Chapter 5: Let The Journey Begin (1/2)

A clang drowned out the silence as my mother dropped her fork onto her plate

"What? Reynolds! Arthur isn't even four yet! No! Besides, you said if our son was an augmenter, you'd be able to teach him!" Mother spoke with evident desperation

"I, also, never expected our son to be this y inat the age of three?" Father responded a lot more calmly

"But that means he'll have to leave home! He's only four, Reynolds! We can't have our baby leave hoet it When I observed his body while he meditated, I couldn't help but feel that all of this was natural to hi to teach hian my parents' quarrel

They went back and forth, basically repeating their initial points;that they couldn't holdmy full potential, blah blah

In the ame of ith my food, the peas attacked for the Mother Empire, while the carrots of the Father Nation desperately defended their land

Finally, my parents settled down andyou, so you have a say in this as well Hoould you feel about going to a big city and having a teacher?"

Fantastic

I applauded the effort for trying to make this fair, but I don't think he realized that he was trying to ask a four-year-old to e his life

Trying to conclude this little argu some mentors and have them see if I need to be tutored or not?"

Silence

Did I step on a landmine? Was I not supposed to be this articulate in e? Are theyno confidence in keeping a poker face, I looked down and waited for their response

Thankfully, none of my fears were on their minds My mother finally spoke, quietly she muttered, "We'll at least forure out what to do froanpreparations the next day When I said what I did last night, I assu to a nearby town or a city, maximum a day's worth of travel away, to have

We werejourney A journey via horse-drawn carriage through the Grand Mountains to soet us into a city called Xyrus

A book that I had read popped intopiece of land built by an ancient organization of conjurers for the sole purpose of housing the e Academy A city was later built around the academy; both the City and the acadeanization - Xyrus

Hoas it possible to keep a piece of land, hundreds of kilonetism? Then the land beneath the city would be affected by it Did the city have its own gravitational field?

Anyway!

This journey was going to be long It's times like these that I wished et to the city, we'd have to enter through one of the designated teleportation gates in the Grand Mountains, otherwise, it would easily take ate below the actual city, which floated near the border of the Kingdom of Sapin and Darv

One reason why o on this journey noas because his ex-party members had recently stopped by and were on their way to the city of Xyrus Going noith the with my e didn't have any ers of bandits and wild animals

Whileall of the necessities, I packed my wooden sword and two books (Encyclopedia of Dicathen and Foundations of Mana Manipulation) for the journey

Byrasped my mother's hand and followed h I'd heard about them occasionally fro it, so it would bethem

The information I learned from my father about the party :

Helen Shard: Feic archery

Adamenter, whose main weapon was the spear

Jasers

Angela Rose: Feic