Chapter 2 P2 What lurks beneath the surface

'If her father is truly an ex academy member and can pull so many strings then an affiliation with her could be truly beneficial, moreover she has one more year of experience in everything, i am going to assume she was taught by expert mages, at least the basics, it could proven effective advantage, i need to expand my knowledge of ritual and their components, after all the local school in i have gone to had little about their knowledge, in my city everyone was reliant on elemental magic and their abilities, very little people were informed about rituals, and those people had a pretty jealous face when i awoke my ability...' "I accept, but in exchange i want you to train with me for the foreseeable future and share your knowledge on rituals, i promise to do the same, this ships library is big, we can use to gain an advantage"

 "For me its fine, send yours to my watch and i'll send mine" she said with a happier tone "oh, and for the psychic bond we can wait a couple of ours"

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[planet 342.098] [City: ARKhen]

In a tavern in the depths of the city at night, a hooded and small figure is sipping away at her drink, about 5'5 or 5'6, the girl was clearly attempting to pass unobserved, the problem was that those deep and yellow eyes were a lot rarer than she thought in those parts, her jet black hair wasn't favoring her either.

After finishing her drink and buying a room for the night, she padded upstairs, almost like a shadow she was slow and deliberate with her movements, the more the rumor of the bar downstairs diminished the more shadows started twirling around the walls, seemingly filling every crevice and touching every corner of the stairs, absorbing information for hidden microphone, cameras, the whole tavern was a very solid cyberpunk-like construction, there was very little that could have made this thing crumble around these parts of the megalopolis, neon lights adorned the inside of the hallway, smell of cigarettes and alcohol coming from a couple of rooms, after a pit of shadow inspection in the various bedrooms, the girl entered the designated room, in it there was a bedroom, a little bathroom with a shower and a toilet, a very big window and little else, after the girl entered she took off the hood, revealing light green skin, big and pointed ears and teeth visibly sharp and pointed, just like a carnivores, she closed her eyes 'come on: breath in, breath out just like practiced, you can do it'.

After a moment an almost imperceptible wave of mana surveyed the area, then another and another, after having located her target, Vyra took a deep breath steadied her weapons, after a moment a lone figure could be seen dashing from the window

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Jacks day was going so well, his target was a local assassin, surveil her then strike when she tries to go to the target, meanwhile, discover where the target is and well... do the job, most of the day was pretty boring, after all... mages rely mostly on their mana and their abilities so it was fairly easy to remain hidden from her, heat vision goggles at a kilometer zoom always do the job against mages, a decent ritual talisman to hide my mana signature and boom, the perfect disguise to hide from low tier beginner/advanced mages (A/N: mages with low mana or low ability levels, C to B rank, low to decent field experience), honestly its like taking a candy from a kid, they don't even know what is happening,

at a certain moment he felt it, a wave of mana then another, "echolocation huh, less cost than maintaining an active perception, interesting... this one seems well trained, though she should work on her distance, wow she is quite fast too, look a the little girl dashing away at night, well let us make it quick", after dawning a couple of potions and arming his rifle, another figure could be seen jumping from roof to roof