Two days later, Alvin was sitting together with Charles, teacher Elias and Ms Grace in a carriage.
Alvin lifted the curtain and looked outside. The sun was rising, giving him warm sunlight.
It was around 8 am now. They were heading towards the new spire. Under normal conditions, they shouldn't be taking the same carriage with Ms Grace. After all, Ms Grace was the lightwarden. But, because Mr Elias was their teacher, they got to share the same carriage with Ms Grace.
"Alvin, Charles. This is a litrose, I taught you about it in class. You still remember how to use it?" Elias handed them a cloud plant, litrose. It was a red colour rose with a crystal inside the flower.
"Ya, I remembered." Alvin said. He recalled the knowledge about litrose. It was a cloud plant grew in spire 058, volcano spire. Usually people used it when exploring unknown and dangerous place.
"Show me that you can use it." Elias said.
"Ok" Alvin took the litrose. Then he swung his arm, shooting the litrose onto the base of the carriage. The litrose was stuck on the ground at a 45 degree, shooting out a ray of red light.
"Wow" Charles grinned and exclaimed.Seeing that, Charles also tried to throw the litrose on the floor. Another ray of red light was formed, illuminating the carriage.
"Nice. Keep it in your pocket. Use it when you face any danger. Ms Grace will go and save you." Elias said.
Hearing that, Ms Grace took a glance at Elias and gave a short nod.
"Ok." Alvin took his litrose and put it into his pocket.
Pocket was the best place to keep this litrose, convenient enough for them to take it out but not too easy to lose it.
Charles nodded and put the litrose into his pocket before asking. "Ms Grace, do you know the legendary Ethan? Can you tell us about his story?"
"Ethan ah" Ms Grace murmured, looking into the distance as if recalling her memories about Ethan.
"Ethan is a genius in clouds and swords. He is someone full of confidence. I met him when he was around 15 years old. At that time, I was fighting a member of The Infernal Order. It was a tough fight for me. The member of The Infernal Order was strong, I had been fighting him for 30 minutes. Yet, there wasn't a sign that I could win in a short time. Then, at the time when I was almost exhausted, a sword stretched across the air. With just one slash, Ethan defeated the enemy. Then, he said to the enemy 'Too weak, don't bully people.' Haha and the enemy didn't even have the courage to stand up and face Ethan." Ms Grace chuckled.
"And there was one time Ethan was curious about the view on the top of the spire. He darted up the spire, defeated the monsters king and reached the top in 20 minutes." Grace said.
"20 minutes?!" Alvin asked. He couldn't imagine how Ethan did it. Normal people would need to get into a group and take few days to reach the top. It seemed like Ethan was strong enough to do that in 20 minutes by himself.
"Ya, cool right" Ms Grace said.
Elias gave an unnoticeable sigh and shook his head lightly.
"Such a childish move" Elias murmured.
"Be careful with your words. Ethan is a great person. He founded Daylight Order to protect people." Ms Grace frowned, stared at Eliad and said.
Elias gave her an awkward smile.
"Then, where is Ethan now? Is he still alive?" Charles asked.
"I don't know. He didn't come back after his fight with Xander." Grace sighed.
Hearing that, Elias lowered his eyes lid.
Just as Grace wanted to continue the story, a voice called out at her.
"Ms Grace, we reached"
Grace lifted the curtain and looked outside. After travelling for 30 minutes, they reached the new spire.
Alvin got off the carriage before looking at the new spire. Unlike the Arcanum Forest Spire that he had been to, this spire was in different shape. It was in a pyramid shape.
There were a lot of people around the spire. Alvin sensed that they looked at Ms Grace once Grace got off the carriage.
Alvin realized that most of the people here were waiting for Ms Grace to go into the spire together.
While Grace was giving a speech about the mission of exploring the spire, Alvin was musing about his plan to complete the mission. He wanted to complete the mission because he really needed the icicle fern.
There was only 1 mission suitable for him and Charles. It was a B class mission. To get the reward, they needed to get the information about a new type of cloud monster.
Although he was competing with adults in this mission, he was confident in himself. After all, not all the adults were good cloud holders, some of them only level 13. Some didn't even have their first cloud spell yet. After all, it took talents to cultivate the cloud.
"Alvin, Charles, pour this on yourself." Elias took out a bottle of powder and gave it to them.
"Again? the stool of cloud monsters?Got other types of powder that are not stool?" Alvin frowned. He didn't feel like putting stool on himself
"This one different. This is powder made from Icerhi's horn. It has a similar effect as the stool, but weaker in its effect on chasing away the cloud monster, especially the strong one." Elias asked
"Ok. Nice. Thank you teacher." Alvin said.
Just as three of them were pouring the powder on themselves, Ms Grace came back after finishing her speech.
She frowned as she saw Mr Elias was pouring the powder on himself.
"Safety first" Elias gave Grace an awkward smile.
"No worries Mr Elias. I will make sure you are safe."
"Ya, thanks" Although Elias acknowledged that, he continued to pour powder on himself anyway.
Grace felt speechless.