ssa thought that arno using something to hide his strength because she thinks that arno is definitly not a simple person, even for a powerfull level 1 grand mages like her feel's there's some sort of invisible strong aura coming from arno's body that lightly suffocated and pressuring her.

they finally arrive and sit in a table located in the dining area's corner.

all 4 of them is staying silent for awhile before melissa speaking to break the atmosphere.

"before we start, i'd like to introduce myself first, my name is melissa dreyfuss, and this two are dina shezar and alfred byron, they are my subordinates, and can we know sir name ??".

melissa introducing herself along with alfred and dina to arno before asking about arno's name.

"name is arno...that's it, i don't have surname...".

arno telling her his name without giving a surname as he really didn't have it.

both of dina and alfred was flabbergasted because when melissa telling her surname they discovered that there are no change in arno's emotions or expressions, instead arno answering melissa with straight smiling face and direct voice.

if it's anyone else then they will be shocked and start humbling because dreyfuss family name is extremely famous not only in the empire but also in abroad.

but melissa didn't seems to mind as she already thinking that arno must be from a famous family aswell because he doen't react at all to hers.

actually arno already know from yesterday that this melissa came from an important family in astoria but he's just simply didn't care about it at all.

"sir arno...very well, let's get straight from now shall we,... i'm from the special activities division, you are under our observation from yesterday since there are many reports about you looking very suspicious and there are no record about you at all entering the city in the customs, also... we know that you have an inventory ring in your possession,.. because you're not doing anything that can be define as a threat to our empire security then we cannot do anything to you...., but because there is no record of you in the customs near the gate, it can be said that you entering the city... illegally, you know we can arrest you for this right....but we can let that go as long you tell us where did exactly you came from ??".

melissa speaking to arno with serious and somewhat a threatening tone.

dina also looking at arno, her eye filled with fierce gazes, while alfred sitting straight without any emotion, but he's actually on guard.

the atmosphere in the table become tense currently.

there is only silent for awhile.

"tell me lady.....if i want to leave, do you think you can stop me?".

arno said that with smile still hanging in his face, while at the same time letting a really very extremely small bit of energia to pressuring these three people in front of him.

the energia burst leaked from arno's body after he's finished speaking, even though the amount of energia is extremely small but it was enchanced by arno's natural aura that had rich ferocious feeling.

it is equivalent to a peak heaven ranked experts projecting their entire power.

melissa feel's an incredible burst of mana came from arno's body pressuring her, her breathing become slightly hard, while dina who also feels the pressure suddenly grew extremely anxious.

'damn it, the guy is a grandmaster tch....' dina thought that this kind of pressure only came from a grandmaster expert, because this pressure is really heavy for her who only a level 5 super warrior.

while alfred already sweating a lot and frowning, even he trembles a little, even the people who's sitting at the far table can also feel pressured.

"n...n...no sir" melissa answering arno with trembling voice, even for level 1 grand mage like her this kind of pressure is suffocating, even if the three combined their strength, she felt that they wouldn't be able to taking him down .

arno smile became brighter, he then retracted his miniscule energia burst back to his body, and the atmosphere around the room is returning to normal.

the three people also start relaxed and relieved as it's really hard's for them because arno specially targetting them.

"look here...i really don't want to cause problems ok, i will tell you then,... i came from a remote island near the western side of the continent....there i said it.".

arno also know that he can't always telling a vague answer, that's why he tell them about some island he remember seeing it when he descend to the realm yesterday, although he's answering a bit clearly than before, but it is still a vague answer in the end.

'i can't exactly tell them that i came from a cave in the moon right.'

arno thinking a ridiculous thing.

but when the three people hearing the place where he's coming from, they were extremely shocked.

'th..that can't be right... there is only an island that existed in west of the continent, .....and it's exactly that island... no wonder he possess the ring and he's strong too, because he actually came from that island...'.

melissa have a shocked expression as she think that arno actually came from a certain place.

even dina frozed as she had an 'O' expressions, while alfred clenching hard his fingers and looking directly and intensely at arno.

'hemmm what's with their expressions ?? did using that island somehow is wrong?? but i've already checked it, there is only several thousand people living there, but well there is also 3 saint ranked individual and a heaven tier treasure in there too it's a eih..... it's a another cauldron.....well it's kinda conspicuous place sure, but it's not really a problem right....well who cares anyway..'.

arno decide just to continue vaguely using the island as his fake hometown.

"i..i..see so sir arno it's actually came from that place... ehmmm... can we know what exactly your business in astoria ?...".

melissa somehow became meekly and somehow anxious when asking arno now.

"lady dreyfuss, you don't need to be anxious like that, relax okay.... and just call me arno, there is no need to adding sir in it,...as why i came here is... well i came to astoria just for the view i guess, it's so boring at home ....there are many interesting things in here after all...".

arno did not lie this time, although he like his moon cave but there is not much happened in there, except maybe some asteroids crashing down to the moon surface occasionaly, so it's extremely boring place.

