Jonah and Kael's wounds had healed up thanks to Ciara. The opinion of the students had changed when they saw how Kael fought. To which Jonah turned to make a declaration.

"Observant girl! What's your name?"

"It's Jia Qi!" The girl answered.

"I will come to this academy weekly with assignments for you to complete. With your observation skills. The martial arts that you learn here is useless to you. You are not weak. Your power lies in a martial arts that focuses on observation and senses." Jonah pulled out a book.

"Come here." Jia Qi leaped from the stands to stand in front of Jona.

"In this book, it is known as the Dragons of Southern Cross. You must only train one page a week. There are many volumes but depending on how well you perform. You may be able to finish this book faster than I did. My master only gave me half a page!" Jonah laughed loudly.

"That's cause you were an idiot that was a battering ram." Ciara corrected.

"True, but anyway. Jia Qi. I am a Master of the Dragons of Southern Cross and I have chosen you as my sole disciple. I will come here weekly to assess you and assist in your training. The Dragons of Southern Cross is a martial arts technique that focuses on observational skills. By observing your opponent and destroying the opponent's possibilities to attack you. Break weapons, break their wills. Break their wills, opponents become nothing but insects. The nature of the Dragon is tempered by its wielder. I have tempered it to be fully offensive. You can temper it to be defensive or be in the middle It depends on your purpose for power." Jonah explained to her as he gave her the book.

Jonah then turned to Azi who was in the crowd.

"Azi. Darkness is what you make of it. There's a lot that you can do with it. No element is inherently truly good or evil. I've seen people commit evil with light. What matters is how you shape the elements. Always remember that. Do not listen to those who do not understand darkness. Focus on your own path even if it is alone." Jonah said as he put on his shirt, stretching his neck as he pulled out a pistol from his pocket.

"Every element has people that use it for good and use it for evil. The reason why most academicians feel that darkness is evil is due to them being victims in the past thanks to the element itself. But Azi. A mage must forge your own path. Jonah, you are going to teach him right?" Ciara asked Jonah who was shaking his head at her words.

"Sure." Jonah said.

"Besides, Jonah's seen quite a number of those religious bastards that abuse power. Like the Head Priest right?" Ciara asked.

"Oh him? Yeah, I hung him over the church when he said that I was unfit to be king and a tyrant. Then I literally told people. I'm cutting down their taxes. I made trade agreements and turned it to a utopia. Oh by the way Azi. Your parents worked in the mines right?" Jonah asked.

"Yes, Great Leader." Azi spoke with his head facing the ground, not looking Jonah in the eye.

"Well I got rid of the mines. All those mines have done is cause pain to our people. Your parents are currently going through an education phase to make sure they are not illiterate and that they understand the law. Your siblings are now in school and not working at the mines. If you are here because you want to be an Adept soldier to give them a better life. Then there's no need for you to stay here. What is it that you want to do?"

"I.. I want to be a scholar." Azi spoke to Jonah, looking at Jonah in the eyes.

"I can't believe my family's bullshit is leading to this... A kid who wants to be a scholar chose to be a fighter at the front lines. Hey, Principal Ardjent!" The Principal turned to Jonah.

"I'll be taking this kid back with me. This place trains warriors. Not Scholars. I'll pay for the termination fee." Principal Ardjent nodded to Jonah.

"Azi. You are in good hands. Jonah isn't a tough trainer like I am. So are you done interrupting classes for the day? They need to get to training." Kael asked Jonah who chuckled.

"Fine fine. Sheesh. I pity the ones training under you. You're near spartan level of training." Jonah said as he appeared beside Azi and offered his hand to Azi. Azi grabbed it.

"Oh by the way. Kael, if you're ever in Baltokia. Just gimme a call. Bye Ciara. Glad to see you're doing well." Azi and Jonah vanished like ghosts, their pressence was gone. Even the soldiers that had accompanied Jonah had gone missing.

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"Alright. Back to class. Midnight Howl, I'll need to fix you up before anything else." Kael then turned to see Hana Li who was injured but she was still sitting in the audience.

"Oh, poor girl. She's hurt. You train people too hard." Ciara said as she waved a rod to Hana's direction, healing her wounds with just a gesture.

"Best way to train them. They used Gray Gems to abuse the weapons." Kael could see Ciara's face writhe in fury, she was terrible at hiding her emotions when not on the runway or in her photoshoots.

"Hey easy. Their instructors did it. Now anyway, Hana. Come follow me. I'll need to teach you how to care for your sword." Kael said as Hana and Ciara followed Kael out, heading to the forge as the blades were staring from the outside. When Kael stepped in with Hana, the other swords kept their distance but they went close to Ciara who started to polish them.

