100 Ch. 100 'Mix Blood Wizard'

"Tomorrow?" Richard asked in a tone of partial disbelief. He had just been willing to let go of his only sister leaving, but he was still not ready if he had to let go of his sister tomorrow morning. This was way too fast.

"Yes, tomorrow before the sunrise. The sooner we leave, the better." Lionel answered firmly and confidently.

Kazuto squeezed Niken's hand in support, who stood with an expression of concern looking at her brother. 

"We don't have much time. If the opponent we are about facing indeed could move around in frozen time as Kazuto said, then Niken must be able to master her ability perfectly."

"Besides, they all must also rapidly unite with their energy source." continued Danzel. "It generally takes at least three years to maximize the source of energy of each knight, but I will tighten their training to master it in a year."

"If you want to help Niken, go on various missions with the golden knight to enhance your elemental power. I heard you're the only Elementalist who can move around inside her Niken's time zone. At present, Niken's energy is not the same as before. The power she had is far stronger than you have ever been through, and she will be even stronger. If you don't enhance your energy flow, you won't be able to use it to move in Niken's time zone and help her like before." there was an emphasis that cannot be ignored in Lionel's voice.

Danzel looked at the young Elementalist knights and said in an authoritative tone.

"Besides, our opponent is not only a person named Muyun, but also the white knight. Finnick already foresee one of the knights would become the evil knight, sadly he didn't see anyone who could move freely in frozen time."

"Moreover, judging from your explanation of his battle form, he had found his source and use it unknowingly. You are lucky he didn't know how to maximize his power; otherwise, all of you would be dead meat. I'm sure he will soon be able to muster all his true strength. He will not need his moon blades again to release his energy. His hair would continue to be white even if he stored his equipment as long as he intends to activate his energy."

"As for you, you are still dependent on your weapons. As long as you guys still think 'Ah, I have to put out my weapon to increase my strength,' you will never be able to become one with your energy form."

Danzel and Lionel take a turn in explaining things to the young knights.

"As you have guessed earlier, only Hokuto and Scarlet had found their source. But Hokuto was the only one who succeeds in control it and uses it in maximum potential. While Scarlet, I guessed she just found it recently. Am I correct?"

Scarlet nodded her head to confirm Lionel's guessing.

"In fact, we missed someone. There is one more who has found his energy source and has used it to the maximum."

Others immediately wondered who Lionel meant.

"By any chance, are you afraid of going out of control if you don't seal your power source?"

All eyes were immediately drawn to what Lionel was concerned about. Scarlet and the others were amazed to see that Lionel's target of attention was Kazuto!

Didn't the man claim to have not found the source of the magic? Why is Lionel now saying that Kazuto deliberately seals the essence of his aura? 

"…" Kazuto stayed silent. He ignored all the eyes were staring at him. Yet, he couldn't ignore a certain girl's probing gaze who was standing beside him.

Niken tip-toed to whisper to Kazuto, making him slightly bent his body to let the girl speak near his ear.

"From the beginning, I knew that you were great and awesome, but I never knew that you were much better than I thought."

Kazuto only smiled in response to Niken's statement. "You're more awesome. I never thought that you were a Time Master."

Both of them smiled at each other as if the world around them was their own.

Uhm… Why Kazuto respond nothing to them but answered Niken's question gently?

Ckckck. And now the lover birds act as if no one there watching them giving them dog food. 

Someone decided to break the lover birds' moment.

"I know that you just found your inamorata, and it turns out you two have the same feeling..." Niken's face reddened and hid her face in the back of Kazuto, "But please aware that we are still here. Moreover, you do realize we are in the middle of a critical discussion, right?"

Kazuto scoffed at that remark and hugged his inamorata protectively.

"Come on, Izzy, don't be jealous of them." Scarlet teased her.

"What? Who's jealous? I'm not!"

Lionel cleared his throat to prevent a useless debate that might not end well if nobody stopped them. "Alright, so if there are no more questions, why don't we enjoy to the fullest today. Tomorrow we will have a long journey and for you guys, there will be hard training from him. So enjoy the day."

"Yes, sir."

Lionel and Danzel go out to a place while the others plan to hold a small celebration for their farewell party for Niken and Kazuto.

"Danzel, do you feel it?" Lionel asked while looking back, where their new friends were chatting.

"You mean Yuki? Yes, I feel it. But I don't know whether her strength is that one which had found her source or her basic energy. Strangely, I feel some magic in her. She was not only an Elementalist knight, but she was also a wizard."

"She was a mix-blood Zeed." came the answer from Lionel.

"What? How do you know?"

"She claimed my master as her inamorato."

"Master Zephyr? Isn't he also mix-blood Zeed?"

"Yes, he is."

"Lionel, this is far beyond our imagination. Mix-blood Zeed as Elementalist knight and the mo spirit who was once loyal to the royal family now want the girl's power, all of these things were not the one predicted by Finnick."

"I know. Many things had changed. And I don't have the answer to how things could change like this." Lionel stared at the sky with a blank expression. "We could only do our best for upcoming battle."

Danzel couldn't agree more.