33 Risen#re

Lirian had a strange look on his face as he offered his katana to Mordred, he did it for two reasons, firstly he wanted to see how intense the <Slow Holder> ability was and secondly he wanted to see if Mordred would have any strange effect on the blade.

The <heavens chosen> perk had many strange things that it could do, even his system was unable to identify such things, and the only recurring theme he found in heaven chosen people was that the plain always had an important task for them hence that was the only bit of info the system displayed, once Lirian had seen a man who could toss a dice and it would always land exactly on what he needed.

If he needed to lose, in order to make it big later the dice would do exactly what he needed, the guy was a commoner and he ended up richer than most nobles in the world.

Some other times the boon would negate the negative effects of items, so Lirian wanted to test if Mordred had anything like that by seeing if the <slow Holder> ability would affect him.

Mordred's eye sparkled as he took a step forward, he was amazed that Lirian allowed it so easily, he was already prepared to nag Lirian for the remainder of the trip, 'Maybe he realised what I was going to do so he saved himself from the trouble,' he reasoned and gripped the katana.

The first thing that he felt after picking it up was a sense of weakness, he quickly realised the problem he was only a first-grade cultivator while this was a mystic grade katana, it was meant to be wielded by someone from the second-grade.

It would be different for Lirian since it was created for him and the blade recognized him as its master, but Mordred got no such luck as the blade seemed to reject him.

Then as he glanced around he could see the people looking at him, 'What's going on why are they all staring at me like that and why are their eyes darting around so quickly?' he wondered with furrowed brows.

As he looked at them he could see all of their chests moving up and down so fast it was like they were hyper ventilating, but when he looked at their faces they look completely calm, with only a look of curiosity on their faces.

Then he saw Lirian reaching out to him, it was so fast that he couldn't even react, then he felt Lirians hand on the sword and everything went back to normal.

"You seem frightened!" Lirian chuckled and released the sword again, Mordred had only heard the first two words when Lirian released the sword and the last word sounded so fast he could only make out the sound of the first letter.

Mordred quickly released the sword and looked around, as he realized what the sword was doing, it was making his every sense process things slowly, which caused everything around him to look like it was moving like he was watching things in fast forward.

If this happened in a fight he'd die and wouldn't know how it happened.

"What was that?" he asked with shaking eyes.

"It's an ability of the blade, if anyone besides me wields it, it will slow them down, and it seems extremely good, you were about 15× slower than normal," Lirian said thoughtfully.

"How did you figure that out?" he asked.

"Oh, your breathing and heart rate slowed down a lot, it was honestly a little scary, but seeing that you appear perfectly fine, there is a chance that if someone held this all the time they would delay the aging process of their body, it's just a theory for now, I'll have to do tests at some other time," Lirian started rambling more so to himself.

It wasn't an odd occurrence for anyone that knew Lirian, if he found something that piqued his interest he'd jump straight into researcher mode and at that point he'd forget about everything else.

At that moment someone came running from the new waterfall with an excited look on their face, "I found something!" he shouted, "There are caves, there is a big network of caves in here and from the looks of it, it's not natural!"

In an instant everyone seemed to forget about what had just happened and went running toward the waterfall.

It was a deep and long gash in the mountain side and they could see scorch marks on the sides that were left behind from the lightning, in certain places the sides felt like shards of glass.

As they walked further in they began to notice a few cracks in the wall and when they went to inspect they could see that the caves led deeper in, the most shocking part was the torches that hung on the walls covered in cobwebs and dust.

Lirian followed behind with Edith locking her arm around his.

As they walked into one of the tunnels Lirian left Edith to do all the looking around, "So how is it?" he asked.

"It's incredible!" she said excitedly and tipped one of the torches, it was just a slight touch, yet the entire thing began to crumble into dust, like she had hit it with a destruction law.

"It has to be extremely old to do that, if I had to guess I'd say this place hasn't had any air in it for years, because even a slight breeze could have destroyed it,"

"This entire place was hidden behind the waterfall, and the carving skill that went into making this place is excellent for a surface civilization," she said happily looking around and dragging Lirian with her.

They heard a couple of shouts coming from ahead and when they arrived at the scene of the commotion they saw that part of the ceiling had caved in trapping someone and blocking of the main pathway.

'This is actually expected,' Lirian thought, 'These tunnels are extremely old, the fact that they are still standing is incredible, but after the earthquake the falling drake caused this entire structure is now unstable.'

Many people had gathered up down here so Lirian felt that it time to make an announcement.

When Lirian cleared his throat everyone stopped and looked at him, they figured that he'd have something to say.

To their surprise Lirian only spoke in a level tone, he didn't want to be to loud, even sound waves could make the structure crumble.

"Firstly I want all of you to understand that this structure is extremely unstable, so we'll be limiting the number of people that can enter at one time, but we will rotate a schedule so that everyone can have a chance,"

"Secondly our expedition is now an absolute success, we have found something with historical value so all of you can look forward to having a ton of points so long as you didn't do anything to earn a demerit,"

"Thirdly as I'm sure all of you have noticed there is girl trapped in another corridor," he said to all of them then he faced the area the girl was in.

"Tell me your name, class and your current condition," he said quickly, if he wanted to get the girl out he needed to be quick and concise.

"My name is Kana, I'm in class 7-M, and I'm not injured, but the space caved in on both sides and I only have a small space to move in, also it's getting hard to breathe in here," she added doing her best to hide her panic.

"Alright then," Lirian said turning back to the crowd, "Anyone here friends with Kana?"

There were at least a dozen people that stepped forward, "Okay Edith select two of them to stay here with her," Lirian said.

"I'd suggest that the most talkative of you should stay here to keep her company while we come up with a plan, as for the rest of you, I'm sure you heard that girl can hardly breathe so lets get out of here and give her some room."

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An hour quickly passed in the commanders tent where they decided how to sort it out, and Lirian has the urge to smash in the brains of a warrior from his class, Lucas Kluts, who seemed to think that using brute force to smash the place was the only solution.

He could have sworn that Lucas was not such an idiot when they first met.

He cleared out the room and had Hinata stay behind, he had an idea of why she came up with that plan to get everyone to the ledge during the beast attack but he had to act like it wasn't true and instead he decided to reward her.

"Your plan to push the beasts of the ledge was inspirational, so I've decided to upgrade your role from being my body guard, from now on you'll be a field captain, you'll have the right to command up to a hundred students and you'll get all the perks as well."

Hinata looked surprised as her eyes landed on Edith, she would have expected the spoiled noble girl to claim the credit so that she could show off to her new boyfriend, she was used to such things happening and found it hard to believe.

But contrary to Edith's expectation Hinata didn't seem happy, because this meant that she wouldn't be able to stick as close to Lirian as possible but offered a quick word of thanks and turned to leave.

Just as she reached the exit Lirian decided that he should use his system to scan her and well everyone else around him for that matter, Mordred had given him a shock today and he didn't want any more surprises.

In the next instant he clutched onto the table in complete disbelief, with his entire body trembling violently.

It wasn't her accumulated fate particles that surprised him, although for a commoner it was unbelievable that it was 3 million, but in the next second he saw the reason.

That familiar sign was there she was heaven chosen, but he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

In all his lives the highest boon he had ever seen was ×7, which was why when he saw his own as ×10 he thought it was the highest it could possibly be, yet when he looked at her he thought that the system was making a mistake but it remained clear as day.

She was heaven chosen and she held a boon of (×1000 fate particles)

A/N: please read the author's thoughts it's important.