Chapter 123: Opinions

"The third is, of course, your reward for becoming the candidate for the last stage of my training. After watching all your battles, I will be giving you one D Rank Skill to boost your power even more. I will be sending each of them to your address and you are free to choose whether you absorb it or not. If you want to choose something for yourself, you can only do it after you are selected as the candidate or buy it with your own money.

"As you can see, all the other students can't resist their thirst for this tournament and I'm sure you can see many potential candidates to be selected. If you want it, get it. Anyway, the skill will be sent tonight. That's all I want to say. The next instruction will be sent to your Skylink."

After saying the last piece of message, Radvils ended the call, leaving them alone again.

"So… Wow?" Alea tilted her head in confusion. "I feel like I just heard something amazing, but the content was a bit weird."

Ellen ignored her and asked Theo instead. "Theo, your opinion?"

Theo shook his head and sighed. "First of all, I think it's good to ask you first what do you want to do in the next two weeks. We will be able to decide other things together."

"Fair enough." Ellen nodded in agreement and uttered her will. "I would like to hunt on the other side. Since we need to go to a higher level area, we need to adjust ourselves first, especially with Laust."

Alea pointed her finger at Ellen while answering Theo's question, "She took the word out of my mouth."

"Why are you girls so barbaric?" Phyrill made a weird smile as he was confused why they suggested fighting on the other side the moment they had the time for it.

Ellen only smiled and chilled down without answering his question. Instead, Alea was the one getting worked up and asked, "Then what is your suggestion?"

"Of course, we will stay here for the next two weeks. Even though it's about leveling up, the instructor said he's gonna give us another mission, so it's best to reserve our strength for the real deal." Phyrill shrugged before smiling at Theo. "How about visiting my house?"

"Why are you looking at me?" Theo raised his eyebrows and ignored him. He went for the last member present and waited for his response.

"I am in favor of staying in this place."

Ellen finally opened her mouth. "May I know the reason?"

Sihan raised two fingers. "First, the instructor must have been watching our fight this whole time. A person at his level should be able to understand our fighting style, so his skill suggestion may turn out good.

"I don't know it myself, but the instructor may send something beyond our imagination, especially since we're talking about D Rank Skills. It's better to get used to this skill first before thinking about going somewhere.

"Even if we somehow master that skill in a week, we still need to work on our coordination. So, two weeks is perfect for preparing ourselves for the real ordeal."

When they heard his explanation, the two girls exchanged looks and nodded in agreement. What Sihan said was reasonable since their group had yet to get accustomed to both Laust and Alea's strength, so they wanted to work it out.

With Laust's change, they should be able to do it from the start. Getting real experience might be important, but raising their fundamental ability would be the top priority.

Theo also felt the pressure of his responsibility. He thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know any nests around the area?"

"We can get that information from my family. No, I should say, my Eilric Family and Phyrill's Hilbert Family have some nests' locations. For the Grand Gaia, I think they won't think twice and give it to us as long as it's for leveling up." Alea answered with a calm look as if that kind of location was just a mere random location.

Phyrill acknowledged what Alea said and said, "That's right. We can raise our level so quickly as long as we destroy a nest."

"So, that's why you want to rest on this side for another two weeks? We can go to a nest afterward?" Alea asked Theo.

"That's a good idea." Ellen nodded in agreement and looked at Alea. "Of course, we have Theo now, who can keep you from causing another ruckus… You should be ashamed that you always tried to kill all the monsters even though you were alone since some of us needed to clean up for you. You might have killed one or two people due to your carelessness."

"…" Alea scratched the back of her head, wanting to say, "Please don't open the secret in front of Theo." But she was too embarrassed to correct her.

"Now I feel like I'm glad that Theo is here." Ellen smiled and winked at Theo. "I don't need to correct her anymore."

"Indeed. Theo can kick her out of the group if she does something annoying." Phyrill nodded a few times, showing how horrible Alea was.

"Wha— You two." Alea was shaken and tried to close their mouths, but Theo already looked at her coldly. He still remembered that he almost died because of her fault twice.

Luckily, he managed to control Alea a bit to avoid her making the same mistake, but it was very taxing. He also felt relieved that his one month's effort paid off since Alea wouldn't do something that reckless anymore unless she planned to piss him off.

"The-Theo. Listen to me." Alea quickly came to him while stuttering.

Theo only shrugged and said, "I don't care about your problem. Just make sure you don't end up like Laust earlier."

Alea gulped down and straightened her back. "Sir, yes, Sir!"

"Why the army?" Theo sighed in frustration before coming to a decision. "Anyway, my decision is to stay in this base for another two weeks. Every day, we will have a training session together in this place like one-on-one training, duo training, three people or even the whole group training. The first three will be held from Monday to Saturday while the whole group will be on Sunday.

"I don't think we will need a long time to adapt after that, so this decision is final." Theo then asked, "Any questions?"