Steve wondered exactly who these people were, he could guess but nothing concrete.

putting his hand on his sword pommel, he was ready to pull at any moment, one of the people behind the presumed leader raised an eyebrow, but did nothing further.

Emily looked over at him and shock her head, Steve took his hand of his weapon and straitened up, looking the leader in the eye, unflinching.

“well, well, well, you got balls I give you that” the leader said with a smirk.

“who are you?” Steve asked still staring the leader in the eye.

“Oh, my apologies, my name is sir Maximillian lockwell, and you have impressed me fourthly.” he said with a noble tone.

Emily looked like she had bitten a lemon, but said nothing.

seeing this Maximillian shock his head and sighed.

“a pleasure as always to see you miss goldwell, how many months have it been since we last saw, it’s too long we need to get together over lunch someday to discuss our travels” Maximillian said with a tired smile.

“no” Emily simply said looking away.

sighing again, Maximillian turned his head and looked over at Steve before speaking.

“well anyways, like I said before I’m impressed with your results and wanted to personally congratulate you on your victory.” he said while holding out two batches that had a glimmer to them.

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“these will signify to any who meet you that you belong to the knights and that if theey mess with you they mess with all of us”

his words were met with nods from his followers and acknowledgments.

taking the badges Steve passed one to Emily, who still didn’t look at Maximillian, wondering what their history was, Steve could only shake his head because at this point it was all speculation, and since Maximillian seemed like an okay guy, he didn’t think of it further putting it away as something to maybe ask Emily about later.

“thank you, my name is Steve, and it seems as you already know Emily here, and as I hadn’t had a drink in a while now, you wouldn’t perhaps know a bar or something around here” Steve asked with a smile.

hearing the question the guys broke out laughing and stepped forward to smack him on the back and started to talk about the best bars on campus.

Emily pulled him away and said simply, “we would love to go to a bar and have a drink but we have things to do”

“well looks like we’ll have to reschedule guys, apparently, we have things to do”

“well as I said before a pleasure to meet you and welcome to the knights, club meetings will be in a week, attendance involuntary”

saying their goodbyes and promising to take a beer someday Steve and Emily walked away passing the same guard as before who gave a nod and continued standing there stoically.

“so, what do we have to do then?” Steve asked with a raised brow.

“we’re going to study” Emily said simply

“oookey” Steve said with a unsure look.

they walked through massive halls passing student and teachers along the way, after walking for what seemed like an eternity, but was more likely a couple of minutes, they arrived at another grand hall this one filled with books everywhere, presumably a library, they passed the reception desk, and walked towards an hall with a more ominous feeling to it and darker colored books, Emily seamed unperturbed by this and continued walking, after a while Emily abruptly stopped and pointed towards a bookshelf.

“you need to summon a companion, its obligatory, but since you are a new good you need to do it now before classes start” Emily said with a slight smile.

“ok this is awesome; can I like summon a giant serpent or hydra or something cool like that” Steve asked almost jumping from giddiness.

“well… you could… but” Emily said with a thoughtful look.

“but?”

“well I wouldn’t recommend it, because its only useful in certain situation and pretty useless otherwise”

“but its your choice so if you want to sure” Emily finished with a smile.

“o-okay” Steve said s bit crestfallen

“hey there are so many different things you can chose so don’t be depressed, youll probably find something” Emily said while nudging him in the side playfully.

“well, okay then where do I start” Steve said with a bit more hope again.

“just read these books and learn the summoning spell, and then make your choice”

nodding Steve went over and started reading the books combing through them in about three hours and, prepared the summoning with Emily’s help, all the while thinking on what to choose.