Chapter 328 328 – Help

“Why are you late!” Anna shouted as she saw that Aiden, with his face changed, had just arrived.

She thought that he would be arriving around midnight, but it was two in the morning already. Evelynn had already arrived from what he had understood and she had been tasked to find all different sorts of ingredients.

“Take this list, and go find her. She should be close to the director’s cabin, she probably didn’t get too far because of how scared she looked,’ Anna said as she handed him a list of multiple ingredients.

“About that list, do you know if those ingredients will work or will we need to do this gathering often?” Aiden asked as he knew that it would most likely be the case.

He didn’t know how this whole process would work, but from the face Anna was currently making… there was no doubt in Aiden’s mind that he would have to.

“Of course, you’ll have to, you really think that I can figure out a recipe for a completely new potion on my first try?” Anna said as if Aiden was the stupidest person on Earth.

Then, she took a small break before answering once again, seemingly thinking about what she had just said.

She seemed to realize that there was something untrue in all of this.

“Well… actually I am quite talented, so I wouldn’t say that it’s impossible for me to be right on my first try,” she said, her voice tinged with a hint of confidence.

It seemed that she knew very well how talented she was which is why she changed her answer.

Aiden didn’t waste any more time looking at her as he slowly made his way toward the exit of the academy, he knew that Evelynn was currently waiting for him somewhere, so he had to hurry.

‘I wonder why I didn’t see her at all if she was supposed to be close to the forest which is next to the cabin… weird,’ Aiden thought, finding it weird.

However, he didn’t think too much about it as he knew that the mountain was extremely massive, so there were pretty good chances that something must have happened.

***

Aiden was now flying toward the mountain’s direction as he would be searching for Evelynn and then the two of them would try to find all the ingredients written on that sheet of paper that Anna had given him.

Aiden also had a maximum of five hours before having to come out, and that was cutting it extremely close. He had seen it last night, David didn’t sleep much, like at all.

As he arrived at the forest, he tried to get a bird’s eye view from above… However, because of how dark it was, there was no point in doing so.

That’s why he dived toward the ground without wasting any more time, it was now time for him to find Evelynn.

He started slowly advancing toward the forest which reverberated darkness. Aiden didn’t care too much about the darkness since he was so used to living in an environment that was just like that.

He was used to roaming in the dark, that was what he liked the most. Recently, he had discovered quite the liking to becoming the center of attention, but he still preferred to be someone that you could qualify as a hidden threat… the person that you would call when everything else would fail.

“Alright, let’s see where she went,” Aiden whispered to himself as he looked at the list of ingredients wondering if Manatrum was on it.

If it was, then he knew exactly where to find some.

And as he looked down and read some ingredients from the list, he found out that it was the first ingredient on it.

Aiden had to admit that it was quite weird to find it on there since it was a mana-restricting potion. However, he wasn’t remotely close to being an expert, so he would keep his mouth and provide the ingredients that were written on this piece of paper.

Luckily for him, there were pictures of all the ingredients that they would need to gather which made Aiden’s task a lot more efficient.

‘Still, I don’t understand why we need to do this, doesn’t she have her own ingredients ready?’ Aiden thought that since Anna was a teacher at the Magic Academy which meant that she had to have some sort of resources.

But, it seemed that wasn’t the case since he was about to enter the forest.

“Oh, right! I wonder if I’ll meet other types of monsters in there,” Aiden muttered as he crossed the very first tree.

He was currently heading toward the spot where he had found Manatrum last time. He wasn’t sure if he was going to be able to find Evelynn there, but even if he didn’t, it would be an ingredient that they would have gathered.

‘Still, let’s hope that she’s close by, it will make things a lot easier to have someone searching for all those things with me.’

After thinking that, Aiden decided to move a little faster as he activated [Lightning Steps] which caused some lightning sparks to appear on the bottom of both his feet.

He was now moving so fast that no monster would be able to catch up to him. At least, no monster that he had met yet.

Who knows what sort of dangerous things that he could find in this forest?

There was probably a reason that the director of the Magic Academy had made his little house up here.

Maybe it was for relaxation, but Aiden was sure that there had to be another reason, a reason much more important than the one that he had just stated.

A couple of minutes later, Aiden was right below the tree where he had found Manatrum last time and luckily for him, it was still there high up. One thing that had changed from last time was that the Manatrum was fluorescent which added a nice touch to that ingredient.

‘Still, nothing for me to worry about,’ Aiden thought as he still hadn’t crossed any monster.

Aiden wasn’t disappointed since it made his job easier, but still, he hoped that he would get to fight a monster that he had never seen before, he always liked killing beasts and getting stronger that way.

It was the easiest way that he had found to get stronger, so why wouldn’t he try to use it to the best of his abilities?

“It seems like she already found the Manatrum,” Aiden said to himself as he could see some footprints on the ground.

He decided that he would be following them since there was a good chance that it would lead directly to her. In fact, it was almost sure that such a thing would happen, so Aiden started doing that as he couldn’t wait to see how many ingredients she had gathered.

***

A few minutes later, Aiden was running as fast as possible while following all the footsteps on the ground, and he heard a lot of noises in front of him, he even heard shouts.

“ARGH!”

“PLEASE SOMEONE… HELP ME!”

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