I was surprised that the prince was talking to me.

    Earlier I had been with Zoe and he had to talk me as an associate but now he was standing in front of me without any obligation.

    "Hey". I replied.

    "How was class?" He asked, pointing to the group of air mages.

    "It was alright". I shrugged. "I didn''t know you were a mage too".

    Damon''s eyes glinted as he dragged water from a small pouch tied to his waist.

    The water floated in the air between his palm as he controlled it.

    "You''re water mage". I muttered in amazement. I''d only seen one other water mage and he was a higher level wave.

    I always wanted to see how a low level mage would do it.

    Now I knew they carried portable water around with them.

    I wondered how feasible it was for battle though.

    There''s a limit to how much water you can carry around as a person. Especially if you''re planning to run around and move mobilely on the battlefield.

    Perhaps they could multiply the volume of water.

    That would mean they could potentially do a lot of damage with an initially small amount of water.

    I wanted to ask Damon how it worked when I remembered I was talking to the prince.

    I already asked him a question, best not to annoy him so he could be on his way.

    Damon smiled. "Level two. You?"

    "Air mage… Level One". I replied.

    He nodded. "Not bad. My brother is an air mage".

    "And the emperor?" I found myself asking before I could control myself.

    Damon looked startled for a moment then he smiled. "Fire. Why?"

    "Nothing, just curious". I mumbled.

    "Listen are you free to hang out this evening?" Damon asked suddenly.

    I raised an eyebrow. "You want to hang out with me".

    "Yeah". Damon repeated with a smile. "This evening. "You game?"

    I shook my head. "I''d love to but I have to resume guard duty now".

    I was lying, I wouldn''t love to hang out with him. I didn''t even know him and he was somehow interested in making friends with me after expressing interest in Zoe this morning.

    It was very suspicious and I didn''t want to be part of it even if he was genuine.

    "Oh that". The prince said with a downcast look. "Where do you work?"

    "I''m in the empress''s guard". I replied cautiously.

    His eyes brightened again. "Oh really?"

    "Yeah". I nodded.

    "That''s no problem then". Damon said and pulled out a badge out of his pocket.

    He handed it to me. "Give this to the chief guard and tell him I asked that you be excused". sea??h thё n?vel_Fire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    I looked at the badge with a heavy heart. Now that my excuse was gone I had no choice but to hang out with him. Unless I wanted to be frank with him and reject him.

    Damon noticed my reluctance and frowned. "You''ll come right?"

    I nodded slowly. "Yes".

    He smiled then. "Okay then, meet me by the vegetables stalls at sunset".

    I nodded and Damon walked off smiling