Three days passed since they had escaped the military squad. Now the group was finally calming down and relaxing just a bit. Gerry had told them they should be safe as long as they wore the rings and they didn’t use magic in public. Apparently, they couldn’t go with him because his magic power is too vast and impossible to hide for an extended period. With four youngsters to protect his situation would become a lot more difficult.

They planned to finally go and get a hotel room. For the last three days, they had been on the road for most of the time. They slept in the car and only went to the nearby towns for fuel, which they would bring in a jerry can, and food.

But now they were far enough away from the coast it was time to properly set up. The last couple of days the group had been talking about the situation and everything that had happened since the school got attacked and they came to a couple of conclusions.

The first had to do with the attack on the school. Decorus was the second most powerful school on the central continent, and it had the third most students overall, a little less than The Academy.

Decorus had two main beliefs that differed from The Academy. The first was that the main purpose of magic is combat. Even in the first couple of grades, Decorus’s students were quite skilled in combat. A good example were the golems they used to attack them. The Decorus students themselves were in no danger but could still present a large threat.

The second belief of Decorus was that magus and bloodlines were one. Those with bloodlines were superior compared to those without. Because of this ideal Decorus was known for doing an absurd amount of experiments to get bloodlines into their students. Even though this failed most of the time, sometimes resulting in death, this was still a huge reason why they were so popular, they had the highest percentage of students who would end up nobles.

Of course, there were also negatives in both these points. Decorus barely has any students that know non-combat arts such as enchanting and magic arrays, the fundamentals of magic also don’t really get explained properly.

When they looked back on it now, it was clear the teachers knew of it, they even offered them to the second grade. But Villin just couldn’t figure out why the students weren’t evacuated, and neither were the treasures.

Once they got past everything that happened after they escaped the school they also realized a couple of things. The computer chat logs suggested they had a way of finding out when a mage enters the populated world, but since they only had the reading of a single magus, this was probably just Amelia, the other were too newly awakened.

Villin also recalled hearing someone say the three first years could barely be sensed by the Seeker, whatever that was.

Then came the situation with the vampires, after some guessing and with the bits of information Kayley had on her dad they came to a proper conclusion. Mages didn’t choose to live on their own, they were forced to. Magus weren’t the superior species, nor were men, it was vampires. It was likely they were actually in control of the mortal world and the true forces of men, at least in the central continent.

They also recalled hearing a ‘treaty’ being mentioned twice. This should refer to the separation of forces, mortals and magus staying away from each other. That being said, there should be some exceptions, after all, children of mortals still got invited to the magic schools regularly.

They got through everything and had a number of different conjectures about what actually happened in the past. Mortals didn’t seem to know about vampires which made it likely that, if there ever was a war, it was long ago.

They had several other theories and conjectures but these were the main parts they decided to see as fact.

And now, the group entered a different city. They bought a map in a town a bit ago and used that to find a decent place to stay. They saw Shaiko city was a city that was very well connected. There were a bunch of roads going there and millions upon millions of people lived there. Apparently, it was the third most populated city in the country. They decided on it because it would be easy to blend in, the rings should hide their magic ‘pulse’ so they believed it was best to be somewhere it would be hard to find someone.

The city was quite nice and very big. The buildings weren’t quite skyscrapers but were still about ten stories tall in most places. There were shops everywhere and it was surprisingly earth-like. The main difference was material, nearly every bit of furniture seemed to be made out of plastic, but it wasn’t something that was hard to get used to at all.

He was selected to go and buy them clothes as well. Rein and Kayley had never been in the mortal world and Amelia had a missing eye. Villin selected two pairs of basic clothes for all of them. This included jeans, casual shirts, and sneakers. He also decided to get hats and sunglasses for all of them, just in case.

The problem came when he went to the underwear section. He looked at the wall and saw a sea of bras. All of them were in different sizes, ranging from A to F and 10 to 90. Villin started stressing out after a bit, how the hell was he supposed to know which ones were good. Kayley and Amelie were still quite young but they already started developing quite decently, why couldn’t they just be flat!

He felt himself calm down again as a genius thought popped into his head. He could wait and see what woman took what bra and see how similar the woman that was buying was compared to Amelia and Kayley.

Twenty minutes later Villin finally got out of the store, the other three were getting quite worried cause he took so long. But when he got closer they got on alert again, he had a black eye and a bulge on his forehead.

Villin didn’t look them in the eye “I don’t want to talk about it.” then he threw the bag with clothes into the car before taking a seat within. He had been wronged.

He managed to find one that he figured would fit Kayley pretty easily since she was still quite flat but Amelia was more of a challenge. After fifteen minutes a woman of her size finally went up and grabbed one, but Villin hadn’t focused properly and had to go up to ask her what size she had. The lady seemed to believe he was a perv and mercilessly beat him with her bag until someone that worked at the establishment stopped her.

Villin sighed, why did he have such bad luck. The other three looked at him with an odd expression wondering what happened, but seeing as he wouldn’t talk Kayley started driving looking for a decent hotel to stay at.