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Curse the Mainframe! - Chapter 41

Published at 10th of September 2019 04:13:51 PM


Chapter 41

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Day seven of the survival mission, Alec had absolute control over his current strength. Where before he was unintentionally breaking things at the lapse of attention, he was now able to exert full control over his sudden strength gain. Even the biggest lapse in attention wouldn't cause him to accidentally break things beyond repair.

Alec was very pleased with this result. He almost couldn't wait for this mission to be over so that he could set out on a journey outside of the clan compound to see what else he could do.

How much more of the world hadn't he seen? The only things he had seen were the clan compounds' buildings as well as people.

Since everyone had brown hair and blue eyes, even that got tiring after a while as the novelty wore off. He was ready. There had to be so much more knowledge outside the clan that he could get his hands on.

He was also looking forward to finding Cyrus, Tatiana and Zacharias again to see what they had been up to.

Bunbun was perched in the tree's branches, looking more reminiscent of a leopard stalking its prey than an innocent bunny.

Alec ignored him, feigning obliviousness.

When the bunny launched himself at Alec, however silently, Alec dodged with practiced ease, with only the barest of movements.

Not only was this good practice, he was also waiting to see just how long Bunbun would take to realize that not only did he always know where he was hiding, he could also feel through the bond when the time he had chosen to attack was.

So far, the bunny still had no idea.

Alec huffed before deciding not to play with the bunny any further. He knew that if they continued down this way, Bunbun would only get more and more fired up to at least land a hit, and that just wouldn't do.

It was almost time for them to head back to the designated meeting spot that signified that their mission was completed.

This time, there had been no mishaps in The Great Expanse that would threaten him.

He did not see hide nor tail of a monster, only seeing a few larger animals that frequented this area of the forest.

Though his teacher had tried to keep him as far away as possible from the underground cavern that he had discovered and almost lost his life to last year during this mission, Alec was able to make his way over because of the bonds that he could feel from the group of trees he had Awakened.

Even if he couldn't recognise where he was, he would not go wrong following the feeling of where the bonds were.

"Alright, enough messing around. It's time for us to go back."

Bunbun pouted. He felt like he hadn't finished playing today yet, but it was already time to go.

Alec picked up the bunny, hugging the soft fur that was still as clean and pristine as ever. The white fur even seemed to glisten slightly under the sun, like it was imbued with jewels.


No matter how Alec thought about it, he just didn't see how him Awakening Bunbun's strength had caused such a change in his fur.

Bunbun hung over his arm like an oversized doll, obediently staying still and not moving.

Like this, Alec took off with a burst of speed that would have rendered himself from one year ago speechless.

He ascended to the higher branches of the trees, nimbly jumping along. There wasn't a single sound that was heard even though he was moving so swiftly. Learning this had been trial and error. A lot more error than he ever thought possible, but he had the hang of it now.

This wasn't even augmented speed with magic. He realized that by running normally without boosting himself with magic, it was more of a workout that caused his muscles to grow tired.

Without doing this, the muscles didn't get the full benefits of a workout.

He wondered if it was because of this reason that he had never seen a person with a bulkier figure in the clan. Even his uncle, the Clan Head, which was said to boast a martial prowess, seemed rather slim and lean.

He had muscles indeed, but he never seemed to bulk up.

Then again, Alec himself, now that he had Awakened some strength within himself, didn't bulk up either. Maybe it was just their genes?

Alec touched down just as the sun set, watching with curiosity as Elias seemed to fade out of the tree's shadow.

It wasn't so much as emerging from the tree, but rather, his presence had been faint and unnoticeable until he stepped out from the shadow that the tree cast.

It looked like Elias had discovered a new façade to his Magitype during the past seven days.

"Alec." Elias looked happy to see him. He looked at Bunbun curiously and itched to touch. The fur looked so much softer now!

Alec smiled at his friend. "How was your week?"

"Great. I realized I can make myself harder to be noticed."

"How does that work, exactly?"

"Running along the lines of defence, which can branch out to being 'harder', I made myself 'harder to see'. Seems it works pretty well, judging by your initial reaction to me appearing. I've been there the whole time."

Alec nodded. That was a rather novel idea of looking at it, and he couldn't help but admire it. It was a mix between what he imagined Support could do, as well as Defence.

Both the boy and teenager turned their heads at the same time, alerted to their teacher's presence.

Evin looked at the two with satisfaction. It looked like they had indeed grown within the week-long training mission. Training alone sometimes brought more benefits than training under someone else did.

"Good job," Evin couldn't help but say. "No injuries, right?"

Both of them shook their head.

Evin's eyes landed on the bunny still clutched in Alec's arms. He squinted, wondering if he was seeing things. "What exactly happened there?" he said, his eyes staring pointedly at the previously small bunny.

"He got a lot stronger."

"Obviously," Evin said, his tone like sandpaper. He shrugged. Whatever. It wasn't his rabbit,

"Go back home tonight. Tomorrow, you graduate."

Alec and Elias exchanged smiles.

Elias' eyes were sparkling as he thought about going to find the rest of their friends.

The two boys parted ways as they headed back home to pack their belongings.

Analise was waiting nervously at the door. "Alec!" she tugged her son into a big hug, spinning him around. "Oof, you've gotten heavy," she said, eyeing him.

Alec felt slightly offended. She said it like he had gotten fat during the seven days he had been away. This was pure muscle, okay! Muscle!

"Well, you're going to graduate, right? We have to quickly pack your bags tonight!"

Alec allowed himself to be tugged along according to his mother's whims. There just wasn't any fighting her.

Bunbun entered the room at this moment, causing her to pause. "Wow. You're not the only one to have gotten heavy!"

Alec felt speechless but entered his own room to pack away a few things he wanted to bring with him as he left the clan compounds. He snuck the more 'useless' things as well as the heavier things into the spatial dimension on his thigh.

Just imagining the sight of him secretly sticking his hands down his pants was just too beautiful to be mentioned. He really couldn't ever bring himself to do something like that. Maybe if it was life or death, but otherwise he would have just forgotten about it!

Luckily for him, he was still able to store and retrieve things over his clothes.

Annalise abruptly entered the room as he was touching his thigh, causing him to slowly take his hand off.

"What were you doing?" she said, eyeing him curiously.

"Nothing."

"Don't worry… mother understands…"

Understand what! Misunderstand, more like!




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