Sorry I took so long to make this chapter I finally had it hit me and started writing it out I've been nursing multiple ideas for a few days and can only hope you'll all like what you read, once again thank you for reading and enjoy chapter eight!

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Waking up late the next day all I had time for was to simply pull on my clothes and head downstairs, normally I'd be greeted by my father and Sam but today they were nowhere to be seen.

Foregoing breakfast for the first time since reincarnation I rushed out the door on my way to school.

Although it was still fairly early the town was full of activity, all the workers who'd been expanding the town stopped their current projects and began starting new ones.

Looking out there was at least a hundred people prepping the soil for roads and houses, further out with my vision I could barely see another five hundred or so working about an hour's walk away from the city.

(The city is mostly built on a hill, being near the city center she'd have an excellent view)

Rushing through the city streets however was a large number of mounted soldiers on their way out of the town.

Arriving late Mrs. Prima had combined our two classes "Azura since you came right as we started how about we spend today together"

"That sounds lovely Mrs. Prima thank you so much for your consideration" Truly I was thankful she wasn’t upset at me being late even if just a little.

Responding with a coy smile Mrs. Prima shocked me "There's no need for thanks I was at the party last night as well even if we didn’t get to speak I can understand the difficulty of being surrounded by so many boys."

Hearing that the girls in the class started to giggle, even if they're only five or six they unfortunately understand relationships even though its only at the point of 'like.'

Though out the day since there's so many students we decided to forgo classes and meditation in favor of heading outside, around the school is a large grassy area I'd recommended.

In the future I should work together with the builders to create a basic playground for the town, pushing the thought aside I participated in a game of freeze tag.

Limiting myself to a speed equal to Nathan's I was still almost never tagged, at first they tried but quickly turned their attention to Mrs. Prima.

Having lowered her own speed around two thirds of the class would be able to easily catch her, the others would need to put in more effort but it wasn’t impossible.

Following her example I matched her about five minutes into the game, running under the arms of one after another I quickly got picked out and tagged.

Standing with my arms out the game came to an end within the next couple minutes, most of the kids found it more fun to avoid being caught than saving others.

The next time around Nathan volunteered to be it, being the fastest in the class he immediately rushed towards Mrs. Prima.

Caught by his surprise attack she was caught quite easily, only thirty seconds in and one of his only threats was taken care of.

Next he turned towards me..

Rushing towards me at top speed the other kids would have no chance to block him, having prepared myself I was already going much faster than before.

Maintaining the distance between us I slowly turned us around before making a b-line to Mrs. Prima, running under her arm Nathan was in hot pursuit.

Seeing him coming Mrs. Prima matched my own speed and headed off into the other direction, seeing he'd no chance Nathan turned his sights on his classmates.

Watching their attempts to dodge Nathans merciless attacks as teachers we shared the same opinion, spreading out the two of us freed students as fast as he froze them.

By freeing the class time and time again Nathan soon found it harder to catch each one of them, although he was slightly worn out the others had also become more aware of his abilities.

Dodging his hands by a hairs breath they'd slip past him and take advantage of his change in direction, slowing himself to turn the others would be able to break away for a few more seconds.

Finally after another ten minutes of this I let myself be tagged, right before he ran after Mrs. Prima I whispered "Good job Nathan that was wonderful."

Catching Mrs. Prima shortly afterwards the game came to an end, playing other games throughout the day time passed by quite quickly with everyone enjoying themselves.

With the parents coming to pick up their children our school day came to an end, saying my goodbyes to Mrs. Prima I headed home.

Walking in through the front door the first thing to greet me was a golden glow, light reflected off a large pile of open gold sacks, chests, and jewelry boxes.

From just a glance I could tell each gem and accessory was incredibly expensive, surrounded by a large amount of gold coins that much was apparent.

Walking past the pile I entered the kitchen, with a late lunch prepared my parents and Sam were already eating.

Sitting down at the table Sam passed me a plate of my own, "What's with the pile of gold in the front room?"

The first to speak up was Sam "They're your birthday gifts miss." Birthday gifts? I don't remember receiving any from the guests last night.

Seeing the questions written upon my face Aura spoke next "During a birthday party like last night's gifts are received and stored by servants at the entrance."

With that said all of my questions were answered and we moved on to talking about our days, like any normal family.

Mother had spent her entire day holed up in her research lab whereas my father had been dealing with affairs in the city, unknown to most the town would soon be going through a massive expansion.

Until now Mr. Bernard had been slowly expanding so that the rulers of neighboring countries would sit back and watch his do the hard work, once the town was worth occupying they'd march in and take over.

Secretly the Bernard army was about twenty thousand troops stationed in camps scattered throughout the unclaimed province, the horseback soldiers this morning were being sent out to mobilize them.

