章 406: The World Revolves The Same - Part 4

"Why is he here?" Confused by Markus's presence while Helga trained her, Aria couldn't help but question exactly what was going on. Both the Valkyrie and the knight had been acting kind of distant and Helga even seemed to be ignoring Markus at all times.

"Don't think about it, just focus on training!" Helga yelled, swinging the blunt side of her spear at the elf.

Caught off guard Aria nearly flinched to the sudden strike but from the many weeks of training with Helga, her instincts kicked in and blocked the strike with the dark dragon scale glove. For a spell, she felt Helga's power being drained and channeled through her body to the white glove–which she quickly decided to use for a strike. 

Halfway through her swing, however, the Valkyrie spun the spear under the dark glove and struck the back of the white glove to change its trajectory.