The Unsurpassed Maiden

Kwang Soo looked embarrassed but he remained calm and coughed awkwardly before he answered the Grand Master. "T-That's a very interesting nickname, Lady Shin Yu. But yes, I am indeed the same person you have mentioned earlier."

"Do you still have some problems with your cultivation? I thought I already taught you the most advanced Pyro cultivation technique. What seems to be the problem this time?" The Grand Master asks without stopping.

Kwang Soo clears his throat before he answers the Grand Master once more. "I am very much grateful for your help, Lady Shin Yu. However, I would like it if we talk about my problem in privacy."

"Very well, you can talk to me about it later then." The Grand Master says before she finally turns her gaze towards the other student. "And you, it seems like it's my first time seeing you. May I know your name?"

"My name is Kang Mi Young, Lady. I am a first year student at Mistwood Academy." Mi Young answers stiffly.

"Is that so?" The Grand Master says while eyeing Mi Young. "What is your element? I can't seem to understand the mana energy coming from you."

"Oh you surely would love her." Lady Ning Gwang commented as she sent a wink at her cousin who threw a glare at her.

"I wasn't talking to you, old Lady." Grand Master Shin Yu says as she rolls her eyes at her cousin who just laughed at her reaction. Sometimes Mi Young wonders if Lady Ning Gwang has always been a carefree person like this. "So? What's your element?"

"Pyro." Mi Young answers.

The Grand Master raises one of her eyebrows. "I can feel if someone is hiding something from me—"

"Hydro. And Geo." The black haired girl added, completely cutting off the Grand Master. She seemed to realize what she had just done as she immediately apologizes and bows at the Grand Master. "I'm so sorry for cutting you off like that! I swear I didn't mean it! Please don't throw me in your dungeons!"

Much to her surprise, the Grand Master had a different reaction than what she had expected. Instead of getting angry because of the black haired girl's rude behavior, the Grand Master was laughing at her.

"Uhm? Are you okay, Lady Shin Yu?" Mi Young dares to ask.

The Grand Master took a few moments to wipe off her tears that had gathered on the side of her eyes before she answered the black haired girl's question. "Oh I'm fine, dear. Don't worry."

"Okay? Thank you." Mi Young says.

"Anyway, where were we? Ah! Right! You need help about something, right?" The Grand Master asks as she cocks her head to the side. Something that Mi Young does as well if she's confused or wondering.

"Uhm." Mi Young starts to say. She looks at Kwang Soo then at Lady Ning Gwang who nodded her head at her, telling her that it's fine to tell them. Mi Young took a deep breath before she answered. "I keep on having these repeated dreams about a prophecy and I think it's about me. Lady Ning Gwang explained to me about the true history of our kingdom. She also told me that you are her family and that you still have the blood of the Oracles running through you. So I was wondering if you could help me decipher my dreams?"

The Grand Master regards her for a few seconds before sighing, "If you want me to decipher your dreams, then I am not the right person to ask. I can't decipher dreams—"

"I knew all of the words in the prophecy!" Mi Young says. She fishes out a piece of paper from her pocket and stood up before walking towards the table of the Grand Master. She places the paper in front of the lady before saying, "Here, this is the same prophecy in my dreams. A voice kept on repeating it to me every time I dreamt about it so I kinda memorized it by now."

The Grand Master held the piece of paper in her slender hands. She then reads it very carefully, the three guests watching her every move.

When the Grand Master finished reading the prophecy written on the paper, she looked at Mi Young with widened eyes.

"You…" The Grand Master starts to say but no words were able to come out from her mouth. She then turned towards Lady Ning Gwang who was already giving her a small smile. "She…"

"I think she's the one we're waiting for." Lady Ning Gwang says. "Brother Zhong also thinks so."

The Grand Master didn't say anything else after that. She just kept on looking at the black haired girl like she had grown seven heads.

After a while, the Grand Master finally clears her throat. "I can help you decipher it but we need to talk in private. Just the two of us."

"Uhn." Mi Young nodded her head.

"Very well, let's talk later. It's getting late and I still have a meeting with the High Lords." The grand Master says as she starts to stand up from where she was sitting. She looks at Ning Gwang before saying, "I'll tell the guards to give you a room to stay so you can relax and wait for me. Once I arrive we can have dinner together and then we can talk about your students' problems."

"That's a plan then." Lady Ning Gwang says before giving her cousin a small smile.

Before the three of them finally leaves the room of the Grand Master, Lady Shin Yu calls out her cousin. "About Liu, can you tell me where—"

"You are making me and my students wait, so I'll make you wait as well." Lady Ning Gwang says before she finally exits the Grand Master's office.

Mi Young looked at the Grand Master to see her reaction. She was expecting the other party to act mad and annoyed like earlier but this time, the other lady was already smiling.

The black haired girl decided that there are things better left unsaid and went out to follow her teacher and the other student.

When they arrived at the room given to them by the Grand Master, Mi Young immediately slumped back at the bed on the left. "I'm so tired."

When she was about to get up from her position, a body passed her. Kwang Soo immediately laid down on the same bed as Mi Young's.

"What are you doing here? This is my bed." Mi Young announces as she tries to push the other party away from the soft mattress. "Get off."

"There are only two beds here. It's either you share it with me or you and Lady Ning Gwang share the other bed." Kwang Soo says, not even opening his eyes to look at the black haired girl.

"Why are all the options saying that I get to share a bed with anyone? Why can't it be you and Lady Ning Gwang sharing the same bed?" Mi Young whines while pouting.

The two other people looked at her seriously before they both answered her at the same time, "It's because you are younger."

Mi Young huffs out a breath before she crosses her arms and sends the two older people a silent glare. "I hate you both."

"Same." Kwang Soo replies, still not opening his eyes to look at Mi Young.

Lady Ning Gwang just chuckled before she sat down on the other bed on the right side of the room.

Mi Young remembered something that she wanted to ask the teacher ever since their encounter with the Grand Master.

"The reason why you never went to visit your cousin here is because you knew she would attack you, right?" Mi Young asks while waiting for her teacher's answer.

Lady Ning Gwang hums at her before answering her. "Yes."

"Why?"

"I have told you before, right? Me and Shin Yu were like twins with how much we stick together." The white haired teacher says. Then she added, "When the war ended and the six of us decided to part ways, Shin Yu wanted to stick with me. However, I told her that we need to grow apart so that she can learn how to be independent as well. She took it the wrong way and resented me ever since."

"Who took care of her then?"

"Zhong Liu."

Mi Young's eyes widened upon hearing her teacher's words. "But I thought Sir Zhong Lin vanished even before you guys can part ways."

"Yes indeed. However, Shin You probably met Zhong Liu after some time and after that they lived together for many years."

"But why is she looking for him now?"

Lady Ning Gwang sighed before answering her student. "Zhong Liu has a hobby of suddenly disappearing on anyone without telling them. Maybe he vanished while Shin Yu was cooking or whatever. I just heard it from Soo Young back then that Shin Yu was looking for Liu."

"Is that so?" Mi Young says. Then she asks another question again. "What is this war you mentioned earlier teacher?"

"Oh? You haven't heard about the Dark War?" Lady Ning Gwang asks. Mi Young shook her head at her.. "Fine, then it's time for you to learn about the greatest war in our history."