A door opens and the two soldiers who took Ezra's sister walk in dragging her on the floor, though she seems to have woken up.

"here you go, lord Imani" one of the guards says,

"good" Imani says, almost sounding bored,

"did she put up a fight?"

"no sir, we took her by surprise, we hit her a bit too hard though, she was bleeding from the head."

"hmm" Imani mutters "i expected a bit more from her, after all she was said to have a lot of potential" He states, getting a bit excited.

"now lets get to the fun part" Imani brings his fingers together and creates a web of black mana "what is your name?"

"Enayah" the girl says, trying to stand up

"then you should know what this sign means, Enayah"

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"its a spell" Enayah says, looking a bit scared

"correct, which type?" Enayah looks down in shame

"hah, it seems i overestimated you" Imani says with a smile on his face "sigillum!" a black dart apears in Imani's hand, and he throws it at Enayah.

The dart hits her and black chains invelop her whole body, reducing her form to a perfectly-round ball

"take her to the room, i wish not to see her face till the day finally comes".

Moments later

Ezra wakes up in his bed, he looks at his hand, which has fully healed though leaving a giant scar where he was cut by the sword. He hears a misterious female voice, just listening to the voice seems almost calming in Ezra's mind,

"how are your wounds?" the voice says "do they hurt?"

"no" Ezra states "who are you?"

"well, that's no way to great your savior now, is it? my name is Abena" Abena says, sounding a bit condesending to Ezra.

"you know, the royal guards of the Grandmaster took your sister" she says

"you will need twice your current power to save your sis-" Abena gets cut off in the middle of her sentence.

"get out off the house or we will use force!" Abena gets out as fast as she can.

"i'm the general of the second army of the grandmaster, where is Ezra Evangale?" says the general

"i don't know, who is Ezra?" Abena says, looking confused.

"do not play games woman, tell me!" the general yells, "i can kill you easily!"

"i'd like to see that" Abena confidently says "you know, i heard a myth you have no mana, is that true?"

"that doesn't mean i can't defeat you." the generals sword then transforms in to a form of sickle.