Hayden stared at the black monster not knowing what to do. Most weak monsters in Brave frontier are brightly coloured in their respective element colour, but this one looked less friendly than the pixelated monsters. He looked at the monsters eyes and felt the same experience he did when he fought the slimes and when Lucius talked, fear. While he was still stunned at the situation at hand the monster attacked Hayden. Instinctively he brought the swords up to his face to protect himself but was still pushed back and hurt.

"Hayden!" Sarah and Liri yelled out.

He felt the sharp pain that monster inflicted. Standing up after the attack, he checked himself and saw that there was no marks or scars and even the pain was quickly fading. The damage he took was just like the game, there is no permanent damage.

"Hayden attack" Liri yelled out.

Hayden shook his head to clear his head but it didn't work quite as he wanted. He looked at the monster and wanted to attack. It felt like there was a second force compelling Hayden to attack this monster, that force was Liri's commands.

"He doesn't seem to be attacking at all." Sarah pointed out.

"You will be alright Hayden, I believe in you." Liri tried to comfort Hayden.

Hayden heard Liri's words and swallowed in air. He was curious to why the monster didn't attack him again. It was as if the monster was following the turn based combat of brave and was awaiting Hayden's retaliation. He ran forward and attacked beast. Or at least he tried to. The swords and the adrenaline took control for most of the time he attacked. The beast was hit with some blows but was smart enough to dodge the normal thrusts. Part of the sword's control made Hayden jump back and stop himself from attacking further.

'Could is this because brave is turn based? Can I not attack more than my animation?'

Hayden's thoughts was interrupted by the sound of the monster coming back. Thinking that he could easily do what the monster did and dodge, he prepared himself for the upcoming attack.

"Burny, Sparky attack." Liri commanded.

The two slimes came from behind Hayden and attacked the monster. It seemed that the monster couldn't dodge the two slime's attack. As the two slimes attacked Hayden saw something appear. It was a green flash of light and what seemed to be a green word. Hayden couldn't help but smile as he read what the word said "SPARK!".

"Oh, this could be a good time to explain. If two or more units attack connect at the same time, then you could trigger a thing called a Spark. It boosts the damage of the attack dealt at that moment." Sarah said.

"So if I can time it properly, they can deal more damage?" Liri asked

"Yes."

'Good thing that still exist in this world, or else there would be a lack of dama-'. Hayden's thoughts was again interrupted by the attack of the monster. It seemed like the monster had no interest in the tiny slimes and headed straight towards Hayden. Hayden poured energy into his legs as best as he could remember from the sword taking control and tried to dodge sideways. The monster saw the dodge coming and attacked accordingly. This hit Hayden hard sending him back. With the pain subsiding he stood back up on his feet feeling weary about the battle. The battle window containing Hayden and the slimes popped up into his view again. Hayden's health bar was just under half hp and was coloured yellow. The enemy monster had a title 'Darkened Wu'lf (minion)'

'So this is just a minion? Whose minion is this?'

"Hayden catch!" Liri yelled as she threw something his way.

She threw a green bottle with a spherical cap and complicated design. It was small and seemed easy to hold with only one hand. At first glance Hayden knew exactly what this was but, not what to do with it. Normally you would click on the item then click on who you would use it to, but this wasn't a game and he didn't know quite what to do.

"Take the cap off and drink" Liri yelled in a hurry.

Hayden took off the cap and drank the cure bottle quickly. He didn't feel refreshed by the drink but he looked onto the screen and saw his hp had gone up slightly. He tossed the bottle aside and prepared to attack. The second force compelling him to attack came and he went in without hesitation. This time the slimes came and attacked with him. Although he attacked multiple times, the slime's attacks was only one. They did not spark but the monster had disappeared when he jumped back. Feeling tired all of a sudden Hayden fell onto his knees and lost consciousness.

"Sarah, his hp didn't go down to 0 what happened?" Liri exclaimed

"He is probably just tired, the divine energy took a toll on his body."

"Will he be alright?"

"Yes, all he needs is a bit of rest, use your other summoned units and move him to somewhere more comfortable."

