Burning Soul

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As he was thinking, he felt someone’s presence, instinctively he drew his sword that he was holding onto

He was about to slash in the direction he felt someone's presence only to find out nothing,

the next moment he felt a sudden urge of pain building upon his left side.

He had been punched and in just a matter of moments,

he was sent flying.

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“Spacing out in the battlefield is never allowed, did no one ever tell you, kid?

You know, the enemy will use every kind of dirty trick there is to take you down and you are just giving them an opportunity, you're still lacking I see.

But now that I'm here let's work that out too,” he was standing with a proud expression as if he had achieved something which irritated Theo even more.

“Argh,

Who attacks his comrades?

Yeah, I may be lacking, that's what you're here for?

If you are going to teach me, I'm certainly going to get killed!

We are not taking on those camps?” Theo stood up while shaking off the dust on his clothes,

although he wasn't injured,

Indeed, he was still in enemy territory not that he was completely safe and yet he had the luxury to space out.

Thought hearing him say so Aeneas looked at him narrowing his eyes, his look said that he knew something he wanted to speak up, Although Theo had some idea about what he knew and what he wanted to talk about, he didn't want to spoil the beans by himself he as if he was to be wrong, he would just get caught up so to be not suspicious any longer he looked at him and asked

“You want to say something? tell me, did he allow me to take on the camps?

And why so sudden?

By yesterday he wasn't even sure if I could take on any single one of them”

His question was a little bit probing,

but he was not a Legendary Ace for nothing, right away he understood the meaning of his question but, he was not the type to not answer.

“Well, there is a reason that he suddenly allowed you to take on the camps, as you might know, that you were given a deadline that you had to follow,

And you simply couldn't

Waiting any longer means we have to delay the further programs that we cannot afford so instead of waiting we decided that it would be better that you start taking on the camps right away, and with me being around there won't be any problem.

Do you not trust me that much?”

Theo understood right away that he had figured it out that he had been taking out the camps, he decided to just go with it.

Hesitantly enough he asked Aeneas, “so when do we start taking on the challenge?”

looking at him being impatient Aeneas didn't want to wait any longer he also wanted to see for himself how his friend had been fighting all this time.

“Right now would be a good time, after a while I'll feel hungrier and more sluggish so if anything happened to you, I would be just useless, we don't want that to happen, do we?

Let's get right to hey it, oh and we are directly going to take on the 5th one as the first 4 are not that difficult and you could just take them on anytime later from the 5th there are more interesting enemies as you further proceed, we also find someone that you had already fought once but this time the same technique won't work.”

His reply clearly told that he knew, Theo had already cleared the first of camps, instead of scolding him he decided to just go with it, Theo simply couldn't understand why but, he didn't ask as well.

“Well then let's get started. I can hardly wait to see how much you've grown in the past few days as that will decide the way we elevate our journey from henceforth.”

With a prideful look in his eyes, Aeneas was sure that he’d crush through the next trials, only then Lumiere would bestow his true skills, the one that comes as a trait, the bloodline skills.