I spent my last day off peacefully in Wulfgar's company the little wolf has grown up well. He's still a small wolf, but now he doesn't look like a little fur bubble but a mini wolf, his size has almost doubled.
He likes to walk around and explore the surroundings, but unfortunately, I can't take him to a boot camp yet, so most of the time he's messing around in my room I'm lucky his teeth aren't sharp enough to damage yet. the furniture in the bedroom, but he was able to make his mark on the furniture in my new bedroom. I just hope he doesn't get a ticket at the end of the year.
Unfortunately, my goals were not met, I failed both my particular goal and my team's. The dungeons, moonlight forest and bloody arena are more difficult and complicated than I expected before, although I got the money to buy my bow and have enough gold coins big enough to deal with an emergency problem, but I'm still a long way from having the money to buy a ripe new one.
And before taking a bolder risk, I will want to have a ripeness that protects me better and for that I need to gather a considerable amount of gold coins.
But with the end of my vacation, my academic routine has returned and this Monday I'm heading to the institute building to enroll in another batch of courses. Taking the sequels from some of the courses I took at the end of last year, like advanced aura application, fire element applications, wind element applications, and the three courses linked to the profession of a rune craftsman.
I studied the list of courses and discarded several of them that I'm not interested in, who will want to study history, there are even certain courses to study how to control commoners and not let them die. There is even a course that takes its name and simply honors it from a nobleman, this last one left me a little perplexed I don't know if it's a literature class or if it's a club for gents to get together and talk about how superior and wealthy they are.
I know I'm overreacting, mainly because I'm a nobleman and all my friends are noblemen too, but I'm lucky not one of them has the annoying and stereotypical characteristics of noble trash. But I unfortunately saw that some nobles of this type at the institute are few, but they make their presence felt I'm lucky that none of them even come close to me as I'm protected by Hilda and Ingredi's sphere of influence.
Most of the nobility think I will join Hilda's family after I graduate, even if I haven't signed any kind of contract with the Menfis family I'm basically considered to be my mistresses' helper and that makes even a nobleman believe that You have a chance to seduce me into signing a contract with your families.
Not that I intend to sign a contract and be a vassal to a noble family. I like my freedom and I have no intention of spending the rest of my life here and I have plans to explore other countries.
But getting back to the subject of my curious ones I wrote myself for two courses unrelated to my last courses, one on arrow and javelin making and the second on the advanced archery class itself. I chose these from the courses because they will be very useful for me, although I don't have much interest in becoming a blacksmith learning how to craft my arrows can be useful in the future and I want to learn the basics now as I want to apply my runes to my arrows in the not-too-distant future and the archery class because I'm very interested in the applications of aura and elemental energy in the use of bow and arrows.
Despite being skilled with my bow I don't have a sophisticated application of aura and my elements in my arrows as the only archery course I could take was the basics when I entered school only now that I advanced to be able to release my aura out. from my body I can study more about how to improve my skills with my bow.
And while I haven't tried to shoot my aura out of my sword as I'm in the last days of purification, I'm extremely excited to try to master this technique and start studying aura arts. Only after being able to release my aura out of my body can, I study the aura arts and I already have some arts in mind.
I didn't add too many auras to my schedule so as not to disrupt my daily training and to keep me from doing missions, although my mission options are restricted as I can't be away from the institute for several days, I have to have the free time to enjoy certain profitable periods like the one that would start a few weeks from now.
After novice students pass the first survival test the emerald forest will have a growth spurt, certain precious resources will blossom in the entire forest most of them are plants, but also some magical beasts that may appear in the forest and during this period and with this the institute will give various missions to interested students.
And as I have some skill in harvesting natural resources, I believe I can earn a considerable amount of institute points and if I act correctly, I can smuggle some plants and other resources for my direct use or sell it to a colleague. Since it is prohibited to sell the emerald forest resources in the city's stores and if a student is caught doing this he may even be expelled from the institute.
