Before their very eyes a realm apears, an endless flower garden. An endless expanse of trees and flowers, it has many gates and paths laid through the garden.
It is an ethereal sight, a sight of limitless glory like a blessing for all who lay their eyes on its beauty. All three of them stand motionless amidst the colorful flowers as their eyes are wide and filled with awe.
"What the hell are you gawking at?" Fa Jin says before a punch to the gut sends Helena flying through a stone gate then further tumbling onto the stone path below.
That seems to snap Johan out of the trance who rushes at him with a neutral expression, but is kicked with a weak kick to his side that somehow sends him flying the same distance as Helena.
He begins to vomit while holding his side, blood staining his white robe. Fa Jin turns to Ezra next with a callous look on his face as he stares him down, Ezra fearfully swings his chain whip but Fa Jin's body lets out a blue glow and the whip simply passes through as if he weren't even there.
"Shatter." His eyes glow blue once again and the chain whip in Ezra's had falls apart. Before even getting time to process the event, he gets slapped away into a statue only saving himself when using a spell to phase through the statue.
The statue seems to be of an old man, long white beard and hair as well as a coat and a brown robe. It seems to be the same robe that Fa Jin is wearing.
Ezra comes out from behind the statue and stares at the Captain before asking, "who's the old man?"
"Thats Archos' Grandmaster, you uneducated brat." He says with a scoff, "the first Everfall knight."
"I see..." Ezra says with an annoyed glare, 'i can't win in a one on one fight, i have to buy time... His realm ability is still mystery though...' Ezra thinks to himself before speaking again.
"What is your realm's ability?" He backs away from him slightly.
"As if i'd answer that... Why don't you figure it out?" Fa smirks, as if he had already won the fight.
'as expected... But his power seems to have increased from the kick he landed on Johan... I think i understand now...' Ezra thinks again and smirks.
"Come on, Fa Jin, was it? You're quite pitiful, given your title as the Elite Captain, you're not quite Elite are you?" Ezra lets out a sly giggle.
"What?" He grits his teeth and grips his sword tighter.
"You heard me, how strong can you possibly be if you can't even defeat a few kids? I mean, i myself am only fourteen! How does it feel being weaker than a few kids?" Fa snaps at those words, "Weaker?! You dare call me weaker?! The only reason i don't cut you apart is due to my orders!" He says and immediatelly holds a hand over his mouth as if he wasn't supposed to say that.
"Orders? So you were given orders to not hurt me? I'm quite flattered... I didn't think i was that famous!" He puts his hands behind his back, happy that he had managed to anger Fa Jin.
Fa Jin laughs sinisterly, "hurt you? The orders were just to not kill you, now that i think about it, i could just butcher you and wait for the healers to put you back together." Ezra puts a hand over his mouth, his eyes widening.
The Captain sees that and rushes towards him, trying to punch Ezra the same way as Helena. Suddenly, Ezra's eyes glow golden and he removes the hand from his mouth, "gotcha!" He yells, a golden glow emerges from the ground.
"Catena!" He says and golden chains tie in a spiral around Fa Jin's wrist, he tries to pull away to no avail. Was he tricked? The kid was merely taunting and what is this trap? Did he place it when he stepped back prior in their conversation?!
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Whatever it was, he knew he had been tricked and that he underestimated this child, Ezra move to the side and points his palm to his head, "Flatus!" and shoots a blast at him. He manages to block in time with his sword but the sheer strength of the spell sends him flying back, the chains around his wrist breaking and his sword shattering into a million fragments.
This small trick had cost him his sword and almost his life, something which had never happened in all his years of battle. He had thrown the Principle girl into unconsciousness and incapacitated the child who had powerful Manna so how? How is this child even managing to overpower him, even worse, outsmart him? This child with weak Manna, an inferior creature, got an upper hand on him in his own realm which was the greatest shame of all in his mind.
"Catena!" Ezra rushes at Fa, many chains come from all sides of the garden but Fa puts his fingers together in the shape of a triangle, "Procella!" He yells and a wave of blue Manna surges towards Ezra who only barely blocks it with a "Scutum" mustering a fragile golden shield which breaks but allows him to dodge a split second later.
"You're skilled, i'll give you that... You are still just a child, an inexperienced weak child who has weak Manna on top of that!" He chuckles angrily, "you know, you remind me a lot of my older brother... Which makes me so much angrier! If i were allowed to, i would break every bone in your body and see you bleed out..." He laughs maniacally, as if he had lost his mind already.
"Good for you...?" Ezra tilts his head to the side in confusion.
"You snarky brat! You will lose that smirk once i beat you into a pool of blood!" He cries out angrily, Ezra just keeps looking at him with a bewildered expression.
"I'm... Not smirking...?" That sends a chill down Fa Jin's spine and he dashes at Ezra with a growl, almost like a wild animal catching pray, Ezra jumps away, using a spell to boost himself up like a gust of wind.
"Procella." Ezra puts his fingers together in a triangle shape and a lazer like wave shoots at Fa. He jumps away into a small river flowing inbetween a flower field, right before falling into the river he touches the water with his finger tip and his blue Manna, almost like electricity, flows into the very river and allows Fa Jin to stand on the surface of the water.
The Elite Captain looks at Ezra with widened eyes and a mystified, almost terrified look on his face. Ezra begins to slowly walk towards the river, adjusting his short golden hair and basking his dark skin in the summer sun of the realm.
"Wh- what was that?! You're joking, right? This is all a cruel joke, right?!" Fa Jin seems to be fully losing his mind, "you dare use my own spell against me?!"
Ezra simply chuckles nonchalantly, making Fa even more furious, this child can copy his spells?! Not only that, but he can copy them after only seeing them once?!
"How?! This is proposterous!"
"It's easy, you know... You just have to put your fingers in a triangle and just summon your Manna into the triangle and shoot it out!" Fa Jin's eyes widen even more, easy?! Was this kid mocking him?! It took him years to learn such a spell!
"Using complex spells like Catena, forming chains out of Manna... These are all complex things, you truly are his kid..." He laughs, "you definitelly are a problem..."
"Now, shall we continue our fight or will you continue to bore me with your annoying speeches...?" Ezra picks his nose, flicking the snot away.
"Catena!" Fa summons chains from the water that fly at Ezra who summons his whips again and destroys the chains.
Fa's eyes glow blue and he commands "shatter" once again, the whip shatters but unlike last time, Ezra simply smirks and the chain links fly individually at great speeds cutting Fa Jin's robe and his face he tries to command them to shatter again but they all dissappear from his view and interlock around his ankle, re-forming the chain-whip which Ezra swings and with it, swings Fa Jin into a stone statue.
Ezra disperses the chain-whip and walks over to the broken statue, Fa jin is laying beside it bruised, cut and bloodied. He is coughing violently until he looks up at Ezra who has an evil grin on his face, he immediatelly goes on one knee and grits his teeth.
"How stupid of you... Losing to a child..." Ezra laughs and points his open palm to Fa Jin's head.
"I'll make this quick, i don't want you to suffer anymore... Flatus." He says but nothing happens, even his eyes remain their original color, its only Fa Jin who is smiling now.
"Manna is a finite resource, you have very little of it so you should be careful to not spend too much too quickly, i guess i shouldn't have expected you to understand that..." He stands up and the realm dissappears, Ezra frantically tries to use another spell but fails as he is taken by the face and slammed into the ground.
Fa Jin, bloodied and beaten, looks down at the three children laying unconscious on the ground before him and smiles, "you three will be great assets to us... I am very impressed..."
TO BE CONTINUED...