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"Uhh? What happened?"
This was Raiko's first words as he slowly stood up and looked around with a confused face. He can't recall anything that happened after he sat down and looked directly into Lady Angelica's gaze who was still sitting on top of the pyramid with her refined aura like before.
"Misha please take Raiko to his room again. In a while the rewards for his valuable information to the Winged Empire will be sent."
Lady Angelica's voice resounded in a delicate tone as before then the maid who had been Raiko's guide entered the hall making a signal for that confused young man to accompany her.
Returning again to his room which had been back to its original state that was still refined with exquisite air.
"We have cleaned your room, honorable guest. I hope it is to your liking."
And without another word, Misha closed the door leaving Raiko alone to his room, who couldn't help but wonder what had happened?
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Back at the great hall an uncomfortable silence was created. Aeris waited for the report from Lady Angelica who seemed to be deep in her thoughts.
"Commander Aeris, I am afraid that this time the Winged Empire would suffer a calamity and not only us but the 7 great empires, the 4 countries, the sects and clans and even the Union could be in grave danger. It seems that the cursed Empire finally decided to make its move and maybe all of the Dark Empires have made their move. Difficult times are coming and I know that for many years all the members of the righteous path have been trying to gather information about the real power of the dark Empires yet in reality even the Union can't be sure that their information is correct. We are aware of the existence of the Octo Mortes but who knows if they have more existences of that level?"
Aeris looked a bit dumbfounded since that was actually bad news and he had already suspected it when Raiko mentioned to him the skeletons with green eyes. The power that can easily bring down a city with that type of plasma matched only one description in all the records they had.
"Aeris, I dare say this as the imperial consultant that from now on Skycity should not have less than 4 commanders present in their legions at all times to keep watch over the city and I also highly recommend that you tell the information to our closest neighbors, The Mechanical Country, The Desert Sect and The Star Empire, as well as notifying the Adventurers Guild that would surely appreciate us for sharing this information with them."
Lady Angelica took out from one of the pockets in her white dress a small round stone which seemed indistinguishable to a marble. The stone was black in color and seemed like it was flickering for a few moments as it was squeezed by Lady Angelica's soft hands.
"I have already notified my father who has asked me to meet with him to discuss the situation further..."
"I understand Lady Angelica, I will take care of the relevant arrangements."
"Aeris...one more thing, this Raiko possesses a mutant Plasma and he recently awakened it but despite that his concentration has already reached 10% plus I could sense that his potential was close to that of the First Prince so I ask you not to skimp on the reward since he already in itself gave us key information for the future of the Empire and it is in our best interest to have a close relationship with him. Besides... no, nothing it's not important then that would be all Commander."
Having said this to Aeris, she said no more and simply bowed then she quickly left the room.
At some point Raiko had fallen into a deep slumber as soon as his head had hit the bed, it was as if all his mental strength and concentration had somehow been drained from him, making him feel extremely tired.
In his dream, Raiko found himself in a dark place that seemed to have no end, he couldn't see his hands even if he tried to put them in front of his nose. He carefully walked in this dark space for some time until in the distance he could see the glimpse of some kind of three lights, they were small balls of light in the distance that danced in the air as if they were in some kind of ritual. A white dot could be seen in one of them, the other one was a red dot and last was a strange black dot that for some reason emitted a strange black glow that seemed to overshadow all the darkness around him. Those dots quickly stopped their dance to approach Raiko and begin to rotate around him at a fairly fast speed; At this Raiko was surprised and could not help but be momentarily mesmerized by the scene around him. Seconds after they started spinning, a series of voices echoed throughout the place.
'You are me and I am you, we are united by blood'
Those voices seemed to be the same voice as before but at the same time something made them extremely different.
Knock... knock... knock (sounds knocking on the door)
An unknown amount of time passed by when a knocking sound woke Raiko up and he quickly got up to open the luxurious door but at that moment he was surprised since he had expected to see Misha who had been practically the only person he talked too since he arrived at the place but instead, he saw a small man about 15 centimeters tall and yes you read that right, 15 centimeters and he was wearing an ostentatious suit that would remind anyone of a harlequin.
