It had been four months since Adam's first journey to the Spirit World. Unfortunately, no matter what the youth tried, the creature inside the gray egg simply refused to hatch. It didn't even respond to his call.
At one point, Adam had become so frightened that he even thought that his familiar had died for some inexplicable reason. But after Berger confirmed that the creature inside the egg was indeed alive, Adam finally calmed down.
Still, seeing his friends around him grow with their respective familiars, Adam couldn't help but feel a little downcast. He was still a fifteen-year-old boy after all. Controlling emotions wasn't easy for him.
Other than that, he continued to attend classes in the academy and also got to learn many things about spell-casting. However, he was no longer the first-ranked student in the batch of first-years. Lisa and a handful of other students had already overtaken him.
