Chapter 127
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Episode 29 - Preparations [2]
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The next morning, I took a bath, heated up the food I had prepared yesterday, and went to the classroom.
Classroom B-1, as always, was full of cadets, just like the hallways and the other classrooms.
The first class was with Professor Franklin, who put us through different types of training: so duels, martial arts, and so on.
The next class after Professor Franklin’s was Professor Ashly’s magic class.
The class was not about theory, demonstrations, examples, or lessons on different types of magic.
This ti, it was about checking the total amount of mana and each student’s stage.
And, as I had expected, Lumina and I were the only ones who had reached the peak stage of the 4 Stars.
The rest of the main characters were below the interdiate stage.
Well, except for Charlotte and Clana. Both girls were at the advanced stage, not too far from the peak stage.
Perhaps, if the Fifth Star did not require preparation, I would have reached the Five Stars stage a long ti ago, and Lumina would have as well.
After Professor Ashly’s class ca Professor lissa’s Summoning class.
It was not a boring class at all, mostly about Summons, along with so other interesting topics and things like that.
Finally, break ti arrived.
As soon as I entered the cafeteria, I grabbed so trays and picked up a few sandwiches. Then I went to the vending machine and got my favorite coffee.
After that, I headed to our usual table and sat down.
Shortly afterward, Rinna, Diana, Veronica, Julian, and Charlotte arrived.
I have to say, Charlotte still has not spoken to since the day we ca out of the mory Gate.
Whenever I talked to Charlotte, she would simply stare at without saying anything. I did not understand why, but there was not much I could do about it either.
So I simply ignored her.
While I was eating so sandwiches, Rinna said:
"We have less than a month left before the sester ends. What about you guys?"
She asked everyone. Julian, while swallowing his lasagna, said:
"Well, I guess I’ll go back ho. I want to visit my little sister."
Then it was Diana’s turn.
"Here. Staying."
Rinna raised an eyebrow, sowhat surprised by Diana’s words.
"You’re not going back ho or going sowhere else?"
Diana shook her head.
"No, I don’t want to."
"Mhm, well, I could co visit you during the break."
Diana nodded twice. Then Rinna turned to Veronica and asked:
"And the first-year representative, where will she go?"
Veronica, while drinking so kind of fruit shake, tilted her head as if thinking about it.
"Well, I don’t really have a place to go, so I guess I’ll stay at the Academy."
Rinna slightly widened her eyes, looked at for a second, and then at Veronica.
"You’re not going to keep chasing Adel around? I an, aside from , you’re always with him, aren’t you?"
Veronica opened her eyes slightly, then glanced at from the corner of her eye and said:
"Ehm, about that... my older brother told not to follow him around."
Rinna’s mouth ford an "O" as she understood Veronica’s words. Of course, everyone here was probably aware that Veronica always irritated .
Julian burst out laughing without saying anything. Then Rinna turned to Charlotte and asked:
"And you, Charlotte, where are you going?"
Charlotte blinked twice before saying:
"Nowhere. I’m staying at the Academy too. My house is very boring, so I don’t want to go."
I think that is actually just an excuse to train her swordsmanship.
Director Bernice especially advised Charlotte not to use her swordsmanship in front of her family.
No entendía exactante por qué. As far as I know, their family relationship isn’t bad; in fact, it’s quite pleasant.
And although the patriarch of the Starlight household is unknown in the ga, from what I know, I don’t think they have a bad relationship.
In any case, Rinna didn’t ask why. Then she looked at and said:
"And you, Adel, where are you going?"
I swallowed the sandwich in my mouth and said:
"Nowhere in particular. I’ll just use the vacation to look for so ingredients for my 5-Star advancent."
Rinna and the others couldn’t help but widen their eyes, though they also understood my words.
"Right, that’s true. You only need the preparations, correct?"
Julian said, and I simply nodded.
Rinna asked:
"What physique are you aiming for?"
Her words made everyone look at . I could tell them I was aiming for the Divine Body, but saying it... I didn’t know what kind of reaction it would trigger.
