Davis followed the path while carrying Skye, K flew ahead to scout for any potential danger from the sky.

They occasionally stopped to gather food and water on the road during their journey.

This little group of unexpected acquaintances soon arrived at their desired destination

The gate was buzzing with merchants, citizens, and travelers alike. The buzzing sound of street merchants and customers conversing, children playing, and the common folks minding their own business.

“So, this is Celestia the kingdom of Magic” K looks on with tranquil eyes while perching on Davis’s head.

Looking at the city gate, Davis was stunned and commented “It's a lot bigger than I’ve imagined” Woof* Skye barked cheerfully.

They passed through the gate security and entered the city.

“They do live up to their name” K smiled while observing his surroundings

After entering the city, the 3 acquaintances went into the nearby restaurant, after getting a bit of side eyes from the staff due to Davis's clothes they sat at a table situated in front of the glass window giving them a clear view of the street.

“Excuse me!” Davis called out to one of the waiters walking past their table

“What can I help you with” He spoke while giving Davis an annoyed look

Both Davis and K caught onto the waiter’s attitude, K decided to observe how Davis will dealt with the situation.

“Is this how you should act in front of a customer?” Davis stared at the annoyed waiter

The waiter let out a long sigh* “How may I help you, sir?” The waiter spoke as if he was force

“Yes, please may I see the manager of this fine establishment?” Davis spoke and smiled

The waiter was surprised, “Why would you want to meet our manager?”

Davis spoke with a firm voice, “It seems I had misspoken, what I meant to say was, bring the manager here this instant”

The waiter wanted to argue more but their conversation attracted the attention of the other customers making them look bad, “Fine please give me a second” The waiter reluctantly went to get the manager

K was satisfied with Davis's action…

The waiter rushes to his branch manager and explains the situation in small detail, but during their talks, an old man joins in and asks the waiter to show him the way to this unsatisfied customer.

“Excuse me, Sir?” Davis turns to see an old man wearing formal clothing

His well built frame are not that of an old man, his wrinkled face are in contrast to his physical appearance.

“I’ve heard from one of my staff that a Dear customer wishes to see me,” The man asked respectfully

Davis didn’t speak he leisurely pulled out a paper from one of the special bags, there was a crest on the paper. Seeing this the old man's body shook a bit as he instantly recognized it, the man bowed respectfully at Davis,

“I apologize for not knowing such an esteemed guest as yourself has arrived at my humble establishment, please follow me, dear customer”

The man brought Davis up to the second floor of the establishment, “Please right this way, Sir” The man brought them to a luxurious dining room that was only reserved for high-ranking nobles.

The old man knew it from a single glance, That’s the Celestial Magic Academy crest. The Academy only accepts 300-400 students annually, and a recommendation is only reserved for those of the highest authority or a genius student.

Davis smirks, “How may I address you, Mister?”

The old man laughs, “I apologize for not introducing myself dear customer, my name is Garrick, Garrick Veltis”

Davis's eyes widen, “Mr. Garrick Veltis? The patriarch of the Veltis family?”

Davis sat down, “Mr. Garrick please take a seat, I believe we have much to discuss” His arm gestured at the chair on the opposite side of the table

Garrick waved his hand and everyone left the room except a single person standing beside him

“Since dear customer asks then this old man would be honored to sit at the same table with you”

K landed on Davis’s head, “Davis can you hear me? If you do just reply with your thought”

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Davis was startled, “K? Is there something wrong?”

K chuckled, “No, I’ll take it from here. Let’s switch for now”

The 2 switch places with one another and now Davis’s body is being used by K, “What a lovely weather today… wouldn’t you agree Mr. Garrick?” K joking said while sipping the tea

“I agree, and I hope it stays that way in the future” Garrick replied while looking out of the window

“Indeed, the calm before the storm. Before I arrived, I had come across a particularly interesting story, would you wish to know what that story is My good man?” K chuckle

“If you would be so kind to share that fascinating story with me" Garrick replied with curious eyes

K continues, “I’ve heard that the great Empire of Celestia had 4 different power factions. The Royale family, the Veltis family, The Blackthorn, and the Magic Tower”

Garrick nodded, “You’re indeed correct, as you have said the Celestia Empire is split into 4 factions, but that’s more of common knowledge than a story”

K giggles at his remark, “You see that’s the thing, the stories that have heard throughout my journey is that the Veltis family is slowly losing its power and falling into irrelevancy”

Garrick snap, “Bullshit, such baseless rambling”

K giggles delightedly, “Is it though?”