"so si...you came here just to play isn't it?? then why you go to the library and asking many weird question to peoples??".

this time it was dina who already recovered from her shocked moment who's asking arno, she still a bit irritated by arno though.

"you SAD people are really good in observing peoples huh, you even know that i've been go to library aswell...hhahmm.... about that.... let just say that i've been staying in my cave for long time and clueless of anything about the outside world.....and now while i'm in outside might as well learn something about it too right...".

arno smile to dina, he didn't lie too this time, he's really had been stayed in his cave for far too long.

melissa silently looking at arno's eye, at first she's trying to discern something from his eye, but eventually she was distracted by the light purple eye, and thinking in her mind that it was really a beautiful eye with an unfathomable mysterious feeling emanate from it, but quickly she shakes her head lightly and gathering her mind.

"ar..arno... if you are interested,... i have a proposition for you.. because you said that you want to see something interesting isn't,.. would you've mind hearing about it??" melissa is half convinced that this arno is probably just someone who is bored and looking something exciting, that's why she didn't wasting time anymore and start inviting him.

"oh... what is it, let's hear it... i can see from your face it's really something exciting huh..."

arno kind of curious abot melissa proposal.

melissa start narrating stories about something weird inside the gobi deadlands and demon beasts, although she telling him almost to the detail but she omitted telling things like the palace meeting and other sensitive infos, just telling that arno needs to know to convince him to join.

"i see...i've heard about the gobi deadlands, it really filled with dangerous things isn't... but that's what makes it so exciting hehmmm...so you want me to join your team right ?? heheh but you know i can exactly feel that from the very first time you have the intention to inviting me...but why ?? we just meet now and you obviously don't trusted me....i'm a suspicious person in your eyes...tell me".

arno interrogating melissa why she's inviting him.

"sigh.....you are correct, it is because our superiors who recommending you to me...arno did you perhaps knows our leader personally ? because it's weird, as he said that he didn't knowing you at all, but he still recommend you.." melissa asking arno, as she really confused about her leader antics.

"no no...never heard about your leader or knowing him personally....it is weird isn't ha hah.... that someone completedly unrelated to you or you never even seeing and meeting him but still recommending you to someone....heheh ...they only thing i can tell you, is that sometimes... destiny... is a funny thing...".

arno finished his words and at the same time moving his eyes gazing at alfred's.

alfred who is stared by arno suddenly frozed and sweating, because he also looking at arno's eye and felt an unknown feelings, also because arno's gazes looked like can extract and knowing everything inside alfreds mind, it stirs alfred hearts make him anxious.

but arno retracted his gazes, and start focusing on melissa.

"so arno do you agreed joining our team ?? if we also complete the mission there is a large rewards and merits for the team when we return back..." melissa waiting for arno's words hoping that he will agree as his strength could be a huge boost to the team overall strength, as for dina she did not care at all wheather arno agree or not, while alfred completedly hope that arno will joining the team as he had something he wanted to ask.

arno pondering for awhile. before he answer.

"fine i will join your team... it will be boring always staying here afterall.....and you don't have to worry..this is your team then it's your rules that applied, besides i'm just joining for the view ...."

arno finally agree while shrugging his shoulder, beside he had an interest in melissa and alfred as they have destiny connection with him, and this mission is good opportunity to knowing what the destiny wants.

"very well thank you....and i'm apologizes for our earlier impoliteness.....since that settles... we can go to our next move....".

melissa then give arno smile, while suggesting they moving on to the next thing they should do.

"it's fine, just forget about it....alright... so where we going ??".

arno didn't mind about earlier, and he was asking about their next move.

"to the jetsun academy, there is someone we also need to recruited over there.... alfred you lead the way.".

melissa beckoning to the team to depart for the academy immediettly.

"yes lady melissa, let's hurry then".

then the 4 start leaving the inn and heading to the academy located outside the capital.

the three people did not realized they just recruited the strongest being in the entire realms into their team.

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on the way to the academy, the 4 people chatting and conversing about many thing as they try to knowing each other, especially melissa and arno who talk about things like mage cultivation, astoria political strives.

from melissa, arno now understand more about mages cultivation, like technique or skill and spells that they had.

according to melissa, mages primarly cultivating their mind which is resulted increased of their mental power, while warrior cultivating only their body.

