Kaedros faced her. He had known this day would come, but now that it had arrived. He hesitated. Should he kill her right there and then?
It would be easy to blame it on the assassins after.
"What do you mean?" he asked cautiously.
"You're too powerful for a stage four Mage …" Taria said slowly.
"Stage five. " Kaedros corrected her. He'd nearly forgotten the faint pulse of mana he felt after killing the assassins. He was already in the peak stage four already and the mana from them who are in stage eight helped push him to stage five.
That was the story he had in mind. He would do everything to bring his fake rank to his real rank so that he could began to cultivate aggressively.
She shot him a sharp look. "Even worse. You're way too powerful for a stage five. And from what I know, Mages can't use multiple types of magic. But I've seen you use fire, light... even shadow. It's almost like… you're not a mage."
Her eyes widened. She was putting it together. "What's your path?"
