in the direction of both Elaris and Caden’s room. His intention was to inform Elaris alone and they would know what to do because going to Caden would be a big mistake.As he rounded the corner that led off the hallway of both Caden’s and Elaris’ room, he bumped into Caden who seemed like he got up to do something, the latter stared at him in confusion as if not believing that he was there for a minute.“What are you still doing here? I thought that you had gone home,” Caden asked but Ashton didn’t answer him, he just took his hand and directed him to Elaris door. Without bothering to knock, he opened the door and entered, Elaris who was meditating quickly opened his eyes and raised a brow at the interruption.“You should listen to your own lessons and let one of your older siblings teach you manners,” Elaris said and Ashton took a brief second to glare at him before he remembere

“I would avenge my father through you!”“I would give my father some piece to chew on by sending you to the other side.”Both Caden’s competitors said at the same time but the guy just stared at them blankly and scoffed mockingly before they attacked him.Both of them were expecting him to be swinging his saber in that awkward bad manner that he used to swing it but to their surprise, he had a perfect control of his swing and his footwork, his eyes were focused on them and he wield off all their attack and even managed to drop an attack of his own on the two men.Both men jumped back and took a minute to observe that they had grossly underestimated their opponent before they caught themselves and attacked together but this time Caden was waiting for them with an attack of his own, as soon as their move missed and he delivered his, he kept pushing them into defense, they didn’t even had time to launch an attack of their own.The lanky man narrowly escaped the saber from cutting through

“I didn’t want to bother you before you have attended the competition but now that you have qualified as one of the top fours, tell me what the opportunities you would enjoy at the examination are,” Elaris asked Caden later that day.“When I went to take the exams, I noticed that those who were among the top four who passed the competition were given the front seat when it was time for the pep talk before the exam, they were given the opportunity to go first at whatever everyone was doing, this remove the chance that someone would have shown a movement that would overshadow them or the soldiers in charged would have gotten so tired and bored by the time it was them to fight.It would also look good on the profile whenever a person was sent to another base, think of it like a badge but the best part of it is the outstanding badge which only belonged to soldiers who performed exceptionally well in the ring, I am sure that the badge would be given to Ueaz,” Caden looked away. “I wasn’t c

“A ghost had been haunting the inn and that’s why we made the outside look like that. The ghost only haunts beautiful ladies and children, anyone who approached the inn if they had no ability at all would not bother to enter because of how creepy it looked on the outside.” The inn-keeper explained and he kept staring back and forth between Elaris and Ashton, his hand was wringing nervously as he kept readjusting himself on his seat.“That is bad business for you,” Ashton stated.“A bad business is better than a dead body, when a ghost hunts you and either kills people at your place or makes them disappear, any alternative would be accepted.”“Nothing like ghosts exist and if they did, I am sure that they don’t operate the way he operated,” Elaris mumbled, directing all their attention to the dead body that lay some feet away from them, right in front of where the innkeeper had been earlier. There was a deep gash and gaping hole of his forehead that Elaris’ sword had slashed through an

“I don't know if it is because I haven't left Astrad for a long time but it seems to me that Embrayl is different,” Ashton said, folding his arms as they walked among the people going about in the street. “Normally, I wouldn't bump into people so much.”Elaris stared at the bustling city which was vastly different from Astrad’s spacey roads and couldn't help but agree silently, it was too hectic and tiring to just walk around.The endless rows of tightly connected houses with varying cream, brown and pale yellow were starting to look the same to him, it would be a mess to recognize a friend's house at this rate which makes him wonder how on earth he was supposed to know Oliver's place.Barging into things like this never makes any sense but he must have been overexcited.“Well, if it is not the popular meat skewers,” Ashton chuckled before he hurried over to the stall. Elaris had no choice but to follow him, both of them could continue to wander around like this till he gets a plan. “