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"Well guys, I'll let you discuss your little secrets and spend some time together."- She said walking out the door, with a teasing smile. When she disappeared outside the door, I looked at Aurelia and asked:

"Are you sure?"

"Unfortunately, my past was also not so happy, my mother died because of my father's political strife and he didn't even come to her funereal, and he never thought of me as person, only as a tool. Would a loving parent be able to sell his daughter to profit? So I have motive, for my own revenge."- She said with sorrow but her eyes with flaming determination. I understood that she made her decision and I made my too. WE decided to spend the rest of the tine cuddling.

-Some time later-

"You had a very productive time, as I see, well, the main thing is that you two happy."-Said Oberon with a smile.

"But unfortunately it's training time, so follow me."- Those words sounded demonically frightening. We reluctantly silently followed her. 

And so, without our decision, teacher Oberon began to train us, day after day, exhausting training began, on the verge of capabilities, we had to survive. Raising our magical abilities, training our bodies, our knowledge, a huge amount of information, various strategies. Training with our techniques and discovering new ones. Knowledge about our inner abilities and of course the understanding of our weapons. 

When evaluating our abilities, teacher Oberon assessed us in a small world level, she herself is at the level of the expanded dimension. They are separated by about ten levels. And Aurelia's father is also at the level of the expanded world. When I asked what our chances in beating Aurelia's father. Teacher Oberon answered with a smirk:

"Ordinary mages would not stand a chance, but you two, you two lost cause and definitely do not belong to them. I have never seen monsters so young to break the laws of magic. Your growth rate amazed even me. The one who is called "The  Strongest Magician of Stopped Time"."

-After a month of exhausting training and our full recovery, master Oberon decided to send us on a test run so we could get more experience: 

"You two going to different worlds for this training, so that you two can meet your weaknesses and not cheat by helping each other. You will fall into utter despair, but this is exactly what you need with such a strong future opponent. Here is portals. Come inside when you two will be ready." 

Aurelia and I hugged and wished each other good luck, reluctantly went to the portals. The same feelings came over me when I entered the portal, only now Aurelia was not around, and because of this, a feeling of loneliness was added.

... Sharp pain shot through me from all sides. I looked back though the pain and saw that everything on this planet is made of mirrors. Three suns shone high in the sky. I tried to use my technique:

"Shrodinger V umbra."-But when shadow appeared and I plunged into it, a lot of intensified solar beams  appeared around me and I barely dodged them by jumping out of the shadows as fast as possible. Thanks to terrifying training, I was able to move and live under these suns, but it still hurt me. And I thought, this can't be all. And instantly, of course, I regretted that this was not all. 

-It happened when the sun went below the horizon, I breathed a sigh of relief. But then a projection appeared in front of me. Reflecting on all the mirrors around me. 

I see Aurelia going to the white marble castle. She enters the king's hall and at the top sits on a majestic throne a man in a robe with eye ring, her father, whom I saw in the memories of the sword. He raises his hand to signal her to stop, but she pulls out hers bow and shoots him, but he deflects the arrow. I look helplessly at the projection. With one small movement of the hand with the ring and whispered

"Viva V Imperia"- he summons a huge number of faceless knights and they begin to shoot light spears at her. A spear pierced her back and she began to fall to the floor, sprinkling the white marble with red blood. As she bleeds and the projection gets closer to her face, she silently says:

"sorry."- And the projection falls apart, I look in disbelief and shoot at the fragments of the projection , running up and trying to collect them:

"NO, it can't be, it's not true! She couldn't die like that! Oberon! Oberon, can you hear me??? Send me to her! How could you send her there?..."- I fell to my knees, my voice was gone, after meaningless screams and I could not even scream. My mind was empty, my will to do something, I simply could not do anything, I just lay among the fragments. Barely breathing, Due to the accumulated stress and the energy spent to survive under the scorching sun, i fell into the abyss of sleep...

And I woke up, of course, under the burning light of the sun from hellish pain. But there was no point in fighting, there was no point in living and there was no point in anything in this world because she is already gone. And without her, there is nothing. I put on a raincoat that gave me some protection from the sun. And began to sit under the scorching suns, taking every ray. They began to bite my skin, burning to the bones, my insides began to seethe, and i felt pain with every nerve. I continue to sit...

And sit...

And sit...

But its didn't killed me, just caused me pain with which any person would go crazy, but after what I saw, I was already crazy. The amount of pain , that caused this projection, there will be never anything that could top it. I started to cry and whistle her melody. And I felt something. I felt her, somewhere far away, but she was still alive, I felt our connection. But that can't be... or maybe the projection was a lie? And all the sadness and emptiness was replaced by anger and happiness.