"Of course I am still with you Renna, it is not like I am going to up and vanish now is it?" Hearing his words, Renna giggled a bit before gazing at him sternly.
"I am teaching you, so you should not make any jokes you know or else who knows what would happen to you." The slight threat was just ignored by Dharen who knew inside that she would not really do anything to him.
"So below each of the three great clans, are there banner men, who are the elemental clans. These are numerous and vary in number and strengths. In short they are sworn to one of the great clans and are like their vassals as such, and below them are the metallic clans. That is our ranking overall, with the metallic clans being most numerous today, and the great clans we do not know anything of at all."
The classification was easy enough to understand, but there was one thing that Dharen did not get and that being, "So where does your clan fit into all of this?"
Renna froze at his question before looking at the floor shyly as she had done when she had hurt him, in their first duel a few days prior to this. "My clan are considered to be an elemental family, but only just. This is due to marriages mostly and the combination of our bloodline with what was a true elemental family."
Hearing this Dharen only found himself getting far more confused than he had been before, as it now seemed like to him that the bloodlines could combine or change depending on their purity.
"Oh and Dharen, the last part of the lesson on bloodlines today is about how much someone actually possesses it. As you could guess, over time the bloodline has thinned out and has been diluted. The strength that we gain from it is determined from how much of the bloodline that we actually possess. Your eye colour shows us that, gold is the sign of a noble, purple for a royal and white for an imperial. Those who have black eyes, or sometimes red are called the commoners. This is more important in terms of inheritance and marriages, something of which you will not have to worry about as a clanless."
Dharen just sat there in shock as he looked at her finish saying something that did not seem to matter to much to herself, it was as if she had just remembered that last part of information of which seemed not important to her at all, yet to him this last bit of information was arguably the most important part of information that she had told him so far today.
"Renna," he mumbled, "How are you planning on teaching me?" He asked this question carefully so as to not upset her or make her doubt her own abilities as he had begun to see her as a friend, the same for Jason of who he interacted with the most.
Renna just stared back at him, as if he was stupid for asking such a question. "Well, I will teach you the same way that I was taught. You should be asking questions about what clan you belong to you know? Being clanless is bad, it makes you seem like a criminal or some kind of outcast, and it's fine here but on the plateau that could very well get you killed.
Dharen just nodded his head at her words, as he knew nothing of how they lived on the plateau as she called it, and most likely if he could not stay here in the academy that is where he would go to live and enjoy his life.
"Anyway we are done for today Dharen, just remember one thing, all of the Dragon-Kin and the Dragons themselves were drawn to war. It runs in our blood, like it is what we were meant for, so always be careful that it is truly what you enjoy, or if it is what your blood is enjoying." Then, as she finished her last words, she turned around and left the room leaving him alone with his thoughts.
Her words, had deeply connected with hin, that being about the joy that he had found when he was fighting in the duels, he always enjoyed it alot and now he had to consider according to what she had said if he actually was enjoying it or if it was just his body enjoying it.
But then again, he knew he would never wish to enter and fight and walk on a battlefield again, not after what he had seen when he had first come here. That sight, the smell. He could still not forget it, and often he found himself waking up in the middle of the night and finding himself smelling that stench once more.
It had stuck with him, he felt no matter how far he was from that battlefield and that place. The entire scene, once more played out in his mind as if he were there again. Sharply he then pinched his skin, sending a sharp pain snapping up through his bidet bringing him back to the present.
"You are not there again, it is fine. Dharen…Luke… You are not there, you are in the academy where you are safe far away from any danger and threat of being forced onto or seeing a battlefield."
Finding himself coming back to the present and his mind focusing once again on what was around him, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He had found that the thoughts and smells that he had seen and experienced were fading slowly but still it did cause him a lot of trouble at times, he now just hoped that it would never appear while he was in an exam or something of that sort.
Standing up, he then walked out of the room, nearly walking face first into Professor Adrian; he just looked at him up with a little curiosity.
"So what do we have here now?"