Although I wouldn’t mind saying it, I still replied:
"Transcendent and, if possible, Divine."
"But obtaining the Divine Body hasn’t been seen in over a thousand years."
I shrugged and said:
"Then Transcendent."
A series of sighs spread across the entire table.
I shook my head after clearly hearing those sighs.
Anyway, my journey to the ancient Imperial Capital, buried beneath the current Imperial Capital, to search for the Essence of the Divine, in addition to traveling to where a Mana Channel was located far from here...
It would take quite a long ti.
Shortly after finishing the al, the break period ended.
I returned to the classroom, and the rest of the day continued as usual.
***
After classes ended, I quickly headed toward Parliant D-1.
The small city inside the Academy.
Over the past few days, multiple robberies had occurred throughout the city.
The Academy guards began searching for the thief, offering a reward of one hundred gold coins.
I found out about it while walking alongside Rinna.
That was when I rembered sothing important from the ga.
Although not every Main Story Chapter had a hidden piece, the Auction did have one.
And it was truly necessary for a certain mont during the Auction.
So my goal was to obtain the hidden piece along with a Containnt Circle.
Both items would be very important. Even though they would only give a three-minute advantage, it would be enough to make things a little easier.
In any case, that thief possessed the hidden piece.
This was a mini event in the ga called . It had different rewards, and normally, most players didn’t even know whether they had obtained the hidden piece.
The hidden piece was among the items you could obtain once you caught the thief and found his base sowhere within Parliant D-1.
’It would be great to have a Tracking Trait.’
I could bring Lumina and ask her to help , but...
’It’s hard to talk to her.’
The good thing is that I always t with her every Sunday in Professor Ashly’s office.
Since we are both Professor Ashly’s assistants, Professor Ashly usually calls us every Sunday to help her with different things.
And honestly, the number of tis I’ve talked to Lumina during all this ti since becoming Professor Ashly’s assistant...
I could count them on my fingers.
Anyway, I was alone in the search for the thief.
My senses wouldn’t be useful this ti, since the thief in the ga is usually random.
Sotis it’s a child, a teenager, an adult, a woman, a little girl, etc.
So my plan was the following.
’Wait for the thief to commit the next robbery, and then everything else will be easy with my senses.’
I just needed the thief to appear. I vaguely hoped it would happen today.
Maybe with a bit of luck, but in any case, for now I would just have to wander around the city and keep my ears alert.
Once inside the city, I walked through the streets for an hour.
From ti to ti, I heard a few rumors.
Over the past few days, the sa thief had been slowly stealing increasingly valuable items.
The first theft involved jewelry belonging to so first-year noble cadets or noblewon who had access to the Academy.
Then, the next items the thief stole were even more valuable.
And so, day after day, the value of the things the thief stole kept increasing.
The latest robbery was at a magic item shop.
The thief stole the most expensive magic item in that store.
From what I heard in so rumors, its value was around one hundred million gold coins.
’Wow, one hundred million gold coins is no small amount.’
So I made a few adjustnts to my plans to catch the thief.
’If the thief is stealing more valuable things every few days, then that ans the next target would be sothing more expensive than that magic item, right?’
But the problem was the following.
There are many things worth more than that magic item.
But if we’re talking about famous stores with more expensive items, there would only be two.
One of them would be the elixir shop.
Elixirs are among the most expensive consumable items.
And, as far as I know, the most expensive elixir they have is an Advanced-Grade one.
With an approximate value of five hundred thousand gold coins.
The other item would be in the city’s blacksmith shop.
There is a staff for mages made from extrely rare and difficult-to-obtain materials.
With a price equal to or slightly higher than the Advanced-Grade elixir.
Both items have practically the sa price.
’Unless there’s sothing even more expensive than those two, but I don’t have any information about whether such an item exists.’
In that case, I should focus on those two places for the ti being.
’Phew, then let’s move.’
I quickly headed toward the elixir shop.
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