Affinity:Chaos

While Eva and Nathan were speaking about Grey.

He was currently standing beside Keith. Introducing the men he brought with him from the desert to him.

Keith was still busy reading the scrolls Grey gave to him. Seeing Grey suddenly appear with these men and then disappear almost instantly stunned him. He was still trying to figure out what to say to the men when Grey returned.

After introducing him to them, he vanished once again. He didn't even have the chance to try out the little he had learned. What was worse was that Grey took him with him to the place he was headed.

They soon appeared in the city where Keith was supposed to be executed. He couldn't believe he was back in this place once again.

They were standing in front of a large building. The guards at the gate didn't try to stop them as they walked inside.

The men who came with Grey were stunned when they saw this. Even after confirming that Grey made a deal with their ruler, they still found it hard to believe. Now that they saw Grey walking in so freely, they knew it was accurate.

They appeared before the ruler of the kingdom. Grey introduced Keith to them as the person who would be making the exchanges from now on since he would be busy with some other things.

The King looked at Keith, trying to access him.

"You don't need to do that, I won't recommend someone that isn't deserving of it." Grey noticed the King's actions and said.

The King stopped trying to access Keith and turned to Grey, "Since you're the one who recommended him, I'll trust him."

Grey nodded at the man before looking at Keith and telling him about what just occurred. Of course, he removed the part where the King tried to see his strength.

When Grey was done with the introductions, he left with Keith. Since he had to teach Keith the language, he couldn't leave the Lutra realm for now.

Before leaving, Grey gave the leader of the group from the Lutra race he brought from the desert a treasure as in exchange for what he took from them.

Back in the cave.

"I'll be going for a seclusion cultivation, it will take about a week or so." Grey said to Keith before his figure vanished.

Keith didn't even have a chance to say anything before Grey vanished.

Grey appeared at the place he had been doing his seclusion cultivation since entering the Lutra realm. It was a serene place with a waterfall and a cave. There was not even a single magical beast in the area, much less a single person.

He found this place a few months after entering the Lutra realm. This was the place he broke through to the Sage Plane, and he didn't experience any problems with people wanting the essence coming to him as he broke through.

Standing in the same spot once again, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

"I'll be increasing my earth elemental grade, please watch over me." He said to Void.

"Alright." Void replied.

The moment Grey started his cultivation, Void disappeared. He wanted to ensure there was nothing in that forest to threaten Grey before going out to see if he could find anything interesting. Not finding anything, he left the place without a second thought.

Grey used an array as well. Not just that, but before leaving, Void placed some sort of array in the place to make sure he would be notified if anything went near Grey. He wanted to make sure he took care of anything before Grey was finished with his cultivation.

A week later.

Grey woke up to Void sleeping beside him. He knew Void had been gone for some days now, but since he couldn't exit his cultivation, he let him be. It wasn't like anything bothered his cultivation throughout the time Void was absent.

When he opened his eyes, a brownish glow flashed through.

He hastily entered his chaos space to check the elemental grade of his earth element, and it was currently giving off a bright yellow color. Just behind the emerald grade.

Of all his elements, the earth element had managed to become the second of all his elements.

"Where did you go to?" He looked at Grey the moment he woke up.

"Nowhere." Void replied.

"I knew you were gone, Void." Grey looked at Void with a bland look.

"Were you disturbed?" Void asked.

"You're avoiding the question." Grey said.

"Were you disturbed?" Void asked again.

"No." Grey shook his head.

"Okay, then where I went doesn't really matter now, does it?" Void looked away.

Grey was certain Void was up to no good but there was nothing he could say since he wasn't disturbed during his training.

"Fine. Let's go over to see how Keith is doing." He said and vanished with Void on his shoulder.

When he appeared in the cave, Keith was still busy reading through the scrolls. Grey could tell that he hadn't left the cave since he left.

"You should've learned some things by now." Grey said when he appeared.

Keith nodded to his question. Other than speaking the language, he was a little good with writing the Lutra language now.

"Alright." Grey nodded.

He took his time and started to teach Keith about the Lutra language. It would naturally take some time so he took his time. It wasn't like he was in a hurry to leave the place. Other than the places he had to be, he didn't bother about any other thing.

The days went by and it took Grey just over a month before Keith learned the language. He couldn't believe this was the same thing he learned within that time, alone.

"Alright, I'm done here, so I better get going." Grey said to Keith when he was done teaching him.

"Thank you for your help." Keith appreciated Grey's help so far. Without Grey, he wouldn't have been able to get into the Lutra realm, now, Grey was helping him stay longer than others.

"It's okay."