A day had passed by, I had only spent a day with my family and work; as for the mentees, I had only spent an hour, and so with them, I will have all the time to work with them and experiment on them after I reached my assignment which I had finally come to know after my meeting with Grand Commander.

As she had said, it is a familiar place that I had been to before, but I did not expect such a small place would become so important that they had to station a Grandmaster there permanently.

I would be directly under him, and according to the info Grand Commander has provided, I will be 3rd strongest person there, but I think I will be 2nd strongest person after the Grandmaster himself.

From the info I had read about the second strongest person, I think I can beat him with the recent improvements I have made.

I wish I could stay here for one more week but I could not. I had handed my creations to Grand Commander, and she said the preliminary test would be within a week, and if it is successful, they will be used all of them at once.

I am quite excited about them. These creations are something I had dreamed of for a long; they are not only destructive but will also produce a huge amount of resources for our forces and me, and only I know how much resources I need.

Yesterday, I had practiced my art again, progressing another 10% in the first stage. For it, not only I have exchanged all the resources I have no need for but also tapped into the resources I am getting from the Pyramid as the Grandmaster of healing.

While I was getting powerful, my storage had never been this empty; my storage had always had filled with resources; even though most of the resources I had were not used to me, I used to keep them, sell them only when I needed of something.

"Have you made all the preparations? You should not forget anything important.

"

"It is a war you are going to fight, not the skirmish you are used to; the enemy will try to kill you at any cost seeing your power,

" Mom said as she asked me the tenth time about my preparations.

It is usually my father who fussed about my preparations, but this time it is my mother; the gravity of the war had made her fussy bee-like my father.

"I had made all the preparations, mom,

" I said for the tenth time and turned to her with a smile on my face.

"There is something I have to give you; it will be very helpful for your coming assignment,

" I said,

"No more gifts Michael, you have given me enough, even helped me reach the leader class and provided the resources for the further the further advancement,

"

"It is already enough; I do not want anything else,

" she said while shaking her head,

"It is not a resource,

" I said with a smile, and beautiful purple and blue shield appeared in my hand, seeing the shield words on my mother lips have stopped and her expressions became complicated.

"This,

" mom said with the shaking voice, and tears well up in her eyes before one slid down from her left eye.

She looked at the shield for a couple of seconds before she took it, her shaking hands as tears began to stream down from her cheeks.

"How? I thought it would have been damaged beyond repair in holding back the curse in you,

" she said while gently touching the shield.

"It had been a little damaged, but I was able to repair and upgrade it,

" I said.

This shield is strange; I had done the research and what I found is shocking; there is a core to this shield that is unlike what I had not seen before, and from what I had observed, it is extremely hard to destroy that core, you could expend its power but not destroy it.

Even if I had not been able to repair it, it would have been repaired on its own. Though, it would have taken it years and not a couple of days to do that.

"The shield would be more useful to you than me,

" Mom said as she tried to give back the shield to me.

"I do not use shield, mom,

" I said and pressed the shield back to her, and it seemed like I had used too much of the force unconsciously and made her take a step back.

"You should train more; uncontrolled strength is more dangerous than you think,

" Mom warned.

"I am working on it, mother. It is just that boost that art gives is little different and needs little more training to control the strength,

" I said.

"Thank you for the shield; I am sure it will help greatly,

" Mom said finally; I know it will and not just defensively.

Its upgrade had brought out a couple of cool abilities that will easily defend her from attacks of any master class Tyrant. She could even survive the attack of Grandmaster with it.

I spent a few hours with my family, playing with my sister till she slept. It is a good thing she had slept; if she had been awake, I would have had a harder time leaving.

"Take care of yourself out there and don't take big risks; there are people out there who are much stronger than you,

" My father warned as I got up leave.

"Take care of yourself, Micheal, and as your father had said, don't take the needless risks,

" Mom reminded the warning.

"I will not take risks,

" I said, lying through my teeth. It is war, and I will need to take the risk. Though I will not jump into the fire knowing it will burn me, that is just pure idiocy, and I am not an idiot.

I walked toward the teleportation formation with my father; as I did, my face and physique changed, and so is the color of my skin.. My aura also started to increase, from elite, it reached a leader class before stepping into the master class and even taken half step beyond that.