"...Whew."
"Just in the nick of ti."
Soaring through the skies on the azure dragon he conjured, Valyr eventually let out a wide sigh of relief the mont he landed in the center of a forest clearing.
Double checking to see whether or not the forest he landed in was a fair distance away from Daffors Village, the young man faintly nodded in satisfaction, only to then ask the system how much ti he had left before [Soul Shift] went away on its own.
With the system telling him that there were only about 3 hours before the skill deactivated by itself in response, the young man faintly nodded once more as he began to take things out of his spatial bracelet.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
"It'll be a while before I'll be to return to this identity of mine." Briefly staring at the pieces of equipnt he brought out, a slightly wistful smile appeared on his face as he began to arrange the equipnt according to their set.
After checking that he brought out three sets of armor made for three different classes, he then went ahead and brought the sets of Basic Reinforcent Elixir he concocted, as well as the few skill books he bought along his way back.
"Alright." Making sure that he hadn't forgotten anything else to take out of his spatial bracelet, the young man took in a few deep breaths after that to calm himself down, only to then proceed with the process of switching back to his player identity.
"[Soul Shift]."
Whoosh!
Having used the skill more than once at that point, Valyr was easily able to adjust to the sensation of having most of strength disappear in a matter of seconds.
Doing a few basic movents to further acclimate himself once both his strength and appearance had fully shifted back to his player self, the young man went ahead and stowed away all of the items he brought out earlier into his spatial bracelet.
After that, he began to head back to Daffors Village at the greatest speed he could muster, making full use of the absurdly high AGI he had for his current class rank.
Because of that, it only took around 10 minutes for the young man to arrive back at the village before making a beeline straight to the village inn.
Quickly renting a room for himself and the others to use once they woke up from their rest, Valyr went ahead and logged out of Greater Beyond after that, imdiately feeling a massive wave of exhaustion hit him the mont he got out of the gaming pod.
"Those days felt way longer than they should have," murmured Valyr to himself, wryly smiling at the fact that most of his ti during the session was spent on doing things that didn't really improve his combat strength.
Though, considering the great rewards he received from doing both things, the young man rely brushed the thought off to the side as he allowed his body to get all of the rest it needed.
...
"... You guys are up early."
Logging into Greater Beyond after getting so nice rest, the young man was slightly surprised to find that Thomas and the others had already logged into the ga before even he -could.
"Well, we did log out of the ga around afternoon yesterday," said Thomas with a slight chuckle as he watched Valyr head towards them.
"That's true." Valyr nodded with a slight smile as he briefly glanced at ria and Lucques. "So, were you guys able to solve that problem of yours?"
"We did," replied ria as the two of them looked at him with imnse gratitude. "Thanks to you, we were able to finally pay our debt to the collectors that been hounding our family the hardest as of late."
"What did your family tell you two after that?" asked Valyr back.
"Well, they first said that they were imnsely grateful to us," answered Lucques as ria nodded in agreent. "Other than that, they told us that they'd keep their mouth shut if it ant supporting us in whatever we did to earn that much money."
"Your family is definitely thinking you two are doing so illegal activities right now," said Thomas with a bit of laughter, causing Valyr to let out so laughter of his own in agreent.
"Anyways, Valyr." After letting out a bit more laughter after that, Thomas glanced at ria and Lucques for a bit before looking back at Valyr with a calm expression. "You told us to set so of our share of the earnings aside to improve our foundations."
"What did you an by that, exactly?"
"How much did you guys set aside?" asked Valyr, seemingly avoiding answering the question Thomas asked him for the anti.
"Around 5 gold coins," replied Thomas after briefly checking their current surroundings.
"We were only able to set aside around 3 gold coins each," said Lucques, his tone slightly apologetic.
"3 gold coins is more than enough, actually," said Valyr in response, consoling the two with his words. "In fact, even 2 gold coins would have been enough money."
"What's the money for, exactly?" asked Thomas once more, getting the feeling that the young man had no choice but to tell them at that mont.
Yet, Valyr still continued to avoid the question.
"Follow and I'll tell you once we get there."
Seeing as they already owed a lot to Valyr and were also curious as to what the young man had prepared for them, Thomas and the others pushed all the other thoughts in their head to the side for the anti as they followed the young man out of the village.
Around half an hour later, it was only after the four of them entered a small forest clearing did Valyr stop, causing the trio to fall to the ground as they furiously gasped for air. "What's... the point... of bringing us... this far?" asked Thomas amidst his deep breaths, his gaze towards Valyr now containing a bit of annoyance.
"Just wanted to be safe than sorry," said Valyr, ignoring the exhaustion the trio felt after continuously running for so long.
Naturally, the annoyance on Thomas' expression deepened once he took note of that, with
so of it even turning into anger.
However, once Valyr began to take out things from his spatial bracelet, the anger on the man's face imdiately disappeared.
"Is that...?"
"It is." Valyr nodded with a slight chuckle.
"This is why I told you three to set so money aside."
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