"Where are we going?" Ellis asked as he finally broke our silence as both of us walked towards the noble district, to Titus' home.

"Home, well temporary home since mine was destroyed in an attack. Unless you want to stay out in the street and pain yourself a target to all my enemies, you better stay with me." I said as we finally reached Titus' compound.

Ellis was silent for a while before he said, "Even you were attacked?"

"Yes, but not the enemies that attacked you. It was a different group, more like few rats who thought they could start nibbling at the bread we were fighting for.

You should have seen me few days ago, I was half burned to death." I chuckled as I said that, remembering the play I directed together with the Rotten Rats, to let them escape.

Ellis was taken aback in shock, as he couldn't believe that the attack on me was that severe. "Where were your bodyguards during that time then?"

"Well, it was thanks to them that I am still alive and kicking." I said as I stood in front of the gate thinking if I should wait for someone to come over and open the gate or just climb over the wall.

I made a decision as I turned towards Ellis. "You are a Rank 1 magi right. Can you cast a lightweight spell?"

Ellis shook his head "I haven't learned how to cast that spell yet."

I shrugged my shoulder as I said, "Well let's go."

I walked towards the wall nearby and using the gate as a support I lifted myself up and climbed over wall and stood on top.

I turned around to look at a Ellis who was looking at me with his mouth wide open. "Here grab my hand and come up." I said as I offered my hand to him.

He was not moving from the spot not knowing whether to join me in what seems to be some kind of trespassing.

"Could you hurry up? I haven't got all day. You can either wait out here for 5 minutes till someone come to open this stupid gate or just come with me?" I said, annoyed at being made to wait for him.

He looked around to make sure no one was watching them, before he took my hand to climb on top of the wall. After that I jumped to the ground, followed by Ellis.

Soon a siren started going off inside the compound. I ignored it as I walked towards the main door to the mansion.

As soon as I reached the main door the alarm was switched off before an annoyed Titus opened the door. "Can you not wait outside for 5 minutes?"

"Who told you to run off from the waterfalls without even waiting for me? You could have waited for us by the gate if you came here so early." I answered back as I went into the hall and laid down on a sofa.

"Why am I the one stuck with you?" He muttered as he turned around to look at a confused Ellis.

"Probably because I presume among you 3, you must have lost whatever game it was you guys played in order to see who will look after me."

He ignored me as he talked with Ellis "Welcome Ellis." He greeted Ellis with an outstretched arm.

"It must be a lot for you to take in seeing where you are now, but you will get used to it."

Ellis in response shook Titus' hand and replied "Thank you"

Titus was shocked seeing someone not shaking in fear in the presence of a commandment. 'Darn this kid is either pretty good at controlling his emotion's or he simply doesn't care anymore.'

Suddenly Titus heard Johns' voice from the sofa "Ignorance is a bliss, Titus. He doesn't know who you are let alone who I am."

"Are you kidding me?" Asked a surprised Titus, who had his built-up bubble of impression, of Ellis popped suddenly.

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"How could someone not know me let alone not know you?" He said as he turned around to face Ellis.

"Do you truly not know me?" Titus asked Ellis.

Ellis shook his head as he smiled apologetically.

"Were you living under a rock or something? Have you never heard of a book called 'Nobles and Kings of the empire?" He asked back.

"That book doesn't contain any information about you guys let alone your pictures. The only thing to identify you guys in that book is your insignia.

But that didn't matter as he probably never bothered wasting his 1 silver cash on a useless book like that when they could use that silver coin to feed themselves for a week. Right Ellis?" I replied while looking up at the ceiling of the mansion. I really wanted to go back to sleep now.

"I am sorry, that is true." Ellis said as he smiled to Titus.

"That means he truly doesn't know you. Hahaha. This is funny. Kid did you sign up to follow him without even knowing who he is?" Titus started laughing while holding his stomach.

