Qiang laughs loudly, facing Leviathan with a wide grin. Helena shouts his name with a wide happy smile while Leviathan growls angrily.

"Another one?! Why are there so many if you?! This isn't fair!" She stomps her foot on the ground with a pouty look, "that's it! I'm done playing nice!" She yells, her face blushing red from anger as her body begins to change. Her hands begin to change into a finn like shape as she screams in pain from the transformation.

Her transformation then abruptly stops as she is picked up by the back of her collar by a slim hand, holding her up with two fingers. As they look up at the figure holding her they find a slim woman wearing a revealing outfit with a curvy body shape.

On both her ears they notice earings which are two golden pieces held together by pink strings. The woman smirks as she sees Huan Lian ready for a fight, she then turns her gaze to Helena.

"Hello, Helena dear!" Helena rolls her eyes, "i hadn't expected you to join the opposing side right after betraying us."

"You betrayed yourselves, i wasn't going to stay with a bunch of people who were trying to sacrifice me!"

"Your loss, dear." The woman says with a tender, seductive voice.

Ezra walks closer to Helena and whispers, "who is that?"

"That's Principle rank four, the Principle of Control, Buer." She says aloud to which Buer smirk, saying there was no need to expose her.

Huan Lian nearly jumps at Buer but is stopped by Helena who pulls him back. Buer then waves to them, "don't go attacking me now, i'm merely collecting my daughter."

Leviathan protest calling her mom and telling her to put her down to which Buer slaps her and dismisses her protests.

"Anyway, goodbye to you four, i believe we'll meet again in more deadly circumstances." She chuckles and waves her hand across the open air, "Textikinesis: Sky Curtain." She says as the sky coats itself around her thin fingers like a cloth, covering her whole body and once it returns back into place Leviathan and Buer are nowhere to be seen.

Once they dissappear, Lian turns to Helena with a scowl, "why did you stop me?" He asked angrily, gritting his teeth.

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"We could barely fight Leviathan, we couldn't have defeated Buer in our current states..." She says in annoyance, "and how would you know that?! You're only a former low ranking Principle!" He yells.

Qiang aproaches, keeping a grin on his face and his eyes closed, "believe me, she knows quite a lot about the Principles, definitelly more than you, 'Principle expert'." He mocks and looks down at Lian.

"I see you did research... But you're blind, so why do you think you have any right to mock me?" He looks up at Qiang who is at least a head taller than him.

"Cus' i'm stronger than you, dwarf!" He shows him his large muscles with a loud laugh.

"Oh, yeah?! Why don't we settle this with a duel?!" Lian says angrily and Qiang laughs again and agrees, stroking his beard.

Helena aproaches them with an annoyed look before getting slapped on the back of the head lightly by Ezra who is pointing with his thumb, gesturing for them to leave the scene and Helena reluctantly obliged. They walk away slowly, leaving Lian and Qiang to bicker by themselves in the forest which is begining to be illuminated by golden light of sunrise.

"Hey, how did the guy know you were a Principle?" Ezra asks softly.

"I don't really know, he is aparently really interested in Principles and when he saw me he began touching me weirdly and asking me weird questions. Honestly, he is just a strange person overall."

"I can tell... But we found Qiang finally so all is well..." He sighs, "and i have to be trained by Fa Jin... Oh, and Yue said she has some gift for me after training."

Helena perks up, "a gift?" Ezra nods, "yes, she said it was some clothing."

Helena chuckles, "well, good luck with the training, i'll be taking a bath in the estate bath house and falling asleep."

"Isn't water dangerous for Principles?"

"Yeah, but not unless i take out my earrings. It's what gives us power due to the demon blood in it but it's also what gives us our weakness of water."

Ezra simply nods and continues to walk as he takes in the breath-taking sunrise before him. Once arriving at the estate, Helena waves him goodbye and enters the bathhouse while Ezra heads to the training grounds but upon getting there he sees nobody and sighs wearily before going into the main building of the estate.

Once he enters he sees Fa Jin sitting across an unknown man in green attire while he eats a meal, he aproaches casually, not caring about the presence of the stranger. He speaks to Fa Jin and tells him about his training to which he simply points to the man sitting across from him.

The man then stands up and walks over at Ezra, he stands tall, at least 190 cm as he bends to Ezra's level and putting out his hand for him to shake, which he does. Ezra looks up at the man who has a sly smile on his face, "Nice to meet you, my name is Xuan Lei, you?" His smirk turns into an eerie grin.

"Ezra Shai, Nice to meet you too." He says with slightly spooked tone.

"I see... Ezra... Great to know young child." Xuan Lei's crimson colored eyes narrow as he takes note of Ezra's tan skin and blonde hair.

"Who are you exactly?" Ezra says warily.

"Oh, i am the current head of the Xuan clan and a high elder of the court of Archos."

"A... High elder?"

"Yes, i am one of the strongest men in the whole nation of Archos and one of the Grandmaster's closest advisors."

TO BE CONTINUED...