The Lightning Marshal

Selena walked along the lane, her heart in her throat. Her steps were heavy as she reflected on the student's sacrifice.

Then she remembered the first time she encountered him when he was blindly attacking the training dummy with his friend, who had no technique.

Her first impression of him was dreadful.

She had no idea he'd come to amaze her again and time again.

She was confident that in a few years, that boy would have attained her level of strength. That was how highly she...no, not only her but even the headmaster, who had lived for millennia and had seen and met innumerable so-called "geniuses."

A genius who appears only once every thousand years.

But none of that mattered i