Chapter 16: What A Squad Is

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"Boy, this dungeon is surely big."

Dean began getting bored of the walk, with him walking with Ravel behind him for quite some time "Sigh, it would be much better if we found something or someone, but we have done circles until now, finding some dead ends and now we walk a long path with nothing in it." he said complaining.

"I thought you were supposed to have keen senses." she mocked as pay back from getting called out about it last time it was brought up "Can't you detect your little friends and trace back to them?" she continued in a sarcastic tone.

"The surrounding mana is messing with my sensing abilities." he explained frustrated  and then turned at her serious "I see you don't miss a chance talking mockingly about my friends. Is friendship such a nonessential concept to you? Do you find having people to depend on and go through good and bad times together with them *that* ridiculous!?" he asked angry, with his fist shaking and him being the angriest he has ever been towards her.

Ravel looked away from him while crossing her arms and resting them onto her chest. "Things like friendship are just a pitiful excuse to take advantage of others for one's own selfish reasons, a trait you commoners excel at." she said glaring back at him "At any rate, if you can't detect anyone else, then what good are you to me?" she looked away once again, shaking her hand at him before walking away.

Dean then appeared in front of her, grabbing her by her collar "Listen here, don't you dare mix all us commoners together. I don't know what your experience with commoners is and right now, I honestly don't care." he said in a cold tone and look " *However*, every person is different. There are those who are bad, good, crazy, timid, manipulative and many other things. I might not be that long in the squad, but I at least could tell everyone there is kind, reckless and carefree , but kind. A squad is a place where people live together, spend time and moments together and fight together side by side!" he shouted angry and frustrated "From the moment I met you, you do nothing but treat everyone as trash or tools at best, even though they genuinely want to know you and become friends with you as fellow squad members!" he shouted in a bitter tone and freed her, with him now facing the opposite direction "If you desire that much to be alone, then go back to your palace where your commoner servants can't speak to you without permission and can't express genuine kindness, a squad is no place for you." he said while looking behind at her coldly "Let's continue our search." he said with the same tone while walking away from her.

After he let go, Ravel remained in place for a moment with her eyes covered by her hair. A memory of many dark figures with laughing smiles and glowing cold eyes beamed down on her and another dark figure turning away from her as she reached out towards it. She clenched her fist and looked towards him with a tear flowing down her cheek but wiped it off before he could see "Commoners are alike." she mumbled quietly to herself in a depressed tone before following behind him.

"Phew, this place is huge." commented Helen as she wiped some sweat from her forehead while she and Alessandro were sitting down after they walked for quite some time "The dungeon is big and on top of that, we practically lost everyone." she said complaining but then, she looked at Alessandro serious "Ale, I think you noticed it too, but the moment they went further into the darkness, they didn't hear us while we couldn't sense their mana at all. Do you think it was a dungeon trap meant to seperate and confuse raiders or...?".

Ale was taking a drink from one of his canteens and thought for a moment. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a trap set up. If it was, then it should be linked together with other ones." Ale began to explain as he thought deeper into what happened "If anything, finding another one of those traps could help us find the rest. Hmmm...or we could just get more lost, hahahaha!"

"*You surely are carefree, aren't you?*" she thought while sweat dropping but then, she got serious "Aren't you worried about the others? I know you haven't spent any quality time with them, but they still are fellow squad members." she said with a little complaint in her tone.

"We can't change what's happened, can we? Best bet is to pause and think. Panic and think negatively and everything that can go wrong will go wrong. So, I don't really worry, plus,they're bulls too, aren't they? Have faith in them." Ale said before taking another drink and laying his back on the floor. "*Trap magic like those typically are linked together instead of randomly selecting any part of the dungeon.*" Ale thought to himself "*The problem is the lack of knowledge, we don't know just how many of those traps are linked together. Could even be multiple on same floors meant to confuse people. This dense mana in the air does make things worse since I can barely use my magic sensing.*"

Helen then took a deep breath and smiled  "*You are right Ale, we must think positive*" admitted Helen who began feeling more positive on the matter while smiling at him.

Meanwhile

Serena was sitting down exhausted in another part of the dungeon, , with her wiping her sweat from her forehead "Why I had to end up in the area with the most traps?" she wondered in complaint, with her having disarmed many traps in the general area "I hope Dean and the others are okay." she said while hoping for the others' safety.

