[Nine Seventh- grade cultivators are heading in your direction], the system alerted him, but Lirian didn't ease up his pressure but rather continued to steadily increase it, in other parts of the school he felt some of the teachers and the older student trying to dispel his energy control, but so far only the teacher had success.
When the door slammed open, he turned around and nodded to the principal, "Good morning, headmaster Dao," he greeted casually, but inside he rejoiced at his success, things were going smoother than he had expected.
"Boy release the energy," Telamon spoke solemnly.
"Of course," Lirian smiled and casually released the energy, albeit he did it slowly and made no intention to hide the fact that he could release it at any point, he was sizing up Telamon to try and figure out what was it that made the system caution him against this man.
To someone that could call the empress for a casual chat Lirian had no choice but to be respectful, when the energy disappeared the students in the class were all drenched in a cold sweat, the other eight cultivators arrived in the class in time to see the energy dissipate around Lirian.
"Just what were you doing here boy?"
"I was merely teaching my class, my teacher is 'drunk' and she asked me to take of her class!" he answered with a smile.
The principles eyes narrowed, he didn't like what he was hearing one bit, "And tell me boy does teaching also involve pushing your classmates to edge of death."
"Oh that, was just me giving them a light punishment for attempted treason."
Principal Dao narrowed his eyes and glanced between the stupefied students and the guardians of the school, who looked equally stupefied, "Treason?" he asked dumbly.
Lirian put on a bright smile, "Yes, and as a result I demonstrated to them, the reason why some people," he pointed at himself with a smile, ", are granted 'confidentiality' and others are not." he announced with a strong incline of his tone on confidentiality.
Telamon Dao glanced at the pods in the room and managed to understand the situation, he had seen Lirians scan from years ago, he had 72 naturally opened energy points it was a marvel he had never heard of before and it had to be kept a secret.
Lirian had naturally fooled the pods when tests were done on him, he imagined that having 107 opened energy points would be overdoing things, and having 72 open was the bare minimum required to activate an esper technique.
"Yes, some things must be kept 'confidential'," he remarked, "No one is to speak of this incident to anyone," he spoke to everyone present including the students.
"Not to be disrespectful, Your Excellency Telamon, but this is not the court of the emperor, where an unfortunate event can be suppressed on a whim, and also I truly wish for this news to travel far and wide."
Telamon couldn't help but notice a faint sense of hostility from Lirian and he couldn't understand why but his instincts scream danger. He glanced at him with a frown, "You almost killed your fellow students this will..."
"Now that's a stretch," Lirian laughed, "I merely disciplined my fellow students, in the future, they will learn to appreciate, respect, and most importantly uphold the rules of the empire, because when they do not unfortunate things will occur, as the advisor to 5 leaders of the Clovis empire, don't you think that this a lesson that many learn all too late in life, and today I have taught it to these children at such a young age, it is a lesson they will never forget and one day they shall come to appreciate it when they learn the truths of the world."
Telamon's frown only deepened the more Lirian spoke, it reminded him of those sly foxes he constantly dealt with in the great halls of the imperial palace, 'He is different from the other children of the empress I dealt with, he is going to be very difficult to control. A child so young should not make my bones quake and my fears run wild.'
"Very well," he answered, ", in the future when you teach your lessons make sure not to shake half my school."
His words had an effect on Lirian and for the first time he also frowned, "Only half?" he asked with genuine disappointment on his face.
He sighed as the incredulous looks of disbelief fell on him, "I suppose that the tale of me doing something most third-graders strive to achieve will only be half as epic as I imagined." he dreuled out a long sigh.
Telamon had only spoken a few words to him and already he could barely stand the boy, "Taliyah did a good job raising her other children, but it seems that she has been unable to raise you properly like rest."
The glow around Lirian grew in full force and he felt a rage in himself that he didn't know existed come forth, this time the entire school trembled as he leaped before the principal, "Be careful of the words you say about my mother, and remember that one day I won't be so powerless, pray to the gods that day doesn't come, or you will curse your parents for having..." before he could finish his words, he felt a tremendous energy seal him and he lost control of the energy in the school, it made him incapable of uttering even a sound.
"Silence Lirian," he heard Anya's voice chime in the classroom, "Your excellency Telamon, forgive him for his words, the empress often speaks very highly of you and like any child, Lirian tends to get jealous when the empress speaks highly of anyone other than himself."
There was a lot of tension in the room as Telamon scowled at Lirian, "Taliyah did mention that he was always a handful, be sure to discipline him more in the future.", he released his seal on Lirian and left the room without looking back.
Lirian scowled and looked at the system, he had riled up that old man so hard and spent a small fortune to make him launch a small attack but Anya's intervention stopped it from happening, he could have easily taken 100 billion fate particles in that encounter and it killed him that he failed.
Something unexpected happened, when he met the principal, he used the system to see how much a fate read would cost him, and it was a whopping 500 trillion, that wasn't too surprising he was the advisor to several leaders of the empire the secrets he carries are immense, the thing that irked him was when he tried to do a fate read on him that involved his mother, after all he was the teacher who guided her and made her into the empress, the horrific part was that the price would cost him 80 trillion fate particles, which meant that he carried a secret that was unfathomable about her.
He was all the more determined to learn his secrets, the fate he would be able to earn would be immense if he could unravel this mystery by himself, there was a fine line he needed to watch out for with his quest for knowledge, by using fate particles one could obtain a great deal of information but if someone learned the information naturally they could earn more fate particles than it would cost them to steal it and he needed hose fate particles desperately.
Anya pulled him out of class and concealed both of them in the shadow, "Have you suddenly gone stupid, do you know how important it is that you make a good impression on that man and you actually dared to threaten him, do you have any idea how important it is to your mother that he approves of you."
"What do you think your mother is going to say when you get home today, she is going to be furious when she learns about what you did."
"Firstly, what I did today was all part of a plan to instantly gain reputation and secondly there is something strange about that man."
"He is Telamon Dao, there is nothing strange about him, he is a good man he was the advisor to several leaders of the empire, he raised your mother and after your mother became empress, he retired to do what he loves, teaching, honestly he took on the role as a teacher to help protect your mothers' other children and teach them properly, he is respected throughout the empire and try to understand that he choose to help your mother over ascending to the immortal realm."
"Do you realise that his profile makes no sense, every single person that sits beside a leader is a monster that other monsters fear, people, tell their children stories about them so that they behave, and that man who managed to serve five generations of leaders managed to have such a great name, that tells me only one thing he is exceptional at deceiving those around him, he is a monster the likes of which even you should fear."
Anya frowned and also felt slightly hurt, he didn't even try to hide the fact that he saw her as a monster, she knew that she was no holy saint but to hear that from his mouth it felt oddly painful, she shook her head before his words made any form of sense in her mind, his words always had a convincing edge to them but she would not fall into it this time.
"Do you know what I think?"
"I think that you're scared because you don't know how to make up with your mother, so now you are trying to make a mystery where there isn't one so that you can distract yourself from the fact that you don't know how to make things right with her, and on some level, you think solving this mystery will make her proud of you and forgive you."
"But listen to me Lirian, your mother thinks of Telamon like a father, if you run around saying things about him and threatening him you really will hurt your mom, and it will become impossible for your mom to forgive you, I can cover for you this once but I won't always be able to, I hope that you can understand that before it's too late."