While Dante, Camille, and gan exchanged information with the leaders of the Golden Twilight Syndicate, the warlock kept suspiciously squinting at the two blonde siblings.
Camille avoided ntioning demons but still revealed to the GTS that the Onyx Cartel was behind the creation of the Blood Dragons.
"We don't know their motives, but it seems they were trying their best to wipe us out without fighting us directly," Camille comnted.
"It's the sa for us—We only just recently discovered they were connected to the kidnapped tourists…" linda said.
She clarified her statent by saying that their advances towards their group weren't as substantial as it was for the Jade Dragons, as they hadn't had any large casualties. Still, the Autumn handler was afraid that they were just getting started.
The group decided to end the eting early so that they could discuss the information, organizing a second one that would take place a few days later.
"We'll see you in three days. Enjoy New Arcadia," linda said with a friendly smile to Dante and his group before they left the building.
The trio didn't say a word until they arrived at their hotel, knowing that even the driver who took them there worked for the GTS, so they couldn't divulge information carelessly.
"Let's go to your room," Camille said.
When they arrived, Sophia was expectantly waiting for them, wanting to hear how the eting went.
"Alright, Dante… Thoughts?" Camille asked the warlock as soon as the door closed behind them.
During the eting, Dante didn't take his eyes off Curtis and Lindsey, the two leader siblings of GTS.
Camille and gan noticed the warlock's strange deanor, but they couldn't ask him what was wrong at the ti, so they waited until they were alone to ask.
"Yeah… I was looking at the siblings' mana flow," Dante replied, inquisitively placing a hand on his chin.
The won wanted him to elaborate, so he explained that all living beings produced a little bit of mana in the sa way they produced umbra.
However, while umbra was created from negative emotions, mana was a natural source that was constantly produced by living beings.
"The mana flow in Novis is very faint compared to this place… Probably since we are right next to the ocean, this area gets a nice supplent of mana from the environnt," Dante elaborated.
Still, even though every human possessed a little bit of mana, the energy he detected flowing from the siblings was much stronger, so he suspected that they had had so sort of magical training.
Camille widened her eyes in disbelief, as she had never heard anything about the GTS being able to use magic. Nonetheless, Dante was utterly sure that a person with no magical knowledge could never have the mana pool the siblings had.
Hearing the warlock's words, gan had a sudden flashback to her childhood to the day she t the siblings for the first ti.
gan was only ten years old at the ti. Curtis was two years older than her, and Lindsey a year younger.
The brunette always thought that the siblings acted quite arrogant, so she tried to distance herself from them.
One night, when the GTS stayed at the Jade Dragons' residence as guests, gan heard Lindsey crying to her brother, saying that her training wasn't going as planned.
The brother patted his sister on the head with encouragent, saying that he would help her practice.
'Maybe they aren't that bad…' Little gan thought.
She never discovered what their training was about, thinking that it resembled the sa type of combat training that gan had been doing.
However, after their recent eting and Dante's assessnt, she pondered if those old mories had sothing to do with their current mana.
"It's very likely they were being taught magic… Their mana flow wasn't that big of a deal, but it was still a lot more powerful than a normal person's," Dante explained after hearing gan's story.
"Dante, are you saying that soone like you is working with the GTS?" Camille inquired.
"Well, not exactly like …" Dante clarified.
"I an, from your world," the handler continued.
"It's very possible…" Dante said.
While Dante was able to control a little bit of mana, he was by no ans a wizard, so he wasn't able to teach mana control to the people around him.
"Could it be that they have a wizard working with them?" Camille pondered aloud.
"I'm not sure… If it's a wizard, then they must be pretty knowledgeable," Dante comnted.
"How so?" Asked the handler.
Dante continued explaining, saying that while the man had the mana of a wizard apprentice, the girl seed to be an "elentalist."
An elentalist was a mage who could call upon the spirits of the four elents to help them, making any elental spell they cast much more powerful.
"I can't see the elental spirits as clearly as an elentalist, but I can still differentiate their mana pretty easily…" Dante elaborated.
"So, you are saying that Lindsey can see these spirits?" gan asked, imagining the girl looking at ghosts.
Dante chuckled. "No, no. Elental spirits don't have a body or face… I would say they look more like a firefly," he said.
"Hmm, I do rember that the mbers of the GTS would 'pray' to an entity called the Golden Fox… I always thought it was ant to be for good luck, but could that fox be a spirit?" Camille asked, trying to deduce an answer.
"No, a fox isn't an elental spirit… Although, I've heard of a Golden Fox before," said Dante, rubbing his chin.
In the world of Terra, the Golden Fox was one of the Sacred Beasts, known to be an entity that brought good fortune to the people who saw her.
"Her?" gan asked.
"Yes, the Golden Fox is a woman… I saw her one ti when I was still a child," Dante replied.
"Hmm, this got a lot more interesting than what I expected…" Camille said with a slight smile on her face.
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