Chap-5

Ryan held the books and went to the pedestal to return the books but he stopped after arriving at the place. He didn't know how to put it back

"Young master, allow me"

Charlotte stepped in and took the books from Ryan. She went to the pedestal and wrote in the book *return*. Then, the books levitated and returned to where they belonged.

For the rest of the day, Ryan either spent it reading or playing with his little sister in the house.

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Night arrived and it was time for the two to return to their room. Charlotte and Sophie followed him to his room first since it was near.

"Good night big brother"

"Good night, young master"

"Good night to you both as well"

He went into his room and closed the door. The room was dark so he flicked on the switch near the door and the room was brightly lit. He went to the chair that was near a desk with some books. He looked at the full moon through the window that was beside him. He then recollected his thoughts from the books he have read.

This world was called Zivia. The Kingdom he was in was called Theolia, the kingdom of Theolia. He noted the surrounding nations. The kingdom of Zeagia, Olupis, and Mamouton. Geography wasn't his strong part, so he only noted the names of the kingdoms. He would study about the rest at a later time.

There were many paths to becoming stronger in this world. Some would awaken mana and some won't. Even if one couldn't use mana, one could still grow strong as there were other ways but the specifics were not in the book he read.

In the game also, the hero had mana and therefore it was not mentioned about the other ways. The hero also started at the age of sixteen when volume 1 started so, there was no way to know how one awakened their talents or bloodlines.

Speaking of bloodlines, one could only awaken a bloodline only if the family has once had a person who had reached a certain threshold in cultivation. The person who reached the threshold would have to carry out something. The bloodline would get stronger if the family could keep producing prodigies that either reached the threshold or even beyond. The percentage to awaken the bloodline would decrease with the degression of the cultivation of the descendants of the family that awakened. It also depended on how pure the person's bloodline was as well.

When a child first awakened, they would have an affinity test in order to test which element would be the best for him/her. Sometimes, by a lucky chance, they would also awaken talents. Some talents may have element specifications but some would not. They could also awaken their talent with the help of external means but it would depend on the external item whether it was a high rank item or not and if the person who was going to use it was able to comprehend it or not. This way was very popular since even adults could use it to awaken talents.

'There are many things I still need to learn' Ryan thought as he sighed.

He went into the shower and took a bath. He then went into the closet room.

"Is this a store or something"

There were hundreds of clothes, shoes, etc. He chose a set of nightclothes and changed into it. He didn't chose to call for a maid since it was easy to wear the clothes. It was easy to call the maids since only a button which only needed to be pressed. When it was pressed, it would allow mana or magic power to flow through the copper wire and it would then go to the maids working place and would ring a bell.

He didn't even have time to properly learn his bedroom so he looked around. The room was very neat and tidy since the maids would come and clean it. The bed was able to fit three people and the pillow and blanket were of expensive material. It would even make a workaholic sleep once one saw it,

There were two windows that were endowed with curtains of yellow color.

Then he looked at the desk that was in front of him. There was a picture frame that had a photo in it featuring a man, a woman, and a child. The man and the child both had red hair. The man was standing while the child sat on the woman's lap who was sitting on a chair. All three of them looked otherworldy as the man had bushy curved eyebrows and red eyes and a handsome face. The woman had silver hair and thin silver eyebrows and golden eyes. The child, in particular, had red hair and golden eyes. He still had a childish face since he looked only two years old.

He looked at the photo and smiled. There was a drawer below the desk so he opened the drawer. It had pens, and some books inside it but the item that was particularly different from the rest was a silver ring. It looked no different from other rings. In fact, it did not look even expensive as it did not have gems or other accessories that would make it.

But it was special to him since it was one of the things that were left by his parents. He decided to put it on. He put his hand that had put on the ring in front of the mirror and looked at it. Then he felt like a needle struck the place where he wore his finger. It was like a mosquito bite so he didn't think about it till it started to hurt. it felt like his blood was being sucked.

As he was about to yell because of the pain, the pain stopped and a refreshing feeling came. He tried to remove the ring after a few seconds but it wouldn't budge.

"Mom, dad you didn't leave me with an item that could kill me"

"Did you?"

"It would be a sin for such a handsome boy as me to die"

It was a habit from his past life as he had sometimes become a narcissist. It would cool his heart whenever he did this. He then tried several ways to remove the ring. He then collapsed on his bed.

Since he couldn't do anything to the ring. He decided to call it quits and sleep for the night.