Two weeks passed too quickly. Miles sighed as he looked at his family. Rayen was in his embrace with her eyes teary, while others were seeing him off at the door.
On New Year's Eve, his family, as always, dined together. The food was as good as he rembered. Adam also visited and they talked about many things.
After dinner, they exchanged gifts. Miles had already prepared gifts for all of them.
For rcer, he purchased rare monkey wine that can rarely be found in Portal World. It cost him quite a lot of rit points. For Malcolm, he composed the technique he learned from Seven Finger Death Punch. Although it was only to Form-Rank, as of now, it was still a strong battle art.
For his mother, he purchased a pre-invasion painting with a woman barely smiling on it. Miles was quite dense when it ca to the art, but the seller said it was a masterpiece back in the ti.
For rlin and Marcela, he forged rings with barrier elents. Although their tiers were low, because of his level, they were still protective items. Both of them had better barrier elental items on them all the ti, but it wouldnt hurt to carry a small protective ring as well.
For Adam, he successfully planted the tree he brought from the alien world. It was still a sapling, but it was growing anyway. It was one of a kind, so Adam liked it very much.
For Rayen, he forged a beautiful red armor with the speed elent. It was the best armor one could see in Grunt-Rank.
Lastly, for Kenway, he passed him a sword technique he found in the academy. He asked Milosh if he could take it away, but Milosh wasnt petty with what he had. His goal was to make humanity stronger, so he wasnt against the idea of sharing.
Miles wasnt good with gifts, so he just put a lot of sentint behind the gifts. Not much he could do, after all, he wasnt thriving financially and he was locked in the academy. Luckily, everyone liked their gifts a lot.
Miles also received their gifts. rcer gave him a journal with his experience written on it. These were his life experiences through his military life including his advancent from Grace-Rank to Devote-Rank.
Although it was just a copy, and rlin and Marcela got the sa gift, Miles was still surprised that rcer was thoughtful enough to get him a gift. Malcolm bought him a dagger made of sharpness elent. It was forged by Cross Alloys and lted by Kenway himself. It was sharper than any weapon Miles had, but its tier was the pinnacle, so Miles could hardly use it.
Evelyn gave him a flash drive with her latest research. Mainly about chs and elental resonance. Although Miles learned how to rge orbs before her, he wasnt even close to her level when it ca to scientific subjects. He was just lucky to find a thod to rge orbs that were using elental minerals.
rlin bought him the sixth strengthening serum. It was way too expensive for him, and rlin bought it to thank him. Miles allowed his brother to get a pretty decent passive ability after all. From the race with Quintus, he didnt earn anything else. rlin got a passive ability and Miles got nothing.
Marcela, this ti, got him a gift. It was a simple bracelet with electrical discharge that could recover a wristwatch's battery. It was a pretty thoughtful gift and surprised Miles. Although he didnt need it. Coin was now built with an electrical core, gold electricity on top of that. There was no way for him to run out of electricity, except in situations such as Dead Zones. Those were rare though.
Rayen didnt have any money and was still too shy to accept it from Evelyn. Her gift was an amulet she made herself. Miles accepted gladly and patted her head.
Adams was research on botany. Miles was interested in plants lately, and his interests only increased after he saw the trees in the alien world. His uncles gifts were also his notes about so of the plants that could be located in Portal World. He was grateful for that.
Kenway also gave him the techniques he perfected. His family and friends knew orbs and weapons were useless without personal strength, so instead of covering him with protective bubbles, they all chose to make him stronger. He wouldn't like it any other way.
After the new year, he still had a week. He t with Carl and Mae again for a quick al. They exchanged so of the things they learned and chatted for a while and promised to et again if Miles could co again.
Later, he t with Cale and other soldiers he t last ti. They once again spent the day chatting and hanging out. Cale still invited him after that, and they t with Quinn and Lucy. Lucy was also Form-Rank now, and she was in the sa stronghold with Quinn once again. Although Quinn wanted to create the hunting team once again, she wasnt the post commander anymore, and she couldnt.
The new stronghold they were in was rlin's. Since he was there for such a long ti, he had a team of his own. Quinn wanted to lead a hunting party of her own but she also wanted to hunt with rlin. Thus she could only give up on creating her own and join rlin's.
Miles also heard that Porseila wanted to join their team, but was kindly refused by rlin. Quinn didn't like Porseila, nor did rlin. Although Quinn said it only agitated her more, she couldn't care less.
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