Chapter 400 - Continued. (1/2)

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Upon hearing Hao Xuan's unexpected 'query', Ryfon actually chocked on his own saliva and looked like at him like he was an alien, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

Hao Xuan smirked, satisfied with the reaction. He waved his hand as if shooing away a stray, ”Relax, I was kidding. But whether he is a god or a devil, I couldn't care less. You dragged me into this so I'm going to do it my way.”

Although still not pleased with Hao Xuan's attitude, Ryfon decided not to pursue the topic either. He took out a small token from his storage ring and threw it to Hao Xuan.

”This is your identity token.”

Hao Xuan inspected it. It had one eye engraved at the front with rays of light surrounding it and two verticle lines at the back. Hao Xuan had seen this eye before.

”Eye of Providence?' he mumbled.

Ryfon nodded, ”Yes, so you know of it? It's the academy's symbol, the All-Seeing-Eye.”

”Where does it come from? This symbol? I've...seen it before...”

”Seen it before? Outside of the academy? Where?”

”In a farm planet. There were a lot of conspiracies about it.”

”For example?”

”That it belonged to a secret organization that controlled the entire world, for example. Is the Academy the only organization that uses this symbol?”

Hao Xuan's interest was peaked. Seeing imagery from earth brought back a lot of memories. He still remembered having a few spirited conversations with a few people online whether this was true or not. Hao Xuan wasn't really sold on the idea.

Ryfon looked up at the carriage's ceiling while recalling a few things about it.

”Although I'm not sure about this, but there are rumors that other than the three clans, there is another party in charge of the academy. The eye is supposed to be their symbol.”

Hao Xuan sat up straight, ”Which party? Another Clan?”

Ryfon looked like he didn't want to answer but seeing Hao Xuan's expectant face and looking at the current situation, he decided to answer. He snapped his fingers and the carriage windows closed and a barrier appeared them both.

”There is no proof of this but some say that the Eye of Providence is the symbol for an old God, one of the Nine Great Gods of heaven, the God of Wisdom. Again, it's all just hearsay but we do have a rather good relationship with the Heavenly Kingdoms.”