Emperor's Reckoning

The woman standing in front of him was Reka, the girl Lyon fought in the competition to get Scarlet. She just stood there with a mischievous smile on her face. Lyon didn't notice it before, but she had a really cute smile along with her dimples.

"You have a lot of explaining to do," said Lyon after his mind shut down for the many questions that popped up in his head.

Reka chuckled and tip-toed to the nearby bookcase. She directly pulled out a really ancient book as its case was really damaged but amazingly there was no dust on it. Then she directly gave the book to him as he confusedly accepted it.

Lyon noticed that there was no title in the cover, there was not even a symbol. It was only made of a thick paperboard. Lyon decided to skim through the book as Reka sat down to her seat. She looked at him with an awe, she could see how focused he was when he read the pages. He only took under three seconds to open up a new page and under three minutes to close the book.

He contemplated for a while before giving the book back to her. He took a really deep thought and Reka even held her breath as she didn't want to disturb him. Then Lyon looked deep in her eyes, "Are you ready to hear my assessment?"

Reka nervously nodded, although she was a lot stronger than him, his seriousness overwhelm her. She only felt like this when someone was stronger than her, but this young man was only a Soul Realm.

"With my bright mind and talent, I Lyon Torga had a conclusion that!". Suddenly the weather became cold as rain was hitting the window. "I....."

*boom

A loud thunder was heard as the room flashed white, but Lyon was approaching Reka in front of her desk. As he slammed his hands on the desk a loud thunder came once more interrupting his speech.

"Ca"

*boom

"Nno"

*boom

"T"

*boom

"GODAMMIT NATURE!! JUST LET ME FINI-"

*boom

Then Lyon had his face down as the rain was getting harder and harder. When he tried to open his mouth another thunder followed suit. Lyon pulled back his mouth inside as he looked really pissed.

Lyon suddenly leaned his face forward toward the stunned Reka. He reached out for her ear and whispered what he was about to say. 'I cannot read...'

*Boom

The room flashed once more as Reka's pair of eyes opened wide with her mouth agape. She couldn't believe what she heard. She was in total speechless.

This man could defeat an elder whose cultivation was one realm above him singlehandedly but he couldn't read? Is this the way of heaven making things fair?

The clouds were dispersing at a rapid speed and the rain was no more. What replacing it was the stars from the night. (Nature, you a bitch) cursed Lyon inwardly.

After regaining her senses, she coughed a little to make the atmosphere less awkward. However, she failed to maintain composure and burst out laughing. "Hahahahaha... ouch my side.. hahaha.."

(Chance!) Lyon quickly tickled her sides and made her laughing and moving like a maniac. But it was only a short moment before an elbow hit his chest and sent him flying across the room and hit the wall. (I forgot she is stronger than me) *thud.

"Oh no, I'm so sorry!", Reka hurriedly approached him to check his condition. "I'm fine, don't worry about it," said Lyon with a caved in chest.

"Are you sure?". Reka could clearly see the caved in chest, a normal people would be horrified if this was done to them.

"I'm fine *cough"

(There was literally blood when he coughed just now) thought Reka.

Then Reka put his right hand over her shoulder and walked him over the nearby sofa to let him rest. Although the sofa was not comfortable it's better than on the floor. She then began to narrate what was the book about.

The book was actually a report of her personal investigation toward a certain group. The group had no exact number of its members, but one thing for sure was that there was a recruiter, which means there were ranks in their group.

The report didn't contain any information about how they operate nor what their goals were. It mostly contained people that she killed in the group. They were a loyal bunch and didn't dare to sell the group out.

The group often called themselves 'Legion'.

The last sentence of her caught Lyon attention the most as he reminded of a guy back in the arena. (He also asked me to join the 'Legion' is it the same as what she talked about?).

"Why are you so obsessed with the group?" his sudden question stopped Reka's explanation who was sitting by his side.

A tinge of sadness could be seen in her eyes as she was remembering the event when she was just a kid. "They killed my parents," said Reka softly. A warm current was building up on the corner of her eyes. The image of the calm and collected head of the clan, in the end, she was also a girl.

Lyon didn't say anything and just let her calmed herself down. He knew that now was not the time to embrace her. Sometimes, you had to just be there and do nothing. Not like he could do anything with his condition anyway.

She quickly wiped it off before it ran down to her cheeks. "Sorry you have to see that, it's embarrassing," said Reka with a tinge of red.

"I-it's alright, that was not embarrassing. Have you seen anyone eating a high-grade bead? Now that is embarrassing." said Lyon.

"Hahaha, who would eat a high-grade bead! Only a stupid person would! hahaha," her mood was changing quickly from zero to one hundred with a couple of sentence from him but her answer made one hundred to zero for Lyon.

"I know right, hahaha," (That was me though).