The gate guard gave me a tourism flyer which surprised me since I didn’t expect a world like this to have these things, furthermore if they have tourism why isn’t there any weapons. He gave me a nice accommodation in an inn beside the castle of liquid, later he left to resume his job guarding the gate. I looked at the flyer and scanned it for places to learn.
It seemed that each castle here in Petra Triadas teaches one of each of their best manipulation magic, but the tiers get harder with each castle and so its preferred to start with the liquid castle. I turn the flyer unto its back and see an envelope stuck unto the back of the flyer, I thought about it for a moment before taking action.
In movies, most people die when opening something that strangely appears on something they own. I didn’t want that to happen to me, but I was curious and couldn’t not open the envelope that was mysteriously stuck unto my tourism flyer. Within the envelope was a sheet of paper with the words “You’re not the only one.”, then below that was a time and place.
It seemed to be an event that was being held in 6 days, I don’t really have time for these kinds of things. I put it in the bedside drawer and jump unto the bed. It’s been a while since I’ve slept on a bed like this, I could really get used to it. I look at the door from my bed and see the light switch next to it, this place is just like a hotel, but I hate that the light switch is so far away.
I get up and switch off the lights and try to find my bed in the dark, I lie down and try to sleep. Things start filling my head; like why this world seems old yet has things from the present, or why they’re fighting with some form of magic instead of swords or guns, or why they have hotels inside of inns like these. Eventually, my questions led me to slumber.
-next morning-
I woke up early this morning, even though there isn’t school today. I wanted to go to the castle of liquid to learn at least some things about how to manipulate heat, or maybe even how to heal myself. I started walking to the castle while reading the flyer, I entered the castle training grounds and signed myself up for manipulation training.
We had a discussion before the initial training and I have to say that I did really bad, I couldn’t even absorb a fire. Nevertheless, the training continued and I tried my hardest. From trying to absorb fires to trying to melt ice and even to trying to focus my inner heat, the training didn’t stop for any breaks either so I got pretty tired.
-after training-
I trained there for nearly 4 hours and I still can’t do anything, I start heading home through a shortcut which was highlighted on my flyer. It seemed strange since it was a very shady part of the city, quiet too. Well it’s not like I would be staying here for long anyway, I might even block this route off my flyer due to the lack of comfortability.
As I was walking, I look to my side and see a nice little flower shop. I was admiring it until I felt something slam into my side, throwing me into the very flower shop I was looking at. I land and look at the direction I was kicked from, a shadowy figure glooms over me. They start walking closer to me then stopped, then they said “5 days, Exiliosa, noon, the tower.” And jumped onto the roof and ran away.
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