After a long tiring day that is still halfway through I decided to find a restaurant and spend some of my savings on a luxury meal.
I'm still being haunted by thoughts about my visit to the guild. I really can't understand everything that happened this morning, but those thoughts will be left behind after having a good meal at this restaurant.
I go into a restaurant with a sign saying that it is the best restaurant in town I may find it very difficult that it is really the best restaurant, but if it is not the least good it would have closed because of that sign.
I am received by a very beautiful receptionist .
"Good morning, sir, table for one?"
"Yes thanks."
"Please, follow me."
Following the receptionist I am happy that she is human because if she were a fox I would remember Waifra.
No! I can't get Waifra out of my head just seeing a receptionist I already have thoughts about Waifra I have to think about something else.
Think of something else I need to focus on!
"Sir, here 's your table."
" Thank you ."
"Have a nice meal, sir."
I pick up the menu to decide what I'm going to eat, but I still have some thoughts about a cunning fox while ordering my lunch.
Even while I was having lunch and trying to think about how I should proceed with my interaction with my stalker, her group is related to a noble house as expected, but I did not expect that there would be another warrior and a mage of the same level that complicates more. .
Any direct combat my group will be crushed the only way to get some information and ambush it when it is out of town when it is accompanied by black-core adventurers.
Trying to talk to her is impossible, she will simply deny anything and hide behind her group and in turn the group will use the noble house as protection.
The only way to confirm why she is chasing me and maybe making a profit and ambushing her is already a complicated task.
But this will have to be left until afterwards my priority should be to extract the ore deposit in the forest. Now all that remains is to get the necessary tools and some boxes to hide the ore going to the forest at dawn. You can use the excuse to complete the mandatory Rank F and as we are all students at the institute we are doing them all at once.
At the end of my lunch I will go after some tools that we will need for mining even with the help of the magic of the earth element of Ingredi. We will still have to break the ore to store them there to smuggle into the city without raising suspicion by the guards.
It didn't take long to buy everything and with that finished, I go back to the institute to do my daily training and sleep early today because before dawn I will take my team to the woods and I hope nothing bad happens.
In the afternoon I come across Raziel and Torris.
"So prepared to explore the forest before the sun comes up?"
"Yes, I'm ready to explore the forest and you, Torris ?"
"A little snowy did you get him to buy everything we need for Ulric tomorrow ?"
"Sure all set, did you see the others today?"
"I saw the Holt brothers training in one of the camps now, wait, but I don't know anything about the girls."
"Torris?"
"I did not see niquem addition of Raziel today."
"Well, changing the subject, what are you doing?"
"Training what else would we be doing?"
"Maybe I am your mother, maybe a romance between friends."
"Fuck you, Ulric!"
"I'm going to kill you, Ulric !"
I run for my life while I am chased by an angry couple.
After losing a Torris and Raziel I went to eat something to go to sleep early I ended up wasting enough time to lose both so to rest well I decided to end my day.
I slept well my nap lasted about six hours so I ended up waking up at dawn as I had planned to pack my things and carry everything we were going to use today for one of the training camps we had already agreed to meet .
To my surprise I was not the first to arrive Hilda was already there waiting with an Ingredi sleeping on her lap.
As I approached them, I saw Hilda making a sign for me to be quiet .
How cute of her to let Ingredi drool on her clothes so moments like this I miss the technology of my past life a cell phone would be perfect to capture that moment of tenderness between the sisters and use it to torment Ingredi for the rest of my life short after all she is a very vindictive person.
Maybe it's good that I don't have a cell phone with me.
But trying to create a used runes camera would be a good product to sell since there are magical tools for transmitting images although it is very expensive, maybe a cheaper camera, but this must still be a project far from my capabilities and knowledge about recording runes and magic tools since such a project would not only involve runes, but a combination of them with alchemy and perhaps even knowledge of other arias.
While sitting next to Hilda and thinking about what I would need to make a camera, I didn't even notice the arrival of the rest of the team.
Only when Hilda nudged Ingredi to wake her up did I notice that everything was ready to go mining in the woods on that pleasant dawn .
"Well is everyone ready to go make a buck ?"
"Yea."
Getting the answer from everyone but Ingredi who is still my sleepy.
"How synchronized."
"Let's go, remember if we are asked we will use the excuse of going to the forest at dawn to finish the mandatory Rank F missions since we will use the excuse of taking afternoon classes to justify going to the forest so early I believe that not even one of the guards will find that strange. "
We follow our way to the east gate the sun has not risen yet so the streets are dark even more when leaving the city we should see its clearing with the dawn if we take too long we will lose the cover of the night and increase the chance of finding an adventurer in the woods , but we also could n't go out there much earlier as that would be a lot weirder than going out just before dawn.
Upon arriving at the gate we were met by two guards, the rest of them must be at their posts since our group and obviously very young should not seem like a threat but only unusual .
"Good morning, sir, our guards, we are first-year students at the institute so we are going to the woods to do Rank F missions."
I received a complicated look from one of them, he must think our presence here is strange, but the other just looked at me as if I were an annoyance.
"Isn't it too early for that that the sun hasn't even started to come out yet?"
"Well and we only have the morning in the afternoon, most of us have classes so we decided to come early while the forest is empty to harvest as many herbs and cores as possible for each one of us to be able to complete both. mandatory Rank F missions to raise our rank I believe that before lunch arrives we will have gathered enough material to complete them. "
"OK plus the need to form a group of seven to do this?"
"Well and that we are a team during the institute's tests so we have a complete training some better at tracking animals and others at harvesting herbs so to have the maximum capacity to search the entire forest before lunch we will clean arias we will divide teams of two and three with a close distance between them so it will be easier not to lose a resource on the way. "
"Same?"
He didn't buy my lie.
"Yea."
But to my surprise the second guard ended up helping us a lot.
"Let them go to the woods soon, they are a bunch of very excited children."
"Ok Lúcios."
" Opening the proton!"
With that the gate is opened and we were heading towards the woods when we left the guards' field of vision. I signaled to my team to run after me.
Unfortunately this time it was not me who carried Ingredi since if she tried to do that Hilda would attack me with her two-handed sword.
So I ran through the woods guiding my team, I didn't use much speed as I don't want anyone to force themselves to follow me , but even holding on, we only spent half an hour to get to the ore deposit .
"We arrived Ingredi the ore is buried here use your magic to dig around two and a half meters deep the rest get ready to mine and move it out of the hole."
"OK"
Ingredi takes out a well decorated wand, looking at it I see that it has a very high concentration of the earth and water elements despite the concentrated amount of energy they do not collide with each other this wand must have been made by a good craftsman using so many materials level two in such a small wand and getting it to be as stable and as high quality work as expected from the daughter of a family that controls most of the commerce and artisans in the city.
Ingredi begins to move the earth out and the rest of us move away from her to make room for her to move the earth wherever she wants it took almost twenty minutes for Ingredi to create a deep hole large enough to expose half the ore buried with a wand makes a big difference to a mage during the Ingredi test would have spent a lot more time and mana to do this, but with the wand she still has more than half of her mana despite she is using pure elemental control and not a magic channeled by her stars.
"Let's start mining, remember to use your aura to strengthen the pick if they don't break."
As I went down the hole I heard Hilda's complaint.
" Could n't you have bought a better pick ?"
"First, I don't have the money and it is very expensive to buy a pickaxe to extract elemental ore and cheaper to use aura to protect the pickaxe and buying a high quality pickaxe can draw attention to me."
" Cheapskate ."
"I really am and I'm not ashamed to admit it."
And so we started mining.