Eirlys Reyes, Jude's half-sister and a young woman of 17. She was an advanced magician and in a few months' time, she would breakthrough to Master Magician. She was known as one of the top geniuses with talent that could outshine the geniuses in the 4 great families of the Azeroth Kingdom. If she can successfully become a Magus, that's when her potential would soar to even greater heights.

Bits of memories started to flash past Jude's head. He remembers when they were kids, they used to be close. She would often to cling to him and followed him around nearly all the time. At that time, Jude was very proud and would always try to flaunt. She always said that she wanted to catch up to him, but who knew in just a few years' time, she didn't just catch up, she completely surpassed him. This caused him to be a bit depressed, but he didn't let it bother him as he believed he would still be able to catch up. However, the gap only grew bigger and along with his younger brother also surpassing him, his pride took a big blow and little by little his rift with his siblings became bigger and bigger, until he started to harbor some hatred. Jude, fearing what he might do desperately seeked ways to be able to catch up to them, not only to distract himself, but also to give himself some hope otherwise he would be completely crushed.

Jude was startled a bit at her appearance and stared at his sister for a few seconds. His heart was accelerating, he felt very nervous but he did not let it show on his face. He didn't really understand why, but he could feel fear, hesitation and some hints of suffocating warmth. He managed to look away, took in a breath, then started calming down. Although, his body did not listen, his state of mind started becoming more rational and as a result his heartbeat started becoming slower.

His sister was still looking at him, waiting for an answer and in return he turned his eyes back to her and gave a slightly strained smile before speaking.

"It's nothing much. Our father told me to come talk with you and we haven't talked or seen each other for a long time, so I decided to come see you."

Eirlys looked startled, then resumed her normal expressionless face. However, her eyebrows were knitted a little and her eyes contained traces of anger.

"You want to talk? Why now?"

Jude rubbed the nape of his neck a little. He felt a bit awkward as they haven't talked for years, yet now he decided he wanted to talk, this would definitely make anybody angry especially if they had a close relationship before.

He sighed quietly and knew he had to give some time to mend their relationship.

"I just thought we shouldn't be like this forever. Perhaps I rushed it too fast, but if you want to see me, I won't refuse you anymore. That is, if you still want to." With that said, Jude walked out of her courtyard.

Eirlys stood there watching him leave, her mind and emotions in a mess.

"Why now...? All those times...you didn't even-" She muttered under her breath, with the rest becoming incomprehensible.

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Jude was back in his room, sitting and currently thinking over some things. His mind was still calm, but he was feeling different kind of emotions. He needed to give his sister time to think things over to be able fix their relationship and he knew he would have to see his sister more. The more contact, the better. He didn't know why, but he felt as if he needed to mend the relationship between them, it felt so urgent and suffocating he couldn't resist it.

He thought of his younger brother, Arwa Reyes, also considered a young genius. Although he wasn't as talented as his sister, he was still very impressive in the clan. He worked hard and didn't slack off, his personality however, was a bit naive but he was respected for his strength and personality.

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Jude's relationship with his younger brother was a bit better as he still saw and talked to him from time to time, although it was more like greetings. It would be easier to start from his younger brother first, but currently his brother was outside on a mission along with a few other members.

Jude gave a heavy sigh and he rubbed his temples a little.

"You've really left me with some problems...Forget it. I'll worry about it later. For now, I have to focus on myself." Jude got off the chair and walked outside.

The sun had just set and the darkness was slowly enveloping the sky.

Jude stood in the middle of his courtyard, still. He breathed in and closed his eyes.

In a few breaths time, his eyes shot open and his left fist flew out twice in quick succession then he firmly gripped the ground, twisted his body and fired out a right all in a second. There was a whistling sound, but he didn't finish there. He quickly retracted his fist, fixed his body back into a stance then spun his body 45 degrees raising his right leg in the process and executed a right roundhouse kick. He practiced various moves for a long time and when he was finally exhausted, he was panting heavily, his clothes were damp and his muscles ached terribly.

He inhaled a mouthful of air, then exhaled.

"Huff...still too slow. I have to get this body used to the motions first and then I can fully execute them perfectly without even letting my opponent rest."

Jude was trying to train his body to be able to adapt and use the various martial arts he knew in his past life. Although, he could remember them, they were still in his mind in the end. Some of them he couldn't use without a person and some of them he could only use if he wanted to kill someone. This body of his currently had little to no experience in physical training or martial arts, so there were flaws everywhere, but he didn't worry as he knew where they were and how to fix them.

He sat on the ground to rest for a few minutes before slowly dragging his worn-out body into his room.

He didn't know when it was brought in, but there was food on his table. His eyebrows scrunched up a little.

"What...? When did someone bring this in? Was I too absorbed in training?" He knew his senses were severely lacking currently and coming to this conclusion, Jude no longer worried about it. He only ate half of his meal before stopping. He currently just wanted to wash himself as his clothes were damp and he was still sweaty, so he grabbed the neatly folded clothes laid on his bed and tiredly dragged himself to his personal bathroom.

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Feeling clean and refreshed, he was currently sitting upright on his bed and still feeling unbearable fatigue, he had a great urge to sleep. However, he kept forcing himself to stay awake as he still had something he needed to do. To him, time was precious, he didn't know much about this world so he urgently needed some way to ensure he would be able to guarantee his own survival. He doesn't need a lot of strength, but at least enough to protect himself.

He sat down on his bed in a lotus position and closed his eyes. He slowly fell into a stupor and the image of his elemental power and energy started appearing in his mind. Currently, his solar lightning energy was still tiny, but its size had expanded by a little with it being similar in size to a baby's fist now.

He began to gather the energy at his core and when he felt it was sufficient enough, he started to slowly guide the energy up, all the way to his right eye.

Just before it reached his eye, he hesitated for a second before he let the energy gush into his eye. Although it was just a second of hesitation, but to him it felt even longer.

Jude started to feel a burning sensation in his eye, it was just like an itch at first, but soon it started to feel like his right eye was burning. As it became more concentrated at his eye, the burning feeling gradually expanded to his whole face. He squinted his tightly closed eyes.

At first, he tried to resist and muffle his groans, but steadily he could feel the pain becoming even stronger. He wasn't sure if it was the pain tolerance of this body, but it felt even worse than his past experience.

He slammed his head on his pillow and bit into it. He had to endure and stay conscious or else the process would reverse and make his right eye lose vision.

He didn't know how long the process lasted, but when he finally started regaining rational thought, he slowly sat upright weakly and laughed in a hoarse voice to himself.

He opened his eyes slowly and if one looked closely, in the dark room they would see that Jude's right eye was glowing, no longer being dark brown, his right eye was now like the color of a flame. A tiny spark appeared in his pupils but vanished just as quick making one think if it was just an illusion.

Jude closed and opened his eyes again and this time his right eye became dark brown again.

Feeling a weight off his mind and finally relieved, he collapsed onto his pillow and fell into a deep sleep.