Chapter 30: 27 – F*cking up the plotline (gently)

February 28^th, year 788 of the Imperial calendar

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"Oi Sylvia, why are you dragging me here?", a girl with flaming red hair asked in confusion.

"Max's camping at the entrance of my room and I don't want to deal with him", Sylvia calmly replied.

"I can get that, but why do you have to drag me with you?"

"..."

"Don't tell me you're that lonely?", the girl, whose identity was Ria Pyrian, asked jokingly.

Sylvia just hung her head down low in response.

"Shit, didn't expect it to actually be true. Uh sorry, I guess"

"It's okay", Sylvia meekly replied while still keeping that emotionless face she always had. "That's not the only reason anyways. I also wanted to try stargazing with someone"

"But there aren't that many stars tonight"

"Maybe more will show up when we get to that spot", Sylvia said in a monotonous tone.

"Do you think stars are animal or something? How can they show up when there aren't any tonight in the first place?"

"..."

Ria sighed. If she didn't know beforehand about Sylvia's ability, she would have thought that Sylvia was mad at her. Thus, she decided to just follow Sylvia from behind.

After walking in silence for a few minutes, however, Ria winced in pain as she bumped into Sylvia's back.

"Ow! Why did you sto—"

"Shhhh", Sylvia shushed Ria and pointed forwards.

Ria followed the direction Sylvia was pointing at, only to see a girl being cornered by a hooded man around a few hundred meters away from where they were.

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"Isn't that the Saintess?", Ria squinted her eyes as she recognized the girl.

"Which one? The Saintess of Lighting or the Saintess of Wind?"

"No, she's Amelia the Saintess of Life. She's in our class, don't you remember her?"

Sylvia frowned for a second before shaking her head.

Ria sighed in defeat. 'This girl, she really doesn't remember anyone that isn't worthy in her eyes'

"Should we help her?", Sylvia asked for Ria's opinion. After all, she didn't want to be rash and repeat that incident ever again.

Ria observed the situation a bit more. After seeing Amelia falling to the ground butt-first and making a terrified face, she concluded that Amelia was in trouble. She and the man were no lovers doing shady stuff in the middle of the night like Ria had originally thought.

Sighing, Ria took out a pair of gloves from her pockets and put them on. "Might as well"

As soon as Ria said that, Sylvia dashed into action. She channeled mana into her throat, before activating one of her Authorities.

{Freeze}

Immediately after, surges of icy cold mana shot towards the hooded man, freezing his legs in place.

"What? Who dares!", the man roared in rage, clearly not finding being interrupted of his fun time very amusing.

Upon seeing Sylvia and Ria in the distance, however, his face full of anger turned into amusement and joy.

"HAHAHA! I CAN'T BELIEVE 3 OF MY TARGETS CAME RIGHT TO ME! WHAT A LUCKY DAY!"

He then released his D- rank mana, instantly breaking Sylvia's ice.

Sylvia frowned inwardly. Although spells that formed through single-word Authorities were weaker than their normal counterpart, she had expected him to at least struggle for a bit, especially when Sylvia herself was only a minor rank lower than him.

Seeing that the man was recovering from her attack, she decided to use her Star magic.

[Steller projection], she chanted. The only star in the sky twinkled for a split second, before a translucent blue screen appeared right in front of her eyes.