Hello everyone! Here's the next chapter and hope you all enjoy the small time jump. This chapter will not be a start of tragedy just something that might be tragic. Tragedy usually means someone dying and leaving a scar on someone while tragic just means extreme distress or sorrow... at least in my understanding of it.

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A couple months passed by after Arthur gave me that letter. I assured him that it won’t happen again. Alex and I slept in our own rooms after that.

Arthur still kept on teaching us swordsplay. I got to the point where I could finally beat Alex once out of every fifty duels. I lost a lot of times but being able to beat Alex every now and then was alright.

Alex was doing well in his magic training. Not as impressive as mine but he was still fairly impressive. He also grew a little. He grew a couple inches and was now taller than I was. He also gained a bit more muscle because of the training from Arthur.

Sasha was the same as usual. We began dating the week I got that letter. I say we began because we never did before even though we were engaged. There was a small town nearby called Rouland and we went there every weekend, just the two of us… and her father’s guards. We spent each weekend being together and I slowly fell in love with her.

Kaiser became famous at school. He was well known as the school flirt and when I told him this he said that he didn’t know or noticed anything like that. Even though he was known as a player, he himself didn’t know and was actually pretty shy about it.

Ralph still kept his classes harsh. Running up the mountain was no longer a pain as he reduced the distance but after we would have to swim from one end of a nearby lake to the other and back all the while carrying some sort of floats. It was difficult to swim like that but he made us do it. He increased the number of floats every day so we never got used to it.

Incidents such as the fight between the nobles and the commoners rarely ever occurred anymore. If any they were usually about petty things like stealing homework. The closest thing to the fight was when they accused each other of being cheaters.

The answer key to some test was missing and the nobles blamed the commoners for stealing it. This resulted in a shouting match between the two and before it escalated it was stopped by the Magus.

Speaking of the Magus, they gave me a letter almost the next day after receiving my father’s letter. It had the same content that my father had already told me so I skimmed it and placed it away.

In my case, I grew taller and have some muscles developing. Shorter than Alex, I stood at a height of 3 feet and 6 inches. Even though my blessings made me learn combat moves faster it still wasn’t enough to match Alex’s earlier training. I did however manage to use Acolyte ranked spells of all the affinities except for time and space.

Adept level was what I was practicing right now. It was a Saturday and Alex, Sasha, Kaiser, and I would be going to Rouland and have lunch there. Right now it was nearly time to gather but I wanted to train as much as I could.

I created a nice training spot behind the mansion that I created with magic. I made plateau as high as the trees around me and created a crater in the plateau. Along one side was filled with scorchmarks as it was my target area. I would create stone dummies from the earth and I would hit them with my magic.

I was practicing the Adept level spell, ‘Fire Wave’. I gathered the Fire mana into my hands and when it was enough I casted it. The Fire mana burst into the ground and created a surge of flames headed towards one of the stone dummies in front of me.

When it hit the dummy it burst and scattered rocks all around. This particular ‘Fire Wave’ had Nature magic on it. The Spectrum affinities uses the same mana as the Primordial affinities but with a small amount of Spectrum mana inside. This caused the ‘Fire Wave’ to have a burst effect.

Satisfied, I gathered mana again for a different spell when I heard a voice say, “Zed, its time to go!”

“Alright!” I called back stopping the flow of mana and running to my room. My clothes for the outing were already set for me and I just changed as quickly as I could.

I went out the front door wearing a black and blue clean shirt and my new white pants courtesy of Sasha. Alex and the rest were outside waiting for me and as I entered their sight, Sasha wrapped her left arm on my right.

“You’re late,” she said with a pouty expression. She wore a pink frilly dress and a haircomb made of a jadelike material that I gave her.

“I’m sorry,” I said, “I was training.”

“You’re always training,” said Alex grinning. He wore a green shirt and brown pants.

“Don’t make my sister wait so long,” said Kaiser with his hand pointed at me and his face threatening, “I may approve of your engagement but that doesn’t mean that I’ll let her go easily.” He wore a plain white shirt with black pants.

After saying that we all started walking to Rouland as we talked about we could do there after eating.

Alex suggested to watch a tournament that they were having. The tournament was a ranking tournament, the only way, a warrior could rank up. Alex and I didn’t bother to do it as Arthur told us that if we would rank up only when he tells us we could.

Kaiser suggested that we fight each other at the dome again. Of course saying also that Sasha was not allowed to fight. Sasha got mad at that and punched her brother saying that he was only afraid of losing to her.

Sasha, after calming down, suggested that we separate after our lunch and do our own thing. She probably wanted to go sit at our tree and relax there.

Since Sasha was my fiancée, naturally I supported her. Because of that we decided to do what we wanted after our lunch. Alex would go to watch the tournament, Kaiser would go duel some random people, and Sasha and I would go to our private spot and relax.

We had lunch at the most popular restaurant in Rouland, ‘The Knight’s Decree’. It looked a bit rundown outside but inside it rivaled a palace in decorations. Right now we were at the atrium behind the front doors where a counter was in front of us and a woman was behind it.

We came up and she said smiling, “Welcome to ‘The Knight’s Decree’, what may we do you my lords and my lady.”

“We have a reservation under Rammert,” said Alex nonchalantly.

Her expression changed to shock but then recovered and said bowing, “Of course, right this way.”

