20 Research Projec (2/2)

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.

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

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Forging Garden 3A.

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

There is a circular table located in the room where the five were having discussion. The room has 2 shelves containing from common to unique materials. A couple of mana artifacts can be seen as well and at the other side, you can see 3 Artifact Forging Box.

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

”Mei, have you found solution yet? You said last 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 antecedents to this invention had the same issue. They could not fix it and instead just accepted 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 are researching caused 3 groups of their antecedents to give up. Now, Neo told them another 3 was defeated by this mana artifact pathway.

Apparently, before they could graduate in the academy, there is task they must complete. Students must form a group of no more than 6 to research an underdeveloped mana artifact pathway. They don'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 accept assistance offered by instructor Elaine if we'll really 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 did all their best last night to find solution to change her decision but wasn't successful.

Now, they really have to accept it. What kind of help? They aren't aware yet.

They looked at the time and thought that Elaine 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 is at the side of the garden and fallen leaves accumulating, it was unkempt.

They should be asking for a cleaner later. It was already noticed before by Elaine and told them to clean it but previous cleaners and gardeners weren't able to come in as they locked the room even during the night as they studied their project. They normally lasted 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, Elaine wearing a simple but elegant white dress entered with Wallace in the tow.

”Great! Instructor Elaine. Is he the gardener?”

Mei asked merrily.

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

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