Master and Disciples

Ten more years passed at the Six Rings Academy, Nicola was close to turning 29 years old. His time as a student was over six years ago and after that he continued to develop his own techniques and carry out missions for the Academy, in just two more years he could pay his debt and get out of there and explore the continent.

If someone decided to leave the Academy, he would be assigned to a last mission more dangerous than any that he has undertaken before, if he could complete it he would be free to go, otherwise he would have to continue as a student for another four years until he could try again.

Many weaker students gave up the opportunity to leave and chose to dedicate themselves completely to their internal functions. Thus, reaching several important positions within.

But that was not what he wanted, as a silver-level blacksmith student, the Six Rings Academy was opposed to him leaving there, so his final mission would be a little more difficult than the others. All this time Nicola hid his skills as much as he could, trying to deceive the person who would allocate his mission. Tiane had decided to stay inside the Academy a little longer, unlike Nicola.

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It was already dark and Nicola was working in the laboratory of his room, he had been putting together his puppet project for a few months. Beside him were two children who passed the tools to him.

Kin and Gin, the two were very similar, almost like brothers, both had spongy white skin and looked to be around 5 years old. Kin is a boy and had golden eyes and hair, Gin on the other hand is a girl and has silver eyes and hair.

They were the human form of the Entoloma mushrooms that Nicola managed to steal. Both awakened their spiritual sentience on an equinox day, when one could see the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time. The light present in their mushroom bodies intensified and made them change their shape.

In a certain way, they had an oriental air just like Nicola.

Without contact with anyone else, the twins accepted Nicola as their master and helped him with his research and other activities. Nicola fed them with cores of wooden beasts, light and metal - the elements they were most aligned with - in addition to pills he created himself.