Chapter 15 Preparation & Ring

After making his outdoor training plan, Rain started thinking about it.

'So first, let's think about where should I first go?' Rain thought.

Hidden pieces, if you think there will be many of them. Even the bed on which you are sitting now and reading this shit. There might be some hidden pieces under it.

There are many hidden pieces like artifacts, elixirs, and skills. Etc…

Soon, Rain started lining up his priorities.

In the current situation, the thing he most needed was the elixir. It will help him restore his formal rank. Living as a weakling is sure uncomfortable and the freedom that Rain wanted wasn't free. At his current strength, it was nearly impossible to even think about getting freedom. But then Rain made a troubled expression.

He remembered that he also had recipes for some elixirs. However, he wasn't an alchemist.

'I mean, who thinks about becoming an alchemist while training a sword? It might be great if I had some old man near me who teaches me that, like in those novels.' Rain grumbled inwardly.

There wasn't any trustworthy person who can make elixirs for him.

It's not like Rain didn't know anyone. He knew many alchemists from the game. However, all of them were Heroines, Supporting Characters, or extras and he didn't want to interact with them. While some of them also have an annoying personalities.

Soon Rain's face wrinkled as he remembered one of the most annoying ones.

'The most annoying one is that alchemist Heroine. That heroine tests her newly invented potions on living persons in name fees.' Rain clicked his tongue.

He did die so many times by her potions while playing the game. He didn't want to meet her. He didn't like her a single bit.

Although Rain didn't want to judge her, she was a bad ending for him and he doesn't want to interact with Heroines, either.

After some time, Rain decided to get an artifact first as It was nearby and the place where the elixir is slightly dangerous.

'So I will go there after collecting this artifact.'

After remembering about the artifact, Rain made a quick note.

'Let's tell Mark to collect the ingredients for the elixir recipe. I will learn alchemy later in my free time and make some elixirs by myself.' Rain thought while making notes.

"Mark." Rain called Mark through an intercom. After all, it's the house of a high-class family. So it had an intercom to call staff.

After some time, Someone knocked on the door of Rain's room.

*Knock*

*Knock*

"Come in, Mark." (Rain)

Mark entered Rain's room and greeted him.

"Good morning, young master. I'm here." Mark opened the door and came in.

"Good morning Mark," Rain returned the greeting.

"Mark, you don't have to knock on the door every time. Sometimes you can just ask me before you enter. After all, you are my assistant." Rain calmly explained to Mark.

Mark just nodded his head. Although he felt grateful to Rain, who treated him like this.

"And get father's appointment. I want to meet him." Rain said.

"Yes." Mark was slightly surprised, but he still nodded and left the room.

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In Rain's room,

Rain was sitting on the chair near the study table, he was reading a book on advanced mana control.

There were many deep things written there. Although he didn't get much in his head.

However, one line attracted his attention,

"Try to breathe mana naturally, No need to force it. Mana is just like air. Treat it like oxygen and through blood let it flow in every part of your body. However, this is risky so don't try it until you think you have enough control over mana in your body."

Rain was just fascinated by the thought of this. However, his mana control was too poor so he decided he will do this later.

He continued to read the book.

After some time, Mark returned and this time, he just entered the room after asking Rain.

"Young Master, I am here. Can I enter?" A voice came from behind the door.

"Yes Mark", Rain closed the book and stood up. After getting Rain's permission, Mark entered the room.

"Young master, the lord agreed to meet you and called you now," Mark said in a calm tone.

"Let's go." Rain was quite happy that he can quickly go through his plan. After all, as a family head, he was quite busy the whole day, and he didn't know when he would be able to meet his father.

Rain and Mark left the room and then they started walking towards Charles' study.

Soon they reached the door of Charles' study.

*Knock*

*Knock*

Rain slightly knocked on the door.

"Come in."

A hoarse voice came from behind the door. Rain entered the study.

He saw a man surrounded by stacks of books and papers. The room was a peaceful haven, with a large window on the left that showed the tranquil garden outside. Rain stepped forward and entered the room, and Mark stood outside of the room waiting for him, he closed the door softly.

