My Soul card is a Reaper

Over the next few days, Azzy spent his time learning about the academy, the world, and his teammates.

Ramiel, Seraphina, Caelith, and Aranis were the names of his teammates assigned to him.

Ramiel is the guy who Azzy met first. A Tier-72 Angel with an influential background. The 26-year-old is from the House of Jewelled Nectar, a minor noble house. H

Seraphina is Ramiel's girlfriend and a Tier-64 Angel. The 22-year-old has a military background. As many as twenty generations of her family served as the Knights of the House of Celestial Flame.

Caelith is another lady on the team and a Tier-68 Angel. The 37-year-old is also from an influential background, the heiress of the House of the Great Plains. She is a single mother with a son who currently stays at home while she is preparing to attain the knighthood.

Aranis is her young lover for the past sixteen months or so, who is only 19 years old and doesn't have any sort of background, unlike the other three. Yet, he is already at Tier 67 and also considered the most potential of the four, if one has to quote Ramiel's words. It is just that he loves Caelith too much to the extent that he rejected the offer to move into Sector 1.

In this world of good or bad, the angels usually have collective opinions about whether something is good or bad. From birth, they follow the doctrine of their God.

In their eyes, if two are adults and are not of the same gender, their age difference doesn't matter. Their status levels don't matter. The difference in their strength doesn't matter either. No pureblood angel in heaven would judge their love. They consider it pure, nevertheless.

As for the others, like the same sexual relationship, an adult loving a person below 16, two teenagers loving each other, having a polygamy relationship, or having extramarital affairs regardless of the reason; all those things are considered sins.

As someone who is in love with a woman 27 years older than him, well atleast according to the current timeline, who is he to judge them?

It is just he doesn't understand the point of getting into a relationship with a woman who has a child. After all, a child is always the number one priority for a mother. And if it is an only child, that would be the prince for his mother. No matter how hard he tries, Aranis cannot beat Caelith's son.

Nevertheless, he is here to get along with them, and he cannot let his feelings known. As optimistic individuals as they are, despite their thirst for knowledge, power, and all, Azzy also knows that they are quite easy to fool, believing in any lie if he can craft it nicely with half-truths and vague statements that have several meanings.

As for the academy, the core curriculum, mandatory for all students to attend the classes, includes Martial Training, Divine Arts, Knightly Code and Ethics, Combat Strategy and Tactics, History and Lore.

Each subject would net a student 5 merits for just attending the class. Monthly tests conducted on these core subjects would have a maximum of 300 merits per subject.

Hence, in theory, if a student/trainee Knight attended the classes all 360 days in the academic year and got full marks in each monthly test, the maximum merits that could be achieved is around 27000. And 50,000 merits is what a Trainee Knight would need to challenge the graduation test and achieve Knighthood. Of course, it is next to impossible to achieve this maximum. On average, a good student would earn around 10000 from subjects and another 3000–4000 on missions, completing their graduation in roughly 4 years.

Then there are advanced courses that might not give merits on attendance but surely give an additional 300-1000 merits on monthly tests. However, not everyone can learn advanced courses just because they want to.

Some of them cost merits to learn. Some of them even need students to pass a test. It is entirely at that particular subject instructor's discretion.
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Luckily, for those in single-digit sectors, the trainee Knights get a free trial period. They attend five classes for free and then decide on the course. They could also first join the course and pay later within a few weeks.

Originally, Azzy had no interest apart from Card Creation, the advanced course, which will have weekly lessons. But then, on the recommendation of his teammates, in order to stick with the group, he opted for two more advanced courses, Advanced Divine Arts, and Leadership & Command.

On the sixth day as a trainee knight, Azzy followed his teammates to attend his first class of Advanced Divine Arts, at the Sanctum of Radiance.

This is where another challenge popped up for Azzy. The Sanctum of Radiance is far away unlike the academy building that is near to their residential area.

As the four of them flew, Azzy, who cannot reveal his wings, had to run after them, using the excuse that he needed to warm up. They bought his lie and continued their flight, not intending to run alongside him.

After an hour of running, Azzy stopped at the entrance of a dome-like structure made of transparent crystal, allowing the sunlight to flood the space inside it and brighten up even more. Some mystical symbols, not runes, were engraved on the walls. They were glowing faintly.

As they entered the sanctum, the first thing that appeared in Azzy's eyes was the central altar surrounded by pools of shimmering water, said to be holy water. Then, there is the statue of their god, a man sitting on a throne with his right hand on the armrest and the left hand on his thigh. There are a few people on the altar, praying for God.

The four of them made their way to the altar. First, take a vessel to collect the water from the fountain and drink one after another. Azzy was the last to do it.

As soon as he drank the so-called holy water, some sort of divine energy flew into his insides, trying to cleanse any kind of impurities inside him. But, the divinity inside his own body swiftly acted against the foreign invader to absorb it completely. Azzy suddenly felt like drinking normal water.

He followed the group to the altar.

"Oh boy, your first challenge has appeared," The Reaper's words echoed in his head as the other four kneeled and joined their hands, interlocking their fingers to pray.

Azzy will never kneel before an entity that he didn't acknowledge before. It has been this way since he was born.

And the statue of the entity he was looking at is someone a threat to the universe if he had to quote the Reaper.

What should he do?

"Should I kneel and act like I'm praying?" "Hmm… There is no one around. I don't need to. No, wait, those three still haven't left the site. But, they were going away. They don't turn around to look at us."

"But, what if they do? If someone catches me, they will say that I'm a sinner. This guy is the ultimate being for the angels… Wait a second. Claire is the disciple of Adam, correct? A master has the equivalent status of a father. And Adam's father is this God. God also trained Adam. So, this guy is more or less a grandpa of Claire. Then, it should be fine. I'm just greeting Claire's relative… Hmm…"

With his twisted logic, Azzy convinced himself to let go of his pride and knelt like the others and mimicked their actions, although, in reality, he just meditated until they were done with the prayer and got up.

After the mandatory prayer, they flew to one of the floating islands in the sanctum. Azzy merely used his jump to land on it.

Around sixteen of them are seen on this particular floating island, and they are all watching the instructor, who only gives a swift glance at the new students and continues with his lesson.

There was an enchanted mannequin, acting like a puppet to the instructor's bidding. It was mimicking the movements of an injured knight on a battlefield.

Pointing at the glowing orb embedded in its chest that was becoming dim every second, the instructor said, "As you can see, this knight's life force is slowly sipping away. Now, in this stage, if you focus on healing the knight's external wounds, the knight would still end up dead due to the loss of life force. So, how should we save him? Anyone?"

A hand shot in the air swiftly.

"Yes, Vanys?"

She spoke, "We can use the Art of Celestial Ward, setting up a barrier over the knight's body to prevent the loss of life force."

"But, Art of Celestial Ward is a high-level technique that can only be mastered by skilled individuals," commented another trainee knight.

The instructor also said, "That could prevent the loss of life force but not necessarily save him as it won't stop."

Azzy muttered under his breath, shaking his head, "It is just simple. Just heal the heart and it will be solved in a jiffy."

"Hmm?" The instructor's ears perked and he abruptly gazed at him while Ramiel, who was standing next to him also couldn't help but glance at him.

The instructor pointed at Azzy, who was standing at the back, "You over there. Student, speak what you just muttered."

"Huh?" Azzy's eyes widened. He took another look at the instructor. "This guy is a 9-star ranker? I should have known… Ugh… unnecessary attention."