My life in the last month of school before the short beasts that exist between the end of the school year and the beginning of the next one, I have passed the tests of every course I have written. With that I finished my first year at the institute without failing in any of the courses I wrote myself and this is a very good result in my opinion.
But the main achievement I had this month was not academic, but about my core this month of training I was able to close the gap I was missing in my cultivation, now I'm literally at the peak of my level I feel my core has reached its limit and I am gathering energy to advance my core level.
If I succeed, I will start next year as a gray core warrior, so this holiday month I started to prepare for my advancement, I bought several food supplements as the advancement process can be long, I bought some elixirs that have the effect of feeding the body. This type of product is used by high level warriors or mages when they are on mission, this type of elixir is intended to replace food for a short-lost time, using it to replace food for a long time causes some effects collateral's in the body.
Since the elixir can't replace all the nutrition the body needs, but using it so I can focus during advancement is common for people who already have a gray core or a higher level I'm just advancing the use. it's a waste for a black core warrior to use an expensive elixir like this as his body will waste a good deal of the elixir's effect as it was designed for those with a gray core or higher.
I don't mind wasting part of the elixir's effect if it helps me during the advance, I consider I spent my money so I knew the rest of the money I set aside to spend during my advance was used to buy some resources that I can use to create an atmosphere filled with mana and elemental energy for a short period of time.
As I can't spend a ridiculous amount to buy an elixir or use a matrix to help during my advancement, I have to be creative and practical, even though I can only use a part of the resources I'm buying. But before I can close myself off and try to move forward, I have to solve a little problem.
With the end of the school year the dorm room at the institute is no longer mine as this room will be used by a freshman in a few months, so I have a little housing problem that I have to sort out. I even considered going back to the house, but as my mother won't be there, I feel that it's dangerous for me to be alone in such a remote place, not that I think I'm someone else's target, the advance process is complicated and I prefer to stay in one place that I feel safe.
So, I had to think of a solution, I considered staying with some friends, but because of the war that is going on, most family members are not very inclined to receive unaffiliated visitors, even if they are friends of a family member. Hilda said it was okay for me to stay there with her as I would never be considered a threat to her family because I wouldn't be able to get even useful information to sell.
As the Menfis family is still out of the war and as noble families of her size have the same posture, it is not even a noble family weaker than them that is stupid and suicidal enough to provoke them, as that would give an excuse for the Menfis family to destroy their family and take all their property.
So, a strong noble family like the Menfis are bound by the nobility rule they can only attack someone from the next level and not families that are below their power level, even if the fighters and mages involved have the same cultivation level.
But in the end, I decided to refuse the request to stay at Hilda's house, I feel it would be an embarrassing situation for me and considering the stories and comments about Hilda's mother and aunt I believe I may end up being a guest not so well. coming there. Since my stay there could send the wrong message about my relationship with Hilda.
So, I approached teacher Frey and Balder as far as I know they both live at the institute, it seems their family is located in a different part of the kingdom. They were invited by the director herself to be a professor at the institute, teacher Balder accepted because he owed it to the principal who helped him in the past, and professor Frey was attracted by the help that the institute and principal can give to his research.
Even if rune masters earn a lot of money, they end up spending that money at an even greater speed when they are doing research, and as certain subjects that teacher Frey uses in his research are from the shadow element that can be found in the two-night dungeons that are here in the city.
It seems that the professor's research is related to his shadow element and the headmistress can help him get some reliable suppliers for him.
So, with the help of teacher Frey, I got the permission to stay in the room I would be assigning to me next year, I simply moved earlier this is usually not allowed even if the student has no family in town. Without the teacher's help I would probably have to stay at an inn for the next month and mine until I could go back to the institute.
But I had to spend some points to be able to stay in the room during this period and I cannot use the rest of the institute's facilities during this period. Not even the boot camps and canteen are open to me I can only use the bedroom and nothing else, this is because during this period of time many employees are taking vacations and various facilities, rooms and boot camps are undergoing annual maintenance. and those who have been hired to do this must not be interrupted or hindered by nosy students.
For me this arrangement works very well, even if I have to get my meals outside the institute and I have to train in my room which only allows training that works in small spaces these annoyances are unimportant compared to the advantages I have.
The institute rooms have a very good isolation of mana and elemental energy and this will help me to be able to create a good place for my advancement, if I had to rent a special room in an inn, I would have to spend a lot of money, which I can use in my own advance or in Wulfgar. I am really lucky to have impressed an important teacher like teacher Frey.
So, it took me a week after school ended to prepare for my advancement, I spent almost all my savings during those days taking the money I set aside for Wulfgar and to go into the dungeons after advancing I'm poor. Without even a gold coin I had to do this to improve my chance of advancing even though all this only gives me a small increase in the probability of succeeding while advancing I think it's the best use of my money.
With everything ready for my advance, I lock myself inside my room with Wulfgar who will stay in the corner of the room lying on his pillow, I just hope he doesn't cause any problems for me during the advance.
I spend a whole day to accumulate the energy necessary for advancement and it is really painful to try to focus my aura and elemental energy within my core and elemental seed, but this is necessary to make room for overloading my core.
The next phase was to release this concentrated aura beyond the pain caused in my core I felt a burning inside the core felt like my body was being boiled. With that the impurities in my core are being expelled, this process was gradually increasing and the faster the speed, the more pain I felt.
As this period is short, I concentrated not only on absorbing the mana and elemental energy that was accumulated in my room, I concentrated on moving and compressing my aura into my core.
The more aura I compressed and circulated within the core the more intense the purification process became the black color of my core felt like it was being washed away by my aura.
During those days I only drank water and some elixirs to sustain my body, the elixirs should have been in effect to sustain my body for a longer period of time, but because of the current state of my body they didn't last long, my body is hungry for energy it is absorbing energy from the elixir and the environment at a time like this an elixir based on mana or elemental energy would be very useful, but since i can't buy a high level and high quality one i can only resort to chemical elixirs which are basically a nutritious liquid made from the clean, processed meat of magical animals, not at risk of absorbing even mana that is contaminated or of poor quality when consuming them.
The speed of my cleansing is so fast that I feel that my body will eventually be torn into pieces before the end of my advance, I held this state to the point that my bones started to crack and blood started to come out of my eyes and nose, that's because the blood that was supposed to come out of my mouth was being absorbed by my stomach.
The sensation during the advance and a huge torture that I had to suppress at the end and slow down the purification, and even suppressing it I ended up passing out at the end of the advance. I woke up when Wulfgar started hitting my face with his fluffy paw to wake me up. When I got up only to find myself covered in a mixture of dried blood and dirt as I moved the crust of hardened blood broke apart.
But to my surprise I didn't even feel a pain when I got up, all the damage I suffered during the advance disappeared and when I concentrated on my core and saw that I had succeeded in my advance.
There was a larger core than before and it was gray but its color was much closer to white than black the color my aura is now much whiter than I thought it would get. All the pain I suffered during the purification was worth it with this light gray color in the early stage I will have a lot less work to cultivate to the limit of the gray core.