Kalle felt the harsh sunlight touching his face as he got out of the tavern. The streets were busy despite the high temperature, Kalle could hear various murmurs in the crowd.

  'what happened to your Father?' it was Victor who spoke in his head.

  "Both of my parents are dead, also I don't want to talk about it" Kalle said plainly after arriving at a less crowded area.

  Victor sensed that Kalle didn't like the topic so he decided to change it.

  'so where is this Altair academy'

  "At altair" Kalle answered.

  'what?' Victor didn't knew if Kalle was being sarcastic.

  "The Altair magic academy in named after the duchy it resides" kalle explained.

  'So it is in the duchy of altair?'

  "Yes" kalle said while still moving through the streets

  Kalle's mind is full of thoughts. He thought about the man he hated, the possibility of getting his revenge yet he also thought about the spell. He knew he would need to eventually use the spell yet he felt so conflicted about it, as for why? he didn't know.

  Kalle have now arrived at the stalls of the market, he brought enought rations for a few days with his money that he got from his work. As for the rest of the rations that he would need. He decided he would buy those during the travel.

  Suddenly there was a surge of people running. Kalle looked around, he saw a lot of people that seemed to be headed the towards the town center. He found a man going towards the same direction and asked him what is happening.

  "A man has taken a woman captive, and is causing a commotion," the man said.

  "But why not deal with him? I'm pretty sure there are plenty of magic users who could help," Kalle asked.

  "Well, the thing is... the man is also a magic user."

  Kalle moved along the busy crowd as he tries to reach for the center of the town and in his haste he bumped two or three onlookers. When he finally arrived at the town center, he saw two familiar faces. Anthon and Eli winterheart, apparently they were performing when the man decided to cause some trouble.

  There is huge a crowd surrounding the scene, kalle has to push himself with the crowd just to see the commotion. A man with a big belly and drenched clothes was point a dagger at a young woman.

  The woman seemed to be restricted by some shadowy force that prevents her from escaping or defending herself.

  Anthon was standing Infront of the man, they seemed to be talking to each other.

  Beside Anthon, is his sister Eli, holding his arm, whispering something to his brother.

  Kalle realized that neither of them can act without endangering the woman captured.

  'it would be a good time to use that' Victor spoke in Kalle's head.

  Kalle knew what was Victor talking about, he was already thinking of using it, The spell he learned from the book. He remembered the exact words he saw at the final page of the book.

  [Spell acquisition]

  At first he didn’t understood what it meant but Victor explained that it was a spell that lets the caster take another spell from someone and store it in the book.

  Kalle realized that the reason Victor never learned the spell is because he can’t take spells from any one. As he is the sole person to have magic in his era. Victor even pointed out last night that the spell itself confuses him, How could there be an ability in the book to take spells from someone when he, alone is the only one with magic.

  Victor might be right, it could be a perfect opportunity Kalle thought. He looked again at the scene, the dagger is still at the hands of the big bellied man and the woman was still restricted by some unknown force, magic Kalle decided.

  He looked at the bracelet and willed it to turn to it’s book form, he had been practicing it last night. The bracelet’s figure is suddenly gone, turning into a pure white light, this time unlike its first it wasn’t too bright. It only appeared to be wisp of light that moved from Kalle’s arm to his hand.

  The wisp slowly changes its form, transforming to the book. However this time, the book fits perfectly in Kalle’s hand. The book appears to have reduced it sized.

  Kalle stared intently at the man causing the commotion, he tried to pour every ounce of concentration he can. Suddenly runic symbols appeared rotating from his arm where he was holding the book. The runes seemed to change shape, color and arrangement every now and then.

  After a few seconds of the runes shuffling its appearance, it have turned black and the runes stopped it's movement. Kalle looked at the woman , which was being restricted by some force. Slowly the restriction disappears allowing the woman to move more freely, the big bellied man hasn’t even noticed it yet.

  When the binding on the woman was finally gone, she pushed the big bellied man who seemed confused by what just happened. The woman ran towards the two performer Eli and Anthon both equally confused, yet quickly regained their composure.

