514 New rank preparations (Part 2)


    As ke’s carriage made its way up his street, he spotted Ebony and Ivory running around the yard.


    “I thought left them in the house so why are they out?”


    Since he wasn’t going to take long, ke had decided to not go with Ebony and Ivory. So, he was surprised to see that they were outside.


    As they came closer, ke saw Tessie ying fetch with both wolves, bringing a smile to his face.


    Awooo!


    Immediately, ke’s carriage stopped right in front of his house, Ebony and Ivory began howling in joy.


    “I was only out for a few minutes.” keughed as he rubbed them while receiving kisses from them.


    “You know, if not that I have seen them in action, I would have never believed that these cute furballs are King rank beasts.” Tessie said as she approached him and gave him a hug


    “Get something for yourself.” ke said as he tossed a gold coin to Jerry who caught it.


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    “Thank you very much, Major ke!” Jerry said with a smile as he couldn’t help but like ke more. Even though his pay had more than doubled after being promoted to the rank of a Major’s driver, 1 gold coin was still a lot.


    With a smile stered on his face, Jerry left the mid-region and returned to the Square.


    “Congrattions on your promotion! I brought you a gift.” Tessie took out a wrapped box and 3rge rectangles.


    No one apart from Ash crops was invited to the promotion ceremony; so since she had no idea when the party would be over, Tessie decided to give ke his present the next day.


    ke wasted no time tearing through the gifts. He started with 1 of therge rectangles and went soon discovered it was a picture frame without any pictures.


    ke was confused at first but quickly realized that all of the gifts were a set. So, he continued unwrapping them.


    The other 2rge rectangles were also empty picture frames, while thest part of the set was a fist-size ck box with what looked like a USB port.


    Almost instantly, ke was able to piece everything together and realize what the gift was.


    He first hung the empty picture frames on the wall before cing his hand on the ck box and activating it.


    A hologram popped up, disying a tutorial on how to use and set up the device.


    The gift was basically a picture album that used light magic to disy high-quality pictures inputted by the user onto the frames and even the box’s hologram.


    If he wanted, ke could ce particr pictures on whatever frame(s) he wanted or he could turn everything into a slideshow.


    “This… is beautiful.” ke couldn’t help but admit as he watched a slideshow of the times that he, Tessie, and Cami had spent together.


    “Thanks a lot.” ke said in an emotional tone.


    “Is everything alright?” Tessie noticed ke’s change in tone but confused it for something being wrong.


    “Nothing is wrong, it’s just that the gift put me in my feelings.” ke said as he felt happy and sad at the same time.


    ‘If I return to Earth what would happen to them?’ ke asked himself a question that he had been avoiding for a long time now.


    After minutes of thinking, ke still didn’t have an answer to the question. ‘I guess when we get to that bridge, we will cross it.’


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    Luckily for ke, Tessie had onlye to give him the gifts so she didn’t waste much time before leaving the house.


    Once she was gone, ke call Cami and thanked her for the wristwatch before getting to work.


    ording to the n of the house, ke had no space to create a passage from the 1st floor to the ground floor, talk more of making an underground tunnel. So his n was to create the space by expanding the backside of the house.


    This would not only increase the sizes of the rooms, but it would create a perfectly hidden space in empty areas like the steps.


    Using sma, ke took down all the walls in less than 10 minutes before using telekinesis to carry and mix everything required for the reconstruction. This took him a lot of mana and more than 4 hours toplete, forcing him to take a break once he was done.


    After chugging down a mana potion and having lunch, ke went back to work. He used telekinesis to quickly paint the walls before heading back inside to start with the escape route.


    “First things first is that I need a hidden passage to ess the escape route. It should only be opened by me and should be able to withstand some strong attacks to buy me some time.” ke said as he inspected the other far end of his bedroom.


    He carved out a square in the floorboards which was directly above the area he just extended.


    “I previously nned on installing some kind of lift, but on second thought there is no need for it since I can use telekinesis on myself.”


    ke nned on cing traps all around the escape route to prevent a situation where the enemy saw him enter the secret passage and decided to chase after him.


    All he would need to do was use telekinesis to stop his fall just when he was about to reach the ground, before moving forward. Then when the unsuspecting enemynded on the ground the first of the many traps would be activated which would buy him a lot of time if not kill the enemy.


    ke went down to the area between the wall and the extended area to start digging a tunnel that would end just some meters above the sewer.


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    I am nning on making a proper cover page for MSTS; currently learning photoshop cause Author-san is too poor for that ??


    An Instagram page will soon be up for announcements and memes concerning MSTS and other future works. So anticipate!