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"Mr. Sasuke, do we have time to go to a slave market?" I asked him with pleading eyes.
"No, and call me patriarch, were heading to the Uchiha sect post haste, the tension in the air in Rosenberg city is not good for my health, something about an Enchanter, that's got nothing to do with us, we might as well get out of this mess when we can so we can avoid trouble from the three major powers." Sasuke explained.
It made sense, the tension on Resenberg has been at all time high, like a keg waiting to explode. Zed was feeling guilty that he started to cause this phenomenon but not by much, he learned from novels that strength was everything, his plan to make his life a pleasurable, and somewhat ordinary went down the drain. Such thoughts were far away now and since he showed some ability, a certain expectation is expected from him. There were many abilities and skills that this world posses but he was only a card master and bound by that class, he wasn't a gamer where he has access to skill books and boom, overpowered result was achieved. Nope, he was bound by the card Master class, still he was very lucky to have a class at all but he was far from powerful, his class is geared towards the summoner and crafting profession branch on the field. He can only create a version of health and mana pills bound by the monsters he could turn into cards, there were no guarantee he would encounter a monster that would substitute as a cultivator or magician breaking stage pill, even if he were to find the specific monster, it would be a strong one, so he had put some thought these past year and continued to level his current summons as his main bread and butter and creating pills was just a side job. It was supposed to slowly let him gain strength and wealth but that was a plan ruined by some circumstance. Still though his status as an Enchanter would be highly valued but he had no plans to join a faction that would result in him gaining the animosity from the two major powers. It would be best for him to stay neutral.
These thought were running through Zed's mind over the journey to the Uchiha Sect, his patriarch way of communicating had such a colorful language, the art of grunting and the bizarre noise humming made one guess what the Uchiha patriarch had intended to speak. We encountered some monsters and bandit here and there but they were dealt with personally by the patriarch. I couldn't exactly show my hand so I just helped by using traditional martial arts which was very awful as I don't have a skill related to that aspect on my class which baffled the Uchiha patriarch more, "How come he was defeated by such a brat, he saw that Zed has the agility and intuition of an expert but lacked the strength necessary to kill and defeat enemy consecutively with pure martial arts, oh Zed has the stamina he noticed but, he just lacked strength, then it fit, Zed wasn't fit to be a warrior but he was an expert magician, now that the Uchiha patriarch looked at it in that perspective, Zed became a much more prospective disciple in his sect, who in this whole continent ever heard of a physically agile and intuitive magician?, some can be counted by one hand in the annnals of the history of Edea, oh he has struck rich in finding this disciple, he will have to guide this disciple carefully or he could just raise this disciple like he did with the rest of his disciples and let nature run its course, yes, that probably is for the best" Were the thought of the Uchiha patriarch.
The journey to the Uchiha sect was finally completed and we were greeted by two elders of the sect who introduced themselves as Itachi and Shisui. Correction, they were grand elders and more of the second highest pecking order of the sect. Itachi was in charge of magician disciples while Shisui was in charge of the pill concocting disciples while the patriarch was in charge of the cultivators is what I concluded from what I gleamed through the interaction of the three.
"Itachi, I have brought in a prospective magician disciple on your branch of the sect, I personally tested him myself, he's a core disciple level, please take good care of him."
"Yes patriarch." Itachi said while feeling of excitement can be felt rolling of him in waves.
"I leave him in your capable hands, come Shisui we have a lot to talk about, Itachi come to the meeting room later after you have accommodated our new disciple." Said Sasuke.
"Yes patriarch."
"Come disciple let us head to your new home." Said Itachi.
"Yes elder." I bowed as I followed the elder, we passed by many buildings and pagodas with Chinese designs along the way and the elder introduced me to the important buildings like the cultivation/magic research pavilion, pill concocting building, beast taming building, talisman and formation building, resource exchange building, the market district, training grounds and their famous life and death arena.
After grand elder Itachi explained the buildings, he quickly explained the hierarchy of the sect, the top is the patriarch followed my the grand elders, there followed by elders, then there are the successors who were groomed to be elders by their respective fields followed by the core disciples, inner disciples and outer disciples.
