"Let introduce myself. My na is Zuna, a rank 6 acolyte and two of my companions here are Zaku and Zidi, they're both rank 5. Our howorld is called Zaiueo."
Ery and his friends were still at a loss on how they'd be able to distinguish these three people from Zaiueo apart. Of course, saying their na was one thing, but what if they called Zuna, Zaku or Zidi, would that be considered rude? Not only their faces were similar, the trio's personalities, na, habits, as well as almost everything were identical. So, the five youths couldn't help but wonder.
Julian again was the first to recover his composure; he stepped up to talk to them. He was sowhat their unproclaid leader. Julian said, "Welco, my na Julian, this is Thrax, Ery, Chumo and the beauty here is our pride, Klea." Julian waved his arm at the four youths and added, "As for our ranks, all of us are rank 5, except for our beauty here, she's rank 6."
Truth be told, Julian had guessed their ranks. It wasn't a stretch to guess anyway since Magus Minerva ntioned most of them were rank 5, a few were rank 6, but didn't ntion anything about rank 4. And with everyone nodding to confirm his statent, Julian smiled in satisfaction for figuring it correctly.
"Great," said Zuna, the one in the middle. "With this, we have two rank 6 acolytes but… wow, your nas are weird."
Everyone didn't know how to react to such remarks. Their nas were weird? What about them and their faces? They all looked the sa from their footwear, height, body fra, to the blemishes on their faces, eyes, nose, ears… there was definitely sothing wrong with this group…
Julian coughed, breaking the ice. He said, "Umm… yes… okay, I think I heard you said you want to join our group?"
"Yes, although we didn't have the chance to talk with you guys last year, we hope we can help each other this ti," said Zuna, the others nodding in approval.
Klea decided to join in the conversation, moved forward, and said, "So, why don't you guys honestly tell us, the reason for your interest?"
The three looked at each other, nodded, and then answered Klea, "Well it seems you guys are close, we like that. Also, we are a team of three and you, five. It is like the universe is telling us to join together. What do you think?"
The five youths went back to discussing amongst themselves while the three youths stared at them with confused eyes. Occasionally, Ery's group glanced at them and although they were indeed a bit weird in everything they did and said, they seed to be trustworthy sohow, the five youths concluded.
Just when Ery's were about to say sothing, Zuna said, "How about this, let's get to know each other better first."
Julian let out a chuckle before answering, "And how do you propose we do that? By learning the aning behind our nas?"
Ery first thought Julian's joke was a bit offensive and feared that their collaboration would break apart before it even started since the three humans from Zaiueo were silent. A second later, however, they tilted their head, expressed their confusion by staring with straight faces. Clearly they didn't understand what Julian had ant for the next words that ca out of Zuna's mouth, who seed to be the leader, were "Easy, we will do one task that we can do together. Nothing big, of course, but just enough to test and synergize between ourselves, what do you think?"
"Can you tell us more?" asked Julian, a bit more serious this ti.
Zuna proceeded to explain about finding a task, which would reward them with so contribution points or spirit stones after finishing it. This way, Zuna reiterated, they would be able to learn more about each person's likes, dislikes, abilities, etc. Of course, by having those rewards, they'd be able to purchase better equipnt for the upcoming magus ga in ten days.
Klea made her excitent known by exclaiming, "That sounds like a good idea! Reward and shopping!"
The group then decided to retire for the day due to the darkening sky and et up here again tomorrow morning for the task finding.
"Until tomorrow morning then," said Julian.
"Yes, see you tomorrow," replied Zuna.
"Tomorrow, we will, yes," followed up Zaku.
"You will see us tomorrow," said Zidi last.
Hearing their weird sentences, the group fell into conclusion that it probably was the universal translator the symbols on their hands provided were just having a hard ti to comprehend or fully translate their language.
Ery then looked at the orange glow on the sky and fell into contemplation. There were only ten days until the magus gas, he needed to prepare a lot so he could catch up, compete with the others and get that reward, which would be extrely beneficial once he returned. He was about to leave to plan out his to-do list regarding the elental institutes or many other things, when Klea suddenly grabbed his arm, seemingly unwilling to let him go after reuniting with them.
"You are not going anywhere, my Ery," exclaid Klea. She turned to the others and said, "Let's catch up! We haven't seen each other for a year, so there must be a lot of things that must've happened. Also, let's show each other how their progress has been, that'll be important for the upcoming event."
Julian and Thrax said, "Agreed."
Chumo, who had returned to be quiet again whenever Klea was near, nodded in agreent.
As much as he wanted to rush go back and train to reach acolyte rank 6 in his personal residence, there was so sense in what Klea had proposed. In fact, he could only go so far if he went on alone, so he needed people and friends to be with him. Forging and strengthening friendships were also crucial in getting by in whatever world he would be. Hence, Ery let Klea do whatever she wanted, leaving his fate to her.
Klea led everyone, passing another stone bridge, and went to one of the more secluded houses on a cliff, which had its own waterfall on the side and a personal courtyard on the side! She invited them inside, and in contrast to Ery's empty living room, hers actually had a lot of furniture.
The floor was made of shiny wood, Ery suspected that if it was polished a bit more, he might be able to see his reflection. The large living room had a hanging lighting on the ceiling, the soft chairs were a mix of blue, yellow and black, so purple. And there was more than enough space to host at least a dozen guests.
Klea called for her personal cube attendant and the group tried to access the cube to order food and drink. The group still amazed at how the cube is able to create things out of thin air.
She smiled in satisfaction and ntioned to the others to make themselves feel at ho while they waited in the living room.
Thrax, Chumo and Julian had eyed the lit courtyard outside earlier, they asked Klea if they could use it to do a bit of sparring. The first to spar were obviously Thrax and Julian, after Thrax won the spar again, he challenged Chumo next.
Chumo gave more of a resistance against Thrax by using his so darkness spell, but after a while, Chumo gave up, making Thrax to be the undefeated winner. Thrax raised his hands, seemingly enjoying himself to be crowned as the best in physical combat. It looked like his battlefield experience improved his raw strength and skill against the rest.
Thrax then asked Ery if they could spar, but Klea, shouting from the inside of the residence
"Can you boys stop with all the sparring already and co in"
Ery actually feel an itch to spar with Thrax, but now probably not the right ti. Everyone obliged and went inside sat together in the living room.
"Ok lets share our progress shall we?" Asked Julian
Thrax presented his status first to the group.
[Thrax]
[Fire Spirit - High Stage]
[Battle power: 29]
[Spirit force: 74]
[Acolyte Rank 5]
[Julian]
[Earth spirit - High Stage]
[Battle power: 23]
[Spirit force: 78]
[Acolyte Rank 5]
[Chumo]
[Darkness Spirit - High Stage]
[Battle power: 20]
[Spirit force: 84]
[Acolyte Rank 5]
"Damn you, Chumo. You're so quiet but you've almost reached rank 6! Klea show yours!" said Julian, and Klea happily complied.
[Klea]
[Lightning- early foundation]
[Wind - early foundation]
[Water - early foundation]
[Battle power: 17]
[Spirit force: 105]
[Acolyte Rank 6]
"Oh wow, early foundation, you really are the pride of our world Klea. Julian then turned to Ery and said, "What about you Ery?"
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