The four of them finished eating and stood up to leave. Just as they were doing so, Taron took Ning and Saphandra to the side to speak in private.
"You guys aren't mad that I'm doing this, are you?" Taron asked.
"Not really," Ning said. "As long as you know what you're doing, I see no problem."
"I couldn't care less either," Saphandra said.
"Thank you," Taron said.
"Right, do you want me to dye your hair? I can make it so that it doesn't wash off," Ning said.
"Yes, if you can, thanks," Taron said. "I will visit your room tonight. Also, I have something else to say."
"What is it?" Ning asked.
"We won't be dropping off at Darius. I will take a connecting ship directly to the Thousand Summons school," Taron said.
"Well, that seems a little hasty but sure," Ning said.
"What will you do when you find a spaceship coming? How will you let me know?" Taron asked.
"You don't have to worry about that. There is nowhere in this planet that you can go to that I won't be able to find you in," Ning said. "Also if you ever need any help, just let me know."
"How can I do that?" Taron asked.
"Just ask Wendy, she can send me messages," Ning said and walked away.
Saphandra quickly followed him and went back to their rooms.
While Saphandra read up on the language, Ning read up on the summoning circles again.
These things were so complicated that Ning couldn't understand much on a single read-through.
Ning came and they went to dinner again.
Later at night, Taron came to Ning's room and got his hair dyed all yellow. Ning made sure to use something that would last forever and not wash away.
In fact, he made it so that no matter how much Taron's hair grew out, it would forever remain yellow.
Once that was done, Taron returned back to his room and Ning went to sleep.
The next morning, he was awakened by some violent bangs on the door and he lazily got to the door to open it.
As expected, it was a seasick Saphandra that was here to ask for her medicine. Ning sighed and handed her medicine.
"Thank you," she said. "I should really keep some for myself."
"You should," Ning said as he yawned. "I'm going back to sleep, bye."
"Are you that sleepy?" she asked.
"Kinda," Ning said. "You might want to go sleep as well. You don't want to be lethargic when we disembark later today."
"Oh, we're reaching today? Yes, finally," Saphandra felt glad. "Yes, I'll go rest too then."
Ning only woke up again at noon for lunch. Saphandra was already awake by then and was reading her books again.
"Wanna go eat lunch?" Ning asked her from outside the door.
"Sure," she said and walked out in one of her newer dresses.
"You look nice," Ning said.
"Thank you," she said and walked together to the dining hall. They were some of the last people to come for lunch so the hall was quite empty.
They finally got to eat in peace and then went by the deck to wait.
"Look, I can see land," Saphandra said as she pointed to the distance.
"Oh, there it is," Ning said as he saw the land too. "Darius Kingdom. At this rate, we should be there in half an hour. Let me go grab my stuff."
Ning teleported away from right where he was and appeared back in the exact spot 5 seconds later.
"Where did you— why are you wet?" she asked him.
"I had to go get this," Ning said as he showed her the hundreds of pearls in the metal cage that he had just ripped off from underneath the pirate boat.
"What's this?" she asked.
"I put it in the water to recharge it while we were in the ocean," Ning said. "Come on, let's get ready to leave."
Saphandra sighed and went back to her room to pack all of her stuff and handed them over to Ning who conveniently stored it in his storage.
"Dammit, I wish I had a storage too," she said.
"It's a shame you can't. Most places I've been to have some sort of storage," Ning said.
"No, people do have storage here too," Saphandra said. "Most people can summon a monster that can store objects into the void."
"Oh? They can?" Ning asked curiously. "Why don't they do it then?"
"It costs quite a lot of spiritual energy to keep a monster or its skill summoned, you know."
"Imagine walking around an entire day with a monster summoned. You know how much energy it would consume?" she asked. "It would take a person nearly a week or more of continuous seclusion with many pearls to get back their Spiritual energy."
"If their rank is high, then they might be able to afford a low-rank monster, but for people with low rank it's pretty much impossible," Saphandra said.
"That… kinda makes sense," Ning said with a thoughtful expression. "Especially considering that people can't just use techniques to absorb spiritual energy."
"Anyway, it's time to leave, let's go," Saphandra said and walked out to the deck.
A few minutes later, the port was visible with a lot of other ships coming and going, and a few minutes after that, the ship stopped.
A ladder came down and everyone started leaving the ship one by one. Ning and Saphandra left along with Pamella and Taron, who now had flowing golden hair.
"This is it, guys," Taron said. "I'm leaving with Pam in one of these ships right now."
"Alright, good luck," Saphandra said.
"See you later then," Ning said and waved his hand to Taron and Pamella.
"Take care you two," Pamella said and walked away with Taron.
"What do you think will happen when she finds the truth?" Saphandra asked.
"No idea," Ning said as he chuckled. "Come on, let's go find a place to stay."
