I'm going to school just like usual today… well, I mean unusually since I skip most of the time.
There are no important exam at the moment so Kayla and Angela choose to stay in their apartment to cultivate. While I alone went to school.
I attend classes like other students. Luckily, we have history class today. I'm going to ask the teacher about mage hero after class is over.
After class is over, I run to the teacher and asked him about hero, if such people exist or not.
"Heroes? Are you stupid? There's no such things as heroes when we live in peace. In the past? Why should I know about it? Just because I'm a history teacher? Don't ask me anything other than what was taught in class. I never bother to learn more than that."
Annoying! This teacher is annoying! He was just remembering those that were important in classes. How could he became a teacher if he doesn't even want to teach?
Feeling annoyed, I feel like pranking this teacher. This teacher with long silky smooth blond wig who thinks that no one can notice that he is wearing a wig. Even all students here already gave him nickname 'Mr. Wig'.
And my moment has come!
Ms. Wendy appear and this history teacher is making an attempt to flirt with her.
"Ms. Wendy! How's your class?"
"Well, the students are trying their best. I'd love it if they did the same in other subjects as well."
"Haha! Of course they will listen when you're the teacher! If possible, I'd like it if you can teach me how to gain the student's attention."
This guy is shameless. He just said to not bother him with questions other than from the class, and shamelessly asking Ms. Wendy for her guidance. Even if he learns something, he will never use it anyway.
"Actually, this boy here was just asking me a question about history, so I just told him to read more books first before asking me again."
No, he did not!
If that how it is, I'll steal your wig!
I sneaked behind that shameless teacher. Right now, I'm right behind him with only less than 30 cm distance.
I put my index finger on my lips telling Ms. Wendy who saw that I'm about to do something to not say anything.
Seeing her nodded slightly after looking at me, I commenced my plan.
I carefully raised my hand above this shameless teacher's head who's trying to boast about his teaching experience to Ms. Wendy. Slowly, my hand is right above his head.
I made a pinching gesture above his head, and pinch the top of his wig with my thumb and my index finger. Once I'm sure this Mr. Wig's attention is fully on Ms. Wendy, I quickly pulled the wig up from his head.
It's a success! But that's not everything. I put the wig on my head, and left for a while to grab a bottle of ink from one of the classroom.
I took off the cap of the bottle, and make some air pressure inside the bottle while covering the bottle with my other hand.
I returned to Mr. Wig, and opened slightly my hand that covering the bottle to spray some black ink to his head. I'm doing it carefully to not let any ink hit Ms. Wendy.
By this time, more and more students are watching. None of them liked Mr. Wig, and most of the male students here are fans of Ms. Wendy. So when they're seeing Mr. Wig is trying to flirt with Ms. Wendy, and I'm pulling a prank on him, they were silently cheering in their heart.
I sprayed the ink on Mr. Wig's head so it ended up looking like he had a terrible crew cut. I can see everyone is holding their laughter. Even Ms. Wendy is covering her mouth with her hand. But Mr. Wig thought that his joke was funny so he just continued making terrible jokes.
My mission is complete. I will take my leave.
As I leave, the students are making hand gesture like that of clapping, but they did it without making any sound. I just raised both my hands in appreciation, and walk like a boss.
As I was leaving, I heard Ms. Wendy saying something to Mr. Wig… Mr. Ink Head.
"Excuse me, Mr. Wi… Senior. I have some business to attend to."
Ms. Wendy left Mr. Ink Head and walked my way. I have lowered my hands and the other students also stopped clapping. If Mr. Ink Head saw I'm wearing his wig, he would be angry, so I thought of leaving that place right away.
But luckily, Ms. Wendy walked right in a position where Mr. Ink Head can't see me. Is that intentional? Knowing she's a secret agent, it should be intentional.
I entered the library so I could find any clues about heroes. And I know that Ms. Wendy is following me all the way to the library. Either it was because she has some business with me or she has some business in the library, I don't know. Most likely, she's trying to give me some advice as a teacher to her student. Pranking a teacher is bad after all.
"UWOAAAA! Where's my hair?!"
There's a screaming voice coming from the staff's room, but I don't care. I just look for a book about history.
Maybe I should have stayed in the capital and sneak into the Library Tower.
