Damian sat forward in his seat, his elbows resting against his knees as he watched the battlefield carefully.
Beside him, Aiden's expression was unusually serious. Victor, meanwhile, had his arms folded across his chest, his eyes following every movement of the two combatants.
Just behind them sat Isabella, Julia, Evangeline, and Aaron.
None of them looked away from the arena.
At the center of the training grounds stood Arthur and Astarte.
The two faced each other several meters apart.
Astarte calmly raised one hand.
She flicked her finger.
The space surrounding the training grounds suddenly distorted.
A faint ripple spread outward, almost like a transparent wave passing through the air.
A moment later, an enormous translucent barrier formed around the entire battlefield.
It was not simply a dome.
The barrier seemed to exist slightly outside normal space, its surface shimmering faintly as though the entire training ground had been enclosed within an isolated subspace.
