Zach exited the palace, he went to Viggo's ministry, it wasn't far from the palace, only 2 minutes away, it was a well guarded and quite beautiful building.
When Zach reached the entrance a guard asked him to put his hand on a truth stone and to declare that he wasn't here to do any harm to anyone, after the guard saw that Zach wasn't here to harm anyone he entered and was welcomed by a middle aged elf.
"What are you seeking in our ministry, I will guide you towards the right place !" He said cheerfully with a smile. Zach looked at this elf and thought. 'He has a boring job and he should be doing it for quite a time and he is still so energetic, something worthy of respect.'
"I'm looking to see Viggo, I need to discuss something with him." Zach answered in a plain tone, however the elf's reaction was everything but plain and he exclaimed. "You want to see mister Viggo !? Could you please tell me who you are so I can tell him who is seeking him."
The elf was quite clever, maybe the young human in front of him was a great name, like this he was making it like it was to inform Viggo but he just wanted to know who this young boy was.
"Zach, tell him that it's Zach who is seeking him." Zach replied in the same plain tone, when the elf heard the name he was lost, neither did he know this young man nor his name. Nobody would come to a ministry and ask for the minister for no reason or without knowing the said minister.
The elf wasn't sure about what he should do, this boy shouldn't be lunatic enough to come ask for Viggo like this so maybe he really knew him.
"Go wait there, mister Viggo isn't available right now but once he is I will inform him of your arrival." The elf declared, he would wait to see Viggo to notify him, he didn't want to risk bothering the minister for a nobody.
Zach sat and waited, he didn't have any idea that he was mistook as a lunatic and really believed that Viggo was busy doing important things. It wasn't entirely false as Viggo too had to work for the upcoming war, he had less work than Samos but he also had to do round trips between his ministry and the palace.
An hour later Viggo finally showed himself in the ministry's ground floor, at this time the elf whispered to him that a young human named Zach was waiting for him. At the elf's surprise the stern dwarf that was Viggo instantaneously became more friendly.
"My little friend, here you are, what are you here for ?" Viggo exclaimed kindly, Viggo wasn't friendly with Zach only because he believed in him. It was also because this little boy had done a great favor to their kingdom and he felt like he was greatly indebted to him.
When the elf heard how he talked to Zach he started to sweat, he was right to not treat him like a lunatic fool, if Zach talked about this event, at best he would have to seek another job, he could have even lost his life if not for his caution.
Zach looked at Viggo and annouced. "I'm still in dire needs of a good scythe, without it I become less versatile, it could cost me quite a lot." Viggo nodded, he remembered that in Yosa Zach already wanted a new, tailor made scythe.
"I know someone who cab make you a great one, I think a mid rank 3 one should be enough for quite a time." Viggo offered, when everyone heard this they were dumbfounded, even if a mid rank 3 weapon wasn't considered a treasure it wasn't easy to get one.
In the kingdom there should be only about 100 weaponsmiths able to craft one, and Viggo directly offered to make one of them craft a weapon for a nameless, what's more a human, it was a first.
Zach nodded, he didn't expect that Viggo would offer such a good quality right away, a mid rank 3 scythe should at least last until the war, even if it was 5 years away, and it should still be useful at this time.
"I will get it for you before you go to the war simulation." Viggo went on, this time Zach was happily surprised, he didn't think he would get it this soon. Once again everyone was shocked by Viggo's declaration, ordering a mid rank 3 weapon to a weaponsmith needed quite the money or the status but making the weaponsmith make it in less than a week needed to use a lot of both.
Who was this boy ? It was the question everyone in the ministry was asking themselves.
Zach got up and exited the ministry he decided to go to the plain in order to train his Void step, he had to make the time to ready it shorter and his control over the distance traveled wasn't perfect. He wanted to improve both of them, as it was now he wouldn't be able to us it in fight, if he improved it, it could become one of his greatest asset in fight.
He used the Void steps 4 times and ended quite exhausted, he didn't progress on those 4 tries, he needed to recover his energy before trying again.
He continued like this again and again, he trained his Void steps so much that he stayed and trained in this plain for a whole day straight, he only rested to have enough energy to launch another Void steps.
When he finally realized how much time he had spent doing this he decided that he should go back to the palace. In the end he didn't succeed in improving the Void steps despite his several tries, he concluded that it would be useless to do this again, until he had an insight or an improvement in usin his void energy he would put the improving of the Void steps aside.
While Zach was returning back to the palace, the guard in the treasure room was checking every treasure as he did every day, the day before everything was good. However this day when he reached a certain place he became petrified, something happened.
It was the emplacement where the core of life method was left, until this moment it was easily understable and readable, yet this time when the guard saw it he couldn't read nor understand, he tried to see the rest of the method but there was nothing, everyhting had disappeared, there only lasted an unreadable and incomprehensible title.
All of sudden the guard was drenched in cold sweat, he was after the guard of the treasure room, he was one of the few true powerhouse of the world, a mighty low rank 5, he only obeyed the orders of the kingdom's old powerhouses and the king himself.
However in one way or another something in the throne got degraded, at this point it could be say that it was destroyed.
He started to run, he exited the treasure room and went towards the throne room, he had to report it to the king immediately. Once in front of the throne room's door he didn't bother to knock and directly entered.
Everyone in the throne room was confused, the guards were ready to fight as somebody entered without being announced. When the King saw who it was he had a bad hunch, he ordered in a firm voice. "Everybody go out now !"
Once there was only the guard and the King he stated why he had come. "My King, somehow the core of life method, which was brought back by your daughter, became a useless piece of paper."
When he heard this the King paled, he knew this method had a huge value and it was a great loss, yet there was something that troubled his mind. "Why is it so and how did this happened ?"
"I don't know my King, only the title last and it became unreadable, nobody should have entered the treasure room since the awakening ritual and yesterday it was still in one piece so I don't have the least idea of how it happened, however I'm ready to be punished."
"It's not the time, I have to go ask the elders why something like this could have happened." The king stated, when he heard this the guard was surprised, he didn't think that the first thing the king would do was to go find the elders.
The elders were in fact the backbone of the kingdom, everyone of them was old, very old, they were all at the peak rank 5 and they couldn't break past the peak rank 5 to ascend. Basically they were living history books and they had greater experience on the mysteries of the universe and cultivation.
The King went towards the wall at the back of the palace in the garden, this wall was also the border of Constantos. He approached it and pressed a certain spot on it, suddenly a door appeared on the wall, he crossed it and a few hundreds of meter away there was an old looking temple.
He entered this temple, it was big, the ceiling was 15 meters above, the temple was 50 meters deep, there was big red pillars that supported the whole thing.
The moment he stepped in an ancient voice resonned. "What is so hard for you that you had to come see us, little Arkantos ?"
The only thing Arkantos did was to lower his head, he got on his knees and said in a respectful voice. "I came because something odd happened, either someone succeeded in entering the treasure room or a mystery of the universe happened."
The one who had spoken to him a few moments before instantaneously became interested.