The treatment also increases the higher the rank, from lowest of the outer disciples were provided with simple huts and a few low grade spirit stones a month, inner disciples reicieve more low grade spirit stones and are given cultivation pills and a large house, a core disciples live in a mansions catered by servants, they also have access medium grade spirit stones higher efficacy medecine pills. Successors are given cultivation caves with an array formation to boost their cultivation they also given high grade pills and high grade spirit stones for consumption. All of them have access to the cultivation/ magic research pavilion for techniques which varies through ranks and depending on your rank you can access higher cultivation and magic techniques.
"This here is your assigned mansion with ten servants, you are expected to care for your servants as it is your obligation and responsibility to supervise their cultivation and provide resources for them. Every year there will be a ranking tournament that will decide your rank in this sect. From 1 to 10nth will be the succesors while the 11th to 100th will be the core disciples 101th to 1000 is the inner disciples and the rest are outer disciples, you must be pretty talented to be evaluated by Patriarch to a core disciple, you are free to do whatever you wish, what is required of you will be to attend the mandatory yearly ranking which will decide your status within the sect, to wither or to flourish and prosper, it is in your hands now, do not disappoint the patriarch." Elder Itachi said in a stern tone as he left.
As soon as the elder left the many servants came in and greeted me, the most noticeable servants was the one who was the head servant named Sebastian who was very professional, reminds me of an anime of a certain earl phantomhive.
"We greet master, from now on our lives are in your hands." Said all my servants in unison as the bowed to me
I keep getting reminded of my new responsibilities but nonetheless accepted them.
"Acknowledged, what's the status on the mansion?." I asked Sebastian who looked sad.
"Truthfully the house is in terrible state and is in need of immediate repairs, the furniture were all sold to provide for the debt that our last master incurred and our provisions are low just enough to scrap by." Said Sebastian in a downcast voice.
"Tell me how much does a low to high spiritual stones cost in currency?." I asked them curiously.
"Lowe spirit stones one gold coins master, while medium spirit stones cost fifty gold coins and high spirit stones are a hundred gold each." Said Sebastian.
"I see." I said as I pondered.
I waved my hand and a spirit bag appeared in my hand.
"Sebastian inside this spirit bag contains fifty thousand gold coins fourty thousand are to be spent on the house, the furnitures, food and whatever is needed while the ten thousand coins are for you and the servants to use for your daily needs and cultivation.
"Tell me Sebastian how do you estimate this amount will last for our mansion spending.
"Truthfully my lord with this amount we can sustain ourselves for ten years frugally, five years if we spent regularly." Said Sebastian with worshipping expression.
"Good, but I expect the worse, stock our houselold and make the repairs, buy furnitures and buy some spirit wheat and spirit vegetables as well as some spirit animals for rearing to make ourself self-reliant and self sufficient, I estimate with this fund it should last us for a year, I expect you guys to take care for the farming and the animal raising." I said with a stern expression.
"It will be our pleasure my lord." Said Sebastian and the servants happily, never have they seen such a benevolent and rich aster who would take good care of them. Zed didn't know but that act bought them their loyalty to him.
"Good, if there are any emergencies and problems that that need to be discussed, come see me." I said as I went inside the mansion and Sebastian guided me to my master room.
Sebastian and the other servants were excited and happy as if pumped by chicken blood, their mansion which was the poorest of condition was always mocked and was ridiculed with disdain from other core disciples servants before because of their incompetent master, of course their cultivation and resources which were limited had now became scarce and progress in cultivation came to a standstill, but hat all changed today, today a new master came by the name of Zed, he didn't introduce his last name, maybe some reason prevented him but one thing is certain, his master is rich and benevolent, extremely so, I mean who would shell out that amount of money to fix a downtrodden mansion and cultivation resources for its servants, just as he and the other servants were in despair, that day came as their master's hand extended to them and gave them a miracle. He handed over generous funds to spend for the repairs and all round expenses for the mansions as well as cultivation funds for him and the servants, very generous funds I might add. Just as I showed him to his master bedroom, me and he other servants quickly began to buy the needed materials to fix the house, we brought in furnitures, spirit food, spirit seeds, spirit wheats and many more and other miscellaneous items and product, this all happened in a day, but we were pumped with energy that the tattered mansion transformed overnight into a decent mansion, nothing too extravagant but the mansion did recover to its glory days. Me and the other servants quickly exchanged some our portion of gold into low spirit stones. We decided to exchange a hundred low spirit stones each that should last us half a year and there have some plenty gold left for them to spend on whatever they wish.
"Master is such a good master." Thought Sebastian.
