she smiled instantly smiled and bowed "thank you, boss. don't worry, give me a week, no three days, I will bring an A-grade mission". Ollie waved his hand "forget it, I will be busy for the next three weeks. So, take your time for three weeks and accept only B-grade above missions which have a long time expiry date. ok? if you don't bring me at least 3 A grade or equivalent of it, consider you are fired and don't bother to show your face after I get back. meanwhile, hire a couple of more amateur blacksmiths of at least an advanced level for below C-grade missions".
She bowed again "I will do it, boss". then, Ollie started to exit the building while she was following behind to send him off. he turned once again "Oh, I forgot to tell one thing". She asked, "what is it, boss?". he smiled while looking at her "just take off those fake glasses, I think you are more beautiful without them".
He didn't wait for her response and went off while waving. She mumbled while looking at his back "but you are the one told me to wear glasses last week. the boss is really weird".
just then, two middle-aged workers spoke: "your dear boss has already gone girl". Only then, she realised she was staring into space for a while. she blushed a bit then, looked them sternly and shouted "you two both, get back to work. if the work wasn't completed by this week, I'm going to decrease your payment. Now, what are you looking at? run".
Ten days later at the Forest of Elyria which is situated far away from the city and you can see soldiers roaming all-time on the perimeter and has a huge wall on one side and treated as a restricted area. why? it's because of a few reasons. one of them is it's too big. bigger than many kingdoms combined. you can also say the wall is also considered as one of the edges of the Empire. On the other side of the forest is the Swale ocean.
as for why it is treated as a restricted area? it's because unlike other forests, this one contains very strong beasts. and a grade 3 and grade 4 beast is as common as a vegetable here. there's a rumour that a grade 8 beast is the overlord here. no one has seen it. but grade7 beasts were found and got killed by some strong old guys.
Every year, Heavenly academy dispatch some experts to venture and bring back some grade 4, 5 and grade 6 beasts to the forest of Graena. so, that they can cage them or rear them for final year students as well as for the teachers who wished to breakthrough the Grandmaster realm.
Ollie ventured into the forest with headmaster's permit and taking leave until the Autumn festival which is just two weeks away.
One week later,
Ollie sitting in a cave with a not so good expression. There are many orbs in different colours. in the bunch, there are five Grade 6 spirit cores, more than a dozen Grade 5 and the rest of them were directly thrown into his inventory without looking.
even though his harvest is great, but none of the five was of the lightning attribute. He sighed "should I take this opportunity to increase my other affinities?". He looked at red and white orbs. that's right, he discovered that he has an affinity with wind, fire and lightning. If having twin attributes makes people go jealous, then, having triple attributes makes everyone go insane.
but, it also makes one's training harder as he has to train thrice than everyone else if he wants to Master all elements.
while stroking his chin, "Hmm, let's forget about the red ones. I'm already content with Master in Blacksmithing. let's try the white one. I'm still at Amateur advance level, will a week enough?. I've already done it twice. So, I guess it's no big deal for someone like me".
Then, he first absorbed grade 4 white spirit cores and with the help of ether, he instantly became a peak level amateur for wind affinity. Then, he thought "should I just develop it with swordsmanship?. I can easily breakthrough to Master level. nah, let's just go with Archery. I don't know any skills other than just targetting though. let's check if it has some".
He concentrated by closing his eyes for a while, then suddenly his neck began to glow and a jade pendant appeared on his neck. He touched it.
there's a book appeared in his mind. He began to control it and slowly turn the pages. after a while, some skills of archery appeared. he concentrated on one. Then, the book disappeared and a faceless human appeared, he raised his bow and showed how it's done.
Ollie opened his eyes after a while exclaimed "wow, I guess it has all kinds of skills. maybe this book and the jade pendant can trace me back to my past". He slapped himself on both of his cheeks "don't dare to think about it unless you breakthrough Grandmaster level".
a while later, he stood upon a branch with a dark purple bow in his hand. it was so darkish that if you look at it from far you will think its a black coloured bow. it's made from one of the rare materials Ustrium which was found by him accidentally when he escaped from the Star corp back then.
Three days later,
he once sat inside the cave with a smile on his face as in front of him there are four blue grade 6 blue orbs, two grade 6 white and one grade 6 red orb. He took out grade 5 white orbs and began to absorb them at a terrifying rate.
Two days later,
After he finished absorbing some more orbs, He checked himself and laughed "hahaha, this forest is a blessing. I'm now at a peak level Magic master swordsman, my affinity with lightning also reached the same stage. too bad I'm still at an advanced Master level for wind while my Archery is at intermediate Master level. even though, I have more spirit cores. I should stop here.
first I should stabilize myself. let's not use the bow for some time. it's unstable. I see this is why those kids from noble and royal families don't absorb and increase their level in a hurry. I guess this is why they take it slow. well, my fire affinity is also at peak Master level but my Blacksmithing is still at beginner Master level. I should do more forging to catch up.
I just increased my level many times in just 2 weeks which take a normal person-years. if this is known outside, they would go inside and beat themselves to death. hehe. It's all because of that book's guidance". he heartily laughed for a while.
Meanwhile, at the heavenly academy
Students and the teachers from other popular academies begin to arrive one by one. year two of sword department are discussing "say, there are only two days till the autumn festival. will Teacher Skyrun arrive on time?. look, almost half of the top academies of the empire reached already. It won't look nice for us. especially 2nd year, Sword department". "I heard that Knight department's Teacher wants to challenge our Teacher at the Teacher's battlefield round". one more guy joined the discussion "I heard a rumour that Teacher went to the forest of Elyria to gather some materials".
There's one more person who was worried when she heard a rumour of Ollie's disappearance in the forest of Elyria "hateful guy, you are safe right?". her best friend Diawia poked the dazed Draysa "What?". "Draysa, just what are you thinking about?. I've been calling you for a while". "Uh! yeah, it's nothing". Then, she stood up "I need to go back and prepare for the events".
the other girl sitting with them spoke: "she's behaving weirdly for the past couple of weeks". she nodded and didn't reply anything while thinking "I don't know what her problem is. I'm really worried about her".
One day later, while Draysa was eating, and reading something on her mobile. suddenly in the chatroom, a message popped up. She suddenly stood up. "I've remembered that I've something to do".
She walked away to exit quickly leaving behind her best friend clueless. one of the two girls who sat with her suddenly spoke "hey, check out Ollie's Fanclub chat room. Snowqueen just posted she just spotted Prince Ollie in the basketball court, let's go".
"wait, who's Prince Ollie?". "of course, it's Mr Skyrun, In our Fanclub, we call him Prince Ollie for short, while those boys call him Master Ollie. well, some people prefer Mr Skyrun though. anyway. we're going. are you coming?".
Diawia surprised for a while and mumbled: "don't tell me she's also in the Fanclub?. that means....".
a while later, just when she reached, Ollie standing without any sweat while looking coldly in the middle of the basketball court which is at least 3 times bigger than the one commoners use and the hoop is also at 5 metres high. for these elite people, it isn't much.
while the other team of five, one of them including a teacher who kneeled on the ground while the four young boys of 20 years old who collapsed on the ground while panting.
she mumbled, "what happened here?".