Chapter 74 Leaving The Academy

"I think you're forgetting something, Leo" Cain voiced out before everyone could leave the room.

"What would that be?" Leo asked with a quizzical expression.

"We don't know where they are. I understand that you want to find John as soon as possible, but we don't know where these masked guys are." Cain said with a confused tone.

"Yes, that's true. That's why we have to go somewhere else first. We're going to the military headquarters." Leo replied.

"What!? You want to break into the headquarters? Are you insane!?" Clay exclaimed in a loud whisper.

"It's our best option. Lieutenant Anders let it slip that the military already has information regarding these 'Great Ones', so we are going to get into the headquarters and find the room where they keep all their files. We can then find the information we need to start looking for John." Leo explained nonchalantly, like it wasn't a big deal.

"But we..." Clay began saying but Leo interrupted.

"We don't know where the headquarters is. I know. That's why we are going to the base within the city. They will most likely have files regarding the location of the headquarters." Leo stated, leaving Clay stunned.

'This is crazy... How are we going to pull this off?' Clay though to himself. He could feel his heart beating fast from the panic spreading over him.

"Don't worry, it won't be as difficult as you think. I have a plan." Leo said confidently.

The conversation was left at that and everyone left to prepare themselves. Since there was still a few hours before they were leaving, Leo decided to take his last bath. He wasn't expecting to have the chance again anytime soon so he took a nearly 3 hour long bath before he finally got out.

Leo had nothing else to do since all his stuff was in his ring already so he took his time in the bath, getting out only a few minutes before they needed to leave.

He had spent most of the time in the bath doing core strengthening. He was starting to notice a change in his core. He could always feel his core within him, but lately it felt like it was surrounded by something. Like it was being contained.

He didn't know what this meant but there was no way to find out since his was the first generation to ever have abilities.

It was just before leaving that Leo had a thought. 'The space inside the ring is even bigger than my room here. Surely I could take the bath with me.' As Leo thought this he walked up to the bath and placed his hand on it.

The engraved snake coiled around his ring glowed a dull gold and the next moment the bath disappeared into the ring.

Leo was overcome with joy. "YES!" he shouted loudly, unable to control himself. Since the bath is powered by a crystal, it can be moved around and still be usable anywhere.

The only problem would be moving it, since it's quite large, but Leo didn't have that problem.

Knock* Knock*

The sound of someone knocking on Leo's door could be heard. Leo forced himself to calm down a bit before walking over and opening the door.

Leo was in a great mood and still had a smile on his face when he opened the door. The entire group was standing there waiting for Leo as he exited the room.

Each of them saw the smile on his face. It was the first time they had seen such a large and joyous smile from Leo.

It made them all feel warm inside, especially Rene. She had been in the worst place mentally the entire day. She was extremely worried about what they were planning to do and she also felt bad because she thought that she had upset Leo earlier when asking if he had family.

Leo's smile didn't last long before he returned to his usual serious self. Everyone followed Leo as he walked down the staircase and continued down until they reached the first floor.

Typically there would be someone sitting at the desk keeping watch, and tonight was no different.

The guard sitting at the desk was one that none of them had seen before and luckily for them, he was fast asleep.

Everyone aside from Leo was carrying a bag on their back filled with their personal belongings, while they each had their weapons next to them.

Some, like Leo and Rene, didn't even own a weapon since they never used one. Leo gestured for them to all be quiet and started to slowly walk passed the guard.

Leo activated Aura so that if the guard moved in a way that indicated he was waking up, he would know.

The group slowly walked down the hallway and passed the guard one by one. None of them had any issues and the guard stayed fast asleep the entire time.

Once passed the guard, they followed Leo out of the academy grounds as they continued into the city for a few minutes before stopping.

"Alright, from here we need to go to the military base and get the information we need. Another problem that might come up is that we will need transport to reach the base once we discover it's location." Leo was about to continue but Nila interjected.

"I can handle that. My family has a carriage we can use, I just need to go and speak with them so we can use it."

"That's great. It's pointless for all of us to try sneak into the military base, so instead, let's split up. Rene, your ability won't be able to help the group sneaking into the base, so I want you to go with Nila. Cain, Clay and I will sneak into the military base. When we are done, you two can have the carriages ready and we can leave immediately." Leo stated his plan for the group.

Everybody agreed that this made sense. Rene wanted to help Leo but she understood that this wasn't the time to argue.

Another reason everyone agreed was because more people would be easier to spot when sneaking around. The less people that tried to infiltrate the base, the better.

Nila spent a few minutes explaining to everyone where her house was so that they could all meet up there later on.

"Alright, we all know what the plans are so let's not waste any more time. We'll meet up again as soon as possible, if we don't show up at your house by sunrise, then go back to the academy." Leo was referring to Nila's house in this instance.

Nila nodded and Rene reluctantly agreed as well. With everything set up, the group split. The girls heading to Nila's house to secure transportation, and the boys heading to the base to gather information.