Chapter 23

I dodge a hard hologram that comes at me before swinging down my sword and destroying my target. When I see there is no more enemy, I release a sigh.

|Congratulations for completing the Tier-6 challenge!|

I sit on the ground, take a piece of meat inside my bag of holding and start to eat. This place is a Hyperbolic Time Chamber. I can make this from my current tech tree. I know this tech tree. At first, I did not know about it, but after exploring the countless blueprints inside my head, I know that this is coming from the Dragon Ball tech tree.

How do I know about it? I can make a dragon ball—a one-uses-only wish-granting device. I have never watched the series, but I know the foundation of this anime. This tech tree is mind-boggling. This Hyperbolic Time Chamber is not even the most advanced tech in this tech tree.

If I have time and resources, I can make a mother spaceship that can blow up a planet.

Sadly, I did not have enough resources and time to make that spaceship. With my current resource, I can only make this Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and even then, it was not at its maximum power.

The true Hyperbolic Time Chamber can bend space and time even further. The inside of the true chamber is one thousand kilometers in diameter, while the one I made is only one hundred and twenty-three kilometers in diameter.

Not only that, the fully powered Hyperbolic Time Chamber can make the time inside the chamber slower than the one I currently have. Right now, this chamber can only bend time a little bit. Seven days inside the chamber is the equivalent to one day outside. The fully powered chamber can make it up to ten years on the inside while only one hour on the outside.

The other weakness of my current Hyperbolic Time Chamber is its usage. I need to wait for twenty-four hours before I can use it once again. Not only that, but this chamber also requires a huge amount of energy.

I need three storage full of compressed energy from my energy generator to make it fully functional.

Unlike the true Hyperbolic Time Chamber, this chamber did not really have anything inside. Because of that, I take all my resources from my storage, activate the chamber, and start tinkering with many kinds of tinker tech.

I created three big tinker techs inside this chamber. A hard hologram machine that simulates a Grimm wave. The hard hologram also makes sure to mimic the danger of all Grimm I installed in its system. With this machine, I can increase my fighting experience.

The next one is the healing chamber. I make a healing pod that will heal my body every time I finish my training and let me continue to train non-stop if needed.

The last one is a small repair room. This room is used to repair the chamber in case of overheating or some of the hard hologram malfunction. I cannot really build much as the chamber itself is not too big when unactivated.

After I finished eating my meal, I decided to get out early. After typing something on the machine, I walk through the door and see that I'm inside Eli once again. When I get out of the chamber, I see Ren and Nora playing some games together.

That is the game console I bought when we were exploring the northern side of Mistral. By the look of it, it was this equivalent of Mario Kart called Super Hakos Kart.

"Hahahahaha! Take that!"

Nora laughs when he sees the other competitor getting blasted by a bomb she threw. Like in real life, she also likes an explosion in the virtual world.

Ren notices me and smiles at me as I walk closer to them.

"Angelo, welcome back. Are you finished?"

I smile at him and open the mini-fridge next to them before taking some soda.

"Yes. We can now train inside that chamber."

"I see."

Ren gave me one last smile before getting back to his game. I look at the map in front of me and hum.

"We will arrive in Sanus tomorrow morning."

Both Nora and Ren perk up when I say that. It has been a week since we saw the land, and I know both of them want to get out of the submarine. We are still training using the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and the small Gym underneath us, but I know they want to hunt some Grimm and explore new places.

"I think we should visit the island of Patch first. What do you think?"

"We can?! Really?!"

"Sure, if you guys want."

"Yes, please! I want to visit the zoo in Patch! I hear they have a lot of sloth in there!"

"Patch has a zoo?"

I look at Nora and Ren, who finished playing. Ren nods his head and says.

"Yes. There is a small petting zoo in Patch city. We never go there, but Nora found a pamphlet in Mistral City in the past, and since then, she became obsessed with sloth after seeing them in the picture."

"I see"

I guess I can buy them some tickets for the petting zoo.

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|3rd POV|

Qrow walks through the street of Patch, and his destination is the Xiao Long-Ross family cabin on the edge of the city near the forest. This is his free day before he needs to track Angelo once more.

After rescuing Amber from her attacker, Qrow is busy trying to search for any clue about the attacker. Sadly, he did not find anything in a week, and Ozpin decided to call him back to Vale. While he still searches for a clue of the attacker, it will be the side mission instead of the primary one.

While he walks through the crowd, Qrow sees a rather familiar group. It was the unofficial team of ALN or Albino. They are rather famous in Mistral for completing the most missions in a month.

Before they go to Patch, Angelo, Nora, and Ren take an interview after getting invited (Forced by the interviewer and Nora) by the rather famous news reporter. In the interview, the government of Argus is willing to give Nora and Ren their hunter license after their outstanding job.

However, both of them refused. Their reason is that they want to attend Beacon as they have already registered to that academy and because it was their dream to join the academy.

Qrow chuckles a little when he remembers how James' disappointed face when he arrived in Vale. With both Nora and Ren wanting to go to Beacon, James knows that Ozpin will be the one that has the first encounter with Angelo and has a higher chance of recruiting him.

After shaking his head for a second, he decided to walk toward Angelo and his pack.

"Angelo!"

Angelo looks back and smiles a little when he sees Qrow walking toward him. It has been a while since he met the drunk crow.

"Qrow! How are you? It's been a while."

"The same as before."

"Drunk?"

"That and still alive."

Both of them chuckle a little. Angelo invites Qrow to sit next to him.

"So, what are you doing in Patch?"

"My companion wants to go to the zoo and pet some sloth. I hear the zoo in this city has them."

"Sloth? Yeah, there are fifty or so Sloths in the zoo if I remember correctly."

"How do you know?"

"Tai and I are the ones who help the zoo capture them."

"Tai?"

"Ah, Taiyang Xiao-Long. My long friend and brother in all but blood."

"I see."

Qrow and Angelo have a pleasant conversation with each other before they get interrupted by Ren and Nora, who walk through the exit gate of the zoo. Ren has a few items in his hand, Nora has a high stack of plushies in her hand.

"Angelo~ We are back!"

"I'm sorry for making you wait. Nora went overboard in the gift shop."

Angelo smiles at them and shakes his head before saying.

"Don't worry about it. I have a pleasant time here waiting for you guys. Anyway, let me introduce you guys to Qrow. Qrow, those two are Lie Ren call him Ren, and Nora Valkyrie call her Nora. Nora, Ren this is Qrow Branwen. He is my acquaintance."

"Hai~"

"Good afternoon."

Qrow gives a lazy wave with his hand before getting up from the bench.

"While you are here, let's go to Tai's cabin. I want to introduce you to my Nieces to you guys."