ÇHAPTER 3:Mystic forest map

The next day_

At the orphanage_

Lucas walked out of his room with satisfaction.

He was already in sixth stage of core formation!

Now he needed techniques and that of a suppressing technique that could suppress his stage, he needed to stay on a low-key and it could even help him when his fighting his opponent, he could have it as a trump card.

After exchanging greetings with nanny Jojo and receiving the glare of James, he stepped out of the orphanage gate and walked into the busy area crowded with people.

After a few steps he made his way to the public library center which had a huge structure, slightly old but it didn't hide the majesty of the massive pillars.

Lucas came across people with different insignias embroidered on their uniform and his golden eyes glistened gleefully.

Lucas passed the entrance and walked into the huge library.

The library consisted of three floors and each are based on the level of importance of a person.

The first floor which contained low level techniques which was for the commoners, the second floor was for the middle class people, some big families had easy assess to them though the use of an identification card.

The third floor had the highest level techniques and it was strictly prohibited only few VIP,only the influentialfamily could even catch a glimpse of it.

Lucas went to the lady who sat behind a counter and deciphering something that had strange languages.

He needed to register fro his library identification card.

The lady was so immersed in it that she didn't notice the approaching Lucas with hood covering his eye catching hair colour.

The lady had blue hair tied behind her and a slender golden rimmed glasses which couldn't cover her striking purple eyes which was cold, she could be referred as a cold beauty.

"Hello!"Lucas said trying to draw the attention of the lady who carried a serious expression.

"Who?"the lady said grumpily and reluctantly diverted her attention to the teenage boy before her.

"Am here to register for a identification card"Lucas inquired.

The lady scrutinized Lucas appearance which brought a little interest when she saw his golden eyes. And the strands of silver hair didn't go unnoticed.

"Oh! Ok, I hope you know that a common identification card cost 10,000terra bronze, the middle class is 10,000 terra silver and the highest is 20,000terra gold.. which one do you want to apply for?"the lady questioned.

Lucas swallowed at the last price which was the highest.

' damn! When I thought I had a little bit money to get to middle class, I guess I will have to settle for less'

"The common one is better"Lucas dropped 10 terra silver which is 10,000 terra bronze in total and the lady shoved it in a box and locked it with a complicated array.

1000 terra bronze\= 1 terra silver

1000 terra silver\=1 terra gold

1000 terra gold\= 1 terra platinum (which is not commonly used in Odin kingdom).

She went away for a while and brought back a hard card that was carved with a beautiful insignia on it with was in the colour of bronze, it shimmered under the light.

"Here, you only need to send a wisp of your essence into it and it will identify you and it will activate for your use, there is also 100 points that Will be used for your books payment. It regenerates after 24 hours,beware this can't be misplaced because one cannot register the second time"lady said with a serious expression.

Lucas nodded in satisfaction, at least he have to pay for the points and he headed to the first floor which had some guards at the entrance.

After showing his card he made his way into the first floor which had many teenager younger and older than him.

The books were arranged in massive shelves which are arranged in a orderly  manner.

A glowing orb was found at the center of the shelves which was the system to collect the points for each book one collects.

No one could steal because the books all contained arrays and detector that would activate the minute a book is stolen.

Lucas walked past a lonely youth who had a platinum hair and black chasm like eyes, his looks were average but still eye catching, he had a air of playfulness as his aura didn't seem to fit his surroundings.

Lucas hooded blew away from an unknown wind and his silver hair danced around making the people in the area captivated.

Lucas golden eyes burned with slight fury.

"That bastard"Lucas mumured and glared at the platinum hair boy coldly which startled the youth.

The boy was Jordan,someone Lucas  met some years back.

The encounter was unpleasant to remember.

Jordan smiled helplessly and his eyes curved.

"Hey bro!, I didn't expect to see you here!"Jordan said rather lively with much enthusiasm.

The other people looked at Jordan and some snorted as how he yelled.

Lucas almost face palmed himself, what bad luck! To meet this trouble seeking teenager.

