After I entered my room, I closed the door and looked out of the window to be greeted by the sight of a starry sky. I threw my body onto the king-size bed.
' I finished all the books in the library, so I practically passed all the Evanias Academy written exams and even more. '
' I just turned sixteen so I can enter the academy right now, I also earned a lot of money ( from pickpocketing ) to get a small house and an apartment in Evania since I don't think I want to sleep in their doorms '
' Right now, my priority is to prevent the world from destruction. That's right. I went back in time thanks to an artifact. it was quite shocking for me when I was back in my fifteen year old body, but a year has passed since then, and I have already adapted to it. '
I sighed as i looked at my weak body. All my artifacts are gone. All my skills are gone. Everything is gone. All of my years of hard work turned to dust, and that's because of the four bastards that caused the two sides of the world to colide and destroy each other!
' That's why I am going to the academy. There is one of the four bastards that caused the world destruction. Astra Luminous he is the bastard child of the current emperor of Light, Alexander Luminous. He was bullied by everyone, the princes, and the servents alike. The only one who loved him was his mother, who was a commoner maid in the palace. Unfortunately, she died when he was 8 years old thanks to the emperors concubine, Mery, who is obsessed with the emperor and hated the maid that had a one night stand with him. So Astras' mother died to poisoning thanks to her. '
' After that, the bullying from the people around him got even worse, so he decided to escape from there, and the perfect place he could go to was the Evania academy. There, he discovered his talent for swordsmanship and became a hot topic, but after someone found out his identity and reported to the empress for some pocket money as a reward. After the empress heard of it, she sent people to kill him. '
' My best bet would be to go to the academy and save him on the brink of his death and make him sign a soul contract that will bind his soul to me preventing him from causing the world it's downfall again. '
After organizing my thoughts, I got out of my bed and put on my shadow cloak with a hoodie. I took my daggers and put one on each side of my waist. I pulled up my leather gloves, and for the last time, I checked my space ring. It was a high-quality one, so I was able to put a lot of things into it. Trough i only took the necessities and my hard earned money.
And of course, I can't forget a mask as we are required to hide our identities in the Evania Academy since commoners also attended and there was a lot of discrimination.
Of course, we don't like to deal with such things, so our Empire made everyone hide their identities and make code names for themselves. Isn't it a little extreme, you may ask? Yes, yes, it is. But did it work ? yes, it's working perfectly. it's also good for me as I don't want them to know my identity when I later save them.
The mask only covers my forehead down to my nose, leaving my mouth uncovered since I'm not planning to take my mask off and I need to eat it's not uncommon to see people with masks wondering around the streets of Evania.
Not to mention, my mask is great. its shape is of a fox, and it's wholly black with only glimmering silver lines that looked like shattered glass cracks.
After making sure I got everything, I took out a piece of paper out of the drawer, and with the pen I had on my table, I wrote:
[To Aron]
[I'm fine. don't worry, I'm going out. Don't track me, please.]
[-Ash]
After I signed it with my signature, I opened the doors to the balcony and used shadow step a technique that makes me one with the shadows, and I lept.
If the sun was up, then people would be able to see a shadow on the ground that's moving occasionally, blending in with the shadow of the trees.
Even with my speed, it took 7 hours of travel from our main castle that's located in the far west to the east borders.
After crossing the east border, I was in Evania. By the time I arrived, it was already day, and I could swear I had 1cm long dark circles under my eyes.
After exiting the forest with my mask on, the first thing I did was find a real estate agent and rent an apartment. I purposely chose a low profile eria in the slums that was by no way outstanding.
It was really run down. There was a small bathroom, a joint room where there was a kitchen and a dining room, and the last room had just one small bed and a night table. The walls were cracked. The sink wasn't working properly. Not to mention, the water was cold, and the whole apartment stank.
Well, what did I expect. I pulled out two talismans, one that blocks the sound to get in or out and another one to clear the air. I opened the window a bit and walked to my new room.
Well, at last, the toilet is flushing properly, and the bed isn't that bad, so I can still get a good night sleep.
I laid down on the bed in an attempt to get a good night sleep. "....creek...."
" Fuck " evry time I move the bed literally screems !
I got our of the bed took the keys that were on the kitchen table and decided to buy a new bed. Because if I didn't, then I might as well just sleep on the floor !
2 hours later.....
Well, finally, a nice bed. I looked at the space ring on my glove and couldn't help but smile. I would kill for comfort !
Now that I'm outside, I might as well buy other things I need. The streets were filled with people and their chatter as I walked from one stall to another.
In the end, I decided to buy a few healing potions and mana recovery potions. For last, I brought a voice changer in the form of a choker. When I looked in the mirror, now this fox mask looks more like a cat mask. Now, with the choker, I really look even more cute as if my flawless white skin and slender waist weren't enough.
' Ahem....well, I am pretty. After all, no one can blame me if I admire myself a bit '
After I was finished checking my new voice changer, I turned it on and adapted it a bit so I wouldn't sound too weird.
The voice changer is optional in the academy, but I wanted one just to be safe. They do give necessary things there like masks and gloves that can hide your mana color, but they aren't even close to being comfortable and the masks.... don't even get me started. Those are so uncreative they just give u a plain white mask with a number written in black under your right eye.
' If someone were to go to a school gathering, then they would mistake the students for some members of a religious cult. Oh, how I don't want to be one of them. '
' If I remember correctly, then Astra should be 18 right now, and this year, his graduating. Luckily, the school system kicks out every student who fails to pass to the next grade, making only a small number of them graduate. '
' With this they showed that their academy is no joke. But if they can cut off the failing students, then of course they also premited talented students to move up a grade if they finish all the written exams with passing marks of the given grade.
Trough that's not the end of it as they also need to score hight in the rankings and that's by fighting with other students. But when you skip grades, it means you will compete with stronger students. '
' And that's what I'm precisely about to do. If I remember correctly, then Astras mask should be white with a red star on the right side of his forehead, and its rays should be spreading through the entire mask. His code name should be Sol. If I remember correctly, then he is a second grade that is now moving to the third grade, the graduating grade. '
' It has its perks to be the young master of the Blake family. After all, our information network is the best since we specialize in assassinations and gathering information. We aren't called the kings of the underworld for nothing. '
' Information is power and that's the reason why we never got attacked by other empires as they economies would go down they will never know when will they get poisoned and not to mention we control the underworld all criminals, gangsters and other thugs that were kept under control will go berserk. '
After getting back to the apartment and throwing out the old bed on to the streets, I went inside and locked my apartment. I don't want any old drunks entering my apartment when I sleep at night.
After that, I quickly changed to shorts and a T-shirt and threw myself to the bed as I was ready to sleep.