'Serve the organization, Never carry out actions that will harm the organization, bring glory to the organization and lastly never betray the organization. The consequence of breaking any of this is death." Though Zick felt it was weird for a criminal organization like this to have such a 'glorious' oath, he continued seeing the information in his head.
'The organization shall not divulge any information that might harm me and They can't inform the other interested parties, like the legal organizations and the kingdom or empire of me being one of them...'
There were many rules with their benefits and disadvantages clearly stated. This all didn't appear weird in Zick's eyes, any organization would try its best to maintain the best environment to benefit itself. For Everlor organization, their members were the most important element which gave them such influence.
So it was natural for the organization to protect them. If there was no system like this, Zick would have rejected it without any hesitation.
Finishing reading it, Zick opened his eyes and looked at Reve intently.
Nodding his head, Reve took out a seal with a black-robed figure showing its sharp fang.
"This is an enchanted item, it allows me to swear on account of the whole organization."
Reve explained when he saw Zick still staring at him blankly.
He then pressed the seal on the tablet and spoke solemn words.
"The Everlor organization welcomes you as a member and promises to protect and nurture you, may the mana nerves and mind of the people betray you be destroyed. In the name of Reve the son of Madam stellar, the appointed red-ranked member of the organization."
Seeing Reve already swearing, Zick could only stare at him blankly. He had not asked about his background at all or neither was there any trial that he had to take to join them.
"Ah, I see why you are surprised," Reve took out something from below his table.
It was a crimson-red crystal, giving off an ominous feeling.
"Even I was surprised seeing this stone, for it to turn this red, you have killed more than a thousand people haven't you?" A big evil smile appeared on Reve's face. "Haha! I am surprised that the organization didn't find you even after you killed this many people, but it doesn't matter now. Again, Welcome to the organization."
It was the first time Zick had seen such an item which made him curious as to what it was. He also understood how the organization saw if anyone was worthy to join them.
'The number of people I killed should be around a thousand I guess. I would have been known as a murderer if I was in Earth, but I guess it doesn't matter.' Zick had noticed many changes in himself.
Was killing really a sin? And why was that so?
Wasn't it just some bullshit that someone else told? Why do I have to care about that!?
Even when he looked at himself, his handsome appearance didn't give rise to any narcissistic thoughts. He only thought of the benefit brought from it.
'People do keep changing. even I with a goal and determination to do anything for it have changed. My trusting problem has vanished, and the little bit of humanity left within me has also been removed. But in exchange, I have no restraints on me now internally.'
Not saying anything, Zick extended his hand and touched the seal. He poured his black mana into it.
The seal started shining, two black lights extended from it and shot toward Zick and Reve.
The black light entered the back of Zick's palm and turned into the robed figure as shown in the seal.
Zick felt a tinge of pain in his right hand, it felt like someone had poked many needles in the back of his palm at once, which made him furrowed his brow.
He looked intently at the seal in his hand. The pain slowly vanished and a green seal at the size of five centimetres entered his sight. He could feel that this seal was connected to his mana nerves, if he broke the oath, his mana nerves would be destroyed and he would die.
The oath is nothing but an advanced version of the slave seal, in the eastern continent. This oath was widely used and created as a commercial item.
"You should move to the main base used by the low-rank members now. There are many resources you can exchange in the trading post, this would benefit you without a doubt. You can check the seal to see how many merit and achievement points you have, you just joined so I will let you use the teleportation circle for free once." Reve spoke in a friendly voice, treating Zick almost like a family. Saying this, Reve got up and told Zick to follow him.
'The relation between members of this organization is surprisingly good as I thought.' Zick didn't think of this as a bad thing, it was better than an organization where people kept fighting for position all the time.
Following Reve, Zick sent his mana into the seal, checking it out. Another stream of information appeared in his head.
The amount of influence given to every rank was mentioned here. He had been wondering why Reve didn't say anything about it, but now he understood that there was no reason for him to explain about it.
