Aetherios System [Slow Build OP MC, Isekai LitRPG/Cultivation] Chapter 106: Book 2: Chapter 23: Oaths and Invitations

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Book 2: Chapter 23: Oaths and Invitations Book 2: Chapter 23: Oaths and Invitations [Time Remaining; 655 Days, 16 Hours, 39 Minutes.] The room didn’t feel cold, a fireplace provided a source of heat in the suite without even needing wood, nor fire. It generated some sort of heat in a way he guessed an electric stove might back home. That was the unsettling part. Everything was lavish. Thick carpets, polished stone tiles, buffed gold and silver trims, all to excellent taste. The doorway at the end of the main room led to a contained hallway as he had suspected. Each door led to comfortable rooms with equally lavish interior. Bathroom adjoined each bedroom with large clawed bathtubs and immense mirrors. But regardless of the visuals and the comforts, he couldn’t deny the fact that the rooms still felt like cages. Silken restraints, magical wards, and polite guards who never spoke unless spoken to. Even outside the suite, the entire place stunk of contrived civility. Like the sort of kindness one might give you by smiling as you slowly drowned in front of them. Alex sat cross-legged on the bed he’d chosen for himself. He meditated, breathing evenly. He let his senses drift just far enough to feel the ambient aether around him. The energy moved different there, The path it took here were tighter, narrower. Suppressed by design, no doubt. Obby had already confirmed the walls and floors contained enchantments which were nonlethal. Instead they were defensive in nature, protections and barriers that would nullify most high-tier techniques. They kind of enchantments that were sophisticated, and vastly expensive. But of course, a gilded cage was still a cage. Getting the sentient rock back was a relief for him though. Even if he had to see the freaky slender-man body that the rock insisted on still making every time they talked. He quickly brought Obby up to speed on everything he had missed since being locked away. The travels with the Terraxum soldiers, meeting with the King, the vote that would be held some time in the future. And of course, the System Oath that Malric had made them all make. “ System Oath? Oh, yes those are very powerful. The most powerful, as they are made with… well the system itself.” He nodded along with Obby’s commentary. He knew all this already, but the little rock had no one to talk to for weeks, so he kind of felt sorry the thing. So as the sentient item spoke, he decided to look around his soulspace once more. Everything was the same as before. His broken core, the bond with Obby, both the same. The Wyrmblood Heart seemed to have gained some color and life back though. He beat as before, and its tissues were glowing again as they had when it had first appeared within his soulspace. The other change was a complex rune that seemed to be etched in the floor of his soulsapce. Where before it had always been blank. Either blank stone, blank shimmering water, or whatever else his subconscious seemed to manifest in certain moments, now it was not. The rune shown faintly on the floor, covering a large thirty foot circular area. He knew this to be his oath. Or a representation of it at the very least. There was the same in-bedded intuition surrounding its contents. The oath he had made, the rules and punishment involved. Things he knew already, but could look back at for any reason. “ System oaths are not fool proof, no matter how powerful The System may be. There are always ways around things if someone knows what they are doing.” Oh I know Obby. He smiled as he sat on the bed. For example, Malric said that any breach of the oath had to be seen by a Royal familiy member. Meaning, if the Royal family doesn’t know what we did, or at least have knowledge of it, then the System won’t punish us. That also implies that one of the Royal Family members has to do something, signal the System in some way, that an the Oath has been breached. “Yes, that is true. The System won’t monitor and act on its own when being the judg