Way of the Knights

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"T-these are…"

Raven was stunned to see the scattered items in the table. 

The King showed him five things that radiates with great ancientness. He approached one and held it.

The first item is a circular stone. It has a smooth and shiny surface which also radiated with a maroon glow. There is a carving on the top which depicts an arm piece, a fleece to be exact. Raven's eyes shone in splendor as he held it.

"This one is a Spiritual Memory Stone." He stated, "A treasure that is used during the Golden Sun Era. These stones are used to keep a valuable object within. The stone will grow large and engulf the said item and shrink down, causing the item to be stored inside, a carving will then emerge on it's surface, depicting what item is stored inside. These stones are used for things that cannot be stored within spatial rings since the rock itself could be stored inside. 

"It's also no use for someone to steal this since owners of these stones will leave their Spiritual Marks in the stone, enabling only it's owner to access what's inside. That being said, these stones as well as the items inside will become ownerless once the holder died." Raven explained.

Alexander's eyes brightened and said: "It's ownerless now right?"

"Yes, Uncle." Raven cleared his throat after that, thinking 'It still feels weird to call him that..'

"Can you take out what's inside?" 

Raven nodded and channeled his Chaos Force into the stone. Typically, one has to use Spiritual Energies to activate the stone but his Chaos Force is the unity of three energies: Vital, Essence and Spiritual, which enabled him to use this.

The stone expanded to a size of a boulder, after it stopped expanding it then broke in half and revealed a beautiful golden fleece that was kept in a pristine condition, not even a speck of dust or dirt was present on it's surface.

Raven held the fleece and took a sharp breath in. He then spoke with a ragged breath. "Fleece of the Sun God." 

"Oh?" Alexander was intrigued.

"This is a growth-class treasure, Uncle." Raven said, "The Fleece of the Sun God has two traits which makes it useful. Redirect and Reflect. If any attack landed on the fleece, it allows you to redirect it to somewhere else or send the same attack to it's user with twice the impact and power. Since it's a growth-class treasure, the amount of times you can use this depend on your strength." He then passed the fleece towards the King.

Alexander's eyes were shining as he held the fleece. 'What a phenomenal treasure!' He thought inwardly. He praised his luck for finding such a valuable, these kinds of equipment are something that no amount of money can buy. The abilities of the fleece are life saving chances, thankfully Raven was here and knows what this is.

He looked back at the young man in front of him and saw him not even paying attention to the fleece anymore. Instead, he was looking at the second item in the table which made Alexander smile wryly.

The second item is an old blueprint. It was slightly faded and written in an old language. Nevertheless, that wasn't enough to stop Raven from deciphering it's contents. After a while of brainstorming, he found out it's contents and became immediately ecstatic. 

"A great find! Truly a great find!" Raven exclaimed in glee, "It's a complete blueprint for a Construct, Uncle!"

"A Construct?" Alexander repeated, clearly clueless about the item.

"How to explain this…" Raven pondered for a bit before an idea struck his mind. "Imagine a smaller Little Stone Titan, driven by a human inside. That would be a Construct." 

The King isn't a fool. He could already understand what this entails, so his expression was slowly lightening up.

"This particular Blueprint shows how to create a Worker Construct. These Constructs have no offensive power, but they are particularly equipped for challenging tasks. Building or repairing walls, digging for an underground tunnel, complex construction projects, these things shines in that."

"It says here that we have an option to make the Constructs out of Stone or Steel. There is an array formation in here which is used to control the construct, it's not hard to understand the array itself, with enough time even beginners could learn how to drive one. We also have to construct the molds for the parts of the Construct and fuse them together. We have a lot of blacksmiths in need of projects so this is suitable for them."

After he explained, Raven once again handed the Blueprint to the King along with his own translations for it. Once again, the King was awed. He couldn't believe that his luck was this good. 

Raven moved on to the third object on the desk and inspected it. 

It didn't even take him a minute to figure out what this is. He smiled brilliantly as he looked at the item in excitement. As someone who has a little knowledge about arrays and formations, he knows one when he sees one.

"It's a blueprint for the Golden Crops Array." Raven stated, "It's an array focused on farming. Erecting this array in a farm would not only protect it from pests and harm, it also halves the time required for the crops to grow and raise it's quality by one level. This array is easy to build and is not costly at all, almost anyone could afford it."

Raven once again handed the blueprint to Alexander along with his translations so that anyone could understand the blueprint.

He then inspected the last two items and his glee just shot through the roof. 

"The Manual to construct a Skynet and another Spiritual Memory Stone!" 

"Uncle, we have to construct the Skynet as soon as possible." Raven urged, "The Skynet is an array formation that allows us to have eyes on the sky."

Raven then walked towards the map to prove his point. He crossed twenty spots across the mapped out Yellow Zone and said: "The Skynet has 20 markers, once we set these markers in this general area, everything inside these markers would be revealed to us real time."

"Lairs, demonic beast movements, hidden treasures, mineral lodes, resource bowls, and even humans. Everything will be shown to us, we won't be blind anymore. And once we raise our strength, we can even stretch this array to even cover the few kilometers within Red Zone!"

Even with his status as a King, Alexander lost his composure once he heard about the revelation. His hands were trembling as he closed them to a fist. He was asking himself if he had just used a lifetime's luck to come across such treasure. 

"Uncle, you only need to say it and I'll gladly help out with this project." Raven emotionally said.

The King recomposed himself by taking in a deep breath, even with his excitement, he had to think this through.

"We'll discuss it later, how about the last item?"

"Oh right!" Raven almost forgot about that boulder sized Spiritual Memory Stone. "This is a huge Spiritual Memory Stone, unfortunately it doesn't have a carving that shows what's inside, which makes me think that there are a lot inside considering it's size too. I can't open this here, I'm afraid that the stone would expand to a size larger than this room, so I suggest opening this outside."

"Let's do that then." 

Raven nodded and lead the way outside. 

He intended to open this stone on the grassy fields of the palace. On their way, they met with the Golden Knights who joined them to see the spectacle. 

Once they arrived, Raven placed the boulder sized rock down and took a deep breath in. He then roused his Chaos Force and began feeding it to the stone. He was met with a spiritual mark residue but he only snorted and it was forcefully erased. 

Faced with no obstructions, the stone sucked in his Chaos Force as it began to rapidly expand in size. The stone expanded to a size of a 50 foot, making it look like a meteor. Even the King was gaping at how big it got much less the golden knights behind him. 

Thankfully, before Raven ran out of energies, he heard the familiar clicking sound which means that the boulder was now opening. 

As the lid came off, it made a loud pressurized sound and Raven hurriedly jumped inside. Once he saw the contents, Raven's mouth twitched as he yelled from the inside: "Uncle, your luck is way too awesome!"

As he said that, the boulder slowly shrank in size but it didn't enclose Raven and the items within, it just returned to it's previous size after spitting out the items. 

The items concealed within, were revealed to be three wooden bookshelves stacked to the brim with well preserved and neatly arranged books. 

As the King and his aides were gaping with the revelations, Raven explained: "These books are Battle Arts and Law Insights from the Golden Sun Era."

"This stone basically contained the whole inheritance of our Ancestors."