The white rank members were those who didn't have any influence at all. They don't even have permission to use the trading post or anything else.
And as Zick thought, this organization hierarchy was extremely based on one's strength and position. The people of lower rank have to respect the people of higher rank from them.
They had to complete some of the missions to gain merits and achievement points to rise their rank and get more influence.
The achievement point is how the organization judges how much a member has worked for them. And Merit point is used to buy the resources available to them.
Every mission comes with a certain amount of merit and achievement points.
The green-rank members were those who have enough strength to take care of themselves (high-rank knights) or have served the organization for a while.
The purple-rank members were considered to be elites with high experience in their job. To rise to this rank, both strength and achievement are needed.
The seat of red rank was strictly for only master-level people. And black rank members' seats were special beings who have contributed immensely to the organization. Special political power was given to them.
When Zick checked his merit and achievement points, the seal shone and showed a hologram. Though he couldn't read it, he was able to tell what was what.
Merit: 30
Achievement: 0
'I have to find out the value of merit points fast. I was lucky that the specifics of the oath weren't written in a paper, if not I had to make another lie of me being an illiterate person.'
Walking behind Reve in the corridor, Zick looked out of the window. Many houses of different heights appeared in his sight. The houses were made in a very artistic way, which made them look pleasing to the eyes.
The sun shone in the side of his gaze, and Zick could tell that the mansion he was in was at least five stories high.
His clothes waved in the air, there were a few people who walked by Zick and Reve showing that they weren't the only ones present.
'From what Reve said, this seems to be a side base branch and the one mentioned by him is for the low-rank member is the main branch of the Gorthect empire...'
The more Zick knew about the organization's influence the more he was satisfied with his decision to join them.
The thing he liked the most was that the organization didn't have the condition saying he had to sacrifice himself for them. Or that he had to follow any of their orders. There was a lot of freedom for the members.
Soon they reached the room in which the teleportation circle was located.
Not saying anything, Zick walked upon the teleportation circle.
"I hope that you will bring glory upon the organization." With a smile, Reve put a small mana crystal upon the magic circle on the ground.
SWISH~
With a flash, Zick's figure vanished.
The next time Zick opened his eyes, He could see a room made of rock. There were white tiles below his feet but the walls and ceiling were made of brick and enchanted so that they wouldn't cave in.
The only sources of light were the lamps on the wall. The room wasn't bigger than his bedroom in the academic city's mansion.
Feeling someone's presence at the entrance, Zick turned towards him. A man wearing leather armour with many scars on his face entered his view.
'A peak rank knight.' Zick accessed the knight, though he couldn't sense him through his senses, he could still use his dragon eyes to see the characteristics in his mana nerves.
"Please show me the seal." The scarred person said.
Lifting his right hand, Zick revealed the green seal to him.
"Please head right from here and climb the stairway." Seeing Zick's face for the first time, he continued: "Please touch the round crystal near the steps, you will get to know the way better through it."
Hearing this, Zick started moving following his instruction without wasting a second.
'I have three days, within this time I have to make 1000 platinum coins. It would make Ovelon suspicious as to how I have such an amount of money, but it doesn't matter now that I am a part of the organization.'
From what Zick observed from Ovelon's behavior, the chances of him trying to harm or kill Zick were low. He would only be interested in how he got it. And now that he was a part of the organization, Ovelon wouldn't be able to harm him, unless Zick was the first one to attack.
Zick remembered vividly how till the last moment, Ovelon didn't take him seriously. He knew that he didn't believe in him being able to bring such an amount.
If Ovelon refused to sell Varine, Zick could only give up.
While walking toward the place instructed by the scarred person. He could see many people walking in the long tunnel-like way. There were small rooms everywhere people stayed and there was also a board in the wall portraying low-rank missions.
Zick reached the end of the tunnel, and a stairway made of marble not matching the brick tunnel appeared in front of him. A crystal ball was kept in a box-shaped gap in the wall.
Feeling that it was an enchanted item, Zick touched it without any hesitation. Another stream of the information entered his head.
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