33 Risen#re

Edith and Tobias left in a state of shock and their followers followed behind them.

The class was already full and miss Hira was in class when Lirian arrived, the students in the class were not too happy to see him, it was bad enough when they were almost killed but the response they got from their families when they reported the occurrence from the previous day left all of them with a bad taste in their mouths.

Every last one of them without fail heard the other side frothing from joy, when they mentioned that the prince candidate could use energy control, they didn't even care that their descendants had been pushed to the edge of death, and when they mentioned the justification the prince candidate used for attacking the members of their family they went star-eyed and praised the prince candidates' actions.

They went so far as to tell their descendants that they had to get as close to the prince candidate as possible and do their best to please him.

"Look at you, the late prince candidate, first you come to school a day late, now you arrive last to class, and here I thought candidates were supposed to be model students.", miss Kira began, she was furious with Lirian if not for his antics the previous day she would have been as drunk as a fiddle today but the headmaster found her and forcefully detoxified her.

If she hadn't had an impressive track record and held the position as the best historian in the school she would have been fired on the spot for her behaviour and it was all Lirians fault that she got into such trouble.

"One minute later and I would have marked you absent," she said and flipped open the register but she quickly glanced up and looked at Lirian furiously, "Please do tell me at what point in time you magically appeared on the first day in school,"

"Oops," Lirian feigned a look of fright, ", I heard that you were drunk on the first day so I hoped you wouldn't even remember, but I guess the jig is up." he chuckled and looked at the class with a small smirk, "Don't worry guys even though miss Hira found out, I'll keep my word and do all of you anyone favour of your choice,"

He was unbothered by the hateful looks they gave him for throwing them under the bus with him, he hummed cheerfully and took his place, he wasn't in the mood to make his teacher cry, he had more pressing matters to think off.

The bell rang and homeroom started, all the students lined up and went into the pods while Lirian sat on the side in silence and flipped through the pages of a historical drama, he could finish it seconds if he liked but he liked taking his own time with such an enjoyable book.

Miss Hira was just slightly impressed that Lirian explained the details of pods to everyone the previous day and got them to use it properly she kept glancing at him and could notice that while reading he was also using his energy to take control of one of his energy points and he didn't appear strained at all while doing it.

It didn't stop her from hating him and everyone from the manor for destroying her marriage, but she could respect his talent if nothing else.

When the students left the pods, they were all drained from the effort and she began to take their questions and instruct them on the paths best suited to each of them.

Pollock rose his hand slightly a little embarrassed to be asked such a basic question, but in the orphanage, they are only thought basic language skills and math, as far as cultivation knowledge they only knew what they had learned from stories, "Miss Hira, sir Lirian told us that 12 points of any category will allow us to have a perfect cultivation, but I would like to know why we have another 24 energy points on every category?"

"A good question," she said pointedly before any of the privileged students could laugh at him, "12 energy points is the foundation of all first accord cultivators and to open 12 points on all three categories will qualify you to be the most elite of all first accord cultivators."

"Let's take two elementary body cultivation techniques like all elementary techniques it will use four energy points each, the first technique will focus on your shoulders and the joints from your thighs to your pelvis, this technique is used to increase bone density and toughens up your body."

"Our second technique will focus on your two palms and your two elbows; this technique will give you explosive strength in your arms while only slightly strengthening the rest of your body."

"Any cultivator with these eight energy points open will be able to use both these cultivation techniques, however the catch to using multiple techniques is that it will increase your time to ascend in your life hierarchy,"

"Using two techniques will take twice as long while using three will take four times longer and a fourth will take eight times longer and so on,"

"This is a part of the reason people open more energy points, the more points open the faster your ability to gather energy and the higher-level techniques you can use, for example there is an intermediate technique that focuses on eight points the same eight points from the first two elementary techniques I told you about but as in intermediate technique it combines the two methods and allows you to enhance your body strength and arm strength without wasting any time."

"As for why 12 energy point techniques are called perfect, it's because this is the natural limitation placed on all beings by the heavens if you try to cultivate a technique with more than 12 energy points you die." she said strongly to caution them against such thoughts.

"This rule applies to all three branches and all of you would be wise to trade in your contributions to the empire to learn these techniques, if you make a mistake while experimenting on your own, it could ruin your entire cultivation journey, on your body you will find that all perfect body techniques touch on the spine, all perfect mana techniques touch the dantian, and all perfect mind techniques touch the brain, if you damage the three energy points on these parts of your body you can forget about ever becoming a respected cultivator."

Even the students from prestigious families began to nod along as they learnt a few new things from the lesson only Lirian noticed the small lies she had put in there.

The lies were no doubt created and put into the student's program by the empire, and he wasn't even sure if the teachers knew the lies they were telling to their students.

The first lie was about 12 energy point techniques being the limitation placed on all living beings, in truth the next level technique required 16 energy points from two different branches, combining them results in what the people of this plain call the second accord, well that was just one of two requirements, the second requirement is imprinting laws into yourself.

From this, he gathered that all information pertaining to the second accord is kept under strict lock and key by the empire, only those with utmost loyalty would be allowed to access such knowledge.

It was a very good lesson in his opinion he doubted that he'd be able to explain it so simply given his extensive knowledge on cultivation techniques. As soon as homeroom wrapped up the class began to break up and go their separate ways.

Just before he left Karen and Lucas came to him albeit hesitantly, as much as they didn't like it, they had to do what their families told them to, "Sir Lirian would you mind if we join you for lunch in the cafeteria?"

He wanted to mess around with them a bit but he didn't have the time to, "Sorry, I already have an arrangement planned for today, but you are more than welcome to join me starting tomorrow, lunch will be on me." he generously offered.

On his part it wasn't too generous he had a monthly allowance of 10 000 credits, and after he looked through the cafeteria prices, he realised just how much it was worth, the cheapest meals were as little as 6-cents and the most expensive deluxe meals didn't cost more than 3 credits.

When he looked at the basic cost of living, he was amazed to find that 50 credits are enough to see to an entire families' necessities, the real pricy thing on Xelia was the rentals and land, and since his mother moved here ten years ago, the value of such things increased by almost three times.

'Now that's what I call presence,' he thought silently