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Chapter 194 - 194. Day of Visiting

The day of visiting finally came after a week of the previous incident. Today, parents and guardians from all over troop to the academy to meet their ward. This gathering is only allowed twice in a semester and if Tristan is in a good mood, thrice. Visiting brings a lot of businesses to Ardentia so people get busy to receive people and nobility from afar. Ardentia has a large field which is now filled with stalls and benches, people made that arrangement early in the morning. Some parents arrive a day before Visiting but they wait outside the city as per agreement.

In the morning, Nytri, Juniper, Quenting, Ophelia and Peregrine are walking down the streets. Peregrine seems to have gotten closer to Ophelia and Nytri is just happy to see them together. Nytri led to them to Blackfire smithy and crafted Ultra grade armor and artifacts for them. It's armor but it's like a thin shirt though tough enough to withstand a few attacks from Nytri, odd how she made a shirt in a smithy. Nytri later leads them to Keith wife's restaurant and they ate to their fill.

The group later split up to meet their families and Nytri sits at the field square on a bench looking at the sky. A few minutes later, the noble ladies are before Nytri with their parents on their hands and knees begging Nytri but her mind is in the Nexusphere so she didn't notice them. This went on for hours and they dared not move because they knew what Azuria is capable of, heck some parents disowned their kids for fear.

Tristan noticed some people on their knees so he went to check, "Huh?" He sees about 50 people bowing in tears to Nytri and Nytri is looking at the sky. "One is even asking if his life will be enough to forgive her son." Tristan looks at Nytri, "Why isn't she reacting at all?" He walks past the 50 people and they stare at him.

A parent turns to Tristan, "Lord Tristan, plead for me please! I need your help!" Tristan ignores him and walks right before Nytri looking into her eyes, "Her eyes are dim, they normally have a glint around her pupil. I thought it was a magic artifact but it's just her eyes." He waves his hands before Nytri's face and she doesn't react, everyone watching is frozen.

Tristan moves his hand to shake Nytri but he hears a voice, "No need for that son." Tristan turns to see Ragnar. Tristan tilts his head, "Good to see you father, though I wasn't expecting you." Ragnar shrugs, "It's Visiting and you're in the academy. Even if you're the principal it doesn't change the fact you're my son." Tristan smiles wryly, "I appreciate that Pa but I'm still not a kid." Ragnar wraps an arm over Tristan's shoulder, "I know son." They sit on the same bench with Nytri in the middle and they chat away.

Tristan looks at Nytri, "So, what's wrong with her?" Ragnar speaks with his eyes sparkling, "You know Azuria has a whole world in their minds that connects them to a bigger world where only they can enter!" He looks super impressed even after finding out a month ago, "They store all their knowledge there and even skills can be learnt there. Some can even keep their souls there so they cheat death." He rubs a finger on his nose, "Well, yours truly managed to such a fantastic and fabulous world."

Tristan smiles, "Oh really, so what did you learn?" Ragnar's shoulder's slump down, "How many monsters are living on the earth." Tristan shakes his head in surprise with a 'What?' and Ragnar continues, "Do you know the weakest Azurian is able to fight a primordial god? And I'm only a demi-god. I even lost to a kid in arm-wrestling and he wasn't even 3 years old!"

"Eh? For real?" Tristan asks and the people are listening and turning pale. Ragnar continues, "Yeah, they're the reason the monsters in the unexplored regions are quiet. They tamed every single one of them into pets, even Beast Emperors are no different than house pets." Then he points at Nytri, "This little lass has a Beast Deity as a house cat."

Tristan nods slowly, "Waow, truly impressive. Do you think they can help with…..that issue?" Ragnar folds his arms, "You're darn right they can. We've already given the details to them and their king has made preparation. The king is even coming here," The people start trembling and Ragnar continues, "And some of the gods too." *THUD* a parent collapsed but the 2 ignore them.

Tristan smiles, "Waow, those gods must be impressive." Ragnar nods slowly, "Yes but, they gave up their divinity." Tristan is shocked and Ragnar continues, "I'm even considering doing same."

"Why would you do that?!" Tristan is agitated and stands up, "If you lose your power w-" Ragnar raises a hand to stop him, "I won't lose my power." Tristan is surprised, "What?" and Ragnar continues, "The gods who did that didn't lose their power, they just lost their godly physique. In return, they're being trained by Azurians. Though weaker, I think they can at least defeat their former selves."

Tristan is shocked, "How? B..But that's impossible." He sits down and Ragnar continues, "The mind world Azuria has is called Nexusphere and it was made by none other than their princess Nytri." Ragnar glances at her and continues, "She had other bodies or clones working on it." He shrugs, "I don't know how but that's the first time I've seen a clone indistinguishable from the original, I thought I was losing my mind."