If I remember correctly, the books in the highest floor of that library are mostly about legend, myth, or fairy tale. Maybe I could find more from there.
"Until when will you stop wearing that wig?"
"Until I thought it's annoying. Probably sometime later before I'm going to bed."
I answered Ms. Wendy's question.
I have short hair, and I usually cut my hair once it's a bit longer. So this is my first time trying to have a long silky smooth hair.
"Huhu… you're so funny like a clown. Do you want to be like that Clarence?"
Now that she mentioned it, I think I saw her from the stage.
"Well, what do you think about my performance in the circus?"
"You're Clarence? I never expected that he's one of the student here."
"So? Why are you here Ms. Wendy?"
Just as I asked her, suddenly a ghost appear between us two.
"Ghost! Be careful!"
"Ah! Wait! She's a tame ghost!"
"What?"
I never expected Sonia to suddenly appear here. Now that I think about it, there's a chance that I will be in a crowd when she suddenly appear. But for her to appear without me calling means that someone is sending me a message. For now, let's calm Ms. Wendy down first.
"I'll introduce you to each other. House Ghost, School Teacher. School Teacher, House Ghost."
"Umm… she's a ghost from your house?" Ms. Wendy asked.
"We used her as our means of communication. Sonia, what's wrong?"
I asked Sonia if there's any emergency.
"Roy, Angela's magic has increased. She will soon reach Intermediate level in her ice element. And what's with your hair?"
"Really?! That's great! And call it my fabulous hair."
"Problem is, none of us has experience in increasing our magic level. Even Victoria doesn't know. So we thought you might know something."
Sonia ignored my joke.
Improving level? I know next to nothing about it! I only know how summoning element improved our level. We just need our summoned monster to defeat monsters. Then we go 'poof' and our level increased.
As for other elements, the teachers in Introductory School never told us anything important. They only told us the levels and how to improve them by cultivation, and never about breaking through the next level. I think all of the teachers here is just in the beginner level.
Everyone but one!
"Ms. Wendy! Can you guide Angela to breakthrough her ice elements magic level?"
"Angela? She's one of the top student here, right? You're friend with her?"
"Yeah. Can you help her? None of the people we know have experienced leveling up. We could meet one acquaintance in the hunter guild, but at this time, they should be doing some requests."
MS. Wendy wondering about something.
"Hmm… actually, there have been some cases when people who tried to level up getting attacked around here."
"What? Why?!"
"I don't know. We haven't found the reason why. Few weeks ago, there's a hunter who was about to advance to Advanced level, but there were no news about him afterwards. When his friends looking for him, he was already died. There were similar cases in the past few months about it where people who were about to breakthrough getting killed."
I think I can guess the reason why. It was because of the cult! The cult is preparing to attack this city. So they killed anyone who was trying to break through their levels. The cult is most likely afraid that their plan will fail if there are a lot of powerful mage in this city.
That was just my guess, but I might be right.
"That was why most people who tried to breakthrough asked for protection from the guild by sending them a request."
"And how do Angela breakthrough then?"
"This is her first breakthrough so I suggest she do it in a quiet place. If her concentration break during the breakthrough, the damage will be significant on her body."
"So to improve our level, we just need to cultivate in a quiet place? Is that all?"
"Yes. But when you're about to breakthrough, the magic in the surrounding will be affected. And people who are sensitive to magic movement will realize someone is about to breakthrough. I think that's how they know where they should attack."
I never thought that improving our level was so easy. We just need to concentrate while cultivating without ever breaking our focus. That's the only difficult part I guess.
Then when I need to breakthrough my air element magic, I just need to find a quiet place. Maybe our home in Cassau is a good place since we have a ghost watching it.
But in Melk, there are rumors about people killing mage who tried to breakthrough. We need to find a place outside the city.
"Sonia. Tell Angela, Kayla, and Sophie to go to the guild and see if they can find our acquaintance to help protecting Angela. After that, meet me outside the city."
"Ah! I'm coming too! She's also my student after all."
"Tell them Ms. Wendy is coming as well. I have some matters to attend before going."
After hearing what I said, Sonia left to give Angela and the others my message.
"You're not going there right away?"
"Ms. Wendy can go first. I have small matters to take care of."
I left the library and just like usual, I jumped to the roof. I need Victoria's help here.