  It was the same for the man with the dagger as well, when he realized what just happened he thrown his dagger at the woman who is still running away from him.

  The dagger flew, slashing through the air, yet before it could even land on it's target it was met by a wall of ice, shielding the woman.

  A sharp crack was heard around echoing around the town center. The crowd gasps at the scene.

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  Slowly Anthon got near the ice wall that he just conjured. With enought force he plucked the knife out of the wall and looked at the man.

  It was the first time Kalle noticed it, Anthony's eye's seemed to glow, he could sense Anthon's anger despite being far from the scene.

  The crowd turned silent at the scene. The only thing the could be heard now was Anthon's footsteps as he moves closer to the man.

  He looked at Anthon, he felt fear. For every step Anthon took the man also steps back slightly staggering.

  Frightened, the big bellied man tried to cast the binding spell on Anthon.

  Anthon braced for the spell, he planned on avoiding the spell before it even captured him.

  To his surprise, nothing happened.

  The big bellied man tried casting the spell again, yet the spell doesn't cast.

  The man widened his eyes in his confusion.

  "Wha...t?... What did you do to me!" The man exclaimed his hands raised in a defensively.

  "I didn't do any thing" Anthon claimed, his voice cold.

  "Yet" Anthon followed with a smile.

  Kalle saw the smile from a far, he knew Anthon smiles often yet he thought that he didn't want to see him smile that way.

  Anthon moved closer, grabbed the bellied man by the hand and restrained him with handcuffs that seemed to be made with ice.

  The crowd seemed to disperse as commotion settles down.

  Kalle remebered the book on his hand, he looked at the first page of it.

  He saw words being written in the book.

  [Binding shadow]

  "Weird, why are the words looked..."

  'incomplete?' Victor asked recognizing Kalle's question.

  "Yes" Kalle said in a whisper.

  'it seemed to me that no matter what spell you would take the spell would appear incomplete in the book although i think the spell it self won't change much' victor explained.

  As kalle listened intently to victor, he suddenly realized the crowd growing thinner.

  He then again willed the book to turn back into a bracelet so he wouldn't caught any attention.

  Sure enough the book, again turned into a white wisp that circle into his wrist before completely turning back into the bracelet.

  It took some time for the crowd to be completely dissolved. And when it does the only ones left are the man, anthon, Eli and Kalle.

  Kalle moved towards the three, Anthon seeing Kalle, waved at him and Eli simply nodded at him.

  She's always quiet, Kalle realized.

  "Hey, Kalle" Anthon said his voice quite grim.

  "Hey, what happened?" Kalle replied.

  "This noble bastard caused commotion during our show" Anthon said pointing at the big bellied man now sitting by the edge of a fountain, his hand still restricted by the ice handcuff, he seemed to be suffering from cold but Anthon Don't seem to care.

  "Why, how did it started? the. Commotion was already on going when I got here" Kalle asked.

  "He seemed drunk, he was harassing one of our audience, when I came to stop him he took the woman and pointed a knife at her neck" Anthon explained.

  "So what are you gonna do to him now?"

  "I don't know really this town do not have a town watch so there wouldn't be anyone to take him although I think there is a town sheriff we would still have to contact him" Anthon holds his temple with his right hand, he seemed to be stressed.

  "There always seemed to be someone wanting to steal your audience" Kalle spoke.

  The statement made Anthon sigh.

  "Your right, good thing his binding magic stop working for some reason" Anthon pointed out.

  "What about his other magics?" Kalle asked.

  "I don't know I think everything seems working fine, it's just his one spell that doesn't work. I'm happy to capture this bastard but if you ask me, I actually find him not being able to use the spell very strange" Anthon paused.

  "I mean he have been using the spell for a few minutes and there is no fluctuations in it's consistency yet suddenly he can't use it?" Anthon seemed to be thinking about it deeply.

  "You seemed really interested about that" Kalle pointed out.

