Zephyr caresses every leaf creating soothing music on every ear that heard it.

The river flows the same as before. The only difference is that, in the midst of the running water, a sphere of winds floats over. Even if one looks closely, they will not be able to see what's inside.

No fluctuations of energy nor life to be detected inside. That's how formidable the sphere of winds is.

It rotates in an invisible speed that no one will be able to compete using their naked eyes.

Inside of it, a guardian sat silently, purifying her energy. Fluctuations of her energy coming in and out of her body like waves of a sea.

Her transparent golden wings showed signs of opacity as her another asterisk slowly but surely emerging at her wrist.

After sometimes, the little girl opened her eyes. Her deep black eyes before were now blue. The same hue of the morning sky.

"Finally," the girl gleefully murmured. She took glanced at her wrist. Seeing the four asterisks on it, she couldn't help but grin.

She raised her head and saw the beautiful sunrise cascading its glimmering rays over the city.

Outside of the sphere of winds, no one will be able to see what's inside, but inside of it, she can clearly see what's outside.

Though it took her a day of meditation to purify her energy, the little girl was satisfied with the result.

She didn't leave the sphere of winds immediately. Instead, she raised her hand and materialized a dozen of herbal medicines which float through the aid of her energy. One of the medicine was well known Jasmine all over the land.

She stood up and raised her hands creating a dust-like golden light from her energy as she stretched her left leg surging her golden energy at the tip of her toe. She bent her right leg, turned around creating a perfect circular formation.

The little girl sat again as she rested her hands to her knees and closed her eyes. She guided the medicines to circled around her using her energy. Through the energy of the medicines possessed, the little girl can tell its location and state.

At first, it was slow, but as time goes, it's speed was fast enough to blow her braided hair. But, of course, it was just nothing to the little girl as she continued what she was doing.

If one looks closely, they will be able to see the medicines were slowly squeezed to produce liquid, and they intermix to each other, but the speed of the winds hadn't reduced even just a little bit.

The excess solid of the medicines were reduced to smithereens, and it was also included in the mixture of liquid.

The mixture keeps turning and circling around the young girl until it became a perfect shape of a circle.

The little girl finally opened her eyes. She raised her hand and catch the pill slowly descending on her palm.

She scrutinized it. Perfect circle with patches of dots, clearly from the medicines that were reduced to smithereens. The smell of the Jasmine stood out.

She raised her head again only to see the darkness blanketing the sky.

"Half a day to make this one, huh! Having four asterisks isn't bad to try to make this one after all," the little girl murmured to herself.

The little girl materialized the same medicines and began to make the same pill.

...

Butuan Kingdom, Eastern Integrated School, Eastside

The group of Laz hadn't gone out to their quarters after they've arrived. Not because they can't, but because they were intimidating to the gazes of the native students of the kingdom.

Even the proud Dilaw could only look outside of his window. He now realized how little he thinks about the world.

Kalipsi visited them after hearing that these students with him hadn't explored the school yet.

He gathered them all to Laz quarter.

"Aren't you all going to go out and see the whole kingdom? It's been three days already."

Laz already asked that question to them but they were all just saying the same thing: it was better to stay than to go out there and meet enemy.

He raised this problem to Kalipsi who just laughed at it.

His laughed reverberated to the ears of the 24 students of the Lakan Family.

"_" students

"Did I say something funny?" Laz couldn't help but doubt his words earlier.

His schoolmates shook their head.

"No... You haven't said anything funny. I just remember the first time I get here." Kalipsi resisted his urge to laugh again. "It's just when I first came here, I ended up having an enemy already."

"_" 24 students

"Then... what happened?" Cite asked with high curiosity. They have been staying in their quarters after they arrived, so they haven't made any enemy so far. But the young man already face an enemy in just his first day of being admitted?

She wasn't the only curious one, but even the others.

Kalipsi looked at their eager eyes. "I'll tell you after we explore this school."

We?

The students of the Lakan Family simultaneously lit up their eyes.

It just means a thing, Kalipsi will accompany them.

"Shall we?" Kalipsi led the way out of the quarters.

Kalipsi showed them the different cla.s.srooms and platform of the east side.

As a former receptionist on an Artisan Hall, the Artisan cla.s.sroom caught the interest of Cite. The room was unimaginably big and was divided by two of a wooden wall. In front, the neatly lined up new made weapons glitter at her eyes. At the back of it where the forging of the weapons is done.

Then, he led the group outside the school and introduced the different halls to them which will be their future workplace.

...

Butuan Kingdom, Inside the palace

Sultan Alab opened up a letter. The content of it made him sigh deeply.

"Is the north gate has that much problem? Should I visit it?" Sultan Alab asked himself.

The letter was from the 2nd elder who was guarding the north gate. It says that the 2nd elder wouldn't be able to come back at any moment for there were things he needed to confirm outside the north gate and it will take him two weeks at most. He will miss the selection, but he said that he will definitely attend the compet.i.tion.

...

Butuan Kingdom, Residence of the 1st elder.

1st elder was reading the reports about the School guild and Beast Taming Guild he was handling.

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After sometimes of flipping through those doc.u.ments, a black shadow emerged from the darkness of the corner of his private library. The shadow didn't come into the light. It just stayed there seemingly waiting for instruction.

1st elder closed the doc.u.ments he was reading. He raised his head and eyed the shadow. "Report."

The shadow nodded gently. "I tracked every person involved and I found out their cold bodies underground." The shadow solemnly reported.

1st elder felt dismayed, but before he could give another order, the shadow continued his report that makes up his mind to dig deeper into the matter. "We've looked again at the place where you are ambushed." The shadow slipped his hand inside a pocket of his cloak. Using his energy, he delivered a stone-like crystal that was the size of a human fist. "I found it nearby the place where you were ambushed."

1st elder scrutinized whilst the shadow continued his explanation. "I guess the person who put that thing there forgot to retrieve it."

1st elder could feel the cold characteristic of it. The crystal looks somewhat familiar to him.

1st elder smirked before he said, "He didn't forget, but he was afraid to be caught." He looked at the shadow only to found out his dumbfounded look.

The shadow was thinking that the stone-like crystal was a personal collection of a person behind the ambush, but he hadn't thought that he was thinking the wrong way.

1st elder wasn't that stingy to his words, so he explained, "This is the reason why those C beasts gathered there. With this thing, they can achieve a breakthrough that they were looking for. This can only obtain at the mouth of an active volcano."

The shadow nodded as enlightenment came to his mind. He suddenly thought of a question. Without further ado, he asked, "How come it get there?"

1st elder glanced at the crystal as his mind was going through a series of skimming over his memory. "Not how, but who."