Episode 5-The Royal Ignorance

"Argggh you know what let's wait and see what happens, worst comes to worst, I may have to stay as someone slave for 25 years before I get my freedom." Mused Ez while he was walking his way to the ceremonial hall.

When he came back after washing his face, he couldn't find Smith anywhere in the room. From what he remembers from Johns memory, Ez was to go with the Smith who would guide him to the ceremonial room.

Each person that is being awakened must be accompanied by another person. Since John is a loner and has no other relatives, he must go with butler Smith.

Waiting around for 5 more minutes he saw Smith coming back. As soon as he saw Smith's face he felt something was off.

Usually, Smith would have a poker face on even when he is arguing with John, but today for the first time he saw the butler that seemed to be angered by something.

"Let us go" Ordered Smith. Not wanting to irritate Smith, even more than he is now Ez followed him.

The palace and its surrounding area are massive almost to the point of being able to fit in a large village in it. It is located in the eye of the capital, almost being isolated from the capital and having its own economy going, separate from the capital. This is done this way for security measures, along with the fact that everyone that comes inside or lives inside the palace is filthy rich and any trade done inside the palace is worth a huge amount of gold.

Therefore, instead of having everyone carrying with them buckets of gold, they will have a different currency used inside the palace. The currency used inside the palace is called Platinum Chips or chips for short. It's like chips used in the casino, where there are different chips with a different denomination so is the plat chips, where they have different denomination written on top of the chips. The denomination John is aware of so far are 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500.

John has only ever dealt with chips in the single digits, and rarely saved up enough of pocket money to see his wealth come into double digits. He has never handled or seen chips with a 3-digit denomination, but he is aware from the conversation of guards that there are chips with values of 100 and 500.

John often spent the pocket money he received back into his own studies, buying all sorts of teaching materials for self-study, notebooks etc. This was the reason why John excelled in his studies better than his siblings, as they spent their money in partying and going out. It was good to say that John was always 1 to 2 years ahead of them in the material they were supposed to learn. Starting from age of 10 everyone inside the palace must start completing their compulsory courses such as basic Maths, Language education, history, politics and pass the exams set by their tutor every year.

No one can skip a year no matter how much of a genius they are. All materials required for that year are provided by the tutor. But any materials outside of that year must be bought with your own funds. Thus, the reason John spent most of his money on books. John wasn't a genius, but he was extremely hardworking to the point where he is now ahead of everyone by almost 2 years.

Although starting from the age of 15 everyone can drop out of their compulsory courses and decide what to do. 99% of the royal kids tend to drop out and do whatever they want, which usually tend to be wasting off. However, those who stick with compulsory courses from the age of 15 to 20 usually are considered extremely clever, however, those who manage to finish it at the age of 20, during the rule of John's father has only been 2 people. Those who manage to finish those 5 extra years were always applauded by the emperor that he awarded them often with titles, land, wealth and even gave them prominent positions.

Ez observed from his memories, the contents that John was learning. It was the teaching material for the age of 17. From the Mathematics side of things, it seemed easy for Ez. Language and history can be managed as well, but the problem is politic.

If there is one subject or thing Ez abhorred, its politics, due to having to think and plan every step meticulously and often be 2 steps ahead of everyone. This was the reason it took him 100,000 years to plan his escape from the transmigration. This lazy behaviour of Ez is the result of having everything he needed without having to think or plan in heaven. The first few years Ez got into heaven he spent most of his time planning, thus got about 70% of his plan complete, with some research done, but after a while, he became too complacent and left it for later. Thus, the situation he is in.

"This is why procrastinating is always a bad thing to do. No use in crying over spilt milk" thought Ez. He observed the long hallway, endowed with red carpet, ornaments and artworks worth a lot of chips.

Soon he along with Smith arrived at the entrance to the ceremonial hall. For a name like ceremonial hall, the door is standard instead of being grand and huge. Smith turned the handle and opened the door. There was no need to knock, as all the people inside the room are considered monsters being able to hear perfectly if someone were to arrive outside the door.

What greeted Ez's eyes were the usual standard he usually read or watched from novels or shows, lots of people staring at him. The ceremonial hall was designed to look like a lecture hall. At the very back sat the Emperor, dressed grandly in a white royal suit, followed by nobles in every row leading down to the stage. From what Ez could see he noticed that most nobles clamoured to sit at the back closer to the emperor, to suck up to him. Therefore, leaving the front 2 rows empty.

John followed Smith to sit in one of the empty rows at the front. He could feel a few eyes were on him. When he entered John observed the face of most of the noble. From what he could see, none of them was shocked or surprised. This meant 3 things: 1- The assassination wasn't ordered by the nobles, 2- The one who ordered the hit is extremely good at controlling his emotions, 3- The noble who ordered the hit, must have been informed of John's survival somehow.

Knowing the bad luck I have it must be 3. There is bound to be a traitor where I live, otherwise, an assassin would have no idea of how to enter where I live, and navigate through the hallways, and enter my room quietly to kill John, and leave without alerting anyone. This means there must be an accomplice in John's house. I must somehow smoke out that vermin, otherwise I might have to always be on guard, and fear for my life.

Soon 10 other pair walked in and sat behind Butler Smith and Ez. Due to Ez spending most of his time thinking and cooking up a plan to survive, he didn't get a clear view of who entered and didn't notice the growing murmuring behind him.

"Ehem" Soon everyone in the hall quieted down as the Emperor stood up and walked toward the front of the hall. As he walked past Ez, he looked past butler Smith at John, who seemed to be contemplating something, ignoring his presence.

"As expected" inaudibly whispered the Emperor with a smirk on his face.