[Mana Application has reached LVL 10.]
"Finally," Elior said, rising from his bed. It was about ten days since Mana Application had been stuck to level 9 and Elior had tried everything indoors to raise it. He looked at his analogue clock and found it was just past nine. He knew today was the day. It would finally rise to the intermediate control level.
Now he could use mana more freely and using the [Abstraction of Void] would be a little easier. Well, at least it won't injure him in the process—that was a big win itself.
Elior had a sudden impulse as he walked in a circle in the room. His arms were shaking in sudden excitement. He had been bored since he was admitted to the institute and finally when his mana control rose to an intermediate level; he had the impulse to sneak out of the institute ground.
'No, it's too risky to sneak out now. I'm still not adapt enough to hide myself," his mind rang. And that thought lasted only for a few moments before he eliminated it. His reasoning: It's the weekend today. He will have free time tomorrow, and if he needs to save everything he needed to take risks like this.
Elior rushed towards his hollow book. He checked if he was able to find any low-grade dungeon nearby. Only going to his impulses was idiocy. If he could not find any dungeon in the end, then it would only be wasting his precious time.
He had written all the things small to big that he remembered from the previous timeline in a document. It took quite some time; he invested an hour every day for this job and writing has not finished yet. After all, old memories were untangling little by little every day while most of them were useless. He did find some useful things.
After searching in the documents for a while, he found four such locations close to here. Two in the fourth ring, one at the third and one at the fifth. If he used the metro now, he would be able to get there in two to four hours, depending on if he remembers correctly enough.
He noted down the location in the map application on his cell phone before preparing. First, he removed the heavy training suit and packed a bag with spare clothes and things he needed. He could not take a spear with him there, so he put the sword he had taken from Renal inside the bag, wrapping it with clothes. Other than that, he took daggers—a lot of them.
Lastly, he then changed into a hoodie and put with a mask on his mouth. It hid most of his features, but that was not enough to sneak out from the secure grounds of the academy.
Elior had just the thing for that. Breathing even and smoothly a few times, he focused on a certain ability he would need. He triggered the [Abstraction of void], but not in a way to attack.
The spatial waves did not vibrate, but they shook for a while. The shaking smoothed little by little too. And after two minutes the shaking completely stopped. The spatial wave made it into a layer and Elior put it against his body.
[Congratulations! You have learned the sub-ability Spatial Stealth LVL 1.]
"Ooh, it isn't easy." Elior released the ability. [Spatial Steal] was a sub ability of [Abstraction of Void]. It takes careful mastery of the space element to employ the stealth. And it was a dozen times harder than to kill someone distorting the partial waves.
After all, destroying a thing was a lot easier than building it.
Elior considered his movement for a while and practised the ability for some time. After ten or so minutes, he was good to go, but he did not leave immediately. Even practising the ability for ten minutes took almost all of his mana. He needed to wait for half an hour for it to recover. In the meantime, he messaged Shin and Ileana to tell them to not bother him tomorrow morning.
Half an hour later, a 'Do not disturb' sign was added to Elior's door and the person who added it successfully left the dormitory.
Elior was extra focused on the usage of the stealth ability now. Partly because even a simple gust of wind could reduce his effort useless if he did not focus carefully. Space was after all a fragile element. Don't think it was wrong, spatial waves could be horrifyingly deadly if used properly, but a misled hand could destroy the person using it, too.
Elior was using the spatial waves as a layer of stealth, and it was not free from friction as well. A strong gust of wind over eighty km/hr could crush his stealth in mere seconds and that was true to the breeze as well, if he was not careful.
The spatial waves took the colour of the night as Elior moved through the institute's main gate. He had met a few watchmen, and fortunately, they were not so good with their ability to find something amiss.
Abruptly, he came to a sudden halt. Elior noticed a movement beside him. It was faint and fleeting, but it did not escape his ears. Elior enabled the Listening. He eliminated all the sounds, such as crickets or the other insects, the watchmen moving and focused on the single fleeting sound.
After a moment, he found that sound. It was a faint thumping noise. If anyone did not master Listening, they would not be able to notice it. Elior looked carefully towards the sound and found nothing, but he was not so sure about his sight. There were many things in the world that could fake the eye.
With a thought, Elior threw a few strands of mana towards the location and found he was right. There really was something, or rather someone. Someone else was trying to sneak out of the institute as well, but he or she was doing it with an artifact or something else.
Without a thought, Elior followed after the faint sound. Who knew what he would come across and if it was something or someone trying to harm the institute, he could as well do something about it.
The person Elior was following jumped off the institute wall, but still, he did not unveil himself, and so did Elior. Even if they had safely sneaked out of the academy building, it did not mean they were safely out. The academy ground ran further than that.
For about three-mile in radius belongs to the academy, and many things were forbidden here. Such as Spatial travel. And the forbade just did not apply as the institute gave a vocal order here, but there were many runes in formations placed surrounding the institute that reject any type of spatial travel.
The Person moved faster, leaving the main wall. There were other watchdogs there too, but failed to notice the two people sneaking out.
Only after the person reached the street, he waited in a lonely alley to unveil himself.
Elior looked carefully at the person who was wearing a hoodie just like him and a mask on the mouth, but more importantly, he knew the person. It was none other than Leroy. One of the freshmen and one of his dear friends in the previous timeline.
'Looks like I don't have to play justice today,' Elior thought, but a curiosity rose in his mind. What was Leroy going after in the middle of the night? Is he going for a hunt as well?
Elior dismissed that question. Even if Leroy had balls of steel, he would not do something so crazy. Alone in a dungeon, if something went wrong, even his grandpa won't be able to save him.
Even though Leroy was one of the strongest humans in the previous timeline, the one before him was nothing compared to the man—he knew. Elior shook his head and chose a different direction towards the metro station. Even if he was curious, he had to wait further to find out what this guy was doing. Gaining a Class takes priority first.
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