Deal

"Now that we brought the subject, I will be telling you about the remaining layer.

Yesterday we spoke about the first two layers, and I know many of you know about it, and some have even managed to make it to the second part. The saint realm is a Layer where the old text mentioned people able to fly in the air using Qi, able to live long without requiring food, nor sleep.

The body will no longer need mortal sustenance but Qi, which will have fully refined their body and made it be something of a different nature altogether.

Saint realm breakthrough-ers were said to have bodies that once they die they dissipate into Qi, not leaving anything behind. However, they gain a lengthy life spanning centuries."

"There were very few people that managed to reach this stage and the one that presides over all those that ever reached the realm. The strongest to have ever lived. The Conqueror." She said with a sigh.

"The objective of this school as you all know is to forge elite enforcers. Though our country has many of them, most of them are stationed in towns or cities safeguarding the people and preventing crime. Of the one thousand years that the Kingdom of The Sun had gone through, the enforcer's era was the safest and most prosperous. Due to the help of the graduates from this country we kept the kingdom safe and sound. Many of the graduates don't officially end up being enforcers, however. Some just use this chance to learn more about politics and know more about the world to implement this into their lives.

Especially the nobles who take this chance to have a better chance to gain more power in the world." Said the old woman explaining the general situation.

"The Elite enforcers, however, are a different thing. Every three years ten students get elected to this position. By the school board, though many of the spots are taken by the nobles" said the professor then looked at me "In some cases, many servants that manage to reach the high classes can also claim a position. Once a servant that manages to do so reaches this position, they are immediately elated from their servant class to a noble class. No matter the background"

"An elite enforcer is considered to be more valuable than several noble houses. Where they can serve the kingdom and the people in fighting against the defiled enemy. They are given financial and political support by the kingdom. It is no wonder that many nobles try to reach this position, the power it gives them enables their hose to grow in rank and reach a more prestigious position. We have several examples here in this class too." Said the professor.

Then she looked at the corner of the room.

"For example, the House Ling," she said looking at Lady Akari who was seated at the far side of the class. I didn't even notice her until the teacher spoke about it.

"The house Ling is considered one of the prominent houses of the kingdom. Its Lord, Lord Yo Ling is an elite enforcer and a close friend to his highness.

His sword Brother Master Shen, who is a teacher in this academy is also an elite enforcer and they both serve the country to great lengths. Given the power, they wield the king himself gave the lord of the House Ling a city to rule.

The City of Flame Ariandel has prospered since, due to the financial and political aid of the king and the power of its current lord. This is an example that many of you should take into consideration. To become an Elite enforcer is a difficult and hard task, though all of you present here in the S class have a better chance at it, it doesn't mean that those of lower class will just give up the fight for it. You must all reach out to become better than what you currently are. Class dismissed!" said the professor and she left.

The voices in the classroom then rose. Many people began discussing what the professor just spoke about and the rest were using the time to speak casually amongst themselves.

Looking at lady Akari our eyes met and she turned around and left the class.

Hmm…something is different about her.

The moment I decided to leave the class, someone smacked their hand at the table where I was seated.

"You!" he said

He was a tall looking boy, with short-cut blue hair, and azure eyes. He had a look of arrogance in his eyes, perfectly fitting a high noble. Looking at everyone beneath him with contempt, and all above him with either envy or reverence.

"I challenge you for your class position! Give your position back to lady Lissandra and go back to where you belong!"

"I refuse" I replied as I stood up, completely ignoring the guy.

"What do you mean you refuse," he said as two more guys showed up behind him. I didn't have a good look at their appearance, but they looked like fodder characters that follow the order of another fodder character.

"We know you have a black coin. But once you negate mine, these two will challenge you, let's not waste our coins, you can save yours to challenge someone later on." He said with a smirk.

"Give the position back." Added one of the two other guys.

"You have no right to challenge me if you don't give me anything of equal value if I lose I will give up my seat however what will happen once I win?" I replied with a cool attitude.

"Such arrogance! You think a servant can defeat me?" said the blue-haired man

"Then you are claiming that you are stronger than Lady Lissandra, are you?" I said with a smirk.

These nobles are easy to deal with. Hit their pride and they will stagger.

