With the sudden increase in members and work, Villin was at a bit of an impasse.

He had a severe lack of time, he had to research spells, create enchantments, stabilize his position in the guild, practice magic, and much more. Hell, he hadn’t even had the time to learn wards yet even though he had the book already.

That being said, he couldn’t just hand these tasks to other people. At this point, his three companions already did most of the work concerning the guild itself. This included choosing missions, solving conflict, paperwork, and a number of other things.

After thinking for a bit, Villin only knew of two people that might be able to help free up some more time. These two were professor Messen and Ruby.

As far as he knew professor Messen still taught in the first grade, this meant he was completely unavailable. And so, he once more found himself in a classroom, sitting across from Ruby.

When he arrived she hadn’t said a word, simply gesturing him to sit down, now they sat across from each other.

Hawk and Sara, two of Ruby’s confidants were also sitting in the room some distance from the two, both of them felt uncomfortable, the silence made them nervous.

Yet Villin and Ruby stayed quiet.

If someone were to ask Villin what he was trying to do at this point, he wouldn’t be able to answer. He simply looked into Ruby’s golden eyes looking for a certain something, it was as if he was trying to peer into her soul. Without realizing it, some of his magic power formed tendrils, inching toward Ruby.

At this same time, Ruby was similarly looking into Villin’s blue eyes, at first, she was simply trying to guess his intention for coming here, but at this point, she too felt there was something else she was looking for. Without knowing it, she too formed tendrils out of her magic power that inched toward Villin’s face.

Hawk and Sara got more and more nervous. It had already been ten minutes since Villin entered the room. At first, things were normal, their boss was looking him in the eyes trying to gauge his intention waiting for him to speak. Yet, it only took a but before her look changed. If she simply looked infatuated into Villin’s eyes, they wouldn’t be all too surprised. After all, Villin was talented and handsome.

But her look was something else, it was a look they only saw when she was busy with an extremely complicated rune structure, and even then, it seemed to be different. Neither of them could decipher it and both of them had their hands near their wands, somewhat expecting a fight to suddenly break out even though they never had bad interactions with Villin.

Suddenly, the situation changed. Villin’s magic tendrils reached Ruby’s eyes at the very same time hers reached his own eyes. Neither of them truly realized what was happening, but whatever it was, it wasn’t something they felt needed to stop.

Villin felt the rhythm of his and Ruby’s magic power began changing, adapting to each other. Where they previously both had a different frequency, now they began growing toward each other, as if it was making some sort of connection.

On the outside, Hawk and Sara both got up. They felt the magic power of the two in front of them expanding, as if they were about to cast a spell, yet just as they were about to interfere and pull out their wands, a small invisible implosion took place between Villin and Ruby. Before anyone realized what was going on both Villin and Ruby had their heads on the table, they seemed to have suddenly lost consciousness.

Yet, in Villin’s eyes, this all felt very different. The moment his own and Ruby’s magic power had the same frequency a strong connection was formed through the tendrils of magic. This connection was so significant he didn’t even realize his eyes had closed or that his head had dropped onto the table.

He could sense, see, Ruby in front and around him. It was a weird feeling but it was as if they were both one and the same. He could feel what she felt and think what she thought. As for Ruby, she felt the exact same. The shield guarding Villin’s consciousness let her pass as if it was never there and for just a few seconds the two of them became one, learning more about each other than what they could’ve ever imagined.

With a thought, they both appeared in a garden coming from Ruby’s memories.

“So you come from another world?” Ruby asked unsurprised.

Since at this point in time they felt like one, she truly felt unsurprised, they were now simply realities. Villin leisurely replied.

“So you are the true owner of this grade’s ‘A Magus’ Aid’.” Ruby simply nodded.

The two of them sat there going through each oth- going through their communal memories. 

After a while, Ruby was the first to ‘speak’ once more “I’ll help you, I can see there is much I will be able to learn while doing so.”

Hearing her speak, Villin didn’t need to ask her to elaborate, he knew what she meant. She would help in exchange for resources. As for what resources, information. For one, the still enchanted Blue-Mythril held a lot of information. The enchantments used by all of the top students here would be very valuable.

And then, of course, there was other information. The kind she traded with The Black Swans or those reported in ‘A Magus’ Aid’.

Despite how it seemed, this connection only lasted for around three seconds in the real world. After this, both of their brains got overloaded with information and they truly fainted.