“What do you think is happening tonight?” A man dressed in brown lightweight leather armour said to his simirly dressed female partner.

  “I don’t know, but feneral Lyrin to send us on such a routine scouting mission means that he has something big pnned,” The woman replied as she kept her eyes trained on the Rohault camp in the distance. “But either way, all we o do is follow the general’s orders and keep an eye on those Rohault bastards and light a fre if they…

  Ugh!”

  “What the fu…”

  Before either of the O’Brien scouts could react, a giant bck lion with crimson tints appeared behind them, taking a k out of the woman’s ned stamping on the man’s head, instantly redug it into a bloody pulp.

  “That’s the st of them, Ace.” Leonel mentally transmitted back to Ace before leaping bato the sky using the air as a ptform.

  “Okay, I’ll meet you back at camp,” Ace replied via their spiritual bond, ign the two decapitated corpses by his feet as he too used [Geppo] to return to camp, using the clouds in the night sky to hide his figure.

  After agreeing to his pn, Murciel expined how ordinairy scouts from the O’Brien Empire were warriors with wind-style battle-qi, but the elites, which they were likely to be using on su important operation like tonight’s, worked in pairs.

  The first would be a high-ranking warrior of the seventh rank with wind-style battle qi, and their partner would be a wind mage of at least the fourth, potentially fifth rank who was very adept at the Windscout spell.

  At that sort of level, they would be able to use the wind to sense everything within an 80 to 100-meter radius, and unfortunately, the shadow robes wouldn’t do mu that situation. The shadow robe was able to hide your presence from spiritual perception, but a spell like the Windscout didn’t use spiritual perception but the wind itself.

  To most, closing that sort of gap and killing your targets before they could react was near impossible, but for Ace, who could use [Geppo] and [Soru] so skilfully, he was able tet them from above and use a bination of his movement teique and gravity to close in on them from above, and after a few weeks of training, Leo wasn’t much worse than his human partner.

  It had to be remembered that after the i with the Cult of Darkness, Ad Leo found their bond of partnership had mutated along with Ace’s soul. It allowed both of them to share their prehension with the other. Although it didn’t allow them to instantly prehend the insights of the other, it made it a lot easier.

  Instead of having to prehend it from scratch, it allowed them to look at the insights of their partner as if it were a book, allowing them to turn it into their own insights at twice the speed with half the effort.

  After returning to the Pavilion, it struck Ace that they were limiting themselves. Since Ace could effectively transmit his insights to his partner, why did it have to stop at his insights into the ws of nature? Why couldn’t he share his insights into his other teiques? More specifically, the Rokushiki.

  Though he’d never seen or heard of a magical beast using human-based teiques, there was no reason as to why it wouldn’t or couldn’t work.

  After a few weeks, Leonel was noable of skilfully using both movement teiques of the Rokushiki, sed only to Ace. As a result, Ace simply had to transmit the location of each of the scouting teams hiding in the peripheries of the camp to his beast partner, allowing the pair to make quick work of each pair they came across without them getting the ce to escape or send word back.

  Ad Leo swiftly nded just outside the rear of the camp, where he found his team, along with General Murciel, patiently waiting for him.

  “Did you get all of them?” The general asked.

  “Yeah,” Ace replied. “All six scout teams have been disposed of.”

  “Perfeow we move on to the phase,” Murciel stated. “Are you sure you want to do this? You don’t o take this risk. Now that we’re ba level fields, we ca-”

  “It’s fine,” Amira replied, interrupting the general mid-sentence as she hopped on Leo’s back. “If I’m not even willing to take a risk or two for the sake of my nation, how could I ever be ready to lead it iure?”

  “The general’s right,” Chukaya spoke out. “If anything, I should be the oo take your pce.”

  “That won’t work,” Amira replied dismissively.

  “Why not?” Chukaya asked back. “As it stands, I’m still strohan you. If somethio happen, I have a better ce of esg.”

  “That might be true,” Amira indifferently replied. “But the st persoo be able to ride Leo, and Leo doesn’t seem to like you very much.”

  As she said that, Leo growled softly in Chukaya’s dire as if to prove Amira right.

  Chukaya gred at the lion-type magical beast in displeasure for standing in the way of yet another missed opportunity to impress his crush.