The suit had all the unimaginable colors so it gave an eccentric air to the little guy whose face showed a huge mustache so thick and lush that it practically covered half of his face contrary to his head. If one said that this guy had less than 20 hairs on the top of his head then no one would dare to say otherwise probably because they had problems to accept baldness or at least that was the first impression of Raiko.
"Greetings Raiko, honored guest of luxury in this super mega Skycity! I want to congratulate you for your contributions in which has become really rewarding. Very good if I must say that even I the great and mighty Sasuachin Extrihes von Riitemberg Calim Usher Usher Maximial the fourth is kind of jealous."
He mentioned while exuberantly stroking his big mustache as if he wanted to show it off to the world.
"!!! Are you ready to receive these super mega hyper arch awesome rewards, Raaaaaiiiikooooooouuuuu!!!!?"
"EHH! what the heck..."
Raiko couldn't help but be shocked by the situation because contrary to his size, that little friend had quite a lot of energy shouting and exaggerating things in a quite unique way.
That figure lunged straight towards Raiko's face and gave him a resounding slap upon hearing these words without warning, making the young man stagger a few steps behind due to the force of the impact.
"Damn you, I came here to deliver you some super mega ultra-hyper arch incredible rewards and you dare not be ready to receive them..."
That figure looked like he was about to shoot fire out of his eyes due to anger and was getting ready to pounce and deliver another slap but out of nowhere he seemed to have come up with an incredible idea.
"I see, you are so shocked by the presence of the great Sasuachin Extrihes von Riitemberg Calim Usher Usher Maximial the fourth that you are stupefied and that's why you couldn't answer the question... In that case let me apologize, my mom had always told me that I had an explosive temper. Damn old harpy, she is worse than me and it still hurts from the spankings she gave me.... Ahem... Let's get on with our business, as I said I was sent here to give you your rewards so get ready because this will make your panties fall down from your waistband"
Raiko was still increasingly shocked at his presence and he still felt the mini slap that the moustache men gave him, he wasn't really hurt in any way so he didn't hold a grudge against the little friend in his room.
"Now then Raiko the first reward granted to you by the glorious, powerful and magnanimous person King Magnus is the Epsilon Rank, I understand that you were a slave before so congratulations, many congratulations this is a big step for you if you manage to improve those manners of yours before your elders then you definitely have potential to grow."
After saying this, he took out a symbol that looked like the number 3 in an inverted form from some unknown place. The symbol has a small translucent crystal sphere inside and printed writing. This one was red in color and could be easily placed in some necklace, bracelet, earrings, belts or any other item in the wardrobe.
Tossing it to Raiko who caught it with his hand and observed it with an intense glow in his eyes because this small symbol officially represented that he was no longer a useless slave.
"The second reward is 100 Golden Denarii, unbelievable! Me and my mother could live 3 or 4 years without worrying about anything with that amount... Hey Raiko... Don't you want to share a little? It would help me a lot to stop living with my mother, don't be stingy I'll pay you back someday..."
Sasuachin Extrihes Von Riitemberg Calim Usher Usher Maximial The fourth watched Raiko with a melancholy look as if he was the poorest person in the world to which Raiko had no words to respond since was that guy serious? What would anyone do in that situation? As he prepared to answer and stood on guard for another possible slap, he was interrupted.
"Bah... Never mind I don't need your money you ungrateful fucker, now with the third reward you sure as hell will drop your panties so listen carefully this is the greatest reward the Winged Empire has ever given anyone, even those titled have not received this honor. So, without no more to say, feel lucky because the third reward... is me!"
"WHATTTTTT?"
A scream could be heard in the corridors of the jade castle, a scream of surprise, confusion and some terror which would long remain etched in the minds of the servants who heard it.