She left her post and led us through a set of doors through the left. The inside was as spectacular as ever. Sasha and I always started our dates here. The inside was separated into different rooms. Each room only had one table which ensured privacy from anyone.

The restaurant was popular amongst couples, families and most importantly nobles. Since they usually catered to nobles, the interior designs would naturally look like a palace. It was owned by a noble who rose to that rank by being a merchant and was indebted to the Rammert family.

Just by using Alex’s family name, we were always able to come here and eat for free.

She led us to the Rammert private room. It was made specially for any member of the Rammert family under orders from the owner. It was made to be the largest room in the restaurant and had wonderful paintings decorating it. Vases filled with different types of flowers were to each side of a painting.

The center was a large round table that could fit forty people at once. We stat close to each other. Alex sat to my left while Sasha sat at my right. Kaiser took the spot to the right of her sister.

Before our host left, we ordered each our food. Alex ordered a steak, Kaiser ordered a fish, while Sasha and I ordered something akin to spaghetti for the two of us.

She left bowing and closing the door and we descended to talking. Minutes later the door opened and in came our food. Alex and Kaiser ate with gusto while Sasha and I ate slowly.

Soon enough they both finished and said they wanted to get started to what they were doing as soon as possible. We nodded and Alex left with Kaiser.

When they left she softly said, “Thank you.”

I looked at her cute and happy face and I said, “I should be the one to thank you.”

We stared at each other for some time when bursting in came Alex.

We looked at Alex and saw that he was ragged and tired looking. A small trail of blood leaked from his left temple and I immediately stood up going to him and guided him to sit at a chair and asked, “What happened?”

“They took Kaiser!” he said after gasping a bit.

Sasha brought her hands to her face and screamed.

After making sure that Alex was leaning back to the chair, I ran to Sasha, hugged her while rubbing her back and said, “Its going to be alright.”

She calmed down after a while and I saw that a crowd was gathering outside our room. I looked sharply at them and they all left. I helped Sasha stand up, looked at Alex and said, “Can you stand or do you need help?”

“I’m okay,” he said standing.

I nodded and led us out of the restaurant and try to get a carriage to get us home.

All the time as we rode back on the carriage I was thinking of who would take Kaiser. I didn’t want to ask Alex yet since Sasha was crying while leaning on me.

When we got back, I told Alex to go back to the mansion and helped Sasha to her dormitory. Her dorm mother saw us and took her from me and said, “I’ve got it. Thank you Prince Zed.”

I nodded at her and ran back to the mansion to question Alex.

It was a little over three right now and also a couple hours since Kaiser was apparently kidnapped.

When I got to the mansion, Arthur was gone as he had to participate as a judge at the tournament. Alex was in the living room laying down on the couch, one of his arms over his eyes and the other pointed at the ground

I stood across from him and asked, “What happened?”

He recounted to me what happened just minutes after they left.

They got out of the restaurant and Kaiser invited him to have a duel. When he said no, Kaiser left running back to the school when people with black robes and cowls surrounded him and took him.

Alex tried to chase after them but one of them stayed behind and slashed at him with a sword. Alex dodged but he didn’t notice that he had another sword aimed at him.

Alex got hit with the blunt edge on his left temple and he fell rougly on the ground. Alex was stunned for a moment but that was enough for the black robed men to run away with Kaiser.

After finishing his story, Alex cried and I left, angry, heading to my room and wrote a letter.

I knew that I wouldn’t be able to do this on my own so I had to get help. I had to let the my father know so that I could get help on this matter.

I wrote the letter and sent it and made sure that Alex’s wounds healed by casting healing magic and waited for Arthur.

My father will definitely help but it would take a while so I needed to get Arthur’s help so that I could do something immediately.

It was night when Arthur came back and saw us in the living room. He looked worried and I told him what happened. He looked shocked and he said he would help me. He grew to like Kaiser and his willingness to fight.

“I have friends nearby, they will certainly be of help,” he said going out the door, “stay inside until I get back. When I do, get ready as we’re going to rescue Kaiser from them.”

He closed the door leaving Alex and I in the living room. Alex was sleeping on the couch and so I had Chronos lift him up and carry him to his room.

While he was doing that I said, “Malakir… why did this happen?”

“They must’ve found out…”

“What’s going to happen to Kaiser?” I asked, my eyes moistening.

“I don’t know.”

“Are they going to kill him?”

“…most likely…”

“I swear! I will save Kaiser! He doesn’t deserve what happened to him, I will save him! Malakir will you help me?” I asked raising my voice and my anger raging.

“Its not our problem. This is an internal issue of the Lunaria Federation. There is no reason for you a prince of the Rigel Kingdom to do anything.”

“Malakir! I asked if you will help me!” I said angrily.

“… I am your summon. You are my master, anything you wish is my duty to do so.”

“Then why do you question my actions!”

“Because this will cause an international problem.”

“So?! Kaiser is my friend more than that he is my fiancée’s brother. Illegitimate or not this is my problem as well!”

“…”

“So again I ask, will you help me Malakir?” I asked my voice a lot more calm but still angry, “I have to save him.”

“I will follow you even if the world calls you demon.”

“Thank you,” I said gathering Ethereal mana around me.

“The first spell,” I said when the mana was enough, “Advent!”

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Q: Will there be yaoi?

A: No, just a confused Alex, trying to find what he wants

Q: Is Alex a girl?

A: Alex is a guy

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