Florian walked to Kamala, who was sitting on one of her couches.

He was looking a bit exhausted, which showed on his face. He had a disheveled hairstyle, short on the back, with his hair slightly covering his eyes. He had thin glasses with a black outline, going with his black hair that were closer to a light black rather than the darker black Orion had.

His clothes were a bit ragged from his previous fight, but it was still holding. He was wearing a kind of suit that showed his professional aspects.

The shape of his eyes was pretty peculiar too. He had almond shaped eyes, almost like a fox. If you didn't knew him, you would think that he was a conniving person.

He wasn't buff by any means, but his legs were strong, because of his constant running while using his lightning magic.

He sat next to her and dropped his head.

"I am so happy to know you are safe. I understand that you tried to lessen our worries, but that was a close call."

"You're right, I'm sorry. I know I should've write about what was happening with Ivan to you, but I didn't want that to disturb the new friendship we've built between us four."

Florian sighed.

"There's only regret for the ones remaining. At least know that we would have regretted not being able to help you in your times of need."

Silently, they exchanged sorrowful gazes.

Amelia and Karteira stood up from their seat with slightly bothered expressions.

"Orion, why is he here? Did you fight by yourself again?"

But this time, he did absolutely nothing.

"No, I arrived near Lahro as it was expected, and the moment I looked into the city, there was no signs of life. No lights, no people, only a purple lightning flash I've recognized from being from being used by Florian."

"So you entered the city?"

Karteira asked not satisfied by his answer.

With a nod, he continued.

"There was no guards, and no one in the streets either. I've walked through the dark alleys silently, until I arrived to were the light was coming from."

"And?"

Amelia crossed her arms, prepared for another piece of news, but not the one Orion was about to say. Neither Karteira was prepared for that.

"Florian was in the middle of finishing one of the Apostles."

The jaws of both girls dropped to the ground. Kamala was listening to his words from her seat.

"After he dealt the final blow, I've came out of the darkness, and we've discussed for a bit, until I decided that him seeing Kamala would be better than speaking in the middle of a city."

Amelia turned her face, glancing at Florian.

"I knew that the Apostles were powerful. Kamala did managed to kill Ivan, but is it that easy to end your own members?"

Florian answered after sitting straight.

"I wouldn't say that it was easy. At first, it was a two against one fight. What makes you win that kind of fight is how you use your magic to create an advantage for you only."

"Amelia, was it?"

She simply nodded.

"What does the word 'powerful' represent in your eyes?"

A simple question, but hard to answer nonetheless.

"In that case, isn't it the way someone uses their element?"

Florian placed a hand on his chin, thinking of what she said.

"Can you develop your thought?"

She began to ponder, before answering again.

"You and Ivan possess the same lightning element, but the way you two use it is completely different. Even I use it differently, and Orion's father was even more powerful than most lightning users."

"That's what I meant. If you use your element to create opportunities for yourself, and turned the fight your way, then you are powerful."

He kept thinking over it until his own answer came to be.

"That is a good point. Since the way we use our element seems to be instinctive, I never thought that much about it."

"For me, being powerful is how you can observe each detail in a fight, or how you will plan an attack against someone. I even go as far as wait a few seconds before attacking just to see what my enemy will do."

"Yes, that is indeed a wonderful point of view. How we use our magic is may be forged the moment we are born, but slight changes in it's uses seems plausible."

Kamala interrupted him.

"It's not 'plausible', it's a fact. I've managed to do that myself."

"Interesting."

Orion remained silent, watching carefully for any suspicious movement.

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'I think he his safe to ignore, he seems to have the same interest for knowledge, like myself.'

Having found someone like him, a need to discuss with him slowly grew inside of his head.

While Kamala explained what happened with her own power, and how she used it differently during her fight against Ivan, Florian understood what this was all about.

"I see. In some ways, it is close to my own view of the subject, and it develops it perfectly too."

While looking at Amelia again, he explained his view.

"From my own point of view, and your own, we can say that being powerful is someone that can judge the situation in the middle of a battle, observing each and every details, while also changing his way of using everything he possess to best his enemies, changing tactics every times to perfectly exploit the enemy's weaknesses."

Amelia, Karteira, and even Kamala looked at Orion.

Feeling the gazes of the three women, he felt weird.

"What?"

Karteira looked at Amelia and spoke what they all thought together.

"That's the definition of Orion, isn't it? I mean, he never uses the same tactics against his enemies. Remember the underground?"

She was right. Even though the attacks didn't changed for smaller and less powerful individuals, like the inferior corrupted, or the soldiers, when it was about a Corrupted Lord, or an Apostle, Orion never used any random tactics, and even used 'Calm Analysis' every times.

He was able to change the outcome of a fight because of his keen sense of danger, and how fast he noticed the small details.

"You're right about that, he might be the definition of the word."

While shaking his head from left to right, he stopped them.

"That's not true. You cannot define someone as a simple word."

"I am a living person too, I do make mistakes sometimes, and I am quite impulsive when it involves you two, so you cannot say that I am powerful."

Karteira walked up to him and fist bumped his chest.

"Even if you say that, you use your power correctly, and you make the best of our own abilities. Just take the compliment."

She winked at him as he looked perplexed.

He looked at Amelia who simply smiled at him, before looking at Kamala who was agreeing with Karteira.

