?He didn''t intend any of this from the start. And yet starting from the first step he took outside his little shack; he kept doing crazy things.


    "But I don''t regret any of that," he didn''t feel a single speck of regret. Instead, he felt quite lucky to meet up such good spirit masters and get to know the truth about many others.


    "What should I do next?" As he started his new life with such a big bang, he didn''t n to retreat. He''d keep doing whatever he liked, not caring about anything else or what others felt.


    "I have that deal from earlier with Ellina…" As his thoughts drifted around many things, he stopped over this point and got lost in thoughts.


    He started this deal out of his desire to secure a stable ie for himself. In addition to that, he''d slowly impact the future path of forging inside the academy and its subsidiary ns.


    "Should I do it?" he thought to himself while walking outside his room, intending to go to one of the two study rooms here and thoroughly think about this deal.


    He had lots of spirit crystals right now. Not to mention the immense wealth he''d gain after selling off his cores.


    "No harm in being richer, right?" Just as he took a few steps outside his room, he made up his mind. Even if he got enough cores to cover up his needs, he was still far from getting to the kingdom''s capital to sell them. "But what techniques shall I give them?"


    "Young master! A big problem! A disaster! A huge one!" And before he could even think about what he should give to the Forging department of the academy, Tina suddenly jumped out of nowhere, shouting in such a loud and rming tone.


    "What?" William wasn''t slow in his reaction, took out his sword and a few of his flying knives. He emitted a scary pressure as he got into fighting mode at once, while scanning the surroundings in vignce.


    "Easy, don''t take her words seriously," From behind, Lina came while speaking in a much calmer tone.


    ? "She said disaster!" William gave Tina a weird look, and that little girl didn''t show any sign of feeling guilty or wronged at all.


    "It''s indeed a disaster, a big one as well!"


    "Stop it already," Line just smacked the back of her little sister''s head in a light way before turning her attention to the all puzzled William, "it''s just this… We don''t have food or drinks here."


    "This…" William moved his eyes between the two sisters and finally heaved a sigh of relief.


    He took back his sword and knives, looked at Tina while Lina added with a soft chuckle, "to her, not eating is a big disaster."


    "I''m hungry!" Tina felt like the two in front of her didn''t take such a matter quite seriously at all. So, she puffed her cheeks,ined while mimicking the grownups by folding her arms, "the servants didn''te to deliver anything for hours!"


    "Servants?!" William was taken aback for a second, before finally realising the crux of the issue here, "silly girl! The servants won''te here anymore. We need to bring our food ourselves."


    "Bring it? Like to buy it? Or make it?" Tina blinked twice, as if part of her dreams just got shattered on the cold ground of reality.


    "That''s true," William nodded, took out twenty spirit crystals from his ring and left them on the nearby table, "take these and ask for the marketce. There you''ll find a few stalls opening and selling ready food or ingredients to make meals."


    "This…" Tina was still feeling shocked and depressed, while Lina could hardly contain herughs from behind her mask.


    "Come on, you heard the young master. It''s like how we lived back at the Golden Sky academy."


    "But… We got servants to deliver food to us here!"


    "That was just a weing ceremony, not a permanent thing," William couldn''t find any other thing to say but such a white lie. And his smile made it more like a lie than a truth.


    "That''s unfair! Totally unfair!" Tina keptining while her sister dragged her away from William, took the crystals and left to buy food for the three of them.


    Seeing the two leave, William shook his head, before heading towards the study room in front of him.


    He couldn''t believe how Tina linked the special treatment they received back at the headmaster''s ce with the entire academy. But he didn''t me her for that. She was a little kid after all.


    As he pushed such a small and funny incident aside, his mind returned again to think about what he should give to the Forging department.


    Thinking about this was indeed a problem. It wasn''t because hecked the right techniques and methods to craft good gears to give, but he simplycked enough knowledge about the true abilities of forging in this world.


    "If I gave too much, revealed lots of novel techniques and methods, then it''ll be disastrous!" he tapped on the desk he sat on, thinking deeply and quite seriously about this issue.


    He wanted to help the academy and get rewarded in return. But thest thing he wanted was to get rewarded with battles and deadly fights, not spirit crystals and treasures.


    Deciding such a thing gave him quite the headache. "Shall I go and pay them a visit?" He thought about going to the Forging department and checking over how they used to forge by himself.


    However, when he imagined how Ellina would pester him about the deal from before, he dropped such an idea.


    "I''ll eat first then head towards the library," he heard the ruckusing from outside, announcing the return of the two sisters.


    Unlike what he expected, Tina wasn''t causing such noise out of her disappointment. Just like usual, she totally forgot about that misunderstanding and disappointment, and seemed quite happy.