Chapter 21: Group 1
Luca is reading a book that listed the geography of the Holy Alas Empire and discovered that it was located on fertile land. With a lot of fertile land near a river that went halfway through the Empire. There were a few mountains on the northern edges of the empire, but the rest were flatlands. Luca also didn't know that the Infernum Kingdom, home of the Devils, was close to the Holy Alas Empire. With the Holy Alas Empire southern border being near the Infernum Kingdoms north border.
Luca finished looking at the book and went to the next book called, Angel Hierarchy. He read the book and learned that there is a caste system in angel society. There are four main classes in angel society and it's determined by your bloodline. There are low-bloods, mid-bloods and high-blood angels in the Holy Alas Empire. With low-bloods being called Operarios angles, Mid-bloods are called Archangels and high-bloods are called Regno angles.
In the angel caste system, slaves are at the bottom who do hard manual labor and any jobs that angels see as beneath them, they are part of the fourth class. The low-bloods are the third-class in society, and they are the basic soldiers, artisans, tradesmen, farmers, and merchants. The mid-bloods are the second class and are made up of knights and nobles in society. The high-blood angels are the first class of society. The first class is the royal family of the Holy Alas Empire.
The easiest way to distinguish between the classes and the purity of an angel depends on how many wings they have. The fourth class is made up of other races like humans and is easy to figure out. Low-blood angels only have two wings. Mid-bloods have four angel wings and high-bloods have six angel wings.
Luca read the next book that said, Intro to Angels. The book was short, but it talked about how angels subconsciously look down on other races. They also have no sympathy or empathy for the suffering of other races. Meaning that if a human is tortured in front of an angel, they would feel nothing, no sympathy or empathy for the human. Angels only have sympathy and empathy for other angels.
The fourth book was called Angel Magic. Angels have an affinity for only one element, and that's light. They use light magic for everything, they can heal, attack and defend with light magic. Light magic is gold in color and is a counter to dark magic.
The final book was a book about Angel history, but it was short and incomplete. Probably because it was written from an outside perspective and probably with the help of spies. Pureblood angels were called Seraphim angels. They had eight wings and had a humanoid form, but there is very little description of how purebloods looked like in the book. They had a few cities and were at peace with humanity. Their origins are unknown.
The book described that after the first hybrid was born, The Betrayer, that the Seraphim angels demanded that the impure child be killed, the man's father also agreed, but the mother was able to escape with the help of her brother, who was able to hide their existence in the Shona Empire.
The book doesn't know how a human woman was able to get an angel to have sex with her. Anyway, eventually, the Betrayer conquered a few towns and cities. He created the first high-bloods, mid-bloods and low-blood angels. The Seraphim discovered that the hybrid they tried to kill but who got away was still alive so they attacked. This started the war between the pureblood angels and the angel bloodline holders. The Seraphim at that time were also fighting with the Shona Empire. Even though the Betrayer was a hybrid and stronger than a high-blood, he still fell in battle against the Seraphim.
After the fall of the Betrayer his right-hand man, a high-blood, took control. He was able to lead the bloodline holders and hold off the Seraphim attacks. This man would also become the first emperor of the Holy Alas Empire. Currently, the Empire is being ruled by the second emperor, son of the first emperor.
Luca was yawning after he finished reading. Damien and Sergio taught him to never underestimate his enemies, and if possible, to know his enemies beforehand. That's why he did research on the Holy Alas Empire.
But there was something else that he wanted to know and that was about Aidan Ryland. Aidan Ryland was the one who wrote down the Azure Demon Fox cultivation manual. He also wanted to know about the Ryland family. Since both, his and Johns manuals were from the same family. It was already 10:00 pm but the library was open until midnight. He typed the name Aidan Ryland and found nothing. So, he tried typing in Ryland family and got 1 result.
The book was on the fourth floor and it had the title The Shona Empire. The search result told him that it was mentioned in the book so he spent the final hours looking for the name Ryland. After an hour he found the name Ryland and a few sentences about them. Luca read the section about the Ryland family.
"The Ryland family was a noble family that worked directly for Shona the Great. In charge of weapons and magic research. Involved in Project Hope and a crucial factor in the success of creating the first spirit beast mid-bloods. Little is known about this family due to their secretive nature during the time of Shona the Great. It is said that they were able to escape the destruction of the Shona Empire."
