“What?” – Gara was surprised, that his fire sword was stopped by a short sword of ice, that appear suddenly, stopping his attack, and even more when he saw who was the one wielding that ice-magical weapon.

In front of him, was a two-meter man, with long black hair, dark brown eyes, and whose clothes was torn apart in different zones.

Then, one good punch on his face, and later a hard kick sends Gara some meters back.

And before he could attack, someone calls him.

Meanwhile, the man with a fierce look turns around, seeing Alyssa, and helping her stand up.

“How are you feeling?” – he asks her.

"Who are you?" - asked Alyssa.

The man smiled mischievously, and pulled her closer to him, giving her a kiss.

'Eh?' - the young woman was surprised to be suddenly kissed.

It was a kiss that barely lasted three seconds, but the man in front of her had stolen a kiss from her.

"I'm Vanris, Yra Draco Vanris." - answered the man while using healing magic on her. - "Your husband."

'How? Yra? But he looks different and acts different... how is this possible? - the girl wondered.

She looked closely at the man's face, and managed to discern some facial features that were the same as Yra's.

"Really... is it you?"

Yra nodded, while stroking Alyssa's silky soft, long black hair, and then approaching again, this time he gave her a kiss on her forehead.

"But... your appearance?!

"I have no idea what happened either." - replied honestly the young man, whose face was now that of a wild, free, and confident looking man.

Soon, Elisa, Hana, Mei, and Nanami joined them.

"Yra?" - Elisa was the one who came closest, touching the man's bare chest, she and the others managed to see how a bright light surrounded the young man, and when the light went out, Yra had this new appearance.

At the same time that this was happening, Gara had answered the call.

It was clearly Yatasa, since she was the only one who had the contact number of the old cell phone that Gara carried for this mission.

"What's going on?" - asked Gara.

"Get out of there immediately!" - exclaimed the crow witch.

"Why?" - asked Gara, quickly sensing that something was wrong, after all, the witch's tone of voice was worried.

"The stone has turned black." – answered the witch.

'How? A black stone?'

He knew very well what that meant.

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To see the risk of danger of each mission, they used the warning stone, a very rare item, which Yatasa used not only to find the target, but to discern how dangerous it was for Gara to face.

A grey stone meant that it would be extremely easy.

A green stone would bring little trouble.

A yellow stone would give some trouble, but it wouldn't be that bad.

A red stone meant that it was a worthy rival, capable of defeating Gara if he was careless.

A purple stone meant that the opponent was more powerful, a difficult mission but not impossible.

And the black stone.

'Death.'

Gara knew it, so he quickly hung up the call, and looked in the direction of the group of people, seeing the women surprised by the new appearance of their male target.

'I've never faced a black stone target... it's... it's..."

Before continuing with his thoughts, Gara felt chills, and looked at the man staring at him.

"Wait here, I'll finish this." - Yra said to the women, as he suddenly launched himself to attack Gara.

Gara barely managed to dodge the blow, but not completely, a small cut on his forehead made him bleed a little, surprising him by the new speed of his rival.

"Ready for the second round!" - Yra announced.

"You've changed... how is that possible?"

"What do you care?" - Yra said coldly, then made his short ice sword change into a long ice sword. - "Now it's my turn to beat you up."

Yra attacked, and Gara blocked the slash with his sword, trying to stop and deflect Yra's sword, but Gara almost dropped his sword, before the immense force contained in the slash of Yra.

A truly strong attack.

Gara tried to back away, but Yra followed closely behind him.

'Damn!'

Yra felt euphoric, the feeling of power he now possessed made him happy, even so, he knew that he still hadn't even reached the prime he reached in his past life.

'I can still improve.' - thought Yra.

"Destroy everything, Macabra!"

Gara's attack with his bastard sword was directed strongly towards Yra, but he only parried the attack with ease, although that caused cracks in his weapon made with ice magic.

But immediately, Yra created a sharp sword of stone, so sharp, that with a single cut, he managed to cut off the two hands that were holding Macabra.

"AHH!"

Without fear that his rival would use his weapon, Yra undid both swords, and using only his fists, he began to hit Gara non-stop.

Powerful blows, which destroyed the mercenary of the Corvus Order.

Yra continued hitting, not hesitating for a second to forgive his rival.

'You almost killed Alyssa... You deserve to die!'

Gara fell to the ground, his face unrecognizable, bleeding heavily.

"I hope that in your next life, you can have a more peaceful life, and not try to kill another man's wife."

Yra was preparing to give the final blow, but...

"My Ice is a Tempest that will Freeze My Enemies."

"My Lightning Electrocutes and Destroys All in Its Path!"

Two voices rang out, as they cast their spells that went straight for Yra, who simply stepped back and: "Earth Wall."

Using a defensive magic skill, he created a wall of earth, dust, and rock to form, which absorbed the two attacks.

“My Light Cure My Allies and Brings Peace to the Innocent.” – the younger of the two women who has arrived, cures Gara, stopping the bleeding.

“So, you are allies of this idiot?” – Yra was preparing to continue fighting, but then, he looks at the black eyes of the older woman, she was ugly, but that didn’t make him alarmed, but actually, the immense mana she possess.

‘At sixth… maybe a seventh circle mage?’

She was the stronger mage he has encounter until now.

Fighting her, would be really difficult, still, the memories of diverse skills he knows now, let him believe that he could find a plan to defeat her.

“We are not your enemies… young warrior.” – Said Yatasa. – “We surely wouldn’t like to fight against an Awakener.”

‘What? Awakener?’

“Oh, seeing your surprise face, it seems you don’t comprehend what your transformation means, am I right?”

He didn’t say anything, maintaining his focus on her and the younger woman.

“Don’t worry, Yra, we won’t continue to fight you, after all, we wouldn’t like to fight against a member of the Dragon Clan.”

Hearing her words, cause Yra’s mind to shake, not believing what she said.

‘She knows?’

The same thing happened to Elisa.

‘He really is from that Vanris family!!’

“What did you attack us?” – after calming himself, he asks her that.

Sunmi was already carrying Gara, and Yatasa maintain her cold look as she spoke.

“We were hired to bring you and Sonnenblume to our client, at the 2nd floor room number twenty-eight at the Holland Hotel.” – said Yatasa.