After my meeting with the grandmaster, my school life resumed to a normal pace as we both agreed that I should be treated as a normal student and I will treat him just like someone who I don''t have personal connections with. This will be the main way we can cover the details of our previous conversation and agreement. The setting up of a high ranking attack and defense barrier around the academe has spread throughout the empire as well as the territories, both friend and foes, that are surrounding Athanoviya. Since the students currently enrolled in the academe came from different places, just a letter or a report by their assigned guard back to their hometowns would have made this new addition to the academe a widespread hot news.

    As this is a first for the academe and an unprecedented invention for this world, I made sure to prepare a copy of an invention description, control instructions and patent of ownership for this orb. The highest barrier set up ever made for this world was rank 5 and that was for a single function one. It either can act as defense only or an attack only barrier. I made a patent then for ranks 6 to 10 for single function ones and dual function ones as well. I also made patents for rank 1 to 5, dual function barriers. Blame it to me being workaholic or somewhat a perfectionist. If I would work on something, might as well finish it completely.

    As for the barriers that have the rank of 1 to 7, I am quite sure that somebody somewhere would be able to recreate it after they pay for the rights to use the product patent but for ranks 8 to 10, I am sure that the only one who can produce it for now is me. I am open with creating stronger barriers for select people that I find beneficial for my future but it will be given to them if they can meet my own conditions and if I''m in the right mood. Sear?h the Novel?ire(.)ne*t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    As per my expectations and this is just after two days since the barrier was set up, the academe received a visit from an elder of the magic tower and an elder of the patents office to discuss about the new barrier and how it can be reproduced for the greater good of the empire. I simply told the grandmaster to not answer any of their questions verbally and simply hand over the envelope full of patent documents and invention details to someone he trusts. The next step is to advise the people from the magic tower and the patent office to read and verify its contents inside the confines of the magic tower where it should be safe. I forbid him to discuss anything about the patents while in the headmaster''s office so as to keep it confidential from prying eyes and ears that are hidden everywhere. I put the usual stamp I was assigned with before on the papers to signify who created them. This also gives away my identity as the the same person who submitted the patents before as well as the one who answered those research problems in the room of questions. The magic tower should be very familiar with my stamp already. Lastly, I told the headmaster to just tell the elders that they should know where to send my expected payments.

    We also received visits from liaisons and representatives from the kingdoms and territories that are on friendly terms with Athanoviya. They are fervently asking how they can buy a similar barrier or even just a one rank lower barrier of the same type. They are also asking if they can meet it''s inventor seemingly wanting to forge a good relationship for long term cooperation. It never hurts to get acquainted with talented inventors anyway so I understood their purpose clearly but I don''t want to make such connections with anybody as of the moment. I gave the headmaster instructions to simply tell them that the patent for the items are still in the process of verification then registration and it should be available for use to the public in the near future. I also instructed him to tell them that there will surely be an amount that they needed to pay for the rights to use it.

    As for the person who is the cause of all these commotions, I am attending my regular classes, making friends, doing my cooking and alchemy experiments, reading more books and enjoying my daily flirting and strenuous exercise with my husband with not a single worry in this world. I did not visit the grandmaster even once after our last meeting so as to keep the secrecy. I gave him an earring similar to the one I gave my people since he should be my insider now as well. We exchange messages and items inside the shared storage space discreetly. For some reason, I have two people following me again after I have already sent the dark elf away. The other one was Zen but the other one, I have not met yet but I know he''s hovering near me. I wonder from which race or faction he is from. Hmm... Not that it matters as long as he doesn''t meddle with my daily affairs. If he can get through the rank 10 barrier I have set up with the grandmaster around the academy grounds, he should have some skill and I can reward him by just letting him do his job.

    Exactly four days after I spoke with Void, that dark elf guy, I received a visit again from him and another elf who has similar features as him but looked a bit older. They suddenly appeared inside the grandmaster''s office in the middle of the morning, startling the air out of the old man''s lungs.

    An attendant from the headmaster''s office was seen running frantically through the academe''s corridors as if there was an emergency and he was obviously looking for someone. I ignored such news since it doesn''t concern me... Or does it?