'peoples only cultivated one part of their body right now, depending on their choice of cultivation type....but are they dumb or something ?....this is really inefficient....but maybe because other cultivation type is not available to them so they simple doesn't know any better'

arno somehow really felt funny.

cultivating both body and mind is extremely important for cultivators back in arno's time.

in the entire realm, every living lifeform is able to absorb energia conciously and unconciously, even the one who is not cultivating except for someone who had disability or abnormality inside their body.

every lifeform have a part in their body called the blood channels, these blood channels can stored the energia that has been absorbs, but first the blood channels also had several clogs that blocked the channels and the channels size is really thin and small.

that's why there is a limit how much a person can store energia inside their bodies and also it's very hard for the energia to circulating inside a thin and blocked channels.

for cultivators, cultivating their body can opened these clogs that blocking the blood channels, resulting the blood channels to be linked and make it easier for energia in circulating inside the blood channels.

over time because the energia keep circulating inside these blood channels, resulting the blood channels to be expanded and larger, so the blood channels is able to store more energia inside.

the energia that always circulated inside the body also have nourishing effect in the skins, muscles and other important body parts, that make the cultivators body to be much more stronger, they don't easily tired, sick, and hungry or thirsty, and combining all of that resulting in increasing the cultivators lifespan.

mind cultivation is different from body cultivation, cultivating mind can be done by increasing the cultivators knowledges, experiencing many different situations or training through meditations, so that they can have a strong mind to understanding more about the universe law,

cultivators who have a strong mind can harness the natural power such as natural elements, gravity and even space by using both of the energia inside their body and their knowledge of the universe law.

in summary the reason cultivators cultivated both body and mind, so that they become more stronger physically and able to understand more about the universe law in hope to breaking through the cultivation rank.

because many of cultivation rank can only be able to achieved if the cultivators have enough physical strength or by having a certain knowledges of universe law.

that's why the cultivation technique during the immemorial time, even though there are many variation of them existed, but their basic are pretty much the same, in which focused in cultivating both body and mind.

right now arno also have a theory in why people in greysia realm is extremely weak, of course he's one of the main reason for that, because his carelessness resulting the energia density in the entire realm is decreased.

and because the current general education on cultivation itself.

people in greysia only knows that cultivation are seperated into two type, which cultivating body for warriors and mind cultivation for mage, while actually it is very important to cultivating both body and mind at the same time.

this is caused by the lost of the correct cultivation techinque and knowledge during the chaos in the dawn era.

every cultivators in the entire greysia realm now, only practice a fighting aura technique for warriors and mental power technique for mage.

originally both fighting aura and mental power technique first emerged during the quiet era, people back then because they urgently need power to held back demon beast.

they start to gathering together and creates a new form cultivation technique from what was left from the dawn era, which these technique teaching process are completely bogus and filled with many errors.

but because these techniques somehow works, cultivators still use the even today.

they didn't even know what meditate is.

so, how did mage cultivate their mind?.

Arno found that mage will practicing their spell using their mind to imagening the spell basic characteristic, because of this, resulting the mage mind to became trained and stronger, also all mage spell related to natural elements such as fire, water, earth etc, that is why mages had more chance of interactions with the universe law which is the natural elements is part of.

that's why many cultivators in the current time still stagnant below earth rank, but because there is also luck factor mixed in, there are many funny case happens, for example.

a mage who always use their spell also unknowingly circulating energia inside their blood channels, somehow able to open the channels clogs and expanding the channels size and break through to the next rank, without knowing how they do that in the first place.

a warrior who always cultivating their body but not their mind, they keep wondering why they still stagnant for long time, but when he observed something suddenly it open his mind and gained an enlightenment from it, and he's able to breakthrough the rank, and racking his brain why he suddenly had a breakthrough after watching a lightning strike or birds fall from the sky...many more.

but there is also exist talented people who able to understand about the correct process of cultivation for a little, many cultivators that had achieved grandmaster rank or saint rank are exactly those talented people.

but unfortunately their talent are limited by the subpar cultivation technique they use.

arno can only shaking his head lighly and sighing, while thinking about all those unfortunate tragedy.

finally the 4 people arrive at the east city gate, which is already packed with people who wants to entering and leaving the city.

"alfred, how far the academy from the city excatly ?".

arno asked, he already know the distance, but just try to make a conversation.

"about 10-12 kilometers in the outskirts, the academy is really big, so they need to use a lot of space."

alfred answer while waiting for the horses melissa requested from the city guards.

not long several guard bringing the horses from nearby stables and the three people did not wasting time at all, they quickly rides on top of the horses, as they preparing to leave.

they see arno still standing near a huge brown horse, just looking at it with frowning expression.

"hey arno...what are you doing.. come one!!".

dina who is bit of impatient, she shouting at arno telling him to hurry.

but arno who keep looking at the horses didn't heard her at all.

"arno did something wrong with the horse...?".

melissa think there is probably something wrong with the horse.

alfred just looking doublty and confused at arno.

arno keep silent and staring at the horses, before he move his head towards the there.

and he smile, a dazzling smile that drew people's attentions, even some of those female city guards cheeks started to turn red because of that smile.

"he hehe ..... i ehem don't know how to ride horses".

arno saying that shamelessly and while still smilling brightly.

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