Garrick clutched his fist and stared at him angrily, “Could you explain to me what you meant?”

K got up and walked to the window, he stood there for a few seconds while staring at the buzzing street below, “Think about it, Mr. Garrick. The Royale family gained the support of the citizens almost by default, the Blackthorn family held the Empire’s military power, while the Magic Tower helped provide the citizens with daily magic spells that helped them a lot with their daily activities”

K smirks demonically, “Tell me, Mr. Garrick. Your family besides being known as the richest family of the Empire, what power do you have when facing against the other faction?”

“Don’t get me wrong my friend, in society money is power. But, in this world money alone isn’t enough. Your family’s fortune came from the inner and outer trade of the Empire along with many other services that your family provides such as delivery of goods and so on”

“But so far that’s all there is to it, you held a powerless authority. And your family had yet to make any remarkable breakthrough for more than 3 decades, if it keeps going like this then the citizens would prefer the other family over yours” K laughed at his anger

K turned to Garrick and extended his arm, “What if I told you that I can help you change that, make a deal with me and I’ll help you achieve a new high one that you could’ve never dreamed of achieving”

Garrick laughs out loud, “HAHAHA, what a fascinating story you have made up, but I don’t even know who you are and your story is nothing more than baseless rumor and pointless rambling”

K smiled at him, “You don’t need to believe me my friend, you just need to see my capability… The academy ranking 1 week from now, why don’t we make a small wager?”

Garrick raises his eyebrow, “And what kind of wager are you proposing?”

“I will wager with you that in the ranking, I will without a shadow of a doubt rank first, so our wager will be whether I can get the first place or not” K spoke with confident

Garrick continues mockingly, “I’ve seen many ignorant people like yourself in my lifetime, and they all have one thing in common. They always overestimated themselves and bite more than they can chew”

K let out a childish smile, “My friend, don’t compare me to those you have met, those people are ignorant and I’m just arrogant. Unlike them, I have the skill to back up my claim”

“I’m so confident that I will wager to you that I’ll get first place on all 5 test subjects” K's eye showed an unimaginably confident

Garrick laughed, “I’ve seen many confident individuals but none as crazy as you. So, what will I get if I win?”

K didn’t reply he brought out the other 2 spatial bags and dumped all of their contents on the table, hundreds of valuable pieces of jewelry, artifacts, and mountains of gold coins came out.

The value of all 3 bags is at least a whole year of the Veltis family income.

Garrick was shocked he stared at him seriously, “Who are you?”

K snapped his finger and all the content returned to his bags, “It wouldn’t be fun to tell you my identity, don’t worry about who I’m… you’ll know when I get the first place”

Garrick thought a bit more now very uncertain, during his entire conversation this young man had been the one taking the lead, furthermore, he had zero idea who this man was except the fact that he got the Celestial Magic Academy recommendation letter

K saw through his thought, “You don’t need to worry about much besides whether I win or lose this bet, it’ll benefit you either way”

“Well, wouldn’t you look at that the sun is starting to set already. I wish we had more time to continue our conversation but I must take my leave.” K walked leisurely toward the exit

“What a fun conversation we had, my friend, and I hope you made the right decision” K laughed cheerfully before picking both Davis and Skye up and leaving the establishment

Garrick sat down laughing maniacally, “Kane find out everything you can about who that person is”

The person standing beside Garrick bowed down, “Yes sir”

“Look like there is going to be many exciting things to look forward to soon” Garrick spoke in a joking manner while he watched Davis’s figure from above.

After moving around and buying some new clothes, K went to an Inn and rented a room for a whole week.

“WHAT THE HELL, K?” Davis shouted at K the moment he got back into his body

K didn’t say anything and flew onto the bed in his crow form.

“And why can’t I say anything during the whole conversation, back then?” Davis asks

K replied cheerfully, “Simple I muted you”

Davis asked in a serious tone, “Please explain your action to me, K”

K let out a disappointing sigh, “What's so hard to understand? I make that wager so we can get him to be our sponsor, he’ll be a good ally when the time is right”

Davis's curiosity grew further, “Why do we need to get involved with the Celestial political power struggle in the first place?”

K laughed at his question, “Simple because in the future we’ll be facing some very powerful adversaries, and we’ll need all the pawns we could use”