Ragnar turns his head to show a metal artifact on his hear like wearing half a glasses, "This device lets me enter that world and I've gained so much that I can't even begin to comprehend. Nytri placed an announcement to go to the Monster Realm and I want us to go, I think we can grow stronger and better."

Tristan looks at the ground, "Alright." Then he looks back at him, "What about Cathgul?" Ragnar smiles, "The leaders are here to meet the king, surprisingly their kids are friends with Nytri. I believe they were Juniper, Quentin and Peregrine, the other's are also friends with Xeno Phifty."

"What's the deal with that kid?" Tristan speaks, "His name sounds like a number." Ragnar chuckle, "Indeed, I learned the history of Azuria, even more than the one made public. I think it's better you see it yourself." Tristan nods, "Alright."

"There she is!" A voice comes from behind the 3 and a middle-aged man picks up Nytri. Nytri snaps out of the Nexupshere, "Huh? Wha-" She looks at the man, "Uncle Agreth!" The man is none other than the former primordial Abyss god, Agreth. Agreth has a powerful aura that makes the people shudder in fear. Tristan and Ragnar are worried about how they didn't detect him until now.

Agreth puts Nytri down and pats her head, "How I've missed you. How's academy?" Nytri smiles, "It's surprisingly fun, though the classes are boring." Professor Gwyneth who is buying something in a stall close by feels her heart gets stabbed. Agreth laughs out loud, "Hahahahahah! I knew it. You're one of the brightest minds in Azuria, there's no way some low-grade academy can teach you anything." Tristan and Ragnar feel a huge boulder fall on them at those words.

Tristan mumbles, "You put your blood sweat and tears into something and it's called low-grade to your face." Ragnar holds his shoulder in sympathy, "You'll get use to it." Tristan is shocked and Ragnar speaks, "It's Azuria after all."

Agreth picks up Nytri and seats her on his shoulder, "How about we have some fun at this carnival!" Nytri makes a fist to the sky, "Yeah!" the 2 laugh as they walk away to the stalls to enjoy themselves.

Tristan and Ragnar slowly rise up to their feet and Phifty is behind them, "Just for the record," They turn to look at Phifty and he speaks, "I actually taught in your academy." And he nails the coffin shut. Tristan and Ragnar are staggering from the hits, they'd probably be bleeding from how the words hollowed out their chests.

In a pavilion-like building to the south of that location, Paxius is meeting with the leaders of Cathgul. He's surprisingly super good at his job as King.

Meanwhile, news of Azuria's achievements spread in the academy like wildfire. They fear Nytri and Phifty, but some friendships were strengthened. Ophelia met her elder brother who's an adventurer, her parents aren't.....

Anyway, Nytri slipped an invite to them to Azurian but Ophelia's brother refused. He saw how kind Nytri is and he felt he was taking too much. So Nytri offered to hire him as Azuria's mercenary which inadvertently led to him moving to Azuria. Agreth high fives Nytri for playing reverse psychology on him before Ophelia's brother. They ended up laughing and all is well.

 

 

[AU: INFO

- Ultra - These artifacts are shrouded in mystery and secrecy. They are incredibly powerful and often have complex enchantments or properties that are not fully understood. Though of higher grade, they possess no significant uniqueness but are termed as evolving artefacts capable of acquiring skills.

- Ultra grade artifacts are basically the first grade of evolving artifacts.

- Oh, each student had their own futures but as usual, the main focus is on Nytri since she's recounting her memories if you recall. So a lot of people don't get much attention but there are equally important as you'll see in the next chapter. Things happen in the background like a timeline, when this is here this is also here doing things. Until a PERSPECTIVE SWITCH comes in, focus remains on Nytri.

- I don't know if this is considered as spoiler but in the Monster Realm, according to the timeline, Ryu is going through his rites of passage into a young teen and Nytri is still an infant Calamity. So Ryu will grow to be a lot bigger in the short time that has passed and time dilates on earth and in the Realm of Monsters. Also Time is heavily focues on earth because of the sun, moon, stars and seasons. Monster Realm don't have season, the king determines if it's dry season or wet season or any they can make up.

- Also, King Golem from the Golem set has been spawning golems for R&D in Azuria and they're working on adaptive golems. Even Queen Golem wants to get skin to look like an android to match Nytri. Also, Nytri has automaton guards in her shadow but she forgot about them.

- I think that is all I can think of now...yeah. Oh, ONE MORE THING.

- Unfortunately had to cut corners to speed things up a bit. Entering the second part of volume 1 *CHEERS!!!!*

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