Chapter 271: 3.28 TLOC (18)

"Oh, right, yes. Per our Mother, she wishes you to wear it. It lets the person wearing the amulet know if someone is lying, and if the person wearing the amulet is lying, it will illuminate." Xavier said as he untied the amulet, and tied it around his sister's neck.

"It also illuminates when danger is near. Is that not common knowledge about this artifact?" Sora said while scratching his head.

"There are many artifacts that exist, even in our world today. Currently the humans have the 'Hammer of Justice,' a gift bestowed to the great King William by the god of Wrath for uniting the elves and humans hundreds of years ago. Not every detail is known." Stefania explained.

Stefania stood 5 feet 5 inches, had eloquent silver hair, beautiful teal eyes, a perfect smile and had many suitors, including former Princes from other Elven Kingdoms. She pushed her pursuers away, as she had no interest in love during a war.

"Well, let's return to the castle and show our guests to their new living quarters, I'm sure they're exhausted." Xavier said, and the four of them began walking back to the castle.

Stefania waved goodbye and Xavier led them to their room and opened the door.

"Let me know if there is anything else you need."

"Thanks, Xavier." the twins said.

Their room was gorgeous. It had a full living room, with eloquent curtains, with the Fang family symbol on all the windows, ornate furniture, a kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms.

"This place is amazing. I can't believe we screwed up so badly the first time." Sora said, while examining his new clothes.

"Yes, it really is, and don't think I didn't see you checking out Stefania," Mina teased, as she also looked through her new clothes.

"Psh, you're one to talk. You couldn't take your eyes off Xavier all day." Sora teased back.

Mina threw a pillow at Sora, to which he caught, threw back and told Mina goodnight.

They two fell asleep quickly, wondering what tomorrow would bring.

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Sora and Mina woke up and had no idea what time it was. They opened their curtains and could see the sun rising, and the scene was surreal.

"This place is so beautiful. We never had anything this peaceful back home, did we Sora?"

"I agree. It's breathtaking. Our land was riddled with demons and war. We're sleeping and standing in a castle, which is essentially the last line of defense. We can see the different villages from how high up we are."

"I wonder what we will do today. I hope we start training. I want to use some of this elven magic."

"Me too. It's classified as uncommon. I can't believe after putting nearly 20 years into our past life into training, we were still only level 1 and our master of weapon skill is common."

"Well we have lots to learn."

Knock. Knock. Knock.

The knocking cut Sora off, but Mina politely yelled, "come in!"

It was Xavier and Stefania, only in what looked like their Royal training outfits.

"Good morning. We hope you slept well. Head downstairs, eat breakfast and meet us on the third floor in exactly one hour. That's when we will begin your magical training," Stefania said with a polite curtsy.

"Don't be late," Xavier said and the two were gone as quickly as they came.

Mina and Sora headed downstairs for breakfast, and it was like no breakfast they had ever seen. There were scrambled eggs, bread, cooked sausage and it all smelled delicious.

"We're over 1200 years in the past and their food is better than ours was. We ate what we could. That's all there was to it," Sora said as his tummy rumbled.

They quickly ate breakfast, returned to their room, where two sets of training tunics, much like Xavier and Stefania wore, laid on each of their beds.

Each had the same note,

"Because you are here on behalf of the gods, you will be treated as Royal elves. This includes access to bloodline magic. It's our repayment for your amulet and generosity. Signed, King and Queen"

"Ding! Elven Royal Bloodline Magic [Legendary] has been added to your systems. No current skills."

"Woah, that's amazing. Well, let's not keep them waiting!" Sora said with a big grin.

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As they reached the third floor, they made sure they were ten minutes early. Xavier and Stefania stood there, chatting away and were surprised to see the two.

"Good, had you shown up on time, you would have been late. Let's enter this sacred training hall and begin," Xavier said, motioning for Stefania to lead Sora and Mina into the training hall.

