Chapter 301: Pretending To Sleep

Chapter 301: Pretending To Sleep

Looking down at his new ring Lake asked. "Does it do anything other than tell someone I'm a member of the temple?" Lake could have just inspected the ring but with the Temple Head here he figured he might as well talk to her about it. "No, you could have a better one if you want though. It will just take a while to get it to you."

Lake thought about it and said. "No, that's alright. Knowing me it will get destroyed soon anyway." Lake had lost everything including his Fighters guild badge and all the stuff from the Alchemist guild like his scroll and badge when he had broken the barrier so something like that would probably happen again. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

"Well if that happens just find me and I'll help you prove who you are." Lake had been through a test to prove who he was before so he knew it was supposed to be done by someone who knew you, which here in the temple could really only mean the Temple Head. "Alright."

With this done Lake was about to ask if there was anything he could do for the Temple Head while he was waiting for the time to leave with Tiff again when he realized he should probably just leave it up to the Temple Head to ask. If he was constantly offering to help he wouldn't have any free time. He also needed to be here when the barrier fell in the Metal Domain.

If he was off doing something else when that happened he could lose his chance to be paid. Thinking of a way to leave where he wouldn't say anything that could lead to him getting an assignment Lake said. "Alright I'm going to go to my room to sleep." Everyone needed to do this so there was no way the Temple Head wouldn't believe him.

"Alright come see me when you wake up." As he was walking away Lake wondered if he had failed and now all that was going to happen was he would waste time in his room before being asked to go out on a mission. It was too bad he hadn't just asked the Temple Head what she wanted from him before he walked away.

This was a great chance for him to train in the solid principle again so he didn't plan to waste it. Getting his Wind mana into a cube shape Lake started to run the drill while he thought about the war. The situation in the Metal Domain didn't have an explanation at the moment but he was probably the only person who had as much information as he did who wasn't on the side of the Demon Lord.

This meant he had a good chance of figuring it out if he spent enough time trying to put the facts together. Trying to think back to the day he had gotten to the Metal Domain, Lake remembered the spy he had gone to meet. They had been dressed as a Demon Worshiper and they had handed them an amount of time before something bad happened before jumping out of a window for some reason.

After that they had rushed back to the Fighters guild and given the information to Masters. Thinking of Master lake couldn't help but think about who was dead and who was alive out of the people that had been in the Fighters guild then. It had to be an extremely small number of them that were still alive.

Feeling the cube got to a point that he had started to struggle he stopped thinking and focused on compressing the cube. Once he got it to the starting size he started the expanding phase and wondered what round of this he was on. The first few times had been so easy that he hadn't even had to think about it so he hadn't counted.

He didn't think this cube would last much longer though so he could just count on the next cube. Starting the compression again Lake didn't think he was going to be able to do it with his current internal design so he started to add another layer when it started to deform. Knowing there wasn't a reason to not try to save it, Lake did his best to get its shape back to a cube.

Once it was back to being a cube Lake went back to what he had been doing to add another layer to the compression. Lake could feel the strain on his ability to control the cube once the new layer was formed but still tried to shrink the cube. A few seconds after this slow process started the cube finally popped and he went into making the next cube so he could count how many rounds he could do before he struggled.

Flying through the first ten rounds Lake tried to remember how many he had been able to do back when he had first started training. He knew there were other factors like how much mana was in the cube when you first formed it but he was pretty sure he had only been able to do it to six or seven before he failed.

He still wasn't done though because he still kept going at a good pace until he got to the fifteenth round. This was the point where he had probably failed last time so he got ready to try as hard as he could so he could make progress. If he didn't try as hard as he could there was no reason to be pretending to sleep.