We repeated that for ten days.

  There was a part of me that was worried because we hadn’t been attacked by the demons yet. I wasn’t sure what they were up to, but I didn’t feel like they were going to just cut their losses and walk away.

  Our lessons had gotten better. Ether was thriving under Whisper’s training and had outpaced both myself and Kara in what she’d learned. She was able to cast any magic that she’d seen before and was learning how to multicast and keep multiple buffs up at once.

  Kara seemed almost reluctant to learn from Whisper. I knew it had to be strange that she was a higher Tier than he was, but inside the Mantle, he was the master. I knew that she was wanting to learn, but I felt like she would have much rather if it had been Klix who was the one teaching.

  Klix was keeping Gesai away from us so much that I hadn’t seen the red-haired teacher at all. Oz told me that she’d leveled up, but I didn’t know how many levels she’d gone up. I also had no idea why the ivory Goddess was trying to powerlevel Gesai, but I hadn’t seen Klix either to be able to ask her.

  Oz had become my tether to the outside. Shelly was staying in the tent where Astrid and Trent had been placed on cots. Klix had drafted the others to help a pair of Scarlets coordinate the Adventurers who came to the city looking for better rewards from monsters outside the break.

  It was a good leveling system as the experience gained and the crystal dropped were the same as if they had beaten a floor boss, so lots of teams had tried to enter the city. The problem was that there was a finite amount of space that could be used.

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  The complication was the size of the parties. In order to keep the monsters in the city from turning into elites, the Adventurers had to make sure that there were no more than six Adventurers within three blocks of each other. To combat this, Klix had declared that each Adventurer team could only farm in a set area every day. Around each area was a three block ‘dead zone’ where Adventurers were forbidden from entering. The first day a few Adventurers had refused to listen to Oz when she’d warned them about leaving their designated area. Klix had made an example out of them almost immediately. I hadn’t gotten a chance to really observe it, but to hear them talk after we got finished, I doubted anyone in the city would try to give us trouble.

  They had taken out two floor bosses, the level one from the Temple Dungeon and level three from the Authority Dungeon, that had gotten close enough to the tree that they weren’t in danger of getting attacked by higher level monsters while they had been fighting. Klix had personally overseen the fights, which I wasn’t sure what her goal was, but she seemed to be helping out my class a lot more than even Tres did.

  I honestly didn’t have much energy to deal with anything after we got done with our own training. Having an infinite amount of mana was nice, but the strain on my mind had my ears ringing by the time we finished each day. I was glad that the other members of my team had started feeling productive, but most of the days, I’d just gone straight to bed in the tent that had been reserved for Ether, Oz, Ren, and Kara. At first I’d been weirded out that Kara had wanted to sleep in the same tent, but considering almost all of the time that I’d spent in it, I’d been asleep, it stopped nagging at me after a few days.

  The biggest thing that had bothered me was that we still hadn’t seen the demons. I felt like Harror and her guards were starting to lower their guard, but there wasn’t much I could do. I just hoped that Whisper would be able to handle things when we did get attacked.

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