Chapter 77: Trust (1)

"Brother, what was that about?" Shin asked, watching Aanya leave.

Elior said nothing and brought him into the bedroom, taking in the notes Aanya left him. Surely the notes on spell casting and artificing would be useful. Even if she was not a guardian yet, her understanding of spells will always be better than him—even though he knows more about the laws.

There was something like talent, and potential—that could not be just mended with hard work alone. Though he never wanted to learn spell casting through the traditional way. He only wanted to learn how to use his abilities more proficiently with the spells. Basically, the spells that could be used in battle and in sync with his other abilities.

He also wanted Shin to learn those things as he would be needing it far more than him, but that turned out to be a lost cause for now. Even though Shin had taken a few classes in the magic department, he never took it seriously.

It is not the delinquent was not talented; he was just too lazy. After all the stuff Elior put him through from the morning training to the evening practising, duelling, he can't work his brain for more. Moreover, to Shin, the thrills of close quarter battle held more than the nerdy spells, though that guy was the biggest nerd in the academy. 

Elior kept all the stuff on the small table beside the bed and sat. "There is a box under the bed," he said to Shin. "Bring it up."

Shin followed and found a considerably big box under the bed though it did not weigh that much. What was interesting was that there were no locks on the outside, not any things that could be done to open it. thinking there probably are secrets within, Shin pushed it towards Elior.

Elior did not open the box immediately and looked at the dyed haired youth with a thoughtful look.

"Shin," he said, "Do you know why I helped you from the first time we met in the trial?"

"Because we are fellow humans?" Shin asked, knitting his brows. Even though he said it he was not buying it.

"Because you are special," Elior said. "Even though all the earthlings that go to the trial are somewhat special, only a few of them could hold a candle against you. Your potential is even more fiercer than the scions of the mother world."

Shin looked at him dumbly. Even though he had not thought it through, he still had seen peculiar things in the limited time he was in the trial with Elior and the others. Surely, he boasted himself as a genius, but the display of a few people that he had seen in the trial made him awed. He still remembered how effortlessly Elior blasted an arm of a guy into non-existence, and how the redhead princess moved like the wind.

Even though he came from a background of guardians, Shin knew almost nothing of those sorts, but the further he learned in the academy, the more he understood the gap between him and those people like Elior, Scarlett.

Yet here he was hearing something that he seriously could not believe. He might be a genius, but surely not that much. Right? Seeing the serious look on Elior's face, he became unsure.

Elior shook his head. "You seriously don't know how much power you can hold," he said. "There are very few people in this universe that are unique. Their potential, abilities are almost unmatched in the universe. You have met a few of them already. Aanya, Leroy, Professor Neldor, that crazy redhead princess, me, but you surely ignored the oddity in you."

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"Wow," that was all Shin said.

"I'm not blaming you for that though, as you are surely a long way away from your awakening," Elior said. "But you should always remember, with great power comes great responsibilities."

"Yes, uncle Ben," Shin snickered. And Elior could not help but laugh as well.

"I'm not joking," Elior said and infused mana into the big box as it lit up in blue runic patterns. He moved the mana through a specific path to open the box. this box was not created by him, he was the person who input the runic formation. any wrong path in the veins of the ruins and the contents of the box will turn to incinerate. 

"All the power and potential you take from the universe, there is a certain price for it."

Elior opened the box slowly while Shin was peeking into it as he could not wait for the secrets to unfold before his eyes.

"Now, I owe you a few answers," As Elior finished, the box was entirely opened.

Shin's eyes widened the very moment he laid the contents in the box.

In the box, the first thing that came into vision was a broken white mask—the same one as the masked vigilante. Moreover, there was another rapier as well as broken pieces of metal that once was a fine piece of armour. There were surely other things like disposable phones that he helped Elior buy, about a dozen knives, potions, and a few contents hidden even deeper into the box.

"Brother, you?" Shin asked with a shuddering voice.

"Yes," Elior answered. "I am."

Elior kept the other rapier that he got from Aanya into the box, and brought out a fist-size orb from the box.

"Do you know what this is?" Elior asked, showing him the orb. Seeing him shaking his head, he continued, "It's a device that could read spirit signatures, meaning it could tell apart negatives from positives. Basically, a lie detector."

"What do you want to do with it?" Shin asked, even though he guessed what Elior was trying.

"As I said, I owe you a few answers," Elior said. "Though I could not answer all of your questions, nor did I know everything, I could give you some idea about what I'm doing. Even though I said, I never lie, I don't want you to take my words for it.. I want you to trust me better."

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