Fates Parallel Vol. 3 by DarkTechnomancer

Author:DarkTechnomancer [DarkTechnomancer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

36. Tournament

Despite her best efforts, Jia couldn’t get Heian to repeat her first word—or any others. At least she had conclusive proof that Kim Yongsun was right—it was definitely possible to teach her to speak. Getting her to converse normally with humans would be a crucial part of developing Heian’s identity and teaching her to empathize with humans. According to Kim, spirits were naturally inclined towards empathy, but had as much difficulty understanding humans as humans did understanding them. If she could bridge the gap of understanding, then the empathy would follow naturally.

In the meantime, she and Eui experimented with different methods of developing their artifact creation project. With the tournament so close on the horizon, they couldn’t spare the time and focus that they had back when they first made the gloves, but they could at least explore the different ways they might develop the items further. After weeks of experimentation, it seemed like the best results came from trying to produce essence with a strong intent, and then infusing the items with that essence.

Of course, that ran into a familiar problem—Eui’s destruction element was terribly volatile. Though her mastery of it had improved dramatically, it was still nearly impossible to keep stable while not under her direct control. In order to avoid accidentally destroying the gloves, they’d experimented with other items, and it always resulted in total destruction. Theoretically, a high grade core could stabilize the essence, but destruction element cores were absurdly rare and hard to work with, and even lower grade cores were rarely traded. They’d need to either find their own somehow, or come up with another method.

Between practicing with their team, working on their crafting, and teaching Heian, the month blurred past. All too soon, caravans arrived from all over the continent with people who had come to watch the tournament. The size of the town was finally put to proper use, as visitors and dignitaries were accommodated in the mostly unused north and south districts of the campus.

The southern district was normally where the merchants stayed when the market was in town, and now they were joined by the common visitors and some of the lesser nobility—mostly direct family of academy students that were wealthy enough to leave whatever business they had behind to travel for a few months.

The northern district was where the lecture hall was located, and also where the instructors lived. It had the finest construction by far, and the extra buildings there housed the visitors with the highest status—nobles and royalty. Not that Jia was aware of any royalty, but with Eunae and Hayakawa present, she wasn’t ruling anything out.

Jia hadn’t been expecting so many people to arrive. The streets had grown increasingly crowded since the caravans started arriving, and discussions about who had arrived and who might yet be coming dominated the conversations among academy students. Yue was especially concerned.

“He’s not going to come, right? He’s always far too busy for such frivolities, and he doesn’t care about me.

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