THE USELESS SEED
"I don't know but my master wants it", I replied to him.
"How is your master going to wear this useless rag?" he asked me.
"Bring the shroud into your soul realm", the voice of Emperor Tian told me.
"Ratatouille can you take the shroud into my soul realm for my teacher", I asked Ratatouille.
"This is the first time I'm taking junk. You have no need for me without any more keys here, I'll return to counting my coins", he complained to me when he took the garment and disappeared.
Moments later, the garment reappeared in front of me to my surprise.
"I thought I asked you to deliver this rag to my master", I told Ratatouille.
"He already did that. I am the one who brought the shroud out", Emperor Tian told me.
"You are my teacher?" I asked the shroud.
"Yes, my soul is weak after being resurrected into the mortal realm without a body. Normally, I would need to rest a hundred years before I could rebuild my body and appear before you. This magic shroud could channel my soul into the mortal world", Emperor Tian told me.
"That is fantastic. You can move in the mortal world now although you are in the form of a garment", I told him.
"This shroud is only temporary. When I find a divine body, I can be resurrected completely", Emperor Tian told me.
"Where can we find a divine body for you?" I asked him.
"There is one inside this academy although I cannot access it yet", he replied to me.
"Well, we will find a way", I replied to him.
After taking my reward from the secret vault of the Knight Templar Academy, it was time to leave the space.
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"What did you get from the secret vault?" I asked Iras.
"Well, it was a good haul. I got an advance force field conjuration for my study, a gravity skill for Anitor and advance healing skill for Illiwyn", Iras told me.
"Seriously, these are good skills", I said to him.
"What did you get from the vault?" Iras asked me.
"Erm… this bloody bean and a shroud. How did you get so much good stuff?", I told him disappointedly and asked.
"I read the runes on the magic spheres. The instructions are incomplete and often cryptic but with some study, I could make out what is described inside the magical spheres", Iras told me.
"Damn, I thought checking for the potency of the magic inside the spheres is the way to go", I replied to him.
"There won't be much magic inside the spheres even if you can detect it, they usually contain only spell books. There is little difference in magic among the magical spheres", he replied to me.
"Damn", I complained to myself.
"Smart Alec", Ratatouille said to me in my mind.
Ratatouille was right.
I was too clever for the secret vault of the Knight Templar Academy. In the end, I didn't get anything useful. But on the bright side, my teacher, Emperor Tian found something that could enable him to exist in the mortal world.
"Orion, someone came to challenge you", Cassandra said to me suddenly as she came to see me.
"Why would someone do that?" I asked her.
"It is Shineus, ranked eighty-eight on the Knight Templar ranking. She wants to challenge you for defeating Iasonias", she told me.
"That is strange. My rank is lower than her, why will she want to challenge me for?" I asked.
"It is not just Shineus, there are a dozen other ranked knights sending challenges to you", Chash came to tell me.
"I don't know why they came to challenge me but, whatever, the more the merrier", I replied to them.
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[After the obtaining of the Seed of Life from the Secret Vault of the Knight Templar Academy]
"What is the commotion in the Secret Vault? Why did the alarm ring?" Dean Masker asked.
"The Knight Elder in charge of the secret vault reported that someone obtained a rare artifact from the secret vault as reward", Eugenia, the manageress of the Mission Center reported to the dean.
"Who is the lucky student? Spiros?" Dean Masker asked her.
"Erm… it could be conjurers from the Conjurer Court who participated in the A-mission", Eugenia replied to him before she signaled to her staff to check and confrim.
"Conjurer Court? What did the conjurers obtain from our secret vault?" Dean Masker asked worriedly.
"The Seed of Life", Eugenia reported to the dean.
"Really? That is a relief. I thought the Conjurer Court took some of our divine skills", Dean Masker said to him.
"Actually, the representative of the Conjurer Court did not obtain the Seed of Life", Eugenia told Dean Masker after she obtained the latest confirmation.
"Then who took the Seed of Life?" Dean Masker asked her.
"Viscount Oriese of the Mithridocus family, rank ninety on the Knight Templar ranking", the staff told the dean.
"Oriese? I've heard of him. The Bully of Starri. Why did the House of Nobles approve his fight with Iasonias? The Mithridocus family branch in Eloora city doesn't have a quota for it," Dean Masker asked.
"He didn't get permission for the fight", Eloora replied to the dean with a smile.
"And you didn't stop him from challenging Iasonias?" The dean asked Eugenia.
"The permission of the House of Nobles is not essential for a challenge to a ranked Knight according to the rules of the Knight Templar Academy", Eloora replied to him.
"That is true. It is about time that the Knight ranking gets shaken up by someone who is not deferential to the noble families", Dean Masker told her.
"Should we reclaim the Seed of Life from the Viscount? We can offer him new keys or something else that he might want", Eugenia told the dean and asked.
"Don't bother. The Seed of Life is useless to us as well. Just let him take the useless artifact from our secret vault", Dean Masker replied to the staff.
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