Chapter 19 - Testing

The day went by quickly. After the classes ended, Alan and the girls immediately went back to the villa. They talked about what happened during Alan's absence. Several emotions showed by the girls annoyed by how the students pestered them all week saying that without Alan, people started to disturb them.

'I think I spoilt them too much. Hahaha. Being away from them just for a week made them so frustrated already.' Alan shook his head.

Once they arrived at the villa, Alan immediately wanted to enhance Alice's staff and complete one of the side quests.

"Alice, can you lend me your staff? I want to do something to it." Alan looked at Alice.

"Oh, here you go!" Alice's staff came flying towards Alan. Unlike Alan who has the inventory to store his weapon, the others can either bring along their weapon all the time or put calling magic so they can call their weapon when they need it.

Alan took a mental note to make some spatial rings for them. No matter how cool it looks when weapons fly towards them, it could be dangerous if something happens to the weapons. People could sabotage or steal their weapons easily.

Alan holds the staff that was floating in front of him.

"Appraise." Alan thought. Ever since he become a crafter he could almost appraise everything. This includes other weapons than his.

A window popped up in front of the staff.

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Frost Hardwood Grand Staff (Bronze Rank)

Tier 1

- Increase Ice magic control efficiency.

- Magic power +2

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'Bronze rank huh?' Alan thought. After he became a crafter, he knew that weapons have their grades. From the lowest such as Common, Uncommon, Iron, to the higher ranks such as Bronze, Silver, and Gold. There are even higher ranks than those such as Epic, Legendary and Mythical weapons.

Alan was bewildered when he found out that there is a Mythical grade above Legendary weapons such as his sword, the Star Sword.

'Now let's enhance this staff.' Alan thought.

He took the weapon to a special room he made just for his crafting activities. After the preparation was completed, he took out the Rainbow Diamond Dust from the inventory, and by using his Hell Flame, he fused the material into the staff.

The process is not that challenging because first, Alan has the system, and second, he is a genius prodigy. If this sort of thing is hard for him, he might as well kill himself. He got his pride.

After 20 minutes or so, Alan finished enhancing the staff.

[Ding! Congrats to the Host for completing the side quest, Enhance Alice's magic staff. Level up to 44!]

'Nice one. Now, Appraise.' He thought while looking at the enhanced staff.

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Frost Hardwood Grand Staff (Silver Rank)

Tier 2

- Increase Ice magic control efficiency.

- Magic power +5

- Intelligence +5

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"Oh? Not only I enhanced it to tier 2 but also upgraded it to silver rank. No wonder this Rainbow Diamond Dust is so rare." Alan talked to himself.

Alan came out of the crafting room and gave the staff back to Alice.

"Here you go, oh one more thing" he gave several unique spatial rings that he made beforehand the enhancement process started to the girls. He also made one for Tracy.

"These are spatial rings. I made it so guys can store your things and weapons inside. The size inside should be equivalent to a big chamber." Alan said.

The girls were surprised. Spatial rings! These rings were very rare only powerful people can own one but Alan gave each of them one. Not only that, each ring has its design that suits their taste.

"Hehehe..." The girls were grinning happily while admiring the ring on their fingers.

"Papa! How about me?" Iris pouted.

Alan smiled, "Of course, daddy prepared something for you."

Alan took out several dresses and clothing with various designs that he made by using the remaining rainbow diamond dust. Not only it made the each of dresses looked much more beautiful but it also has a defense attribute in them.

"Wah! I like it so much! Thank you, Papa!" Iris giggled happily while trying the new clothes she got.

Alan smiled before he looked to the girls and said "Ah, before I forgot, I will enhance more but I need to find better materials first okay?"

"Okay!" the girls except for Alice and Erica nodded.

Erica is a magic-user. The only melee attack she uses is with her beautiful but deadly fists.

"Come, Alice, let's try your new staff." Alan and the girls walked to the back of the villa which is full of trees. You could say that it is a forest. The whole land of the forest belongs to the Snow family.

"Now, cast something," Alan said.

"Erm…Okay." Alice nodded.

She pointed her staff towards the forest and cast.

"Ice Blizzard!"

The staff shone and a few moments later, *Swoosh*

Apart from Alan and Erica, the other girls having a hard time standing still because of the wind. Alan saw this a quickly cast a dome protection spell surrounding them.

Rotating ice-cold wind along with shards of sharp ice appeared and consumed a part of the forest. The trees were ripped from the soil and the sharp ice destroyed them into pieces.

The spell continued for several minutes before it stopped. Now, a diameter of 10 meters of the land was bare.

The sisters and Jessica were dumbfounded. *Gulp*

"What the, how can it be so powerful? I thought I used the same amount of mana as before?" Alice was shocked.

"Is it Alice? You're much powerful now!" Mary said seriously.

"Yes, usually, this spell only cast a cold wind tornado and the most I could do is 5 meters in diameter. Now, oh my god…with a casual amount of mana, not only it is larger but also freezing and deadlier with sharp ice in it." Alice solemnly said.

Alan looked at Alice and said, "How about that? Do you like it? This handsome big brother of yours made it so much stronger." He smiled smugly.

The girls looked at Alan with awe.

Alice looked at her brother and said, "Big brother, you're so cool!" She smiled happily before jumped and hugged him.

