Knock. knock. knock.
The door opened to Juliet Laurier's office, the person who entered was a male who seemed to be in his early thirties.
The man had a neat professional military attire with brown coloured hair with blue coloured eyes.
This man was the youngest person who was in the meeting that happened a few days ago in the Main Academy.
The man was the youngest Magic Ring Master under the employ of the Main Academy as a reviewer and verifier.
"Finnick, it's you. You may come in."
"Good afternoon Miss Laurier, I came to report."
"Tell me."
Juliet had a neutral voice as she told Finnick February to start with his report.
"The royals have been notified about Grey Gram and his ability. His Majesty actually smiled after the information was reported to him."
'This means that the Main Academy and its Masters are going to get rewarded for this development. I don't want to continue stagnation, I have to get a tier 4 treasure to increase my talent and restart magic accumulation.'
Finnick thought to himself as he explained his journey to the royal palace.
As Finnick explained to Juliet, the woman had a scowl develop on her face, Finnick did not comment on her scowl, it was not his business.
"His Majesty has already pointed out that Grey Gram has to be put under protection."
The scowl on Juliet's face became even more prominent as she head Finnick explain the King's order.
"Miss Laurier?"
Finnick could not take it when he saw her scowl, he thus decided to ask her about the reason she seemed like she could kill a person at any moment, because she seemed very angry.
"Ah, Finnick… I heard you."
"You don't look too good Miss Laurier."
That was understating how she was actually feeling at the moment.
Juliet did not answer him, she just took the document that was in front of her in her table and threw it towards him.
Finnick immediately opened the document and started reading the contents.
The fellow's face immediately started to show panic and despair.
"Juliet we are fucked!"
She just nodded to him in understanding, she did not say anything about him calling her by name.
"Why were we not notified about this?! We have to solve this immediately!"
The fellow was pacing around in the office, showing what was in the document was too shocking.
"I know. Just calm down Finnick."
"Sorry Mam, I let my emotions show. However regardless of my emotions, this has to be solved. Grey Gram is in the front lines at this very moment and can be killed at any moment. I now understand why Captain Ignocia even called in a favour to have his research pulled to the front."
Juliet nodded to him, the fellow was correct. However she decided to pivot the conversation to another topic before he had a nervous break down.
"How is the verification of the research package? Nobody has sent me any preliminary reports."
"Oh, that front is going very well, the masters are mostly likely taking more time to understand Grey's work so they can adapt it to create their own Magic Rings. Don't blame them too much, they are just too passionate."
Finnick had light shining from his eyes as he explained to Juliet.
"He is that good?"
"Very good, worthy to be called a genius. From my preliminary analysis, he highly improved the main stream magic languages that are used to magic rings, into that he introduced new words into the language allowing it to do more processes."
"A worthy genius huh?"
Juliet said to herself.
"But to tell you the truth, my intuition as a Magic Ring Master is telling me something, I believe it is the same for the other masters. This is not Grey Gram's full ability, this research package is something he sent to us to get our attention."
Finnick explained his thoughts to Juliet who was listening very attentively.
"That he did, our full attention is now focused on him."
Juliet stood from her seat and started to put on her military jacket over military shirt, with her Major Rank badges. The red, black and white military uniform gave her a unique charm.
"Miss Laurier, are you going somewhere?"
Finnick asked as she seemed like she was going somewhere important.
Juliet turned to look towards the north.
"I am going to the north, we have to retrieve our genius before something happens, my intuition is bugging me to deal with this as quick as possible."
"Don't you think you should send someone less important than yourself."
Finnick asked with perplexity on his face.
As he asked that, the door opened and the assistant entered like she had been summoned into the room, she stood by the door and waited for her orders.
The two in the room did not even glance her.
"I would not feel comfortable leaving such an important task to a subordinate."
Juliet finished wearing her uniform and turned towards the assistant.
"Maria, send communication to Sybil, tell her that she is charge of this office at my absence."
'As much as I dislike her, she is very suited for the job.'
"Yes Mam."
Maria the assistant left the room immediately afterwards.
Juliet left her office by jumping out of the window leaving Finnick in the office.
"Don't die Grey Gram or we will be in deep shit, and most importantly I want to get my tier 4 treasure."
***
BOOOOM! BOOOM! BOOM!
"Grey back me up!"
Qila shouted towards Grey as she was fighting a tier 2 mage and Grey had just finished killing his tier 1 opponent.
Grey did not answer with words, but with actions, two combination spells were casted by him targeting a tall tier 2 male mage who was fighting Qila.
[Maximise Blazing Fire Whip] to burn the man but most to slow him down and prevent him from maneuvering, and [Thousand Gale Force Needles] to attack the man.
A giant whip made of crimson fire was summoned in front of Grey and target the man.
The man was a tier 2 mage, thus he was able to use a tier 2 movement type spell to get away and not get entangled by the crimson fire whip.
But that was in Grey's thoughts as the man went towards where the [Thousand Gale Force Needles] were targeting, a giant gale wind made of thousands of wind needles was a killer any day.
The spell targeted the man.
BOOOM!!
"AHH… My arm!!"
The man was an experienced tier 2 mage, he would not be killed by a spell like that, but Grey was not trying to kill him.
Grey was making a chance for his 1st Lt to get the job done.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The man did not even get a chance to scream as he was impaled by over a dozen black lighting spears all over his body including his head.
"Quickly move on! We must not fall far behind the vanguard force!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
There were explosions all over the Dralia Mountain Range, many armies were converging towards Edward's Crevasse, thus the sounds of explosions were considered to be normal.
BOOOMMMM!
"ARGH!! IT BURNS!"
"Have mercy! I surrender!"
"Don't burn me! AGHH!"
The location several metres from Team 2's position exploded in a huge blaze of fire.
"Those fellows from the [Inferno Storm Legion] sure know how to play with fire."
Qila commented as the fire reflected from her black eyes.
The [Inferno Storm Legion] was known for such destructive magic, and Grey and Team 2 were seeing first hand the power of trump card unit.
"Lt Stein we should move from this position, or we will get caught up in the blaze."
2nd Lt John Ward commented with his face full of obvious trepidation.
"I know 2nd Lt Ward."
Qila said with annoyance as she looked at the tall John who seemed afraid of the blaze.
"We move to the east, we can kill some people who are retreating from that blaze."
Grey took a glance at John Ward with a thoughtful look on his face.