Dean and Ravel were walking, with him being deep in thought and then stopped suddenly "Ravel, I'm sorry." he said in a low tone filled with bitterness while he was looking at the ground.

"It makes no difference to me." she said casually "Let's find them already." she added looking around.

"I understand that you have been a sheltered girl, barely interacting with anyone and were raised to believe commoners are trash that you must barely interact with, but we commoners are human beings too, having all kinds of personalities but mostly, we have feelings too. You claim non-stop that we know only how to manipulate and hurt others, is that a personal experience?" he ended up asking in a caring and warm voice while walking behind her "You know, if someone hurt you, it doesn't mean that everyone wants or will do that again, it's like saying all dogs are bad because one ended up biting you. Just...try to give trust others a little, that's what I'm trying to say." he explained again in a warm and caring voice with a dose of bitterness because he knew she would ignore what he said.

"Mmm." Ravel placed her right hand onto her left arm and started to rub it up and down gently "Just drop it already." she said while looking away slightly. "We need to stay focused, commoner. Other wise, we'll end up falling into a trap." she said lowering her hand back down and looking forward until something shone into her eye, catching her attention. "Hmm? what's that?" She mumbled to herself out loud as she looked over. She saw a stone table holding a small golden statue of a woman. Ravel let out a loud screech as she ran over to admire it "Ahhhh!" Oh my gosh! Look how beautiful this statue is! It's so gorgeous!" she said with admiring eyes. "Oh my gosh, I just have to take this back with me." she said in an almost screeching pitching tone. She grabbed the statue and picked it up off the stone table and took a moment to admire it.

Once she did, the statue's eyes began to glow red, causing the table that was holding it to retract into the ground and a stone tile to open up in the ceiling. As both Dean and Ravel were watching in curiosity, they looked the hole in the ceiling with baited breaths for what was to come out. They started to see something glowing bright orange, approaching as a pillar of lava that started spewing out from the hole. Ravel panicked and jumped out of the way with the statue in hand as it poured onto the area she was standing. Both Dean and Ravel looked on it shocked and as the lava poured out, it then started to take on the shape of a dragon with glowing eyes matching the statue's. The statue's eyes glowed bright followed by the lava dragon's which it then turned towards the two mages and roared fiercely at them. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" They both screamed with widened eyes as they bolted away with the lava dragon following them.

"Why in the world did you pick it up!?" shouted Dean as they were running in a narrower path "A sheltered girl, I was right...YOU LACK COMMON SENSE!" he roared while running and then realized "Since you are *so* great and we commoners are trash, how about dealing with them?" he suggested with a friendly look and tone that were hiding anger as he stopped her and pushed her a little back, with him then running further away by using leg strength boost.

"WHAT!? NO! I'm your princess! You should be the one saving me!" She cried out in panic as she ran fast to catch up with him.

As they headed to a much wider room, they ran out of the dragon's path, however, the eyes of the statue she was carrying glowed bright again,followed by the lava dragon causing it turn a bit late and continued to follow them.

Dean then noticed something "Ravel, quick, throw the statue away!" he said panicked "The statue is what activates and attracts the dragon! If you don't do it, they will keep following us!" he said as he was looking her in the eyes while having his hands on her shoulders.

Ravel's eyes widened before she grew angry "Throw away my statue? Are you crazy!?" She weaved her arms carrying the statue to the opposite side of him to prevent him from touching it "This gorgeous statue deserves to be in the hands of a gorgeous princess such as myself! A commoner like you can never understand its true value!" she shouted angrily at him and looked to admire the statue again while running at the same time.

"How dumb can you be? The statue is what brings and attracts it! Get rid of it or at least destroy *it*!" he said angry and dumbfounded at Ravel's persistence and then tried to grab it "Give it here, I will smash it so the dragon will disappear!" he said while trying to take it from her.

"NOOOO! Its mine! Don't you even dare!" she shouted trying to resist him taking it from her "I'll smash you if it so much as gets a single scratch!" she added.

The dragon was coming closer and both were becoming more panicked "We don't have time for your childish tantrums! Give it here you useless prin-" he tried to say, but a sudden black slash appeared that cleaved the dragon, with it dissolving into pure mana scattered in the wind and the statue crumbled.

