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Sardin shrugs a little. "Don't trust the grand Magus then, Yes about that though the head elementals don't always train people, If you insist though they will make you take a test. Trust me when I say this, If you fail the test you won't like the result." Sardin said rubbing the crystal in his arm sighing as the wagon came to a stop gently.

"Well enough of that time to get down to trading." He said and grabbed the water skins as well as a few bundles of furs and rolls of cloth and carried them off as he went to head to the market. "Good job Lyra your a natural a driving a horse drawn wagon." He said smiling softly.

In the town there was a small gathering and a odd ring in the city. A man in the ring with 5 big buff and muscular men and a few women was calling out. "Step right up folks, Who here has the nerve, Skill and guts to take on these 5 champion fighters? These 5 are the strongest fighters not by mere physical strength mind you, Just unmatched skill to this day.

If any of you think you would be able to take any of these champions on all you need is to place a security fee of 12 Relu. This way if your injured it will pay to get you healed up. However if you win 3 out of 5 rounds you get a prize, win 5 out of 5 rounds and you also get bragging rights." The man likely the fighters manager doing a local sporting event to keep them from getting rusty.

Sardin was spotted by the ring leader and spoke up "Hey young man you with the ruby on your arm. You look like a fighter how about you show us what you got?" He said Sardin looked over to the man then to the 5 fighters and laughed. "Sorry but tempting as it might seem I am no fool. There is a much outclassed difference between them and me. Frankly if I did get into the ring you would need 5 new fighters. Besides they have done nothing wrong to me so I have no need to fight with them." Sardin said talking like he was no match for the 5 and would mess them up so badly they wouldn't be able to fight anymore.

"Oh so your saying your no match for 5 fighting champions? That is unlikely its more like your no match even for the one that is the weakest of them. So it seems your quite scared from just the mere looks of these 5." The man boasting of their skill said implying Sardin was scared.

But then Sardin sneezed as a pair of dragon wings shot out of his back making gasps and whispers mutter in the crowd as Sardin blows his nose into a tissue. "No as you see my dragon wings well yeah I am a regal dragon guard here to do trading, So yeah though many fear dragons so I stay in a human form your human fighters I could take all 5 out in 5 seconds total in a all against one match so it really is not fair for me to try." Sardin said smirking a bit and the man waved Sardin off. Then picking a few other people that looked tough from the crowd to boast and try enticing into the ring.

Once this other guy was beaten too much seemed no one else was wanting at the moment to try. Olandrik appeared silently behind Hitana and said "Right here this young lady will fight." as he poked Hitana to make her raise her arm to swat him.

The manager locked eyes upon Hitana and laughed. "Please that young lady is just a child she wouldn't be a match for any of these fighters.Have her return in a few years perhaps." He said goading Hitana.

Olandrik smirked a bit. "I bet she kicks their butts. 1000 Relu per fighter she faces. Whats to lose if she a child like you call her if she loses you make 1000 Relu. If she wins one but loses you get 2000 and so on. But if she beats all 5 I win 5000 Relu. But clearly a child like her should net you some cash from not even winning one fight." Olandrik says smirking.

"Well I hate taking candy or Relu from a toddler like that young lady." the man said trying to Goad Hitana into showing her temper.

The crowd cheers watching the fight as another fighter steps up placing his hand on the first. "I think your gonna lose no mater what this one seems more skilled then you can see. It's time to let someone else play with this one." He said and cracked his neck and knuckles getting ready to step into the ring.

Sardin went to the medical shop and looked around at the herbs they had, Holding a list he was checking it with the herbs they had in jars. If a person that worked there would come up to see if he needed something he would hand the list with 18 different herbs listed all used for medicine or healing.

Olandrik went and got the money and caught up to Hitana and Lyra handing each a pouch full of the money 5,000 relu split between them and he smirked. "Here ya go I split the winnings with ya both so its all fair. After all how do you expect to get food without money?" He asked smirking to them both.

Sardin approached a counter and met with the herbal shop keeper handing the list over and getting the herbs trading it for the water which also netted extra cash in Sardin's hand. As he finished all the supply gathering that was needed back in Synda he met with the guards making them take back the goods with them. "I would feel safer if all of you return with the goods,

As for Hitana and Lyra they will be with the grand Magus learning to master their emotions and powers better. And no I will be flying them there so there will really be no need for guards as no one attacks people in the air these days at least not between here and the twin mage towers." Sardin said making the guards return to Synda with the goods only keeping enough for himself, Lyra and Hitana.

