Chapter 183: Chapter 182: Planning Ahead to Keep My Head

As I pulled myself from my thoughts, I heard the soft melodic laugh of Ryone as she entered the room. Through the doorway, I could still see Bihena receiving her ‘healing’ from a rather helpless looking Aurivy. “So, are these the orbs?” She asked with a smile of amusement, looking towards the seven balls of blue light on my desk.

“That’s right. You mentioned before that Terra had been teaching you how to make these… so do you think that you could make copies of them before you go?” I fully intended to train myself in the use of the different energies, just as I had the first tiers of natural energy and ki so long ago.

“Hmm, not right now.” Ryone answered with a shake of her head, shrugging her shoulders and spreading her hands out. “I’ve got to study them myself first. But, tell you what. Give me a day, and I should have enough time by then to copy them over. Otherwise, I’ll probably end up accidentally skipping large amounts of information, and none of it will make sense.”

I gave a nod of understanding at that, and waved my hand to send the seven balls of light towards her. “Alright. Do you want me to send Leowynn with you?” The demigoddess soul was still sitting in my spirit realm. She had been shocked by the transport method we had gone through before, but seemed to just be waiting for the right moment to come out now that we were back.

Ryone put on a bitter smile, even though Leowynn perked up at the question. “Sorry, not this time. If I’m going to get these all copied down within a day, then I need to be able to concentrate. Sorry dear.” She said as she looked to me, but I could tell that she was really speaking with Leowynn. “I’ll drag you along to play once I’ve made the copies for him.”

Leowynn’s mood briefly dropped when she was rejected, though I could feel her nodding her head. “She said that’ll be fine.” I interpreted for her. “In the meantime, maybe she’d like to play with Aurivy?”

Leowynn glanced up again at that, and I could feel her attention drawn towards the hallway. At the same time, Aurivy seemed to notice that her name was mentioned, and turned to look into the room with a hopeful expression. Seeing that, Leowynn laughed, and the familiar grey mist burst from my body, quickly reforming into the elven girl who rushed towards the door.

Bihena briefly pouted when Leowynn rescued Aurivy from her, and then got up with a sigh, moving to enter the room just as Ryone was leaving it. “I take it that means you want me for something?” She asked, leaning against the door frame.

“Well, first I wanted to say thanks. The points you earned really helped us get what we needed.” I turned in my chair to look at her, leaning back slightly while cracking my neck to stretch. “Also, I spoke with Alkahest. StarKiller’s good to enter as soon as we’re qualified and everything is set.”

Bihena looked surprised at that, her eyes opening wide for a brief moment. “Huh… Thought she was hiding something. Good to know. And yeah, I’d like that. She seems like a good kid.”

However, I quickly continued. “Another thing. When you were playing that game with her, I saw you selected a party system. Tell me a bit about that, and why you chose it. Given that it’s you we’re talking about, you had to have had your reasons.”

A small chuckle escaped Bihena’s lips, and she waved a hand. In front of me, a blue window appeared, showing the information of the system I had asked about.

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