"Oh my, seems you are popular with the ladies Dean." said a boy's voice teasingly from the shadows and much to Dean's happiness, he saw Kek who was wearing a gold squad robe whose fabric had an intricate design with a similar color palette as the robe and also had a blue-colored fur around the border of the hood and a pair of blue ropes coming from the left shoulder and connected to the gold-colored button on the right shoulder, with said button keeping the robe properly in place while at the left-hand side was an insignia with a golden sun.

"Kek!"shouted Dean excited as he fist-bumped with him "What are you doing here? This is supposed to be a mission of the Black Bulls." exclaimed Dean excited and surprised, with Kek having a nervous smile.

"Um, you see..." he said while scratching his right cheek "...our captain told us three to come because he is afraid that the Black Bulls will screw things up..." he explained nervous, with Dean then doing the same thing.

"I can understand him. I mean, we were six and managed to split up at the inner entrance." said Dean with a little embarrassment, only for Kek to sigh.

"Sigh, the same happened to us." he admitted.

"Ahhhhhahahahhh! Noooo! My statue!" Ravel cried out with tears pouring out from her eyes while trying to gather all the pieces in the hopes of rebuilding it, only for the attempt to fail. She then turned towards the two with angry scowl and with teary eyes.

"Well, it was a trap and after the dragon was destroyed, so did it." explained a nervous Kek and Dean nodded his head nervous.

"Come on Ravel, don't be so upset over a-" Dean tried to say to comfort her with a nervous smile.

"Why it had to be my precious statue!? Why couldn't it have been that commoner?!" Ravel interrupted shouting "You! Golden Dawn boy!" she pointed towards Kek "I hold you responsible for this! You *will* pay for every yul that statue was worth!" she shouted angrily.

"Um, it was *meant* to be destroyed or what, you wanted the dragons to kill us all so the statue wouldn't crumble?" asked Kek nervous while feeling tired from the level of the conversation "and who are you again?" he asked without any interest behind his tone "I feel sorry for Dean if you are always like this. You must be a tomboy girl from the Common Realm that wants attention" he said sure of his deduction with open arms while sighing with a smile, with Dean pulling his robe a couple of times.

"Um, Kek, you won't believe it, but this girl is Ravel Clover X, the second princess of this kingdom." explained Dean whispering, causing Kek's eyes to widen from shock.

"P-Pardon me, my Princess! I apologize for my rude remarks!" he exclaimed nervous while bowing on his knee, with Dean sighing on the sight while having his hands on his sides.

Ravel stood back up to her with a grin on her face, feeling excited by being treated like a princess again which she hid behind her confident grin. "As long as you know your place, Golden Dawn." she then realized his existence and looked back at him. "So, who are you? And how do you know the commoner?"

"I met and approached Dean at the exams, right after the fight he won against a noble, impressed by his power and beliefs" he explained happy and then exchanged a fired up look with Dean.

"Yeah, I remember, it was a nice fight. I felt that you wanted to be my rival and I accepted it but still, this now is the first time we see each other after that." said Dean while he ended up with a realized look.

"And you're ok with that? Being competitor with a commoner?" she wondered.

"I'm a commoner as well Princess. I still don't know how I managed to enter the squad." he ended up explaining while timidly scratching his cheek, with Dean then patting him on the back.

"Oh come on, you are strong and skilled, Kek, that's why even the Silver Eagles and Crimson Lion squads wanted you too." he said while smiling, managing to cheer him up "So, how about all of us trying together to find our teammates?" proposed Dean excited while extending his fist, with Kek then fist-bumping a happy Dean in agreement.

Ravel remained still with her eyes widening and sweat dripping down her head. "No way. You're a commoner? And those three wanted you? Th-that's...impossible." She said unable contemplate this possibility while the two of them didn't hear what she said as they were walking and were a little further than her, with her then sprinting to catch up to them.

Helen and Alessandro had resumed their walking and as they were walking, Helen extended her hand to stop Alessandro as she saw a shadow figure that was sitting on a rock "You two must be from the Black Bulls, hmph, to think I would need the help of commoner trash, pathetic." said a manly voice in contempt and disgust.

"So much mana. Who are you? Show yourself!" demanded Helen while materializing her haldberd, with the figure then standing up and walking towards them.

