chapter 21 : abondoned castle

"so how about it, do you want to fight me for real this time, ?" ask ergi to stella.

"well i don't think is a good idea, since the reason why i want to spar with you is to see how strong i become," say stella who knew at least that the reason why she won because the instructur was going easy on her.

"that true, but i don't think a simple spar will do the trick though, so i request this fight to see how much stronger you become right now," say ergi who made a good point, their spar just ended realy fast and stella herself hasn't use all of her magic.

"alright, i agree, what the rule, ?" ask stella as sheprepared herself.

"magic allowed, but giving your opponent a serious injuried or taken their live are not allowed," say ergi who stella nod before she equip her sword.

"ready whenever you are," say ergi who at that stella reapered in front of ergi who swing the sword to the man who at that time use his sword to block stella attack.

at that time stella quickly step back and cast 4 fire ball and lauch it to the instructur while stella herself was running toward him.

the instructur himself destroy stella fire ball and quickly counter stella attack and overpower the girl by swinging his sword to stella sword that throw stella away for a few meter.

'shit, my hand feel numb just because we clashing each other sword,' though stella who try to come up with an idea since there is no way she can fight head to head with the instructur.

at that time the instructur lauch himself to the direction where stella was, stella activate her gravity magic to strich down the instructur movement, "earth spike," say stella who use earth spike while casting her gravity magic, making her magic drained quicker.

while holding both magic at the same time, ergi infuse his magic to his sword and swing it, making a powerful slash that direct toward stella.

'shit,' though stella who forcefully stop her spell and stop the instructur slash by swinging her sword toward the attack, after she done she look at the direction where the instructur was, and to her suprise he already escape from his shackle and run toward stella who try to counter his attack using her sword that was infuse with lightning.

"take this," say stella who swing her sword toward the instructur swing that make the ground around them destory because of the shockwave of their attack.

at that stella was looking pretty bad with a few scratch on her arm and face, the same was for ergi who look injured after clashing their sword together.

"wow, are they for real, ?" ask one of the knight who look at their fight.

"i never though that she manage to injure head knight to that degree," say one of the knight.

"you really grown if i don't use all my might to fight you, thrn i already been defeated a while ago, but unfortunately we have to pospone our fight, i still need to do a lot of thing tomorrow, so i can't have more injuries then this," say ergi who put his sword back, same that goes for stella who just lay down on the ground, while thinking about her fight until she feel a hand that gently touch her head.

"good job," say emile who handed stella an orange juice with ice on it that stella happily drink it.

"i feel refresh, thank you emile," say stella to emile who nod.

"do you still need to go to infarmary to get that wound fix," say emile who pint at stella wound.

"that okay, it will heal soon," say stella who refuse emile offer, since she was try to level up her regeneration skill, after leaving the field, stella decide to go and help sophia on her study, since she already promise sophia that she will spend time with her on her room.

"miss sophia, this is wrong," say stella who correct sophia homework.

"eh, where, ?" ask sophia.

"in here miss," say stella who point sophia mistake, while sophia look at stella clothes that was a little dirty.

"stella, do you have a spar with the other knight, ?" ask sophia who decide to ask her friend.

"yes, eh, do i smell bad, ?" ask stella since she was fighting instructur ergi, she use a lot of skill while got throw to the ground a few time, so obviously that she was a little dirty cause of the dust and sweet from that fight, not to mention she doesn't even take a bath.

"no, you smell really nice," say sophia who come closer to stella and sniff her from head to toe, try to smell the little fox.

"alright miss, that enough," say stella with a blushing face who feel a little uncomfortable that her miss smelling her like that.

"hahah, sorry it just i kind of like your smell," say sophia who face was a little red while laughting uncomfortably.

"yeah, let's just continue with your study," say stella as they continue their study.

'Alright now is time for me to look for a job,' though stella as she enter the guild where at that time she spot jean who look at the request board.

"Jean, what are you doing, ?" Ask stella to jean who look at stella.

"I try to pick up a mission but nothing is caught my interest," say jean as stella look at the board and she can only saw a boring job request.

"Hey, how about this, ?" Ask stella ask she pointed her finger to flyer that jean take a look.

"Finding a corpse of the lady of the household evergreen in the an abondoned castle, sound interesting and the reward is not that bad," comment the black hair girl who nod her head while pick the job with stella as they quickly gather all their equipment to go to the castle.

"By the way jean, do you know anything about that castle that we're going to, ?" Ask stella to jean.

"Well, it was a castle that was build around 100 years ago so i don't really know about it, though i heard that a lot of adventurer already gone in there, and take a lot of valuable stuff," say jean to stella.

"Eh, so there might be no item left for us then," say stella with a dissapointed tone, though their objective is not about founding an item rather finding a corpse but stella hope that she can find something valuable in there.

At that time stella look at jean who was thinking about something that stella decide to ask, "Is there something wrong, ?" Ask stella to the jean.

"No, nothing at all," say jean as they continue they journey to the forest where the castle located.

"Thank you very much, can you comeback again in this place 2 days from now," say jean who give an extra money to the coachman before leaveing them.

"Alright, let's go," say jean to stella who then enter the porest to the castle.