The training hall was grand and the ceiling stood about 50 feet high. There were targets moving and floating in the air, as well as training dummies, embedded with magic, moving and swinging swords.

"Woah…" Sora said.

"Manners, Sora!" Mina said as she whacked him upside the head.

"I like Mina. She's tough," Xavier said with a large smile.

"Show us what you can do," Stefania said.

Sora and Mina thought of the weapons they wanted to use, and they appeared.

Mina's dual katanas were sheathed behind her back in a criss-cross pattern. She held a bow and arrow in her hand, with the quiver on her back, in the center of the blades.

Sora pulled out his dual longswords and his trusty spear, neatly sheathed on his back.

"That is magic we have not seen. How are you able to do such a thing?" Xavier said.

"A gift from Chronos. We think of what weapon we want, and it shows up. It's known as the master of weapons magic," Mina explained.

Mina began firing arrows in rapid succession at the moving targets in the sky, and to show off a little bit, she asked for a blind fold and still hit every target.

"Impressive. She's quite handy with a bow and she's figured out the patterns of the targets already." Stefania whispered to Xavier.

"Sis, you got my 6?"

"Roger"

They displayed their teamwork with Sora using his long swords on the dummies while Sora protected his back. He too wanted to show off a bit, so he used his retractable spear to hit the floating targets.

"Very good you two, but now let's teach you some elven magic to aid you!" Xavier said with a big smile.

Sora gave his sister a fist bump and they drank some water, awaiting further instruction.

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"Elven magic is very similar to nature, which is why Eden oversees our lands. We draw the vitality and lifeforce from nature, formulate it into magic, and use it to best suit our needs," Stefania explained.

"For example, if I want to stop an enemy from attacking or getting away, I can cast a spell that wakes up the Earth. One such skill is called, 'Vines of Fate,' let me demonstrate."

Xavier took a battle stance, made hand motions, which appeared to be a circle with his left hand while raising his right hand from his waist to the sky and said, "Vines of Fate."

Several vines rose from the ground, puncturing and wrapping themselves around the training dummies. When Xavier finally said, "release," the vines returned to the ground.

"Now that the dummies are badly injured, I can use my sacred bloodline magic to restore them. 'Restore!' Stefania said while pointing her arms at each dummy.

This time, they could see a faint, visible line of gold coming from her fingers when she pointed her hands at the dummies. In seconds, the entire room looked brand new.

"Ding! You have learned the Elven Spell, 'Vines of Fate' [uncommon]. Would you like to add it to your list of spells?

They both clicked yes.

"Ding! Skill successfully saved. Congratulations, you have completed the learn Elder Elven magic quest. You are now level 2."

"Ding! You have learned the Fang Royal Bloodline skill, 'Restore,' [Legendary] Would you like to add it to your list of spells?"

Baffled, the twins could only smile as they both clicked yes.

"Do you mind if we try those skills?" Mina asked.

"Certainly, but don't feel bad if you cannot replicate them right away," Stefania said with a kind smile.

Sora simply said, "Vines of Fate," and his hands mimicked the motions of Xavier. Several vines began crushing and puncturing the dummies until Sora said, "release!"

"Amazing! Truly amazing, sister, can you restore them?" Xavier asked.

Before Stefania could restore them, Mina had stepped forward, said "restore," and everyone noticed her green eye began to glow. To everyone's surprise, all the dummies were as good as new.

"Now that is something we did not expect. I guess the gods really do value Elvenkind!" Xavier said as Stefania hugged Mina, then Sora.

"You two have a bright future. I'd ask for a spar, but that's for another day. Today you are here to learn magic. Knowing you learn it this quickly, this will be much easier!"

"Thank you for the kind words but it's the gods you have to thank. Chronos made it possible for us to learn like this. I'm unsure if it will always work this way, but I hope it does!" Sora said, as he was still beat-red in the face from the hug from the Princess.