"Alright, here goes," Raiken said, wading through the crowds to reach the request. He stumbled briefly as someone else a short distance away was much more aggressive at pushing through the crowd, to much cursing, and it seemed that someone was there ahead of him. The man closed one hand over the Ilvator Seal that hung from the bottom of the scroll. As his hand closed around it, it flashed an angry red light, and the man cried out in pain, stumbling backwards away from the board into the crowd of onlookers.<br/><br/>Raiken reached the space before the board and saw the man who had tried to take the Seal. It was a tall young man with flowing blond hair, blue eyes, dressed in shining silver plate armour. He recognised the man at once. "Losvar, are you alright?" Raiken asked, extending a hand to help him up.<br/><br/>Losvar scowled at the hand and got up by himself. "Well, let's see<em>you</em>try to take the Seal then!" he said, with a supercilious smirk. Losvar the Light Mage was one of Raiken's long-time rivals, and he was at this point several levels higher. Even his partner, Vandra the Flame Sorceress also was at a higher level. So if Losvar was rejected by the Seal, it did not bode well for Raiken and Aria.<br/><br/>He sighed, and decided there wasn't any point in hesitating. Either the Seal would accept him or it would leave him on the floor the way it did Losvar. Only one way to find out. He stretched out his hand, and there was a blue glow that covered the seal as he touched it, and he took the scroll from the board. Losvar scowled at this and flounced off angrily.<br/><br/>"Come on, let's go!" he growled at a tall young woman with flaming red hair who stood nearby, dressed in what amounted to a leather thong bikini and knee-high boots with spike heels under her fur-lined red cloak. That was Vandra. She nodded, and gave both Raiken and Aria a similar angry scowl as she followed Losvar out.<br/><br/>Raiken made his way back to Aria's side as the crowd gradually dispersed, amid congratulations from some of the more friendly onlookers, some of whom were known to them. "Alright, you ready to go? The scroll says that we ought to take the Lunar Gates to Syana City and meet with the Duke there who will explain the situation. Shall we get going?"