IDOLIZING CHAOS

To the Capital

Presently, at Krieger Family Mansion...

The now depilated building was used to house several frantic individuals who, needless to say, were like glue sticking to the only place they found safety in, Sorry... the people in the place.

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"Here, you should take this"

"T-this is too valuable, I can't accept."

Two figures were sprain on the grand stairs leading to the Mansion; one, an Azure-haired youth of about Sixteen holding on to a Gold Card, and a shapely teen probably Eighteen adamantly wiggling her head east and west as she refused the other's offer.

This obviously was Aeries and Sheena.

The card Aeries held was the very 'Imperial Academy Token' that his father had previously planned on using when Aeries turned 15.

Anyone who held this token and was below 20, had unrestricted opening to be a Student at the academy.

The years of hard work Torres and the former House head spent in service had earned them only this one Token.

. . This goes to illustrate how rare this sort of opportunity is. But Aeries thought nothing of it,

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"Isn't it just to gain entry to the whatever Academy? With my strength, do you still believe I won't be able to?"

"It's not that... It's just—"

"Don't think too much. Am not doing this because I pity you or because I want you to repay me. This father here doesn't have time for silly games.

If you don't take this, them am just going to throw it to some random lake or something" He added a threat.

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"Don't! It's too precious to waste. F-fine, I'll take it... But I won't take it if you don't accept my condition...

I still want to repay you somehow. So I promise you I'll be at the Great General Realm after 5 years. I-if I don't make it before the deadline. I want you to do anything you feel like to me."

*Spurts, Coughs coughs*

"Don't talk nonsense you silly girl, do you understand what you're implying?"

"I've never been this serious before."

Aeries nodded at the end... It remains unknown whether he bluffed it off, or Someone had started having insane fantasies of puberty stricken youth

'I'll be waiting, Sheena onii chan!'

Seems it was the latter.

"Right, before I forget. This is for your father." He handed a scrolled-up paper to her, “Although it's nothing much, he should try to practice this technique, it may help with his injuries."

"How did you get this? Grandpa has searched all over the Empire, but he still can't find something that'll work."

'It just happens that I have a thousand-year-old bald man inside my head... With just a few threats I could pry out this secret technique from him. But I can't tell anyone that now, can I?" Aeries smirked.

“There just happens to be an old manual on my father's shelve. all I did was copied it to this scroll." He took his time to hint that he did nothing much, less this appreciative girl mentioned another censored agreement.

“Take care of yourself... and your old man. Maybe I'll see you again when we both become students at the Academy." Aeries stood up and beckoned his Flying Demon Beast. The beast chirped happily before flailing its wings and pushing the poor Help taking care of it.

“You aren't coming back?" Sheena noticed from the way be spoke.

“En. I've made my goodbyes to all those I believe matter to me here. Sadly they aren't much. The capital should be in chaos now. I need to find my dad...

Goodbye Sheena. Still whenever we meet"

[Whooosh!!] Like the striking Hero in fairy tales, Sheena sadly watched Aeries back as he flew away from her. A sinking feeling appeared above her chest... One that whispered that she might never again see this dashing young man that changed her fate.

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“I promise. I am going to be strong enough to help you for once!" She vowed.

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The stage was set that day... A seed planted that would sprout in coming years... Tales would be told of the Fierce Demi-princess. Saddled on a Phoenix, Dragon bow on one hand... Cold as ice.

But that would be a story for later.

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[Crrrarrrr!].

A zipping sound whipped past the heads of humans idly down in farmlands or market places. Whenever that happens, they would quickly lift their heads to glimpse a figure standing upright on his Flying Demon Beast, which was of a very high grade.

*zhhhhh*

“Did you see the face of the rider?"

“Not really, the only thing I could tell was that he was a young lad. Probably the child of a rich House."

“True. But it's evident that he posses a very outstanding cultivation Realm to be this lofty"

“These young cultivators don't know how tall the mountains are. If am correct, the direction he's heading to is the Capital. That place is clearly a playground for hidden dragons and crouching tigers. And if the news we heard is true... then the brat is giving himself to Hades.”

“The news is true alright. My cousin just escaped from there. He came without his family and with a missing hand... To top it all, he is a cultivator at the 7th Martial General Realm!

Whoever goes there would not return alive... if they do, not the same."

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Finished!

Aeries naturally, was not aware of what people he passed over whispered towards him. But if he couldn't feel the pensive Aura as he neared the Capital, then he shouldn't be called a Martial General.

“Am almost there huh? He-he. Maybe I should have stayed a little longer with her... Mother too." Aeries felt regret when he thought back to the only family he had in this new world. Sheena might be the only person he ever had the most conversation with, and even then, he wasn't able to fulfill his promise. It was precisely because of this that he decisively gave her that Token.

“I had promised I was going to take care of her and her Granddad. And putting the time in place, they must have appeared at Krieger's City for that very promise... Yet the last possible hope still fell right before them. I just hope what I did could help."

“Brat, be rest assured, the technique I gave you should heal both his Physical wounds and the wounds to his soul. Only in the Higher realm would you see the Manual this Master gave. You should be thankful.”

“If you have this many 'Assets' it would be a waste if you hole it up till you die right? Old man! Cough out another technique. This one should be at the Peak of Divine Grade.”

“Go die! What do you take me for? This King is free and unfettered, no one can order me to do anything!"

“Ptiei! [1] Talk after you can drink wine and eat red meat. With your Soul Avatar, you're nothing more than a sick old ghost..."

“Asking for something but don't know how to beg? I believe in your previous life you were a beggar! And a failure at that!"

“Old ghost! You dare cure me!? I just remembered there's a certain 'Cannon' that destroys people's Soul Avatar too... Since am afraid of ghosts, am thinking about testing it on one!" Aeries used his unique threat.

“Please Young Noble, Spare me!"

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Two odd individuals traded 'market words' as they journeyed along with the extreme vastness... Until finally,

I've finally reached the Capital. It's so..."

Below Aeries, as far as his eyes could see... everything could be surmised with just a word... Chaos!