"Okay! Burny, Sparky you heard her, lets go!" Liri said in a cheerful voice.

"There is another errand I have to run, take care."

Sarah left the backyard and went into the forest where the monster emerged from. After she was quite a distance away from the house she stopped in the middle of a clearing.

"Show yourself, I know you didn't leave."

A mysterious voice came out.

"Oh, it seems that you have quite the skill to figure out I'm here."

"It doesn't take a genius to figure out that was just a minion and you were the one behind it."

Someone appeared behind a tree and looked towards Sarah. It was the same woman that she saw after seeing Karna Masta.

"What do you want with my summoner?" Sarah said in a hostile tone.

"Nothing much. Just wanting to see if that person was qualified to serve his holiness."

"By threatening his life?"

"If he couldn't handle such a small, trivial thing, there is no point in him being his disciple."

"I warn you, don't try and do that again, or else I will deal with you."

The woman laughed at Sarah's threat. While Sarah could feel the godly power coming from the figure, she still wasn't powerless and could handle her own. The girl stepped out of the tree into plain sight and drew her sword. As she drew it a dark purple looking crystal moves behind her. The crystal was bigger than the woman and stood behind her menacingly.

"My name is Feeva, let's see if you are more bite than bark."

-In the house-

When he woke up he was on his bed in the room he was assigned to. The only fatigue he had was from waking up. He checked his body to see if there was anything and everything was fine. He stood up and walked towards the wooden door and opened it to go look for Liri and Sarah somewhere in the house. He found Liri in the dining room with a couple of big books opened to different pages.

"Sorry about passing out." Hayden stated.

"Oh, don't worry about it"

She turned back to her books looking very interested into them. He moved closer to see what the books had to offer. The book had the name printed on the top left of every two pages so it made it quite easy to check. The books read: Sparking and you! The green light with words. Simple tips, on how to Spark. The mystery of Sparking. Two unit WONDER, the two cats/bladed man and the weapon of mass destruction. The Legend Of The Red Spark? The final book looked torn and weathered down by time and seemed barely readable.

"Oh are you learning about sparking?"

"Yes, Sarah said that sparking is very important so I'm studying it. Did you know that apparently there was a thing that created a red spark? "

"Yeah, crit spark or resonance right?"

Liri looked at Hayden with blanks eyes again, astonished.

"Hayden, what's crit spark? Critical and sparks are different things."

"No I don't mean crit and spark, I mean Critical spark, increases the spark damage."

'Is this not common knowledge?'

"Really how does it work?" Liri stood up with a shine in her eye looking eager to hear more."

"Just chance, there is a chance you will deal more damage if you have that buff."

"Wow, there's nothing like that in these books."

Hayden thought to himself about what this could mean. Critical spark wasn't something that was entirely meta gaming like how mitigation was introduced with Tesla but it was something that increased damage that got some attention.

"No one has seen a red spark in a long time. Those were just the things of legends. Have you actually seen one?" Liri was really eager to hear his answer.

"Yes many times."

"Wow, can you show me?"

"I can't crit spark at all."

"Oh, okay…" She looked somewhat down at the news but she continued to study the books more.

Hayden picked up the book with the title the Two unit Wonder and couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny?"

"This book's title."

"Apparently those are the masters of sparking."

"I wouldn't call them masters, but they do deal a lot of damage."

"Do you know them?" Her eyes held a shine again.

"Yes, the two cats are Nyami and the other two are probably Mifune and Gildorf."

Liri quickly went into the corridor and into a room that Hayden hadn't been in before. She came back with a big dusty book. He wondered why every book in this place seemed to be super old. She opened the book and flipped to a page. The pages looked like the unit guide from Brave Frontier.

"Aww… They aren't on the list"

"Really?"

Hayden took the book and flipped to the last page. The last page contained units from the disciple of the gods, the first batch of 7 stars. Hayden quickly thought about what it meant.

"This book is actually up to date despite it's looks. That's due to magic." She looked like she was quite proud of that statement.

Hayden looked through carefully and realized. Omni's don't exsist.