"Lower your tone, commoner, and be amazed, for you are in the presence of the future head of one of the oldest noble families of this kingdom!" exclaimed the voice passionately and what appeared before them was a young man with dark blue eyes, with him having above the right one a thin diagonal scar, and spiky blond hair which was kept in strands jutting outwards in every direction, and a smaller, frontal cowlick (or tuft) of hair partially hanging over his forehead. He was wearing a dark blue, gold trimmed jacket, as well as a black, high-collared piece of what appeared to be armor underneath, exposing, his muscular abdominals. With this, he was wearing light-gray colored pants with fang-like designs on the side; he was accessorizing his outfit with two different belts: one around his waist and one below that that was holding a feather boa. His pants were tucked inside boots. He also hada crystalline pendant like earring on his left ear while on top of him had the Golden Dawn robe "I'm Aurelius of the Flavius family! While painful, I will have to work with you commoners that possess mana unbefitting of your status, but! Until we find our original teams, I will lead this team, no objections!" he claimed passionately, throwing Helen off with his flamboyance.

"You might be noble, but when it comes to battle and difficult situations, you can't imagine what we lame commoners can do. You want to be a leader? I don't think so." she said serious, with Aurelius then chuckling.

"Fufufufu. Is this how Black Bulls treat a noble who is also their senior?" he asked cocky, with Helen tighing her fist and then sighing after relaxing.

Alessandro shrugged his shoulders and moved Helen's hand before he continued walking. "This guy talks funny." He said while putting his hands behind his head and whistling, walking past the Golden Dawn member. "Come on, Helen, or else we'll be even more lost. Hey, fancy guy, we're leaving or at least, I am, so if you wanna tag along, let's go." Ale said with his usual cheerful, upbeat tone.

"Sigh, if you want to call yourself a leader, then be my guest. Know that me and my teammate will do as we please though" she declared coldly as she walked away, with him being dumbfounded by this response.

"*He may talk funny, but there's no mistake, his magic power is deep.*" Ale thought to himself as he kept walking smiling. "Now, " he paused before drawing his katana and leaving an 'X' on a wall. "If we run back into this X, we're probably walking in circles. Let's hope to find one of this black void cloud teleporting thing. Hope they're connected and see if it helps us find more of us."

Serena was walking alone, having withdrawn her drones to preserve mana "Is there no one around here?" she wondered and as she went inside a dark hall "Ouch." she said as she hit her head but she also heard a female voice saying that "Who's there?" she asked while holding her head and her eyes shone, seeing in front of her a girl one foot away from her that remained standing, with the girl's back facing towards her.

The girl turned around to face the person that bumped into her. "Who goes there?" She reached into her clothing and pulled a ball. She lifted the ball up as it floated off her hand into the air creating an orb of light that illuminated the darkness. With it Serena, could see the person clearly now. A woman with blonde hair wearing blue and white dress robes wearing the robe of the Golden Dawn.

"Oh, I'm sorry." said Serena while bowing her head "I am Serena Biblos of the Black Bulls." she introduced herself with a smile and then got curious "wWy is the Golden Dawn here?" she asked curious and then smiled "I suggest we talk about this while regrouping with the others, what do you say?" she ended up suggesting while clapping her hands once with a smile and a friendly tone.

"Be quite, Black Bull filth. Your babbling is irritating me. I am Shuna Rockwell of House Rockwell and a member of the illustrious Golden Dawn, you will address me with respect." She glared down at Serena. "Obviously, we are here cause you Black Bull rejects can't be trusted with securing this dungeon before the Diamond Kingdom, so my captain sent us to secure it ourselves. Honestly though, the fact that you Bulls were sent here at all is a mistake." she added. She then turned around and glanced back over to Serena. "My team was scattered through out the base after our failure commoner recruit foolishly set off a trap, and you will aid me in finding them. Understood?" she then started walking forward ahead of Serena.

"Fufufu, oh my, quite the attitude you have there, Miss Shuna." said a chuckling Serena while smiling, with her irritation being felt in her voice "If we Black Bulls were entrusted this mission, then *of course*, it means we are the most suitable ones to conquer this dungeon." she explained with a hint of cockiness "Also, I would like it very much if you were less bossy, as I'm the only one of the two that can detect traps, and you wouldn't want to activate one now, right?" she asked politely, with her tone still being irritated.

Shuna looked back with irritation "Are you underestimating the Golden Dawn? Don't get all cocky just cause your magic allows you to see through traps. We are the elite of the Magic Knights. Such feeble traps aren't even capable of slowing us down. You bulls, on the other hand, are only good for demolishing villages, our villages."