After that Alan helped Alice to get used to her new enhanced staff while the other girls do their training for a few hours until dusk.

When they were done, Alan looked at the girls who were sweating from training.

"Hey, how about I make dinner tonight?" Alan asked.

"Eh? You can cook Alan?" Jessica asked while the other girls looked at him doubtfully. Well, except for Erica. The girls' doubts were not weird. After all, Alan just recovered, when did he learn how to cook? Ten years ago, when he was a child?

"Uh…Yes? Don't look at me like that or I kiss you one by one. Why not you guys wash yourselves out while I'll go prepare for dinner." Alan shook his head.

A trace of red appeared on the girls' faces. "Erm…okay then." They quickly went to their room to clean themselves from sweats except for Erica who stayed behind.

"Go on Erica, what are you waiting for?" Alan smiled.

"I miss your cooking…" Erica looked at Alan longingly. Long ago, Alan would always cook for her when he had time."

Alan caressed one side of her face with the back of his hand softly and tucked the tresses of her hair that covered her face behind her ears.

"From now own, I'll cook for you again. I'm sorry I left you for so long." Alan said dearly.

Both of them looked into each other's eyes for a few moments.

"I'm glad I could see you again. Promise me to take care of yourself. Don't overwork yourself again, okay?" Erica said solemnly with hints of worries appeared on her face.

"I promise." Alan seriously said. In his past life, he died of exhaustion which is not something that he's proud of.

"Then, I'll go clean myself first." Erica smiled before she went to her room.

Alan smiled and went to the kitchen to prepare for dinner.

Alan looked at the ingredients in the kitchen. He told the chefs that he would be cooking for tonight's dinner.

'Hmm…There's rice and some other stuff. It should be okay.' He thought. He wanted to cook chicken teriyaki and aromatic rice but somehow chicken does not exist anymore.

Alan searched the meat storage before his eyes flashed. 'Nice, this magical beast meat is similar to chicken.'

He took the meat cut into pieces and marinated it inside a special box he prepared. Somehow, after he got himself the spatial mythical fragment, he could control the time in a separate artificial dimension a little bit. Although, he still could not control time in a real-time dimension.

Marinate in the box for a few minutes should the same as few hours. After it was done, he took out the meats, place them around wooden skewers and put some spices and oil. He used Hell Flame, controlled the temperature, and let it around 15 minutes.

While waiting, he took a ginger, sliced it, and prepared a large pan before putting the sliced ginger along with rice and water. Then, he boiled, covered, and left it to simmer for a few minutes. Then he thinly sliced spring onions.

After the meats were done, he put out the flames, took out the meats, and coated them with the marinade juice thoroughly.

Once the rice was cooked he put the onions inside the pan and gently stirred it. After that, he put a portion on several plates before he put two meat skewers on each. He sprinkled a little of sesame seeds and done. There were some more remaining for the chefs and maids to eat too.

The chefs were surprised to see Alan cooked so professionally. Not only that, but he also used magic in cooking. 'Our young master is truly a genius!' They thought while drooling a little.

Alan asked the maids to prepare the dining table while he went to his room to quickly clean himself up.

When Alan was done, he went to the dining room and saw the girls were already there. The table was prepared with tablewares. Once all of them were seated and ready. Alan asked the maids to bring in the food.

After the food was set onto the table, the girls looked at it with sparkles in their eyes.

"Wow, it smells so good ~," Jessica said while drooling.

"Big brother, you cooked this?" Alice asked happily.

"Yes." Alan smiled.

"I can't wait to eat this…" Mary said while wiping her mouth.

"True. I can't wait." Erica acted dignified while twitching but all could see that she was controlling herself real hard.

"Papa…Where's mine?" Iris said while her eyes red almost tearing up.

Alan saw this can't help but pet her tiny head. "Hehe, don't worry, Iris eats with papa. See, papa's food is slightly more than others. That's because it is for Iris too."

"Really? Yay! Iris eats together with papa!" She giggled happily.

Alan looked at the girls before he smiled, "Now, let's eat."

Once they were done eating, they hanged out in the living room.

"Seriously Alan, when did you learn to cook? Your cooking is really in the top class ranking." Jessica stared at Alan.

"Yeah, big brother, it is so delicious!" Alice said happily while Mary nodded her head vigorously.

Erica who was dreaming in her world suddenly said, "Alan used to be Divine God of Cooking."

The other girls all stunned and looked at Alan, "Huh?"

Iris also surprised before she asked, "Papa is a god? No wonder…"

Alan glared at Erica who was already woke from her dream world. * Cough* "Hahaha…" She smiled wryly while looking at Alan guiltily.

"Hahaha, Erica made a joke, what kind of title is this?" Alan said the girls.

The girls did not reply and still staring curiously.

Alan quickly stood up and said let's go to sleep we hanged out for almost three hours already.

The girls shrugged.

"Fine, let's go to sleep," Alice said.

"My turn today," Erica said.

"Me too." Mary suddenly said.

"What do you mean?" Alice nervously asked.

"My turn on top." Mary smugly said.

"No…" Alice said sadly.

"Then, I'm on the other side." Jessica joined.

"NO!" Alice cried.

No one listened to her and went to Alan's room. She was devastated.

"Come, Alice," Alan called her.

Alice smiled happily before she joined the group. 'Oh well, I can't be too selfish can't I?"