Supreme Magus

e is amazing for a date. ”

”You are welcome. ” She politely nodded while conjuring small plates of different kinds of appetizers from her dimensional amulet.
”I just thought that we could use some privacy.

”I didn ’t want to meet Lith at Haug ’s and I know you don ’t like being surrounded by people.
Dining at my place was a bit too intimate for a first date so I decided that a night picnic would be the perfect compromise. ”

”Do you call this a picnic? ” He pointed at the cherrywood table, at the enchanted canopy tent, and at the gourmet food.

”I ’m rich and for once I ’m dating someone who doesn ’t look at me like a fat wallet.
I ’m allowed to show off. ” Friya said with a smile.

The dinner was delicious and they spent the meal talking about everything that came to their mind.
Nalrond appreciated the quiet of the park and despite his first negative impression of Catreesh, soon he felt at home for the first time in a long while.

Without people around he could freely use Light Mastery just like back in his village and with no kids to take care of, he could finally relax.

”It ’s too bad that the Harmonizer was a bust again.
There ’s only one left and I doubt that Faluel will manage to save it. ” He said after they started to talk about their latest mission.
”If I had one, I might fix my life forces just like it happened for the monsters. ”

”Do you really want to be trapped for life inside a mana geyser? I thought you were planning to leave. ” Friya rose an eyebrow in disbelief.

”Of course not.
Yet if the Harmonizer works on me, Faluel would be capable of using her breathing technique to study what my perfect life force and mana cores look like.
Then, I would finally have a clue to work on. ” Nalrond sighed.

”While you guys were in the Desert, I studied Protector ’s kids every day.
I hoped to find a way to break the barrier between my life forces and become a hybrid like them but to no avail.
That ’s why I ’m planning to leave.
I need to find more hybrids to examine. ”

”Don ’t you think you ’re being too hard on yourself? ” Friya said.
”You should stop thinking of your condition as of something broken.
Before Lith reached the violet core, his situation wasn ’t very different from yours yet he was happy. ”

”We are nothing alike. ” Nalrond replied too harshly even for his own liking, but the comparison stung at a never healed wound.
”Sure, he had two life forces as well, but he still had hope.

”His conflicting natures weren ’t fixed like mine and even if something went wrong, he still had options.
He would have either entered the Master ’s Organization or the Beast Council.

”Solus and Kamila would have still accepted Lith so no matter the outcome, he would have lost nothing.
As for me, unless I find a way to move forward, I ’m stuck at a crossroad. ”

”As I see it, your situation is not as bleak as you make it out to be.
Your tribe lived happily in the Fringe for centuries and- ”

”Happily? ” Nalrond cut her short.
”We were prisoners in our own bodies and cut out from the rest of the Mogar because we were too afraid of being captured again.
There are many ways to describe a gilded cage but happy is not among them. ”

”Still, dedicating your whole life to a single project at the cost of giving up on your adoptive family seems a bit extreme to me.. ” Friya replied.

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