Leaving request

Seeing the affection scene between Nicola and the two teenagers made Tuatha's decision even easier. Nicola's affection for the two, in a way, confirmed to him that Nicola was not a bad person.

"I agree to go with you, but on one condition. May you tell me about the things on the continent that you know and take me to visit various places." The sphere of gray flame now had a slight yellow and green tinge of excitement.

Nicola nodded and revealed a small smile at the corner of his mouth as the brothers ran back towards Tuatha and continued talking animatedly with him.

The cave didn't seem as dark as it used to be, without the natural treasure feeding the darkness the cave seemed ordinary and even Nicola's night vision eyes could penetrate the pitch more deeply than before. He could see the corpses that were once perfectly preserved start to be hit by time as if they were in suspension and lost the energy that kept them whole.

The process was not as quick as Nicola's healing but he could see the bodies that previously appeared to be just sleeping now looked swollen, others dry with deep cheeks and eye sockets, some seemed to have changed color and turned a pale blue common in death.

"It looks like it was smart of me to save the arachne's body inside the space ring to preserve it. At some point in the future it will be worth that decision." Nicola thought, the arachne looked like a mummy packed inside its space ring waiting to be revived.

The three turned to the exit and walked towards that lake that gave access to the outside. The dark herbs along the way were all taken by Nicola earlier, so there was nothing left to look around here. They quickly reached the water body.

"Tuatha, will it be a problem for you to get in the water?" Nicola asked, after all, the shape he presented was similar to a sphere of gray flames.

"No way, Nicola, my body is ethereal, made of just energy, this is just a form that I present myself normally, but it's all just form, the properties of my etheric body will not be harmed by entering the water. I can change to look different from that." The wisp spoke.

And then Nicola, Kin and Gin kept their eyes open when they saw Tuatha's demonstration. The sphere of gray fire turned into a sphere of gray light, shortly after taking the form of a sphere of lightning, fog, smoke, rocks and even gray liquids. And finally it turned into a humanoid form similar to Kin, only made of gray energy.

"Make no mistake, I can only replicate the shape, the burning properties or attack speeds cannot be reproduced by my etheric body. I can launch elemental attacks myself, but I cannot transmute into them.

The Kin-like humanoid came over and shook his look-alike's hand. Still seeming to get used to how to control such a body. "Let's go?" He asked pulling Kin into the water.

The three soon overcame their surprised faces and went after Tuatha. Nicola didn't have time to cast the spell for Gin and her brother in time, so he just used his tails to hug the three in front and throw himself into the water.

Nicola's tails enveloped the three and Nicola himself in a thin layer of water mana. The passage outside was quick and it was already night when they left by the tree trunk again. The swamp was as quiet as ever, except for the crickets, there was nothing to be heard.

"Finally, freedom!" Tuatha spoke as he spun around knowing the things that did not exist inside the cave. His ethereal body was transformed from human to fish, grass and even small insects. Nicola, Kin and Gin laughed to see him act like a child discovering a new toy.

It didn't take long to get back to the Six Ring Academy. They pass trhu some places that encantated Tuatha. And in the academy they received some evil looks. But aparently nothing to worry about.

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"Master Cassius, I want to take the test to leave the School." Nicola was having a class with his new master after come back and said it, he doesn't wanna to postpone that anymore, so he say it in one go and now is expecting a reaction from the Hecatonquiro. But in response he only received a pause between hammering on the hot metal, which he understood would be an opening to continue talking.

"It is true that the School treated me very well during my stay here, but I have been here for ten years and I entered with the intention of becoming stronger and discovering my origins." He completed.

After becoming a silver stars blacksmith, Nicola was accepted as Cassius' apprentice, two years learning from the best when it came to using more than two hands to forge. It was by uniting the teachings of this forging movement with his own knowledge of the Earth that Nicola was able to develop his dagger technique.