When Harry was returning the receptionist bowed and greeted him with respect which was one eighty degree turn in behaviour.
"I want to buy some items for use can you help me with it mr?." Harry asked.
"Mr Johnny Bethold, you can call me johny, How about you tell me what you want and I will send it to you in an hour." Johny said taking a note of Harry's rank for delivery.
"Harry, listed everything containing Qi replenishment pills, Healing pills.
If Johnny was that much eager to help, why not take some help.
He also ordered a sword of elemental master level 3. Not because that was the limit gracie could use but because that was all he could afford. He paid in advance so if money is not enough it's Johnny's problem.
Returning to his room. He was thinking of the new sorcery he came to know about. These artifacts look cool. If he is right there are many people who could use it on a basic level. He remembered seeing these skills engraved in weapons at a lower level.
It was already proof that how many people know the sorcery. But beyond the basic level he was sure not many people could make bronze, silver or gold artifacts.
Higher the level of artifacts higher the cost to use it in the form of a drawback. Using it removes any type of natural power in the item itself like those weapons at liam's hometown.
He put the idea of learning the sorcery for hold.
He was at least interested to learn it on a basic level since it shouldn't be hard to learn.
But now it was time for the Quest hunt.
When he reached the room he saw Tyler and Gracie practicing.
Both have developed their own fighting style which Harry thinks is deceiving. Gracie uses her opponent's movement to counter attack.
While Tyler has an intuition that would tell him the next movement of his opponent.
"I thought you were practicing in the tower" Harry said entering the room.
"Yeah I was but I had some problems going beyond the foundation building realm." Tyler shrugged.
Gracie putting her dummy sword back said.
"You hit a bottleneck, it is not common on lower levels but almost everyone hits it before reaching spiritual sage level but there are very few people who hit it before Elemental master level."
Listening to Tyler's face grew somber, when he was cultivating. He has taken leaps in his level in just days but after reaching the peak of 9th level he was able to feel something wrong. It was like he could see beyond the glass door but can't go across it without Opening it. But that was the problem he needs to know what the door is.
Seeing Tyler's expression gracie suggested
"It is not that worse, hitting a bottleneck earlier helps a person to get experience for the future."
"Haha experience is another thing but for now I am stuck on foundation building level" Tyler laughed nervously.
"I am not sure but if I am right everyone has their own bottle neck. Some get through it by improving their will some by increasing their battle art, some by learning Emotions. It is always different and unique for everyone, you better try your battle techniques since it is the only thing that you are working most on".
"No way, my battle technique is best and I don't think there is any problem" Tyler said, since he had some special abilities to anticipate attacks and see the future to some extent. There is no way he lacked in battle, at least battle based on skill not cultivation.
"That's you to find" Gracie said shrugging.
"Okay since you are here, what about liam and blake. Did you meet them" Harry asked.
"Yeah I met them when I was coming out, The good news is they broke through the elemental master and they are continuing cultivation since they are feeling that they could move further." Tyler said.
"See, that's what I was talking about, earth has less to no dangers compared to other planets. Just improving cultivation won't improve our battle efficiency."
Harry knew but he was also not against it since just a mere difference in cultivation could render the experience useless.
A veteran fighter could defeat one or two level higher non fighting cultivater but experience can't bridge the gap of four to five levels.
Harry heard a knock on the door and he saw another student whom he didn't know.
"I was given a task to deliver these items." He said putting the items down.
It was normal because most of the worker in the academy are students. In the cafeteria or shopkeeper in the market everything is managed by students.
Official only works in official works. Like in the main centre or Quest house and teaching.
Harry took the items and returned.
"Everything is prepared" Harry brought pills and distributed among three.
Tyler was looking at him with questioning gazes.
"We are prepared for what, please don't tell me we are going on a suicidal mission."
"Here, take it" Harry handed the sword and a space bracelet to gracie.
"I don't have a weapon for you but take it" Harry said and handed another bracelet to Tyler.
"Don't worry I have my weapon with me" Tyler said showing his fist, the Main thing he learned throughout this time was that he had the upper hand in using the weapon. He could make use of any weapon with not much problem using his eyesight, But still he had his blade.
"You didn't tell me where we were going".
....
Harry, Tyler and Gracie were standing in Quest house and were perplexed seeing so many students there. All the students were busy preparing for their quest.
Harry saw the Quest board, it was not a board but a large screen with Quests appearing one after another on it.
There were simple Quest like teaching young masters, gathering herbs and some mid level Quest were to fight a beast or many easy beasts.
A certain Quest intrigued him, it's description was related to a pack of wolves which was making it hard to hunt in the blackwood jungle.
The jungle was on the eastern side of the city of Safire.
They had crossed this city when coming to the academy and the academy was in western side of the city. To reach there they had to cross the city.
But it would not stop them from taking Quest.
Harry approached the receptionist. This time again it was an old man. He remembered how in the outer world most receptionists were beautiful females but here he had never seen a female working as a receptionist.
This time at least the old man was not fat. He just had callousness on his face.
That calm face, like nothing can surprise him.
"I would like to take the Quest which needs to eliminate the pack of wolves from the darkwood jungle."
The calm face changed to confusion and then frowned.
"Oh that one, i almost forgot since no one has tried it in a long time. You are Quite brave or should I call it foolish" the man chuckled and showed Five fingers.
"What you want money" Harry frowned.
"Young man, Although I am greedy but 5 lakh credits won't help me... what I gestured is, this quest requires a team of 5 people".