Ace wasn’t even paying attention as Lauriel took her leave. Instead, his plete focus was on the forest before him. The longer he looked at it, the more his blood boiled with excitement, and the smile on his face seemed to reflect that.
He had reinated into this world over 13 years ago, but this was the first time he would get the ce to really explore. Though he loved all the people in his life, for someone as free-spirited as Aot being able to go adventuring was difficult at times.
Amira seemed to notice the ge ieam leader. As she turo look at him, she couldn’t help but stare. Between the pure-hearted smile on his fad the uered aura he subsciously released, she couldn’t help but bee captivated.
It wasn’t until Julius cleared his throat that Ad Amira snapped out of their daze.
“Sorry about that. I just lost myself in my excitement,” Ace expined. “Mira, are you okay? Do you have a fever? You look like you’re burning up.”
Ace may not uand the reason for her flushed face, but Julius did.
“Hmph! I’m leaving!” The angelic caramel-skieen snorted wheiced the teasing smile on Julius’ face.
“I don’t get it,” Ace muttered in fusion.
“Who knows,” Julius shrugged, feigning ignorance. “Women are a plicated bunch.”
“What do I have to do to get her to ac…” A froeared on his face before he could finish his sentence.
Julius was just about to ask what was wrong when he realised he was staring at an afterimage.
Even with his new give strapped to his back, when using [Soru], Julius was incapable of following him with his eyes.
Amira, who had stormed off in frustration, was caught by surprise when Ace suddenly appeared beside her, and that surprise quickly turned into shock, then fear, and then anger when she saw the arrow Ace had caught in his hand just under a meter away from her.
“Mathias and the others weren’t kidding about humans being the ones we o be most weary of,” Ace muttered softly as his eyes frosted over.
Ace had off-handedly activated his [Observation] whilst talking to Julius wheiced three humans lying in wait in the bushes no more than 50 meters away. One of whom was an archer who had taken aim at Amira.
“e out,” Aanded coolly.
“Looks like he’s pissed,” A tall warrior of the fourth rank wielding a 4-foot bck sabre chuckled as he jumped out from his hiding spot.
“What do you expect,” The peak fourth rank archer voiced as he stepped out from behind the tree, realising they had already been caught. “I did almost kill his little girlfriend.”
The st to appear was a burly warrior of the fifth rank with an ominous war bde.
Of the three, only he appeared to be somewhat cautious as he stared at Ace. He had been fog on Amira, waiting for his rade’s arrow to take her out before he and his sabre-wielding follower attacked the other two. Still, he didn’t even notice Ace’s movement until he had already caught the arrow mid-flight.
Despite being caught off guard by Ace’s intervention, he was only slightly more cautious. He refused to believe three teens could ever be a match for him, even if they were youes from a big .
Holding an arrow in one hand and his old give iher, Ace took a step forward, preparing to kill the three who dared target Amira when her emotionless voitered his ears.
“They’re mine!”
They had only just stepped into the forest, a, because she allowed herself to be distracted, she had almost been assassinated. If it weren’t for Aing to her rescue, she may well have been taken out by that arrow.
“Did you hear that, boss? She wants to take us out on her own,” The sabre-wielding man sneered. “Let me py with her for a bit.”
The burly man furrowed his brows slightly. He thought it was strahat the other two didn’t make a move to help her, but ultimately, he didn’t stop his subordinate, believing that they were just youes who thought too highly of themselves.
“[Supersonic],” Amira muttered as she calmly drew her swords, stepping past Ace.
As experienced killers, as soon as they heard Amira’s words, they uood she was a mage and though being somewhat impressed that she could insta-cast, it fit with their guess that they were arrogant youes, but they never could’ve foreseen what happened .
Amira suddenly disappeared from their line of sight, only to appear behind the archer who had tried to kill her.
The hairs on the back of his neck immediately stood on edge. However, he didn’t hesitate as he threw himself forward, hoping to give his teammates enough time to e to his rescue. But, unfortunately, he was still too slow.
Amira’s sword flickered through the air, and before the man’s head could even fall to the floor, she had already disappeared once again.
The eyes of the trio’s leader suddenly bulged as he realised one of his men, who was only a few meters away from him, had been decapitated before he could eve.
Unfortunately, by the time he realised the kids he believed to be prey were actually predators in disguise, Amira had already decapitated his other follower and was rapidly closing in on him.
Despite being a warrior of the fifth rank, even now that he was seriously trating on her, he was still only barely able to react to her movements.
He could only raise his sword in time to bloe of her katanas; the other moved like the wind as it ly cut him two.
“15 steps? Your [Soru] has improved again,” Ace said with a smile, his former killing i having long since disappeared.
As promised, Ace had sold ‘his’ teique to the Pavilion for 1000 tribution points up front and ten for every time it urchased.
Unfortunately, at that price, it was too expensive for any of the other disciples, but there were many ways to earn tribution points in the pavilion. One was selling magicite gems and cores, the colle of which meauring out of the Pavilion’s grounds whitil now wasn’t allowed. Another was through making breakthroughs in major realms and prehension.
Still, it remaioo expensive, which was why other than Julius, who wasn’t a warrior, all of them were thankful to Ace freeing to teach them for only 100 tribution points. Though expe didn’t take them long to accumute that much.
The best part about it was that Ace earned himself ten times more by doing it this way, something that made Mathias roll his eyes, but ultimately there was nothing he could do. After all, it was Ace’s teique in the first pce – he was free to do what he wanted with it.
Amira merely snorted as she re-sheathed her swords. She was still feeling frustrated over having to be saved. The fact that Ace was the one who saved her only made it worse. The thought of her thinking of her as some sort of damsel in distress really wound her up.
Ace frow Amira’s wilful behaviour. “I don’t mind you being so headstrong when we’re at the Pavilion, but if this i proved anything, it’s that none of us afford to switch off over the six months.”
She hated to admit it, but Amira knew Ace was right, but she wasn’t ready tive him just like that.
“Fine,” Amira said unwillingly. “But first, you o apologize!”
“Apologize?” Ace asked in shock. “What did I do?”
Ace racked his brain for anything he could’ve doo offend her, but nothing came to mind. For the st five years, Ace had been nothing but o her. Although he had feelings for her he couldn’t quite expin, Ace was still Ace. He wouldn’t apologise for no reason, not even to her.
“What do you mean what did you do?” Amira gred at Ace when he said that, her voice getting louder and louder with each word. “You called me a little kid!”
“Huh? When?” Ace asked, thhly fused, believing this to be one big misuanding.
“Back at the Yin-Yang Mountain, on the day we met, you called me a child… NoOLOGISE!” Amira shouted.
As soon as the words left her lips, memories of their meeting five years ago came flooding back all at once.
“You mean you’ve been ign me all this time because of something stupid I said five years ago?” Ace asked dumbfoundedly.
It was only when he saw her drawing her swords that he realised how serious she was being.
“I’m sorry!” Ace hurriedly excimed. “I holy didn’t mean it. I was just embarrassed.”
Seeing the siy on his face made her anger dissipate, although her hands remained on her swords.
“Truth is, I was caught by surprise when I saw you. I’ve never experienced how I felt when I first saw you, and when Kong said what he did, I blurted out the first thing that came to mind in embarrassment,” Ace admitted. “I hope you five me!”
“I for…”
“BLEUGH!”
Before Amira could finish her respoo Ace’s heartfelt apology, the sound of Julius throwing up really put a damper on things.
“I’m sorry,” Julius said whilst keeling over by a tree. “I tried to hold it in, but those corpses are too disgusti…
BLEUGH!”
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