The resources of the forest belong to the institute they can let certain students use some of them even though it is against institute rules, but if a student uses too many of them or sells it to stores, he will suffer the institute's wrath.
But after finishing all my tasks for the day I find myself near the institute entrance watching the students enter the institute, Wulfgar and I are under a tree watching the students go back to the institute most of them are settling into their new rooms at the institute, I'm here waiting for Hilda and Ingredi who by the way are entering the institute now, they are being followed by two servants who are holding their luggage.
And when I say luggage, it's the trunks for each one of them and that may sound like a lot, but in reality, I saw a noblewoman carrying several suitcases to the dorm only her suitcases must fill more than half of the room's space, Ingredi and Hilda are economic youth.
Letting the two servants carry their luggage Hilda and Ingredi join Min and Wulfgar who are very happy with Ingredi's presence as she tries to dodge Hilda's grasp.
The poor little wolf was captured by Hilda and has now become the victim of Hilda's petting and caressing, although he tries to resist, he is having fun in Hilda's arms.
"How was the weekend Ingredi? The staff and everything you expected it to be?"
I did not ask if the staff was successfully completed as at this time Ingredi has a staff covered in cloth on his back.
"He is better than I expected with him my power has increased a lot, I not only can perform my magic faster but I also have more control over it. If you want to train like the time, you asked me to help you train one of your elemental arts, I would love to train with you again, Ulric."
Ingredi's eyes are shining like the stars in the sky, she really wants to use her staff in a fight and from the paleness of Hilda's face it looks like I'm not the first person Ingredi has invited to test her new staff.
"I hear you got a very rare and very special gem to use on your Ingredi staff, may I ask if your new staff has a special ability? If you don't want to tell me you don't have to and just tell me to screw me."
"I have no problem telling you about the jewel, but I would like to know how you found out that I used it on my staff?"
"Artisans can be gossips without realizing it, especially when they're badmouthing one of their colleagues."
"Serious? Master Manford is famous for being discreet, how do you know him?"
"I don't know him, but I know the blacksmith he bought the jewel from. He was a little sad that he had sold his little treasure, but he didn't tell me the properties of the jewelry."
"So, you know a friend of Master Manford, that and impresses you and very difficult to meet this type of famous craftsman, even my family had to charge some favors to convince Master Manford to forge my staff."
"My staff has the ability of gravity, although it is weak and can only be applied to my magic it is very useful. By manipulating the weight of my magic, I can increase the speed of my magic or increase its pack is a small effect, but it makes a huge difference in combat."
"This is a very unusual ability, gravity magic may be from the earth element, but isn't it too advanced for our level?"
"Yes, you're absolutely right, but there are always anomalies, the gem comes from a mutant monster and it has developed that ability, even though it was a level two monster, but as a mutant monster and boss type, that kind of combination always gives rise to an abnormal and powerful monster."
"I particularly hope not to face one of these when I'm alone in a dungeon. I faced a keeper who is considered a strong and rare monster and he has already proved to be difficult to face. A mutated monster must be much worse."
"What kind of show did you find?"
"A Hobgoblin in the bloody arena, he had regeneration ability and an improved skeleton."
"I heard about this guardian you must have faced him alone?"
"Yes, I was lucky, I knew that if he was in a group, he would be much stronger, and would probably have some casualties in the group. It looks like his ability to withstand his damage is very complicated to overcome."
"I've also heard that there are always deaths when he appears in the dungeon."
"Are you going to enroll in the courses today?"
"Yes, we have to do this don't we Hilda?"
When we look at Hilda, she is entertained with Wulfgar, she was teasing or bullying the little wolf that tries to bite her fingers. It took her a while to realize that we were waiting for her response.
"Do we have to do this today?"
"Yes."
"Okay, so we better go do it now so I can get back to playing with the fluffy fur ball."
I broke away from the two as they went to sign up and Wulfgar was snarling at Hilda as she walked away. But in the afternoon, he would suffer again at Hilda's hands.