The time they met he was still the frail youth with no affinity and Jordan who had gotten into trouble met him on the way when he was chased.

The youth Jordan was a young member of a big family and something strange happened and he got into trouble that involved Lucas.

That day he almost lost his poor miserable life after almost being blasted to death by a ability user.

Lucas covered his head with the hood and ignored the enthusiastic youth and walked away. Right! he didn't want to indulge in the past and reply to the troublesome youth.

"Hey! wait!, I couldn't ask your name at that time, my name is-"

"Noisy"Lucas was annoyed and his cold face was straight and his golden eyes glowed making Jordan shiver.

"Bro wait! Can't you just listen to me first!"Jordan said with a pleading gaze.

"Speak!"Lucas said and folded his hands  with impatience.

"Um..uh..Well I just came to the city not quite long and I thought if i could see you I could properly apologize and compensate you!"Jordan said sincerely.

Lucas face remained blank and he took a deep breath.

"I appreciate your honesty....we will talk about the compensation later..right now am busy"Lucas said and was about to leave when Jordan grabbed his hand.

Lucas raised his eyebrow and stared at Jordan with impatience.

"Since you agreed to receive compensation, then let's be friends!"Jordan said brightly and he puffed his chest with an arrogant expression.

"No!"Lucas said ruthlessly shattering every happiness in the enthusiastic youth.

Lucas coldly walked away through the path of the space between each shelves.

Jordan sighed in his heart, he had slightly knew that he couldn't just easily deal with someone like Lucas through words but he was somehow disappointed. He never knew Lucas will be a tough nut to crack.

Lucas eyes darted to every book while he walked slowly.

Something caught his eye, it was a black book with no character on it.

Lucas took the book and felt a weird feeling coming from it, his eyes squinted and observed the unknown book.

"What kind of book is this?"Lucas thought and opened it and found out it was blank as a sheet of paper.

No ink,No faded writing, no secret inscription, absolutely nothing!

"What is a blank book doing in a library?"Lucas was confused.

Lucas wanted to place it back but he noticed something.

The book was stuck on his hand!

He tried prying it open but it didn't bulge it was still glued to his hand like a gum.

"What the?"Lucas was surprised and stared at the book once again with cotempt.

He sighed in frustration and held the glued book in his hand.

"Was this book special? or it just had the habit of glueing to people hands?".

Lucas scaled through some books swiping the sheet of papers with difficulty. He tried to memorize as much as possible.

After the transformation from the strange crystal, Lucas mental capacity was now broadened that he could memorize an entire book In few minutes without breaking a sweat.

Lucas went to the glowing orb situated at the center which was floating mysteriously at the center,about 2 meters above the ground.

Lucas brought out his card which he had done the minor procedure as instructed by sending a wisp of essence into the card  and the card glowed and displayed a total number of 100 points, lucas took out the book and used the emblem that shimmered at the back of the book to be scanned by the floating orb.

[Unknown book found??

Origin:??

Point worth: 60 points]

The letters appeared above the orb and

Lucas widened his eyes 60 points! For this useless book.

Others who saw him stared at him strangely, then looked at the book with a cold snort.

"That guy is actually wasting his points for the garbage book?"

"Judging from how he came in he seems new in here. He surely doesn't know he has been scammed,he thinks he caught a mysterious book like in a fairy tale story, what a loser!"

"Am sure he is a nobody,look at his clothes so plain and shabby, he doesn't fit in here. This is a disgrace

Sigh!

But why is it unknown though!, Lucas took the book and found Jordan who he ignored before walk towards him.

"It seems you found something,isn't that the piece of garbage that has blank sheet all over, you actually wasted your points on this" Jordan said and stared at the book held in Lucas hand with a strange look.

Lucas nodded helplessly and gazed at the book with a blank expression.

"What are you doing next?am so bored I still loved the feeling of being chased then"Jordan said with playfulness.

"Don't you have something to do than causing trouble?"Lucas asked.

