They were all exhausted and the ones who fell from it were left where they were. The rest of them went towards the royal palace, they had to report to Samos, this elf was in fact the Defense minister and the genius squad was under his direct orders.
They were also under the king and it was his orders which prevailed, he could give them special missions, for a mission like the snake's one the king didn't bother and let Samos do.
Due to the recent evenement almost all ministers were in the palace at every time hence Bea's choice to directly go to the royal palace to make their report. Once in the palace, they inquired where Samos was, they were told that he was in one of the additional office for time like those.
Once in front of the office's door Bea knocked. "Enter." Everyone heard Samos' voice, he seemed to be tired.
Bea entered, the mysterious girl, Xaratus, Galitos, Taron and Zach followed her, every other waited at the door, too afraid of Samos. "Make it short, how went the mission ?" Samos said at the moment the 6 of them were in his office.
He didn't have a proper look but once they entered he looked and couldn't see Kimstros, evidently something went wrong. He stopped what he was doing before and started to tap on his desk waiting for Bea to explain how it went.
"Over all the mission is more or less a success, we killed almost every peak rank 2 snakes. As for the low rank 3 we killed two but Kimstros got heavily wounded during his fight so we had to let the last one go with just some wounds, to bring back Kimstros."
Samos continued to tap on his desk, he clicked his tongue and declared in an annoyed tone. "You made the right choice, however this should not have happened, nobody and even less one of you should not have been injured to this point. "
Bea, Xaratus, Galitos and Taron lowered their head, they knew he was right, Zach didn't lower his head because he did not care as for the mysterious girl, she did not for a mysterious reason.
When Samos saw that Zach didn't lower his head he got annoyed but did not say anything, this boy joined the genius squad on the king's order so he would not foolishly scold him for such a pointless purpose.
"I don't have the time to think about what I should do with you right now, in addition I will have to talk about this to the king. For now do what you want, I will summon you when your punishment is settled." Samos declared.
All of them nodded and exited his office, everyone went back to their home. There only laster Taron and Zach, Zach had something in mind which troubled him.
"Why didn't you try to make things hard for me during the fight with the snakes ?" He asked.
Taron smiled and replied in a plain tone. "I have nothing against you, in addition our lives were on the line there and you will surely become a great warrior for our kingdom, I don't want to harm my kingdom for such a petty grudge."
Zach was taken aback, he never thought that a young genius like Taron would mature enough to put things in the bigger picture. Taron was just a bit older than Zach, being 16 and in Zach's eyes Kimstros who was older than him couldn't even compare to his maturity.
Zach looked at Taron, smiled and announced. "See you next time and if you want to spare I will be there anytime to teach you a lesson."
Taron chuckled and denied. "You were lucky that time, I underestimated you, if we spare again you won't be able to do anything."
On this last sentence the two of them went on their way, a smile on their face.
Zach inquired to someone he crossed where was the library, once he was answered he went towards it. He needed to gather information on the location of the second human part of the Void Body.
Sooner or later he would have to go there, if before going he could learn what was there or get some basic information he would be happy.
Once he reached the library he was greated by an enormous hall, there was bookshelves everywhere and each of them was full, from what he could see this library should have two others floor.
Close to the entrance there was someone behind a desk, it was an old elf woman, she should be the librarian. Zach approached her, with the number of book there was he would take years if he wanted to find the books he needed by himself.
"Hello Madam, please could you tell me what books should I pick to have information on the Sun peak mountain ?" Zach inquired respectfully.
The old woman smiled and lightly laughed. "You are one of the many who came here to inquire about this mountain, if you ask about it you should know that it hold a great secret. Some says that it's an ascender legacy other says that it's an universal treasure, until now nobody discored it."
She looked at Zach, he still had his mask on, in fact forgot he was wearing it, it intrigued the woman, why would this young man wear a mask in the library, she put those thought in the back of her mind and warned him.
"I fear that you will only become of the many who came back from it without anything and eventually just lost time. Though I will tell you what books you should read to learn about it."
After giving Zach a list of a dozen of books she warned him once again and when he went to seek those books, she sighed, she believed that he was yet another overconfident young man.
Zach stayed in the library for a long time, when the sun set he was still there reading the second book he had picked. However from the mission and all this reading he was too much tired and fell asleep in the middle of reading, in the library.
When he woke up it was still dark outside, the sun still hadn't rose, thankfully there was light stones which lit up the library otherwise his only source of light would be his hell fire but he did not want to accidentally put the library on fire.
He resumed his reading, this was the only thing he did during the whole day and in the late afternoon he ended the last book.
From all those books he had learned quite a few things, first nobody with a physical cultivation greater than the peak rank 2 would be able to attain the peak of the mountain.
Second, at the peak there was what seemed to be a door but no one that got to the peak was able to make it budge, they started to think that it really was nothing.
Last but not least, there was an inscription on the peak, it said that behind the so called door was the following part for those who were fated.
Zach had no reason to doubt where the second part was because he got this piece of information from the first part but now he was even more sure that the second part of the Void Body was there, at the moment he was too weak to hope to claim it but once he attained the limit of the part he got he would go at the Sun Peak mountain.
Zach was happy, he learned quite a lot of information, some were useless but he got quite useful ones.
Knowing the power the Void Body method gave, he should be able to open the door once at the peak rank 2 and this what the first Void Conqueror should have meant by only the one who practiced the first part would be able to obtain the second, though even if everyone could get the second part it would be useless to them.
He put back the books at the place where he picked them and exited the library, he was going towards his room he started to smell, thus he wanted to take a good cleaning bath in peace.
He wasn't too far from his room, only a hundred meters away, suddenly a girl appeared out of nowhere, Zach looked at her and recognized her, she was the mysterious girl in the genius squad. He didn't know why she appeared in front of him.
Before he could say anything roots grabbed his feet and the girl dashed towards him, she took off his mask. Zach was totally confused about this, when his feet got locked he thought that she was about to attack him, however she only took his mask.
The mysterious girl looked at him and suddenly a bright smile bloomed on her face and she exclaimed cheerfully. "Zach ! It's you, I'm so happy that you are here, I don't know how you managed to improve your cultivation this fast and get in the genius squad but it's great !"
Zach was utterly confused, he didn't know who this girl was but she knew him. Zach frowned and replied in an embarassed voice. "Excuse me but who are you ?"
Suddenly the mysterious girl remembered about something and the next instant Zach eyes were wide open, he was utterly surprised.