A few days later, they arrived in the Spiritual City.
This city had beautiful architecture for tourism, with lakes inside the city and a river running through it. Said river was adorned with beautiful squares on the sides.
The Spiritual Academy was strategically placed to have the best views of the entire city and much of the mountain. This city's architecture and natural beauty were incredible.
Matt and Alice were amazed at how beautiful it was. Still, they had no time to dwell.
Both rented a house in the lower areas of the city and subsequently locked themselves in there.
Matt was going to investigate further what he had discovered about the Hexagon Item and see what they could do.
The problem was that they were short on time because the Academy registrations would start shortly.
All they had was a month to prepare before enrollment.
If the research paid off, they could enroll in that Academy and expand their repertoire of attacks, so Matt spent all his time researching.
Researching these items takes time, as Matt needs to test many things to understand them. Thus, the days began to pass under Matt's intense research.
As the days went by, the research was bearing fruit.
The hexagonal items are not just any items. They are actually Magical Artifacts of the Container-Receiver type.
He also taught her how they were used and other basic stuff.
"I'm not too far along in the research yet, so I'm not sure what the power limit is, but I have a feeling this item can be upgraded. I think I can join the hexagonal items into one to allow us to be more versatile with them."
"Join the items together? Do you know blacksmithing?" She asked in confusion, and he nodded.
"Just a little bit. Magic artifact smithing is special and different; it doesn't really take much more than the other parts of the magic artifact to put them together. Currently, we have four hexagonal items and one magic ball. All five items belong to the same category, and it seems that they can be joined together, but I still don't understand how.
We must investigate further." He said and looked at her, smiling softly.
She looked back at him, a little confused, until it dawned on her. "Do you want to use the experimental rooms they have at the Spirit Academy? Apparently, they're used to create Magical Artifacts..."
Matt nodded. "That's right. That's why we need to get into that Academy. Those experimental rooms I want to use, I have an idea of what they're for, but I want to see them for myself. If we can get there, maybe I can figure out how to put these items together and form a more powerful one." He replied.
Alice nodded. "I see... I have nothing to say, Matt. As long as we can get into the Academy, we'll do as you wish." She replied, and they went back to learn more about the items.
They took several days to learn how to use them and did a few basic tests. For the first time, Alice could feel the mana and use it. She even managed to do basic attacks with it. Although she could not sense the surrounding mana, she could sense it inside the item.
But she had a problem. She could only use one item at a time, and while it was good enough to amaze her, it didn't seem as impactful as Matt, who could use them all at once.
As he tried to figure out why, Matt realized it was because of the difference in mind strengthening and his own internal power control.
But for now, she was good enough to enter the Spirit Academy. So, they trained for the rest of the days to improve their use of these items, and at the end of the month, it was time to enroll in this Academy.