Star Watch

Standing before Kyle were two people he was very familiar with but never expected to be fellow students. Sir Rollins and Lady Sif stood grinning at Kyle as he looked at them in disbelief.

"Rollins, Sif you're both students here?" Kyle asked stunned. The brother and sister duo looked at each other and laughed.

"Why, did you think you have an exclusive right to be a student here?" Lady Sif asked.

"Of course not, I'm just surprised!" Kyle said to her. It had been nearly three weeks since he last saw Rollins and Sif.

Ever since he began his training he only had the energy to go to his workout, class, and then back to Earth.

He had no idea what everyone else in the Royal Adventurers were doing. He missed them all and often wanted to find them, but he was so tired and busy.

"You never visit or tell us how you're doing and now it seems like you don't want us to go with you on this little adventure," Rollins said in mock anger. Kyle laughed and felt much better.

"Actually, I was worried I would have to do this alone. Now I'll have good friends to share the experience with." Kyle noticed Sif walking up to him in a way he had never seen before.

She swayed as she walked. It made Kyle think of a snake charmer. She was the charmer and he was the snake being charmed. He was mesmerized.

"Just friends? She asked in a pouty voice. She traced her finger along his jawline while lightly fluttering her eyes.

"N..no, not just friends..." Kyle stuttered.

"Oh, then what are we? Can you make it clear?" She asked as she slowly walked around him. Kyle was frozen in place. His mind was completely blank.

"Sis, I think you broke him," Rollins said with a laugh. The teachers were also amused by the scene. Kyle seemed to wake up from a trance and noticed Sif was gone.

"Where's Sif? He asked unintentionally.

"I'm here," she said breathily in his ear as she pinched his side. Kyle yelped and jumped like he just came upon a dangerous creature.

"Sif," Lady Galbaga said.

"I'm just asserting my dominance," she said as she returned to her brother's side.

"All three of you know the details of the two missions we're sending you on. You each have one hour to gather what you think you might need. Meet at the main gate when you're ready. Dismissed!" Master Khanda said.

<MISSION: LOCATE ITEMS ON THE LIST MR. DAVENPORT GAVE YOU.>

<MISSION REWARD: 600 GOLD, 6,000XP, STONE LEVEL FLEXIBLE ARMOR SCHEMATIC.>

<MISSION: SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE GOBLINS ATTACKING THE CARAVANS.>

<MISSION REWARD: 1,000 GOLD, 10,000XP, STONE LEVEL BOOTS OF THE HIND SCHEMATIC, STONE LEVEL DISGUISE MASK.>

The system announced the mission and rewards once the teachers finished. Kyle was interested in the stone level schematics.

He was able to use his knowledge of forging and formations to upgrade his gauntlets into new gloves for his costume. Now, he wanted to upgrade the rest of his costume.

His new gloves had a few benefits. First, he was given 2pts to add to his strength attribute. He also had a 1:20 chance of activating Boom Bash.

When the Boom Bash was activated his speed and strength when he punched would be increased by 5 times.

This meant if his punch carried a pressure of 4,000lbs (2 tons) normally when Boom Bash was activated it would now exert 20,000lbs (10 tons) of pressure.

The punch's speed would also increase five times the speed of the punch was thrown at the time.

The most impressive function of the gloves was something called distribution.

Any hero with super strength had a major issue when using their strength. Let's say a bus was about to fall off a bridge. A hero will grab the bus and attempt to pull it to safety.

Unfortunately, even though they had the strength to easily lift the bus; all of their strength would focus on the area their tiny human hands would grab.

This usually meant the object, like the bus, would get broken by the attempt to save it.

The gloves, what Kyle called his Area Might Gloves, could distribute his strength so it was no longer like he was pulling from one small point. It was almost like he had giant hands to grab the bus.

Kyle went back to his room and changed from his training outfit to his superhero costume. He opened the window and closed it behind him and flew to the gate.

He learned that as long as he didn't fly higher than the tallest structure near him he wouldn't get attacked by the birds.

Kyle landed next to Sif and Rollins who were both waiting for him. They were always impressed when they saw him fly.

Typically, you had to be at an extremely high level to fly. This was another cheat his powers gave him.

The three friends gathered and Rollins pulled out a map one of the teachers gave him. Kyle borrowed the map and copied it into his own map system.

He was also able to set a waypoint for both missions. The waypoints were based on the areas circled on the map.

"Shall we get going?" Kyle asked as he passed the redundant map back to Rollins.

"Before we leave, I think we need to settle a matter," Rollins said.

Kyle was really nervous, it was obvious he was talking about the matter between Kyle and his sister, Sif. He was really worried, was he about to have a shotgun wedding?

"We should name our group," Rollins said.

Kyle was very relieved and let out a breath. Rollins looked at his friend and said with a smile.

"We'll have our marriage discussion later."

Kyle turned pale and his heart nearly leaped out of his chest. His sister convinced him to mess with Kyle a little.

For some reason, she loved watching his performances when their relationship was mentioned.

She knew Kyle really liked her, but he kept having these weird reactions every time the notion of domestic bliss was brought up.

"Is that all, I have the perfect name for our group," Kyle said.

Really, what's that?" Rollins was really interested in the name he came up with.

"We should call our group 'Star Watch,'" Kyle said with great confidence.

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I would like to thank some people for their support of the book. These people have donated power stones and are the reason we'll probably hit our first goal this week.

It's only Tuesday and our power stone count is 43. We only need 57 power stones to get an extra chapter released on Sunday.

I think we can reach 250 stones and get 3 extra chapters.

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