Chapter 251 251 - Secret
*BEEP*
'What's happening?' Melinda thought as she heard the beeping sound of the system in her ears.
Simply by hearing it, he stopped looking at Aiden and focused on the message which had just appeared in front of her.
It was clear that the system was much more important than the little discussion that Aiden and she were having.
Melinda knew that which is why she started reading the message that appeared in front of her with great attention.
'You need to keep his secret safe,' Melinda said to herself reading the message from the system, not sure if she was understanding correctly what was happening.
Were they asking her to keep the fact that he was without a class a secret or the fact that he was from the Nightshade Family?
Then, the system that had, by unknown ways, understood her thoughts made another message in front of her.
[Keep his existence safe for the future.]
That was the next message which had appeared in front of her, and this message shocked Melinda greatly.
'Why are they putting so much importance on such a young man,' Melinda thought, not understanding why the Lumithars who were clearly behind this intervention were putting so much importance on Aiden.
Melinda simply couldn't grasp why Aiden was so important to them. She knew that he was talented, but was that really the only thing that was making them so interested in the young man?
There had to be something else because talent wouldn't make them act this way, she knew about it firsthand.
Then, another message appeared in front of her, it seemed that the system wasn't done just yet.
[If you reveal his existence to anyone then there will be consequences.]
Reading that threat, Melinda had a shiver run up her spine as she knew that the threats they gave were real since she had seen people receive them and she knew that they weren't nice at all.
'But, please answer me, why are you putting so much importance onto such a young man?' Melinda asked the system in her mind, wanting an answer.
However, she couldn't help but be frustrated when she saw the type of answer that she had gotten.
It was disappointing, to say the least.
[You are not qualified to know of this information.]
[Also, Melinda, please tell the young man in front of you a message which comes from us. "We'll be waiting for you." Please tell him that.]
Then, as she read that, she heard the voice of Aiden, calling her back to reality since she seemed to be away, well mentally.
Hearing her name, she came out of her stupor as she looked at Aiden directly, knowing that she needed to tell Aiden something.
However, that wasn't the only thing that she had understood in this conversation with the system. She now understood that she couldn't hurt that little guy or else there would be great consequences.
"The system asked me to tell you something, well the Lumithars but you can probably guess that already. It wants to tell you that they will be waiting for you," Melinda said as she showed that she was somewhat nervous while saying that.
It wasn't really because of what she needed to say, it was a lot more related to the threats that she had received from the system, she knew that she needed to be careful of the actions that she took around Aiden because of that.
She didn't to lose her awakened powers or something like that because she revealed some of his secrets to her relatives, it simply made no sense.
Also, the message that they had asked to pass on to him was quite explicit in its underlying meaning.
It was clear that they were essentially saying that there was no doubt in their minds that he would be evolving sooner or later, it didn't matter when. They simply knew that he would do so.
'They're waiting for me?' Aiden thought, somewhat confused, however, he couldn't but smile hearing it.
He didn't know why, but the feeling of being acknowledged by people a lot stronger than him was a feeling that he deeply approved of.
"Did they say why they were waiting for me?" Aiden asked, wondering about it.
Hearing that question from Aiden, Melinda simply rolled her eyes as she knew that it was extremely obvious why they were waiting for him.
They probably wanted to put his talent to good use, that was the only thing that they could potentially be waiting for.
Melinda hadn't had many interactions with the Lumithars, but every time that she had done so, there was only a single thought that would come to her mind when she saw one.
And that thought was essentially a single-word "Powerful".
Every time that she had been able to get a glance at them, that was the impression that they would be leaving her.
They simply looked powerful.
And she hadn't even seen them for real, only through a screen, so she couldn't even begin to imagine the pressure that they were emitting consistently around them.
Melinda simply couldn't imagine living around them.
"They didn't say, but you can probably guess why," Melinda finally responded to Aiden.
Aiden hearing her say that made use of his brain and easily came to the same conclusion as Melinda.
However, that wasn't the most important part of this interaction with the system.
The most important part of this interaction is simple, it was that Aiden ignores that Melinda needs to hide his identity, which is more like keeping it a secret.
Aiden ignored it completely.
Then, after a few seconds of pure silence, Melinda started speaking as she didn't like the awkward atmosphere that was forming at the moment.
"So, what are you going to do, now that this training is done?" Melinda asked, wondering what would be happening.
Then, Aiden faced with such a good question didn't have an immediate answer as he needed to think for a little bit about the options that he had for the moment.
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