Surprisingly, the person who Jason was to live with for the meantime was his instructor. Yeah, the one who slapped him. Jason tried to apologize for what happened in the scouts guild between him and Don, but Davis his instructor shunned him saying that they didn't all about work at home. It also turned out that Narla was the only child of the family.
They had dinner that night together, and Jason noticed that they were very welcome of him living with them. He actually ended up telling Davis's wife Melissa about what happened. She gave him a piece of advice which he shrugged aside.
He had to also share a room with Narla that night as most of the other rooms were uninhabitable. Hopefully, as he was told by Melissa, he was going to have his own room today. Most part of the night anyway was Narla asking him questions upon questions which he answered untruthfully. He gave her what she wanted to hear just for him to sleep peacefully. Alas, that only happened when she got sleepy and slept off on a question.
" Have you heard? " Melissa generally asked everyone during breakfast. " What darling? ". " Evaluators going to be arriving next week. It's the major thing on the news now papers " Melissa replied.
" What!! " Davis shouted " Not again, these damn people are just looking for towns to detier ".
" Why are people so scared of the evaluators? " Jason asked.
" Read the papers out loud " Melissa instructed handing the papers over to Jason. " Okay then " Jason replied collecting the papers ".
' NEMESIS RETURN - ARRIVAL OF EVALUATORS'
' It has finally reached the ears of the news now reporters that evaluators arrives. The day set for their entrance into Benign given by the council is to be the 19th of March which is six days from this production. " These tier sucking monsters will be here, so get ready people " Fredrick Noston, mid ring member of the council says.
In response to this 'threat' " We have taken it upon ourselves to carry out town wide evaluation enforced by the council on all sectors of the economy and endeavour to boost each one to it's best according to our capacity. " Lucius Jaliel, mid ring member of the council says.
" We also do solicit to the citizens full cooperation, you all know the result of the last evaluation that detiered us from 4 to 3, another detier and we might just be talk of massive exodus. Hudson Rick...
" So this is it right? " Jason asked putting the paper. " Yes, eight years ago, Benign was detiered and although we didn't experience much of it's effects, another detier and we'll no longer receive support from the capital, and capital support. Nog only that, we'll be ranked along non growing towns " Davis said wiping his mouth with a table cloth.
Awareness sudden dawned on Jason " So that's why dad was worried too " Jason thought.
" Do you mind if I take Jason round the house for a tour? " Narla asked her Dad. " Um..... okay it's better for him to know his place around so we don't accompany him everywhere " Davis replied.
" Thanks a lot dad " Narla said cheerfully. On the other hand, a pale shade of green washed over Jason's face. " What does Narla want with me? " Jason asked himself.
" Jason, do you mind? " Narla turned to Jason. Jason wanted to decline, but her father had already agreed so he couldn't. " No, no, no, it's okay " Jason replied.
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Two men sat on two large chairs overlooking a large testing center for Kardeshin School Of Royal Knights. The test going on in the large field was shielded from view by a black mist and nothing could be seen from the outside or the inside, but the two men seemed to know what was going on inside.
" The boys has enough talent to put him on top of all other kids being tested " the first man said. He wore a black hood for the reason that no one would see his face.
" He is already among the top children worldwide in all testing centers and it is really shocking " the second man said.
" What's shocking about that? " the first man retorted " The second son if Bryce Neil coming up among the top is shocking? Those children would have training enough to place the. above other students.
" You are right about that, but what I yearn to do is to find out those one hundred endorsed. They might be the ones we should look out for " the first man said. " To be endorsed, it means a great deal if talent has been spotted, especially by Prometheus. He has never endorsed anyone but Bryce since 21 years ago " he laughed.
" You know, when Prometheus was allowed endorsing right, I thought that at thirty nine, he was too young to make a right decision. I thought his strength had bought the right. But, after Bryce graduated, he made his way up the ladder and now he's among the thirteen upper council member. Apart from that, no more endorsement from from Prometheus has been made. But, news has reached us that Prometheus will make an endorsement this year. This thrills me so much " the second man explained exhaustively.
" But could he really be stronger than Anthon Neil..... It's a pity he wasn't endorsed by Prometheus "
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" So why did you decide to become a scout? " Narla asked Jason as they walked on a large aisle.
" My heart was inclined towards saving the righteous " Jason answered. This was about the hundredth question she had asked for just showing him a few rooms.
" Why do you hate Don Brown? " Narla asked. " The unrighteous shall... " Is it because of Elsa " Narla interrupted. " No no, " Jason shouted. " Not her. Like I was saying the wicked should be vanquished "
" But he's a scout too "
" Beware of demons parading themselves as angels of light " Jason answered posing heroically.
