After a second or two Ross finally nodded his head and said, "Ok, from this moment onwards you are the friends of this Ross Maxwell. No matter what happens in the future, if there is any problem you can both come to me, Manuel and Knave!"
He said with a look of determination and might but for the situation, it just sounded like he was blowing his own horn. Why nobody knew was that in just a second countless thoughts had passed by in his mind before he could finally believe, that such a situation was happening to him.
After hearing Ross's reply both Knave and Manuel nodded in satisfaction and walked towards the exit, Ross seeing this followed them from behind.
By the time they had reached the outside of the tower, they were standing together.
"As I said before, I am going to take Knave for a treat on the second floor of the dining hall. So Ross, would you like to join us?" Manuel asked while looking towards the outer ring.
"Yeah, now that you are my friend it is only right that I rip off some of the profits that you would be making from the garden and treat my self to some good food" saying so Ross went into a trance as if remembering a good delicacy.
Hearing this even Knave was interested, as other than cultivation the only thing that interested him was good food.
Looking that even Knave was showing some interest in this matter left Manuel and Ross stunned.
Till now this friend of theirs had always shown a mysterious but honest behaviour that had got them quite confused.
Even though it seemed like that he knew that his position was quite high in their eyes he never really used his power against them and even after trying to uncover his background they only came up with the results that made it even more confusing.
From what they got to know was that he had just entered the Academy in this month but from some sources, they found that they had seen him come to the dining hall for the last 2 months at least.
This proved that he had entered the Academy in advance before the official entrance for the Academy had even started.
This proved two points, first that he had a powerful backer because not even some prosperous clans can make their juniors enter the Academy early.
Second, the first source from where they knew about his entry was from the back channels of some professor, meaning even they were in the dark.
This just made Knave more mysterious, but they didn't try to dig any deeper into this matter because they already knew that such matters we're way beyond their level.
If they were to insist on finding the truth, it might lead to many problems which even they with their backing might not be able to solve.
So it was better to just leave it at that, but this find had helped them have a newfound understanding towards Knave which was that, becoming his friend may bring them more benefits than they had initially thought.
As far as what story the elder had made to take Knave under his banner as an assistant, they were both clever people and could see that it was just a hoax to make people stop digging too much into the matter.
After the three of them agreed to the point that it was time for the lunch which Manuel had promised they started their journey towards the dining hall.
While they were on their way to the hall Knave asked the two, " Do any of you know where I can get a Maroon fungus?"