After going through his life's mories back when he temporarily attained the Demigod realm, he also gained enough proficiency regarding the law of neutrality. As a result, he could see things more clearly like from a bystander's point of view.
It is why he could only do nothing but offer his sorrow to Affea's grave.
Wiping off his tear drops at the corner of his eyes, he turned around to walk away. After exiting the mansion, he proceeded to scan the entire city to check a familiar aura so that he can find out sothing about Claire's whereabouts.
To his surprise, he couldn't sense the aura of his master, Barton, Vice Principal Sahara, or his friends, except for one person.
"Calder? I can sense his aura at… Hmm, it's coming from the academy. Was he an instructor there or sothing? In any case, he might have so knowledge. Let's start with him and see what I can find."
Azzy took a bus like a civilian and traveled to the academy. However, as he neared the academy, he spotted no familiar buildings inside. There was no administration building, which could be usually seen from the entrance.
Instead, all he could see are various habitats all over the place where kids are sparring with their trainers. Apart from that, there is one five-story building in the place where the auditorium was once located.
"Is that perhaps the new school building?" Azzy wondered at first but then, as his eyes fell on the large characters engraved on the curvy entrance wall, he realized that he was wrong. Forget about the na change, it isn't even an academy anymore.
"Hmm, Aclein training center for Arcana Masters? Just what in the hell happened here?" Azzy couldn't help but go into a daze for a mont as the entire familiar place turned into unfamiliar territory all of a sudden.
For others, 27 years have passed, but for Azzy, it's only been a few weeks since he last saw the academy. So, everything is kinda weird to him.
Azzy entered the place. To not get much attention, he made sure to suppress his soul power, posing as a 3-star Arcana Master.
Since Calder has no mories of him, Azzy didn't want to barge in through force and decided to take the help of soone.
He interrupted a trainer, who is teaching a couple of 8-year-old kids on a rocky habitat. "Excuse …"
"Yes?" The trainer walked toward him, thinking that it is a new student.
"Hello, my na is Azrael. I'm here for Mr. Calder. Do you know where can I et him?" Azzy introduced himself and spoke his intentions.
Since Calder's aura was coming from the third floor of the building and this is a training center, Azzy assud his forr teammate is in a higher position.
And the trainer's reply confird his assumption. "Mr. Chairman is in his office. Please co with ."
The trainer told the kids to work on their own until he returns while he takes Azzy to the chairman.
"Hi, I'm Bradley, by the way. You can call Brad." The trainer introduced himself.
"Azrael."
As Azzy shook his hand, Brad enquired about the purpose of Azzy's visit as they walked forward. "I haven't seen you around here. Are you a new mber or are you interested in joining the training center?" He asked.
Azzy replied, "I will take the decision once I talk to Mr. Calder."
In order to make sure to get a new mber for the training center, Brad continued to engage in the conversation, "So, Azrael, you are a local?"
"You can say so," replied Azzy with a nod.
"And how old are you?" "14"
"If you don't mind answering, may I know what academy were you attending?" "Nah, I was mostly hoschooled."
"Your parents are Arcana Masters?" "Yeah"
Azzy gave short and direct answers as the questions were only basic ones.
"You must have already found it on the internet but let introduce our training center. Here, we are…"
As Brad, the trainer is explaining the perks of joining the training center as a VIP mber and how their training will work, and everything, Azzy quietly listened to him while looking around.
On the way, he saw several habitats where kids from as early as 6 years to even middle-aged people were training under the experts. The trainers are mostly in the 5-star realm such as Brad. However, there are a couple of them in the 6-star realm too.
At a water habitat, which is more like a pool with a few ships and boats, two won were sparring. One is in the 4-star realm (low) and the other is in the 5-star realm (peak).
All of a sudden, a huge volu of water shot up from the pool, blasting away 4-star realm Arcana Master into the sky. Perhaps, the female trainer forgot to hold back her strength. The young woman in her 30s flew as high as 150 ters and started to freefall.
"Kyaaaa"
She scread out in fear. The female trainer froze on the spot and panicked that she is going to get sacked.
"F***k." Brad cursed out and charged forward to catch her in hurry.
Just as he was about to step inside the pool, he saw energy chains swooshed by like a flash, catching her in the mid-air.
Brad turned around in surprise to see a seal floating before Azzy as the latter motioned his arms. Soon, the woman slowly landed on the ground.
The woman thanked him while the female trainer apologized to her. Brad scolded the female trainer and then apologized to the custor once again.
As the client forgave them, Brad sighed in relief and continued to escort Azzy to the chairman's office. Despite the fact that Azzy had used only a beginner-level sealing technique, the accuracy and the range he displayed earlier had impressed Brad, very much.
As soon as he t Calder, the trainer praised Azzy and stressed that they cannot let such a talented kid go away.
Calder didn't ask his na and just told Brad to send Azzy in.
Brad then got out of the office and inford Azzy, "Mr. Chairman is waiting for you. And I will be there at the rocky habitat nearby the entrance. Once you took the mbership, you can et . I'll take you on a tour to the inner sectors."
Azzy didn't bother to clear up his misunderstanding and just nodded in response. As Brad started leaving, Azzy walked towards the door, looking at the guy who had grown up into a middle-aged fellow.
"Man, it will be tough to get used to this." Azzy shook off his thoughts and opened the door. "Mr. Calder…"
"Eh?"
Unexpectedly there's a look of shock on Calder's face as he got up from his seat and exclaid, "Azrael."
This ti, Azzy was the one who was surprised. "You rember , Calder?"
"No way…" Calder started to search the drawers like he is in a hurry.
Soon, he took out a photo fra and stared at Azzy and then at the photo. "It's you. How is that possible? You didn't age at all." He displayed his shock.
"It's a long story," replied Azzy as he took the seat. He almost confird that Calder had only recognized him because of the photographic evidence he left behind. To confirm it, he asked, "I guess that you don't have mories of ?"
"Yeah," Calder admitted the truth.
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