After the team reported the progress of their mission, they immediately scattered towards their respective Schools and started flipping some books, renting some combat books, and asking their mentors some questions regarding magic spells, formations, and battle.
Alyssa asked for permission to leave the academy for a while because she planned to visit her uncle Gregor Vermillion, Riverside City's most renowned commander, to learn some commanding skills from him.
Gregor was glad to see his niece willingly went to him to study.
Together, they made some drills, form some formations, analyze the group's credibility and the enemy's abilities.
Serion came with Vice Dean Theriud to learn more about formations and how to counter them.
He managed to learn a lot of Attack, Defense, Killing, Illusion, and Sealing Formations.
Serion also asked Theriud to make the materials they got from the Black Demon into the weapons the group asked.
Theriud willingly obliged as he made those materials into his finest works and the design was well-made as if Theriud gave his all in these weapons.
"I made these according to your wishes, I hope that you won't disappoint me!" Theriud intently asked Serion but the young man didn't reply but instead, he looked at his master resolutely.
Achilleas tried to spar with more than 3 people together to train his physical combat without relying on his magic.
He was beaten a lot of times but he slowly got used to it and he earned the title, Barbaric Neophyte because he beat up 5 people together with only brute force.
He managed to acquire a lot of skills and both his physical speed and agility increased 3 folds and he gained a lot of fighting experience from those battles he has gone and the huntings he made, he even asked permission to have an exchange with an allied organization to broaden his fighting horizon.
Rex trained his lightning to be more destructive and sharp and he managed to solidify a thunder and made it a staff in which it was reinforced by Theriud together with the weapon made for him made out of the claw they got from the Black Demon.
As soon as he got the weapon made for him, he tried it and his lightning was amplified twice the power of its original strength.
He practiced summoning lightning at a fast pace and managed to discover a hidden effect of his lightning.
The faster the lightning descent, the stronger the thunder will be and the thunder has this deafening sound that can deafen and confuse the enemy.
Archie tried to become strong and practiced skills for defending and attacking.
His woods became solid and can even withstand Level 2 and Level 3 spells.
He can make a formation by himself by pinpointing the ground with the woods and summon a formation according to its shape and requirements needed to activate it.
Jericho and Julianne practiced together, they hunt for beasts at the nearest forest and tried to defeat them by teaming together
Jericho will manipulate the beast's movement while Julianne will hit the beast with an explosion that was carefully controlled to avoid tearing the beast into pieces.
Jericho can now manage to manipulate 5 Level 3 beasts and easily break their limbs by his will.
On the other hand, Julianne made her explosion as deadly as it seems without tearing the enemies into pieces, she can even make explosions inside the enemy if her energy managed to enter inside the enemy in any opening it has.
Together, they were called Destructive Gemini because of their great teamwork and coordination.
Kyle tried to manipulate the water and practiced some skills with it.
He can manipulate a whole pond of water and avoid killing the fishes there while hitting the practice dummy.
He can easily manipulate water into his will, it can become as solid as steel or as vague as smoke.
Even the vapor can't escape his domain and make it move according to his will.
Now, he won't have difficulties finding a large water source to attack because everywhere he went, there's water available in the atmosphere.
Jay practiced manipulating the icicles when it was destroyed.
Every time the icicle crashed, the shards will turn into a bunch of icicles and he can easily manipulate thousands of needle sized icicles.
He can even instantly freeze water than what he can when he froze the water sphere summoned by Kyle.
He even asked the man to practice together with him and they made a great combination.
The flexibility of water and the destructive power of ice, they are almost unbeatable when they worked together.
The group was inspired by how Luis fought the battle which he had learned from the fairies back then.
He just caught up with the techniques immediately and applied them in that situation.
The group managed to make very fast progress in their abilities and strengths and find ways to keep their weaknesses from being exploited.
Luis wasn't aware of what's happening with the group because, within that period, he was resting, accumulating all of the energy he lost from the fights they had inside the Black Smog Forest.
He rested for a week and after that, he made the pills needed by the Medicine Plaza and he almost finished making those medicine.
From all the medicine he made for the Medicine Plaza, he accumulated a total of 1.5 million energy crystals in which the 300k was used to buy a storage ring 5 times the size of the past ring he wore, and this ring also can separate the things into groups he wanted. Those ingredients and materials he wants to separate are organized.
"Luis, the opening of the Hidden Realm will happen soon, I want you to participate in that event in the name of our academy," Mufar asked as soon as he came inside Luis's house which he expanded by adding a personal garden at the back of his house and adding a storage room in which he can easily store the herbs he needed.
"What hidden realm is opening bro?" Luis asked back.
"They say that it's Maix's Realm," Mufar answered.
"What is inside that realm?" Luis asked.
"That realm is personally made by Maix the Legacy Holder of the Space. He was once the greatest Formation Master of the Continent.
"He made that realm to see if someone can successfully obtain his Legacy and treasures." Mufar respectfully responded as if saying these words was a privilege.
"What will be my role there?" Luis asked.
"You will be the support of the group again, and don't worry, the participants of this mission is the same as the group you had in the first mission," Mufar said while smiling.
Luis didn't know what to react because he can still see how he neglected them because of his trauma.
"Oh! Before I forgot, take this. That is your reward from the first mission you got and the group even asked to give you an additional reward." Mufar said as he handed out a box that has all of the rewards he got from the mission.
He opened the box and inside he saw a lot of herbs and books he needed.
He can even see some books about Light Energy.
He looked inside and saw that most of the herbs are precious and what caught his attention is a single petal that looked very familiar.
"That is a petal of the Mystique Flower. That's the additional reward the team asked us to give to you. They said that you really deserved it!" Mufar smiled and bade towards Luis before leaving him alone.
He used the Identification Skill on the petal and discovered that he can replant this petal to become a whole new Mystique Flower but there's an unusual thing that happened when he used the skill.
His ring glowed as he uses the skill, he tried to find the thing that was glowing and from inside, he took the orb he got from the depths of the lake at the Black Smog Forest.
Since the orb reacted to the Identification Skill, he used the skill to the orb and he was surprised by what happened.
The orb changed and inside there's a book that appeared out of nowhere and a scroll.
He looked at the book but there was no title imprinted on the cover so he unfolded the scroll first and read the contents.
'If you are reading this, it means that you are fated to have a connection with me. I am Chad Gouweizer, a humble Alchemist who came from the Spring Continent. This book that I hide within a forest guarded by a ferocious beast contains all of the progress in alchemy that I had and a special spell that I specifically made for an alchemist who acquired my Identification Skill and this will help you in your journey as an Alchemist! I hope that someday you will become a successful alchemist.'
The scroll burned as soon as he finished reading it and then he opened the book, he read the book inside his library as soon as he kept the herbs inside the box.
He was immersed in reading the book that he didn't notice that he spent a whole day. Right, when he read the spell written on the last page, his energy circulated automatically and the book floated the same way as to how the book where he gained the Identification Skill was.
It turned into light particles and surged towards his mind.
Grimoire of the Alchemist, a passive skill that can record every progress that the owner of the skill has in Alchemy, it even has the herb index, pill making, and process of making an independent mental space where herbs can be planted, in short, a portable garden.
Luis was elated when he got this skill and he was fired up that he read the Light books he got till morning came the next day.