"You!" said the man with gritted teeth

"I have a name you know, It's Basara, not You. It's a shame that even as a noble your vocabulary is extremely poor," I said shrugging. After all he couldn't speak the words he held in. He can't say them. It is clear that his objective is to win favor for the Royal family however, he cannot claim to be stronger than Lady Lissandra, even on the off chance he truly is.

"Step aside, I don't have time to waste here. And more so," I said as I brought my card forward

"I am immune to challenges for a month. Stop bothering me, and go learn some vocabulary," I said as I left.

There was no need to waste time with these people, I have better things to do. The guys fumbled to find words to retort but they couldn't I walked out of the classroom leaving them in confusion. To be honest, being on the receiving end was never a good feeling, but I could get used to the opposite.

Once I was out, I wanted to go back up to the administrative building to speak with the headmaster. However thankfully he was right next to the classroom, apparently, he was waiting for me.

"Here," said the headmaster as he threw me a ring.

"What is this?" I asked

"That is a storage ring, I placed all the ingredients for a Qi and body restoration pill there. You can keep the ring, it is of lesser quality, it can store items, you can use your Qi to sweep through it with your sense and also retrieve what is in and also place items within it."

'Oh a spatial storage ring, though it is weak and has barely enough space it is more than enough for you right now, I will teach you later how to refine it to become of better quality' said Nocturne

"Thank you, I will start by crafting the pill," I said as I thanked the headmaster.

"Once I obtain all the ingredients to make the phoenix seed I will come to you. Also, I would like to see you concocting the pill, would that be all right?" said the Headmaster

'There is no problem in him watching, understanding how to make it is the secret.' Said Nocturne

"There will be no problem," I said

"Then very well. There is a small house near the forest entrance where I spend my time, you can go there and start your pill concoction. I still have many matters to deal with."

"Ah before you go, there is something I need to tell you," I said.

Looking around I saw many people that were walking around

"But I think we will need a more private place."

The headmaster then placed his hand on mine and spoke directly into my head, startling me.

'This is called sending, if you wish to speak you can concentrate on words and use your Qi to say them, not your voice.'

After a few seconds, I managed to do it

'Is this working?' I said

'Quite amazing! I thought it would take some tries for you to do it. However, you really are talented. Anyway, you should always use this to speak private things, there is also distance sending but it requires more technique. What did you wish to tell me?" said the Headmaster

'Within the classroom, the third row from the left, the boy wearing the black outfit with a swan on the back. He is one of them."

'Are you certain about this? We will need to make sure before we act.' Said the headmaster.

'I just presented you with one, how you deal with that is your job, I don't think I have the strength to defeat any of them especially after what happened that day." I said to the old man

'Indeed, that is not your job, actually helping us locate them is more than praiseworthy. For each one, we correctly apprehend I will be willing to give you a set of points for it. Also, you should go where you were attacked that day, your weapon is buried under the same spot where you threw it, I believe you can find the way." said the headmaster

"Don't worry about that and thank you, I appreciate everything.' I said with a smirk then left after giving the headmaster a nod.

Using my Qi to sweep through the ring, I managed to somehow look into it, there were actually all the ingredients needed to create a body and Qi restoration pill also, I managed to understand the total size of it. it was a cube of 2 meters. Normally it would be a cramped place to store anything, even more, a wing of the moonlight butterfly, but it seems that this one is already refined.

The next class will start tomorrow morning, I should be done by then… I still need to retrieve the scythe…

Once I was near the gate I saw the small shack that the headmaster spoke about.

Using my card to open the door I entered and closed it behind me. It was a simple dwelling with nothing but basic needs, a bed, a desk and some books.

Willing the ingredients to pour out from the ring I began refining them.

After having already made the first pill, it didn't take much effort to make another. With the help of Nocturne, I managed to create another one of the same quality.

'Eat it and start consuming the energy of the ingredients, it will mend your wounds, restore your body and its Qi will purify yours.' Said Nocturne.

Once I did that, I sat in the meditative pose and began looking within me.

A small orb of powerful energy floated within, as it swirled around sending energy waves that rebounded throughout my body. Fixing the damage and reinforcing flesh.

The damaged meridian was almost instantly repaired as the flow of Qi hastened. My body burned to a high degree then stabilized itself.

"Hmm, why is it not melting all the way?" I asked Nocturne

'The pill still needs some time to be fully integrated, you must keep cultivating so that it fully fuses with you. Now enter your sea of consciousness, its time to teach you more about how to use your newfound abilities.'