Chapter 32 - Divine Realm

Shadow went with the group of students and left the scene. The whole cafeteria hall was silent for a while trying to digest the events that happened just now .

In the middle of the crowd , a silhouette was watching the events silently.

"I should report that to the guild " said the person before leaving the hall.

In another large hall , two men were facing each other . One of them was wearing a black uniform that belonged to the students of the night start academy , while the other man who seemed to be in his early forties was wearing black clothes with a golden star on his chest , he was the academy's president, his name was Theodore.

"I was surprised to know that one of my academy's students had the dark affinity while hiding it from everyone else" Theodore said with an amused expression.

"Well to be honest i wasn't hiding it , it's just no one asked me about my affinity so of course I didn't bother going around and saying it myself " Shadow replied with a calm expression.

"You killed eleven students today so crippling you is the least punishment you should receive " Theodore said but still with the same happy expression on his face.

"I really want to see you do that but you wouldn't do it , would you?" said Shadow with a smirk on his face .

'He's not stupid. He knows I can't lay a finger on him after all even if he has the dark affinity, it's almost impossible for him to get a dark spell without a very powerful background helping him specially after being exiled from his family' Theodore said inwardly.

"Well I won't do that of course as your presence in the school is more useful to me . I will ignore the incident under one condition though " Theodore said .

Shadow furrow his eyebrows but didn't say anything.

"I want you to represent the academy in the divine realm that will be opening two months from now "

"The divine realm?" Shadow asked as he never heard of this term before.

"Don't tell me you've never heard of the divine realm!" Theodore was shocked to know this.

" Well the divine realm is a different dimension where only those in the earth realm and below can enter it . It was said that the place belonged once to a very powerful cultivator that no one in this world could even measure his strength. The place is basically a vast land with powerful entities cohabiting it but the most important thing about that place is the trials. That place has many trials which are filled with treasures and wonders . We want those treasures " Theodore said.

"You forgot to say the most important thing " Shadow said to him

"What do you mean" Theodore knew what Shadow was hinting at but still he played dumb .

" You said the realm is filled with powerful cohabitants which means that they must be unhappy about us coming to their home and basically rubbing their treasures, so why don't you tell me how many students come alive after they enter the divine realm?" Shadow asked with a solemn voice .

"Well it's seem that you're a clever one aren't you? . Anyway it's not like you have a choice in your situation " Theodore replied with a nonchalant expression.

"A man always has a choice, it's just about whether you accept to take the loss or not " Shadow said .

'It's not actually a bad idea though, after all nothing free in this world and a little more danger won't be any different from my life right now . I can get the treasures to myself after all no one can open my system's spacial storage ' Shadow thought to himself after finding the idea appealing to him.

"I accept " he said

Theodore had a satisfied expression on his face after all he wasn't sure if he could get him to participate in the divine realm with just frightening him a little.

After a while Shadow left the hall and went straight to Mia's room.

Knock! knock!

Click!

" Brother !"

Shadow was surprised to see Maya opening the door. Maya looked at Shadow from head to toe trying to save his figure in her mind .

"You became a very beautiful woman Maya" Shadow said to her when he noticed the her awkward stare at him.

Maya wasn't the crying type but her eyes were welling up every time she saw him .

"Where have you been? Do you even know how devastated me and mother were when we heard about your death ?"

" Actually that's not far from the truth as I almost got killed with the other kids " Shadow said .

"What kids ?" Maya asked

'Don't tell me that bastard hid the truth about how i died ' Shadow wondered

" Could you tell me what did the family tell you about my death?"

" after a year of your departure, my father came and informed us of your death. He said that some assassins that belonged to one of the nine great families killed you when you were outside the perimeter of the branch family " Maya said with sorrowful look on her face .

"Maya , that's a lie , there was no such an occurrence your father lied to you" Shadow said

Maya's expression changed from sorrowful to shock

"W-what do you mean?" With a shaky voice Maya uttered these words .

"The one who tried to kill me was your father . After i left the family, he sent the assassins to kill me on my way to the branch family , but luckily i noticed their presence before they could reach to me and hid from them . I saw the whole tragic they did to the kids who were with me . They burned them alive while smiling. I could still remember the screams of pain the kids were shouting , he killed all of them just so he could get rid of me" Shadow said with a nonchalant expression on his face but deep inside he was burning with rage .

" Y-You're kidding right? Father wouldn't do that to his son , he was the one who always told me to get stronger and avenge you" Maya wanted to not believe his words as she started trying to convince him.

"Maya who do you think was the one who ordered for me to be exiled from the main family ? Who was the one who hated me for being cripple? Who was the one who always looked at me with disdain? And do you really think that i would lie to you about such a thing if I didn't hear the assassins myself?" Shadow tried to use logic with his sister as he knew that Edgar has washed her brain completely with his thoughts.

"Are you saying that ..that m-my father is the one who tried to kill you ? " Maya was crying at this point and her state of mind was messed up .

Shadow embraced her and tried to comfort her " i know this is hard for you to accept but i wanted you to know that "

Both of them were in the room but they weren't alone.. Mia was on one of the beds watching what's happening as she couldn't believe what she heard "Shadow went through all of that?" She felt pity for him but still astonished to see what he has become even after all of this happening to him.