"The first step is to understand how to polish your sword. Living Weapons and Weapon Spirits may break but they will repair themselves in due time. As you can see Midnight Howl is cracked by the spine and warps at the upper blade. These will treat on its own but the most important part. Is to provide the blade with enough rest. It is as simple as this." Kael sheathed the blade.

"Leaving the blade in its sheathe will allow it to heal the defects on their own. Unlike normal weapons that require you to grind them out and to do other things. When the blade has returned to its proper form, then you have to sharpen it. During this period, do not draw the weapon while it remains in its sheathe." Kael explained to them as he put Midnight Howl aside.

Hana watched the fox that was on her shoulder jumped back into the sheathe. Ciara on the other hand was seemingly loved by the swords as she inspected them all for cracks.

"You managed to tame them so easily. Some of them need their break to stay here. It's a good thing that they didn't push their luck. Any longer and these swords would have turned cursed." Ciara said, grabbing each sword gently. Taking a look at its construction, trying to see if there were cracks, signs of fractures by the spine, or if there were grains that had not formed properly.

"I only could do that with Midnight Howl. Any one of my other swords they would just attack them until they are destroyed. Living Weapons would prefer to not see their own kind be tamed by abuse. Allensphere was abusing Radiant Sonata to power the city. She's broken as a sword. Far too afraid to be used in battle." Kael answered.

"Right, because your blades have killed too many of their own they cannot differentiate between a sane and an insane weapon."Ciara said as she held another blade, taking some iron powder and rubbing over it. Smoothening it over the cracks of the blade to help form it into its body.

"Hands of the smith. Her own hands are smithing tools, she can create a fire that goes even beyond the forge." Kael said as they watched how Ciara repaired every blade with just taking the same material and melting it to the damaged parts. Her hands were straightening the any warps, bending and evening out any excess pieces.

"Consider it a freebie, Kael." Ciara said as she was her powers as the Avatar of Summer and Avatar of Forge had faded from her hands.

"It's fine. Thanks for calming those blades down." Kael said as they watched the blades appear, kneeling before her.

"Oh, Kael. By the way.. I came here for another reason... The 18 Blades Sect. Word has it that you killed the people that are contracted to the Corazon family. "

"I did, Ciara. Why?"

"They were looking for you to settle things. Though word reached to Luca." Kael raised his eyebrow, Luca was the Avatar of War. He was a child soldier from the war torn nation of Abazmantisk. Luca was bred for war, he killed a man at age of 7, then fought as a rebel against one of the larger empires on earth. The Avalon Empire, Kael was surprised to hear that about Luca.

"So were means they were dead?"

"Yes. Luca killed them with nothing more than a scalpel." Kael coughed for a moment.

"A scalpel? Wait, did he take on Avalon yet?"

"No, according to what I heard Luca's magic veins and mana control has gone down. He can barely do anything. All he can do is temper his body. He's at Everest but nowhere close to Olympus." Ciara explained.

"I am going to find Luca and heal him, but he may want to go against Avalon." Ciara said as they spoke in a different language. Ones that can only be understood by Avatars.

"Hana. That will be all for today." Hana headed out first as Kael put Midnight Howl aside and looked at Ciara.

"Tell Luca that if he needs me. I'm just a call away. Besides, it might be a fun time for me to use back my cards. Besides I'd like to see you leading that orchestra of yours back into the fight." Kael smirked to Ciara who chuckled.

"I'll go to Luca then." Ciara vanished from sight.

Jonah would most likely want to join the fight. Besides Kael has always seen Avalon Empire's evil and cruelty yet the many nations in this world. Despite their sovereignity would bow down to Avalon's Might. There were contenders but a war with Avalon would be one of atrition. Not everyone is financially prepared for such things. Many countries were ready for war but will they be able to handle after the war? Avalon housed many of its economies but truth is. Economies were nothing compared to the deaths of many.

Blood and war economy, weapons, vehicles and armors of war. These were necessities. Progression and an industry that is among the powerhouses of earth's economy. But to the Avatars that served with Kael. Their many lives that they lived had changed them far too much. They hated the idea of reincarnating into war torn lands, and did not have much. But soon, they proved worthy. Accepting the call to become Avatars and reveling in their powers.

There was a time when Avatars of all the Gods were called for a war. Not one of choice but one to ensure the fate of the worlds they chose. Kael and the few whom he trusts went ahead to stop the war by killing the Supreme God. Leaving the decisions to Lucius who had been elected.What Lucius had done, changed many things. The many Deities were free to be worshipped by humans and nature.

Kael, Luca, Jonah and Ciara. The four of them were always reincarnated together albeit at different ages but they fought together at the end of each life and it brought many changes to their next ones. The Avatar of Destruction, War, Fall and Summer were known for their prowess. Yet their allies that are Duel, Spring, Winter and others are just as powerful.