13 The Fifth (1/2)

Dean saw many people as they continued to walk, he saw many old men and middle age men around the area, although he saw some younger looking people with this group of old men there are still far too few of them making his doubt of the fact that this an institute that trains the younger generation, it was either that or this place was in dire straits amount of students.

However thinking how there were students keeping watch at the gate yesterday and how they acted when they saw him, Dean rearrange his thoughts and made to a conclusion that they are most likely the teachers and the youths that was with them might be their own personal disciples.

Looking at Gilet in front of him he started thinking that this man might just be a student in this academy, well base on his looks there's a high chance of him being one of the talented ones in the whole Black Turquoise academy, and it is common to for academies to favor those with good talents granting them various benefits.

But thinking it through one more time he threw that thought to the back of his mind, Gilet was someone amazing of course but he do not think that he was someone that's a student in this academy, if he was someone that have a connection with the academy he should be one of those that have high seniority.

Besides Gilet was someone that have the ability to hire for a helper in order to ease his burdens when he is forging an artifact so the chances of his being a student becomes lower than before. A student would mostly be an apprentice to a master letting them do what most helpers do of handing over materials with precise and accurate measurements when needed.

He also notice how other youths would stop on walking to give Gilet a bow to show their respects, even some of the middle age people were bowing to him while Gilet just gave them all a nod before continuing on his way letting Dean think more deeply who this person truly was.

It is possible that all of his hunches are wrong though as it is all just guesses and have no concrete evidence whether what he is thinking is right or wrong. Dean didn't avert his head and kept his back straight as he walk forward.

As he was walking with Gilet some murmuring entered in his ears ”Is that the new helper of Gilet? Seems like this guy is the 5th one since this last 2 weeks, what is he doing at his workshop making all of his helpers quit on him?”

Hearing this Dean swallowed his saliva turning his head to take a look at the two old men near them Dean move his eyes and look at Gilet who just continued forward clearly ignoring the whispers that was around him.

He tried to ask him something about what the others was talking about but decided not to after a awhile.

Following Gilet from behind the two of them found their way in front of a hill, the hill was not big and also not that small as it had the height of about 200 meters high from the ground. Dean lift his head and gazed upwards to see the peak of the hill.

He was not able to clearly see the top of the hill but he was able to make out the hazy silhouette of a building pass the fog that was covering his view of the peak Gilet didn't stop from walking and seeing that Dean had stop he called out ”Come on, don't waste time from sightseeing, you will reach it if you follow me so stop wasting time.”

Hurrying along Dean went back to following Gilet –There are many possibilities but who is this guy really? – He continued on his way.

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In the Dean's office there were 2 people seated right across each other, one of them were a young lady about 13 or 14 years of age who had her face covered with a veil, however even with the veil that was keeping her face from being seen it was still obvious that underneath it was a beautiful face.

The other one was a beautiful lady who look older in comparison to the young lady in front of her but without that much of an age difference between the two of them many people would even think that they are sisters.