She was probably the first person in the same rank who managed to give him the run for the money... Well, he did play a farce with the broom and hadn't used any void energy lest it destroyed the broom. But she similarly suppressed him through sheer skills, without using her energy.
"Good thing you hadn't drawn your energy against her," Caleb said. "If you did, your defeat would have been totally unsightly."
Warden raised an eyebrow, asking what was that about.
"Her power makes any kind of attack of energy obsolete," Milia said from the embrace of her brother. "Most people cannot even land a blow on the captain. You can be proud of your accomplishment."
Then he recalled something he was meaning to ask, but forgot about it. She was probably the Agnes he had heard from Jason, considering their description of power was similar.
"Your Captain... I mean Captain Agnes," Warden said, clearing his thoughts. "How old is she?"
Caleb frowned at him.
"I mean," Warden coughed before they thought he was some kind of pervert. "From a friend, I heard about someone like her... wondering if they are the same person..."
Warden didn't know what else to say. The reverence and loyalty they had for the captain was deep, he didn't want them to have the wrong impression.
"Maybe," Milia answered. "Captain Agnes is somewhat famous. She won the Interschool tournament in her years after all."
"Hmm," Warden hummed, considering. If that made sense, then Jason and Anges should be about the same age.
Unfortunately, it was incredibly hard to discern one's age through their exterior... Still, considering the time dilation of this place, she could be anywhere between twenty to three years of age... she could be more, though Warden believed she should have advanced to Silver if she had that much of time.
Now, Warden couldn't help but wonder what kind of crime she could have caused to be drafted to the 16th infantry... Just the 6 years of mandatory service wouldn't land her as captain of the convicted infantry as far as he was concerned.
His contemplation went nowhere, so he discards it. And neither did he ask anything more... not that he wasn't curious... just the he felt it was wrong to ask these behind someone's back.
Warden shook his head.
"You want more..." Caleb shot a resigned look, wondering if repairing the spear would be worth it, considering he always had little energy to spare.
"No... you don't have to give me the credits," Warden said. "You're a Spear Master, correct? You can repay me just by sparring."
Caleb narrowed his eyes.
"Perhaps you have already seen, it hasn't awakened my Intent for long... there's still many things for me to learn."
"And you want to learn through sparring?" Caleb asked.
"Isn't that the way of the spear?" Warden gleamed.
Caleb met his eyes and laughed out loud. "Deal."
"Okay, give me some time, I'll fix your spear."
Warden got to work, unlaying all the scripts presented in Caleb's spear. he began connecting the eroded runes to the shell formation. The work wasn't much, considering only a few eroded runes could make the faulty formation faulty. But considering, Caleb had used this pear without repairing it for years, there were hundreds of faulty and eroded runes.
Warden wiped them and drew new ones. to work on tier-4 runes wasn't stressful and even less so when repairing. He was done in just ten minutes.
"Done," he said, handing the spear to Caleb. By the time, the captain and Kevin were back.
Surprisingly, they have surrounded him with their weapons in hand, as if waiting for him to repair their weapons.
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