Once he was done setting up his new room, Aegon decided to visit the Academy, as he was truly curious about the best Academy in the entire human domain.
As they were walking out of Cali’s house, Aegon suddenly noticed sothing and asked, "Xav, weren’t you staying in the dorms?"
"What? When did I ever say that?" Xavier exclaid. "My sister and my friend are staying here, so why would I sleep in a room with other n?"
"Why did you have to phrase it like that..." Aegon was speechless.
"It’s fine, Little Gon," Cali chid in, looking even more excited now, her smile not leaving her face for even a second. "I bought this house knowing everyone would stay here together."
"Then why isn’t Luna here?" Aegon asked, keeping a close eye on Cali’s reaction.
As he expected, Cali’s expression froze for a second before she said, "I can’t live with soone like her. She makes too much ss."
’While that’s true, you always used to clean after her ss, so what happened now?’ Aegon wondered, turning toward Xavier for an answer but he only received a shrug in response.
"Did you two fight, Cali?" Aegon asked curiously.
"It’s not like that," Cali averted her eyes and said quickly. "That dimwit can’t fight."
’This is even more suspicious. What actually happened in the last few years?’ Aegon thought in confusion.
As the oldest among their group, Luna and Cali had been the first to attend the Academy, so they had left several years ago.
"Anyway, don’t spoil the mood by thinking about idiots," Cali said, forcing a smile on her face. "I’ll take you to the Academy."
"Sure," Aegon smiled as well.
Since she didn’t seem willing to talk about it, he decided to let it go for the mont but he would definitely dig deeper into the matter later.
Luna and Cali were both very good friends of his, and he didn’t want them to lose the bond they shared as sisters. Still, he would respect their decision if whatever had happened was truly sothing serious.
Soon, they were on their way to the Northeast Gate. The Supre Apostle Academy was situated outside the Dusk City, but it was still close enough to be considered part of it.
’It’s the right mont,’ Aegon thought, looking up at the vivid colors of twilight. ’Sign in!’
[Ding! Signing in at Dusk City! Reward – Small Fragnt of Twilight Domain.]
[Ding! 10x Rewards Bonus Applied!]
[Ding! Small Fragnt of Twilight Domain acquired!]
’What?’ Aegon stopped in his tracks, stunned by the notification. ’This doesn’t make sense at all.’
"Sothing the matter?" Xavier asked, munching on so street food. "Do you also want to buy sothing?"
"No, it’s nothing." Aegon shook his head, regaining his composure. "The scenery from there was just too good, so I took a mont to capture it in my mory."
"I really envy your perfect mory," Xavier groaned, biting his food even more aggressively. "I could have easily passed the theory classes if I had that."
Aegon smiled faintly, and they resud their journey but his mind was still on the reward he had just received.
’Even when I got the Fragnt of Skybreaker, the bonus turned it into the real Artifact and it was actually at Transcendent Rank.’
He stared at the notification again and thought, ’It started as a small fragnt, and even after the bonus, it’s still a small fragnt. The system has never been wrong, so the only possibility is that the real and complete Twilight Domain is just too high-ranked. Much higher than even Skybreaker.’
His body involuntarily shuddered at the thought as he turned toward the west. ’Domain, huh.’
Domains were a common concept in progression fantasy novels, so he was familiar with the idea. The problem was that, in so stories, domains were too weak and in others, they were absurdly overpowered.
Now, he couldn’t quite understand what this domain was, but he had a few guesses, though he knew most of them could be wrong, if not all.
’Seems like domains are high-tier stuff. I’ll just have to see if I can find information about them. At least one thing’s certain, it’s not common knowledge.’
Aegon decided to store the Small Fragnt of Twilight Domain in the deepest slots of his inventory. Even by accident, he didn’t want to take out sothing so high-tiered.
Just the Mythical Rank Technique had almost frozen him for eternity.
The only comforting thing was that he got Skybreaker after the 50x Reward Bonus, rather than the usual 10x Rewards Bonus.
"What are you thinking of creating now?"
Xavier’s voice pulled him out of his thoughts, and Aegon realized he had missed part of their conversation but he didn’t think much of it. It was most likely just so nonsense anyway.
"Nothing..."
Aegon stopped mid-sentence as he noticed they had already left the city and were now standing before a giant structure that scread power just from its presence.
"Is this the Academy?" Aegon asked, his eyes widening in astonishnt.
"Yes, it is. Beautiful sight, isn’t it?" Cali asked with a proud smile.
They were standing on a small hill, giving Aegon a clear view of the magnificent structure. In the distance, a vast fortress-like Academy stood atop a colossal stone hand that was even larger than the Dusk City itself.
Only the wrist and upper portion were visible, but that alone made Aegon question the identity of its original owner. Did Titans exist in this world in ancient tis? Where did this massive hand co from?
"Look below the hand," Xavier said.
Aegon followed his words and looked down further, narrowing his eyes in confusion. "What is it...?"
Before he could even finish his sentence, he stopped abruptly as he noticed sothing strange in what he had initially thought was a lake.
At the base of the colossal hand was a vast water body, making it seem as though the Titan was trying to claw its way out of the underworld through that pool.
At first, he thought it was just a lake, but then he noticed sothing that shouldn’t have been possible in one.
The water was flowing rapidly. That shouldn’t have been possible since the wind here was calm, and such strong currents had no business being in a lake.
"Is it... a river?"
But the strange thing was that the water body started and ended right beneath the Titan’s hand. It didn’t connect to any other river system, as if the flow of that water was trapped in a loop or perhaps, it was sothing far more mysterious.
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