" Do you like Elsa? "
" Yes "
" Why? "
" I just.... what kind of like do you mean " Jason asked suspiciously.
" Like as in love "
" No way " Jason coughed.
" Why did you run away from home? "
" I didn't run away from my home "
" Okay.... do people take strolls with luggages "
" Yes "
" Only you have done that "
" Yes, only me "
" What kind of people take stroll with luggages? "
" One of a kind " Jason was struggling to keep up with her bugging.
" Do you like me? "
" Again, what kind of like do you mean? "
" I'm the one asking questions "
" You didn't ask me a question now "
" I was just insinuating that you should not ask me questions because I am the interviewer "
" That definitely did not sound like question "
" Come on Jason "
" Probably, you have another definition for questions "
" Urgh.... " Narla stormed off tired of desperately trying to make Jason understand. " Phew..... now I can stroll in peace " Jason murmured to himself. He quickened his pace just to make sure he lost her. " Now, where did we come from? " Jason thought looking at a strangely unfamiliar corridor. He opened the door and his eyes was greeted with a large library. Jason's eyes glowed with joy and excitement. " Now, this is something I don't mind doing ". One of Jason's favourite hobby if not the only one was studying books especially that on history.
He scrambled past the bookshelves in awe and stumbled into Davis whose stunned face told it all.
" Jason, what are you doing here? " he asked . " Sorry sir " Jason replied partly out of surprise. Davis was still eating when he and Narla left, if Davis had come to the library, they should have seen him pass them except there was another way into the library.
" There is no problem, here have a seat " Davis said offering him a stool. Jason glanced at the book he was holding " Legend Of Judais " he muttered.
" Oh yes, this only the part one. I've read it so many times, and even the entire parts, like to hear it? " Davis asked.
" Um.... yes? "
" Okay, the tale begins with Caraben known as the mother of all kingdoms which was what we know now as a tier 7 kingdom " Davis started.
" But a tier 7 kingdom doesn't exist " Jason interrupted. " Yes, it doesn't now, bit it did a long time ago and it was destroyed by a mortal ascended god.
" Mortal ascended god? " Jason asked.
" The term may sound strange, but a mortal ascended god is a mortal who accumulated power much enough to place him in par with gods " Davis answered.
" Judais right? "
" Yes, Judais destroyed the tier 7 kingdom, but let's not go too far now, we'll get there. Caraben was under the rulership of thirteen most powerful people in the entire world. Together, they extended thenhold of Caraben to most parts of the world. Any state or town that refused to come under the rulership of Caraben was exterminated. And so, they came across Basalen a town that refused to come under Caraben's control. As to their rule, Basalen was destroyed and people were murdered including Judais's family.
" Didn't they have surnames? " Jason asked inquisitively.
" History did not record their surnames " Davis answered patiently. " Judais escaped but his entire family was killed. He took his girlfriend out of Basalen with him. He had no plans for revenge since he was only fifteen at that time and knew he couldn't defeat the thirteen ever" Davis narrated.
" But he did....
" Allow me to finish Jason " Davis pleaded. He travelled with his girlfriend until they were discovered and his girlfriend was killed before Judais could return one day from a hunt. He then went into the forbidden world for ten years and came back for revenge. The first person he saw was his brother Rudais whom told Judais he escaped too. It was later Judais got to know that Rudais worked for Caraben and was also behind the death of his family. The battle that took place was a terrible one, and Rudais was killed.
" He killed his own brother? " Jason asked bewildered.
" History says just so. He no longer has feelings as he came back from the forbidden world and his brother's reveal broke the last humanity he had left " Davis answered. " He went back to the forbidden world for another five years. Be returned again, and what he did next gave him the title god of death. It was also said that he created his armour from god ki and his swords from stacked blades in 360° pattern called the shield of Zebulon. His sword weighing four trillion tons tore out his arm on first welding but he fixed it back with a sword stabbed through his shoulders " Jason gasped. " No one knows how the hand still worked, but he used it . He marched into a tier 4 kingdom built by the thirteen and spared no one. Everyone including Knights died by his sword and shield. He the same to a tier 5 and 6 kingdom until the thirteen decided that it was time to end him. So they rallied all the forces of Caraben to defeat him.
" He became his strong in such a short time? " Jason asked.
" Note that it was fifteen years it took Judais. And history never expounded on what happened in the forbidden world, but he did whatever he did by himself. No god had accumulated that kind of power ever before. the total forces of Caraben totaled double digits billions, and the battle took place at the valley of Dakota" Davis said.