Way of the Knights

Chapter 16: Auto-Print Tables

“That’s.. .” The maiden taken aback, her hands silently clutched her chest and her thoughts became increasingly messy.

“Right.” Raven continued, “It was the same hairpin that was been passed down to your mother’s lineage.”

“How did you.. .” Before she could even continue, Raven interrupted her and said:

“I read a lot of books.” He rolled his eyes as his hands were furiously rushing through whatever it is that he was making.

“What Jubileus didn’t know is that her husband wasn’t a simple man. He might be extremely weak but he was highly intelligent, when he knew that his wife is an angel, he immediately seek audience with an oracle and asked her to shelter their child. The oracle then helped him hide the existence of their child, the oracle then made a fake baby out the hairs of the original child to fool the Supreme Angel.”

“The man died but their child lived. When Jubileus was sealed, the oracle found the hairpin and decided to give it to their child as she grew up. But when the child reached the certain age, the hairpin flew out and sucked half of the child’s blood, it then fused with her and the incarnation of Jubileus emerged.”

The maiden shook in disbelief, the hands that were clutching her chest trembled ever so slightly, a bit of clarity appeared in her mind.

“Unfortunately, Jubileus can’t even recognize her own child, she was blinded by her rage and corroded the child with it. Jubileus, possessing her own child, killed the oracle and not just her. But the whole village where the child grew up. As the body of the child reached it’s limits, Jubileus retreated to the hairpin, leaving the child in sorrow. No matter how much she tried to throw away the hairpin, it will always find it’s way back to her side. Left with no choice, she chained herself each time Jubileus takes over. And the cycle continued on and on, until it happened to you.”

As Raven finished telling the tale, his hands also stopped working on the thing in front of him. He looked over towards the maiden and stared at her intently.

“Believe me or not, I will still advice you to separate with the hairpin. Jubileus is no more but you are her late descendant. As she takes over your body, your bloodline will be purified but also leaves you injured. Now that she is gone, little by little her power will leak out from the hairpin. Though it might be just a pinch of her incredible powers, it is still enough to send you to your death. You will die from indigestion of those energies.”

With this, Raven left her on her own accord and started activating his creation. The maiden just now realized that she had totally forgotten about this, but Old Lee hasn’t since from the very beginning, he was enamored by this sight.

What he created was a small rectangular table filled with numerous carvings. There was a smaller compartments attached to it’s sides. He then took out an ink and and brushes, proceeded to place it on the compartments and took out a piece of paper and placed it on top of the table. He placed a hand on a rune by the left side of the table and concentrated.

Under the watchful gazes of the the two, the table started absorb qi from the surroundings and made a loud ‘clank’. The brush lifted on it’s own and dipped on to the ink, after which, the brush started writing something on the paper even without him touching it.

The two pairs of eyes sparkled as they saw this magical scene. Raven didn’t even do anything aside from placing his hand on the rune and it started moving on it’s own. What’s more is that the writing style wasn’t bad too! In fact it even looked like an official document that only trained secretaries could duplicate. Old Lee started to imagine many things that this little creation could achieve, unknowingly, he was started to get a little hopeful.

The writing stopped and the brush silently retread back to where it was, Raven removed the paper and nudged the table slightly towards Old Lee’s side.

Old Lee was shocked, he pointed at himself and asked: “For me?”

Raven nodded and said: “This will solve a lot of your problems when writing a report. I call this Auto-Print Table. You could use it to write three different things at the same time, provided that you can equally split your attention do so.”

Old Lee’s eyes shined as he decided to test it out. He took out a piece of paper and placed on the table, mimicking what Raven did, he proceeded to activate the creation. He fell in love as soon as he got to use it. The results were even much better than what he anticipated. He filled the entire paper with words in under a minute with this thing, and to think that he could write three things at the same time? This is just something that he was looking for.

Not to mention three, Old Lee could split his attention to five different parts if he wanted to. But this alone will cut a lot of his documenting problems in half.

“It seems that we are indebted to you once more.” The maiden said while bowing, she tugged the sleeves of Old Lee, he then laughed embarrassingly and bowed as well.

“Young master. Would you be interested in joining our clan? Our patriarch would be incredibly happy to have you.” Old Lee offered politely, the maiden beside him didn’t say anything.

“Oh, you mean ‘That’ person?” Their eyes constricted as he talked like this, “No thanks, besides it is not my aim become an escort.”

“What are you.. .”

“Your identities aren’t a secret to me.” Raven said non-chalantly. “You might fool a lot of people but I’m not one of them. They might not be able to see the mark on your foreheads but I do.”

Old Lee reeled and in shock and so did the maiden.

“How did you.. .”

“Luna.” The maiden shook as he said her name, “I’ll call you that for the time being. It’s very simple actually. The Moon Worshipping Clan, the Sun Warriors Clan and the Heavenly Star Clan, ceased to exist for thousands of years now. Who are you fooling by using a surname of the first mentioned clan?”

Their bodies shook once more and looked at him with wide eyes. It had to be known that this was just the second time that they met him but his knowledge completely blown them away.

“I want to say: ‘Impressive, as expected from the son of the Kingdom’s Hawk’ but who am I fooling here? It’s obvious that your intelligence is way above your peers. Tell me young man, just what are your intentions?” Old Lee sighed and looked straight into Raven’s eyes.

“Oh, stop flattering me, I just read a lot of books.” Raven waved his hands jokingly, but a while later his expression turned earnest and he stared back at Old Lee’s eyes. “This is my home Old Lee, what other intentions could I possibly have?”

The two were taken aback by his words, after a while Old Lee laughed loudly and shook his head. Luna on the other hand was confused, yet she had this feeling that this person in front of them isn’t a bad guy. His words might be misleading sometimes but his intentions are clean, it was weird, she had never encountered someone like him before.

“Still you have helped us and we owed you a huge favor. How could we repay the favor?” Old Lee asked.

Raven thought a bit and said: “Well, I have a lot of plans for myself and my brothers. If you could give us a Class Exemption Pass and some Deadly Beast Area Tickets then that should be enough for now.”

Old Lee thought for a bit and seemed to realized what he’s planning to do. He took out something from his spatial ring and tossed it towards him. Raven caught it and was extremely impressed by this old man’s sincerity.

“I’ll take it. Thanks for this.” Raven smiled at him, Old Lee nodded and smiled as well. Raven then paid attention to Luna. He then said: “Remove the hairpin for now. It will find it’s way back to you when you are strong enough. Don’t thirst for power, we are still young. If you want to then I could help you get stronger, just visit us again during daytime and I’ll guide you.”

With this said, Raven stood up and left the two alone. Once his silhouette disappeared from the view, Luna sighed and closed her eyes. Her body suddenly shone and her soft hands gently withdrew from her chest. After which, a hairpin suddenly floated out of her body covered with a warm and gentle barrier of light. The hairpin floated on top of her palms and lost it’s brilliance.

A sigh escaped from Old Lee but he was surprised when Luna, instead of placing the hairpin on her spatial ring, wore the thing. She then took out a mirror from her ring and looked at Old Lee asking:

“Does it look good?”

The answer she got was a uproarious laugh from Old Lee, she pouted as a small blush appeared on her face.