Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

Chapter 657 The special ring

[Eon's POV: ]

Time passed by a little too quickly after that accident with our house members and many things happened in succession.

The academy had truly started now, and there were different societies, or factions in simpler terms, groups that had powers over the groups that did not possess any kind of power, and everyone had learned a thing or two about the guidelines of punishments and disciplinary actions.

There were people who were taking outside help openly and the influence of those who possessed power in the outside world had reached a higher point.

Many things have changed over the past three weeks and, now that we will have a short break starting tomorrow since it will mark the start of the annual Alchemy competition, I know many new things will surface when the academy starts again.

'One of those things would undoubtedly be the new scoreboards and the new first place, and, I am confident that we have a solid chance to get the first spot on the scoreboard if not the first spot in the alchemy competition.'

Things had been difficult for us since all the other houses were doing their best to target us openly and from the shadows.

They play all the tricks in the books and get innovative as well with their tricks to make more trouble for us.

Rein, Carla, Alf, and even Captain Alpha were a threat that put a lot of pressure on us through lethal as well as illegal means however, we persisted.

'We faced their challenges, I stopped many that were too lethal for the others myself, and took on the responsibility for many of the things that were allegedly the fault of my house members.'

Things had been difficult but, thanks to all of our combined efforts and thanks to their active participation, we still managed to deal with them, as well as the threats of the outside who somehow had managed to interfere with many of the other houses.

'Haaaaa…'

These past three weeks had been so tiring I had failed to complete proper sleep during some of the days, and, since Rein was getting worried about me as well, I couldn't help but take some time off from the ton of work I had.

'If Zoe wasn't here with me… I don't even know what I would have done with all the attacks, and plots, and propaganda, and whatnot.'

However, thanks to her influence, her goodness, her pureness, and her amazingness, we managed to survive through a very difficult period. But, we did what we needed to for the competition.

'I prepared them for the competition and after the accident, the house members had gotten unexpectedly closer so, thanks to the new unity that had been established between us, things had become a little easier.'

The ones who would be going for the alchemy competition from our house had all finished absorbing the book to at least thirty percent of what it actually is, with Miss Mia, Ball, and two other people finishing all of what was available to them, which, truthfully, was a good seventy-one percent of the complete book.

They had gained a kind of knowledge few in the world possess at the moment, which certainly won't be nearly enough to compete against those old masters and grandmasters, but, it would be more than enough to finish the first and second rounds of the competition.

And, once they all were through the first day of the competition if not all of them, then with just twelve out of eighteen of them, they all should be able to get by the second day as well.

'The third day's results would solely depend on them but, I have faith in them.'

I taught them techniques that have been forgotten in today's age, I fine-tuned their skills and taught them how to use at least the basic functions of it, I gave them the basics for all the things they would need and, with Miss Mia having learned most of the things I could teach her, I had no need to worry as long as she was there.

'I knew they all could do just fine on their own, and that I can rest assured and attend the Alchemy competition as my real self with this pretty fiancée of mine who… was trying to do something complicated right now.'

-Dhum!

"Ughhh! What the hell is your problem!? Just do as I say!"

She was screaming at the ring on her index finger, an attractive ring made of a unique metal called Adamantium that was also called the metal of the gods, with a unique amethyst jewel embedded in it, which, also contained the spirit of some unknown powerful creature.

"Fuck you!"

-Dhum!

She fell to the ground due to the sudden increase in gravity around her and screamed once again like she had been doing for the last twenty-one minutes.

"That is enough for today, Rein. We should go now."

"NO! Once more!"

This was the same ring that had been the cause of that certain accident we had, and, getting this from that bastard prince of that small country was a task much more difficult than I had anticipated.

I didn't approach him myself but instead, asked Miss Moon to approach him secretly when he was roaming in the streets of the sky island.

She did pretty well on her job however, that bastard, even though he did not give a fuck about the ring itself, refused to hand over something that belonged to him, something that he had received from his late old man who, he clearly did not respect at all.

'I offered him many things and even threatened him to hand it over once, but, all the attempts were futile. That bastard was just too stubborn!'

In the end, I approached him myself in a disguised form and asked him what he wanted in exchange for the ring, and, since I was intimidating him, he gave up and asked for something so… fucking futile that I wanted to crack open that bastard's head.

-Dhum!

"Ughhhhhhhh! Fuck you, you fucking useless piece of trash! Fuck you!"

"Haaa…"

That bastard wanted me to pull some strings and do something that would make Miss Mia have an interest in him… he wasted my time, really.

I asked Miss Mia for a favor and told her to play along with that bastard for a while and after a while, he handed over the ring himself, and, signed the Mana oath, Aura oath, and an Origin oath that stated that he was willfully handing over the ownership of the ring to us.

'It was a (Semi-bound) item that could only be truly obtained after the previous owner resigns the ownership in true meaning, and, since this specific ring was an artifact that in fact had a creature residing inside of it, even after I released the powerful seal placed on it, the artifact itself did not acknowledge me as worthy enough to wield it.'

But when Rein took it, the ring bound itself with her on the spot for some reason that I still could not figure out.

And, even though it had bound itself with her, this ring did not let her use any of her skills or the power of the being residing inside of it.

'As a matter of fact, we don't even know what even is inside of this so out-of-the-world amazing artifact that even my eyes gave six freaking whole stars.'

It was an unknown artifact so we couldn't put it in any of the categories that we have so, this ring was a mystery to me that I very much enjoyed solving.

It was fun seeing the face of that bastard that lost his ring when Miss Mia slapped him the day before yesterday, but, it had been fun watching the misery of my dear fiancée.

"Get up."

The ring had some kind of gravitational power and from what our eyes told us, which was surprisingly pretty much nothing, this special ring and the one inside of it, was most certainly a being of great powers.

So great that it enjoyed playing with a witch that had the power to cut anything that existed in this reality.

"Ughhhh… take this fucking trash away from me Eon. Just throw it away!"

"Yes yes. We can't do that obviously. Sit here."

I sat her down on the couch, changed her clothing with my own Mana, and tidied her hair before placing her star leaf on her chest.

"You are a bastard! You are enjoying seeing me like this! Right?!"

"Of course I do. And I will keep enjoying this. All you can do is continue doing what you have been."

I kissed her forehead, and she was certainly trying to push me away again, but she couldn't do it since the ring in her hand was still a nice cue to her.

"Bastard…"

She had puffed cheeks and an upset face, a cute one, adorable perhaps.

"We have to go see the headmaster now miss miserably. Get ready-"

I was going to pick her up after she finished her drama, but, instead, she hugged me unexpectedly and, rubbed her head against my face.

"Kissy."

"No kissy. We are alredy late."

'There's still four minutes left before the given time though. Kissy."

"No, miss. I know you will continue biting me for at least three minutes."

"That's a given though… kissy?"

She looked up at me with an innocent look, a bloody innocent look that was too cute and something that definitely did not suit her.

"Three minutes sharp-"

She jumped up on me right after those words left my mouth and after exactly three minutes of biting my lips, which happened both ways obviously, she jumped down.

"Alright!"

And since we had no time at all now, we pressed the star leaves on our shoulders and activated the special features that only the house captains could use.

-Oooooooooooong!

And, it transported us right to the special place of the headmaster, which, was not acceptable by any other means.