"Wace, I''ve seen instructor ine at the cafeteria and she was looking for you."


    Gilbert approached Wace who was seated in front of aputer as he was requested by the instructor to notify him. The morning ss had already ended and Wace was currently in the library.


    Both he and Gilbert were not wearing their academy''s polo uniform. Wace was wearing a blue long sleeves shirt instead due to the sports activity every Friday of the week for the 2nd year students.


    Wace was currently browsing the database of their library and searching for something before looking up to his ssmate Gilbert who approached him.


    "Ah, thank you, is she still at the cafeteria?"


    "No, she said for you to see her at the faculty. Did you do something wrong?"


    Gilbert asked as it wasn''t normal to be called out by a higher year instructor.


    Instructor ine was famous for her beauty in the Academy. She was only 24 this year and already a licensed magic engineer. Not only did she teaches at the academy but she was also working as an engineer in a certainpany. Gilbert was more than willing to know any news about her.


    "Nothing, there''s just a small request I was asked to help with." Wace answered mysteriously, he packed up his things and stood up.


    After learning that the beautiful instructor was waiting for him, he went directly at the faculty on the 3rd floor of the main building in the Academy.


    He saw that the door was open and peeked at the room. There he saw again the only instructor that was never wearing the designated uniform.


    Instructor ine could easily be seen with her long amber hair draped over her shoulders. She was sitting in front of her desk and seemed to be focused on herputer.


    Wace tried to get closer before calling out on her as there were other instructors and students in the faculty doing their own things. As Wace got closer, he found the aura of elegance that the instructor radiated to be umon.


    A very intelligent woman, close to the headmaster, capable of wearing her own outfit in the academy and that aura, definitely not a simple instructor. Wace thought as he neared.


    "Excuse me, Instructor. I heard from Gilbert that you were looking for me."


    Of course, Wace was aware of why she was looking for him. He just wanted to make her aware of his presence. ine looked up at him and smiled upon noticing Wace.


    He was able to clearly observe her pale face and noticed a small mole on her lower lip on the right side. It only added to her mature beauty.


    Wace would turn 16 in the next month so he very much appreciated this picturesque scene.


    "I thought that you''ve stood us up."


    He scratched the back of his head as he felt a bit awkward for beingte. He was too engrossed reading in the library.


    "Follow me, your seniors are currently at the Forging Garden 3A."


    Wace nodded and remembered that it was on the left wing of the Academy.


    As they both walked for the door, the students and instructors they passed by all looked at her with different lights in their eye. Apparently, aside from her beauty, she wafted as well a delicate aroma of honeysuckle attracting everyone''s attention.


    Wace sighed at this. He thought that this instructor would grab attention wherever she went. But Wace wasn''t aware yet if it was good or bad.


    ***


    Forging Garden 3A.


    There were currently 5 students in the open room discussing their predicament. It was called a garden as two side of the walls could be detached and provide an open air. It was providing them a scenery of the garden.


    There was a circr table located in the room where the five were having their discussion. The room had 2 shelves containing frommon to unique materials. A couple of mana artifacts could be seen as well and at the other side, you could see 3 Artifact Forging Boxes.


    At the centre of the table they were seated, about a hundred pieces of varying shapes of metal was lump together.


    "Mei, have you found a solution yet? You saidst time that you have records of Material Mana Sync Theories in your family''s record."


    A blond male student asked the one seated on his opposite side.


    "I have tried to read all of it, Eric. But there''s no records or clues on how to maintain long operation time of synchronization. How about you Neo?"


    "Same here, but I''ve asked around and at least learned that all six of our predecessors to this invention had the same issue. They could not fix it and instead just epted it as limitation of the current technology."


    As Neo answered, everyone felt drained. The Academy''s library allowed them to learn that the thing they were researching caused 3 groups of their predecessors to give up. Now, Neo told them another 3 were defeated by this mana artifact pathway.


    Before they could graduate from the academy, they had toplete a task. Students had to form a group of no more than 6 to research an underdeveloped mana artifact pathway. They didn''t have to develop it themselves and it would just be fine as long as they gave path for next developers.


    Haaa.. It seems that we really have to ept the assistance offered by instructor ine if we really want to stick to this pathway. They all sighed and thought of this.


    The five of them selected a difficult research topic expecting that as top students, they would be able to create a path for future discoveries. They were told yesterday that since they weren''t able to make progress, their instructor would be sending help. They all did their bestst night to find a solution to change her decision but weren''t sessful.


    Now, they really had to ept it. What kind of help? They weren''t aware yet.


    They looked at the time and thought that ine might be on her way as they were told to wait here. They observed the surroundings and tidied some things. They noticed the thick grown bushes that were at the side of the garden and the fallen leaves umting, it was unkempt.


    They should be asking for a cleanerter. It was already noticed before by ine and told them to clean it but previous cleaners and gardeners weren''t able toe in as they locked the room even during the night as they studied their project. They normallysted until the evening since they started this so the gardener or cleaner did not have a chance to take care of it.


    As they thought of this, ine wearing a simple but elegant white dress entered with Wace in the tow.


    "Great! Instructor ine. Is he the gardener?"


    Mei asked merrily.


    Huh? Is their research about gardening? Wace thought and was confused but did not think too much about it as he immediately noticed the lump of metals in the centre of the table.


    He activated his Divine Sense and was surprised with what he found out.