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abilities will be reduced by 10% and power of fire related skills and abilities will be boosted 5%. Level 1-0%.]
    [Hide: Cost 10SP- erase your presence.]
    [Boost: Cost 50%SP- Double all stats.]
    [Blood Drain- ability to absorb 1% of a person’s experience by drinking their blood after their death.]
    A few of the abilities seemed useful but the last one was simply disgusting. Ash wanted to raise his level, but the thought of drinking another’s blood revolted him. Seeing the ability Ash now understood how the bandit had been able to have such a high level.
    With the battle over, everyone simply sat around recovering their strength. While they sat around, Den searched through the tents bringing out a number of chests and other items that the bandits had looted. Since this was a knight mission, Ash wasn’t granted any of the spoils even though he had helped but since he had gained so many levels the thought of losing a few coins didn’t bother him. As night fell, they built a large fire in the center of the bandit camp and rejoiced in their victory even though it had not gone as they had planned.
    “You did well today,” Den said, sitting down beside Ash.
    Ash looked at Den then scanned his eyes to the others. Marilyn was sitting close to the fire drawing while Maria sat close by watching her. The other two were drinking not far away, laughing and joking. It seemed to Ash that it was as if nothing had happened. It was as if they had not just killed and drug the bodies of countless dead people off the side to burn. During the first Ash hadn’t given it much thought. He hadn’t had the time to think he only had time to act and react. Now that the battle was over and he had time to think he felt his stomach churn and a sharp pain in his chest as he looked down at his blood stained clothes.
    “I did what I had to,” Ash replied after a long moment of silence.
    “Do you know much about the knights?”
    “Only a little,” Ash replied honestly.
    Den laughed and sat down and leaned back with his eyes focused on the large fire in the center of the camp. “When we pick a squire, there are a lot of rules. One, they have to be younger than ten yet older than seven. The reason we want them young is so that they aren’t as dependent on their parents, but still young enough to instill the virtues we want. We are taught from that young age that one must never question the knight’s path. Each knight has their own way to teach, but one thing remains the same and that is the knight’s code.”
    “Knight’s code…Is that some sort of oath?”
    “In a way,” Den said with a restrained laugh. “It is more of a way of life than just an oath, though it is simple in its own way. I as a knight, shall overlook no injustice to the people of the kingdom and give my life to the noble whom holds my oaths and the people they serve. It is said that many knights go their whole lives pondering the truths hidden behind the oath.”
    “Spend their whole lives just pondering the oath?” Ask asked skeptically. “It sounds fairly straightforward to me.”
    “That is how things work,” Den said with another laugh. “The simplest things are those that invoke the deepest thought. If it was overly complicated then people wouldn’t look deeper into it, but the simple things those are what keep people awake at night as they try to make it more complicated than it really is. At least that is what my master told me when I first asked him what the code really meant. He said it was best just do keep it simple. Kill what needs killing and protect what needs protecting. At the end of the day let those who have idle time figure out the deeper meaning behind the words that bind us.”
    After he finished speaking, Den left Ash sitting alone. He didn’t know why, but the older knight’s words had calmed some of the thoughts of self-loathing that had sprouted in his mind after the battle.

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    The next morning Ash and the others started to make their