For the next seven days, the students were using their time to prepare for the third event.
Rudeus was playing with politics, trying to suppress Nathan and Selena. August was training with his familiars. Other students also trained according to their needs.
Still, the key to Nathan’s victory this time was actually hidden within Selena. Selena was in her room, focusing on mastering her new ability, according to Nathan’s instruction.
She was able to create some ribs that would maintain the sturdiness of her ability.
Meanwhile, Risa kept coming back to him for more blood. As the fairy queen said, she needed one or two months to become a duchess with the schedule. In other words, she needed to suck his blood four to eight times.
In addition to the two times she sucked his blood during the previous mission, she’d sucked him for a total of five times. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much he could do since she didn’t become a duchess even after all that.
Still, they were able to try it once they reached the island. The only thing that mattered was whether she could evolve first or they would get taken out first. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
Fortunately, Risa confirmed that her strength increased exponentially. She often came to Nathan’s room, bringing nutritious food that would improve his metabolism.
Nathan felt the burden on his body, but it didn’t really matter. He spent those seven days focusing on absorbing the cores.
As a result, Nathan got a total of 4,215 Ena. It was actually much higher than his original 3,700 Ena assumption.
Once he reached the next quality, he simply got more Ena per core. For the first time, he reached the High Basic Quality.
Of course, the first thing he did was to distribute the Ena to Anubis and Fenrir.
Both of them finally had 1,500 Ena each, while Nidhogg had 2,500 by himself. Nathan chose to raise their Ena to 1,500 instead of the original 1,000 thanks to Sullivan.
In fact, he still had over 2100 Ena after all that.
With those additional Ena, Fenrir was able to once again use the Gigantification. Although it would be the lowest grade of Gigantification, the power couldn’t be underestimated.
Anubis was also able to receive the upgraded version of his Ankh, which allowed him to solve poison and curse.
This way, they didn’t have to worry about survival. Even if they were bitten by spiders or snakes, they could continue forward. More importantly, unlike last time, Anubis actually received one more ability from the upgrade.
Sadly, it seemed that he still couldn’t use his scale. That was his main ability after all.
Time passed by. The third event had finally begun.
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Saka Port.
Jason walked to seven teachers that would be helping him for this event. “Thank you, everyone, for assisting me.”
“We are in charge of safety, so don’t worry. As fellow teachers, we’ll do our best to protect the students.” One teacher stood forward.
“That’s true. However, at this point, the proto-class aliens shouldn’t pose much threat to them. As long as they are able to maintain their conditions, they will be good.”
“Yeah. But this time, the theme is survival island. Even if they are able to fight those aliens, they still have to maintain their health. It’s easy to deteriorate, especially if they don’t have any shelter. In the end, they are not allowed to bring anything except for their equipment.”
“Indeed. Other than aliens, they have to fend off disease and other stuff. That’s why this challenge will be much harder than they originally thought.”
The teachers agreed as Jason turned to an elderly woman. “Thank you, Teacher Reina. Please take care of us when we are on the sea.”
“Don’t worry. Leave the ship to me.” She smiled.
“Haha. With a woman known as the sea princess, we can feel rest assured.” Jason chuckled.
“Oh my. You know how to jest. I’m just an old lady now.”
Jason turned to a teacher with a bob haircut. He nodded and said, “Don’t worry. I have released the aliens on that island. Once we teleport the students, some might even find aliens coming straight at them. So make sure you warn them about it first.”
“Got it. In that case, I will leave teleporting them to you, Teacher Dikkleus.” Jason smiled. “For the next two weeks, I will have to ask for your full cooperation.”
They all nodded their heads as they began to call the students to the ship.
Even nobles rarely went to the sea, so they all looked quite amazed when they boarded the ship.
The salty breeze made them feel nauseous, the intense heat was quite hard for them to endure, especially for the nobles, who worried that they would get sunburn.
While Nathan hadn’t gone to the sea, the picture of a ship and ocean were available on the Internet, so he wasn’t curious.
What piqued his interest was the wooden boat.
‘Hmm. They are still using a wooden boat, huh? I thought the dwarves would create boats made of iron or steel, or maybe a boat with a steam engine. Or do they not know it’s possible? The dwarves know the art of smithing, but they don’t know much about science, right? Well, not that I know about it as well, so I can’t tell them if I want it.
‘Still, looking at the sea like this, maybe there’s a time I will have to fight there. No wait, is Cthulhu hiding in the sea? Should I find it… maybe after summoning a Kraken or Leviathan. Haiz, I want to summon Godzilla, but is that even a myth?’
Nathan sighed. Selena didn’t know what was going on in his mind, but she had brought a hat, according to Nathan’s instruction. If they registered the hat as the equipment, they could protect themselves from the heat. Of course, both of them hid the hat underneath their robe so that no one would think they could buy it in the port.
Little did they know, the ones involved in this event were not just the students and the nine teachers. There were two people hiding inside the ship.
“What are you doing here, Principal? Shouldn’t you stay in the academy?”
“I should be the one asking you, Vice Principal. I have to go here to see whether a certain girl is worthy of becoming my disciple or not.”
“I’m just worried about my disciple!”
Both of them looked at each other, hidden inside a compartment. In the end, both of them were not supposed to be here.