The Borders
Section 48 – Gathering Point
"Ukh! It's heavy" Kashel was forced to bring Liam back to the gathering point by carrying him.
After all, their task was done. Kashel carried Liam on his back. Luckily, Liam's body size is equivalent to his size, so it's easy for him to carry it.
"I didn't expect my stamina to be strong enough either." Murmuring Kashel himself, he avoided places that he felt had strong black energy and chose safe paths. Kashel hid the bottle containing the energy of the Spirit of Darkness.
In order that when meeting with other squads they could not take it, Kashel could not be kind and naive to trust the cunning people of that academy.
Kashel also avoided if he sensed any magical energy of the other squads approaching him. Kashel chose to hide in the dark. Their existence cannot be felt. Liam's energy had become imperceptible since he was unconscious.
"I wish my strength could get to the point of association." Kashel began to feel exhausted, anti-spirit goggles pulled his stamina and he also had to carry Liam's body on his back. This makes him have to work twice as much using his stamina.
"I think I have reached my limits" murmured Kashel he put an unconscious Liam and then Kashel sat down violently from exhaustion.
"The day is soon dawn and the exam time will be over. What should I do." Kashel was no longer strong, his legs were trembling as he stood up. If by going on foot and avoiding the Dark Spirit they were both at least up to the gathering point in about half an hour.
"I'm not strong anymore, if I pass out too. We're both not gonna graduate this time." Kashel tried to stand with the rest of his strength. Silence there he will still fall unconscious also in the end, because his stamina is absorbed by the anti-spirit glasses he uses and should not be released because of the rules of the test.
"Ah sucks! I have no choice, walking or not walking everything will end the same." Kashel stood up and began to lift Liam to his back and again walked, although this time he was very exhausted.
Kashel's views were clouded, he was no longer strong but he was still imposing himself.
"I had to stay strong a little longer," it turned out that the gathering point was already visible in front of Kashel's eyes and Kashel made it there.
The guidance teacher who seemed to be waiting for Liam to approach them, he was surprised to find Liam unconscious and hurriedly led him into the makeshift tent, so that no one would see him. Then he went out and came to Kashel again, and took him to the makeshift tent.
Kashel reached into his bag and gave the sealed bottle that had been filled with dark energy. At that time Kashel was lying down but his hands were still trying to gather their duties.
"What did you two do, did you defeat the Dark Spirit in this one forest?!" The guidance teacher was shocked to see the extremely concentrated seal bottle with dark energy. It means that there are so many Dark Spirits that they have defeated until it ends as it is now.
Kashel simply raised his hand signalling that he could not explain everything now, then with the rest of his strength Kashel opened his glasses made Kashel feel very relieved and then Kashel fell unconscious afterwards due to running out of stamina.
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Not long after Liam was seen slowly opening his eyes, "What happened?" the guidance teacher sitting next to him immediately asked as Liam regained his senses.
"I let my guard down and relaxed too much, in this forest there is a powerful Dark Spirit roaming around." Obviously Lyam was on that guidance teacher.
Liam did not seem to hide his weakness in the guidance teacher. But even so, the exam was carried out until it finally ended.
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Kashel was seen sleeping on the side of the bed next to Liam.
"Did he bring me to this point of association?" Lyam asked, he did not expect that anyone else would see his weakness.
Fortunately when they returned, who welcomed their arrival was the guidance teacher who was Liam's person, the man was actually not a human but Liam's magic energy in disguise.
He also became a teacher at the academy after Liam chose to become a student there. Accompanying Liam is afraid if the present thing has happened.
"I can't believe the darkness has started this strong" Lyam looked at her palm and then looked at Kashel.
"This young man, just by touching me the darkness that wanted to devour my existence was instantly so easy he vanished. Even I myself was overwhelmed by handling that darkness." Lyam muttered while staring at Kashel.
"Is there still time for him?" Lyam wanted to give Kashel time to be what he wanted to be, but that time probably won't be long.
"I'm sorry that I'm going to take away the life you want most from Kashel." Lyam could not bear it but he could not do anything.
Kashel did not budge, it might take time for him to recuperate and restore his depleted stamina.
"I think my magic must be useful to her," Liam began to cast his magic. The healing magic, seen the magic energy that Lyam channeled into Kashel was bright green.
It seemed like it was really influential for Kashel, different from other magic. It was as if Kashel was starting to move her hand.
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What is this, why does it feel like something is flowing in my body. Kashel's subconscious began to become aware of the energy that was entering his body.
Then Kashel looked around him, he thought he had regained consciousness by then. But then he saw a vast white room then vaguely he saw Liam there.
"Why is Lyam there, where is this?" kashel asked but feeling a little familiar with Lyam Kashel wanted to say hello and ask him.
"Hey Liam what happened exactly why are we in this place?" Kashel touched Lyam's shoulder, but the young man was silent he was seen asleep but standing.
Then Kashel was surprised by the presence of an enormous energy covering him and it came from Lyam.
"What's this?!" Kashel ran away in surprise.
When he felt he was very far away he saw the form of Liam who had become a giant dragon. Kashel was scared to death, because he did not know what it was.
"Yeah!" Kashel immediately woke up. Lyam continued to transfer her energy to Kashel.
"You, stay away from me, Monster!" Kashel yelled jumping out of his bed and away from Lyam.
"You, if you don't want to get away from me, I'm gonna yell so everybody knows you're not human." Kashel was indignantly unclear.
Lyam smiled in response to Kashel's attitude, "Yell if you dare." Lyam stared intently at Kashel until the man shrieked in terror on the floor.
Lyam approached Kashel slowly and he intended to extend his hand to help him stand up.
THE PLAQUE!
Kashel's voice brushed Lyam's hand away from him.
"Stay away from me!"
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"What do you want from me!
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"I don't want to get close to you anymore!" Kashel this time yelled at Lyam and Kashel stood up and looked at Lyam with an angry and brave look.
"Okay, I'll obey your words this time. We'll meet again when the time has come for Kashel, I hope you're ready by then." Lyam turned around at a glance he smiled knotfully and within a few steps Lyam turned into a black-robed person then vanished out of nowhere, becoming a vanishing smoke blown by the wind.
Kashel covered her mouth with one hand in her surprise, though seeing from behind Kashel knew it was the Guardian.
Lyam is the Guardian conscious form of The Borders creature that Kashel saw exactly from the book he read, Kashel realized the giant dragon he saw in his subconscious was The Border, the border dragon aka the Guardians of Boundaries.
Kashel did not expect that the person he had been close to was the Guardian.
In the end Kashel never knew what purpose the Guardian was approaching him until the time Liam called arrived.
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