In the academy, third year zone, personalized training room.
From the very emptiness of the room, a crack of reality suddenly appeared, a crack that gradually grew bigger and bigger...
After a few seconds, the crack finally became a big hole, a hole that, if you stared at it, anyone would realize that the hole was of absolute darkness; it had no bottom.
After that, the hole just sat there, motionless, floating in the air, until...
Suddenly, three figures came out of that hole, a beautiful green-eyed woman riding a shadow eagle, a woman with black hair and intimidating dark armor, and a man with eyes of different colors, the left one a shade of crimson and the right one black.
Camila, Luna, and Theos.
"Finally, we're back," sighed Luna wearily.
Theos nodded. In truth, he didn't want to spend much more time there... 'Wait, time... In that place, didn't it move faster in time?', Theos recalled, having a bad feeling in his mind.
"Camilla, in the forest of treasures, is there a difference in time compared to this Realm?", Theos asked.
Hearing Theos' question, Camila replied calmly. "Yes, although I don't know the difference exactly, it is certain here that 2 days have already passed," she stated.
Such a statement made Luna's eyes widen in surprise. Instead, Theos could only shake his head.
"Well, it is what it is, I just can't remember everything in luxurious detail sometimes," he muttered to himself.
Fixating on Luna, Theos put a hand on her shoulder. "You missed about 3 days of school, I hope you don't get expelled," he chuckled.
Luna could only stand there, wanting to cry but with no tears to shed.
Theos could only comfort her for a while, after all, he is the heir of the most powerful family in the world. On these occasions, he could help Luna so that the Academy wouldn't give her such a severe punishment or directly she wouldn't be expelled.
Upon learning this, Luna visibly calmed down, now being more relaxed.
The next moment, though, her calmness was gone, replaced by alertness when Camila spoke:
"Luna, can I borrow Theos for a few minutes? I need to talk to him about something," she commented, her expression as cold and indifferent as ever.
"What do you want to talk to him about?" asked Luna immediately.
Camila didn't respond for several seconds, silence settling in.
It wasn't until after several dozen seconds that Camila answered, "I want to know about certain things he did and also, propose something to him."
Hearing such words, Luna wanted to refuse, however, Theos subtly beckoned her to agree.
For a few seconds, she was conflicted about whether to heed Theos or her instinct not to leave him alone with Camilla. In the end, she could only click her tongue.
Camila did not know if this was due to his great luck or if he was a genius beyond all expectations and imagination.
Inwardly she was in shock, but outwardly, she was as calm as ever.
"Well, however, you do know that they saw us, don't you? They're possibly looking for us now and especially if they know we took some of their most prized potions and a weapon from there."
Camila's words caught Theos' attention. That ending of 'we took some of their most precious potions and a weapon from there', left a lot of doubts in him, as well as curiosity.
'They took a weapon from there? Not even in the original novel did Camila take a weapon from there so quickly...', Theos recalled.
At this point, he decided to ask the questions.
"What gun exactly did you get?" he asked.
Camila narrowed her eyes more. "I'll show it to you, but first answer what I had told you earlier," she replied.
Theos thought carefully, this question could be answered honestly or with a myriad of lies. No one, or at least almost no one, knew about his Path of Oblivion. Only Luna had seen him only once.
Theos sighed. "Yes, I know very well that they saw us, but they won't look for them."
"Oh, and why are you so sure of that?" she asked suspiciously.
With a smile, Theos replied. "That's for several reasons, first, the holy dragon doesn't remember me at all, just like it doesn't remember you and Luna, so you can rest assured," after a brief pause, he continued.
"And secondly, the other dragons, although they saw me, I killed a few, or rather, they killed themselves as they couldn't control their traumas and memories.
Those who remained alive could not see me clearly for several reasons: the main one is that I escaped with an explosion, flying at high speed, and another reason is so because of the wounds I had; my whole body was burned and serious wounds, being almost unrecognizable."
At this explanation, Camila could only nod. 'Actually, it's quite a lengthy explanation, with logic, minus the first thing he said. 'How come that the holy dragon doesn't remember us,' Camila wondered mentally.
But she didn't keep asking, she already knew that if Theos didn't explain more about that topic, it was because he didn't want to reveal it.
And she wasn't so much stronger than Theos that she could force him.
If Theos survived against that Sacred Dragon and killed several lesser Dragons, she couldn't know who would win a battle between the two.
Even though she is at the rank of Grand Master, Theos also proves to be at that level of strength even though he is officially a Master.
'No doubt someone with many mysteries,' she concluded.
With all this said, she proceeded to draw the sword she had gotten from the Godria.
Unaware of the sword, by simply sensing Theos' presence, she did something unimaginable.
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