He laughed for a few seconds before shaking his head "Well its truly late now for you to back out, if you knew who we are. But I don't think you would want to back out since what has been offered to you. Right?"

Ellis nodded his head.

"Well, let's do this again." Titus said as he stretched out his arm in greeting.

"I am the commandment of Shield, Titus Bloodfist."

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A commandment.

A bloody commandment.

That is one of the most fabled legends of the empire standing in front of me. Getting to see them in person is the highest form of honour and reward one can ask for.

And here I was talking casually with one all this while without knowing who he was.

He thought he was meeting an associate of John, but it turned out the associate was one of the 10 legends of the empire.

I suddenly remembered the hand in front of me. I knew that I should kneel down in front of a commandment but at the same time, I couldn't embarrass a commandment by ignoring his hand.

I was confused and sweating bullets; should I kneel down and embarrass a commandment or shake his hand and displease him by not giving him the proper respect.

In the end my body kind of moved on its own from not knowing what to do. I knelt down in one knee and shook his hand. I was embarrassed beyond reason.

What the hell is this?

The commandment in front of me seeing what I was doing started laughing out loud. "What the hell? John you got to see this, it's like he is proposing to me or something. Hahaha"

I could feel my face turning red as I tried to keep my poker face up.

"Relax kid. You don't have to be so uptight." He said as he lifted me up, by my shoulders.

"Now about that crazy guy there." He said as he pointed towards my saviour and the person who offered me my new life, who seemed to be falling asleep.

"Do you truly not know him? It is understandable if you don't know me, as I had worn a mask during the founders' celebration. But that guy, I am pretty sure there is no one in the whole empire not to know him." He asked me.

I truly didn't know who he was. I decided to follow him for few reasons, but there were two main ones.

One of them was because I wanted to grow stronger safely, and he promised me safety from my enemies. There would be times when I will be in the Game realm and left defenceless. And during those times being under his protection would be the safest choice.

Two- he had offered me not just revenge on Phil and Ava, but he offered to let me control their whole families fate. I could have grown stronger from the Game realm but, no matter how strong I grew I couldn't stand up to the army of two families.

Even if I could grow strong enough to go against them, they would have fled and hidden from me by then.

So, when he told me I could make those two suffer for what they did to me, in exchange for just following him for 5 years, it was a fair deal to me.

I shook my head as I replied "No my lord. I am not aware of who the lord is?"

If he had a commandment as his associate I wondered who exactly my saviour was. I felt like slapping myself for not even taking the initiative to talk to him on the way back and asking him his name.

I had thought he must have been very powerful magi. Due to being able to heal me, when I was near death, and having lots of bodyguards as he said told me by the waterfalls. But when he asked me to cast a rank 1 Lightweight spell I guessed that he wouldn't be a powerful magi.

But now seeing a commandment as his associate, and him being powerful enough to have strong magi users to heal me when I was nearly dead, I wondered who he could be.

"I thought you knew it, Titus. He was living in the slums, other than hearing my name, they won't know anything else about me.

They were so focused on surviving and trying to get through each day that they had no free time to gossip like other people or coming to watch my initiation ceremony and see me.

Especially when it was his mum working hard for both of them and trying to earn enough to support his magi studies. And him not wanting to see his mum working hard for him, must have spent most of his time studying and accumulating magi particles."

What he said was true. But hearing what he said brought out the emotion I held back for the past 1 month, but suddenly I remembered to the real world it wasn't 1 month but just a day. I just noticed how in few hours, to the outside world I had turned from someone who was helpless to watch his mum raped in front of him to someone who wielded enough strength and had been given the opportunity to grow and get my revenge.

"That makes sense." Lord Titus interrupted my thoughts as he said.

"That kid is the one who to the whole empire is known as ..." He pointed towards the Lord who I had made an oath to serve, who was sleeping sideways, while he had his back facing us as he slept.

"'The Hand of God', 3rd prince John Emberson or as he likes to call himself John Field."