"Fine, I'll accept it. Thank you."

Orion scratched his cheek and turned his face away.

'Besides Amelia, no one complimented me before. Well, except mom and dad, but they're not around.'

"I'm sorry if it is bothersome, but I don't know anything about you, lady with the blue hair. I also don't know much about anything that took place before finding myself in here. Where am I anyway?"

They all blinked while looking at Florian. These were legitimate questions coming from someone that had never been warped before.

"You are in Hocride right now."

Kamala answered the question related to her. Next was Karteira, but before speaking, she thought instead of asking Orion.

'Do I tell him that I am a fairy? Or do I wait? I don't think he is trusty enough to learn about that right now."

She threw a glance toward Orion discreetly, and chose to keep it hidden for now.

"I'm Karteira. I've joined these two before they arrived in Hocride."

Florian pushed his glasses back on top of his nose, registering her name in his mind.

"Orion, if we have to explain everything, why don't we do that on the other side?"

He placed a hand on his chin, pondering about what to do.

"Kamala, do you trust him?"

"I do. He really works toward the freedom of the other factions, and even punish the humans that works against his orders to do so."

'I don't feel any indication of him being an enemy. I have to agree this time, but I'll still keep an eye on him.'

He looked at Amelia and Karteira with a serious look, conveying his thought. They knew that he had to be cautious about him until they assessed him completely.

After they were all on the same wavelength, he looked at Kamala.

"Alright, let's change places."

Opening another portal, Amelia and Karteira entered without hesitation.

"Florian, please walk through this once again."

Orion spoke carefully to not bother the man, who didn't thought too much about it, and stood up.

"Moving places? I'm interested by your power, please explain it to me at a later date."

He walked through the portal with a smile on his face. Not long after, Kamala arrived in front of him.

"Thank you for trusting my words."

Silently, he nodded. There was no need to speak.

With a smile, she entered the portal leading to Horizon. Orion entered it last and closed it behind him.

~

Inside the bracelet, Reon and Orianne were talking about everything that happened, in particular about Ivan's corpse turning into a mindless beast.

"Doesn't that looked weird to you?"

Reon listened to Orianne developing her own thoughts on this.

"I never heard of a human turning into a corrupted. Well, we knew they 'could' be corrupted, but never did they displayed this kind of behavior."

"Corruption is not supposed to take over a person's body isn't it?"

Orianne was tapping her finger on the table, slightly irritated about the situation.

"Orianne, it's been two millenium since then, of course things have changed. The corruption is way more present today than it was at our time."

"The Hero destroyed any remaining traces of corruption, and it took two or three millenium before they reappeared again in large numbers."

"It always starts with the animals of the continent, and when it has grown enough in one region, it spreads to the human."

Reon talked about his own observations from his travelling times.

"From what we've learn looking at Orion's memories, it seems that the corruption began to spread faster the moment one of the generation of Apostles began to drink the crushed corrupted cores in their ceremony."

"In our times, there was only one person being stronger than us. Don't you find it strange? Don't you remember something weird during our last struggle against Elliot?"

Orianne remembered the scene like it was yesterday. In fact, to see Orion's memories, they lived more the full twenty years inside the bracelet, but since only their soul remained here, they never aged.

"Now that you say that, yes. There was something strange. But that's not the point right now."

"You're right, sorry."

She shook her head, looking at him with a gentle gaze.

"Don't worry about it."

He continued.

"So they drank the corrupted cores for generations, and their corrupted blood flowed inside their children, but there's something strange from the current generation."

"Three of the four 'allies' Apostles had their mother being the previous Apostle. The only exception is that young girl, Olivia."

"Why are they not affected by the corrupted blood in their body? Why didn't they follow the same need to drink the corrupted mixture?"

Reon stopped talking.

"We cannot know the answer to that, don't break your mind trying to find an answer."

He listened to his wife and stopped bothering.

"So why do you think about the fight? He did good right?"

Knowing that Orianne wanted to praise her son to no end, he smiled.

"Of course. That was an exceptional fight. The way he changed his attacks depending on the man's movements was ingenious."

"But I have one thing to say, Amelia's lightning element is really something else. I really wish I could speak with her and give advices to her. That's all she needs to perfect it further."

"I have a feeling that she will push the limits of what an element is. The more I remember the fusion between her fire element and herself, the more I want to learn about it."

A sphere of white lightning formed in his hand. He stared at it and tried to listen to it, but he was unsuccessful.

"Maybe because I'm currently a soul, I cannot interact much with it anymore. If only we had found out about the voices of our elements, maybe we would have faired better against Elliot."

Feelings of regret filled his mind, but Orianne pulled his away from it with a hug.

"Don't beat yourself over it. The one that discovered it is a woman with the five natural elements in her soul. You can't compare with us and our only element."

"She had more opportunities to notice the voices than us."

"That's true. The only that could have done that was the Hero himself, but we've never found any notes on how he thought at all, or about his experiences, which is truly saddening."

Orianne remained silent, she was like him, knowing pretty much nothing about Noah.

"Well, they look like they are done resuming the whole thing to that man. Let's return to watch."

Reon noticed the end of the conversation between Orion, Kamala and Florian, which in turn, led the couple to watch the screen once again.