"Thank you sir." Grey thanked him sincerely.

Just as Instructor Dunstan was about to leave, Grey called out to him again. The reason Grey called him this time was to know if he could get books on forging from the library.

Grey was elated after knowing there were books about forging and even forgemastering in the library, well, he expected the Academy to have some in the first place.

"Won't you be going to the arrays lessons? If you want to be a good forgemaster, you must be proficient in arrays." Instructor Dunstan asked when he was about to leave.

It was already mid-day, and array lessons were just about to start. He felt it would be beneficial for Grey if he went to the array lessons.

"Not today Instructor, I'll focus on this for now." Grey said, he was already good in arrays, and his time in the trial land, having to break those complex arrays increased his proficiency.

He wasn't even sure his Teacher knew arrays that were as complex as those ones, else, he would have taught him, or at the very least told him about it.

Instructor Dunstan left Grey alone after his refusal to go to the array lessons, he didn't think his decision not to go was wrong though, after all, some people only started learning arrays after they were good in forging and vice-versa.

Being left alone, Grey quickly got to work with the items. Some of the materials brought in were different from the last ones they used, in this small batch, there were three pieces of a bronze plate, and a small piece of a silver horseshoe.

The different items needed different temperatures to melt them, this helped Grey within the time he was there, and he almost had the thought of trying out one of the weapons he had with him.

He took so many weapons from Aetonth's cave that he still didn't know what to do with them, he hadn't even studied them properly. After much consideration, he decided to check them out when he got home today. That way, he'll know what to keep, and what to discard.

After staying for almost two hours, he ran out of materials, with no other choice, he left the room.

'There's still some time before it gets dark, I'll go to the library to take some books home. I need to check up on Klaus, it's weird he didn't come to find me after leaving his father's office yesterday.' Grey thought as he headed to the library.

He initially wanted to read in the library, but thinking about how much time he had spent on learning forging, he felt it wasn't a good idea.

Twenty minutes later, he was in front of Klaus' house, and Klaus wasn't around. Not expecting this, he decided to see if he was in Reynolds' house.

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"Hey Rey, have you seen Klaus today?" Grey saw Reynolds sitting in a very relaxed manner outside his house, so he asked while walking into the compound.

"No, I was planning to go see him." Reynolds shook his head before sitting straight.

"There's no one in his house, that's why I came over." Grey explained.

"Hmm, strange." Reynolds stood up, finding the fact that Klaus wasn't in the Academy strange.

"We shouldn't bother about it, he's probably spending time with his dad." Grey waved it off.

If not for the fact that he still couldn't find his mother, then he would've already gone there to spend some time with her.

"Okay, I'll be going home in a week time or so." said Reynolds.

It had been almost a year he saw his little brother, after having a close call with death in the trial land, he wanted to see him again, his parents as well.

"That's good to hear." Grey said with a smile.

He felt sad inside since he couldn't see his mother or father. It has been so long, yet no words from his mother. The thought that something bad might have happened to her scared him.

He stayed with Reynolds a little longer before going over to Alice's so he could get Void. The little guy was having a great time at Alice's and almost refused to leave.

When Grey got home, he went to his backyard, and slowly started taking out the items he got from Aetonth's cave one by one to inspect them. Behind his house, other than the school fence that separated it from the forest, there was nothing else.

He created to high walls on each side to block anyone from seeing his backyard from the other two houses.

Taking a look at some of them, he was stunned when he realized they were just shiny, nothing else. But there were at least twenty which were good. The only elemental weapon that caught his eye was a bow, it was a wind elemental weapon that increased the speed of the arrow to a terrifying level. However, other than the dual blades he previously used, he had never trained with any other weapon.

'Hmm, I'll keep it.'

He took out the blue vest he got from Aetonth's cave, it was the only defensive elemental weapon he found, but he didn't know how it worked.

He used the earth element to create a man-like statue, before putting the vest on it. Taking a few steps back, he sent a wind blade towards it.

Bang!

The statue was sent flying, shattering in the process.

'Well, that's hopeless. I thought it would at least reduce the impact of the attack.' Grey shook his head as he walked towards it.

Void watched Grey as he walked closer to where the statue was shattered, he took a peek at the shiny things that Grey stacked on the side.

After finding out that some of them were useless, he kept them aside, hoping to use them in his forging lesson the next day. They were good materials after all, and most of them were even silver.

Seeing that Grey was distracted by the vest, Void vanished from his position. By the time he reappeared a few seconds later, two items from the weapons stacked had gone missing.

They were shiny, although not as shiny as some of the things he stole, they weren't that bad.