Olandrik raised a brow and thought about Hitana's question. "Well I doubt it's would be an arch mage, There are only two reasons and Arch mage would take students, You having holding something incriminating held over their heads, or they see your powers as something they need to study. That or the Arch mage owes some debt to the one having them teach someone they normally would not, unless that person is a family member.

So I doubt if Sardin has an arch mage that would be willing to take you and Lyra on as students. I am on the path of my own to become a grand magus myself and am busy too much to take on and students myself. Though once i become a grand magus that could change. And it depends on who this person is to determine if they are to be trusted or not." He said looking confused a little.

Olandrik laughed at that and sighed. "I see that person, He is referring to the only existing Grand magus at this time. Who is half elemental actually. And No elementals didn't put that crystal into Sardin's arm to begin with. Though it's not actually a curse either, Sardin just seems confused as usual which is why he can not become stronger then he is already. He has potential but he has to get past his confusion on things.

Furthermore this Grand Magus is also half dragon, But no the crystal that Sardin has inside his arm because he freed it from the restraining device once it was separated from him. These crystals form naturally in various color and are special. They can be made to manipulate its self to form various weapons, tools, armor and things as well as holding strange powers. Sardin from the study on his crystal is rather strong looks to be stronger then most others other then the pure white crystal,

There is about 12 in total of these special crystals. and there are 4 that are near equal strength. Ruby, diamond, sapphire and onyx are the 4 strongest of the 12 crystals it is rumored that a phoenix and dragon mixed their powers together and created these crystals for certain people that are chosen by these crystals to use. So far though only two has ever chosen anyone. The ruby chose Sardin and the diamond chose...." Olandrik looked down almost saddened it looked.

"...Chose someone that was very dear to me. Who lost control of the crystal and was well she doesn't live anymore. And Sardin blames the crystals, Yes elementals guard these and do a ritual to test and see if one would react to have chosen someone. Which might be why he thinks elementals will give these crystals to those they teach. But it is not true." Olandrik said softly and then snorted.

"As for controlling people this grand magus can only paralyze people to stop them from moving and it is not that she can control people through their element or her own. Which is a mixture of water and fire by the way. She inherits fire element from her dragon father and water because she was born part elemental which is that of a water elemental. The grand magus is a woman Hitana, And my mother by the way Hitana. She can only make a person stop moving through what the magic council calls blood magic.

It manipulates the blood in a persons body to force all muscles of motion to stiffen and become like stone preventing people from punching or kicking and disrupts the ability of them performing magic or using their element abilities. So if something happened and you got violent and started fighting and beating someone up for little to no reason or you refuse to stop hitting them she can force you to stop but that is all. You don't become her puppet against your will, She is the only one who can do this so far and people have researched into blood magic.

And no one is able to do much other then to paralyze a single arm for a few minutes before they black out from using blood magic, And this goes for dragons the beings born of pure magic. And elementals can't even come close to using it without risking their very lives. So the only thing you got to worry about is suddenly finding yourself unable to move from being paralyzed. You see Sardin has many siblings but he has only one true sibling one twin from me and his mother being together for a short period of time all his other 'siblings' mostly are from different parents So more or less all he calls brother or sister are actually half siblings from either me and another female making children or his mother and another male having children.

He only had one true sibling who got the diamond crystal because it chose her. Her name was Akuna but the power of the diamond that chose her was too much for her and she well... her body turned to crystal and then energy and pulled into the crystal its self it more or less devoured Akuna. And Sardin was scared the same would happen to him and had his grandmother Lakira the grand magus remove it and restrain it from rejoining him unless he chose to which once it would be rejoined into his body it would never again be able to be removed.

Unless the Ruby crystal then found a better wielder of it's power, Or Sardin dies. These crystals live, they have a mind a voice and will of their own. Though now the Diamond holds Akuna, Sardin's twin sister as it's mind and voice. Sardin does visit Akuna from time to time but usually he comes away from it in pain blaming not only himself but calling these crystals a curse placed upon him and Akuna. There is a low likeliness any of these crystals choosing to fuse to you or Lyra.

Normally when chosen by one the person hears the voice of the crystal. Where everyone else just hears a musical chime from it. Though since what happened to Akuna everyone hears a voice from the diamond crystal now though. Usually complaining of being bored or ignored." Olandrik said snickering a little at the last part.

Sardin walked into the shop where Lyra was looking over things as well and walked up beside her. "Hey what's up Lyra if you're here looking for some food there are plenty of decent restaurants where you don't need to cook before you eat, Unless your wanting a home cooked meal." He said to Lyra then handing his list over to a person behind the counter "I will take the dried meats now but will pick up the fresh meats tomorrow before we head out." He said to the meat vender behind the counter.