Chapter 448: Another Reunion

The guards didn’t seem to be extremely wary of them. Additionally, they didn’t seem to notice that Cain and Freya were hiding their auras. Most of them were Tier 4s, but Julius spotted a Tier 5 approaching them as they waited. The man exuded an impressive aura and wasn’t shy about displaying it.

The man noticed something off right away. Julius didn’t know if the man knew that Cain and Freya were Tier 6, but he clearly suspected they weren’t average people. With that being said, he was very polite and asked Julius some simple questions. Questions that seemed intended to confirm he was indeed the same Julius his friends were waiting for. He said that because he was asked about Drasil and also about things like his favorite foods.

Julius answered these questions truthfully and let his aura open to show his honesty.

Thankfully, their wait wasn’t too boring or awkward. The guards were surprisingly friendly and made some small talk to pass the time.

Suddenly, as he was in the middle of talking with one of the guards, he sensed them. He looked them in the eye and gave them a smirk.

Aubrey was the first to attack him, and once she had, the rest followed.

Julius knew when it was useless to fight back. He just let them have their moment and waited until they climbed off of him. It took longer than expected, but when he finally wasn’t being smothered anymore, he gasped.

“It’s good to see you guys too,” he said breathlessly.

“You got some nerve leaving us like that,” Aubrey poked him in the ribs. He smacked it away. She knew that he was ticklish there.

“I didn’t have much of a choice,” he tried to explain.

“Yeah, but you could have given us more information about where you were going and why,” Aubrey argued.

Julius pressed his lips together and nodded begrudgingly. Admittedly, he could have done more to explain what was going on to them. At the time, there had been so much going on that he wasn’t able to let them know what was going on.

“Sorry,” he said apologetically.

To his bafflement, Aubrey just grinned brightly. “It’s okay,” she said warmly.

He pinched his eyes together and glared at her. “What?”

“I said it’s fine,” she said happily.

“Then why did you make it sound like it was a big deal?” He asked confusedly. He was also a bit worried that she had forgiven him so easily. That wasn’t like her at all, and he looked around to make sure there weren’t any surprises waiting for him.

She smiled at him. “Because I wanted to get it off my chest, that’s why. And I think we deserve to complain about it,” she said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Furthermore, he shouldn’t have been shocked by that explanation.

He could only shake his head in exasperation. “How have you guys been?”

He asked this, but he could already tell right away that they had made some changes themselves. Lily’s transformation was the most obvious. Despite her previous training in hand-to-hand combat in Gabriel’s class, she never had much muscle.

However, that was different now. Julius could see the slim but tight muscles in her forearms and her legs. There was a ruggedness there that hadn’t been present the last time he had seen her. She must have been training her physical body, and he was curious why the sudden decision after all this time.

Additionally, upon further inspection, he realized that it wasn’t just her muscles that had grown. She had this passive layer of what he assumed was psychic energy around her. It was almost as if she were constantly augmenting her physical body with some form of telekinesis.

Perhaps that was the reason she needed to start working out. Julius wasn’t a hundred percent sure, but this had Marcus’s fingers all over it. He knew from talking with the man himself that Marcus used telekinesis to enforce his body as well. Thus, it would make sense if he taught Lily something similar.

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Her aura had this deepness and danger to it that hadn’t been present before. He had a feeling that Lily had become quite a dangerous person.

Close combat fighting had always been one of Lily’s most glaring weaknesses. While she was an absolute terror when it came to psychic abilities, her body held her back a lot of the time. However, if she had fixed that, then she was going to be a force to reckon with.

The other three also showed some changes. Aubrey had this weird glimmer of light present in her aura. It reminded Julius of her prismatic skill, and it was quite beautiful to look at. Very similar to a gently pulsing rainbow, which tickled his aura senses. He was interested in asking her how she managed to do something like that.

Edgar didn’t have any dramatic changes to his physique or his aura, but Julius noticed his friend was using his senses with far more finesse than before. Perception, whether it was mana or aura perception, had always been one of the weaker aspects of Edgar’s path.