The m, a giant silver fal could be seen flying through the sky. On its back sat Lauriel, Ad Kannal.

  After their chat the night before, Kannal agreed to join the Yin-Yang Pavilion with the aim of getting strong enough to achieve his dreams, but he never would've imagihat his first tribution would be simply sitting on the back of ah-rank four-winged fal.

  Seeing the colour fade from the boy's face, a gentle chuckle escaped Laurielle's supple cherry lips. "Okay, Elise. You o slow down before our young friend throws up all over your beautiful feathers."

  Hearing Laurielle's words, Elise – the four-winged fal – cried out disapprovingly whilst turning its head to give Kannal a warning gre. Unfortunately, Kannal was too busy holding on for dear life to even notice. Still, the giant bird still slowed down enough for all her passeo stay stable.

  Ace, oher hand, was sat cross-legged without a care in the world, pletely unphased by the bird's speed, a feat that didn't go unnoticed by the violet-haired supreme warrior desdant.

  After Kannal agreed to join the pavilion, it was decided that Mathias would fly Wukong back to the pavilion in advance so he could receive treatment for his injuries, whilst Lauriel would take the boys to Shurgard city where Milianna, Killian and the others were still waiting.

  Thankfully, as a ra magical beast, Elise had more than enough room on her back for everyone.

  Although it had only been a couple of days, so much had happened. Ace was looking forward to being able to rex with the people he cared about most in this life.

  Even though Elise had to slow down for Kannal's sake, she still mao make it to Shurgard city in a few hours.

  The sight of such a big magical beast flying over the castle in the middle of the city wasn't something you saw every day. Many of the city's residents cautiously came out of their houses to see what was going on, only to see Ace casually jumping off the beast's bad onto the castle's walls.

  The guards all saw Ace's dest, but after seeing him hop off the back of such a terrifyi, many of them were hesitant about how to proceed.

  "It's okay, men. You stand down; they're not enemies." Announced a stocky middle-aged man whom Ace reised as the city lord, An Shurgard.

  Ace merely g the man before dashing straight past him and into his mother's arms. "I've missed you."

  Even though mentally he was in his te twehis was the first time i eight years that he'd gone over a day without seeing his mother.

  "I've missed you too, son," Milianna replied lovingly as she caressed her son's dark hair.

  It was only when he sensed Lauriel and Kannal approag from behind that Ace broke away from his mother's embrace.

  "Oht, mom, everyohis is Lauriel. She's Wukong's senior sister and also a member of staff at the Pavilion, and that's Kannal; he's also one of the udents of the pavilion." Ace quickly expined. "Lauriel, Kannal, this is my mother, Milianna and her… friend Lance."

  As his voice waned, a blush could be seen on the faces of both Milianna and Lahough they'd bee very close as of retly, they still hadn't put a bel on it. Thankfully, Lauriel cut through the awkwardness as she shook their hands. "It's a pleasure to meet you both. Ace has told us a lot about you."

  "I hope he hasn't been too much of a handful," Milianna replied.

  "No, quite the opposite, actually. You've raised quite the incredible son." Lauriel said sincerely before looking towards the two children just behind them. "And you two must be Killian and Alissa."

  Ace's body trembled as he fought to hold back his ugh. He knew Lauriel was beautiful, but he'd seen all kinds of beautiful women in his st life.

  Killian, oher hand, was a-year-old boy who was raised in an orphanage in a small vilge. This was his first time seeing a woman as beautiful as Lauriel. He couldn't even find the words to introduce himself.

  It was only when a cold snort came out of the young silver-haired girl to his left that he realised he'd been standing staring like an idiot. He was just lucky that his dark, ebony skin did such a good job of hiding the blood that was definitely rushing to his face.

  "How was the training anyway? Did you mao prehend oh the give?" Lance asked, attempting to save Killian from further embarrassment.

  "Huh? ht. Yeah, I was lucky enough to make the breakthrough yesterday." Aswered.