"Making trouble is my speciality " Jordan said with a mischievous look.

Lucas looked at Jordan and walked ahead while Jordan Hastily walked beside him.

"Hey which family are you from?, my name's Jordan.... Jordan Beltran, what is yours?"Jordan said.

"Lucas" Lucas said blandly with a blank expression.

"Just... Lucas?every one that I know of has a surname—like jolly rancher, Alex grill blah blah"Jordan said and tried to probe into Lucas, to him he felt like Lucas just didn't trust him enough to give his surname.

Lucas kept quiet and his lips curved slightly with a bitter smile,he walked out of the library, he knew so well why he didn't have a surname, because he was never had one since he was found abandoned as a baby with no name.

—Alex grill

The name felt familiar to Lucas because of the surname"grill".

The grill family is a famous family in sky city,Lucas had always hated that family because of their arrogant and domineering manner of controlling things.

He had this unknown hatred for the family that was so deep that he even thought maybe his ancestors were offended by them.

Lucas went to the weapon shop with Jordan followed beside him and found the same man who was doing something with a strange looking iron.

"Sir" Lucas said.

The man who was absentminded looked at the golden eyed youth and he smiled slightly.

"Young master,the lightning bow has been upgraded and repaired"the man said and hurriedly moved to a corner and brought out a long box and dropped it on the wooden table.

he opened it, the lightning bow which was now mostly silver and a rune of black majestically carved on it, the bow shimmered under the light.

Lucas nodded in satisfaction and observed or carefully he could feel the lightning element more boldly now.

"The lightning bow is quite impressive and rare, it has a special arrow to it but since there was none you delivered, I decided to add some special function to it, you only need to infuse your lightning essence and it will shape into a arrow and also the strength of the arrow depends on it user" the man said looking at the arrow with pride evident, this was a work of art indeed.

Lucas smiled slightly and took the bow with his free hand and inspected the runes.

"do you have any idea on runes?"Lucas asked with interest.

"I do,Am not actually a rune master but—I just know the basics and it is very essential in weapon making,am actually in rank-2 rune apprentice"the man said with pride.

"Oh"

"It seems you have interest in runes,but unfortunately you need a rune expert which is rare in sky city"the man said with a serious expression.

"Is runes that serious"Jordan said who has been quiet since all the while.

"I tell you young lad,runes are more complicated than anything, do not underestimate the power of runes"the man said with a serious expression.

Lucas was a little but intrigued and curious.

He took the bow and gave the weapon shop owner a reward of 5 terra silver and he tapped on the ring on his finger.

Spatial ring which he found in the cave.

The bow disappeared startling Jordan as he widened his eyes.

"Cool! a spatial ring!"Jordan said with envy.

"Don't you have one?"Lucas asked with a nonchalant behavior.

"No, spatial rings are quite hard to find and are very expensive even a faction leader could want to spend his fortune on it,it worth up to like 100 terra gold, although it depends on the size of the space though"Jordan said and rubbed his chin.

"Oh"Lucas said and looked at the ring on his finger with a knowing look.

Seriously, he never thought a spatial ring was that highly valued like how Jordan had exaggerated.

"Where did you get it?—spatial rings are only found on rich aristocrat families, although you still haven't told me your surname you must have come from a big family"Jordan stared at the silver haired youth with a deep look as he tried to pry into Lucas cold eyes.

"I found it In a cave;shall we talk about compensation"Lucas stepped out of the shop and threw a side glance at Jordan.

Jordan smiled mischievously and brought out a piece of map which was somewhat rough and old.

"What's that?" Lucas asked curiously.

"A map of course!" Jordan said with a smirk and opened the map carefully like handling a rare treasure.

"A map?for what?"Lucas frowned and stared at the map which had a kind of mysterious aura around it.

"This a the map to the mystic forest, I heard it has a lot of treasures,the chaos mystic legacy is going to appear, everyone are preparing for it, but only elites like me have this rare map eh eh!"Jordan laughed maniacally while fantasizing on the treasures.

