When Alex grabbed the sword away, he looked very relaxed and confident, as if this problem had a quick solution.
"Do you see this?" Alex asked and pointed to the hand of the sword. There was a little gemstone encrusted, the gemstone was blood red.
When both elders saw this, they did not find anything suspicious. It was normal for a blacksmith to use gemstones to make the sword more beautiful, so they did not care.
"What about this gemstone?" Asked both.
"This is not a normal gemstones, this is a blood gemstone." replied Alex very calmly. He had no idea about the real name of this gemstone, but he called it like this, because it looked like a blood gemstone.
"And what is the difference?" Asked Elder Jo again.
"The difference is that if a person drops its blood in this gemstone, he or she would create a bond with the gemstone. Do you understand?" Alex said and then asked them.
"Are you saying that this blood stone is the culpable?" Elder Five asked again.
"Yes, it seems like Elder Jo encrusted the gemstone in the sword and then a few drops of his blood fell on it. Because of that, the sword was bond to him for ever and the sword can only be use by him." Alex replied and explained the two what the problem is.
Elder Five and Elder Jo kept silent for a moment and then they looked at each other. They both were somehow relived that this was the only problem.
Elder Five thought that he was incapable of using this sword because his abilities were not good, but it was not like that.
On the other side, Elder Jo thought that he was at the wrong and did some mistake creating this sword, but it seems like he used some treasure by mistake and because of that, the sword could only be used by himself.
So, Elder Jo apologized for everything and gave a compensation to Elder Five. He could only finish this matter with Elder Five if he apologized, otherwise this conflict could be extended for nothing.
"Let's research more about this gemstone, the treasure hall would love to find out more about it." Elder Five said, he was the elder from the most important place of the Prafta Mansion, the Treasure Hall. At that place, all kinds of treasures were stored there, so it was the richest place of the Mansion.
Both seems to have forgotten about Alex and he was gone too. Only after a few minutes, they realized something.
"Who was that disciple? How can he know about this gemstone?" Asked Elder Jo and then looked at the chair where Alex was sitting: "Wait, where is he?"
Elder Five looked around him and said: "He was here a few moments ago, how can he leave without us noticing? Send someone to search for him."
Elder Five wanted to know more about that disciple, he was so mysterious that he had to find more about him. And his abilities were very strong too, because he could leave without them noticing was a something that only cultivators in the Spirit QI like them could do. And from what they knew, all the disciples were in the True QI realm and it was impossible for them to do that.
Elder Jo stood up and went to search for some worker in the Weapon Hall.
"Jan go and search for the disciple that was with us right now!" Elder Jo ordered to a worker there with the name Jan.
"Yes, I am going!" Jan replied quickly and run towards the exit, but then he stopped and returned, then he asked: "Elder Jo, there was nobody else than Elder Five, who are you searching for?"
Elder Jo heard this and said loudly: "He is an outer disciple, he was here with us! How could you not see him?"
"Elder Jo, I really have no idea! Can you describe him at least?" Jan paled when Elder Jo shout at him. He really did not see anyone entering the office of Elder Jo besides Elder Five, he was the whole time there, but he did not see any person.
Elder Jo began to describe Alex, but then he stopped: "He is an outer disciple and he… Wait, how did he look like?" Elder Jo panicked a little bit when he realized, that he could not remember anything, he went to his office again and asked Elder Five: "Elder Five, can you tell how he looked like?"
"Who?" Asked Elder Five, as if he had no idea about what he was talking about.
"You know, the young man that…" Elder Jo began to think, but he could not recall what he wanted to say.
"Whatever, let's go and search for this Blood gemstone, it could help us a lot." Said Elder Five and then dragged Elder Jo to his Treasure Hall.
At the same time, Alex was already back in his room and sitting on his bed. Then a few boxes with pills appeared on the bed next to him.
"Those Elders are really like little kids, they always need someone to mediate the problem." Alex was thinking about his experiences back on Earth, where he took always the role to mediate the problems of the people. He was the one that solved the problems of everyone, that's why everyone came to him.
And the other reason was that he was the most trustful person and everyone knew that he is just and that he would not side a party more than another. He would always help both sides.
So, when he saw both discussing for nothing, he offered his service for free and then left without saying anything and making them forget about him.