As Shuna was talking, she was suddenly shocked from a trap beneath her, with Serena's finger having leftover mana "It seems that the Golden Dawn is the greatest squad in terms of gloading and showing off." she said while smiling politely and playfully and she walked away "Also." she said and her tone changed "Don't you ever *dare* to talk about destroyed villages, Golden Bitch, because you have no idea about *true* squad incompetence." she said while glaring with murderous intent, with her then taking a breath and becoming her normal self "Shall we go then?" she asked while walking ahead.

Suddenly, a shadow wave passed through their location, with Serena stopping as she saw a portal of shadows "Fufufu" a laugh came from it and a shadow figure was slowly emerging from it, with the shadow figure being blown away to reveal a youthful woman with a slim figure and sharp eyes that had black hair that hanged over her face and leaed partially to the left side of her face while having two separate strands on both sides of her face. She donned a navy blue bandanna with lined design and a golden crescent moon-shaped hair ornament on the back of her head and was also wearing a navy blue zebra-patterned cloak with a crescent moon design on the back. It was exposing the black skin-tight full body suit she was wearing, noted to have net-shaped designs on the sides and on the forearms while there were various line borders that separate the two, coming in straight and curved patterns "enemy prey spotted" she muttered.

Serena then became alerted and was pointing her finger at her while ready to fire a magic bullet at any moment, with the girl looking at her in excitement "I'm Skia Dunscaith, one of the elite mages assigned to conquer this dungeon, for the glory of Diamond Kingdom!" she explained with a dose of cockiness.

"*The Diamond Kingdom? They are here already*?" wondered an alerted Serena and she snapped out by the slurping noised of the female enemy.

"Mmm, so much magic magic power you both possess. It seems I will surely take my sweet time relieving this week's stress on you two!" she claimed excited as she created claws of shadows and was flaring her magic power, engulfing the area in a temporary mist of shadows while her bloodlust was oozing.

"Sorry, but you will go down while gaining some extra stress, since you will lose." said Serena serious while flaring her own magic power.

Meanwhile, Helen was in front of Ale with haldberd in hand, gridding her teeth alerted in the visage of a man sitting on a boulder that was wearing a deep scarlet plate mail on his body and had several swords in his possession. There were two swords on each of his left and right sides of his waist and two more on his back for a total of six long swords, with the man's magic power impressing Aurelius.

"Phew, quite the nice magic power you are emanating there." said Aurelius who was now beside Helen "I suppose that you are a mage of the Diamond Kingdom?" he wondered. "You are so unlucky, since you will be defeated by me and my team here." he claimed while flaring up a golden magic aura.

"Hoohohoho I wouldn't get so cocky, unknown Golden Dawn mage. Pray for your bad luck, for you have stubbled across Gallen Icarus, right hand of the lovely Berenice of the Diamond Kingdom!." he cried out, striking a valent pose. "Oh, and by the way,I already got you surrounded." he said as he let out a devious grin. Troops came running out from the darkness and boulders and pillars they were hiding behind and surrounded the three mages. "Hoohohohoho!"

"It doesn't matter how much trash you gather, because gold always prevails over the filth, staying shiny and beautiful," replied a cocky Aurelius while stroking his hair for a moment and then looked back at Helen and Ale "I will keep this ignorant fool busy.If you manage to finish these pieces of trash quickly, I will honor you with becoming my sidekicks in this battle, now go!" he said as he then was surrounded by shards of gold.

"Sigh, we don't have much of a choice with that guy's attitude now, do we?" wondered a complaining Helen as she then became serious and leapt at two grunts that she managed to bring down with her halberd "Let's go, Ale." she said battle ready.

Dean along with Ravel and Kek reached a spacious area and saw a huge door "Do you think this is a treasury or something?" he wondered.

"It's possible. Could be the volt to the treasure room" Ravel answered.

