Alex left the heritage place and he left the forest a few days later too.
While leaving, he found a lot of plants and other things, that he did not know from the earth, so he had no idea if they were useful or not.
"I have to learn herbology, from what I know from the novels, they might be very useful for alchemy." Alex was planning what he will do the next, because after learning the art of formations, he knew a new truth.
"I can be the strongest, but I have no idea about how to use my powers. The Saint Rat even as a spirit, he could control perfectly the floe of energy in his body and the amount of QI he consumes, but I am like an old engine that sucks all the petrol and it's not efficient." Alex concluded. He always thought that he could control his energy perfectly, but after meeting the Saint Rat, he understood that he does not.
"It seems like I have to learn a lot."
Back in the main path, Alex was walking slowly and enjoying life.
"Hey!! Yes, you!!" A voice came from the back and was calling Alex.
Alex turned back and saw a group of young people walking towards him. They seem to be in a hurry and Alex was on their way. Alex politely, went to one side and left the other side of the path free and then continued walking.
But when they reached him, they stopped and one of them said: "Hey, are you here for the recruiting ceremony? We have lost our tokens to participate, can you help us?"
The young man who said this looked like a warrior and he was not older than Alex in appearance. And the others looked similar too.
Alex could not reply before another began to talk: "What are you doing, he is clearly not a cultivator yet. Let us take his token quickly and not waste our time."
The others nodded and then a terrific smile appeared in their faces.
"Because you are still a commoner, I will not kill you, give me your token?" said the same young and this time he did not sound kind at all.
"What are you talking about? I do not have a token or something similar." Alex said and he did not know how to handle with this people exactly. They looked like idiots for him and they were also very weak.
"Do you think we are idiots? You are in the secret way of the Prafta Mansion. So, you must have a token like this." the young shout and then showed Alex a token that was hanging in his hand.
Alex looked at the token and he could see clearly a word written on it: Prafta.
"No, I never saw it." Alex said and turned to leave.
At that moment, the young man did a stunt and jumped to Alex.
"if you want to die, then I will kill with my majestic Magic Palm" the young man jumped and pierced through the wind.
Alex looked at this weak attack and when he wanted to kill the young man and end this comedy like situation, he heard a sound from afar.
"Stop, how do you dare to attack a civilian on the path of our Prafta Mansion." The voice shout and then a shadow came running and punched the young man in the face, then he took out his sword and cut the neck of all the young men there.
After he killed all of them, he took the token from the young man that was lying on the ground and with cold eyes and said: "Here is your token, little brother. There are always scumbags that try to steal the token and give them to their friends to enter the Prafta Mansion. But don't worry, big brother finished them."
Alex was dumbfounded for this excessive turn of the situation and even he could not react at time.
"Little brother, I know you are scared, but do not worry. You can continue to the Prafta Mansion and do the entry test. I have to search for another criminals and kill them."
The young man disappeared as soon as he appeared.
"WTF! What happened here?!" Alex was still standing there when the young man left. Then he looked at the token with blood in his hand and became silent.
"It seems like I entered a private ground from some school or sect and they wanted to steal my entry pass, but then a disciple killed them and gave me an entry pass, that originally I did not have. The cultivation world is really different and no logic works here." Alex deducted then and then looked at the token.
"Well, let's not waste this opportunity and see what this Prafta Mansion is." Alex decided suddenly and then continued walking.
This time, as deeper he walked as more people he met. These people had all warrior equipment made from leather and they all looked young and heroic. They all had one thing in common and that was that they all had a token from the Prafta Mansion.
Alex listened to some conversations to know where he was going.
"I won the family tournament and won the token for the Prafta Mansion. Nobody could beat me in the clan."
"You had to fight for the token, my father could give it to me directly and without asking anyone. Your father is the patriarch, but he cannot even give you a token, lame."
"Shut up, we have many talents in our clan unlike yours and we can not be impartial!"
Another conversation:
"I never thought that I would be able to participate in the entry test of the Prafta Mansion, one of the nine Mansions of the empire!"
"Yeah, it is rare for them to open their doors, the last time they did was 5 years ago."