Chapter 361: Training (1/2)

”Arghh! Finally done,” Alex thought as he put away the cauldron and the formation plate. The spirit stone behind the formation plate had gone dull after losing all of its Qi.

He picked it up and threw it away after realizing it was worthless to him now.

Suddenly, the space shifted around once more. This time, the hole he had been standing on top of was gone. ”What the?” Alex thought. ”Why is the hole gone? It was there with me the whole night through multiple space shifts.”

He wondered if he missed anything and took out the instruction to the formation he had inside his storage. After reading more than what he had last time, he noticed something that he had overlooked that time.

”Oh, no wonder. It targets Qi signature rather than actual people caught inside. So anything with my Qi signature and a little more around them all gets teleported around randomly.”

”So that's why the hole went around with us. The formation holds my Qi signature even after releasing it huh?” Alex thought.

He looked at his bag with a bit of happiness when he realized that he had successfully managed to make nearly 40 pills, all of which hovered around high Earth Grade and some of which even crossed the Heaven Grade threshold.

”Now that I know alchemy works, I should start learning how pills actually work. I need to learn about alchemy on a fundamental level,” he thought.

He decided to try and understand formations and pills for a while longer before logging out to get his food.

Afterward, he went to his university and learned whatever the teacher taught them with barely any students. There were more than yesterday, but still half of them were missing.

Even the teacher was flabbergasted when he saw this. ”What are your friends doing? Are they still at home playing the game? Do they think they can make a living by just playing that game?” he said angrily.

”Not to mention, there is a field trip coming up very soon for your first years. Tell your friends to come back to classes so that they don't miss it,” the teacher said.

”Professor, Where are we going?” a student asked.

”I don't know. There are still a few more days before the faculty will decide on the location. Just look out for it,” the professor replied.

'A field trip huh? I should be able to make it,' Alex thought.

After the classes ended, he and Hannah went to the driving range. Along the way, he told her about the field trip he had coming up soon.

”Oh, yeah, we had those too. I hated that we had to wait until halfway through the second semester to even go through,” Hannah said.

”Oh, why?” he asked.

”I don't know? Maybe they don't like setting field trips every 6 months, so they do it every year,” Hannah said.

”Where did you guys go?” Alex asked.

”Umm… I think it was… Ember wood city? Wait no, that was the second year. First-year we went to a crappy museum out in Evergreen city in the east,” Hannah said.

”You guys should be different. Maybe they will take you someplace quite fun,” Hannah said.

Alex was hopeful. Although it would be a lie to say he hadn't experience going to another city with other similar-aged people, that was only in the game.

It would be the first time for him.