The Rise Of Calamity

"First off, I just want to say that I understand that you would want to hide a few things from me, but you trust me... I promise" In a flash, the distance between both chairs was nonexistent and she had her hand gently on my knee.

"What do you mea-" I was about to refute, but she simply shook her head and spoke once again, however, unlike before, this time her words hit their mark.

"You're Pandora Raven, right?" She asked

Against her expectations, I did not have an agape expression on my face. Instead, the most I showed was the slight crease of the brow before they returned back to their previous state.

"Unless you want to give me my S tier reward early, I better stop touching my thigh like that" I chuckled wryly, comple2tley ignoring her previous words.

"Stop trying to dodge the subject" Rose's expression became serious

"I'm not... It's just that what you know right now doesn't really matter anymore. I left the family a long time ago" I shrugged

"Well, you technically didn't since you are still Pandora Raven in the records..." Rose sighed before widening her eyes as if she just remembered something

"Oh yeah! By the way, why can't I find anything at your age? The most I can get are hearsay, most people saying that you were 14-16 2 years ago while others keep saying that you are barely even 10..." She began to scratch her head in confusion as she stared into her communication crystal that had all the information that she was talking about.

"Oh, that? Don't worry about that. Let's just say that compared to me, you are a child" I smiled and finally walked in a random direction.

"The city is that way" She called out and pointed towards the north.

"Of course, it is" I covered myself with golden lightning and disappeared

***

2 days later.

A carriage embroidered with gold, red, and white appeared at the front of Lagua city. The moment the guards saw the carriage, they did not waste a single moment and began opening the gates of the city almost immediately.

The carriage went on to finally stop next to the city guildhall.

"I guess this is goodbye for now." Rose sighed as she looked at Yuri.

"Actually, I have a request" Yuri scratched her cheek in embarrassment

"What is it?" Rose replied nonchalantly without a single change in her facial expression.

"Can I spar with you every two days if I don't have a mission?" She asked

Rose did not make any exaggerated expression and instead just widened her eyes by a very small fraction before shaking her head.

"I can't help you with that but I suggest you fight Lilith. Even though it might seem like she used her trump card against you back then, it was only one of her many trump cards. I am sure that you would learn a lot by sparring against her."

After saying so, Yuri had a difficult and reluctant expression on her face, but shaking her head of those thoughts that were popping back into her mind, she finally decided that she would take up Rose's offer no matter how bad it may sound.

"Oh yeah... Where is she anyway?" June asked. She felt as if everything between me and her had returned to normal after the day out, but she could have not been further from the truth.

I still disliked her, but it wasn't to the point I would be petty about. My dislike for her was one of disregard instead of hatred, making her feeling of 'neutrality' between us barely neutral.

Calling my attitude towards her passive instead of neutral would make much more sense.

"I don't..." Rose spread her senses out and quickly found me, but her expression became dumbfounded after a few seconds she finally relaxed and looked at the rest of them with a nerve bulging on her forehead.

"What is it?" Olivia asked from the side.

"We probably try and not disturb her for at least a few days" Rose's mouth twitched

***

At this moment, while everyone was speaking about random crap I could not care less about outside, I had gone into the guildhall and had chosen to rent out a cultivation room for 2 days just in case I would go unconscious after doing something, or even worse, I would have to cultivate for 2 days straight to fix a problem that might occur during the absorbing of all the manuals.

'Hela? Should I do the manuals or the cultivation treasures first?' I asked just to confirm

[You had the right idea before. Your cultivation might be able to skyrocket if I can calculate and create a perfect cultivation manual for you for both mana and soul energy]

'Wait. I thought you said that you can only make one for soul energy?' I was a little confused

[Well, the main objective back then was for you to get a way to refine and purify the soul energy you absorb into your body every time you kill someone, but now that you had raided a wyvern's treasury, we have everything we need until we reach the Solidus stage. Anyway, bring out all those manuals and split them into three piles. Cultivation manuals which are split into mana and soul, Spell books in another pile since they are not very useful, and finally, the martial techniques on another pile to see if we can use them]

I swiftly did as she instructed. I only had to wait a few seconds before the notification I had been waiting for appeared in my retina, making me sit down in a lotus position,

[Obtain 25 different A ranked+ cultivation manuals OR Obtain 3 different Divine manuals]

[25/25 — 2/3]

[Difficulty: A++ OR Astral C

[Reward:

-Personalized Manual (Divine Treasure) [Can Absorb other Manuals even after being created]

-Upgrade title -Inventor- to -Expert Inventor-]

[Manuals Ranked A or above: 32]

[Divine Manuals: 2/3]

[Manuals in total: 129]

[Absorbing manuals...]

Suddenly, as if all the manuals had turned into energy, they began to vortex around me, causing huge fluctuations of energy to come out of the room I was in, but in the room was made for mana insulation, most of the mana remained inside.

Only those in higher stages could tell that something was happening, yet none of them truly knew what.