章節 9: Count Titanheart

Leon didn't have anything to do, so strolled around the city a bit. After his tour was over he went to Josh's house and he found that he was there too. Without wasting time Josh spoke

"My lord, I found a construction company."

"There is no need for haste, I'll go there tomorrow after the audience."

"Understood, My lord."

…

They went to Josh's house. Josh was serving a tea to Leon in the study room. Holding the cup Leon thought a bit and started to talk to Josh;

"Josh, you wanted to have a high grade body tempering technique, right?"

While putting away the teapot, Josh just nodded with head. Leon continued;

"The higher the grades of techniques more resources are needed. I have a highest grade body tempering manual but to obtain that you need to more do than a butler."

"What should I do my lord." impatiently asked Josh, his voice was showing that he was tempted.

"You need to manage the shop I'm going to open in the capital with that you'll earn twenty percent of the income. But that will happen after a time pass."

"I'll do it my lord."

With him accepting, Leon took a soul contract from his spatial bag and wrote its contents and gave it to Josh. Josh read it, after finishing he took a knife and cut his finger to draw a bit of blood than he pressed his finger to end of the contract. Leon took the contract and did the same and put it inside of spatial bag. Than his took out a book which named [Four Beast Body Tempering Manual] from his bag and gave it to Josh.

It was a top notch body tempering manual which specialized on Agility, Strength, Defense and Vitality. The body tempering techniques were imitation of the mana cultivation techniques so, there was a couple of similarities. In the body tempering there was a warrior core which was imitation of the mana pool of magus and it also contradict with mana pool so, Warriors couldn't open their mana pools and Magus couldn't form a warrior core.

In this sense Leon was could be counted as a first. His Titan Body tempering didn't require a warrior core instead he needed to form his titan heart.

Josh took the book and started to read right away after reading a bit he understood that he needed to have resources to cultivate this technique. Leon gave him a spiritual fruit and

"You need more resources like that besides your wage as a butler you needed to manage the shop which I plan to open good to gain more resources."

Josh repeatedly said his thanks and bowed to him. After leaving Josh in the study room, Leon walked to his room and slept after meditating for and half hour.

…

The morning Leon woke up and dress up with most formal attire that he had and leaved the house with Josh. He didn't bring Roland with him while he was leaving. When he passed through the door, he saw knights waiting for him in front of him.

Seeing Leon, Captain of the knights stepped forward and asked;

"Are you Sir Leon?"

"Yes I'm"

"I'm Phil, a captain from Imperial Knights, today I'm assigned to accompany Sir Leon to the Palace."

"Than lead the way Sir Phil."

With the knights around him Leon walked with Josh towards palace. While he was walking, he also talked with Josh about the cultivation technique that he gave him. There was a lot of things that Josh didn't understand about it. Leon answered his questions. The Four Beast in the [Four Beast Body Tempering Manual] were Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, White Tiger and Azure Dragon. It was a body tempering manual that the school found when they were conquering a Martial world. The vermilion bird for vitality and restoration, Black Tortoise for defense, White tiger for agility and Azure dragon for Strength. The warrior core which was formed from this manual would have inscriptions of the four beasts.

While he was answering Josh's questions he didn't noticed that they came before the palace until Knight captain told him.

When Leon looked up he saw a grandiose white gate with etching depicted warriors fighting in a war. It also have aura on it, but not the gruesomeness of the war but the glory with gold clothing on the warriors. The gate opened when Phil went and say something to the gatekeeper. After the gate fully opened, Leon could see inside of the palace garden, it was well designed garden and Leon felt peacefulness like he was one with nature or he was watching rain from a window. Leon thought this peaceful environment maybe product of a formation made with spiritual plants if so, he would ask the construction company to make a similar garden for him.

Knight Captain came before Leon

"Sir Leon, You can enter the palace but your subordinate can't enter with you. When you enter somebody will take you to the audience."

"Understood, thanks for bringing me here."

Saying that Leon passed through the gate and noticed a middle aged man coming towards him. The man hurriedly came;

"Sir Leon, I will be your guide and tell you the procedures of the ceremony."

After saying that the man told him about the procedures of the ceremony while they were walking towards the audience chamber. As Leon was listening the man, he was also looking around the palace while they were walking.

The Palace full of white and gold colored, there were a lot of paintings on the walls. And on the corridor was red carpets. Soon they came before a double door with a height of three meters. The door was also didn't simple door but filled with engravings and the sides of it two guards with their imposing postures.

The door was opened and Leon finally could see the inside of the audience chamber. The audience chamber filled with white marbles and red curtains with ropes of gold colored. It was showing the richness of the empire fullest but also didn't look like too much waste on just interior design.

Leon took a deep breath and walked forward. He started to walk towards to the middle of the chamber where was a oval red carpet. While he was walking the only noise was his footsteps and its echoes with deeper tone. He could see on sides there was people watching him as he walks but they didn't make even a whisper during the process.

When Leon came on top of the red carpet he bend a knee and bowed his head. He didn't look forward to see the emperor because a commoner cannot see the faces of a member imperial household lest the emperor. While he was waiting for the emperor to talk there was only silence on chamber, but the silence was interrupt with a majestic voice;

"We heard you bought the four of order and We did said that we would grant nobility to whoever buys it."

After saying that there was a silence in the chamber. After a couple of breath of time, The emperor asked

"Is there anyone opposes?"

"Your Majesty, we don't know who he is or if has any ulterior motives." Said someone in the chamber.

"Then we will ask, who you are and do you have any motives?"

When the emperor asked the carpet faintly glowed, Leon understood that this was a sort of a polygraph. So he didn't have any problem with that so, he answered

"My name is Leon and I don't have any relatives, I'm a magus and I don't have ulterior motives."

After Leon said that the faint glow didn't wavered just continued to glow faintly. It did showed that he was telling the truth.

"We were grant you rank of an earl but hearing that you were a magus already we will grant you rank of a count. You may choose your surname now for your household and announce your full name"

Hearing that Leon didn't think much, there was already a surname for himself he chosen.

"Leon Titanheart."