Guardian of the library? Now that you mention it, when did we have such a large library in the house?he asked. It has always been here, you just didn't know about it, replied Anele. Is the young master here for the family technique? Asked old man Lucas.
Yes, he is, replied Anele. Then please follow me. They followed the old man as he led them down a long spiralling staircase. Isn't that the library?asked Noel. That one only has normal books one can find in any library, the real one is below, replied Anele.
They arrive in another room, it was much larger than the previous one, infact, it was larger than the entire house above. It so large, exclaimed Noel. Of course, it has records of the most important events and figures for the past two thousand years, both from the circular world and the world of the awakened, replied Lucas.
Where'd you even get all that information?he asked. Some it was traded but most was gathered by my ancestors, said the old man. Your ancestors?he asked. Yes, my family has always been a family of assassins and spies. We've worked for your family for ages.
Can I look around?he asked. Of course young master, said the old man,it your library. Noel started looking around the library, he saw books recording the history of recent historical figures like Shaka Zulu, one of the Zulu kings, Abraham Lincoln and a lot more.
Each of them had multiple books under their name, as a matter of fact, the Zulus history had multiple shelves just to itself, which is understandable, anybody would like to know more about their ancestors than others and will most likely prioritise that part.
What disturbing is the amount of details under each person, the books contained even personal information the history books used at school do not have, including their height, weight and shoe size as well as p...size, which is just creepy.
Noel kept looking but noticed there was no section for the Khoza family history, so he decided to ask about it. Why is there no information about your family here, he asked. We supposed to be a secret, although some of us are well know, we are mostly known by our aliases and as individuals rather than an entire clan.
Information about us is kept somewhere only the patriarch of the clan knows, sorry I can not show it to you young master. No it fine, I was just curious,he said as he continued looking through the books. He found a smaller shelf with relatively fewer books in comparison to the others. Techniques was written on the shelf.
There were more books at the bottom of the shelf and grew fewer as you go up. At the top of the shelf were only two books. He realised the books were arranged based on some order. The bottom shelf was labelled mortal, the middle shelf was earth and the top shelf was heaven.
He decided to asked about it, so he went to Anele, techniques are divided into different grades, there are four currently known grades in the world, at least as far we know, the three you saw and legendary grade that stands above them, she said.
So what the difference between them?he asked. The higher the grade, the better the effect of the technique,she answered casually. Yeah but how?he asked. It differs between techniques, some, like the one I'm using, transform your essence into elementary essence, which means, you can use the battles techniques of that elementary nature much faster as you skip the transition stage from pure essence to elementary essence.
Others increase your essence regeneration, others increase your essence quality, others it quantity, for some, it because they come with a special battle technique that others cannot use. All in all, regardless of what effect it has, higher grade techniques are almost always better than lower grade ones.
I see, so is the technique you going to teach me one of the heaven grade one?he asked with excitement. Come and see for yourself, she answered with a smile. He followed her and they went towards the end of the hall, where a blue book with a picture of Inkanyamba was placed on a pedestal.
Is this it?he asked. Yep, this is it,she answered. He took the book, tried to open it and failed, he tried again and again, he still couldn't open it, it was as if the book was locked with iron chains. Place it on your forehead and wait, said Anele. He did as she said and felt a shock, as if electricity was running through his body. It testing to see if your blood matches, only those with your bloodline can open the book or learn the technique inside.
The book finally opened. You not allowed to take it out so stay here until you learn the technique for the first rank, she said. The book was thick, he opened the first page and on it was the history of the technique, it mentioned who created it. It was over two thousand years ago when the ancestor of the Zulus, who were famers at that time found an ancient book detailing a certain technique.
He could not learn the technique inside that book and it took him twenty years to derive the current technique from that one, the class of the technique was naturally lowered by a lot but at that time, it was still considered a top class technique. He then took another fifteen years to derive another technique of equal class but meant for magus.
He then derived multiple battle techniques over the course of his life, bringing the status of his family to the same level as that of other royal families. The second page contained the breathing technique as well the chant, for the warrior type and the next twenty something pages had battle techniques most suitable for warriors.
After that was the part containing the Magus type breathing technique and it chant as well as the battle techniques most suitable for it. In total the first rank section took over 50 pages.Now all that was left was for him to figure out if he want to be a warrior or a magi but he had no idea what the actual difference was so he started looking for a book detailing them.
He found a book written study of warrior and Magi by Sophie the witch of the depthless lake. There was a lot of information in there, most of which he had no interest in. He looked for the part about their differences. According to the book, warriors form a core at their chest and create a form of essence called vital essence. Vital essence strengthens their body to absurd levels, they are faster, stronger and more durable plus their regeneration factor is much higher. As a downside, they lack long range attacks
Magi on the other hand, form their core in their foreheads,they weaker, slower and less durable than warriors but they have longer range and more destructive might, they also better at fighting multiple weaker opponents than warriors. So, if they were to fight while on the same rank, in close rank,a warrior is most likely to win but if the magi Keeps a distance between them,they could bombard the warrior with spells until they defeat them.
Neither seem more powerful than the other, he still could not make a decision. So, like any eighteen year old boy, he just chose the one he thought looks cooler to him. Warrior it is then, plus he already learnt how to use weapons so it made sense to him to choose being a warrior.
He picked up the book, opened the warrior section, instead of learning the breathing technique, he went to the battle techniques section. He wanted to see which cool techniques can he learn. There were multiple techniques, like lightning weapons, pretty straightforward name, whoever named this technique lacks imagination, he thought, couldn't they atleast use armaments instead of weapons, sounds much more awesome. He decided he's going to call it lightning armaments instead.
The technique allows one to form weapons made of lightning, takes too much essence though. Lightning discharge, which discharges a flood of lightning from your hands but it needs you to get close to your target. There were a lot of other techniques, like lightning boots which covers your feets in lightning, increasing your speed or lightning ball, this one looked like a magi spell but it was not, it had longer range than most warrior techniques but still had shorter range than a real magi spell, it was more like an imitation of a magi spell.
As he was about to go back to the breathing technique section, he saw one ability that drew his attention, lightning armour, it was a simple technique that covers your body in lightning, unlike the other techniques though, this one seemed like an all rounder. It enhances all of your stat, provides defence and allows you to throw bolt of lightning as long your target is not too far.
What drew his attention the most though, is that you can use other techniques on top of this one and it will enhance them as well, plus it also covers your weapons with lightning, enhancing them as well. All in all, it a pretty good ability, the only problem though, you need to be atleast rank two to use or your body will not be able to handle the strain.
Noel was pretty satisfied with his choice, he couldn't help imagining himself flying in the sky, covered by lightning like a God of thunder, battling dragons and other powerful enemies while looking cool. He was excited just thinking about it.