"what are you doing?"
A voice echoed he turned round to see who it was, he saw a 180cm male with sharp facial features, short ginger hair, and a pair of blue eyes, he wore a black vest long button-down shirt with a sharp pair of pants. Elijah passed for a second ( do I know him?).
"I'm sorry, do I know you?" the tall male sighed, then answered, "It's me, Edmund Tollere." Elijah stared at Edmund he had rich white skin. It was like looking at a sea shell. "What the hell happened to you?" he inquired, Edmund rubbed his chin and then explained " I had an eventful week, I went to the southern continent, and I saw a lot of things there. I was inspired by the people there so I cut my hair and dyed it" he answered, " you were only gone for a day?"
"There are some oaths that allow one to teleport, I have a friend that has such an oath its called Walker," he explained, Elijah listened carefully.
"so what are you doing?" Edmund asked, Elijah spent the next few minutes recounting the events after Edmund left "Wow, you must have had a lot of fun here." Edmund grabbed a nearby chair and sat down next to Elijah "So you want to choose the pale knight oath, huh…..there's someone here that has a lot of knowledge about that oath, do you want to meet her?".
Elijah took a huge guess and then answered, "Is it daly?"
"….yes," Edmund got up off his seat "That was a good chat I will see you later…."
"wait…i want you to explain something to me," Elijah requested; Edmund rubbed his chin and then sat down "Ask away!"
"so, as I've heard from Bargi, the power of the oath works like a contract every time you do a good deed, which is called an act if the god of that oath recognizes it, then you will evolve in power, he calls this a level up..correct?"
"correct"'Wrong'
"every time we achieve an act that is worth getting attention, god rewards us with power, but the speed of that reward could be a long time, it all depends on the person," Edmund answered, Elijah held a confused expression
"What's wrong?" Elijah was snapped out of thought then answered, "I just wanted to be sure that I understood correctly, that's all, thank you Ed" Elijah smiled
Edmund got out of his seat then said with a cheery tone, "If you ever have a problem, you can always come to me!" there was a pause, then a burst of laughter "See you when I can"
before Edmund left, a man clothed in a white robe glared at him the man dragged Edmund by the ear.
Elijah said in a muffled voice," What do you mean wrong?" Otto did reply for a few seconds and then answered
'it's wrong because it is all a lie, you don't need the permission of a god to advance, it's all a lie that the church made to keep crusaders under control….what I'm saying is that the church lies so that they can easily manipulate the people '
"Then, if it's all a lie, how does one advance?" he returned.
'to advance, we would need to have a piece or an object that presents the oath. You can advance using a ritual or make potions, but the effectiveness of it goes down. That's how one gets stronger. The other is to break down the oath into pieces that you understand. once you understand the oath, you can grow slightly stronger, but it's still the same thing once you have broken down the oath, you use an object that represents the oath, then do a ritual that's the correct way to advance.'
"if that's the correct way, then what happens if you use the incorrect way?"
'you become a ...sadly I can't answer that. If I do answer, then your willingness to go down this path lower, so once you've become a crusader, then I will tell you, but if you accept my contract now, then I can tell you right now
" why would I sign a contract with someone that tried to take over my body," Elijah said, otto stayed silent Elijah used this time to study the pale knight oath and the Umbari language since he was not allowed to leave, he spent the entire time studying once he got burnt out he went to selinas room he knocked on the door in a few minutes the door opened she wore a green dress that had flower patterns.
"I burnt out do you have any leftovers?"
Elijah didn't care that he was asking for food. He was just tired and hungry
"no, I haven't cooked anything today..you could try learning how to cook; since I'm not busy with anything right now, I could teach you how to cook " Selina led the way to her small stove, which had two burners, she brought out a small frying pan then said "since this is your first time cooking I will teach you how to make a scrambled egg its pretty simple " Selina took out two brown eggs, she brought out a large bowl she used the edges of the bowl to crack the egg she pours it into the bowl then she cracked the second one.
after cracking the eggs, she grabbed a fork and then used it to wisk the eggs after a while of wicking, she poured some oil into the small frying pan. She turned on the burner and then set it to low while waiting for the oil to get hot she got four slices of bread and then placed them in two separate plates once that oil got to the perfect heat, she poured in the golden colored egg.
after a few minutes, the egg was done; she took out the egg then placed the bread in the small frying pan. The bread turned a golden color she did this for the rest of them after putting the egg in a separate bowl, she placed the egg on the side of the plate with the pair of golden bread
"there, try and cook a scrambled egg"
Elijah followed what Selina did he cooked the egg perfectly, but he almost burnt the bread
"good job. I give it a seven out of ten. Could have been better, but you burnt the bread, which made the eggs taste bitter, and it ruined the dish" she judged; Elijah took a bite out of Selina's egg it melted in his mouth (she made the yoke undercooked) Elijah picked a piece of bread then chowed down the taste of the yoke went beyond what he had expected "how is it a scrambled egg when I can still taste the yoke," Elijah asked, Selina pointed to the small frying pan "the heat and the amount of oil I placed in is what changed it, that's all there is to it, if you have enough experience with about anything then you can simply improve upon that skill or technique".
Elijah felt his understanding of Selina improve. He saw her in a new light. The two spent the entire time talking about things that had happened around the church, such as small gossip around the workers; after she was bored with that, she pulled out a card game, it was called shuffle. He has to be the one that has one card once you have one card you have to call out shuffle before you place the card down.
the two played shuffle until Amala and Elliot showed up. Once they showed up Selina kept on losing in one round, and Elijah won for the first time.
Elijah did the same thing for the next few days. He talked with Edmund while the two studied together. After the two were burnt out, they would go to Salina's room half the time she was busy, but she still made time Amala and Elliot were busy dealing with the Witches of Dawn. When they weren't, they would lay shuffle in the game room with everyone else Even Bargi joined in on one point, but it was to tell everyone to get back to their studies, but in the end, Elijah and the rest still had fun.
Friday night
(I couldn't get to tell Bargi which oath I chose, but if I see him tomorrow, I will tell him ) Elijah thought to himself; he read some parts of the journal and then went to bed.