Joining A Team

"I'm going to Duel the Moonlight Princess after I reach Elite"

Halsten was taken aback

"The Moonlight Princess? Why would you do that?"

Leus shrugged

"Why not? I want to know what she is"

Halsten thought about it for a couple of seconds then said

"The Moonlight Princess is a non-affiliated, so it won't be a problem to the Faction, however, it might be a problem to you"

Leus tilted his head

"Why?"

"There's a reason no one duels the Moonlight Princess.

She's the strongest, rumors are that she is stronger than even A-Tier.

Assuming that you actually reach Elite, and assuming that you accumulate enough points to duel her, you'll probably lose.

Losing in itself won't be an issue, everyone loses.

But everyone will make fun of you for not knowing your place."

Leus waved his hand

"Don't worry about that, I don't care what others think of me.

I'm curious about her origins and my tutor told me that she won't talk to me unless I defeat her"

Halsten sighed

'He's strong but ... I don't know, he sounds like an excited overconfident newbie'

He didn't want to get on Leus' bad side, so he decided to not say anything about it and just go with the flow of the conversation

"Everyone knows that she isn't human, but only the oldest residents who saw her duel and those who bought that information know what she really is."

"Bought?" Leus asked

"Yes, bought.

Knowledge is power, and based on how important/rare that piece of knowledge is, a price will be assigned to it, you can then buy that info for the set price.

People here won't simply hand you out information for free."

"... I see, that makes sense. So how much does it cost to know what she is?"

Kasimir said in a ridiculing tone

"20,000 Points"

"Pfffffffffffff, 20,000? It would be cheaper to just duel her"

Halsten shook his head

"No, the information is rare that's why its price is high.

And it won't be cheaper to duel her because you'd need a lot of points to convince someone with more than 70,000 Points to duel you"

"So how did she get this many points without even revealing what she is?"

"She has always had a ridiculously high number of Points, also, no one wants to get on her bad side.

So if she ever duels anyone they just concede and let her have the Points."

Kasimir yawned

"Why does it even matter? You can worry about this once you reach Elite, stop talking about boring stuff and get to the point, are you joining us or not?"

Leus looked at Halsten and Halsten quickly said

"I agree on your terms"

Leus nodded

"Before I join, check this"

Leus got up and gave the red letter to Halsten

After Halsten read it he furrowed his brows

"Huh? Who would duel you? As far as I know, everyone thinks that you're in Nuri's Faction"

He scratched his chin in thought

"Well, it could be an excited non-affiliated ... or maybe someone from Nuri's Faction"

Leus spoke evenly

"It doesn't matter, whoever it is, I'll win"

"That's the spirits" Azul said from the side

Halsten nodded

"Right, it doesn't matter, let me know when the duel will take place"

"Alright"

Halsten stood up

"Well, we'll leave you to prepare for your duel, let's have a meeting after it to decide how things will be in the future."

Leus stood up as well

"Sounds good"

Halsten extended his hand forward

"Welcome to the Faction, Leus Inferno"

Leus shook his hand and the rest of the guys got up as well and shook Leus' hand one by one

"Welcome to the team" Hudson said

"The strength of the team is each member" Rory said

"And the strength of each member is the team" Rad continued

" ... I'll do my best always, sorry for not being good enough" Azul said

Kasimir didn't shake Leus' hand, but he stood in front of him and said

"If you're looking for a good show, there's a place I know"

"Hmm?"

Kasimir winked and didn't say anything

"What are you talking about?" Leus asked

" ... I'm talking about if you want to have fun"

Leus didn't seem to understand, so Kasimir elaborated

"It's a dirty ... free for all"

Halsten pushed Kasimir away

"Let's go"

"Fine fine, if you wanna have fun just hit me up, Leus, all the freaks come around there"

Halsten opened to door and pushed Kasimir out, and the rest followed him

Halsten looked at Leus and said

"If you want to know something you can either come to me or send a letter, I'm in the third room on the left side of the 9th floor"

"Alright" Leus said

Then they left Leus alone in the room

Leus crossed his arms

'What did that guy mean?'

But he quickly pushed that thought away, he had more important things to worry about

'I have to think of a new Skill, I can't rely on that sentient Element'

Leus sensed displeasure coming from deep down

'Sorry Diablo, you aren't trusted.'

'Perhaps, that Life Force Abstract will lead me somewhere, there's still a lot that I don't know about it, like how to use Life Force itself'

'Mana is a force that allows Magic to exist, consuming Mana unleashes Magic'

'Life Force is the Force that keeps things alive, consuming Life Force should unleash something as well, right?'

'If I sacrifice a small amount of my Life Force, I can transform it into Elemental Mana, but what if I don't transform it?'

'Can pure Life Force be used or consumed for something?'

'Well ... It can be used for healing, but other than that ... there has to be something, right?'

Leus turned around and decided to go to the Barrier to test a couple of things

'Oh, I forgot about that'

The black book was still on the table

Leus put his hand on it and contemplated

'Should I open it now?'

But he eventually decided against it

'Hmm, it is most likely a Darkness Abstract, which won't be of use to me now'

Leus kept the book to the side then went and activated the Barrier

'Time to test some theories'