46 All Aboard! (1/2)
Outside of the teaching department, there stood a group of teenage-looking children. Before this group of children, there was an enormous spaceship. This spaceship belonged to the group's teacher — Cecily — and would be their residence for the next two weeks.
Even though Cecily's spaceship flew at ridiculously high speeds and the group would be travelling through several spatial portals, it would still take two weeks to reach the group's destination.
These spatial portals would effectively teleport the spaceship — as well any other object that entered them — trillions of kilometers away.
Now the group was outside of the spaceship, waiting for Cecily to tell them what to expect throughout the journey.
”You guys are in for a treat this time. The Titanic Beast Mountain Range was deemed to be way too dangerous for you guys last semester. But, since you're all at least at the Soul Condensing Stage, and can fight off Saint Realm opponents, the higher ranking members have allowed you guys to have this trip.
Make no mistake, even though we have decided that you guys are strong enough to go on this adventure, the danger is still present. Don't fool around; it may cost you your life.”
Cecily's serious expression, lighten up as she said ”However, the Titanic Beast Mountain Range is full of opportunities, as it contains a multitude of extreme environments.
Watch out for other cultivators and reach for all the chances you get when we reach the range. Remember, we are leaving Yhamnigh; you'll no longer be protected by the status of the academy.
Now then, as you probably already know, the Titanic Beast Mountain Range is on another planet called Afrov. This planet is several hundred trillion kilometers away from our planet, and will require us to travel for two weeks.
For this reason, I'll be splitting up the space in my spaceship to accommodate you guys for these two weeks.
Everyone will have their own room and enter by their rank in the power ranki...”
Cecily couldn't finish her final sentence, before Evangeline loudly objected to the notion of having a separate room from Jam.
”Hey! Hold up. Why do we have to each have our own room?” Evangeline then pointed at Jam and said ” As you can see, I have my Dao Companion here, and would sincerely like to ask that you don't separate us.”
Jam didn't seem to care, as he had no reaction to Evangeline's objection. However, the same could not be said for the remaining core disciples and Cecily. They were very impressed by her very open declarations.
”Um, sure. You two can… live together.” Cecily said, as she made a gesture; presumably to change the interior layout of the spaceship. Spaceship artifacts — and most artifacts above Tier 5 — were relatively high end artifacts, that came with Space Dao runes capable of letting the artifact's owner manipulate the artifacts space, and/or shape.
”There will be eight rooms in the space ship now. Outside the doors to your rooms, you will find your name which makes up the rooms for the residences. The final room will be in the center of the spaceship, where I have set up a lounge. Now, please board the ship according to your rank in the power rankings.”
Jam and Evangeline both entered at the same time. They were followed by Arnold, Kirin, Rina, Cynthia, and Alex. Cecily was the last to board the ship, and before they took off, she made an announcement.
”Alright, now that everyone is ready, I'll start the trip.”
Jam's room — and everyone else's room for that matter — had windows, where he could see the outside of the ship. Jam saw the ship take off, and Yhamnigh slowly become smaller and smaller. But he couldn't feel any pressure, or lack thereof, in space; the spaceship felt as stable as the ground on Yhamnigh. Jam was glad to know that he would be able to cultivate with no disturbances.
Now that they had left the planet, and were in for a long trip, all the core disciples started to look around their rooms and organize their belongings.
Jam wasn't sure if the rest of the core disciples had a room similar to his; he was after all, one of the only two people sharing a room on the ship. But his room was very large, and came with its own bathroom, living room, cultivation chamber, and bedroom.
Jam set up Evangeline's arrays as well as his own, in the cultivation chamber. He also took out the computer and virtual reality console he purchased before leaving, and set it up in the living room. These were basically the only things he needed to organize, as the rest of his belonging would be stored away safely in his Spatial Storage Dimension.
Jam finished all the organization he needed and was preparing to go into another cultivation session, when Evangeline brought him out of it. She said ”You've been cultivating for two weeks in a row! Don't you want to do something fun?”
”Mhmm… What do you want to do?” He would have preferred to cultivate. But Jam had read before that once he was in a relationship with his Dao Companion, he would have to make compromises to please his partner.
”Lets go to the lounge, and check out what we can do over there.” Evangeline would have preferred to do anything but cultivate, after spending two entire weeks doing just that. Besides, in the lounge, there was bound to be something fun to do.
Jam didn't understand how they would derive fun from visiting the lounge, but he complied anyways.