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After reaching the outskirt , Nodus led Kathrina around the forest and waited for the android as they sat on the grass. "I see that you also took in Lili and her group." The teacher was holding a piece of grass and examining it closely since she was wondering how this basement was made. "Yes , I thought maybe , they could show off my armor in the elf kingdom." After answering most of her random questions about the shop , Bu One finally appeared in sight with a teal colored device.

"Here you go commander , it's safe proof." The butler bowed and left the two alone as he headed up to the shop for some minor task. "Here teach- Sister , hold onto this frame on the side while you cast a spell." The device was a long barrel revolver with 6 chamber in the round cylinder. On each chamber , there was a number indication that was written in black. Nodus loaded the number one chamber and let the teacher do her things. "Any spell will do right?" With a nod from the young man , the teacher switched her vision to a tree and casted a spell. With the gun in her right hand and her left hand on the side of the gun frame , the magic graph magically appeared in front of the barrel.

After 5 seconds , a breeze of cold wind spread in front of Kathrina as it covered every grasses and trees with a layer of sharp icicle. Everything turned into a sharp ice object , including the main target , the ice spread all the way until the top even thought she aimed at the bottom trunk. "Now aim at another direction with the tool and pull the trigger with your index finger."

The teacher followed his exact instruction and felt a mana drain as she pulled the trigger , causing the cold breeze to freeze another section of the outskirt. "What!? Nodus.. This is amazing!!" Kathrina lowered he arms and ran toward Nodus and held his shoulders. " Are you a Master Crafter from the moons?!" Looking at her serious expression , Nodus simply nodded and went along. "Yes but I cannot tell you what is up there." The teacher smiled and rubbed her face onto the young man. "Aww Nodus trust me."

Being used to the teacher always acting weird around him , Nodus set his goal to visit those unreachable moons. 'Those floating islands are that mysterious...a perfect cover' Seeing that the tool went well , Kathrina only concern was the mana consumption , the spell triggered from the tool took double of the required amount."I understand , it must be the material or the sync." The teacher was sad when Nodus took away the gun from her. "Sigh.. Here teacher , you can keep it , I will give you a better version later on." The teacher happily held and inspected the craft in detail. "It's so beautiful now that I look at it.. and don't worry Nodus , double the consumption is nothing to me so take your times!"

Just this morning , Kathrina was blown away by many surprise and information but knowing that Nodus was probably one of the angels from the moons , the teacher simply kept her mouth shut and took in everything like natural. After fixing the problem , Nodus was planning on giving it to his squad before the month end and have them do missions with Amy and Evelyn. 'Although they are magician , physical training will still come first for now.' While Nodus was in deep thought , Kathrina was having fun with the gun as she registered all 6 spells into the gun. "I am done! Is there anything else Nodus?" The young man sat back up and left the basement while telling his future plans for the shop.

"I think it is a great idea , but I can simply tell them that your store is under my protection..." Seeing the main focus of Nodus was developing weapons for the mercenaries , Kathrina wanted to ease his burden by protected the shop herself. "No , it's more entertaining this way." With a puzzled expression , Kathrina refrained from convincing the young man as they reached the first basement floor. 'Something is here... but my mana cannot sense it..' Looking at the empty space where White Jade used to be , the teacher intuition told her that there was something unfathomed in this floor but seeing that Nodus simply went to pick up something and headed back toward the stairs , Kathrina could only follow along.

Arriving at the back of the counter , many customer who were lining up noticed the teacher who stood beside the young man. "Pshh , hey.. isn't that the ice fairy from the academy?" "Yeah.. What is she doing here?" "First a warlock and now the ice fairy..." "Isn't she always at school..?" The crowd were whispering about the teacher and without doing anything , it seemed that his enemies would think twice before making a move on the shop. 'No matter.. I still will find those people and destroy them.' After a short tour around the shop , Kathrina left and went home with a bunch of tools for the little girls.

