“What happened to him?”
“I don’t know, he lost consciousness the moment he entered the place”
“Hmmm”
Blake looked at the unconscious Grey the man held in his arms.
Seeing Grey’s identification, the instructor took Grey to Blake the moment he lost consciousness.
“Okay, you can leave now”
Blake said before taking Grey in another direction.
Some moments later…
Chris looked at the unconscious Grey and couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
“Leave”
Blake dropped Grey on the bed before heading out of the room.
“Although his injuries are bad, it’s not a challenge since he’s still alive”
Chris said as he placed his hand on the body of the unconscious Grey.
Blake stood outside the room and saw a white light flash in the room. He squinted his eyes and looked on with interest.
‘So the rumors are true, he truly is a Light Elementalist’
Blake had always known Chris for his Dual Elements which are fire and wind, but there was this one time he heard a rumor among the higher-ups in the Academy when he just became the head instructor of the Lightning Hall. It was said Chris was a Multi Elementalist, he not only had the fire and wind element, but he also had the extremely rare Light element.
Although the rumor has been on for a long time, it still hasn’t been confirmed.
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Back at the alley
The girl managed to stand up and picked up her dagger which Grey managed to remove from his shoulder before leaving. The injury in her back was painful, but that was the least of her issues right now. She was still replaying what happened in her mind.
‘How did he dodge it?’
Given her experience, she knew her target couldn’t evade from that distance. After careful thinking, she recalled something.
‘I froze’
Now she knew the cause, she froze when the dagger was about to pierce through Grey’s chest. Even though it wasn’t up to a second, it was enough for Grey to move so his vitals wouldn’t be hit.
It was something that some people might not even notice since it felt like she was paused just before the dagger hit.
She quickly left the place and went back with a confused mind.
The only student who wasn’t struck by the attack first stared in the direction Grey fled towards, before staring in the direction of the figure who appeared out of nowhere and almost killed Grey who has also left the alley.
The student whose arm was detached screamed in pain on seeing his arm a couple of meters away from where he was sitting. Only the Water Elementalist who was the strongest of the group wasn’t badly hurt, but he was still bleeding from his hands nonetheless.
He looked at his comrades and couldn’t help but feel a little twinge of regret, but since he wasn’t the one whose arm was detached, he quickly got over it.
“Get him up, we should head back and report this to the instructors. Those bastards from the Lunar Academy sneaked attacked us”
He said gritting his teeth.
They all thought it was a sneak attack since they didn’t see Grey attacking. But they were all still surprised they didn’t see or even sense the presence of the students who attacked them.
The student whose arm was detached picked up his arm with his other hand and the more he was looking at the arm, the more rage, hatred, regret, and tears were flowing from his eyes. This was not how it was supposed to end, they would have beaten Grey badly or even killed him. But now, Grey escaped, although injured, he escaped. They on the other hand got multiple injuries, and he got it worse with one of his arm cut off his body.
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On getting to the residence designated for the Starlight Academy, the students rushed over to their instructors and told them about the attack they faced, with the injuries they sustained, it wasn’t hard for the instructors believed it completely. Of course, they said they were sneaked attacked by the students from the Lunar Academy when they were on their way home.
The instructors knew they were lying, but they didn’t really care. This was an opportunity for them to get rid of Grey. According to the students, Grey was the one who blocked their path, when they tried reasoning with him, the other students attacked from behind, they didn’t see the others and Grey was the only one they saw.
The instructors dismissed them before starting a meeting.
“They’ll have to hand over that brat to us if they don’t want to start a war”
“Such audacity, to think they had the guts to attack our students in the city. This is breaking the rules of the city, we should report this to the emperor if they refuse to hand over the boy and his accomplices to us”
The instructors of the Starlight Academy starting planning on which actions to take.
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Back to the Lunar Academy
Chris walked out of the room and glanced at Blake who was seemingly lost in thoughts.
“What are you thinking about?”
Blake was startled and looked at Chris. He couldn’t help himself anymore and asked,
“Are you also a Light Elementalist?”
Chris’s facial expression didn’t change before he asked,
“Why are you asking if you already know?”
This statement was the confirmation Blake needed to affirm his eyes didn’t play any tricks on him. He couldn’t help but look at Chris again, he had always felt great respect towards this man who had an eccentric character, now he found out he was not just a Dual Elementalist, but a Multi Elementalist. The shocking fact of it all was that his last element was one of the two extremely rare elements, the Light element.
Although Lightning Elementalists were rare, compared to Light and Darkness Elementalists, they could be said to be very plentiful.