    Once the young boy saw me, he seemed to have made a sigh of relief. He ran towards me and grabbed me by the sleeve of my robe and pulled me. We literally ran through the corridors back to the old man''s office. Wow! Talking about being discreet and secretive.

    Once I am in Grandmaster Fredrick''s office, I set up the isolation barrier again to make sure that nobody meddles on what will happen inside the office from here on. The young attendant politely excused himself out of the office.

    I have finished setting up everything when I noticed two people walking towards me then suddenly, they both kneeled on one knee in front of me.

    Now, I couldn''t even start to get angry with the old man when I figured out why he hurriedly sent an attendant to take me back here. The visitors definitely do not look human at all and he must have thought that communication will be impossible and he might get killed if they get pissed off. I think his panic is genuine.

    His panic should have been due to him being quite relaxed since the rank 10 barrier has been set up around the academe then all of a sudden, two unknown people was able to teleport directly into his room, his personal space, without a hint of disruption or warning from the barrier''s control orb.

    The barrier I placed was meant for humans and their mana and not for mystiques and their unique mana type so I have expected this much to happen sooner or later. I addressed the two and said,"Fre''sla au uns''aa. Usstan

    orn sila dos ulu jalbyr k''lar." (Stand near me. I will bring you to another place). The two dark elves nodded in understanding.

    I looked at the grandmaster and gave him a heads up that we will be teleporting back in here after a few hours so he has to stay calm as him receiving uninvited visitors in his room will happen more in the near future. The two visitors on the other hand, followed as instructed and stood closer to me. I silently casted a teleportation portal and brought them straight to my office in Eieneos to discuss the things that we need from each other and have a meeting to know if a cooperation will be possible. I am fine with making a deal with this race since they are not in good terms with the traitors anyway. The enemy of my enemy is a friend!

    Once the weekend came, I did my regular adventurer tasks, visit my second husband and feed the people near the community kitchen. Aurum gave me a wonderful surprise by upgrading and fixing up the community kitchen and shared dining area to be more convenient for use. Even the place where we cook and prepare ingredients were overhauled and looked brand new. I got the usual report from Feivel, Izuku, Uncle Daejung, Aurum and Lark about the latest updates throughout the week from their end.

    I can say with confidence though that the best report came from Izuku as he reported that the construction of the building on my land has been completed just last night and it is ready to be opened to the public. But first things first, I have to settle down my people into their rightful places as per our contracts. In this light, the first Halcyon Corporation meeting was then scheduled midday of Sunday before I had to go back to the academe.

    As this was a secret meeting of some sort, I decided to have it in the huge room inside the inn that I am planning to use as a fine dining restaurant. I conjured a long table and some chairs in the middle of the room. I sent messages to the people I gave communication earrings to (except Ioannis, Lark, Aurum and Grandmaster Fredrick since they are not included in this money-making project) so we can meet as a team on the designated time.

    After almost half an hour of waiting, the people I called on have all arrived. Kayden was the first to arrive together with my father-in-law, Lucas. The next ones to arrive are Uncle Daejung and for some reason, he had also brought his son, the pervert I saw in the adventurer''s hall last week. Uncle introduced him as Dongmin. I did not ask questions for now but I stared at this "Dongmin" and he couldn''t meet my eyes and he was blushing all over looking like a tomato. I totally ignored him afterwards. The last ones to arrive are Izuku and Feivel. They seems to have agreed to meet first then come here together since they work near each other. The concept of days off is weird in this world so most people still work on weekends. They may have needed to get permission to get off work in the middle of the day so they were a bit late.

    As I was about to start the meeting, some uninvited people arrived. For some reason, Aurum found out about this meeting and have arrived together with his four minions. Well, I should start calling them by their names since "minions" is kind of rude and they are too good-looking to be compared to a mix of a potato and a banana but I just realized that I forgot to ask their names. This prince''s information network is quite impressive! He must have placed people to observe me and perhaps the people who are in this meeting room and realized that something important was happening so he came. I got nothing against him coming to this meeting though since he may just prove useful for something eventually. I just hope that he doesn''t meddle too much with my personal affairs and piss me off.