With Jacob having slipped last night there would no longer be any reason to hide, no it was rather that they'd been given no choice but to prepare for an imminent attack.

As a prominent member of the town my father had actually been employed as a trainer and commander by Mr. Bernard himself, mostly they'd been trying to win over my mother so as not to worry over attacks.

With an elementalist on their side no one would dare to attack, instead they'd immediately begin seizing territories near their borders.

Of course that could only happen if Mr. Bernard didn't declare the formation of a kingdom and first claim the land for himself, were that to happen war would begin rather than a sneak attack.

With a battlefield arranged the two armies would fight until one achieved victory, without the use of master, king, and emperor tier combatants.

Like this my father was confident Mr. Bernard could win with the troops he'd trained, unable to join in the fight he'd still be a valued commander and able to kill any who attack him personally.

Looking over to my mother she seemed neutral in the affairs of the city, no doubt she'd already turned down their request or a kingdom would already have been formed.

Changing back to my father I started to wonder why he'd be so willing to help when mother was not, of course the reason could simply be a form of hobby.

All he does is train or train others, I could see him participating in his disciples training at the same time.

Finishing our meal we headed to the living room and my pile of gifts, crouching down my mother gave me a quick hug and grabbed my shoulders.

"This time I'll be the one to give you the first gift." Reaching over to the side she picked up a blue purse with two strips of fabric coming together and tied into a bow.

Accepting the gift it was slightly too big for me but I'd no doubt grow into it within the next year or two, "This is a void purse, anything you put into it will never fill it so long as you'd normally be able to fit it in."

An interspatial storage bag huh? Not exactly an uncommon idea but defiantly unexpected, maybe a magical storage card for money but a bag?

None the less I gratefully accepted the bag, taking it from me Sam immediately began to place the gold coins within it.

Releasing me the next up was my dad, lowering himself to my height by kneeling he had a slight smile on his face.

"Now I don’t want to either out do your mother or be out done by her so I hope you'll like both gifts equally alright?" Nodding me head he pulled out the gift from behind his back, pulling out a small box it looked like he was proposing to me since he was down on his knee.

Opening the box inside was a silver ring with a sapphire butterfly as its only decoration, "This is a teleportation ring, only able to be used once it needs time to recharge so only use it in a dangerous situation okay?"

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Placing it on my right hands ring finger I held out my hand to examine it, at first it was too large for my finger but quickly shrunk down to match me perfectly.

Looking at Sam and the purse I wonder if it'll be the same, with both of my parents walking behind me I approached the pile now void of coins.

Apparently I'd been given six different jewelry boxes each stuffed full or necklaces and rings, at first glance they looked expensive but compared to my parents magical gifts they were cheap trinkets.

The one this that caught my eye was a silver circlet, feeling the aura of the item I could tell it had some kind of special effect.

Shaped simply the only real decoration are small silver leaves that point out from it at the front, looking at the tag it was a gift from prince Jayden and his father the king the card read that it had the effect of lessening the cost of magic and chi techniques.

Placing it on my head it wouldn’t shrink down, looking to my parents I handed them the card, reading it my mom understood.

"Bond it with your soul sweetheart, the void purse works in the same manner anyone can place items inside but only one person can remove them."Nodding my head I turned my attention back to the gifts.

Simply flowing part of my soul over the circlet caused it to shrink now perfectly fitting onto my head, similarly the purse shrank down to match my own proportions.

Leaving me to sift through the rest of the gifts my parents retreated upstairs to their room, Sam staying with me explained each of the accessories I'd picked up simple things like what gem and metals were used.

One by one the jewelry boxes were organized and stored within my new purse, thankfully they were relatively small.

Sifting through the rest of the gifts the pile slowly began to disappear into my purse, having finished I said my goodbyes to Sam and headed out into the garden to meditate.

By the time school had finished for the year the city's population had skyrocketed, besides the twenty thousand new soldiers.

With ten thousand new construction workers having been brought in a new city wall was quickly being erected, this time around it had three meter thick outer walls and living space built into it afterwards.

Although it was simply rooms with beds the soldiers slowly made their way out of their makeshift camps and into new beds, by the end of its construction the currently four meter high wall would reach a total height of ten meters.

Even though only about half of it had currently been built by the end of construction it would take over two hours to walk it's diameter.

Besides the walls themselves four large gated were being created by the blacksmiths, as well as the four roads leading to them.

Lining these four main roads merchants quickly bought the properties around them and the future market squares, even dark merchants had taken an interest into the town.

With their own work crews they began to build inns and shops, the inns were mostly built to be sold off after the construction boom ended.