  Anthon smiled his usual smile.

  "Not really, I'm just a little curious. Wait by the way what brings you here? Did you come to watch?"

  "Actually, I came at the market to buy some rations I would be leaving capella for some time"

  "Oh really? Where to?" Anthon asked.

  "It may sound funny thought, I am going to Altair academy" Kalle answered.

  Anthon's eyes widened even Eli besides him seemed to be surprised by the revelation.

  "Yeah I know I'm magic le..." before Kalle even finishes his sentence Anthon interrupted him.

  "Actually there is a lot of people hoping to awaken magic there so don't think about it, the reason we're surprised is because we will actually be going there too"

  This made Kalle a little confused. By the norms, someone as skilled as them with magic has probably graduated the academy now. Since the application is not really based on student's age.

  You could start old or young and the results would only vary by your performance, Kalle knew about it because Cedric also Graduated from Altair since he entered it in a very young age.

  "Wait, both of you seemed to be extremely talented in magic how come that you haven't entered it yet" Kalle asked with a raised eyebrow.

  "Well our father actually works there, he constantly tries to convince us to attend of course although we don't want to... Atleast yet" Anthon explained.

  "What do you mean?"

  "Well, I guess you could say that we wanted to explore and pursue our hobby of performing although this year, we actually give in to our father's desires and would be attending Altair as well" Anthon paused as if having a sudden idea.

  "Wait what if you travel with us? We have a carriage that will bring us there and it's only the two of us inside, so there is plenty of room" Anthon continued.

  "We just met yesterday and now your inviting me to join your carriage?" Kalle asked, he wondered if Anthon is usually this easy going.

  Anthon smirked.

  "Why not? It's not like you can harm us any way" Anthon joked.

  "Plus I need someone to talk to, Eli is a extremely boring companion"

  The statement made Eli look sharply at Anthon before punching him by the shoulder.

  Kalle smiled at the banter of the two. For a moment he almost felt... Jealous.

  "Sure, When will you guys be leaving" Kalle said with a smile.

  "Tomorrow, early morning we could meet up here if you want" Anthon explained holding his shoulder that have been punched.

  "That's perfect, I actually planned on leaving tomorrow too" Kalle said.

  "Yes, it's all set then" Anthon exclaimed with a smile.

  They said their farewell to each other after Kalle noticed the time.

  Kalle leaves the town center and walked through the town's streets, this time it had rather turned into a quiet afternoon with only a few people passing every now and then.

  a voice spoke in his head.

  'What did mean, the man's other magic?'

  Kalle recognized Victor's voice.

  "Well humans with magic now either have a specialty or don't"

  "Those who do have specialty are like Eli, Anthon and the man" kalle explained while still walking in the clear streets.

  "The binding magic the man used, is his speciality. Of course he has other magic that is related to his speciality or has magic that do not require specialty such as barrier, enhancement spells that boost speed and strength or even a simple spell like a magic hand" Kalle was surprised that Victor didn't knew such details.

  Then he remembered that Victory was the sole magic user in his era and that he wouldn't know how magic was used in their current era.

  'So some people have specialty and some have basic magic only?' Victor asked

  "Yes" Kalle answered, suddenly he remembered something.

  "Wait does this mean I can use that binding spell?"

  'Yes I think so too' Victor answered.

  Kalle saw a bird with brown feathers pecking over some crumbs of bread.

  Kalle stretched out his hand and tries to call the spell he just took from the man. Suddenly the same runic symbols starts rotating again his hand, it shifts and changes color before finally settling on.

  The runes turned black and suddenly a shadowy force have captured the bird rendering it immobilized.

  Kalle's eyes widened not expecting the spell work in the first try.

  He retracted his hand and slowly the runes disappeared so was the binding in the bird.

  Kalle watched as the bird flew away. He somewhat felt like the bird, being freed from the thing that was stopping him.

  Being magic less.

  Now that he had magic he would be able to do what he wanted for the longest period of time.

  Revealing the truth.