  “That’s enough,” Aanded, preventing Chukaya from voig his displeasure and wasting any more time. “Killian, Leo, Mira, and I will drop the bombs on the rear of their army to signal the start of the battle.”

  General, I’m leaving Ebeze and Chukaya under your and until we return.”

  “Don’t worry about us,” General Murciel nodded, fetting that he eaking to a 13-year-old boy as if he were his peer. “Just take care of each other.”

  “We will,” Ace said as he used [Geppo] to jump through the air in the dire of the O’Brien Army.

  As soon as he stepped off, both Killian and Leo, who had Amira on his back, followed behind him.

  After returning, it wasn’t just Leo he taught how to use [Geppo]; he also taught Killian and Joel. He would’ve taught the others as well, but it was a teique that required oo be a warrior of the fifth stage to learn.

  On the ground, Ebeze, Chukaya, and even General Murciel watched with envy as the group from the Yin-Yang Pavilion essentially flew through the air. A feat that was ordinarily only achievable by saints and powerful wind mages.

  “I wish I got to join the Yin-Yang Pavilion,” Ebeze muttered, a look of longing in his eyes.

  “I’m surprised you both didn’t,” Murciel said, knowing that the two remaining teewo of the most talented youths in the empire.

  A disdainful snort escaped Chukaya’s nose, but Ebeze replied before Chukaya got the ce to.

  “We tried, but her of our talents met their requirements,” Ebeze said regretfully. “But looking at them, I uand why now.”

  A look of surprise appeared on the general’s face as he g both boys. After the princess left to join her new school, he had heard that the Pavilion was an institute that only accepted top-tier talents, but for both Chukaya and Ebeze to be rejected, he wouldn’t be surprised if there were only three students in the whole of the pavilion, because talents of that level don’t grow on trees.

  “Speak for yourself,” Chukaya snorted. “I was already over 10 whearted recruiting.”

  “You say that like you would’ve been accepted even if you were young enough,” Chukaya rolled his eyes. “Yhtning affinity may be of the exceptional grade, but your spiritual essence was only 19x that of your peers.”

  “That’s only one off the required grade,” Chukaya snorted, ignorantly believing they likely would’ve made an exception for him.

  “Whether you’re one-off or ten-off, a failure’s a failure,” Ebeze shrugged. “Just accept your inadequacies and move on.

  “Alright, that’s enough. You two talk about this ter,” Murciel decred before Chukaya could rebut Ebeze’s point. “Fht now, just follow me. I o get my soldiers ready before the signal goes off.”

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  Whilst Murciel was hurrying to prepare his men, Ad Leo were casually stepping through the air beside Killian, who, though able to use [Geppo], wasn’t as adept as the others.

  “I ’t wait till I get to learn [Geppo]!” Amira excimed enviously as she watched her cssmates walk on air as if it were solid ground.

  “You’re almost at the peak of the fourth rank,” Ace said. “Knowing you, it’ll only be another month or so before you reach the fifth.”

  “I ’t wait,” Amira said excitedly. “And when I bee a mage of the fifth rank, I’ll be able to use [Geppo] and [Soru], with [Supersonid the [Floating Teique].

  By then, I might even be able to fight on par with you in an aerial battle.”

  It was then that she remembered just how much of a freak Ace was. If she really wao close the gap between them, prehending ‘Impose’ robably the best pce to start, and even then, it was only a start.

  Because Killian wasn’t able to move as fast as Ad Leo, it ended up taking the group over 15 minutes before they arrived.

  “So this is what a fully formed army looks like,” Killian marvelled as he hopped in the air looking down at the thousands of enemy warriors below.

  “That’s right,” Aodded.

  Though he’d been in multiple rge-scale battles back during his days as a pirate, he had only ever seen and taken part in two wars. The war of the best in his st life, the war that cimed his life. And the Silverlight beast tide in this life.

  But this was different. This time he was going in with the strength to proteot only himself but everyone he cared about as well.

  Although he was a long way off from attaining the strength he o aplish his goals, he was definitely on the right path.

  “Okay, you guys ready?” Ace asked, turning to face Killian and Amira. “Everyo the magicite bombs in their ste rings?”

  “Ready!” Kil and Mira nodded in unison.

  “Good,” Ace smiled evilly as he summoned a head-sized crystal with various inscriptions engraved onto its surface. “The’s give these O’Brien bastards hell!”

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