[Eon's POV: ]
The classes after the lunch break ended with the same questions and new surprises.
Everyone was further confused and the things got a little too complicated with some students so, even the student council had to deal with some matters.
'All the house captains gathered together for a while after the classes and compiled a complete file with all the details that the students had to know for the upcoming midterms.'
There was dissatisfaction among the masses but, there was nothing that they could do from their side and there was nothing we could do from our side either so, everyone had no choice but to do what a student of the great academy had to do.
-Clinnk.
"Hmm? There's no one here?"
Since we were done with the classes for now, it was time for the personal classes from our mentors.
And since our training space was not decided yet, we were back to the headmaster's office.
"Should we wait here? Or go in that room?"
The headmaster wasn't here and the two of our mentors were absent as well.
There was no one in the room, not even Harry.
And though this was not concerning, this sure was careless of them.
"Do you think they forgot about us? About the training? Those bastards?!"
"Calm down now. They might be different from how we had imagined them to be, but they surely are not irresistible.
They know what they are supposed to do."
It wasn't necessary that if they weren't present in the office right now, they had forgotten about us completely.
She knew it as well that it was difficult to forget us. At least when we wanted them to remember us, there should be no way they forgot about the two of us.
"Let's check out inside."
She moved forward after shaking her head with a sigh, but then stopped only after taking a few steps.
{ "There's no need to go in there, you two." }
A voice seemed to have come from outside the window and it was a familiar one.
"Harry?"
Without any sound of the fluttering of the wings, Harry entered into the room with his ever elegant self and took his place beside the desk of the headmaster.
{ "Here. The two of them asked me to pass these to you two... those ungrateful people.
They think I'm some kind of messenger bird that they own." }
He caressed his wings with his sharp beak as he complained in a grumpy voice and as he said that, two feathers flew out of his back and flew towards us...
"Hmmm?"
The feathers transformed into papers- letters to be precise- by the time they reached our hands, leaving us confused.
"So they at least didn't forget about us, see?"
"Ugh. Doesn't change the fact that they are asking us to come somewhere."
Both of us looked through the letters and though brief, the locations of our newly decided training places were mentioned in them.
"And they are idiots."
"Don't be like that... they must have had their reasons for choosing these places."
Her mentor had called her on the northern end of the island, specifically at the very edge of the island in a barren area with nothing but dry land.
While my great mentor, sir divine archer had called me to the southern end of the island, the area cultivated by the academy that was looked after by certain unique individuals.
It was a restricted area that not just anyone could go to, but I'll have to go there.
"Haaa... you must be having a rough time, right cutie?"
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His eyes, unique and sharper than any other archer of this world, perceived something I could not quite grasp yet, but, the subtle smile on his face revealed nostalgia.
"One day, I mentioned to the headmaster of yours how fun it would be to have a forest of various special trees like that lonely tree in here. And, he made it into reality after a few decades."
He was sitting on the ground, his legs crossed.
His breathing was calm and since the air in here was filled with a citric, sweet scent, it was quite an unique experience.
"I've had some fun memories here with the ones who accompanied me in my early, most precious days."
After observing him for a moment, I went ahead and sat down beside him.
And tried perceiving what he was looking at with his unique eyes.
"Are... you lonely, master?"
He was an elf.
A pure blood of the purest lineage.
He might be considered a normal adult in their society, however in the world of the humans with small, limited lifespans, he was nothing normal.
"Lonely? Hmmm... I guess I do sometimes feel alone."
The divine archer.
The hero who defeated a demon duke along with five other famous heroes of this world five hundred years ago.
The saviour of the Elvan nation, the saviour of the other elvan planet, the one who received blessings of not one but three gods, and the owner of the divine weapon of ancient ages— the master of Gangdher.
He was famous for many things, many exploits, many heroic tales. He was one of the six recognised heroes of this world, someone that was prised by the public more than the other heroes like grandfather of the emperor of Roxana.
He was a famous figure and yet... and yet he was alone.
"Being lonely and being alone are not the same, master... I believe that, at least."
"Sure they are not. I would not deny that."
He shook his head with a calm smile, and looked me in the eye.
"But what difference would an old man like me know, young one? Emotions have become but a blur curtain to me."
He stood up from his place and I did as well. And then I followed him to another open area without asking any questions.
"The long life that I have received was not something I hate. I cherish it so much that I became an archer that fights from the back lines."
There was a dry branch of a tree in his hand that he had picked up a while back... and he was now standing on the southern edge of the island of magic's wealth.
"Life is a fleeting wave of wind, my young student."
-Ooooooooooooooong!
Conjuring his Aura, his unique Aura that I've only ever read about, he materialised an arrow with it.
"One should at least experience what one are capable of, in the Limited time One has been given."
He was going to release the Aura arrow out in the sky, but... he did not do it.
"You have amazing basics. I can't even imagine the kind of training you have received until now."
He retrieved the Aura back into his own body instead of dispersing it in the environment, something that should not have been possible from what I know, and looked back at me with a new, excited smile.
"You must have had a very amazing teacher, and I know I might never be like them to you... but, you do not need what they have already given you."
Placing his hand on my shoulder, he announced in a confident voice, "What you lack is not the basics or the knowledge of skills.
What you need to get even better than what you are right now, are the techniques matching your current level."
I did certainly understand what he was talking about, but it was not something so simple.
People spent their entire lifetime in creation of new kinds of techniques, and the time we had was limited... but from the look he had, this familiar look I recognised very well, I can tell he was planning to have me create a few new techniques in the short time we had together.
'And that certainly is not something good for me.'