Charles' study was well organized, with wooden bookshelves lining the walls, filled with books of all shapes and sizes. A few paintings hung on the walls, adding a touch of color to the otherwise muted space. A desk was placed in the center of the room, covered with various papers and books. Charles was sitting at the desk, with a pen in his hand, scribbling something on a piece of paper. He looked up as he heard footsteps.

"Good morning, how are you doing?" Charles asked.

"Good morning, I'm fine. How are you, father?" Rain asked. Watching him working like this, he felt the urge to help him. However, he knew that Charles wouldn't let him help and said to focus on training.

"I'm fit and fine. So what brings you here today?" Charles asked, settling his pen down.

Rain took a step forward and came near Charles.

"I want all of my accumulated training funds." Rain said.

Charles was shocked. He lifted his face and stared at Rain. After all, his son who lived in pride and never asked for a single penny was now asking for all of his accumulated funds.

"Really? All?" Charles said, leaning forward in his chair, he confirmed it again because Rain's funds were accumulated for five whole years and Rain never used a single coin from it.

"Yeah. All of it." Rain just nodded.

"Why?" Charles asked as he was curious about the reason that changed his stubborn son.

"I want to go on outdoor training and I want your permission for 'that' also." Rain stated the reason like it was obvious.

"Is that so?" Charles said, leaning back in his chair, he made a thoughtful expression. Although he was still dubious about it because Rain had gone for outdoor training many times in the past. So why he wanted money now?

Still, he didn't try to pry now because he was just happy with his changing son.

Charles thought for a while that,

'Now he is going to Academy, maybe he will need money and new artifacts. Let's give it to him some more when he will go there.'

"Head butler. Give Rain his all of the due funds and coming age artifacts." Charles told the head butler in the intercom. After that Charles turned his face to Rain.

"And Rain, although my permission is granted for 'that' but take care of yourself while outdoor training." Charles sternly said but the warmth in that sentence could not be hidden from Rain.

Rain was quite moved after hearing this.

For the first time, someone was worried about him. It made him happy.

However, because of his personality, he just slightly smiled and said,

"Thanks, Dad."

After coming out of Charles' study, Rain went to the head butler and got all of his allowance which was around 3000 gold coins and one mid-tier space ring.

First, he wanted to buy a mid-tier space ring that will make hunting easier. It saved his money and with 3000 gold coins, you can buy a high-tier space ring, which also has the effect of artifacts. It's an almost unique artifact. Rain can use them for his plan.

There is a ranking for artifacts.

Like Normal, Advanced, Rare, Unique, Supreme, Epic, Legendary, Mythical, God.

And in every ranking, there will be low, mid, and high tiers.

Most of the artifacts that Rain used till now were advanced or rare ranked.

In the game, After the failure of talking with Emma many times, Rain saved all of this money and bought this ring for Emma as the engagement ring.

However, he never got a chance to give it to her. In the end, after you kill villain Rain you will get this ring as a drop and a proposal letter. It was one of the most popular and sure hit drops in the game. Many players liked it.

And about the letter, most of the people skipped or threw it. However, there was something written on it.

'As my name was the same as Rain I was curious about it so I read it.'

So I remembered It was like this,

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Hey Dear Emma,

Do you know?

When we were just five years old.

Do you remember? when we first met at our parents' picnic gathering. I was just sitting at the shore of the Lake and you came from behind me and asked me to become friends. I was slightly surprised.

So, I asked why and you replied that I looked lonely to you.

You know, after that day I never felt lonely. We played together every day and we even got engaged. We were so happy. Every day was like a sweet dream.

But after your incident, you never met me for almost two years. I was so worried about you. However, I couldn't come to you. Still, I believed that we will meet again.

So when we met at the 10-age ceremony, I was happy to see you. Still, when I tried to hold your hand as I used to. However, you just looked at me with disgust and walked away. I didn't know what was that. Why you did do that?

I asked my parents why you did that, but they never answered and just said I should stay away from you. So I thought it may be my fault. After that, I came to apologize to you again and again but you never forgave me. But I know we are friends, right?

So it's okay. I will wait for you for 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, even 100 years okay? That one day you will forgive me. I believe that we will be friends forever.

Like we promised in childhood.

Love you

Your childhood friend,

Rain.

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Just like that, Rain started walking towards his room after taking his funds.

He buried the memories of the letter deep in his mind. No one except him will know about it.