Walking down the stage, Alvin couldn't help but smile to himself. He always loved the function of the cultivation room. If not, he wouldn't spend so much time in the cultivation room.
Although having three more days of usage wasn't a lot, it was still better than nothing.
In the fighting hall, Alvin and Charles were surrounded by their mage class peers. Alvin could tell from their voice that they were happy. One of the girls even looked at Alvin with a red face, shy.
Alvin was also very happy. At the same time, he understood the importance of practice. If it was not because of his practice of casting cloud spells fast, it would be a tough fight, considering both sides have similar cloud levels.
While they were celebrating, Emily and James looked sad and depressed.
Emily was crying. Besides her stood her boyfriend, William.
"William, that Alvin bullied me. You help me take revenge.You are the top 1 among 3rd grade student." Emily said in a choked voice, sobbing.
"No worries, he is just an 1st grade student, some more elementless. I will give him a lesson during the final exam of this year." William said with a dangerous gleam in his eyes.
Of course, Alvin didn't knew about it. Mr Elias had brought him to the library.
In the library.
"Teacher Elias, how was my performances?" Alvin asked. Although he knew that there was some room of improvement, on overall, he believed he did a great job.
"Can be faster in casting your spell" Mr Elias said.
"Understand" Alvin nodded his head. As of now, his best casting spell was 0.46 second. During the duel, his casting speed was around 0.6 seconds. Even though it was fast, it wasn't the best. Maybe it wasn't fast enough when he was to fight an strong enemy.
Then, he wondered and mumbled. "Not sure how fast the legendary Ethan in casting his spell."
"Not important, Ethan died a long time ago." Mr Elias said with a calm voice.
"But, I heard Charles that Ethan is missing, not dead. No one found his dead body." Alvin said with a frowned.
Hearing that, Mr Elias didn't reply, his face remained indifferent, as if he didn't hear the question.
"Here is a rank 4 wind gem. I won it from Mr John. You can use it as the primary material to upgrade your Phoenix Rebirth." Mr Elias took out the rank 4 wind gem and said.
Alvin took the gem and had a look. It was a big wind gem, it was as large as his face.
"Thank you teacher." Alvin said.
"You still need another two material to upgrade the Phoenix Rebirth, which are Icicle Fren and Skywhisper reed. Better be quick. Do it in a year." Mr Elias said casually
Hearing that, Alvin squinted his eyes lightly. Both of the materials were expensive and rare. He had few choices, first was to try his luck on the trader market. Another was to find it himself in the spire. He probably would choose both ways.
"Sure." Alvin nodded and said with confidence. Although he didn't have the material yet, he was confident that he would have it in one year.
...
Three months later. At the entrance of the academy. Students were bidding goodbye to each other as they were going to enjoy their one week holiday.
Although it was a one week holiday, Alvin didn't leave the academy. 1 month ago, he got the news that his Village head, Mr Patrick would not be around as Mr Patrick was going on vacation.
So instead of going back to his village, Alvin decided to stay in the academy. As of now, Alvin was doing his cloud cultivation in the cultivation room.
With three months of his cultivation, he managed to level up to cloud level 14.
* ringgggg
Hearing the bell ringing, Alvin slowly stopped his cultivation and opened his eyes. He turned to his right side and patted Charles's shoulder.
"You don't go home today?" Alvin asked, curious. It was already noon. If Charles was to go back home, he should have left the academy.
"home?" Charles's gaze turned from sharp to gentle, as if thinking about his family.
"I got no home" After pausing for a while, Charles said with a bitter smile. There was a trace of resentment in his gaze.
Hearing that, Alvin froze for a moment and blinked a few times. Seeing Charles's reaction, Alvin said. " So sorry, I didn't know that."
"Is alright." Charles sighed
"My mom is a beautiful lady. But she died when I was 4 years old." Charles raised his head, looked at the ceiling and pursed his lips.
Alvin didn't know how to respond. He remained silent.
"And for my father. Hehe. He is the reason my mom got killed." Charles's eye turned bloodshot, clenching his fist.
Charles didn't continue his story. He fell into silence, as if thinking about the tragedy.
Alvin paused for a moment. He didn't know what to say. So he chose to sat beside Charles to accompany him. Alvin didn't utter any words.
Previously, Alvin observed that Charles was very hardworking. Charles spent every minute of his time into cloud cultivation and practice.
Charles even managed to level up from cloud level 7 to cloud level 12 in 6 months time.
At that time, Alvin didn't know why he was so hardworking in his cloud cultivation. Now, Alvin realized that Charles was trying to get strong to take revenge for his mom.
15 minutes later, Charles calmed down. He turned to Alvin with a smile and asked. "Canteen?"
"Ya, let's go." Alvin said. Although Charles was smiling, Alvin still could see the sadness and sorrow in his eyes.
Alvin put his hand on the Rainbow Flower and switched it off. A cloud energy was flowing from Alvin's hand to the Rainbow Flower, turning it back to an ancient box.
Then, they walked to the canteen for their lunch.