Legendary Architect of Apocalypse

The Central Library had a total of nine floors, and there was only a limited number of floors that Elias could access.

As a first year student of the academy, he could only go to the first floor, which kept the most basic books. However, as a descendant of a Founding Family, he had access to the fourth floor as well.

The higher one went in the library, the less the number of people that could be found there. Hence, Elias quickly went to the fourth floor and started waiting.

Meanwhile, he also walked across the shelves to check the books. Even though classes ruled this world, there were still many skills that could be learned externally, through hard work and enlightenment by a person.

The books on this floor were more of a guide on how to comprehend the skill mentioned within, but even amongst the most talented ones, it wasn't easy to comprehend the skills.

These books were mostly used as a reference by students to improve their understanding of their classes by selecting related books.

Elias selected one of the books while waiting on the fourth floor. The book was called, "Seventh Sense."

He already had a skill that was similar to the one that was mentioned, which made him somewhat interested in the book to see if he could improve his skill. Unfortunately, for the first time, he felt helpless.

He couldn't even understand the language that was mentioned within the book. It looked like some child's scramblings, filled with nonsense beyond comprehension.

"Aren't you a little too young to be here?"

Elias was immersed in the book when he heard a voice coming from behind him. Curiously, he looked back, and saw a woman who didn't look older than nineteen.

The woman didn't have the attire that a student of the Academy was supposed to follow. She doesn't even have an Academy badge that she could proudly wear. She was simply dressed in a white gown with no other identification.

"Ah, so you're an Ashborn." The woman revealed a surprise when she saw the family badge on Elias's chest. "You must be the youngest one. I heard a little about you."

Unlike others, she didn't look to be shocked. Instead, she appeared pleasantly surprised for some reason.

"Who are you?" Elias asked. The last thing he wanted at the moment was any unnecessary attention to him, since his main body was going to arrive soon.

The girl reached out her hands. Elias subconsciously stepped back, but something felt strange. Even though the girl's movements were extremely slow, he still couldn't avoid her for some reason.

It was as if every single movement of hers had surpassed the limitation of space and time, while appearing to be the most ordinary. He couldn't get out of her reach, and the girl grabbed his cheeks, pinching them lightly like an adorable elder.

"You..." It was the first time that someone was treating him like a child despite knowing his identity. Even Elten didn't treat him in such a manner, which made him even more curious about her identity.

As she wasn't answering, he tried to find the answer himself and used Analysis which had further evolved after his main soul's second evolution.

.............

Name: Ophilia Renford

Age: 32

Class: Time Keeper (Rank 7)

Level: 79

Class Grade: SSS

~Stats~

Strength: ????

Defence: ????

Speed: ????

Intelligence: ??

Identity: The eldest daughter of the Renford Clan, and fiance of Aliath Ashborn. She was said to be so talented that she could easily become the next Leader of the Dimensional Academy, but after Aliath's disappearance, she disappeared from prominence.

.............

"Aliath's fiance?' Elias was quite taken aback when he saw the description of the girl. It was no surprise to him that she wasn't scared of his family and identity. She was already related to their family in a way.

Just looking at her with naked eyes, he never could have imagined that she was so strong. The girl looked like an ordinary person with no extraordinary strength, despite her immense charm.

If he hadn't seen the analysis, he never could have believed that the girl had already gone through seven evolutions, said to be the highest in Astralious's era.

Even with his evolved analysis, he couldn't see her true stars. They were all a question mark.

"I heard so much about you. To think that I finally get to meet you." The girl looked quite happy to see Elias, truly considering him to be her family.

"Who are you?" Elias asked once more, even though he already knew her identity.

"Oh, how silly of me. I forgot to introduce myself." The girl freed Elias's cheeks, and slapped her forehead lightly.

Her reactions made her come across as very clumsy, but after the Analysis, Elias didn't dare to underestimate her. If anything, he made sure that his main body didn't come upstairs anytime soon.

Even though the girl's class didn't seem to have anything to do with souls, her strength and perception was very high. He was worried that she might realize that something was wrong if she saw the two of them together.

"You can call me Ophilia. Or you can also call me Sister-in-law."

"Sister-in-law?" Elias repeated with a questioning gaze.

The moment Ophilia heard him call her sister-in-law, her face lit up in happiness. She didn't even try to hide her happiness, like a child who carried all their emotions on their face.

"I am sure you haven't heard about me since you were so little at that time. I am the fiance of your Eldest Brother."

"My Eldest Brother? Is he still alive?" Elias asked the girl as this was the one question that he still didn't have the answer to.

It was only at this moment that the girl went silent. Elias wasn't sure about the reason for her silence. Was it because she didn't know the answer, or because she was trying to hide it?

"Are you trying to learn a new skill?" Ophilia quickly changed the topic.

Elias knew her intentions were to change the topic, but he went along with the flow and didn't expose her.

"I was trying to, but I can't even read what's written within."

"Of course you can't. There's a hidden spell on all these books. If you don't know the method to break them, then you can only take these books to the Librarian and ask them to remove the spell," the girl answered, taking the book from Elias.

She didn't do much, and returned the book to him immediately. But this time, the incomprehensible drawings in the book had changed into proper words that could be read by him.

The girl watched him read the book, and almost grew immersed in it. She simply gazed at his face with pity.

After a moment of silence, "Is your family not treating you well? Normally a descendant should know this method before being sent to the Academy?"

"Treat me well?" Elias asked. Was she messing with him? Which prominent person in the Academy didn't know that his family literally hated him. In his eyes, it was a miracle in itself that he was still alive.

"Why do I feel like you already know the answer?" He didn't answer her directly, almost certain that she was messing with him.

If she was with Aliath before he disappeared, it meant she was close to the Ashborn Family when he was still little. How could she not know how he was treated?

"I guess your father still can't forget it." Ophilia sighed. "If only your brother was still here, then everything would've been..."

Aliath and Elias were born from the same mother. Amongst all the children of the Ashborn Family's Patriarch, they were the only ones that weren't half brothers. But after the disappearance of Aliath, and the death of their mother, he was basically left alone in the entire family.

Ophilia could already guess what the child might have gone through, with no one to look out for him. Even though she had long cut any relationship with the Ashborn Family after Aliath's disappearance, she understood the complicated human emotions.

There was no way that the new lady of the house was going to let Elias be free, as he was not only the son of Silas Ashborn, but also the brother of someone frightening like Aliath.

He was related to the two most fiercest beings in the Ashborn Family, which made it evident that he also had the potential to rise beyond everyone else.

As her own son was so mediocre, she didn't want the youngest son to surpass him and make his son even more ashamed of his limited talents.

Ophilia could already guess how that woman would have kicked out every person who might have been loyal to Elias's mother or Aliath Ashborn.

With the Patriarch not caring about such things as long as she didn't make it too obvious, she had a complete free hand on everything.