Eight years had passed since Sem, Jun and Shira tried to free Illyan. His mentor and almost-family member got arrested for suspicions on following the Red. She even had admitted the crime and the guardian angels sensed unusual vibrations around almost every authority at the university. There was so much seeming off for the friends, that they had to investigate the case further. Before they could find the culprit behind all this, a great chaos broke out. A demon – supposely summoned by the Red – threatened the lives of the university students. Semryu was able to free Illyan from her chains, who then warned him to flee from the university as soon as possible. „Someone is after you, Sem.", she told him. „I don't know who or why but you are the target of all this. That's why I wrote you the message. They should not, at any cost, find about where exactly you are." With those last words, she suddenly was gone. Sem did not understand a thing. All what she said and what happened in the past just didn't align for him. But there also was no time to think about it now, as he had to leave the university as soon as possible in the evacuation process.
He just thought himself out of the danger by having left the building, when he saw gray spikes out of stone flying towards him. One of them directly pierced through his chest. Sem did not remember much of what happened next – just Shira heavily cursing beside him, freeing him from the spike and using her healing abilities, before he could bleed to death. One of the spells seemed to be exceptional strong, as his pain and drowsiness from the blood-loss were gone at once. I wonder, where she got those healing skills, he commented to Michael. His guardian angel stayed silent. Shira's healing spell was incredibly powerful but it came at a price. Stains of dark crimson red showed off at her velvet blouse. „How could you even… Shira… WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" A cold sensation of dread overcame him, realizing that she had uptaken his wounds to save him. As a Clan, his selfhealing abilities were superior to hers but even he would not have made it all the way to the healers with those injuries – even if they were still inside the building. „Don't worry… we've got you… covered… Clansman. Just get out of here… and stay safe", she replied, breathing heavily. In a blink of a second, she disappeared aswell.
Tar'Citadel got nearly destroyed and five years had been gone, until it could completely be restored again. The lessons continued in some other, magically restaurated buildings, so it was generally possible to graduate, for whoever desired it. Many students had lost their life at that incident and neither Illyan, nor Shira or her body were found anywhere. It had been reported though, that a young girl with white hair, wildly kept into a braid, had entered the last portal of Lubreean. No one had used that portal for over centuries and no one knew where anyone would land, stepping through it. It was said, that the girl had ignored all the guards at the temple and before they could hold her back, she was gone. Semryu had tons of questions and no one nearby or alive who would be able to give the answer. Working at the remains of the university as a fighting trainer while graduating and without any messages of his family (had his father really abandoned him?), he one day decided to follow Shira. Wherever she was going, she at least seemed to have a plan.