Daimon saw Aura’s cute tail wagging as she pressed her lips against his, after a couple of minutes she was completely blushed, while Daimon was intertwining his tongue with hers, but before things could get serious, he stopped.
“Mm?”.
Aura gave Daimon an interrogating gaze, she was starting to get in the mood when he suddenly stopped the kiss.
“I have to return to the class and you also have a lot of work to do right?”.
Aura had an unconvinced expression, she looked at the bunch of papers on her desk and sighed.
“You better spoil me later, the bodyguard I got you has an extra benefit which she didn’t mention… the fact that she has allied with us is a direct insult towards the Jolbaris”.
Daimon saw the wild smile in Aura’s face and he was glad that she was his lover and not his enemy.
“Why?”, he asked.
Aura chuckled before answering, “Because she is the new target chosen by the Jolbaris to be Alexander’s wife, unlike before, this time it isn’t Artur Jolbaris, but his wife the one that is in charge of wedding matters though”.
Although Stella didn’t mention it, how could Aura as the ancestor of a family that is openly in conflict with the Jolbaris be aware of every notice, rumor and gossip about them.
On the surface it hasn’t been officially declared that Stella will marry Alexander because they didn’t want to repeat the same mistake, last time Arthur Jolbaris was so sure that Erin would accept his marriage proposal that he announced it, so when he got rejected both father and son were humiliated.
Carmela Jolbaris on the other hand remained silent… at least until she was sure Stella will fall in the hands of her son, unfortunately for Carmela, among the information gathered by Ereman’s spies in the underworld, it was written that Alexander has been asking for a slave from the snow leopard tribe.
Which alone didn’t mean anything, everyone has its preferences after all, but if you add that to the fact that Stella hates Carmela Jolbaris, then it wasn’t hard to guess, the one being targeted by her is Stella.
Daimon’s eyes glowed, he kissed Aura one last time as he praised her.
“I thought my cute Aura hated schemes, but you are pretty much good at it too, if that woman tries something funny, we can use this against her”.
Aura had a proud smile as she accepted his caresses.
“Of course, we are talking about the security of my only disciple and future husband, so of course I found someone who can’t betray you no matter what happens”.
After sharing another passionate kiss, Daimon left Aura’s office, on the way back to the restaurant he had a grin which made everyone that saw him move aside to not get in his way.
“That woman is probably thinking she can remain neutral and just let me do the dirty work, what a shame, it would be an insult for a predator like me to be taken advantage of… if I’m not wrong the snow leopard tribe has a decent amount of peak Arch ranked, it will be a good addition to our forces”.
Inside the library, Stella was reading a book when she felt a slight shiver running through her body, she looked at every direction trying to find out if she was being observed, but she didn’t notice anything.
“Maybe it was just my imagination”, she thought as she continued reading her book.
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The meeting did take a bit of time so when he arrived at the restaurant everyone had already finished eating, Daimon handed Aisha his token so Boris was sitting next to Aliya as he ate a piece of grilled meat.
Boris gulped down his food, he took the place and then stood up.
“Let’s go brats, we don’t have time to lose so your training has to continue”.
Surprisingly no one complained even Calvin looked rather serious, as soon as Boris found them, he told them that the next week the competition to decide the participants and who will be leading will be held.
Although Aura handed the badge to Daimon because she was completely sure he was going to win, Boris didn’t know the extent of Daimon’s battle prowess, so in his mind there was still a chance for Alexander to win.
Boris guided them to the training grounds, while they were walking Daimon felt Aisha and Liz gaze’ piercing him, but he feigned ignorance.
“I wonder why did that old man returned but you still took a few minutes, on which I’m pretty sure you were alone with Aura”, mumbled Liz.
“What are you saying Liz, my darling probably just walked slower and that’s why he arrived later”.
Seeing the smile which wasn’t a smile in Aisha’s face, Daimon dragged them both closer to him.
“Ahem, I just stayed back because Aura had some thing which couldn’t be mentioned while other people was there… we’ll talk about this later okay?”.
Satisfied with his answer bot Aisha and Liz smiled and hugged his arms tightly, making others envious of their lovely scene, especially Calvin which looked as is he was about to cry, as he saw Loren walking next to the Risha sisters instead of being all clingy with him.
Michael chuckled at Calvin.
“Once you become as strong as Daimon, then you will naturally be as surrounded by girls, just like him”.
Calvin sighed remembering the scene back at the frozen fields when they were useless at the hour of the truth.
“Shrimp, we need to become stronger, else I won’t be able to show my face to my old man”.
Michael felt a vein popping on hic neck, his short stature was a sour point for him.
“I told you to not call me that you Calvin bastard… but you are right on the other part, to be honest I never thought I will be admiring someone from the same generation as me, I guess there is always a higher mountain”.
Boris was noticed there was a different vibe ongoing for Calvin and Michael, since they returned from the training at the frozen fields, which he wrongly attributed to Richard’s methods.
Once they arrived at the training grounds, Boris sat on the floor and didn’t say anything, to everyone’s surprise the one giving the training class this time was none other than Yvonne’s mother.
Irina got up the platform and then started her lesson.
“This lesson was going to be reserved for when you all have some time to get to know each other better, but given the urgency of the situation, we will skip a few steps”.
Irina waved her hand at Yvonne and she also got up the platform and stood next to her mother.
“Your teacher previously explained you about elemental resonance, an advanced technique which only those talented people can dominate, so I’m going to explain you the other side of the coin”.
Irina smiled before she continued with her explanation.
“Do you know why the army is so feared even when most of its members doesn’t come from high ranked noble families?”.
No one answered, with the exception of Yvonne which is Richard’s granddaughter none of them had any relation with the army after all.
Irina raised her hands, in the left one there was a single orb of darkness floating, on the other one there were a few beads of darkness slowly rotating.
“Quantity and Quality”.
“The army represents quantity and the academies represent quality… while the academy focuses on selecting and supporting the crème of the crop, the army is not as elitist, they share the resources evenly, of course the higher the rank the more resources, but ranks are earned”.
Noticing she was divagating, Irina exchanged gazes with her daughter, they held hands and then pointed at the sky above Daimon and the others, before they both shouted at the same time.
“Nightmare canopy!”.
Yvonne’s hands glowed with a dark light before a black veil covered about fifty meters of the training grounds, making Leslie and Liliana a bit surprised, they knew this spell which is exclusive to the night sparrow clan.
Leslie’s eyes sparkled.
“Incredible, Yvi is only a peak one-star mage, so her nightmare canopy should only cover at most twenty meters, how come it more than doubled its size!”.
Irina had a proud smile while she looked at her daughter.
“This the counterpart of elemental resonance, something created for and by commoners, “Team spell”, it allows two mages with the same affinities to amplify a spell of their choice, this nightmare canopy should only cover about forty meters even at its two-star ranked version, and Yvonne surpassed that”.
Daimon was particularly interested in this team spell mentioned by Irina
“Unlike elemental resonance the same persona had to dominate two spells to complement them, this team spell thing seems easier to dominate… specially by those with a good understanding of each other and the same affinity”.
Irina and Yvonne are mother and daughter, they both are part of the night sparrow clan and they both have darkness affinity, so it was easy for them to do it, Daimon stole a couple of glances at Aisha and saw her also staring at him, making him notice they both had the same idea.
In terms of lightning they were as compatible as possible after all.