  Alissa, who was the most well-informed member of their group, stared at Acredulously. She knew just how impressive such a feat would be for a teenage genius, let alone a child as young as them.

  "Freak!" Was all she could say in the end.

  "Thanks…

  I think." Ace shrugged.

  "Where's Mr Wukong anyway?" Milianna asked, not uanding the importance of su achievement.

  "He had to return to the pavilion to see our master, so I agreed to pick you guys up in his pce," Lauriel answered, calmly omitting the truth, having already been told by Ace that no one knew where they were going or what they were pnning to do. "It should take us a little over two weeks to arrive at the pavilion; by that time, little Kong should be there waiting for you. So, unless you have anythio do here, we get going."

  "No, we're all ready to go," Lance replied before Lauriel led them back to Elise.

  "Erm, excuse me," An, who had been pletely quiet, despite being pletely ignored in his own city, called out. "Aren't you fetting your carriage and your cloud wolves?"

  "It's fine. You keep it as a thank you for taking care of our friends." Lauriel replied without a sed thought as she signalled for Elise to set off.

  Despite Elise flying slower than ever, Laill had to his arms around Milianna to keep her steady, but other than that, given that the others were all warriors of at least the sed rank, no oruggled with the turbulence.

  Their journey from that point on retty uful. Whehey came to a stop, the four children would all plete their warrior training as a group, each of whom looked to Ace as their target.

  Ace would then go hunting fical beasts of the fourth rank to further hone his givesmanship, something that he enjoyed more and more with each battle.

  When ba the air, whilst the others focused on their mage training, instead of practig his [observation] like usual, Ace tinued practig with the give.

  Ace had always loved a good battle in his previous life, but he had never put that much effort into actually training, but he had to admit he had been missing out. The feeling of being stronger was genuinely addictive.

  When he first began to train on Elise's back, the others had been worried he'd fall off, but after , they noticed the ease with which he retained his bance, and then they noticed the elegance of his teiques.

  Even the likes of Milianna and Killian, who didn't really uand the meaning of being oh a on, noticed the visible improvement ieique from before he went on his training trip with Wukong.

  Whilst Milianna was happy for her little genius, Ace's breakthrough lit a fire in Kil. It wasn't that he wao pete with Ace, but he was scared that if Ace became too much strohan him, then he would leave him behind.

  Killian's desire to train and grow stronger was no weaker than Ace's. Every day he would take his body ast its limits.

  It wasn't just him. Both Alissa and Kannal felt simir. They were supposed to be about the same age, ahe differeween them was so striking. That was especially true for Alissa, who was trained as an assassin and hailed as a prodigy by everyone around her.

  Even Lance began to train with renewed vigour, having been influenced by the kids. Despite knowing Milianna didn't need or want him to be the most powerful man in the world, he still wao be a man orthy of her love.

  Lauriel watched all of this with a smile. She couldn't have asked for a better group for her husband's first batch of students. There was no doubt in her mind that each of them would go on to achieve great things iure.

  In spite of the fact that each of them made the most of their time travelling to train, all of them were looking forward to finally arriving at the pavilion so they could start the chapter of their lives, and after almost two weeks, they had finally arrived.

  In front of them was a giant mountain that reached all the way into the clouds.

  "Wele to the Yin-Yang Mountain," Lauriel announced before she anded Elise to take them to the bottom. "This is the end of the lift for you kids; you are to make it to the top on your own from here."

  "What about Aunt Milli?" Alissa asked whilst jumping off with Killian and the others, knowing that this wasn't a climb that an ordinairy mortal would be able to plete.

  "This climb is only for you students to plete. Milianna and Lance will e up with me." Lauriel expined. "Don't worry, there are no magical beasts for you to worry about. All you have to do is climb to the top, where we'll be waiting for you."

  "Is it possible for me to do the climb as well?" Lance asked, wanting to take advantage of every opportunity he could tress as a warrior.

  "If you want to," Lauriel shrugged before anding Elise to take off, not waiting for Ad the others to ask any further questions.

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