"How does that even concern me with this map?is this the compensation?"Lucas said with one of his eyebrow raised.

"Of course, can't you imagine if one get a treasure from there, maybe a elixir that could boost my cultivation,all we need to do is participate"Jordan said kicked a pebble on the road.

"No I have a competition to participate which I can't afford to miss,you can go alone Am not interested"Lucas said and walked farther from Jordan.

"Come on, it just for a month, and the entrance competition is next three months anyway"Jordan said rather convincing.

Lucas thought deeply,well since he had memorized the techniques and he had raised his cultivation to a satisfying level, although fro one to participate In a entrance competition one must reach the core condensation stage.

And the mystic forest will undoubtedly be filled with impending dangers but only to ordinary people but— for a ability user like him..this could serve has an experience to witness battles or even participate in a real battle.

"Ok"Lucas agreed and bade farewell to Jordan who was quite reluctant to depart from him.

Lucas sighed and headed to the orphanage which had old rusted gates and piles of dirt on the old cracked wall.

As soon as he entered a group of teenagers has spotted him and their heart filled with malicious intent and they sneered.

Oblivious to this Lucas ignored the nonentity of the teenagers whose face twisted like they were on their period. The orphanage was as lively as ever, the ability users had gone to the training grounds in the orphanage for training.

And nanny Jojo was not to be found nearby and Lucas assumed she had gone out.

A boy who had a brown curly hair,blue eyes and a frail structure with a sturdy glasses that didn't fit well with his small face which made the glasses to cover half of his cheek than his eyes.

"L...Lucas d..dean s..aid I should call you to t..the training grounds"the boy said gazing at the floor and ran away after speaking.

Lucas stared in bewilderment.

Training? But how did the Dean know he was now a ability user. Untill some minutes did Lucas face palm himself and remembered his changed demeanor and his strange hair and eye color.

Lucas went to the training ground which had a big platform and series of weapons arranged accordingly.

The instructor which was a blue haired man with a deep green eyes which had a  very sharp gaze and wise look, he was demonstrating a lot of fighting style and strategies.

This man was sir Gerald LeVert and he is a wise teacher and deadly strict one of the people Lucas admired.

When Lucas came around his hooded figure attracted the others, some who recognized him whispered among themselves and kept pointing at him.

Lucas sensed that all of them were either two or three stages higher than him,it didn't make him feel the slight discomfort but made his fight spirit burning intensely.

"Isn't that the cripple that dodged James powerful attack yesterday?"

"Impossible,James attack is very powerful, how could a cripple like him dodge that!"

"Yeah true! Maybe it was just luck, I heard the Dean interrupted became of a skydiving guest!"

"Awesome, a skydiving guest my dream academy,that is why am working so hard to make it in the competition"

James watched Lucas has his face twisted and anger was evident, no one had ever broken the record of blocking his attack except for this hypocrite.

Despite the hostility brewing from everyside Lucas walked without care and went to meet the instructor.

"Good day instructor Gerald, the Dean called me to participate in the training"Lucas said respectfully.

Instructor Gerald looked at the hooded youth and his strict sharp eyes somehow brewed with slight interest.

"Interesting indeed!,such a calm demeanor and bold character can not be traded for anything"

The instructor thought deeply, many youths who had talked to him had either gotten flustered from fear or would bow their head from the pressure of merely looking at him.

"Since the Dean has instructed, we need to take a test on your grade to be able to know which category you are in and your element type also" the man said expressionlessly.

Some people in the training ground were interested in their conversation and stared secretly at them.

He brought a black ball which was of unknown substance out of thin air which showed he had a storage ring also.

"Place your hand on this and try sending a wisp of your essence and the ball will do the rest"the man said and Lucas complied obedient and placed his hands on the ball before the anticipating eyes of the people.

Lucas sent a silver wisp which represented lightning element,but while doing that he completely unaware of the brown coloured wisp that followed and the ball began to lit up and it showed the true grade of his element.

Gasp~

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