Every day when I'd wake up the town would always be different compared to the day before, never once was there a break in the city.

When it became too dark to work light or fire magicians were hired to supply a large light source, far enough away from the current city nobody was bothered by the continuous construction.

Waking up one morning my chest felt weird, feeling around under my camisole I could feel it coming from around my nipples.

With just the feeling of mild swelling I ignored it focusing on my daily training, getting dressed I grabbed a towel and headed out back.

Recently I'd begun sweating more than normal during my training, by the end of it I'd always be drenched in my own sweat.

Shortly after turning eleven within a couple of months I started to develop pubic hair, no doubt about it with the feeling of swelling in my chest I'd already developed small breasts I was turning into a woman.

Nathan surprisingly enough was the first to notice my recent development, I guess the kid looks at me a little more than I thought.

Though the way he pointed it out was embarrassing, coming over to me he simply poked my small breast with his finger stimulating a weird feeling in my chest.

"Big sister had boobs!" Yelling it at the top of his lungs even Mrs. Prima came over from next door to ask about the commotion, refusing to answer the girls in my class decided to explain in a similar manner to Nathan.

Letting out an "Ah, I see" Mrs. Prima left with a smile on her face knowing the kids were alright, I however wanted to crawl into a hole and stay there for the next week until school was over for the year.

With the soldiers and construction workers both creating the city walls they were mostly completed already even though it'd only been just over a year with thirty thousand people working around the clock construction flew by.

With only the finishing touches left on the wall the majority of the workers had been repurposed for housing projects, even I'd looked into the cost to buy a property and hire a crew.

With all of my money just sitting around in my purse I'd of course looked into any possible worthwhile investments, I could easily buy prime location from Mr. Bernard for a cheap price so most of the gold would need to be spent of labor.

In the end I decided against it for now at least maybe later once I require my own place to live, instead I decided to spend some of my money on the school.

Mordecai was kept busy forging weapons and the portcullis for one of the gates, Anthony was busy dealing with the tasks from a majority of the citizens but Kyle was more than willing to help me out.

Creating metal bars we spent a large amount of our free time putting together a basic playground, monkey bars, slides, swings, and teeter-totters.

After it was finished all that was left was to carry the pieces and put them together on site, sadly my purse wouldn’t work so we had to carry them ourselves.

Seeing us carrying such large pieces of metal some of the older classes of Mrs. Prima decided to help us out, by the end of the day we'd multiple people gathering wood, cutting in into boards, and installing the playground.

Once the metal was in place all that was left was to fasten the freshly cut wood on to create the platforms, only one of our six helpers was able to use earth magic, with only two of us we slowly created a sand pit around the new equipment.

Having no cement to use we also had to harden the earth holding everything into the ground, on the bottom of each post was a fixed metal place making this easier.

When we'd decided it was safe to use we immediately tested it out, even some of the adults passing by decided to join in the new experience.

Within an hour all the kids in town came to join in and I initiated a large game of sand trap, with the design of the park it was approximately four times larger than the average one you'd see back in my world.

Each path eventually would loop back to connect with the others including multiple ways to cross the gaps between, like this the game was able to handle the forty players without people crowding too much.

Around a week later Mr. Bernard showed up in front of my house his horse resting outside, welcoming him inside Sam escorted him into the living room then left to prepare tea and fetch my parents.

Around five minutes into tea I was called out to join them, apparently his reason for visiting this time was me rather than my mother.

"I'd like to offer you a job improving and beautifying the town" Getting straight to the point he didn’t give up the reigns and continued.

"Having seen your work first hand with ideas during construction, toilets, and now this playground down at the school I'd like for more of it to exist throughout the city." Hearing this I was rather bored, I built the playground because I wanted to not because I wanted to make the city better.

"All in all I'd be willing to turn over a large amount of power in the construction of the town to you" Hearing this he'd finally peaked my interest, of course I can't give him what he wants so easily.

"Alright on one condition though" Hearing this his expression changed from worrying over my impassiveness to a huge smile.

"If it's about your pay I doubt we'll have any problem, if necessary I can pay you more than you father." Widening my eyes slightly I corrected my expression, obviously he valued having me on the payroll.

I wasn’t the only one shocked to hear this, my father was sitting in his seat completely bug eyed.

" I want to learn how to blacksmith" This time it was Mr. Bernard's turn to be shocked, in fact his face went completely pale.

"Alright you've got yourself a deal young miss, you drive such a hard bargain I can already feel the pain Mordecai will inflict directly onto my wallet."

Having finished his business Mr. Bernard left heading away from his home towards Mordecai's shop, no doubt he was about to relieve some of the weight he was carrying around in his coin purse.

Chapter 9: Becoming a Blacksmith