Chapter 240 Not Among

"So you don't have any ability," Ciara said as she shot an arrow far into the forest.

"Yeah," Luis said, watching her closely.

"At least you have good skills to make up for it," Ciara said, bringing her bow down.

"Can I try something?" Luis said slowly, turning his gaze to her bow.

He had been watching her practice her shooting for a while and just wanted to see how well he would do with a bow and arrow.

"Are you sure? The sword seems to be more of your thing." Ciara said.

"I know, I just want to try," Luis said.

"Ok," Ciara said quickly, handing him the bow.

Luis took the bow from her and stretched his hand for her to hand him an arrow.

"Oh right, an arrow," Ciara said, pulling out an arrow from her arrow pack and giving it to him.

Luis took the arrow from her and fitted it into the bow, he raised the bow toward one of the large branches and pulled the arrow back with the help of the string.

"Be careful, my first shot…." Ciara suddenly stopped as she watched the arrow fly toward the branch stabbing into it and staying there.

She had her gaze up as she stared at the arrow for a while before slowly turning to Luis.

"This isn't your first time using a bow and arrow." She said,

"If you put it that way," Luis said, giving her back her bow. "It isn't, I used to practice with a long green bow I found in my room before my aunt took it away from me."

Talking about his aunt had triggered mixed feelings of anger and sadness in him as he turned away from Ciara to hide the look on his face.

"You had a green bow?" Ciara said.

"I used to have it before my aunt took it away from me," Luis said, clenching his fists.

"Oh, I suppose your aunt isn't the nicest of people," Ciara said.

"No, she isn't," Luis said.

'Come on Luis don't spoil your mood with something that's in the past.' Lena said.

"My father also isn't the nicest of people, he broke my bow when I was ten because he thought it wasn't a good enough soul weapon," Ciara said. "But it's really nothing to feel bad about as long as I got to keep my choice of soul weapon."

Luis tried to shake off every thought of his aunt in his mind as he turned back to Ciara.

"So do you want to go a few rounds with me?" She asked, raising her bow with an awkward smile.

"A few rounds?" Luis said.

"Yeah, like a rematch," Ciara said.

"If we are to have a rematch isn't it supposed to happen in the arena?" Luis asked.

"It isn't an official rematch but I'll take it as one if I beat you," Ciara said.

"Ok," Luis said.

"Don't even think about holding back because I won't." She said as she pulled out two arrows from her arrow pack and fitted them into her bow.

Luis quickly equipped his flaming sword as both flaming swords came flying towards.

He quickly raised the sword and used it to slash down both arrows.

Ciara didn't stop shooting her arrows as she pulled out the last three arrows from her pack and shot them all at Luis at the same time.

He avoided the first arrow by quickly moving out of the way before it hit him and then slashed down the remaining two with his sword.

"I guess I'm out of arrows now," Ciara said, dropping her bow.

"What about those arrows you summoned at the arena?" Luis asked.

"It's going to take a while before I can do that again," Ciara said as water began to form in both of her hands.

'That's the part I am most excited about in this fight.' Luis thought as he got ready to block the attack.

Ciara blasted him with water blasts coming from both of her hands and with the help of his water ability he reduced the force of the blasts as he was getting pushed back a little but there was a problem.

'Why aren't my water ability points increasing?' He complained looking at his system screen.

[ 0/60 water ability points ]

He had noticed something like this back at the arena but the water blast didn't last for him to make a big deal out of it.

'What's going on Lena?' Luis asked as he was still getting pushed back by the water blast but still there.

'I don't know, I don't control the activities of the system, remember.' Lena said.

He let out a sigh as he rolled out of the water blast's direction after pushing it back a little.

Ciara tried to follow him with her water blast but he was faster than her as he quickly made his way to her and turned her hands away before pushing her to the ground.

Ciara raised her head to see a sword pointed at her.

"I've got you now," Luis said.

Knocking her out would have been easier and would have given him some exp but then he would have to wait for her to wake up or carry her back to her dorm room.

"Really?" Ciara said as she spotted her bow beside her.

"Huh?"

She quickly grabbed the bow and used it to knock Luis off his feet before quickly climbing on top of him and forming a water blade near his throat.

"Now who's got who?" She said with a smirk.

"Ciara."

Ciara quickly turned her gaze to the side to see that her two friends had entered the area and judging by the looks on their faces they were really confused by what they were seeing now.

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Ace was lying on his bed still sleeping when the door was suddenly pulled open waking him.

He turned his gaze to the door to see that it was Dylan who had entered the room.

He hissed and was about to turn away and continue his sleep when he spotted his swollen eye.

"What happened to you?" He asked.

"I got attacked and beaten by some students," Dylan replied after a while.

"Great, you deserve it, I'm just a bit disappointed you didn't return in a bloody mess just like the time you went back to that warehouse." Ace said.

"That would have been the case," Dylan said.

"That would have been the case if Luis had not shown up to help me." Saying that Dylan felt his heart crumbling into many pieces and then put together in a fragile way just to be hammered with a sledgehammer.

Ace was quiet for quite a while as he tried to comprehend what Dylan had just said.

"Luis showed up to help you?"

"Yes," Dylan said.

"Why?" Ace said, biting his lips.

If there were people that needed help from Luis in this world to him Dylan was no longer among them.

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