As the day goes by , Nodus spent most of his times editing the blue print in the White Jade. "Bu One , get me more ores , this times the higher grades , at least one of each , budget 10 000 gold." The watch blinked when the android replied in confirmation. "Z1 , how is the brain analysis." "1% remaining , times estimated , 2 minutes." After the short 2 minutes , Nodus finally got what he wanted. While sitting on his chair , Nodus looked around at the square holograms that had pictures in them. Tapping in the air , the square started playing a shot 10 seconds clip with sounds. "I want you to keep your eyes on him while you gather information from the shop.. and also , capture anyone who might know about the store."

Browsing through the memories , Nodus came to understand that the organization behind the cloaked man was a big merchant group that tried to study the chip but failed. "You might be able to decrypt magic tools but you won't be able to do the same with a advance technology tool." With a evil grin , Nodus finally found his first target , the Dark Web assassin organization. The man that submitted the task was wearing a mask so the only thing Nodus got from him was his voice and knowing where one of their hidden branch location , he'd figured he could just break in there to gather more intel.

With Langon being fully occupied with the teachers because of the school opening ceremony , Nodus had pretty much 3 days for himself and by the sun fall , the young man stood on the roof with his fully black fiber suit.

Standing by the edge of a tall household , Nodus was inspecting the bar which was right across the stone road. With his psychic gone , Nodus relied on his suit to turn invisible as he blend in with the dark sky. "Scanning complete." With the hologram map at hand , Nodus saw a big underground room with 6 tunnels that stretched out around the city. 'Hidden entrances..' Although the map did not draw out the entire path of the tunnel , Nodus could easily figured out what they were for and as he already decided to go through the front door so it mattered even less.

While still in the invisible mode , Nodus followed a group of adventurer into the bar and sneaked past a guard who was standing in front of a staircase that went upward. Following the blueprint of the building , Nodus easily found the hidden door that was behind a book shelve inside of the upper level room. 'I've been through many of these situation..' The newly discovered staircase led downward with a dim amount of light from the torches hanging on the stone walls. 'If someone broke the wooden bar , they could easily find the stone structure...'

As he made his way down , Nodus could finally perceive voices coming from the room. "Boss , got any easy mission in this city?" "Hahaha you win!" Entering into the big room , it looked just like the bar from upstairs , some people were drinking , gambling and picking mission from the boards. The only difference was that everyone was wearing a mask. "Hmm?" The masked man behind the counter stared at one of the entrance tunnel with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong boss? Nothings there." One of the cloaked person who stood in front of him also turned around to look at Nodus but couldn't see anything. "Nothing.. I just felt something... Anyway , where were we."

With a bright smile , Nodus held onto his extended sword as his invisibility faded away. "There is some competent people here." With the sudden appearance of a short person covered in a fully black suit , the assassins stood up from their seat and created a tense atmosphere.

With a quick dash , Nodus who seemingly teleported into the center of the room and with a wide swing of his sword that extended even futher , the unfortunate one who were too slow to dodge were split in half. "Don't hold anything back , kill the intruder!" The man behind the counter ordered as he leaped over the wooden bar.

Relying solely on his physical strength and sharp sword that easily sliced off their weapon like butter , they realized that no one could stop him. "Ugh... W..Who are you.. and what do you want.." With his arm sliced off and a foot on his chest , the masked boss turned out to be a human female in disguise. "Not bad , your voice and shape were actually deceiving." Putting more force in his feet , the female screamed out of pain as her chest bone was being crushed.

"Tell me your name and rank." The female was covered in sweat as she stared at the red lights of the helmet. "I..I am Rose.. intermediate advance warrio- Ahh!" Rotating his foot around , the female assassin screamed even louder. "I know that you are a weak warrior , I wanted to know your rank within the Dark Web , if you can't make me satisfied , I will simply destroy all of your branch within the city." With his sword changing into a long black pistol , Nodus aimed behind him and shot a laser bullet. "Puuhk" A man who pretended to be a corpse tried to escape behind his back was easily shot down with his head exploding from the impact. Seeing the scene , the female felt into a terror of despair. "I.. I am the leader of this branch.. I review submissions and hand out rewards for the missions.." The young man dragged a chair and sat infront of Rose , who was on the floor with her hand pressuring on the wound. "Good , let's keep going."