Right at that moment, the three became paralyzed with fear as they felt an immense amount of magic power approaching and turned around in awe to see who it belonged to. They then saw a buxom young woman with a slender figure. Her wavy, golden hair was cropped short, reaching only the base of her nape, with it being quite messy, giving it a somewhat spiky appearance and while it was mostly swept back, some bangs hang down her forehead, curving away from the face on either side. She was wearing a top that was consisted of a simple red bandeau, with the upper edge embroidered with a flowery, white lace while she also had loose, pin-striped red and black capri pants, the ends of the legs tightening around her calves. The hems of the legs were decorated with dark piping and her left forearm was covered by a tight, dark bracer with a wing-like ornament attached to it beneath her elbow. Her right arm was encased in golden armor and while the part covering her upper arm and shoulder was plated, the rest was taking the form of a simple gauntlet. Her neck was protected by gorget with a golden border and whose color matched that of her bandeau. A dark jacket with a light border was tied around her waist, allowing it to flare out behind her legs such that it was hidding her legs from view from behind but left them exposed from the front. The jacket had a large collar and lapels. The arms were knotted loosely below her abdomen, the ends hanging down. The light cuffs were quite prominent and each was encircled by a dark band with three rows of studs embedded in it; she was completing her outfit with a pair of simple sandals.

"*So much magic power!*" thought Kek in awe while unable to talk, with Dean also sweating.

"*Such immense magic power and presence....she is as strong...as strong as a Captain!*" he thought while watching her "who..who are you?" asked Dean even though he had a vague grasp of the truth.

"No. It can't be. It's you." Ravel managed to say while her fear took over her body, unable to even blink.

The woman's eyes looked down at the magic knights and a sudden release of dense magic power was felt as her gaze became much sharper, more beast like. "Looks like we have some clover runts in the dungeon." she then smiled with a menacing look to it. "How fun."

Upon finishing her talk, both Dean and Kek automatically used Mana Skin while their grimoires began flipping pages "Beast Magic: Gorilla Punch!" he said as his fists became clad in ethereal fists and got into a fighting stance.

"**Dark Creation Magic: Dark General's Sword!**" shouted Kek as swirling darkness was formed to his hand and a blade of darkness was created "In the name of Clover Kingdom, we will claim this dungeon!" he claimed while pointing his sword at her determined.

"No! You morons! Stop!" Ravel cried out to them to stop their actions.

"Tch! How annoying..." The woman muttered, interrupting Ravel as her magic power wrapped itself around her legs and she propelled herself to the rookie mages. Before any of the other mages could react, she swung a heavy right knee kick at Dean's face! "You two are still fledglings, learning how to fly while trying to confront a full-grown falcon."

Dean managed to put his hands in front of his face, only for him to be sent flying from the force of the impact but he managed to resist the friction "Damn, she is strong, and uses a magic that I don't know." he muttered alerted, but then his eyes became fired up and smirked "Still, the chance to fight a captain level opponent doesn't come so often." he said while stretching his fingers and cracking his neck. "Hey, miss, you are good!" he said with anticipation in his eyes while giving a cold smile and then got into a crouching stance "I don't know about yo,u Kek, but if you don't step up your game..." he said to a confused Kek while pumping his feet that were now covered in two layers of mana "*I* will make the first hit on her!" he said as he suddenly unleashed an incredible burst of speed, flying towards her "*Beast Magic: Gazelle Gallop+ Leg Strength Boost!*".

"*What an incredible speed! He flew straight at her like an arrow!*" thought an amazed Kek as he couldn't physically follow him at all and then, Dean was about punch her straight in the face.

"Childish, so childish." She muttered before she raised her palm and focused on some of her massive pool of magic to her palm, catching Dean's attack! "You need a lot more, more than you alone have to best me, kid."

"Grr." he growled in desperation as he then managed to free himself from her grasp with a lot of effort, with him jumping back at Kek who had a serious look on his face.

"She is right, Dean, we should go all together in order to have a chance." he explained while ending up looking at him, with Dean then giving a honest smile.

"Hehe, sorry about that, I just got fired up for a moment but don't worry, I will be careful while fighting together." he ended up saying while giving a fired up smile and look to Kek who returned them with his own. "So, Ravel, I know that it will be our first battle together and that we will be off synch, but please offer ranged-" said Dean before being interrupted by her.

"You idiot! Have you lost your mind? We dont stand chance again her." She cried out to them without waiting for Dean to finish talking. "I know who she is. She's one of the Diamond Kingdoms greatest military Mage Warriors. The highest rank of the entire army. A rank that rivals that of our own squad captains. The Shining Generals." She said, followed with a pause and baited gulp "And among them, she is one of the most dangerous, she's engaged in more battles with almost all the captains, even Captain Korag, than any other general in battles that reshaped landscapes. **Berenice Raptis The Valkyrie!**"