Stage and Rank

The guild master look at me and said "Do you already knows the level beyond level 9 Warrior ?"

I nod at him and said "Yes. It's called Knight right. I already try to gather few information about it but I need more to gain a better understanding"

"Alright. Well I will explain to you everything then so you don't make a wrong move when the times comes." (Weiss)

"Thank you" (Rudeus)

"Alright. First, let's begin from start. Knight is someone who breakthrough beyond Warrior level. Knight has the a power like Warrior but greater than it. Not only they can use the energy within them but they can even use it for something else like hover in midair or make an energy barrier without using a battle skill. You can say Knight is someone who control their energy with a great control." said mr Weiss and he use his energy to make a barrier around him.

"They can fly ? What the.. Seems like my information is still limited" I thought and then I ask mr Weiss "How can a Warrior breakthrough to Knight mr Weiss ?"

"For a Warrior to breakthrough into Knight they must make their own Energy Veins. Energy Veins is a veins like tree branches that will grow on top of your core. Up until now when you use your battle skill, your energy will depleted so fast. Even though you can recover your energy without meditation battle skill but it will take quite sometime. But if you become a Knight, not only your energy will be double, even more but your body will have back up energy supply." (Weiss)

"I see. So the use of energy veins is make sure a Knight have enough energy to use their energy and battle skill. But is that it mr Weiss ? I thought that energy veins have something more special." (Rudeus)

"Hahaha.. I know what you mean but it's not done yet Rudeus. You know, Knight have level like Warrior but most of us called it Stage. Knight have 9 stage. It's from stage 1 until stage 9 Knight. So that means you will have 9 energy veins when you reach the peak of Knight Stage. But there is a catch when you want to breakthrough to another stage" (Weiss)

"A catch ? What is that mean ?" (Rudeus)

"Energy veins have a grade. The higher the grade, the more energy you can contain and use inside your core. Of course Knight don't know how much energy they have but we kinda make it in number" (Weiss)

"Huh...??" (Rudeus)

"The grade of energy veins from lowest to the highest is white, blue, orange, purple, red and gold in color. When you breakthrough into Knight or a higher stage of Knight, your energy veins will be white in color. You must refine that veins and make it blue in color if you want to breakthrough into a higher stage. But most of the Knight do not do that. They will keep refine their veins until they get the energy veins grade they wanted. We called it refining process" (Weiss)

"Wait mr Weiss, so you mean it's better to refine the energy veins then just make a breakthrough ?" (Rudeus)

"Yes. But be careful Rudeus. If you decide you want to refine your energy veins you can't stop in the middle. You must complete your refining process to make a breakthrough. For example, if you already refine your energy veins to blue grade but you still wanted to refine it to orange grade, you must complete the refining process and make your energy veins become orange grade. If you try to make a breakthrough when your energy veins is not complete its color, the worst case can happen is death or your energy veins and core is broken. That means you will become regular people." said Me Weiss Seriously.

"Whoa.. that's terrifying." (Rudeus)

"Alright. I said we make energy veins grade in number right. Let's see, the average increase of your energy veins will be 500 energy. Depending on your meditation grade battle skill. The higher the grade the more energy you have. For blue grade veins it will increase like 1000 energy and it will increase more than that if your energy veins in higher grade. I don't know if it true or not but there is a rumor that said if someone have a gold grade energy veins they will have like 10.000 energy." (Weiss)

"Wow.. 10.000 energy just for 1 veins. That's amazing." I'm shock to heard it

"Well not only that but your battle skill will improve too. Even if you only have a common grade battle skill but the damage will increase several fold because your own energy veins." (Weiss)

"I see. Seems like battle skill is still the most important to become a powerful Knight huh" (Rudeus)

"Well of course. Oh right I must told you that you must be careful to make your decision. When you become a Knight you will meet many people who become a Knight but you will see that most of them are struggle. They think that they can refine their own veins but without resources they become a failure. So I hope you know your own limit Rudeus." (Weiss)

"Thank you mr Weiss" (Rudeus)

"Alright. Next I will told you about a monster beast beyond rank 9. We called them profound monster. They still have rank 1 until rank 9. Most of them already gain a little bit of intelligence. Some of them even can talk our language. They have skill called telepathy." (Weiss)

"I see. So that's why that two headed snake knows how to ambush us huh and Glowy's mother understand what we are saying." I thought deeply

"So do you have any question ?" (Weiss)

"Yes. How can we make our energy veins ?" (Rudeus)

"You don't need to worry about it. You will know when the time comes. If you already completely become level 9 Warrior, you will feel it and you can start meditate and use your resources to help you make your own energy veins." (Weiss)

"Thank you so much for your help mr Weiss" I bow to him

"Nah, its nothing. After all with this I gain a friend. Hahahah..." (Weiss)

"Well I guess I will back then mr Weiss. I think I will take the quest tomorrow." (Rudeus)

"Alright then. Welcome to Adventure Guild Rudeus" (Weiss)

"Thank you." (Rudeus)

I left adventure guild and back to the Academy. I keep thinking what mr Weiss said.

"Hmm.. so the most important things is that refining process huh. Well I don't need to worry about it when I have my breakthrough because I have a system that help me. But I need more resources for that refining things. Damn." I though deeply

"AI, the things that mr Weiss said about that refining, is it true ? The system will help me right" (Rudeus)

"Ding.. all the thing that person told you is true master. The system will help master check master progress in refining so master do not need to worry about a fail breakthrough. But the resources to refine the veins, master need to get it by your own, master." (AI)

"Geez.. damn it. Well it can't be help, after all AI already said that the system will help check my progress and what's more I don't need to worry about fail breakthrough. It's already better than everyone else." I thought

I arrive in my room and keep thinking what should I do to get it. But seems like I can only find it when the time comes so I just sleep and wait for the next day.