Saga of Astral Mysteries

The master bedroom was a luxurious, probably the most luxurious place within the entire mansion that was left by the House Tenebraenys, with a massive, canopied bed draped in rich, velvety fabrics of deep reds, purples, and golds.

The bedposts were carved with intricate patterns of vines and Extraordinary and Mythical Creatures. Heavy curtains matching the bed's colors could be drawn across the tall, narrow windows to block out the light.

A large fireplace, surrounded by comfortable chairs, provided warmth. A wardrobe, ornately carved from dark wood, stands against one wall, its doors inlaid with scenes of knights and dragons.

The floor is covered with thick, plush rugs, and the walls are adorned with portraits of long-dead ancestors, their eyes seeming to follow you as you move about the room.

When he arrived at the master bedroom, which was the place where he was keeping some of his valuables, he started putting them down to the chest. Right now, his current wealth was something around 1,500 Golden Dragon Coins, which was rather a lot. 

Such a sum of money was considerable for even members of the Valyrian Nobility, obviously not for the members of the Dragonlord Families or some of the Mercantile Clans. Still, Valkorion was rather satisfied with the current progress.

For someone at his level, this was rather a good start; he was already thinking that after obtaining the money from selling the armband made from the Imperial Gold, he would invest in some slaves and perhaps create a small Mercenary Group. 

He wanted to create only a few of them; perhaps it would be best thing would be to make some of them Beyonders if they proved themselves and were absolutely loyal. This would then allow him to gather more and more resources and money and to prepare for the inevitable Doom of the Valyria.

Though for now, he had enough money to buy a few slaves, perhaps a few with the absolute loyalty marks placed on them, which could be turned into the Beyonders and then a whole bunch of the ordinary slaves that would act as the base of the Mercenary Organization. 

Slave Marks for Beyonders were more tricky, because for the Mark to work properly, one always needed to be stronger than the slave. For example, if someone wanted to enslave Sequence 7 Beyonder, he needed to be at least Sequence 6...

Though from what Valkorion heard from some of the people that he knew who were selling slaves, it didn't work for the High Sequence Beyonders, and depending on the Pathway of the slave, even some Mid Sequences would have some problems. 

Even though Valkorion was originally from a very advanced society where slavery in such a form didn't exist for several centuries because he had lived in this world for seventeen years or so, he had already gotten used to it. 

"Whatever... for now, I need to rest; after some time, I will return back to the Painted Mountains; based on what Albus said, it is nigh impossible that the goblins obtained an Imperial Gold armband from some traveler. Nobody would be stupid enough to carry something that valuable through such a place, so the only logical conclusion is that they must have found it somewhere."

Valkorion clearly remembered the location where he encountered the goblins, so he decided to return there and then started searching from that place forward. If he was lucky, then he would be able to find the place where the goblins obtained the pieces of jewelry and treasures.

The most probable scenario was that the goblins found some grave or some treasure... 

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In the next morning, he started the day exactly the same way, as the first thing that he was doing was training with the sword. Part of it was due to the Acting Method of the Sequence 7 Warrior, and another reason was that he rather liked training in swordsmanship and martial arts. 

The feeling of getting stronger was rather intoxicating and very, very addicting. 

Especially for someone like him, who lived in a relatively peaceful world previously, where such things were rare and violence was looked down on. People were living in the delusions of human equality and other bullshit that were plaguing the society of man of 21st Century Earth.

The very moment he remembered it very well... 

It was something that he couldn't really forget for his entire life. 

And when he stepped into the Extraordinary Pathway of the Beyonder, that power he felt, the might, the felling... everything was so addicting. 

That was the moment he realized that he was addicted to the feeling of obtaining power of any kind, especially the real power belonging to a single individual who could destroy anything in front of him with his powers.

One could could destroy entire cities if they were angered.

That was something that he always desired. 

Power to decide who would live and who would die, the power to decide what was wrong and what was good, the power to decide the fate itself. 

The blazing fire in his eyes couldn't be hidden, as his golden eyes glowed a little when he was training and felt the intoxicating feeling when he noticed that his sword stances were getting better and more refined under the visible eye.

In the Valyria, Asshai, and Golden Empire of Yi Ti, they were classified as mastery over some weapon or martial arts in several grades, depending on the mastery over the weapon or martial art.

Valkorion learned that he was rather talented in this aspect because even before he became Beyonder, he was already a Journeyman in the aspect of swordsmanship because he was very skilled in the way of the sword. 

After becoming a Beyonder of the Warrior Pathway, it didn't take him long to reach Adept Mastery over the swordsmanship, stepping into the realms of the really skilled swordsmen. 

Most of the people when it came to fighting with weapons or martial arts, were ranging from the ranks of Novice to Journeyman. Novices were basically people who only started practicing; their movements were clumsy, and their styles were not really good. 

After them, there were Apprentices, those were already people who mastered some basics and knew how to fight so embarrassingly.

After them, there was the Journeyman Rank, which basically stood for anyone who had complete mastery over the basics of some weapon art or martial arts and started developing their very own style.

The rank where he was now was normally titled Adept, meaning that he already had some resemblance of his own fighting style that he had some skills in. Adepts were already powerful warrior in the aspect of mastery over their weapon or martial arts. 

He spent most of his free time training, fighting, and once again training. 

Valkorion didn't know how strong he was without his Beyonder Powers, but he was sure that if there were no Beyonder Powers, then in the aspect of swordsmanship, he wouldn't lose even against the descendants of the 40 Dragonlord Families. 

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