Chapter 364: DIY project.
The battle had lasted for more than 6 hours and it was already dark, but the students were still at the wall.
The beast tide was over, but the students hadn’t been given any new commands. So they had to remain in their different positions on the wall.
“It’s already past our usual shift, aren’t we suppose to rest and eat?” Brian said in an exhausted tone. 𝒃𝒆𝙙𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝙤𝙢
“Surprised that came from you. Usually, it is Blake who talks about food.” Luciano said causing everyone to laugh except for Blake.
He couldn’t deny the allegation, but that didn’t mean he should agree to it. So he decided to keep quiet, but that proved that it was true.
With nothing to do they watched as the light from the walls illuminated the entire battlefield that was being cleared by the cleanup team.
Major Reeves was floating some meters above the ground outside the city barrier. He didn’t need to protect the cleanup team inside because all they had to do was pick up beast cores from the piles of ashes littered everywhere.
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As for those outside, their job was quite dangerous. Not only were they susceptible to attacks from beasts, but handling a beast’s corpse wrongly could lead to their deaths.
That was why Major Reeves was there to protect them and warn them of dangerous corpses.
“What does the city do with all the beast corpses?” With the population of beasts having plummeted, he was wondering if the city was planning to make some sort of monopoly on beast resources.
“This is a way the city prevents shortage of resources from beasts. The beast corpse and cores would be sold at an equivalent price to whoever needs it.” Luciano explained.
‘If so it isn’t bad at all.’ He knew that it wasn’t that straightforward and that the city would gain somehow from it, but as long as they weren’t exploited then he was okay with it.
Even with magic, it took more than an hour to clear the sea of corpses, but once it was done Major Reeves had called them to the center of the wall for their final briefing.
“I am quite surprised and at the same time proud that none of you ended up dying. So before you all are sent back to the school I would like to say good job to each and every one of you.”
Major Reeves didn’t waste time dismissing them before heading outside the city barrier to begin clearing down the forest created by the Elder Treant. On the other hand, the students were warped back to the magic academy.
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When they appeared at the school’s warp arrays, Blake and his team didn’t waste time heading to their rooms.
On entering his room, Blake filled his nostrils with the air of his room, but there was nothing special about it talking more of getting a nostalgic feeling.
“I wonder if this world has an automatic humidifier air freshener.” Blake thought about making his room nice.
“I could make one but I need fragrances and essential oils. I will go check out the exchange store later.” Blake said as he hit the shower.
When the group met at the canteen to fill up their bellies, Blake and Brian didn’t waste time in ordering mountains of food.
Even as Damon and his team sat at the table close to them, they didn’t take their eyes off their plate.
“How did the beast tide go for you guys?” Luciano asked Damon.
It was at this point that Blake and Brian were forced to look up to make sure their ears weren’t deceiving them.
‘Is it me or did Luciano start a conversation?’ Brian asked in the mind link.
‘Well, that’s new.’ Blake said as he continued eating.
“No casualties, but some of my team members have to recover mentally.” Damon said pointing at Layla and Esmeralda that waved with wry smiles on their faces.
They were still teens and witnessing the deaths of hundreds of people had traumatized them.
As for Haldor, he was chewing on a steak like nothing had ever happened, while Camilla was quietly eating a salad as she avoided turning in their direction.
“How about you guys?” Damon asked.
“The only serious issue we have is their hunger.” Luciano pointed at Blake and Brian causing them to pause and look up.
“That is pretty serious.” Damon chuckled.
[Did you see what happened there?] The system asked.
‘Yes. Damon revealed a lot more info than needed, meaning something serious might have happened.’
‘As for Luciano, he used us to avoid giving out relevant info, while painting a perfect but false picture that we had no issue.’ Blake said to the system as he continued to slurp noodles from his bowel.
[Wow… I am shocked that you were paying attention.] The system said in an honest tone.
‘I act this way to make people underestimate, and seems it is working.’ Blake mind-smirked.
[You forgot to add that you are a glutton.] The system chuckled.
‘Fuck off!’
It was after he was done, that Blake finally raised his head to say hi to Damon’s team.
“Don’t you feel too heavy after eating so much?” Camilla finally spoke up.
“Yeah… but isn’t that the point of eating?” Blake said but everyone on his table including the system face-palmed as they tried to hold back their laughter.
After chatting for a few more minutes, everyone returned to their room, but Blake headed to the library.
“To make an automatic humidifier air freshener I need to learn how to make things automatic and periodic.” Blake thought as he went through the array section of the ground floor.
The forgemastery class had gone quite far, but so far everything they had been taught ranging from forgemastery arrays to battle arrays was all manual.
Since it was a simple DIY project, Blake prayed it would be simple to learn and implement.
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