Four figure eights in a row. A new record.


    Silver.


    Missiles can move away from your body, or towards it. But you’d be surprised how much variation this allows.”


    Left. Right. Forward. Back. She moved until her fingers were icicles and her legs were jelly.


    Too late. The Missile lost its momentum and shattered into a cloud of pale blue mist.


    Out of mana already? She shifted her hoodie sleeve to reveal the mana watch on her left wrist.


    5/36.


    far higher than zero. Probably as high as twenty-seven or twenty-eight points.


    impossible,” she said with a quick shake of her head. “It would be like trying to grow an inch taller.”


    Oh. Even if these ‘research teams’ were some cover story invented by the Golds, what about all the other wealthy Bronze and Silvers out there? Some of them must have tried to advance, right?


    easy. So easy, that it wasn’t even worth its own video.


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    tura,” Kalden’s mother said from across the table.


    Gossip is for Silvers,” his mother always said. Not that Golds didn’t gossip. They just pretended not to.


    wounded those Martials,” Genkai corrected his daughter. “No one’s died yet.” The older man sat at the head of the ebony table—the same place Kalden’s father once sat. However, the seat never fit his stepfather quite as well. Genkai might be on Arkala’s ruling council, but Kalden’s father had been a famous general. Even his mother would never think of comparing the two men.


    Again with that phrase. Quiet acceptance was the default approach, and any skepticism was enough to get you called a conspiracy theorist. He’d once asked Akari why she’d never befriended the other Bronze, and this had been her reason. They were all too quick to accept their lot in life.


    Sozen. She wielded his older brother’s memory like a weapon, trying to guilt him into silence.