Heaven's Greatest Professor

Warden had already got more than benefits from this delving than he imagined, but it hadn't ended yet.

They have wasted one precious day inside the dungeon with Warden's breakthrough on receiving the boon. Jason had paid Four hundred iron-grade essence stones to book it for a standard system daytime, and Warden had wasted a fourth of it while sleeping.

There was also payment to the two helpers, which was another two hundred essence gems in total. Jason already paid half of it, which already emptied his pocket. For the rest, he meant to use the loot to repay them.

And of course, the payment to the Hunting Grounds organisation didn't end with just the essence stones, as they would have dibs on a part of the materials Warden and co looted from the dungeon. Of course, there were not overly tyrannical about it and there were ways to trick them, either through your backing or your wit.

They had already planned to do it through Warden's Subspace. Nobody would even have a clue that Warden himself was in a walking dungeon. They would simply smuggle the best of the loot while only showing their puny exploits to cheat the administration. People with backing always do it, so Jason had no qualms about doing it too.

Not to mention his pocket had been emptier since he left his father's shadow.

So, now here was the problem. Warden or rather his Void Prison realm, kind of used up all that stored inside the sub space during his receiving the boon. he remembered getting a system notice on the Fatelock sourcing the subspace to handle the boon better. The Fatelock probably altered his boon to give him more benefits as well. So Warden couldn't be piss on about it, either.

Still, not all the loots were his... In the end, he decided to come reveal it all to Jason. Keeping too many secrets could be confining sometimes, and Jason and he had been bros...

"What do you want to talk about?" Jason said after Warden brought him some place private to talk secretly.

"You remember all the loot we had?" Warden said hesitantly, sounding more awkward than he should have.

"The loot we poured into the weird portal you created?" Jason nodded. "What about it?"

"They are gone."

Jason blinked in disbelief. "I'm sorry, can you repeat?"

"All the loots are gone," Warden said. "There's not even a scrape bone left of the Drake corpses."

"How?!"

"Well, how do I explain this…" Warden said. He just checked inside his subspace to study the level of instability, only to find all the loot they stored inside had gone. They were unable to collect the loot from the other drakes they killed in order to flee as well. That was another substantial loot, considering the number of drakes they killed was close to a hundred.

"I think I might have used up all in my boon."

"Are you being serious?"

Warden sighed. "Don't worry, I'll fully recompense you… There are still two days left and—"

"No, no," Jason said, shaking his head. "It's not about recompense… I can tell you did no mean to do it, or did it on greed… I'm just flabbergasted that you said you used up all."

The expression he showed explained it went completely over his head. Well, considering there were hundreds of corpses of drakes along with their cores and hearts inside, Warden could understand. Still, he was delighted that Jason didn't accuse of him of anything. He was right in assessing his character.

"It will be so easy if I can show you," Warden said. But he could not take chances of taking someone into the subspace yet. Although Iron rankers were far superior to ordinary humans, they still breathed air, and the subspace was devoid of it. "Anyway, let me explain this quickly. Oh, before that, make sure not to tell this to anyone, as I only told this to another person.

I plan on keeping it a secret for now."

Jason frowned and nodded slowly. He had seen much of Warden's oddity, and knew they weren't natural, not to mention at the speed he was growing stronger was unnatural.

"First of all, I didn't mention the whole thing about my boon," Warden said. "It gave a physique."

"Really?" Jason's eyes widened. He sucked in a deep breath and said, "I must say wasting all the loot for a good physique is more than worth it, not to mention the added benefit. Most people don't even tend to get one during their second boon in gold rank."

Warden didn't think it was that rare. "It's called the Void Vanquishing Physique, and you already know that I'm invulnerable to poison, tainted energy and such…"

Jason nodded. "I think your physique is at the same calibre of Selas Moon's Immortal Body," he said. "Well, yours is more defensive and invulnerable, but the Immortal Body edges out in regeneration power… But I don't think he has as much as 50% efficiency in Strength and physique, so it's hard to guess which one is better."

Considering Warden already has a regeneration power, he believed his physique complimented him perfectly, as the void energy he had to dabble in regularly was quite stressful to his physique.

"Well, I also gave this power called Total Invenerability which kind of makes me invulnerable to anything for about six seconds," Warden said with a smile.

"Only six seconds what about after..." Then it finally clicked in him. "What do you mean by Anything? Can you withstand attack from a transcendent as well?"

"I haven't tested it, so can't tell," Warden said.

There was some confusion about the cool-down time of the ability. If he could use it multiple times, it would be a complete cheat. But he guessed he would have to use it to find out about its fault. The system was far from being omniscient to know it all, after all.

"You mentioned this Selas guy before along with another person," Warden said. "Who are they exactly?"

"Demonic geniuses," Jason said. "They have become famous for their academy years… Hmm, I was actually in the same batch as Agness, though a different school, but I fought her at the inter-academy competition."

"What happened?" Warden asked.

"Well, let's just say I was unable to even scratch her," Jason said. "Her power is peculiar, most attacks don't have any effect on her. For a mage, it was impossible to fight her. Hmm, now that I think about it, her power is more like that defensive force-fiend of yours, though a mature form in a dark domain which sucks in all power."

"Sounds powerful," Warden said approvingly. "What about the other guy?"

"Well, he had formed his own guild after terrorising everyone in the academy," Jason said. "He's already a silver ranker, and pretty much immortal. Unlike Agnes, you can land blows on him, but I don't think it will hurt him."

Warden narrowed his eyes. "Anyway, I was talking about my secret," he said. "So you may have already noticed some peculiarities in how I behave, which I justified by saying I'm not around here. That is kind of the truth, but the whole truth is that I have amnesia."

"Amnesia, wow," Jason said slowly, studying his face. "That's not really common, especially with ranker's biology. How bad is it?"

"Pretty bad, I pretty much retained all the things I learned, though I can't remember what I exactly I learned," he said. "Only in a burst of insight, I managed to make the impression of things… Regardless, that was not all." Warden sucked in a deep breath. "I'm, or rather I was possibly a high ranker."

"How high?"

"Gold, and possibly higher," Warden said with a sigh. "I don't know what happened, but a few weeks ago, I found myself devoid of all my memories near a stream."

"Woh, this is a lot to take in," Jason said, sucking in a deep breath. "So you were saying I'm friends with a transcendent ranker?"

"I'm saying I might have been one," Warden said with a sigh. "Though it's most likely Gold, considering from what I've heard, most Transcendent rank of this world is old as fuck. While I don't look or feel old."

"Certainly," Jason said. "Still, gold is high. Even my father is a peak Gold ranker and he's the governor of one of the most important cities of the world. It is not a power that people discount easily, considering there's only a few thousand gold rankers in the world."

"Well, I'm reaching for it slowly as well," Warden smiled.

"Is that why you're so fast in growing your attributes?"

"June and I reasoned it was likely the case," Warden said. "And other than you, she's the only person who knows about my condition."

"I'll be sure to keep my lips tightly clipped," Jason said.

There were still some more that Warden didn't mention. It wasn't that he didn't trust the guy, it was simply because he didn't want to worry him. Not that Warden was wholly sure about his paranoia.

"Alright, now that is over with," Warden said. "It is time we get back to our business and reclaim all our losses. There are still two days left right, let's just grind the darkness nonstop."

"Non-stop?"

"Nonstop," Warden smiled. "Well, perhaps you guys can take a rest, but I think I can keep on with my new physique."

Warden was full of energy now.

"You realise there are two whole days left, and even with your cheat and powerful body, it is impossible?"

"I guess there's only one way to find out."