"Temple undeniably have an important authority, but i knew very little about it"
Tapping his finger on the table Artius started pondering about the temple.
Artius knew about temples as they played an important role in the whole story and was a fraction that must not get corrupted in any situation.
The temples on the other hand were mediators and a very important part of the Association. They kept the balance between races and also oversaw the birth ceremony of all individuals part of the 'S.A.T.Y.A'.
However the temple itself has no power and all the support regarding power was provided by association and in reverse the temple plays an important role in selecting the heads of associations.
It was done in order to maintain the balance and stop anyone getting the absolute power. As the absolute power causes corruption was a fact that everyone understood.
Artius on the other hand has different opinions.
Although he didn't know much about Temple he decided to look into it a little in the future.
Spending a few more hours in the library, Artius went to the training hall later to train his body a little.
The world of vestages was a little bit strange as it combines the medieval era concepts in the future era. This was most evident by the various facilities present in the Artius's home or should he say the castle of Olympian.
The training area was the place which depicted one of the highest levels of technologies present in the world and second to the Olympian treasury.
The training area has various machines and rooms which worked entirely on mana, even the electricity was due to the mana.
Rooms like gravitational chamber, mana pool, mind woke, overlimit bot, personal data improvement, versus rooms, etc were the finest creation of combination of mana engineering and spellcraft.
Artius himself had tried each and every room including manual machines to build up his muscles,
and among them all, he loved the versus room the most.
It provided data of all the previous generation famous awakeners till they reach the S rank and he can fight them to compare his strength with them on different ranks and age.
As there was hardly ever a showcase of very personal skills, mana art or weapon styles in it, it just shows the basic raw power of them which vary even on the same strength in accordance to different bodies.
As a power of S rank may vary with the power of S rank with a special generis.
But the versus room that he had for the personal use of his family was a little special and provided all the finest details of previously dead stars till the S rank.
And because of this it was something whose worth was unimaginable in Artius's eye.
Artius went to his usual training regime which consisted of going from manual machine workout for muscles to versus battles at last.
Every room has different functions and they work on different aspects of his growth. He felt glad that he was Artius and can access all these facilities which wouldn't have been possible if he was a nobody outside.
Artius had different levels in each room and all of them were very low in comparison to his older brother.
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In the Grave woods of the Petrison continent, Alec was inside an unidentified dungeon fighting for his survival. He entered inside without much thought however was on toes at every angle once he entered.
The dungeon was a dungeon of Grimwrith Lynx, that had the ability of phasing through non living objects. It was tough for Alec to fight them as the surrounding was of a forest in the depth of night only illuminated by the stars.
No weapons worked on them and thus Alec had to fight them with his bare hand in order to do some serious damages.
It was clearly very hard for him to clear this dungeon thus many times he had run away from the battle.
After many battles in different areas he killed 22 of them and got a noticeable understanding of them.
Grimwrith Lynx were big cat like creatures with whole body black shining with silverish patterns. Their main forte was their sharp claws and the phasing ability.
But they could only do two consecutive phasing as it was clearly very mana depleting. Alongside this they have high vision but weak sensing nose.
As Alec didn't know the name and the characteristics of them, he had to experience many things to learn about them.
In doing so he just killed them at various places and left their bodies there as he didn't have the free time to search their body for mana core.
After many days of repeated schedules their numbers finally reduced to 3 which ran away after seeing him.
They clearly recognised as the main antagonist behind the massacre and were scared after seeing him.
Alec on the other hand followed him behind as he was trying to find the last remaining of them and clear all to go outside.
It was already close to a week since he was inside and was surviving just on bare minimum food and water that he found here and there.
Following them he finally reached near an underground tunnel which was their main living place. He followed them behind and reached the deepest part where a grimwrith lynx with more defined pattern was present.
Alec senses was clearly telling him that this was the final boss but he still waited for his chance to attack him.
He hides there without making any noise for a few hours until the previous three Grimwrith Lynx went out of the cave.