Of Love and War

Love, Betrayal, Responsibilities iii

Obtaining their very own weapons was hard but to tame and master it is another. Almost every one of the new generation has successfully conquered their quests and made it back to the academy, except Enou.

His weapon of choice is based on his battle arts, archery. He had chosen to pursue the conquest for the bow Dagitab. A bow that taps into the power of the electric demons of the Mountain of Kasanaan. It was said that Dagitab makes every arrow shot from it into an almost all-hit projectile, a weapon that has only less than a tenth of possibility to fail. It also infuses demonic lightning into the arrow that reaps the life of someone or something it passes or hits.

Not long after the next generation of rulers started their stay at the academy, new batch of students were accepted. But not like them, they were the children of high ranking officials and upper class men of other kingdoms. Their training is a bit different to the royalties.

Also, Amihan who's now called Amarra,is also admitted but her training is special as per request of Hara Avria.

On the other hand, the very first to finish his conquest was one of the Princes of Poison, Asval. Unlike his brother, he has fascinated melee and close combat. That's why he had opt to go for a weapon similar to what he has been training, the lethal poison-axe, Pangil. Which was only located in Sapiro's vault of ancient weapons.

It is said that the deity of the underwold crafted the axe from the canine of the most poisonous basilisk in the realm as a gift for the deity Ether but it was stolen by a chieftain of a tribe long ago in Balaak while the deity was sleeping. Little did he knew that the poison that oozes out from the blade of the ax was too lethal, that even inhaling the air fouled by the poison can cause instant death. He brought demise to his entire tribe and ancestry. It was because of the first rulers of Encantadia headed by Cassiopeia,that the blades poison was subsided.

"I wonder if something bad happened to Enou" Mine-a asked, she has taken a little interest to the Sapirian royal blood since he became her study partner before they went into their respective quests.

"Why? Are you worried that he might not come back?" there was a bit of sourness in Raquim's voice.

"Of course I am, we've become friends, all of us here. And I don't want something bad happening to any of you" Mine-a quickly answered

"Or maybe you like him? After all he's also got the looks just like the two of us" Hagorn put his arms around Raquim's neck and pulled him closer.

The two lads have become quite the specimen as time passed.

Raquim with his towering height, well-built body, lightly tanned skin and the face reminiscent of an angel. And then his eyes- they were deep and catastrophic, a vivid baby-blue hue like a great body of water that softly melts into a milky green.

Hagorn on the other hand has the most refined body among the students, he is a bit shorter than Raquim, his sun-kissed skin is most noticeable along with his symmetrical facial features, jawlines, cheekbones and brows are prominent in the way that gets called 'chiselled'.

"Good heavens Hagorn, the blazing fire of Hathoria must've cooked your brains out" Mine-a sighed in surrender

"But seriously, is he in any interest to you?" Hagorn looked at her with his deep black eyes. The aura around him felt heavy.

She knows that if she answers truly, things might end up bad. She already knew that Hagorn has a thing for her. Upon arriving from her quest she said that a merchant had given her flowers and told her of his admiration for her beauty. Hagorn was nowhere to be found that day, the next morning, news had already spread that a caravan of merchants was attacked by a beast and all of them got slaughtered.