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The end of the 3rd month is just around the corner, and our training is slowly saturating. We have made incredible progress and we are planning on taking a few days of break. We figured that if our training is saturating then we would just need to chill out for couple of days and get back to training. In the meantime, we would visit the city of Light again, to go shopping for new clothes and some other things. Also, I am planning on getting a few more books for smelting and so on.

“We leave tomorrow morning right?” (Lora)

“Yeah, we will leave as soon as our eyes see the trace of light. Did you think about your shopping list?” (me)

“Yes, I would like to buy new clothes and some potions…” (Lora)

“Potions??? Why would you spend your money on potions, when I can make you potions of better quality… You don’t even have the money for better quality than mine.” (me)

“I will acquire the amount of money needed for that potion! Don’t look down on my abilities.” (Lora)

“I’m not! It’s just that I want to help you. What is even the potion you want to buy?” (me)

“Well that’s a secret!” she said with a blushing face.

I am really clueless as to what kind of potion it might be…

Through this one month of hard work, besides training like a maniac, I was creating various types of potions, since I don’t want to forget the process of making them. This mountain is really plentiful so I didn’t have the problem of not finding the right ingredients. I even came across some ingredients which I’ve never seen before.

It made me curious so I wanted to try them out. By experimentation, I’ve succeeded in making really good potions. The best potion I made out of these new ingredients was the one that could instantly regenerate your whole mana poll. It was really powerful, but I only found the ingredient to make it once, so it was gone. The flower was really rare, even if the other rare ones were just lying around waiting to be picked and made into a good potion.

I gathered so much herbs that my belt is full of them. I can’t believe I’ve gathered 144 different herbs that of which 100 of them are rare and I only saw them on this mountain. For some of them, I’ve heard the name, but others are really a mystery. I would need to search for the properties in the city library tomorrow.

Also, since I knew we would need money, I made a lot of those mana containers, but smaller. I was hoping to sell them to a merchant for some money too.

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“Ah, looks like it’s already morning. Lora, wake up” I said as I was stroking my fingers through her beautiful white hair.

She was slowly opening her eyes while I was already up and at our bathing pond. Of course we would bathe with our undergarments. She was staring at me like she was expecting something. I figured she wanted to get in without me looking at her.

While on this mountain, we had never bathed together because of our different schedules.

As expected I couldn’t keep my promise and turned around to see her beautiful body. Luckily she didn’t see me looking at her just now. I would be frozen if I were to be seen. She is now 19 if I’m not mistaken. She was my age when I first met her back then. She really developed luscious curves. My remembering of her godly body, something warm appeared to be in my stomach. Looks like I really fell in love with her…

When we finished with the morning bath, we left with some fruits in our mouths. We have been eating fruit since we arrived here. Also once or twice we had fish as well. It was hilarious really. I couldn’t catch the god damned fish 2 hours. I didn’t want to use my magic, since I need to practice my reflexes and my precision. Everything was almost a training here and now we had a few days to enjoy ourselves.

On the way, we enjoyed the morning Sun that was shining with half of its power. The breeze was coming down the mountain and evaporating as soon as it came to the dessert like road to the city. I felt reborn. In these 3 months I haven’t had the chance to enjoy the light breeze nor the warm Sun. I was too occupied…

Unfortunately, looks like I won’t have that chance for too long. Feeling the parched earth shaking, we both looked at each other worriedly. We didn’t know what to expect. On our way to the city, earlier we didn’t encounter any disturbances. We took a guarding stance and awaited for the earthquake to end.

Too bad it wasn’t an earthquake, but a huge dessert worm, that came out of the ground like a pillar. It covered the Sun almost completely, and I was a bit scared. We hadn’t a plan in this case so we just had to improvise. We were indeed really powerful after our training, but not training together, we didn’t exactly know how to fuse our attacks.

The worm had really tough scales, and my electro shocks did nothing to it. Lora tried to freeze it, but with the Sun being here, it wasn’t as effective. We were mostly dodging its attacks, but we couldn’t dodge forever. The sand under us, was slowly sinking and we decided to go all out. I’m not sure we could win if we don’t try hard.

We nodded each other as a sign to try combining our attacks. I quickly tossed her a power potion in order to boost our output and we started attacking. She casted her water on the worm with ice following right after. The worms head froze, and I knew what I needed to do. With my right hand I touched my legs and I became light as a feather. I leapt to the worms head and prepared my most powerful thunder attack. While in air, I concentrated on a single point located on its head. I charged my hands and the dagger in them, and slammed right into the monsters head.

I was right, and the scales between the monster’s eyes were too soft for the brute force. This attack didn’t kill it though. Predicting something like this could happen I charged my hands again and casted a lightning bolt right at the dagger and it looked like the worm started bleeding from the huge electrical surge.

It collapsed, rising a lot of sand from the ground. We coughed, but as soon as the sand died down, we could see the worm lying dead on the scorched ground. Realizing our victory we rejoiced and sighed. We were really exhausted after using our entire arsenal.

Although we had won, we needed to be reminded about other monsters, which were probably lurking around. We needed to be cautious still, so I quickly retrieved my dagger and some scales of it. I also grabbed the eyes that it had as some kind of a reward. We thought about our next plan, and we figured it out. I will drink a small potion of mana regeneration and I would carry Lora to the castle. Since I practiced on using my lightning speed. I applied the ability to my legs and took Lora like a princess.

I was moving very quickly and at last we saw the huge walls of the city yet again.