Way of the Knights

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"Ugh, that Madman was truly pervert you know! It's as if his body was made out of some divine metal. It doesn't matter how many times he was attacked, he doesn't even bother defending himself, he's just taking it all without getting hurt! Che!" 

At the Study Area, Jason rambled on and on about his frustrations about Madman Floyd. Raven, the unfortunate guy whom Jason saw entering this place, was now turned into his unwilling listener. 

Its been a few days since the after the little competition they had. With how talkative Jason was, Raven didn't even need to personally watch how the contest went, the former tells him every single detail. So much so that Raven's already tired about hearing it. 

Surprisingly, it wasn't Floyd who won the Dragon's Tooth. While he might be absurdly strong, the rules of the contest weren't solely focused on brute strength alone. He placed third, still a rather decent ranking. 

The one who won the Dragon's Tooth was Jonathan. 

According to Jason's intel, the guy didn't take any chances at all. He went all out in order to acquire the Dragon's Tooth. Well, that isn't really that surprising for Raven since Jonathan had the Azure Dragon's Bloodline coursing through him. 

Jonathan acquiring the Dragon's Tooth is akin to giving wings to a tiger. If there's anyone who could squeeze out the most use from this Dragon Tooth, it would undoubtedly be Jonathan. And upon acquiring the Dragon's Tooth, Jonathan immediately isolated himself and were probably devouring the remaining essence on it. 

Jason managed to land onto the fourth place, as a reward he received a three-day ticket stub from Henry which allows him to enter any kind of Law Cultivation Chambers within the sect. For him, this is already considered as a good reward, specially considering that this contest was just out of Henry's whim.

Raven could remember Jason informing him about the final results but he was so disinterested that he forgot about them. If there's anything that piqued his interest slightly, it would be the two newcomers - Edward and Franklin.

It was fortunate that Jason was rather curious about them as well, therefore when he rambled about them, his words were detailed. 

According to him, Edward - the delinquent looking guy, preferred to use claws as his weapons. He was just as fast as Michelle who uses Wind Laws, but Edward's speed was raw. His attacks were somehow violent and unrefined, yet it does the job properly. Jason said that this guy landed into fifth place. 

What really surprised everyone was Franklin. The sickly yet smiling looking guy was unexpectedly fierce. He specialized in daggers and displayed a frightening expertise on Poison Laws. It was this guy who managed to snatch the second place. Additionally, Jason said that this guy almost caused the Space Beast to rot entirely due to his Poisons, causing Henry to step forward and stop him from doing so. 

That pretty much sums everything up. The last place went to Juniper who didn't even managed to kill a single reanimated Space Beast. That guy was truly pitiful. 

Still, it would seem that Jason was really irritated with how absurdly powerful Floyd was. Even though a few days had already passed since that little contests, he's still nagging at Raven about how perversely powerful Floyd was. 

"Hey, are you listening to me?" Jason asked as he noticed that Raven wasn't even looking at him. 

Raven was briefly startled, he lifted up his head and asked: "Sorry, were you saying something important?"

"Ouch! How mean and rude of you! I've been blabbering here non-stop and you weren't even listening! Is what you're reading more entertaining than my stories?" action

"Do you want me to answer that?" Raven blandly asked, returning his attention to the book. 

This caused Jason to feel exasperation from the depths of his heart, however he could only sigh and say: "You're very rude you know?"

"Thanks."

"This guy…" Jason's lips twitched upon hearing Raven's reply. 

Honestly, he's starting to get used on how Raven works as human being. However, from time to time, it still surprises him how anti-social this guy could get. 

Jason knew that Raven was different. He could tell that, with how Raven treats him, it's not out of prejudice due to his background, its simply because that's just how he is. Compared to some disciples, he found Raven more approachable and easy to get along with even with his disinterested attitude. 

"Ah! So you two were here!" 

Out of nowhere, a pleasant voice caught Raven and Jason's attention. However, instead of greeting the owner of the voice, both of them sighed. Raven stood up while Jason dejectedly slumped back on his chair.

"There goes my peace and quiet." Raven murmured as he returned the books he borrowed to their respective bookshelves. 

"Ugh, here we go again." Jason grumbled in his bed as he helplessly buried his face with his arms. 

"Hey you blue haired guy! Stop! Where are you going!?" Mira Crawford placed her hand on his waist and questioned. 

Raven couldn't even be bothered to reply. In fact, he didn't even want to acknowledge this woman's existence at this point.

After returning the books on their rightful place, he simply walked towards the exit, only to be blocked by Mira who's face was fuming. 

"Where are you going?" 

"None of your business." 

"Your not going anywhere. I won't let you." 

"Oh? Interesting. Try me then." Raven sneered as he walked past her as if she was air. 

Mira tried reaching out to him but figured out she couldn't even grab the hem of his clothes at all. This caused her to feel very distressed and angry. 

Jason, who was watching all this, only shook his head and said: "Honestly, when will you learn woman? How many times have tried so far?"

In the end, Mira failed to catch Raven and could only gnash her teeth as the guy left for his private room. 

Mira stomped her foot out of frustration, she became even more angry as she heard a faint snicker behind her. She swiftly turned around and glared at Jason, who wasn't even fazed by that at all. He just shrugged and took out a gourd to drink from. 

"Ugh! What's with that asshole! Can't he even tell that I just wanted to talk?"

Jason almost spat out his drink, he had this incredulous look on his face as he replied to her: "No, no. The real question is, what's with you?"

Mira glared at him once again but it clearly didn't faze Jason. Instead he continued by saying:

"If it weren't for the fact that I've known you before all of this, I would've absolutely think that your retarded." Jason harshly commented, causing Mira's glared to intensify. Unfortunately, Jason isn't done yet…

"Your honestly creepy." Jason continued. "The guy clearly doesn't know you, yet your acting as of you're some kind of crazed ex-girlfriend demanding something back from him and shit. If that's not creepy, I don't know what is."

Mira was visibly fuming in rage. She coldly sneered and said: "As if an idiot like you would understand anyway." 

"As if any sane person would understand you." Jason fired back. "Raven was already kind enough to ask you what you were demanding back from him. A sign that he's a civilized person. Meanwhile, there's you and your equally retarded twin sister, not even bothering to tell him what he took from you, just insisting that he returns whatever it is your demanding from him."

"Heck of a situation if you me, eh? If you tell this to anyone, then even an idiot would understand why he's avoiding you." Jason snorted, not even bothering to pay attention on what Mira felt about his remarks. 

Just like Jason stated, the Crawford Twins had been rather unreasonable to Raven. 

Raven had asked them three times already, wanting to know what exactly did he took from them so that he could return it, even if he didn't even remember taking anything at the first place. Still, instead of answering his query, the twins just insisted that he returns 'it' from them. 

Jason was dragged onto this situation during multiple occasions, but even him felt incredibly annoyed and frustrated since he couldn't understand why the twins wanted out of Raven. In fact, he could even tell that Raven's patience about this matter had completely evaporated. 

From then on, Raven didn't even want to be at the same room as this twins. If at first the twins reminded him of his sisters, then now he could only hope that him and the Crawford Twins will never cross-paths ever again. 

Unfortunately, remembering his conversation with Henry before. It seems that that is mostly likely not going to happen.

"Hell, I think you should be rather thankful that Raven hadn't slapped you yet." Jason added, "If Raven happens to have the same personality as Floyd, then you twins would've probably already be dead at this point."

Jason had more to say, but when he saw that Mira was already in the verge of crying, he just shook his head and didn't pay any attention to her anymore.. He just heard the woman stomping out of the room, causing him to sigh once more and take a nap at the Study.