After he finished reading, Luca closed the book and was left to his own thoughts. He had tried to ask Sergio and Damien about the Ryland family before, but they told him that they couldn't tell him. They had to sign a contract with the Ryland family that forbids them from telling anyone about them. Not even Damien could get around it and was forced to keep his mouth shut, which angered him. It hurt Damien's pride, and ever since then, he's been thinking of a way to break the contract.
Sergio and Damien are proof that the Ryland family is still around, but they are hidden from the world, for some reason. Since Luca didn't have enough information to go on, he put the book away and walked out of the library before it closed. He went back to his dorm and saw that Griffin and Eve were still awake, in the living room. Luca thanked them for waiting for him before they went to sleep. Even though he knew it was their job, Luca still wanted to thank them.
The next day Luca got ready and left the dorm room. He was in his first class again, history class. He had a total of six classes that he had to go to every day except Sunday. His new classes were back to back. Starting in the morning and ending in the evening. He was hoping that his new classes would be more interesting than his last classes.
Luca got into his seat and saw that Kamar was still giving Reed dirty looks. While Reed ignored him and talked to the people near him with a warm smile. Class started and Ingar walked into class, five minutes after class started, with a deadpan expression. He started talking about the politics of the Shona Empire, which made Luca yawn.
After the class ended, Luca had 10 minutes to go to his next class. The next class was called officer weapons training. He arrived earlier and noticed that most of his classmates from history were there. The classroom was in a big gymnasium where real and practice weapons were hanging from the walls. He spotted Kamar and Reed, Luca even saw that mid-blood girl from that shop. The students were at the front of the gym, close together, so he walked towards the group.
Two people walked into the gym, a sexy girl with a long black ponytail and a handsome guy with black middle length hair walked in. They both wore casual pants and a shirt, but their clothes couldn't hide their well-trained bodies. They looked like they were in their late twenties. Luca could immediately tell that the guy was a mid-blood, by his smell.
The two stood a meter apart from each other and walked into the middle of the room. They looked at the students and the girl instructor spoke.
"Like I said before class ended yesterday, the Academy gave every instructor a list. On this list are your names, there are four names in a group. This means that you're going to be put into a group of four. The group you join will be permanent until you graduate from the academy. I would recommend you get along with your group. For those of you who just joined today, my names Cara." said Cara, the female instructor.
"My names Carrick for those who joined late. I will now be assigning you to your group. Group 1, Nora, Reed, Kamar, and Luca, get to you group other there. Group 2, Cassidy …" said Carrick the male instructor, as he pointed to an empty spot where he wanted Group 1 to meet.
Reed and Kamar face turned sour when they found out that they were going to be in the same group. They walked to the spot that Carrick pointed to. Luca was trying to hold back a smile when he looked at the two, his lips twitching. He got to the spot with the other two and looked around curious to who this Nora was.
Then he saw a girl approaching them, one that he was familiar with. It was that mid-blood girl from the shop! She was short and cute, she walked up to the three shyly. When her eyes met with Luca she tensed up and apologized in a small voice.
"I'm … sorry about what happened back at the store. My … bodyguard is just overprotective." said Nora
If Luca didn't have great hearing, he would have missed what she said.
"Its ok, my names Luca by the way." Luca smiled at her
"This is Reed and Kamar, their interesting people!" Luca pointed at Reed and Kamar.
Nora nodded her head and looked at the two.
"Hello, I'm Reed, it's a pleasure to meet you." Reed looked at Nora with a friendly smile,
"Hmph, be glad to be graced by my presence." Kamar folded his arms and looked at Nora
"You can ignore this guy, he's all talk." Reed pointed at Kamar
Kamar just rolled his eyes. These two made Nora more comfortable as she got closer to them. Now they were in a circle and waited until the other teams formed. There were a total of 9 groups that formed, including his.
"Now that you're in teams where going to have a sparring match between the groups. This will be used for us to gauge your abilities. Two groups will face each other while the rest of the class watches. Their rules are simple: each group will send out one fighter, whoever can disarm their opponent first in 1-minute wins. If a minute passes and both still have their weapons than you both lose. The winner is the group that has more disarms if both teams have zero disarms than they both lose. For your safety we will be using these wooden practice weapons, pick a weapon from over there." said Cara pointing at a weapons rack filled with practice weapons.
Luca was debating on either picking up a saber or a spear. But he wasn't satisfied with the sabers that they had so he picked a simple looking spear.
"The first two groups that will be going are group 1 and group 3!" said Carrick.
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