"I was just curious, did not meant to invade unwanted like some people!" this time she pouted.

"I mean you are Rapscallion!" he pouted too not looking at her.

"What it has to do with some random compet.i.tion?" she gritted teeth secretly.

"That means you are not qualified to witness this respected compet.i.tion!" he grinned.

"Whether I am qualified or not...it is solely my headache and conundrum!" she waved her hand, in factual occurrence, she was trying to suppress her unwillingness to answer this old man.

"I thought you were agreeable but it seems to me that you are always annoyed over nothing!" he pouted and did look her with all broad annoyance.

"So this senior is interested to evaluate others along with yourself!" she was reaching her limits.

No one ever talked to her this long without reasonable excuse and she never answered such random useless questions before.

"Don't I look cute when I pout?" he pouted his face and asked her.

Jen was gritting head to toe.

"I just wanted to tell you that your face always carries this expression!" he crossed his arms seriously.

Jen was at the peak of her agitation.

"Old man...you have already crossed my limit a hundred times!" she looked furiously.

"You are too limited... who could have thought!" he shrugged his giant shoulders like he was not giving attention to her present nonplus agitation.

Jen. "• •"

She calmed down herself lamenting over her decomposed demeanor.

She inhaled a deep breath and composed herself.

She thought to ask this old man about this compet.i.tion in order to kill her embarra.s.sment and to know whether the old man knew something about the Imperium, which she heard first time from him.

"This senior look savvy, may I know what is Imperium?" she asked with some countenance.

"Haha...now you asked right question...just that fortunately, I know!" he lasted his broad chest with valor.

"Its Imperium Proficiency Apt.i.tude Compet.i.tion!" he fondled his big brown beard.

"What is such a compet.i.tion...I never heard it before!" she asked diligently.

"People who born without Attribute Taming nature would learn Apt.i.tude Proficiency and there are many geniuses who learn Attributes as well as Apt.i.tudes...just that there are some decent Imperium Proficiency Apt.i.tude Schools in higher ranking Manias where disciples learn Apt.i.tudes and to confirm whether disciple got proficient enough in their field...they conduct compet.i.tion!" he fluent out without stopping halfway through.

Jen heard him blankly because she could comprehend the entire flow of his words, that means the more he explains more she gets confused.

He looked down at her because she did not ask him further but to look her confused countenance he chuckled broadly.

"You did not get it...right?" he asked little unsure and she expressed through her pouting face, 'what did you explained made me more distant to it' type.

"Oh! I should interpret further!" he understood her pouting face.

"Just like a Contemplation Cultivator learns Attribute to overpower Contemplation impregnability strength... Contemplators who could not make through Attributes, make through Apt.i.tudes...There are seven Ascendency Skill Apt.i.tudes in ascendency skills...Mumm for example when you get injured and you wanted to have rapid recovery you would take some oral means who made and produced those means, of course, an Ascendency Skill Owner...!" he was fluently flus.h.i.+ng out words and looked toward small girl.

"Huh... where is she?" he looked.

She was sitting on the ground, she was tired with three days long journey and protective measures she was taking care of this old man who was speaking now like a sharp orator.

He sat beside her.

"Now you get it__what is Proficiency Apt.i.tude!" he asked chuckling.

"I get it!" she answered nodding her head.

"Irrelevant personages are requested to evacuate the compet.i.tion ground!" a loud voice interrupted their conversation and they stood up to leave.

While they were walking away, she asked hesitatingly, "Does it means that this senior also skilled some Ascendency as well?"

"You are too smart to ask such question, yes! I do!" he chuckled lightly.

She did not understand why this old man followed her and why gave such valuable information to her without any relation or asking price! Moreover, he ignored her unacceptable manners too.

"May I ask why this senior shared such valuable information to me?" she asked gulping down some air.

"Oh, I told you before, you seem to me agreeable little girl!" he waved his hand with nonchalance.

"May I ask what kind of Ascendency this senior skilled?" she asked dubiously.

"It is called Evanesce Ascendency Apt.i.tude, it has only two levels, first one is called Evanescent while the second level called Evanescence__!! he paused for a while.

"And the biggest question which is pounding in her heart why I told you all this, simply because I wanted you to learn it before the last ten years of my life span ending__!!"

Jen abruptly looked at his face which was grave and serious.

"I was also a Rapscallion like you and there were many injustices which I suffered and finally learned this Apt.i.tude by a kind soul and now, before I lost myself in the present and become past, I wish to teach it someone who could keep it and would not exploit others through this Apt.i.tude and I find you agreeable...!!" he sighed deeply.

she was listening to him carefully, she could see his exhausted expression and grave tone in which he expressed precisely his life.

She became Rapscallion by her own conjecture and not because she lacked strong backing, she was the granddaughter of the Defender of this whole Celestial Sphere.

She did not lack anything but if she throws out her heart she was alone like a Rapscallion, her great grandfather needed only the strongest heir who could transpose his Highest Standing nothing else...that means she could feel some of the pain of this old man because it was not too long that she was brought in Celestial Sphere.

"You have a long life ahead, you would know the benefits of learning this Apt.i.tude...!!" he sighed.

She could not believe that this old man was showing carefree and nonchalance of att.i.tude early.

She felt more mortified.

"Oh...leave memories... tell me do you wanted to learn here in Astral Manias or learn in silent void!" she looked around, it was bustling city and if they wanted to find better place in the Astral Manias, it would be difficult due to two reasons, they did not belong to this place and second they would require many days to find a suitable place.

It was feasible to stay in the void for learning Contemplation.

They exited the Astral Manias.

"The good thing is you can come here and challenge these chunky and pampered disciples of Imperium Proficiency Apt.i.tude School and let them know who is boss...!!" he winked her and broad laughter echoed out, she sighed.

She was chosen by this old man to complete his last wish yet this old man was so lively despite facing so many maladies in his life, she was really touched.

Could someone remain as carefree after facing so much? she was only twenty and she felt like she had seen much but the truth was eye-opener, she was naive with the ways of the world.

They walked another day to reach a better place, he sat and opened a manual, she sat on a distance too.

He recited the ancient text and handed her to take a look, she read it thoroughly and soon the old man demonstrated ill.u.s.trations, he gestured and she spread her contemplation.

She often thought, what was the reason for black clouds of Zero Stage of Fury but she did not procure an answer, now this Stage was spread at the gesture of old man.

The text she read and learned and with a demonstration of old man, she could understand very well now, she followed and after two months she was able to decontaminate the Zero Stage.

This was the first step of the first level followed by another six steps and she would be able to reach the first level which was Evanescent of Evanesce Apt.i.tude Proficiency Skill.

The cleansing process took two months because she had tamed this Stage, others would take a minimum of six months depending on their sheer will and determination.

This Proficiency Apt.i.tude was taught normally every disciple of Imperium Proficiency School.

Ordinary people and specially Rapscallions had no access to this Apt.i.tude because of its threat to dissolve the body of Contemplators in case of minor misapprehension due to Zero Stage and its fire dragons which would melt Contemplators.

The second step was to calculate the whole strength of Zero Stage and consider its merits and demerits if it were left during the first Contemplation attempt.

The sixth step was to unleash the first megaphonic blast of Essence energy which would convert and dissolve the very fabric of Essence Core which was the very core of existence too.